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Tech News: 2019-36
 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
 * You can use the new termbox interface if you edit Wikidata on a mobile device. This is to edit labels, descriptions and aliases easier on the mobile pages.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki has been deployed during the last week.
 * The previously announced change of positions of the "Wikidata item" link on all wikis has been rollbacked due to unexpected cache issues.
 * The limit for rollbacks has been increased from 10 to 100 rollbacks per minute.
 * The advanced version of the edit review pages (Recent Changes, Watchlist, and Related Changes) now include two new filters. These filters are for "All contents" and "All discussions". They will filter the view to just those namespaces. However the "All discussions" filter does not include pseudo talk pages, like discussions that are in the Project: or Wikipedia: namespaces. But it will include changes happening on Project talk: or the Wikipedia talk:.

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 you log in, the software checks your password to see if it follows the Password policy. From this week, it will also complain if your password is one of the most common passwords in the world. If your password is not strong enough, please consider to change your password for a stronger password.

Meetings
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Future changes
 * You will be able to read but not to edit Wikidata for up to 30 minutes on September 10 at 05:00 (UTC).
 * You will be able to read but not to edit some mid-sized wikis for up to 30 minutes September 17 at 05:00 (UTC). You can see which wikis.
 * You will be able to read but not to edit some mid-sized wikis for up to 30 minutes September 24 at 05:00 (UTC). You can see which wikis.
 * You will be able to read but not to edit Wikimedia Commons for up to 30 minutes on September 26 at 05:00 (UTC).

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Administrators' newsletter – September 2019
News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2019). Administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg Bradv • Chetsford • Izno
 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg Floquenbeam • Lectonar
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg DESiegel • Jake Wartenberg • Rjanag • Topbanana

CheckUser changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Callanecc • LFaraone • There'sNoTime

Oversight changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Callanecc • Fox • HJ Mitchell • LFaraone • There'sNoTime

Technical news
 * Editors using the mobile website on Wikipedia can opt-in to new advanced features via your settings page. This will give access to more interface links, special pages, and tools.
 * The advanced version of the edit review pages (recent changes, watchlist, and related changes) now includes two new filters. These filters are for "All contents" and "All discussions". They will filter the view to just those namespaces.

Arbitration
 * A request for comment is open to provide an opportunity to amend the structure, rules, and procedures of the 2019 English Wikipedia Arbitration Committee election and to resolve any issues not covered by existing rules.

Miscellaneous
 * A global request for comment is in progress regarding whether a user group should be created that could modify edit filters across all public Wikimedia wikis.

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Dylan Sibanda
Can you please be more careful when draftifying? There was an ongoing AFD (Articles for deletion/Dylan Sibanda) when you draftified Dylan Sibanda, and it had been un-drafitified before. Iffy★Chat -- 21:53, 7 September 2019 (UTC)

I have unreviewed a page you curated
Hi, I'm Ammarpad. I wanted to let you know that I saw the page you reviewed, Tayo Ayinde, and have marked it as unpatrolled. It's a copyright violation. You should be checking that first, especially on articles as suspicious as that. Thanks.

Message delivered via the Page Curation tool, on behalf of the reviewer.

– Ammarpad (talk) 06:32, 8 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Thank you for the advice. Extremely sorry for that. I'll try to consider this in my future reviews. Regards.-- PA TH  SL OP U  12:10, 8 September 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.

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Untitled
Hey Path Slopu,

I really appreciate you helping me properly create my first article. I have adjusted the article and would like to submit it for review, hopefully this time there is more reputable information. I also did inline citing where I could, some of that is hard like where she grew up and things like that, a large portion of that all came from one source. Anyways, I clicked the button to submit it for review but it didn't seem to work and comes up with a small edit box in the corner and says something about editing the template. I don't think I want to hit publish at the top because I want to submit it for review first and make sure it meets the standards for being published. For the Edith Covensky article, the Israeli/American poet. Thanks a lot! Manser.ryan

Manser.ryan (talk) 22:35, 11 September 2019 (UTC)

rogue page review
any reason why you marked my well-referenced page as having no citations and as a stub, then templated me? Trying to assume good faith, but I honestly can't think why you'd do that not for trolling unless you hadn't actually looked at the page. Kingsif (talk) 12:43, 13 September 2019 (UTC)

Hey
Hey, Path Slopu it feels great to revert vandalism alongside you. Keep up the good work.Andrew Base (talk) 17:27, 13 September 2019 (UTC)

MERR.
MERERER? — Preceding unsigned comment added by IP-Adress 1 (talk • contribs) 10:00, 14 September 2019 (UTC)

Thank you
Hey Path slopu. Thank you for the barnstar. It's a very pleasant surprise.--Darwinek (talk) 11:34, 14 September 2019 (UTC)

Thank you
Thank you for the barnstars - I appreciate them so much and am pleasantly surprised that people see my contributions and want to recognise them; and receiving the barnstars reminds me of the supportiveness of the Wikipedia community, so it's very nice :) Kingsif (talk) 15:40, 14 September 2019 (UTC)

TheWikiWizard - September 2019
Hello, Path slopu! Here is the September 2019 issue of TheWikiWizard. We Hope you like this month's issue! If you'd like to discuss this issue, please go to this issue's talk page. Happy Reading! Thegooduser  Life Begins With a Smile :)  🍁 21:44, 14 September 2019 (UTC)
 * A big thank you! (TWW is now 1 years old!)
 * What's Hot! (Can you solve the riddles?)
 * Articles (Assume Good Faith, The Teahouse)
 * The Wikipedian
 * News about Wikipedia! (Wikipedia News and Events!)
 * Editor's Notes (New Sections to Main Page!)
 * Activity Page (Fun Activities, and answers to last time's questions...)
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Smitha_Antony article
Hello Path Slopu,

This is about the article on Smitha_Antony that I submitted for review. This article is at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Smitha_Antony There are external references (prominent news paper articles) to the facts that I have submitted.

One of the external reference links is sourced from the Malayala Manorama Newspaper which has a circulation base of 2.1 million (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malayala_Manorama). Another news paper source is the Hindu (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hindu) which has a circulation base of 1.3 million. A third news paper source is the Indian Express (http://www.newindianexpress.com/cities/kochi/2019/jul/11/strings-sing-in-her-hands-2002199.html). A fourth news paper source is from an Australian online publication but it is in the language Malayalam. The link is at http://www.metrom.com.au/articles/smitaa-aanrrnnikk-baalbhaask-purskaarn/

I also have in my possession, a newspaper clipping (print edition) from one of the newspapers and photos from the award ceremony of the award that I mentioned as one of the subjects' achievements.

I went through the reliable sources guidelines and notability guidelines for publishing articles about individuals and I am thinking of what other evidences can I furnish to ensure that the article meets the criteria for publishing. I humbly request you to reconsider and advise me on what more I could do to improve on the article.

--Harshanrajan (talk) 03:48, 17 September 2019 (UTC)

Satans Black Wedding (2019)
Thanks for the Barnstar. It looks like you moved Satans Black Wedding (2019) to draft space after it was nominated for AfD. While draftify is an outcome that can happen at AfD, please don't move pages up for discussion at AfD out of mainspace - it can confuse the discussion. Best, Barkeep49 (talk) 17:11, 17 September 2019 (UTC)
 * And on that note, please stop moving/draftifying pages. Your move of Rudolf Värnlund was completely inappropriate. Praxidicae (talk) 17:22, 17 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Hi greetings, extremely sorry for the mistake. I won't try to move pages in AfD discussions in my future activities. Also sorry for the inappropriate moves, I'll move pages very carefully in future reviews. Thank you very much for the advices. Hope to give this kind of advices in the future also. Thank you.-- PA TH  SL OP U  14:20, 18 September 2019 (UTC)

App Store (iOS)
Before accepting edits by IPs, please take care and have a look at the article history; the edit you accepted had been rejected twice with explanations. Regards. Lectonar (talk) 14:30, 18 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Thank you very much for the help. I'll check it in future reviews. Thank you.-- PA TH  SL OP U  14:32, 18 September 2019 (UTC)
 * And as I see this isn't the first time this and other problems have been brought up. Be a little more cautious and take your time. Lectonar (talk) 14:34, 18 September 2019 (UTC)

Western State Hurricanes
I am not sure why you reverted all the changes made to the WSH page. I have restored them and removed the offending link to indiegogo. I am not not sure why you don't like a link to an indiegogo campaign page, it seems just as valuable as any blog post or social media item, but no matter.

The page is more accurate with my changes and decidedly not up to date without them. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.111.232.123 (talk) 19:45, 18 September 2019 (UTC)

Employee of the month
Why did you revert my edit? 2A00:1370:8111:BE06:7C3:980D:B7A7:2FF4 (talk) 16:07, 20 September 2019 (UTC)

Changes
I made some changes according to some links out there, I am not so sure why you changed it back? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Johnyuniversitysofia (talk • contribs) 13:28, 22 September 2019 (UTC)

birthday committee
I'm glad you're wishing everyone a happy birthday, but I don't understand why you're using two templates instead of just one. Chris Troutman ( talk ) 21:24, 22 September 2019 (UTC)
 * , Hi greetings, I only tried to give my wishes. It didn't seem any wrong. But if it is wrong, I won't to do that (adding two templates) again. Thank you for the advice. Hope this kind of advices will give future also. Regards.  PA TH   SL OP U  13:26, 24 September 2019 (UTC)

Vandalism warning at User:‎Niggle1892
This was an improper warning. If you had bothered to read the ongoing AFD (now closed Articles for deletion/Dardanus (Raymond Leppard recording)) on this page, Niggle1892 was removing content that was considered to be a copyvio. Please apologize to him on his talk page.4meter4 (talk) 13:42, 26 September 2019 (UTC)

An urgent word of explanation!
Hallo. I've just read your three messages on my Talk page. To cut a long story as short as possible, I recently created some fifty articles about recordings featuring the opera singer Frederica von Stade. A user called Softlavender nominated all but two of them for deletion. Monitoring the discussions about what should happen to them, I noticed that a user called Smerus had said that they should be deleted on the grounds that the paraphrased reviews which I had included in their "Critical reception" sections constituted violation of copyright. I removed these paraphrased reviews in order to try to save the articles from being deleted altogether. I was trying to preserve the articles, not to vandalize them. My intention was then to replace the paraphrased reviews that I had removed with rewritten versions that Smerus would accept. (So far I have had the time to do this with only one article, The Three-Cornered Hat (André Previn recording).) I hope that I have explained all this clearly. If you have any questions, please leave a message on my Talk page.Niggle1892 (talk) 17:43, 25 September 2019 (UTC)


 * Thank you for the new message that you left on my Talk page. I can see how what I was doing looked like vandalism - in future I will follow your advice and make sure that I don't forget to write edit summaries. Best wishes from England!Niggle1892 (talk) 14:15, 27 September 2019 (UTC)
 * , Hi greetings, your works feels good. Keep it up!  PA TH   SL OP U  14:20, 27 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Thank you for your recommendation about archiving. I am still very new at Wikipedia, and it's a big help when people who understand it so much better than I do give me good advice.Niggle1892 (talk) 15:16, 27 September 2019 (UTC)

Thanks for reviewing!
Hey SLOPU, thanks for reviewing my newly-created article, Pe (Armenian)! I hope that you'll assume good faith in my article! And please check my other new article: Et (letter). Thanks!FIGHTERSOVIET wpedia (talk) 14:02, 27 September 2019 (UTC)

Stop reverting good edits
Just because you may suffer from mental health issues and want to support others that suffer the same delusion, there is no reason to include a comment from the worst person in the US in the summary of reviews of a kid movie. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 14.207.0.143 (talk) 09:00, 28 September 2019 (UTC)

Thank you!
Hi, Path slopu. Thank you for the barnstar! Ȝeſtikl (talk) 21:21, 28 September 2019 (UTC)

Awards
I appreciate your enthusiasm, but before giving out barnstasrs or other awards, particularly for anti-vandalism work, you may wish to consider fist verifying the user's accuracy of work. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 03:10, 29 September 2019 (UTC)
 * , Thank you very much for the advice. I'll check the contributions of users very carefully before awarding barnstars. Regards.  PA TH  SL OP U  12:21, 29 September 2019 (UTC)

New Page Review

 * Thank you so much for your kind appreciation. I'll continue my new page patrol more effectively. Your works at NPP is a really precious gift. You really are an inspiration to other Wikipedians. Your studies and essays on NPP and AfC are very helpful to others. Thank you.-- PA TH  SL OP U  12:27, 29 September 2019 (UTC)

WikiProject X Newsletter • Issue 15
Newsletter • September 2019

A final update, for now:

The third grant-funded round of WikiProject X has been completed. Unfortunately, while this round has not resulted in a deployed product, I am not planning to resume working on the project for the foreseeable future. Please see the final report for more information.

Regards,

-— Isarra ༆ 19:23, 29 September 2019 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2019-40
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 * The Wikimedia Foundation Community Tech team is working on a watchlist expiry feature. This means you can put things on your watchlist for a period of time instead of forever. They are looking for feedback on the questions they have.
 * Special:Contributions will get the standard OOUI look. This makes it easier to use on mobile and makes it look like other  pages. There is a script you can use to make the form smaller if you want to.

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Administrators' newsletter – October 2019
News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2019).

Administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg Barkeep49
 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg Beetstra • KillerChihuahua • Kusma
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Arcadian • Extraordinary Machine • Xeno
 * Pictogram voting rename.png JamesBWatson →

Interface administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Evad37

CheckUser changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Courcelles • SilkTork • Timotheus Canens

Oversight changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Courcelles • SilkTork • Timotheus Canens

Guideline and policy news
 * Following a discussion, a new criterion for speedy category renaming was added: C2F: One eponymous article, which applies if the category contains only an eponymous article or media file, provided that the category has not otherwise been emptied shortly before the nomination. The default outcome is an upmerge to the parent categories.

Technical news
 * As previously noted, tighter password requirements for Administrators were put in place last year. Wikipedia should now alert you if your password is less than 10 characters long and thus too short.

Arbitration
 * The 2019 CheckUser and Oversight appointment process has begun. The community consultation period will take place October 4th to 10th.
 * The arbitration case regarding was closed.  While there will be a local RfC focus[ing] on how harassment and private complaints should be handled in the future, there is currently a global community consultation on partial and temporary office actions in response to the incident. It will be open until October 30th.

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Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 9
 News and updates associated with user scripts from the past two months (August and September, 2019).

Hello everyone and welcome to the 9th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter:

Scripts Submit your new/improved script here
 * Cscr-featured.svg Enterprisey's links-in-logs


 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg Tokenzero's infoboxJournal* SD0001's RFUD-helper* Danski454's code edit window size
 * BrandonXLF: FloatHead* ShowRevisionID* EditorFirst
 * Þjarkur: NeverUseMobileVersion* CleanDiffURLs
 * Galobtter's admin highlighter* ZLEA's Dashboard* Cobaltcigs's DisableDragDrop


 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg SD0001's archived section finder

Miscellaneous
 * MJL's Archer was used to break a Wikipedia record. See the edit in question & the updated records page for more.

Sorry for falling behind a bit. Please let me know if I missed any new scripts. Thanks, --DannyS712 (talk) 01:55, 7 October 2019 (UTC)

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Hello, I seem to be in an edit/revert war with this user;

User:Leanice420.

They are persistent vandalising the page by adding unnecessary content.

Could you step in and have a look please.

L1amw90 (talk) 15:11, 6 October 2019 (UTC)
 * , Hi greetings, according to Wikipedia's 3RR policy, an editor must not perform more than three reverts on a single page-whether involving the same or different material-within a 24-hour period. But if you were trying to revert vandalism, it would not come under 3RR, but also should be in good faith ( see WP:3RRNO). Regards.  PA TH  SL OP U  07:07, 7 October 2019 (UTC)

Let's see
Hi Path, thank you for checking the said user -Sunilbutolia. I think it could be a sock or might be a meat or friend. Let see reply of of the said editor(s). If suspesion still linker, then report to sock for a and request for a quick check. see info here. Cheers. CASSIOPEIA(talk) 05:27, 7 October 2019 (UTC)
 * , We can report it to SPI if we get solid evidences, because Sunilbutolia said about a message in Instagram. If it seems reliable, we can infer that the users may have any outside conversation about the article as you said in your usertalk. Or the user is trying to create a fake story to show he's honest. The user who wants to review the article created by someone else is very unusual. Even the beginning of threads  (To review a new page) in your user talk are identical. Thank you.  PA TH   SL OP U  06:48, 7 October 2019 (UTC)
 * Hi Path, Let's see the response from the said editor and decide. CASSIOPEIA(talk) 06:56, 7 October 2019 (UTC)
 * , I saw the whatsapp screenshot given in your usertalk. If it is reliable, there were a conversation about the reviewing of article between them. The new user(Shubham...) approached Butolia for help (bhai please admin ko bholke page review kardo--Brother, please ask admin to review the page), since he was a new user and do not know about reviewing process. He might afraid that the article would not be reviewed. And Butolia posted a screenshot of your userpage. This is my assumptions on issue. Please check. Regards.  PA TH  SL OP U  08:05, 7 October 2019 (UTC)
 * See my talk page. CASSIOPEIA(<b style="#0000FF">talk</b>) 08:37, 7 October 2019 (UTC)

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 * Also I am waiting for at least ten people to join the newsletter. Then the newsletter will be good to go. Thanks. ___<em style="font-family:grafolitascript;color:#aa6ef4">CAPTAIN MEDUSA <em style="font-family:grafolitascript;color:#000000">talk  (We are the champions, my friends)  16:44, 14 October 2019 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2019-42
<section begin="technews-2019-W42"/> 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
 * You can now use more advanced editing tools on the mobile web. You can turn them on and off in your preferences in the mobile version.

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Kindly review new Article
Dear Can you pls help me by reviewing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarvesh_Amte, i have been waiting since so many months no one is reviewing it please look into this, its a humble request.Shubham Ghodke 13:41, 15 October 2019 (UTC)

Reviewed Draft:Dr. Gurpreet Singh Wander
Hello Path Slopu,

This is regarding the article that I submitted about Dr. Gurpreet Singh Wander. You have left a message then that the article was not neutral and there were no reliable sources to support the information shared about him. I have gone through couple of articles on Wikipedia and have edited the article with sufficient reliable sources. Kindly check and help me to get this article published. Please suggest if the article needs to be further edited as I am fairly new and this is my first submission. I have deleted all the irrelevant information and added facts about him. Looking forward for your response. Here is the url of the draft for your reference : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Dr._Gurpreet_Singh_Wander#References Envisage Insights (talk) 13:31, 15 October 2019 (UTC)
 * Hi greetings, welcome to Wikipedia. I declined the draft because it had to be improved to become a Wikipedia article. Please see that, you have used some phrases which is not compatible with our Neutral Point of View policy. Please read this section to know how to achieve neutrality in articles. Your reference help to pass the notability guidelines. Please consider this and edit the draft with a NPOV. Then please wait for review process. The notable articles will surely be accepted. You don't worry about that. Thank you.-- PA TH  SL OP U  14:47, 15 October 2019 (UTC)

RFPP Declined Requests
Hi there,

I and Scott Burley have just declined a number of your page protection requests.

You were obviously right as to there being various issues on the pages and to revert (or adapt, in a few cases). However, RFPP requests aren't really needed if there's only a single editor/IP causing problems, even if they do so repeatedly - it's easier to warn them and then send them to AIV/ANI, rather than cause the collateral damage of a page protect. Hope that helps, let me know if you've got any questions Nosebagbear (talk) 17:32, 19 October 2019 (UTC)
 * Thank you very much for the advice. I'll consider in my future reverts. Thank you. PA TH  SL OP U  05:32, 20 October 2019 (UTC)

Women in Red
Hi there, Path slopu, and welcome to Women in Red. I see you have already created Sreedevi Kakkad and hope there will be many more biographies of women from Kerala. In this connection, you might find it useful to look through our Ten Simple Rules. I see you are also expert at creating graphics. Perhaps you can help us out with creating or adapting some for Women in Red and contests such as the current Stub contest. Please let me know if you run into any difficulties or need assistance.--Ipigott (talk) 07:41, 20 October 2019 (UTC)
 * Thank you very much for your kind words. I'll surely participate in stub contest. Thank you.-- PA TH  SL OP U  15:27, 20 October 2019 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

 * Thank you very much for your kind words. I appreciate your works too. Thank you.-- PA TH  SL OP U  15:29, 20 October 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-43
<section begin="technews-2019-W43"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

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 * Octicons-tools.svg' prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.]] The API sandbox and help pages now show more clearly when API modules are marked as . API modules marked as internal were probably internal before. It was easier to miss. You should look for non-internal alternatives.

Problems
 * There is a translation tool we use on wikis with more than one language. For a few days it did not create pages for new languages when someone translated a page. The languages did not show in the language bar. This has been fixed.
 * The history and diffs can show wrong content. This is because of a cache problem. It will soon be fixed.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 22 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 23 October. It will be on all wikis from 24 October (calendar).
 * Reference Previews will be a beta feature on all Wikipedias and some Wikivoyages. It shows you a preview of the footnote when you hover over or click on the number. It has been a beta feature on German and Arabic Wikipedia since April.

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg Octicons-tools.svg You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 23 October. See how to join.

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TheWikiWizard - October 2019
Hello, Path slopu! Here is the September 2019 issue of TheWikiWizard. We hope you like this month's issue! If you'd like to discuss this issue, please go to this issue's talk page. Happy Reading! -- Thegooduser  Life Begins With a Smile :)  🍁 01:43, 23 October 2019 (UTC)
 * What's Hot! (Turkey Overload, Federal Election...)
 * Articles (Cite reliable sources!)
 * The Wikipedian
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Mole Day!
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 * What is this?
 * Mole Day is an unofficial holiday celebrated among chemists, chemistry students and chemistry enthusiasts on October 23, between 6:02 a.m. and 6:02 p.m. This date is derived from the Avogadro number, which is approximately 6.022×1023, and the day is named after scientist Amedeo Avogadro.


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 * Participate in our and our sister WikiProjects
 * Expand articles listed here
 * Improve science articles
 * Sign the guestbook or place User WikiProject Science on your user page.
 * Add this page to your watchlist to see what's occurring here


 * Similar events


 * Pi day
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 * Evolution Day
 * Yuri's Night
 * Square Root Day


 * See also


 * Observances about science
 * Observances in October

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SHISHIR DUA
Hi, What's up guy, I've made my subscription and I'm a member as well of the newsletter you cited

Regards,

SHISHIR DUA

Hey guy what's up Decently you're working at this forum.

I'd like to request you to please nominate my name for adminship at Request an RfA nomination.

It'd be a great favour if you make my aspirations of being an admin a reality citing that I've an experience of about half -a-year of editing and appreciated and thanked by many-a-users.

Thanking you

Regards

SHISHIR DUA


 * Hi greetings, wishing you a nice day. I appreciate your intention to become an admin in Wikipedia. Administrator is one of the most responsible person in Wikipedia. It needs a well experience in editing. Administrators assume these responsibilities as volunteers after undergoing a community review process. But as my personal opinion you should have much more experience to become an admin. If you apply/nominate to RfA in current situation, it will probably denied (opposed by other users). Please read these..

But don't worry wait for some more time and be more familiar with Wikipedia. Also please sign your posts with four tildes-- . Thank you. PA TH  SL OP U  14:22, 20 October 2019 (UTC)
 * WP:MOPRIGHTS
 * Don't edit for power

SHISHIR DUA (talk) 13:21, 21 October 2019 (UTC)Thank you
 * Hi greetings, please add the sign after the post, rather than before the post. Thank you. PA TH  SL OP U  13:26, 21 October 2019 (UTC)

OK I'm gonna do the same. SHISHIR DUA (talk) 13:28, 21 October 2019 (UTC)

The extreme gratitude to you as I really enjoyed the adventure you cited and wanna award you a barnstar for the same as my gratitude.

Thanks a million Sincerely editin' wikipedia

SHISHIR DUA (talk) 10:52, 24 October 2019 (UTC)

WikiProject India Newsletter – October 2019
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 * GA icon.svg Newly recognized content
 * The month of October 2019 started with Gateway of India re-attaining its Good Article status and the Sanjay Dutt filmography was recognized as Featured List.




 * GA onhold.svg Newly nominated content


 * List of international goals scored by Sunil Chhetri
 * List of chief ministers of Jharkhand
 * Bengal famine of 1943
 * India national football team at the Olympics
 * Rakta Sambandham


 * News Paper Flat Icon.svg  News
 * Article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page on October 2, 2019.
 * (pictured) has ended, which celebrates the victory of good over evil.
 * There are a lot of high-quality images on Commons uploaded by Itsmalay which can be used on some India cultural monuments articles.
 * is nominated to appear on the main page on November 3.
 * Info Simple bw.svg Miscellaneous
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 * You can join the RfC on superlatives sentence at Talk:India.


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 * Events that occoured on October.


 * Gandhi Jayanti (2 October)
 * Digital Society Day (17 October)
 * Martyrs' Day (21 October)
 * Accession Day (Jammu and Kashmir) (26 October)
 * Thevar Jayanthi (30 October)
 * Rashtriya Ekta Diwas (31 October)

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 * SMirC-smile.svgSMirC-smile.svgciating your efforts. PA TH  SL OP U  15:46, 24 October 2019 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

 * Thank you for your kind appreciation. You can ask me whenever you needs help in Wikipedia. I'll surely help if I can do it. Best wishes.-- PA TH  SL OP U  15:49, 24 October 2019 (UTC)

Mole day
Thanks for the message... I don't think we've met before? Also, I got the message after mole day had finished? Deryck C. 16:21, 24 October 2019 (UTC)
 * Hi greetings, yes we didn't met before. Apologies for the delayed message. Next time, we'll try to do it early. Thank you.-- PA TH  SL OP U  16:25, 24 October 2019 (UTC)

Page mover granted
Hello, Path slopu. Your account has been [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALog&type=rights&user=&page=User%3APath_slopu granted] the "extendedmover" user right, either following a request for it or demonstrating familiarity with working with article names and moving pages. You are now able to rename pages without leaving behind a redirect, move subpages when moving the parent page(s), and move category pages.

Please take a moment to review Page mover for more information on this user right, especially the criteria for moving pages without leaving redirect. Please remember to follow post-move cleanup procedures and make link corrections where necessary, including broken double-redirects when  is used. This can be done using Special:WhatLinksHere. It is also very important that no one else be allowed to access your account, so you should consider taking a few moments to secure your password. As with all user rights, be aware that if abused, or used in controversial ways without consensus, your page mover status can be revoked.

Useful links:
 * Requested moves
 * Category:Articles to be moved, for article renaming requests awaiting action.

If you do not want the page mover right anymore, just let me know, and I'll remove it. Thank you, and happy editing! Barkeep49 (talk) 20:28, 24 October 2019 (UTC)
 * Thank you very much for considering my request. I'll enhance my works using this new permission. PA TH  SL OP U  13:17, 25 October 2019 (UTC)
 * , great. I believe it will. However, in looking at your recent work a new concern came that I'd ask you to look at in our space. Best, Barkeep49 (talk) 13:35, 25 October 2019 (UTC)
 * Surely will do. Thank you for helps. PA TH  SL OP U  13:38, 25 October 2019 (UTC)

revert of edit by Solsticesummer
Dear Path slopu,

Thank you for undoing edits made to the wikipedia entry of 'Jan Deckers' by Solsticesummer earlier today. I am not a regular Wikipedia user, and may have wrongly removed some tags (inserted on the page in August 2016). However, the edits make sense as all statements have been verified by reference to external sources. Please either delete the Wikipedia page for 'Jan Deckers' or reinstate the edits made by Solsticesummer.

Much appreciated, Solsticesummer 26/10/19Solsticesummer (talk) 18:33, 26 October 2019 (UTC)

Happy Diwali 2019

 * Same to you! Wishing you a prosperous Diwali!.-- PA TH  SL OP U  13:34, 27 October 2019 (UTC)

query
How do you get the archive table in your talk page header? -- Thegooduser  Life Begins With a Smile :)  🍁 20:50, 26 October 2019 (UTC)
 * Hi greetings, I am only using the template talkpage in the top of my talkpage. It has displayed automatically. Is there any problem? Please tell me. Thank you.-- PA TH  SL OP U  13:39, 27 October 2019 (UTC)
 * No. No problems, just wanting to know how to get the archive header. -- Thegooduser  Life Begins With a Smile :)  🍁 00:50, 28 October 2019 (UTC)

Huggle
How can I deliver a message using Huggle? -- Thegooduser  Life Begins With a Smile :)  🍁 01:24, 28 October 2019 (UTC)
 * It is very simple. We can use the send a custom message from user menu. Or simply clicking the key M. Thank you.-- PA TH  SL OP U  01:29, 28 October 2019 (UTC)
 * Thanks! Thegooduser   Life Begins With a Smile :)  🍁 01:32, 28 October 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-44
<section begin="technews-2019-W44"/> 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
 * You can post proposals for the Community Wishlist Survey. The survey decides what the Community Tech team will work on. You can post proposals until 11 November. You can vote on proposals from 20 November to 2 December. This year the wishlist will focus on Wikibooks, Wiktionary, Wikiquote, Wikisource, Wikiversity, Wikispecies, Wikivoyage and Wikinews. You can read more about the format for this year.
 * Mobile users now have a specific design for their Watchlist.
 * You can share feedback and ideas on the Desktop Improvements project. The goal is to make the interface easier to use for readers and editors without removing any functionality. The Foundation's Readers Web team will work on this over the next two years.
 * Octicons-tools.svg OOUI now allows using  (pixels) instead of   (em) for some specific cases.

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).

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg Octicons-tools.svg You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * There will be no software changes from 19 December to 2 January. The first MediaWiki version next year will come the week of 6 January.
 * Octicons-tools.svg Gadgets and user scripts can access variables about the current page in JavaScript. In 2015, this information was moved from global variables named  to  . The old global variables will be removed later this year. You can know more about it and tell the developers if you want to try this out on your wiki first.

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Adminship Anniversary
Thanks! --Edcolins (talk) 20:31, 28 October 2019 (UTC)

Forbes 30 Under 30 is noy an Awards
Hello, Forbes 30 Under 30 is not an Awards — Preceding unsigned comment added by Justifyplease (talk • contribs) 09:29, 30 October 2019 (UTC)

All the other artists are very mad at her. Forbes 30 Under 30 is not an Awards. Please stop doing advertising for her. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Justifyplease (talk • contribs) 09:33, 30 October 2019 (UTC)

Please Do Not Overly advertising someone
Forbes 30 Under 30 is not an Awards. Please. All the other artists are very mad at her. I am just telling the truth. Please stop advertising her with the paid reference and paid exhibitions/press. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Justifyplease (talk • contribs) 09:52, 30 October 2019 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

 * Thank you very much for the kind appreciation. I'll continue my efforts in countering vandalism in Wikipedia more effectively. Thank you!-- PA TH  SL OP U  14:19, 31 October 2019 (UTC)

The Signpost: 31 October 2019
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WikiCup 2019 November newsletter
The WikiCup is over for another year! Our Champion this year is, who over the course of the competition has amassed 91 featured pictures, including 32 in the final round. Our finalists this year were:


 * 1) with 964 points
 * 2) with 899 points
 * 3) with 817 points
 * 4) with 691 points
 * 5) with 388 points
 * 6) with 146 points
 * 7) with 145 points
 * 8) with 74 points

All those who reached the final will win awards. The following special awards will be made based on high performance in particular areas of content creation. So that the finalists do not have an undue advantage, these prizes are awarded to the competitor who scored the highest in any particular field in a single round, or in the event of a tie, to the overall leader in this field. Awards will be handed out in the coming weeks. Please be patient!


 * wins the featured article prize, for a total of 7 FAs during the course of the competition.
 * wins the good article prize, for 14 GAs in round 5.
 * wins the featured list prize, for 4 FLs overall.
 * wins the featured picture prize, for 91 FPs overall.
 * wins the topic prize, for 7 articles in good topics in round 2.
 * wins the DYK prize, for 14 did you know articles in round 5.
 * wins the ITN prize, for 7 in the news articles in round 1.
 * wins the reviewer prize, for 56 good article reviews in round 1.

Congratulations to everyone who participated in this year's WikiCup, whether you made it to the final rounds or not, and particular congratulations to the newcomers to the WikiCup who have achieved much this year. Thanks to all who have taken part and helped out with the competition, not forgetting User:Jarry1250, who runs the scoring bot.

We have opened a scoring discussion on whether the rules and scoring need adjustment. Please have your say. Next year's competition will begin on 1 January. You are invited to sign up to participate; the WikiCup is open to all Wikipedians, both novices and experienced editors, and we hope to see you all in the 2020 competition. Until then, it only remains to once again congratulate our worthy winners, and thank all participants for their involvement! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Godot13, Sturmvogel 66, Vanamonde and Cwmhiraeth 14:18, 2 November 2019 (UTC)

Boo! Happy Halloween!
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 * Trick or treat

Trick or Treat! Happy Halloween  ! I hope you have a great day and remember to be safe if you go trick-or-treating  tonight with friends, family or loved ones. Happy Halloween!


 * What is this?

Halloween is a celebration observed in several countries on 31 October, the eve of the Western Christian feast of All Hallows' Day. Halloween activities include trick-or-treating (or the related guising and souling), attending Halloween costume parties, carving pumpkins into jack-o'-lanterns, lighting bonfires, apple bobbing, divination games, playing pranks, visiting haunted attractions, telling scary stories, as well as watching horror films.


 * What can you do!


 * Improve the quality of existing Halloween-related articles.
 * Identify Halloween topics that are encyclopedic and currently not covered in Wikipedia.
 * Return Halloween to Good article status.
 * Expand the articles listed at WikiProject Halloween articles.
 * Participate in Wikiproject Holidays, Wikiproject Halloween and Wikiproject Horror.
 * Place the WikiProject Halloween banner on all article talk pages that fall within the scope of these project




 * Similar events


 * Ghost Festival
 * Martinisingen
 * Neewollah
 * St. John's Eve
 * English festivals
 * Allantide
 * Beggars Night
 * Devil's Night
 * Dziady
 * Eid il-Burbara
 * Old Halloween
 * Saci day
 * Superstition
 * Walpurgis Night
 * Will-o'-the-wisp


 * See also


 * List of fiction works about Halloween
 * List of films set around Halloween
 * List of Halloween television specials

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New Page Review newsletter November 2019
Hello ,

This newsletter comes a little earlier than usual because the backlog is rising again and the holidays are coming very soon. There are now holders of the New Page Reviewer flag! Most of you requested the user right to be able to do something about the huge backlog but it's still roughly less than 10% doing 90% of the work. Now it's time for action. Exactly one year ago there were 'only' 3,650 unreviewed articles, now we will soon be approaching 7,000 despite the growing number of requests for the NPR user right. If each reviewer soon does only 2 reviews a day over five days, the backlog will be down to zero and the daily input can then be processed by every reviewer doing only 1 review every 2 days - that's only a few minutes work on the bus on the way to the office or to class! Let's get this over and done with in time to relax for the holidays. Want to join? Consider adding the NPP Pledge userbox. Our next newsletter will announce the winners of some really cool awards. Admin has been officially invested as NPP/NPR coordinator by a unanimous consensus of the community. This is a complex role and he will need all the help he can get from other experienced reviewers. Paid editing is still causing headaches for even our most experienced reviewers: This official Wikipedia article will be an eye-opener to anyone who joined Wikipedia or obtained the NPR right since 2015. See The Hallmarks to know exactly what to look for and take time to examine all the sources. Would you like feedback on your reviews? Are you an experienced reviewer who can give feedback to other reviewers? If so there are two new feedback pilot programs. New Reviewer mentorship will match newer reviewers with an experienced reviewer with a new reviewer. The other program will be an occasional peer review cohort for moderate or experienced reviewers to give feedback to each other. The first cohort will launch November 13. The annual ArbCom election will be coming up soon. All eligible users will be invited to vote. While not directly concerned with NPR, Arbcom cases often lead back to notability and deletion issues and/or actions by holders of advanced user rights. There is to be no wish list for WMF encyclopedias this year. We thank Community Tech for their hard work addressing our long list of requirements which somewhat overwhelmed them last year, and we look forward to a successful completion. To opt-out of future mailings, you can remove yourself here MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 08:33, 3 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Getting the queue to 0
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 * Tools
 * It is now possible to select new pages by date range. This was requested by reviewers who want to patrol from the middle of the list.
 * It is now also possible for accredited reviewers to put any article back into the New Pages Feed for re-review. The link is under 'Tools' in the side bar.
 * Reviewer Feedback
 * Second set of eyes
 * Not only are New Page Reviewers the guardians of quality of new articles, they are also in a position to ensure that pages are being correctly tagged for deletion and maintenance and that new authors are not being bitten. This is an important feature of your work, especially while some routine tagging for deletion can still be carried out by non NPR holders and inexperienced users. Read about it at the Monitoring the system section in the tutorial. If you come across such editors doing good work, don't hesitate to encourage them to apply for NPR.
 * Do be sure to have our talk page  on your watchlist. There are often items that require reviewers' special attention, such as to watch out for pages by known socks or disruptive editors, technical issues and new developments, and of course to provide advice for other reviewers.
 * Arbitration Committee
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Administrators' newsletter – November 2019
News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2019).

Administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg GermanJoe • Girth Summit • Kees08 • Nosebagbear
 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg DESiegel • GB fan • MSGJ • Voice of Clam • WilyD
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg DeltaQuad • Fang Aili • Pakaran

Bureaucrat changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg DeltaQuad • Pakaran

Interface administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg MSGJ

CheckUser changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg L235 • Mz7 • SQL • ST47
 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg Ivanvector
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg DeltaQuad

Oversight changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg L235 • Mz7 • ST47 • Stwalkerster • The Blade of the Northern Lights • Xaosflux
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg DeltaQuad • DGG • Julia W

Guideline and policy news
 * An RfC was closed with the consensus that the resysop criteria should be made stricter.
 * The follow-up RfC to develop that change is now open at Requests for comment/2019 Resysop Criteria (2).
 * A related RfC is seeking the community's sentiment for a binding desysop procedure.

Arbitration
 * Eligible editors may now nominate themselves as candidates for the 2019 Arbitration Committee Elections. The self-nomination period will close November 12, with voting running from November 19 through December 2.

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Tech News: 2019-45
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 * At Special:Contributions you could see up to 5000 edits at the same time if you edited the URL. This has been lowered to 500. This is to stop requests which break the sites.

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 * can set the default length to block a user for your wiki. You will be able to use  to set a different default block length for IP editors.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 November. It will be on all wikis from 7 November (calendar).

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Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 10
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Hello everyone and welcome to the 10th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter:

Scripts Submit your new/improved script here
 * Cscr-featured.svg Ahecht's page swap


 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg MoonyTheDwarf's wikimap
 * SD0001: hide-reverted-edits* T-Watch* W-Ping* easy-merge
 * Enterprisey: diff-permalink* search-links* section-redir-note* fancy-diffs* EditWarChecker


 * 1009Clock.jpg Pending requests
 * Inline editor for cleanup tags
 * Script to remove empty parameters
 * ...and many more, all available at User scripts/Requests



Have a great November, --DannyS712 (talk) 22:18, 7 November 2019 (UTC)

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Failed round-robin move
Hi, Path slopu. It looks like you were trying to move St. George's Forane Church, but you left it as a redirect to itself. I'm not sure of all the components of this intended move, so I won't try to fix it myself, but hope you can do so. --R'n'B (call me Russ) 15:03, 7 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Thank you ver much for the help. I am extremely sorry for the mistake. It was only the problem in the clean up (that was one of my first time round robin move with redirects, but in subsequent moves, I did the cleaning up properly.) Rectified the issue. Please check. I'll consider your advice in my future moves. Your advices are so helpful. Hope you'll help in future also. Thank you.-- PA TH  SL OP U  13:29, 8 November 2019 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

 * Thank you very much for the kind appreciation. I'l continue my works more effectively. Your works are also very helpful. Thank you.-- PA TH  SL OP U  13:42, 8 November 2019 (UTC)