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Tech News: 2020-36
 Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Problems
 * This is a reminder. All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on September 1. This is planned between 14:00 and 15:00 UTC. Please check on the details on the announcement message.

Changes later this week
 * There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

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Infobox modifications
Hello. A couple years ago you made a series of changes to Template:Infobox NFL Cheerleaders. I don't recall what they looked like before, but I think it would be nice if the infoboxes had the capability of displaying the team colors in the header bars, similar to the infoboxes of their respective NFL teams; and it seems like used to have that. If there is some compelling reason it shouldn't do that, or if it's just impractical for some reason, that's fine. Not a huge thing to me obviously. Just thought it would look nice. Also, having never really made any deep edits to templates, I thought it might be a good learning experience for me, if you or someone could give a little help to get me started. Just a thought. Thanks. --DB1729 (talk) 20:13, 19 August 2020 (UTC)


 * I tend to prefer standard colours, for accessibility. Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 20:59, 31 August 2020 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – September 2020
News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2020). Administrator changes
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CheckUser changes
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Guideline and policy news
 * Following a request for comment, the minimum length for site ban discussions was increased to 72 hours, up from 24.
 * A request for comment is ongoing to determine whether paid editors must or should use the articles for creation process.
 * A request for comment is open to resolve inconsistencies between the draftification and alternative to deletion processes.

Arbitration
 * A request for comment is open to provide an opportunity to amend the structure, rules, and procedures of the 2020 English Wikipedia Arbitration Committee election and to resolve any issues not covered by existing rules.
 * An open request for comment asks whether active Arbitrators may serve on the Trust and Safety Case Review Committee or Ombudsman commission.

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Wikidata weekly summary #432
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Events
 * Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Rob Fernandez (Wikimedia District of Columbia) on Listeria, a tool that uses SPARQL queries to define a list, and provides a bot that will update a wiki page containing that list if the results of that SPARQL query change, all based on Wikidata, 08 September. Agenda
 * Upcoming: live SPARQL queries on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, September 8 at 18:00 CEST
 * Upcoming video: Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #19 Facebook, YouTube, September 10
 * Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #29, September 13


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Semantic Wikibase has been released by Professional.Wiki (Demo video)
 * Video: Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #18, workflows for SPARQL queries and QuickStatements Facebook, YouTube
 * OpenRefine 3.4 was released
 * How can I get data on all the dams in the world? Use Wikidata. By Addshore
 * Wikidata Training Workshop 2, by Canadian Arts Presenting Association - YouTube
 * Contributing to Wikidata - (Parts 1, 2, 3 & 4)
 * Contributing to Wikidata (in French) - (Parts 1, 2, 3 & 4)
 * Video: How to use QuickStatements - a tool to bulk upload data onto Wikidata. By Dr Sara Thomas


 * Tool of the week
 * is a dashboard that measures Wikidata's usage and coverage on Wikimedia Foundation projects.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Entity Explosion, the browser add-on for Chrome is now also available for Firefox. When the user visits a web page, it displays data from Wikidata, about the subject of that page.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: none
 * External identifiers: LSG local body code, NYARC Discovery ID, Encyclopaedia of Architects, Vienna 1770–1945 ID, Hrvatska tehnička enciklopedija ID, ICP artist ID, TracesOfWar person ID, Firefox add-on ID, NHK Archives Portal person ID, Hrvatski biografski leksikon ID, InciWeb ID, YUAG ID, Wikipedia Library partner ID, FIPRESCI person ID, Anais do Museu Paulista article ID, Legacies of British Slave-ownership place ID, Wisconsin Historical Society NRHP ID, Carl-Maria-von-Weber-Gesamtausgabe ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: applies to form or aspect, blocked on the territory of, Liturgical category, Flickr image URL, turning radius, number of reboots, financials URL, SI base units, rank insignia2
 * External identifiers: Syro-Malabar Church Parish ID, Database of Umgebinde houses in Bohemian Switzerland ID, Re-Member ID, DIL ID, Naver Vibe Artist ID, American Battlefield Trust battlefield ID, American Battlefield Trust person ID, L'Officiel des spectacles ID, VA facility ID, Hikr Waypoint ID, tvmaze ID, Thomas Jefferson Encyclopedia ID, Danish educational institution number, Past Fellow of the Royal Society ID, photoLondon ID, uta-net.com song ID, Historic Montana ID, KHRI ID, Seattle Art Museum ID, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art artwork ID


 * Query examples:
 * Map of companies developing/manufacturing a COVID-19 vaccine candidate that is at least in a phase 1 clinical trial
 * [https://sophox.org/embed.html#SELECT%20%3Fosm%20%3Famount%20%3Fiso4217%20%3FamountUSD%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20hint%3AQuery%20hint%3Aoptimizer%20%22None%22%20.%0A%20%20%0A%20%20%23%20Query%20Wikidata%20for%0A%20%20SERVICE%20%3Chttps%3A%2F%2Fquery.wikidata.org%2Fsparql%3E%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%23%20Currencies%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fcurrency%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ8142%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20Their%20ISO%204217%20codes%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP498%20%3Fiso4217%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20Their%20exchange%20rate%20statements%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20p%3AP2284%20%3FrateStatement.%0A%20%20%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20Preferred%20statement%20about%20a%20USD%20exchange%20rate%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3FrateStatement%20wikibase%3Arank%20wikibase%3APreferredRank%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20psv%3AP2284%20%5B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wikibase%3AquantityAmount%20%3FpreferredConversion%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wikibase%3AquantityUnit%20wd%3AQ4917%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%5D.%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20Normal%20statement%20about%20a%20USD%20exchange%20rate%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3FrateStatement%20wikibase%3Arank%20wikibase%3ANormalRank%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20psv%3AP2284%20%5B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wikibase%3AquantityAmount%20%3FnormalConversion%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wikibase%3AquantityUnit%20wd%3AQ4917%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%5D.%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20%23%20Normally%20a%20triple%20would%20use%20the%20preferred%20statement%20if%20available%2C%20falling%20back%20to%20a%20normal%20statement%0A%20%20%20%20%23%20However%2C%20we%20have%20to%20do%20the%20fallback%20manually%20because%20we%20got%20the%20raw%20statements%20in%20order%20to%20filter%20by%20qualifier%0A%20%20%20%20BIND%28COALESCE%28%3FpreferredConversion%2C%20%3FnormalConversion%29%20AS%20%3Fconversion%29%0A%20%20%20%20FILTER%20BOUND%28%3Fconversion%29%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%0A%20%20%23%20Query%20OpenStreetMap%20for%20prices%20of%20services%0A%20%20%3Fosm%20osmt%3Acharge%20%3Fcharge.%0A%20%20%0A%20%20%23%20Only%20flat%20fees%2C%20since%20rates%20by%20time%20are%20difficult%20to%20compare%20across%20service%20types%0A%20%20FILTER%20REGEX%28%3Fcharge%2C%20%22%5E%5B0-9%5D%2B%28%3F%3A%5C%5C.%5B0-9%5D%2B%29%3F%20%5BA-Z%5D%7B3%7D%24%22%29%0A%20%20%0A%20%20%23%20Parse%20the%20price%20and%20convert%20it%20from%20the%20local%20currency%20to%20USD%0A%20%20BIND%28xsd%3Adecimal%28STRBEFORE%28%3Fcharge%2C%20%22%20%22%29%29%20AS%20%3Famount%29%0A%20%20BIND%28STRAFTER%28%3Fcharge%2C%20%22%20%22%29%20AS%20%3Fiso4217%29%0A%20%20BIND%28%3Famount%20%2A%20%3Fconversion%20AS%20%3FamountUSD%29%0A%7D%0AORDER%20BY%20DESC%28%3FamountUSD%29%0ALIMIT%20100 A table of the 100 highest fees charged for using various kinds of facilities, normalized to United States dollars] - OSM/Wikidata query
 * Youngest age of UK MPs leaving office since 1900 (Source)
 * Longest time UK MPs lived after leaving office since 1900 (Source)
 * British cabinet members with past military service (Source)
 * Earliest written record of 10 largest Czech cities (Source)
 * Churches dedicated to Czech patron St. Wenceslas (blue) and Moravian patrons St. Cyril and Methodeus (orange) (Source)
 * German municipality names ending with -in, -ing, -heim (Source)


 * Development
 * Added Wikidata support to Japanese Wikivoyage. T261451
 * Investigating the nature of our training outliers to improve the way ORES automatically scores the quality of an Item.
 * Working on error that sometimes causes Wikidata UI to report 2 error messages when saving a sitelink in an item. T260869
 * Completed various investigations to make an informed decision on the output format of WikibaseManifest files (automated configuration detection for toolbuilders) T261285
 * Completed various bug fixes and wrap-up tasks to conclude the major engineering work on the Federated Properties project
 * More work on Item Quality Scoring and Federated Properties

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.


 * Monthly Tasks
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
 * Contribute to a Showcase item.
 * Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
 * Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
 * Help write the next summary!

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Tech News: 2020-37
 Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Changes later this week
 * Normally pages can be moved to a title that has no existing page yet or to a page that has only one revision, which is a redirect to the page to be moved. A new user right allows editors to move pages over one-revision pages that redirect to anywhere.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 8 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 September. It will be on all wikis from 10 September (calendar).
 * Octicons-tools.svg All MediaWiki API modules will now use  instead of  . This was inconsistent before.

Future changes
 * The Wikipedia Android app team might work on patrolling tools in the future. You can let them know what tools would be useful for you or for less experienced patrollers. See the page on mediawiki.org.
 * OTRS will be updated to a new version. This will probably take around two days. OTRS agents will not have access to the system during these days. Emails that come in during the update will be delivered when the update is done. The plan is to start around 08:00 UTC on 14 September. This could change.
 * The Wikipedia Android app will send push notifications if users want them. This could help you see for example when someone wrote on your talk page or your edit was reverted. This will need Google Play Services to work. It will also be possible to get the app without Google Play Services but push notifications will not work. Google Play Services is also used to make the app work for Android 4.4 users.
 * Octicons-tools.svg Wikimedia code review could move to GitLab. It would be hosted on Wikimedia servers. You can take part in the consultation.
 * Octicons-tools.svg Dropdown menus in the Vector skin use a  class. This will not work in the future. Scripts can use   instead.   and   will also not work. Some scripts need to be updated. You can read more in Phabricator.

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Books & Bytes – Issue 40
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Issue 40, July – August 2020 
 * New partnerships
 * Al Manhal
 * Ancestry
 * RILM
 * #1Lib1Ref May 2020 report
 * AfLIA hires a Wikipedian-in-Residence

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Activity templates
Hey Andy, I don't think we've ever interacted directly before, so hello! Hope you're well in these crazy times. I saw you've been posting a few activity templates at TFD, and as you mention there is one glaring and frequent problem, which is that the templates are often waaaaay out of date.

What's your opinion about amending the whole set of templates? We could, for example, insert an automatic link that shows up only if the page it's on hasn't changed in a set time period, something along the lines of This editor may no longer be active (check me). This would be a relatively easy way to indicate to other editors that the template might be out of date and then we can link to a page like contribs to help them check that. Do you think this is worth exploring / discussing further? --Tom (LT) (talk) 01:17, 3 September 2020 (UTC)


 * Hi. Nice idea. I've nothing against it in principle, but I'm not sure that the last updated date is detectable, in template code. Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 10:54, 3 September 2020 (UTC)
 * You are probably right. Maybe it's better to link directly to the contribs such as (see if I'm active). An alternative would be to link to an essay type page that describes was editors can verify if another editor is active or not (eg via contribs, message or email). Do you think this is worth discussing further? Given all the problems you've identified with these sorts of templates, I think it's important editors know the messages can often be inaccurate.--Tom (LT) (talk) 09:04, 13 September 2020 (UTC)

Connecting Wikidata items and redirects
Another user has been connecting taxon redirects to Wikidata items by temporarily converting them to non-redirects, adding them to the Wikidata item, and then restoring the redirect. This fixes one of my problems with Wikidata's modelling of taxa and wiki articles about taxa, namely the impossibility of correctly connecting articles on monotypic taxa when wikis have very different approaches (see User:Peter coxhead/Wikidata issues). However, I suspect that Wikidata editors may not agree. I'm interested to know what you think. Peter coxhead (talk) 18:08, 13 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Personally, I think that's the correct method of modelling; but as you surmise, some on on Wikidata disagree. This 2017 RfC on Wikidata found consensus to use such links, with caveats. Hope you managed to see the RBS, BTW. Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 18:16, 13 September 2020 (UTC)
 * The problem with that RfC is that the closer said in effect "consensus to allow links to redirects but some issues need to be sorted first" and, afaik, they weren't. So the opposers are still entitled to say that redirect links should not be present. I've never created any deliberately myself, but I have seen useful redirect links created by legitimate conversion of an article to a redirect (monotypic genus wrongly at the species, for example) removed from Wikidata.
 * No, I didn't see the RBS, although I was aware of the excitement. The location has been too busy for me during most of lockdown. Peter coxhead (talk) 18:39, 13 September 2020 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #433
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Discussions
 * New request for comments: Alternate disclosure policy


 * Events
 * Past: The Workshop On Open Citations And Open Scholarly Metadata 2020 took place in Bologna and online on September 9 and included a talk State of WikiCite in 2020, available on Zenodo via doi:10.5281/zenodo.4019954.
 * Upcoming: live SPARQL queries on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, September 15 at 18:00 CEST
 * Upcoming: Wikidata birthday organizers call, September 16th at 13:00 UTC/GMT
 * Upcoming video: Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #20: Facebook, YouTube, September 19
 * Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #30, September 20


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Video: Youtuber Tom Scott tries to answer the question What Is The Best Thing?, using Wikidata to curate a collection of "things", and an online poll for people to vote on those things.
 * "Our admiration for Wikidata and for the people who work with it knows no bounds. Having a single source of well modelled, massively interlinked, well managed data that anyone can query at the press of a button is a real thing of wonder." - says the UK Parliament data team
 * Houcemeddine Turki, et al. (2020). Using logical constraints to validate information in collaborative knowledge graphs: a study of COVID-19 on Wikidata (Zenodo Preprint).
 * Video: Wikidata basics short videos by Wikimedian in Residence at University of Edinburgh (YouTube)
 * A brief intro to Wikidata and how to set up an account
 * How to add a new item to Wikidata
 * How to add an image to Wikidata
 * Video: Creating a Mix'n'Match set for Queensland Biota on Wikidata - YouTube
 * Video: Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #19: Cradle and colours in queries. Facebook, YouTube


 * Tool of the week
 * Mbabel is a tool that simplifies article creation by providing pre-made sentences based on Wikidata statements.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * The consultation phase for the Wikimedia movement Universal Code of Conduct (UCoC) is in progress until 6 October 2020. The UCoC drafting committee wants to learn which parts of the draft would present challenges for you or your work. What is missing from this draft? What do you like, and what could be improved?
 * All the lists of languages used on Wikidata: feel free to improve this draft documentation page.
 * The Wikidata development team is seeking to evaluate and improve the process of collecting and reacting to bug reports and feature requests. You can give feedback about your experience using this anonymous form until September 30th or add feedback publically to Wikidata talk:Contact the development team/Process review 2020.
 * WikiMap, a tool by User:DB111 that maps geocoded images from Commons and Wikipedia articles, now supports Wikidata items as well (Q99232292)
 * Wikidata QID's are approaching 9 digits. Now is the time to fix any code or schemas that assume that Q numbers are smaller than 9 characters.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: aerial view, ride height, category for the exterior of the item, axle track
 * External identifiers: Anais do Museu Paulista article ID, Legacies of British Slave-ownership place ID, Wisconsin Historical Society NRHP ID, Carl-Maria-von-Weber-Gesamtausgabe ID, Jewish Encyclopedia ID, Grove Music Online ID, Hikr waypoint ID, DIL ID, Seattle Art Museum ID, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art artwork ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: expansion of, Oakeshott typology, Slack URL, TDD number, Hill size, K point, number of negative votes, number of support votes
 * External identifiers: Historic Montana ID, KHRI ID, KinoWiki ID, BD Gest' series ID, Portugal. Dicionário Histórico ID, Discord username, China Treaty Database ID, Discord channel, Bollywood Hungama movie, NMC Heritage ID, identifiant d'un artiste département des arts graphiques du musée du Louvre, SPoT skater ID, Canadian Women Artists History Initiative ID, Lambiek Special pages, Lambiek comic magazines, Rheinland-Pfälzische Personendatenbank ID, Delft municipal monument ID


 * Query examples:
 * Shortest path of descent from Charlemagne to George Washington, George W. Bush, Barack Obama, Elizabeth II
 * List of most recent common ancestors (ordered by number of total degrees separated) between George Washington and George W. Bush (9th cousin 8 times removed), George Washington and Barack Obama (12th cousin 9 times removed), George Washington and Elizabeth II (2th consin 7 times removed), George W. Bush and Barack Obama (11th cousin), George W. Bush and Elizabeth II (14th cousin once removed), Barack Obama and Elizabeth II (19th cousin 3 times removed)
 * Artists that have recorded songs in several languages, by number of different languages used (Source)
 * Average age of companies listed on major indices (Source)
 * Basque Country sister cities with world municipalities (Source)
 * Map of companies developing/manufacturing a COVID-19 vaccine candidate that is at least in a phase 1 clinical trial (Source)
 * 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Map of mountains in Austria showing their heights; from red for the lowest through green to black for the highest] (Source)
 * Top World Heritage sites by number of paintings depicting them (Source)
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 * Development
 * Fixing an error that sometimes causes Wikidata UI to report 2 error messages when saving a sitelink in an Item instead of just one. (T260869)
 * Development of version one of Federated Properties has concluded! Expect an announcement with timing of the release of this feature soon. Wikibase users who want an early look at the feature are invited to reach out to participate in the pre-release testing round.
 * Development of the WikibaseManifest extension has continued into its second sprint; we focused on determining a product specification for the Manifest output.
 * Finishing a draft documentation for a REST API to get it ready for a feedback round before implementation.
 * Finished improvements to the automated scoring of the quality of Items with ORES. Still need to retrain ORES and deploy the changes before the scores are actually different though.

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.


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 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
 * Contribute to a Showcase item.
 * Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
 * Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
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Microformats dates
Hey. Had a Q about WikiProject Microformats/dates. Specifically, it seems to advise not using date templates when the year is preceding 1583. This advice is echoed for eg Infobox person. Could you clarify the issue for me? What's the issue with using birth date for someone born 11 March 1283, eg as: March 11, 1293? Thanks, ProcrastinatingReader (talk) 12:25, 9 September 2020 (UTC)


 * Microformats should only be used for Gregorian calendar dates, not Julian. Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 12:36, 9 September 2020 (UTC)
 * I see, thanks. Applied that amongst other changes to ProcBot’s task 2. Looks like it is able to convert most valid date formats into the templates now (incl years, was skipping too many before as I wasn’t entirely sure of template limitations). ProcrastinatingReader (talk) 17:33, 14 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Thank you - the changes look fine, but where is the bot's approval? Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 17:36, 14 September 2020 (UTC)
 * task 2 ProcrastinatingReader (talk) 17:38, 14 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Thoughts on Special:Diff/978399167? Currently not adding y to year-only dates, because redundant, but wondering if that's a good idea? The page has Use dmy dates and I'm guessing if someone later comes along to add the more full date, they won't bother add the df=y to make it show in the proper format. At the same time, looks a bit silly. ProcrastinatingReader (talk) 19:02, 14 September 2020 (UTC)
 * I don't add it in such cases, but no harm, either way. Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 19:24, 14 September 2020 (UTC)

Brass
Greetings played by Moop Mama, more on my talk, or the Main page ;) - As for the above, I wouldn't actually make these edits, but understand removing false promises. I just have no time besides writing articles. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:51, 15 September 2020 (UTC)

My portrait
Andy, the portrait of me taken by MS Studios in Ashgabat was paid for by the U.S. government with a U.S. government purchase order with the standard language transferring copyright to the U.S. government, thus the copyright to the photo is owned by the U.S. government, which puts it squarely in the public domain. Please restore the photo to the article you wrote about me. The other portrait is wretched--if there is to be a photo of me in the article please let's use a photo that doesn't make me look like something from a bad sci-fi movie. Thanks! Amustard (talk) 01:46, 17 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Thank you for the info, but it is standard policy both on Wikipedia and on Wikimedia Cpmmons, that such claims must be supported with evidence, supplied by the photographer or copyright holder from their official email address, as described at c:Commons:OTRS. And while the work of US government employees is "squarely in the public domain", I do not accept that that automatically applies to work purchased by the US gov., though of course that can be clarified in the same manner. Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 08:04, 17 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Andy, reaching back to Sergey Mirzoyev, the photographer in Ashgabat, is not that simple, so let's just drop the issue for now. I have other things going on I need to focus on, as you are well aware. If circumstances permit in the future, I'll see if I can get such "evidence" for you without imposing on the folks at Embassy Ashgabat. Amustard (talk) 13:26, 17 September 2020 (UTC)

Talk pages of blocked users
Hi, could you consider not removing stuff from the talk pages of blocked users. These templates are actually really helpful as a CU because people tend to reuse them on all their accounts, and removing them doesn’t seem to have any benefit. TonyBallioni (talk) 13:05, 15 September 2020 (UTC)
 * I would second that; there is no reason to be mucking about with userpage templates unless they've been deleted (per WP:NOBAN). Primefac (talk) 13:23, 15 September 2020 (UTC)
 * I find having templates encouraging people to leave messages on the talk pages of indef. banned or long departed users - or worse, promising replies to such messages - to be harmful. The benefits of removing such false encouragements and promises are therefore clear. I also note that WP:NOBAN and not around each explicitly allow certain types of editing of such pages. Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 13:50, 15 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Template documentation doesn’t represent policy or any sort of consensus—simply the views of the people who wrote it. NOBAN also isn’t relevant here as I’m not saying that what you’re doing is against any policy (since I don’t think any policy thought this would ever happen.) I’m saying that what you’re doing is pointless at best and makes life difficult for those of us who regularly deal with blocked users at worst. Something doesn’t have to be against a written policy to not be helpful. TonyBallioni (talk) 15:09, 15 September 2020 (UTC)
 * "template documentation doesn’t represent policy" I didn't mention policy. As to NONBAN, it wasn't me who cited it. I've already explained why my edits were helpful and far from pointless. Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 15:15, 15 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Might I suggest that if multiple people have told you they don’t find this helpful and that you’re currently the only person on Wikipedia making these edits, others might not find them as helpful as you do. In one recent case you removed formatting of a sockmaster who in the past has just copied and pasted his previous talk pages. There are many cases at SPI like this. I’m able to identify the ones I’m familiar with because I know them, but many clerks and patrolling admins aren’t, and these things really do help in sorting out cases there. I’ve given you an example of where this might be unhelpful. I consider this to be a much greater chance of causing issues than someone posting on a talk page of someone who hasn’t edited in a year. I think the best thing here would be to stop doing these yourself, and if someone else agrees with you, let them do it. TonyBallioni (talk) 15:24, 15 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Might I suggest that the opinions of just the two of you - especially when you make such unconvincing arguments - don't carry the weight that you seem to think you do? Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 15:33, 15 September 2020 (UTC)
 * I don't really care about the user page edits for inactive users. I don't think they have as big an impact as you do, but they also don't really have that much an impact either way. I would like you to consider stopping this with blocked users. Like I mentioned above, there are a lot of sockmasters who just copy and paste formatting, and changing it makes things more difficult for the people who deal with them at SPI. It also can trigger an email for someone who is trying to leave Wikipedia behind them, and then cause them to either create more accounts or bring back memories they might want to avoid. This is what I'd really like you to consider stopping, and I think its a good middle ground between stopping completely and doing it for everyone. TonyBallioni (talk) 15:54, 15 September 2020 (UTC)
 * In January 2020, discussing a case where I removed outdated instances of a time-limited template ("I am busy with exams") from the pages of people who have not edited in the last two years or more (and then nominated the template for deletion), User:Primefac wrote : "I'd say that your removals (with or without the subsequent TFD) was reasonable.". Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 22:37, 17 September 2020 (UTC)

Emma Louise Turner
I've moved the page to this title since she was an author and naturalist as well as a photographer, and I've added an image. I was thinking of working this up to FA, and since you are the current main editor, I wondered if you wished to be involved in the process? There won't be any rush with this anyway <b style="font-family:Lucida;color:red">Jimfbleak</b> - talk to me?  15:35, 14 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Thank you for asking, and well done for finding the photo - I'd never seen that before. I've never been that bothered by the FA process, but I will watch any suggestions for improvement with interest. Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 16:04, 14 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Thanks, Andy. I'll be taking my time on this anyway, particularly while the weather's good! <b style="font-family:Lucida;color:red">Jimfbleak</b> - talk to me?  10:29, 15 September 2020 (UTC)
 * I have a problem with two existing refs:
 * 1939 England and Wales Register
 * England & Wales, National Probate Calendar, 1940. TURNER Emma Louisa of...
 * I don't know if they are yours or not, but quicker to ask than to search the history. If they are, the first is particularly problematic, since there is no url or access date, which there should be even if it's a paid for site, also not sure why 1939. The same applies to the second, since we know what it says, but again there should presumably be a url. Any help you can give would be great. <b style="font-family:Lucida;color:red">Jimfbleak</b> - talk to me?  13:02, 18 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Probate added by User:Vt100. 1939 register  by User:Wikimandia. I have no access to these sources; but nor do I have any reason to doubt those editors' good faith.  Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 13:20, 18 September 2020 (UTC)


 * Thanks Andy, I don't doubt that the editors concerned posted correct information, it's just a matter of polishing the refs a bit <b style="font-family:Lucida;color:red">Jimfbleak</b> - talk to me?  14:43, 18 September 2020 (UTC)

September
Thank you for improving articles in September! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:43, 21 September 2020 (UTC)