User talk:Qwerfjkl/Archive 39

Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Unassessed vital articles in Health and Medicine


A tag has been placed on Category:Unassessed vital articles in Health and Medicine indicating that it is currently empty, and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion. If it remains empty for seven days or more, it may be deleted under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and removing the speedy deletion tag. Liz Read! Talk! 20:45, 28 November 2023 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Unassessed vital articles in Physics


A tag has been placed on Category:Unassessed vital articles in Physics indicating that it is currently empty, and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion. If it remains empty for seven days or more, it may be deleted under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and removing the speedy deletion tag. Liz Read! Talk! 20:46, 28 November 2023 (UTC)
 * Liz, I'm not sure these should be deleted. They have Possibly empty category now (which they didn't have before due to a template not being updated after a category rename). — Qwerfjkl  talk  21:21, 28 November 2023 (UTC)

Qwerfjkl (bot) – Vchimpanzee
Page: Wake_Forest_University

Diff: Special:Diff/1175846538

I don't see any problems.

— Vchimpanzee  •  talk  •  contributions  •  17:20, 29 November 2023 (UTC)
 * Vchimpanzee, for the reference You changed the title to work, meaning it has no title. —  Qwerfjkl  talk  17:51, 29 November 2023 (UTC)
 * Okay, I see now. That was a problem with another ref that I saw and fixed but clicking on the archived link doesn't give me anything, so there's no title that can be put there.— Vchimpanzee  •  talk  •  contributions  •  21:05, 29 November 2023 (UTC)

Question from Mohnish 21yadav (12:51, 1 December 2023)
i want to know about indian history read on wikipedia --Mohnish 21yadav (talk) 12:51, 1 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Mohnish 21yadav, try History of India. — Qwerfjkl  talk  14:21, 1 December 2023 (UTC)

Growth team newsletter #29
Welcome to the twenty-ninth newsletter from the Growth team! Help with translations

Community Conversations
The Growth team will host its first community conversation Monday, 4 December (19:00 - 20:30 UTC). The topic for this meeting will be Mentorship.

This first meeting language will be English, but we plan to host conversations in other languages, and about other topics. Please visit the conversation page on-wiki for the details on how to join. You can also watch the page, or suggest ideas for upcoming conversations there.

Impact Module
At the beginning of November 2023, the Growth team deployed the New Impact Module to all Wikipedias. We recently released a follow up improvement to how edit data was displayed based on editor feedback. 

Add a Link
We released “add a link” to 35 more Wikipedias. 

We have a few Wikipedias remaining:
 * German and English Wikipedia will be contacted at the beginning of January 2024.
 * There are a few small wikis that will not receive the task until they have enough articles for the algorithm to work properly.

Community Configuration

 * We shared Community Configuration 2.0 plans with technical stakeholders. 🖂
 * Initial Community Configuration design ideas have been shared and discussed with community members.
 * A basic Community Configuration 2.0 demo is released on ToolForge.
 * Developers can find some initial proof of concept code shared on gitlab.

Mentorship
When a mentor marked themselves as "Away", they were not getting their name assigned to new accounts when they returned. This has been fixed. 

We improved the message received by newcomers when their mentor quits, to reduce confusion. 

We worked on ensuring that all mentees are assigned to an active mentor. This required reassigning mentees with no mentors to a new mentor. We paused this as the clean-up script confused some editors. We will resume it when the identified blockers are resolved. 

It is now possible to create an Abuse Filter to prevent one user from signing up as a mentor. 

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Article approval
Hi I have attempted to create my first page Kadak Singh. Would you review it? This is a Hindi movie featuring prominent actors, directed by national award winning filmmaker. Thank you Filmy World (talk) 15:03, 2 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Filmyworldwiki, it looks good to me, and from a cursory glance appears to pass WP:GNG. — Qwerfjkl  talk  19:17, 2 December 2023 (UTC)

The Signpost: 4 December 2023
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[Wikidata] Weekly Summary #605
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Discussions
 * New requests for permissions/Bot:
 * RudolfoBot - (Task: import lists of drugs with black box Warnings)
 * TiagoLubianaBot 4 - (Task: add drug-drug interactions from (Q123478206) A reference set of clinically relevant adverse drug-drug interactions)
 * LiMrBot - importing and updating information about asteroids and comets.


 * Events
 * Upcoming:
 * Wikimedia Hackathon 2024: Register and Apply for Scholarships until January 5th 2024!
 * WikiMania 2024 Scholarships are open - You can apply now for paid accommodation, travel and registration of the event!
 * Next:
 * Extended Semantic Web Conference 2024 < The deadline to submit your Papers is December 7th (23:59 UTC-12)!
 * Talk to the Search Platform / Query Service team - the 1st Wednesday of every month, bring your questions on Wikimedia Search, Wikidata Query and Wikimedia Commons Query service.
 * Past:
 * Data Modelling Days 2023 - (30 Nov - 2 Dec.) If you missed it, don't worry! We have recordings, slides and notes for each session, available here!
 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Press
 * Around 250 war-threatened architectural monuments documented (German) - Wikidata, Wikibase and Commons are helping preserve and plan the restoration of culturally-significant Monuments damaged or destroyed by the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
 * Blogs
 * How many properties are created on Wikidata each month?, by Envel Le Hir
 * Videos
 * Connecting Archives Connecting People (CACP) Project A Wikidata Workshop provided by the British Institute at Ankara.
 * Metaphactory's advanced semantic search with Wikidata KG < shows a new way of building queries with Metaphacts visualised UI. Read more with their latest News Posts!
 * Wikibase for GLAM organizations: Collections in the Linked Open Data web by our excellent Partner Manager User:Christos Varvantakis (WMDE)
 * Intro to Wikidata and importing bibliographic elements from Zotero < (Italian) An initiative to expand Greek and Latin antiquities in Wikidata for use in humanistic studies. Read more here > Gruppo Wikidata per Musei, Archivi e Biblioteche


 * Tool of the week
 * ZotWb < export records in a Zotero group library to a custom Wikibase, prepare datasets to send to OpenRefine, feed OpenRefine reconciliaton results back to the Wikibase. Wikidata is envolved in the entity reconciliation. Here's a short explanation and demo video Tool is written and provided by David Lindermann with support from WMF Rapid Grant.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Wikimedia Deutschland job opening: We're looking for a new Product Manager for Wikibase Cloud. Are you interested or do you happen to know someone who might fit this position?
 * Wikimedia Deutschland will be collaborating with Purdue Students to Find New Mismatches for the Mismatch Finder. We Need Your Help to Suggest External Datasets!
 * Outreachy Round 27 interns selected, including 1 Wikidata related project.
 * A cool new Obsidian plugin for Wikidata is in the works.
 * Fulltext search for folders in an external archive via text in Wikidata items (more).
 * Have you tried EntiTree yet? Explore relationship and connections between Wikidata entities with this new visualisation!
 * Last call for the Wikibase.Cloud 2023 User survey. It only takes 10 minutes and it's fully anonymous so please participate!
 * The StructuredDiscussions extension is being archived but your comments on the Project Chat are wanted.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes:
 * PAEnflowered taxon URL ( URL for a plant taxon found in Pennsylvania on the PAEnflowered website )
 * External identifiers: Rare Species Guide ID, Minnesota Plant List ID, Flora of the Southeastern United States ID, Digital Atlas of the Virginia Flora ID, Go Botany taxon ID, Search System of Japanese Red Data ID, Art Gallery of Ontario object ID, Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae object ID, Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae text ID, Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae thesaurus ID, Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae lemma ID, ‎Paradox Wikis article ID, Coin Hoards of the Roman Empire ID, Alaska Women’s Hall of Fame ID, SWERIK person ID, Team Wales athlete ID, ‎WikiIndex ID, ‎Theapolis person ID, TheTVDB movie ID, Shanghai Library surname ID, Shanghai Library era ID, Shanghai Library organization ID, Pinakes work ID, Hugging Face user or organization ID, COR SEM ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes:
 * Montana Plant Life URL ( URL for a plant family, genus, or species on the Montana Plant Life website )
 * event role ( item that describes a role in an event class )
 * role in event ( event class for which the item describes a role )
 * selectional preference ( (to be used only with the subclasses of Q_event_role) an item that plays this role in an event instance should descend from this item via a combination of P31 and P279 )
 * event arguments and types ( item that plays a role in an event instance; used with a qualifier "argument type" )
 * BnF archives and manuscripts ID ( identifier for a manuscript in the archives and manuscripts catalogue of the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF). Do not include the initial "cc" )
 * clerked for ( this person has held a clerkship with the judge )
 * battery life ( the length of time a device can continue to work before it needs its battery to be recharged )
 * External identifiers: China Animal Scientific Database taxon ID, DIMA ID, CoL Taiwan ID, RFI station ID, BUGZ ID, China Animal Scientific Database dbb ID, turismoroma.it place ID, Enciclopedia di Roma monument & street IDs, International Hockey Federation competition ID, Black Games Archive ID, Al-shamila Book ID, Akadem person ID (new format), AustrianGames ID, Atari-8-bit Forever game ID

Feel free to suggest next week's Showcase Item and Lexeme!
 * Query examples:
 * People born somewhere named after them (source)
 * Rose cultivars named after screen writers source)
 * Newest WikiProjects: Events and Role Frames
 * Newest database reports:
 * Showcase Items: Symphony No.7 composed by Ludwig van Beethoven
 * Showcase Lexemes: läsa - 'read' about this Swedish word with many pronounciations and grammatical features.


 * Development
 * Wikibase REST API:
 * We finished the endpoint for removing an Item's label in a specific language (T335841) and the endpoint for modifying descriptions on a Property (T342981)
 * We are working on the endpoint for adding aliases in a given language for a Property (T343721) and removing a Property's label in a given language (T342983)
 * Mismatch Finder: We are continuing the work on moving the tool over to the new design system Codex
 * We adjusted the styling for the values of monolingual text statements to make the language easier to distinguish from the value (T280774)
 * mul language code: We made some final adjustments to get it ready for testing.
 * Lexemes: We are adding a license note for anon users when editing a Lexeme’s lemma, a Form or Sense (T343999)

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.

Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Danny Benjafield (WMDE) 16:59, 4 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
 * Suggested and open tasks!
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 * Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
 * Help write the next summary!

Tech News: 2023-49
 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
 * The spacing between paragraphs on Vector 2022 has been changed from 7px to 14px to match the size of the text. This will make it easier to distinguish paragraphs from sentences.
 * The "" feature in VisualEditor is working again. You no longer need to switch to source editing to edit  keywords.

Changes later this week
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 * On 6 December, people who have the enabled the preference for "" will notice the talk page usability improvements appear on pages that include the  magic word. If you notice any issues, please share them with the team on Phabricator.

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 * Octicons-tools.svg The Toolforge Grid Engine shutdown process will start on December 14. Maintainers of tools that still use this old system should plan to migrate to Kubernetes, or tell the team your plans on Phabricator in the task about your tool, before that date.
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Koose Munisamy Veerappan (TV series)
Hi, I have created a page for documentary series Koose Munisamy Veerappan (TV series). Request you to have a look at it and help it get better. Filmy World (talk) 04:11, 5 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Filmyworldwiki, have you made sure the article meets the notability guidelines outlines at WP:TVSERIES (mostly just WP:GNG)? From a quick glance it looks good to me. — Qwerfjkl  talk  19:12, 5 December 2023 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – December 2023
News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2023).

Administrator changes
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Guideline and policy news
 * Following a talk page discussion, the Administrators' accountability policy has been updated to note that while it is considered best practice for administrators to have notifications (pings) enabled, this is not mandatory. Administrators who do not use notifications are now strongly encouraged to indicate this on their user page.

Arbitration
 * Following a motion, the Extended Confirmed Restriction has been amended, removing the allowance for non-extended-confirmed editors to post constructive comments on the "Talk:" namespace. Now, non-extended-confirmed editors may use the "Talk:" namespace solely to make edit requests related to articles within the topic area, provided that their actions are not disruptive.
 * The Arbitration Committee has announced a call for Checkusers and Oversighters, stating that it will currently be accepting applications for CheckUser and/or Oversight permissions at any point in the year.
 * Eligible users are invited to vote on candidates for the Arbitration Committee until 23:59 December 11, 2023 (UTC). Candidate statements can be seen here.

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Archive Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 15:54, 8 December 2023 (UTC)

Editor experience invitation
Hi Qwerfjkl :) I'm looking to interview people here. Feel free to pass if you're not interested. Clovermoss 🍀  (talk) 20:22, 8 December 2023 (UTC)

Qwerfjkl (bot) – 96.238.18.149
Page: Jason Klein

Diff: Special:Diff/1188935452

Comment/question:

96.238.18.149 (talk) 22:19, 8 December 2023 (UTC)
 * 96.238.18.149, you missed out a title. — Qwerfjkl  talk  07:32, 9 December 2023 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Category:A-Class vital articles in Life


A tag has been placed on Category:A-Class vital articles in Life indicating that it is currently empty, and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion. If it remains empty for seven days or more, it may be deleted under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and removing the speedy deletion tag. Liz <sup style="font-family: Times New Roman; color: #006400;">Read! Talk! 08:13, 9 December 2023 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Category:FL-Class vital articles in Art


A tag has been placed on Category:FL-Class vital articles in Art indicating that it is currently empty, and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion. If it remains empty for seven days or more, it may be deleted under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and removing the speedy deletion tag. Liz <sup style="font-family: Times New Roman; color: #006400;">Read! Talk! 08:16, 9 December 2023 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Category:FL-Class vital articles in Life


A tag has been placed on Category:FL-Class vital articles in Life indicating that it is currently empty, and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion. If it remains empty for seven days or more, it may be deleted under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and removing the speedy deletion tag. Liz <sup style="font-family: Times New Roman; color: #006400;">Read! Talk! 08:17, 9 December 2023 (UTC)

Guild of Copy Editors December 2023 Newsletter
Message sent by Baffle gab1978 using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 20:54, 10 December 2023 (UTC)

Bot malfunction
Hi. The bot has sent me a wrong message (not my bad), pls try and fix. Thanks, Arminden (talk) 11:40, 10 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Arminden, in this edit you added two references that were missing title, and had several other errors.<span id="Qwerfjkl:1702216117977:User_talkFTTCLNQwerfjkl" class="FTTCmt"> — Qwerfjkl  talk  13:48, 10 December 2023 (UTC)
 * I see, thank you. I understood the msg to mean that I had left section headings w/o title (I usually 1st set the = signs and then add the titles), and this time I hadn't :)
 * I have re-checked now: I had used chapter & work instead of chapter & title, the template doesn't allow it, it appeared in red, and I fixed it right away, more or less. Not to insist picking on the bot, but for instance DAB issues lead to messages to one's talk page only after a while, so not if you fix them within a certain time interval.
 * Thanks again, Arminden (talk) 20:01, 10 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Arminden, yes, the bot waits 15 minutes before notifying you.<span id="Qwerfjkl:1702243969440:User_talkFTTCLNQwerfjkl" class="FTTCmt"> — Qwerfjkl  talk  21:32, 10 December 2023 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #606
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; -webkit-column-width: 400px; -moz-column-width: 400px; column-width: 400px;">


 * Discussions


 * New requests for permissions/Bot: LccnBot (Task: Adds P244 to bibliographic entities base on library authority records.)
 * New request for comments: Duplicate References Data Model and UI < During Data Modelling Days '23, 2 proposals emerged trying to answer the question of how to handle duplicate References on Wikidata Items.


 * Events


 * Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call December 12, 2023: Several members of the Chinese Culture and Heritage Wikidata group will provide an overview of the group's Wikidata projects as well as the challenges they have encountered. Agenda
 * Data-SHS Bordeaux Week: Processing and Analyzing Quantitative Data in Human and Social Sciences 2023. Dec. 11 - 15, Bordeaux, FR.


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * Agreeing to agree: Roundtripping people identifiers with Wikidata < The Te Papa Museum of New Zealand shows how Wikidata is being used to verify subjects when sharing Collections and data between sources. Here's a video explaining more!
 * Papers / Books
 * 1Lib1Nearby with Wikidata (German) < Queries and edits for the multilingual world knowledge of the nearby environment.
 * Creating a multi-linked dynamic dataset: a case study of plant genera named for women < S. Mering, L. Gardiner, S. Knapp et al.
 * Fine-tuned LLMs Know More, Hallucinate Less with Few-Shot Sequence-to-Sequence Semantic Parsing over Wikidata < Presented at the Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing conference. Authors: S. Xu, S. Liu, T. Culhane et al.
 * Videos
 * BiCIKL to Wikidata: Harmonizing the chaotic universe of natural history collectors < presented by Mathias Dillen at the TDWG 2023 Annual Conference.
 * Modelling Research Expeditions in Wikidata: Best Practice for Standardisation and Contexualisation. Presented by Dag Endresen also at the TDWG Annual Conference.
 * Riksdagen Corpus Wikidata < Magnus Sälgö.
 * Scholia - a profiling tool to explore scholarly knowledge < As part of the national research data infrastructure (NFDI) infratalk, Dr. Daniel Mietchen presents Scholia.
 * Catalogue of Premodern Manuscripts < See a Wikibase instance used for The Digital Scriptorium Catalog. Presented by Lynn Ransom & L. P. Coladangelo.
 * Data Modelling Days 2023 Playlist < The list of recorded Sessions for the DMD '23 Online Conference is available here!
 * Building a semantic knowledge (wiki)base for synthetic phytochemistry < Presented by Dr. Gitanjali Yadav
 * OpenRefine - a open source tool for working with data < This session explores the advantages of using OR to wrangle, clean, transform and standardise data for Wikidata. Presented by Jinoy Tom Jacob at the IndiaFOSS3.0 Conference.
 * Various queries and modeling on Wikidata (French) < User:VIGNERON introduces several SPARQL queries.

(QLEver has already featured in Tool of the Week but we wanted to showcase it again after experiencing it at DMD '23)
 * Tool of the week
 * QLever SPARQl Engine < If you attended Data Modeling Days '23, you may have seen an extraordinary Session given by Hannah Bast and Johannes Kalmbach showcasing the power and advantages of the QLever engine. QLever can handle queries that cause the WDQS to timeout or allowing Federated queries and Geospatial!


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Healthcare Disparities in the U.S.: Exploring Access to Healthcare in the Immigrant Population < Zoomable Bar Charts and visualisations exploring access to healthcare across the U.S. Prison system, powered by Wikidata and WDQS. Authored by Haryn Shin.
 * DMD23: documentation and outcomes can be viewed on Wikidata project Chat as well as related-topics from the Conference on Qualifiers for fuzzy properties and Should WMF fund QLever?


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes:
 * official wiki URL ( URL of the official wiki for the item )
 * counterexample ( qualifier for deprecated P279 statements; example instance or subclass of the item class for which a "subclass of" statement does not hold )
 * External identifiers: ELMCIP ID, RFI station ID, BnF archives and manuscripts ID, The Plant List ID (Arizona Native Plant Society), DIMA ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes:
 * Flora of the Hawaiian Islands ID ( URL of the entry for a plant species, subspecies, or variety in the Flora of the Hawaiian Islands website )
 * Hijri Date ( Hijri Date of claim )
 * External identifiers: Mid-Atlantic Herbaria Consortium taxon ID, New words in Danish ID, Game Classification game ID, Lobbypedia ID, Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae text witness ID, Game Classification machine ID, Game Classification creation tool ID, a8.fandal.cz ID, Numer KRS, Stadium 64 ID, Sina Chinese Basketball ID, Veterans Legacy Memorial, SixtyFour Originals DataBase game ID, WHDLoad database ID


 * Deleted properties:
 * Query examples:
 * Geolocalized object that have the same name than something named after some some kind of church building. This includes streets, bus stops, …
 * Video games per Platform. Timeline of video game releases per platform.
 * Newest WikiProjects:
 * WikiProject Heritage Collections: database of archival fonds and heritage collections (including contemporary scientific collections or documentation holdings) and to ensure the interlinking of respective catalogues, finding aids, or collection databases with Wikidata.
 * WikiProject Source Reliability: is an effort to identify and aggregate online sources of assessments of the reliability and credibility of sources.
 * Newest database reports:
 * Showcase Items: (Q8409) Alexander The Great - Alexander III, King of Macedon.
 * Showcase Lexemes: (L630387) Pri - the meaning of this Breton word is not 'muddy' with VIGNERON's contribution!


 * Development
 * Wikibase REST API: We continued work on the routes for adding aliases in a given language for a Property (T343721) and removing a Property's label in a given language (T342983)
 * Monolingual text values can now use many more languages than before. We’re still working on doing the same for Lexemes. (T341409)

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!

Anything to add? Please share! :)

<div style="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Danny Benjafield (WMDE) 15:40, 11 December 2023 (UTC)

Would you consider becoming a New Page Reviewer?

 * Hi Qwerfjkl, we need experienced volunteers.
 * New Page Patrol is currently struggling to keep up with the influx of new articles. We could use a few extra hands on deck if you think you can help.
 * Reviewing/patrolling a page doesn't take much time but it requires a good understanding of Wikipedia policies and guidelines ; Wikipedia needs experienced users to perform this task and there are precious few with the appropriate skills. Even a couple reviews a day can make a huge difference.
 * Kindly read the tutorial before making your decision (if it looks daunting, don't worry, it basically boils down to checking CSD, notability, and title). If this looks like something that you can do, please consider joining us.
 * If you would like to join the project and help out, please see the granting conditions. You can apply for the user-right HERE.
 * If you have questions, please feel free to drop a message on my talk page or at the reviewer's discussion board.
 * Cheers, and hope to see you around —  ❯❯❯  Raydann  (Talk)   17:03, 11 December 2023 (UTC)


 * Raydann, I've been a reviewer before (I even helped out in the latest backlog drive). I had the right removed because I wanted to work in other areas. Sorry.<span id="Qwerfjkl:1702315547061:User_talkFTTCLNQwerfjkl" class="FTTCmt"> — Qwerfjkl  talk  17:25, 11 December 2023 (UTC)
 * No worries! I certainly wasn't aware of that, thank you for letting me know. Have a good day/night.  ❯❯❯  Raydann  (Talk)   17:41, 11 December 2023 (UTC)

Qwerfjkl (bot) – Jenhawk777
Page: History of Christianity

Diff: Special:Diff/1188646613

Comment/question: The article had no title. It is a book review. So I gave it the title of "Untitled book review" so it is not a bare url. That was done before your bot showed up. Therefore, I don't see how this can be correct.

Jenhawk777 (talk) 07:57, 11 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Jenhawk777, really? When i got to the DOI link (https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.2307/3040773) it seems to have a title.<span id="Qwerfjkl:1702288979208:User_talkFTTCLNQwerfjkl" class="FTTCmt"> — Qwerfjkl  talk  10:02, 11 December 2023 (UTC)
 * That's the title of the book being reviewed not the article. Jenhawk777 (talk) 16:08, 11 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Jenhawk777, something like "Review of Authority and the Sacred: Aspects of the Christianisation of the Roman World."?<span id="Qwerfjkl:1702311065906:User_talkFTTCLNQwerfjkl" class="FTTCmt"> — Qwerfjkl  talk  16:11, 11 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Yep, but that's exactly what I already did. The reference reads: " cite journal|last=Rosser|first=John|title= Untitled Book Review of Authority and the Sacred: Aspects of the Christianisation of the Roman World by Peter Brown|journal=Speculum| volume= 72|issue=3|year=1997| pages=793–95|url= https://doi.org/10.2307/3040773 Jenhawk777 (talk) 16:17, 11 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Jenhawk777, yes, that is fine. The error is fixed.<span id="Qwerfjkl:1702312114567:User_talkFTTCLNQwerfjkl" class="FTTCmt"> — Qwerfjkl  talk  16:28, 11 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Okay, what did you change? The ref looks exactly the same to me. Jenhawk777 (talk) 17:11, 11 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Jenhawk777, when you added the title you fixed the error.<span id="Qwerfjkl:1702315435061:User_talkFTTCLNQwerfjkl" class="FTTCmt"> — Qwerfjkl  talk  17:23, 11 December 2023 (UTC)
 * But that was done 5 days ago - before the bot said there was a problem. Here is the diff: . What do you suppose happened? Is it because it's not a real title? Jenhawk777 (talk) 17:44, 11 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Jenhawk777, strange. I have only encountered this bug once before, and it's very hard to reproduce. I think you can safely ignore the message.<span id="Qwerfjkl:1702316818972:User_talkFTTCLNQwerfjkl" class="FTTCmt"> — Qwerfjkl  talk  17:46, 11 December 2023 (UTC)
 * That's kind of what I was already doing.  I was just letting you know because the message asked. Good luck on figuring it out! Jenhawk777 (talk) 19:03, 11 December 2023 (UTC)

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Question from Command and Control (23:30, 11 December 2023)
Hello, if an article is constantly edited by a same person in bad faith and an act of vandalism how do I proceed? --Command and Control (talk) 23:30, 11 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Command and Control, if you're referring to edit warring then you could take it to the Edit warring noticeboard. Please not that vandalism has a very specific meaning on Wikipedia - do not use it to describe edits you simply disagree with.<span id="Qwerfjkl:1702372096625:User_talkFTTCLNQwerfjkl" class="FTTCmt"> — Qwerfjkl  talk  09:08, 12 December 2023 (UTC)
 * No, I was referring to editing of the article by the user who changes his/hers name and edits this article in bad faith every few month. Command and Control (talk) 09:29, 12 December 2023 (UTC)
 * The latest edit happened on 9th of December and again this user erased few parts of the articles especially related to the Jewish activities of the subject of the article, which one would consider bad faith and vandalism aka racism. Command and Control (talk) 09:32, 12 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Command and Control, I cannot comment on their edits without knowing any more context. What article are you referring to?<span id="Qwerfjkl:1702374259155:User_talkFTTCLNQwerfjkl" class="FTTCmt"> — Qwerfjkl  talk  09:44, 12 December 2023 (UTC)

Question from Eatmymvsic (11:03, 12 December 2023)
Hi I’m trying to creat a page for frank alvarez he is a podcaster. how can I do that? --Eatmymvsic (talk) 11:03, 12 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Eatmymvsic, Welcome! Creating a new article from scratch is extremely challenging, and new editors are strongly recommended to spend a few months learning how Wikipedia works, by making improvements to some of our existing six million articles before trying it. When you do decide to have a go at a new article, you are highly encouraged to read WP:Your first article. If you haven't already also check out WP:TUTORIAL; it's a lot of fun! Happy editing! <span id="Qwerfjkl:1702382389683:User_talkFTTCLNQwerfjkl" class="FTTCmt">— Qwerfjkl  talk  11:59, 12 December 2023 (UTC)

Question from MrBeanButSexier (11:05, 12 December 2023)
Hello! I was wondering if I could get some advice on how to make a new article on Wiki? --MrBeanButSexier (talk) 11:05, 12 December 2023 (UTC)
 * MrBeanButSexier, Welcome! Creating a new article from scratch is extremely challenging, and new editors are strongly recommended to spend a few months learning how Wikipedia works, by making improvements to some of our existing six million articles before trying it. When you do decide to have a go at a new article, you are highly encouraged to read WP:Your first article. If you haven't already also check out WP:TUTORIAL; it's a lot of fun! Happy editing! <span id="Qwerfjkl:1702382401958:User_talkFTTCLNQwerfjkl" class="FTTCmt">— Qwerfjkl  talk  12:00, 12 December 2023 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Category:JFL map templates by year


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Question from Tate Tomkin Beddy (19:57, 12 December 2023)
How do I create an article --Tate Tomkin Beddy (talk) 19:57, 12 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Tate Tomkin Beddy, Welcome! Creating a new article from scratch is extremely challenging, and new editors are strongly recommended to spend a few months learning how Wikipedia works, by making improvements to some of our existing six million articles before trying it. When you do decide to have a go at a new article, you are highly encouraged to read WP:Your first article. If you haven't already also check out WP:TUTORIAL; it's a lot of fun! Happy editing! <span id="Qwerfjkl:1702412760843:User_talkFTTCLNQwerfjkl" class="FTTCmt">— Qwerfjkl  talk  20:26, 12 December 2023 (UTC)

Categories: "Water monsters" to "Water cryptids"
I've noticed you've moved a lot of categories from the neutral "water monster" to the WP:PROFRINGE "water cryptid", using conspiracy theory/fringe language. Could you explain these moves? &#58;bloodofox: (talk) 18:57, 11 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Bloodofox, I linked in my edit summaries to the CfD that discussed it.<span id="Qwerfjkl:1702323861250:User_talkFTTCLNQwerfjkl" class="FTTCmt"> — Qwerfjkl  talk  19:44, 11 December 2023 (UTC)
 * All I see is a brief exchange. This is not an improvement. Please self-revert. Anything in the "cryptid", which is a fringe term used by the cryptozoology subculture, needs to be under the neutral term monster instead. &#58;bloodofox: (talk) 19:58, 11 December 2023 (UTC)
 * @Marcocapelle, what do you think we should do?<span id="Qwerfjkl:1702325028037:User_talkFTTCLNQwerfjkl" class="FTTCmt"> — Qwerfjkl  talk  20:03, 11 December 2023 (UTC)
 * I'd suggest you just reopen/relist the discussion. Technically User:Bloodofox may be referred to WP:MRV but the MRV discussion is likely to result in a relist anyway. Marcocapelle (talk) 20:12, 11 December 2023 (UTC)
 * I've done so.<span id="Qwerfjkl:1702375619073:User_talkFTTCLNQwerfjkl" class="FTTCmt"> — Qwerfjkl  talk  10:06, 12 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Where? &#58;bloodofox: (talk) 19:52, 12 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Bloodofox, at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2023 December 12. I pinged you there.<span id="Qwerfjkl:1702412824857:User_talkFTTCLNQwerfjkl" class="FTTCmt"> — Qwerfjkl  talk  20:27, 12 December 2023 (UTC)

Qwerfjkl (bot) – ScottDNelson
Page: Dzhokhar Tsarnaev

Diff: Special:Diff/1187873298

Comment/question: Ok I fixed the issue with the citation - now what? Will the bot update its comment on my talk page? User talk:ScottDNelson Should i 'archive' it somewhere, or delete its comment? The bot doesnt explain how to verify issue is fixed and/or what to do after

ScottDNelson (talk) 20:18, 2 December 2023 (UTC)
 * ScottDNelson, you can archive or delete the bot's comment as you wish. The bot does not check to see if you've fixed the issue (and I'm not sure monitoring thousands of pages to see if issues are fixed would be practical).<span id="Qwerfjkl:1701551856619:User_talkFTTCLNQwerfjkl" class="FTTCmt"> — Qwerfjkl  talk  21:17, 2 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Depends a little i guess if the bot is checking only for new citations that could have any issues, or monitors any updates as well to see if there's anything that looks off. If its the latter, then the technical difference to also check fixes is trivial in terms of a scaling standpoint, not sure how its coded/implement what lift that is from dev time.
 * Also it's a weird flow that the UX:
 * 1) Lets someone make a citation, without marking certain fields required
 * 2) Updates the page, then flags to user that actually it's improper
 * 3) User attempts to fix, but there's no actual verification that it was fixed
 * There's some obvious potential improvements there ScottDNelson (talk) 21:30, 2 December 2023 (UTC)
 * ScottDNelson, I agree the task could be improved, but it would take a quite a bit of my time, and I would rather spend it elsewhere.<span id="Qwerfjkl:1701603481097:User_talkFTTCLNQwerfjkl" class="FTTCmt"> — Qwerfjkl  talk  11:38, 3 December 2023 (UTC)
 * ScottDNelson, I believe that the system is meeting all three of the conditions listed above. When you use Preview before publishing your edit, the Citation Style 1 templates like cite book show you a red error message when you have omitted a required parameter or made a similar error. That message is also displayed if you publish your change without fixing the problem. Each error message contains a link to help text that should be able to assist you in resolving the error. If you subsequently follow the instructions and fix the error, the error message goes away. If you think that the templates could be improved in some way, the venue to propose changes is Help talk:CS1. – Jonesey95 (talk) 02:53, 4 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Jonesey95, I think ScottDNelson is talking about improving my bot, not the CS1 templates.<span id="Qwerfjkl:1701709085514:User_talkFTTCLNQwerfjkl" class="FTTCmt"> — Qwerfjkl  talk  16:58, 4 December 2023 (UTC)
 * @Qwerfjkl is correct - i was referrig to the bot not the editor (BTW - i didnt see an error in editor, its been a while so memory is hazy but not sure if because i didnt hit preview or because i was using old editor instead of visual editor) ScottDNelson (talk) 23:42, 12 December 2023 (UTC)