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This Month in GLAM: December 2018
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JOKES
I have no issues with your standard of not naming individual wikipedians at WP:JOKES. I do take issue with your line that the joke I added was obviously inappropriate - given that there are MULTIPLE images with his hair floating around. If it was that obvious it could have been removed in any of the dozens of edits that happened between then and now. Again no issue with it being removed, but merely the way you have framed it. Best, Barkeep49 (talk) 03:15, 15 January 2019 (UTC)
 * It seems obvious (to my judgment -- perhaps I shouldn't have phrased it to seem objectively obvious) that, regardless of what someone has shared/shown/said/demonstrated, jokes about an editor's physical appearance shouldn't be included in a projectspace list of Wikipedia-related jokes. I certainly don't want to imply it was done in mean spirit or bad faith. Quite the opposite, as I said, I'm nearly certain Oshwah be just fine with it (and probably think it funny). It's more about the principle than the specific; sorry if that seemed pointed. &mdash; Rhododendrites  talk \\ 03:43, 15 January 2019 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Green Jacket Shoal
Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Green Jacket Shoal you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Casliber -- Casliber (talk) 10:41, 17 January 2019 (UTC)

Wikicup
By the way, can I just say how nice it is to have another person doing FPCs in the Wikicup? I've been alone in past years I've participated. It's a fun competition, although I will admit I tend to burn out near the end from working too hard on it. Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about % of all FPs 15:24, 19 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Cheers. I'm semi-active with FPC regardless, but more on Commons than on enwiki. I have a small handful here, but had a few instances of feeling like I didn't know what people are really looking for, or that the distinction between Commons and enwiki FPC was too arbitrary (e.g. some people but not others care about "wow" factor, varied standards for technical quality, varied expectations for EV... someone opposed in the past because the article the picture was used for didn't explain some aspect of the subject not directly related to the image). Then just the overall lack of participation. Meh. Figured I'd give it another shot, though, when I saw that you used the WikiCup reviews needed template for FPC, it made me think that might attract sufficient participation to at least have a quorum. Anyway, I suspect if you keep churning out these restorations at the same clip you have been, you've got a pretty good shot at taking the whole competition, putting aside potential burnout. I'm just hoping to make it to the 3rd or 4th round and get some FPs, GAs, and maybe an FA out of the motivation... :) &mdash; Rhododendrites  talk \\ 20:46, 19 January 2019 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:Ricardo Vélez Rodríguez
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Removing links?
Hi. I'm fine with your undo of my edit, but I'm a little confused by the explanation. You said it's, a request to not remove links when it does more harm than good, but I'm not sure what you're suggesting I should have done instead. Should I have just left it as a redlink? I've always found the cleaning up of backlinks after a deletion to be the most error-prone part of closing an AfD, and I'm sure I make plenty of mistakes there. I'm just trying to understand your concern better. -- RoySmith (talk) 15:45, 23 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Hi . Yeah, it's a common thing with the Twinkle script that semi-automates it. It's really just an issue with lists (both embedded and stand-alone) that only include notable examples. The ideal would be to check the page it's being removed from, and if everything else is bluelinked, it's probably best to just remove the entry rather than unlink (or skip it, as second choice). An entry that's unlinked is no more appropriate to include in those lists than one that is linked, but when it's linked it's easier for others to find and remove. The red stands out more, but more importantly it makes it possible to take a deleted article and use "what links here" to find all instances in lists that would need to be removed. That is all. Not a huge deal; just makes list clean-up a little harder sometimes. &mdash; Rhododendrites  talk \\ 15:58, 23 January 2019 (UTC)
 * You say, Twinkle script, but I think you meant XFDcloser. In any case,  I wonder if this could be improved with some embedded hinting in those lists.  What if we invented a (possibly hidden) Category:Lists which should never have redlinks (or some other kind of embeddable marker).  XFDcloser could use that as a hint to adjust its post-deletion unlinking process. -- RoySmith (talk) 16:18, 23 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Ah, yes, I may mean that. I don't do much xfd closing myself. :) I like the category idea, though I dare say that even just being after an asterisk or a pipe at the beginning of a line (part of an unordered list or a table) would probably suffice, too, if the category approach were too cumbersome. I imagine most of the time (but not all, of course), it would be better to remove from a list when deleted. Likewise, removing a link from a page that starts "list of" or "comparison of," would cover a lot of the issue. &mdash; Rhododendrites  talk \\ 16:48, 23 January 2019 (UTC)
 * XFDcloser should already be checking with the closer for links within list items per WP:XFDC, because it isn't possible to determine if the list is meant to be complete, or only of notable things, or if the backlink is only incidental to the list item. I might have to review the logic of how it works, which was based on discussions from a couple of years ago. - Evad37 &#91;talk] 23:57, 23 January 2019 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Green Jacket Shoal
The article Green Jacket Shoal you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Green Jacket Shoal for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Casliber -- Casliber (talk) 19:42, 25 January 2019 (UTC)

Featured picture candidates/Portrait of Commander C. R. Perry Rodgers, officer of the Federal Navy LOC cwpb.05822- Restored.jpg
You should probably specify "Edit 1" here, since "most recent edit" can change definition. I may be excessively cautious. Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about % of all FPs 17:09, 29 January 2019 (UTC)


 * Rodger that. ✅ &mdash; Rhododendrites  talk \\ 00:26, 31 January 2019 (UTC)

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This Month in GLAM: January 2019
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WikiCup 2019 Reminder
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Helen Keller
Excellent work. I've commented on the page. Sorry I missed your comment. Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 6.3% of all FPs 20:26, 20 February 2019 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:Keith Urban
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Books & Bytes, Issue 32
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DYK for Green Jacket Shoal
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