User talk:Rich Farmbrough/Archive/2015 October

A barnstar for you!

 * Most welcome! All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 14:58, 2 October 2015 (UTC).

Nomination of Nicholas Bowen for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Nicholas Bowen is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Articles for deletion/Nicholas Bowen until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. isfutile:P (talk) 18:16, 3 October 2015 (UTC)

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Wikidata weekly summary #178
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 13:52, 5 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Past: code.talks (slides on migrating Freebase to Wikidata)
 * Past: Wikidata:Mobilizing Open Cultural Data (videos, slides)
 * Upcoming: Wikidata's 3rd birthday. We will have a party and you should come! (announcement, program and other details, IMPORTANT: sign up so we know how many people to expect)
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * There are now almost 5000 articles in Czech Wikipedia which include an infobox without parameters, only with data from Wikidata.
 * Input request about editing Wikidata from clients like Wikipedia
 * Freebase to Wikidata: results of Tpt's internship have been published
 * Articles without a Wikidata item can now be filtered by category tree. (example for chemists on enwiki)
 * Wikidata:Units attempts to list available units and properties they can be used with
 * Constraint reports can now check if units are within a user defined list: e.g. report for mass (P2067)
 * WikiProject Economics needs more participants to organize all the new properties.
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 * More work on making the mobile view fit for being enabled per default for mobile users
 * Changed our JavaScript coding style to be more in line with MediaWiki core’s
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Find My Past and similar
(Moved from my talk page. Rich Farmbrough, 18:38, 12 October 2015 (UTC). )

User:Primefac doesn't like them. Philafrenzy (talk) 23:25, 11 October 2015 (UTC)
 * That is not true, and it'd be nice if you didn't put words in my mouth. I am simply removing completely useless refs like http://www.findmypast.co.uk/birth-indexes-search-start.action, which is a) a dead link, and b) when it was live, only went to the generic search page. When is referencing a Search ever RS? I am leaving well alone any reference to an actual document. So please, , chill out. Primefac (talk) 23:38, 11 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Well I'm glad we cleared that up!
 * Quick question, do you remove links like "http://www.findmypast.co.uk/birth-indexes-search-start.action=go&params=Bloggs%20Fred" - because on a lot of web sites (and this is not necessarily a good thing) that might well be the (an) url for an actual document.
 * All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 23:53, 11 October 2015 (UTC).


 * At this particular moment I am only removing links that are clearly to the generic search page with no extra information attached to them. Since I do not feel like paying for a subscription, I am leaving anything that may be ambiguous alone for now. Primefac (talk) 23:56, 11 October 2015 (UTC)
 * What about this, this, and this? All to specific pages in their site. (there are another 5 or 6) It doesn't matter, incidentally, that they are now dead. You can tag them for that if necessary. We need to retain the source of the information. Philafrenzy (talk) 00:19, 12 October 2015 (UTC)
 * At that particular time I was following the guidelines of WP:FMP and removing bare URLs. Even the ones using the naming parameter just used the generic "England Births XXXX-YYYY" title, so it's not much better than a bare URL.Primefac (talk) 00:28, 12 October 2015 (UTC)

Perhaps a list could be created and a mini-project to correct these URLs instituted - maybe under the auspices of WikiLibrary? Presumably they were added in good faith, so there should be something there to support the claim - if not another reference should be looked for. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 16:59, 12 October 2015 (UTC).

Melty listed at Redirects for discussion
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Aticles for deletion/1369 Coffeehouse
correct ur page move — Preceding unsigned comment added by 103.6.159.82 (talk) 17:50, 6 October 2015 (UTC)
 * mv rqstd. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 18:26, 6 October 2015 (UTC).


 * Maybe time for this to be re-created. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 18:31, 6 October 2015 (UTC).

Thanks, but I have a problem with what you did here. I see the you moved Articles for deletion/1369 Coffeehouse to Articles for deletion/1369 Coffeehouse (2nd nomination) and then requested an admin move of Aticles for deletion/1369 Coffeehouse to Articles for deletion/1369 Coffeehouse. Don't you think this would mis-direct links? All links that were supposed to point to one nomination are now pointing to another nominaion. 103.6.159.76 (talk) 00:01, 7 October 2015 (UTC)
 * For example, Articles for deletion/Log/2005 September 30 transcludes the wrong page. I'll go ahead and request a repair of thi mess. 103.6.159.76 (talk) 00:06, 7 October 2015 (UTC)
 * That's the only link there. And these pages get almost zero views, see stats.grok.se.  All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 01:05, 7 October 2015 (UTC).


 * And you broke it. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 16:45, 9 October 2015 (UTC).

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STiki
Hello, do you know where the log of nonconstructive edits for STiki users is? I have STiki and I can't find it anywhere. Thanks, --Rubbish computer 17:11, 6 October 2015 (UTC)
 * I was under the impression that the STiki database lives off on some third party server at a university.  It may have moved since I used it.  You can find the whitelist of users on your own computer, but the main db is probably too large to distribute, and too difficult to synchronise. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 17:17, 6 October 2015 (UTC).


 * Thanks, but I thought you picked edits out of a big list. Can you help me with this? --Rubbish computer 18:05, 6 October 2015 (UTC)
 * I'm not sure what you mean. If you mean "how do you see the list on STiki", I am not allowed to use STiki per ArbCom, therefore I don't have ability to run the software up and remind myself of the user interface.  I only knew about the whitelist because it got thrown up at on recent disk-search.  All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 17:14, 12 October 2015 (UTC).

Wikidata weekly summary #179
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 * Don't forget to sign up if you are coming to Wikidata's third birthday party.
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 * Discussion has started on English WikiProject Football about using Wikidata for player squad templates (example) and player club history (example). Needs more input on best practices and commitment to update data.
 * A command line client to the SPARQL query service has been released
 * Query example: [http://demo.seco.tkk.fi/visu/#/?sparqlEndpoint=https:%2F%2Fquery.wikidata.org%2Fbigdata%2Fnamespace%2Fwdq%2Fsparql&query=PREFIX%20wikibase:%20%3Chttp:%2F%2Fwikiba.se%2Fontology%23%3E%0APREFIX%20wd:%20%3Chttp:%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fentity%2F%3E%20%0APREFIX%20wdt:%20%3Chttp:%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fprop%2Fdirect%2F%3E%0APREFIX%20rdfs:%20%3Chttp:%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2F01%2Frdf-schema%23%3E%0A%0ASELECT%20%3Fyear%20(COUNT%20(DISTINCT%20%3Fa)%20AS%20%3Fcount)%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%3Fa%20wdt:P735%20wd:Q18145837%20.%20%20%20%0A%20%20%20%3Fa%20wdt:P569%20%3Fdate%20.%20%0A%20%20%20BIND(year(%3Fdate)%20AS%20%3Fyear)%0A%7D%20GROUP%20BY%20%3Fyear%20ORDER%20BY%20%3Fyear&outputType=gchart&chartConfig=%7B%22containerId%22:%22chart%22,%22options%22:%7B%22hAxis%22:%7B%22useFormatFromData%22:false,%22viewWindow%22:%7B%22max%22:2000,%22min%22:1775%7D,%22minValue%22:1775,%22maxValue%22:2000,%22viewWindowMode%22:%22explicit%22,%22logScale%22:false,%22formatOptions%22:%7B%22source%22:%22inline%22,%22prefix%22:%22%22%7D,%22format%22:%220.%23%23%22,%22gridlines%22:%7B%22count%22:%228%22%7D,%22minorGridlines%22:%7B%22count%22:%224%22%7D%7D,%22title%22:%22%22,%22useFirstColumnAsDomain%22:true,%22vAxes%22:%5B%7B%22useFormatFromData%22:true,%22viewWindow%22:%7B%22max%22:null,%22min%22:null%7D,%22minValue%22:null,%22maxValue%22:null,%22logScale%22:false%7D,%7B%22useFormatFromData%22:true,%22viewWindow%22:%7B%22max%22:null,%22min%22:null%7D,%22minValue%22:null,%22maxValue%22:null,%22logScale%22:false%7D%5D,%22isStacked%22:false,%22animation%22:%7B%22duration%22:500%7D,%22booleanRole%22:%22certainty%22,%22legend%22:%22right%22,%22width%22:600,%22height%22:371,%22domainAxis%22:%7B%22direction%22:1%7D,%22series%22:%7B%220%22:%7B%22color%22:%22%23ff0000%22%7D%7D%7D,%22state%22:%7B%7D,%22view%22:%7B%7D,%22isDefaultVisualization%22:false,%22chartType%22:%22ColumnChart%22%7D popularity of the given name Adolf]
 * MoMa artists have been added to Mix'n'match
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Category:Kazakhstani wrestlers
I noticed you created Category:Kazak wrestlers but Category:Kazakhstani sport wrestlers, Category:Kazakhstani wrestlers and Category:Kazakhstani martial artists. The organisation is a mess bu I thought you should know.Peter Rehse (talk) 18:21, 12 October 2015 (UTC)

Thanks:
 * Category:Kazak wrestlers redirects to Category:Kazakhstani sport wrestlers
 * Category:Kazakhstani sport wrestlers is the canonical category
 * Category:Kazakhstani wrestlers redirects to Category:Kazakhstani sport wrestlers
 * Category:Kazakhstani martial artists is a parent category

All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 18:25, 12 October 2015 (UTC).

Find My Past and similar
Moved to WPT:FMP All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 18:36, 12 October 2015 (UTC).

I am in need of help!!!!
I made a article called Draft:Samuel Fairgood and it is now in draft into the article is ready. I just did some changes to it and was wondering can you take a look at it to see if I can move the article to the main site. Thank you. Kingsamhippy (talk) 17:02, 13 October 2015 (UTC)
 * The main problem is that there is no indication that this person meets the requirements for a Wikipedia article. You (or someone else) will need to find "significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject."  See WP:GNG for what this means in detail.
 * This would help fix the second issues - the lack of references in the article.
 * The third issue is the non-neutral language. "nowadays the music we hear on the radio and media is overrated with negativity and nonsense" is not something we should be saying in Wikipedia's voice, it needs a source - who says that?
 * All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 17:15, 13 October 2015 (UTC).

replying
Hi Rich. Two things. Have a look at the table. Some of the results surprised me. For example, I found no one on sanctions for blood-diamonds. Regards, —Boruch Baum (talk) 05:30, 13 October 2015 (UTC)
 * 1) I did a simple count on the three parts of the OFAC SDN list, iterating over the program acronyms using 'grep -Fc', and expanded the table on the Wikipedia page accordingly. It turns out that the "program acronyms" seem to correspond to specific sanctions authorizations rather than sanctions programs, so there are multiple results for each program (look at Iran!). I kept everything down to simple counting, as you suggested that doing so would not run afoul of OR restrictions.
 * 2) Pretty please, in the future, when replying to me on a talk page, use something like the reply to template, so that I get the message promptly, if at all.
 * Boruch Baum@undefined good move, it avoids the complexities. The article comments on the diamonds.  I am a little  "old-school" - I generally  expect people to check back, either using their memory or watchlist.  But I'll make an exception.  All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 12:56, 13 October 2015 (UTC).


 * BTW I emailed you the script I used. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 23:55, 13 October 2015 (UTC).

RfA-related
Hi Rich. Your thoughts are welcome at WT:RFA. (P.S. This isn't canvassing, since you're one of the people in the target demographic ... you'll see what I mean.) - Dank (push to talk) 17:27, 14 October 2015 (UTC)

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Good luck
I hope they accede to your request. I think enough time has passed. Guy (Help!) 15:21, 8 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks. One can never tell. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 15:59, 8 October 2015 (UTC).


 * , can I encourage you to retract/heavily amend this, in its present form it probably doesn't help the discussion, or the overall case being put. —Sladen (talk) 16:48, 10 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Thank you! —Sladen (talk) 18:51, 10 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Could this perhaps be worded more clearly? "6. It would be nice to be able to use … Hotcat" and then "Hotcat: really I would doubt that I would use it more than …". It is perhaps a confusing juxtaposition in its present form.  —Sladen (talk) 22:19, 12 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Probably. The point I was trying to make is that the restriction hamstrings me at every turn.  It not only means that I can't run bots, can't do assisted editing of the type that AWB, Huggle and Stiki enable, it denies me the minor tools and gadgets - and nominally cut and paste, search and replace.  I say nominally, but I was blocked for a year for possibly using search and replace - maybe just search I can't really remember.*  User:Worm That Turned vouchsafed an opinion on where the line might be drawn - but made it clear - quite rightly, that it was merely an opinion.  Any attempt to negotiate or gain clarity is met with accusations of "pushing the envelope".
 * All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 22:46, 12 October 2015 (UTC).


 * I might even have been using "Highlight all" on Firefox! All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 23:06, 12 October 2015 (UTC).


 * Thank you! The positive spin is to state that the restrictions and year-block have allowed exploring other ways of contributing to Wiki*.* (without automation), that these have allowed the (re)growing of relationships with other editors, and this period of reflection was used to work on the points raised during the Arbitration processes. The key phrase in the request, for me, is "one [FoF] suggested that I was "not responsive". … since that date I have been responsive." because it shows recognition+acceptance+addressing+changing. —Sladen (talk) 06:09, 13 October 2015 (UTC)  PS . try not to enumerate ways that  could have been done—it can be perceived as petty, evasive, and detracting from the wider story about your learning and changing from the experience, which is what people really want to hear about and which will determine your success.
 * Well of course, that edit is hardly relevant unless it is brought up as "recalcitrance" - but yes the claim is fairly clear, and I thought compelling.  I haven't done what was claimed in the 3 1/2 years since and have no intention of so doing.  You're right I should have drawn attention to my content work, perhaps its a bit late for that now.
 * On the positive side Corcelles has suggested a loosening that would be valuable.
 * All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 14:25, 15 October 2015 (UTC).

Good way, bad way
The good way to bring notice to someone's (e.g. an arbcom clerk's) typo is to fix it and leave them a note on their personal talk page. The bad way is to make a fuss on a widely watched noticeboard. Please do more of the former and less of the latter. NE Ent 02:15, 16 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Please feel free to change it. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 02:17, 16 October 2015 (UTC).

News mention
Hi, you were mentioned, along with the rest of the Top 10 Wikipedians by edit count, in this news piece: http://priceonomics.com/the-most-prolific-editor-on-wikipedia/. Thanks, ––Rubbish computer (HALP!: I dropped the bass?) 16:26, 16 October 2015 (UTC)
 * That's interesting, thanks. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 16:38, 16 October 2015 (UTC).


 * No problem. --Rubbish computer (HALP!: I dropped the bass?) 09:38, 17 October 2015 (UTC)

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Untitled
You have a hell of a lot of updating to do here, 3/4 of the stuff on here is totally wrong!! How do you people get away with allowing Courtney Love write most of this stuff via fake names. It's so obvious, please Fix this bullshit now!! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:80:4300:FF40:148A:861D:F8FD:B6CA (talk) 06:54, 20 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Perhaps you could be a little more specific? All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 16:02, 20 October 2015 (UTC).

Wikidata weekly summary #180
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 13:20, 19 October 2015 (UTC)
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 * How many female scientists are there on Wikipedia? This time with SPARQL! (French)
 * Wikidata Enpoint SPARQL and the paintings of Goya Wikidata's SPARQL endpoint and the paintings of Goya (French)
 * Upcoming: 3rd Birthday \o/ (Please don't forget to register if you're coming to the party.)
 * More wrapups of Wikiconference USA including slides: ,
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Magnus overhauled the Wikidata Game! Sweeeeeet! Now includes one where you can match an author and a publication. And it has stats.
 * Mix'n'match got skyscrapers to match up for you.
 * Sitelinks and P569 compares various Wikipedias by the proportion of items with date of birth (Property:P569)
 * Catalan Wikipedia match up all of their articles to items on Wikidata. Congrats!
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 * Worked on adding auto-completion for item and property prefixes to the SPARQL query editor (so you can search by label when entering a query)
 * Wrote maintenance script for changing some properties from datatype string to upcoming datatype identifier
 * More work on birthday present
 * More work on the article placeholder to get it ready for a first demo
 * Prepared patch for also publishing JSON dumps with bzip2 compression
 * Further improved edit summaries we show on Wikipedia etc
 * Prepared for giving Wikispecies, Meta and Mediawiki access to the sitelinks on Wikidata on 20. of October
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 * done, I think, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:13, 20 October 2015 (UTC)

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Talk:Russian military intervention in the Syrian Civil War
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DYK for Alice Coomaraswamy
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Wikidata weekly summary #181
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 * Discussions
 * New request for comments: Derived properties, Are colors instance-of or subclass-of color
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Poof it works - using wikidata to build Wikipedia articles about genes
 * Wikidata, SPARQL and huskies (French)
 * Wikidata, SPARQL and elected dynasties (French)
 * The birth and death of German playwrights
 * Distributed stats
 * Past: Wikidata training at Wikimedia UK
 * Upcoming: Wikidata's 3rd birthday \o/ (on 29th)
 * Upcoming: SemWeb.Pro in Paris
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * There's a new Wikidata taxonomy browser
 * Meta, MediaWiki and Wikispecies now have access to sitelinks on Wikidata. Welcome to Wikidata, sisters!
 * Harvest templates. New tool to copy data from templates to Wikidata.
 * Number of articles that are not connected to a Wikidata item on Italian Wikipedia has been brought down significantly. How about yours?
 * The Wikidata Game now has a primary sources game and one to match Wikispecies pages to Wikidata items
 * The National Gallery of Arts was added to Mix'n'match
 * Some more query examples: Dracula movies and their actors, movies with links to videos
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 * ctrl-space now enables autocomplete for labels on http://query.wikidata.org . Should make it easier for you to find the right items and properties.
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 * From Monday on a bzip2 compressed version of the Wikidata json dumps will be published, along with the gzip compressed version.
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Charles S. Strong
Now exists - looks like you have info to add to it, thank goodness. He also wrote science fiction, and lots of steamy romance novels ... but documenting everything is a pain and I did not easily find some of what you found. Thanks. Collect (talk) 18:00, 25 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Thank you! I knew he deserved an article.  I have moved my resources to the article or the talk page.  Feel free to use as you see fit. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 22:43, 25 October 2015 (UTC).

Vested contributors arbitration case opened
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Vested contributors retitled Arbitration enforcement 2
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ARCA
Just wanted to thank you for your supporting the lifting/easing of my restriction. :) GoodDay (talk) 20:26, 26 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Most welcome. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 14:13, 29 October 2015 (UTC).

Halloween cheer!
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Happy Halloween!

Hello Rich Farmbrough: Thanks for all of your contributions to improve Wikipedia, and have a happy and enjoyable Halloween!   –  Rubbish computer (Trick: or treat?) 20:20, 31 October 2015 (UTC) Send Halloween cheer by adding {{subst:Happy Halloween}} to user talk pages with a friendly message.