User talk:Rich Farmbrough/Archive/2016 July

Il Post
FYI --Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 07:48, 1 July 2016 (UTC)

Edit filter noticeboard navbox
"Template:Edit filter noticeboard navbox" has been userfied to User:Rich Farmbrough/Template:Edit filter noticeboard navbox given your consent at Templates for discussion/Log/2016 June 20. I didn't userfy the module, but feel free if it's appropriate. — Andy W. ( talk  · ctb) 21:13, 2 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Thanks. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 21:15, 2 July 2016 (UTC).

Eve Farjeon
When you created this redirect, you didn't actually include a target. Just checking that I have got the right one. JohnCD (talk) 17:13, 3 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Yes, many thanks. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 17:24, 3 July 2016 (UTC).

Motions regarding you
Hi Rich, just to let you know two motions have been proposed regarding you at ARCA. For the Arbitration Committee, Kharkiv07  ( T ) 00:12, 4 July 2016 (UTC) ---

i need some help
please i just created an album article, HONESTLY i forgot to add the artist name on the title of the album  ....please can you  fix it for me   ,  thanks in advance Mohammede aziz abdul (talk) 15:08, 4 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Fixed. It doesn't need the artist's name since it is the only album of that name with an article. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 19:11, 4 July 2016 (UTC).

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Wikidata weekly summary #216
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.  Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 16:51, 4 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Europeana280 Art History Challenge has finished
 * Europeana blog post
 * video
 * Wikimedia blog post
 * The life and times of Mr Herbert Ellerby: Linking Llandudno, Lancashire, and Moggill, Australia
 * Wikidata auf der GPN
 * Past: PSESHSF (You can sign up to be notified about more Wikidata workshops in France)
 * Past: Swiss Open Cultural Data Hackathon
 * Upcoming: office hour on IRC
 * Upcoming: State of the Map US in Seattle - http://stateofthemap.us/
 * Upcoming: Wikimedia UK AGM with Wikidata training
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * There is now a 100wikidatadays challenge based on the 100wikidays challenge for Wikipedia. The goal: convert 100 templates to make use of Wikidata over the course of 100 days.
 * Tobias started writing a tutorial on how to write infoboxes that make use of Wikidata's data and could use your help expanding it.
 * Thiemo wrote a user script to pre-fill "date retrieved" in a reference with the current date. Please test and let us know what you think ont he linked page. If you like it it can become a gadget.
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: British Book Trade Index ID, Plarr ID, warheroes.ru ID, Dailymotion channel ID, Munk's Roll ID, Catalogus Professorum Rostochensium ID, CageMatch tag team ID, Pleiades place type identifier, parliamentary term
 * Query examples: Ancestors of Guðni Jóhannesson (note the last names), movies with Bud Spencer (source), largest cities per country (source), longest river of each continent (source), rivers in Antarctica (source), continents (source), and some other continents (source), places with continent Antarctica more than 3000 km north of south pole (source), files used as “image” in more than 10 items (source), monuments historiques in Loire-Atlantique (source), music composers by birth place (source), places of whorship (source), teachers with most students (source), buildings in more than one country (source), sandwiches (source), 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composers and their most-used tonality] (source), former capitals (source), list of suicide attacks (source), birthplaces of people named Antoine (source), ||%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%28%3Fel%20%3C%20%3Fkm*3281%20%26%26%20%3Funit%20%3D%20wd%3AQ3710%29%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20||%20%28%3Fel%20%3C%20%3Fkm%20%26%26%20%3Funit%20%3D%20wd%3AQ828224%29%20%29.%20%0A%20%20%3Fp%20wdt%3AP625%20%3Flocation.%0A%20%20optional%20%7B%20%3Fp%20wdt%3AP18%20%3Fimage%20%7D%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22%20%7D%0A%7D%0A places that are below 10 meters above sea level (source)
 * Newest WikiProjects: Etymology, Knowledge Organization Systems
 * Newest external tools: Navel Gazer (users statement addition counts)
 * Development
 * More groundwork for Commons. We can now save a statement in the new MediaInfo entity type \o/ (Some minor issues still with the demo system but should be solved next week.)
 * Fixed a display issue with description tooltips in recent changes. Thanks Matěj Suchánek! (T89663)
 * Refactored quite some of the sitelinks-related JavaScript code (T127056 and 294687. This may break some existing gadgets and user scripts temporarily.
 * Updated the graphic representing the data model in Wikidata: long, medium, short
 * Fixed problem with editing statements on Wikidata, after last week's deployment (T138974)
 * Started interviews to find user needs and workflows for automated list generation (T139284)
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item
 * Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
 * Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

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MfD nomination of Wikipedia:Articles Infobox UK places but without images
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MfD nomination of Module:Edit filter board archives
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Turbury
When something is unexpectedly missing from the encyclopedia it's worth checking whether you've typed it right! You edited the Turbary article yourself in 2009. I've converted the duplicate article to a redirect - might be better just deleted. If there's anything not covered in the existing article I leave it to you to rescue and add it. Cheers. Pam D  18:24, 9 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Thanks User:PamD, I can always rely on you! All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 20:34, 9 July 2016 (UTC).

Arbitration Committee motion amending the Rich Farmbrough arbitration case
By motion of the Arbitration Committee;

For the Arbitration Committee, Kharkiv07  ( T ) 18:50, 9 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Discuss this at: Wikipedia talk:Arbitration Committee/Noticeboard

Finally
befreit --Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:52, 9 July 2016 (UTC)
 * All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 20:30, 9 July 2016 (UTC).


 * Just be careful, lest they open another can of whop-ass. -- Red rose64 (talk) 21:46, 9 July 2016 (UTC)

Took only 300 years to restore a good name. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:10, 10 July 2016 (UTC)
 * I understood. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 09:56, 10 July 2016 (UTC).


 * I'm very glad to see this. Seeing it sooner would have been better still. Bishonen &#124; talk 11:18, 10 July 2016 (UTC).

Rapt to see this. Good luck, Jenks24 (talk) 12:58, 10 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Very glad about this. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 13:45, 10 July 2016 (UTC)

Recommended reading on a centenary of a performance! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:27, 16 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Yay! Congratulations!  Blue Rasberry   (talk)  15:15, 21 July 2016 (UTC)

Reference errors on 9 July
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Wikidata weekly summary #217
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.  Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 15:33, 11 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Connecting OpenStreetMap and Wikidata, blog post by Mapbox
 * Past: office hour on IRC (log)
 * Now: ISMB 2016 Editathon
 * Upcoming: Viquimarató de Wikidata sobre Ramon Llull
 * Upcoming: OpenSym
 * Monitoring the Gender Gap with Wikidata Human Gender Indicators
 * An Empirical Evaluation of Property Recommender Systems for Wikidata and Collaborative Knowledge Bases
 * Mapping street names to Wikidata entities they refer to and enriching OpenStreetMap with linked data
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * The removal of Persondata from the English Wikipedia is completed. There are still much information to migrate to Wikidata at KasparBot's tool.
 * Tour de France data is coming from Wikidata in at least 3 Wikipedias
 * Freebase API will be shut down on August 31
 * TXT Werk is now using Wikidata to identify entities (previously Freebase)
 * Magnus' reference drag and drop script is now a gadget
 * Got an idea for a cool project around Wikidata but need some funding? A project grant might be an option.
 * There are several full PhD/postdoc positions available at TU Dresden with Markus including work on Wikidata
 * Magnus' Wiki Loves Monuments tool now also reads cultural identifiers from Wikidata and was switched to use SPARQL
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: archive date, permanent duplicated item, throughput, NAIF ID, point of penalty, Transferred Account Data Interchange Group Code, Estonian Research Portal person ID, bateau d'intérêt patrimonial, Cultural heritage database in Austria ObjektID, Nomisma ID, WikiTree ID, Estonian cultural monument ID, BacDive ID
 * Query examples: timeline of space probes (source), countries with most UNESCO World Heritage Sites (source), places in America named after places in England (source), emergency number by country size (source)
 * Development
 * Working on an infographic to represent the flow of data in Wikidata
 * Work on multi-content revisions in order to be able to store an entity (item, property, mediainfo) and wiki text in the same page (This is needed for Commons) (T107595)
 * Did more interviews with editors as preparation for the work on automated list generation for Wikipedia and co based on Wikidata data
 * Fixed a bug with data parsing in Korean and a few other languages (T139509)
 * Added "non" as a language code for monolingual text values (T137115)
 * Removed display of calendar model for dates with precision of 10 years or larger (T133973)
 * Fixed issues in some of the forms on special pages on mobile (T138413)
 * Disabled PDF export in item and property pages (T136814)
 * Worked on making it possible to have quantities with no bounds set (T115270)
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
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 * Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
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Clem Harvey
Hi. I was wondering if any of the off sources that you provided for Clem Harvey's article provide substantial coverage for him as an actor. I ask because I did some searching and I haven't been able to see how he meets WP:ENTERTAINER or the general notability guidelines, as most coverage I have been able to find has been trivial, and I figured that maybe I'm missing something. Thanks. Canadian  Paul  17:14, 12 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Yep, it's hard to find anything about Clem, I was hoping that three is an obituary somewhere (if he's dead) or an article in one of the film magazines. I think he may have had some links to aviation.  I'm not sure, though, if Clem Harvey is his real name.
 * It seems strange, though, to have a red-linked member of Ocean's Eleven.
 * All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 20:18, 12 July 2016 (UTC).

List of contributors to the Dictionary of National Biography
You might be interested in Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Dictionary of National Biography/Archive 3. In particular redlinks for the larger list (including the initial two supplements) are a single SPARQL query these days; and a couple of dozen of those people are covered in the ODNB. Charles Matthews (talk) 10:18, 13 July 2016 (UTC)
 * That is most interesting. I am constrained to use the tempaltes which are in my user space, until this job is done.  Unfortunately the Subst: keyword doesn't work within refs, so some fudging is required.  I think I may be able DNB properly this evening.
 * All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 11:51, 13 July 2016 (UTC).


 * This works: . But probably tou know that yourself, nevermind then. -- Edgars2007  (talk/contribs) 15:45, 13 July 2016 (UTC)
 * That's potentially useful! In this case the page text is already created, though.  All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 17:32, 13 July 2016 (UTC).

Mistake?
I think here you meant false flag not black flag? - Brianhe (talk) 12:46, 17 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Hmm... there seems to be an almost synonymy between false flag operation and black flag operation. Possibly this arose from black operation (and black bag operation) being conflated with false flag operation.  Be that as it may, Humpty-Dumpty like, when I say "black flag operation" I specifically mean one that is intended primarily to impugn the party who's flag is being flown, rather than one where the primary purpose is the operation itself, and the flag is simply a way to avoid blame.  All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 00:07, 18 July 2016 (UTC).

Wikidata weekly summary #218
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.  Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 17:06, 18 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * From Damascus to Berlin: A very special internship at Wikimedia Deutschland
 * Wikidata als Universalbibliographie: ein Kommentar
 * First image, good image?
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Since Pokémon is all the rage at the moment here is a short reminder that we have WikiProject Pokémon for them
 * TIB is looking for a Wikimedian in Residence in the Open Science Lab
 * The code for the Primary Sources Tool has been moved from the Google to the Wikidata organisation on github.
 * The ISCB competition for 2016 has been announced
 * Use Wikipedia “article main images” to find candidate images for Wikidata
 * StrepHit fact extraction agent v.1.1-beta has been released
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: GCatholic church ID, GoodReads book ID, QUDT unit ID, Queensland Heritage Register ID, National Library of Wales Archives and Manuscripts, EU River Basin District code, right to vote, GoodReads author ID, title of chess player, BVPH ID
 * Query examples: letters with more than two forms (source), metro stations (source), railway incidents (source), pyramids in Egypt (source), women described as wife and men described as husband (source), neuroinformatics coauthor network (source), nationalities of people with an article in the Bavarian Wikipedia (source), Irish general elections and their winners (source), types of historical monuments (source), Alpine four-thousanders (source), Alpine peaks (source), language statements that point to a country instead of a language (source)
 * Newest database reports: list of people who died on their birthday
 * Development
 * Map layers are coming soon to the Query Service
 * A lot of clean-up under the hood for the user interface
 * More interviews with editors in preparation for automated list generation
 * Fixed a bug where forms on the mobile site looked broken (T138413)
 * More work on Citoid integration for easier reference adding
 * Added Cape Verdean Creole (T127435)
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item
 * Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
 * Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

Nomination of Murdoch MacLeod for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Murdoch MacLeod 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/Murdoch MacLeod& 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.  DGG ( talk ) 17:13, 18 July 2016 (UTC)

A tremendous time!
Bonjour, hello

I am glad to announce the official creation of the user group for Wiktionaries! You mentioned a polite interests for this great adventure and so, here it is! the Wiktionary Tremendous Group You're welcome to participate to this brand new collective exploration of the lexicoworld by helping to check my non-native weird English, find a fancy logo, contact people or mention places where the announce have to be made. There is still a lot to do, only main pages are there. Soon, I will translate some cool stuff we made in French: 2015 summary, skills list, banner and more. I also plan to visit every community so help welcome! Spread the word! Noé (talk) 00:40, 21 July 2016 (UTC)

Contests
User:Dr. Blofeld has created WikiProject Africa/Contests. The idea is to run a series of contests/editathons focusing on each region of Africa. He has spoken to Wikimedia about it and $1000-1500 is possible for prize money. As someone who has previously expressed interest in African topics, would you be interested in contributing to one or assisting draw up core article/missing article lists? He says he's thinking of North Africa for an inaugural one in October. If interested please sign up in the participants section of the Contest page, thanks.♦ -- Ser Amantio di Nicolao Che dicono a Signa?Lo dicono a Signa. 01:36, 21 July 2016 (UTC)

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Wikipedia and United Nations Women Project
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DNB biographies
hi, richard, nice work on the DNB articles.

however, i see you have invented your own style. see also Victorinus_Bythner for another style of citing DNB. you might want to consider: using template:DNB for cut and paste; ignoring the initials which are a wikisource thing; author link is normally to the author wikipedia page, your author linksred, because not all authors have a bio. and the DNB endnotes are shown as endnotes indented after template:cite DNB; you might want to add this category Category:Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the Dictionary of National Biography; don't know why you included the banner at the bottom.

keep in mind there should also be an ODNB article to link to using template:cite ODNB, for example and incorporating these makes good edithathon work for newbies.

cheers. Humungadunga (talk) 16:49, 22 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Rich, this is a now-blocked sock of Slowking4. Happy editing, Drmies (talk) 16:34, 24 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Ah I suspected it was a sock. But the message is still welcome.  All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 22:25, 24 July 2016 (UTC).

Category:Prime ministers of Nepal has been nominated for discussion
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Indigenous women & Polar women editathons
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British film people
Hi Rich, I've been asked if it was possible to get a list of British film people born in the period 1930-60 - any suggestions?  Ϣere Spiel  Chequers  10:56, 25 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Yes I think I can make such a list.  I took a little look last night, will look in more detail tonight.  All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 13:06, 26 July 2016 (UTC).


 * 2556 people. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 19:40, 27 July 2016 (UTC).

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Question
Hi, I've looked at the instructions but I'm not sure how you could divide an existing stub category into smaller stub categories. Thanks, --Rubbish computer (HALP!: I dropped the bass?) 14:31, 28 July 2016 (UTC)
 * First, did you propose it at WP:WSS/P? If so, which category is this? -- Red rose64 (talk) 16:45, 28 July 2016 (UTC)
 * No, sorry I didn't realise I had to propose it there. Thanks for letting me know, Rubbish computer (HALP!: I dropped the bass?) 16:51, 28 July 2016 (UTC)
 * There are also some general guidelines I think about the max and min number of stubs in a cat. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 17:19, 28 July 2016 (UTC).


 * Ok thanks. Rubbish computer (HALP!: I dropped the bass?) 17:48, 28 July 2016 (UTC)

DADS
Dear Rich,

Thank you for making Wikipedia better.

I reverted a recent edit you made to Template:DADS because apparently the URL of that dictionary has changed yet again. Apparently not enough people understand that, in the words of Tim Berners Lee, cool URIs don't change. --DavidCary (talk) 16:47, 28 July 2016 (UTC)
 * I agree. We have this problem at RfD sometimes.  All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 17:18, 28 July 2016 (UTC).