User talk:Sadads/Archive index/May 2017 - August 2019

Category:English children's novels
Do you have a strong belief that this category, which you created in 2011, should exist? I am thinking of merging it with the catch-all British children's novels category. Current placement of novels seems pretty random. There are no equivalent Welsh and Scottish categories. --- Robina Fox (talk) 23:18, 10 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Hi I am actually not very committed the category structure at this point: I have shifted all my effort to Wikidata, because it does most of the things that I wanted the categories to do back in 2011 and more (these intersectional categories of two features of the work: place of origin and genre, are kindof nonsensical for new editors to add to articles, because category structure is very arcane: thus making them almost impossible to maintain for the long run). I am happy to change to folks like you. I hope you aren't migrating the category manually, but using something like AWB/JWB. Sadads (talk) 02:09, 11 May 2017 (UTC)

Rollback
Thank you for your kind words about me. Since I will never use my rollback privileges, you might as well remove them. Creuzbourg (talk) 03:51, 13 May 2017 (UTC)

Stub sorting
Please try to stub sort instead of using stub, which is what you did at Centre for Window and Cladding Technology. Thanks. -- I dream of horses If you reply here, please ping me by adding to your message (talk to me) (My edits) @  04:50, 17 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the reminder! I have been patrolling a lot of areas that I don't know very well with New Page patrol, and have been using the default stub tag, when I don't have a firm sense of where the stub should go (I know some of the biography and literature stub trees pretty well, but not other content. Sadads (talk) 12:50, 17 May 2017 (UTC)
 * The operative word of my request could very well be "try". -- I dream of horses If you reply here, please ping me by adding to your message  (talk to me) (My edits) @  01:18, 18 May 2017 (UTC)

Speedy deletion declined: Selfish Age
Hello Sadads. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of Selfish Age, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: A9 cannot be applied if the artist has an article, consider redirecting per WP:ATD-R. Thank you.  So Why  08:03, 19 May 2017 (UTC)

Aberdeen F.C.–Rangers F.C. rivalry
Hi, I am the article's creator. Thank you for taking time to review it. I would appreciate some guidance to improve the quality as per the hatnote, could you be more specific as to which is passages in particular were concerning for you in respect of OR or lacking sources (there are over 60 already, not including multiple citations), so that I can focus on these and try to get appropriate sources on consider removing the content? At present the notice is too general for me to work out what you're referring to. Thanks. Crowsus (talk) 13:29, 19 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Hi : the main challenge here, is the number of analytical statements, which as opinions or summary, are not backed by an external source, per WP:Verifiablity. Also, there are a some conclusions that approach WP:Original Research. For a topic about a feud between two different sports teams: this is likely to lead to broad disagreement by people invested in one side of the feud or another. I would recommend moving towards almost every statement having a footnote tying it to an opinion of an external source. Sadads (talk) 13:45, 19 May 2017 (UTC)

On this day, 6 years ago...

 * Thank you! I don't use the tools as much as I used to! But, been making an effort to work on more backlog queues recently when I have down time. Sadads (talk) 03:16, 22 May 2017 (UTC)

Admin
You deleted my request for admin. But everyone deserves a second chance. Some people say I'm a bad editor but I just made some honest mistakes. Please let reverse the request for administration.Kick ass editor (talk) 03:53, 22 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Hi : as a new editor, you need to focus on gaining experience in the Wikimedia community before you even consider the need for Admin rights. Please consider starting with something like The Wikipedia Adventure.Sadads (talk) 03:56, 22 May 2017 (UTC)

Editing
I don't need to do the adventure I am an experienced editor so please give me admin. I got a new tablet and my son plays on Wikipedia so all the mistakes are his mistakes.Kick ass editor (talk) 04:01, 22 May 2017 (UTC)

Abu Eesa Niamatullah
Hello! I am notifying interested projects and editors that I've listed Abu Eesa Niamatullah for discussion at AfD.

I invite you to contribute to the discussion. Mujaddouda (talk) 21:26, 28 May 2017 (UTC)

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Autopatrolled
Thanks! --S.Didam (talk) 15:06, 6 June 2017 (UTC)
 * Your welcome! Happy to do it! Sadads (talk) 15:24, 6 June 2017 (UTC)

PERM
Hi. The helper scripts, mostly developed by are more than just an optional aid. They have become an essential feature of the processing of WP:PERM requests. By using the Assign permissions link, they carry out several important functions which would be tedious to do manually each time, such as according the right to the user's account, automatically notifying the candidates, populating lists and cats.

The scripts cut down the admin load by two thirds, but there is no one around any more to mop up if it is done manually and some functions are left uncompleted. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 22:30, 6 June 2017 (UTC)
 * Kudpung is referring to User:MusikAnimal/userRightsManager, which indeed does the 3-step process in a matter of seconds! But the more commonly forgotten task is that when approving at WP:PERM/NPR, we add the user to the mailing list. The script will do this for you as well :) Cheers &mdash; MusikAnimal  talk  17:07, 7 June 2017 (UTC)
 * Acknowledged, Sadads (talk) 18:51, 10 June 2017 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CXXXIV, June 2017
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Thanks for noticing !
Thanks for noticing my new article, Defeating ISIS ! What do you think of the article? Sagecandor (talk) 00:43, 9 June 2017 (UTC)
 * Its a fairly well done article, for a newer contributor! However, there are a number of moments in the article, which verge on WP:SYNTH -- evaluating the sources together as saying something. Moreover, there seems to be plenty more room to represent the reception more thoroughly. I hope you keep contributing, and let me know if you need any additional feedback, Sadads (talk) 23:31, 12 June 2017 (UTC)

Thanks giving msg
Thank you dear Sr wikipedian. You have reviewed few articles which I have created. It is really helpfull and encouraging for me. Keep helping. Thanks again. Pinakpani (talk) 05:52, 9 June 2017 (UTC)
 * Keep up the good work! I hope that you continue finding good ways to fill gaps and create content on Wikimedia projects! Sadads (talk) 23:27, 12 June 2017 (UTC)

George R. Bidwell
Hello, Sadads. Thanks for looking at my article. The position of Collector of the Port of New York seems to be enough to confer notability, as there are plenty of other articles about Collectors of the Port of New York. Bidwell's job as a bicycle salesman also gives him some notability. I do understand that this might not be clear in the article, however. I'll try to find something else, too. Alexschmidt711 (talk) 18:09, 11 June 2017 (UTC)
 * I think what is unclear to me is that he has long-lasting importance for a public audience. For example, what significance did he contribute to cycling in the United States? Or why is he an important Collector? Did he do something of note in either of those roles? What about his political activities? Were they significant to me. Reading the lead, and most of the rest of the article, I don't understand why I should care as someone who lives over a hundred years after he did things. Sadads (talk) 23:34, 12 June 2017 (UTC)

Jeet Heer
Wondering if I could ask you advice on something. Let me know? cOrneLlrOckEy (talk) 01:34, 13 June 2017 (UTC)
 * Restored, and added a few references: he appears notable to me. Sadads (talk) 03:55, 13 June 2017 (UTC)
 * Thanks - more broadly, was that a correct use of Speedy Delete?  cOrneLlrOckEy (talk) 12:55, 13 June 2017 (UTC)
 * No: you made a really clear Credible claim of significance, and if the closing Admin had been reviewing those per the terms of CSD. Moreover, a quick Google search, indicates that there is plenty of indication of notability including book reviews, and rather extensive commentary on his opinion pieces (though perhaps not as much as an ideal longer article), Sadads (talk) 13:18, 13 June 2017 (UTC)
 * Fixing a ping. Also, this should have been a PROD or AFD if we thought that claim of significance, didn't meet the threshhold of notability, since the article had been living so long, and there clearly are sources discussing him. Sadads (talk) 13:20, 13 June 2017 (UTC)
 * ah, makes sense. . Thank you cOrneLlrOckEy (talk) 15:08, 13 June 2017 (UTC)

Turning down "autopatrol" right
Thank you for giving me the " " right, and I appreciate the gift. However, I think I must turn it down for now. May you accept my wishes please? I'll ask for a grant at another time. Thanks. --George Ho (talk) 03:40, 13 June 2017 (UTC)
 * I want to clarify, that the right only helps others maintain the New Page Patrol backlog it doesn't actually give you the ability for any additional actions. Can you please confirm that you don't want to help others with the backlog? Sadads (talk) 03:44, 13 June 2017 (UTC)
 * I appreciate your concerns about the backlog. However, I have a lot in my mind, so I don't think I need one. Also, this year I created redirects and dabs a lot more than I did new articles. There are many others who deserve the right. For me, I'll request one when I want one. But thanks, anyway. --George Ho (talk) 03:49, 13 June 2017 (UTC)
 * BTW, good work on clearing out the backlog of new pages. --George Ho (talk) 03:50, 13 June 2017 (UTC)
 * ✅ you could have kept the right, we patrol redirects and dabs as well: no sense in them not being auto-patrolled, Sadads (talk) 04:08, 13 June 2017 (UTC)
 * I am all about not carrying rights you don't need. This situation, however, has me wondering if there's just a miscommunication of what "autoreviewer" is or if the Wikipedian in question really wants me to patrol via NPP the pages he makes because he thinks that's better somehow. Chris Troutman  ( talk ) 04:38, 13 June 2017 (UTC)

Thank you both for your concerns. I know that the right would automatically patrol/mark off my new creations, including dabpages and redirects. However, this year I'm refraining myself from obtaining any right for now. As said, I have a lot in my mind, and I've seen changes around me. Therefore, until things remain calmer (to me), I'll remain "rights-less" without worrying about retaining any rights for the whole year, and I might be "rights-less" next year. I apologize for your reactions, but I must sort myself out, reduce my own stress, organize myself, and figure myself out what to do in life. I would obtain the right again someday... but not now and not this year. --George Ho (talk) 05:32, 13 June 2017 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the explanation! I hope that everything goes well! I have also had several windows of time where I needed a break. Let me know if there is anything I can do, and will also offer a piece of advice: Wikimedia projects are volunteer time; participation should bring a bit of satisfaction and strong sense of self worth; if you find those feelings lapsing, its okay to take a break, and come back (or not) when you are ready. Your contributions have been very valuable! But wellbeing is just as important! Let me know if we can help, Sadads (talk) 13:40, 13 June 2017 (UTC)

Charlie Grant
Thanks for your help. It's not often I make an article so it's appreciated.

Just for fun, I've never seen this style before " Nazi s ". Slight Smile  15:53, 13 June 2017 (UTC)

Deletion of Sumana Roy page
Hello Sadads, I want to thank you for helping me set up a page on Sumana Roy, an Indian English poet, writer and environmentalist on 6th June, 2017. I now find that someone has deleted the page and all the work I put in is gone. I am a PhD student and there's only so much time I can give to this. It is frustrating. I wanted to do this because it's related to the subject of my PhD. But I don't think I will waste my time on this again. Thank you for your help. Murmurmurmur (talk) 07:34, 16 June 2017 (UTC)

I have unreviewed a page you curated
Hi, I'm Oluwa2Chainz. I wanted to let you know that I saw the page you reviewed, City University, Malaysia, and have un-reviewed it again. If you have any questions, please ask them on my talk page. Thank you.

—Oluwa2Chainz »» (talk to me) 00:10, 18 June 2017 (UTC)
 * Thanks for reaching out! I hope you get a chance to learn more about contributing to our community. Sadads (talk) 21:23, 19 June 2017 (UTC)

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Raymond M. Lemaire
Hello. The article provides an important list of articles and books on which the whole article is based. If you think this is not enough, you should indicate what information is not credible in your eyes and for which you would ask for a more specific reference. Andries Van den Abeele (talk) 18:35, 23 July 2017 (UTC)
 * On English Wikipedia, unlike other language Wikipedia's, our standard for WP:Verifiability, requires the use of Inline Citations as a means of ensuring that the content can be checked by future users, if it can be questioned. Since you include a number of statements with unclear sourcing (almost all of the content, since its rather esoteric bits of information about a historical individual), best practice would be to add citations to almost every statement. Since you are the creator of the article: you are in the best position to bring the content up to English Wikipedia's standard for quality. Sadads (talk) 13:15, 24 July 2017 (UTC)
 * I do not think that your way of seeing things is universally accepted. I would almost say, to the contrary, as tens if not hundreds of thousands of articles demonstrate. Many English-writing users are quite astonished when they read articles where numerous references are given to newspaper articles or other ephemere sources, which offer no certitude of longevity. It is much wiser to work like alle encyclopedies all over the world do, with the Encyclopedia Brittanica as major example, by offering in fine an excellent bibliography where the interested reader can find all relevant information and references, and can check the content. By the way, can you give examples of what you call "esoteric bits"? Andries Van den Abeele (talk) 15:06, 27 July 2017 (UTC)
 * I am not suggesting that you should add links to we content, but rather the offline sources that are listed at the bottom of the article, should be provided as Inline Citations. Take for example the lines "He attained international recognition thanks to his activities as an expert and counsellor for important restorations and numerous renovations. This was the case for his activities regarding:" These are very broad and controversial claims, and need to be attached to very specific sources or authors, otherwise they appear overblown. Similarly, many of the early parts of the biography are very specific pieces of information (who he collaborated with, where he went to school, etc). All of these are things that I seriously doubt is "common knowledge" for someone who does not have access to the Source materials. If I were a researcher, and wanted to retrieve the right reliable source to verify that information in a publication, I wouldn't know which source to request from a library: especially since these are relatively rare sources, that might cost my local library 300-400 dollars in Interlibrary loan requests. Sadads (talk) 14:01, 30 July 2017 (UTC)
 * @Sadads. If a researcher on Raymond Lemaire wanted confirmation of what is written, he would not be helped by casual references here and there and would have by all means to consult the sources given. If he were not prepared to do so, then he would not be a genuine researcher on the subject. I wondered how you are dealing yourself with references in articles you have written on Wikipedia, and I looked up at the earliest you wrote, back in 2007: Lake Braddock Secondary School. Apart from the question if this article was really worth to be put on Wikipedia, an impressive number of the given references are obsolete allready. This unfortunately happens frequently with articles on the English Wikipedia, when almost every sentence is supposed to receive a reference. I confirm my view: Look at the good old encyclopedias on paper and follow their excellent example. And, by the way, what did you mean by 'esoteric bits'? Andries Van den Abeele (talk) 08:46, 31 July 2017 (UTC)
 * Its really telling that you had to look back to my contributions in 2007, many of which haven't persisted into the live articles.... You realize that is 10 years ago, and the standard has changed on English Wikipedia? or that I haven't worked on that article in ages? or that I have over 100,000 more edits, and hundreds of articles since, almost all of which have a much higher standard of citation?
 * What you contributed is not bad content (it meets notability, (which is the criteria for inclusion)), but rather its poor quality content -- because its no longer easily verifiable. By leaving it as such, you are creating more work for the future community -- and as an experienced editor, I would think you would appreciate the importance of trying to avoid future work for folks. And when I say "esoteric bits", as I give the example above, almost every line in the sections ( Family, Studies and first activities, Monuments Man, Activities in Belgium, and International Activities), are things I would want to be able to confirm with specific sources: as they are facts, I cannot trust right now. Sadads (talk) 17:51, 7 August 2017 (UTC)

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COI - of a different kind
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Thanks for the Welcome
I appreciate your welcoming me. So far, my experience here has been pretty positive, though I can't seem to write an article higher than B-class. No worries, I'm sure that will come. If you have any DH-specific pages you might need my assistance on, let me know. Grlucas (talk) 10:41, 22 August 2017 (UTC)
 * Thanks, again; I appreciate the resources. I have had my students use Wikipedia before in-class, but not in an official Wikipedia way. I was likely a bit too green myself to be very effective. Still, this is something I will likely pursue in the spring. Previous classes have done some work on various pages relating to Norman Mailer. Since writing my own articles, I now feel as if I can teach this environment much better. Again, I appreciate your feedback and encouragement. Grlucas (talk) 14:34, 22 August 2017 (UTC)
 * Thats awesome! We have found that with the help of the Wiki Education Foundations' materials, most faculty can run the assignments fairly effectively. With the experience you have, I think you can give even better feedback. (I find that I can run assignments in less time, with my experience as a Wikimedian: I know how to get students from 0-75 much quicker, than at other times. Sadads (talk) 20:59, 22 August 2017 (UTC)

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A Thank You Note
Thank you for the barnstar, Alex! I see that we share both interests and visions – meaning, this is probably just one of the many messages I'll be leaving on your talk page in the future. Was working as an editor at a publishing house in Macedonia for a long period until recently, before realizing (all of a sudden) that my work there didn't amount to much: a single Wikipedia article will probably do much more for the world than all of the hours I spent editing those abysmal translations. Also: I missed Wikipedia - I'm an administrator at the Macedonian version, but, the restart of my career coincided with a revelation that working here may be much more important, since there are quite a few great East European and Balkan writers that have been left out of most world's encyclopedias, Wikipedia included. Possibly, an article or two about them may inspire some readers out there to find them and read them - and, most importantly, translate some of their books into English, French, German, Spanish... stirring up the great discussion among nations of which humanity is in a desperate need at the moment. It's nice to think that we, as Wikipedia contributors, are already able to participate in that great and beautiful debate of true minds. --Виктор Јованоски (talk) 08:10, 7 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Welcome to English Wikipedia! Its so awesome to have a truely diverse and reprsentative community here! Keep filling in gaps around literature: we tend to be very well represented in the super-popular authors and plot summaries, but digging into the meet of other parts of the literature (reviews, criticism, and popular impact of works), is sorely missing in many cases! Let me know if I can help, Sadads (talk) 15:48, 7 September 2017 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CXXXVII, September 2017
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Notability of Dauðans óvissi tími
Just to say I've responded to your question about the notability of Dauðans óvissi tími on the talk page. Perhaps, if you agree with the reasoning there, you could remove the tag? Thanks! Alarichall (talk) 09:36, 20 September 2017 (UTC)

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Happy Halloween!

Hello Sadads: Thanks for all of your contributions to improve Wikipedia, and have a happy and enjoyable Halloween!   –  — usernamekiran (talk)   21:15, 28 October 2017 (UTC) Send Halloween cheer by adding {{subst:Happy Halloween}} to user talk pages with a friendly message.


 * Thank you ! Sadads (talk) 22:43, 28 October 2017 (UTC)
 * My pleasure. :) You should see this. — usernamekiran (talk)   22:49, 28 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Hehehe! Happy to at some point: I regularly attend Wikimania and other movement events in my staff capacity! I will keep you guessing on the username until we meet, but you might be a bit dissapointed :P Sadads (talk) 22:54, 28 October 2017 (UTC)

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The Bugle: Issue CXXXIX, November 2017
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Autopatrolled right for relatively inexperienced editor
Hi Sadads. I happened to notice that you gave the autopatrolled user right back in June 2015. You said this was for an editathon, but I can't figure out why an editathon participant would need to be autopatrolled, and Merrilee does not meet the usual requirement for that right. So I'm wondering whether it was a mistake? Apologies if I'm overlooking something obvious here; I don't have any experience with editathons. –&#8239;Joe (talk) 22:47, 3 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Hi . That was a long time ago, but Merrilee is a long trusted, and highly experienced community member in facilitating and teaching as part of offline activities. I may have misunderstood the policy at the time, and she is not a regular creator of articles, so I don't think the right actually directly effects her activities on wiki. Sadads (talk) 23:57, 3 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Still, with only seven article creations I don't think it's appropriate that her future contributions won't be reviewed like every other editor's. Would you object to me removing the right? (I'll ask Merrilee too and explain that she can re-apply for it when she has more under her belt.) –&#8239;Joe (talk) 08:06, 4 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Yes, that is fine, Sadads (talk) 13:38, 4 December 2017 (UTC)

Thanks for your nod of support re William Godwin
That led me to your userpage, and I see that you too were inspired by Adrienne W. This emboldens me to ask you a question: I believe she wrote or spoke about the Enlightenment Encyclopédistes, and the dangers of restricting an encyclopedia by the interests and backgrounds of its contributors. A cursory search turned up nothing. Do you happen to know what I am half-remembering? Carbon Caryatid (talk) 20:56, 5 December 2017 (UTC)
 * There are a number of us around who fondly remember her work! Hard memory to pull back up. My first instinct was to look at https://www.hastac.org/u/wadewitz -- but not finding anything immediately. There is also the piece in Hacking the academy: wikisource:Wiki-hacking:_Opening_up_the_academy_with_Wikipedia. Could likely be some of the things in: google scholar? It definitely sounds like the kinds of critique and framework she approached Wikipedia with. Sadads (talk) 21:47, 5 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Realize I didn't ping, Sadads (talk) 22:29, 5 December 2017 (UTC)
 * I am remiss in not having thanked you earlier. Those leads are good starts. Carbon Caryatid (talk) 07:55, 29 December 2017 (UTC)

2017 Military Historian of the Year and Newcomer of the Year nominations and voting
As we approach the end of the year, the Military History project is looking to recognise editors who have made a real difference. Each year we do this by bestowing two awards: the Military Historian of the Year and the Military History Newcomer of the Year. The co-ordinators invite all project members to get involved by nominating any editor they feel merits recognition for their contributions to the project. Nominations for both awards are open between 00:01 on 2 December 2017 and 23:59 on 15 December 2017. After this, a 14-day voting period will follow commencing at 00:01 on 16 December 2017. Nominations and voting will take place on the main project talkpage: here and here. Thank you for your time. For the co-ordinators, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 08:35, 8 December 2017 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CXL, December 2017
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Inputs for WikiCV (an outreachy project)
Hi, I'm a 4th year Computer Science undergraduate student based out of India. I've been selected as an intern for Wikimedia under Round-15 of Outreachy. I'll be building a web tool called WikiCV (under the mentorship of Gergő Tisza and Stephen LaPorte), somewhat similar to your LinkedIn, StackOverflow or Github profile. Before starting with the project, I wanted inputs from users who are my target audience. My mentor Gergő asked me to talk to you as your input will be quite valuable.

In order to just give a bit of background - We came up with this project because we feel that Wikipedia needs a powerful force to draw new editors to the project and allow existing editors to spend more time on it without harming their career; unfortunately, due to the highly collaborative nature of Wikipedia, the value of one's participation is hard to measure for an outsider, which makes it very hard for contributors to take credit for value added to Wikipedia.

Hence, we want to create a contribution summarizing tool which (unlike the existing ones that focus on statistics and are hard to interpret for someone not familiar with Wikipedia editing) highlights contributions in an easy-to-understand manner.

I want your inputs on: 1. What all things would you like to see in your CV for Wikipedia contributions? 2. In what way should we present the data/ contribution summary so that it is understandable by a non-Wikipedia user? 3. What are the benefits/problems of the current tools that summarize the contribution of a user (like Xtools)? 4. The CV will definitely reflect your contribution, but would it be better if it shows your current standing with respect to other users? For example, reputation points in Stack Overflow reflect how good you are relatively. One idea that I thought was - Imagine a tool that tells someone is in the top 1% of editors. Would it be nice? If yes, what would you consider a good basis for that statement?

Also, I prepared a mockup for the CV to give a rough idea as to what we are thinking of. Please check it out as well. Apart from this, I thought of presenting the contributions in a manner similar to Github. I've prepared a tool for that. Kindly have a look at that as well and give your reviews about it.

My work is largely dependent on your inputs, so please pour in your comments/views. Your help will be quite appreciated!

Eagerly waiting for your inputs :) Meghasharma213 (talk) 16:37, 11 December 2017 (UTC)

Books and Bytes - Issue 25
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Issue 25, October – November 2017

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Discussion at WP:Village_pump_(proposals)
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User group for Military Historians
Greetings,

"Military history" is one of the most important subjects when speak of sum of all human knowledge. To support contributors interested in the area over various language Wikipedias, we intend to form a user group. It also provides a platform to share the best practices between military historians, and various military related projects on Wikipedias. An initial discussion was has been done between the coordinators and members of WikiProject Military History on English Wikipedia. Now this discussion has been taken to Meta-Wiki. Contributors intrested in the area of military history are requested to share their feedback and give suggestions at Talk:Discussion to incubate a user group for Wikipedia Military Historians.

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Speedy deletion nomination of Talk:Science and technology in Vietnam


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Category for merging
Please see my proposal to merge Category:Works set in Kenya into Category:Works about Kenya Hugo999 (talk) 00:55, 8 January 2018 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CXLI, January 2018
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Facto Post – Issue 8 – 15 January 2018
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Metadata on the March
From the days of hard-copy liner notes on music albums, metadata have stood outside a piece or file, while adding to understanding of where it comes from, and some of what needs to be appreciated about its content. In the GLAM sector, the accumulation of accurate metadata for objects is key to the mission of an institution, and its presentation in cataloguing.

Today Wikipedia turns 17, with worlds still to conquer. Zooming out from the individual GLAM object to the ontology in which it is set, one such world becomes apparent: GLAMs use custom ontologies, and those introduce massive incompatibilities. From a recent article by, we quote the observation that "vocabularies needed for many collections, topics and intellectual spaces defy the expectations of the larger professional communities." A job for the encyclopedist, certainly. But the data-minded Wikimedian has the advantages of Wikidata, starting with its multilingual data, and facility with aliases. The controlled vocabulary — sometimes referred to as a "thesaurus" as term of art — simplifies search: if a "spade" must be called that, rather than "shovel", it is easier to find all spade references. That control comes at a cost. Case studies in that article show what can lie ahead. The schema crosswalk, in jargon, is a potential answer to the GLAM Babel of proliferating and expanding vocabularies. Even if you have no interest in Wikidata as such, simply vocabularies V and W, if both V and W are matched to Wikidata, then a "crosswalk" arises from term v in V to w in W, whenever v and w both match to the same item d in Wikidata.

For metadata mobility, match to Wikidata. It's apparently that simple: infrastructure requirements have turned out, so far, to be challenges that can be met.

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Query re Book Review; The story of Francis Cludde
I'm assuming ythe tag requesting citations came from you - if not, my apologies.

Happy to comply but I'm not sure what additional references I can provide. Weyman is a now obscure 19th century novelist, so there aren't really a ton of supporting book reviews (one reason why I wanted to put this up).

Thoughts?

Robinvp11 (talk) 13:10, 19 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the questions! I think the best recommendations for starting research about books is at: Manual_of_Style/Novels! Moreover, for this particular book, you might check out the results on Google Scholar or the books mentioned here. Typically, if the book itself is WP:Notable we can find a small number of sources, ~3-6, which can help identify the work and its impact. Not all of these sources are going to be reviews: some of it might be discussion of the work as a historical object. If you can't find the sources, we really ought to merge the documentation of the novel into the article about the author. Let me know if you have more questions, Sadads (talk) 13:57, 19 January 2018 (UTC)

Books and Bytes - Issue 26
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Facto Post – Issue 9 – 5 February 2018
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m:Grants:Project/ScienceSource is the new ContentMine proposal: please take a look.

Wikidata as Hub
One way of looking at Wikidata relates it to the semantic web concept, around for about as long as Wikipedia, and realised in dozens of distributed Web institutions. It sees Wikidata as supplying central, encyclopedic coverage of linked structured data, and looks ahead to greater support for "federated queries" that draw together information from all parts of the emerging network of websites. Another perspective might be likened to a photographic negative of that one: Wikidata as an already-functioning Web hub. Over half of its properties are identifiers on other websites. These are Wikidata's "external links", to use Wikipedia terminology: one type for the DOI of a publication, another for the VIAF page of an author, with thousands more such. Wikidata links out to sites that are not nominally part of the semantic web, effectively drawing them into a larger system. The crosswalk possibilities of the systematic construction of these links was covered in Issue 8.

External links speaks of them as kept "minimal, meritable, and directly relevant to the article." Here Wikidata finds more of a function. On viaf.org one can type a VIAF author identifier into the search box, and find the author page. The Wikidata Resolver tool, these days including Open Street Map, Scholia etc., allows this kind of lookup. The hub tool by takes a major step further, allowing both lookup and crosswalk to be encoded in a single URL.

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Earl of Argyll's Regiment of Foot
I've expanded this article but it keeps showing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl_of_Argyll%27s_Regiment_of_Foot in the URL link. Why is that? Thanks!

Robinvp11 (talk) 09:02, 10 February 2018 (UTC)
 * That is how the software stores some of the special characters: I don't know why it's rendering in the url. It's explained at the help page on Meta. However, I thought we had the ability to render those correctly in the urls. Sadads (talk) 03:13, 11 February 2018 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CXLII, February 2018
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WikiProject X Newsletter • Issue 11
Newsletter • February 2018

Check out this month's issue of the WikiProject X newsletter, with plans to renew work with a followup grant proposal to support finalising the deployment of CollaborationKit!

-— Isarra ༆ 21:26, 14 February 2018 (UTC)

Courses Modules are being deprecated
Hello,

Your account is currently configured with an education program flag. This system (the Courses system) is being deprecated. As such, your account will soon be updated to remove these no longer supported flags. For details on the changes, and how to migrate to using the replacement system (the Programs and Events Dashboard) please see Education noticeboard/Archive 18.

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Disruptive editing at Benito Cereno
In March 2016 you were kind enough to reward my work on BC with a raise of the article to the B-rank. On 9 March some heavy editing has been done, probably some student assignment. This editing includes tinkering with the quotations and inline citations, which may no longer be correct anymore. I'll have to check everything against the sources. So maybe the article is not a B at the moment.MackyBeth (talk) 20:00, 10 March 2018 (UTC)
 * I think you have done a wonderful job keeping the student work in check: it never should have been the subject of a student assignment. Thank you for being vigilant! Sadads (talk) 00:32, 13 March 2018 (UTC)
 * It is my assumption that it was some sort of assignment. The pattern of multiple editors in one day makes it look that way. The thing is that this is a B-class article, so edits not moving the article in the direction of future GA-status are not helpful.MackyBeth (talk) 00:37, 13 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Yeah, I helped develop a lot of guidance for the WP:Wikipedia Education Program and if you are following best practice, you never put students on long pages or popular ones. I am betting some faculty had read about these kinds of assignments, knew they were reading Benito Cereno and just assigned the students to add something. If the faculty had support for their work, they would have definitely chose easier pieces to contribute to. Sadads (talk) 01:07, 13 March 2018 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CXLIII, March 2018
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Facto Post – Issue 10 – 12 March 2018
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Milestone for mix'n'match
Around the time in February when Wikidata clicked past item Q50000000, another milestone was reached: the mix'n'match tool uploaded its 1000th dataset. Concisely defined by its author,, it works "to match entries in external catalogs to Wikidata". The total number of entries is now well into eight figures, and more are constantly being added: a couple of new catalogs each day is normal.

Since the end of 2013, mix'n'match has gradually come to play a significant part in adding statements to Wikidata. Particularly in areas with the flavour of digital humanities, but datasets can of course be about practically anything. There is a catalog on skyscrapers, and two on spiders.

These days mix'n'match can be used in numerous modes, from the relaxed gamified click through a catalog looking for matches, with prompts, to the fantastically useful and often demanding search across all catalogs. I'll type that again: you can search 1000+ datasets from the simple box at the top right. The drop-down menu top left offers "creation candidates", Magnus's personal favourite. Mix'n'match/Manual for more.

For the Wikidatan, a key point is that these matches, however carried out, add statements to Wikidata if, and naturally only if, there is a Wikidata property associated with the catalog. For everyone, however, the hands-on experience of deciding of what is a good match is an education, in a scholarly area, biographical catalogs being particularly fraught. Underpinning recent rapid progress is an open infrastructure for scraping and uploading.

Congratulations to Magnus, our data Stakhanovite!

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ACTRIAL - next steps for the Future of AfC & NPP
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Welcome to The Wikipedia Adventure!

 * Hi Sadads! We're so happy you wanted to play to learn, as a friendly and fun way to get into our community and mission.  I think these links might be helpful to you as you get started.
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Precious anniversary
--Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:39, 26 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Thank you! It's such a lovely reminder of how much I have contributed to the community to have you stop by and remind me :D Thank you for being such an awesome community builder! Sadads (talk) 13:01, 26 March 2018 (UTC)
 * ... four years now! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:13, 26 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Thank you so much! I really enjoy seeing this each year :) Sadads (talk) 16:08, 26 March 2019 (UTC)

April 2018 Milhist Backlog Drive
G'day all, please be advised that throughout April 2018 the Military history Wikiproject is running its annual backlog elimination drive. This will focus on several key areas:


 * tagging and assessing articles that fall within the project's scope
 * adding or improving listed resources on Milhist's task force pages
 * updating the open tasks template on Milhist's task force pages
 * creating articles that are listed as "requested" on the project's various lists of missing articles.

As with past Milhist drives, there are points awarded for working on articles in the targeted areas, with barnstars being awarded at the end for different levels of achievement.

The drive is open to all Wikipedians, not just members of the Military history project, although only work on articles that fall (broadly) within the scope of military history will be considered eligible. This year, the Military history project would like to extend a specific welcome to members of WikiProject Women in Red, and we would like to encourage all participants to consider working on helping to improve our coverage of women in the military. This is not the sole focus of the edit-a-thon, though, and there are aspects that hopefully will appeal to pretty much everyone.

The drive starts at 00:01 UTC on 1 April and runs until 23:59 UTC on 30 April 2018. Those interested in participating can sign up here.

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Wien Nordwestbahnhof | Maintenance template removal?
Dear Sadads! First of all, thank you for your great work. Is it possible to remove the Maintenance template? I hope everything is alright now. Joadl (talk) 11:19, 31 March 2018 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CXLIIV, April 2018
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Facto Post – Issue 11 – 9 April 2018
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The 100 Skins of the Onion
Open Citations Month, with its eminently guessable hashtag, is upon us. We should be utterly grateful that in the past 12 months, so much data on which papers cite which other papers has been made open, and that Wikidata is playing its part in hosting it as "cites" statements. At the time of writing, there are 15.3M Wikidata items that can do that.

Pulling back to look at open access papers in the large, though, there is is less reason for celebration. Access in theory does not yet equate to practical access. A recent LSE IMPACT blogpost puts that issue down to "heterogeneity". A useful euphemism to save us from thinking that the whole concept doesn't fall into the realm of the oxymoron.

Some home truths: aggregation is not content management, if it falls short on reusability. The PDF file format is wedded to how humans read documents, not how machines ingest them. The salami-slicer is our friend in the current downloading of open access papers, but for a better metaphor, think about skinning an onion, laboriously, 100 times with diminishing returns. There are of the order of 100 major publisher sites hosting open access papers, and the predominant offer there is still a PDF. From the discoverability angle, Wikidata's bibliographic resources combined with the SPARQL query are superior in principle, by far, to existing keyword searches run over papers. Open access content should be managed into consistent HTML, something that is currently strenuous. The good news, such as it is, would be that much of it is already in XML. The organisational problem of removing further skins from the onion, with sensible prioritisation, is certainly not insuperable. The CORE group (the bloggers in the LSE posting) has some answers, but actually not all that is needed for the text and data mining purposes they highlight. The long tail, or in other words the onion heart when it has become fiddly beyond patience to skin, does call for a pis aller. But the real knack is to do more between the XML and the heart.

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Books & Bytes - Issue 27
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I have unreviewed a page you curated
Hi, I'm John from Idegon. I wanted to let you know that I saw the page you reviewed, Children in emergencies and conflicts, and have un-reviewed it again. If you have any questions, please ask them on my talk page. Thank you.

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The Bugle: Issue CXLIV, May 2018
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Seven years of adminship
Wishing Sadads a very happy adminship anniversary on behalf of the Wikipedia Birthday Committee! Chris Troutman ( talk ) 01:31, 21 May 2018 (UTC)

Thank you very much
The RfC discussion to eliminate portals was closed May 12, with the statement "There exists a strong consensus against deleting or even deprecating portals at this time." This was made possible because you and others came to the rescue. Thank you for speaking up.

By the way, the current issue of the Signpost features an article with interviews about the RfC and the Portals WikiProject.

I'd also like to let you know that the Portals WikiProject is working hard to make sure your support of portals was not in vain. Toward that end, we have been working diligently to innovate portals, while building, updating, upgrading, and maintaining them. The project has grown to 80 members so far, and has become a beehive of activity.

Our two main goals at this time are to automate portals (in terms of refreshing, rotating, and selecting content), and to develop a one-page model in order to make obsolete and eliminate most of the 150,000 subpages from the portal namespace by migrating their functions to the portal base pages, using technologies such as selective transclusion. Please feel free to join in on any of the many threads of development at the WikiProject's talk page, or just stop by to see how we are doing. If you have any questions about portals or portal development, that is the best place to ask them.

If you would like to keep abreast of developments on portals, keep in mind that the project's members receive updates on their talk pages. The updates are also posted here, for your convenience.

Again, we can't thank you enough for your support of portals, and we hope to make you proud of your decision. Sincerely,  &mdash; The Transhumanist   09:15, 25 May 2018 (UTC)

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Facto Post – Issue 12 – 28 May 2018
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ScienceSource funded
The Wikimedia Foundation announced full funding of the ScienceSource grant proposal from ContentMine on May 18. See the ScienceSource Twitter announcement and 60 second video.

The proposal includes downloading 30,000 open access papers, aiming (roughly speaking) to create a baseline for medical referencing on Wikipedia. It leaves open the question of how these are to be chosen.
 * A medical canon?

The basic criteria of WP:MEDRS include a concentration on secondary literature. Attention has to be given to the long tail of diseases that receive less current research. The MEDRS guideline supposes that edge cases will have to be handled, and the premature exclusion of publications that would be in those marginal positions would reduce the value of the collection. Prophylaxis misses the point that gate-keeping will be done by an algorithm.

Two well-known but rather different areas where such considerations apply are tropical diseases and alternative medicine. There are also a number of potential downloading troubles, and these were mentioned in Issue 11. There is likely to be a gap, even with the guideline, between conditions taken to be necessary but not sufficient, and conditions sufficient but not necessary, for candidate papers to be included. With around 10,000 recognised medical conditions in standard lists, being comprehensive is demanding. With all of these aspects of the task, ScienceSource will seek community help.

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The Bugle: Issue CXLVI, June 2018
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Books & Bytes – Issue 28
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Invitation to attend a meetup in Balboa Park
You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia:Meetup/San Diego/July 2018. RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 00:12, 21 June 2018 (UTC)

A kitten for you!
Thanks for all your help at bootcamp. I have tons of questions... but one outlier is how does an article move from stub to start and up the line? If I see something has evolved past one threshold is there a way to poke someone to evaluate it again? or does this all happen automatically? e.g.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kynaston_McShine I want to learn more about these ratings and how to make a better article... so far I have only two c graded articles as my best work. :/ thanks so much!

Heathart (talk) 22:01, 22 June 2018 (UTC) <br style="clear: both;"/>
 * Glad you learned alot! There are so many things! As for reevaluation -- its all largely a judgement call thing, and for many pages, they haven't been looked at in years (the assessment data is not well maintained for most WikiProejcts). I usually just reevaluate articles when I find ones clearly well out of class, using a combination of the Rater Gadget and the Metadata gadget -- between the two of them, you can view an articles class and assess it directly from the article page. The only classes which you can't "just add" are FA and GA (and the rare A class supported by Wikiprojects).
 * As for improving the quality, its mostly a matter of trying to include content similar in depth or quality as a higher class article (think something like any of the Good articles on a similar topic. I am noticing that a lot of your articles on your listed on your User page, are missing structural things like well expanded WP:Lead sections, breaking those articles out into appropriately deep sections (and making sure to extract enough depth from each source), and improving the flow between paragraphs and sections. Alot of this kind of stuff is part structural, and part having distance from your own writing. I would recommend trying to get an article through the Good Article process (see WP:GAN). Its a good way to get peer review from someone who has an eye for the kinds of stuff that other Wikimedians are looking for. Not all reviews are thorough as others, and there is usually a bit of a backlog (so can take a while to get started), but its a good process for getting someone with domain interest in your topic, to pay attention to the article. 22:32, 25 June 2018 (UTC)

Facto Post – Issue 13 – 29 May 2018
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Administrators' newsletter – July 2018
News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2018). Administrator changes
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 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg Gogo Dodo
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Andrevan • Doug • EVula • KaisaL • Tony Fox • WilyD

Bureaucrat changes
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Guideline and policy news
 * An RfC about the deletion of drafts closed with a consensus to change the wording of WP:NMFD. Specifically, a draft that has been repeatedly resubmitted and declined at AfC without any substantial improvement may be deleted at MfD if consensus determines that it is unlikely to ever meet the requirements for mainspace and it otherwise meets one of the reasons for deletion outlined in the deletion policy.
 * A request for comment closed with a consensus that the promising draft template cannot be used to indefinitely prevent a WP:G13 speedy deletion nomination.

Technical news
 * Starting on July 9, the WMF Security team, Trust & Safety, and the broader technical community will be seeking input on an upcoming change that will restrict editing of site-wide JavaScript and CSS to a new technical administrators user group. Bureaucrats and stewards will be able to grant this right per a community-defined process. The intention is to reduce the number of accounts who can edit frontend code to those who actually need to, which in turn lessens the risk of malicious code being added that compromises the security and privacy of everyone who accesses Wikipedia. For more information, please review the FAQ.
 * Syntax highlighting has been graduated from a Beta feature on the English Wikipedia. To enable this feature, click the highlighter icon (Codemirror-icon.png) in your editing toolbar (or under the hamburger menu in the 2017 wikitext editor). This feature can help prevent you from making mistakes when editing complex templates.
 * IP-based cookie blocks should be deployed to English Wikipedia in July (previously scheduled for June). This will cause the block of a logged-out user to be reloaded if they change IPs. This means in most cases, you may no longer need to do /64 range blocks on residential IPv6 addresses in order to effectively block the end user. It will also help combat abuse from IP hoppers in general. For the time being, it only affects users of the desktop interface.

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 * Currently around 20% of admins have enabled two-factor authentication, up from 17% a year ago. If you haven't already enabled it, please consider doing so. Regardless if you use 2FA, please practice appropriate account security by ensuring your password is secure and unique to Wikimedia.

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The Bugle: Issue CXLVII, July 2018
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Facto Post – Issue 14 – 21 July 2018
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Administrators' newsletter – August 2018
News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2018). Administrator changes
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 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg KaisaL • Ymblanter

Guideline and policy news
 * After a discussion at Meta, a new user group called "interface administrators" (formerly "technical administrator") has been created. Come the end of August, interface admins will be the only users able to edit site-wide JavaScript and CSS pages like MediaWiki:Common.js and MediaWiki:Common.css, or edit other user's personal JavaScript and CSS. The intention is to improve security and privacy by reducing the number of accounts which could be used to compromise the site or another user's account through malicious code. The new user group can be assigned and revoked by bureaucrats. Discussion is ongoing to establish details for implementing the group on the English Wikipedia.
 * Following a request for comment, the WP:SISTER style guideline now states that in the mainspace, interwiki links to Wikinews should only be made as per the external links guideline. This generally means that within the body of an article, you should not link to Wikinews about a particular event that is only a part of the larger topic. Wikinews links in "external links" sections can be used where helpful, but not automatically if an equivalent article from a reliable news outlet could be linked in the same manner.

Technical news
 * The WMF Anti-Harassment Tools team is seeking input on the second set of wireframes for the Special:Block redesign that will introduce partial blocks. The new functionality will allow you to block a user from editing a specific set of pages, pages in a category, a namespace, and for specific actions such as moving pages and uploading files.

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Your recent review
I've moved Draft:Boris Rotman back to draft-space, as it is not ready. The entire "Education" section is unsourced, and half the academic stuff is sourced to the subject's own works. Plus I really doubt that this meets WP:NPROF. When people unilaterally move their own articles to mainspace without going through AFC they really deserve extra scrutiny (especially BLPs), and shouldn't be marked as good to go 9 minutes after their creation. Brad v  02:03, 10 August 2018 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CXLVIII, August 2018
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Facto Post – Issue 15 – 21 August 2018
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Books & Bytes – Issue 29
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Issue 29, June – July 2018 <div style = "margin-top: 1.5em; border: 3px solid #ae8c55; border-radius: .5em; padding: 1em 1.5em; font-size: .9em"> Hindi, Italian and French versions of Books & Bytes are now available in meta!
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 * Bytes in brief

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WikiProject X Newsletter • Issue 12
Newsletter • August 2018

This month: WikiProject X: The resumption

Work has resumed on WikiProject X and CollaborationKit, backed by a successfully funded Project Grant. For more information on the current status and planned work, please see this month's issue of the newsletter!

-— Isarra ༆ 22:24, 30 August 2018 (UTC)

Wikiproject Military history coordinator election nominations open
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Administrators' newsletter – September 2018
News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2018). Administrator changes
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 * Pictogram voting rename.png →

Interface administrator changes
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Guideline and policy news
 * Following a "stop-gap" discussion, six users have temporarily been made interface administrators while discussion is ongoing for a more permanent process for assigning the permission. Interface administrators are now the only editors allowed to edit sitewide CSS and JavaScript pages, as well as CSS/JS pages in another user's userspace. Previously, all administrators had this ability. The right can be granted and revoked by bureaucrats.

Technical news
 * Because of a data centre test you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for up to an hour on 12 September and 10 October. This will start at 14:00 (UTC). You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. The time when you can't edit might be shorter than an hour.
 * Some abuse filter variables have changed. They are now easier to understand for non-experts. The old variables will still work but filter editors are encouraged to replace them with the new ones. You can find the list of changed variables on mediawiki.org. They have a note which says . An example is   which is now.
 * Abuse filters can now use how old a page is. The variable is.

Arbitration
 * The Arbitration Committee has resolved to perform a round of Checkuser and Oversight appointments. The usernames of all applicants will be shared with the Functionaries team, and they will be requested to assist in the vetting process. The deadline to submit an application is 23:59 UTC, 12 September, and the candidates that move forward will be published on-wiki for community comments on 18 September.

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The Bugle: Issue CXLIX, September 2018
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Milhist coordinator election voting has commenced
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Milhist coordinator election voting has commenced
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Facto Post – Issue 16 – 30 September 2018
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Administrators' newsletter – October 2018
News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2018). Administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg Justlettersandnumbers • L235
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Bgwhite • HorsePunchKid • J Greb • KillerChihuahua • Rami R • Winhunter

Interface administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg Cyberpower678 • Deryck Chan • Oshwah • Pharos • Ragesoss • Ritchie333

Oversight changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Guerillero • NativeForeigner •  Snowolf • Xeno

Guideline and policy news
 * Following a request for comment, the process for appointing interface administrators has been established. Currently only existing admins can request these rights, while a new RfC has begun on whether it should be available to non-admins.
 * There is an open request for comment on Meta regarding the creation a new user group for global edit filter management.

Technical news
 * Partial blocks should be available for testing in October on the Test Wikipedia and the Beta-Cluster. This new feature allows admins to block users from editing specific pages and in the near-future, namespaces and uploading files. You can expect more updates and an invitation to help with testing once it is available.
 * The Foundations' Anti-Harassment Tools team is currently looking for input on how to measure the effectiveness of blocks. This is in particular related to how they will measure the success of the aforementioned partial blocks.
 * Because of a data centre test, you will be able to read but not edit the Wikimedia projects for up to an hour on 10 October. This will start at 14:00 (UTC). You might lose edits if you try to save during this time.

Arbitration
 * The Arbitration Committee has, by motion, amended the procedure on functionary inactivity.
 * The community consultation for 2018 CheckUser and Oversight appointments has concluded. Appointments will be made by October 11.
 * Following a request for comment, the size of the Arbitration Committee will be decreased to 13 arbitrators, starting in 2019. Additionally, the minimum support percentage required to be appointed to a two-year term on ArbCom has been increased to 60%. ArbCom candidates who receive between 50% and 60% support will be appointed to one-year terms instead.
 * Nominations for the 2018 Arbitration Committee Electoral Commission are being accepted until 12 October. These are the editors who help run the ArbCom election smoothly. If you are interested in volunteering for this role, please consider nominating yourself.

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Category:Books with missing isbn
Re Category:Books with missing isbn the template has been re-targeted so nothing points to that category anymore. The only reason there are still pages there is because of caching. -- Zack mann  (Talk to me/What I been doing) 20:44, 5 October 2018 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CL, October 2018
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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Space divisions of the United States Air Force


A tag has been placed on Category:Space divisions of the United States Air Force requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the category has been empty for seven days or more 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 you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. AusLondonder (talk) 21:18, 7 October 2018 (UTC)

Books & Bytes, Issue 30
<div style = "color: #936c29; font-size: 4em; font-family: Copperplate, 'Copperplate Gothic Light', serif"> The Wikipedia Library <span style="font-size: 2em; font-family: Copperplate, 'Copperplate Gothic Light', serif">Books & Bytes

Issue 30, August – Septmeber 2018 <div style = "margin-top: 1.5em; border: 3px solid #ae8c55; border-radius: .5em; padding: 1em 1.5em; font-size: .9em"> French version of Books & Bytes is now available in meta!
 * Library Card translation
 * Spotlight: 1Lib1Ref spreads to the Southern Hemisphere and beyond
 * Wikimedia and Libraries User Group update
 * Global branches update
 * Bytes in brief

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Boo!
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Happy Halloween!

Hello Sadads: Thanks for all of your contributions to improve Wikipedia, and have a happy and enjoyable Halloween!   –  — <span class="monospaced" style="font-family: monospace, monospace;">usernamekiran (talk)   07:05, 29 October 2018 (UTC) Send Halloween cheer by adding {{subst:Happy Halloween}} to user talk pages with a friendly message.


 * Thanks! I really appreciate the unexpected and lovely bit of moral building! Keep up the great work of supporting the community! Cheers, Sadads (talk) 09:16, 31 October 2018 (UTC)

Facto Post – Issue 17 – 29 October 2018
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Administrators' newsletter – November 2018
News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2018).

Administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg Sir Sputnik
 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg Kudpung • Liz • Lourdes
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Everyking • Jackmcbarn

Interface administrator changes
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CheckUser changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg AGK • Ivanvector • Stwalkerster • TonyBallioni

Oversight changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg Amorymeltzer • Oshwah • TonyBallioni • Vanamonde93
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Keilana

Guideline and policy news
 * A request for comment determined that non-administrators will not be able to request interface admin access.
 * A request for comment is in progress to determine whether the Mediation Committee should be closed and marked as historical.
 * A village pump discussion has been ongoing about whether the proposed deletion policy (PROD) should be clarified or amended.
 * A request for comment is in progress to determine whether pending changes protection should be applied automatically to today's featured article (TFA) in order to mitigate a recent trend of severe image vandalism.

Technical news
 * Partial blocks is now available for testing on the Test Wikipedia. The new functionality allows you to block users from editing specific pages. Bugs may exist and can be reported on the local talk page or on Meta. A discussion regarding deployment to English Wikipedia will be started by community liaisons sometime in the near future.
 * A user script is now available to quickly review unblock requests.
 * The 2019 Community Wishlist Survey is now accepting new proposals until November 11, 2018. The results of this survey will determine what software the Wikimedia Foundation's Community Tech team will work on next year. Voting on the proposals will take place from November 16 to November 30, 2018. Specifically, there is a proposal category for admins and stewards that may be of interest.

Arbitration
 * Eligible editors will be invited to nominate themselves as candidates in the 2018 Arbitration Committee Elections starting on November 4 until November 13. Voting will begin on November 19 and last until December 2.
 * The Arbitration Committee's email address has changed to arbcom-en@wikimedia.org. Other email lists, such as functionaries-en and clerks-l, remain unchanged.

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The Bugle: Issue CLI, November 2018
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Facto Post – Issue 18 – 30 November 2018
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Nominations now open for "Military historian of the year" and "Military history newcomer of the year" awards
Nominations for our annual Military historian of the year and Military history newcomer of the year awards are open until 23:59 (GMT) on 15 December 2018. Why don't you nominate the editors who you believe have made a real difference to the project in 2018? MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 02:26, 3 December 2018 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – December 2018
News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2018). Administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg Al Ameer son • Randykitty • Spartaz
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Boson • Daniel J. Leivick • Efe • Esanchez7587 • Fred Bauder • Garzo • Martijn Hoekstra • Orangemike

Interface administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svgk Chan

Guideline and policy news
 * Following a request for comment, the Mediation Committee is now closed and will no longer be accepting case requests.
 * A request for comment is in progress to determine whether members of the Bot Approvals Group should satisfy activity requirements in order to remain in that role.
 * A request for comment is in progress regarding whether to change the administrator inactivity policy, such that administrators "who have made no logged administrative actions for at least 12 months may be desysopped". Currently, the policy states that administrators "who have made neither edits nor administrative actions for at least 12 months may be desysopped".
 * A proposal has been made to temporarily restrict editing of the Main Page to interface administrators in order to mitigate the impact of compromised accounts.

Technical news
 * Administrators and bureaucrats can no longer unblock themselves unless they placed the block initially. This change has been implemented globally. See also this ongoing village pump discussion (permalink).
 * To complement the aforementioned change, blocked administrators will soon have the ability to block the administrator that placed their block to mitigate the possibility of a compromised administrator account blocking all other active administrators.
 * Since deployment of Partial blocks on Test Wikipedia, several bugs were identified. Most of them are now fixed. Administrators are encouraged to test the new deployment and report new bugs on Phabricator or leave feedback on the Project's talk page. You can request administrator access on the Test Wiki here.

Arbitration
 * Voting in the 2018 Arbitration Committee Elections is open to eligible editors until Monday 23:59, 3 December 2018. Please review the candidates and, if you wish to do so, submit your choices on the voting page.

Miscellaneous
 * In late November, an attacker compromised multiple accounts, including at least four administrator accounts, and used them to vandalize Wikipedia. If you have ever used your current password on any other website, you should change it immediately. Sharing the same password across multiple websites makes your account vulnerable, especially if your password was used on a website that suffered a data breach. As these incidents have shown, these concerns are not pure fantasies.
 * Wikipedia policy requires administrators to have strong passwords. To further reinforce security, administrators should also consider enabling two-factor authentication. A committed identity can be used to verify that you are the true account owner in the event that your account is compromised and/or you are unable to log in.

Obituaries
 * (Raymond Arritt) passed away on 14 November 2018. Boris joined Wikipedia as on 8 May 2006 and was an administrator from 30 July 2007 to 2 June 2008.

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The Bugle: Issue CLII, December 2018
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Voting now open for "Military historian of the year" and "Military history newcomer of the year" awards
Voting for our annual Military historian of the year and Military history newcomer of the year awards is open until 23:59 (GMT) on 30 December 2018. Why don't you vote for the editors who you believe have made a real difference to Wikipedia's coverage of military history in 2018? MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 02:17, 16 December 2018 (UTC)

WikiProject X Newsletter • Issue 13
Newsletter • December 2018

This month: A general update.

The current status of the project is as follows:
 * Progress of the project has been generally delayed since September due to development issues (more bitrot than expected, some of the code just being genuinely confusing, etc) and personal injury (I suffered a concussion in October and was out of commission for almost two months as a result).
 * I currently expect to be putting out a proper call for CollaborationKit pilots in January/February, with estimated deployment in February/March if things don't go horribly wrong (they will, though, don't worry). As a part of that, I will properly update the page and send out announcement and reach out to all projects already signed up as pilots for WikiProject X in general, at which point those (still) interested can volunteer specifically to test the CollaborationKit extension.
 * WikiProject X/Pilots was originally created for the first WikiProject X prototype, and given this is where the project has since gone, it's only logical to continue to use it. While I haven't yet updated the page to properly reflect this:
 * If you want to add your project to this page now, feel free. Just bear in mind that more information what to actually expect will be added later/included in the announcement, because by then I will have a much better idea myself.
 * Until then, you can find me in my corner working on making the CollaborationKit code do what we want and not just what we told it, per the workboard.

Until next time,

-— Isarra ༆ 22:44, 20 December 2018 (UTC)

Books & Bytes, Issue 31
<div style = "color: #936c29; font-size: 4em; font-family: Copperplate, 'Copperplate Gothic Light', serif"> The Wikipedia Library <span style="font-size: 2em; font-family: Copperplate, 'Copperplate Gothic Light', serif">Books & Bytes

Issue 31, October – Novemeber 2018 <div style = "margin-top: 1.5em; border: 3px solid #ae8c55; border-radius: .5em; padding: 1em 1.5em; font-size: .9em"> French version of Books & Bytes is now available on meta!
 * OAWiki
 * Wikimedia and Libraries User Group update
 * Global branches update
 * Bytes in brief

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Facto Post – Issue 19 – 27 December 2018
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Administrators' newsletter – January 2019
News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2018).

Administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg Galobtter
 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg Orangemike
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg BorgQueen •  Davidruben • Ocee • Revolving Bugbear • Theda • There'sNoTime • Timc • Tijuana Brass • Tristessa de St Ange

Bureaucrat changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Addshore



CheckUser changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg Joe Roe • SilkTork
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Euryalus • Newyorkbrad • There'sNoTime

Oversight changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg AGK • Joe Roe • SilkTork
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Euryalus • Newyorkbrad • There'sNoTime

Guideline and policy news
 * There are a number of new or changed speedy deletion criteria, each previously part of WP:CSD:
 * G14 (new): Disambiguation pages that disambiguate only zero or one existing pages are now covered under the new G14 criterion (discussion). This is db-disambig; the text is unchanged and candidates may be found in Category:Candidates for speedy deletion as unnecessary disambiguation pages.
 * R4 (new): Redirects in the file namespace (and no file links) that have the same name as a file or redirect at Commons are now covered under the new R4 criterion (discussion).  This is db-redircom; the text is unchanged.
 * G13 (expanded): Userspace drafts containing only the default Article Wizard text are now covered under G13 along with other drafts (discussion). Such blank drafts are now eligible after six months rather than one year, and taggers continue to use db-blankdraft.
 * The Wikimedia Foundation now requires all interface administrators to enable two-factor authentication.
 * Members of the Bot Approvals Group (BAG) are now subject to an activity requirement. After two years without any bot-related activity (e.g. operating a bot, posting on a bot-related talk page), BAG members will be retired from BAG following a one-week notice.

Technical news
 * Starting on December 13, the Wikimedia Foundation security team implemented new password policy and requirements. Privileged accounts (administrators, bureaucrats, checkusers, oversighters, interface administrators, bots, edit filter managers/helpers, template editors, et al.) must have a password at least 10 characters in length . All accounts must have a password:
 * At least 8 characters in length
 * Not in the 100,000 most popular passwords (defined by the [//github.com/wikimedia/password-blacklist Password Blacklist library])
 * Different from their username
 * User accounts not meeting these requirements will be prompted to update their password accordingly. More information is available on MediaWiki.org.
 * Blocked administrators may now block the administrator that blocked them. This was done to mitigate the possibility that a compromised administrator account would block all other active administrators, complementing the removal of the ability to unblock oneself outside of self-imposed blocks. A request for comment is currently in progress to determine whether the blocking policy should be updated regarding this change.
 * Copyvio-revdel now has a link to open the history with the RevDel checkboxes already filled in.

Arbitration
 * Following the 2018 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been appointed to the Arbitration Committee:, , , , ,.

Miscellaneous
 * Accounts continue to be compromised on a regular basis. Evidence shows this is entirely due to the accounts having the same password that was used on another website that suffered a data breach. If you have ever used your current password on any other website, you should change it immediately.
 * Around 22% of admins have enabled two-factor authentication, up from 20% in June 2018. If you haven't already enabled it, please consider doing so. Regardless of whether you use 2FA, please practice appropriate account security by ensuring your password is secure and unique to Wikimedia.

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The Bugle: Issue CLIII, January 2019
The Bugle is published by the Military history WikiProject. To receive it on your talk page, please join the project or sign up here. If you are a project member who does not want delivery, please remove your name from this page. Your editors, Ian Rose (talk) and Nick-D (talk) 23:58, 6 January 2019 (UTC)

Jabari Asim
I'm sorry but I'm going to have to disagree with you that the majority of the external links are appropriate for Wikipedia. It's basically the highlights of a Google search for Jabari Asim vomited up onto the bottom of our article. What we've got is poor. There are passing mentions of Asim, trivial examples of Asim's work being discussed, his own reviews (how many links to reviews do we carry for other reviewers) and a selection of audio/video links primarily from more than a decade ago where Asim discusses the N word, none of which appear to me to add any real depth to the content or aid understanding of the encyclopedia article on Asim. Just look at what you've reverted back to - the second EL Ms. Rodgers confidently read a story, Daddy Goes to Work, by Jabari Asim, to her son Elijah and his classmates. is the sum total of Asim being mentioned on the Education Week link, for example. If you think some of these links are more important than I have assessed them to be and you believe they should be kept, let me know which ones and I'll just remove the remainder. Cheers, Nick (talk) 18:28, 23 January 2019 (UTC)

Facto Post – Issue 20 – 31 January 2019
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Administrators' newsletter – February 2019
News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2019). Administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg Enterprisey • JJMC89
 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg BorgQueen
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Harro5 • Jenks24 • Graft • R. Baley

Interface administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svgprisey

Guideline and policy news
 * A request for comment is currently open to reevaluate the activity requirements for administrators.
 * Administrators who are blocked have the technical ability to block the administrator who blocked their own account. A recent request for comment has amended the blocking policy to clarify that this ability should only be used in exceptional circumstances, such as account compromises, where there is a clear and immediate need.
 * A request for comment closed with a consensus in favor of deprecating The Sun as a permissible reference, and creating an edit filter to warn users who attempt to cite it.

Technical news
 * A discussion regarding an overhaul of the format and appearance of Requests for page protection is in progress (permalink). The proposed changes will make it easier to create requests for those who are not using Twinkle. The workflow for administrators at this venue will largely be unchanged. Additionally, there are plans to archive requests similar to how it is done at WP:PERM, where historical records are kept so that prior requests can more easily be searched for.

Miscellaneous
 * Voting in the 2019 Steward elections will begin on 08 February 2019, 14:00 (UTC) and end on 28 February 2019, 13:59 (UTC). The confirmation process of current stewards is being held in parallel. You can automatically check your eligibility to vote.
 * A new IRC bot is available that allows you to subscribe to notifications when specific filters are tripped. This requires that your IRC handle be identified.

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The Bugle: Issue CLIV, February 2019
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Adaptations of novels
Hi Sadads, I don't know if you saw this? I'm looking for clarification of sourcing requirements for Adaptations in articles on novels and was interested in your comments. Harold the Sheep (talk) 03:38, 23 February 2019 (UTC)

Books & Bytes, Issue 32
<div style = "color: #936c29; font-size: 4em; font-family: Copperplate, 'Copperplate Gothic Light', serif"> The Wikipedia Library <span style="font-size: 2em; font-family: Copperplate, 'Copperplate Gothic Light', serif">Books & Bytes

Issue 32, January – February 2019 <div style = "margin-top: 1.5em; border: 3px solid #ae8c55; border-radius: .5em; padding: 1em 1.5em; font-size: .9em"> French version of Books & Bytes is now available on meta!
 * # 1Lib1Ref
 * New and expanded partners
 * Wikimedia and Libraries User Group update
 * Global branches update
 * Bytes in brief

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Move discussion notice - Wikipedia talk:Adding open license text to Wikipedia
Hey there! I'm Psantora. There is a move discussion at Wikipedia talk:Adding open license text to Wikipedia requiring more participation, please consider commenting/voting in it along with the other discussions in the backlog (Requested moves). - Paul T [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Psantora&action=edit +]/C 16:22, 26 February 2019 (UTC)

Facto Post – Issue 21 – 28 February 2019
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Il corbaccio destubbed
Hi, I'm not sure about the assessment criteria for stubs but suspect that your warning on Corbaccio can be removed. Am I correct? Scarabocchio (talk) 08:44, 1 March 2019 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – March 2019
News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2019).

Administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg Evad37
 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg There'sNoTime
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Alex Shih • Brian • Mushroom • Nakon • Oscarthecat • PeruvianLlama • Ragib • Reaper Eternal • Rossami • Tom

Interface administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg Evad37 • Galobtter
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Ritchie333



CheckUser changes
 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg There'sNoTime
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Keegan • Ks0stm

Oversight changes
 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg There'sNoTime
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Ks0stm • Sphilbrick

Guideline and policy news
 * The RfC on administrator activity requirements failed to reach consensus for any proposal.
 * Following discussions at the Bureaucrats' noticeboard and Wikipedia talk:Administrators, an earlier change to the restoration of adminship policy was reverted. If requested, bureaucrats will not restore administrator permissions removed due to inactivity if there have been five years without a logged administrator action; this "five year rule" does not apply to permissions removed voluntarily.

Technical news
 * A new tool is available to help determine if a given IP is an open proxy/VPN/webhost/compromised host.

Arbitration
 * The Arbitration Committee announced two new OTRS queues. Both are meant solely for cases involving private information; other cases will continue to be handled at the appropriate venues (e.g., WP:COIN or WP:SPI).
 * <tt></tt> has been set up to receive private evidence related to abusive paid editing.
 * <tt></tt> has been set up to receive private requests for CheckUser. For instance, requests for IP block exemption for anonymous proxy editing should now be sent to this address instead of the functionaries-en list.

Miscellaneous
 * Following the 2019 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: Base, Einsbor, Jon Kolbert, Schniggendiller, and Wim b.

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The Bugle: Issue CLV, March 2019
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Facto Post – Issue 22 – 28 March 2019
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Administrators' newsletter – April 2019
News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2019).

Administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg Reaper Eternal • ThaddeusB
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Bogdangiusca • Christopher Parham • Necrothesp • Schneelocke • Siroxo • Sarah
 * Pictogram voting rename.png →

Interface administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Mr. Stradivarius

Bureaucrat changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg DeltaQuad
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Kingturtle

Technical news
 * In Special:Preferences under "Appearance" → "Advanced options", there is now an option to show a confirmation prompt when clicking on a rollback link.
 * The Wikimedia Foundation's Community health initiative plans to design and build a new user reporting system to make it easier for people experiencing harassment and other forms of abuse to provide accurate information to the appropriate channel for action to be taken. Please see meta:Community health initiative/User reporting system consultation 2019 to provide your input on this idea.

Arbitration
 * The Arbitration Committee clarified that the General 1RR prohibition for Palestine-Israel articles may only be enforced on pages with the ARBPIA 1RR editnotice edit notice.

Miscellaneous
 * Two more administrator accounts were compromised. Evidence has shown that these attacks, like previous incidents, were due to reusing a password that was used on another website that suffered a data breach. If you have ever used your current password on any other website, you should change it immediately. All admins are strongly encouraged to enable two-factor authentication, please consider doing so. Please always practice appropriate account security by ensuring your password is secure and unique to Wikimedia.
 * As a reminder, according to WP:NOQUORUM, administrators looking to close or relist an AfD should evaluate a nomination that has received few or no comments as if it were a proposed deletion (PROD) prior to determining whether it should be relisted.

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The Bugle: Issue CLVI, April 2019
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"...I have unreviewed a page you curated..."  Please translate
Thank you for your message. I am completely flummoxed because although most of the words you use are words I recognise, I think you may be using some of them with meanings that have only recently appeared on the scene.

I know what "review" means. I do not know what "unreview" means, though that does not prevent me from attempting a guess. What does one actually do in order to "unreview" something? And, since you kindly take time out to tell me about it, what should I wish to do about it?

I know what "curate" means. I had no idea I was "curating" the entry to which you refer. What did I do that makes you think I was "curating" it? Was "curating" it - in the sense in which you use the word - a useful thing to do? Or not? And what, if you had been told you had curated something, would you want to do about it. Is there a problem here? Or are you simply sharing information to be helpful?

Thank you in anticipation of enlightenment!

Regards Charles01 (talk) 16:49, 28 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Sorry about that -- I think that I accidently clicked something that triggered that message using the tools around Special:NewPagesFeed -- don't know what happened on that article. Hope you keep creating great content! Sadads (talk) 20:22, 28 April 2019 (UTC)

Facto Post – Issue 23 – 30 April 2019
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A barnstar for you!

 * Thanks so much! I wish I could write more,but time and all that-- but will make a point of trying to keep it up :) Sadads (talk) 18:26, 30 April 2019 (UTC)

ArbCom 2019 special circular
<div class="notice" style="background:#fff1d2; border:1px solid #886644; padding:0.5em; margin:0.5em auto; min-height:40px; line-height:130.7%; font-weight: 130.7%;"> <span style="color:#5871C6;cursor:pointer" class="mw-customtoggle-ArbCom_2019_special_circular"> <div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" id="mw-customcollapsible-ArbCom_2019_special_circular" style="display:none"> <div style="border-style: dotted; border-color: #886644; border-width: 0 3px 3px 3px; padding: 0 0.5em 0.5em 0.5em;">

This message was sent to all administrators following a recent motion. Thank you for your attention. For the Arbitration Committee, Cameron11598 02:30, 4 May 2019 (UTC)

Administrator account security (Correction to Arbcom 2019 special circular)
ArbCom would like to apologise and correct our previous mass message in light of the response from the community.

Since November 2018, six administrator accounts have been compromised and temporarily desysopped. In an effort to help improve account security, our intention was to remind administrators of existing policies on account security — that they are required to "have strong passwords and follow appropriate personal security practices." We have updated our procedures to ensure that we enforce these policies more strictly in the future. The policies themselves have not changed. In particular, two-factor authentication remains an optional means of adding extra security to your account. The choice not to enable 2FA will not be considered when deciding to restore sysop privileges to administrator accounts that were compromised.

We are sorry for the wording of our previous message, which did not accurately convey this, and deeply regret the tone in which it was delivered.

For the Arbitration Committee, -Cameron11598 21:04, 4 May 2019 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – May 2019
News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2019).

Administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg HickoryOughtShirt?4 • RexxS
 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg Necrothesp
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Bratsche • Kyle Barbour • Kzollman • Madman

Interface administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Pharos

Bureaucrat changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg Primefac

CheckUser changes
 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg Reaper Eternal

Guideline and policy news
 * A request for comment concluded that creating pages in the portal namespace should be restricted to autoconfirmed users.
 * Following a request for comment, the subject-specific notability guideline for pornographic actors and models (WP:PORNBIO) was removed; in its place, editors should consult WP:ENT and WP:GNG.

Technical news
 * XTools Admin Stats, a tool to list admins by administrative actions, has been revamped to support more types of log entries such as AbuseFilter changes. Two additional tools have been integrated into it as well: Steward Stats and Patroller Stats.

Arbitration
 * In response to the continuing compromise of administrator accounts, the Arbitration Committee passed a motion amending the procedures for return of permissions (diff). In such cases, the committee will review all available information to determine whether the administrator followed "appropriate personal security practices" before restoring permissions; administrators found failing to have adequately done so will not be resysopped automatically.  All current administrators have been notified of this change.
 * Following a formal ratification process, the arbitration policy has been amended (diff). Specifically, the two-thirds majority required to remove or suspend an arbitrator now excludes (1) the arbitrator facing suspension or removal, and (2) any inactive arbitrator who does not respond within 30 days to attempts to solicit their feedback on the resolution through all known methods of communication.

Miscellaneous
 * A request for comment is currently open to amend the community sanctions procedure to exclude non XfD or CSD deletions.
 * A proposal to remove pre-2009 indefinite IP blocks is currently open for discussion.

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DYK for Alfred Brownell
Hi Sadads, I enjoyed your article on Alfred Brownell, and have nominated it for DYK. The DYK nomination is here. Thanks, Philepitta (talk) 02:57, 6 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Thanks so much! I really appreciate the interest and confidence in the article! You took part in expanding the article as well as, now, sheppherding it along the DYK process: make sure you take some credit as well! Sadads (talk) 07:08, 6 May 2019 (UTC)

Aaron Wade - short description
Hi Sadads, Greetings. This is regarding your edit. Pls see Short description " all articles should have a short description template......The Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) initially arranged for short descriptions to be drawn from the Description field in Wikidata entries. Later, WMF made provision for these to be overwritten by short descriptions generated within Wikipedia." If further explanation needed, pls contact. Thank you. <b style="font-family:Georgia;font-size:80%;color:#FA0"> CASSIOPEIA</b>(<b style="#0000FF">talk</b>) 14:01, 9 May 2019 (UTC)
 * There is no consensus for them to be used in preference to Wikidata: see the mile long discussion, with no evidence to that case. The Wikidata description is better than the one on wiki... so no reason to overwrite. Sadads (talk) 14:22, 15 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Hi Sadads,Greetings. my understanding is that we could import the info from Wikidata if it is suitable or we could edit the short description as we see fit.<b style="font-family:Georgia;font-size:80%;color:#FA0"> CASSIOPEIA</b>(<b style="#0000FF">talk</b>) 14:28, 15 May 2019 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CLVII, May 2019
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Marthandavarma (novel)
Hi. I'm not saying that the wikidata description isn't more, well, descriptive. Unfortunately, the SD should be 40 characters or less. This has to do with mobile users, apparently. Regardless, if you still feel the need to delete the sd, that's up to you. I'm simply trying to help fill in the sd's as I go along. Take care. Onel 5969  <i style="color:blue">TT me</i> 14:35, 15 May 2019 (UTC)

Facto Post – Issue 24 – 17 May 2019
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Books & Bytes, Issue 33
<div style = "color: #936c29; font-size: 4em; font-family: Copperplate, 'Copperplate Gothic Light', serif"> The Wikipedia Library <span style="font-size: 2em; font-family: Copperplate, 'Copperplate Gothic Light', serif">Books & Bytes

Issue 33, March – April 2019 <div style = "margin-top: 1.5em; border: 3px solid #ae8c55; border-radius: .5em; padding: 1em 1.5em; font-size: .9em">
 * # 1Lib1Ref
 * Wikimedia and Libraries User Group update
 * Global branches update
 * Bytes in brief

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Please be more careful...
In 2016 you redirected AURYN to The Neverending Story with the edit summary "boldly redirecting, discusssed pretty well in plot section"

Woah! WTF!

This kind of redirection is a terrible disservice to readers.

I suspect it never occurred to you that AURYN is related to any other topic than the The Neverending Story. If so, frankly, your bold redirect showed a terrific failure of imagination, on your part. Today I was reading our article on Brandi Carlisle. That article said she had an AURYN tattoo. I clicked on the AURYN wikilink, expecting to be taken to an article about AURYN, that would explain the topic for me.

Imagine my shock when, instead, it plunged me into the middle of an article about a children's movie, from decades ago.

Wikilinks should do what readers expect. They should not lead readers on wild goose chases.

If a topic is significant enough for a redirect, it generally merits a standalone article. Geo Swan (talk) 20:56, 26 May 2019 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – June 2019
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Archive Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 09:49, 8 June 2019 (UTC)

Category:People associated with William Blake has been nominated for discussion
Category:People associated with William Blake, which you created, has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. -- wooden superman  14:54, 10 June 2019 (UTC)

DYK for Alfred Brownell
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The Bugle: Issue CLVIII, June 2019
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Thanks from Wastrel
Thanks for your feedback on my Darkover edits. I have collected some scholarly material and I'm still working on it. Progress is slow, and right now I have other things going on, but I still keep the pages open and make a small revision or addition daily. My sandbox is a mess. Wastrel Way (talk) 19:54, 29 June 2019 (UTC) Eric

Administrators' newsletter – July 2019
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Archive Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 21:20, 1 July 2019 (UTC)

I have unreviewed a page you curated
Thanks for reviewing Pride De Goa, Sadads.

Winged Blades of Godric has gone over this page again and marked it as unpatrolled. Their note is:

"Un-reviewing. This is far from an encyclopedic article and is rather a collection of trivia. Also, I suspect that the event is non-notable and might need to be merged to LGBT_culture_in_India per WP:NOPAGE."

Please contact Winged Blades of Godric for any further query. Thanks.

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Hello thanks alot sir, I'm very greatful towards you. You really appreciate the efforts of newly Wikipedia editor who are learning and contributing to Wikipedia. Thanks very much to look into my article creation and giving your valuable time in reviewing. MDPMHG (talk) 01:11, 6 July 2019 (UTC)

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The Bugle: Issue CLIX, July 2019
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I have unreviewed a page you curated
Thanks for reviewing Belinda Brady, Sadads.

Kudpung has gone over this page again and marked it as unpatrolled. Their note is:

"59% COPYVIO. You missed the numerous copyright violations . The author should be encouraged to write the article in their own words."

Please contact Kudpung for any further query. Thanks.

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I have unreviewed a page you curated
Hi, I'm Bensci54. I wanted to let you know that I saw the page you reviewed, Abraham Mutholath, and have marked it as unpatrolled. If you have any questions, please ask them on my talk page. Thank you.

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Administrators' newsletter – August 2019
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 * Following a research project on masking IP addresses, the Foundation is starting a new project to improve the privacy of IP editors. The result of this project may significantly change administrative and counter-vandalism workflows. The project is in the very early stages of discussions and there is no concrete plan yet. Admins and the broader community are encouraged to leave feedback on the talk page.
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Archive Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 19:24, 3 August 2019 (UTC)

Thank You For Feedback
Really appreciate the reviews you did for my pages. Was looking through your user page and am very impressed by the range of pages you have created and contributed to, especially the Good Articles. My main ambition is to get the pages for novels I love to be Good Articles. I'd be curious to know what sort of requirements are looked for to get a page to Good Article status. ANDROMITUS (talk) 15:29, 8 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Hi -- see the guidance Manual of Style/Novels -- that is the main guidance I point folks to for writing novels articles. I am happy to give more targeted feedback on articles, if you have specific ones that you want to work on. Sadads (talk) 17:37, 8 August 2019 (UTC)

The Plumed Serpent
Hello, Sadads. On 17 April, 2017, you rated the article The Plumed Serpent as start-class. The article has been improved since then, so would you be willing to revise the rating? I would prefer not to rate my own work. Freeknowledgecreator (talk) 09:03, 14 August 2019 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CLX, August 2019
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The Bugle: Issue CLX, August 2019
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