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Category:Living people removals
Please read the first paragraph on the Category:Year of birth missing (living people) page - "It must appear in all such articles alongside Category:Living people, although it is not a subcategory of Category:Living people and cannot be used instead of that category or serve as a combination of both categories." --Bamyers99 (talk) 18:02, 1 September 2019 (UTC)
 * That was news to me. Thank you for bringing it to my attention.  Schwede 66  22:03, 1 September 2019 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – September 2019
News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2019). Administrator changes
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New Page Review newsletter September-October 2019
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Instead of reaching a magic 300 as it once did last year, the backlog approaching 6,000 is still far too high. An effort is also needed to ensure that older unsuitable older pages at the back of the queue do not get automatically indexed for Google.
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Why I Hate Speedy Deleters, a 2008 essay by long since retired, is still as valid today. Those of us who patrol large numbers of new pages can be forgiven for  making  the occasional  mistake while  others can learn from  their 'beginner' errors. Worth reading.
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Thanks for keeping an eye on my talk page for me! -- Dolotta (talk) 20:59, 16 September 2019 (UTC)

What qualifies as a castle?
How are there ten castles in New Zealand? this source only mentions two and Category:Castles of New Zealand only has two articles. The subcategory of historic homes may be misleading because historic homes are often cottages, not castles. There is a search result on google that says "Top 10 Best New Zealand Castles", but if you go to the website and click on, for example, castles in Kerikeri, the first entry is a mission station and the second entry is an Anglican church. Do you have a reference to verify that there are ten castles in New Zealand? I don't think old cottages, hotels or even large church buildings are technically castles. Thanks.--210.48.190.54 (talk) 01:59, 19 September 2019 (UTC)


 * I think that rather than Category:Castles of New Zealand you meant Category:Castles in New Zealand? --David Biddulph (talk) 02:07, 19 September 2019 (UTC)

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

Administrator changes
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Your comment on en dashes
Hi Schwede66, You recently edited a page with the comment "fixed dashes using a script User:HenryCrun15 you've done enough editing to know when to use endashes, haven't you?"

Thanks for the feedback, and I will endeavour to follow Wikipedia's style guide as closely as I can. Just a heads up, though, that this probably wasn't the politest way to phrase this. Perhaps, if you encounter a similar issue with an editor in the future, you could write something more like "Hi, [name], I notice you use hyphens for date ranges. Wikipedia's style guide [link] requires en dashes in date ranges. Thanks, [your name]."

Thanks for all your contributions in making Wikipedia the best resource it can be. HenryCrun15 (talk) 21:41, 3 October 2019 (UTC)
 * Feedback noted. Thanks; you are (of course) right. My apologies.  Schwede 66  21:57, 3 October 2019 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Lutz Ulbrich
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 * Oops, my bad. Should have read the revision history... Hughesdarren (talk) 10:25, 7 October 2019 (UTC)

I went ahead and graded an article from "start" to "C"... should I have?
I went ahead WP:BOLDLY and updated Anthony Whitaker from "start" to "C" because it was last assessed five years ago, and it's much better now. I figured down on the bottom rungs of the article quality scale, it's probably not going to be noticed (partly since NZ articles are unfortunately often overlooked in the grand scheme of things). I certainly wouldn't presume to randomly self-rate an article much above C, but I also figure that I've been on WP for long enough now (2004) that I've got enough experience to know roughly where an article is at, following WP:DEV etc. yet I'm a bit stumped as it is hard to tell how to proceed, reading WP:PRG. This is the first time I've presumed to re-rate an article that clearly isn't "start"; do you think it is at "C" or even "B" level? I'd be interested what you think (or if I've been a terrible human being who should rethink his life choices). Cheers! — Jon (talk) 08:12, 19 October 2019 (UTC)
 * Kia ora Jon, thanks for amending the rating. At the same time, you could have rated the WikiProject Biography banner, too. Wikiprojects generally rate the same. How to go about rating WPNZ articles is best described at WikiProject New Zealand/Assessment. If you'd like to improve this particular article so that it meets B class, here are some pointers (and this list may be incomplete):
 * the lead is too short
 * the lead mentions facts that are not contained in the body of the article
 * the article is on the brief side
 * an obvious area for expansion is to list the approximately two dozen other new species of reptiles that he helped describe and name
 * address the 'citation needed' tags that I've placed


 * I'd very much appreciate if you would help with rating are reassessing New Zealand articles. Happy to look over your shoulder and provide as much guidance as you want to get.  Schwede 66  00:16, 20 October 2019 (UTC)


 * Cool, well I'm happy to help. Side note, while creating the Orchestra Wellington article, I've had someone come along and "review" it, and removed the (fair-use) logo and the official website link from the page, which is a bit weird. Can you comment? Jon (talk) 01:58, 25 October 2019 (UTC)


 * Jon, I see you have restored the logo and that's fair enough. I guess it's a very short article and for that reason, the URL doesn't need to be repeated as an external link given that it's already in the ibox.  Schwede 66  05:14, 25 October 2019 (UTC)

Harriet Bouslog
Hi there! Thank you so much for adding Bouslog's maiden name to the lede. I had another problem with names in this article that I wonder if you can help me with. Harriet divorced Charles in 1950, and remarried a man named Stephen Sawyer. [] When she appealed her law license's suspension in 1959, the case was called "In re Sawyer", because she sometimes went by Harriet Bouslog Sawyer. [] How do you think we should show that in the article? I skipped the topic entirely because I wasn't sure where it would best fit. I would love your opinion, or any changes you'd like to make to the article. Thanks! Mcampany (talk) 20:14, 24 October 2019 (UTC)
 * User:Mcampany, I did a quick edit before heading to work. I hope it did the trick.  Schwede 66  05:02, 25 October 2019 (UTC)
 * It looks good to me! Thanks so much. Mcampany (talk) 05:04, 25 October 2019 (UTC)

Plz Explain
Have I done anything wrong? Just say it Im a new editor on Wikipedia so I dont know what every rule on this site is.... Alejxon (talk) 13:31, 30 October 2019 (UTC)
 * This is the wrong place for that discussion. Let's have it on your talk page.  Schwede 66  17:58, 30 October 2019 (UTC)

When did newspaper= become work= ?
In this edit you did today here for Great Expectations, one change made was in cite news references, changing newspaper= to work=. Why make that change? I thought I re-read the cite format in the last week or two, and newspaper= matches cite news. Just curious. --Prairieplant (talk) 22:05, 1 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your query. As you can see in Template:Cite news/doc, the parameter 'newspaper' is an alias for the parameter 'work'. It's an incidental edit; the main edit with the article in question was replacing a hyphen with an endash in a page range as per MOS:ENDASH.  Schwede 66  22:18, 1 November 2019 (UTC)

New Page Review newsletter November 2019
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This newsletter comes a little earlier than usual because the backlog is rising again and the holidays are coming very soon. There are now holders of the New Page Reviewer flag! Most of you requested the user right to be able to do something about the huge backlog but it's still roughly less than 10% doing 90% of the work. Now it's time for action. Exactly one year ago there were 'only' 3,650 unreviewed articles, now we will soon be approaching 7,000 despite the growing number of requests for the NPR user right. If each reviewer soon does only 2 reviews a day over five days, the backlog will be down to zero and the daily input can then be processed by every reviewer doing only 1 review every 2 days - that's only a few minutes work on the bus on the way to the office or to class! Let's get this over and done with in time to relax for the holidays. Want to join? Consider adding the NPP Pledge userbox. Our next newsletter will announce the winners of some really cool awards. Admin has been officially invested as NPP/NPR coordinator by a unanimous consensus of the community. This is a complex role and he will need all the help he can get from other experienced reviewers. Paid editing is still causing headaches for even our most experienced reviewers: This official Wikipedia article will be an eye-opener to anyone who joined Wikipedia or obtained the NPR right since 2015. See The Hallmarks to know exactly what to look for and take time to examine all the sources. Would you like feedback on your reviews? Are you an experienced reviewer who can give feedback to other reviewers? If so there are two new feedback pilot programs. New Reviewer mentorship will match newer reviewers with an experienced reviewer with a new reviewer. The other program will be an occasional peer review cohort for moderate or experienced reviewers to give feedback to each other. The first cohort will launch November 13. The annual ArbCom election will be coming up soon. All eligible users will be invited to vote. While not directly concerned with NPR, Arbcom cases often lead back to notability and deletion issues and/or actions by holders of advanced user rights. There is to be no wish list for WMF encyclopedias this year. We thank Community Tech for their hard work addressing our long list of requirements which somewhat overwhelmed them last year, and we look forward to a successful completion. To opt-out of future mailings, you can remove yourself here MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 08:33, 3 November 2019 (UTC)
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Administrators' newsletter – November 2019
News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2019).

Administrator changes
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 * The follow-up RfC to develop that change is now open at Requests for comment/2019 Resysop Criteria (2).
 * A related RfC is seeking the community's sentiment for a binding desysop procedure.

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Archive Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 21:15, 3 November 2019 (UTC)

Comma after day of week
I can't find anything that discusses whether or not to put the comma after the day of the week. Obviously you need it in MDY but I wouldn't think you need it in DMY. Where does it say you have to put a comma after the day of the week in a DMY date? Nixinova   T / C    18:51, 15 November 2019 (UTC)


 * Kia ora, I was pretty sure that the manual of style deals with it but that is not the case. There was a relevant discussion early this year, though. Have a look how it's formatted in that discussion and the pertinent issue of including the weekday in the first instance.  Schwede 66  19:12, 15 November 2019 (UTC)
 * They don't really talk much about the actual formatting of D-DMY and just give it as an example, then go on to discuss whether or not to actually put the day of the week in the articles. So I don't think there's really a consensus for anything. The comma is probably unnecessary in D-DMY as it flows better without it and its in just the right order to do without commas. E.g., "Sat 16 Nov 2019" reads better than "Sat, 16 Nov 2019" and "Sat, Nov 16, 2019".  Nixinova   T / C    19:22, 15 November 2019 (UTC)
 * , it's not in MOS because, as they argue, the weekday is generally not needed. I'm currently working on an article where the weekday is of relevance (the convention of shifting election day from a Wednesday to a Saturday occurred with the 1941 local elections). What is the article that you are working on? Is the weekday needed, or is that detail superfluous? Does it add encyclopedic content? If it's not needed, then the discussion about the comma is moot.  Schwede 66  19:48, 15 November 2019 (UTC)
 * It's of your revert here.  Nixinova   T / <b style=color:white>C</b>    19:59, 15 November 2019 (UTC)

I've edited that article. See what you think.  Schwede 66  20:16, 15 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Yeah, that's probably fine.  <b style=color:white>Nixinova</b>   <b style=color:white>T</b> / <b style=color:white>C</b>    20:28, 15 November 2019 (UTC)

I have unreviewed a page you curated
Hi, I'm Scope creep. I wanted to let you know that I saw the page you reviewed, South African Hip Hop Awards 2019, and have marked it as unpatrolled. If you have any questions, please ask them on my talk page. Thank you.

(Message delivered via the Page Curation tool, on behalf of the reviewer.)

 scope_creep Talk  16:18, 22 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Scope creep, could you please let me know what the problem was?  Schwede 66  22:12, 23 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Hi It was reviewed before user:Ceethekreator was blocked as a sock. I unreviewed all the ones he has reviewed. Can you re-review it again. Thanks.   scope_creep Talk  22:16, 23 November 2019 (UTC)
 * ✅  Schwede 66  22:50, 23 November 2019 (UTC)

Google Code-In 2019 is coming - please mentor some documentation tasks!
Hello,

Google Code-In, Google-organized contest in which the Wikimedia Foundation participates, starts in a few weeks. This contest is about taking high school students into the world of opensource. I'm sending you this message because you recently edited a documentation page at the English Wikipedia.

I would like to ask you to take part in Google Code-In as a mentor. That would mean to prepare at least one task (it can be documentation related, or something else - the other categories are Code, Design, Quality Assurance and Outreach) for the participants, and help the student to complete it. Please sign up at the contest page and send us your Google account address to google-code-in-admins@lists.wikimedia.org, so we can invite you in!

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Administrators' newsletter – December 2019
News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2019). Administrator changes
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 * An RfC on the administrator resysop criteria was closed. 18 proposals have been summarised with a variety of supported and opposed statements. The inactivity grace period within which a new request for adminship is not required has been reduced from three years to two. Additionally, Bureaucrats are permitted to use their discretion when returning administrator rights.
 * Following a proposal, the edit filter mailing list has been opened up to users with the Edit Filter Helper right.

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Miscellaneous
 * The global consultation on partial and temporary office actions that ended in October received a closing statement from staff concluding, among other things, that the WMF will no longer use partial or temporary Office Action bans... until and unless community consensus that they are of value or Board directive.

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New Page Review newsletter December 2019


This year's Reviewer of the Year is. Having gotten the reviewer PERM in August 2018, they have been a regular reviewer of articles and redirects, been an active participant in the NPP community, and has been the driving force for the emerging NPP Source Guide that will help reviewers better evaluate sourcing and notability in many countries for which it has historically been difficult.
 * Reviewer of the Year

Special commendation again goes to who ends the year as one of our most prolific reviewers for the second consecutive year. Thanks also to and  who have been in the top 5 for the last two years as well.

Several newer editors have done a lot of work with CAPTAIN MEDUSA and DannyS712 (who has also written bots which have patrolled thousands of redirects) being new reviewers since this time last year.

Thanks to them and to everyone reading this who has participated in New Page Patrol this year.

(The top 100 reviewers of the year can be found here)

A recent Request for Comment on creating a new redirect autopatrol pseduo-permission was closed early. New Page Reviewers are now able to nominate editors who have an established track record creating uncontroversial redirects. At the individual discretion of any administrator or after 24 hours and a consensus of at least 3 New Page Reviewers an editor may be added to a list of users whose redirects will be patrolled automatically by.
 * Redirect autopatrol

Set to launch early in the new year is our first New Page Patrol Source Guide discussion. These discussions are designed to solicit input on sources in places and topic areas that might otherwise be harder for reviewers to evaluate. The hope is that this will allow us to improve the accuracy of our patrols for articles using these sources (and/or give us places to perform a WP:BEFORE prior to nominating for deletion). Please watch the New Page Patrol talk page for more information.
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While New Page Reviewers are an experienced set of editors, we all benefit from an occasional review. This month consider refreshing yourself on Notability (geographic features). Also consider how we can take the time for quality in this area. For instance, sources to verify human settlements, which are presumed notable, can often be found in seconds. This lets us avoid the (ugly) 'Needs more refs' tag. Delivered by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) at 16:11, 20 December 2019 (UTC)
 * This month's refresher course

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<div style="border-style:solid; border-color:blue; background-color:#fff; border-width:2px; text-align:left; padding:8px; " class="plainlinks"> 豊かな十年へようこそ/WELCOME TO THE D20s Miraclepine wishes you a Merry Christmas, a Happy New Year, and a prosperous decade of change and fortune. このミラPはSchwede66たちのメリークリスマスも新年も変革と幸運の豊かな十年をおめでとうございます！ フレフレ、みんなの未来！/GOOD LUCK WITH YOUR FUTURE! ミラP 04:03, 25 December 2019 (UTC)

Happy New Year Schwede66!
<div style="font-size: x-large; padding: 0; vertical-align: middle; height: 1.1em; font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;float:right;margin-bottom:20px;margin-right:10px">Happy New Year! Hello Schwede66: Thanks for all of your contributions to improve the encyclopedia for Wikipedia's readers, and have a happy and enjoyable New Year! Cheers, Donner60 (talk) 05:29, 28 December 2019 (UTC) Send New Year cheer by adding {{subst:Happy New Year fireworks (static)}} to user talk pages with a friendly message.