User talk:Schwede66/Archive 37

Article that needs to be re-redirected
Hi there, I am hoping you can help me. A while ago I did an article for Nikki Turner, but when I uploaded it, I (stupidly) moved it from my sandbox...and that is where it still lives! Are you able please to move it for me? Sorry I am unsure of the process and don't want to risk losing the article. As always, thanks for your support. Greg  Realitylink (talk) 23:42, 10 April 2022 (UTC)

Any luck with this one Sir!Realitylink (talk) 12:06, 12 May 2022 (UTC)

Ah, so I see that I can now use this as my sandbox. Thanks for doing the redirection business. Realitylink (talk) 21:20, 12 May 2022 (UTC)

Barry Barrie Crump
heh, thanks for the laugh this morning. Nauseous Man (talk) 21:13, 19 March 2022 (UTC)


 * Haha, yes; that was a good one.  Schwede 66  21:59, 19 March 2022 (UTC)
 * why did you undo my edit, it was a good edit, i know as i am his decendant Twigley (talk) 00:03, 6 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Kia ora, are you talking about the Barry Crump article? I'm asking because that is the topic of this conversation, but I cannot see that you have ever edited that article. As such, I don't know what it is that I have supposedly reverted.  Schwede 66  01:35, 6 May 2022 (UTC)

Austin Russell (entrepreneur)
Hi! I'm reaching out because I saw you recently removed the birth year category from Austin Russell (entrepreneur) because it is uncited. I've posted some COI edit requests on the article talk page, including a citation for the birth year. If you're willing to take a look, I'd really appreciate the help. Thank you! Mary Gaulke (talk) 15:48, 23 March 2022 (UTC)


 * Thanks for your note, Mary. I see my role as keeping the site clean and make sure the WP:BLP is being followed. Beyond my area of interest (mainly NZ topics), I don't engage in work and especially not when paid editing is involved. That said, I do commend you for being open and upfront about what it is that you do.  Schwede 66  22:37, 23 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Understood. Thanks for the reply! Mary Gaulke (talk) 22:48, 23 March 2022 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – April 2022
News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2022).

Administrator changes
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 * When viewing deleted revisions or diffs on Special:Undelete a back link to the undelete page for the associated page is now present.

Arbitration
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 * A arbitration case regarding Skepticism and coordinated editing has been closed.
 * A arbitration case regarding WikiProject Tropical Cyclones has been opened.

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New administrator activity requirement
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A goat for you!
Thanks for cleaning up my edits!

Caligulady (talk) 23:03, 18 April 2022 (UTC) 


 * No trouble, . I see this a lot; the Visual Editor isn't necessarily good at creating references and it pays to check what it produces.  Schwede 66  23:10, 18 April 2022 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Category:NZHPT historic areas register in the Nelson Region


A tag has been placed on Category:NZHPT historic areas register in the Nelson Region indicating that it is currently empty, 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 it remains empty for seven days or more, it may be deleted under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion.

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. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself. Liz Read! Talk! 04:22, 21 April 2022 (UTC)


 * Thanks, Liz. It was empty and I've thus deleted it.  Schwede 66  04:36, 21 April 2022 (UTC)

Can you review my draft?
Hi sir,

Can you review my draft?

User:JellyBooN/Vakfe (retailer)

Thanks, --JellyBooN (talk) 06:17, 26 April 2022 (UTC)


 * Well, I don't speak Turkish, . I suggest that at the very least, you look up how to use  as part of the use of Template:cite web. The other referencing parameter that is missing is  . Who is it that publishes those references? That will be vital to know to determine whether they count as WP:RS. Because without that, how would any reviewer know whether WP:GNG is met? And may I ask - if this company is notable, why does it not even have an article on the Turkish Wikipedia?  Schwede  66  07:59, 26 April 2022 (UTC)

Lee Vandervis
Hi Schwede - the Lee Vandervis article was just extensively edited by someone using the user name User:Leevandervis. I have reverted the edit and posted a comment on both his and the article's talk pages. Thought I would give you a heads up because of your past involvement in this articles attacks. NealeWellington (talk) 10:56, 26 April 2022 (UTC)


 * Awesome. Seems you have it all under control. Good response. I’ll keep an eye on the situation, .  Schwede 66  02:31, 28 April 2022 (UTC)

Moving papers around on your desk
So you say "it seems more logical to have a section on history as the first one and not the last one". M'kay, fine, but did you *read* the section? The first sentence of the section? What does it mean? I wish people would actually *read* the text in addition to addressing one or another specialized nit. Curtis Island (New Zealand). Shenme (talk) 00:54, 28 April 2022 (UTC)

AfD
Hi Schwede - hope you are well. You may or may not be able to help with this AfD. Thank you.  Lugnuts  Fire Walk with Me

Re:Edit summaries
I'm sure you're mostly a force for good and helpful around the project. Go refresh your knowledge of, though, and lay off the snarky commentary in edit summaries. It's neither helpful, welcome, or tolerated. When you actually think editors might need a reminder to check things, message them directly and politely.

As is, the disambiguation was wrong, not my link, and you would've more helpfully realized that LEPRA will always mean the agency abbreviated by that name and never a genus of butterflies. — Llywelyn II   23:44, 5 May 2022 (UTC)


 * Yeah, fair enough. Too snarky an edit summary. Please accept my apologies.  Schwede 66  03:14, 8 May 2022 (UTC)

POTD errors
Hi, just a note that when you fix an error in Picture of the Day, you have to fix the error again in the corresponding regular version without "protected" in the page title. I’ve no idea why there are two though. Stephen 23:33, 7 May 2022 (UTC)


 * Ah yes, it does say that in the instructions. Thanks for the reminder, .  Schwede 66  02:57, 8 May 2022 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – May 2022
News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2022).

Administrator changes
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 * Following an RfC, a change has been made to the administrators inactivity policy. Under the new policy, if an administrator has not made at least 100 edits over a period of 5 years they may be desysopped for inactivity.
 * Following a discussion on the bureaucrat's noticeboard, a change has been made to the bureaucrats inactivity policy.

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 * The ability to undelete the associated talk page when undeleting a page has been added. This was the 11th wish of the 2021 Community Wishlist Survey.
 * A public status system for WMF wikis has been created. It is located at https://www.wikimediastatus.net/ and is hosted separately to WMF wikis so in the case of an outage it will remain viewable.

Arbitration
 * Remedy 2 of the St Christopher case has been rescinded following a motion. The remedy previously authorised administrators to place a ban on single-purpose accounts who were disruptively editing on the article St Christopher Iba Mar Diop College of Medicine or related pages from those pages.

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FYI
 

(WTF?) --Perry Whited (talk) 14:48, 11 May 2022 (UTC)


 * You are talking in riddles, . Try writing down in sentences what it is that you'd like to communicate.  Schwede 66  00:28, 12 May 2022 (UTC)
 * User:Οἶδα was granted autopatrolled permission two years ago, and again by you last month. I don't want any such permission – ever – but... Jesus. --Perry Whited (talk) 01:48, 12 May 2022 (UTC)

           


 * You mentioned me, sending a notfication my way. I asked you politely to stop hounding me. You appeared to have respected my request, and now this. I will continue to revert your valueless persistent edits that pop up in my watchlist, which essentially amount to your arbitrary personal preference of spacing in headings and your excessively redundant replacement of spaces and dashes with equivalent templates. Οἶδα (talk) 02:14, 12 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Help:Line-break_handling --Perry Whited (talk) 02:39, 12 May 2022 (UTC)


 * Sock blocked.-- Jezebel's Ponyo bons mots 22:00, 13 May 2022 (UTC)

DYK for Fantasy Cartography
Hi Schwede66, I have a DYK nomination for the article fantasy cartography and I don't know where it is or what I must do to find it. I've tried to make another one for the same article but it denies me because the first one is floating somewhere. Would you be able to point me in the right direction?

Also, I'm looking for some help getting the article reviewed - I've been doing some serious edits on it in the last month. Any help in that direction would be great!

Kind regards,--Twomatters (talk) 22:17, 19 May 2022 (UTC)


 * Easy enough to find by looking at "what links here": Template:Did you know nominations/Fantasy cartography. But it seems that you haven't used the automated tool that creates DYK nominations as that nomination has not been transcluded onto the nom page. I've added it there manually and you can find it here. I've got a full plate at the moment so can't help with reviewing; I'm sorry.  Schwede 66  03:06, 20 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Thanks so much! @Schwede66! Twomatters (talk) 05:44, 20 May 2022 (UTC)

Disruptive editing by Aubernas
I saw your comments on User talk:Aubernas, stating that you were keeping an eye on their talk page due to their disruptive editing. I came across them on the Israel page. They added content that was OR to the lede. Those additions were eventually fully removed, yet Aubernas readded those same edits today without any attempt to address why they were reverted to begin with. Looking through their edit history, they are incredibly disruptive but they rarely edit war and frequently blank their talk page as they did today. A very high portion of their edits are reverted for reasons such as OR, misrepresenting sources, POV etc. They almost exclusively edit the lede. Many of their edits that haven't been reverted suffer from the same issues as their reverted edits and probably need correcting and copyediting to conform to Wikipedia's standards. I'm not sure what can be done with such a disruptive editor. Despite many warnings on their talk page and being reverted so many times, they don't seem to be able to heed constructive criticism since they just resort to blanking their talk page, and continuing the same disruptive editing patterns. GreenCows (talk) 15:50, 20 May 2022 (UTC)


 * , thanks for getting in touch. It's a good summary of the situation; there is a lot of disruptive editing going on. I've had a close look over recent contributions and think that if this was brought to WP:ANI, I don't think it would result in a block. It's not far off either, though. What I suggest you do is to post a warning on the user's talk page. When the day comes that a block is needed, all the warnings will help make the case. And by the way, in this post, the user explains why they concentrate so much on the lead section.  Schwede  66  08:08, 21 May 2022 (UTC)

reply function
is apparently very successful...however at times slightly confused

Project tag at - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Canberra Australian and the fact that it is not a content page but a project tag same as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_New_Zealand/Article_alerts however there are lot like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Wellington/ArtAndFeminism/Theatre_2015 Hope that explains the question... JarrahTree 4:56 pm, Today (UTC+8)

No big deal really, I simply asked in the case there had been a sensitivity regards the project items not being 'tagged' or being tagged. In the end it doesnt matter either way, it is often that the outreach aspect of many projects tend to be under-tagged and under-categorised for a range of reasons. I had asked offline as I had not wanted to embarrass the friend who had had the conversation... JarrahTree 09:27, 22 May 2022 (UTC)


 * I think it doesn't matter whether or not it gets tagged by the project.  Schwede 66  09:36, 22 May 2022 (UTC)

New Page Patrol newsletter May 2022
Hello ,

At the time of the last newsletter (No.26, September 2021), the backlog was 'only' just over 6,000 articles. In the past six months, the backlog has reached nearly 16,000, a staggering level not seen in several years. A very small number of users had been doing the vast majority of the reviews. Due to "burn-out", we have recently lost most of this effort. Furthermore, several reviewers have been stripped of the user right for abuse of privilege and the articles they patrolled were put back in the queue.

Several discussions on the state of the process have taken place on the talk page, but there has been no action to make any changes. The project also lacks coordination since the "position" is vacant.

In the last 30 days, only 100 reviewers have made more than 8 patrols and only 50 have averaged one review a day. There are currently Special:ListUsers/patroller New Page Reviewers, but about a third have not had any activity in the past month. All administrators have this permission, but only about a dozen significantly contribute to NPP.

This means we have an active pool of about 450 to address the backlog. We cannot rely on a few to do most of the work as that inevitably leads to burnout. A fairly experienced reviewer can usually do a review in a few minutes. If every active reviewer would patrol just one article per day, the backlog would very quickly disappear.

If you have noticed a user with a good understanding of Wikipedia notability and deletion, do suggest they help the effort by placing on their talk page.

If you are no longer very active on Wikipedia or you no longer wish to be part of the New Page Reviewer user group, please consider asking any admin to remove you from the list. This will enable NPP to have a better overview of its performance and what improvements need to be made to the process and its software.

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Autopatrolled
Where are the articles without references? I didn't create any articles lacking references after that notice. I explained it to you on here but you never replied.--Sakiv (talk) 23:53, 29 May 2022 (UTC)
 * The dispute with the administrator is not even related to Verification, but rather the nomination of pages for speedy deletion.--Sakiv (talk) 00:11, 30 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Please do not start a new discussion when there is an ongoing discussion elsewhere already. I have replied at Wikipedia_talk:Requests_for_permissions.  Schwede 66  01:27, 30 May 2022 (UTC)

Notice of noticeboard discussion
There is currently a discussion at Administrators' noticeboard regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. Section is: Administrators'_noticeboard — xaosflux  Talk 14:13, 30 May 2022 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – June 2022
News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2022).

Administrator changes
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Guideline and policy news
 * Several areas of improvement collated from community member votes have been identified in the Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement guidelines. The areas of improvement have been sent back for review and you are invited to provide input on these areas.

Technical news
 * Administrators using the mobile web interface can now access Special:Block directly from user pages.
 * The IP Info feature has been deployed to all wikis as a Beta Feature. Any autoconfirmed user may enable the feature using the "IP info" checkbox under . Autoconfirmed users will be able to access basic information about an IP address that includes the country and connection method. Those with advanced privileges (admin, bureaucrat, checkuser) will have access to extra information that includes the Internet Service Provider and more specific location.

Arbitration
 * Remedy 2 of the Rachel Marsden case has been rescinded following a motion. The remedy previously authorised administrators to delete or reduce to a stub, together with their talk pages, articles related to Rachel Marsden when they violate Wikipedia's biographies of living persons policy.
 * An arbitration case regarding WikiProject Tropical Cyclones has been closed.

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Tamzin Press release
Hi Schwede, I am Itcouldbepossible. I saw that you had recently inserted the press release news in Tamzin's RFA talk page. I wonder how you came to know about it? Itcouldbepossible Talk 04:30, 17 June 2022 (UTC)


 * I'm on the author's mailing list, . Stephen writes about Wikipedia regularly.  Schwede 66  04:40, 17 June 2022 (UTC)

New Page Patrol newsletter June 2022
Hello ,

At the time of the last newsletter (No.27, May 2022), the backlog was approaching 16,000, having shot up rapidly from 6,000 over the prior two months. The attention the newsletter brought to the backlog sparked a flurry of activity. There was new discussion on process improvements, efforts to invite new editors to participate in NPP increased and more editors requested the NPP user right so they could help, and most importantly, the number of reviews picked up and the backlog decreased, dipping below 14,000 at the end of May.
 * Backlog status

Since then, the news has not been so good. The backlog is basically flat, hovering around 14,200. I wish I could report the number of reviews done and the number of new articles added to the queue. But the available statistics we have are woefully inadequate. The only real number we have is the net queue size.

In the last 30 days, the top 100 reviewers have all made more than 16 patrols (up from 8 last month), and about 70 have averaged one review a day (up from 50 last month).

While there are more people doing more reviews, many of the ~730 with the NPP right are doing little. Most of the reviews are being done by the top 50 or 100 reviewers. They need your help. We appreciate every review done, but please aim to do one a day (on average, or 30 a month).

A backlog reduction drive, coordinated by buidhe and Zippybonzo, will be held from July 1 to July 31. Sign up here. Barnstars will be awarded.
 * Backlog drive

Many new articles on schools are being created by new users in developing and/or non-English-speaking countries. The authors are probably not even aware of Wikipedia's projects and policy pages. WP:WPSCH/AG has some excellent advice and resources specifically written for these users. Reviewers could consider providing such first-time article creators with a link to it while also mentioning that not all schools pass the GNG and that elementary schools are almost certainly not notable.
 * TIP – New school articles

There is a new template available,, to show the current backlog. You can place it on your user or talk page as a reminder:
 * Misc

There has been significant discussion at WP:VPP recently on NPP-related matters (Draftification, Deletion, Notability, Verifiability, Burden). Proposals that would somewhat ease the burden on NPP aren't gaining much traction, although there are suggestions that the role of NPP be fundamentally changed to focus only on major CSD-type issues.


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 * Consider staying informed on project issues by putting the project discussion page on your watchlist.
 * If you have noticed a user with a good understanding of Wikipedia notability and deletion, suggest they help the effort by placing on their talk page.
 * If you are no longer very active on Wikipedia or you no longer wish to be part of the New Page Reviewer user group, please consider asking any admin to remove you from the list. This will enable NPP to have a better overview of its performance and what improvements need to be made to the process and its software.
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Disappearing a talk page?
I don't understand why you made this edit. I had just marked it as "Their talk page is preserved here in their memory." and you archived it, instead of leaving it open. Somebody has posted since, and others may want to see their last few discussions. When you did that you also lost the cool redirect from their user to talk page. When I tried to revert it I get problems with black-list links. Is there any way you can undo your edits? Thank you. Sammy D III (talk) 03:45, 29 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Schwede66 tried to archive it but could not complete that because of the black list. He also couldn't restore it for the same reason. I completed the archive to User talk:Eddaido/Archive2, modifying the word triggering the black list (which was "whitepages" in a url) and added the archive to the main talk page. Given that the talk page was very long, I think archiving it was appropriate. Also there was an unpleasant interaction within the last few messages, which I think is more respectful to leave in the archive.- gadfium 03:53, 29 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Well, I strongly disagree. It doesn’t matter how long the page is, just like any other talk page, you automatically go to the bottom. And archiving because the content is uncomfortable seems like revisionist history to me. Dying doesn’t make a person’s past actions go away, this editor has made plenty of enemies who deserve respect for their comments, too.
 * Eddaido could have archived, edited, or deleted anything on that page that they wanted, instead they left every word up. I think that it would be more respectful to leave it how they wanted it. Accurate and honest. But I’m obsolete, that’s why I don’t edit much any more. You have a nice day/night. Sammy D III (talk) 04:35, 29 June 2022 (UTC)
 * The talk page was archived by a bot until 2013, and still has the code which should activate the bot so I don't know why it stopped. Eddaido may not have archived since then because of the black list issue. Would you be willing to compromise on my restoring the most recent content to the page, say the last year's worth, with the remainder in the two archives?- gadfium 04:49, 29 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Hello User:Sammy D III, I guess gadfium has given all the answers that I would have given. Plus there is guidance at WP:DWG that encourages the cleaning up / archiving of talk pages.  Schwede 66  05:31, 29 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Edit conflict, try two: Sigh. I think I should compromise by apologizing to both of you. It does look better this way. I just lost so much accurate content so fast and it looked so bad with the two flags that I thought my actions had trashed a decade of talk. Your points are valid and I agree. Early AM here, have a nice evening. Sammy D III (talk) 08:51, 29 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Thanks Sammy, but apology not needed from my end. I hope you wake up refreshed and ready for the new day.- gadfium 09:00, 29 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Absolutely no trouble, Sammy D III. All the best; have a great day.  Schwede 66  09:03, 29 June 2022 (UTC)

Death
You seem to be operating on the basis that our fellow contributor Eddaido has died. He was/is a great wiki-colleague and a good e-friend:  his death would not come as a complete surprise. We're all getting older. But he did scoop up a few wiki-enemies along the way. How do you know that he died? I don't want to write a couple of appreciative lines on his talk page only to receive a "robust" 'phone call from down under saying that the whole thing is a hoax! Thanks for any confirmations you feel able to share on this. Best wishes Charles01 (talk) 08:05, 29 June 2022 (UTC)
 * I have communicated with Sammy D over this, including over email. If this is some sort of hoax, I'll celebrate that Eddaido is alive and kicking, but I really think that's not the case.- gadfium 09:00, 29 June 2022 (UTC)
 * It was gadfium who alerted the New Zealand user group of Eddaido's death this morning, . Given gadfium's standing in the community, I didn't even question whether he has a reliable source; I just accepted it as fact. We lost another longstanding editor (a fellow admin at that - Moriori) just the other week and again, it was gadfium who alerted us.  Schwede 66  09:08, 29 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Thank you both.  Be well.   Charles01 (talk) 09:14, 29 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Note: gadfium heard it from me so it's not his reputation, it's only mine. Sammy D III (talk) 09:47, 29 June 2022 (UTC)