User talk:Sm8900/Archive 15

George Mantello was a Jew
Concerning your recent edit, at least according to Yad Vashem non Jews only can be entitled as "Righteous Among the Nations". Ykantor (talk) 06:59, 9 March 2014 (UTC)
 * that's true. good point. thanks for your note. --Sm8900 (talk) 21:00, 11 March 2014 (UTC)

Proposed merge (speedy)
Please see my proposal to rename (merge) Category:Military equipment of France in World War I to Category: World War I military equipment of France Hugo999 (talk) 12:24, 8 June 2014 (UTC)

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

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

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Mr. Guye (talk) 01:21, 13 June 2014 (UTC)

Mosi-oa-Tunya
Hi there. I've been fixing ISBNs lately, and I came across a book reference that you added:


 * Phillipson, David W. 1985. Mosi-oa-Tunya A Handbook to the Victoria Falls Region Long man Zimbabwe ISBN 0-0546-8657

Unfortunately, the ISBN is invalid, and as far as I can tell the book's date should be 1975 rather than 1985. I've been trying to find a fix, but I can't find an ISBN that substantially matches the broken one, and it doesn't appear to be an OCLC number or LCCN either (lots of cases where those are placed as invalid "ISBNs"). In the short term, I'm going to update the relevant pages (Hydrocynus goliath, Hydrocynus tanzaniae, Hydrocynus vittatus, Tigerfish) with the ISBN 0-582-64170-5 and year 1975 based on this OCLC entry, but I figured it'd be worth asking you where you got the invalid ISBN—maybe there's something missing that you could clear up for me? Thanks, {&#123; Nihiltres &#124;talk&#124;edits}&#125; 18:13, 17 June 2014 (UTC)
 * Addendum: here is an example of the changes I made across those articles. {&#123; Nihiltres &#124;talk&#124;edits}&#125; 18:24, 17 June 2014 (UTC)

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

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

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Gbawden (talk) 12:13, 9 July 2014 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Interstellar Rift


The article Interstellar Rift has been proposed for deletion&#32; because of the following concern:
 * Does not prove notability.

While all constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, content or articles may be deleted for any of several reasons.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on |the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion.  Anarchyte  ( work  &#124;  talk )   09:31, 29 March 2016 (UTC)
 * ok, thanks for this notice. --Sm8900 (talk) 16:58, 29 March 2016 (UTC)

Draft:Interstellar Rift
I have moved your draft page to Draft:Interstellar Rift. You may continue working on it there. Safiel (talk) 02:38, 30 March 2016 (UTC)


 * hey, thanks! appreciate it. :-) --Sm8900 (talk) 15:28, 31 March 2016 (UTC)

Your draft article, User:Sm8900/sandbox


Hello, Sm8900. It has been over six months since you last edited your Articles for Creation draft article submission, "sandbox".

In accordance with our policy that Articles for Creation is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been nominated for deletion. If you plan on working on it further, or editing it to address the issues raised if it was declined, simply and remove the  or  code.

If your submission has already been deleted by the time you get there, and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion by following the instructions at this link. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.

Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing.  Onel 5969  TT me 04:37, 2 April 2016 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Synchrotron-Light for Experimental Science and Applications in the Middle East
Hello Sm8900,

I wanted to let you know that I just tagged Synchrotron-Light for Experimental Science and Applications in the Middle East for deletion, because it doesn't appear to contain any encyclopedic content. Take a look at our suggestions for essential content in short articles to learn what should be included.

If you feel that the article shouldn't be deleted and want more time to work on it, you can contest this deletion, but please don't remove the speedy deletion tag from the top.

You can leave a note on my talk page if you have questions. Garagepunk66 (talk) 02:27, 7 April 2016 (UTC)

WikiProject X Newsletter • Issue 8
Newsletter • March / April 2016

This month:

Transclude article requests anywhere on Wikipedia

In the last issue of the WikiProject X Newsletter, I discussed the upcoming Wikipedia Requests system: a central database for outstanding work on Wikipedia. I am pleased to announce Wikipedia Requests is live! Its purpose is to supplement automatically generated lists, such as those from SuggestBot, Reports bot, or Wikidata. It is currently being demonstrated on WikiProject Occupational Safety and Health (which I work on as part of my NIOSH duties) and WikiProject Women scientists.

Adding a request is as simple as filling out a form. Just go to the Add form to add your request. Adding sources will help ensure that your request is fulfilled more quickly. And when a request is fulfilled, simply click "mark as complete" and it will be removed from all the lists it's on. All at the click of a button! (If anyone is concerned, all actions are logged.)

With this new service is a template to transclude these requests: Wikipedia Requests. It's simple to use: add the template to a page, specifying,  , or  , and the list will be transcluded. For example, for requests having to do with all living people, just do. Use these lists on WikiProjects but also for edit-a-thons where you want a convenient list of things to do on hand. Give it a shot!

Help us build our list!

The value of Wikipedia Requests comes from being a centralized database. The long work to migrating individual lists into this combined list is slowly underway. As of writing, we have 883 open tasks logged in Wikipedia Requests. We need your help building this list.

If you know of a list of missing articles, or of outstanding tasks for existing articles, that you would like to migrate to this new system, head on over to Wikipedia Requests and help out. Doing this will help put your list in front of more eyes—more than just your own WikiProject.

An open database means new tools

WikiProject X maintains a database that associates article talk pages (and draft talk pages) with WikiProjects. This database powers many of the reports that Reports bot generates. However, until very recently, this database was not made available to others who might find its data useful. It's only common sense to open up the database and let others build tools with it.

And indeed: Citation Hunt, the game to add citations to Wikipedia, now lets you filter by WikiProject, using the data from our database.

Are you a tool developer interested in using this? Here are some details: the database resides on Tool Labs with the name. The table that associates WikiProjects with articles and drafts is called. Pages are stored by talk page title but in the future this should change. Have fun!

On the horizon


 * The work on the CollaborationKit extension continues. The extension will initially focus on reducing template and Lua bloat on WikiProjects (especially our WPX UI demonstration projects), and will from there create custom interfaces for creating and maintaining WikiProjects.
 * The WikiCite meeting will be in Berlin in May. The goal of the meeting is to figure out how to build a bibliographic database for use on the Wikimedia projects. This fits in quite nicely with WikiProject X's work: we want to make it easier for people to find things to work on, and with a powerful, open bibliographic database, we can build recommendations for sources. This feature was requested by the Wikipedia Library back in September, and this meeting is a major next step. We look forward to seeing what comes out of this meeting.

Until next time,

Harej (talk) 01:29, 20 April 2016 (UTC)

Category:Labor-related political violence in the United States has been nominated for discussion
Category:Labor-related political violence in the United States, which you created, has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. A discussion is taking place to see if it abides 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. Cgingold (talk) 01:53, 28 April 2016 (UTC)

Draft:Science listed at Redirects for discussion
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Draft:Science. Since you had some involvement with the Draft:Science redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. The Traditionalist (talk) 13:00, 10 May 2016 (UTC)

WikiProject X Newsletter • Issue 10
Issue 10 of the WikiProject X newsletter is here!

This month, we discuss the new CollaborationKit extension. Here's an image as a teaser:



23:59, 3 March 2017 (UTC)

Category:Scientific speculation
Hi there - I see you created the category Category:Scientific speculation and I'm a bit confused about it and am thinking to suggest it for deletion.

But first I wanted to ask you what you intended it to be about. e.g. how does it differ from Category:Science fiction? If I shouldn't suggest it for deletion it definitely needs to be changed.

--Fixuture (talk) 21:26, 6 March 2017 (UTC)
 * thanks for your note! basiclly, this cat is for actual scientific concepts regarding various phenomena which have never been found to actually exist, but for which the possibility of existence is based on some degree of real scientific speculation. I hope that helps to answer your question. thanks! --Sm8900 (talk) 21:32, 6 March 2017 (UTC)


 * as an example check out this quote from one of the articles in the cat, Breakthrough Propulsion Physics Program:
 * "From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:The Breakthrough Propulsion Physics Project (BPP) was a research project funded by NASA from 1996 through 2002, to study various proposals for 'revolutionary' methods of spacecraft propulsion which would require breakthroughs in physics before they could be realized, hence the name. During its six years, this program was funded with a total investment of $1.2 million."


 * I hope that is helpful. thanks! --Sm8900 (talk) 21:34, 6 March 2017 (UTC)

draft note
draft note: Just thought I would poke my head in to say hi. I was part of the initial group of editors who fashioned the original set of compromises and understandings to permit greater expansion of IP articles around 2009. if anyone wishes to ask for any data, I am available. thanks. --Sm8900 (talk) 13:08, 9 August 2019 (UTC)

Help me!
hi. is there a template that I can post at an article, to ask editors there to visit the entry's talk page, in order to comment on a suggestion posted there? I have an idea that i wish to request some comments on. thanks!!

Sm8900 (talk) 16:20, 19 August 2019 (UTC)


 * Note: I have just found this template. Template:Please_see.
 * Are any other similar templates out there? --Sm8900 (talk) 16:25, 19 August 2019 (UTC)
 * You can make a formal Request for Comment. 331dot (talk) 16:38, 19 August 2019 (UTC)

Help me!
Sorry!! how do I edit a portal? I have no idea how to proceed. if you wish, just provide some links to some help pages, and I'll try to read up on this. thanks!

Sm8900 (talk) 17:08, 19 August 2019 (UTC)
 * It would help if you could tell us what portal you want to edit, and what change you're trying to implement. Without any specifics we can only provide unhelpfully generic advice, such as "you edit a portal in the same way as any other page, but take transcluded sub-pages into account". A general guideline on portals is Portal/Guidelines, but I rather don't think it gives detailed editing advice. Huon (talk) 17:45, 19 August 2019 (UTC)
 * hm, well, probably, that's what I need. I guess the fact that portals are largely transcluded is what i was wondering about. so are they automatically generated, based on the content of various articles? thanks, . --Sm8900 (talk) 17:47, 19 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Some of those sub-pages make use of the content of various articles, but they aren't generated automatically; someone has to do it by hand. To my knowledge some semi-automated tools may exist for that purpose, but I'd be surprised if they give reasonable results if no manual check takes place. Huon (talk) 18:18, 19 August 2019 (UTC)
 * , ok, I really appreciate your great info on that. okay, so if that's the case, can you please point me to some good help pages, or tutorials, etc where I can learn more about this? thanks!! Sm8900 (talk) 18:39, 19 August 2019 (UTC)
 * It would really help if you could be more specific regarding what you're looking for. WikiProject Portals lists some pages relevant to portals, and if you have specific questions, the people at the WikiProject's talk page would likely know the answer. Huon (talk) 20:53, 19 August 2019 (UTC)

Backlog Banzai
In the month of September, Wikiproject Military history is running a project-wide edit-a-thon, Backlog Banzai. There are heaps of different areas you can work on, for which you claim points, and at the end of the month all sorts of whiz-bang awards will be handed out. Every player wins a prize! There is even a bit of friendly competition built in for those that like that sort of thing. Sign up now at WikiProject Military history/September 2019 Backlog Banzai to take part. For the coordinators, Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 08:18, 22 August 2019 (UTC)

"Wikipedia:Advice for editors" listed at Redirects for discussion
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Advice for editors. Since you had some involvement with the Wikipedia:Advice for editors redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you wish to do so. – Sonicwave talk  21:25, 22 August 2019 (UTC)

new article to add.
new article to add.

There is one animal that seems to survive without oxygen. It is microscopic, looks a bit like a jellyfish, and survives in a place that would kill every other known animal species.

Welcome to The Wikipedia Adventure!

 * Hi Sm8900! 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.
 * The Wikipedia Adventure Start Page
 * The Wikipedia Adventure Lounge
 * The Teahouse new editor help space
 * Wikipedia Help pages

-- 21:19, Monday, September 9, 2019 (UTC)

Milhist coordinator election voting has commenced
G'day everyone, voting for the 2019 Wikiproject Military history coordinator tranche is now open. This is a simple approval vote; only "support" votes should be made. Project members should vote for any candidates they support by 23:59 (UTC) on 28 September 2018. Thanks, Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 03:37, 15 September 2019 (UTC)

Wikiproject Military history coordinator election half-way mark
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Copying within Wikipedia requires attribution
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 * thanks for your note. that sounds fine. thanks. --Sm8900 (talk) 13:48, 24 October 2019 (UTC)

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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Categories by country administrative level


A tag has been placed on Category:Categories by country administrative level 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.

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Civility in portal deletion discussions
Hi Sm8900. I am a clerk for the Arbitration Committee. I see that you have made this edit in JzG's section. Can you please move your comment to your own section? People providing comments on a case should only edit their own section. --In actu (Guerillero) &#124; My Talk  17:40, 18 November 2019 (UTC)


 * happy to do so. it looks like someone already has moved that comment. thanks. --Sm8900 (talk) 17:41, 18 November 2019 (UTC)