User talk:Tom Morris/Archive 23

Wikidata weekly summary #82
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Global message delivery 20:47, 2 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Wikidata celebrates its first birthday!
 * Wikidata presentation at the Open Knowledge Workshop Day on November 4th by Wikimedia Suomi
 * Interview with Magnus, a Wikimedia tool creator
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * record held, the one-thousandth property, is created.
 * Wikidata could be a multilingual picture dictionary
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: Lattes Platform number, NTA PPN identifier, PTBNP identifier, MusicBrainz Place ID, NLR (Romania) identifier, engine configuration, belongs to jurisdiction, record held, ARICNS, dmoz, scan file, NFPA Reactivity, NFPA Fire, NFPA Health, function/mission, elected holder, voice recording, spoken text audio
 * Newest task forces: Railways task force
 * Development
 * Create and remove claim diffs will now show a diff for the WHOLE claim, bug 53142
 * Sitelinks in diffs now have a link to the article
 * ByPropertyLists now also accept lower case propertyids as keys instead of just uppercase
 * WikibaseDatabase extension released to version 0.1
 * Entity descriptions are now included in the search index text
 * Sitelink titles are also included in search index text
 * Further developments on Quantities
 * Fixed the hiding of the remove button when adding a new statement
 * Serialization options have been cleaned up
 * Escape titles on revision history and diff pages
 * Further work on Query and QueryEngine
 * Open Tasks for You
 * Update, expand and translate d:Wikidata:Introduction to make it easier for newcomers to understand what Wikidata is all about.
 * Improve some road items in your country by adding some statements to them.
 * Help fix formatting and value issues for a property.
 * Build a bot for one of the "bot requests".
 * Hack on one of these.

Tim Koch
Hello, Tom Morris. Another administrator,, deleted Tim Koch; could you please restore it to&#32;User:Launchballer/Tim Koch because he is a member of Heartist (see User:Launchballer/Heartist) and there are a number of incoming links? I'm undecided what to write, whether an article, redirect or disambiguation page, but something is necessary.&#32;Thank you.-- Laun  chba  ller  11:48, 2 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Launchballer: I'm just rushing out the house. I'll deal with this later. —Tom Morris (talk) 11:58, 2 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Launchballer: I just got around to looking at it. There's nothing of value on that page. If you are intending to write an article, you'd be better doing it from scratch than using that. It's just promotional fluff. So, ❌. —Tom Morris (talk) 13:33, 3 November 2013 (UTC)

AfD relistings
Thanks for your recent work relisting AfD discussions. This oft-unnoticed maintenance task is important to keep things organized at AfD, and your work is appreciated. Cheers, Northamerica1000(talk) 12:08, 8 November 2013 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #83
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Global message delivery 21:50, 8 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Closed: Restructure of minor user rights
 * Lua enhancements discussion
 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Wikidata IRC Office hour on Wednesday November 13th in #wikimedia-office
 * On November 10th, Gerard Meijssen will discuss Wikidata at the Wikimedia Diversity Conference
 * Lydia makes a guest appearance at the Metric and activities meeting to discuss Wikidata's growth
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Wikisource deployment planned to start January 13th, 2014, see the coordination page here
 * Magnus discusses Wikidata items and Wikipedia entries
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: BIBSYS identifier, Arts & Architecture Thesaurus ID, criterion used, including, excluding
 * Newest task forces: Athletics task force
 * You can now thank users for their contributions on Wikidata
 * Development
 * Sitelinks in diff views now link to the article
 * Bene* worked on adding a table of contents to item pages (44876)
 * More work on badges by mlazowik
 * Creating and removing claims with references and qualifiers now show full diffs
 * Fixed invalid diffs which display 'diff=0' as a parameter (49434)
 * Fixed cases where diff pages arew caches and display in incorrect languages (55667)
 * Added ability to ignore conflicts in merge items API module
 * Worked on adding the datatype in the json output
 * Fix validation of wbsetreference
 * Wikibase Query now listens to entity changes of Wikibase Repo
 * Open Tasks for You
 * Update, expand and translate d:Wikidata:Introduction to make it easier for newcomers to understand what Wikidata is all about.
 * Improve biology, help out the Molecular biology task force.
 * Help fix formatting and value issues for a property.
 * Build a bot for one of the "bot requests".
 * Hack on one of these.

Wikidata weekly summary #84
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Global message delivery 21:50, 8 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Closed: Geocoordinates on people
 * Instances of human
 * Dimensions and units for the quantity datatype
 * Discussion started by Tom Morris over Wikidata and Wikinews
 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Digitale Bibliothek 2013 is taking place, November 21st to November 22nd
 * Wikidata office hour logs are available here
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Magnus creates a Wikidata search add-on for Wikipedia
 * [//lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2013-November/003123.html Freebase-Wikidata mappings are produced by Google]
 * The Wikidata IRC channel is moving from #wikimedia-wikidata to #wikidata.
 * Magnus and the Wikidata created redlink lists
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: feed URL, language regulatory body, BAV (Vatican Library) identifier, asteroid taxonomy
 * Newest task forces:
 * Development
 * Added a keyboard shortcut to get from an article to its associated item on Wikidata (bug 46538)
 * Fixed 49434 (Support diff=0 in Wikibase)
 * Worked on Lua improvements including 54324 (sequence in Lua should start with 1)
 * Started making improvements to the loading time of items
 * Started creating a special page to show the items with the most sitelinks (46217)
 * More work on ranks for statements
 * Worked on putting the datatype into the JSON output
 * Worked more on support for enhanced changes format in client
 * Cleaned up code that handles Wikibase entries in client recent changes
 * Added tests for recent changes formatting code in MediaWiki code
 * Updated Wikibase to maintain compatibility with changes in Universal Language Selector
 * Removed many deprecates method usages related to EntityId
 * Improved Special:SetSiteLink page
 * Removed obsolete EntityCache code from Wikibase Client
 * Removed obsolete SearchEntityArtefacts script from Wikibase Repo
 * Updated usages of EntityId to usages of ItemId and PropertyId where applicable
 * Open Tasks for You
 * Update, expand and translate d:Wikidata:Introduction to make it easier for newcomers to understand what Wikidata is all about.
 * Create a mineral species, help out the Mineralogy task force by forming new new statements today!
 * Help fix formatting and value issues for a property.
 * Build a bot for one of the "bot requests".
 * Hack on one of these.

Wikidata weekly summary #85
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; John F. Lewis 21:50, 8 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Improve handling of deleted items and labels in archives
 * Closed: Commons links
 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * An interview with Denny Vrandečić
 * WikiCon 2013
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Reasonator now supports cities and locations
 * The quantities datatype is available for testing
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: main food source, GHS signal word, Digital Rights Management system, legal citation, light characteristic of a lighthouse, crew member, donated by, awarded by, doctoral thesis, SUDOC catalog (editions only), SBFI occupation code, SBC-2010 occupation code, CNO-11 occupation code, KldB-2010 occupation code
 * Development
 * Refactored Api output
 * Collect tasks for Google Code In
 * Make wbeditentity accept serialization with the id and type keys
 * Start setting up ‘automated’ part of the Wikidata build script
 * Released version 1.0 of the Ask library https://github.com/wmde/Ask
 * Fixed dependency injection issue in Wikibase Query
 * Started work on providing a new serialization library that does not have the design issues of the current data model serialization code and can be used as standalone PHP library
 * Moved quantity data type out of experimental and enabled on https://test.wikidata.org
 * Improved Wikibase Lua code
 * Open Tasks for You
 * Update, expand and translate d:Wikidata:Introduction to make it easier for newcomers to understand what Wikidata is all about.
 * Improve some road items in your country by adding some statements to them.
 * Help fix formatting and value issues for a property.
 * Build a bot for one of the "bot requests".
 * Hack on one of these.

Cher (and others)
Per WP:protection policy, pending changes is appropriate for infrequently-edited pages. This article is highly edited by signed users; some IP contributors are decent enough not to be vandalism. --George Ho (talk) 04:26, 9 November 2013 (UTC)


 * Cher is quite highly edited, but there have been violations of the BLP policy such that the article has been put on to semi-protection in addition to pending changes. I'm happy to take PC off the article but I fear that it'll probably have to go back on again. —Tom Morris (talk) 16:40, 9 November 2013 (UTC)

What about deaths in 2013? It is also highly edited. George Ho (talk) 16:26, 9 November 2013 (UTC)


 * The reason I put deaths in 2013 on to PC, if I recall correctly, was that people were adding unsourced material that violates BLP into the article. Given that people like journalists and others use the page, it seems reasonable that if we are going to list someone as dead, we should at the every least have someone check that the source provided is reasonable and not approve the edit if there isn't a RS. I'm not seeing any particular problem with PC on that page.
 * In the future, please just request unprotection at WP:RFPP. —Tom Morris (talk) 16:40, 9 November 2013 (UTC)
 * I was instructed by WP:RFPP to discuss with admin first, like you. But I guess I can understand reasons, so requesting unprotection there is no longer necessary. George Ho (talk) 16:46, 9 November 2013 (UTC)
 * It is a courtesy to discuss protections with admins. I only ask because I do a lot of protection requests, and I'm pretty chilled out about other admins reversing my decisions, so I'd rather have that happen than a request sit on my talk page when I might, say, be busy with work (or out in a pub or with family or whatnot). —Tom Morris (talk) 16:48, 9 November 2013 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Rose Laure Allatini
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This Month in GLAM: October 2013
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Deletion of Nouman Ali Khan
Hi Tom, The reasons cited for deleting the page on Nouman Ali Khan are follows : 25 February 2010 - (Article about a real person, which does not indicate the importance or significance of the subject (CSD A7) 3 July 2013 - (Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Nouman Ali Khan)

Nouman Ali Khan is a Muslim speaker very popular among youth for his contemporary approach to religion. Please find the links on Nouman Ali Khan in mainstream media below :

http://www.gulf-daily-news.com/NewsDetails.aspx?storyid=360711

http://www.arabnews.com/news/445647

http://www.iioc.com/2012/ustadh-nouman-ali-khan/

http://www.icna.org/whyislam-noman-ali-khan-join-for-mexico-trip/

It is quite possible that when the article was taken up for deletion, Mr. Nouman was not well known. But in the past couple of years, he has shot to fame which is quite evident from the news links above. Hence, a page dedicated to him is very much justified. Please look into this. Thanks!

Shaik.afzal.chem (talk) 09:35, 12 November 2013 (UTC)


 * Thanks Shaik.afzal.chem. I had a look at the article that was deleted. It didn't contain those sources and had a number of other issues. While I agree with you that Nouman is probably notable now, the article needs to be written from scratch as the article I deleted wasn't very good. If you want to write this article and submit it through WP:AFC, then point me to it, I'd be happy to review it. —Tom Morris (talk) 09:40, 12 November 2013 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #88
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; John F. Lewis 21:50, 8 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Guidelines about ordering
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Succu becomes the first non-bot user with more than 1000000 edits in Wikidata
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: ResearcherID, Portuguese Job Code CPP-2010, PSH id, medical condition
 * Newest task forces: Political geography task force
 * Showcase items: Barack Obama, Hubble Space Telescope
 * Fun Fact: Q12345 is Count von Count (ah ah ah)
 * Development
 * Made improvements to lower database load
 * Deployed ordering, ranks and a table of contents and fixed issues with those after deployment (mainly performance-related)
 * Worked on preventing import of wikitext into item and property namespace
 * Started working on a new DataModel serialization component which will be usable loose from Wikibase. Both authors and people analysing dumps will thus finally have the deserialization task solved for them.
 * Started working on a version of DataModel that works with the new DataValues components
 * Open Tasks for You
 * Update, expand and translate d:Wikidata:Introduction to make it easier for newcomers to understand what Wikidata is all about.
 * Use the rails, help out the Railways task force!
 * Help fix formatting and value issues for a property.
 * Build a bot for one of the "bot requests".
 * Hack on one of these.

Tech News: 2013-46
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Problems
 * There was a problem caused by too many requests to the database on November 14.

Future
 * MediaWiki 1.23wmf4 was added to test wikis on November 14. It will arrive to non-Wikipedia wikis on November 19 and all Wikipedia wikis on November 21 (calendar).
 * The new Search tool (CirrusSearch) will be added to, Wikimania and Wikisource wikis on November 19, and Wiktionary wikis on November 21 (except where it's already available). Once it is added, you can test it by adding   to the address of the search results page. It will become the main search engine on Wikivoyage wikis on November 21.
 * The MassMessage tool will be added to all wikis on November 19 instead of November 14. It will make it simpler to send messages across wikis.

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Solution Inn ( article declined)
Hi,

How can I state that the company is notable?. Kinldy guide me.

Regards--Wakas444 (talk) 04:30, 20 November 2013 (UTC)


 * Hi User:Wakas444. Wikipedia articles need to have reliable sources to establish notability. For articles on businesses, there need to be sources that aren't press releases or other things that have essentially been put there by company. In addition, the article fails to meet a basic standard of English. Firstly, you need to find good independent, reliable sources: coverage in newspapers or books or high-quality journalism. Secondly, the article needs to be rewritten in good English. —Tom Morris (talk) 07:56, 20 November 2013 (UTC)

Thank for your reply. I have seen some artcles in wikipeda using press releases as sources. same as I did. for example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Course_Hero

This article comes up with the same press release medium PRweb.com which i used in my article. Kindly confirm Why is this discrimination? One thing more can I use Sfgate.com as reliable source?--Wakas444 (talk) 05:41, 21 November 2013 (UTC)

Your closure of "Proposed new Draft namespace"
Greetings. I wanted to thank you for your thorough, respectful, extremely detailed closure of the widespread discussion at Village pump (proposals)/Archive 107. It's true that I supported the proposal, so it might seem self-serving for me to thank someone for closing a discussion "my way", but I'm sincerely when I say that's not my reasoning for seeing this as a well-made closure. (I really don't feel all that strongly about the proposal one way or the other.) I'm impressed with how you carefully read the points made by all parties and showed respect for the various perspectives, concluding a difficult and contentious discussion in as calm and stable a way as possible. Your closing remarks were thorough and well-stated, which I think is just what the community needed.

I also know from personal experience that when you make a difficult call on a discussion with lots of strong feelings, you're likely to get far more criticisms and insults than thanks. So I thought I'd start off the thanks&mdash;not for the call you made, but for how you made it. All the best, – Quadell (talk) 23:06, 19 November 2013 (UTC)


 * Thank you for your kind words. On a personal level, I must note that I came to the discussion completely without any prejudgement. I had seen the CENT notices but had not formed any opinion on the topic before reading the debate. —Tom Morris (talk) 23:21, 19 November 2013 (UTC)

I'll chime in here as well and agree. That was a valuable act, not just for the consideration you gave it but because you made sure the effort and energy in the RfC wasn't spent in vain (coming from someone who opposed it). Protonk (talk) 15:28, 20 November 2013 (UTC)


 * Thank you, Protonk. If people don't want to behead me after closing an RfC, I think it's probably a job well done. —Tom Morris (talk) 21:33, 20 November 2013 (UTC)

Yes, same here. I was wondering if I was missing anything Really Important, but dreaded having to sort it all out myself. Thanks. ~ J. Johnson (JJ) (talk) 22:20, 22 November 2013 (UTC)


 * When I came here, I  didn't  know that  some people had already  commented. I  would just  like to  add my  thanks for your closure, Tom. I  have rarely  seen such  a good RfC closure statement, ever. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 03:22, 23 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Thanks Kudpung and J. Johnson. —Tom Morris (talk) 07:09, 23 November 2013 (UTC)

Please notice ip 111.243.0.198, 114.39.7.129
Hi, Tom Morris, Please notice, ip user  111.243.0.198 and ip 114.39.7.129 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/111.243.0.198  , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/114.39.7.129, Vandalism a lot of articles , please stop these ip user , thank you  MBINISIDLERS (talk) 08:49, 23 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Thanks, MBINSIDLERS. I've warned both for disruptive editing. If they continue, they will be blocked. —Tom Morris (talk) 08:54, 23 November 2013 (UTC)

Thank you, and I hope you can pay attention for this Situation long-time, Specifically ip user 111.243.0.198 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/111.243.0.198 and similar ip address , Thank you  MBINISIDLERS (talk) 09:50, 23 November 2013 (UTC)

Hello,User:MBINISIDLERS is using many socket puppets(user:Chrt6be3kiVCVBVXCVCV,user:Buglerazedg21dnlole,USER:Saucemotedba,USER:Shularackfbbvn...and many more) and IP addresses( 114.39.10.113、 118.171.43.76...) to make en masse changes from Taiwan to ROC, making POV edits about Chiang kai shek,, and vandalizing articles,. I'm trying to reverting them.111.243.0.198 (talk) 10:00, 23 November 2013 (UTC)

HI, Tom Morris, The ip adress 111.243.0.198, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/111.243.0.198, already Violate the Neutral point of view in Wikipedia Policy for many times, hope you can block this ip adress and similar ip address , Thank you MBINISIDLERS (talk) 10:41, 23 November 2013 (UTC)

Pending Changes to all BLP with few or no watchers
I've drafted up an RfA at Biographies of living persons/RfC to add Pending Changes to all BLP with few or no watchers, please feel free to sculpt it into a presentable state. Josh Parris 05:36, 25 November 2013 (UTC)

Tech News: 2013-47
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

New features
 * The Beta Features announced before are now available on all Wikimedia wikis. You can test new features easily by changing your Beta preferences. VisualEditor is one of those features on sites where it works and isn't automatically enabled. There is also a new media viewer and changes in the article text style.
 * Tools developers can now create tools that use the OAuth protocol to connect to accounts on Wikimedia sites. As a user, you can use those tools to make edits and other changes with your account without giving the tool your password.

Problems
 * Wikis that are currently testing CirrusSearch had problems with search results on November 18 from 16:00 to 20:00 UTC.

Future
 * There will be no major code changes on the week of November 25 because many developers will be on holiday for Thanksgiving.
 * The editing interface of  pages on Wikisource (working with the Proofread Page extension) will soon also work without JavaScript.

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Anonymous users creating in the Draft namespace?
Hi Tom,

In your RfC closure, it's unclear whether anonymous users would be able to create pages in the new Draft namespace or not. This has come up at 57569 so if you could clarify that, it would be appreciated. Thanks, Legoktm (talk) 01:24, 26 November 2013 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #86
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; John F. Lewis 21:42, 29 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Showcase items - take 2
 * Verified statements
 * Closed: VCards for Wikivoyage
 * Closed: Image properties
 * Closed: Proposals for the 'Place' related properties
 * Closed: Source items and supporting Wikipedia sources
 * Closed: Constraint violation technical bases
 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * [//blog.wikimedia.org/2013/11/25/wikidata-concept-cloud/ The Wikidata Concept Cloud]
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Quantities datatype is available for testing
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: ZDB identifier, sockets supported, film editor, type of kinship, relative, manager/director, Dewey Decimal Classification, honorific suffix
 * Newest task forces: Sports results task force
 * Development
 * Ranks are nearing completion (49120)
 * Quantities got some more love (improved diff, added scientific notation and simple localisation and made it possible to show/not show + for positive values - 54318)
 * Ordering of statement groups is nearing completion
 * Avoid loading all referenced items in EntityView to improve loading time of items
 * Finalizing the inclusion of data types in JSON output
 * Fixed 2 XML errors on test.wikidata.org ready for deployment
 * Started work on a Wikibase-independent serialization component for DataValues
 * Worked on making Lua arrays start with 1 instead of 0 (54324)
 * Released the Datavalues library
 * Improved enhanced changes code in core, to better allow Wikibase (and Flow) to support that format
 * Defined permissions for Simple Queries
 * First Google Code-In task completed (meaning Special:SetSitelink now retains POSTed infomation after an error so you don't have to enter it again)
 * Open Tasks for You
 * Update, expand and translate d:Wikidata:Introduction to make it easier for newcomers to understand what Wikidata is all about.
 * Improve some road items in your country by adding some statements to them.
 * Help fix formatting and value issues for a property.
 * Build a bot for one of the "bot requests".
 * Hack on one of these.

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