User talk:Topbanana/Archive 6

User:Topbanana/Eclipsed Files
Greetings, probably should have asked earlier but is it OK to remove files that are no longer shadowing/shadowed from that page?Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 14:58, 5 March 2016 (UTC)


 * Goodness yes - do whatever you want with the report. From memory there was a plan to add a more complete and regularly generated equivalent of it being discussed at Wikipedia_talk:Database_reports.  If nothing came of this, I can bring User:Topbanana/Eclipsed Files up to date.  Good job tackling the issue, keep it up.  - TB (talk) 12:54, 7 March 2016 (UTC)
 * OK; I'll do so. Having a bot or something to tag thes shadowed files as ShadowsCommons may be worth discussing, but probably not for here.Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 16:49, 7 March 2016 (UTC)
 * User:Jo-Jo Eumerus: I already have a database report of these files and am planning to go through the whole set. Many of the files have been moved to Commons but in thumbnail forms, and I'm afraid that some people might start moving around those files instead of overwriting and cleaning up the Commons data if the files become too visible. Can't you help resolving the already tagged files first? There are currently about 1200 untagged files which shadow Commons and which are neither up for deletion here nor on Commons. --Stefan2 (talk) 17:26, 7 March 2016 (UTC)
 * I am working on the other shadowings, but I don't think that adding a few more things to the queue now is necessarily a bad thing.Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 17:35, 7 March 2016 (UTC)

Tan Sri Halim Saad listed at Redirects for discussion
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Proposed deletion of Dhiyab bin Isa Al Nahyan


The article Dhiyab bin Isa Al Nahyan has been proposed for deletion&#32; because of the following concern:
 * unsourced

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АА listed at Redirects for discussion
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Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Uncatted stubs
Could you please update WikiProject Stub sorting/Uncatted stubs? I see it hasn't been updated since March 2015. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 03:36, 8 July 2016 (UTC)

Merger discussion for Potato Range
An article that you have been involved in editing&mdash;Potato Range &mdash;has been proposed for merging with another article. If you are interested, please participate in the merger discussion. Thank you. Dan arndt (talk) 02:07, 31 August 2016 (UTC)

Wikimedia tool
Hi, The tool located at http://tools.wmflabs.org/tb-dev/MEA/ is one of the tools which I was searching for since long back. It would be very useful for me. I find multiple Indian languages like Tamil, Telugu, etc, missing in the list. Kindly update the list with more languages. This will enable me to search missing articles and write. Thanks -தமிழ்க்குரிசில் (talk) 17:59, 10 August 2016 (UTC)


 * I have added all Wikipediae with more than 10000 articles to the MEA tool. Let me know if you see any problems. - TB (talk) 22:21, 1 September 2016 (UTC)

Royal Marines Badge SVG issue - Gday MAte the SVG on the Royal Marines Page for the badge no longer works correctly, will display but when click on to view the SVG it goes to a text documentHawkeyebasil (talk) 14:10, 24 October 2016 (UTC)

Template:R Alternate search method listed at Redirects for discussion
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Two-Factor Authentication now available for admins
Hello,

Please note that TOTP based two-factor authentication is now available for all administrators. In light of the recent compromised accounts, you are encouraged to add this additional layer of security to your account. It may be enabled on your preferences page in the "User profile" tab under the "Basic information" section. For basic instructions on how to enable two-factor authentication, please see the developing help page for additional information. Important: Be sure to record the two-factor authentication key and the single use keys. If you lose your two factor authentication and do not have the keys, it's possible that your account will not be recoverable. Furthermore, you are encouraged to utilize a unique password and two-factor authentication for the email account associated with your Wikimedia account. This measure will assist in safeguarding your account from malicious password resets. Comments, questions, and concerns may be directed to the thread on the administrators' noticeboard. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 20:34, 12 November 2016 (UTC)

A new user right for New Page Patrollers
Hi.

A new user group, New Page Reviewer, has been created in a move to greatly improve the standard of new page patrolling. The user right can be granted by any admin at PERM. It is highly recommended that admins look beyond the simple numerical threshold and satisfy themselves that the candidates have the required skills of communication and an advanced knowledge of notability and deletion. Admins are automatically included in this user right.

It is anticipated that this user right will significantly reduce the work load of admins who patrol the performance of the patrollers. However,due to the complexity of the rollout, some rights may have been accorded that may later need to be withdrawn, so some help will still be needed to some extent when discovering wrongly applied deletion tags or inappropriate pages that escape the attention of less experienced reviewers, and above all, hasty and bitey tagging for maintenance. User warnings are available here but very often a friendly custom message works best.

If you have any questions about this user right, don't hesitate to join us at WT:NPR. (Sent to all admins) .MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:48, 15 November 2016 (UTC)

Query request
This page has two query's you wrote & ran over a year ago. I'd like to ask you if you could rerun them. The page can be overwritten. Thanks, -DePiep (talk) 15:50, 23 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Done. - TB (talk) 16:59, 23 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Thanks. -DePiep (talk) 17:47, 23 November 2016 (UTC)

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RLRL
Hi! When doing queries @quarry.wmflabs, I can't access lvwiki tables. I can access ptwiki and enwiki. And can you do a rescan for lvwiki? -- Edgars2007  (talk/contribs) 13:10, 24 January 2017 (UTC)
 * p50380g50491's public databases are in the process of being moved to the s51111 user - so p50380g50491__unlikely_ptwiki_p will become s51111__unlikely_ptwiki_p. The mvoe should be completed in the next day or two. - TB (talk) 15:50, 24 January 2017 (UTC)

RLRL not working
Hi, since the new year RLRL hasn't been displaying correctly. Is this my setup or a problem with the database? Cheers. welsh (talk) 21:17, 19 January 2017 (UTC)
 * I get the headers but no suggestions, on two differently configured machines, so it's not your setup. Topbanana hasn't edited for several weeks - I do hope all is well. I'll try e-mailing the Labs. Certes (talk) 16:00, 20 January 2017 (UTC)
 * All fixed now - you caught me on a hemi-demi-semi wikibreak, apologies. The underlying problem was some boneheaded code implemented by me many years ago that has been working all this time only because the nice folks at tool labs have set up such up their environment in a very accomodating and fault-tolerant manner.  RLRL (along with all the other tools sharing the same code-base) should be tickety-boo now.  Cheers.  Things are mostly working, but now that I've checked things out an unrelated error is causing problems (database permission errors) in some tools.  Fix pending - TB (talk) 17:24, 21 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Thanks very much. Good to see you back! Certes (talk) 17:56, 21 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Now generally working but a small bug report in case it helps: Multifix gives SELECT command denied to user 's51111'@'10.68.16.239' for table 'namespace'. Certes (talk) 19:39, 21 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Ta. I await DBA assistance to fix this . - TB (talk) 20:53, 21 January 2017 (UTC)
 * "Search suggestions" is now working, including Multifix. Thanks to Topbanana, and to the DBA if they're watching!
 * I've looked at the first page of each list and fixed the links where I agree with the suggestion. Is there any way to get past the first 50 cases I've rejected and see a second page, or do I just need to be patient until they've been viewed enough times to lower their score?
 * On a slightly different topic, all the Unlikely Links lists are empty, even including whitelisted entries. Have we fixed them all? Certes (talk) 17:41, 23 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Other than the controls you see at the top of the screen, you can't adjust the suggestions the tool gives you, no. It picks out a selection of those meeting your criteria that it has the highest confidence about; suggestions that have been shown to someone but not fixed have their scores lowered and are less likely to be seen again - unless of course the pool of suggestions being worked through grows too small in which case let me know and I'll 'restock' the tool.
 * I'll have a look at the Unlikely Links tool this evening for you. - TB (talk) 08:57, 24 January 2017 (UTC)
 * That's unlikely links (English-language) fixed - other languages to follow. - TB (talk) 17:05, 24 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Confirmed working for me too. I'm also getting new suggestions - either something mended itself or the false positives have now been viewed enough times. Thanks again, Certes (talk) 01:49, 25 January 2017 (UTC)

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2017). This first issue is being sent out to all administrators, if you wish to keep receiving it please subscribe. Your feedback is welcomed.

Administrator changes
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 * When performing some administrative actions the reason field briefly gave suggestions as text was typed. This change has since been reverted so that issues with the implementation can be addressed. (T34950)
 * Following the latest RfC concluding that Pending Changes 2 should not be used on the English Wikipedia, an RfC closed with consensus to remove the options for using it from the page protection interface, a change which has now been made. (T156448)
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Arbitration
 * The Arbitration Committee released a response to the Wikimedia Foundation's statement on paid editing and outing.

Obituaries
 * JohnCD (John Cameron Deas) passed away on 30 December 2016. John began editing Wikipedia seriously during 2007 and became an administrator in November 2009.

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A request
Hello, would you mind running an SQL query for me, to find the number of New Page Patrols by month in the last couple of years or so? I would do it myself, but I have no idea how. ThePlatypusofDoom (talk) 21:30, 5 March 2017 (UTC)


 * That should get you started in Quarry, I see about 180,000/month. I'm not familiar with Patrolling (different types?, autopatrol vs ?) — Dispenser 22:38, 11 March 2017 (UTC)
 * That should get you started in Quarry, I see about 180,000/month. I'm not familiar with Patrolling (different types?, autopatrol vs ?) — Dispenser 22:38, 11 March 2017 (UTC)

Wikidata item for red links
Improving the red link suggestions in Dab solver, thought I'd share it. — Dispenser 22:20, 11 March 2017 (UTC)


 * Added JOIN to meta_p.wiki to exclude  as a language (e.g. Michel Robert Roberge).  — Dispenser 13:14, 22 March 2017 (UTC)

RLRL not working
It seems RLRL is not working with the following error message. It's been like this for some time - I was waiting to see if it healed itself. No webservice. The URI you have requested, /tb-dev/RLRL/stats.php, is not currently serviced. welsh (talk) 07:07, 11 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Still not serviced, along with the whole of /tb-dev. Can we ask someone on Tool Labs to press the start button, or does that task require Banana-shaped intervention? Certes (talk) 11:41, 29 May 2017 (UTC)


 * Fixed. Apologies for the extended absence - pesky RL commitments. - TB (talk) 15:01, 24 June 2017 (UTC)
 * That's working again for me. Thank you!  Real life always comes first but it's good to have you back. Certes (talk) 15:57, 24 June 2017 (UTC)
 * Thank you! welsh (talk) 19:38, 24 June 2017 (UTC)

One curiosity: AUTOFIX is opening the page but no longer shows the find/replace fields to do the fix for me. I've followed the instructions again (although it was working a few months ago anyway). Does AUTOFIX work for other users now, in which case it's my configuration problem, or has it broken? Certes (talk) 21:04, 25 June 2017 (UTC)
 * Similar for me. It seemed to be working in some circumstances, but largely not. welsh (talk) 21:59, 25 June 2017 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Marion Marshall (author)


The article Marion Marshall (author) has been proposed for deletion because it appears to have no references. Under Wikipedia policy, this biography of a living person will be deleted after seven days unless it has at least one reference to a reliable source that directly supports material in the article.

If you created the article, please don't be offended. Instead, consider improving the article. For help on inserting references, see Referencing for beginners, or ask at the help desk. Once you have provided at least one reliable source, you may remove the prod blp/dated tag. Please do not remove the tag unless the article is sourced. If you cannot provide such a source within seven days, the article may be deleted, but you can when you are ready to add one. Atlantic306 (talk) 21:26, 24 July 2017 (UTC)

Tools are 502ing
So your tools have been down for a few weeks apparently, likely due to your IRL commitments. What do you think about adding another maintainer? While I'm over-committed myself, I would be able to address small issues such as this and already have a bit of knowledge on your code. — Dispenser 17:52, 15 October 2017 (UTC)


 * I'm going ahead on adoption (while the whole server burnt down with yesterday's HDD failure). If you'd like to expedite it, add me in the management interface.  — Dispenser 16:48, 2 November 2017 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Saulteau First Nations
Hello Topbanana,

I wanted to let you know that I just tagged Saulteau First Nations 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 [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=&action=edit&section=new&preload=Template:Hangon_preload&preloadtitle=This+page+should+not+be+speedy+deleted+because...+ 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.

Owlsmcgee (talk) 05:55, 28 November 2017 (UTC)

Please comment
Please could you comment at Village pump (technical) because it involves an image thst you uploaded? Thanks &mdash; Martin (MSGJ · talk) 13:23, 7 December 2017 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Marion Marshall (author)


The article Marion Marshall (author) has been proposed for deletion&#32;because of the following concern: "Writer of a handful of romance novels, some self-published, no evidence of notability."

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Аrtur Petrosyan listed at Redirects for discussion
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Nomination of Prince Constantine Alexios of Greece and Denmark for deletion
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Suspension of administrative permissions due to inactivity
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 * As pointed at a WP:BN you had a deleted edit from 20170808, so this action has been reversed and postponed until at least 20180808. You can stop the process by making any edit still.  Best regards, —  xaosflux  Talk 12:52, 1 July 2018 (UTC)
 * I'm barely active at all - if it's more convenient to de-sysop me and reapply if and when I become active, that's absolutely fine by me. - TB (talk) 21:23, 4 July 2018 (UTC)
 * Hi TB, if you would like your flag removed please post at least a very short section at WP:BN for our records. If you ask for removal at BN you can resume access by asking at BN so long as you meet the time requirements in Administrators; or at any time via the WP:RFA process.  Best regards, —  xaosflux  Talk 15:05, 10 July 2018 (UTC)

Nomination of Canadian Nationalist Party for deletion
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List (abstract data type listed at Redirects for discussion
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Your Toolforge tool 'tb-dev' needs attention
https://tools.wmflabs.org/trusty-tools/u/tb lists tools you maintain which need to be manually migrated from the legacy Ubuntu Trusty job grid to the new Debian Stretch job grid. Emails notifying you of this have been bouncing, so updating the email address associated with your Developer account would also be appreciated. --BDavis (WMF) (talk) 21:36, 17 March 2019 (UTC)

Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns redirect
I believe this redirect Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns (SAAWK) is incorrect. The page it points to, Academy of Science of South Africa (ASAf) is a new organisation started in 1996, while SAAWK started in about 1906 and has not been replaced by ASAf. There just isn't an English version of the page that exists on Afrikaans Wikipedia Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns. Please could you undo this redirect, thanks. Wyatt Tyrone Smith (talk) 21:13, 25 April 2019 (UTC)

ArbCom 2019 special circular
   

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Administrator account security (Correction to Arbcom 2019 special circular)
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Control Commission for Germany - British Element listed at Redirects for discussion
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Notification of pending suspension of administrative permissions due to inactivity
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Еvgeny Lebedev listed at Redirects for discussion
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СGA listed at Redirects for discussion
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please can you return the article kingston hospital radio to my sandbox. i do not understand what you mean by redirects etc, and I find the wikipedia guidelines confusing and complicated. i work for the charity involved so am not sure how why i don't seem to be able to use our content. all i need is for someone to say do this, don't do this in relation to my article. if necessary i will move it to a special page. thanks.

Thanks so much for your time and consideration to help. Being not nice (talk) 08:45, 27 July 2019 (UTC)

Suspension of administrative permissions due to inactivity
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Nomination of John Douglas Smith for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article John Douglas Smith 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/John Douglas Smith until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, 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. Girth Summit  (blether) 22:21, 14 September 2019 (UTC)

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