User talk:Vexations/Archive 11

Please comment on Talk:Tinderbox (Siouxsie and the Banshees album)
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Georgia O'Keeffe articles
Hi,

Thanks for the additional Georgia O'Keeffe articles. I noticed on your user page that you don't mind feedback about the articles, so I thought I'd add a few comments:
 * The name of the artist should be linked to her article - I also added links in the articles to the museums, cities, and other articles that may be useful.
 * I removed lines of unused, and likely to remain unused, parameters, like you will see in this edit.
 * A nit-picky item, I capitalized the first work of the subject.
 * I also formatted the url for readability, but that's absolutely a personal preference. If the link is long, though, formatting it is helpful, otherwise it makes the infobox too wide like this version. Because it is an upright, I also set the upright parameter to "y".
 * It would be great if you would add the articles that you are starting to Georgia O'Keeffe. All you need to do is click on the "E" in the upper left hand corner of the template on one of the article pages... or edit Template:Georgia O'Keeffe.

Thanks so much!

(As an FYI, my next article is going to be Flower paintings of Georgia O'Keeffe, another group article. As far as paintings in the public domain, she did a lot of interesting works on what is sometimes called the Canyon series, some of which are mentioned here, if you are interested. I did an article on the group of Palo Duro Canyon paintings of O'Keeffe, though. The lecture seemed to compare fraudulent works, which have "now deemed inauthentic" in the caption, but there appear to be some interesting ones there, if you're interested.)— CaroleHenson &thinsp; (talk) 19:00, 18 January 2017 (UTC)


 * Thanks, that is very helpful. Your suggestions are much appreciated. Mduvekot (talk) 23:48, 19 January 2017 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:Album-oriented rock
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Ferrovia Circumetnea/Routemap
Dear User:Mduvekot, thank you for your contribution to the work I've done on Ferrovia Circumetnea/Routemap. Feel free to add you comments here: Wikipedia talk:Route diagram template --Vadp (talk) 09:57, 23 January 2017 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #244
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Discussions
 * New administrator: Pyb is now admin on Wikidata!


 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Wikidata: the new hub for cultural heritage
 * Past: WikiIndaba, Ghana
 * Upcoming: FOSDEM, Brussels, February 4-5th


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Coordinates on Russian Wikipedia now link to maps generated with the Kartographer extension. The map includes the location outline, if that object exists in OpenStreetMap (OSM) with a corresponding Wikidata ID (ways and relations only, not nodes). Example: Зальцбург (click coordinates in the upper right corner, or in the infobox on the side). If you create a Wikidata item about a specific administrative area, building, or other physical individual object which appears on maps, then please add the Wikidata ID to the relevant object in OSM, using key:wikidata= (here's how to contribute to OSM).
 * QuickStatements V2 can now run your commands in the background, no need to keep the browser tab open anymore
 * List of churches generated from Wikidata on Cymraeg Wikipedia


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: ZNIEFF Code, teams classification by time, cycling teams classification by points, FilmPolski.pl ID, points classification, legal status (medicine), basic reproduction number, muscle insertion, muscle origin


 * Query examples:
 * Tide mills in France (source)
 * Wind mills in Paris (source)
 * Mathematical formulae containing HTML escapes (source)
 * Fire stations in Paris (source)


 * Development
 * Created a new Special:EntityPage, needed for federation (T153499)
 * Sitelink "name" and "badges" in diffs are now translated (T111016)
 * Worked on finalizing mockups for editing Wikidata from Wikipedia and co. Now working on the click-dummy for it so we can try it with you.
 * Last touches for automated sitelinks for Wiktionary.
 * A ton of refactoring needed for Wiktionary support.
 * More research on improving our input widgets (for example URL and date).

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.


 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item
 * Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
 * Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention

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Please comment on Talk:Scare-line
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Wikidata weekly summary #245
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 
 * Discussions
 * Open request for adminship: ديفيد عادل وهبة خليل 2


 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Economists in Wikidata: Opportunities of Authority Linking
 * FOSDEM, February 4-5th in Brussels Come and talk about Wikidata with us! See also the talk about UX and users' needs for Wikidata
 * Web Search and Data Mining Conference, February 6-10th, Cambridge


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Data donation: BBC Things ID (P1617) for news topics, kindly supplied by the BBC. All now uploaded, via Mix'n'Match
 * The StrepHit grant tool was renewed, so the Primary Sources tool can be improved in the future
 * The Bodleian Libraries (Oxford University) are looking for a Wikimedia data assistant to work on Wikidata


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: FIBA player ID, MLB ID, NFL.com ID, fussballdaten.de ID, FootballDatabase.eu ID, euroleague.net ID, JapanTour ID, Australian Government Organisations Register ID, draftexpress.com ID, databaseFootball.com ID, AZBilliards ID, par, median income, Luding game ID, eurobasket.com ID, wisdenindia.com ID, acb.com ID, Simple Modular Architecture Research Tool ID, Rfam ID, NHL.com ID, EuroTour ID, databaseOlympics.com ID, Pfam ID, Smithsonian trinomial, Geographical Names Board of New South Wales ID, National Park Foundation ID, NPCA ID, U.S. National Geodetic Survey ID, peakware ID, means of locomotion, VGMDb label ID, Dagens Nyheter topic ID, Bivouac Mountain Encyclopedia ID, Luding designer ID, BoardGameGeek designer ID, Florentine Inventario Palatina art ID, LombardiaBeniCulturali building ID, Ameblo username, Catholic rite, Ringgold identifier, Gentoo package


 * Query examples:
 * Most articles about films in each Wikipedia
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#PREFIX%20psv%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fprop%2Fstatement%2Fvalue%2F%3E%20SELECT%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%28GROUP_CONCAT%28DISTINCT%20%3FcounLabel%3B%20SEPARATOR%3D%22%2C%20%22%29%20AS%20%3Fcountry%29%20%28GROUP_CONCAT%28DISTINCT%20%3FhqLabel%3B%20SEPARATOR%3D%22%2C%20%22%29%20AS%20%3Fheadquarters%29%20%3Frevenue%20%3Frevenue_USD%20%3FunitLabel%20%3Fdate%20%20%0AWHERE%20{%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ4830453.%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20p%3AP2139%20%3Fstatement.%0A%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20{%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP159%20%3Fhq.%20}%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20{%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP17%20%3Fcoun.%20}%0A%20%20%3Fstatement%20wikibase%3Arank%20%3Frank.%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20{%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fitem%20p%3AP2139%20%3Fstatement1.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fstatement1%20wikibase%3Arank%20wikibase%3APreferredRank.%0A%20%20%20%20FILTER%28%3Frank%20!%3D%20wikibase%3APreferredRank%29%0A%20%20%20%20FILTER%28%3Fstatement1%20!%3D%20%3Fstatement%29%0A%20%20}%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20{%20%3Fstatement%20pq%3AP585%20%3Fdate.%20}%0A%20%20{%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fstatement%20psv%3AP2139%20_%3Ab9.%0A%20%20%20%20_%3Ab9%20wikibase%3AquantityAmount%20%3Frevenue.%0A%20%20%20%20_%3Ab9%20wikibase%3AquantityUnit%20wd%3AQ4917.%0A%20%20%20%20BIND%28wd%3AQ4917%20AS%20%3Funit%29%0A%20%20%20%20BIND%28%3Frevenue%20AS%20%3Frevenue_USD%29%0A%20%20}%0A%20%20UNION%0A%20%20{%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fstatement%20psv%3AP2139%20_%3Ab10.%0A%20%20%20%20_%3Ab10%20wikibase%3AquantityAmount%20%3Frevenue.%0A%20%20%20%20_%3Ab10%20wikibase%3AquantityUnit%20%3Funit.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Funit%20p%3AP2284%20%3Funit_statement.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Funit_statement%20wikibase%3Arank%20%3Funit_rank.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Funit_statement%20psv%3AP2284%20_%3Ab11.%0A%20%20%20%20_%3Ab11%20wikibase%3AquantityUnit%20wd%3AQ4917.%0A%20%20%20%20_%3Ab11%20wikibase%3AquantityAmount%20%3Fusd.%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20{%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Funit%20p%3AP2284%20%3Funit_statement1.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Funit_statement1%20%28psv%3AP2284%2Fwikibase%3AquantityUnit%29%20wd%3AQ4917.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Funit_statement1%20wikibase%3Arank%20wikibase%3APreferredRank.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20FILTER%28%3Funit_rank%20!%3D%20wikibase%3APreferredRank%29%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20FILTER%28%3Funit_statement1%20!%3D%20%3Funit_statement%29%0A%20%20%20%20}%0A%20%20%20%20BIND%28%3Frevenue%20*%20%3Fusd%20AS%20%3Frevenue_USD%29%0A%20%20%20%20FILTER%28%3Funit%20!%3D%20wd%3AQ4917%29%0A%20%20%20%20FILTER%28%3Funit_rank%20!%3D%20wikibase%3ADeprecatedRank%29%0A%20%20%20%20FILTER%28!BOUND%28%3Funit_statement1%29%29%0A%20%20}%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20{%0A%20%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22%20.%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FitemLabel%20.%0A%20%20%3Fcoun%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FcounLabel%20.%0A%20%20%3Fhq%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FhqLabel%20.%0A%20%20%3Funit%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FunitLabel%20.%0A%20%20}%0A%20%20FILTER%28%3Frank%20!%3D%20wikibase%3ADeprecatedRank%29%0A%20%20FILTER%28!BOUND%28%3Fstatement1%29%29%0A}%0AGROUP%20BY%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3Frevenue%20%3Frevenue_USD%20%3FunitLabel%20%3Fdate%0AORDER%20BY%20DESC%28%3Frevenue_USD%29%0ALIMIT%2015 Largest companies by revenue in USD]
 * Characters whose actors died recently (source)
 * Stock-listed US companies with founders who (or whose parents) were born outside the US (source)
 * Wizards from Harry Potter and their houses/groups (source)
 * Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Companies
 * Newest database reports: film festivals this month


 * Development
 * RDF exports will contain sitelink page names as strings in addition to the URLs (T148923)
 * Switching the remaining special pages for labels, descriptions and aliases to the OOUI design (T48248)
 * Finalizing the security review of the Cognate extension for Wiktionary (T149082)
 * We plan to provide  Open Graph tags for sharing Item pages in social networks (T51859)
 * Introducing a new test framework for special pages (T69122)
 * Refactoring the wbeditentity API to work with the new Lexeme entity type (T154288)
 * Added [//phabricator.wikimedia.org/diffusion/EWBA/browse/master/docs/change-op-serializations.wiki docs/change-op-serializations.wiki] documenting how to use the wbeditentity API
 * Added a [//phabricator.wikimedia.org/diffusion/EWBA/browse/master/CREDITS CREDITS] file to the Wikibase code base, listing all authors

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.


 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item
 * Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
 * Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention

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Category:1973 establishments in Lagos has been nominated for discussion
Category:1973 establishments in Lagos, 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. Brown HairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 14:25, 2 February 2017 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:Feast or Fired
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Syed Chand Patel
The Page Curation tool has botched the AFD on this BLP. It seems that there was a previous AFD ten years ago and it has linked to it rather than creating a new one. Robert McClenon (talk) 01:25, 4 February 2017 (UTC)

New Page Review - newsletter No.2
Hello , We now have New Page Reviewers! Most of us requested the user right at PERM, expressing a wish to be able to do something about the huge backlog, but the chart on the right does not demonstrate any changes to the pre-user-right levels of October. The backlog is still steadily growing at a rate of 150 a day or 4,650 a month. Only 20 reviews a day by each reviewer over the next few days would bring the backlog down to a managable level and the daily input can then be processed by each reviewer doing only 2 or 3 reviews a day - that's about 5 minutes work! It didn't work in time to relax for the Xmas/New Year holidays. Let's see if we can achieve our goal before Easter, otherwise by Thanksgiving it will be closer to. Remember that we are the only guardians of quality of new articles, we alone have to ensure that pages are being correctly tagged by non-Reviewer patrollers and that new authors are not being bitten. This is even more important and extra vigilance is required considering Orangemoody,  and
 * A HUGE backlog
 * Second set of eyes
 * Abuse
 * 1) this very recent case of paid advertising by a Reviewer resulting  in  a community ban.
 * 2) this case in January of paid advertising by a Reviewer, also resulting in  a community ban.
 * 3) This Reviewer is indefinitely blocked for sockpuppetry.

Coordinator election
Kudpung is stepping down after 6 years as unofficial coordinator of New Page Patrolling/Reviewing. There is enough work for two people and two coords are now required. Details are at NPR Coordinators; nominate someone or nominate yourself. Date for the actual suffrage will be published later. Discuss this newsletter here. If you wish to opt-out of future mailings, please remove yourself from the mailing list MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 06:11, 5 February 2017 (UTC)

Hello,

I agree that the page I created for Camp Walt Whitman was a little bias. As you may know, I have edited many articles in the past, but this is my first time creating an article. Thank you for your contribution.

Jacklbell (talk) 02:26, 6 February 2017 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #246
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 
 * Discussions
 * We need your input about quality criteria for building a tool to evaluate item quality


 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Past: FOSDEM
 * Upcoming: WSDM Cup 2017
 * Upcoming: WikiCite 2017, Vienna, May 23-25, 2017
 * Upcoming: A Gentle Introduction to Wikidata for Absolute Beginners, by Asaf Bartov, February 9th, 19:00 UTC (livestream on Youtube)
 * Scaling the matching of Wikidata to OpenStreetMap with wikimama
 * Software product management as an internship in the Wikidata development team
 * Being a Volunteer Developer for Wikimedia projects: An Interview with Greta Doçi


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Inspire Campaign on outside knowledge networks launched
 * What would you like to talk about during Wikimania Montreal?
 * Join the Wikimania program committee!
 * OpenStreetMap uses several -related tags in its database. See also the related documentation
 * Dutch is now the most used language for descriptions on Wikidata (56,7%), leaving English (55,8%) and German (34,7%) behind.
 * An OpenRefine service for Wikidata is waiting for testing: https://tools.wmflabs.org/openrefine-wikidata/
 * WMDE looking for a data analyst to work mostly on Wikidata
 * WMF looking for a project manager to work on structured data for Commons


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: Saros cycle of eclipse, World Checklist of Selected Plant Families ID, Relations Ontology ID, GCD series ID, WNBA player ID, Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures ID, CricketArchive playing ground ID, UltraSignup runner ID, ITRA runner ID, Surfline ID, SunshineTour ID, Pro Football Hall of Fame ID, SIPCA code, Sina Weibo id, autologous cell line, Croatian Football Federation player ID, TLG author ID, data size, Fangraphs ID, European Handball Federation ID, ESPNcricinfo playing ground ID, ESPN MLB player ID, European Case Law Identifier, Cultureel Woordenboek identifier, OWGR ID, Legends of Hockey ID, Just Sports Stats ID, J.League Data Site ID, Global Poker Index ID, NGA Lighthouse ID, Admiralty number, pro-football-reference ID, College Football Data Warehouse ID, maximum size or capacity, USCF ID, World Curling Federation ID, World Curling Tour ID, World Guide to Covered Bridges ID, World Series of Poker ID, Zhihu topic ID


 * Query examples:
 * Places of worship south of 48°S(source)
 * Fictional items named after real items(source)


 * Development
 * You can now download query results as SVG images
 * When posting a link to an item to social networks and on messenger apps that show previews the previews will now be nicer and show an image. (T51859)
 * We published the results of our research around Commons usage: How do heavy Commons users work? ...and what does that mean for structured data on Commons?
 * Setting up test system for federation (being able to use Wikidata's items and properties on Commons)
 * Setting up test system for lexemes
 * Setting up test system for improved change dispatching (sending notifications about edits on Wikidata to Wikipedia and co)
 * Doing more groundwork for lexemes
 * Working on better integration with Elastic
 * More work on Federation
 * Getting ready to deploy automated sitelinks for Wiktionary
 * Fixing a number of keyboard navigation issues based on your feedback
 * Working on the new datatype for geoshapes (T57549)
 * Looking into linking more complicated external identifiers properly (T151329)
 * Improved the link to the help portal on the query service (T154993)

See all open tickets related to Wikidata.


 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item
 * Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
 * Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention
 * The Cebuano and Swedish wikis have a lot of bot-created content which is unconnected to other wiki articles. A good way to tackle that problem is by checking constraint violations for property GeoNames ID.

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Please comment on Talk:List of original programs distributed by Netflix
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I don t know how to use wikipedia well
Hi, I saw that you marked my page for deletion. I used to have it as "User page" but today (08/02/2017), I moved to "Article page". I can move it back, but first I would like to know how to protect my very own page. I read a lot of Wiki pages but I still not knowing how to do that :( Please HELP ME, I am complete lost with how to edit and have a nice looking (template) personal page, It is just for my self (actually I don't have friends to view my page, I am the only one, but I like) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kelvin Bolztmann (talk • contribs) 14:52, 8 February 2017 (UTC)
 * I understand that you would like to have a user page, which is fine. When you moved User:Kelvin Bolztmann to Kelvin Bolztmann your userpage became a Wikipedia article, which is not what you intended. What you might have found confusing is namespaces. Pages that start with User: are in in username space. Those pages are not considered part of the encyclopedia. Pages without such a prefix are in so-called mainspace, and are all encyclopedia articles. I noticed you managed to move your userpage back to its proper location, so I think no further action is necessary. All the best. Mduvekot (talk) 23:45, 8 February 2017 (UTC)

My page Operating Model Canvas
Mduvekot

I am contesting your speedy deletion tag. I am a lecturer at Ashridge Executive Education and this is one of the tools that I teach on my course Designing Operating Models www.ashridge.org.uk/dom  The article contains no reference to any material that I have written or to my course, so I do not see how it is self promotion. My email address is andrew.campbell@ashridge.hult.edu. Please contact me directly if you want to discuss this. Andrewonstrategy (talk) 03:46, 9 February 2017 (UTC)

Comments on the G. Knight page
Hello,

I am new to wikipedia and creating the page for G. Knight was my first page so I apologize in advance for any blatantly novice questions.

Anyhow,

You contested the page saying how there were no reliable sources that G. Knight exists and I wish to contest that statement.

1. I cited fine art America as auctioning G. Knight work. 2. I cited The Miami Street art auction for selling G. Knight art 3. Here is a link to G. Knights website http://gknight.ca/ 4. Here is a link to Montreal's main graffiti watching page showing G. Knights work.

Unfortunately, G. Knight has never done an interview with the media or anybody for that matter as he is a very reclusive figure, but I hope you can see with the information given that I have done the best in my ability to give reliable sources to prove his existence.

I am in direct contact with one of the few people who has met and worked with G. Knight (Oz Yilmaz, the director of 'A dance for G. Knight', which I also cited') and this is all the information I could muster even with his efforts.

I hope you understand that I have put a lot of effort into finding the best and most credible sources and I plan to continue to update the page as any new information comes along. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cfbegin (talk • contribs) 01:38, 10 February 2017 (UTC)


 * Allow me to clarify: I wrote AAs far as I can tell, no independent, reliable source has written about G. Knight. I hope you have read the pages that I linked to, WP:IS and WP:RS. The sources you provided are:
 * gknight.ca – not an independent source
 * wall2wallmtl.com – not a reliable source, it's a blog, not a publication that is under editorial control, with a reputation for fact-checking
 * artsalesindex.artinfo.com – independent, probably reliable, but says little more than that two works were offered at auction
 * fineartamerica.com – an e-commerce site, neither independent nor reliable
 * IMDB – not always a reliable source See Citing IMDb
 * If this is all the information you could find, please reconsider this article; there simply may not be enough published information to base an article on. It may simply be WP:TOOSOON. I should not that it did not escape my attention that a previous article about the same subject you created has been speedily deleted under criterion A7. If frankly thought that was a bit excessive for the article in its current form (they may have been different, I can't tell), so I tagged it as having issues with notability. Please see WP:ARTIST and let me know if you think G. Knight meets any of the criteria mentioned there, and which sources you can provide that let readers of Wikipedia verify that what you say in the article can be backed up by reliable sources. Mduvekot (talk) 02:50, 10 February 2017 (UTC)

@mduvekot

I understand. I will act immediatley to try and find a independant and reliable source for information on G. Knight. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cfbegin (talk • contribs) 03:32, 10 February 2017 (UTC)

G. Knight independent, credible reference
Hello Mduvekot,

For the G. Knight page, I have cited a link from an interview G. Knight had with the Istanbul Art news, which is an independent paper. I hope this will suffice in giving G. Knight a reliable reference.

http://gknight.ca/2017/02/10/istanbul-art-news-chronicle/ — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cfbegin (talk • contribs) 16:04, 10 February 2017 (UTC)
 * I speak four languages, but my Turkish is not so great, I'm afraid. Jokes aside; an interview is a primary source. Mduvekot (talk) 22:27, 10 February 2017 (UTC)

ATS page
Hi. I got a notice that you'd marked a page I created (Advanced Technology Services) for speedy deletion on the grounds that it's too promotional. Can you help me understand that decision? I tried to keep it factual and used top-tier sources (e.g., Forbes, WSJ, etc.) to back up claims and establish notability. Any advice you can provide would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance! Shogan1998 (talk) 19:37, 11 February 2017 (UTC)
 * On 29 November 2016 your draft version Draft:Advanced Technology Services, Inc. was declined as promotional, and you were given advice on improving the article. The next day it was deleted under criterion G11: Unambiguous advertising or promotion. This time you just created it directly in main space. I don't have a subscription to the WSJ, so I'll take your word for it. You must know that the Forbes article was written by a "contributor", not Forbes a editor; it's just a blog entry, basically an advertorial. The AOL article consist of quotes from employees and militaryfriendly, well, that';s not even an article. Are you sure you have no conflict of interest with ATS that requires disclosure? For someone with only 144 edits, you showed remarkable skill when you created Advanced Technology Services, Inc. in one single edit. Mduvekot (talk) 20:07, 11 February 2017 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your reply. To clarify, I did not get advice on how to improve the first submission. Before I saw the notice (which, like yours, contained no specifics), the original article had been deleted altogether by someone else, so there was nothing to edit. Sorry if I violated a protocol by creating it in the main space; it was unintentional. In my opinion, the first article was not promotional either, but I completely rewrote it anyway for resubmission, making it factual and brief. In my opinion, it is similar in tone, sourcing, etc., to many existing Wikipedia articles about companies of similar size in the same or similar industries, so I'm trying to understand what makes one article eligible for deletion while others are published. Thanks! Shogan1998 (talk) 20:31, 11 February 2017 (UTC)
 * The answer to your question what makes one article eligible for deletion while others are published may well be: Nothing. It does not matter that WP:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS. Each article is considered on its own merits and by consensus as codified in Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. In this case, What_Wikipedia_is_not is the relevant policy and Spam a guideline. Since I answered your question, do you mind answering mine: Are you sure you have no conflict of interest with ATS that requires disclosure? Mduvekot (talk) 20:45, 11 February 2017 (UTC)

THANK YOU Mduvekot!
It's nice to get a welcome to the community. I was a nerd in college. Now I teach college. :) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Empresschow (talk • contribs) 05:07, 12 February 2017 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:Fake news website
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Salman Haneef
Hi Michiel, you left a warning on my talk page that I created an attack page Salman Haneef. This was my last edit to page and I believe it was not an attack page. It was properly sourced. Though I agree that this is what can be called a personal attack but thats not added by me. I can see that User:GB fan restored the earlier version of page but I suggest the information that I added should be restored. --Saqib (talk) 20:23, 13 February 2017 (UTC)
 * You're right. I understand that you did not add the section that was removed by . Removing the offending section rather than deleting the article was the correct course of action. I should have done that myself. My apologies. Mduvekot (talk) 20:29, 13 February 2017 (UTC)
 * Would appreciate if you remove the warning message from my talk page. It looks ugly! --Saqib (talk) 20:30, 13 February 2017 (UTC)
 * If there is information that is well sourced that I removed, add it back. I reverted to a version that was not negative.  Now it is an editorial judgement if the information is neutral and well sourced.  - GB fan 20:52, 13 February 2017 (UTC)
 * If there is information that is well sourced that I removed, add it back. I reverted to a version that was not negative.  Now it is an editorial judgement if the information is neutral and well sourced.  - GB fan 20:52, 13 February 2017 (UTC)

Paylesser page speedy deletion
Hi Mduvekot,

Thanks for taking time to review Paylesser page. I am sorry that it looked like a promotional article to you. I had taken care to not include any kind of promotional language to the article and tried to make it an informational page. This company is related to a notable businessman John Robert Porter. There are many other Wikipedia pages related to companies which are in the same domain and information about this company will help users know more about various companies in this field. Let me know what you think.

Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hck003 (talk • contribs) 05:47, 14 February 2017 (UTC)

Hello Mduvekot,

I am very sorry for no reference to Congfei Wei. I have taken reference from Facebook and Twitter account of congfei Wei and also from his YouTube channels https://m.youtube.com/channel/UC9WP7W-sGENfokCwCtgd_Qg and https://m.youtube.com/channel/UC1Yl1Tk_2HSuhw9a6nMd3FQ. Also I have researched the net blogs. I have added the references to my page. Kindly review my page again - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congfei_wei. If the references are not enough kindly inform me.

Thank you — Preceding unsigned comment added by Abhaysaxena312 (talk • contribs) 08:20, 14 February 2017 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #247
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Discussions
 * New request for comments: P171 (property "parent taxon"), changing the label of property "has role"


 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Probing Parliament(s) with Wikidata, by Martin Poulter
 * Jan Dittrich and Charlie Kritschmar gave a talk at FOSDEM on finding user needs and gave some examples from their work.
 * A Gentle Introduction to Wikidata for Absolute Beginners by Asaf Bartov: video and slides
 * Validating Wikidata tags on OpenStreetMap
 * Reminder: the deadline for Wikimania's scholarship is February 20 (and you can discuss about your ideas for Wikidata here)


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * The satisfaction survey concerning Flow has been published (and Wikidata is the community which prefers Flow the most)
 * Module Wikidata on Wikidata received an update to improve its performance. If your wiki has forked this one, consider updating it and report any problems (already reported one).
 * Experimental c:Template:Category contains for categories on Commons, including a per-category Wikidata query. See introductory discussion on Commons Village Pump. Presented together with current statistics on Commons category <-> Wikidata links
 * ContentMine looking for a Wikimedian in Residence to work on Wikidata and WikiFactMine in Cambridge
 * It is now possible to edit the Wikidata description from the Wikipedia app in some languages in beta


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: base salary, Visions of Britain place ID, Visions of Britain unit ID, DigDag ID, Sweden Nature Reserve ID, Le Monde diplomatique subject ID, Borden Code, fare zone, Recreation.gov area ID, EU VAT number, Booking.com hotel ID, BOLD Systems taxon ID, 90minut player ID, ITU triathlete ID, Minneapolis Institute of Art Constituent ID, candidacy in election, MarineTraffic Lighthouse ID, protected heritage site in Brussels ID, Archives nationales producer record, Hockey-reference player ID, F-Droid package, Danish ancient monument ID, BLF article ID, Araneae Spider ID, AFI Catalog of Feature Films ID


 * Query examples:
 * Collection of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, UK
 * Office-holders convicted of crimes (source)
 * |wdt%3AP39%29%2F%28wdt%3AP31|wdt%3AP279%29*%20wd%3AQ116%3B%20%23%20occupation%20or%20position%20held%3A%20some%20kind%20of%20monarch%0A%20wdt%3AP1399%20wd%3AQ1475448.%20%23%20convicted%20of%3A%20regicide%0A%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22.%20%7D%0A%7D Monarchs convicted of regicide (source)
 * Timeline of antipopes (source)
 * Battles etc of the U.S. Civil War, that have maps (source) -- but the results are a bit patchy.
 * Grade I listed buildings in Bedfordshire (source: Commons "category contains" template)
 * Newest external tools: new reconciliation for OpenRefine


 * Development
 * Doing a trial run of allowing search engines to index a number of ArticlePlaceholder pages on Welsh Wikipedia. If there are no major issues we will enable this for all placeholders.
 * Improving Federation-related after initial tests,
 * Getting ready to deploy automated sitelinks for Wiktionary
 * Further work on the new datatype for geoshapes (T57549)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.


 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item
 * Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
 * Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention

Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 08:41, 14 February 2017 (UTC)

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New Page Review-Patrolling: Coordinator elections
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Wikidata weekly summary #248
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 
 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Past: GLAMwiki meeting in Paris, February 16-17th
 * Incoming: Wikidata workshop in Grenoble (France), March 7th
 * If Voltaire had used Wikipedia… using Wikidata to share knowledge about an author


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * WMF open call for Project Grant proposals (Feb 13-Mar 14)
 * Wikimania: the deadline for applying for scholarships is 20 February 2017 23:59 UTC. Submissions are running until end of March (see our discussions about Wikidata-related topics)
 * Wikimedia Deutschland is hiring a fullstack developer and an engineering manager to work on Wikidata
 * Editing Wikidata descriptions from Wikipedia app (beta)


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: USA Gymnastics athlete ID, Tennis Archives player ID, Swimming Australia swimmer ID, Sambafoot player ID, International Weightlifting Federation ID, EPCR player ID, L'Équipe football player ID, Futsal Planet player ID, Fotbal DNES player ID, Football Federation of Ukraine player ID, Fora De Jogo manager ID, FootballFacts.ru player ID, Estonian Football Association player ID, DZFoot.com player ID, Croatian Football Statistics ID, Cross-tables.com Scrabble player ID, BDFutbol player ID, Chess.com player ID, ARRS runner ID, Kontinental Hockey League player ID, American Hockey League player ID, JMK film rating, IDEAS person ID, NatureServe conservation status, NBA player ID, Basketball Hall of Fame ID, All Blacks player ID, FFR player ID, significant environmental impact, ARCHON code, Uniform Type Identifier, National Drug Code, Key to English Place-Names (KEPN) ID, Oorlogsmonument ID, European Medicines Agency product number, PDB ligand ID, Peakbagger area ID, The Met object ID, British Museum place ID, British Museum thesaurus ID, Babelio work ID, Babelio author ID, stated age at event, British History Online VCH ID, Historical Gazetteer of England's Place Names ID, Australian Antarctic Gazetteer ID, Kirshenbaum, Common Weakness Enumeration ID, BadmintonLink player ID, rusbandy player ID, Darts Database player ID, Bwfbadminton.com player ID, ski-db.com skier ID


 * Query examples:
 * People born at the sea (source)
 * Persons buried in Père-Lachaise cemetery, Paris (source)
 * Paintings by women painters in the Louvre (source)
 * [http://histropedia.com/showcase/wikidata-viewer.html?query=%23People%20born%20on%20valentine%27s%20day%0ASELECT%20?personItem%20?person%20?personDescription%20?date%20?Country_of_citizenship%20?Occupation%20?Gender%20?image%20?rank%20(if(BOUND(?personDescription),%20CONCAT(?person,%27%20(%27,?personDescription,%27)%27),%20?person)%20as%20?title)%0AWHERE%20%7B%0A%7B%0ASELECT%20?personItem%20?date%20?countryItem%20?occupationItem%20?genderItem%0A(SAMPLE(?image)%20as%20?image)%0A(COUNT(DISTINCT%20?article)%20as%20?rank)%20%0AWHERE%20%7B%09%0A?personItem%20wdt:P569%20?date%20.%0A?personItem%20wdt:P18%20?image%20.%0A?personItem%20wdt:P21%20?genderItem%20.%0A?personItem%20wdt:P106%20?occupationItem%20.%0A?personItem%20wdt:P27%20?countryItem%20.%0AOPTIONAL%20%7B%20?article%20schema:about%20?personItem%20.%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20FILTER%20(SUBSTR(STR(?article),12,19)%20%3D%20%22wikipedia.org/wiki/%22)%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%0A%20%20%0AFILTER%20(datatype(?date)%20%3D%20xsd:dateTime%20&&%20month(?date)%20%3D%202%20&&%20day(?date)%20%3D%2014)%09%0A%7D%20GROUP%20BY%20?personItem%20?date%20?countryItem%20?occupationItem%20?genderItem%0A%7D%0ASERVICE%20wikibase:label%20%7B%0Abd:serviceParam%20wikibase:language%20%27en%27%20.%0A?personItem%20schema:description%20?personDescription%20.%0A?personItem%20rdfs:label%20?person%20.%0A?countryItem%20rdfs:label%20?Country_of_citizenship%20.%0A?occupationItem%20rdfs:label%20?Occupation%20.%0A?genderItem%20rdfs:label%20?Gender%20.%0A%7D%0A%7D%20%20ORDER%20BY%20DESC(?rank)&url=personItem&title=title&from=date&imageUrl=image&colourCodeBy=Country_of_citizenship&threshold=1&filterBy=Gender,Occupation&view=timeline People born on Valentine's day, colour coded by country of citizenship] (source)
 * Newest external tools: wikidata-cli can now edit Wikidata, edit Wikidata from NodeJS


 * Development
 * Making final fixes to initial version of Federation (needed to be able to use Wikidata items and properties to describe media on Commons in the future)
 * More work on baseline for Lexeme entity type for Wiktionary support
 * Fixed an error on d:Special:ConstraintReport (T158183)
 * Wikidata Query Service got additional servers, the data has been reloaded to fix a number of issues caused by missed updates and an increase of the time-out of 30s is being looked into.

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.


 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item
 * Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
 * Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention

Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 15:56, 20 February 2017 (UTC)