User talk:Wtmitchell/Archive 10 (2017)

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Administrators' newsletter - February 2017
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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Guideline and policy news
 * A discussion to workshop proposals to amend the administrator inactivity policy at Wikipedia talk:Administrators has been in process since late December 2016.
 * Pending changes/Request for Comment 2016 closed with no consensus for implementing Pending changes level 2 with new criteria for use.
 * Following an RfC, an activity requirement is now in place for bots and bot operators.

Technical news
 * 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)
 * The Foundation has announced a new community health initiative to combat harassment. This should bring numerous improvements to tools for admins and CheckUsers in 2017.

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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13:38, 1 February 2017 (UTC)

Recent IP block
Consider revoking TPA. Sky Warrior  03:21, 9 February 2017 (UTC)
 * Thanks. Done. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 03:26, 9 February 2017 (UTC)

which vs. that
Thanks. I thought it might be an American vs rest of the world thing, but didn't find anything as definitively useful as the references you found. Cheers, Pdfpdf (talk) 01:57, 11 February 2017 (UTC)

Ajantha Mendis
I am User Abishe.I have made a huge mistake by not giving the enough citations on the article "Ajanta Mendis".Thank you — Preceding unsigned comment added by Abishe (talk • contribs) 07:54, 23 February 2017 (UTC)
 * Hi. This is apparently in reaction to this revert. I was patrolling using WP:Huggle, and the reverted edit came up as a possible problem. I reverted your edit after a quick look. The revert was not focused on that article in particular or on you as an editor in particular. Please, though, do try to pay more attention to the WP:V and WP:RS policies. Looking at the article now, I see that it is about a professional sports person, and I have noticed that articles in the areas of sports and entertainment areas tend to be hotbeds for violations of those policies and that they often have WP:DATED problems. Please try to keep this in mind when editing articles in those areas. Cheers. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 22:41, 23 February 2017 (UTC)

Maury Hurt Modern Impressionism
Good Afternoon Mr. Wtmitchell,

How are you? I want to thank you for responding to my input regarding Artists that made a great impression; pardon this phrase of words. I am Jan Suberman and do have a WikipediA Account. I am uncertain of my "user name" and password; however, I would have been quite a bit more specific, about adding a very Important Artist to your List of Modern Impressionists.

I do apologize for any inconvenience I may have caused you and do appreciate your kind response. I am in the process of writing about Maury Hurt, to add his name to your WikipediA; as he truly was a Master Oil Painter, well known as he referred to himself as a " Mood Painter".

In his defense, His works are Collected in many Museums. Rollins College, Stetson University, Orlando Museum of Art; just to name a very few. Maury Hurt is well known for " Saving the Maitland Art Centre", in 1968-69. The City of Maitland wanted this massive property on beautiful Lake Sybelia, which housed Architectural Carved buildings from the early 1920's, that were bequeathed to Maitland, Florida by a New York Artist, J. Andre Smith.

In the Estate of J. Andre Smith, it was never to be sold, or used for any purpose other than, providing a " Studio Home" for Artists to come to Florida, live in the" Studio Home for One Year"; free to Paint and study with other 'Artists in Residence".  J.Andre Smith referred to this Haven for artists as, "The Maitland Art Centre". It was only then, after One Year had passed, the" Artist in Residence", was able to carry on their Fine Art Skills and work as an Artist, selling their Paintings to make an "Artist way of Life".

Maury Hurt was the Artist, that carried out the legacy of J.Andre Smith, it was just after Maury Hurt Passed away, ( March 24, 2013) the City of Maitland changed the name from its original Maitland Art Centre, to the "A&H -Art and History Museums Maitland".

I would be most happy to provide you with photographs from his various "Period, Works", From my own Collection,( well over Forty Years) as I am certain, you would find his Artistic Masterpieces, that of a true Artist, whom should be recognized as a Pioneer in Modern Impressionism, in the Mid to Late 20Th and 21st Centuries.

I sincerely appreciate your time, Mr. Wtmitchell, and deep consideration for this Fine Art Painter. He has left a legacy of enriching the lives of artists in their early years, and is an Icon for his Contribution to the Course Offerings at the University of Florida, in which he is a Graduate and has changed the way Art is taught at UF, because of his influence in and around Florida, New York, and California, to name a few States in which he is widely Collected.

I thank you so very much, not only for your time, and understanding of my reasoning, for adding Maury Hurt to your List of Prominent Modern Impressionist Artists .for also appreciating this genuine Man who lived his life working as an Artist, in the true sense of the word. I also have photographs oh his "simple living quarters", as the Artists before him, lived very simply. Thank you :)

Kindest wishes, Jan Suberman artrestore9@gmail.com 407 733 4528 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.47.161.8 (talk) 17:59, 26 February 2017 (UTC)


 * The above is apparently in reaction to this revert of a test edit., which I did during a WP:Huggle session. The reverted edit added content saying "Bold text" ahead of the Major artists heading, and this is what prompted my revert. I did not notice at the time, but I now see that the edit had also added a wikilink to the nonexistent Maury Hurt article to the Major artists section of the article. This addition was also removed by my revert.


 * I would suggest that before adding that artist's name to the list of artists, a wikipedia article about him be created. Some helpful info regarding that can be found at WP:TFA and WP:WBA. I'm afraid that I know very little about Art and can't be much help in creating that article, but you can probably get some help at WP:TH.


 * Cheers, Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill)

Feb'17 TSP
Hi Wtmitchell, I saw you just reverted my changes. I was merely adapting the page to be consistent again, after someone changed part of the mentions to 'salesperson' and left part of them as 'salesman'. I don't quite understand how improving consistency in a page is considered 'not constructive', and wouldn't mind an explanation. The History part confirms that Salesman is deprecated and Salesperson ought to be used. Cheers - — Preceding unsigned comment added by Litdayss (talk • contribs) 01:39, 28 February 2017 (UTC)
 * This wa in reaction to this revert. Please read WP:NPOV. While you're at it, also read WP:NOT. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 01:52, 28 February 2017 (UTC)
 * Well.. don't think I'd be editing a Meryl Streep article. It was in response to this revert. Only trying to help here, mate. If you think using both words in the article is better than consistency, so be it. Litdayss (talk) 02:53, 28 February 2017 (UTC)Litdayss
 * I started that response before SineBot autosigned it and did not check the sig in the autosigned version after the edit conflict when I tried to save it. I apparently guessed wrong when I tried to figure out which edit from my contributions log this was in reference to. I do say, "If your topic concerns a particular Wikipedia article, please mention the article name" at the top of this talk page, but nobody pays attention to that. Oh well.


 * Re your point, I think that MOS:ID supports my opinion that it is silly in an article titled Travelling salesman problem which is about a problem which has been well known by that name since about 1930 torture the article prose into unnatural political correctness by saying "salesperson" instead of "salesman". Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 04:07, 28 February 2017 (UTC)


 * Well, I titled the section TSP, the abbreviation for the page, I figured that was sufficient. Apparently it was not, sorry for that confusion. That aside, I didn't make those first edits of salesman to salesperson, now did I? You only reverted the edits I made. I was editing for consistency, because someone changed some of the words but not all. The initial edits were not reverted, only mine, hence my objection.  That being said, there have been a bunch of recent papers (and even older ones from '70s) that call it the Traveling Salesperson Problem, so I don't really see the problem with rewording it.  Litdayss (talk) 04:16, 28 February 2017 (UTC)Litdayss


 * (and, besides the edit conflict, I've been offline briefly due to a connectivity failure) I see that that bit in the article's History section was a chenge immediately preceding your edit which I reverted. I've now reverted that as well here. This isn't really a big deal to me either way, but I explained my take on it in my edit summary for that edit. If it is a big deal to regular editors of the article and/or to WP editors with more of a PC bug than I, they will come to a WP:consensus on the article talk page. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 04:46, 28 February 2017 (UTC)


 * ok, considering this solved. Not sure what you prefer, so I'll let you remove this section. Cheers Litdayss (talk) 04:56, 28 February 2017 (UTC)Litdayss