User talk:JPxG/Archive16

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Your GA nomination of Russ Island

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The article Russ Island you nominated as a good article has passed  ; see Talk:Russ Island for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already appeared on the main page as a "Did you know" item, or as a bold link under "In the News" or in the "On This Day" prose section, you can nominate it within the next seven days to appear in DYK. Bolded names with dates listed at the bottom of the "On This Day" column do not affect DYK eligibility. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Hog Farm -- Hog Farm (talk) 19:01, 16 January 2022 (UTC)Reply

mail

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Hi. I hope you are doing well. I am not sure if you received my mail or not. Replying to the mail is not mandatory, but a confirmation of receiving it would be appreciated a lot. Sorry if I offended you in the email. Kindly accept my apology. See you around :-) PS: a few weeks ago, I had gotten you confused with JFG. —usernamekiran • sign the guestbook(talk) 16:39, 5 February 2022 (UTC)Reply
@Usernamekiran: Sorry, I never got to this -- if it's still relevant, I can take a look and tell you what I think. jp×g 22:41, 21 June 2022 (UTC)Reply
@JPxG: no, it has been sorted out. You owe me one burger now. —usernamekiran (talk) 06:40, 22 June 2022 (UTC)Reply

Your GA nomination of Chain Island

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The article Chain Island you nominated as a good article has passed  ; see Talk:Chain Island for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already appeared on the main page as a "Did you know" item, or as a bold link under "In the News" or in the "On This Day" prose section, you can nominate it within the next seven days to appear in DYK. Bolded names with dates listed at the bottom of the "On This Day" column do not affect DYK eligibility. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Kavyansh.Singh -- Kavyansh.Singh (talk) 11:01, 23 January 2022 (UTC)Reply

User:JPxG/bigindex

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Hi JpxG! Could you please make the necessary tweaks to prevent User:JPxG/bigindex from being included in article categories? Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 21:45, 5 February 2022 (UTC)Reply

@GoingBatty: I've got no clue why the hell that page is showing up in the article categories, although figuring it out seems like a difficult task (it's a transclusion of all my userspace drafts and sandbice). If you can figure it out, you have my permission to go to whatever page is triggering it and fix that -- which article category are you talking about? It should be possible to use PETscan or something to figure out which other userspace pages I hajve that are in the category. jp×g 21:55, 6 February 2022 (UTC)Reply
Scrolling to the bottom of the page, it shows it is in Category:Neural network software and Category:Language modeling. GoingBatty (talk) 22:02, 6 February 2022 (UTC)Reply
PetScan only shows User:JPxG/bigindex. However, Special:ExpandTemplates leads me to think that it's because User:JPxG/bigindex includes User:JPxG/Draft21, which redirects to Wu Dao. GoingBatty (talk) 22:16, 6 February 2022 (UTC)Reply
I fixed the issue by adding {{main other}} around the categories in Wu Dao. If you want to change your user pages, you can revert this edit. Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 22:24, 6 February 2022 (UTC)Reply
I figured it might have been something with the userspace drafts that redirect to mainspace articles being transcluded -- that works excellently. I will just blank the redirect since I don't really need it. jp×g 02:12, 8 February 2022 (UTC)Reply

21:14, 7 February 2022 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Tom Brier (February 8)

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Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Theroadislong was:  The comment the reviewer left was: Please check the submission for any additional comments left by the reviewer. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit when they have been resolved.
Theroadislong (talk) 07:23, 8 February 2022 (UTC)Reply
 
Hello, JPxG! Having an article declined at Articles for Creation can be disappointing. If you are wondering why your article submission was declined, please post a question at the Articles for creation help desk. If you have any other questions about your editing experience, we'd love to help you at the Teahouse, a friendly space on Wikipedia where experienced editors lend a hand to help new editors like yourself! See you there! Theroadislong (talk) 07:23, 8 February 2022 (UTC)Reply

In case you missed the ping

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Talk:Kimball Island/GA1 is still waiting. eviolite (talk) 18:19, 10 February 2022 (UTC)Reply

@Eviolite: Got it -- a bit of a delay, but it is ready for a review now. jp×g 22:41, 21 June 2022 (UTC)Reply

Your GA nomination of Atlas Tract

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The article Atlas Tract you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold  . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:Atlas Tract for issues which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Bryanrutherford0 -- Bryanrutherford0 (talk) 17:41, 14 January 2022 (UTC)Reply

Orcale

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Hey, first: thanks for your great work on Oracle. I'm digging into some old conversations and it's immensely helpful. Fantastic work.

I noticed that December 2008 is missing, the history indicates there was an error which was blanked but not replaced. Did you encounter problems that would take too much time to be worth solving, or do you have plans to populate December too? /Julle (talk) 08:33, 3 February 2022 (UTC)Reply

I think there is a small bug with Oracle; it doesn't count the !vote of the nominator when determining percentage and number of votes. BilledMammal (talk) 19:16, 14 February 2022 (UTC)Reply
@BilledMammal: I guess that's kind of a bug, but it kind of isn't -- every once in a while there are pro forma nominations, or AfDs where the nom changes their mind, so it would be pretty hard to keep track of the edge cases here. jp×g 22:42, 21 June 2022 (UTC)Reply
@Julle: There are a few months where the scripts got messed up, usually due to formatting errors on the archive pages themselves (incorrect transclusions and the like). I'm not really sure what went wrong there, but I am in the process of transitioning the Toolforge job from crontab to a Kubernetes job, so I might be able to figure it out then. jp×g 22:44, 21 June 2022 (UTC)Reply
Appreciated! /Julle (talk) 23:30, 21 June 2022 (UTC)Reply

19:17, 14 February 2022 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Bull Island (California)

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The article Bull Island (California) you nominated as a good article has passed  ; see Talk:Bull Island (California) for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already appeared on the main page as a "Did you know" item, or as a bold link under "In the News" or in the "On This Day" prose section, you can nominate it within the next seven days to appear in DYK. Bolded names with dates listed at the bottom of the "On This Day" column do not affect DYK eligibility. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of AryKun -- AryKun (talk) 08:41, 22 January 2022 (UTC)Reply

Your GA nomination of Kimball Island

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The article Kimball Island you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold  . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:Kimball Island for issues which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Eviolite -- Eviolite (talk) 03:40, 25 January 2022 (UTC)Reply

Feedback request: Wikipedia proposals request for comment

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WP:AFC Helper News

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Hello! I wanted to drop a quick note for all of our AFC participants; nothing huge and fancy like a newsletter, but a few points of interest.

  • AFCH will now show live previews of the comment to be left on a decline.
  • The template {{db-afc-move}} has been created - this template is similar to {{db-move}} when there is a redirect in the way of an acceptance, but specifically tells the patrolling admin to let you (the draft reviewer) take care of the actual move.

Short and sweet, but there's always more to discuss at WT:AFC. Stop on by, maybe review a draft on the way? Whether you're one of our top reviewers, or haven't reviewed in a while, I want to thank you for helping out in the past and in the future. Cheers, Primefac, via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:00, 16 February 2022 (UTC)Reply

Your GA nomination of Joice Island

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The article Joice Island you nominated as a good article has passed  ; see Talk:Joice Island for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already appeared on the main page as a "Did you know" item, or as a bold link under "In the News" or in the "On This Day" prose section, you can nominate it within the next seven days to appear in DYK. Bolded names with dates listed at the bottom of the "On This Day" column do not affect DYK eligibility. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of AryKun -- AryKun (talk) 08:41, 22 January 2022 (UTC)Reply

reFill

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Hi JP. Good to meet you. Firstly, thanks for all that you do for Wikipedia! It would be great to have some help with reFill. Perhaps if I start with the background to my involvement. When I became an AfC reviewer I started to use reFill daily as a means to clean up the refs in a draft and quickly identify those which might meet WP:THREE and those which are unlikely to as being self-published, from non-RS etc. ReFill went through a period when it was getting stuck frequently, and attempts to contact the maintainer (the original author) went unanswered. I began to report these outages on Phabricator, and messaged the WMF cloud team on IRC, talking directly to engineers that could access the production environment, inspect logs and restart it. Eventually, the maintainer reappeared briefly (like, for a day), fixed the underlying issue and deployed it. At that time I was able to contact him and we agreed that I should have access to the prod environment. We didn't actually have any handover, and having followed the instructions for the numerous steps to get access to the toolforge environment and eventually in October the GitHub repo, the focus then switched to getting the dev stack installed. I found that most dependencies were to out of date versions and when I tried to use the current versions of those I got into a tangle of breaking changes and incompatibilities. I was getting error after error and increasingly frustrated. It was not helped that my technical background is Windows and .NET, not Linux, and while I like to keep my hand in, I've not been a professional developer since 2012. Initially I tried setting up a VM, then using the Windows Subsystem for Linux, and then User:TheresNoTime offered to help and she wrote these instructions for how to set up a dev environment on Windows. The real blocker to progress on reFill comes down to:

  • Me not having a working dev/test environment
  • When logged into Putty, it is evident that the production environment is a mess with numerous versions and it is unclear what is what
  • Lack of a staging environment where anything deemed potentially ready for prod could be tested by multiple users

So while people could push their fixes to the repo, there's currently no way to test them and safely deploy them. Triaging the issues reported in GitHub (most of which are actually enhancement ideas rather than bug fixes) and doing the same on Phabricator and Talk:ReFill has not been the priority given the inability to do much about the issues. I can see you have Python and JS skills so you may be the perfect person I had hoped would come along. Do you also know Vue, Celery, and Docker by any luck? It would be great to work together on this, perhaps with you leading on the dev side and I can do more on the community side. Curb Safe Charmer (talk) 10:25, 1 February 2022 (UTC)Reply

@Curb Safe Charmer: I am a Lunix nerd (I've used it as my primary operating system since 2016 and have set up/run a variety of servers on it since). I've written some stuff in Python and JavaScript, and am currently in the process of figuring out some more front-end stuff (like Vue, React, etc) as well as some web development/deployment stuff (like Docker). I have no idea what Celery is (looks like some sort of task queue/load balancer thing). I'm about to go to bed tonight, but I am going to start trying to look through this stuff tomorrow. I think we should probably set up a page somewhere where we (and maybe other people, if any want to) can mess around and try to figure stuff out -- my talk page is going to get flooded with a bunch of random crap. Do you have any notes, diagrams, et cetera about the way the program is set up? When I write complicated software, I often have a .txt (or a piece of graph paper) with a bunch of boxes and lines on it and random stuff that helps me think about the way it's structured. jp×g 11:06, 1 February 2022 (UTC)Reply
Sounds great. An interest in 'figuring out stuff' and the tenacity to keep going will be useful. When the user submits a request to expand the references in an article, either via the front end or through the API, those requests are queued in the backend as tasks in Celery.
So far, there's stuff at User:TheresNoTime/ReFill, User talk:TheresNoTime/ReFill and older stuff at User:Curb Safe Charmer/Refilldev in addition to the user manual and readme. No diagrams though! I suggest we continue at Wikipedia:Refill/technical discussion which I've created for the purpose if we want to keep things on-wiki. Curb Safe Charmer (talk) 17:09, 2 February 2022 (UTC)Reply
@JPxG: How are you getting on with this? Any progress? Curb Safe Charmer (talk) 17:41, 17 February 2022 (UTC)Reply
Not a lot, frankly -- I have become a lot more busy than I planned to in the last couple months. If it turns out that the people who had planned to maintain ReFill don't end up figuring it out, I may be available later. jp×g 22:44, 21 June 2022 (UTC)Reply

Feedback request: Wikipedia technical issues and templates request for comment

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Skepticism and coordinated editing proposed decision posted

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The proposed decision in the Skepticism and coordinated editing has been posted. Please review the proposed decision and draw the arbitrators' attention to any relevant material or statements. Comments may be brought to the attention of the committee on the proposed decision talk page. For a guide to the arbitration process, see Wikipedia:Arbitration/Guide to arbitration. For the Arbitration Committee, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 22:00, 23 February 2022 (UTC)Reply

Discretionary sanctions topic area changes

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In a process that began last year with WP:DS2021, the Arbitration Committee is evaluating Discretionary Sanctions (DS) in order to improve it. A larger package of reforms is slated for sometime this year. From the work done so far, it became clear a number of areas may no longer need DS or that some DS areas may be overly broad.

The topics proposed for revocation are:

  • Senkaku islands
  • Waldorf education
  • Ancient Egyptian race controversy
  • Scientology
  • Landmark worldwide

The topics proposed for a rewording of what is covered under DS are:

  • India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan
  • Armenia/Azerbaijan

Additionally any Article probation topics not already revoked are proposed for revocation.

Community feedback is invited and welcome at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Motions. --Barkeep49 (talk) 04:36, 28 January 2022 (UTC)Reply

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Editor of the Week

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  Editor of the Week
Your ongoing efforts to improve the encyclopedia have not gone unnoticed: You have been selected as Editor of the Week in recognition of your great contributions! (courtesy of the Wikipedia Editor Retention Project)

User:Theleekycauldron, User:Juxlos, User:Eviolite and User:Novem Linguae submitted the following nomination for Editor of the Week:

JPxG has made nearly 50,000 edits (over half to mainspace). They have written over 100 informative articles about island territories in the United States which have made for a couple dozen ridiculously interesting DYKs. Impressing with a ""chefs kiss" of information about tiny islands is their niche and they do it well. They have also written quality articles such as Simp, 1-pentadecanol, and Extremely Online. Great software work with the Oracle for Deletion and PressPass as well. JPxG has taken ownership of some technical newsletters and is helping to revive them. Between their newsletter work and their signpost work, which both have themes of documenting and reporting Wikipedia activities, they have become a bit of a wiki "historian".

You can copy the following text to your user page to display a user box proclaiming your selection as Editor of the Week:

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JPxG
 
Editor of the Week
for the week beginning February 27, 2022
Almost 50,000 edits (over half to mainspace). Over 100 informative articles about island territories in the US which have made for a couple dozen ridiculously interesting DYKs. Has a ""chefs kiss" of information about tiny islands. Written quality articles such as Simp, 1-pentadecanol, and Extremely Online. Great software work with the Oracle for Deletion and PressPass. Taken ownership of some technical newsletters and is helping to revive them.
Recognized for
being a bit of a Wikipedia historian
Notable work(s)
Newsletter and Signpost activities
Submit a nomination

Thanks again for your efforts! ―Buster7  17:09, 26 February 2022 (UTC)Reply

Well, shucks. I dunno what to say! I do my best :) jp×g 21:55, 26 February 2022 (UTC)Reply
Congratulations! Vaticidalprophet 00:01, 27 February 2022 (UTC)Reply
Ah, I see the Discord cabal is starting to take over, with a third of this year's recipients being its members so far. Umm, what am I talking about! Congrats! 1234 kb of .rar files (is this dangerous?) 02:49, 1 March 2022 (UTC)Reply

The Signpost: 27 February 2022

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smelly bums

My edit was not vandalism how dare you!

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The Plotter wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plotter) you removed my contributive edits. Please put them back.

Here are my edits

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@Lincolsheremm: This is funny, but it's totally vandalism. jp×g 20:17, 28 February 2022 (UTC)Reply

Dishonest and malicious behaviour

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How dare you first of all falsely accuse me of not explaining my edit, and then revert it again for an entirely spurious reason? Did you even read the material that I removed and that you restored? Partialitarian (talk) 20:55, 28 February 2022 (UTC)Reply

@Partialitarian: The material was included in the article per consensus reached during a talk page discussion in 2020, so I think discussing it there would be better than continuing to blank the entire section. The information is verifiable, and it's not undue, as far as I can tell. jp×g 20:58, 28 February 2022 (UTC)Reply
I'll ask again: how dare you falsely accuse me of not explaining my edit? How dare you revert my work for spurious reasons? Partialitarian (talk) 21:00, 28 February 2022 (UTC)Reply
I don't think the reasons were spurious. If you'd like to discuss the content of the article, it'd be more productive to do so on its talk page. jp×g 21:08, 28 February 2022 (UTC)Reply
You falsely accused me of not explaining my edit, as a spurious pretext for your malicious revert. Why did you do that? Partialitarian (talk) 21:17, 28 February 2022 (UTC)Reply
I am not sure what you are referring to. {{Uw-delete1}} (which was what I put on your talk page) says "recently removed content without adequately explaining why", which is not the same as providing no explanation. jp×g 21:34, 28 February 2022 (UTC)Reply

No more messed up citation-needed templates.

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As of now, this search is empty. A few months ago it had more than 1,600 results in it! Wowzies! jp×g 22:44, 28 February 2022 (UTC)Reply

British Asian

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This person just added unsupported data and prediction to British Asian article. [10]. Do you see "One of the most notable Asian migration waves lately could be ..." or "It is predicted up to 500,000 people are expected to move to the UK within 3 years" at the instructions on [11]? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 160.39.198.114 (talkcontribs)

You are correct, 160.39.198.114. I checked the reference and it seems to have nothing to do with the content -- I'll take out that paragraph and remove the warning from your talk page. Apologies for the bad revert. jp×g 22:52, 28 February 2022 (UTC)Reply

22:58, 28 February 2022 (UTC)

Promotion of Powder House Island

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Congratulations, JPxG! The article you nominated, Powder House Island, has been promoted to featured status, recognizing it as one of the best articles on Wikipedia. The nomination discussion has been archived.
This is a rare accomplishment and you should be proud. If you would like, you may nominate it to appear on the Main page as Today's featured article. Keep up the great work! Cheers, Gog the Mild (talk) via FACBot (talk) 00:06, 1 March 2022 (UTC)Reply

Congrats

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  The Writer's Barnstar
Congratulations on getting Powder House Island to FA status! GreatLakesShips (talk) 10:23, 1 March 2022 (UTC)Reply

Congratulations

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  The Featured Article Medal
By the authority vested in me by myself it gives me great pleasure to present you with this special, very exclusive award created just for we few, we happy few, this band of brothers, who have shed sweat, tears and probably blood, in order to be able to proudly claim "I too have taken an article to Featured status". Gog the Mild (talk) 11:38, 1 March 2022 (UTC)Reply

An arbitration case regarding Skepticism and coordinated editing has now closed and the final decision is viewable at the link above. The following remedies have been enacted:

  • Rp2006 (talk · contribs) is warned against a battleground mentality and further incivility.
  • Rp2006 is indefinitely topic banned from edits related to living people associated with or of interest to scientific skepticism, broadly construed. This topic ban may be appealed after six months have elapsed and every six months thereafter.
  • A. C. Santacruz (talk · contribs) is reminded to remain collegial in editing and interacting with others.
  • Roxy the dog (talk · contribs) is warned to remain collegial in editing and interacting with others.
  • GSoW is advised that a presence on English Wikipedia, perhaps as its own WikiProject or as a task force of WikiProject Skepticism, will create more transparency and lessen some of the kinds of suspicion and conflict that preceded this case. It could also provide a place for the GSoW to get community feedback about its training which would increase its effectiveness.
  • Editors are reminded that discretionary sanctions for biographies of living people have been authorized since 2014. Editors named in this decision shall be considered aware of these discretionary sanctions under awareness criterion 1.

For the Arbitration Committee, –MJLTalk 05:04, 3 March 2022 (UTC)Reply

Discuss this at: Wikipedia talk:Arbitration Committee/Noticeboard § Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Skepticism and coordinated editing closed

Triple Crown

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Congratulations to JPxG, whose continued contributions to Wikipedia have earned them the Imperial Triple Crown Jewels. Damien Linnane (talk) 03:46, 4 March 2022 (UTC)Reply