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Thank you for the revisions to Pizza farm to save it from deletion! TyNoOutlet (talk) 13:16, 30 January 2020 (UTC)
Division by zero
You have removed my change in Division by zero page with the comment linkspam ... have you check it at all ???? ... at all ??? Division by zero is possible (talk) 20:40, 4 February 2020 (UTC)
- please either check the content on Vixra on your own ... or put it back
- check the link here to understand what it is all about -> https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zowTCHhW8gVpkejvZTW2xB4f-zxVi2xP/view?usp=sharing Division by zero is possible (talk) 21:07, 4 February 2020 (UTC)
- Please reply only to the discussion at the noticeboard to which I directed you on your talk page. A non-reliable source is a non-reliable source. I'm not going to discuss this any further on my talk page; please reply in the public discussion forum I've referenced. - Julietdeltalima (talk) 21:30, 4 February 2020 (UTC)
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Gwenythwilliams warnings
Hello Julietdeltalima, You added some warnings to User talk:Gwenythwilliams who hadn't edited since the welcome/warning added by ToBeFree. Would you be willing to remove those? Gab4gab (talk) 19:55, 14 February 2020 (UTC)
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Isle of Man
Re: Your edit to Section 10 - Culture, subsection 10.1 Language
I added a paragraph regarding the Isle of Man's Manx Language school. All children (ages 3+ are taught ALL lessons exclusively in Manx. This is not a Manx lesson for 1 hour a week similar to French or Spanish lessons in most English speaking schools, the whole school day, every day is Manx Language exclusively. I included a citation reference to the school website homepage that includes the factual information that I added to the article, the website being administered under policies of, and by employees of the Isle of Man Government. The offending paragraph was as follows:
'Bunscoill Ghaelgagh is the world's only Manx Gaelic medium primary school.[1] Based in the historic former St John's school building. All lessons in the school are taught in native Manx. The school is located in the heart of St John's village, opposite Tynwald Hill the centre of the Manx Parliament.'
References
- ^ https://bunscoillghaelgagh.sch.im/ Native Manx Language school
This was removed with the following Edit Summery:
'(Reverted good faith edits by Ripsaw-2: Reverting addition that, intentionally or not, was phrased in an unencyclopedically promotional manner; if you don't agree I will walk through this with you clause by clause and demonstrate that it sounds like the description of, e.g., a vacation prize on "Wheel of Fortune" '
I disagree that that the National Government describes it's places of education, especially one that specialises in the preservation and development of the National language, as a prize on "Wheel of Fortune". There are 4 sentences in the paragraph and all 4 are factually correct with zero embellishment. In the context of the preceeding paragraphs in the article implying that the native language is dying out, I would argue that the information added is of high subject importance and should be reinstated. Ripsaw-2 (talk) 22:54, 1 March 2020 (UTC)
Cotton Spinning Machinery
I understand why you edited-out the external link which I added to this article. However, I would ask you to re-consider this decision because there is no suitable internal wikilink to illustrate the point which the article is trying to make and the point is a very important one which is quite difficult to grasp. It is also one which is most easily illustrated by a video.
Moreover, the machine which is being discussed is historically very important because at its hieght, it consituted the majority of the spinning capacity of the world, yet, of the more than half a million such machines which have existed, only two reamin in the entire world today and the video shows one of these machines at work. I therefore consider this to be a very important video, entirely appropriate to the context of the article at that precise point. I hope therefore that you will re-instate my contribution.
- Please discuss this with the editors at WP:TEAHOUSE; I am sitting in a doctor's office waiting room and not really able to respond effectively. Thanks. - Julietdeltalima (talk) 21:12, 2 March 2020 (UTC)
Howard Bolton — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.18.158.193 (talk) 20:18, 2 March 2020 (UTC)
Human Extinction
Re: Your edit removing the Biblical account of the extinction of humans
Hi, The biblical account is as plausible as anything, especially compared to nano-bots and terminator scenarios. Please edit the addition to meet acceptable standards as this was a useful and meaningful addition.
- (A) It wasn't, and (b) I don't follow your orders. The burden is on you to: (a) gain consensus on the article's talk page to add this, and (b) write and cite it appropriately. I'm a volunteer like everyone else here. Please take any further questions to WP:TEAHOUSE I won't respond further to you. - Julietdeltalima (talk) 00:06, 3 March 2020 (UTC)
"Brazilian Cuisine"
Re: Your edit on Brazilian cuisine and Brigadeiro.
Hi Juliet, my additions were not intended to be inappropriate, but to be a useful resource that complements the articles here on Wikipedia. When readers look for a specific dish or cuisine it makes sense to me that they would want to read the recipe in full or read further about that cuisine. I am well aware links from Wikipedia are nofollow, but my ultimate goal was to provide readers with the most information to all things related to Brazil, as I do in my online magazine.
Regards, B — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.168.208.230 (talk) 09:40, 12 March 2020 (UTC)
- You’ve just admitted to a WP:COI. Do not link to your own “online magazine” here. This isn’t negotiable. Please talk to the WP:TEAHOUSE editors for further clarification; I won’t engage with you further. Julietdeltalima (talk) 16:26, 12 March 2020 (UTC) Julietdeltalima (talk) 16:26, 12 March 2020 (UTC)
Re: April 2020
Hello, I got my information on articles 'Hornepayne', and 'Huntsville' by looking through climate extremes on climate websites such 'climate.weather.gc.ca', and 'eldoradoweather'. I found that they were the lowest of any extreme for the summer months. I can leave out those specific facts in those articles if you like. Thanks, --Old Hoar's Frost (talk) 19:49, 3 April 2020 (UTC)
- It is appropriate to leave those out, yes, Old Hoar's Frost. Otherwise it's inappropriate unpublished synthesis. Thanks. - Julietdeltalima (talk) 20:14, 3 April 2020 (UTC)
Compounded interest
I remembered your corrections when I got compound modifiers quite confused, when using it to point out I don't always get English correct. But that prompted me to drop a note here about a 'something' that looked like a compound modifier thingy, but made me cross-eyed.
"Operating system-specific feature" (An example here, originally an IBM site).
Or, is the compound part really just "Operating system-specific", with "Operating system" as a noun? Shenme (talk) 20:23, 6 April 2020 (UTC)
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RE April 2020 notification about notable entry
Hi, I am actually working for the University of British Columbia Archives. Due to the coronavirus, those of us who work in the University Archives have been relegated to working from home. One of our tasks is to edit and create Wikipedia pages for the people whose records we have recently worked on. As a result, I am in the process of creating a Wikipedia page for Robert John Gregg due to recently working with his HUGE Survey of Vancouver English from 1984, and possibly a page for the Survey itself. Robert Gregg was once widely known, and the more I discover about him, the more I realize he definitely needs a page. He is regarded as the leading pioneer of the academic study of Ulster-Scots and as well as being a linguistic authority on Canadian English. I expect the page to go up Monday or Tuesday. Here is a link to the University's Archives' Finding Aids. Please scroll down to Survey of Vancouver English. https://archives.library.ubc.ca/textual-records/ Here are two of the many sources I will be using for the page. http://www.ulsterscotsacademy.com/ullans/2/professor-r-j-gregg.php https://www.libraryireland.com/gregg/professor-robert-j-gregg.php
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"Overlooked"
I think you should've took another look at the information I provided before deleting it. My information about Lily Rose Depp and Timothee Chalamet breaking up was correct, even if I didn't link an article. I didn't appreciate you threatening to block me from editing when I didn't provide any false information. I appreciate the criticism but feel under appreciated. Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Donutlove69 (talk • contribs) 21:39, 27 April 2020 (UTC)
- Please read WP:V. It is more important to have support than for something to purportedly be "correct." Wikipedia is not here to make you feel "appreciated"; you must follow the rules. - Julietdeltalima (talk) 21:54, 27 April 2020 (UTC)
"Overlooked" Part 2
I just want to clarify that my friend is 100% correct in her edits. I too have proof that these facts about Timothee and Lily-Rose are correct. You are not the owner of this website or Timothee. Therefore, you have no right to make people feel unappreciated. I just want to make sure you understand before you are blocked from further editing. Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by Daddylover (talk • contribs) 22:22, 27 April 2020 (UTC)
Hello
I saw what was happening. So I out it back to a stale version of the page.Driverofknowledge (talk) 16:33, 28 April 2020 (UTC)
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Apartment edit
Hi. You just reverted my Apartment edit. You said I'm overlinking. What exactly did I overlink? I just added the link to the main part (studio - studio apartment) and then I linked countries. I also added some links to the See also section. What's wrong? I feel like the other sections have decent amount of links too, and I didn't really feel like that was overlinking. — Preceding unsigned comment added by TalkativeIndividual130 (talk • contribs) 23:20, 18 May 2020 (UTC)
Jwala
Julietdeltalima, can you tell me how to site a video without a copyright violation. Thanks, ----Superbrickbro I made changes to Mr souleiman Ghali and You changed deleted it. the changes I made were accurate, because I am familiar with Mr Ghali and all the Issues of the hiring and firing of that Radical Imam. Mr Ghali was never part of the law suit, it was the Islamic Society that was the dependent. the case was settled out of court for undisclosed amount. many mistakes about Mr Ghali too in the Profile, I tried to change them but every time they get deleted, i am not an expert in doing this, it is frustrating! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Coronet blvd (talk • contribs) 19:17, 21 May 2020 (UTC)
thanks
I wish this was an edit notice on every page so people would stop doing it. Praxidicae (talk) 18:06, 3 June 2020 (UTC)
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Just a note to say I've now blocked the IP for vandalism and also block evasion. I note the article was given protection 4 days ago, but I don't see any justification to extend this to the Talk page at this present time. Please report to WP:RFPP should this ever be necessary. They're also in my time zone, so I've added page to my watchlist Nick Moyes (talk) 00:30, 22 June 2020 (UTC)
- Nick Moyes, thank you SO much for looking into this stupidity! (Happy-face emoji!) I looked for protection and didn't find it, which is interesting because I've been asking for page protection for a couple of weeks and have repeatedly had same dismissed because there wasn't enough vandalism. If I missed something today—when, admittedly, I'm darting on and off WP on a Sunday afternoon because that's my life (sad-face emoji)—my deepest apologies for creating work for you. Thanks for your help! - Julietdeltalima (talk) 00:41, 22 June 2020 (UTC)
- I admit, it was a bit borderline, so I'm pleased another admin put PP on for you. (It was an awful lot of money though!!!) Nick Moyes (talk) 00:44, 22 June 2020 (UTC)
- Hahaha, Nick Moyes! I'm astronaut-land-native American, so boondoggles are par for the course and don't even register in my universe! And, good grief, no joke, if it weren't for my feline dependents (who are too old to understand or tolerate quarantine, never mind the hilarious-but-harrowing-to-contemplate logistical nightmare), I'd happily be on the jankiest plane or mail ship to St. Helena or Tristan da Cunha YESTERDAY, so I shamelessly admit watching those articles simply to be able to fantasise about that escape hatch! - Julietdeltalima (talk) 00:52, 22 June 2020 (UTC)
- (Boondoggle? Never hear that term before, but just found it on my favourite encyclopaedia.) Yeah, I monitor high mountain articles for the same escapism reasons - reminds me of the days when I was fit enough to climb the bloody things! Nick Moyes (talk) 00:58, 22 June 2020 (UTC)
- Today, Nick Moyes, I shamefacedly learned that this is a U.S.-specific term for this ubiquitous bureaucratic phenomenon! which you clearly join me in appreciating as a thing deserving of a silly-sounding-but-evocative-and-necessary term! At a minimum I'll see you in Edinburgh of the Seven Seas! - Julietdeltalima (talk) 01:13, 22 June 2020 (UTC)
- Ye gads, man. That's one helluva name and one heck of an outpost Her Majesty's Empire. See you in the Albatross Bar one day, then! Nick Moyes (talk) 01:22, 22 June 2020 (UTC)
- Today, Nick Moyes, I shamefacedly learned that this is a U.S.-specific term for this ubiquitous bureaucratic phenomenon! which you clearly join me in appreciating as a thing deserving of a silly-sounding-but-evocative-and-necessary term! At a minimum I'll see you in Edinburgh of the Seven Seas! - Julietdeltalima (talk) 01:13, 22 June 2020 (UTC)
- (Boondoggle? Never hear that term before, but just found it on my favourite encyclopaedia.) Yeah, I monitor high mountain articles for the same escapism reasons - reminds me of the days when I was fit enough to climb the bloody things! Nick Moyes (talk) 00:58, 22 June 2020 (UTC)
- Hahaha, Nick Moyes! I'm astronaut-land-native American, so boondoggles are par for the course and don't even register in my universe! And, good grief, no joke, if it weren't for my feline dependents (who are too old to understand or tolerate quarantine, never mind the hilarious-but-harrowing-to-contemplate logistical nightmare), I'd happily be on the jankiest plane or mail ship to St. Helena or Tristan da Cunha YESTERDAY, so I shamelessly admit watching those articles simply to be able to fantasise about that escape hatch! - Julietdeltalima (talk) 00:52, 22 June 2020 (UTC)
- I admit, it was a bit borderline, so I'm pleased another admin put PP on for you. (It was an awful lot of money though!!!) Nick Moyes (talk) 00:44, 22 June 2020 (UTC)
Oakleigh Grammar
Hi, I didn't make any changes to the Oakleigh Grammar page idk whats going on. I'm all for LGBT education at high schools. 114.72.138.129 (talk) 23:59, 25 June 2020 (UTC)
Just a drive-by
Hi, Juliet - we have not crossed paths on WP, at least not to my knowledge, but I was inspired by your post on Bbb23's UTP. It was not just lovely, it was engaging, and I thank you. It was the highlight of my day. Atsme Talk 📧 21:36, 26 June 2020 (UTC)
- And I appreciate this today more than I can turn into words, dear Atsme. Thank you! - Julietdeltalima (talk) 22:26, 26 June 2020 (UTC)
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Precious
shades of green
Thank you for quality copy-editing ("capitalization, punctuation, and formatting corrections"), such as Shades of green and Pesto, for welcoming new users, for fighting vandalism, spam and advertising, for an exceptional effort in keeping a great editor (above), - you are an awesome Wikipedian!
You are recipient no. 2412 of Precious, a prize of QAI. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 23:03, 4 July 2020 (UTC)
- !!! This is a tremendous honor in my view and I am genuinely, humbly grateful. Thank you, dear Gerda Arendt and company! Wow. !!! - Julietdeltalima (talk) 22:23, 6 July 2020 (UTC)
Can I change User Name Ericovich1777 (talk) 00:33, 17 July 2020 (UTC)
Hello My name is Diana Haus , I have nothing to do with the person I am writing for . I am interested in the history of Nevelskoi and came accross many articles on Hon Bernard Eric Degtyarenko in the Russian news about Nevelskoi . His name was almost everywhere there was an article about Nevelskoi so I decided to write an page on him , at the same time through him I got to know Mauritius and to see its history . I decided to add some content that was missing here and there that I find on the web. I know it is small contribution as I do not now the wikipedia so much . I am learning how to write a page and article every day . if anyone can help me . When creating the username here I was testing how to use wikipedia so I put Ericovich1777, it was for test but I understand now that this is my Name and I can have a user page too . I want to change it to my Real Name Diana Haus . How can I do it please. Any help most welcomeEricovich1777 (talk) 00:33, 17 July 2020 (UTC)
Today ...
pale globe-thistle above the Rhine |
Today is a birthday, of a great woman born in the 19th century, flowers and music and memory, - good song about the year at its height even on the Main page. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:41, 22 July 2020 (UTC)
Roti Edit
I made the changes because Grenada has a small Indian population compared to a few others in the Caribbean. Also, the links are outdated and don't work. Susu81 (talk) 23:37, 22 July 2020 (UTC)
RE your warning [1]
This is an LTA who has made the same hoax edit more than 140 times that I know of (there are almost certainly edits I never saw). See User:Meters/Reese's hoax. Meters (talk) 22:49, 24 July 2020 (UTC)
Year without a summer
The edit I made on year without a summer was needed. You are illiterate if you do not agree. There was a grammar error that made the sentence sound ridiculous. Please refrain from telling lies in your messages to people and making vague threats based on falsehoods. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Musicguru8769 (talk • contribs) 23:41, 30 July 2020 (UTC)
- I'm not sure that someone who uses the spelling "aproximately" should be discussing other editors literacy. MarnetteD|Talk 23:47, 30 July 2020 (UTC)
Category:Pages using duplicate arguments in template calls
Please don't add pages to Category:Pages using duplicate arguments in template calls, you can see the problem if you use "show preview" before saving. 98.230.196.188 (talk) 23:43, 13 August 2020 (UTC)
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Infinite Jest
It looks like a range block that would cover the IPs involved at Infinite Jest would have a little too much collateral damage. I've semi-protected the page for 10 days hoping that'll have a desired outcome. only (talk) 20:41, 19 August 2020 (UTC)
- Two thumbs up, only; much appreciated. The editor has already been back at it and so I think 10 days will be fine to force an outcome. Thanks very much! - Julietdeltalima (talk) 20:43, 19 August 2020 (UTC)
Cholula Hot Sauce Edits
Hello Julietdeltalima Thank you for a quick response and help to navigate. 1. Yes - I belong to an agency that has indirect affiliation with the page I'm attempting to edit. Not trying to thwart the rules (I did disclose this in my edits just in case). With the pandemic - there have been a number of questions about Cholula and I suggested we update wikipedia. To help make this verifiable - we changed the website first. 1. Cholula is still manufactured in Mexico. Many were confused about where it is produced. We suggest this for your review. We have tried to remover marketingese. ″For the past 35 years Cholula has been made in Mexico crafted from carefully selected Mexican arbol and piquin peppers and a blend of signature spices. Cholula directly employs over 500+ people in Mexico and is responsible for indirectly creating more jobs for the farmers who grow Cholula’s peppers. [Footnote]" 2. With Sweet Habanero flavor - the Scoville range is 1000 - 2000. The source was internal at Cholula 3. Minor update - to match the website -- Cholula "is sold in over 20 countries around the world" 4. Introduction of a new product sample size 0.75 5. 5. Perhaps too optimistic - but trying to update the marketing references - to reflect the partnership with Aaron Sanchez with the past promotion of Cholula INK> "In 2019, Cholula partnered with celebrity chef Aaron Sanchez and launched an online stunt campaign designed by The Fourth Agency under the name “Cholula Ink”. Promoted across social media, the promotion encouraged Cholula fans to get a free Cholula tattoo. " Full disclosure - I am with the Fourth Agency. Source is public though Footnote: : Cholula Ink Social Media Contest: Meet chef Aaron Sanchez https://www.cholula.com/cholulaink Footnote Get a free Tattoo Courtesy of Cholula https://www.delish.com/food-news/a30393775/cholula-tattoo-contest/
I hope this is the right procedure -- I am new to this.
Laurie Ldillonschalk (talk) 17:57, 24 August 2020 (UTC) Ldillonschalk (talk) 18:03, 24 August 2020 (UTC)
Belleville West High
Thanks for your comment! I have updated the page again, with a source this time. If this update needs further sources or my update is unacceptable, please let me know. Thank you! Lukeaferguson (talk) 18:19, 26 August 2020 (UTC)
WikiCup 2020 September newsletter
The fourth round of the competition has finished, with 865 points being required to qualify for the final round, nearly twice as many points as last year. It was a hotly competitive round with two contestants with 598 and 605 points being eliminated, and all but two of the contestants who reached the final round having achieved an FA during the round. The highest scorers were
- Bloom6132, with 1478 points gained mainly from 5 featured lists, 12 DYKs and 63 in the news items;
- HaEr48 with 1318 points gained mainly from 2 featured articles, 5 good articles and 8 DYKs;
- Lee Vilenski with 1201 points mainly gained from 2 featured articles and 10 good articles.
Between them, contestants achieved 14 featured articles, 14 featured lists, 2 featured pictures, 87 good articles, 90 DYK entries, 75 ITN entries, 95 featured article candidate reviews and 81 good article reviews. Congratulations to all who participated! It was a generally high-scoring and productive round and I think we can expect a highly competitive finish to the competition.
Remember that any content promoted after the end of round 4 but before the start of round 5 can be claimed in round 5. Remember too that you must claim your points within 10 days of "earning" them. If you are concerned that your nomination will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. It would be helpful if this list could be cleared of any items no longer relevant. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to keep down the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Godot13 (talk), Sturmvogel 66 (talk), Vanamonde (talk), Cwmhiraeth (talk) MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 19:52, 1 September 2020 (UTC)
Khichdi
(Ahmedhamdy007 (talk) 21:38, 28 August 2020 (UTC))i have provides 5 links from notable websites in egypt to prove my idea what can i do more i you want more links i can provide if neccesary (Ahmedhamdy007 (talk) 21:38, 28 August 2020 (UTC))or if you can provide your evidence and proofs i will be thankful.
- This is not understandable. Please raise this issue on the article talk page, not my individual talk page. - Julietdeltalima (talk) 20:28, 3 September 2020 (UTC)
Fractional Ownership
What in this paragraph is unsourced?--please elaborate specifically. Investment in iconic pieces of sports memorabilia, including sports cards, game-used items, trophies, autographs, and other historically significant documents is now possible through fractionalization. Prior to fractional ownership, investment in this industry was limited to those with ample capital and industry expertise. As these assets appreciate (or depreciate) over time, peer-to-peer trading allows the share price to increase/decrease to reflect market conditions.
- According to whom? And is that source reliable by Wikipedia's standards? Please redirect your discussions to the article's talk page (rather than my individual editorial talk page), ensure you sign (with four tildes) your posts on any talk page, and make any necessary disclosures required by WP:COI. - Julietdeltalima (talk) 20:27, 3 September 2020 (UTC)
- Awesome! I added it to the discussion page there so I'm excited to talk it through :) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 151.197.55.87 (talk) 20:37, 3 September 2020 (UTC)
Thank you for your recommendations. I am a new Wikipedia user and will heed to the guidelines Medrine Nyambura (talk) 00:38, 5 September 2020 (UTC)
Question About Reverted Edit
In this rollback, you mentioned that the use of the article “the” before the word “calculus” is a standard convention for mathematicians. However, the sentence in question appears to be referring to the subject of calculus and not “the calculus [of infinitesimals]”. Are the two terms not interchangeable in that context? Xerolide (talk) 04:24, 26 September 2020 (UTC)
Edit for Johnstown Inclined Plane page
You recently removed an edit of mine on the above page due to a lack of sources.
I happen to be an operator of the Johnstown Inclined Plane and know for a fact that it takes 2 minutes and 30 seconds (give or take a few seconds depending on weather, weight of load on the cars, etc). I completed over 80 hours of training to become an operator and have held this position since 2017.
I'm not sure what else you would consider as a reliable source on this matter.
Please advise. DaHaoleMoke (talk) 23:17, 6 October 2020 (UTC)
- It must be a published source, DaHaoleMoke. Please read WP:RS and WP:V. Thanks. Julietdeltalima (talk) 23:24, 6 October 2020 (UTC)
Article Related
the edition is relating to the article, please review and post it. Ismailewu (talk) 13:31, 7 October 2020 (UTC)
Related to the ANI
First of all it is wonderful to see someone struggle to chastise new editors the same as me. I am still very new but I war with myself and others over ensuring "good faith" stays a main principle. Related to the edits of Wenzhou by Rqwfas1, the grammatical errors fixed within the article looked legit when I checked them. If they would just stop changing the title format it appears their edits would be helpful. Oh well. Hopefully it gets their attention. I pinged them here so hopefully they have another avenue to see that no one is picking on them but trying to help them follow policy. Cheers!--Tsistunagiska (talk) 19:36, 9 October 2020 (UTC)
- The grammar errors are sporadic and re-fixable. The title format changes are pervasive and are far more problematic. The bigger issue is that this new user, like many new users, doesn't seem to realize they have a talk page on which other editors are leaving messages. It sometimes takes multiple editors, and, worse, noticeboard postings, to put such a new editor on notice that this is a collaborative project and they may be contacted and required to engage in discussion regarding their changes. It isn't reasonable for anyone to take this personally or view themselves as being "picked on"; this is a professional encyclopedia project and I certainly don't treat anyone differently in the Wikipediaverse than I do in real life. Oververbosity is not "friendly", and succinctness is not "bullying." (You didn't use those words, to be sure; I hear them sometimes and they are not well-taken criticisms.) Thanks for your interest in helping improve the encyclopedia! - Julietdeltalima (talk) 19:49, 9 October 2020 (UTC)
Era Style on Extreme weather events of 535–536
Recently you reverted my edits to Extreme weather events of 535–536. I had removed the CE on the page because there were multiple discussions on the talk page about the era styles on the article, none of which have been resolved, and also they were the only use of era style on the page at all. Because of this I felt that it would be better to just remove it, since it is unnecessary, and it had been a point of contention on the page, which in the past wasn't using an era style there for most of its history anyway. Also your edit summary on the page seems to imply that it is not standard to not use era styles in the 500's, which is just wrong, most of the time era style is not used with dates this late, or at least I rarely see it. Also the article is not ambiguous on weather or not it is before or after the BCE/CE mark, and Wikipedia's guidelines state that if it isn't, then you should not even be using the era styles anyway, since it sates that only 1 or 2 digit years need the era style, for all of these reasons, I would ask that we can agree to revert your edit to the article. NDV135 (talk) 18:19, 10 October 2020 (UTC)
Seeking help regarding Vandalism
A user on Alta (dye) page is vandalising constantly and removing the sources I added and adding unsourced documents and irrelevant self published blogposts again and again. How can I block him from Vandalising? Is there any way to semi- protect / fully protect the page? (I'm on new on Wikipedia so I need a little help regarding this issue.)Tithi.sarkar (talk) 18:40, 15 October 2020 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tithi.sarkar (talk • contribs) 18:36, 15 October 2020 (UTC)
Alta (dye)
Thanks for pitching in to help clean the article up. Any opinions on the new user's insistence on changing the ordering of countires in the lede? OhNoitsJamie Talk 17:12, 16 October 2020 (UTC)
Welkies
Thankies!BuyAthenaTroy (talk) 08:36, 22 October 2020 (UTC)
WikiCup 2020 November newsletter
The 2020 WikiCup has come to an end, with the final round going down to the wire. Our new Champion is Lee Vilenski (submissions), the runner-up last year, who was closely followed by Gog the Mild (submissions). In the final round, Lee achieved 4 FAs and 30 GAs, mostly on cue sport topics, while Gog achieved 3 FAs and 15 GAs, mostly on important battles and wars, which earned him a high number of bonus points. The Rambling Man (submissions) was in third place with 4 FAs and 8 GAs on football topics, with Epicgenius (submissions) close behind with 19 GAs and 16 DYK's, his interest being the buildings of New York.
The other finalists were Hog Farm (submissions), HaEr48 (submissions), Harrias (submissions) and Bloom6132 (submissions). The final round was very productive, and besides 15 FAs, contestants achieved 75 FAC reviews, 88 GAs and 108 GAN reviews. Altogether, Wikipedia has benefited greatly from the activities of WikiCup competitors all through the contest. Well done everyone!
All those who reached the final will receive awards and the following special awards will be made, based on high performance in particular areas of content creation. So that the finalists do not have an undue advantage, these prizes are awarded to the competitor who scored the highest in any particular field in a single round, or in the event of a tie, to the overall leader in this field.
- Gog the Mild (submissions) wins the featured article prize, for a total of 14 FAs during the course of the competition.
- Bloom6132 (submissions) win the featured list prize, for 5 FLs in round 4.
- Rhododendrites (submissions) wins the featured picture prize, for 3 FPs in round 3 and 5 overall.
- Lee Vilenski (submissions) wins the featured article reviewer prize, for 23 FAC reviews in round 5.
- Epicgenius (submissions) wins the good article prize, for 45 GAs in round 2 and 113 overall.
- MPJ-DK (submissions) wins the topic prize, for 33 articles in good topics in round 2.
- The Rambling Man (submissions) wins the good article reviewer prize, for 100 good article reviews in round 2.
- Epicgenius (submissions) wins the DYK prize, for 22 Did you know articles in round 4 and 94 overall.
- Bloom6132 (submissions) wins the ITN prize, for 63 In the news articles in round 4 and 136 overall.
Next year's competition will begin on 1 January. You are invited to sign up to participate; the WikiCup is open to all Wikipedians, both novices and experienced editors, and we hope to see you all in the 2021 competition. Until then, it only remains to once again congratulate our worthy winners, and thank all participants for their involvement! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Godot13, Sturmvogel 66, Vanamonde and Cwmhiraeth MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 11:37, 3 November 2020 (UTC)
The Months of African Cinema Contest Continues in November!
Greetings,
Thank you very much for participating in the Months of African Cinema global contest/edit-a-thon, and thank you for your contributions so far.
It is already the middle of the contest and a lot have been achieved already! We have been able to get over 1,500 articles created in over fifteen (15) languages! This would not have been possible without your support and we want to thank you. If you have not yet listed your name as a participant in the contest page please do so.
Please make sure to list the articles you have created or improved in the article achievements' section of the contest page, so that they can be easily tracked. To be able to claim prizes, please also ensure to list your articles on the users by articles page. We would be awarding prizes to different categories of winners:
- Overall winner
- 1st - $500
- 2nd - $200
- 3rd - $100
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- Language Winners - up to $100*
We are very excited about what has been achieved so far, but your contributions are still needed to further exceed all expectations! Let’s create more articles before the end of this contest, which is this November!!!
Thank you once again for being part of this global event! --Jamie Tubers (talk) 10:30, 06 November 2020 (UTC)
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Sentence case
Thank you for your edit comments. As I understand it, the headings I entered should be in sentence case. On both Clothing and History of clothing I used this case, but perhaps I am using it incorrectly. I will go back over the sections that I edited again to find the errors in case formation for headings. Thanks againDeekatherine (talk) 21:25, 12 November 2020 (UTC)
New Page Patrol December Newsletter
Hello Julietdeltalima,
- Year in review
It has been a productive year for New Page Patrol as we've roughly cut the size of the New Page Patrol queue in half this year. We have been fortunate to have a lot of great work done by Rosguill who was the reviewer of the most pages and redirects this past year. Thanks and credit go to JTtheOG and Onel5969 who join Rosguill in repeating in the top 10 from last year. Thanks to John B123, Hughesdarren, and Mccapra who all got the NPR permission this year and joined the top 10. Also new to the top ten is DannyS712 bot III, programmed by DannyS712 which has helped to dramatically reduce the number of redirects that have needed human patrolling by patrolling certain types of redirects (e.g. for differences in accents) and by also patrolling editors who are on on the redirect whitelist.
Rank | Username | Num reviews | Log |
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1 | DannyS712 bot III (talk) | 67,552 | Patrol Page Curation |
2 | Rosguill (talk) | 63,821 | Patrol Page Curation |
3 | John B123 (talk) | 21,697 | Patrol Page Curation |
4 | Onel5969 (talk) | 19,879 | Patrol Page Curation |
5 | JTtheOG (talk) | 12,901 | Patrol Page Curation |
6 | Mcampany (talk) | 9,103 | Patrol Page Curation |
7 | DragonflySixtyseven (talk) | 6,401 | Patrol Page Curation |
8 | Mccapra (talk) | 4,918 | Patrol Page Curation |
9 | Hughesdarren (talk) | 4,520 | Patrol Page Curation |
10 | Utopes (talk) | 3,958 | Patrol Page Curation |
- Reviewer of the Year
John B123 has been named reviewer of the year for 2020. John has held the permission for just over 6 months and in that time has helped cut into the queue by reviewing more than 18,000 articles. His talk page shows his efforts to communicate with users, upholding NPP's goal of nurturing new users and quality over quantity.
- NPP Technical Achievement Award
As a special recognition and thank you DannyS712 has been awarded the first NPP Technical Achievement Award. His work programming the bot has helped us patrol redirects tremendously - more than 60,000 redirects this past year. This has been a large contribution to New Page Patrol and definitely is worthy of recognition.
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Istriana goat
Hi, Julietdeltalima! I have to admit I'm baffled by your edit to Istriana goat, which I've reverted. Firstly, MOS:NUMERAL is absolutely clear that "Integers greater than nine expressible in one or two words may be expressed either in numerals or in words (16 or sixteen, 84 or eighty-four, 200 or two hundred)". Secondly, what on earth is an "underway"? That word is not in the reference dictionary of the English language. It's great to fix errors, and there are certainly plenty waiting to be corrected; but do please take care not introduce any more than we already have! Thank you, have a great Christmas (or equivalent) and New Year! Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 21:30, 23 December 2020 (UTC)
- User:Justlettersandnumbers: "Underway"? It's a wholly uncontroversial adverb in my experience; I don't have time right now to track down a legitimate OED, but Google's "Oxford Languages" makes it clear that "un·der·way" /ˌəndərˈwā/" is an adverb meaning "having started and in progress; being done or carried out": "the remodeling should be underway by July". I infer that this is an Americanese WP:ENGVAR difference I never knew existed until now (and I am actually pretty conscious about such things). With respect to the MOS:NUM correction, my recollection was that the prior text had been something like "forty three", unhyphenated, and I made the not-MOS-unsanctioned decision to replace it with numerals rather than merely hyphenate it (I guess I'm of the school that reflexively uses numerals versus words for 21 and above). I assure you I'm 49 years old, a professional writer of a sort, and not a total idiot! I did it this way for a reason... Take care! - Julietdeltalima (talk) 21:50, 23 December 2020 (UTC)
- Well, no, it read "... the Istriana is one of the forty-three autochthonous goat breeds of limited distribution .... You can access the OED (and loads of other useful resources) through the Wikipedia Library, definitely worth doing if you don't already have access. Regards, Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 22:11, 23 December 2020 (UTC)
Welcome to the 2021 WikiCup!
Happy New Year and Happy New WikiCup! The competition begins today and all article creators, expanders, improvers and reviewers are welcome to take part. If you have already signed up, your submissions page can be found here. If you have not yet signed up, you can add your name here and the judges will set up your submissions page. Any questions on the rules or on anything else should be directed to one of the judges, or posted to the WikiCup talk page. Signups will close at the end of January, and the first round will end on 26 February; the 64 highest scorers at that time will move on to round 2. We thank Vanamonde93 and Godot13, who have retired as judges, and we thank them for their past dedication. The judges for the WikiCup this year are Sturmvogel 66 (talk · contribs · email) and Cwmhiraeth (talk · contribs · email). Good luck! MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 11:11, 1 January 2021 (UTC)
Help
Hello, I have to add new data in fuck page plz see it.
Fuckebegger (1286/7) it appears as part of the surname of one of Edward I’s palfreymen.
Can I add it. Source: Marc Morris's Twitter upload.
I am really sorry for using the word "plz". And I would like to inform you that Marc Morris is a popular historian. Checkout this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Morris and also see this, https://twitter.com/Longshanks1307/status/432856212363694080 Still I can't do it then do inform me.
Sarika9140 (talk) 19:26, 15 January 2021 (UTC)
Hello Mam, sorry for sending useless and long messages. I know your job is very difficult as you have to work long and get less salary thus you get irritated from useless messages. Now, coming to main point. But I am contacting here as in English IRC channel, I have been banned for 1 day. I have made many edits in Marc Morris article(upto 79% edits). It is my eleventh edit, thus, I humble request you to see my edit properly and deeply along with reliability of citations (sources) and remove any line if violating Wikipedia's policy. Note: I shall not contact you as I am unbanned on English IRC (tommorow). Sarika9140 (talk) 04:04, 16 January 2021 (UTC)
Wording fight with Bloom6132, please intervene
JulietDeltaLima, I have a problem with Bloom6132. He often uses a two-sentence format regarding notable-figures' deaths that he insists on using (though I don't think other editors do), with the second sentence beginning with a simple yet blunt-looking "He was X", and then listing the cause. On both the Robert Sam Anson ([2]) and Peter Thorburn ([3]) articles, I tried to simplify it to make that part sound less blunt, but Bloom6132 tried to change it back to his preferred version a couple of times, even after I gave him reasons and warnings saying that the two-sentence wording he insists on using doesn't have to apply to every article, and he was coming close to violating 3RR. I think you would consider what Bloom6132 inserts "oververbiage" or something. Can you please intervene before we end up being subject to sanctions for edit warring? I'd ask why Bloom6132 insists on using the format he's been using regarding notable peoople's deaths on his talk page, but I don't want to get involved in a heated argument regarding this. At least he didn't attach the phrase "years old" at the end of the "He was X" phrase. Jim856796 (talk) 04:56, 29 January 2021 (UTC)
- Jim856796, I will look at this over the weekend. I apologize for not responding to your earlier post on this. I think you and I probably agree that, while this is ultimately a silly "hill to die on" (pun may or may not be unintended), we are both concerned that people who aren't accustomed to getting real-time feedback on their writing (in any capacity, not just Wikipedia) are rarely self-aware when their usage reflexively echoes that of television news presenters. Bear with me; I have a lot going on at the moment and this is an issue that requires at least 40 minutes of focused time (not idle hyphenation corrections while listening to poorly written outgoing voice-mail menus) and that's not going to happen until Sunday at the earliest. But this is a usage thing that bugs me and I thank you for looking to me! Take care - Julietdeltalima (talk) 17:10, 29 January 2021 (UTC)
- @Julietdeltalima: You know that heated argument that Bloom6132 is trying to drag me into, even though I didn't want it? Well, it's happening right now, on my talk page. What if he insists he's going to keep on reverting and wants to be an active edit warrior? Jim856796 (talk) 02:26, 5 February 2021 (UTC)
Kiev Day and Night
Why you revert my edit in Kiev Day and Night? 1. The title proper title is Kiev Day and Night (see its references), 2. I am arranging the story that is previously false and I watched it every day, 3. There is mass grammatical incorrects and most paragraphs are vague. I am reasonably improve the article and you reverse my important edit. Why? 196.188.241.215 (talk) 22:27, 12 February 2021 (UTC)
- Because your grammar is profoundly incorrect, as this message demonstrates. "I am reasonably improve the article and you reverse my important edit," alone, has at least three significant grammar errors; "There is mass grammatical incorrects" adds at least three more. Please take this up with the editors at WP:TEAHOUSE. You really do not appear to have the English-language competence to edit in English Wikipedia. - Julietdeltalima (talk) 22:54, 12 February 2021 (UTC)
- See my contribution over at User_talk:196.188.241.215. This is (1) an encyclopedia and (2) a wiki. This is not an English literature competition. I agree that 196.188.241.215's English has minor grammatical mistakes. I disagree with you trying to discourage 196.188.241.215 from contributing to this wiki-based encyclopedia. The place to discuss this further would be the talk page of WP:BIAS, not the Teahouse. Boud (talk) 23:56, 12 February 2021 (UTC)
Long time no chat!
I wanted to stop by and say hello to you! It's been a long time since we've talked, and I hope you're doing well. I just wanted to leave you a message to let you know that I was thinking about you... :-) ~Oshwah~(talk) (contribs) 04:59, 19 February 2021 (UTC)
WikiCup 2021 March newsletter
Round 1 of the competition has finished; it was a high-scoring round with 21 contestants scoring more than 100 points. Everyone with a positive score moves on to Round 2, with 55 contestants qualifying. You will need to finish among the top thirty-two contestants in Round 2 if you are to qualify for Round 3. Our top scorers in Round 1 were:
- Epicgenius led the field with a featured article, nine good articles and an assortment of other submissions, specialising on buildings and locations in New York, for a total of 945 points.
- Bloom6132 was close behind with 896 points, largely gained from 71 "In the news" items, mostly recent deaths.
- ImaginesTigers, who has been editing Wikipedia for less than a year, was in third place with 711 points, much helped by bringing League of Legends to featured article status, exemplifying how bonus points can boost a contestant's score.
- Amakuru came next with 708 points, Kigali being another featured article that scored maximum bonus points.
- Ktin, new to the WikiCup, was in fifth place with 523 points, garnered from 15 DYKs and 34 "In the news" items.
- The Rambling Man scored 511 points, many from featured article candidate reviews and from football related DYKs.
- Gog the Mild, last year's runner-up, came next with 498 points, from a featured article and numerous featured article candidate reviews.
- Hog Farm, at 452, scored for a featured article, four good articles and a number of reviews.
- Le Panini, another newcomer to the WikiCup, scored 438 for a featured article and three good articles.
- Lee Vilenski, last year's champion, scored 332 points, from a featured article and various other sport-related topics.
These contestants, like all the others, now have to start again from scratch. In Round 1, contestants achieved eight featured articles, three featured lists and one featured picture, as well as around two hundred DYKs and twenty-seven ITNs. They completed 97 good article reviews, nearly double the 52 good articles they claimed. Contestants also claimed for 135 featured article and featured list candidate reviews. There is no longer a requirement to mention your WikiCup participation when undertaking these reviews.
Remember that any content promoted after the end of Round 1 but before the start of Round 2 can be claimed in Round 2. Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. Remember, if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is a good article candidate, a featured process, or something else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews.
If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to keep down the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Sturmvogel 66 (talk) and Cwmhiraeth (talk). MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 20:26, 1 March 2021 (UTC)
Watch Talk: Breitling Revision
Hi Julietdeltalima, thanks for your recent feedback on my revision of the Breitling watch page. I'm new and still working to figure out what information will be of value to a page. I still feel that celebrity/athlete watch owners and endorsers is a valuable segment for users to reference. I first noticed this section on the Audemars Piguet watch page and think it's worth mentioning on other notable watch brand maker pages. If you still feel that this is 'unencyclopedic cruft,' and ultimately provides no additional value to the reader, then should I suggest removing these sections on other pages? I'd like to get your take on if celebrity endorsements fits on any watch manufacturer's page at all. User talk:The Aviator22 — Preceding undated comment added 13:48, 17 March 2021 (UTC)
Dulwich College edits
Thank you for your message. I have now learnt about our paywall policy. Thank you for signposting me to this. Please note that all the links in the section are broken now. I don't want to start an edit war so I suggest that you may wish to fix them. Best wishes James — Preceding unsigned comment added by Xjamesb (talk • contribs) 10:32, 26 March 2021 (UTC)
Photo edit removed
Hello, I had put a photo of myself and my daughter under playground but our faces were not visible. I noticed other photo entries had people in the under that article. Can you help clarify this for me as to the rules on people in photos. Thank you. John P Salvatore (talk) 17:36, 29 March 2021 (UTC)
- User:John P Salvatore: The presence of people was irrelevant. There are simply way too many more images in the article already than is justified. Please see WP:GALLERY. It is also viewed here as borderline conflict-of-interest editing to put pictures of one's own self and/or family members into the encyclopedia. You may meet with more success on WP:COMMONS, where editors from all other Wikipedias (in different languages) can come for images. I do not really know how the mechanics of that work since I've never uploaded images; I recommend you ask the editors at WP:TEAHOUSE, who collectively have much more technical acumen in this regard than I do.
- Also, please be aware that photo captions should be written in sentence case, not title case. It is good to look at a lot of articles and see how things are done before attempting it yourself. I don't remember the exact language, but you had a photo uploaded that you captioned something like "Thorn Trees on Kansas Riverbank", which should have been rendered as "Thorn trees on Kansas riverbank". See MOS:SENTENCECASE for the Manual of Style guidance on this issue. Thanks. - Julietdeltalima (talk) 17:57, 29 March 2021 (UTC)
Thank you for the quick response and helpful answer. John P Salvatore (talk) 18:59, 29 March 2021 (UTC)
WikiCup 2021 May newsletter
The second round of the 2021 WikiCup has now finished; it was a high-scoring round and contestants needed 61 points to advance to Round 3. There were some impressive efforts in the round, with the top eight contestants all scoring more than 400 points. A large number of the points came from the 12 featured articles and the 110 good articles achieved in total by contestants, as well as the 216 good article reviews they performed; the GAN backlog drive and the stay-at-home imperative during the COVID-19 pandemic may have been partially responsible for these impressive figures.
Our top scorers in Round 2 were:
- The Rambling Man, with 2963 points from three featured articles, 20 featured article reviews, 37 good articles, 73 good article reviews, as well as 22 DYKs.
- Epicgenius, with 1718 points from one featured article, 29 good articles, 16 DYKs and plenty of bonus points.
- Bloom6132, with 990 points from 13 DYKs and 64 "In the news" items, mostly recent deaths.
- Hog Farm, with 834 points from two featured articles, five good articles, 14 featured article reviews and 15 good article reviews.
- Gog the Mild, with 524 points from two featured articles and four featured article reviews.
- Lee Vilenski, with 501 points from one featured article, three good articles, six featured article reviews and 25 good article reviews.
- Sammi Brie, with 485 points from four good articles, eight good article reviews and 27 DYKs, on US radio and television stations.
- Ktin, with 436 points from four good articles, seven DYKs and 11 "In the news" items.
Please remember that DYKs cannot be claimed until they have appeared on the main page. As we enter the third round, any content promoted after the end of Round 2 but before the start of Round 3 can be claimed now, and anything you forgot to claim in Round 2 cannot! Remember too, that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them (except for at the end of each round, when you must claim them before the cut-off date/time). When doing GARs, please make sure that you check that all the GA criteria are fully met.
If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article nominations, a featured process, or anything else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed (remember to remove your listing when no longer required). Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Judges: Sturmvogel 66 (talk) and Cwmhiraeth MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 10:27, 2 May 2021 (UTC)
Hello Julietdeltalima,
Appreciate your work. Can you give me an explanation for your last edit to Elaeocarpus bancroftii please? I regularly use this way to add information about Australian plant collectors to plant articles. If you can convince me that it is "inappropriate" I will desist from doing so in future. (Watching here.) Gderrin (talk) 00:53, 23 May 2021 (UTC)
I’m having too difficult a time flipping back and forth between diffs on my phone to do a precise response, but there was inconsistent numerical pronoun agreement that was solved by the deletion of those two or three words. Parenthetical phrases almost never need to be set off by other punctuation (that’s what the parentheses are for) and that’s why I deleted the commas. Take care - Julietdeltalima (talk) 01:46, 23 May 2021 (UTC) Julietdeltalima (talk) 01:46, 23 May 2021 (UTC)
- Sorry - this is not about grammar, punctuation or syntax, but deletion of a link in the article to this external site. This is important because in his paper, Ferdinand von Mueller only gave "Dr. Bancroft, jun." whereas the Australian National Botanic Gardens site acknowledges the collector of the type specimen as Thomas Lane Bancroft. There is no rush for an answer. Whenever it's convenient, I'd like to know why including the link was "inappropriate". Gderrin (talk) 02:03, 23 May 2021 (UTC)
WikiCup 2021 July newsletter
The third round of the 2021 WikiCup has now come to an end. Each of the sixteen contestants who made it into the fourth round had at least 294 points, and our top six scorers all had over 600 points. They were:
- The Rambling Man, with 1825 points from 3 featured articles, 44 featured article reviews, 14 good articles, 30 good article reviews and 10 DYKs. In addition, he completed a 34-article good topic on the EFL Championship play-offs.
- Epicgenius, a New York specialist, with 1083 points from 2 featured article reviews, 18 good articles, 30 DYKs and plenty of bonus points.
- Bloom6132, with 869 points from 11 DYKs, all with bonus points, and 54 "In the news" items, mostly covering people who had recently died.
- Gog the Mild, with 817 points from 3 featured articles on historic battles in Europe, 5 featured article reviews and 3 good articles.
- Hog Farm, with 659 points from 2 featured articles and 2 good articles on American Civil War battles, 18 featured article reviews, 2 good articles, 6 good article reviews and 4 DYKs.
- BennyOnTheLoose, a snooker specialist and new to the Cup, with 647 points from a featured article, 2 featured article reviews, 6 good articles, 6 good article reviews and 3 DYKs.
In round three, contestants achieved 19 featured articles, 7 featured lists, 106 featured article reviews, 72 good articles, 1 good topic, 62 good article reviews, 165 DYKs and 96 ITN items. We enter the fourth round with scores reset to zero; any content promoted after the end of round 3 but before the start of round 4 can be claimed in round 4. Please also remember that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them (one contestant in round 3 lost out because of this). When doing GARs, please make sure that you check that all the GA criteria are fully met.
If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article nominations, a featured process, or anything else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed (remember to remove your listing when no longer required). Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Judges: Sturmvogel 66 (talk) and Cwmhiraeth Cwmhiraeth (talk) MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 09:29, 2 July 2021 (UTC)
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Revert on Elan School
You reverted an edit I made on Élan School about an autobiographical comic. Your revert message proposes that I might be that this is due to an "inappropriate self-citation". I went to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reverting#When_to_revert to check if this kind of revert is appropriate. I do not think it is. I am not linked to the author of that comic, I am simply a reader who believes this is material that is worth linking to. Can you please explain what issue you are trying to solve by reverting this addition? Please consider instead improving the other point of criticism you made which was that the link was set inline. --Erdpferd (talk) 16:47, 19 July 2021 (UTC)
- It's not the subject of a Wikipedia article, and thus not demonstrably notable. Please take this to WP:TEAHOUSE for further advice (I do not have further time to explain this at the moment). Thanks. - Julietdeltalima (talk) 17:52, 19 July 2021 (UTC)
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How in the world did you arrive so fast to fix that? You'd never even edited the page before! I knew I was probably using the wrong hyphen (can't for the life of me remember what the MOS is on those kinds of things) but I figured it would take longer than that lol... —valereee (talk) 18:01, 21 July 2021 (UTC)
- hahaha! I have it on my watchlist just because a couple of old friends are from southern Ohio and are veritable crusaders for Cincinnati chili. It's such a weird concept to me that it's fascinating! - Julietdeltalima (talk) 18:04, 21 July 2021 (UTC)
- That is hilarious! I'm in Cincinnati, and that article was one of the first I spent major time and energy on because when I arrived there (wow, over six years ago), I discovered it was being called a type of chili con carne! Quelle horreur! And the other editors there, when I asked for a source saying that, tried to tell me I was asking for sources on WP:BLUESKY. :D —valereee (talk) 18:22, 21 July 2021 (UTC)
WikiCup 2021 September newsletter
The fourth round of the competition has finished with over 500 points being required to qualify for the final round. It was a hotly competitive round with two contestants, The Rambling Man and Epicgenius, each scoring over 3000 points, and six contestants scoring over 1000. All but one of the finalists achieved one or more FAs during the round, the exception being Bloom6132 who demonstrated that 61 "in the news" items produces an impressive number of points. Other contestants who made it to the final are Gog the Mild, Lee Vilenski, BennyOnTheLoose, Amakuru and Hog Farm. However, all their points are now swept away and everyone starts afresh in the final round.
Round 4 saw the achievement of 18 featured articles and 157 good articles. Bilorv scored for a 25-article good topic on Black Mirror but narrowly missed out on qualifying for the final round. There was enthusiasm for FARs, with 89 being performed, and there were 63 GARs and around 100 DYKs during the round. As we start round 5, we say goodbye to the eight competitors who didn't quite make it to the final round; thank you for the useful contributions you have made to the Cup and Wikipedia, and we hope you will join us again next year. For other contestants, remember that any content promoted after the end of round 4 but before the start of round 5 can be claimed in round 5. Remember too that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them.
If you are concerned that your nomination, whether it be for a good article, a featured process, or anything else, will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed (remember to remove your listing when no longer required). If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to help keep down the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Sturmvogel 66 and Cwmhiraeth. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:02, 2 September 2021 (UTC)
We are from Kerala. We eat Beef. Do you have a problem with that?
Please don't tell cow is your relative or someone, Please. Nandakumarkerala (talk) 07:07, 12 September 2021 (UTC)
What? I have no idea what you are talking about. Please tell me exactly what edit I made that you believe is out of compliance with Wikipedia’s editorial policies, and how so. This is not comprehensible. Julietdeltalima (talk) 20:26, 12 September 2021 (UTC) Julietdeltalima (talk) 20:26, 12 September 2021 (UTC)
New Page Patrol newsletter September 2021
Hello Julietdeltalima,
Please join this discussion - there is increase in the abuse of Wikipedia and its processes by POV pushers, Paid Editors, and by holders of various user rights including Autopatrolled. Even our review systems themselves at AfC and NPR have been infiltrated. The good news is that detection is improving, but the downside is that it creates the need for a huge clean up - which of course adds to backlogs.
Copyright violations are also a serious issue. Most non-regular contributors do not understand why, and most of our Reviewers are not experts on copyright law - and can't be expected to be, but there is excellent, easy-to-follow advice on COPYVIO detection here.
At the time of the last newsletter (#25, December 2020) the backlog was only just over 2,000 articles. New Page Review is an official system. It's the only firewall against the inclusion of new, improper pages.
There are currently 706 New Page Reviewers plus a further 1,080 admins, but as much as nearly 90% of the patrolling is still being done by around only the 20 or so most regular patrollers.
If you are no longer very active on Wikipedia or you no longer wish to be part of the New Page Reviewer user group, please consider asking any admin to remove you from the list. This will enable NPP to have a better overview of its performance and what improvements need to be made to the process or its software.
Various awards are due to be allocated by the end of the year and barnstars are overdue. If you would like to manage this, please let us know. Indeed, if you are interested in coordinating NPR, it does not involve much time and the tasks are described here.
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Your comment on Usernames Choice Language
I loved what you had to say there because it's exactly the kind of scenario I think about all the time because of it's real-world nature. I'm glad you get it. Goodonye. Jorm (talk) 06:18, 20 September 2021 (UTC)
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WikiCup 2021 November newsletter
The WikiCup is over for another year and the finalists can relax! Our Champion this year is The Rambling Man (submissions), who amassed over 5000 points in the final round, achieving 8 featured articles and almost 500 reviews. It was a very competitive round; seven of the finalists achieved over 1000 points in the round (enough to win the 2019 contest), and three scored over 3000 (enough to win the 2020 event). Our 2021 finalists and their scores were:
- The Rambling Man (submissions) with 5072 points
- Lee Vilenski (submissions) with 3276 points
- Amakuru (submissions) with 3197 points
- Epicgenius (submissions) with 1611 points
- Gog the Mild (submissions) with 1571 points
- BennyOnTheLoose (submissions) with 1420 points
- Hog Farm (submissions) with 1043 points
- Bloom6132 (submissions) with 528 points
All those who reached the final round will win awards. The following special awards will be made based on high performance in particular areas of content creation and review. Awards will be handed out in the next few days.
- The Rambling Man (submissions) wins the featured article prize, for 8 FAs in round 5.
- Lee Vilenski (submissions) wins the featured list prize, for 3 FLs in round 5.
- Gog the Mild (submissions) wins the featured topic prize, for 13 articles in a featured topic in round 5.
- Epicgenius (submissions) wins the good article prize, for 63 GAs in round 4.
- The Rambling Man (submissions) wins the good topic prize, for 86 articles in good topics in round 5.
- The Rambling Man (submissions) wins the reviewer prize, for 68 FAC reviews and 213 GAN reviews, both in round 5.
- Epicgenius (submissions) wins the DYK prize, for 30 did you know articles in round 3 and 105 overall.
- Bloom6132 (submissions) wins the ITN prize, for 71 in the news articles in round 1 and 284 overall.
Congratulations to everyone who participated in this year's WikiCup, whether they made it to the final round or not, and particular congratulations to the newcomers to the WikiCup, some of whom did very well. Wikipedia has benefitted greatly from the quality creations, expansions and improvements made, and the numerous reviews performed. Thanks to all who have taken part and helped out with the competition, not forgetting User:Jarry1250, who runs the scoring bot.
If you have views on whether the rules or scoring need adjustment for next year's contest, please comment on the WikiCup talk page. Next year's competition will begin on 1 January. You are invited to sign up to participate; the WikiCup is open to all Wikipedians, both novices and experienced editors, and we hope to see you all in the 2022 competition. Until then, it only remains to once again congratulate our worthy winners, and thank all participants for their involvement! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Sturmvogel 66 and Cwmhiraeth. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 19:55, 3 November 2021 (UTC)
The Months of African Cinema Contest Continues in November!
Greetings,
It is already past the middle of the contest and we are really excited about the Months of African Contest 2021 achievements so far! We want to extend our sincere gratitude for the time and energy you have invested. If you have not yet participated in the contest, it is not too late to do it. Please list your username as a participant on the contest’s main page.
Please remember to list the articles you have improved or created on the article achievements' section of the contest page so they can be tracked. In order to win prizes, be sure to also list your article in the users by articles. Please note that your articles must be present in both the article achievement section on the main contest page, as well as on the Users By Articles page for you to qualify for a prize.
We would be awarding prizes to different categories of winners:
- Overall winner
- 1st - $500
- 2nd - $200
- 3rd - $100
- Diversity winner - $100
- Gender-gap filler - $100
- Language Winners - up to $100*
Thank you once again for your valued participation! --Jamie Tubers (talk) 18:50, 11 November 2021 (UTC)
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Welcome to the 2022 WikiCup!
Happy New Year and Happy New WikiCup! The 2022 competition has just begun and all article creators, expanders, improvers and reviewers are welcome to take part. Even if you are a novice editor you should be able to advance to at least the second round, improving your editing skills as you go. If you have already signed up, your submissions page can be found here. If you have not yet signed up, you can add your name here and the judges will set up your submissions page. Any questions on the rules or on anything else should be directed to one of the judges, or posted to the WikiCup talk page. Signups will close at the end of January, and the first round will end on 26 February; the 64 highest scorers at that time will move on to round 2. The judges for the WikiCup this year are: Sturmvogel 66 (talk · contribs · email) and Cwmhiraeth (talk · contribs · email). Good luck! MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 14:37, 5 January 2022 (UTC)
Welcome to the 2022 WikiCup!
Happy New Year and Happy New WikiCup! The 2022 competition has just begun and all article creators, expanders, improvers and reviewers are welcome to take part. Even if you are a novice editor you should be able to advance to at least the second round, improving your editing skills as you go. If you have already signed up, your submissions page can be found here. If you have not yet signed up, you can add your name here and the judges will set up your submissions page. Any questions on the rules or on anything else should be directed to one of the judges, or posted to the WikiCup talk page. Signups will close at the end of January, and the first round will end on 26 February; the 64 highest scorers at that time will move on to round 2. The judges for the WikiCup this year are: Sturmvogel 66 (talk · contribs · email) and Cwmhiraeth (talk · contribs · email). Good luck! MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 15:02, 5 January 2022 (UTC)
WikiCup 2022 March newsletter
And so ends the first round of the WikiCup. Last year anyone who scored more than zero points moved on to Round 2, but this was not the case this year, and a score of 13 or more was required to proceed. The top scorers in Round 1 were:
- Epicgenius, a finalist last year, who led the field with 1906 points, gained from 32 GAs and 19 DYKs, all on the topic of New York buildings.
- AryKun, new to the contest, was second with 1588 points, having achieved 2 FAs, 11 GAs and various other submissions, mostly on the subject of birds.
- Bloom6132, a WikiCup veteran, was in third place with 682 points, garnered from 51 In the news items and several DYKs.
- GhostRiver was close behind with 679 points, gained from achieving 12 GAs, mostly on ice hockey players, and 35 GARs.
- Kavyansh.Singh was in fifth place with 551 points, with an FA, a FL, and many reviews.
- SounderBruce was next with 454 points, gained from an FA and various other submissions, mostly on United States highways.
- Ktin, another WikiCup veteran, was in seventh place with 412 points, mostly gained from In the news items.
These contestants, like all the others who qualified for Round 2, now have to start scoring points again from scratch. Between them, contestants completed reviews of a large number of good articles as the contest ran concurrently with a GAN backlog drive. Well done all! To qualify for Round 3, contestants will need to finish Round 2 among the top thirty-two participants.
Remember that any content promoted after the end of Round 1 but before the start of Round 2 can be claimed in Round 2. Anything that should have been claimed for in Round 1 is no longer eligible for points. Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. Remember, if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed.
Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Sturmvogel 66 (talk) and Cwmhiraeth (talk) MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 12:07, 3 March 2022 (UTC)
WikiCup 2022 March newsletter
And so ends the first round of the WikiCup. Last year anyone who scored more than zero points moved on to Round 2, but this was not the case this year, and a score of 13 or more was required to proceed. The top scorers in Round 1 were:
- Epicgenius, a finalist last year, who led the field with 1906 points, gained from 32 GAs and 19 DYKs, all on the topic of New York buildings.
- AryKun, new to the contest, was second with 1588 points, having achieved 2 FAs, 11 GAs and various other submissions, mostly on the subject of birds.
- Bloom6132, a WikiCup veteran, was in third place with 682 points, garnered from 51 In the news items and several DYKs.
- GhostRiver was close behind with 679 points, gained from achieving 12 GAs, mostly on ice hockey players, and 35 GARs.
- Kavyansh.Singh was in fifth place with 551 points, with an FA, a FL, and many reviews.
- SounderBruce was next with 454 points, gained from an FA and various other submissions, mostly on United States highways.
- Ktin, another WikiCup veteran, was in seventh place with 412 points, mostly gained from In the news items.
These contestants, like all the others who qualified for Round 2, now have to start scoring points again from scratch. Between them, contestants completed reviews of a large number of good articles as the contest ran concurrently with a GAN backlog drive. Well done all! To qualify for Round 3, contestants will need to finish Round 2 among the top thirty-two participants.
Remember that any content promoted after the end of Round 1 but before the start of Round 2 can be claimed in Round 2. Anything that should have been claimed for in Round 1 is no longer eligible for points. Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. Remember, if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed.
Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Sturmvogel 66 (talk) and Cwmhiraeth (talk) MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:55, 3 March 2022 (UTC)
WikiCup 2022 May newsletter
The second round of the 2022 WikiCup has now finished. It was a high-scoring round and contestants needed 115 points to advance to round 3. There were some very impressive efforts in round 2, with the top seven contestants all scoring more than 500 points. A large number of the points came from the 11 featured articles and the 79 good articles achieved in total by contestants.
Our top scorers in round 2 were:
- Epicgenius, with 1264 points from 2 featured article, 4 good articles and 18 DYKs. Epicgenius was a finalist last year but has now withdrawn from the contest as he pursues a new career path.
- AryKun, with 1172 points from two featured articles, one good article and a substantial number of featured article and good article reviews.
- Bloom6132, with 605 points from 44 in the news items and 4 DYKs.
- Sammi Brie, with 573 points from 8 GAs and 21 DYKs.
- Ealdgyth, with 567 points from 11 GAs and 34 good and featured article reviews.
- Panini!, with 549 points from 1 FA, 4 GAs and several other sources.
- Lee Vilenski, with 545 points from 1 FA, 4 GAs and a number of reviews.
The rules for featured and good article reviews require the review to be of sufficient length; brief quick fails and very short reviews will generally not be awarded points. Remember also that DYKs cannot be claimed until they have appeared on the main page. As we enter the third round, any content promoted after the end of round 2 but before the start of round 3 can be claimed now, and anything you forgot to claim in round 2 cannot! Remember too, that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them. When doing GARs, please make sure that you check that all the GA criteria are fully met.
If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article nominations, a featured process, or anything else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed (remember to remove your listing when no longer required). Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Sturmvogel 66 (talk) and Cwmhiraeth Cwmhiraeth (talk) 10:39, 1 May 2020 (UTC)
New Page Patrol newsletter May 2022
Hello Julietdeltalima,
At the time of the last newsletter (No.26, September 2021), the backlog was 'only' just over 6,000 articles. In the past six months, the backlog has reached nearly 16,000, a staggering level not seen in several years. A very small number of users had been doing the vast majority of the reviews. Due to "burn-out", we have recently lost most of this effort. Furthermore, several reviewers have been stripped of the user right for abuse of privilege and the articles they patrolled were put back in the queue.
Several discussions on the state of the process have taken place on the talk page, but there has been no action to make any changes. The project also lacks coordination since the "position" is vacant.
In the last 30 days, only 100 reviewers have made more than 8 patrols and only 50 have averaged one review a day. There are currently 815 New Page Reviewers, but about a third have not had any activity in the past month. All 854 administrators have this permission, but only about a dozen significantly contribute to NPP.
This means we have an active pool of about 450 to address the backlog. We cannot rely on a few to do most of the work as that inevitably leads to burnout. A fairly experienced reviewer can usually do a review in a few minutes. If every active reviewer would patrol just one article per day, the backlog would very quickly disappear.
If you have noticed a user with a good understanding of Wikipedia notability and deletion, do suggest they help the effort by placing {{subst:NPR invite}}
on their talk page.
If you are no longer very active on Wikipedia or you no longer wish to be part of the New Page Reviewer user group, please consider asking any admin to remove you from the list. This will enable NPP to have a better overview of its performance and what improvements need to be made to the process and its software.
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