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Re:Help with a stub

Hi, I am very wiki illiterate, and was wondering if you might be able to help me stumble through my assignment- the guidelines are as follows Find a person, place, or event in history from the years 1500-2000 that is on Wikipedia as a “stub”. Research and write a Wikipedia-style article of at least 500 words about it. Make sure you use hyperlinks (web links) to link it to other subjects that Wikipedia treats, just like Wikipedia articles include links! Make sure you have REFERENCES (footnotes, works cited)! Wikipedia likes references. Your article should be of a high quality, well-written, well-supported, and thorough, comparable to good articles on the Wikipedia website. It should be able to be published.

Here is a list of history-related stubs. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:History_stubs

You could choose virtually any one of these under "history stubs" to use for this project. A stub generally has a sentence or two, no more--it's really ready for some enterprising historian (like you!) to come along and use his or her research and writing skills to inform the world!

Please note: you MAY NOT write a Wikipedia article about a person, place, or thing that already has a thorough article on Wikipedia. That wouldn't be very useful, because the world already knows who that person is or what that place is.

I encourage you to join the Wikipedia community and actually post your article to Wikipedia!

However, that is not required; if you choose you may simply submit it as a .doc or .html file or similar, PROVIDED ALL THE LINKS WORK.

Let me know thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by Vernonwashere (talk • contribs) 23:33, 5 May 2015 (UTC)

@Vernonwashere: Hi. In order to help you, I need to know what you need help with specifically. Also, if I can't figure out an answer to your question, or if you'd like a more appropriate response, feel free to drop in to the Teahouse where an experienced Wikipedian can help you. Thanks, --I am k6ka ^{Talk to me!} _{See what I have done} 23:49, 5 May 2015 (UTC)

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This week's article for improvement (week 20, 2015)

The food industry is a complex, global collective of diverse businesses that supply much of the food and food energy consumed by the world population. Hello, K6ka. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Food industry Previous selections: Home appliance • Hydropower Get involved with the TAFI project! You can... Nominate an article Review nominations Have your say in future selections Posted by: EuroCarGT (talk) 00:21, 11 May 2015 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

Tech News: 2015-20

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• You can now make charts and maps on your wiki with the new "graph" tool. If you have an old browser, you will see images instead. It uses a tool called Vega; you can learn how to use it and write help pages for your wiki. You can use the Vega edit tool to make charts and copy the code to your wiki. Charts and maps use complex code and you should put them into templates. In the future, you will be able to create charts with VisualEditor. [1] [2] [3]
• You can apply for technical jobs to develop tools for the community. [4]
• The logos of all wikis are now in a new place. It will make pages load faster. You can still ask to change the logo. You can also use local CSS for brief changes. [5] [6]

Problems

• There was a problem that caused slow editing. [7]
• Pages were sometimes removed from your watchlist in VisualEditor. This problem is now fixed. [8]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since May 6. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from May 12. It will be on all Wikipedias from May 13 (calendar).
• You can now use data from Wikidata on more pages. The page doesn't need to be linked to the Wikidata item. It works on a few wikis and more wikis will be added soon. [9] [10]
• You should get fewer errors when you add files to Commons. [11]
• When you use an external link to link to a wiki page, VisualEditor now converts it to a wiki link. [12]
• When you add a link in VisualEditor, you see pages that match what you type. It is now easier to see where they match. [13]

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on May 13 at 18:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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15:43, 11 May 2015 (UTC)

Vandalism on a dangerous-subject page

The page Lolcow is currently being vandalized with harassing information on me (Gabriel James Navarro), being put there by the very same cyberbullies who aggressively treat me as a "lolcow", and who are also presently harassing my IP talk page. Please ban these malicious parties. 45.49.131.121 (talk) 03:33, 12 May 2015 (UTC)

I am not an administrator and as such cannot issue blocks. Please attempt dispute resolution first. --I am k6ka ^{Talk to me!} _{See what I have done} 03:34, 12 May 2015 (UTC)

Gabriel James Navarro

Can you please explain why you and the other user are reverting factual changes to the Lolcow article? As far as I can tell, the article was created to simply provide non-biased information regarding the lolcow phenomenon on the internet. Most of the recent edits are just adding another example, Gabriel James Navarro, who is a known lolcow as evidenced by sites like this: http://cwckiforums.com/threads/moleman9000.1357/page-1. Allowing the other user, who I suspect is Gabriel Navarro revert edits would be like allowing celebrities to edit out controversies on their own articles for the sake of reputation keeping rather than actual writing information content. 104.138.250.63 (talk) 03:36, 12 May 2015 (UTC)

Can you please explain why you assumed I reverted edits to the Lolcow article when I haven't? Please seek dispute resolution for content issues. --I am k6ka ^{Talk to me!} _{See what I have done} 03:37, 12 May 2015 (UTC)

Bullies

Please help me report these longtime stalkers and cross-site harasser-slanderers. And understand that my "edit warring" is simply removal of vandalism. 45.49.131.121 (talk) 03:53, 12 May 2015 (UTC)

If you read our page on vandalism carefully, you should realize that this is not considered vandalism. Please stop reverting and seek dispute resolution. --I am k6ka ^{Talk to me!} _{See what I have done} 03:55, 12 May 2015 (UTC)

Your Message

Hi,

i just wanted to thank.

Regards

Nursen — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nurşen Yildirim (talk • contribs) 09:46, 12 May 2015 (UTC)

User/name change

I keep getting told the following and I don't understand the difference: "The request was made by 'User' Bentley Boys Wedding & Corporate Band, not Bentley Boys Wedding & Corporate Band; please login as Bentley Boys Wedding & Corporate Band to requ...

There is one email associated with this account so I can't see where to 'login as Bentley Boys Wedding & Corporate Band'. Please advise. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bentley Boys Wedding & Corporate Band (talk • contribs) 14:32, 13 May 2015 (UTC)

@Bentley Boys Wedding & Corporate Band: Hi, just ignore that message. It was an automated message posted by a bot, and it appears to be a glitch. It has nothing to do with your end. --I am k6ka ^{Talk to me!} _{See what I have done} 14:37, 13 May 2015 (UTC)

"So Fresh: The Hits of Autumn 2015"

I left you a reply on the So Fresh: The Hits of Autumn 2015 talk page. Thank you for your time. Ilovechristianmusic (talk) 02:16, 14 May 2015 (UTC)ilovechristianmusic

@Ilovechristianmusic: Requests for increases to the page protection level should go to WP:RFPP, not on an article talk page. --I am k6ka ^{Talk to me!} _{See what I have done} 03:03, 14 May 2015 (UTC)

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This week's article for improvement (week 21, 2015)

Left: Czech bramboráček, a bread made of potato dough, being deep fried. Right: The Royal Navy Trafalgar class attack submarine HMS Tireless (S88) sits on the surface of the North Pole, the northern polar ice cap on Earth Hello, K6ka. The following are WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selections: Deep frying Polar ice cap Wikipedia:Today's articles for improvement/2015/21/3 Wikipedia:Today's articles for improvement/2015/21/4 Wikipedia:Today's articles for improvement/2015/21/5 Previous selections: Food industry • Home appliance • Hydropower Get involved with the TAFI project! You can... Nominate an article Review nominations Have your say in future selections Posted by: MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of EuroCarGT (talk) 01:38, 18 May 2015 (UTC) •

Tech News: 2015-21

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• You can watch a video about the new graph tool.

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since May 13. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from May 19. It will be on all Wikipedias from May 20 (calendar).
• References are now always in the right order. Also, the reference list now only shows references used on the page. [14]
• You can no longer create an account with a colon ':' in it. If you already have one, it still works. [15]
• The toolbar in VisualEditor now looks different. It is easier to see the icons. [16]
• You won't be able to use e-mail lists for a few hours on Tuesday. [17] [18]
• UploadWizard now shows better matches when you add a category to your file. [19]
• A test about VisualEditor will start on the English Wikipedia on Thursday. [20]

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on May 21 at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join a technical meeting in France this week.

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15:21, 18 May 2015 (UTC)

Today's articles for improvement

• Hello K6ka:

This week's voting for TAFI's upcoming weekly collaboration has begun at Week 24 of 2015. Thanks for participating!

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ClueBot III not archiving correctly

Hi,

I thought you might like to know that I have heard back from Rich regarding this. Apparently the WP:API has changed again which has generated a lot of PHP errors so ClueBot III therefore hasn't archived correctly. Rich is now looking into this, hopefully ClueBot III will be back archiving your page shortly!--5 albert square (talk) 00:24, 19 May 2015 (UTC)

@5 albert square: Thanks for the update! Was wondering what happened with the bot. Glad to hear it is being worked on. --I am k6ka ^{Talk to me!} _{See what I have done} 00:34, 19 May 2015 (UTC)

Yeah it's weird because it doesn't even look as if it's been archiving ClueBot NG's talk page! I've been archiving that and Jimbo Wales' talk page manually otherwise both would be about 10 miles long now.--5 albert square (talk) 00:53, 19 May 2015 (UTC)

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This week's article for improvement (week 22, 2015)

Chocolate most commonly comes in dark (bottom), milk (middle), and white (top) varieties Hello, K6ka. The following are WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selections: Types of chocolate Car wash Visual editor Greater Antilles Food photography Previous selections: Deep frying • Food industry • Home appliance Get involved with the TAFI project! You can... Nominate an article Review nominations Have your say in future selections Posted by: EuroCarGT (talk) 00:59, 25 May 2015 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

TAFI week 22, 2015 update

Please note that Personality is also an article for improvement for week 22, 2015. Thank you.

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Today's articles for improvement weekly vote

• Hello K6ka:

This week's voting for TAFI's upcoming weekly collaboration has begun at Week 25 of 2015. Thanks for participating!

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Tech News: 2015-22

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Problems

• VisualEditor was broken for 30 minutes on Tuesday. The problem was due to a tool it uses. [21]
• Some Labs tools had issues last week. [22] [23]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since May 20. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from May 26. It will be on all Wikipedias from May 27 (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on May 28 at 18:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• You can add your ideas of new tools to help active users like you. [24]

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16:16, 25 May 2015 (UTC)

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This week's article for improvement (week 23, 2015)

The term Buggy is generally used to refer to any lightweight automobile with off road capabilities and sparse bodywork. Hello, K6ka. The following are WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selections: Buggy (automobile) Pepperoni Australian Aboriginal sacred sites Paparazzi Atmosphere Previous selections: Types of chocolate • Deep frying • Food industry Get involved with the TAFI project! You can... Nominate an article Review nominations Have your say in future selections Posted by: EuroCarGT (talk) 00:18, 1 June 2015 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

Today's articles for improvement weekly vote

• Hello K6ka:

This week's voting for TAFI's upcoming weekly collaboration has begun at Week 26 of 2015. Thanks for participating!

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Tech News: 2015-23

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Problems

• Many wikis were slow for a few hours on Wednesday due to a code error. Sometimes the pages did not load at all and showed an error. [25]
• Some tools in Labs were broken on Wednesday and Thursday. [26]
• Edit tags added by the software were broken on all wikis from May 23 to May 28. [27] [28]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since May 27. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from June 2. It will be on all Wikipedias from June 3 (calendar).
• You won't be able to use e-mail lists for a few hours on Tuesday. [29]

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on June 3 at 18:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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15:39, 1 June 2015 (UTC)

Global renamer

Have you considered applying for the meta:global renamer userright? You're certainly qualified for the role, and there already exists 9 other users in the group that do not hold bureaucrat rights on any project, so there is precedent (but be prepared for hesitation since you don't yet hold administrative rights on any project). If you decide to do so, please let me know so I can comment on your request. –xeno^talk 14:12, 2 June 2015 (UTC)

@Xeno: I've thought about it but never really took it seriously until now. I'll do my homework and study the policies before making a request. --I am k6ka ^{Talk to me!} _{See what I have done} 16:52, 2 June 2015 (UTC)

Elizabeth Warren Salary

I wanted to ask a question about adding Elizabeth Warren's Harvard salary to the article. I'm not trying to make a point about salary and politics; I think the information should be out there and people can make of it what they like. I looked at two other political figures and I saw that they had their speaking fees noted in their Wikipedia articles, but there wasn't a larger point behind it - it's just information.

I would still like to add the salary information. There is plenty of documentation for it and, as I mentioned in an earlier post on the Elizabeth Warren talk page, there's no campaign going on so it's not going to be used for political hay. What do you think? 73.25.235.169 (talk) 03:35, 4 June 2015 (UTC)

Politics doesn't concern me. The issue here is whether this information is worth mentioning in the article (see WP:Handling trivia). Since Wikipedia is so vast and broad, what can be considered "worth including" and "not worth including" is vague and a matter of debate (which is why we have talk pages to discuss things like this). I won't revert you if you add the information to the article, but someone else might. --I am k6ka ^{Talk to me!} _{See what I have done} 03:50, 4 June 2015 (UTC)

ManpasandBeverages name change

Hi, I have tried multiple times to change the username. my questins are as below 1. if I change the username to some ordinary username, will that impact on the headline of the article? as Manpasand Beverages Ltd 2. I do not have any intention to vandalise and/or marketing promotion on wikipedia, I just came across lot of articles on different beverages companies on wikipedia and wanted to do same for this beverage company. what would be the best option 3. If i change username to some ordinary name then how can I keep the name of the article Manpasand Beverages ?

I would be highly obliged if you could help me out. Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by ManpasandBeveragesLtd (talk • contribs) 05:48, 4 June 2015 (UTC)

@M0615Sip:

1. No, it will not affect the title of your article unless you were developing it in your userspace. Since you are developing it outside your userspace and in the drafts namespace, the title will not be affected. Even if you were developing the article in your userspace, the title of the article is not finalized and you can change it when you copy your article and move it into the article namespace.
2. If you are affiliated or have connections with this company, please review our policy on conflict of interest and the neutral point of view policy. Otherwise, feel free to follow the instructions at the Your First Article page to see if your article and subject is eligible for Wikipedia.
3. Already answered in no. 1

--I am k6ka ^{Talk to me!} _{See what I have done} 11:51, 4 June 2015 (UTC)

GOCE June 2015 newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors June 2015 News May drive: Thanks to everyone who participated in last month's backlog-reduction drive. Of the 38 people who signed up, 29 copyedited at least one article, and we got within 50 articles of our all-time low in the backlog. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. Coordinator elections: Nominations are open through June 15 for GOCE coordinators, with voting from June 16–30. Self-nominations are welcome and encouraged. Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators Miniapolis, Jonesey95, Biblioworm and Philg88. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

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VisualEditor News #3—2015

Did you know?

When you click on a link to an article, you now see more information:

The link tool has been re-designed:

There are separate tabs for linking to internal and external pages.

The user guide has more information about how to use VisualEditor.

Since the last newsletter, the Editing Team has created new interfaces for the link and citation tools, as well as fixing many bugs and changing some elements of the design. Some of these bugs affected users of VisualEditor on mobile devices. Status reports are posted on Mediawiki.org. The worklist for April through June is available in Phabricator.

A test of VisualEditor's effect on new editors at the English Wikipedia has just completed the first phase. During this test, half of newly registered editors had VisualEditor automatically enabled, and half did not. The main goal of the study is to learn which group was more likely to save an edit and to make productive, unreverted edits. Initial results will be posted at Meta later this month.

Recent improvements

Auto-fill features for citations are available at a few Wikipedias through the citoid service. Citoid takes a URL or DOI for a reliable source, and returns a pre-filled, pre-formatted bibliographic citation. If Citoid is enabled on your wiki, then the design of the citation workflow changed during May. All citations are now created inside a single tool. Inside that tool, choose the tab you want (⧼citoid-citeFromIDDialog-mode-auto⧽, ⧼citoid-citeFromIDDialog-mode-manual⧽, or ⧼citoid-citeFromIDDialog-mode-reuse⧽). The cite button is now labeled with the word "⧼visualeditor-toolbar-cite-label⧽" rather than a book icon, and the autofill citation dialog now has a more meaningful label, "⧼Citoid-citeFromIDDialog-lookup-button⧽", for the submit button.

The link tool has been redesigned based on feedback from Wikipedia editors and user testing. It now has two separate sections: one for links to articles and one for external links. When you select a link, its pop-up context menu shows the name of the linked page, a thumbnail image from the linked page, Wikidata's description, and/or appropriate icons for disambiguation pages, redirect pages and empty pages. Search results have been reduced to the first five pages. Several bugs were fixed, including a dark highlight that appeared over the first match in the link inspector (T98085).  

The special character inserter in VisualEditor now uses the same special character list as the wikitext editor. Admins at each wiki can also create a custom section for frequently used characters at the top of the list. Please read the instructions for customizing the list at mediawiki.org. Also, there is now a tooltip to describing each character in the special character inserter (T70425).

Several improvements have been made to templates. When you search for a template to insert, the list of results now contains descriptions of the templates. The parameter list inside the template dialog now remains open after inserting a parameter from the list, so that users don’t need to click on "⧼visualeditor-dialog-transclusion-add-param⧽" each time they want to add another parameter (T95696). The team added a new property for TemplateData, "Example", for template parameters. This optional, translatable property will show up when there is text describing how to use that parameter (T53049).

The design of the main toolbar and several other elements have changed slightly, to be consistent with the MediaWiki theme. In the Vector skin, individual items in the menu are separated visually by pale gray bars. Buttons and menus on the toolbar can now contain both an icon and a text label, rather than just one or the other. This new design feature is being used for the cite button on wikis where the Citoid service is enabled.

The team has released a long-desired improvement to the handling of non-existent images. If a non-existent image is linked in an article, then it is now visible in VisualEditor and can be selected, edited, replaced, or removed.

Let's work together

• Share your ideas and ask questions at mw:VisualEditor/Feedback.
• The weekly task triage meetings continue to be open to volunteers, each Wednesday at 12:00 (noon) PDT (19:00 UTC). Learn how to join the meetings and how to nominate bugs at mw:Talk:VisualEditor/Portal. You do not need to attend the meeting to nominate a bug for consideration as a Q4 blocker. Instead, go to Phabricator and "associate" the Editing team's Q4 blocker project with the bug.
• If your Wikivoyage, Wikibooks, Wikiversity, or other community wants to have VisualEditor made available by default to contributors, then please contact James Forrester.
• If you would like to request the Citoid automatic reference feature for your wiki, please post a request in the Citoid project on Phabricator. Include links to the TemplateData for the most important citation templates on your wiki.

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This week's article for improvement (week 24, 2015)

An example of sport – a view of the 1906 unofficial Olympic Games Hello, K6ka. The following are WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selections: Sport Global cuisine Caramel Arctic Candy apple Previous selections: Buggy (automobile) • Types of chocolate • Deep frying Get involved with the TAFI project! You can... Nominate an article Review nominations Have your say in future selections Posted by: EuroCarGT (talk) 00:14, 8 June 2015 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

Tech News: 2015-24

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from June 9. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from June 10. It will be on all Wikipedias from June 11 (calendar). [30] [31]
• If you use the Monobook skin, the buttons and other controls now look more the same in VisualEditor and other tools. [32]
• When you edit links and other items in VisualEditor, you now need to apply your change before closing the tool. [33]
• The title of dialogs is now easier to see when it is near long buttons. [34]

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on June 9 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join a meeting with the Language team. The meeting will be on June 10 at 14:30 (UTC). [35]

Future changes

• If you have a bot, you may need to fix it. The default continuation mode of the API for action=query will change at the end of June. [36]

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15:21, 8 June 2015 (UTC)

Talkback

Hello, K6ka. You have new messages at WHirelandmarketing's talk page.
You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

Happy for you to change the username to Symon Walmsley at WH Ireland — Preceding unsigned comment added by Whirelandmarketing (talk • contribs) 08:35, 10 June 2015 (UTC)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nair

Diet Traditionally, the Nairs were not strict vegetarians, but included fish in their diet, though this was shunned by the higher classes. The love for fish was noted as so strong that it was "often smuggled in." Working class Nair favoured kānji (rice gruel), as did many Malabar Hindus.[106] Pork was also noted as one of their favourite foods,[107] and even high-status Nairs were noted as eating buffalo meat.[108] Proscriptions

A 16th-century writer noted that drinking was unknown in Travancore at that time, but in 1787 AD the Maharaja formally prohibited takara (palm brandy) under pain of forfeiture of property.[106] The Nayar avoided beef, and many did not eat lamb.[109] In the modern day, alcohol is a component of Nair-dominated festivals in Kerala.[108] During the pre-Independence era, consumption of beef and alcohol was strictly prohibited and doing so often resulted in violence or excommunication.[110][page needed]

In Nair Families still Beef and Alcohol is banned please remove below points

and even high-status Nairs were noted as eating buffalo meat.[108]

In the modern day, alcohol is a component of Nair-dominated festivals in Kerala.[108] — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kottaramnair (talk • contribs) 20:34, 10 June 2015 (UTC)

@Kottaramnair: Please cite a reliable source. --I am k6ka ^{Talk to me!} _{See what I have done} 21:03, 10 June 2015 (UTC)

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Competitive examination

Hello K6ka, you did a favor of undoing my edit on Competitive examination. I think the tone of the article is not fitting for Wikipedia. The information about France and that it is "surely" the most difficult one in the world regarding competitive exams are also not accurate. I personally think that the entire content of this article can be merged with entrance examination. peace Sedai2014 (talk) 23:04, 13 June 2015 (UTC)

@Sedai2014: Hi. You've reached the wrong place for issues like this. Discussion relating to article content should go on an article talk page. --I am k6ka ^{Talk to me!} _{See what I have done} 23:09, 13 June 2015 (UTC)

I already said the same thing there, did you check the article talk page before undoing my edit? Sedai2014 (talk) 00:28, 14 June 2015 (UTC)

I don't think you know what your edit to the article consisted of, so here's the diff. You didn't actually make any changes to the article, but you only added <nowiki>Insert non-formatted text here</nowiki> to the page. There was no actual content being added, only something that shouldn't be on the page. Why would I need to check the talk page before removing that? --I am k6ka ^{Talk to me!} _{See what I have done} 00:36, 14 June 2015 (UTC)

well, this article does not meet the criteria for a wikipedia article (I already explained why), that's what I wanted to express by inserting that sign. If you think so too, put the sign back or just advice on how to proceed. If you think the article is in a good shape per se, forget about this conversation and enjoy the rest of the day :)Sedai2014 (talk) 18:24, 14 June 2015 (UTC)

You didn't express anything with that edit, other than the fact it had to (and could) be reverted. Simply put, that isn't the way you draw attention to an issue. --I am k6ka ^{Talk to me!} _{See what I have done} 19:16, 14 June 2015 (UTC)

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• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from 17 June. It will be on all Wikipedias from 18 June (calendar).

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Please help if you can see fit...

Hi K6Ka,

I was greatly relieved for your help preventing continuous blanking over on Talk:Sons of Liberty. Thank you for that. As it turns out, and as a result, I'm under a bit of a siege over on [44]. I've been trying to defend myself against bullying by User:Beyond My Ken there, but he seems to be having some success gaining traction with some false accusations against me -- that I'm a sock for a disruptive editor half way around the world from me. Anyway, if you could take a look at the AFI page and maybe help, I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks again.

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International Trademark Association Wikipedia: Copyright

Hello! We are trying to update the International Trademark Association page to be more current and include all of the correct information. Can you please elaborate upon what on the page is copyright infringement? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lheery (talk • contribs) 13:21, 22 June 2015 (UTC)

@Lheery: This was your edit. Your page was copied from http://www.inta.org/About/Pages/WhyAreTMsImportant.aspx. The copyvio report is here. --I am k6ka ^{Talk to me!} _{See what I have done} 13:29, 22 June 2015 (UTC)

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• You can't use HTTPS wikis with Internet Explorer 6 on Windows XP. You need to use another browser. [47]

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• On June 15, search was broken on all wikis for several hours. [48] [49] [50]
• On June 16, images were broken for several hours on wikis that use InstantCommons. [51] [52] [53]
• Many Labs tools were broken for several days. Almost all of them are back now. They may be missing some data for the last 10 days. [54] [55] [56]

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International Trademark Association Page

Thanks for your help on International Trademark Association's page. I'm confused about the copyright violation - we are trying to make this Wiki page correct and up to date. Can you help me upload the information that it is not rejected? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lheery (talk • contribs) 20:54, 22 June 2015 (UTC)

@Lheery: I'm not sure exactly what you are requesting. Your edit was reverted because it was simply copied and pasted from another website. This can cause legal issues, and thus Wikipedia forbids copyright violations. See our policy on copyright violations. In order for a change to be accepted, they must be written in an encyclopedic tone (i.e. no bias or fancruft), should generally not be written by anyone with a conflict of interest, and should never be simply copied-and-pasted from another source, as mentioned above.

Also, if you want to reply to a thread (such as this one), click on the "Edit" button next to the section title and respond from there, instead of creating an entire new thread (this will cause disorganization and clutter). Please also sign your posts by adding four tildes (~~~~) at the end of your comments. --I am k6ka ^{Talk to me!} _{See what I have done} 21:09, 22 June 2015 (UTC)

@K6ka: Thanks for your help. Is it possible to see which sections were directly copied/pasted and caused the page to be taken down? We want to update our company page as everything is out of date. We are not trying to copy/paste anything as well as keep a neutral tone. Any help would be great appreciated! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lheery (talk • contribs) 13:54, 23 June 2015 (UTC)

@Lheery: This is an automatically generated report of what was copied-and-pasted. --I am k6ka ^{Talk to me!} _{See what I have done} 15:13, 23 June 2015 (UTC)

@K6ka: Is there a way to cite these sources so this isn't considered copyright infringement? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lheery (talk • contribs) 18:05, 23 June 2015 (UTC)

@Lheery: See this page.

Also, as I have already mentioned, please sign your posts by adding four tildes (~~~~) at the end of your comments. Like this:

Foo bar foo bar foo bar. ~~~~

--I am k6ka ^{Talk to me!} _{See what I have done} 18:27, 23 June 2015 (UTC)

@K6ka: Is there anyone who can take our content and upload it appropriately with all of these citations? We wrote all of the content so that it's appropriate for Wikipedia and wouldn't violate anything. Lheery (talk) 19:18, 23 June 2015 (UTC)

@Lheery: Text on Wikipedia is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License (see Wikipedia:Text of Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License) unless otherwise stated. Work that you submit to Wikipedia must be compatible with that license. The very best option I can suggest for you is to rewrite the content completely, keeping in mind the policy on conflict of interests. (You can also see Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials if you're serious about keeping it intact, but that means it can't be copyrighted at all, and the license it uses must be compatible with our license. Otherwise it will likely be removed again.) --I am k6ka ^{Talk to me!} _{See what I have done} 20:35, 23 June 2015 (UTC)

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Thanks very much...

...for your support over at my RfA. I shall do my best to be worthy of it. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 05:17, 28 June 2015 (UTC)

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• Long lines in code blocks now look better. [57]
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• When you read a page on the mobile site, you can now see a link to go to its talk page. [59]
• The code coloring tool has changed. You can now use many more languages. It now also works on mobile. [60] [61] [62]
• You can look at a new site to learn how to reuse data from Wikimedia sites. [63]

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• JavaScript was broken on some wikis due to a code error. VisualEditor and other tools that use JavaScript were broken. [64]

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I am new to wikipedia and have joined to try and update the page of Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed who is now the UN Special Envoy for Yemen. Grateful if you could advise how this can be done in respect of copyright laws. Dub2002 (talk) 13:37, 4 July 2015 (UTC)

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RFC/N discussion of the username "NotAnOmbudsman"

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Problems

• The code of long pages is not colored any more. You may see this problem on the pages of long gadgets. [71]

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• The "Page information" tool shows how many users watch the page. You can now see how many are active. [72] [73]
• You can now translate articles into English with the new translation tool. [74]

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Qrator article

Hello K6ka,

Thanks for the welcome! I have just submitted a draft for the Qrator article i've written. According to the editorial community of Wikipedia on #IRC, my article agrees to the guidelines and formatting of Wikipedia, so I hope the draft is good. I did not sign the draft. I didn't know if I had to do that. Let me know if you think I should change anything. I look forward to hearing from you :)

Thanks.

Jasoniliou (talk) 13:31, 7 July 2015 (UTC)Jasoniliou

Hey Jasoniliou. I ran your draft through reFill (automatically fills in citations) and AutoEd (cleans up wiki markup), hopefully that helps!

And no, you don't need to sign your draft (and you should definitely not sign it once it gets moved to the article namespace!), since the page history automatically credits you with each edit you make, so you don't need to worry about being left in the dark ;) --I am k6ka ^{Talk to me!} _{See what I have done} 13:50, 7 July 2015 (UTC)

Hey K6ka. Thank you very much for this. Do you think it will get approved? I put a lot of time into it. Do I just wait now? Jasoniliou (talk) 13:54, 7 July 2015 (UTC)[[User:Jasoniliou|

@Jasoniliou: Yes, you'll just have to wait for someone to review your draft. Please be patient, since the system is very heavily backlogged (1K+!), so it may take some time for your submission to be reviewed. Don't be discouraged if it does not get approved. We've all failed at one point in our lives.

In the meantime, feel free to go over your article again, and if it helps, read your article out aloud. Things sound different when you read them out loud instead of silently in your head, and you will often find many errors and mistakes or things that could be rewritten this way. Good luck! --I am k6ka ^{Talk to me!} _{See what I have done} 14:17, 7 July 2015 (UTC)

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• You can now see a list of pages with errors in code coloring. [75]

Problems

• There was a problem with editing on Thursday. Some tools like bots and VisualEditor were broken on all wikis for 10 minutes. [76]
• There was a problem with images on Thursday. They were broken on all wikis for 15 minutes. [77]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from July 14. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from July 15. It will be on all Wikipedias from July 16 (calendar).

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Missee Harris

You probably did not mean to restore this revision: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Misee_Harris&oldid=671407206 ? Pinkbeast (talk) 17:51, 14 July 2015 (UTC)

@Pinkbeast: No, it's nothing really special. Occasionally vandal fighters may revert a user and unknowingly revert the article to a revision made by another vandal. It's happened to me many times before, and I wound up in your situation several times as well, when I saw things the initial reverter didn't see (This is often due to a limitation of the tools used, since I was using STiki to make that edit, or because the user was on patrol and had many edits to check, and thus may not have had the time to individually examine carefully each edit). At times it may be the other way around. I did not see the vandalized content there, so thank you for reverting it. --I am k6ka ^{Talk to me!} _{See what I have done} 17:55, 14 July 2015 (UTC)

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RookeryBayReserve → RWRookeryBay (Username change)

May I change my username to the one you suggested: RWatRookeryBay — Preceding unsigned comment added by RookeryBayReserve (talk • contribs) 16:04, 17 July 2015 (UTC)

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Dessert is a typically sweet course that concludes an evening meal. Pictured is a chocolate-strawberry crumble ball. Hello, K6ka. The following are WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selections: Dessert Home Taboo Post-production Aerosol spray General aviation Previous selections: Kayaking • Holiest sites in Islam • Party Get involved with the TAFI project! You can... Nominate an article Review nominations Have your say in future selections Posted by: Northamerica1000 (talk) on 04:00, 20 July 2015 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

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• You now see more warnings in the image viewer. They tell you to be careful when using the image, for example if it shows a person. [79]

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Recent Edit

I deleted that section because I'm clear why the "history" of the illegal drug trade, broadly, is so focused on the Opium Wars. That seems very specific and not relevant to the nature of the post. Am I wrong? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.90.96.47 (talk) 03:13, 23 July 2015 (UTC)

Nobody said you were wrong but, looking at some of the sources in the line you removed, it has a connection with the Opium Wars, which you said was made too specific in an article that should've had a broader viewpoint. Personally though, I'm a bit unclear as to why those two sentences had to be removed when the next paragraph was all about Opium Wars as well. --I am k6ka ^{Talk to me!} _{See what I have done} 03:31, 23 July 2015 (UTC)

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RE: REQUEST FOR USER NAME CHANGE

Greetings to you K6ka, I would like you to change my username form the current one to Henry Newman — Preceding unsigned comment added by HenryNewman12 (talk • contribs) 12:48, 24 July 2015 (UTC)

Hi HenryNewman12. Please file requests for a username change at Special:GlobalRenameRequest, not on my talk page, as I won't process requests made on my talk page. Thanks. --I am k6ka ^{Talk to me!} _{See what I have done} 13:17, 24 July 2015 (UTC)

Thank you for your response k6ka. 😃😉 — Preceding unsigned comment added by HenryNewman12 (talk • contribs) 13:23, 24 July 2015 (UTC)

Request file. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Henry Newman (talk • contribs) 13:28, 24 July 2015 (UTC)

New to Wiki

Hi K6ka

I am new to Wiki and am not totally sure what I did wrong - you sent me (quite a rude) message about being blocked if I defame someone with poor references - all I am doing is adding the changes Al Pillay herself has asked me to do as she doesn't use computers. I cant see in any of the information what it is that's wrong - please advise and I apologise I got it wrong. Also I have only added once to the site - when I changed the photo it says it cant as the file has been deleted. Thanks for your help. Nigel — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nigel from Camden LGBT Forum (talk • contribs) 13:50, 24 July 2015 (UTC)

@Nigel from Camden LGBT Forum: Perhaps I can clarify. Your edit to Al Pillay was reverted again because it added information that was not properly sourced. On Wikipedia, we require that everything added to our website be properly sourced and supported with a citation. We get especially strict on this policy when it comes to articles about living people, in which it is policy to immediately remove anything that isn't sourced on such an article. The message you got was a pre-written one, and I issued it because Melcous had also issued you another message two hours earlier, again notifying you of our verifiability policy. Ten minutes later, you reverted Melcous's edit without any explanation, and reinserted the aforementioned unsourced content, so I came and re-reverted your edit, under the policy regarding the biographies of living persons. --I am k6ka ^{Talk to me!} _{See what I have done} 13:55, 24 July 2015 (UTC)

Response re Al Pillay

Thanks for this. It all sounds very formal (which I understand). I don't know who this Malcous person is. I have only received a message from you. All I could see is a bit that said revert so i pressed it - it didn't explain anything. Again I apologise - I am new to Wiki and it will take me some time to figure out how you deal with edits. I will ensure I put a source on everything but I can assure you nothing was controversial - it just said where she has performed. I really need some advice on the picture - she wants it changed and it got reverted (my new word of the day) - there is no explanation about this on the bit that says it. Now I am terrified I will get blocked for trying to upload it again. Please advise. Thanks. Nigel — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nigel from Camden LGBT Forum (talk • contribs) 14:05, 24 July 2015 (UTC)

@Nigel from Camden LGBT Forum: What picture are you referring to? Are you referring to this picture? If so, it got deleted because images on Wikimedia Commons must be either in the public domain or free to use -- copyrighted images are not allowed there. Files must also have sufficient evidence to prove that it is public domain or free to use.

Also, as an important side note, please sign your posts on a discussion page (such as this one) by adding four tildes (~~~~) to the end of your comments. For example:

Foo bar. ~~~~

This will automatically produce your signature, which will contain a link to your userpage and the timestamp of your edit. --I am k6ka ^{Talk to me!} _{See what I have done} 14:12, 24 July 2015 (UTC)

Also, before I forget, if you want to reply to a thread, click on the "Edit" button next to its title rather than creating a new section. --I am k6ka ^{Talk to me!} _{See what I have done} 14:13, 24 July 2015 (UTC)

Thanks so much for this - very helpful! Nigel from Camden LGBT Forum (talk) 14:21, 24 July 2015 (UTC)

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• You cannot use the compact user bar any more. [82]
• You can change your options to see bigger images. [83]
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• You can now edit pages linked in "what links here" more easily. [85]

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• There was a problem with the abuse filter page on big wikis on July 23. It was due to a code error. [86]

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• JavaScript authors: You cannot use wgNoticeUserData to get edit counts anymore. [87]

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15:05, 27 July 2015 (UTC)

Dont know

I don't know what are you saying? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ujwaldahal2 (talk • contribs) 15:13, 28 July 2015 (UTC)

What exactly are you referring to? --I am k6ka ^{Talk to me!} _{See what I have done} 15:16, 28 July 2015 (UTC)

Changing my username

I wan't to change the username, I've crated this and I thought I was doing an article, later one The article tool place, and this name keeps appear in Google search, That's why I put it in a different spelling, Can I choose a 100 percent different name ? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Khaled Akil (talk • contribs) 21:17, 28 July 2015 (UTC)

Request done on WP:CHUS. BTW, you don't need to poke me on my talk page to do it, just wait patiently for someone to process your request ;) --I am k6ka ^{Talk to me!} _{See what I have done} 22:16, 28 July 2015 (UTC)

90.199.59.159 aka Phil

Hello k6ka, thanks for helping me out with Phil. They are not really a new user, they are a record-label-manager trying to shove their corp and employees into wikipedia. I'm trying to teach them the ropes. 75.108.94.227 (talk) 17:07, 29 July 2015 (UTC)

Changing my username

I changed the username because when I made I thought I'm doing an article, the I discovered it's a user page, later on an article was made, but in google search the old name still appear as USER, the name is Khaled Akil, when or how the old name will be removed from google search? thanks User:k6ka.Abraham (talk) 21:22, 29 July 2015 (UTC)

@Hallit Aqueeal: The "User:" prefix will always appear, because your page is in the user namespace, not the main article namespace. The search results will not update until Google's caches clear, which may take up to 24 to 48 hours. --I am k6ka ^{Talk to me!} _{See what I have done} 22:04, 29 July 2015 (UTC)

TAFI's List of articles

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I would like my username changed

I would like my username changed to Dell_the_Engie please. --Amish Paradise (talk) 17:15, 30 July 2015 (UTC)

@Amish Paradise: Requests to have your username changed should go on Special:GlobalRenameRequest or WP:Changing username. I don't process requests made on my talk page, sorry. --I am k6ka ^{Talk to me!} _{See what I have done} 18:28, 30 July 2015 (UTC)

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Huggle inserting wrong date heading

See [88]. I'm guessing your computer's system time is set to sometime in July and not August. — MusikAnimal ^talk 19:26, 2 August 2015 (UTC)

@MusikAnimal: Yep, sadly it is. The laptop I was using to make that edit belongs to my school so I don't have much control over it. For some reason the clock broke after DST, and every time I boot up the computer it flips the clock back one hour. I sadly can't change the clock without the admin password, so unfortunately I'll just have to wait for my laptop to realize that it's August. I do have other computers that do have the correct time and date, but they're slower, so I don't usually use them for recent changes patrolling. --I am k6ka ^{Talk to me!} _{See what I have done} 19:34, 2 August 2015 (UTC)

Not a big deal! I'm pretty sure Huggle can still register the last level warning and act accordingly, it's merely the heading that's wrong :) Cheers — MusikAnimal ^talk 19:37, 2 August 2015 (UTC)

Not in my experience. Huggle would look at my computer's date and time and get confused when it's earlier than the date and time of the revision I reverted, so it would refuse to warn the user no matter what. I often had to go and use Twinkle to warn the user, which resulted in erroneous date headings. --I am k6ka ^{Talk to me!} _{See what I have done} 19:52, 2 August 2015 (UTC)

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• The ContentTranslation extension has been updated:
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• The error page you see when the sites are not working is now simpler and easier to read. It also shows the Wikimedia logo. [94]
• MediaWiki now supports redirects for CSS pages. [95]
• Bots can't guess captchas unlimited times anymore. [96]

Problems

• There was a problem with thumbnails on wikis with local images on July 24 and 25. It was due to a code error. [97]
• We can't search by file type on Wikimedia wikis now. [98]

Changes this week

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