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Please comment on Talk:History of the Communist Party of China
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Joseph Phan's height
Hi, he's listed as 178 cm on his International Skating Union bio: http://www.isuresults.com/bios/isufs00015182.htm 104.221.56.249 (talk) 02:22, 3 October 2018 (UTC)
- Thanks. I've updated the article accordingly. MBlaze Lightning 07:07, 9 October 2018 (UTC)
DYK for Baby Rani Maurya
On 10 October 2018, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Baby Rani Maurya, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Baby Rani Maurya, who in August 2018 was sworn in as the seventh governor of Uttarakhand, India, is the second woman to hold that post? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Baby Rani Maurya. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Baby Rani Maurya), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
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This Month in GLAM: September 2018
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This week's article for improvement (week 42, 2018)
 Long Island Iced Tea is a cocktail made with vodka, tequila, light rum, triple sec, gin, and a splash of cola.
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Good observation, but no. Pure coincidence? —AE (talk • contributions) 08:12, 14 October 2018 (UTC)
- Hey. I hope you didn't mind. I had suspicions but I'm glad that a CU cleared that up. Sometimes I know that what I'm about to do is wrong, but I do it anyway, yielding to the irresistible impulse of the moment. That was one such moment, and I now wish I hadn't filed it. MBlaze Lightning 05:30, 16 October 2018 (UTC)
- (talk page stalker) don't blame yourself, Mbla. You're not wrong for filing it. Being bold is important and it helps to keep the crooks away. Flooded with them hundreds 17:23, 16 October 2018 (UTC)
Greer Garson
Re:Greer Garson. I’m new to this, I saw Greer Garson on an episode of Father Knows Best called Kathy’s big chance. Greer played herself in the episode. I looked up the cast on IMDb , she was listed as playing herself. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kimmypresley (talk • contribs) 14:12, 16 October 2018 (UTC)
- Hello Kimmypresley, and welcome to Wikipedia. IMDb is not considered a reliable source here, as it is user-generated without any editorial oversight. So if you want to add that information to the aforementioned article, then your best bet is to find a reliable source for it. If you need guidance on referencing, see Help:Referencing for beginners. Hope this helps. MBlaze Lightning 14:12, 16 October 2018 (UTC)
Please comment on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject UK geography/How to write about counties
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Please comment on Talk:Saudi Arabia
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Invitation to join the Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Indian military history task force
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Indian military history task force created
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Request for comment on Talk:Adultery #Hinduism
There are some disagreements over the inclusion and exclusion of the content. The one party says the content is based on the interpretation of the translated text and passing mention while another opposes it. Read the latter part of this debate looking forward to your help to achieve the consensus.
Thanks! Onkuchia (talk) 20:34, 20 October 2018 (UTC)
- Hello, Onkuchia. Sorry, I don't think I could be of much help; and, besides, I've no time to spare for it. I've got my hands full at present. If you think that the dispute, notwithstanding your efforts, has reached an impasse, then why don't you make use of the various dispute resolution mechanisms available on Wikipedia? Look over Wikipedia:Dispute resolution. Just a word to the wise. MBlaze Lightning 06:38, 22 October 2018 (UTC)
This week's article for improvement (week 43, 2018)
Hello, MBlaze Lightning.
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Please comment on Talk:List of vegetarians
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Books & Bytes, Issue 30
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Please comment on Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (Irish stations)
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DYK nomination of Ankita Bhakat
Hello! Your submission of Ankita Bhakat at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Yoninah (talk) 15:18, 25 October 2018 (UTC)
The Signpost: 28 October 2018
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This week's article for improvement (week 44, 2018)
 A view of the Gulf of Alaska from space. Notice the swirling sediment in the waters.
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WikiCup 2018 November newsletter
The WikiCup is over for another year! Our Champion this year is 
Courcelles (submissions), who over the course of the competition has amassed 147 GAs, 111 GARs, 9 DYKs, 4 FLs and 1 ITN. Our finalists were as follows:
Courcelles (submissions)
Kosack (submissions)
Kees08 (submissions)
SounderBruce (submissions)
Cas Liber (submissions)
Nova Crystallis (submissions)
Iazyges (submissions)
Ceranthor (submissions)
All those who reached the final win awards, and awards will also be going to the following participants:
- Cas Liber (submissions) wins the FA prize, for three featured articles in round 2.
- Courcelles (submissions) wins the GA prize, for 92 good articles in round 3.
- Kosack (submissions) wins the FL prize, for five featured lists overall.
Cartoon network freak (submissions) wins the topic prize, for 30 articles in good topics overall.- Usernameunique (submissions) wins the DYK prize, for 24 did you know articles in round 3.
Zanhe (submissions) wins the ITN prize, for 17 in the news articles overall.
Aoba47 (submissions) wins the GAR prize, for 43 good article reviews in round 1.
Awards will be handed out in the coming weeks. Please be patient!
Congratulations to everyone who participated in this year's WikiCup, whether you made it to the final rounds or not, and particular congratulations to the newcomers to the WikiCup who have achieved much this year. Thanks to all who have taken part and helped out with the competition.
Next year's competition begins on 1 January. You are invited to sign up to participate; it is open to all Wikipedians, new and old. The WikiCup judges will be back in touch over the coming months, and we hope to see you all in the 2019 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 (talk · contribs · email), Godot13 (talk · contribs · email), Cwmhiraeth (talk · contribs · email) and Vanamonde93 (talk · contribs · email).
born, career
He is born in Mumbai. I am his mother. Yet you deleted the corrections. The information is quite outdated, incomplete and wrong at places. I would like to personally get in touch and help improve it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ujjwalaharshavardhan (talk • contribs) 14:43, 30 October 2018 (UTC)
- Hello Ujjwalaharshavardhan, and welcome to Wikipedia. I'm sorry for not getting back to you, I hadn't noticed your message on my talk page before. Cutting to the chase: You made a number of changes to the Aniruddha Jatkar article, but you didn't provide a reliable source, thus running afoul of our verifiability policy, which requires that all information must be verifiable to reliable, published sources, and that is the reason why your changes were removed. Also, please note that the subject in question is a living person, and therefore, you are required to adhere to our policy on biographies of living persons; to be specific, you must cite a reliable source when you are adding date of birth, or for that matter any other personal information to the article. If you want information on what is considered a reliable source, you'd do well to read up on Wikipedia:Identifying reliable sources. In addition to the above, because you are his mother, you are also required to adhere to our policy on conflict of interest; you must avoid editing the article yourself, but rather feel free to request changes on its talk page, and provide reliable sources if appropriate. If you need guidance on referencing, see Help:Referencing for beginners. I hope this helps you. MBlaze Lightning 09:54, 2 November 2018 (UTC)
This week's article for improvement (week 45, 2018)
Hello, MBlaze Lightning.
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Please comment on Talk:Brett Kavanaugh
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This week's article for improvement (week 46, 2018)
 Distribution map of modern man (Horniman Museum)
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AfroCine: The Months of African Cinema Continues….
Greetings!
Thank you very much for signing up to participate 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 200 articles created in over seven (7) languages! The figures soars to up to a thousand, if Wikidata entries are included. Furthermore, there have been about 5 in-person gatherings of Wikipedians in different countries across the world to create articles about African(a) cinema!
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!!!
- Article suggestions can be found here. You can also add to this list.
- Some notable reliable sources for African cinema can be found here. Again, this list needs expansion.
- Interested in Wikidata translation? check out the Occupation Drive, which is being led by Wiki Loves Women, in support of the contest and the project!
- Please remember to list articles you have created or improved in the Article Achievements section of the contest page, so that they can be easily tracked.
Thank you once again for being part of this global event!
Kind regards.--Jamie Tubers (talk) 22:50, 10 November 2018 (UTC)
The Bugle: Issue CLI, November 2018
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This week's article for improvement (week 47, 2018)
 The Equator on the world map of the Earth
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ArbCom 2018 election voter message
Hello, MBlaze Lightning. Voting in the 2018 Arbitration Committee elections is now open until 23.59 on Sunday, 3 December. All users who registered an account before Sunday, 28 October 2018, made at least 150 mainspace edits before Thursday, 1 November 2018 and are not currently blocked are eligible to vote. Users with alternate accounts may only vote once.
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- Done—I have cast my votes. MBlaze Lightning 12:18, 22 November 2018 (UTC)
Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article PSLV-C42 you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. 
This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Hawkeye7 -- Hawkeye7 (talk) 19:01, 24 November 2018 (UTC)
The article PSLV-C42 you nominated as a good article has passed 
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Please comment on Talk:David Wolfe (entrepreneur)
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This week's article for improvement (week 48, 2018)
 Siri is a virtual assistant part of Apple Inc.'s iOS, watchOS, macOS, HomePod, and tvOS operating systems.
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DYK for Ankita Bhakat
On 30 November 2018, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Ankita Bhakat, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Indian archer Ankita Bhakat, who entered the 2017 World Archery Youth Championships seeded ninth, won India's fourth overall world youth championships title? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Ankita Bhakat. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Ankita Bhakat), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
A barnstar for you!
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The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar |
| This is just a small token of appreciation of your commendable work in keeping Wikipedia "vandalism free". You have already made more than 4000 edits using Huggle which is quite impressive. Good work. Keep it up. DBigXrayᗙ 17:02, 21 October 2018 (UTC) |
- Thanks from me too, MBlaze! Hope to see more of you around! -- Kautilya3 (talk) 19:21, 21 October 2018 (UTC)
- Thanks guys. I really appreciate it. MBlaze Lightning 06:41, 22 October 2018 (UTC)
The Signpost: 1 December 2018
- From the editor: Time for a truce
- Special report: The Christmas wishlist
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This week's article for improvement (week 49, 2018)
 Waves in Lake Ontario
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Nominations now open for "Military historian of the year" and "Military history newcomer of the year" awards
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December 2018 GOCE newsletter
Guild of Copy Editors December 2018 Newsletter
 Hello and welcome to the December 2018 GOCE newsletter. Here is what's been happening since the August edition.  Thanks to everyone who participated in the August blitz (results), which focused on Requests and the oldest backlog month. Of the twenty editors who signed up, eleven editors recorded 37 copy edits. For the September drive (results), of the twenty-three people who signed up, nineteen editors completed 294 copy edits. Our October blitz (results) focused on Requests, geography, and food and drink articles. Of the fourteen people who signed up, eleven recorded a total of 57 copy edits. For the November drive (results), twenty-two people signed up, and eighteen editors recorded 273 copy edits. This helped to bring the backlog to a six-month low of 825 articles. The December blitz will run for one week, from 16 to 22 December. Sign up now! Elections: Nominations for the Guild's coordinators for the first half of 2019 will be open from 1 to 15 December. Voting will then take place and the election will close on 31 December at 23:59 UTC. Positions for Guild coordinators, who perform the important behind-the-scenes tasks that keep our project running smoothly, are open to all Wikipedians in good standing. We welcome self-nominations, so please consider nominating yourself if you've ever thought about helping out; it's your Guild and it doesn't run itself! Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators; Reidgreg, Baffle gab1978, Jonesey95, Miniapolis and Tdslk. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.
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The Bugle: Issue CLII, December 2018
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This week's article for improvement (week 50, 2018)
 Nuuk is the capital and largest city of Greenland. Pictured is the Nuussuaq district in Nuuk, with Sermitsiaq mountain in the background.
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DYK nomination of PSLV-C42
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Please comment on Talk:Road Warrior Hawk
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This Month in GLAM: November 2018
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Voting now open for "Military historian of the year" and "Military history newcomer of the year" awards
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This week's article for improvement (week 51, 2018)
 A bookworm / beetle grub found inside a paperback book, showing some of the damage it has wrought
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Books & Bytes, Issue 31
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Issue 31, October – Novemeber 2018
- OAWiki
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- Global branches update
- Bytes in brief
French version of Books & Bytes is now available on meta!
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This week's article for improvement (week 52, 2018)
 A diagram that includes the scalp
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The Signpost: 24 December 2018
- From the editors: Where to draw the line in reporting?
- News and notes: Some wishes do come true
- In the media: Political hijinks
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