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Dead horses

this topic about dead horses is inappropriate — Preceding unsigned comment added by Habz123 (talk • contribs) 19:35, 3 February 2019 (UTC)

Those reading in the future: I once had a joke about beating dead horses (figuratively of course). –eggofreason^talk 22:45, 9 February 2019 (UTC)

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Administrators' newsletter – February 2019

News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2019).

Administrator changes

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Guideline and policy news

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American Heritage

Why did you remove my edits? Especially in alumni section? These are all alumni of American Heritage — Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.2.236.49 (talk) 00:07, 5 February 2019 (UTC)

The list was restored. My apologies, as I initally checked the articles of the persons you listed and glossed them badly. –eggofreason^talk 00:12, 5 February 2019 (UTC)

Thank you. Can you please stop John from Idegon from vandalizing the page? He continues to remove updates to alumni list and has been doing so for some time now. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.2.236.49 (talk) 01:28, 5 February 2019 (UTC)

developed countries

Its necessary to mark up last year of recognition. Please dont revert it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Developed_country#Comparative_Table_(2018) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ozteller (talk • contribs) 18:37, 7 February 2019 (UTC)

Page : Hun Sen

This page needs third party help. It is far from neutral and the CNRP keep adding content, which is not relevant to the neutral presentation of the person. The page needs to be re-written by NEUTRAL people and then locked. As it is now, pretty much only his name and birthday should appear and the rest deleted until proper NEUTRAL content can be added and locked.DotPeter (talk) 23:21, 12 February 2019 (UTC)

@DotPeter: Hello. Any concerns about page material can be redirected to the talk page. In the meantime, I urge you to read WP:NPOV. Neutrality does not mean removing any negative traits of a person: It means presenting all the information of a person as it is. While some accusations there need to be sourced, there is no need to remove everything at your will—Wikipedia runs on consensus—meaning you can bring discussion to the Village Pump, the BLP noticeboard, or the Teahouse. For such a situation like this, you may want to visit the BLP noticeboard and see what they think. –eggofreason^talk 23:27, 12 February 2019 (UTC)

Nah, I think the only way to deal with this, is by direct government involvement. If negative means misleading people, then anything is allowed on those pages and the integrity and trustworthiness of Wikipedia will suffer as a result.DotPeter (talk) 23:33, 12 February 2019 (UTC)

@DotPeter: Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, and that means we include controversies if the person is controversial. Again, I don't know much about this, and the section needs more sources, so I point you to the BLP noticeboard to resolve this. Additionally, that "direct government involvement" statement will not run well with admins should you escalate this further. Thanks. –eggofreason^talk 23:37, 12 February 2019 (UTC)

Great - then add a special section called CONTROVERSIES. I added some controversies to Sam Rainsy's page and I was called a vandal. So tell me. what is the difference between the two pages. Why is Sam Rainsy's page so protected and Hun Sen's page not? The policy adhere to all pages, am I right?
Leading people to certain conclusions is NOT neutral behavior.DotPeter (talk) 23:43, 12 February 2019 (UTC)

@DotPeter: Regarding your addition to Sam Rainsy: It was unsourced and biased. Statements like "Sam Rainsy is very active in creating fake news websites(example: KiMedia), where he post anti-Hun Sen propaganda." and "Sam Rainsy has encouraged all CNRP members in Cambodia to be as troublesome as possible and stand in the way of developments. This has resulted in many villages are now under siege and control of CNRP cells, which harass and extort the local population" were, according to the editors, "Cambodian regime propaganda that does not even bother presenting a single source".

If you think this is correct, then use reliable sources to back up your statements. The burden of proof is on you. Cite your sources.

I'm suspecting you're here to spread propaganda, and not to build an encyclopedia of factual information. Again, if it angers you so, please go to the BLP noticeboard there and ask them what you think. Until then, you are the one leading people to certain conclusions by posting unsourced controveries on an encyclopedia. If you are here to build an encyclopedia, then stop being a hypocrite and work on something else other than Cambodian politics. –eggofreason^talk 23:51, 12 February 2019 (UTC)

You just went ad hominem. Whatever your suspicions are, they are assumptions. That in itself is a behavior that is no fitting for even an encyclopedia. I call for neutrality and objectivity, and you accuse me of being a troll. Well done.DotPeter (talk) 01:07, 13 February 2019 (UTC)

@DotPeter: Behavior that supports a single viewpoint does not fit an encyclopedia. You call for neutrality, yet you post unsourced statements at Sam Rainsy's page. You call for objectivity, yet you show clear bias in removal of sourced things that you don't like. I've given you many things to help you resolve whatever complaints you have about the article and it's content. You continue to reject them. For the umpteenth time, ask the BLP noticeboard for any issues. Any edit that is removing content or defaming others will be seen as disruptive, and it will be the decision of others to see whether you can continue being here. Until then, all I can do is point you in directions. So please, prove my assumptions wrong, and do actual work in this encyclopedia. –eggofreason^talk 01:15, 13 February 2019 (UTC)

Nah. There is too much talk. This goes up to be an issue between government and Wikipedia. This is a lawyers job. Not mine. — Preceding unsigned comment added by DotPeter (talk • contribs) 04:19, 13 February 2019 (UTC)

Meh, there's a simple solution. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 15:31, 13 February 2019 (UTC)

You might want to be careful of making legal threats. They are not allowed here. ^{[Username Needed]} 12:34, 14 February 2019 (UTC)

Juan Jesús Posadas Ocampo

Hey, I saw you undid my edit on Juan Jesús Posadas Ocampo. I'm fairly sure that the grammar correction I made was, well, correct.

"On 24 May 1993, Posadas Ocampo, along with six other people, were assassinated in the parking lot of Guadalajara International Airport."

If you simply move the "along with six other people" clause, you get:

"On 24 May 1993, Posadas Ocampo were assassinated in the parking lot of Guadalajara International Airport, along with six other people."

Obviously, "were" does not make grammatical sense in this context, hence why I changed it to "was" in the original sentence. I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure the edit I made was correct. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Conspiracy risk (talk • contribs) 16:47, 14 February 2019 (UTC)

@Conspiracy risk: Hmm, you're right. Sorry for reverting your fix. I'm too trigger happy nowadays. I think if you reroute the sentence, no one will complain. Feel free to fix the sentence as you wish! –eggofreason^talk 16:51, 14 February 2019 (UTC)

Thariode movie

Stupid details fake names and addresses Feed you up (talk) 18:32, 15 February 2019 (UTC)

Google Patents

You reverted [1]. This is page containing a list of features and history about the product. The list of features references primary sources, the same as pages like FileZilla. The history section references secondary sources. This use of primary sources is allowed in this case: "A primary source may only be used on Wikipedia to make straightforward, descriptive statements of facts that can be verified by any educated person with access to the primary source but without further, specialized knowledge. For example, an article about a novel may cite passages to describe the plot, but any interpretation needs a secondary source." Wikipedia:Primary sources. Wetherbeei (talk) 20:10, 15 February 2019 (UTC)

February 2019

{{subst:uw-subst|2=See? It does nothing.}} –eggofreason^talk 20:14, 18 February 2019 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – March 2019

News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2019).

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Arbitration

• The Arbitration Committee announced two new OTRS queues. Both are meant solely for cases involving private information; other cases will continue to be handled at the appropriate venues (e.g., WP:COIN or WP:SPI).
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• Following the 2019 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: Base, Einsbor, Jon Kolbert, Schniggendiller, and Wim b.

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Re: URGENT Wrongful Deletion OutofBounds2019Film

Hello @EggOfReason,

We just received notification that our page was to be deleted. We did not do anything inappropriate and only followed a previous Wiki administrator's instruction to add more media references. We just submitted the revised article with added media references as requested by the previous Wiki administrator. This is a grave misunderstanding and we would like our page to be reactivated. We would also like our four references in the "References" section to be converted to actual reference links. Also, we would like the #4 and #5 hyperlinks at the bottom page of the "External Links" section to be deleted. Please assist. Thank you in advance.OutofBounds2019Film (talk) 21:04, 5 March 2019 (UTC)

@OutofBounds2019Film: Your page was deleted because it was a violation of WP:FAKEARTICLE. You cannot have content in your userpage that looks like an article; if it does, then it is eligible for deletion as per WP:NOTWEBHOST.

For referencing help, see WP:REFB.

Additionally, your username seems to show that you are involved with the filmmakers somehow. Firstly, editing articles while having a conflict of interest is discouraged, and secondly, your username seems to be promotional: a violation of WP:ORGNAME. Therefore, you might be blocked for that, judging by your edits.
Thanks, –eggofreason^talk 21:27, 5 March 2019 (UTC)

WP:A11

Hi, just a quick note, for articles like Crashdagamer, where the subject is clearly a person but does not make a credible claim of significance, the proper CSD criteria is WP:A7, since WP:A11 is generally not used for people. Thanks, ---- Patar knight - ^chat/_{contributions} 23:58, 5 March 2019 (UTC)

Thank you for the advice—I'll keep A7 in mind. –eggofreason^{(talk · contribs)} 00:00, 6 March 2019 (UTC)

cladogram on rodent page

    Hello EggOfReason,
    On my talk page, you said that my edits to the cladogram on the rodent page did not seem constructive. I'm not entirely sure what you mean. Here is why I changed the chart:
    Genus Ochotona is the genus of pikas. The Wikipedia article on it does not say anything about old world rabbits. In fact, the term old world rabbit often refers to the European rabbit, not in genus Ochotona. (Although this is not mentioned in the Wikipedia article on it.) Also, I do not think Sylvilagus belongs there in the chart. Lagomorphs are divided into Ochotona and family Leporidae (which is all rabbits and hares). Sylvilagus is just a genus within Leporidae.
    While I have not formally studied lagomorphs or rodents, Most of this data has been taken directly from the Wikipedia pages linked to on the Rodents page. I'm sorry if I am wrong, but I assure you I have all the best intentions. Simiiforme8 (talk) 00:33, 6 March 2019 (UTC)

@Simiiforme8: Apologies on the revert. I have reinstated your edit. Thanks for improving the article! –eggofreason^{(talk · contribs)} 00:39, 6 March 2019 (UTC)

Hello

What did you do that for. — Preceding unsigned comment added by HoneyNo006 (talk • contribs) 17:59, 6 March 2019 (UTC)

@HoneyNo006: Well, the edit was vandalism... –eggofreason^{(talk · contribs)} 18:02, 6 March 2019 (UTC)

AfC request granted; along with an additional bit

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A barnstar for you!

	The Citation Barnstar
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/* References */

hi Ava.PD91 (talk) 06:28, 9 March 2019 (UTC) i add some more references but can you please tell me why exactly my article get declined?

@Ava.PD91: Your article lacked inline citations citing reliable sources. See WP:42 for a basic overview of what good citations are made of and refer to WP:REFB to see how to cite references. Thanks, –eggofreason^{(talk · contribs)} 19:14, 9 March 2019 (UTC)

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2019

Hey can how can i lock the article? Seneed12 (talk) 19:41, 12 March 2019 (UTC)

Hello, Seneed12. You cannot lock any article unless you ask an administrator to do so at WP:RPP. I hardly doubt it'll work, considering you don't have a need for page protection. –eggofreason^{(talk · contribs)} 19:46, 12 March 2019 (UTC)

I want to create a article without any issues is that possible? Seneed12 (talk) 19:50, 12 March 2019 (UTC)

@Seneed12: All your articles seem to be for promoting yourself without any sources whatsoever, so you will see problems. Please read WP:NPERSON before making another article about yourself. –eggofreason^{(talk · contribs)} 19:53, 12 March 2019 (UTC)

March GOCE newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors March 2019 Newsletter Hello and welcome to the March newsletter, a brief update of Guild activities since December 2018. All being well, we're planning to issue these quarterly in 2019, balancing the need to communicate widely with the avoidance of filling up talk pages. Don't forget you can unsubscribe at any time; see below. January Drive: Thanks to everyone for the splendid work in January's Backlog Elimination Drive. We removed copyedit tags from all of the articles tagged in our original target months of June, July and August 2018, and by 24 January we ran out of articles. After adding September, we finished the month with 8 target articles remaining and 842 left in the backlog. GOCE copyeditors also completed 48 requests for copyedit in January. Of the 31 people who signed up for this drive, 24 copyedited at least one article. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. Blitz: Thanks to everyone who participated in the February Blitz. Of the 15 people who signed up, 13 copyedited at least one article. Participants claimed 32 copyedits, including 15 requests. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. Progress report: As of 23:39, 18 March 2019 (UTC), GOCE copyeditors have completed 108 requests since 1 January and the backlog stands at 851 articles. March Drive: The month-long March drive is now underway; the target months are October and November 2018. Awards will be given to everyone who copyedits at least one article from the backlog. Sign up here! Election reminder: It may only be March but don't forget our mid-year Election of Coordinators opens for nominations on 1 June. Coordinators normally serve a six-month term and are elected on an approval basis. Self-nominations are welcome. If you've thought of helping out at the Guild, or know of another editor who would make a good coordinator, please consider standing for election or nominating them here. 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, Baffle gab1978, Jonesey95, Reidgreg and Tdslk. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

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Draft page Petra Rudolf

EggOfReason, thank you for pointing out the shortcomings and suggestions to make this draft page (Draft:Petra Rudolf) better. I have done some significant additions to address them, may continue a bit more. But, was wondering, if you can perhaps take a look and let me know what you think, better to hear it now before re-submitting. Will greatly appreciate it! QueenBeeEver (talk) 13:28, 20 March 2019 (UTC)

FR30799386's User Scripts

Dear all. Recently, FR30799386 (talk) was blocked for sock puppetry. Among their projects were a number of user scripts that they left behind. I (DannyS712) have copied the scripts, and have taken over maintaining them. You currently import one or more of FR30799386's scripts, and I thought that you might want to import a maintained version. Links to each script are provided below.

• User:DannyS712/communicator
• User:DannyS712/copyvio-check
• User:DannyS712/Undo
• User:DannyS712/Quick-undo
• User:DannyS712/Readonly
• User:DannyS712/Redirectify
• User:DannyS712/Section-strike

If you have any questions, please reach out and talk to me. --DannyS712 (talk) 03:57, 21 March 2019 (UTC)

Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 4

News and updates associated with user scripts from the past month (March 2019).

Hello everyone and welcome to the fourth issue of the new Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter:

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Joeytje50's JWB

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Pythoncoder's voteSymbols (now in release 3.0.3) • Evad37's rater (now in release 1.2.0)

Abelmoschus Esculentus retired from Wikipedia; DannyS712 is now maintaining their scripts:

Ajax Rollback • Ajax Rollback with summary • Contributions Search • Tags Manager
Teahouse Talkback • Mass Category Modifying Helper • EFFP Response Helper
Skip to bottom • Source Assess Table Generator • Userspace • RandomAfC
Mass Message Sender • Discussion Closer

FR30799386 was blocked from Wikipedia; DannyS712 is now maintaining their scripts:

communicator • copyvio-check • Undo • Quick-undo • Readonly • Redirectify • Section-strike

Pending requests

• A request for helping with help requests
• Hyphenating ISBNs
• ...and many more, all available at Wikipedia:User scripts/Requests

Miscellaneous

• The Wikimedia Foundation has requested help with the testing of and feedback on a new tool for "Automated article section recommendations" for stub articles. See the village pump notice for more.
• mw.loader.getScript has been added to mw.loader, closing a feature request from 2010. It allows users to load a script via URL (like mw.loader.load()) and specify a callback function (like mw.loader.using()). See mw:ResourceLoader/Core modules#mw.loader.getScript for more.

Enjoy your April Fool's, --DannyS712 (talk) 18:43, 30 March 2019 (UTC)

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BIG KIDD

Hy Dear I just made the update on BIG KIDD, improve references and also provide the reason why this page should not be deleted. Hope you will check the page and update the status of the page. Thanks a lot for your notice03wikicreator (talk) 17:06, 2 April 2019 (UTC)

March 2019 GOCE drive bling!

		The Cleanup Barnstar
		This barnstar is awarded to EggOfReason for copy edits totaling over 12,000 words (including bonus and rollover words) during the GOCE March 2019 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Reidgreg (talk) 18:41, 3 April 2019 (UTC)

Participatory budgeting algorithm

I do not understand the comment you just added to the page. The page has nothing to do with my personal views. It summarizes the views expressed in the three cited papers, written by a total of 13 different authors. --Erel Segal (talk) 15:18, 5 April 2019 (UTC)

@Erel Segal: Hello! I added that {{essay-like}} tag because there were a few citaiton-less statements. However, that might've been a kneejerk reaction; the essay tag doesn't exactly suit the style of the prose you wrote. I'll remove it now. Thanks, –eggofreason^{(talk · contribs)} 15:24, 5 April 2019 (UTC)

Manuel Pais Clemente

Hi there, Thanks for pointing out the lack of references. I have submitted the draft with additional references, I hope these are in order for publishing the page. If accepted please edit the article title should be all caps Manuel Pais Clemente. Thanks in advance. --Nunesdea (talk) 20:08, 6 April 2019 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – April 2019

News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2019).

Administrator changes

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Mentifisto → Lofty abyss

Interface administrator changes

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Bureaucrat changes

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Technical news

• In Special:Preferences under "Appearance" → "Advanced options", there is now an option to show a confirmation prompt when clicking on a rollback link.
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Arbitration

• The Arbitration Committee clarified that the General 1RR prohibition for Palestine-Israel articles may only be enforced on pages with the {{ARBPIA 1RR editnotice}} edit notice.

Miscellaneous

• Two more administrator accounts were compromised. Evidence has shown that these attacks, like previous incidents, were due to reusing a password that was used on another website that suffered a data breach. If you have ever used your current password on any other website, you should change it immediately. All admins are strongly encouraged to enable two-factor authentication, please consider doing so. Please always practice appropriate account security by ensuring your password is secure and unique to Wikimedia.
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WP:UAA reports on users with no edits

Generally, there is no reason to report usernames with no edits whatsoever. Per WP:UAAI: "Wait until the user edits. Do not report a user that hasn't edited unless they are clearly a vandal. We do not want to welcome productive editors with a report at UAA, nor do we want to waste our time dealing with accounts that may never be used." The exceptions are obvious hate speech or names that attack a living person/Wikipedia editor, those are blockable even without any edits, but other run-of-the-mill violations need not be reported unless and until they at least attempt to edit, and you should be able to clearly explain what the problem is if it is not immediately evident.

For whatever reason, every day dozens, if not hundreds of accounts are created that never make one single edit. It is our responsibility as admins to conscientiously review every report a user makes at UAA, so we have to check for contribs, deleted contribs, and tripping of the edit filter for every one of these reports, only to find out there's nothing there and therefore no problem to be solved. That's time that could be spent doing more productive things, but you basically obligate admins to do it by making such reports. Beeblebrox (talk) 20:00, 9 April 2019 (UTC)

Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 5

News and updates associated with user scripts from the past month (April 2019). Hello everyone and welcome to the 5th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter:

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Newslinger's Notifier • Suffusion of Yellow's View Source

BrandonXLF: To Top Button • Restorer • Easy Summary • Subpage Mover

Evad37: Xunlink (v2.0.0, handles portals) • XFDcloser (v3.13.0, upgrades at TfD and removal of backlinks, minor tweaks and fixes)

Twinkle (commit 26305a2, major updates to csd, xfd, and tag menus, additional improvements to other smaller features)

DannyS712 is now maintaining Visual editing, a fork of Flooded with them hundreds' VisualEditist script

Pending requests

• Twinkle for mobile
• Working with "psuedo-headings"
• ...and many more, all available at Wikipedia:User scripts/Requests

Until next month, --DannyS712 (talk) 00:22, 30 April 2019 (UTC)

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Administrators' newsletter – May 2019

News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2019).

Administrator changes

HickoryOughtShirt?4 • RexxS

Necrothesp

Bratsche • Kyle Barbour • Kzollman • Madman

Interface administrator changes

Pharos

Bureaucrat changes

Primefac

CheckUser changes

Reaper Eternal

Guideline and policy news

• A request for comment concluded that creating pages in the portal namespace should be restricted to autoconfirmed users.
• Following a request for comment, the subject-specific notability guideline for pornographic actors and models (WP:PORNBIO) was removed; in its place, editors should consult WP:ENT and WP:GNG.

Technical news

• XTools Admin Stats, a tool to list admins by administrative actions, has been revamped to support more types of log entries such as AbuseFilter changes. Two additional tools have been integrated into it as well: Steward Stats and Patroller Stats.

Arbitration

• In response to the continuing compromise of administrator accounts, the Arbitration Committee passed a motion amending the procedures for return of permissions (diff). In such cases, the committee will review all available information to determine whether the administrator followed "appropriate personal security practices" before restoring permissions; administrators found failing to have adequately done so will not be resysopped automatically. All current administrators have been notified of this change.
• Following a formal ratification process, the arbitration policy has been amended (diff). Specifically, the two-thirds majority required to remove or suspend an arbitrator now excludes (1) the arbitrator facing suspension or removal, and (2) any inactive arbitrator who does not respond within 30 days to attempts to solicit their feedback on the resolution through all known methods of communication.

Miscellaneous

• A request for comment is currently open to amend the community sanctions procedure to exclude non XfD or CSD deletions.
• A proposal to remove pre-2009 indefinite IP blocks is currently open for discussion.

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NPR Newsletter No.18

Hello Overthrows,

WMF at work on NPP Improvements

Niharika Kohli, a product manager for the growth team, announced that work is underway in implementing improvements to New Page Patrol as part of the 2019 Community Wishlist and suggests all who are interested watch the project page on meta. Two requested improvements have already been completed. These are:

• Allow filtering by no citations in page curation
• Not having CSD and PRODs automatically marked as reviewed, reflecting current consensus among reviewers and current Twinkle functionality.

Reliable Sources for NPP

Rosguill has been compiling a list of reliable sources across countries and industries that can be used by new page patrollers to help judge whether an article topic is notable or not. At this point further discussion is needed about if and how this list should be used. Please consider joining the discussion about how this potentially valuable resource should be developed and used.

Backlog drive coming soon

Look for information on the an upcoming backlog drive in our next newsletter. If you'd like to help plan this drive, join in the discussion on the New Page Patrol talk page.

News

• Following a request for comment, the subject-specific notability guideline for pornographic actors and models (WP:PORNBIO) was removed; in its place, editors should consult WP:ENT and WP:GNG.

Discussions of interest

• A request for bot approval for a bot to patrol two kinds of redirects
• There has been a lot discussion about Notability of Academics
• What, if anything, would a SNG for Softball look like

Six Month Queue Data: Today – 7242 Low – 2393 High – 7250

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Books & Bytes, Issue 33

The Wikipedia Library

Books & Bytes
Issue 33, March – April 2019

• #1Lib1Ref
• Wikimedia and Libraries User Group update
• Global branches update
• Bytes in brief

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Speedy deletion nomination of DistancEd-inc

If this is the first article that you have created, you may want to read the guide to writing your first article.

You may want to consider using the Article Wizard to help you create articles.

A tag has been placed on DistancEd-inc, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page seems to be unambiguous advertising which only promotes a company, group, product, service, person, or point of view and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become encyclopedic. Please read the guidelines on spam and Wikipedia:FAQ/Organizations for more information.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator. Praxidicae (talk) 17:26, 28 May 2019 (UTC)

Well, that's odd! Guess they must've removed the speedy template I put. –eggofreason^{(talk · contribs)} 17:26, 28 May 2019 (UTC)

Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 6

News and updates associated with user scripts from the past month (May 2019).

Hello everyone and welcome to the 6th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter:

Scripts Submit your new/improved script here

userRightsManager

Opencooper's domainRedirect • Danski454's hotcat-summary • Guywan's 12HourFormat • DannyS712's Subcategories

Twinkle (commit 53b6bf4)

Pending requests

• Help with helping
• List annotator
• ...and many more, all available at Wikipedia:User scripts/Requests

Enjoy your summer, --DannyS712 (talk) 23:44, 31 May 2019 (UTC)

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Administrators' newsletter – June 2019

News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2019).

Administrator changes

Andonic • Consumed Crustacean • Enigmaman • Euryalus • EWS23 • HereToHelp • Nv8200pa • Peripitus • StringTheory11 • Vejvančický

CheckUser changes

Ivanvector

Guideline and policy news

• An RfC seeks to clarify whether WP:OUTING should include information on just the English Wikipedia or any Wikimedia project.
• An RfC on WT:RfA concluded that Requests for adminship and bureaucratship are discussions seeking to build consensus.
• An RfC proposal to make the templates for discussion (TfD) process more like the requested moves (RM) process, i.e. "as a clearinghouse of template discussions", was closed as successful.

Technical news

• The CSD feature of Twinkle now allows admins to notify page creators of deletion if the page had not been tagged. The default behavior matches that of tagging notifications, and replaces the ability to open the user talk page upon deletion. You can customize which criteria receive notifications in your Twinkle preferences: look for Notify page creator when deleting under these criteria.
• Twinkle's d-batch (batch delete) feature now supports deleting subpages (and related redirects and talk pages) of each page. The pages will be listed first but use with caution! The und-batch (batch undelete) option can now also restore talk pages.

Miscellaneous

• The previously discussed unblocking of IP addresses indefinitely-blocked before 2009 was approved and has taken place.
• The 2019 talk pages consultation produced a report for Phase 1 and has entered Phase 2.

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GOCE June newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors June 2019 Newsletter Hello and welcome to the June newsletter, a brief update of Guild activities since March 2019. You can unsubscribe from our mailings at any time; see below. Election time: Nomination of candidates in our mid-year Election of Coordinators opened on 1 June, and voting will take place from 16 June. Coordinators normally serve a six-month term and are elected on an approval basis. Self-nominations are welcome. If you've thought of helping out at the Guild, or know of another editor who would make a good coordinator, please consider standing for election or nominating them here. June Blitz: Our June blitz will soon be upon us; it will begin at 00:01 on 16 June (UTC) and will close at 23:59 on 22 June (UTC). The themes are "nature and the environment" and all requests. March Drive: Thanks to everyone for their work in March's Backlog Elimination Drive. We removed copyedit tags from 182 of the articles tagged in our original target months October and November 2018, and the month finished with 64 target articles remaining from November and 811 in the backlog. GOCE copyeditors also completed 22 requests for copyedit in March; the month ended with 34 requests pending. Of the 32 people who signed up for this drive, 24 copyedited at least one article. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. April Blitz: Thanks to everyone who participated in the April Blitz; the blitz ran from 14 to 20 April (UTC) inclusive and the themes were Sports and Entertainment. Of the 15 people who signed up, 13 copyedited at least one article. Participants claimed 60 copyedits. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. Progress report: As of 04:36, 3 June 2019 (UTC), GOCE copyeditors have completed 267 requests since 1 January. The backlog of tagged articles stands at 605 articles. May Drive: During the May Backlog Elimination Drive, Guild copy-editors removed copyedit tags from 191 of the 192 articles tagged in our original target months of November and December 2018, and January 2019 was added on 22 May. We finished the month with 81 target articles remaining and a record low of 598 articles in the backlog. GOCE copyeditors also completed 24 requests for copyedit during the May drive, and the month ended with 35 requests pending. Of the 26 people who signed up for this drive, 21 copyedited at least one article. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. 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, Baffle gab1978, Jonesey95, Reidgreg and Tdslk. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

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Your draft article, Draft:Military history of Lithuania

Hello, EggOfReason. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "Military history of Lithuania".

In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been nominated for deletion. If you plan on working on it further, or editing it to address the issues raised if it was declined, simply and remove the {{db-afc}}, {{db-draft}}, or {{db-g13}} code.

If your submission has already been deleted by the time you get there, and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion by following the instructions at this link. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.

Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. CptViraj (📧) 08:23, 25 June 2019 (UTC)

New Page Review newsletter July-August 2019

Hello Overthrows,

WMF at work on NPP Improvements

More new features are being added to the feed, including the important red alert for previously deleted pages. This will only work if it is selected in your filters. Best is to 'select all'. Do take a moment to check out all the new features if you have not already done so. If anything is not working as it should, please let us know at NPR. There is now also a live queue of AfC submissions in the New Pages Feed. Feel free to review AfCs, but bear in mind that NPP is an official process and policy and is more important.

QUALITY of REVIEWING

Articles are still not always being checked thoroughly enough. If you are not sure what to do, leave the article for a more experienced reviewer. Please be on the alert for any incongruities in patrolling and help your colleagues where possible; report patrollers and autopatrolled article creators who are ostensibly undeclared paid editors. The displayed ORES alerts offer a greater 'at-a-glance' overview, but the new challenges in detecting unwanted new content and sub-standard reviewing do not necessarily make patrolling any easier, nevertheless the work may have a renewed interest factor of a different kind. A vibrant community of reviewers is always ready to help at NPR.

Backlog

The backlog is still far too high at between 7,000 and 8,000. Of around 700 user rights holders, 80% of the reviewing is being done by just TWO users. In the light of more and more subtle advertising and undeclared paid editing, New Page Reviewing is becoming more critical than ever.

Move to draft

NPR is triage, it is not a clean up clinic. This move feature is not limited to bios so you may have to slightly re-edit the text in the template before you save the move. Anything that is not fit for mainspace but which might have some promise can be draftified - particularly very poor English and machine and other low quality translations.

Notifying users

Remember to use the message feature if you are just tagging an article for maintenance rather than deletion. Otherwise articles are likely to remain perma-tagged. Many creators are SPA and have no intention of returning to Wikipedia. Use the feature too for leaving a friendly note note for the author of a first article you found well made or interesting. Many have told us they find such comments particularly welcoming and encouraging.

PERM

Admins are now taking advantage of the new time-limited user rights feature. If you have recently been accorded NPR, do check your user rights to see if this affects you. Depending on your user account preferences, you may receive automated notifications of your rights changes. Requests for permissions are not mini-RfAs. Helpful comments are welcome if absolutely necessary, but the bot does a lot of the work and the final decision is reserved for admins who do thorough research anyway.

Other news

School and academic holidays will begin soon in various places around the Western world. Be on the lookout for the usual increase in hoax, attack, and other junk pages.

Our next newsletter might be announcing details of a possible election for co-ordinators of NPR. If you think you have what it takes to micro manage NPR, take a look at New Page Review Coordinators - it's a job that requires a lot of time and dedication.

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Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 7

News and updates associated with user scripts from the past month (June 2019).

Hello everyone and welcome to the 7th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter:

Scripts Submit your new/improved script here

Evad37's MoveToDraft

MJL's textDisallow • Opencooper's talkCount • Guywan's List Entry Annotator

SD0001: DYK-helper • find-archived-section • draft-sort-burst • UnassessedArticleLinks • StubSorter

DannyS712: Subcategories • Examine edits • ExpandHistory • Global watchlist

DannyS712's DiscussionCloser

Open tasks

• FR30799386's mobileUndo (maintained on enwiki by DannyS712) is currently a proposed gadget. Join the discussion at the village pump
• Interstellarity has requested help with forking Joshua Scott's pending changes script to add a feature

Miscellaneous

• After an MfD, DannyS712's MMS was deleted. It was originally created by Abelmoschus Esculentus. If you import either of these scripts, you may want to uninstall them, as they no longer exist.

Having published 6 issues of this newsletter, I decided it was time to move it out from my user space. It is now located at Wikipedia:Scripts++. Thanks, --DannyS712 (talk) 11:45, 30 June 2019 (UTC)

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Administrators' newsletter – July 2019

News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2019).

Administrator changes

28bytes • Ad Orientem • Ansh666 • Beeblebrox • Boing! said Zebedee • BU Rob13 • Dennis Brown • Deor • DoRD • Floquenbeam¹ • Flyguy649 • Fram² • Gadfium • GB fan • Jonathunder • Kusma • Lectonar • Moink • MSGJ • Nick • Od Mishehu • Rama • Spartaz • Syrthiss • TheDJ • WJBscribe

¹Floquenbeam's access was removed, then restored, then removed again.

²Fram's access was removed, then restored, then removed again.

Bureaucrat changes

28bytes • WJBscribe • Wizardman

Interface administrator changes

MSGJ • TheDJ

CheckUser changes

Beeblebrox • BU Rob13 • DoRD

Oversight changes

Beeblebrox • BU Rob13 • DoRD • GB fan

Guideline and policy news

• A request for comment seeking to alleviate pressures on the request an account (ACC) process proposes either raising the account creation limit for extended confirmed editors or granting the account creator permission on request to new ACC tool users.

• In a related matter, the account throttle has been restored to six creations per day as the mitigation activity completed.

• The scope of CSD criterion G8 has been tightened such that the only redirects that it now applies to are those which target non-existent pages.
• The scope of CSD criterion G14 has been expanded slightly to include orphan "Foo (disambiguation)" redirects that target pages that are not disambiguation pages or pages that perform a disambiguation-like function (such as set index articles or lists).
• A request for comment seeks to determine whether Wikipedia:Office actions should be a policy page or an information page.

Technical news

• The Wikimedia Foundation's Community health initiative plans to design and build a new user reporting system to make it easier for people experiencing harassment and other forms of abuse to provide accurate information to the appropriate channel for action to be taken. Community feedback is invited.

Miscellaneous

• In February 2019, the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) changed its office actions policy to include temporary and project-specific bans. The WMF exercised this new ability for the first time on the English Wikipedia on 10 June 2019 to temporarily ban and desysop Fram. This action has resulted in significant community discussion, a request for arbitration (permalink), and, either directly or indirectly, the resignations of numerous administrators and functionaries. The WMF Board of Trustees is aware of the situation, and discussions continue on a statement and a way forward. The Arbitration Committee has sent an open letter to the WMF Board.

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Page mover granted

Hello, EggOfReason. Your account has been granted the "extendedmover" user right, either following a request for it or demonstrating familiarity with working with article names and moving pages. You are now able to rename pages without leaving behind a redirect, move subpages when moving the parent page(s), and move category pages.

Please take a moment to review Wikipedia:Page mover for more information on this user right, especially the criteria for moving pages without leaving redirect. Please remember to follow post-move cleanup procedures and make link corrections where necessary, including broken double-redirects when suppressredirect is used. This can be done using Special:WhatLinksHere. It is also very important that no one else be allowed to access your account, so you should consider taking a few moments to secure your password. As with all user rights, be aware that if abused, or used in controversial ways without consensus, your page mover status can be revoked.

Useful links:

• Wikipedia:Requested moves
• Category:Articles to be moved, for article renaming requests awaiting action.

If you do not want the page mover right anymore, just let me know, and I'll remove it. Thank you, and happy editing! Primefac (talk) 00:29, 3 July 2019 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free image File:101 Logistic Brigade vector.svg

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Thanks for uploading File:101 Logistic Brigade vector.svg. The image description page currently specifies that the image is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, the image is currently not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the image was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that images for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (see our policy for non-free media).

Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described in section F5 of the criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. --B-bot (talk) 02:22, 4 July 2019 (UTC)

Sources needed for Days of the Year pages

I see you recently accepted a pending change to June 19 that did not include a direct source.

You're probably not aware of this change, but Days of the Year pages are no longer exempt from WP:V and direct sources are required for additions. For details see the content guideline and the WikiProject Days of the Year style guide. I've gone ahead and un-accepted this edit and backed it out.

All the pages in the Days of the Year project have had pending changes protection turned on to prevent vandalism and further addition of entries without direct sources. As a pending changes patroller, please do not accept additions to day of year pages where no direct source has been provided on that day of year page. The burden to provide sources for additions to these pages is on the editor who adds or restores material to these pages. Thank you. Toddst1 (talk) 16:57, 10 July 2019 (UTC)

Request on 19:11:08, 11 July 2019 for assistance on AfC submission by Luovamaailma

• Luovamaailma (talk · contribs)
  • Draft:Nanna Susi (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Hello, I started to make an article of an internationally acclaimed Finnish painter Nanna Susi who is living in Italy part of the year. I didn't expect somebody would so quickly decline the article that was still under development. The painter Nanna Susi has the Finnish Wikipedia article, but I just didn't know yet how to link those two because couldn't find the place "Add links" so far. She has also many on-going exhibitions around the world at the moment, and was surprised she hasn't got an English wikipedia. Actually also an Italian wikipedia would be good since she has lived there and is also painting there now but for that I have no language skills. https://www.museomacro.it/progetto/nanna-susi

Luovamaailma (talk) 19:11, 11 July 2019 (UTC)

@Luovamaailma: I rejected your article because it lacked references, something really necessary for biographies of living people. If you could find some more references, then I could accept it. Don't take a rejection too bad—it's good reason to improve your contributions. Thanks for editing, –eggofreason^{(talk · contribs)} 02:25, 15 July 2019 (UTC)

Books & Bytes Issue 34, May – June 2019

The Wikipedia Library

Books & Bytes
Issue 34, May – June 2019

• Partnerships
• #1Lib1Ref
• Wikimedia and Libraries User Group update
• Global branches update
• Bytes in brief

French version of Books & Bytes is now available on meta!
Read the full newsletter

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Draft:Seeker_(spacecraft)

Greetings,

You blocked the creation of the page due to a lack of inline citations. The citations have been added. Please approve the page.

Spaaaaaace (talk) 20:27, 14 July 2019 (UTC)

++++++++++

Thanks! It' definitely just a start and will be expanded.

Spaaaaaace (talk) 01:42, 15 July 2019 (UTC)

@Spaaaaaace: No problem! You should check out WikiProject Spacecraft WP:SPACE, which is basically the hub for contributing space-related stuff to Wikipedia. Glad to have you onboard! –eggofreason^{(talk · contribs)} 02:23, 15 July 2019 (UTC)

Disambiguation link notification for July 19

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It's OK to remove this message. Also, to stop receiving these messages, follow these opt-out instructions. Thanks, DPL bot (talk) 08:22, 19 July 2019 (UTC)

mobileUndo

Hello, recently FR30799386 was blocked for sock puppetry. The left behind few of their scripts. DannyS712 has copied the scripts, and has taken over maintaining them. It appears that you currently importing an outdated version of import FR30799386's mobileUndo, and I thought that you might want to import an updated and maintained version. The outdated version you are currently importing has some bugs. Those bugs have been fixed by the original creator and DannyS712 synced their version of the script with it. Also FR is currently rewritting and updating this script on meta-wiki per this advice as well as adding new features. Please copy one of the following codes and replace it with the code you currently have in your Special:MyPage/minerva.js or Special:MyPage/common.js to import this script. Thank you. Masum Reza^📞 15:48, 19 July 2019 (UTC)

• mw.loader.load('//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:DannyS712/Undo.js&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript'); – Stable version
• mw.loader.load('//meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:FR30799386/undo.js&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript'); – Beta version - Major UI improvements - Might has some bugs. Please help by sending bug reports to meta:User_talk:FR30799386 if you find any.

Thank you for publishing my War On Women article

I added more citations to the article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_On_Women_(band)

Does that add additional citations for verification? Or am I missing something as, I admit, it's been a while?

Thanks again.

Lennie8220 (talk) 00:14, 29 July 2019 (UTC)David aka Lennie8220, July 28, 2019, 8:13 p.m. Eastern

@Lennie8220: You're right; you've added a few more citations, and I think that's fine. I'll remove the tag now. Thanks for editing! –eggofreason^{(talk · contribs)} 01:53, 29 July 2019 (UTC)

Thank you!

Lennie8220 (talk) 01:57, 29 July 2019 (UTC)lennie8220

Mind a few more editing questions? I'm looking at another page that needs help, but I have a question regarding citations.

Thanks.

Lennie8220 (talk) 01:13, 30 July 2019 (UTC)

@Lennoe8220: Sure! What are your questions? –eggofreason^{(talk · contribs)} 01:51, 30 July 2019 (UTC)

Ways to improve Basketball at the 2019 Pan American Games – Women's 3x3 tournament

Hello, EggOfReason,

Thanks for creating Basketball at the 2019 Pan American Games – Women's 3x3 tournament! I edit here too, under the username Domdeparis and it's nice to meet you :-)

I wanted to let you know that I have tagged the page as having some issues to fix, as a part of our page curation process and note that:-

please do not create unsourced articles in mainspace and leave them in your userspace or draftspace until you have sources

The tags can be removed by you or another editor once the issues they mention are addressed. If you have questions, leave a comment here and prepend it with {{Re|Domdeparis}}. And, don't forget to sign your reply with ~~~~ . For broader editing help, please visit the Teahouse.

Delivered via the Page Curation tool, on behalf of the reviewer.

Dom from Paris (talk) 13:29, 30 July 2019 (UTC)

Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 8

News and updates associated with user scripts from the past month (July 2019).

Hello everyone and welcome to the 8th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter:

Scripts Submit your new/improved script here

Jackmcbarn's editProtectedHelper

Galobtter's WatchlistLinksNewTab • SD0001's Watchlist title updater • Yair rand's UserBlind

Anne drew Andrew and Drew's ScritSorter • Masumrezarock100's mobilemorelinks

Enterprisey: edit section on hover • Search shortcuts • superjump

ZLEA: EditRequestLinks.js • MMSLink.js

DannyS712's Global watchlist • SD0001's StubSorter

After a discussion, User:Sam Sailor/Scripts/Sagittarius+.js has been redirected to

User:Wugapodes/Capricorn.js, and Wugapodes is maintaining it.

Pending requests

• A script to fill in {{Template:Infobox journal}}
• A tool to simplify merging articles
• ...and many more, all available at Wikipedia:User scripts/Requests

Hope everyone is having a good winter (or summer, for those in the northern hemisphere). Thanks, --DannyS712 (talk) 02:40, 1 August 2019 (UTC)

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July 2019 GOCE drive bling

		The Minor Barnstar
		This barnstar is awarded to EggOfReason for copy edits totaling between 1 and 3,999 words (including bonus and rollover words) during the GOCE July 2019 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Reidgreg (talk) 23:51, 2 August 2019 (UTC)

The drive had the highest editor participation since May 2015, and brought the copy editing backlog to a record low of 585 articles! Much thanks for taking part! – Reidgreg (talk) 23:51, 2 August 2019 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – August 2019

News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2019).

Administrator changes

Johnuniq • Kosack • Valereee

Ad Orientem • Ched • Gadfium • Jonathunder • Nick • Yelyos

Bald Zebra • Beetstra • Doug Bell • Journalist • Ruud Koot • Splash • Voice of Clam

Interface administrator changes

Dinoguy1000

CheckUser changes

RickinBaltimore

Oversight changes

Beeblebrox

RickinBaltimore

Guideline and policy news

• Following a request for comment, the page Wikipedia:Office actions has been changed from a policy page to an information page.
• A request for comment (permalink) is in progress regarding the administrator inactivity policy.

Arbitration

• Editors may now use the template {{Ds/aware}} to indicate that they are aware that discretionary sanctions are in force for a topic area, so it is unnecessary to alert them.

Miscellaneous

• Following a research project on masking IP addresses, the Foundation is starting a new project to improve the privacy of IP editors. The result of this project may significantly change administrative and counter-vandalism workflows. The project is in the very early stages of discussions and there is no concrete plan yet. Admins and the broader community are encouraged to leave feedback on the talk page.
• The new page reviewer right is bundled with the admin tool set. Many admins regularly help out at Special:NewPagesFeed, but they may not be aware of improvements, changes, and new tools for the Curation system. Stay up to date by subscribing here to the NPP newsletter that appears every two months, and/or putting the reviewers' talk page on your watchlist.

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Backlog Banzai

In the month of September, Wikiproject Military history is running a project-wide edit-a-thon, Backlog Banzai. There are heaps of different areas you can work on, for which you claim points, and at the end of the month all sorts of whiz-bang awards will be handed out. Every player wins a prize! There is even a bit of friendly competition built in for those that like that sort of thing. Sign up now at Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/September 2019 Backlog Banzai to take part. For the coordinators, Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 08:18, 22 August 2019 (UTC)

Wikiproject Military history coordinator election nominations open

Nominations for the upcoming project coordinator election are now open. A team of up to ten coordinators will be elected for the next year. The project coordinators are the designated points of contact for issues concerning the project, and are responsible for maintaining our internal structure and processes. They do not, however, have any authority over article content or editor conduct, or any other special powers. More information on being a coordinator is available here. If you are interested in running, please sign up here by 23:59 UTC on 14 September! Voting doesn't commence until 15 September. If you have any questions, you can contact any member of the coord team. Cheers, Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 02:37, 1 September 2019 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – September 2019

News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2019).

Administrator changes

Bradv • Chetsford • Izno

Floquenbeam • Lectonar

DESiegel • Jake Wartenberg • Rjanag • Topbanana

CheckUser changes

Callanecc • LFaraone • There'sNoTime

Oversight changes

Callanecc • Fox • HJ Mitchell • LFaraone • There'sNoTime

Technical news

• Editors using the mobile website on Wikipedia can opt-in to new advanced features via your settings page. This will give access to more interface links, special pages, and tools.
• The advanced version of the edit review pages (recent changes, watchlist, and related changes) now includes two new filters. These filters are for "All contents" and "All discussions". They will filter the view to just those namespaces.

Arbitration

• A request for comment is open to provide an opportunity to amend the structure, rules, and procedures of the 2019 English Wikipedia Arbitration Committee election and to resolve any issues not covered by existing rules.

Miscellaneous

• A global request for comment is in progress regarding whether a user group should be created that could modify edit filters across all public Wikimedia wikis.

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New Page Review newsletter September-October 2019

Hello Overthrows,

Backlog

Instead of reaching a magic 300 as it once did last year, the backlog approaching 6,000 is still far too high. An effort is also needed to ensure that older unsuitable older pages at the back of the queue do not get automatically indexed for Google.

Coordinator

A proposal is taking place here to confirm a nominated user as Coordinator of NPR.

This month's refresher course

Why I Hate Speedy Deleters, a 2008 essay by long since retired Ballonman, is still as valid today. Those of us who patrol large numbers of new pages can be forgiven for making the occasional mistake while others can learn from their 'beginner' errors. Worth reading.

Deletion tags

Do bear in mind that articles in the feed showing the trash can icon (you will need to have 'Nominated for deletion' enabled for this in your filters) may have been tagged by inexperienced or non NPR rights holders using Twinkle. They require your further verification.

Paid editing

Please be sure to look for the tell-tale signs of undisclosed paid editing. Contact the creator if appropriate, and submit the issue to WP:COIN if necessary. WMF policy requires paid editors to connect to their adverts.

Subject-specific notability guidelines' (SNG). Alternatives to deletion

• Reviewers are requested to familiarise themselves once more with notability guidelines for organisations and companies.
• Blank-and-Redirect is a solution anchored in policy. Please consider this alternative before PRODing or CSD. Note however, that users will often revert or usurp redirects to re-create deleted articles. Do regularly patrol the redirects in the feed.

Not English

• A common issue: Pages not in English or poor, unattributed machine translations should not reside in main space even if they are stubs. Please ensure you are familiar with WP:NPPNE. Check in Google for the language and content, and if they do have potential, tag as required, then move to draft. Modify the text of the template as appropriate before sending it.

Tools

Regular reviewers will appreciate the most recent enhancements to the New Pages Feed and features in the Curation tool, and there are still more to come. Due to the wealth of information now displayed by ORES, reviewers are strongly encouraged to use the system now rather than Twinkle; it will also correctly populate the logs.

Stub sorting, by SD0001: A new script is available for adding/removing stub tags. See User:SD0001/StubSorter.js, It features a simple HotCat-style dynamic search field. Many of the reviewers who are using it are finding it an improvement upon other available tools.

Assessment: The script at User:Evad37/rater makes the addition of Wikiproject templates extremely easy. New page creators rarely do this. Reviewers are not obliged to make these edits but they only take a few seconds. They can use the Curation message system to let the creator know what they have done.

DannyS712 bot III is now patrolling certain categories of uncontroversial redirects. Curious? Check out its patrol log.

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Milhist coordinator election voting has commenced

G'day everyone, voting for the 2019 Wikiproject Military history coordinator tranche is now open. This is a simple approval vote; only "support" votes should be made. Project members should vote for any candidates they support by 23:59 (UTC) on 28 September 2018. Thanks, Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 03:37, 15 September 2019 (UTC)

Wikiproject Military history coordinator election half-way mark

G'day everyone, the voting for the XIX Coordinator Tranche is at the halfway mark. The candidates have answered various questions, and you can check them out to see why they are running and decide whether you support them. Project members should vote for any candidates they support by 23:59 (UTC) on 28 September 2018. Thanks, Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 07:36, 22 September 2019 (UTC)

September 2019 GOCE Newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors September 2019 Newsletter Hello and welcome to the September newsletter, a brief update of Guild activities since June 2019. June election: Reidgreg was chosen as lead coordinator, and is being assisted by Baffle gab1978, Miniapolis, Tdslk, and first-time coordinator Twofingered Typist. Jonesey95 took a respite after serving for six years. Thanks to everyone who participated! June Blitz: From 16 to 22 June, we copy edited articles on the themes of nature and the environment along with requests. 12 participating editors completed 35 copy edits. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. July Drive: The year's fourth backlog-elimination drive was a great success, clearing all articles tagged in January and February, and bringing the copy-editing backlog to a low of five months and a record low of 585 articles while also completing 48 requests. Of the 30 people who signed up, 29 copyedited at least one article, a participation level last matched in May 2015. Final results and awards are listed here. August Blitz: From 18 to 24 August, we copy edited articles tagged in March 2019 and requests. 12 participating editors completed 26 copy edits on the blitz. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. Progress report: As of 03:00, 23 September 2019 (UTC), GOCE copyeditors had processed 413 requests since 1 January. The backlog of tagged articles stood at 599 articles, close to our record month-end low of 585. Requests page: We are experimenting with automated archiving of copy edit requests; a discussion on REQ Talk (permalinked) initiated by Bobbychan193 has resulted in Zhuyifei1999 writing a bot script for the Guild. Testing is now underway and is expected to be completed by 3 October; for this reason, no manual archiving of requests should be done until the testing period is over. We will then assess the bot's performance and discuss whether to make this arrangement permanent. September Drive: Our current backlog-elimination drive is open until 23:59 on 30 September (UTC) and is open to all copy editors. Sign up today! Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators, Baffle gab1978, Miniapolis, Reidgreg, Tdslk and Twofingered Typist. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

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Remove speed delection tag

Hello please remove d deletion tag from my contribution , my account is real and I don't use multiple accounts Kelly princeoj (talk) 22:38, 24 September 2019 (UTC)

@Kelly princeoj:: Defend yourself at the sockpuppet investigation page (Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Clever west. I will not be removing the CSD, as it stands correct. –eggofreason^{(talk · contribs)} 22:41, 24 September 2019 (UTC)

You are very stupid

What makes you think your smart to nominate my contribution to Wikipedia. I just think I could create an article of a celebrity..

Your a big fool you better go remove that tag , investigator go investigate your self Kelly princeoj (talk) 22:55, 24 September 2019 (UTC)

@Kelly princeoj: See WP:NPA on the consequences of making personal attacks. Thanks. –eggofreason^{(talk · contribs)} 22:57, 24 September 2019 (UTC)

2016-17 Trabzonspor season

Sorry! I did not get your message until I had added the squad! (was editing when you sent it!) but thanks for the heads up :) REDMAN 2019 (talk) 16:58, 26 September 2019 (GMT)

@REDMAN 2019: No problem. Just make sure you move the squad template over to draft. Thanks for editing! –eggofreason^{(talk · contribs)} 16:02, 26 September 2019 (UTC)

Have done it REDMAN 2019 (talk) 17:04, 26 September 2019 (GMT)

Books & Bytes – Issue 35, July – August 2019

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Books & Bytes
Issue 35, July – August 2019

• Wikimania
• We're building something great, but..
• Wikimedia and Libraries User Group update
• A Wikibrarian's story
• Bytes in brief

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On behalf of The Wikipedia Library team --MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 06:58, 27 September 2019 (UTC)

The Booo Krooo

Hi.

Thanks for your comments on my page 'The Booo Krooo'

I answered your feedback and improved the information. I was just wondering if you had got round to looking at the amendments yet?

Bryanlikealioninzion (talk) 08:26, 1 October 2019 (UTC)

— Preceding unsigned comment added by Bryanlikealioninzion (talk • 

contribs) 14:20, 30 September 2019 (UTC)

@Bryanlikealioninzion: Sorry for the late response, but I've reviewed your draft again. Thanks for editing, –eggofreason^{(talk · contribs)} 13:54, 2 October 2019 (UTC)

Thank you for pushing me with your changes, it has really improved the article. Changes have been made!

Bryanlikealioninzion (talk) 15:26, 2 October 2019 (UTC)

Hi just wondering if you had a chance to look at this yet? Bryanlikealioninzion (talk) 20:47, 8 October 2019 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – October 2019

News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2019).

Administrator changes

Barkeep49

Beetstra • KillerChihuahua • Kusma

Arcadian • Extraordinary Machine • Xeno

JamesBWatson → JBW

Interface administrator changes

Evad37

CheckUser changes

Courcelles • SilkTork • Timotheus Canens

Oversight changes

Courcelles • SilkTork • Timotheus Canens

Guideline and policy news

• Following a discussion, a new criterion for speedy category renaming was added: C2F: One eponymous article, which applies if the category contains only an eponymous article or media file, provided that the category has not otherwise been emptied shortly before the nomination. The default outcome is an upmerge to the parent categories.

Technical news

• As previously noted, tighter password requirements for Administrators were put in place last year. Wikipedia should now alert you if your password is less than 10 characters long and thus too short.

Arbitration

• The 2019 CheckUser and Oversight appointment process has begun. The community consultation period will take place October 4th to 10th.
• The arbitration case regarding Fram was closed. While there will be a local RfC focus[ing] on how harassment and private complaints should be handled in the future, there is currently a global community consultation on partial and temporary office actions in response to the incident. It will be open until October 30th.

Miscellaneous

• The Community Tech team has been working on a system for temporarily watching pages, and welcomes feedback.

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Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 9

News and updates associated with user scripts from the past two months (August and September, 2019).

Hello everyone and welcome to the 9th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter:

Scripts Submit your new/improved script here

Enterprisey's links-in-logs

Tokenzero's infoboxJournal • SD0001's RFUD-helper • Danski454's code edit window size

BrandonXLF: FloatHead • ShowRevisionID • EditorFirst

Þjarkur: NeverUseMobileVersion • CleanDiffURLs

Galobtter's admin highlighter • ZLEA's Dashboard • Cobaltcigs's DisableDragDrop

SD0001's archived section finder

Miscellaneous

• MJL's Archer was used to break a Wikipedia record. See the edit in question & the updated records page for more.

Sorry for falling behind a bit. Please let me know if I missed any new scripts. Thanks, --DannyS712 (talk) 01:55, 7 October 2019 (UTC)

Pending requests

• A script to simplify merging
• A script to tweak rollback links
• ...and many more, all available at Wikipedia:User scripts/Requests

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New Page Review newsletter November 2019

Hello Overthrows,

This newsletter comes a little earlier than usual because the backlog is rising again and the holidays are coming very soon.

Getting the queue to 0

There are now 818 holders of the New Page Reviewer flag! Most of you requested the user right to be able to do something about the huge backlog but it's still roughly less than 10% doing 90% of the work. Now it's time for action.
Exactly one year ago there were 'only' 3,650 unreviewed articles, now we will soon be approaching 7,000 despite the growing number of requests for the NPR user right. If each reviewer soon does only 2 reviews a day over five days, the backlog will be down to zero and the daily input can then be processed by every reviewer doing only 1 review every 2 days - that's only a few minutes work on the bus on the way to the office or to class! Let's get this over and done with in time to relax for the holidays.
Want to join? Consider adding the NPP Pledge userbox.
Our next newsletter will announce the winners of some really cool awards.

Coordinator

Admin Barkeep49 has been officially invested as NPP/NPR coordinator by a unanimous consensus of the community. This is a complex role and he will need all the help he can get from other experienced reviewers.

This month's refresher course

Paid editing is still causing headaches for even our most experienced reviewers: This official Wikipedia article will be an eye-opener to anyone who joined Wikipedia or obtained the NPR right since 2015. See The Hallmarks to know exactly what to look for and take time to examine all the sources.

Tools

• It is now possible to select new pages by date range. This was requested by reviewers who want to patrol from the middle of the list.
• It is now also possible for accredited reviewers to put any article back into the New Pages Feed for re-review. The link is under 'Tools' in the side bar.

Reviewer Feedback

Would you like feedback on your reviews? Are you an experienced reviewer who can give feedback to other reviewers? If so there are two new feedback pilot programs. New Reviewer mentorship will match newer reviewers with an experienced reviewer with a new reviewer. The other program will be an occasional peer review cohort for moderate or experienced reviewers to give feedback to each other. The first cohort will launch November 13.

Second set of eyes

• Not only are New Page Reviewers the guardians of quality of new articles, they are also in a position to ensure that pages are being correctly tagged for deletion and maintenance and that new authors are not being bitten. This is an important feature of your work, especially while some routine tagging for deletion can still be carried out by non NPR holders and inexperienced users. Read about it at the Monitoring the system section in the tutorial. If you come across such editors doing good work, don't hesitate to encourage them to apply for NPR.
• Do be sure to have our talk page on your watchlist. There are often items that require reviewers' special attention, such as to watch out for pages by known socks or disruptive editors, technical issues and new developments, and of course to provide advice for other reviewers.

Arbitration Committee

The annual ArbCom election will be coming up soon. All eligible users will be invited to vote. While not directly concerned with NPR, Arbcom cases often lead back to notability and deletion issues and/or actions by holders of advanced user rights.

Community Wish list

There is to be no wish list for WMF encyclopedias this year. We thank Community Tech for their hard work addressing our long list of requirements which somewhat overwhelmed them last year, and we look forward to a successful completion.

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Administrators' newsletter – November 2019

News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2019).

Administrator changes

GermanJoe • Girth Summit • Kees08 • Nosebagbear

DESiegel • GB fan • MSGJ • Voice of Clam • WilyD

DeltaQuad • Fang Aili • Pakaran

Bureaucrat changes

DeltaQuad • Pakaran

Interface administrator changes

MSGJ

CheckUser changes

L235 • Mz7 • SQL • ST47

Ivanvector

DeltaQuad

Oversight changes

L235 • Mz7 • ST47 • Stwalkerster • The Blade of the Northern Lights • Xaosflux

DeltaQuad • DGG • Julia W

Guideline and policy news

• An RfC was closed with the consensus that the resysop criteria should be made stricter.

• The follow-up RfC to develop that change is now open at Wikipedia:Requests for comment/2019 Resysop Criteria (2).

• A related RfC is seeking the community's sentiment for a binding desysop procedure.

Arbitration

• Eligible editors may now nominate themselves as candidates for the 2019 Arbitration Committee Elections. The self-nomination period will close November 12, with voting running from November 19 through December 2.

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Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 10

News and updates associated with user scripts from the past month (October 2019).

Hello everyone and welcome to the 10th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter:

Scripts Submit your new/improved script here

Ahecht's page swap

MoonyTheDwarf's wikimap

SD0001: hide-reverted-edits • T-Watch • W-Ping • easy-merge

Enterprisey: diff-permalink • search-links • section-redir-note • fancy-diffs • EditWarChecker

Pending requests

Inline editor for cleanup tags

Script to remove empty parameters

...and many more, all available at Wikipedia:User scripts/Requests

Have a great November, --DannyS712 (talk) 22:18, 7 November 2019 (UTC)

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Letter From Koshigoe

Thanks for the feedback on my first attempt at a new article. I am 55 years old and played around for days with the so called Sandbbox page before I just gave up and went directly to "Publish". This is like learning a new language again. As far as notability, Minamoto no Yoshitsune is considered by most Japanese to be the most important samurai warrior to exist before Tokugawa Ieyasu came along in the 1600s. This letter is a major part of his legend, whether or not he ever actually wrote it. ( I should use this!!)Siddelly (talk) 04:26, 16 November 2019 (UTC)

ArbCom 2019 election voter message

Hello! Voting in the 2019 Arbitration Committee elections is now open until 23:59 on Monday, 2 December 2019. All eligible users are allowed to vote. Users with alternate accounts may only vote once. The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail. If you wish to participate in the 2019 election, please review the candidates and submit your choices on the voting page. If you no longer wish to receive these messages, you may add {{NoACEMM}} to your user talk page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:21, 19 November 2019 (UTC)

EnergyWatch, LLC Deletion

Hi there, thanks for working diligently to keep Wikipedia true. I noticed you flagged my page EnergyWatch, LLC for deletion. Have you read the full article? It states facts and is not promoting the business. I would like to ask what the difference is between it and a page like this one, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EnergyCAP ? Both are not promoting a business but stating facts about a software. Please advise if there are specific changes that can be made to keep it up? Thank you very much. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nicolettebrenden (talk • contribs) 16:54, 19 November 2019 (UTC)

Trouted

Whack! You've been whacked with a wet trout. Don't take this too seriously. Someone just wants to let you know that you did something silly.

You have been trouted for: hello Articute (talk) 20:56, 20 November 2019 (UTC) hi egg

HOW –eggofreason^{(talk · contribs)} 22:54, 20 November 2019 (UTC)

DONT KNOW HOW ONLY KNOW WHAT Articute (talk) 14:26, 22 November 2019 (UTC)

Results of the 2010 Swedish general election

That is an in-depth page for specific constituency and municipality-level results as a complementary page to the main article, which can't contain all that information. There are already dozens of similar articles from general elections and referendums around the world, notably Results of the 2016 United Kingdom European Union membership referendum and Results of the 2017 United Kingdom general election. These articles fill their purposes as an additional layer of information and I know full-well what I'm doing, thus appreciating being left alone to add sourced material from the electoral agency to my article. Thanks. I would appreciate if you instead went after people vandalizing Wikipedia, rather than actual contributors of material in full compliance with other election articles. Glottran (talk) 23:44, 20 November 2019 (UTC)

@Glottran: I tagged your article for being an near-exact copy of the result section from the 2010 Swedish general election article. While the refenderum results page exists for a reason, as the data is large enough to necesitate a split, yours does not do much else other than add some tidbits of new data. Besides, there is no need to seperate the articles, since the results are not as large as the referendum's were (for example, the 2016 U.S. elections keeps it under one page). The new tables could easily be added and collapsed and onto the main article, if readability is your concern. Thanks for editing. –eggofreason^{(talk · contribs)} 23:53, 20 November 2019 (UTC)

@EggOfReason: You probably underestimate the plans I have. I will within two days add results of the 290 municipalites into this article similar to Results of the 2018 Swedish general election. The information on that one was so extensive that another editor split it off while I was editing the main article and the consensus between me and him was that the information was to be seen in split articles with a link from the main page. If you look at the constituency results, I have just added the numbers, I am the verge of adding regional results and percentages too. Tomorrow I'll start with the municipalities. Trust me, it will look nothing like a duplicate in 48 hours time. Nothing. The only thing it will have in common is the 'National Results' column. I would appreciate if you could let this go and allow me to continue my hard work on this extensive late autumn project I'm doing at improving Swedish election results pages with more information for a permanent record in the event that the electoral agency and the statistical agency sometime in the future would make the currently accessible election material unreachable. I will add that I have edited Wikipedia, but have retired two previous usernames, for twelve years and know full well about all Wikipedia guidelines. This article is definitely good enough, especially considering it is currently under construction. I've worked two hours on the non-duplicated data already, am working as we speak, and this is just the beginning.

Glottran (talk) 23:59, 20 November 2019 (UTC)

@Glottran: Well, that's understandable—nonetheless, it would be preferable for you to move to a sandbox or a draft article, rather than have it incomplete as it is right now. Thanks! –eggofreason^{(talk · contribs)} 00:10, 21 November 2019 (UTC)

@EggOfReason: It already provides sizeably more information than the main article courtesy of the constituency results and within 30 minutes the regional results will finish. Since I am in Sweden, you could might guess I need to sleep after that, but already tomorrow I'll be working again. Remove the speedy deletion tag and check again tomorrow evening and you'll be impressed with the progress. I promise. I can do the 2014 entry as part of my userpage or sandbox under the hidden entry, but there's no reason to force me to start from scratch on this one, even if I saved this existing material hidden under my userpage already. I want to wish for a steady co-operation on this.

Glottran (talk) 00:14, 21 November 2019 (UTC)

@Glottran: There's an under construction template now. Feel free to remove it when you're complete. Good luck for your editing! –eggofreason^{(talk · contribs)} 00:18, 21 November 2019 (UTC)

@EggOfReason: Now the article is fully done, feel free to check it out so you'll know what I always intended to create!

Glottran (talk) 19:33, 30 November 2019 (UTC)

Books & Bytes – Issue 36

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Books & Bytes
Issue 36, September – October 2019

• #1Lib1Ref January 2020
• #1Lib1Ref 2019 stories and learnings

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John Halpern (artist)

Hello Egg Of Reason, You are fast. I had just posted, had copy checked and was adding the section titles when you flagged regarding them. Have improved the article since you saw it. Could you review it again and make suggestions? Will be adding a photo soon too by the way. Your choice on the description for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Halpern_(artist) aside from being Wiki standard, was right, simple is better. With appreciation, (Ogmany (talk) 16:34, 21 November 2019 (UTC))

@Ogmany: Hello! Thanks for your edits, firstly. Overall, there's been quite the improvements to your article. Here's some extra stuff I can recommend besides what you've already done:

• Fill out the infobox with more information. See here on what else to add: {{Infobox person}}
• Make sure your source every statement you can, especially since our sourcing policies are stricter on biographies on living people. For example, you could add a reference in these statements:

... and taught film at the Pratt Institute and the New York Film Academy.

That same year, with Les Levine, he also directed Talking with the Dalai Lama featuring the 14th Dalai Lama...

In 1977, Halpern co-founded Art Corporation of America Incorporated.

• Add a birth date, and include it in the infobox.

Overall, that's all I can say. It is a good article—so again, thanks for contributing! –eggofreason^{(talk · contribs)} 16:41, 21 November 2019 (UTC)

@EggOfReason: Don't have a birth date but will add it when I come across it. Thank you. Appreciate it. (Ogmany (talk) 21:32, 23 November 2019 (UTC))

Orphaned non-free image File:Shiv Sena flag - svg version.svg

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Thanks for uploading File:Shiv Sena flag - svg version.svg. The image description page currently specifies that the image is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, the image is currently not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the image was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that images for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (see our policy for non-free media).

Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described in section F5 of the criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. --B-bot (talk) 18:51, 21 November 2019 (UTC)

Google Code-In 2019 is coming - please mentor some documentation tasks!

Hello,

Google Code-In, Google-organized contest in which the Wikimedia Foundation participates, starts in a few weeks. This contest is about taking high school students into the world of opensource. I'm sending you this message because you recently edited a documentation page at the English Wikipedia.

I would like to ask you to take part in Google Code-In as a mentor. That would mean to prepare at least one task (it can be documentation related, or something else - the other categories are Code, Design, Quality Assurance and Outreach) for the participants, and help the student to complete it. Please sign up at the contest page and send us your Google account address to google-code-in-admins@lists.wikimedia.org, so we can invite you in!

From my own experience, Google Code-In can be fun, you can make several new friends, attract new people to your wiki and make them part of your community.

If you have any questions, please let us know at google-code-in-admins@lists.wikimedia.org.

Thank you!

--User:Martin Urbanec (talk) 21:58, 23 November 2019 (UTC)

Bill Haley

Hello, good to "meet" you and thanks for your contributions here (it's a big building we all wander the halls in). Coming by to ask if your would please revert your undiscussed Bill Haley moves? The musician is, well, kind of important (please read the page), and the page views were also lost in the move. Besides his notability the page views will show that the musician is primary for the title. Rock n' roll!, and thanks. Randy Kryn (talk) 14:50, 26 November 2019 (UTC)

@Randy Kyrn: Absolutely! Looking back on it, it was probably better to just have the musician by itself with a link to the disambig as a hatnote. I'll deal with the tedium. Thanks for telling me! –eggofreason^{(talk · contribs)} 19:18, 26 November 2019 (UTC)

Thanks, and the page turned out better than before as a couple of good edits improved the page after you drew attention to it, which often happens in these things. Enjoy the coming holiday festivities. Randy Kryn (talk) 21:15, 26 November 2019 (UTC)

Pusho natability

It does meet the notability guidelines. It has reliable secondary sources from 6 difference websites. ~SML • TP 00:24, 28 November 2019 (UTC)

Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 11

News and updates associated with user scripts from the past month (November 2019).

Hello everyone and welcome to the 11th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter:

Scripts Submit your new/improved script here

Enterprisey's reply-link

Evad37's Thanky • SuperHamster's CiteUnseen • Mattflaschen's Compare link.js

Enterprisey: diff-context • fancy-diffs • offset-history-link

BrandonXLF: NoRedirect • WatchDoc • HotDefaultSort • TodoList

Twinkle has received multiple updates

Evad37's rater is now at version 2; see the announcement here

Open tasks

• For those who haven't noticed, per phabricator:T234576, using editToken instead of csrfToken no longer works

Miscellaneous

• Following a discussion, XFDcloser is now available as a gadget
• Evad37's extra.js collection of helper functions is now available as MediaWiki:Gadget-libExtraUtil.js
• Twinkle's morebits is now a gadget, and is easier to use in as a dependency in other scripts (see here for more)
• Last month's issue misidentified the creator of the new EditWarChecker script; it was created by Evad37

Pending requests

• A button to mark templates in the TfD holding cell as ready for deletion
• ...and many more, all available at Wikipedia:User scripts/Requests

Enjoy your thanksgiving --DannyS712 (talk) 08:22, 28 November 2019 (UTC)

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Administrators' newsletter – December 2019

News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2019).

Administrator changes

EvergreenFir • ToBeFree

Akhilleus • Athaenara • John Vandenberg • Melchoir • MichaelQSchmidt • NeilN • Youngamerican • 😂

CheckUser changes

Beeblebrox

Deskana

Interface administrator changes

Evad37

Guideline and policy news

• An RfC on the administrator resysop criteria was closed. 18 proposals have been summarised with a variety of supported and opposed statements. The inactivity grace period within which a new request for adminship is not required has been reduced from three years to two. Additionally, Bureaucrats are permitted to use their discretion when returning administrator rights.
• Following a proposal, the edit filter mailing list has been opened up to users with the Edit Filter Helper right.

Technical news

• Wikimedia projects can set a default block length for users via MediaWiki:ipb-default-expiry. A new page, MediaWiki:ipb-default-expiry-ip, allows the setting of a different default block length for IP editors. Neither is currently used. (T219126)

Arbitration

• Voting in the 2019 Arbitration Committee Elections is open to eligible editors until Monday 23:59, 2 December 2018 UTC. Please review the candidates and, if you wish to do so, submit your choices on the voting page.

Miscellaneous

• The global consultation on partial and temporary office actions that ended in October received a closing statement from staff concluding, among other things, that the WMF will no longer use partial or temporary Office Action bans... until and unless community consensus that they are of value or Board directive.

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 02:47, 2 December 2019 (UTC)

GOCE December 2019 Newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors December 2019 Newsletter Hello and welcome to the December 2019 GOCE newsletter, an update of Guild happenings since the September edition. Our Annual Report should be ready in late January. Election time: Nominations for the election of a new tranche of Guild coordinators to serve for the first half of 2020 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! September Drive: Of the thirty-two editors who signed up, twenty-three editors copy edited at least one article; they completed 39 requests and removed 138 articles from the backlog, bringing the backlog to a low of 519 articles. October Blitz: This event ran from 13 to 19 October, with themes of science, technology and transport articles tagged for copy edit, and Requests. Sixteen editors helped remove 29 articles from the backlog and completed 23 requests. November Drive: Of the twenty-eight editors who signed up for this event, twenty editors completed at least one copy edit; they completed 29 requests and removed 133 articles from the backlog. Our December Blitz will run from 15 to 21 December. Sign up now! Progress report: From September to November 2019, GOCE copy editors processed 154 requests. Over the same period, the backlog of articles tagged for copy editing was reduced by 41% to an all-time low of 479 articles. Request archiving: The archiving of completed requests has now been automated. Thanks to Zhuyifei1999 and Bobbychan193, YiFeiBot is now archiving the Requests page. Archiving occurs around 24 hours after a user's signature and one of the templates {{Done}}, {{Withdrawn}} or {{Declined}} are placed below the request. The bot uses the Guild's standard "purpose codes" to determine the way it should archive each request so it's important to use the correct codes and templates. 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, Miniapolis, Tdslk and Twofingered Typist. >>> Sign up for the December blitz! <<< >>> Participate in the Coordinator elections! <<< To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 19:05, 4 December 2019 (UTC)

New Page Review newsletter December 2019

Reviewer of the Year

This year's Reviewer of the Year is Rosguill. Having gotten the reviewer PERM in August 2018, they have been a regular reviewer of articles and redirects, been an active participant in the NPP community, and has been the driving force for the emerging NPP Source Guide that will help reviewers better evaluate sourcing and notability in many countries for which it has historically been difficult.

Special commendation again goes to Onel5969 who ends the year as one of our most prolific reviewers for the second consecutive year. Thanks also to Boleyn and JTtheOG who have been in the top 5 for the last two years as well.

Several newer editors have done a lot of work with CAPTAIN MEDUSA and DannyS712 (who has also written bots which have patrolled thousands of redirects) being new reviewers since this time last year.

Thanks to them and to everyone reading this who has participated in New Page Patrol this year.

Top 10 Reviewers over the last 365 days

Rank	Username	Num reviews	Log
1	Rosguill (talk)	47,395	Patrol Page Curation
2	Onel5969 (talk)	41,883	Patrol Page Curation
3	JTtheOG (talk)	11,493	Patrol Page Curation
4	Arthistorian1977 (talk)	5,562	Patrol Page Curation
5	DannyS712 (talk)	4,866	Patrol Page Curation
6	CAPTAIN MEDUSA (talk)	3,995	Patrol Page Curation
7	DragonflySixtyseven (talk)	3,812	Patrol Page Curation
8	Boleyn (talk)	3,655	Patrol Page Curation
9	Ymblanter (talk)	3,553	Patrol Page Curation
10	Cwmhiraeth (talk)	3,522	Patrol Page Curation

(The top 100 reviewers of the year can be found here)

Redirect autopatrol

A recent Request for Comment on creating a new redirect autopatrol pseduo-permission was closed early. New Page Reviewers are now able to nominate editors who have an established track record creating uncontroversial redirects. At the individual discretion of any administrator or after 24 hours and a consensus of at least 3 New Page Reviewers an editor may be added to a list of users whose redirects will be patrolled automatically by DannyS712 bot III.

Source Guide Discussion

Set to launch early in the new year is our first New Page Patrol Source Guide discussion. These discussions are designed to solicit input on sources in places and topic areas that might otherwise be harder for reviewers to evaluate. The hope is that this will allow us to improve the accuracy of our patrols for articles using these sources (and/or give us places to perform a WP:BEFORE prior to nominating for deletion). Please watch the New Page Patrol talk page for more information.

This month's refresher course

While New Page Reviewers are an experienced set of editors, we all benefit from an occasional review. This month consider refreshing yourself on Wikipedia:Notability (geographic features). Also consider how we can take the time for quality in this area. For instance, sources to verify human settlements, which are presumed notable, can often be found in seconds. This lets us avoid the (ugly) 'Needs more refs' tag.

Delivered by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) at 16:10, 20 December 2019 (UTC)

Merry Christmas!

Hello EggOfReason: Enjoy the holiday season, and thanks for your work to maintain, improve and expand Wikipedia. Cheers, Everedux ^(talk) 20:09, 25 December 2019 (UTC)

Spread the WikiLove; use {{subst:Season's Greetings1}} to send this message

Your draft article, Draft:Military history of Lithuania

Hello, EggOfReason. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "Military history of Lithuania".

In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been nominated for deletion. If you plan on working on it further, or editing it to address the issues raised if it was declined, simply and remove the {{db-afc}}, {{db-draft}}, or {{db-g13}} code.

If your submission has already been deleted by the time you get there, and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion by following the instructions at this link. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.

Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia! Snowycats (talk) 08:17, 26 December 2019 (UTC)