User talk:Rodw/Archive 20

Thank you.

Hi, and thank you for fixing the link to John Ball on the Maidstone entry. Nathan43 (talk) 17:37, 17 December 2018 (UTC)

Can you review this page

Hi,can you please review Draft:Vinod Kumar Jain this page AlexALEX78 (talk) 14:59, 19 December 2018 (UTC)

A beer for you!

Thank you for your edit~ Novate (talk) 05:23, 20 December 2018 (UTC)

Austral season's greetings

	Austral season's greetings
	Tuck into this! We've made about three of these in the last few days for various festivities. Supermarkets are stuffed with cheap berries. Season's greetings! Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 22:40, 24 December 2018 (UTC)

Some banket letter for you!

I hope you like almond paste (if you don't, all the more for me). Wishing you and yours a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! Narky Blert (talk) 00:16, 25 December 2018 (UTC)

Merry Christmas

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Welcome to the 2019 WikiCup!

Hello and Happy New Year!

Welcome to the 2019 WikiCup, the competition begins today. If you have already joined, your submission page can be found here. If you have not yet signed up, you can add your name here and we will set up your submissions page. One important rule to remember is that only content on which you have completed significant work during 2019, and which you have nominated this year, is eligible for points in the competition, the judges will be checking! Any questions should be directed to one of the judges, or left on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup. Signups will close at the end of January, and the first round will end on 26 February; the 64 highest scorers at that time will make it to round 2. Good luck! The judges for the WikiCup are Sturmvogel 66 (talk · contribs · email), Godot13 (talk · contribs · email), Vanamonde93 (talk · contribs · email) and Cwmhiraeth (talk · contribs · email). MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 11:14, 1 January 2019 (UTC)

Queenstown

You may not be aware, but Queenstown, County Cork exists as a redirect. Mjroots (talk) 18:27, 1 January 2019 (UTC)

It was my own fault for forgettin it was a dab in the first place! Mjroots (talk) 18:33, 1 January 2019 (UTC)

It does now! Mjroots (talk) 18:58, 1 January 2019 (UTC)

Best wishes for a happy 2019

^{The Hill Country (1913) by Walter Elmer Schofield, Woodmere Art Museum.}

Thank you for your contributions toward making Wikipedia a better and more accurate place.

== BoringHistoryGuy (talk) 23:33, 2 January 2019 (UTC)

William Windom 'links'

I wanted to thank you for sorting out the links as appropriate; I thought I had done this properly, but obviously I didn't!! I see you have put a 'disambiguation needed' for "The Outsider", but I have now noticed that there is no specific page for this series so you can remove this if necessary. Jccgclrc (talk) 13:03, 5 January 2019 (UTC)

Disambiguation link notification for January 11

An automated process has detected that when you recently edited Chip Minton, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page Macon (check to confirm | fix with Dab solver).

(Opt-out instructions.) --DPL bot (talk) 09:21, 11 January 2019 (UTC)

Infer/Infra Draw

Re Horace Batchelor, I am certain that his Football Pools scam was called Infer-Draw, not Infra-Draw. The latter is, I am convinced, an elderly error that is frequently perpetuated. I am convinced of this for two reasons. 1) My memory, 2) Logic: "Infra-Draw" would been "less than a draw", which does not mean anything at all, whereas "Infer-Draw" would allegedly enable the punter to work out which football matches would end as draws. But it is not very important in the grand scheme of things. PeterMDron (talk) 09:52, 28 January 2019 (UTC)

If you Google "Horace Batchelor" and click Video, you can listen to the man himself. He quite clearly says "Infer-Draw". — Preceding unsigned comment added by PeterMDron (talk • contribs) 10:34, 28 January 2019 (UTC)

Thank you for being one of Wikipedia's top medical contributors!

The 2018 Cure Award

In 2018 you were one of the top ~250 medical editors across any language of Wikipedia. Thank you from Wiki Project Med Foundation for helping bring free, complete, accurate, up-to-date health information to the public. We really appreciate you and the vital work you do! Wiki Project Med Foundation is a user group whose mission is to improve our health content. Consider joining here, there are no associated costs.

Thanks again :-) -- Doc James along with the rest of the team at Wiki Project Med Foundation 17:41, 28 January 2019 (UTC)

Thank you!

Thanks for fixing the wikilinks on the Rail Riders roster. I usually go back and do that and totally forgot! Kjscotte34 (talk) 11:03, 2 February 2019 (UTC)

thanks for cleanup on Folk art objects article.

thanks for cleaning up the disambiguation links in the article "Folk art objects". In writing this, there were a lot of links to check. My goal was to give readers an idea of the wide coverage of this topic. Smithriedel 23:04, 5 February 2019 (UTC)

List of formats of Kabaddi World Cup (disambiguation) listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect List of formats of Kabaddi World Cup (disambiguation). Since you had some involvement with the List of formats of Kabaddi World Cup (disambiguation) redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. Spike 'em (talk) 14:40, 9 February 2019 (UTC)

Frome Listed Buildings

Thanks for your comment. I will correct the line: "the greatest number in one location within Somerset" to read "the greatest number outside of Bath within Somerset", with your approval.

The previous entry for listed buildings in Frome read 500. I recently heard that quoted in a public meeting, which is why I edited.

Historic England does allow a number count (371!) but only through Advanced Search, using District, Parish & Place parameters. Only when an advanced search is used is the result clear. General searches using Frome, Mendip or Frome, Somerset are no use as they include Frome Roads and Frome River sites that are not in Frome. Unfortunately none of these searches, advanced or not, appear as a revisitable web address, which is why I used British Listed Buildings.

All the best

Philgryce (talk) 11:49, 14 February 2019 (UTC)

Deletion of articles on SSSIs

Hi Rod. An editor has nominated an article on an SSSI for deletion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Pasture and Asplin Woods on the ground that Natural England reports are primary self published sources. Dudley Miles (talk) 11:59, 16 February 2019 (UTC)

John Chubb

As I've now 'retired' as Hon Curator, I've a bit more time for research and writing, so I've followed your suggestion and added a small selection of pix. Various other WP projects on the go as well. Apwoolrich (talk) 19:21, 17 February 2019 (UTC)

List of largest law firms by revenue page

Hi there — thanks for fixing those four links. I thought I'd caught them all, but it was a pretty long list. --Lindenfall (talk) 20:53, 20 February 2019 (UTC)

Libau

Thanks for the attempt to fix the List of shipwrecks in March 1852. I got caught out by the spelling. If you ever see "Libau, Prussia", the correct spelling is Liebau, which is now Lubawka, Poland. Mjroots (talk) 06:36, 27 February 2019 (UTC)

Help

Dear Rodw! Can you Disambiguating from Mahipal to Mahipal (actor) and from Srinivas to Srinivas (singer)? Thank you and nice to meet you! —-178.70.180.149 (talk) 16:54, 8 March 2019 (UTC)

WikiCup 2019 March newsletter

And so ends the first round of the competition. Everyone with a positive score moves on to Round 2. With 56 contestants qualifying, each group in Round 2 contains seven contestants, with the two leaders from each group due to qualify for Round 3 as well as the top sixteen remaining contestants.

Our top scorers in Round 1 were:

• L293D, a WikiCup newcomer, led the field with ten good articles on submarines for a total of 357 points.
• Adam Cuerden, a WikiCup veteran, came next with 274 points, mostly from eight featured pictures, restorations of artwork.
• MPJ-DK, a wrestling enthusiast, was in third place with 263 points, garnered from a featured list, five good articles, two DYKs and four GARs.
• Usernameunique came next at 243, with a featured article and a good article, both on ancient helmets.
• Squeamish Ossifrage was in joint fifth place with 224 points, mostly garnered from bringing the 1937 Fox vault fire to featured article status.
• Ed! was also on 224, with an amazing number of good article reviews (56 actually).

These contestants, like all the others, now have to start scoring points again from scratch. Between them, contestants completed reviews on 143 good articles, one hundred more than the number of good articles they claimed for, thus making a substantial dent in the review backlog. Well done all!

Remember that any content promoted after the end of Round 1 but before the start of Round 2 can be claimed in Round 2. Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. Remember, if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews.

If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to keep down the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Godot13 (talk), Sturmvogel 66 (talk), Vanamonde (talk) and Cwmhiraeth (talk).

NPR Newsletter No.17

Hello Rodw,

News

• The WMF has announced that Google Translate is now available for translating articles through the content translation tool. This may result in an increase in machine translated articles in the New Pages Feed. Feel free to use the {{rough translation}} tag and gently remind (or inform) editors that translations from other language Wikipedia pages still require attribution per WP:TFOLWP.

Discussions of interest

• Two elements of CSD G6 have been split into their own criteria: R4 for redirects in the "File:" namespace with the same name as a file or redirect at Wikimedia Commons (Discussion), and G14 for disambiguation pages which disambiguate zero pages, or have "(disambiguation)" in the title but disambiguate a single page (Discussion).
• {{db-blankdraft}} was merged into G13 (Discussion)
• A discussion recently closed with no consensus on whether to create a subject-specific notability guideline for theatrical plays.
• There is an ongoing discussion on a proposal to create subject-specific notability guidelines for chemicals and organism taxa.

Reminders

• NPR is not a binary keep / delete process. In many cases a redirect may be appropriate. The deletion policy and its associated guideline clearly emphasise that not all unsuitable articles must be deleted. Redirects are not contentious. See a classic example of the templates to use. More templates are listed at the R template index. Reviewers who are not aware, do please take this into consideration before PROD, CSD, and especially AfD because not even all admins are aware of such policies, and many NAC do not have a full knowledge of them.

NPP Tools Report

• Superlinks – allows you to check an article's history, logs, talk page, NPP flowchart (on unpatrolled pages) and more without navigating away from the article itself.
• copyvio-check – automatically checks the copyvio percentage of new pages in the background and displays this info with a link to the report in the 'info' panel of the Page curation toolbar.
• The NPP flowchart now has clickable hyperlinks.

Six Month Queue Data: Today – Low – 2393 High – 4828
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TFL notification

Hi, Rodw. I'm just posting to let you know that List of museums in Somerset – a list that you have been heavily involved with – has been chosen to appear on the Main Page as Today's featured list for April 19. The TFL blurb can be seen here. If you have any thoughts on the selection, please post them on my talk page or at TFL talk. Regards, Giants2008 (Talk) 21:28, 29 March 2019 (UTC)

Requesting your opinion

Hi. A conflict has arisen on the Adam Hughes article. Can you offer your opinion in this discussion? It would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. Nightscream (talk) 21:26, 1 April 2019 (UTC)

WikiCup 2019 May newsletter

The second round of the 2019 WikiCup has now finished. Contestants needed to scored 32 points to advance into round 3. Our top four scorers in round 2 all scored over 400 points and were:

• Cas Liber (1210), our winner in 2016, with two featured articles and three DYKs. He also made good use of the bonus points available, more than doubling his score by choosing appropriate articles to work on.
• Kosack (750), last year's runner up, with an FA, a GA, two FLs, and five DYKs.
• Adam Cuerden (480), a WikiCup veteran, with 16 featured pictures, mostly restorations.
• Zwerg Nase (461), a seasoned competitor, with a FA, a GA and an ITN item.

Other notable performances were put in by Barkeep49 with six GAs, Ceranthor, Lee Vilenski, and Canada Hky, each with seven GARs, and MPJ-DK with a seven item GT.

So far contestants have achieved nine featured articles between them and a splendid 80 good articles. Commendably, 227 GARs have been completed during the course of the 2019 WikiCup, so the backlog of articles awaiting GA review has been reduced as a result of contestants' activities. The judges are pleased with the thorough GARs that are being performed, and have hardly had to reject any. As we enter the third round, remember that any content promoted after the end of round 2 but before the start of round 3 can be claimed in round 3. Remember too that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them.

If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article nominations, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed (remember to remove your listing when no longer required). Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Godot13 (talk), Sturmvogel 66 (talk), Vanamonde (talk) and Cwmhiraeth (talk) MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:46, 1 May 2019 (UTC)

Assessment help

Hello @Rodw: could you assist me by doing the assessment of the article One Day: Justice Delivered. I know there is a long queue and many articles assessment are pending. And I should ask or order you to do... I will be obliged if you do help me. AR.Dmg (talk) 04:01, 6 May 2019 (UTC)

Hello @Rodw: Thanks sir for considering my request. AR.Dmg (talk) 07:47, 6 May 2019 (UTC)

MRR

Thanks for that disambiguation. I'd only seen the article for the first time today, because I was creating a Ray Treacy (track and field) article, locating it and referencing it. The MRR article was a pathetic mess and I was cleaning it up piecemeal and had meant to get back to those specific problems. I appreciate your taking care of it before I was able to do so myself. I also noticed that the "John Vitale" does not go to the marathoner, who does not have an article but probably should. I added to the Charlie Robbins article without needing addition sources and linked it properly. Activist (talk) 22:19, 11 May 2019 (UTC)

NPR Newsletter No.18

Hello Rodw,

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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Thank For Your Help

I am very thankful to you for showing interest in Bishandot article and pointing out disambiguated links and correcting them. Raja Atizaz Ahmed Kiyani(Gakhar) (talk) 12:26, 29 May 2019 (UTC)

List of styles of music: N–R

Just want to let you know that I intentionally linked to the pub rock disambiguation page. Thank you though for disambiguating the George Clinton link. I forgot that we also have a Vice-President named George Clinton. Rjrya395 (talk) 22:29, 29 May 2019 (UTC)

New Page Review, Please

Hi,

Thank you for taking the time to disambiguate Gaztransport & Technigaz.

I'm new to article writing directly (not using AfC as this article was waiting for review for over a month) and noticed that you are a new page reviewer but you didn't mark it as reviewed.

Forgive my ignorance but I understand that the page needs to be reviewed in order to be indexed?

Can you please advise me on how to request a review for an article in the mainspace?

Many thanks,

--Jonoweltman (talk) 23:35, 30 May 2019 (UTC)

Precious anniversary

Precious

Seven years!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 05:34, 3 June 2019 (UTC)

thank you for fixing the link

hi @Rodw: thank you for fixing the link David Siegel to David Siegel (computer scientist) on D. E. Shaw & Co. WestportWiki (talk) 13:05, 30 May 2019 (UTC)

Hey, me too, I keep forgetting the Macroderma is ambiguous. cygnis insignis 16:03, 4 June 2019 (UTC)

No more grid refs?

See User talk:RHaworth#Grid references. Dudley Miles (talk) 22:21, 5 June 2019 (UTC)

TFL notification

Hi, Rodw. I'm just posting to let you know that Grade I listed buildings in Sedgemoor – a list that you have been heavily involved with – has been chosen to appear on the Main Page as Today's featured list for July 15. The TFL blurb can be seen here. If you have any thoughts on the selection, please post them on my talk page or at TFL talk. Regards, Giants2008 (Talk) 01:21, 20 June 2019 (UTC)

The Pyramid Stage Barn Star of Glasto-wikiness

	The Pyramid Barnstar of Eternal Grooviness
	Insanely jealous..... . What a great idea!! Give Nick and Los Straitjackets my kindest regards!! Martinevans123 (talk) 20:21, 21 June 2019 (UTC)

Thanks - both acts I might get to - if I get chatting I will give them your regards.— Rod ^talk 20:23, 21 June 2019 (UTC)

New Page Review newsletter July-August 2019

Hello Rodw,

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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WikiCup 2019 July newsletter

The third round of the 2019 WikiCup has now come to an end. The 16 users who made it to the fourth round needed to score at least 68 points, which is substantially lower than last year's 227 points. Our top scorers in round 3 were:

• Cas Liber, our winner in 2016, with 500 points derived mainly from a featured article and two GAs on natural history topics
• Adam Cuerden, with 480 points, a tally built on 16 featured pictures, the result of meticulous restoration work
• SounderBruce, a finalist in the last two years, with 306 points from a variety of submissions, mostly related to sport or the State of Washington
• Usernameunique, with 305 points derived from a featured article and two GAs on archaeology and related topics

Contestants managed 4 (5) featured articles, 4 featured lists, 18 featured pictures, 29 good articles, 50 DYK entries, 9 ITN entries, and 39 good article reviews. As we enter the fourth round, remember that any content promoted after the end of round 3 but before the start of round 4 can be claimed in round 4. Please also remember that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them, and it is imperative to claim them in the correct round; one FA claim had to be rejected because it was incorrectly submitted (claimed in Round 3 when it qualified for Round 2), so be warned! When doing GARs, please make sure that you check that all the GA criteria are fully met.

If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article nominations, a featured process, or anything else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed (remember to remove your listing when no longer required). Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Godot13 (talk), Sturmvogel 66 (talk), Vanamonde (talk) and Cwmhiraeth (talk). MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 20:12, 2 July 2019 (UTC)

Talk:List of bridges in the United Kingdom

I replied to your comment on Talk:List of bridges in the United Kingdom over a decade later. There is still lots of work to do on Bridges and Tunnels, and still more bridges and tunnels to be added.--Dthomsen8 (talk) 04:15, 6 July 2019 (UTC)

Your helpful edits

Thank you, Rodw for your much appreciated edits to "Tram types in Adelaide". It's more than a year since I started the long job of researching and writing the upgrade, and since then some changes to disambiguation policy/practice seem to have occurred. I'll keep an eye open for that in future! I particularly appreciated your flagging of the "LRV" link, which I have fixed now.SCHolar44 (talk) 00:24, 8 July 2019 (UTC)

Lal links

Dear Rodw! Can you linking from Lal to Lal (actor) in List of Malayalam films of 2010, List of Malayalam films of 2005, List of Malayalam films of 2014, List of Malayalam films of 2015, List of Malayalam films of 2018, List of Malayalam films of 2019? Thank you! --92.100.19.52 (talk) 14:29, 11 August 2019 (UTC)

Disambiguations

Dear Rodw, thanks for adding the disambiguations in the article Otto I, Count of Nassau. Apparently I missed a few while checking them. I also rechecked Feldbach, but apparently there is no article for it on the English Wikipedia. The Feldbach mentioned in the article was a village near Dillenburg in Hesse in Germany. As there is no article about it on the German Wikipedia, it no doubt got incorporated into Dillenburg. Regards, --Royalty & Nassau Expert (talk) 17:59, 12 August 2019 (UTC)

Links

Hello dear Rodw! Can you linking from Mumtaz to Mumtaz (actress) in article Bollywood? Thank you! --178.71.168.131 (talk) 18:42, 12 August 2019 (UTC)

Kall links

Dear Rodw! Can you linking from Kaal to Kaal (2005 film) in Malaika Arora, Karan Johar and Ajay Devgn? Thank you! --178.71.168.131 (talk) 18:42, 12 August 2019 (UTC)

Middlesbrough

Hi there! With regard to this, I thought you might like to note that just Middlesbrough is the best solution for references to this dream destination. Cheers DBaK (talk) 00:04, 13 August 2019 (UTC)

Mumtaz links

Dear Rodw! Can you linking from Mumtaz to Mumtaz (actress) in Bollywood and Lal to Lal (actor) in List of Malayalam films of 2010, List of Malayalam films of 2005, List of Malayalam films of 2014, List of Malayalam films of 2015, List of Malayalam films of 2018, List of Malayalam films of 2019, because it’s hardly find word to linking? Thank you! --92.100.194.137 (talk) 11:35, 13 August 2019 (UTC)

Indian painting

Kurumba or Kurumbar is a tribal people from Tamil Nadu.

Best regards Andershus — Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.94.87.52 (talk) 18:53, 13 August 2019 (UTC)

Bollywood links

Dear Rodw! Can you linking Sony Music in article Kurbaan (2009 film)? Thank you! --178.71.218.204 (talk) 09:03, 19 August 2019 (UTC)

Can you linking Mumtaz (actress) in article Bollywood, because confusing with Arabic name? Thank you! --178.71.218.204 (talk) 09:03, 19 August 2019 (UTC)

Your edits were much appreciated!

I've seen your edits before and I suspect it might have been on a musician's page. I've mostly edited on political scandals and corruption, politics, athletics (i.e., the 1960 Olympic marathon) creating articles on a number of women long-distance runners, counterculture, environment, etc.

The Ray Brown album was the first article I've created about jazz, I think. I've been fortunate to have known many of the giants of jazz and folk music. I created one for Lisa Kindred, a 12-string player, blues singer, and organizer of the first all-woman rock band back in the mid-'Sixties. She's still alive and performing.

I really appreciated your edits on "...Singers." I had spent some time trying to find out who wrote a couple of the tunes and struck out with "Little Boy." A number of artists have recorded different songs with the same name, perhaps starting with The Crystals, in the early-'Sixties. [1]

The default is the Hiroshima A-bomb, of course. I created it in the wee hours and had to leave home early so I couldn't polish it much. I've had a hugely busy day so wasn't able to get back to Wikipedia until a minute ago, but I wouldn't have been able to do nearly as good a job editing as you had done.

I wasn't sure who the producer was: Ray often produced his own, but sometimes co-produced.

I used another "Friends" album as a template and looked up the tracks, musicians, etc. It was tedious and there might be an easier one to use. I'm not terribly computer savvy. Activist (talk) 07:04, 21 August 2019 (UTC)

I finally was able to figure out who the songwriter was for "Little Boy." It was Brown's ex-wife, Ella Fitzgerald. Activist (talk) 16:20, 25 August 2019 (UTC)

hi Rodw (talk) your inputs have been great help, i need help recently was trying to edit a page (it has extended protection) but it is being reverted by an individual repeatedly despite me telling that i have 10 yrs of exp. in wiki with over 1000 edits, pls help what to do. Joydeep ghosh (talk) 05:25, 27 August 2019 (UTC)

Chatswood West, New South Wales

Lilli Pilli needs to disambiguate to a plant and not to Lilli Pilli, New South Wales Fleet Lists (talk) 22:48, 31 August 2019 (UTC)

WikiCup 2019 September newsletter

The fourth round of the competition has finished in a flurry of last minute activity, with 454 points being required to qualify for the final round. It was a hotly competitive round with two contestants with over 400 points being eliminated, and all but two of the finalists having achieved an FA during the round. Casliber, our 2016 winner, was the highest point-scorer, followed by Enwebb and Lee Vilenski, who are both new to the competition. In fourth place was SounderBruce, a finalist last year. But all those points are swept away as we start afresh for the final round.

Round 4 saw the achievement of 11 featured articles. In addition, Adam Cuerden scored with 18 FPs, Lee Vilenski led the GA score with 8 GAs while Kosack performed 15 GA reviews. There were around 40 DYKs, 40 GARs and 31 GAs overall during round 4. Even though contestants performed more GARs than they achieved GAs, there was still some frustration at the length of time taken to get articles reviewed.

As we start round 5, we say goodbye to the eight competitors who didn't quite make it; thank you for the useful contributions you have made to the Cup and Wikipedia, and we hope you will join us again next year. Remember that any content promoted after the end of round 4 but before the start of round 5 can be claimed in round 5. Remember too that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them (some people have fallen foul of this rule and the points have been removed).

If you are concerned that your nomination, whether it be for a good article, a featured process, or anything else, will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed (remember to remove your listing when no longer required). If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to help keep down the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Godot13, Sturmvogel 66, Vanamonde and Cwmhiraeth MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:44, 1 September 2019 (UTC)

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Hi Rodw Thank you for your welcome message and the links to further help me. Wiki is such an invaluable source of information for everyone and I suddenly realised there was information which I had researched years ago but wasn't on there, so it's a bit of a finding out exercise for me at the moment as to how it all works and what I can add. Do you have a particular interest in Croscombe? Wilftess (talk) 18:16, 8 September 2019 (UTC)wilftess

New Page Review newsletter September-October 2019

Hello Rodw,

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.

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Minehead

Is there a reason that Kildare Lodge does not merit a mention within the above article ? I was a first-time visitor to the place this week. The Grade II listing of the building, plus the real ales on the bar (the latter not really encyclopedic) must give it some kudos. My wife and I were much impressed, before our onward journey to Taunton via the West Somerset Railway beckoned. Regards,

Derek R Bullamore (talk) 00:03, 15 September 2019 (UTC)

Antal (given name)

On disambiguation pages and name lists, we do not pipe disambiguated links.-TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 09:01, 15 September 2019 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Original Barnstar
	Thanks for your dab work on Battle of Weymouth. Nice to still see your name popping up on my Watchlist after all this time. Looking through your user page, I see that you've been plenty busy! Keep up all the good work, and know that it is always appreciated. Harrias talk 21:27, 25 September 2019 (UTC)

Request for Assistance on Noticed Vandalism and Editing Bias

Hello, User:Rodw

I'm asking for assistance for you to look into the edits and reverts by User:Seandotng on pages:

1. Kevin Liliana 2. Vanessa Ponce 3. Jolene Marie Rotinsulu 4. Jesica Fitriana

for the following reasons:

1. I have updated information on these pages wholly sourced and referenced (provided articles from legitimate news/media outlets/outfits for each update), but this contributor keeps on reverting these edits to the previous ones that are un-sourced and un-clarified

2. He has erased a paragraph of wholly sourced information on the Kevin Liliana page without valid reason, only stating that "It is not needed for the bio" when it is factual.

3. This is just an observation but I think he is leaning on editing bias, as I have observed that he only edits mostly Indonesian beauty titleholders. I am not going ahead of myself here and I am still not wholly particular with editing biases within Wikipedia, but I think I've read that anyone related to the organization or the person in question (subject of the page/article) should be looked into as they might be biased in editing. Again, I am not concluding that he is, but his actions can only be interpreted as leaning on bias.

4. His reverts are mostly, if not all, invalid, reverting updates/edits that are aptly sourced and referenced and preferring instead the old edits without ANY sources or references.

I am still learning my way here on Wikipedia, but I hope to contribute and contribute well. I am trying to edit with only facts, and with factual neutrality. But I will not stand for contributors who are editing only with biases.

Thanks. I hope to hear you soon on this.Migsmigss (talk) 15:20, 7 October 2019 (UTC)

Antarctic fur seal

Thank you very much for your help, Rod. This is my first time editing on Wikipedia and I wasn't aware of disambiguation. I have just fixed them all. Cheers. Asiaecica (talk) 04:51, 8 October 2019 (UTC)

Help

Excuse me.

Can you correct this article: Sabri Al-Haiki

Thanks.

Waslila. Wasilan (talk) 04:46, 11 October 2019 (UTC)

Help

Excuse me.

Can you correct this article:

Sabri Al-Haiki

Wasilan. Wasilan (talk) 04:48, 11 October 2019 (UTC)

Henry Lawes disambiguation

Thanks for disambiguation on Henry Lawes page. They had not been there long since I had to stop work before I had properly finished. Nevertheless it will teach me not to cross reference a name without checking that it specifically refers to the person I had in mind. In particular John Cobb (C17 musician) does not actually link anywhere!! Catchsinger (talk) 15:02, 17 October 2019 (UTC)

"Distractions (EP) (disambiguation)" listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Distractions (EP) (disambiguation). Since you had some involvement with the Distractions (EP) (disambiguation) redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you wish to do so. Shhhnotsoloud (talk) 13:30, 20 October 2019 (UTC)

Améziane Aït Ahcène

Thank you for your edit in Améziane Aït Ahcène. Could you please check this Lemma regading the leanguage, because English is not my mother tongue. Thank you for your help! --Outdoor-Bro (talk) 10:31, 23 October 2019 (UTC)

WikiCup 2019 November newsletter

The WikiCup is over for another year! Our Champion this year is Adam Cuerden (submissions), who over the course of the competition has amassed 91 featured pictures, including 32 in the final round. Our finalists this year were:

1. Adam Cuerden (submissions) with 964 points
2. Lee Vilenski (submissions) with 899 points
3. Casliber (submissions) with 817 points
4. Kosack (submissions) with 691 points
5. SounderBruce (submissions) with 388 points
6. Enwebb (submissions) with 146 points
7. Usernameunique (submissions) with 145 points
8. HaEr48 (submissions) with 74 points

All those who reached the final will win awards. The following special awards will be made based on high performance in particular areas of content creation. So that the finalists do not have an undue advantage, these prizes are awarded to the competitor who scored the highest in any particular field in a single round, or in the event of a tie, to the overall leader in this field. Awards will be handed out in the coming weeks. Please be patient!

• Casliber (submissions) wins the featured article prize, for a total of 7 FAs during the course of the competition.
• Lee Vilenski (submissions) wins the good article prize, for 14 GAs in round 5.
• Yashthepunisher (submissions) wins the featured list prize, for 4 FLs overall.
• Adam Cuerden (submissions) wins the featured picture prize, for 91 FPs overall.
• MPJ-DK (submissions) wins the topic prize, for 7 articles in good topics in round 2.
• Lee Vilenski (submissions) wins the DYK prize, for 14 did you know articles in round 5.
• Muboshgu (submissions) wins the ITN prize, for 7 in the news articles in round 1.
• Ed! (submissions) wins the reviewer prize, for 56 good article reviews in round 1.

Congratulations to everyone who participated in this year's WikiCup, whether you made it to the final rounds or not, and particular congratulations to the newcomers to the WikiCup who have achieved much this year. Thanks to all who have taken part and helped out with the competition, not forgetting User:Jarry1250, who runs the scoring bot.

We have opened a scoring discussion on whether the rules and scoring need adjustment. Please have your say. Next year's competition will begin on 1 January. You are invited to sign up to participate; the WikiCup is open to all Wikipedians, both novices and experienced editors, and we hope to see you all in the 2020 competition. Until then, it only remains to once again congratulate our worthy winners, and thank all participants for their involvement! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Godot13, Sturmvogel 66, Vanamonde and Cwmhiraeth 14:18, 2 November 2019 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Environmentalism in the United States (disambiguation)

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A tag has been placed on Environmentalism in the United States (disambiguation) requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G14 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is an orphaned disambiguation page which either

• disambiguates only one extant Wikipedia page and whose title ends in "(disambiguation)" (i.e., there is a primary topic);
• disambiguates zero extant Wikipedia pages, regardless of its title; or
• is a redirect with a title ending in "(disambiguation)" that does not target a disambiguation page or page that has a disambiguation-like function.

Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such pages may be deleted at any time. Please see the disambiguation page guidelines 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. Pkbwcgs (talk) 19:56, 2 November 2019 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Fordham Rams basketball (disambiguation)

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A tag has been placed on Fordham Rams basketball (disambiguation) requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G14 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is an orphaned disambiguation page which either

• disambiguates only one extant Wikipedia page and whose title ends in "(disambiguation)" (i.e., there is a primary topic);
• disambiguates zero extant Wikipedia pages, regardless of its title; or
• is a redirect with a title ending in "(disambiguation)" that does not target a disambiguation page or page that has a disambiguation-like function.

Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such pages may be deleted at any time. Please see the disambiguation page guidelines 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. Pkbwcgs (talk) 20:07, 2 November 2019 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Bumps & Bruises (disambiguation)

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A tag has been placed on Bumps & Bruises (disambiguation) requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G14 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is an orphaned disambiguation page which either

• disambiguates only one extant Wikipedia page and whose title ends in "(disambiguation)" (i.e., there is a primary topic);
• disambiguates zero extant Wikipedia pages, regardless of its title; or
• is a redirect with a title ending in "(disambiguation)" that does not target a disambiguation page or page that has a disambiguation-like function.

Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such pages may be deleted at any time. Please see the disambiguation page guidelines 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. Pkbwcgs (talk) 22:53, 2 November 2019 (UTC)

New Page Review newsletter November 2019

Hello Rodw,

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 812 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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Speedy deletion nomination of Constituent peoples (disambiguation)

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A tag has been placed on Constituent peoples (disambiguation) requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G14 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is an orphaned disambiguation page which either

• disambiguates only one extant Wikipedia page and whose title ends in "(disambiguation)" (i.e., there is a primary topic);
• disambiguates zero extant Wikipedia pages, regardless of its title; or
• is a redirect with a title ending in "(disambiguation)" that does not target a disambiguation page or page that has a disambiguation-like function.

Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such pages may be deleted at any time. Please see the disambiguation page guidelines 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. Pkbwcgs (talk) 09:44, 3 November 2019 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Gostuša (disambiguation)

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A tag has been placed on Gostuša (disambiguation) requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G14 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is an orphaned disambiguation page which either

• disambiguates only one extant Wikipedia page and whose title ends in "(disambiguation)" (i.e., there is a primary topic);
• disambiguates zero extant Wikipedia pages, regardless of its title; or
• is a redirect with a title ending in "(disambiguation)" that does not target a disambiguation page or page that has a disambiguation-like function.

Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such pages may be deleted at any time. Please see the disambiguation page guidelines 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. Pkbwcgs (talk) 10:02, 3 November 2019 (UTC)

Seabee

I believe that you have reviewed the Seabee article numerous times. An editor that joined Wikipedia this year has placed multiple tags on it, including Twinkle, that you did not. I removed my latest additions concerning the Seabees and the Special Forces.

As the article stands each section could nearly be an article unto itself. However, I believe Wikipedia wants article sub-topics to make up the main article and not be separated. The WWII section concerning the Seabees and U.S Marine Corps and the Underwater Demolition Teams is intentionally overdone to make the point that the article is factually correct. Otherwise there would be editors constantly challenging the content. Beyond that, the "Note" section could be edited or removed, but some are really important. So, since you are a Master Editor could you do what it takes to remove the tags or instruct me. Thank youMcb133aco (talk) 01:17, 4 November 2019 (UTC)mcb133acoMcb133aco (talk) 01:17, 4 November 2019 (UTC)

Thank you for the prompt reply and sorry to have bothered you with the request.Mcb133aco (talk) 18:20, 4 November 2019 (UTC)mcb133acoMcb133aco (talk) 18:20, 4 November 2019 (UTC)

Looking for help cleaning up the Wikipedia Entry about me

Hi Rod

You edited the page about me clearing up the ambiguity around La Mano Negra. Thanks for the help. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_Barnard

The article is pretty accurate and fairly complete./ It does, however, hava warning on it.The warning is because I corrected it directly, rather than using the talk features My aim was to clarify and add some detail I felt was important. However, the article has been tagged as an autobiography for 3 years now.

There have been several edits since, but the article could do with a) more references (there are a few that could be added that could help move the article from a "C" to a "B") b) some extra (new) information about some more recent events

Could you help me by suggesting the best steps I could take to take to make this entry better without creating issues? I see you have done boatloads of work on Wikipedia (bloomin' impressive)

I am in Digital Marketing, and part of what I do is try to get to grips with Google's Knowledge Graph. As you know, it uses Wikipedia extensively. My interest in the Knowledge Graph (and thus indirectly in Wikipedia) is trying to better understand and thus better advise people and brands about how to approach both. Which also means the more I understand what to do's and don'ts are on Wikipedia, the better I can explain to people who want to create a Wikipedia page 'willy nilly', not to do so! Perhaps even reducing by a tiny fraction the work for you guys (I have already convinced 4 brands not to create a Wikipedia page by showing them the article about me, and saying if I get a warning like that, you won't keep your page more than 5 minutes). I have quite a lot of reach in the digital marketing industry through articles, conferences around the world (honest !), webinars and my groovy podcast (that you might like) https://kalicube.pro/podcast-series

If you can help out here (explaining if not helping with the article), I would be super grateful. Either through this message system (that I find confusing right now !) or directly on a call / hangouts (which might well save us time)

WHat do you think ? Something we could look into ?

Thanks

Jasonbarnard (talk) 00:59, 5 November 2019 (UTC)

Hi, Concerning the article about Jason Barnard

Will do as you suggested and use the talk page to try to clarify and add references

Thanks !

- - ~ ~ ~ ~ — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jasonbarnard (talk • contribs) 09:12, 5 November 2019 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Civic Coalition (disambiguation)

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A tag has been placed on Civic Coalition (disambiguation) requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G14 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is an orphaned disambiguation page which either

• disambiguates only one extant Wikipedia page and whose title ends in "(disambiguation)" (i.e., there is a primary topic);
• disambiguates zero extant Wikipedia pages, regardless of its title; or
• is a redirect with a title ending in "(disambiguation)" that does not target a disambiguation page or page that has a disambiguation-like function.

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Speedy deletion nomination of Interstate 335 (disambiguation)

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A tag has been placed on Interstate 335 (disambiguation) requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G14 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is an orphaned disambiguation page which either

• disambiguates only one extant Wikipedia page and whose title ends in "(disambiguation)" (i.e., there is a primary topic);
• disambiguates zero extant Wikipedia pages, regardless of its title; or
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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)

TFL notification

Hi, Rod. I'm just posting to let you know that Grade II* listed buildings in Taunton Deane – a list that you have been heavily involved with – has been chosen to appear on the Main Page as Today's featured list for December 23. The TFL blurb can be seen here. If you have any thoughts on the selection, please post them on my talk page or at TFL talk. Regards, Giants2008 (Talk) 00:23, 30 November 2019 (UTC)

Disambiguation link notification for December 3

An automated process has detected that when you recently edited ATP Tour 250, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page Kevin Anderson (check to confirm | fix with Dab solver).

(Opt-out instructions.) --DPL bot (talk) 08:14, 3 December 2019 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Jack Goes Boating (disambiguation)

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A tag has been placed on Jack Goes Boating (disambiguation) requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G14 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is an orphaned disambiguation page which either

• disambiguates only one extant Wikipedia page and whose title ends in "(disambiguation)" (i.e., there is a primary topic);
• disambiguates zero extant Wikipedia pages, regardless of its title; or
• is a redirect with a title ending in "(disambiguation)" that does not target a disambiguation page or page that has a disambiguation-like function.

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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. PI Ellsworth  ed. ^put'r there 22:29, 7 December 2019 (UTC)

Nomination of Richard Brock for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Richard Brock is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Richard Brock until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Boleyn (talk) 20:40, 15 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 16:11, 20 December 2019 (UTC)

Merry Merry!

Merry Christmas and a Prosperous 2020!

Hello Rodw, may you be surrounded by peace, success and happiness on this seasonal occasion. Spread the WikiLove by wishing another user a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past, a good friend, or just some random person. Sending you heartfelt and warm greetings for Christmas and New Year 2020. Happy editing, ★Trekker (talk) 17:01, 21 December 2019 (UTC) Spread the love by adding {{subst:Seasonal Greetings}} to other user talk pages.

A Rumtopf for you!

Best wishes for 2020. Narky Blert (talk) 12:06, 25 December 2019 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Macau cuisine (disambiguation)

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A tag has been placed on Macau cuisine (disambiguation) requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G14 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is an orphaned disambiguation page which either

• disambiguates only one extant Wikipedia page and whose title ends in "(disambiguation)" (i.e., there is a primary topic);
• disambiguates zero extant Wikipedia pages, regardless of its title; or
• is a redirect with a title ending in "(disambiguation)" that does not target a disambiguation page or page that has a disambiguation-like function.

Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such pages may be deleted at any time. Please see the disambiguation page guidelines 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. Pkbwcgs (talk) 11:04, 25 December 2019 (UTC)

By chance, I know this one: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Macau cuisine. Narky Blert (talk) 12:09, 25 December 2019 (UTC)

Problem with the "Portuguese People" article

I have made an edition changing the words of a phrase and adapting them to the source that it has attached (Because the previous phrase differed from the source), in addition, I added two more sources of a scientific nature. The user Melroross is systematically erasing the scientific sources even though they are reliable, and the words of my edition are literally the express meaning of those scientific sources.

Could you help me and review the case?

Speedy deletion nomination of Cycleway (disambiguation)

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A tag has been placed on Cycleway (disambiguation) requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G14 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is an orphaned disambiguation page which either

• disambiguates only one extant Wikipedia page and whose title ends in "(disambiguation)" (i.e., there is a primary topic);
• disambiguates zero extant Wikipedia pages, regardless of its title; or
• is a redirect with a title ending in "(disambiguation)" that does not target a disambiguation page or page that has a disambiguation-like function.

Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such pages may be deleted at any time. Please see the disambiguation page guidelines 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. Pkbwcgs (talk) 20:11, 29 December 2019 (UTC)

Happy New Year!

George Bellows, North River (1908), Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.		Best wishes for a healthy and prosperous 2020.
		Thank you for your contributions toward making Wikipedia a better and more accurate place. BoringHistoryGuy (talk) 13:13, 30 December 2019 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Original Barnstar
	Happy New Year, Rodw! You are receiving this barnstar because, according to this Wikipedia database query, you were the #5 most thanked Wikipedian of 2019, with 1344 entries in Special:Log/thanks during 2019. Congratulations, and, well, thank you for your contributions! Cheers to 2020. Mz7 (talk) 01:17, 1 January 2020 (UTC)

Welcome to the 2020 WikiCup!

Happy New Year, Happy New Decade and Happy New WikiCup! The competition begins today and all article creators, expanders and improvers are welcome to take part. If you have already signed up, your submissions page can be found here. If you have not yet signed up, you can add your name here and the judges will set up your submissions page. We are relaxing the rule that only content on which you have completed significant work during 2020 will count; now to be eligible for points in the competition, you must have completed significant work on the content at some time! Any questions on the rules or on anything else connected to the Cup should be directed to one of the judges, or posted to the WikiCup talk page. Signups will close at the end of January, and the first round will end on 26 February; the 64 highest scorers at that time will move on to round 2. Good luck! The judges for the WikiCup are Sturmvogel 66 (talk · contribs · email), Godot13 (talk · contribs · email), Vanamonde93 (talk · contribs · email) and Cwmhiraeth (talk) 11:43, 1 January 2020 (UTC)

Martin Scorsese

Thanks for your disambiguation edit on Scorsese earlier today. I am starting to give some thought to getting the Martin Scorsese article started for a peer review nomination and possibly moving toward an FA nomination later in the year. Any interest in possibly joining in and branching out into biography articles or film articles given your experience with FA nominations? CodexJustin (talk) 16:09, 3 January 2020 (UTC)