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[p]roposal for better addressing undisclosed paid editing. Feedback is being accepted until 24 April 2023.
Hello. A couple of questions re your RfC closures at WT:E&R:
Cheers, Number 5 7 12:42, 1 March 2023 (UTC)
to summarize (and not supplant) key facts that appear in the article [...] wherever possible, present information in short form, and exclude any unnecessary content. An editor saying they believe the information in the parameter is/can be useful and highly relevant to the article is essentially saying the same thing as an editor saying "Yes, I believe the parameter satisfies MOS:INFOBOXPURPOSE". Them saying "useful and relevant" does not mean the " useful" invalidates the "relevant".
So ends the first round of the 2023 WikiCup. Everyone with a positive score moved on to Round 2, with 54 contestants qualifying. The top scorers in Round 1 were:
The top sixteen contestants at the end of Round 1 had all scored over 300 points; these included LunaEatsTuna, Thebiguglyalien, Sammi Brie, Trainsandotherthings, Lee Vilenski, Juxlos, Unexpectedlydian, SounderBruce, Kosack, BennyOnTheLoose and PCN02WPS. It was a high-scoring start to the competition.
These contestants, like all the others, now have to start again from scratch. The first round finished on February 26. Remember that any content promoted after that date but before the start of Round 2 can be claimed in Round 2. Some contestants made claims before the new submissions pages were set up, and they will need to resubmit them. Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. Remember, if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed.
If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to keep down the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Sturmvogel 66 and Cwmhiraeth. MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 19:36, 2 March 2023 (UTC)
Hello, Ixtal. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, " Wikipedia:Nominate".
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 deleted. When you plan on working on it further and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion. 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. Liz Read! Talk! 23:25, 3 March 2023 (UTC)
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Curbon7 ( talk) 22:31, 7 March 2023 (UTC)Hi Ixtal, in the open Armenia-Azerbaijan 3 arbitration case, a remedy or finding of fact has been proposed which relates to you.
You are not directly affected by any proposed sanction; this is just for your information.
Your name only appears on the page because your evidence has been used as a reference twice. Thank you for providing it.
Please review this decision and draw the arbitrators' attention to any relevant material or statements. Comments may be brought to the attention of the committee on the proposed decision talk page. For a guide to the arbitration process, see Wikipedia:Arbitration/Guide to arbitration. For the Arbitration Committee, ~ ToBeFree ( talk) 21:45, 9 March 2023 (UTC)
Pinging editors that have been important to my development so far (based on talk page archives and arbcom case): @ ScottishFinnishRadish, JBchrch, Mathglot, Firefangledfeathers, Sideswipe9th, El C, Robert McClenon, Vami IV, Bilby, BilledMammal, Lee Vilenski, Trainsandotherthings, Epicgenius, BDD, CaptainEek, Opabinia regalis, Worm That Turned, Cabayi, Primefac, Barkeep49, Izno, KevinL, and Wugapodes:.
Hi! I recently crossed 6000 edits which apparently makes me an " experienced editor", although I think I am anything but. However, I thought it would be a useful excuse to ask some friendly editors I respect and have interacted with for some feedback on myself as an editor. I feel like I have tons of room to grow and many things to learn, but wiki tends to only give users feedback when they've made mistakes or are seeking to become admin (which I am not), so I thought asking on my talk page would be a good way to go about it. What are some things I can do to be a better editor and/or be more helpful to the community? — Ixtal ( T / C ) ⁂ Non nobis solum. 14:34, 5 March 2023 (UTC)
Temper my advice to review and be reviewed, however, with some more advice: for a while, be the latter, so you can more effectively be the former. Seeing and responding to different reviewers and their style will allow you to compare and contrast and develop or refine a style inspired by your experience. This should be powered by empathy—add rejoinders to the effect that you are also fallible. Let yourself be dissuaded from some comments and be prepared to learn that this or that is presently beyond our power for this or that article.
Participation in more of Wikipedia's processes will also naturally lead you into collaborations with other editors, and friendships with them. These, usually, are good; I will never as long as I edit forget User:Farang Rak Tham and all that I learned reviewing his work and having my work reviewed by him. To further underline the important of making and having friends, he was recommended to me as a reviewer by our mutual friend Gerda. But beware the formation of cliques and factions; remember your friends are also fallible. Many editors have died (metaphorically) on some very dumb hills for the sake of a friend's honor. Do indeed be a User:Buidhe and intervene against nonsense on a friend's talk, but if you find yourself connived against, seemingly, by a confederacy of dunces... ask yourself who the dunce really is. – ♠Vamí _IV†♠ 17:12, 5 March 2023 (UTC)
When an editor ceases to contribute to articles, but instead writes only in the Wikipedia space, on talk pages, and arbitration cases, and when more than half of that editor's contributions are in conflicts, either beginning or prolonging them, then that editor is very close to departure. As with stars on the main sequence, some departures are shrinkings into dwarf states, with ever-diminishing contributions, giving little light, and with a long decay; and other departures are violent supernova explosions, spewing waste matter and hot gas in all directions.I don't ever want to become someone who spends all his time in WP space and stops building articles. Trainsandotherthings ( talk) 17:32, 5 March 2023 (UTC)
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Guild of Copy Editors March 2023 Newsletter
Election results: In our December 2022 coordinator election, Reidgreg and Tenryuu stepped down as coordinators; we thank them for their service. Incumbents Baffle gab1978, Dhtwiki, Miniapolis and Zippybonzo were returned as coordinators until 1 July. For the second time, no lead coordinator was chosen. Nominations for our mid-year Election of Coordinators open on 1 June (UTC). Drive: 21 editors signed up for our January Backlog Elimination Drive, 14 of whom claimed at least one copy-edit. Between them, they copy-edited 170 articles totaling 389,737 words. Barnstars awarded are here. Blitz: Our February Copy Editing Blitz focused on October and November 2022 requests, and the March and April 2022 backlogs. Of the 14 editors who signed up, nine claimed at least one copy-edit; and between them, they copy-edited 39,150 words in 22 articles. Barnstars awarded are here. Drive: Sign up now for our month-long March Backlog Elimination Drive. Barnstars awarded will be posted here after the drive closes. Progress report: As of 12:08, 19 March 2023 (UTC), GOCE copyeditors have processed 73 requests since 1 January 2023, all but five of them from 2022, and the backlog stands at 1,872 articles. 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, Dhtwiki, Miniapolis and Zippybonzo. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from
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The article 1919 Copa del Rey Final you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:1919 Copa del Rey Final and Talk:1919 Copa del Rey Final/GA1 for issues which need to be addressed. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Lee Vilenski -- Lee Vilenski ( talk) 13:21, 7 March 2023 (UTC)
The article 1919 Copa del Rey Final you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:1919 Copa del Rey Final for comments about the article, and Talk:1919 Copa del Rey Final/GA1 for the nomination. Well done! If the article has not already appeared on the main page as a "Did you know" item, or as a bold link under "In the News" or in the "On This Day" prose section, you can nominate it within the next seven days to appear in DYK. Bolded names with dates listed at the bottom of the "On This Day" column do not affect DYK eligibility. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Lee Vilenski -- Lee Vilenski ( talk) 21:01, 11 March 2023 (UTC)
This page is an archive of past discussions. Do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the current talk page. |
News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2023).
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[p]roposal for better addressing undisclosed paid editing. Feedback is being accepted until 24 April 2023.
Hello. A couple of questions re your RfC closures at WT:E&R:
Cheers, Number 5 7 12:42, 1 March 2023 (UTC)
to summarize (and not supplant) key facts that appear in the article [...] wherever possible, present information in short form, and exclude any unnecessary content. An editor saying they believe the information in the parameter is/can be useful and highly relevant to the article is essentially saying the same thing as an editor saying "Yes, I believe the parameter satisfies MOS:INFOBOXPURPOSE". Them saying "useful and relevant" does not mean the " useful" invalidates the "relevant".
So ends the first round of the 2023 WikiCup. Everyone with a positive score moved on to Round 2, with 54 contestants qualifying. The top scorers in Round 1 were:
The top sixteen contestants at the end of Round 1 had all scored over 300 points; these included LunaEatsTuna, Thebiguglyalien, Sammi Brie, Trainsandotherthings, Lee Vilenski, Juxlos, Unexpectedlydian, SounderBruce, Kosack, BennyOnTheLoose and PCN02WPS. It was a high-scoring start to the competition.
These contestants, like all the others, now have to start again from scratch. The first round finished on February 26. Remember that any content promoted after that date but before the start of Round 2 can be claimed in Round 2. Some contestants made claims before the new submissions pages were set up, and they will need to resubmit them. Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. Remember, if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed.
If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to keep down the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Sturmvogel 66 and Cwmhiraeth. MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 19:36, 2 March 2023 (UTC)
Hello, Ixtal. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, " Wikipedia:Nominate".
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 deleted. When you plan on working on it further and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion. 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. Liz Read! Talk! 23:25, 3 March 2023 (UTC)
Congratulations, and thank you for helping expand the scope of Wikipedia! We hope you will continue making quality contributions.
If you have any questions, you are welcome to ask at the help desk. Once you have made at least 10 edits and had an account for at least four days, you will have the option to create articles yourself without posting a request to Articles for creation.
If you would like to help us improve this process, please consider
.Thanks again, and happy editing!
Curbon7 ( talk) 22:31, 7 March 2023 (UTC)Hi Ixtal, in the open Armenia-Azerbaijan 3 arbitration case, a remedy or finding of fact has been proposed which relates to you.
You are not directly affected by any proposed sanction; this is just for your information.
Your name only appears on the page because your evidence has been used as a reference twice. Thank you for providing it.
Please review this decision and draw the arbitrators' attention to any relevant material or statements. Comments may be brought to the attention of the committee on the proposed decision talk page. For a guide to the arbitration process, see Wikipedia:Arbitration/Guide to arbitration. For the Arbitration Committee, ~ ToBeFree ( talk) 21:45, 9 March 2023 (UTC)
Pinging editors that have been important to my development so far (based on talk page archives and arbcom case): @ ScottishFinnishRadish, JBchrch, Mathglot, Firefangledfeathers, Sideswipe9th, El C, Robert McClenon, Vami IV, Bilby, BilledMammal, Lee Vilenski, Trainsandotherthings, Epicgenius, BDD, CaptainEek, Opabinia regalis, Worm That Turned, Cabayi, Primefac, Barkeep49, Izno, KevinL, and Wugapodes:.
Hi! I recently crossed 6000 edits which apparently makes me an " experienced editor", although I think I am anything but. However, I thought it would be a useful excuse to ask some friendly editors I respect and have interacted with for some feedback on myself as an editor. I feel like I have tons of room to grow and many things to learn, but wiki tends to only give users feedback when they've made mistakes or are seeking to become admin (which I am not), so I thought asking on my talk page would be a good way to go about it. What are some things I can do to be a better editor and/or be more helpful to the community? — Ixtal ( T / C ) ⁂ Non nobis solum. 14:34, 5 March 2023 (UTC)
Temper my advice to review and be reviewed, however, with some more advice: for a while, be the latter, so you can more effectively be the former. Seeing and responding to different reviewers and their style will allow you to compare and contrast and develop or refine a style inspired by your experience. This should be powered by empathy—add rejoinders to the effect that you are also fallible. Let yourself be dissuaded from some comments and be prepared to learn that this or that is presently beyond our power for this or that article.
Participation in more of Wikipedia's processes will also naturally lead you into collaborations with other editors, and friendships with them. These, usually, are good; I will never as long as I edit forget User:Farang Rak Tham and all that I learned reviewing his work and having my work reviewed by him. To further underline the important of making and having friends, he was recommended to me as a reviewer by our mutual friend Gerda. But beware the formation of cliques and factions; remember your friends are also fallible. Many editors have died (metaphorically) on some very dumb hills for the sake of a friend's honor. Do indeed be a User:Buidhe and intervene against nonsense on a friend's talk, but if you find yourself connived against, seemingly, by a confederacy of dunces... ask yourself who the dunce really is. – ♠Vamí _IV†♠ 17:12, 5 March 2023 (UTC)
When an editor ceases to contribute to articles, but instead writes only in the Wikipedia space, on talk pages, and arbitration cases, and when more than half of that editor's contributions are in conflicts, either beginning or prolonging them, then that editor is very close to departure. As with stars on the main sequence, some departures are shrinkings into dwarf states, with ever-diminishing contributions, giving little light, and with a long decay; and other departures are violent supernova explosions, spewing waste matter and hot gas in all directions.I don't ever want to become someone who spends all his time in WP space and stops building articles. Trainsandotherthings ( talk) 17:32, 5 March 2023 (UTC)
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SuggestBot picks articles in a number of ways based on other articles you've edited, including straight text similarity, following wikilinks, and matching your editing patterns against those of other Wikipedians. It tries to recommend only articles that other Wikipedians have marked as needing work. We appreciate that you have signed up to receive suggestions regularly; your contributions make Wikipedia better — thanks for helping!
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Triple Crown | |
Congratulations to Ixtal, who is awarded the Triple Crown for her continued contributions to Wikipedia. Well done. -- Guerillero Parlez Moi 20:05, 14 March 2023 (UTC) |
Guild of Copy Editors March 2023 Newsletter
Election results: In our December 2022 coordinator election, Reidgreg and Tenryuu stepped down as coordinators; we thank them for their service. Incumbents Baffle gab1978, Dhtwiki, Miniapolis and Zippybonzo were returned as coordinators until 1 July. For the second time, no lead coordinator was chosen. Nominations for our mid-year Election of Coordinators open on 1 June (UTC). Drive: 21 editors signed up for our January Backlog Elimination Drive, 14 of whom claimed at least one copy-edit. Between them, they copy-edited 170 articles totaling 389,737 words. Barnstars awarded are here. Blitz: Our February Copy Editing Blitz focused on October and November 2022 requests, and the March and April 2022 backlogs. Of the 14 editors who signed up, nine claimed at least one copy-edit; and between them, they copy-edited 39,150 words in 22 articles. Barnstars awarded are here. Drive: Sign up now for our month-long March Backlog Elimination Drive. Barnstars awarded will be posted here after the drive closes. Progress report: As of 12:08, 19 March 2023 (UTC), GOCE copyeditors have processed 73 requests since 1 January 2023, all but five of them from 2022, and the backlog stands at 1,872 articles. 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, Dhtwiki, Miniapolis and Zippybonzo. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from
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The article 1919 Copa del Rey Final you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:1919 Copa del Rey Final and Talk:1919 Copa del Rey Final/GA1 for issues which need to be addressed. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Lee Vilenski -- Lee Vilenski ( talk) 13:21, 7 March 2023 (UTC)
The article 1919 Copa del Rey Final you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:1919 Copa del Rey Final for comments about the article, and Talk:1919 Copa del Rey Final/GA1 for the nomination. Well done! If the article has not already appeared on the main page as a "Did you know" item, or as a bold link under "In the News" or in the "On This Day" prose section, you can nominate it within the next seven days to appear in DYK. Bolded names with dates listed at the bottom of the "On This Day" column do not affect DYK eligibility. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Lee Vilenski -- Lee Vilenski ( talk) 21:01, 11 March 2023 (UTC)