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Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. This is a notice to inform you that a tag has been placed on Charters Towers Central requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A3 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is an article with no content whatsoever, or whose contents consist only of external links, a "See also" section, book references, category tags, template tags, interwiki links, images, a rephrasing of the title, a question that should have been asked at the help or reference desks, or an attempt to contact the subject of the article. Please see Wikipedia:Stub for our minimum information standards for short articles. Also please note that articles must be on notable subjects and should provide references to reliable sources that verify their content.
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, or if you have already done so, you can place a request here. Ziad Rashad ( talk) 05:47, 8 March 2021 (UTC)
Hi Kerry - A question. Over recent time you seem to have changed a number of locations in Queensland to show that they have no postcode - see the first 20 or so in https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Special:LinkSearch&limit=250&offset=0&target=https%3A%2F%2Fauspost.com.au%2Fpostcode However I believe this is incorrect. Take [[Wyuna, Queensland}]] If you click on the post code reference and then request Wyuna it shows 4723 for that location. I prefer the reference to show [1] which takes the user straight to the required information. Alternatively you can replace the "postcode/Wyuna" by "postcode/4723" if you know the postcode. Am I missing something? Fleet Lists ( talk) 06:53, 7 March 2021 (UTC)
Still trying to get my head around how Sir Walter Scott was mistaken for a politician from Maitland. -- Find bruce ( talk) 03:23, 15 March 2021 (UTC)
Hi Kerry, I'm just dropping you this note because I have too many other things on the go to investigate further just now, re the Tattersalls Club article. I am assuming that it lacks the apostrophe because the name on the building does not have one? Having just added that section about the Landscape Art Prize, it struck me that the club website uses the apostrophe everywhere, and so the article should probably use it where it refers to the club (unless there was an historical shift to adding the apostrophe at a certain point)? In the meantime, I have just added a redirect to the article from the version with apostrophe. Laterthanyouthink ( talk) 09:40, 24 March 2021 (UTC)
Appreciate it,
The now closed Tjapukai Aboriginal Cultural Park, which I had never heard of, seems to deserves its own page, not just the redirect I created to the relevant section of History of Cairns#Modernisation. Regards, 220 of ßorg 06:58, 5 April 2021 (UTC)
Hi I see you've worked on a bunch of locations in Queensland, Australia. A handful of them conflate the mountain and locality in both the intro and the about. I'm trying to cleanup WikiProject Mountains and dual category tags just don't make sense when the focus is a locality. It would be more consistent with the articles of the rest of the world with the project if the mountain name was used on a redirect with potential markup to the locality. This way the mountain name would be searchable and linked to a separate page with its own Wikidata ID and easier to identify where an article to expand on the topic is needed. Would you be interested in helping clean up these articles to match since you've worked on them before? I'm compiling a list on User:Wolfgang8741/TODO and fixed a few already. Wolfgang8741 says: If not you, then who? ( talk) 13:50, 6 April 2021 (UTC)
Thanks for that. Apologies for not responding your email during lockdown last year - it came in during a very busy work period and I just kept forgetting to reply...for however many months. The Drover's Wife ( talk) 13:12, 10 April 2021 (UTC)
The article Coober Pedy Oodnadatta One Day Mail Run has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:
I can find no evidence outside tourism listings for this mail run. Nothing in historic sources to indicate prior notability and no obvious merger target
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00:32, 29 April 2021 (UTC)
Hi Kerry,
(I've long been tempted to start an essay WP: Pathological Conciseness, but I worry that if other editors expanded on the subject, it might end up too long-winded and discursive for my liking.)
Apologies for this long-winded and discursive post. I will attempt to be more concise in future.
Pete - my middle name is "be at all times be as concise as possible" - AU aka,
Pete AU aka -- Shirt58 ( talk) 09:52, 17 May 2021 (UTC)
Welcome to the eighteenth newsletter from the Growth team!
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" Add a link" is now being tested in production and is nearing release on our four pilot wikis (Arabic, Czech, Vietnamese, and Bengali Wikipedias). We'll be doing final tests this week and next week, and then plan to deploy to the four wikis either during May 24 week, or May 31 week. After two weeks, we will analyze the initial data to identify any problems or trends. We expect that this feature will engage new kinds of newcomers in easy and successful edits. If things are going well after four weeks, we'll progressively deploy it to the wikis with Growth features.
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FYI, SOLD! See here. Regards, 220 of ßorg 10:55, 5 June 2021 (UTC)
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Great work! Bluewoodpecker ( talk) 03:04, 7 June 2021 (UTC) |
@ Kerry Raymond: Hi Kerry. After removing dup census info from a couple of articles I realised that many more have this duplication. I assume you are aware of this and are OK with it. Can you let me have your views on this for my future guidance. Thanks, John. Downsize43 ( talk) 02:42, 6 June 2021 (UTC)
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These results give the Editing team confidence that the tool is helpful.
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The team is planning to make the Reply tool available to everyone as an opt-out preference in the coming months. This has already happened at the Arabic, Czech, and Hungarian Wikipedias.
The next step is to resolve a technical challenge. Then, they will deploy the Reply tool first to the Wikipedias that participated in the study. After that, they will deploy it, in stages, to the other Wikipedias and all WMF-hosted wikis.
You can turn on "Discussion Tools" in Beta Features now. After you get the Reply tool, you can change your preferences at any time in Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-editing-discussion.
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Hello Kerry Raymond:
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Thanks for your thanks x2 Kerry! Just doing my bit... Cabrils ( talk) 06:43, 12 July 2021 (UTC)
Do you happen to have a copy of the QHR text for this lying around anywhere? I've wanted to unentangle the mess of Castlemaine Brewery material for a while (numerous breweries dating back to the same two guys, at least three of which are heritage-listed, and all of which were floated into completely different companies with completely different histories) and I just noticed that it seems we never used the (perfectly good) QHR material on the Milton brewery. The Drover's Wife ( talk) 01:43, 14 August 2021 (UTC)
What if I was only editing the short description? As I recall, I only wrote a short summary of the article as a “cemetery in Australia” without citing any sources, which falls within standard procedure for description writing on this site. I would personally be open to adding a citation and revising the wording as needed, but I don’t see the former as necessary. Jarrod Baniqued ( talk) 10:01, 7 September 2021 (UTC)
Hello Kerry Raymond,
Please join this discussion - there is increase in the abuse of Wikipedia and its processes by POV pushers, Paid Editors, and by holders of various user rights including Autopatrolled. Even our review systems themselves at AfC and NPR have been infiltrated. The good news is that detection is improving, but the downside is that it creates the need for a huge clean up - which of course adds to backlogs.
Copyright violations are also a serious issue. Most non-regular contributors do not understand why, and most of our Reviewers are not experts on copyright law - and can't be expected to be, but there is excellent, easy-to-follow advice on COPYVIO detection here.
At the time of the last newsletter (#25, December 2020) the backlog was only just over 2,000 articles. New Page Review is an official system. It's the only firewall against the inclusion of new, improper pages.
There are currently 706 New Page Reviewers plus a further 1,080 admins, but as much as nearly 90% of the patrolling is still being done by around only the 20 or so most regular patrollers.
If you are no longer very active on Wikipedia or you no longer wish to be part of the New Page Reviewer user group, please consider asking any admin to remove you from the list. This will enable NPP to have a better overview of its performance and what improvements need to be made to the process or its software.
Various awards are due to be allocated by the end of the year and barnstars are overdue. If you would like to manage this, please let us know. Indeed, if you are interested in coordinating NPR, it does not involve much time and the tasks are described here.
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Hi, ive removed a photo following this message on my talkpage "Hi, I'm looking at the photo of Enith Clarke and Alexander Sverjensky on With Clarke's Wikipedia page and have been informed by Sverjenskys son that this photo is not of his father. Thanks Su Compton", regards Atlantic306 ( talk) 23:37, 28 September 2021 (UTC)
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Template:QldElectoralRedistribution has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. WikiCleanerMan ( talk) 00:29, 2 November 2021 (UTC)
the GeoGroup does nothing without data, there's only one GPS (Barakula) on the page, unless you manage to point the geogroup at another dataset Dave Rave ( talk) 20:38, 9 November 2021 (UTC)
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Hello! I wanted to drop a quick note for all of our AFC participants; nothing huge and fancy like a newsletter, but a few points of interest.
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in the 1990s when I was doing research in central java - one of the important archives I knew about had been lost in the 1960s due to an overflowing river and archives being kept in a basement - when I was visiting in the 1990s they were putting material in first floor location
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Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. This is a notice to inform you that a tag has been placed on Charters Towers Central requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A3 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is an article with no content whatsoever, or whose contents consist only of external links, a "See also" section, book references, category tags, template tags, interwiki links, images, a rephrasing of the title, a question that should have been asked at the help or reference desks, or an attempt to contact the subject of the article. Please see Wikipedia:Stub for our minimum information standards for short articles. Also please note that articles must be on notable subjects and should provide references to reliable sources that verify their content.
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, or if you have already done so, you can place a request here. Ziad Rashad ( talk) 05:47, 8 March 2021 (UTC)
Hi Kerry - A question. Over recent time you seem to have changed a number of locations in Queensland to show that they have no postcode - see the first 20 or so in https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Special:LinkSearch&limit=250&offset=0&target=https%3A%2F%2Fauspost.com.au%2Fpostcode However I believe this is incorrect. Take [[Wyuna, Queensland}]] If you click on the post code reference and then request Wyuna it shows 4723 for that location. I prefer the reference to show [1] which takes the user straight to the required information. Alternatively you can replace the "postcode/Wyuna" by "postcode/4723" if you know the postcode. Am I missing something? Fleet Lists ( talk) 06:53, 7 March 2021 (UTC)
Still trying to get my head around how Sir Walter Scott was mistaken for a politician from Maitland. -- Find bruce ( talk) 03:23, 15 March 2021 (UTC)
Hi Kerry, I'm just dropping you this note because I have too many other things on the go to investigate further just now, re the Tattersalls Club article. I am assuming that it lacks the apostrophe because the name on the building does not have one? Having just added that section about the Landscape Art Prize, it struck me that the club website uses the apostrophe everywhere, and so the article should probably use it where it refers to the club (unless there was an historical shift to adding the apostrophe at a certain point)? In the meantime, I have just added a redirect to the article from the version with apostrophe. Laterthanyouthink ( talk) 09:40, 24 March 2021 (UTC)
Appreciate it,
The now closed Tjapukai Aboriginal Cultural Park, which I had never heard of, seems to deserves its own page, not just the redirect I created to the relevant section of History of Cairns#Modernisation. Regards, 220 of ßorg 06:58, 5 April 2021 (UTC)
Hi I see you've worked on a bunch of locations in Queensland, Australia. A handful of them conflate the mountain and locality in both the intro and the about. I'm trying to cleanup WikiProject Mountains and dual category tags just don't make sense when the focus is a locality. It would be more consistent with the articles of the rest of the world with the project if the mountain name was used on a redirect with potential markup to the locality. This way the mountain name would be searchable and linked to a separate page with its own Wikidata ID and easier to identify where an article to expand on the topic is needed. Would you be interested in helping clean up these articles to match since you've worked on them before? I'm compiling a list on User:Wolfgang8741/TODO and fixed a few already. Wolfgang8741 says: If not you, then who? ( talk) 13:50, 6 April 2021 (UTC)
Thanks for that. Apologies for not responding your email during lockdown last year - it came in during a very busy work period and I just kept forgetting to reply...for however many months. The Drover's Wife ( talk) 13:12, 10 April 2021 (UTC)
The article Coober Pedy Oodnadatta One Day Mail Run has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:
I can find no evidence outside tourism listings for this mail run. Nothing in historic sources to indicate prior notability and no obvious merger target
While all constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, pages may be deleted for any of several reasons.
You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{proposed deletion/dated}}
notice, but please explain why in your
edit summary or on
the article's talk page.
Please consider improving the page to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}}
will stop the
proposed deletion process, but other
deletion processes exist. In particular, the
speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and
articles for deletion allows discussion to reach
consensus for deletion.
StarM
00:32, 29 April 2021 (UTC)
Hi Kerry,
(I've long been tempted to start an essay WP: Pathological Conciseness, but I worry that if other editors expanded on the subject, it might end up too long-winded and discursive for my liking.)
Apologies for this long-winded and discursive post. I will attempt to be more concise in future.
Pete - my middle name is "be at all times be as concise as possible" - AU aka,
Pete AU aka -- Shirt58 ( talk) 09:52, 17 May 2021 (UTC)
Welcome to the eighteenth newsletter from the Growth team!
The Growth team's objective is to work on software changes that help retain new contributors in mid-size Wikimedia projects.
" Add a link" is now being tested in production and is nearing release on our four pilot wikis (Arabic, Czech, Vietnamese, and Bengali Wikipedias). We'll be doing final tests this week and next week, and then plan to deploy to the four wikis either during May 24 week, or May 31 week. After two weeks, we will analyze the initial data to identify any problems or trends. We expect that this feature will engage new kinds of newcomers in easy and successful edits. If things are going well after four weeks, we'll progressively deploy it to the wikis with Growth features.
We are working on project to allow communities to manage the configuration of the Growth features on their own. In the past, communities have needed to work directly with the Growth team to set up and alter the features. We plan to put this capability in the hands of administrators, through an easy-to-use form, so that the features can be easily tailored to fit the needs of each community. While we developed it initially for Growth features, we think this approach could have uses in other features as well. We'll be trying this on our pilot wikis in the coming weeks, and then we'll bring it to all Growth wikis soon after. We hope you check out the project page and add any of your thoughts to the talk page.
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15:23, 17 May 2021 (UTC)
The Australia Barnstar of National Merit | ||
For everything that you do on Wikipedia to disseminate accurate information about Australia,including checking that all the typos that I fix are done correctly. Ira Leviton ( talk) 16:36, 29 May 2021 (UTC) |
FYI, SOLD! See here. Regards, 220 of ßorg 10:55, 5 June 2021 (UTC)
The Barnstar of Diligence | |
Great work! Bluewoodpecker ( talk) 03:04, 7 June 2021 (UTC) |
@ Kerry Raymond: Hi Kerry. After removing dup census info from a couple of articles I realised that many more have this duplication. I assume you are aware of this and are OK with it. Can you let me have your views on this for my future guidance. Thanks, John. Downsize43 ( talk) 02:42, 6 June 2021 (UTC)
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Earlier this year, the Editing team ran a large study of the Reply Tool. The main goal was to find out whether the Reply Tool helped newer editors communicate on wiki. The second goal was to see whether the comments that newer editors made using the tool needed to be reverted more frequently than comments newer editors made with the existing wikitext page editor.
The key results were:
These results give the Editing team confidence that the tool is helpful.
Looking ahead
The team is planning to make the Reply tool available to everyone as an opt-out preference in the coming months. This has already happened at the Arabic, Czech, and Hungarian Wikipedias.
The next step is to resolve a technical challenge. Then, they will deploy the Reply tool first to the Wikipedias that participated in the study. After that, they will deploy it, in stages, to the other Wikipedias and all WMF-hosted wikis.
You can turn on "Discussion Tools" in Beta Features now. After you get the Reply tool, you can change your preferences at any time in Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-editing-discussion.
– Whatamidoing (WMF) ( talk)
00:27, 16 June 2021 (UTC)
Hello Kerry Raymond:
WikiProject Articles for creation is holding a month long
Backlog Drive!
The goal of this drive is to eliminate the backlog of unreviewed articles. The drive is running until 31 July 2021.
Barnstars will be given out as awards at the end of the drive.
There is currently a backlog of over 2900 articles, so start reviewing articles. We're looking forward to your help!
Sent by MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) on behalf of Wikipedia:WikiProject Articles for Creation at 21:54, 7 July 2021 (UTC). If you do not wish to recieve future notification, please remove your name from the mailing list.
Thanks for your thanks x2 Kerry! Just doing my bit... Cabrils ( talk) 06:43, 12 July 2021 (UTC)
Do you happen to have a copy of the QHR text for this lying around anywhere? I've wanted to unentangle the mess of Castlemaine Brewery material for a while (numerous breweries dating back to the same two guys, at least three of which are heritage-listed, and all of which were floated into completely different companies with completely different histories) and I just noticed that it seems we never used the (perfectly good) QHR material on the Milton brewery. The Drover's Wife ( talk) 01:43, 14 August 2021 (UTC)
What if I was only editing the short description? As I recall, I only wrote a short summary of the article as a “cemetery in Australia” without citing any sources, which falls within standard procedure for description writing on this site. I would personally be open to adding a citation and revising the wording as needed, but I don’t see the former as necessary. Jarrod Baniqued ( talk) 10:01, 7 September 2021 (UTC)
Hello Kerry Raymond,
Please join this discussion - there is increase in the abuse of Wikipedia and its processes by POV pushers, Paid Editors, and by holders of various user rights including Autopatrolled. Even our review systems themselves at AfC and NPR have been infiltrated. The good news is that detection is improving, but the downside is that it creates the need for a huge clean up - which of course adds to backlogs.
Copyright violations are also a serious issue. Most non-regular contributors do not understand why, and most of our Reviewers are not experts on copyright law - and can't be expected to be, but there is excellent, easy-to-follow advice on COPYVIO detection here.
At the time of the last newsletter (#25, December 2020) the backlog was only just over 2,000 articles. New Page Review is an official system. It's the only firewall against the inclusion of new, improper pages.
There are currently 706 New Page Reviewers plus a further 1,080 admins, but as much as nearly 90% of the patrolling is still being done by around only the 20 or so most regular patrollers.
If you are no longer very active on Wikipedia or you no longer wish to be part of the New Page Reviewer user group, please consider asking any admin to remove you from the list. This will enable NPP to have a better overview of its performance and what improvements need to be made to the process or its software.
Various awards are due to be allocated by the end of the year and barnstars are overdue. If you would like to manage this, please let us know. Indeed, if you are interested in coordinating NPR, it does not involve much time and the tasks are described here.
To opt-out of future mailings, please remove yourself here. Sent to 827 users. 04:31, 16 September 2021 (UTC)
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Hi, ive removed a photo following this message on my talkpage "Hi, I'm looking at the photo of Enith Clarke and Alexander Sverjensky on With Clarke's Wikipedia page and have been informed by Sverjenskys son that this photo is not of his father. Thanks Su Compton", regards Atlantic306 ( talk) 23:37, 28 September 2021 (UTC)
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Reywas92 Talk 14:06, 26 October 2021 (UTC)
Welcome to the nineteenth newsletter from the Growth team!
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18:36, 26 October 2021 (UTC)
The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Noah, Queensland 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.
Mangoe ( talk) 01:45, 27 October 2021 (UTC)
Template:QldElectoralRedistribution has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. WikiCleanerMan ( talk) 00:29, 2 November 2021 (UTC)
the GeoGroup does nothing without data, there's only one GPS (Barakula) on the page, unless you manage to point the geogroup at another dataset Dave Rave ( talk) 20:38, 9 November 2021 (UTC)
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in the 1990s when I was doing research in central java - one of the important archives I knew about had been lost in the 1960s due to an overflowing river and archives being kept in a basement - when I was visiting in the 1990s they were putting material in first floor location
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