This 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.
A
request for comment asks whether
partial blocks should be enabled on the English Wikipedia. If enabled, this functionality would allow administrators to block users from editing specific pages or namespaces, rather than the entire site.
A
proposal asks whether admins who don't use their tools for a significant period of time (e.g. five years) should have the toolset procedurally removed.
The
fourth case on Palestine-Israel articles was
closed. The case consolidated all previous remedies under one heading, which should make them easier to understand, apply, and enforce. In particular, the distinction between "primary articles" and "related content" has been clarified, with the former being the entire set of articles whose topic relates to the Arab-Israeli conflict, broadly interpreted rather than reasonably construed.
Thanks to the contributions of our many members and supporters, WP:YORKS has become a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (up from 15,231 last month to 15,275 on 2 January 2020). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 155 is ahead of
WP:GM who have 87.
WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 68 out of a total number of 4,461 articles.
Currently we have fifty one Yorkshire featured articles:
The number has been kept deliberately low to give us a fighting chance of improving them to at least GA status, also so we can concentrate our efforts on these first.
Happy New Year
Well it is the start of another year and time to wish all members of the project a Happy New Year and a big thank you for all the hard work on Yorkshire related articles during the past year.
WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project
The January 2020 articles selected below are an editor choice as there were no further suggestions from the project talk page.
The project is subscribed to a
clean-up listing which lists articles tagged with various clean-up tags that need attention. The listing is refreshed by a bot on a regular basis.
Monitoring is essential Use the
watchlist to keep an eye on changes to the project's articles so that vandalism and spamming can be removed as quickly as possible.
Moves Please be careful when performing articles moves and ensure that you also move all the talk sub-pages and update any image fair use rational. Otherwise the archives, to-do lists, assessment comments and GA reviews get lost and the image may be deleted as it has an incorrect FUR. You will also have to check that the Commons link is set correctly.
Thanks
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our policy for non-free media).
Following a
request for comment,
partial blocks are now enabled on the English Wikipedia. This functionality allows administrators to block users from editing specific pages or namespaces rather than the entire site. A draft policy is being workshopped at
Wikipedia:Partial blocks.
The
request for comment seeking the community's sentiment for a binding desysop procedure closed with wide-spread support for an alternative desysoping procedure based on community input. No proposed process received consensus.
Technical news
Twinkle now supports
partial blocking. There is a small checkbox that toggles the "partial" status for both blocks and templating. There is currently one template: {{uw-pblock}}.
When trying to move a page, if the target title already exists then a warning message is shown. The warning message will now include a link to the target title.
[1]
Arbitration
Following a
recent arbitration case, the Arbitration Committee reminded administrators that checkuser and oversight blocks must not be reversed or modified without prior consultation with the checkuser or oversighter who placed the block, the respective functionary team, or the Arbitration Committee.
Welcome to the one hundredth and forty second
WikiProject Yorkshire monthly newsletter.
Thanks to the contributions of our many members and supporters, WP:YORKS has become a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (up from 15,275 last month to 15,346 on 29 January 2020). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 156 is ahead of
WP:GM who have 87.
WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 68 out of a total number of 4,467 articles.
Currently we have fifty two Yorkshire featured articles:
The number has been kept deliberately low to give us a fighting chance of improving them to at least GA status, also so we can concentrate our efforts on these first.
Brexit
Well by the time you read this
Brexit will have happened and this is the tidy-up that needs doing this month. You can leave the constituency link in articles that use {{infobox UK place}} as the template will hide the field in the output. Those using other templates will need to be edited individually to remove/hide the information. There are also a number of articles that mention the fact in the text of the article and these will need editing to remove the information or show that it was only valid until 31 January 2020.
WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project
The February 2020 articles selected below are an editor choice as there were no further suggestions from the project talk page.
The project is subscribed to a
clean-up listing which lists articles tagged with various clean-up tags that need attention. The listing is refreshed by a bot on a regular basis.
Monitoring is essential Use the
watchlist to keep an eye on changes to the project's articles so that vandalism and spamming can be removed as quickly as possible.
Moves Please be careful when performing articles moves and ensure that you also move all the talk sub-pages and update any image fair use rational. Otherwise the archives, to-do lists, assessment comments and GA reviews get lost and the image may be deleted as it has an incorrect FUR. You will also have to check that the Commons link is set correctly.
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21:40, 1 February 2020 (UTC)
hi Nigel
This is Namrata-very thankful to you --
Namgan1978 (
talk) 16:15, 4 February 2020 (UTC)
I have created a map which I would like to upload to my userpage - entitled - "Our Asgill Road Trip 13-31 May 2019 created with primap.com". Is that software, primap.com copyright-free? - it indicates it is on its website. May I use this map please? Thanks.
Arbil44 (
talk) 14:07, 19 December 2019 (UTC)
Replied at your own talk page.
Nthep (
talk) 17:04, 19 December 2019 (UTC)
I'm in trouble - please help at my talk page.
Arbil44 (
talk) 12:27, 23 December 2019 (UTC)
A rather exciting development! Please see Mary Ann's talk page, where I have asked you a question.
Arbil44 (
talk) 23:55, 8 January 2020 (UTC)
Still hoping for your thoughts on the Mansel letters Nthep (please tell me where I stand because all the groundwork has been done for some time now), but now I have another query too. If I cannot get copyright permission to publish a 1996 map (and I have a feeling now that I won't - I can explain more if you wish) am I permitted to draw this map myself and then use it? See here:
/info/en/?search=Talk:Sir_Charles_Asgill,_2nd_Baronet#Summit_New_Jersey,_by_Edmund_B._RaftisArbil44 (
talk) 09:40, 4 February 2020 (UTC)
Nthep, I am completely out of my depth and being threatened with banning here:
/info/en/?search=Wikipedia:Media_copyright_questions#Summit_New_Jersey%2C_by_Edmund_B._Raftis All I am asking for is clear guidance which (with my lack of IT skills) is easy to understand. I am on the point of not giving a damn whether I improve the Asgill page by showing where Timothy Day's Tavern was located. Easy to tear up my work from yesterday if that resolves the issue. How my long dead father is compromising my account is a total mystery.
Arbil44 (
talk) 12:24, 7 February 2020 (UTC)
Nthep, I am on the point of another meltdown and would be so grateful if you could join the discussion here
/info/en/?search=Wikipedia:Media_copyright_questions#21_Mansel_Family_Letters_written_to_Herbert_Mansel_between_1819-1835 where I have been told to unlink the Mansel letters. I have been trying to depart from Wikipedia since 1.10.19 but still haven't quite finished my work here. I just want to finish and leave. It is so difficult when one is IT illiterate and I have even messed up the link to yessterday's map on my userpage (with a link to Dayton) and unable to insert an 07 - could you please please help me there too?
Arbil44 (
talk) 09:13, 9 February 2020 (UTC)
Sandboxes
Thank you for your help Nthep. That's really useful
Karen at Uni of Leeds (
talk) 09:00, 18 February 2020 (UTC)
Request to add Emily as facilitator to Leeds Wikithon?
Hi Nthep! Just wondering if you might be able to add
User:Emily.f.rees to the
Leeds Electrifying Women Wikithon Dashboard page as a facilitator please? Then she'll be able to look at her "students'" stats from across all the events more easily in one place and reporting of the metrics will be a little easier.
Zeromonk (
talk) 09:52, 18 February 2020 (UTC)
@
Zeromonk: Not a problem - done.
Nthep (
talk) 14:19, 18 February 2020 (UTC)
Fantastic, thanks for being so speedy! :)
Zeromonk (
talk) 14:21, 18 February 2020 (UTC)
Orphaned non-free image File:Melbourne Cricket Ground logo 2019.jpeg
⚠
Thanks for uploading File:Melbourne Cricket Ground logo 2019.jpeg. The image description page currently specifies that the image is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a
claim of fair use. However, the image is currently not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the image was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that images for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (see
our policy for non-free media).
G'day all, March Madness 2020 is about to get underway, and there is bling aplenty for those who want to get stuck into the backlog by way of tagging, assessing, updating, adding or improving resources and creating articles. If you haven't already signed up to participate, why not? The more the merrier!
Peacemaker67 (
click to talk to me) 08:19, 29 February 2020 (UTC) for the coord team
Welcome to the one hundredth and forty third
WikiProject Yorkshire monthly newsletter.
Thanks to the contributions of our many members and supporters, WP:YORKS has become a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (up from 15,346 last month to 15,404 on 29 February 2020). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 157 is ahead of
WP:GM who have 87.
WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 68 out of a total number of 4,472 articles.
Currently we have fifty two Yorkshire featured articles:
The number has been kept deliberately low to give us a fighting chance of improving them to at least GA status, also so we can concentrate our efforts on these first.
Destubathon
The Great Britain and Ireland Destubathon is running in March, sign up if you can help, there's nearly $500 worth of book prizes available so if anybody needs books for other topics this might help you out! The project has 5,550 articles currently tagged as
sub-class, members could join in the drive and help reduce this number by expanding them up to at least start-class. We are not looking to merge articles but to expand them. In the process you may be in for a prize.
WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project
The March 2020 articles selected below are an editor choice as there were no further suggestions from the project talk page.
The project is subscribed to a
clean-up listing which lists articles tagged with various clean-up tags that need attention. The listing is refreshed by a bot on a regular basis.
Monitoring is essential Use the
watchlist to keep an eye on changes to the project's articles so that vandalism and spamming can be removed as quickly as possible.
Moves Please be careful when performing articles moves and ensure that you also move all the talk sub-pages and update any image fair use rational. Otherwise the archives, to-do lists, assessment comments and GA reviews get lost and the image may be deleted as it has an incorrect FUR. You will also have to check that the Commons link is set correctly.
Thanks
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Following an
RfC, the blocking policy was changed to state that sysops must not undo or alter CheckUser or Oversight blocks, rather than should not.
A
request for comment confirmed that sandboxes of established but inactive editors may not be blanked due solely to inactivity.
Technical news
Following a
discussion, Twinkle's default CSD behavior will soon change, most likely this week. After the change, Twinkle will default to "tagging mode" if there is no CSD tag present, and default to "deletion mode" if there is a CSD tag present. You will be able to always default to "deletion mode" (the current behavior) using your
Twinkle preferences.
Reference [1] is coming up as "not found on this server". Is the url correct?
Mjroots (
talk) 04:22, 5 March 2020 (UTC)
@
Mjroots: I'd forgotten that with the publication of the fifth edition of Quick that the supplements to the 4th edition had been incorporated into the 5th edition. Tidy up time!
Nthep (
talk) 12:46, 5 March 2020 (UTC)
@
L1amw90:just treat the OT columns as if it was a draw between the two clubs but one team gets a winning draw, the other a losing draw. What you have done is to give Oldham a win AND a winning draw, and Batley a loss AND a losing draw.
Nthep (
talk) 10:19, 2 March 2020 (UTC)
Now the template has been changed just give a win to the team that wins after gp and a loss to the other team but add one to the |adjust_points parameter for the losing team. Only use the draws column if gp doesn't settle it.
Nthep (
talk) 17:40, 5 March 2020 (UTC)
You can feel free to discard this message, however I was wondering if you'd like to collaborate on making a list of various national team's records (like List of Australia national rugby league team records) and international rivalry pages (like New Zealand vs Tonga in rugby league)?
WDM10 (
talk) 21:36, 29 March 2020 (UTC)
Following the
banning of an editor by the WMF last year, the Arbitration Committee
resolved to hold a Arbcom RfC regarding on-wiki harassment. A draft RfC has been posted at
Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Anti-harassment RfC (Draft) and not open to comments from the community yet. Interested editors can comment on the RfC itself on its talk page.
Miscellaneous
The WMF has begun a
pilot report of the pages most visited through various social media platforms to help with anti-vandalism and anti-disinformation efforts. The
report is updated daily and will be available through the end of May.
This 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.
A
request for comment asks whether
partial blocks should be enabled on the English Wikipedia. If enabled, this functionality would allow administrators to block users from editing specific pages or namespaces, rather than the entire site.
A
proposal asks whether admins who don't use their tools for a significant period of time (e.g. five years) should have the toolset procedurally removed.
The
fourth case on Palestine-Israel articles was
closed. The case consolidated all previous remedies under one heading, which should make them easier to understand, apply, and enforce. In particular, the distinction between "primary articles" and "related content" has been clarified, with the former being the entire set of articles whose topic relates to the Arab-Israeli conflict, broadly interpreted rather than reasonably construed.
Thanks to the contributions of our many members and supporters, WP:YORKS has become a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (up from 15,231 last month to 15,275 on 2 January 2020). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 155 is ahead of
WP:GM who have 87.
WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 68 out of a total number of 4,461 articles.
Currently we have fifty one Yorkshire featured articles:
The number has been kept deliberately low to give us a fighting chance of improving them to at least GA status, also so we can concentrate our efforts on these first.
Happy New Year
Well it is the start of another year and time to wish all members of the project a Happy New Year and a big thank you for all the hard work on Yorkshire related articles during the past year.
WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project
The January 2020 articles selected below are an editor choice as there were no further suggestions from the project talk page.
The project is subscribed to a
clean-up listing which lists articles tagged with various clean-up tags that need attention. The listing is refreshed by a bot on a regular basis.
Monitoring is essential Use the
watchlist to keep an eye on changes to the project's articles so that vandalism and spamming can be removed as quickly as possible.
Moves Please be careful when performing articles moves and ensure that you also move all the talk sub-pages and update any image fair use rational. Otherwise the archives, to-do lists, assessment comments and GA reviews get lost and the image may be deleted as it has an incorrect FUR. You will also have to check that the Commons link is set correctly.
Thanks
Comments, questions and suggestions about this, or any, issue of the newsletter are always welcome and can be made by pressing the feedback button below...
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Thanks for uploading File:KeighleyCougars2019.jpg. The image description page currently specifies that the image is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a
claim of fair use. However, the image is currently not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the image was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that images for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (see
our policy for non-free media).
Following a
request for comment,
partial blocks are now enabled on the English Wikipedia. This functionality allows administrators to block users from editing specific pages or namespaces rather than the entire site. A draft policy is being workshopped at
Wikipedia:Partial blocks.
The
request for comment seeking the community's sentiment for a binding desysop procedure closed with wide-spread support for an alternative desysoping procedure based on community input. No proposed process received consensus.
Technical news
Twinkle now supports
partial blocking. There is a small checkbox that toggles the "partial" status for both blocks and templating. There is currently one template: {{uw-pblock}}.
When trying to move a page, if the target title already exists then a warning message is shown. The warning message will now include a link to the target title.
[1]
Arbitration
Following a
recent arbitration case, the Arbitration Committee reminded administrators that checkuser and oversight blocks must not be reversed or modified without prior consultation with the checkuser or oversighter who placed the block, the respective functionary team, or the Arbitration Committee.
Welcome to the one hundredth and forty second
WikiProject Yorkshire monthly newsletter.
Thanks to the contributions of our many members and supporters, WP:YORKS has become a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (up from 15,275 last month to 15,346 on 29 January 2020). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 156 is ahead of
WP:GM who have 87.
WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 68 out of a total number of 4,467 articles.
Currently we have fifty two Yorkshire featured articles:
The number has been kept deliberately low to give us a fighting chance of improving them to at least GA status, also so we can concentrate our efforts on these first.
Brexit
Well by the time you read this
Brexit will have happened and this is the tidy-up that needs doing this month. You can leave the constituency link in articles that use {{infobox UK place}} as the template will hide the field in the output. Those using other templates will need to be edited individually to remove/hide the information. There are also a number of articles that mention the fact in the text of the article and these will need editing to remove the information or show that it was only valid until 31 January 2020.
WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project
The February 2020 articles selected below are an editor choice as there were no further suggestions from the project talk page.
The project is subscribed to a
clean-up listing which lists articles tagged with various clean-up tags that need attention. The listing is refreshed by a bot on a regular basis.
Monitoring is essential Use the
watchlist to keep an eye on changes to the project's articles so that vandalism and spamming can be removed as quickly as possible.
Moves Please be careful when performing articles moves and ensure that you also move all the talk sub-pages and update any image fair use rational. Otherwise the archives, to-do lists, assessment comments and GA reviews get lost and the image may be deleted as it has an incorrect FUR. You will also have to check that the Commons link is set correctly.
Thanks
Comments, questions and suggestions about this, or any, issue of the newsletter are always welcome and can be made by pressing the feedback button below...
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21:40, 1 February 2020 (UTC)
hi Nigel
This is Namrata-very thankful to you --
Namgan1978 (
talk) 16:15, 4 February 2020 (UTC)
I have created a map which I would like to upload to my userpage - entitled - "Our Asgill Road Trip 13-31 May 2019 created with primap.com". Is that software, primap.com copyright-free? - it indicates it is on its website. May I use this map please? Thanks.
Arbil44 (
talk) 14:07, 19 December 2019 (UTC)
Replied at your own talk page.
Nthep (
talk) 17:04, 19 December 2019 (UTC)
I'm in trouble - please help at my talk page.
Arbil44 (
talk) 12:27, 23 December 2019 (UTC)
A rather exciting development! Please see Mary Ann's talk page, where I have asked you a question.
Arbil44 (
talk) 23:55, 8 January 2020 (UTC)
Still hoping for your thoughts on the Mansel letters Nthep (please tell me where I stand because all the groundwork has been done for some time now), but now I have another query too. If I cannot get copyright permission to publish a 1996 map (and I have a feeling now that I won't - I can explain more if you wish) am I permitted to draw this map myself and then use it? See here:
/info/en/?search=Talk:Sir_Charles_Asgill,_2nd_Baronet#Summit_New_Jersey,_by_Edmund_B._RaftisArbil44 (
talk) 09:40, 4 February 2020 (UTC)
Nthep, I am completely out of my depth and being threatened with banning here:
/info/en/?search=Wikipedia:Media_copyright_questions#Summit_New_Jersey%2C_by_Edmund_B._Raftis All I am asking for is clear guidance which (with my lack of IT skills) is easy to understand. I am on the point of not giving a damn whether I improve the Asgill page by showing where Timothy Day's Tavern was located. Easy to tear up my work from yesterday if that resolves the issue. How my long dead father is compromising my account is a total mystery.
Arbil44 (
talk) 12:24, 7 February 2020 (UTC)
Nthep, I am on the point of another meltdown and would be so grateful if you could join the discussion here
/info/en/?search=Wikipedia:Media_copyright_questions#21_Mansel_Family_Letters_written_to_Herbert_Mansel_between_1819-1835 where I have been told to unlink the Mansel letters. I have been trying to depart from Wikipedia since 1.10.19 but still haven't quite finished my work here. I just want to finish and leave. It is so difficult when one is IT illiterate and I have even messed up the link to yessterday's map on my userpage (with a link to Dayton) and unable to insert an 07 - could you please please help me there too?
Arbil44 (
talk) 09:13, 9 February 2020 (UTC)
Sandboxes
Thank you for your help Nthep. That's really useful
Karen at Uni of Leeds (
talk) 09:00, 18 February 2020 (UTC)
Request to add Emily as facilitator to Leeds Wikithon?
Hi Nthep! Just wondering if you might be able to add
User:Emily.f.rees to the
Leeds Electrifying Women Wikithon Dashboard page as a facilitator please? Then she'll be able to look at her "students'" stats from across all the events more easily in one place and reporting of the metrics will be a little easier.
Zeromonk (
talk) 09:52, 18 February 2020 (UTC)
@
Zeromonk: Not a problem - done.
Nthep (
talk) 14:19, 18 February 2020 (UTC)
Fantastic, thanks for being so speedy! :)
Zeromonk (
talk) 14:21, 18 February 2020 (UTC)
Orphaned non-free image File:Melbourne Cricket Ground logo 2019.jpeg
⚠
Thanks for uploading File:Melbourne Cricket Ground logo 2019.jpeg. The image description page currently specifies that the image is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a
claim of fair use. However, the image is currently not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the image was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that images for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (see
our policy for non-free media).
G'day all, March Madness 2020 is about to get underway, and there is bling aplenty for those who want to get stuck into the backlog by way of tagging, assessing, updating, adding or improving resources and creating articles. If you haven't already signed up to participate, why not? The more the merrier!
Peacemaker67 (
click to talk to me) 08:19, 29 February 2020 (UTC) for the coord team
Welcome to the one hundredth and forty third
WikiProject Yorkshire monthly newsletter.
Thanks to the contributions of our many members and supporters, WP:YORKS has become a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (up from 15,346 last month to 15,404 on 29 February 2020). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 157 is ahead of
WP:GM who have 87.
WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 68 out of a total number of 4,472 articles.
Currently we have fifty two Yorkshire featured articles:
The number has been kept deliberately low to give us a fighting chance of improving them to at least GA status, also so we can concentrate our efforts on these first.
Destubathon
The Great Britain and Ireland Destubathon is running in March, sign up if you can help, there's nearly $500 worth of book prizes available so if anybody needs books for other topics this might help you out! The project has 5,550 articles currently tagged as
sub-class, members could join in the drive and help reduce this number by expanding them up to at least start-class. We are not looking to merge articles but to expand them. In the process you may be in for a prize.
WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project
The March 2020 articles selected below are an editor choice as there were no further suggestions from the project talk page.
The project is subscribed to a
clean-up listing which lists articles tagged with various clean-up tags that need attention. The listing is refreshed by a bot on a regular basis.
Monitoring is essential Use the
watchlist to keep an eye on changes to the project's articles so that vandalism and spamming can be removed as quickly as possible.
Moves Please be careful when performing articles moves and ensure that you also move all the talk sub-pages and update any image fair use rational. Otherwise the archives, to-do lists, assessment comments and GA reviews get lost and the image may be deleted as it has an incorrect FUR. You will also have to check that the Commons link is set correctly.
Thanks
Comments, questions and suggestions about this, or any, issue of the newsletter are always welcome and can be made by pressing the feedback button below...
Would you like to write the next newsletter for
WP:YORKS? Please nominate yourself at
WT:YORKS! New editors are always welcome!
Delivered March 2020 by
MediaWiki message delivery.
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Following an
RfC, the blocking policy was changed to state that sysops must not undo or alter CheckUser or Oversight blocks, rather than should not.
A
request for comment confirmed that sandboxes of established but inactive editors may not be blanked due solely to inactivity.
Technical news
Following a
discussion, Twinkle's default CSD behavior will soon change, most likely this week. After the change, Twinkle will default to "tagging mode" if there is no CSD tag present, and default to "deletion mode" if there is a CSD tag present. You will be able to always default to "deletion mode" (the current behavior) using your
Twinkle preferences.
Reference [1] is coming up as "not found on this server". Is the url correct?
Mjroots (
talk) 04:22, 5 March 2020 (UTC)
@
Mjroots: I'd forgotten that with the publication of the fifth edition of Quick that the supplements to the 4th edition had been incorporated into the 5th edition. Tidy up time!
Nthep (
talk) 12:46, 5 March 2020 (UTC)
@
L1amw90:just treat the OT columns as if it was a draw between the two clubs but one team gets a winning draw, the other a losing draw. What you have done is to give Oldham a win AND a winning draw, and Batley a loss AND a losing draw.
Nthep (
talk) 10:19, 2 March 2020 (UTC)
Now the template has been changed just give a win to the team that wins after gp and a loss to the other team but add one to the |adjust_points parameter for the losing team. Only use the draws column if gp doesn't settle it.
Nthep (
talk) 17:40, 5 March 2020 (UTC)
You can feel free to discard this message, however I was wondering if you'd like to collaborate on making a list of various national team's records (like List of Australia national rugby league team records) and international rivalry pages (like New Zealand vs Tonga in rugby league)?
WDM10 (
talk) 21:36, 29 March 2020 (UTC)
Following the
banning of an editor by the WMF last year, the Arbitration Committee
resolved to hold a Arbcom RfC regarding on-wiki harassment. A draft RfC has been posted at
Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Anti-harassment RfC (Draft) and not open to comments from the community yet. Interested editors can comment on the RfC itself on its talk page.
Miscellaneous
The WMF has begun a
pilot report of the pages most visited through various social media platforms to help with anti-vandalism and anti-disinformation efforts. The
report is updated daily and will be available through the end of May.