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Apologies, Pbsouthwood but the Deep water blackout disambiguation page copped it for not complying with MOS:DAB. I made it comply but it doesn't leave much. One link per entry. No refs. Brief description. E x nihil ( talk) : Ex nihil (talk) 14:28, 30 July 2019 (UTC)
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Hi Peter
You're unlikely to remember me but I made a number of contributions in the diving area (solodiving, pony bottles, various diving personalities etc) quite a few years ago. Unfortunately I ended up in a bit of a flame war on the subject of DIR and that practices rigidity, in my own subject contribution and various sources I referenced in that areas. I went off in a huff. All water under the bridge looking back on it now. That's not what I'm contacting you about.
I was trying to get the history of the development of the BCD correct in my mind and triggered a search on Google. There in Wiki was an outstanding treatment of that detailed subject area within a comprehensive coverage of the designs, functions and utilisation of the BCD. Just one topic in the myriad of scuba diving information which is now present on Wikipedia today. A treatment of the practices of our sport as comprehensive as any major general text on the subject which is available today.
And much of the credit belongs to you.
Just in case it isn't done too often I'd like to offer you my profound thanks for the excellent work you've done on behalf of the diving community. I'm sure that so many divers would echo this thanks if they only knew the effort and diligent work that goes into making a Wiki subject area,
My best regards and wishes for many enjoyable future diving days to you
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Hi. I see in a recent addition to
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Apologies, Pbsouthwood but the Deep water blackout disambiguation page copped it for not complying with MOS:DAB. I made it comply but it doesn't leave much. One link per entry. No refs. Brief description. E x nihil ( talk) : Ex nihil (talk) 14:28, 30 July 2019 (UTC)
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Hi Peter
You're unlikely to remember me but I made a number of contributions in the diving area (solodiving, pony bottles, various diving personalities etc) quite a few years ago. Unfortunately I ended up in a bit of a flame war on the subject of DIR and that practices rigidity, in my own subject contribution and various sources I referenced in that areas. I went off in a huff. All water under the bridge looking back on it now. That's not what I'm contacting you about.
I was trying to get the history of the development of the BCD correct in my mind and triggered a search on Google. There in Wiki was an outstanding treatment of that detailed subject area within a comprehensive coverage of the designs, functions and utilisation of the BCD. Just one topic in the myriad of scuba diving information which is now present on Wikipedia today. A treatment of the practices of our sport as comprehensive as any major general text on the subject which is available today.
And much of the credit belongs to you.
Just in case it isn't done too often I'd like to offer you my profound thanks for the excellent work you've done on behalf of the diving community. I'm sure that so many divers would echo this thanks if they only knew the effort and diligent work that goes into making a Wiki subject area,
My best regards and wishes for many enjoyable future diving days to you
HowieKor
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Hi. I see in a recent addition to
Scuba diving tourism you included material from a webpage that is available under a compatible Creative Commons Licence. That's okay, but you have to give attribution so that our readers are made aware that you copied the prose rather than wrote it yourself. I've added the attribution for this particular instance. Please make sure that you follow this licensing requirement when copying from compatibly-licensed material in the future. You can do it manually like I did, or use the template {{
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{{
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seems to say it should not be used unless the content has been copied, but does not mention what happens if that content is removed. My guess is that as it was once there and remains in the history, the notice could stay, as it is the nature of CC-by material to be changed. On the other hand, if a reference is not in use it should be removed from the reflist or it will cause a warning message, and like the original content, the cc-notice remains in the history, but in this case the reference is still in use for another statement, where the paraphrasing is less close, so there is no reason to say content that remains was copied. It is a bit complicated.{{
CC-notice}}
awkward to use, so I take copy-pasta from my sandbox (
this one) - just open it in an editing window and there's all kinds of things ready to copy. —
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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.
A proposal is taking place here to confirm a nominated user as Coordinator of NPR.
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focus[ing] on how harassment and private complaints should be handled in the future, there is currently a global community consultation on partial and temporary office actions in response to the incident. It will be open until October 30th.
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Hello Pbsouthwood,
This newsletter comes a little earlier than usual because the backlog is rising again and the holidays are coming very soon.
There are now 807 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.
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Our next newsletter will announce the winners of some
really cool awards.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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Bringing this here as I don't know what to do with it and your name is at wikiproject technology. Is the subject of this article, like, a thing? Has one single source. Please take a look. Thanks! Hydromania ( talk) 06:32, 5 November 2019 (UTC)
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Hello, Pbsouthwood. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, " Outline of occupational safety and health".
In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia
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Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia! CptViraj ( 📧) 17:17, 18 November 2019 (UTC)
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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!
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