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Why does this exist? The only things it appears to accomplish is to make links to Polysteganus undulosus show blue instead of red (thereby tricking users such as myself into thinking that the article actually exists) and to create a circular redirect on the page you redirect to, Polysteganus. 71.168.173.2 ( talk) 22:51, 10 April 2020 (UTC)
I can see your concerns - /info/en/?search=User_talk:Evad37/rater.js - personally I dont think access should be allowed to new users - or those who have little understanding of what the assessment system is about in the first place. But how to create a standard, it feels very un-every dog their own boss (ie not likely to be fixed in wikipedia) JarrahTree 11:08, 14 April 2020 (UTC)
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Couldn't help but notice on my watchlist that all the species of Conospermum you added a commons category for have now been undone by PiBot since the commons categories nearly all appear to be empty. For example see Conospermum unilaterale. Regards. Hughesdarren ( talk) 09:42, 25 April 2020 (UTC)
Hi, Peter - does the OTRS ticket resolve this 89% likelihood of copyvio? Atsme Talk 📧 14:57, 29 April 2020 (UTC)
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Dear Peter, A notice for that OTRS has already been placed on the talk page of the draft. Please do have a look. In anyway, I am also attaching the OTRS Ticket Number is 2020051110007854, might that help.
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It has been a slow process for me re: UDA because of other things I've been working on. Gotta love WP's no deadlines (with the exception of prepping for DYK). Atsme Talk 📧 18:39, 4 June 2020 (UTC)
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I wrote an essay that has a reference to Boyle's law. If you're ever back online, take a look at it and let me know what you think. Atsme Talk 📧 20:36, 5 July 2020 (UTC)
See my talkpage. Greetings -- Llez ( talk) 10:46, 10 July 2020 (UTC)
"What were you expecting WMF to do about it?"
Glad you asked. ;-) One thing that the WMF should do, I strongly feel, is to take conscience that complexity is a big and growing problem for Wikipedia, arguably on the same level as vandalism, improper contents, etc.. It is comprised of literally thousands of pages of style manuals, thousands of unwritten rules and customs, thousands of templates and hundreds of markup tags, each with its own syntax and semantics (invariably inconsistent, illogical, and buggy), hundreds of special tools and pages (like the page to request blocked moves, the page patrol list, and the Court of Holy Inquisition, aka AfD)...
Complexity is a huge drain of Wikipedia's scarcest resource, namely editor time; not just of editors who must spend time understanding those rules and tools, but also of those editors who succumb to the temptation of adding to that complexity by writing new manuals, templates, procedures, etc.
As I mentioned on the other editor's Talk page, complexity is surely the main factor that keeps newbies from becoming regular editors, and maybe also a major one that drives old editors away. It makes editing painful even...
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Have a look at this, Peter: User:Kaniivel/Reference Organizer. I'm just about to try it out, but it looks great for LDRs. Cheers -- RexxS ( talk) 17:22, 6 August 2020 (UTC)
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Talk:Burt's solar compass/GA2 -- Doug Coldwell ( talk) 19:12, 27 August 2020 (UTC)
This instrument was invented to get away from the highly variable and unreliable readings given by a magnetic compass in a locality with a magnetic field anomaly caused by large iron ore deposits. The instrument was found to be so accurate that it was specified by the United States government for surveying public lands, state boundaries, and railroad routes. It won awards for its technology as being simple, rugged, inexpensive, reliable and accurate from various organizations (maybe specify which organisations if you can) and was used by surveyors from the nineteenth into the twentieth century, (and was superseded by satellite navigation technology?)(guessing the bit about what came next, you will have to look that up, but DGPS would be my prime suspect). Cheers, · · · Peter Southwood (talk): 19:32, 29 August 2020 (UTC)
Thanks for identifying the source of the material in your edit.
This type of edit does get picked up by Copy Patrol and a good edit summary helps to make sure we don't accidentally revert it. However, for future use, would you note the best practices wording as outlined at Wikipedia:Copying_within_Wikipedia? In particular, adding the phrase "see that page's history for attribution" helps ensure that proper attribution is preserved.
I've noticed that this guideline is not very well known, even among editors with tens of thousands of edits, so it isn't surprising that I point this out to some veteran editors, but there are some t's that you need to be crossed. S Philbrick (Talk) 16:14, 1 September 2020 (UTC)
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News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2020).
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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.
Why does this exist? The only things it appears to accomplish is to make links to Polysteganus undulosus show blue instead of red (thereby tricking users such as myself into thinking that the article actually exists) and to create a circular redirect on the page you redirect to, Polysteganus. 71.168.173.2 ( talk) 22:51, 10 April 2020 (UTC)
I can see your concerns - /info/en/?search=User_talk:Evad37/rater.js - personally I dont think access should be allowed to new users - or those who have little understanding of what the assessment system is about in the first place. But how to create a standard, it feels very un-every dog their own boss (ie not likely to be fixed in wikipedia) JarrahTree 11:08, 14 April 2020 (UTC)
Hello, Pbsouthwood!
Thanks for taking the time to participate in the user feedback round for our desktop improvements prototype. This feedback is super valuable to us and is currently being used to determine our next steps. We have published a report gathering the main takeaways from the feedback and highlighting the changes we’ll make based on this feedback. Please take a look and give us your thoughts on the talk page of the report. To learn more about the project overall and the other features we’re planning on building in the future, check out the main project page.
SGrabarczuk (WMF) ( talk) 22:43, 14 April 2020 (UTC)
Couldn't help but notice on my watchlist that all the species of Conospermum you added a commons category for have now been undone by PiBot since the commons categories nearly all appear to be empty. For example see Conospermum unilaterale. Regards. Hughesdarren ( talk) 09:42, 25 April 2020 (UTC)
Hi, Peter - does the OTRS ticket resolve this 89% likelihood of copyvio? Atsme Talk 📧 14:57, 29 April 2020 (UTC)
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Two years! |
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-- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 06:39, 8 May 2020 (UTC)
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-- Devanshmrc ( talk) 03:33, 20 May 2020 (UTC)Devanshmrc
Dear Peter, A notice for that OTRS has already been placed on the talk page of the draft. Please do have a look. In anyway, I am also attaching the OTRS Ticket Number is 2020051110007854, might that help.
Regards Devanshmrc ( talk) 12:53, 20 May 2020 (UTC)
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It has been a slow process for me re: UDA because of other things I've been working on. Gotta love WP's no deadlines (with the exception of prepping for DYK). Atsme Talk 📧 18:39, 4 June 2020 (UTC)
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all discussions about pharmaceutical drug prices and pricing and for edits adding, changing, or removing pharmaceutical drug prices or pricing from articles.
I wrote an essay that has a reference to Boyle's law. If you're ever back online, take a look at it and let me know what you think. Atsme Talk 📧 20:36, 5 July 2020 (UTC)
See my talkpage. Greetings -- Llez ( talk) 10:46, 10 July 2020 (UTC)
"What were you expecting WMF to do about it?"
Glad you asked. ;-) One thing that the WMF should do, I strongly feel, is to take conscience that complexity is a big and growing problem for Wikipedia, arguably on the same level as vandalism, improper contents, etc.. It is comprised of literally thousands of pages of style manuals, thousands of unwritten rules and customs, thousands of templates and hundreds of markup tags, each with its own syntax and semantics (invariably inconsistent, illogical, and buggy), hundreds of special tools and pages (like the page to request blocked moves, the page patrol list, and the Court of Holy Inquisition, aka AfD)...
Complexity is a huge drain of Wikipedia's scarcest resource, namely editor time; not just of editors who must spend time understanding those rules and tools, but also of those editors who succumb to the temptation of adding to that complexity by writing new manuals, templates, procedures, etc.
As I mentioned on the other editor's Talk page, complexity is surely the main factor that keeps newbies from becoming regular editors, and maybe also a major one that drives old editors away. It makes editing painful even...
Here are some specific things that the WMF could do to check and hopefully reduce the complexity of the project:
News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2020).
Have a look at this, Peter: User:Kaniivel/Reference Organizer. I'm just about to try it out, but it looks great for LDRs. Cheers -- RexxS ( talk) 17:22, 6 August 2020 (UTC)
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Talk:Burt's solar compass/GA2 -- Doug Coldwell ( talk) 19:12, 27 August 2020 (UTC)
This instrument was invented to get away from the highly variable and unreliable readings given by a magnetic compass in a locality with a magnetic field anomaly caused by large iron ore deposits. The instrument was found to be so accurate that it was specified by the United States government for surveying public lands, state boundaries, and railroad routes. It won awards for its technology as being simple, rugged, inexpensive, reliable and accurate from various organizations (maybe specify which organisations if you can) and was used by surveyors from the nineteenth into the twentieth century, (and was superseded by satellite navigation technology?)(guessing the bit about what came next, you will have to look that up, but DGPS would be my prime suspect). Cheers, · · · Peter Southwood (talk): 19:32, 29 August 2020 (UTC)
Thanks for identifying the source of the material in your edit.
This type of edit does get picked up by Copy Patrol and a good edit summary helps to make sure we don't accidentally revert it. However, for future use, would you note the best practices wording as outlined at Wikipedia:Copying_within_Wikipedia? In particular, adding the phrase "see that page's history for attribution" helps ensure that proper attribution is preserved.
I've noticed that this guideline is not very well known, even among editors with tens of thousands of edits, so it isn't surprising that I point this out to some veteran editors, but there are some t's that you need to be crossed. S Philbrick (Talk) 16:14, 1 September 2020 (UTC)
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