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Hello again Shyamal, I would like to request a move of Romalea microptera to its monotypic genus page. The genus page is currently a redirect with some page history as a redirect. Thanks, Loopy30 ( talk) 02:25, 5 March 2019 (UTC)
I just did some copy editing at Ali Wallace (naturalist) and wanted to thank you for the article. It's so fascinating to think of all the people who were critical to Alfred Russel Wallace who don't make it to the history books. I'm glad that Ali has made it to the pages of Wikipedia. Keep up the good work. SchreiberBike | ⌨ 20:15, 7 March 2019 (UTC)
Hello Shyamal, I would like to request a move of the monotypic class Nuda to its family page Beroidae, as the order Beroida is also monotypic. The family page is currently a redirect without any significant page history. Thanks again, Loopy30 ( talk) 22:59, 9 March 2019 (UTC)
Hi Shyamlal one person is there who knows something more about Mr. K. Kunhikannan, but he is not in Wikipedia, can you contact him through mail, may get more source for the article. Rajesh K Odayanchal ( talk) 10:21, 10 March 2019 (UTC)
Hello again Shyamal, I would like to request a move of the monotypic order Lithonida to its family page Minchinellidae. The family page is currently a redirect without any significant page history. Thanks, Loopy30 ( talk) 22:41, 20 March 2019 (UTC)
Friedrich Bodenheimer appears to be the same person as Shimon Fritz Bodenheimer (Friedrich Simon is the German name, Fritz Shimon the Hebrew name), and thus the two need merging (see also Wikidata, Shimon Fritz Bodenheimer (Q7496986) and WorldCat. Other variants of his name include Frederick (translating from German and Hebrew to ENglish is never flawless): we should probably use the most commonly used spelling in English sources. Cheers, --Animalparty! ( talk) 02:36, 30 March 2019 (UTC)
Facto Post – Issue 23 – 30 April 2019
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Talk of cloud computing draws a veil over hardware, but also, less obviously but more importantly, obscures such intellectual distinction as matters most in its use. Wikidata begins to allow tasks to be undertaken that were out of easy reach. The facility should not be taken as the real point. Coming in from another angle, the "executive decision" is more glamorous; but the "administrative decision" should be admired for its command of facts. Think of the attitudes ad fontes, so prevalent here on Wikipedia as "can you give me a source for that?", and being prepared to deal with complicated analyses into specified subcases. Impatience expressed as a disdain for such pedantry is quite understandable, but neither dirty data nor false dichotomies are at all good to have around. Issue 13 and Issue 21, respectively on WP:MEDRS and systematic reviews, talk about biomedical literature and computing tasks that would be of higher quality if they could be made more "administrative". For example, it is desirable that the decisions involved be consistent, explicable, and reproducible by non-experts from specified inputs. What gets clouded out is not impossibly hard to understand. You do need to put together the insights of functional programming, which is a doctrinaire and purist but clearcut approach, with the practicality of office software. Loopless computation can be conceived of as a seamless forward march of spreadsheet columns, each determined by the content of previous ones. Very well: to do a backward audit, when now we are talking about Wikidata, we rely on integrity of data and its scrupulous sourcing: and clearcut case analyses. The MEDRS example forces attention on purge attempts such as Beall's list.
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I created a little stub that may be of interest to you: Harriet C. Tytler. ThatMontrealIP ( talk) 02:09, 4 May 2019 (UTC)
The Stub Barnstar | ||
for your instantaneous and amazing improvements to Harriet C. Tytler. I was deeply impressed! ThatMontrealIP ( talk) 04:04, 4 May 2019 (UTC) |
Editor of the Week | ||
Your ongoing efforts to improve the encyclopedia have not gone unnoticed: You have been selected as Editor of the Week in recognition of your article improvement. Thank you for the great contributions! (courtesy of the Wikipedia Editor Retention Project) |
User:Adityavagarwal submitted the following nomination for Editor of the Week:
I am very, very pleased to nominate Shyamal to be the Editor of the Week. Shyamal is an extraordinary contributor to Wikipedia, who contributes to articles more related to the Animal Kingdom. He has immensely improved numerous animal-related articles through his overwhelming 63,100 edits among which a noteworthy 77% or 44,700 edits are in the mainspace of Wikipedia. Besides being one of the oldest contributors to Wikipedia, Shyamal has profoundly improved innumerable articles relating WikiProject Ecology, WikiProject Lepidoptera, WikiProject Birds, WikiProject Amphibians and Reptiles, and WikiProject Tree of Life. He has created an astonishing number of 5400 pages on Wikipedia among which 1600 are articles. Furthermore, Shyamal has also uploaded an astronomical number of 16,000 images. Also, he has created a Did you know ( Formiscurra) for the main page and a colossal number of 55 other templates. His contributions to Wikipedia are just too many those make him an utterly prolific contributor to Wikipedia. What's more, his fully amiable and cordial disposition to old and new editors alike complements the numerous accomplishments he has achieved on Wikipedia. For more reasons than the aforementioned, I strongly advocate that Shyamal be honored with the Editor of the Week award.
You can copy the following text to your user page to display a user box proclaiming your selection as Editor of the Week:
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Blue Morpho Butterfly |
Shyamal |
Editor of the Week for the week beginning May 5, 2019 |
A veteran editor that has improved numerous animal-related articles through 63,100 edits w/ 77% in mainspace. Created 1600 articles, uploaded 16,000 images and 55 templates |
Recognized for |
having a fully amiable and cordial disposition to old and new editors alike |
Notable work(s) |
Improving innumerable articles related to WikiProject Ecology, WikiProject Lepidoptera, WikiProject Birds, WikiProject Amphibians and Reptiles, and WikiProject Tree of Life |
Submit a nomination |
Thanks again for your efforts! ― Buster7 ☎ 15:10, 5 May 2019 (UTC)
If you're bored (ha ha) and looking for something to do, feel free to jump in on Golden-breasted Fulvetta. I've decided it's time to tackle some Bhutanese birds!! :D MeegsC ( talk) 18:16, 4 May 2019 (UTC)
Hi Shyamal and congratulations for the Editor of the Week nomination! I just noticed that you are part of the WikiProject Amphibians and Reptiles. Would you have time and be interested to review the
Gharial page?
In the past years, I having been working on it off and on, more focused in autumn 2018, and then last weekend with focus on the taxonomy section. At present, the page is rated B-class, but I think it's a really looong time ago that it has been assessed. Maybe, it can even be raised to higher than A- class now? --
BhagyaMani (
talk)
21:36, 6 May 2019 (UTC)
Sturgeon nominated by
Atsme, reviewed by
Chiswick Chap |
Cretoxyrhina nominated by
Macrophyseter |
Tree of Life editors are making a respectable showing in this year's WikiCup, with three regular editors advancing to the third round. Overall winner from 2016, Casliber, topped the scoreboard in points for round 2, getting a nice bonus for bringing Black mamba to FA. Enwebb continues to favor things remotely related to bats, bringing Stellaluna to GA. Plants editor Guettarda also advanced to round 3 with several plant-related DYKs.
A March 2019 paper in PLOS Biology found that Wikipedia page views vary seasonally for species. With a dataset of 31,751 articles about species, the authors found that roughly a quarter of all articles had significant seasonal variations in page views on at least one language version of Wikipedia. They examined 245 language versions. Page views also peaked with cultural events, such as views of the Great white shark article during Shark Week or Turkey during Thanksgiving.
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Facto Post – Issue 24 – 17 May 2019
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Two dozen issues, and this may be the last, a valediction at least for a while. It's time for a two-year summation of ContentMine projects involving TDM ( text and data mining). Wikidata and now Structured Data on Commons represent the overlap of Wikimedia with the Semantic Web. This common ground is helping to convert an engineering concept into a movement. TDM generally has little enough connection with the Semantic Web, being instead in the orbit of machine learning which is no respecter of the semantic. Don't break a taboo by asking bots "and what do you mean by that?" The ScienceSource project innovates in TDM, by storing its text mining results in a Wikibase site. It strives for compliance of its fact mining, on drug treatments of diseases, with an automated form of the relevant Wikipedia referencing guideline MEDRS. Where WikiFactMine set up an API for reuse of its results, ScienceSource has a SPARQL query service, with look-and-feel exactly that of Wikidata's at query.wikidata.org. It also now has a custom front end, and its content can be federated, in other words used in data mashups: it is one of over 50 sites that can federate with Wikidata. The human factor comes to bear through the front end, which combines a link to the HTML version of a paper, text mining results organised in drug and disease columns, and a SPARQL display of nearby drug and disease terms. Much software to develop and explain, so little time! Rather than telling the tale, Facto Post brings you ScienceSource links, starting from the how-to video, lower right.
The review tool requires a log in on sciencesource.wmflabs.org, and an OAuth permission (bottom of a review page) to operate. It can be used in simple and more advanced workflows. Examples of queries for the latter are at d:Wikidata_talk:ScienceSource project/Queries#SS_disease_list and d:Wikidata_talk:ScienceSource_project/Queries#NDF-RT issue. Please be aware that this is a research project in development, and may have outages for planned maintenance. That will apply for the next few days, at least. The ScienceSource wiki main page carries information on practical matters. Email is not enabled on the wiki: use site mail here to Charles Matthews in case of difficulty, or if you need support. Further explanatory videos will be put into commons:Category:ContentMine videos. If you wish to receive no further issues of Facto Post, please remove your name from
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Hello! Your submission of Carl H. Lindroth at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! RRD ( talk) 04:30, 3 June 2019 (UTC)
Cretoxyrhina by
Macrophyseter |
Spinophorosaurus by
FunkMonk/
Jens Lallensack |
On 23 May, user Prometheus720 created a talk page post, "Revamp of Wikiproject Biology--Who is In?". In the days since, WP:BIOL has been bustling with activity, with over a dozen editors weighing in on this discussion, as well as several others that have subsequently spawned. An undercurrent of thought is that WP:BIOL has too many subprojects, preventing editors from easily interacting and stopping a "critical mass" of collaboration and engagement. Many mergers and consolidations of subprojects have been tentatively listed, with a consolidation of WikiProjects Genetics + Molecular and Cell Biology + Computational Biology + Biophysics currently in discussion. Other ideas being aired include updating old participants lists, redesigning project pages to make them more user-friendly, and clearly identifying long- and short-term goals.
Editors FunkMonk and Jens Lallensack had a very fruitful month, collaborating to bring two dinosaur articles to GA and then nominating them both for FA. They graciously decided to answer some questions for the first ToL Editor Spotlight, giving insight to their successful collaborations, explaining why you should collaborate with them, and also sharing some tidbits about their lives off-Wikipedia.
1) Enwebb: How long have you two been collaborating on articles?
2) Enwebb: Why dinosaurs?
3) Enwebb: Why should other editors join you in writing articles related to paleontology? Are you looking to attract new editors, or draw in experienced editors from other areas of Wikipedia?
4) Enwebb: Between the two of you, you have over 300 GA reviews. FunkMonk, you have over 250 of those. What keeps you coming back to review more articles?
5) Enwebb: What are your editing preferences? Any scripts or gadgets you find invaluable?
6) Enwebb: What would surprise the ToL community to learn about your life off-wiki?
Get in touch with these editors regarding collaboration at WikiProject Dinosaurs!
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Hi Shyamal, might I suggest a block for both User:178.148.207.231 and User:87.116.175.84? These are clearly the same guy as User:178.148.221.245, who is already blocked for the same thing - adding unsourced distribution claims about the Ryukyu Islands to large numbers of species articles. Less direct attempts to dissuade them [4] have proven somewhat useless. (I like that this time round, they added "citation needed" to each of their entries themselves... well done...) -- Elmidae ( talk · contribs) 16:03, 5 June 2019 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Freelandia (2nd nomination) isn't going someones way.
User:Tyw7 transcluded my user page against my will!
I want
WP:PROTECTive autoimmunity!!
And they deserve the
death
penalty for
WP:LF
racism!!!
This is what I want protectively deleted:
User:Shyam Has Your Anomaly Mitigated
This is what I want to keep:
User:Shyam Has Your Anomaly Mitigated/UP
--
Shyam Has Your Anomaly Mitigated (
talk)
11:37, 11 June 2019 (UTC)
Good day Shyamal. I’m looking for an active administrator, who has prior experience in Indian topics, so hopefully you, to check over all my edits on Wikipedia. I’m a new editor and want to make sure I’m following all the rules and my grammar, format, and etc. are correctly formulated. I would be greatly indebted if you could look over all the edits I have made thus far (from the time of this post), and make edits or corrections. I know that may be a bit of a time crunch, but as I am new to editing, I want to make sure my work has been up to Wiki-standards. You don’t have to check talk page edits on articles, but for the main articles, please do check. -- Callofduty259 ( talk) 15:43, 13 June 2019 (UTC)
There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The thread is Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents#User:Shyam_Has_Your_Anomaly_Mitigated_has_been_casting_aspersions_and_had_been_a_bit_uncivil. -- Tyw7 ( 🗣️ Talk) — If (reply) then ( ping me) 00:53, 18 June 2019 (UTC)
Hello! Your submission of Carl H. Lindroth at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Yoninah ( talk) 12:56, 17 June 2019 (UTC)
Hello! Your submission of Template:Did you know nominations/Carl H. Lindroth at the Did You Know nominations page is not complete; if you would like to continue, please link the nomination to the nominations page as described in step 3 of the nomination procedure. If you do not want to continue with the nomination, tag the nomination page with {{ db-g7}}, or ask a DYK admin. Thank you. DYKHousekeepingBot ( talk) 03:04, 19 June 2019 (UTC)
On 28 June 2019, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Carl H. Lindroth, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Swedish entomologist Carl H. Lindroth suggested that more than 40 species of North American ground beetle were inadvertently transported from Europe in ship ballast? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Carl H. Lindroth. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, Carl H. Lindroth), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
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Hello again Shyamal, I would like to request a move of Romalea microptera to its monotypic genus page. The genus page is currently a redirect with some page history as a redirect. Thanks, Loopy30 ( talk) 02:25, 5 March 2019 (UTC)
I just did some copy editing at Ali Wallace (naturalist) and wanted to thank you for the article. It's so fascinating to think of all the people who were critical to Alfred Russel Wallace who don't make it to the history books. I'm glad that Ali has made it to the pages of Wikipedia. Keep up the good work. SchreiberBike | ⌨ 20:15, 7 March 2019 (UTC)
Hello Shyamal, I would like to request a move of the monotypic class Nuda to its family page Beroidae, as the order Beroida is also monotypic. The family page is currently a redirect without any significant page history. Thanks again, Loopy30 ( talk) 22:59, 9 March 2019 (UTC)
Hi Shyamlal one person is there who knows something more about Mr. K. Kunhikannan, but he is not in Wikipedia, can you contact him through mail, may get more source for the article. Rajesh K Odayanchal ( talk) 10:21, 10 March 2019 (UTC)
Hello again Shyamal, I would like to request a move of the monotypic order Lithonida to its family page Minchinellidae. The family page is currently a redirect without any significant page history. Thanks, Loopy30 ( talk) 22:41, 20 March 2019 (UTC)
Friedrich Bodenheimer appears to be the same person as Shimon Fritz Bodenheimer (Friedrich Simon is the German name, Fritz Shimon the Hebrew name), and thus the two need merging (see also Wikidata, Shimon Fritz Bodenheimer (Q7496986) and WorldCat. Other variants of his name include Frederick (translating from German and Hebrew to ENglish is never flawless): we should probably use the most commonly used spelling in English sources. Cheers, --Animalparty! ( talk) 02:36, 30 March 2019 (UTC)
Facto Post – Issue 23 – 30 April 2019
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ContentMine. Please leave feedback for him, on his User talk page.
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Talk of cloud computing draws a veil over hardware, but also, less obviously but more importantly, obscures such intellectual distinction as matters most in its use. Wikidata begins to allow tasks to be undertaken that were out of easy reach. The facility should not be taken as the real point. Coming in from another angle, the "executive decision" is more glamorous; but the "administrative decision" should be admired for its command of facts. Think of the attitudes ad fontes, so prevalent here on Wikipedia as "can you give me a source for that?", and being prepared to deal with complicated analyses into specified subcases. Impatience expressed as a disdain for such pedantry is quite understandable, but neither dirty data nor false dichotomies are at all good to have around. Issue 13 and Issue 21, respectively on WP:MEDRS and systematic reviews, talk about biomedical literature and computing tasks that would be of higher quality if they could be made more "administrative". For example, it is desirable that the decisions involved be consistent, explicable, and reproducible by non-experts from specified inputs. What gets clouded out is not impossibly hard to understand. You do need to put together the insights of functional programming, which is a doctrinaire and purist but clearcut approach, with the practicality of office software. Loopless computation can be conceived of as a seamless forward march of spreadsheet columns, each determined by the content of previous ones. Very well: to do a backward audit, when now we are talking about Wikidata, we rely on integrity of data and its scrupulous sourcing: and clearcut case analyses. The MEDRS example forces attention on purge attempts such as Beall's list.
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I created a little stub that may be of interest to you: Harriet C. Tytler. ThatMontrealIP ( talk) 02:09, 4 May 2019 (UTC)
The Stub Barnstar | ||
for your instantaneous and amazing improvements to Harriet C. Tytler. I was deeply impressed! ThatMontrealIP ( talk) 04:04, 4 May 2019 (UTC) |
Editor of the Week | ||
Your ongoing efforts to improve the encyclopedia have not gone unnoticed: You have been selected as Editor of the Week in recognition of your article improvement. Thank you for the great contributions! (courtesy of the Wikipedia Editor Retention Project) |
User:Adityavagarwal submitted the following nomination for Editor of the Week:
I am very, very pleased to nominate Shyamal to be the Editor of the Week. Shyamal is an extraordinary contributor to Wikipedia, who contributes to articles more related to the Animal Kingdom. He has immensely improved numerous animal-related articles through his overwhelming 63,100 edits among which a noteworthy 77% or 44,700 edits are in the mainspace of Wikipedia. Besides being one of the oldest contributors to Wikipedia, Shyamal has profoundly improved innumerable articles relating WikiProject Ecology, WikiProject Lepidoptera, WikiProject Birds, WikiProject Amphibians and Reptiles, and WikiProject Tree of Life. He has created an astonishing number of 5400 pages on Wikipedia among which 1600 are articles. Furthermore, Shyamal has also uploaded an astronomical number of 16,000 images. Also, he has created a Did you know ( Formiscurra) for the main page and a colossal number of 55 other templates. His contributions to Wikipedia are just too many those make him an utterly prolific contributor to Wikipedia. What's more, his fully amiable and cordial disposition to old and new editors alike complements the numerous accomplishments he has achieved on Wikipedia. For more reasons than the aforementioned, I strongly advocate that Shyamal be honored with the Editor of the Week award.
You can copy the following text to your user page to display a user box proclaiming your selection as Editor of the Week:
{{User:UBX/EoTWBox}}
Blue Morpho Butterfly |
Shyamal |
Editor of the Week for the week beginning May 5, 2019 |
A veteran editor that has improved numerous animal-related articles through 63,100 edits w/ 77% in mainspace. Created 1600 articles, uploaded 16,000 images and 55 templates |
Recognized for |
having a fully amiable and cordial disposition to old and new editors alike |
Notable work(s) |
Improving innumerable articles related to WikiProject Ecology, WikiProject Lepidoptera, WikiProject Birds, WikiProject Amphibians and Reptiles, and WikiProject Tree of Life |
Submit a nomination |
Thanks again for your efforts! ― Buster7 ☎ 15:10, 5 May 2019 (UTC)
If you're bored (ha ha) and looking for something to do, feel free to jump in on Golden-breasted Fulvetta. I've decided it's time to tackle some Bhutanese birds!! :D MeegsC ( talk) 18:16, 4 May 2019 (UTC)
Hi Shyamal and congratulations for the Editor of the Week nomination! I just noticed that you are part of the WikiProject Amphibians and Reptiles. Would you have time and be interested to review the
Gharial page?
In the past years, I having been working on it off and on, more focused in autumn 2018, and then last weekend with focus on the taxonomy section. At present, the page is rated B-class, but I think it's a really looong time ago that it has been assessed. Maybe, it can even be raised to higher than A- class now? --
BhagyaMani (
talk)
21:36, 6 May 2019 (UTC)
Sturgeon nominated by
Atsme, reviewed by
Chiswick Chap |
Cretoxyrhina nominated by
Macrophyseter |
Tree of Life editors are making a respectable showing in this year's WikiCup, with three regular editors advancing to the third round. Overall winner from 2016, Casliber, topped the scoreboard in points for round 2, getting a nice bonus for bringing Black mamba to FA. Enwebb continues to favor things remotely related to bats, bringing Stellaluna to GA. Plants editor Guettarda also advanced to round 3 with several plant-related DYKs.
A March 2019 paper in PLOS Biology found that Wikipedia page views vary seasonally for species. With a dataset of 31,751 articles about species, the authors found that roughly a quarter of all articles had significant seasonal variations in page views on at least one language version of Wikipedia. They examined 245 language versions. Page views also peaked with cultural events, such as views of the Great white shark article during Shark Week or Turkey during Thanksgiving.
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Dippy is the most famous dinosaur skeleton in the world? (1 April)
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Facto Post – Issue 24 – 17 May 2019
The Editor is
Charles Matthews, for
ContentMine. Please leave feedback for him, on his User talk page.
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Two dozen issues, and this may be the last, a valediction at least for a while. It's time for a two-year summation of ContentMine projects involving TDM ( text and data mining). Wikidata and now Structured Data on Commons represent the overlap of Wikimedia with the Semantic Web. This common ground is helping to convert an engineering concept into a movement. TDM generally has little enough connection with the Semantic Web, being instead in the orbit of machine learning which is no respecter of the semantic. Don't break a taboo by asking bots "and what do you mean by that?" The ScienceSource project innovates in TDM, by storing its text mining results in a Wikibase site. It strives for compliance of its fact mining, on drug treatments of diseases, with an automated form of the relevant Wikipedia referencing guideline MEDRS. Where WikiFactMine set up an API for reuse of its results, ScienceSource has a SPARQL query service, with look-and-feel exactly that of Wikidata's at query.wikidata.org. It also now has a custom front end, and its content can be federated, in other words used in data mashups: it is one of over 50 sites that can federate with Wikidata. The human factor comes to bear through the front end, which combines a link to the HTML version of a paper, text mining results organised in drug and disease columns, and a SPARQL display of nearby drug and disease terms. Much software to develop and explain, so little time! Rather than telling the tale, Facto Post brings you ScienceSource links, starting from the how-to video, lower right.
The review tool requires a log in on sciencesource.wmflabs.org, and an OAuth permission (bottom of a review page) to operate. It can be used in simple and more advanced workflows. Examples of queries for the latter are at d:Wikidata_talk:ScienceSource project/Queries#SS_disease_list and d:Wikidata_talk:ScienceSource_project/Queries#NDF-RT issue. Please be aware that this is a research project in development, and may have outages for planned maintenance. That will apply for the next few days, at least. The ScienceSource wiki main page carries information on practical matters. Email is not enabled on the wiki: use site mail here to Charles Matthews in case of difficulty, or if you need support. Further explanatory videos will be put into commons:Category:ContentMine videos. If you wish to receive no further issues of Facto Post, please remove your name from
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Hello! Your submission of Carl H. Lindroth at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! RRD ( talk) 04:30, 3 June 2019 (UTC)
Cretoxyrhina by
Macrophyseter |
Spinophorosaurus by
FunkMonk/
Jens Lallensack |
On 23 May, user Prometheus720 created a talk page post, "Revamp of Wikiproject Biology--Who is In?". In the days since, WP:BIOL has been bustling with activity, with over a dozen editors weighing in on this discussion, as well as several others that have subsequently spawned. An undercurrent of thought is that WP:BIOL has too many subprojects, preventing editors from easily interacting and stopping a "critical mass" of collaboration and engagement. Many mergers and consolidations of subprojects have been tentatively listed, with a consolidation of WikiProjects Genetics + Molecular and Cell Biology + Computational Biology + Biophysics currently in discussion. Other ideas being aired include updating old participants lists, redesigning project pages to make them more user-friendly, and clearly identifying long- and short-term goals.
Editors FunkMonk and Jens Lallensack had a very fruitful month, collaborating to bring two dinosaur articles to GA and then nominating them both for FA. They graciously decided to answer some questions for the first ToL Editor Spotlight, giving insight to their successful collaborations, explaining why you should collaborate with them, and also sharing some tidbits about their lives off-Wikipedia.
1) Enwebb: How long have you two been collaborating on articles?
2) Enwebb: Why dinosaurs?
3) Enwebb: Why should other editors join you in writing articles related to paleontology? Are you looking to attract new editors, or draw in experienced editors from other areas of Wikipedia?
4) Enwebb: Between the two of you, you have over 300 GA reviews. FunkMonk, you have over 250 of those. What keeps you coming back to review more articles?
5) Enwebb: What are your editing preferences? Any scripts or gadgets you find invaluable?
6) Enwebb: What would surprise the ToL community to learn about your life off-wiki?
Get in touch with these editors regarding collaboration at WikiProject Dinosaurs!
|
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Hi Shyamal, might I suggest a block for both User:178.148.207.231 and User:87.116.175.84? These are clearly the same guy as User:178.148.221.245, who is already blocked for the same thing - adding unsourced distribution claims about the Ryukyu Islands to large numbers of species articles. Less direct attempts to dissuade them [4] have proven somewhat useless. (I like that this time round, they added "citation needed" to each of their entries themselves... well done...) -- Elmidae ( talk · contribs) 16:03, 5 June 2019 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Freelandia (2nd nomination) isn't going someones way.
User:Tyw7 transcluded my user page against my will!
I want
WP:PROTECTive autoimmunity!!
And they deserve the
death
penalty for
WP:LF
racism!!!
This is what I want protectively deleted:
User:Shyam Has Your Anomaly Mitigated
This is what I want to keep:
User:Shyam Has Your Anomaly Mitigated/UP
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Shyam Has Your Anomaly Mitigated (
talk)
11:37, 11 June 2019 (UTC)
Good day Shyamal. I’m looking for an active administrator, who has prior experience in Indian topics, so hopefully you, to check over all my edits on Wikipedia. I’m a new editor and want to make sure I’m following all the rules and my grammar, format, and etc. are correctly formulated. I would be greatly indebted if you could look over all the edits I have made thus far (from the time of this post), and make edits or corrections. I know that may be a bit of a time crunch, but as I am new to editing, I want to make sure my work has been up to Wiki-standards. You don’t have to check talk page edits on articles, but for the main articles, please do check. -- Callofduty259 ( talk) 15:43, 13 June 2019 (UTC)
There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The thread is Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents#User:Shyam_Has_Your_Anomaly_Mitigated_has_been_casting_aspersions_and_had_been_a_bit_uncivil. -- Tyw7 ( 🗣️ Talk) — If (reply) then ( ping me) 00:53, 18 June 2019 (UTC)
Hello! Your submission of Carl H. Lindroth at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Yoninah ( talk) 12:56, 17 June 2019 (UTC)
Hello! Your submission of Template:Did you know nominations/Carl H. Lindroth at the Did You Know nominations page is not complete; if you would like to continue, please link the nomination to the nominations page as described in step 3 of the nomination procedure. If you do not want to continue with the nomination, tag the nomination page with {{ db-g7}}, or ask a DYK admin. Thank you. DYKHousekeepingBot ( talk) 03:04, 19 June 2019 (UTC)
On 28 June 2019, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Carl H. Lindroth, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Swedish entomologist Carl H. Lindroth suggested that more than 40 species of North American ground beetle were inadvertently transported from Europe in ship ballast? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Carl H. Lindroth. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, Carl H. Lindroth), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.