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Hello there! Happy to be writing this newsletter once more. This month:
Some good news: the Wikimedia Foundation has renewed WikiProject X. This means we can continue focusing on making WikiProjects better.
During our first round of work, we created a prototype WikiProject based on two ideas: (1) WikiProjects should clearly present things for people to do, and (2) The content of WikiProjects should be automated as much as possible. We launched pilots, and for the most part it works. But this approach will not work for the long term. While it makes certain aspects of running a WikiProject easier, it makes the maintenance aspects harder.
We are working on a major overhaul that will address these issues. New features will include:
The end goal is a collaboration tool that can be used by WikiProjects but also by any edit-a-thon or group of people that want to coordinate on improving articles. Though implemented as an extension, the underlying content will be wikitext, meaning that you can continue to use categories, templates, and other features as you normally would.
This will take a lot of work, and we are just getting started. What would you like to see? I invite you to discuss on our talk page.
Until next time,
I had a request that you archived. -- CNMall41 ( talk) 21:57, 20 January 2016 (UTC)
Though you may want to see this since it looks like you were chasing this one a few months ago. Maybe you can remember the article(s) about slot machines that was/were previously deleted. Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Omamme. -- CNMall41 ( talk) 09:24, 24 January 2016 (UTC)
Hi Brianhe I am new for Wikipedia. I am trying to update my chairman current designation and some small content. Page name is Kushagra Bajaj. I'll be very thankful if you can help me to do this. I've already updated designation but how some reason you have deleted. You can find current designation at Bajaj Group. Can you please suggest me what should i do to update this. - User:Pankaj.kumar89 ( talk)
I wanted to wish you luck with your RfA. It's a unique experience! Expect to answer a lot of questions, it's just par for the course these days but at least now editors are limited to 2 a piece. Liz Read! Talk! 22:58, 29 January 2016 (UTC)
Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article A. W. Piper you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Hchc2009 -- Hchc2009 ( talk) 21:21, 30 January 2016 (UTC)
Hello, I don't know if I should be bothering you with this but I read that you do COI work. At the above article the section on the loyalty card looks a bit like advertising and the section is only supported by a bad link to a gambling advert(inadvertentlly I think).Thanks. Atlantic306 ( talk) 14:45, 2 February 2016 (UTC)
I have a question for you and User:Nagle on how to address a potential concern. Wanting to assume good faith, on Talk:Tim_O'Reilly, User Tadghin Special:Contributions/Tadghin supposedly self-identifies himself as the subject of the article on that Talk page. I am not sure what steps were done by Wikipedia to verify this identity or not, however the edit history shows that this user who supposedly self-identified themselves also has edited the subject page of which the individual is the topic of with the self-written comment “Corrected companies I am on the board of” and edited the pages of his wife Jennifer Pahlka, to include creating the article and commenting “Added Jen’s role as Unted States Deputy CTO” with the White House, see Special:Contributions/Tadghin. How should this apparent possible conflict of interest be investigated since it seems to span years? The same user also has edited the page for White House CTO Todd Park which if this individual is the person that Special:Contributions/Tadghin self-identifies himself as, has a close professional relationship with per [1] and edited Maker Faire that the subject's company [2] spun-off the organization that sponsors these events. WatchDogUS ( talk) 17:00, 2 February 2016 (UTC)
I found another image that looks kinda suspicious.
What is the procedure for having images checked? Where do you report this kind of issue. Spacecowboy420 ( talk) 08:22, 3 February 2016 (UTC)
I'm sorry, but I strongly believe this article does not bring a net-benefit to the project and have started an AfD discussion at the usual place : Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Charles Sipkins Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 09:43, 5 February 2016 (UTC)
I regret to inform you that your request for adminship has been closed as unsuccessful. I encourage you to review all of the comments and discussions there (and on the talk page) apply any suggestions as appropriate. I encourage you to apply again in the future. If you have any questions, please let me know. ··· 日本穣 · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe · Join WP Japan! 01:25, 6 February 2016 (UTC)
Brian, the support expressed in my nomination still stands unwavered by the arguments put forth by the opposers. Although I respect them and thank them for their participation in the RfA process, I find their worries that you might become a rogue admin crusader to be unconvincing. I don't believe that you would abuse the tools but instead would have used them to help reduce some of the admin backlogs.
I believe that Wikipedia needs better communication mechanisms. The messages carried by the opposers had not made themselves apparent on either your talk page or to the others who work at COIN before this RfA at least not anywhere that I have seen. Your RfA appears to be a costly survey in trying to understand where the community's collective conscience stands on the issue. This seems disjointed and sends mixed signals in my opinion. I would like to have seen all of the opposers offer constructive criticism with suggestions for improving. Some of their replies are a disappointment in that regard, particularly some of the admin opposes. I would hope going forward that everyone who took part in the RfA would lend you a helping hand in the spirit of collaboration. You may want to stretch your legs a bit and try helping at some of the other noticeboards, the help desks, or ref desks. This experience might do you good.
DGG has made a very kind offer to you above about helping word the next one and I would urge you to take him up on that. You would find yourself in very good hands.
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Berean Hunter
(talk) 19:54, 10 February 2016 (UTC)
Most of the pages created by Jeremy112233, seems to be promotional in nature. Its surprising to see that the editor has created 558 pages and doesn't know the neutral point of view. Nearly, all of the pages seems to have a sort of WP:COIN. Ireneshih ( talk) 06:40, 9 February 2016 (UTC)
Yes ... I know I didn't have a citation for that edit, however he did indeed die and the memorial is this Saturday. There is an event page on Facebook [3] but I doubt that would fly as a Wikipedia citation especially since the event page will be deleted. I can't find a news article yet so don't know what to do. htfiddler ( talk) 01:40, 18 February 2016 (UTC)
Hi Brian, I was wondering if you could point me to where to turn for advice on how to deal with an undeclared paid editor (User:CLS Public Affairs). This seems to be an account for [CLS Strategies http://www.clsstrategies.com/] and (from their editing history) it seems like Columbia Law School is one of their clients. You'll see they were warned about their username a while ago but did nothing about it. Thanks for your help! - tucoxn\ talk 01:00, 19 February 2016 (UTC)
FYI: Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Jassy pal. — Ruud 22:27, 20 February 2016 (UTC)
This month:
Development of the extension for setting up WikiProjects, as described in the last issue of this newsletter, is currently underway. No terribly exciting news on this front.
In the meantime, we are working on a prototype for a new service we hope to announce soon. The problem: there are requests scattered all across Wikipedia, including requests for new articles and requests for improvements to existing articles. We Wikipedians are very good at coming up with lists of things to do. But once we write these lists, where do they end up? How can we make them useful for all editors—even those who do not browse the missing articles lists, or the particular WikiProjects that have lists?
Introducing Wikipedia Requests, a new tool to centralize the various lists of requests around Wikipedia. Requests will be tagged by category and WikiProject, making it easier to find requests based on what your interests are. Accompanying this service will be a bot that will let you generate reports from this database on any wiki page, including WikiProjects. This means that once a request is filed centrally, it can syndicated all throughout Wikipedia, and once it is fulfilled, it will be marked as "complete" throughout Wikipedia. The idea for this service came about when I saw that it was easy to put together to-do lists based on database queries, but it was harder to do this for human-generated requests when those requests are scattered throughout the wiki, siloed throughout several pages. This should especially be useful for WikiProjects that have overlapping interests.
The newsletter this month is fairly brief; not a lot of news, just checking in to say that we are hard at work and hope to have more for you soon.
Until next time,
Harej ( talk) 01:43, 24 February 2016 (UTC)
How would you know I made changes to my talk page. Why are you monitoring me? What gives you the right to tamper with my talk page. My friends did not care I shortened it. I did not change what he said. Please leave me alone and stay off my talk page you are not welcome there. Go live your life and stop harassing other people. Do I need to INVOLVE the admins here? 72bikers ( talk) 19:14, 24 February 2016 (UTC)
Hi Brianhe,
Can you help re-creating the Sudip Bose article? I know the tone of the article is bad. But he is a notable person. Let me know what can I do to get you started.
Thanks.
Sitaray ( talk) 06:28, 29 February 2016 (UTC)
Brian, hope you don't mind but I've unarchived the section in COIN as the discussion was not yet over, re the Sitaray paid editing disclosure, which has not yet been addressed by that user (I've posted on his talk page) or by editors on the board. If you feel strongly about it then go ahead and archive, but then I'd have to start a new discussion the paid editing disclosure and the stuff above gives it context. Coretheapple ( talk) 14:09, 2 March 2016 (UTC)
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Hi, can I interest you and page stalkers in participating in April? Up to £200 in Amazon vouchers and books up for grabs.♦ Dr. Blofeld 13:07, 9 March 2016 (UTC)
Hey first off I wanted to thank you for helping remove the punjabigrooves.com spam. I've also removed some so now we're down to 34 total, although not all of the remaining links are in articles. Are you coming across additional spam links in the process? I keep finding them and then following those, so it ends up taking forever (see User:Elaenia/sandbox). Anyway, I was wondering what your thoughts are on Ishq Vich: You Never Know. When searching for replacement references, I was unable to locate any. The majority of search results are download sites or spam blogs. Elaenia ( talk) 03:07, 12 March 2016 (UTC)
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Hello, please come join me to discuss our recent edits Talk:Marijuana_tourism_in_the_United_States#Amendment_64_campaign_logo_image on this page Marijuana_tourism_in_the_United_States. Thanks! -- Potguru ( talk) 02:00, 1 April 2016 (UTC)
Hi, Bri - was hoping you had a minute to look in on a new editor - a bit bold in his/her approach - but may need to rethink their position. Not sure what the issue is exactly - probably trying to be helpful by deleting a cited source instead of tagging it or opening a dialogue on the article TP. The deleted source is high ranking on Alexa and links to the university's website but the editor claims the link is to a malicious site and deserved being deleted. Not a biggy, but would appreciate you giving it a look see since you commented on the user's TP previously. I was simply trying to be helpful to a relatively new user by explaining a bit about WP protocol, but it isn't working. Thx in advance. Atsme 📞 📧 02:51, 2 April 2016 (UTC)
@ Atsme and Elaenia: Looks like the issues have been hashed out pretty well already. Recap 1) this particular source should probably go to WP:RSN if you want to delete it again in the future. 2) Best practice is to add a {{ cn}} tag if a reference is removed, leaving a statement uncited. Good enough? - Brianhe ( talk) 13:14, 3 April 2016 (UTC)
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Eko Hotels and Suites is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.
The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Eko Hotels and Suites until a consensus is reached, and anyone 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. - Takeaway ( talk) 15:16, 2 April 2016 (UTC)
Trying to add link to this petition started by the Overlanding Association: change org/p/european-commission-fia-allow-carnet-users-to-use-alternative-issuing-organisations-rac-treat-travellers-better, but unable to add it due to being blocked url. Do you know who to do it? Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.244.10.162 ( talk) 10:40, 8 April 2016 (UTC)
Dear Brianhe,
Thank you for commenting in the discussion and again for updating my age. I'm a bit concerned because the proposed deletion discussion for my page has not taken any particular new direction, but editors keep adding the discussion to article deletion pages related to different topics. I'm not sure how that works but, my sense is that some of these editors are trying very hard to get my page deleted or is this just part of the process of review? For instance, they have copied the general deletion discussion to academic deletion and Ohio deletion pages. I do hold advanced degrees, but have never claimed to be an academic researcher. I'm a practitioner, and as a zoological curator was appointed courtesy faculty and research positions. These are just fact mentioned in the article. In additon I don't live in Ohio. I'm a zoologist and nature writer who has worked as an animal trainer both independently and for facilities. Should my article be edited to reflect that more? I don't want it to misrepresent my professional background. As a journalist, I do a lot more writing in publications than I have articles written about me and that seems to be the nature of the journalism profession. I've been told on multiple occassions that I do meet the notability requirements for a Wikipedia article. So I feel that I'm being a bit unfairly treated. Am I being unreasonable? Do you have any thoughts? Thanks again for your commentary. Best Jpop73 ( talk) 01:58, 10 April 2016 (UTC)
Thank you Brianhe. I really appreciate your help and advice. It means a lot! Jpop73 ( talk) 05:50, 10 April 2016 (UTC)
Yes, I would be happy too Jpop73 ( talk) 16:11, 10 April 2016 (UTC)
Dear Brianhe, I quickly read through your essay, but need to read it again more carefully. Thank you for your comprehensive essay/synopsis. In the few instances that I have been paid to create an article, I explained to the person based on my experience writing them that the subject has to be notable in their field, and the content has to be neutral and non-promotional. I say the same thing to anyone who has been referred to me for a paid ot unpaid article. In fact, in the instances that I have been paid, I felt it was my responsibility to really make certain that the article get accepted, so I tend to be even more critical of their references and make extra effort to reduce the likelyhood that the article sounds promotional. I suspect that for the many that I have done without compensation, I have been less critical of what I have generated.
I understand that knowing the subject seems to be a concern to Wikipedia editors, but given the guidelines for getting an article accepted, I'm not really sure that it creates much bias from my end. That is just my opinion and I can only speak for myself. Maybe it is because I have a scientific background and I'm used to being able to criticize my own work and be objective about it. With that said, I may at times render something that sounds a little promotional, but that has more to to do with my need to practice conveying/generating content in a more neutral tone, and not because I'm trying to intentionally market the individual for their own gain. In other words, I can generate something promotional whether I know the person or not or whether I'm getting paid to write something or not. It is really often just a reflection of my writing style, which for the purposes of Wikipedia needs improvement. For instance, I wrote one for Kimberly Foss, who is a friend. It was deleted presumably because it sounded too promotional. I wrote one for Ron Smalstig who I don't know and it was deleted because it presumably sounded too promotional and although I thought he met the notability requirements, it seems he didn't. I wasn't paid for either. I just enjoyed writing biographies and I thought these individuals met the requirements. I've gotten better at writing less promotional articles as some editors can attest to, but again I'm not so sure how much of it is influenced by knowing the subject or by receiving compensation. I have ceased contributing because I have caused way too much trouble and I didn't mean to. Thank you for letting me share Jpop73 ( talk) 21:51, 10 April 2016 (UTC)
Dear Brianhe, I commented in the discussion of the deletion page and tonight someone added the following: "Delete as still nothing to suggest any solid independent notability. SwisterTwister talk 05:11, 12 April 2016 (UTC)" I'm not sure I understand what solid independent notability means. In addition, I noticed that the first attempt to delete the article was unsuccessful and that was before new references were added. I kind of feel like this is punitive and not really policy based. Is there anything that can be done to address this? Thanks Jpop73 ( talk) 05:56, 12 April 2016 (UTC)
I'm back, and stumbled across another paid COI venture too soon for my liking. Posted at WP:COIN, would like your input on it. cheers. — Spaceman Spiff 15:59, 17 April 2016 (UTC)
I'm extremely sorry that I seem to have ruined your SPI request by continuing the discussion there; I didn't foresee what the consequences would be, and I didn't do as good a job extricating myself from that long discussion with CF and CS as I should have. We seem to be a bit trapped, since the site administrator says they won't look at it as long as the page is too long, but we're also not allowed to shorten it. How do people usually proceed in this situation? Is there anything I can do to help? I hate to think we've hit a dead end here in pursuing FP1 after all this work of looking into their puppets. Again, my sincere apologies. -- EllenMcGill ( talk) 01:53, 19 April 2016 (UTC)
This month:
In the last issue of the WikiProject X Newsletter, I discussed the upcoming Wikipedia Requests system: a central database for outstanding work on Wikipedia. I am pleased to announce Wikipedia Requests is live! Its purpose is to supplement automatically generated lists, such as those from SuggestBot, Reports bot, or Wikidata. It is currently being demonstrated on WikiProject Occupational Safety and Health (which I work on as part of my NIOSH duties) and WikiProject Women scientists.
Adding a request is as simple as filling out a form. Just go to the Add form to add your request. Adding sources will help ensure that your request is fulfilled more quickly. And when a request is fulfilled, simply click "mark as complete" and it will be removed from all the lists it's on. All at the click of a button! (If anyone is concerned, all actions are logged.)
With this new service is a template to transclude these requests: {{
Wikipedia Requests}}. It's simple to use: add the template to a page, specifying article=
, category=
, or wikiproject=
, and the list will be transcluded. For example, for requests having to do with all living people, just do {{
Wikipedia Requests|category=Living people}}
. Use these lists on WikiProjects but also for edit-a-thons where you want a convenient list of things to do on hand. Give it a shot!
The value of Wikipedia Requests comes from being a centralized database. The long work to migrating individual lists into this combined list is slowly underway. As of writing, we have 883 open tasks logged in Wikipedia Requests. We need your help building this list.
If you know of a list of missing articles, or of outstanding tasks for existing articles, that you would like to migrate to this new system, head on over to Wikipedia:Wikipedia Requests#Transition project and help out. Doing this will help put your list in front of more eyes—more than just your own WikiProject.
WikiProject X maintains a database that associates article talk pages (and draft talk pages) with WikiProjects. This database powers many of the reports that Reports bot generates. However, until very recently, this database was not made available to others who might find its data useful. It's only common sense to open up the database and let others build tools with it.
And indeed: Citation Hunt, the game to add citations to Wikipedia, now lets you filter by WikiProject, using the data from our database.
Are you a tool developer interested in using this? Here are some details: the database resides on Tool Labs with the name s52475__wpx_p
. The table that associates WikiProjects with articles and drafts is called projectindex
. Pages are stored by talk page title but in the future this should change. Have fun!
Until next time,
Harej ( talk) 01:29, 20 April 2016 (UTC)
I have removed the {{ prod}} tag from [[{{{1}}}]], which you proposed for deletion. I'm leaving this message here to notify you about it. If you still think the article should be deleted, please don't add the {{ prod}} template back to the article. Instead, feel free to list it at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion. Thanks!
Hello Brianhe, Just to let you know, I removed the {{prod} tag you placed here. Reason - article currently in my sandbox, redrafting, additional sources etc. Would that be fine to wait till I finish those edits and you have a relook ? Happy Sunday. Cheers AM ( talk) 13:34, 24 April 2016 (UTC)
Reg this, I'm sure that this one was different from the Bangalorean. I know I've come across it, perhaps I've just deleted most of the spam from there. cheers. — Spaceman Spiff 13:05, 2 May 2016 (UTC)
The code you gave me worked for the pipes in the URL, thank you! The Master ---)Vote Saxon(--- 13:05, 3 May 2016 (UTC)
To my talkpage stalkers: I just made a rather impassioned keep !vote at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sarah Ballard. If I went over the line feel free to let me know. I'm finding Wikipedia's tolerance for marginal sportspeople and CEO articles, and apparent antipathy to a scientist who discovered several planets, to be hard to swallow at the moment. – Brianhe ( talk) 09:01, 9 May 2016 (UTC)
On 12 May 2016, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Evergreen Point Floating Bridge (2016), which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the new Evergreen Point Floating Bridge is the fourth floating bridge to connect Seattle with its Eastside suburbs, and the world's longest? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Evergreen Point Floating Bridge (2016). You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, Evergreen Point Floating Bridge (2016)), 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.
— Maile ( talk) 14:12, 12 May 2016 (UTC)
Hi Brianhe, this is SpiritedMichelle. You undid my edit describing Belstaff as a high-end brand, saying that my edit was not neutral. Belstaff products retail for several hundred dollars each. What other word or words would you use instead to describe Belstaff? SpiritedMichelle ( talk) 00:06, 17 May 2016 (UTC)
Thank you for the invitation to come here and discuss the question. I hope it is OK that I created a new section. Gabor Lukacs ( talk) 16:50, 23 May 2016 (UTC)
The present discussion stems from a discussion on WP:COIN relating to an allegation of COI about myself, Gabor Lukacs, being an air passenger rights advocate. It was alleged that I have a COI with respect to airlines and the Canadian Transportation Agency. The present discussion is motivated by the following comment of Roxy: "I think I understand the difficulty here Gabor. You are conflating your understanding of Conflict of Interest in the real world with WP:COI in wikipedia. They are not the same, and you have one in wikipedia"
In the "real world" (RW), COI is usually defined when a person has a stake (in the sense of gaining or losing something, typically financially) in an issue. Understandably, this definition needs to be adapted to the virtual world of Wikipedia. So, the questions to be resolved are:
Gabor Lukacs ( talk) 23:01, 23 May 2016 (UTC)
This is an open question for people following this conversation.
I think I know the answers but want to see if there's consensus on this. - Brianhe ( talk) 02:38, 24 May 2016 (UTC)
Hey, Brian. I was wondering if you might be willing to help me out with a pet project of mine: Wiki Loves Pride. The goal of the campaign is to document LGBT culture and history by photographing pride events, and creating/improving LGBT-related Wikipedia articles.
Here is a link to the page I made for Portland. Would you consider making a similar page for Seattle? I know you may not be interested or available to take pictures, but I was hoping you might be willing to get the ball rolling on an article called LGBT culture in Seattle. You can look at LGBT culture in Portland, Oregon for a similar list/article. There are better lists/articles for other cities, too, as evidenced in appropriate categories and navigation boxes.
No pressure, only if you are interested. My hope is that having a simple page dedicated to Wiki Loves Pride in Seattle may convince someone else to volunteer and go photograph the pride festivities there. Keep up the great work with the many drafts you've been creating lately! Talk soon, --- Another Believer ( Talk) 01:12, 26 May 2016 (UTC)
After adding several independent references, I removed the {{ prod}} tag from African Jesuit AIDS Network which you proposed for deletion. I'm leaving this message here to notify you about it. If you still think the article should be deleted, please don't add the {{ prod}} template back to the article. Instead, feel free to list it at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion. Thanks! Jzsj ( talk) 19:54, 26 May 2016 (UTC)
Hello, I wanted to upload a sound sample of "Roke Na Roku" form the film Phobia (2016 film). Can you help me how I can upload a sound sample on Wikipedia? It should be like File:Gubbare.ogg. Mr. Smart ℒION ⋠ ☎️ ✍⋡ 07:04, 28 May 2016 (UTC)
Just an FYI! HappyValleyEditor ( talk) 06:38, 29 May 2016 (UTC)
Is for pages coated in blue or links to humans and USA. Where links are helpful, if your common sense can't figure it out, WP:IAR and the other editors correcting your mistakes should point the way forward. It's great that you're here; kindly do something useful instead of making pages less helpful to their readers. — LlywelynII 01:57, 30 May 2016 (UTC)
The Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation has appointed a committee to lead the search for the foundation’s next Executive Director. One of our first tasks is to write the job description of the executive director position, and we are asking for input from the Wikimedia community. Please take a few minutes and complete this survey to help us better understand community and staff expectations for the Wikimedia Foundation Executive Director.
Thank you, The Wikimedia Foundation Executive Director Search Steering Committee via MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 21:48, 1 June 2016 (UTC)
On 3 June 2016, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Danell Lynn, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Danell Lynn rode 48,600 miles (78,214 km) to become the first solo woman to set a world record for longest motorcycle journey in a single country? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Danell Lynn. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, Danell Lynn), 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.
Cas Liber ( talk · contribs) 00:08, 3 June 2016 (UTC)
On 3 June 2016, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Cow tipping, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that according to scientists, cow tipping would require between 4 and 14 coordinated people, unlike the depiction of the urban legend in film and television? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Cow tipping. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, Cow tipping), 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.
Cas Liber ( talk · contribs) 00:08, 3 June 2016 (UTC)
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Road Runners Motorcycle Club is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.
The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Road Runners Motorcycle Club until a consensus is reached, and anyone 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. Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 05:57, 3 June 2016 (UTC)
Hi, Brianhe, I've restored the copyright violation template you placed at this article; it looks as if a second registered account may have a COI issue. Thanks, 2601:188:1:AEA0:61EB:D0DA:42E7:44BA ( talk) 13:49, 7 June 2016 (UTC)
I've formatted that list but...as it's so long, I wanted to change it into drop down list - however, I have no idea how to do that...do you? Spacecowboy420 ( talk) 10:18, 9 June 2016 (UTC)
On 12 June 2016, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Laurie Wolf, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Laurie Wolf has written children's books and a crowdfunded book of recipes for cooking with marijuana? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Laurie Wolf. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, Laurie Wolf), 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.
Cas Liber ( talk · contribs) 00:05, 12 June 2016 (UTC)
Hi. Just a reminder that in just over a week at Wikimania there's going to be a cross-Wiki discussion about the systems of control of new pages. This is a round-table rather than a presentation or a lecture. On the agenda are reforms to the new article reviewing systems and ways to help new users better understand our content policies. If you are going to Italy and would like to take part, please check out the conference schedule, and I look forward to seeing you there. -- Kudpung กุดผึ้ง ( talk) 18:09, 14 June 2016 (UTC)
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I am blocked at the location I use during most of the day by a rangeblock on 148.163.0.0/16. Request IPBE for this account and my alternate account, Brianhe.public.
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This is a procedural close, it looks like you're now unblocked and an IPBE should sort this out. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 10:48, 20 June 2016 (UTC)
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On 28 June 2016, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Stuart Anderson (restaurateur), which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that before he founded Black Angus Steakhouse, Stuart Anderson opened a Seattle restaurant whose clientele was mostly "hookers, seamen, hustlers and wrestlers"? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Stuart Anderson (restaurateur). You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, Stuart Anderson (restaurateur)), 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.
Cas Liber ( talk · contribs) 07:24, 28 June 2016 (UTC)
Would you mind reviewing Template:Did you know nominations/Prince Romerson again?-- KAVEBEAR ( talk) 00:06, 1 July 2016 (UTC)
This RfC may be of interest to you: Wikipedia_talk:Notability#Adding_ways_to_assess_Systemic_Bias_to_WP:N. Montanabw (talk) 20:07, 7 July 2016 (UTC)
On 13 July 2016, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Case/lang/veirs, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the members of alt-country supergroup case/lang/veirs have collectively made more than 30 studio albums? You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, Case/lang/veirs), 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.
The DYK project ( nominate) 12:02, 13 July 2016 (UTC)
Hi Brianhe, I've had one or two discussions on the talk page of Bell Pottinger over the last year or so. The whole article is quite sprawling and there are quite a few things out of date. As I've posted on the talk page, I've prepared a shorter redraft (see here), which updates a few things and which I hope is an appropriate length and appropriately balanced. Would you mind taking a look when you have a moment? Note my COI - I work for Bell Pottinger. Many thanks. Jthomlinson1 ( talk) 13:14, 25 July 2016 (UTC)
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We seem to be getting a bit behind with giving out DYK medals for 25 new or expanded articles. I think a few have exceeded the 25 count but I'd like to recognise Valenciano, Random86, Brianhe, EdChem, Raymie, Crispulop, Amgisseman(BYU), The Almightey Drill and Captain Assassin!. Maybe one thing to say is that anyone can give out these awards so do have a go. Meanwhile I have the pleasure of thanking you on behalf of the DYK project, the wiki readers and me. Well done. Victuallers ( talk) 19:15, 2 August 2016 (UTC) |
I wonder why you undid my addition ? Do you think it is useless ? Do you have deep information about this topic ?! — Preceding unsigned comment added by AGUWMT ( talk • contribs) 16:43, 17 August 2016 (UTC)
But why you consider this external source unimportant ?! AGUWMT ( talk) 22:43, 17 August 2016 (UTC)
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DataCore page was a mess before you head cleaned it out. Thanks a lot for accepting the challenge. APS (Full Auto) ( talk) 11:36, 19 August 2016 (UTC) |
Now that Ducati ST series is well established, perhaps it is time that the proposed merger with the ST2, ST3 & ST4 pages should proceed. I would do it, but I don't know how to mergers! Could you please assist (or else give me some tips)? Thanks. Arrivisto ( talk) 15:37, 29 August 2016 (UTC)
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Motorcycles is one of the best outlines. It's missing some annotations, but nothing to be worried about.
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[9]. I remember there was a group of socks a while back creating articles at random pages and then moving them to new titles to avoid NPP but I can't remember who... SmartSE ( talk) 14:03, 16 September 2016 (UTC)
If you create wrong page, please ask for speedy delete rather than blanking. Xx236 ( talk) 06:59, 12 October 2016 (UTC)
@ Doc James: You said that paid editors using Fiverr and such can "become relatively wealthy" by circumventing our ToS and working through socks, etc. I think this is a valid point and made me consider something I have been pondering lately. By the standards of many North Americans, working through Fiverr is not really lucrative and I think many Wikipedians see this as a low-grade threat because they would not do it for that level of compensation. However for many people in the world, it is indeed as you say relatively well compensated. So as more of the world acquires access to the Internet, higher levels of English education, and tools such as Fiverr that serve as conduits to wealthy individuals or organizations in the Global North, the impact on this project becomes greater. Hence the recent proliferation of COIN/SPI investigations pointing towards actors in Pakistan, Bangladesh, Uganda, Nigeria, the Phillipines, etc. (Interestingly, the Indian SPIs are often relatively locally-oriented, that is, Indian actors for Indian subjects, most significantly companies and film. Maybe this reflects the greater industrialization and locally available wealth of India?)
What this means for the long-term health of ENWP and for the people attracted to the business of undeclared paid editing, I don't know yet. Talking to WWB recently made me consider this issue more broadly; maybe there is an ethical opportunity for each side that hasn't been sussed out yet. - Brianhe ( talk) 19:24, 20 October 2016 (UTC)
A sock from this paid COI ring that I blocked has just submitted an unblock request after over a year (last SPI is also over a year old). I'm guessing the ring may be active again, so you or someone else may want to take a look for new activity. cheers. — Spaceman Spiff 05:49, 21 October 2016 (UTC)
Thank you, I wasn't entirely sure if I should have left it or not. 331dot ( talk) 17:14, 21 October 2016 (UTC)
Finally digging out after the road trip. Want to pick a new article to work on? Montanabw (talk) 23:55, 24 October 2016 (UTC)
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Hello. I got your message. Sorry if you're not happy with my changes. Please know I fought to keep that page. I was trying to help, please know that. And I did explain in great detail my changes on that talk page, but after you reverted my change I deleted that message. Perhaps I was too bold with this. Nobody else had jumped on the needed improvements, and since I'd chirped so much to keep it I felt obligated to help. All that aside, please consider your reversion, it has degraded the work terribly. I implore you to reconsider, or produce something better yourself. Your reversion is no where near the improvement I'd made, I'm quite confident. Anyway, good luck with it, I'm going to step back. — Preceding unsigned comment added by J. M. Pearson ( talk • contribs) 14:34, 1 November 2016 (UTC)
Just a quick beer for your assistance, from the pain-in-the-rear new guy. :) J. M. Pearson ( talk) 20:20, 1 November 2016 (UTC) |
Thanks for helping with the talk page banner. I'm looking forward to tagging new/expanded articles and adding check marks to the challenge's main page, and I'd certainly love your help when you have the time and interest. I wish there the WPUS 'article alerts' identified new articles... --- Another Believer ( Talk) 20:22, 1 November 2016 (UTC)
Template:Fearsome critters has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Frietjes ( talk) 21:37, 1 November 2016 (UTC)
Hi Brian. I noticed you had cleaned up a bit of the self-promotional dross on this article. I've completely re-written and re-referenced it and left a stern note at Talk:Tim Holmes. Hopefully the miscreant(s) will take notice, but would you mind putting this on your watchlist? Best, Voceditenore ( talk) 13:17, 3 November 2016 (UTC)
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Thank you for your guidance and detail analysis :) Light2021 ( talk) 15:36, 3 November 2016 (UTC) |
Hey Brianhe! Is there any way to appropriately resize the image for the page Suzuki GSX-R1000, as per the motorcycle infobox (specifically the photo of the 2001 K1), or at least increase the length of the lead material? The page looks a bit odd as it currently stands, because the lead in text is so short. I did a preview with resizing, which definitely looks better, but I'm not sure how desirable it would be to decrease the image size, just to get an aesthetically pleasing effect. Larger is definitely better and more encyclopedic. Unfortunately, the only other way I can see to fix it would be to pull in material from the body and incorporate it into the lead. -- FuzzyGopher ( talk) 00:21, 4 November 2016 (UTC)
Per your recent edits, you guys will probably like this article, [10]. Montanabw (talk) 17:10, 4 November 2016 (UTC)
Your comments appreciated here: Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Cannabis#Do_we_need_to_do_some_consolidation_of_multiple_overlapping_US_cannabis_articles.3F. Goonsquad LCpl Mulvaney ( talk) 22:27, 8 November 2016 (UTC)
Please see here: Talk:Washington_Initiative_502#Rename_to_Cannabis_in_Washington_.28state.29_or_split_off.2C_or_what.3F
Goonsquad LCpl Mulvaney ( talk) 23:04, 8 November 2016 (UTC)
Please see here: Talk:Initiative_71#Rename_to_Cannabis_in_Washington.2C_D._C..2C_split_off.2C_or_what.3F
Goonsquad LCpl Mulvaney ( talk) 23:19, 8 November 2016 (UTC)
This article is the most-viewed page for cannabis issues in the US (~1,500 views/day). I think we can streamline it to make it less clunky and more intuitive for readers, especially now that we have state-specific articles for all US states. Your feedback is invited: Talk:Legality_of_cannabis_by_U.S._jurisdiction#Changes_to_chart.3F. Goonsquad LCpl Mulvaney ( talk) 19:47, 10 November 2016 (UTC)
Good stuff! Rui ''Gabriel'' Correia ( talk) 22:23, 11 November 2016 (UTC)
Hi Branhe, User:FactChecker212's sole contributions appear to be to the page Julie Menin. User has a history of edit warring and copyright violation as well. Julie Menin page is currently on Wikipedia:Conflict of interest/Noticeboard as well. -- FuzzyGopher ( talk) 22:31, 11 November 2016 (UTC)
Hi I got your massage Why did you massage me? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bobby232332 ( talk • contribs) 22:21, 12 November 2016 (UTC)
Don't know about you, but this isn't just a Canadian thing, and a potentially fun article: Pancake_breakfast. Montanabw (talk) 02:24, 13 November 2016 (UTC)
I had gone to the Michael Flynn article and found that citation which had been there for over four months. I only checked to see if the URL was still viable. I've seen Yahoo cited regularly in WP articles. Certainly the Annenberg Center is vastly superior as a source. I would not normally use Yahoo as a source, though they do exercise editorial control, but I wasn't writing a dissertation, merely checking existing content to make sure it was not a dead URL and that the source contained the relevant info. I don't know what you're accusing me of, since "refactoring" doesn't seems to apply remotely to anything I did. I know about as much about computer code as I know about Tungusic. I provided a RSS for Palin's AGW denialism but an IP editor removed it: Global warming denialist. Palin: Global Warming Just "Snake Oil", CBS News, February 9, 2010. Retrieved 12 November 2016. It does however, seem germane to note that a prospective Energy Secretary takes that position. Her scientific credentials also include her believing that the world is less than 7,000 years old and men literally walked with dinosaurs, though those notions are substantially less relevant to the position. Lastly, I've been editing Wikipedia for over 10 years and the only other editor that has ever once taken issue with my USER name was tossed for sockpuppetry years ago. You have far more experience with Wikipedia than I. You don't have to mention my USER name to imply that by characterizing it as "provocative," that I'm not editing in Good Faith. I would think that removal of your comment and an apology by you would be in order. Activist ( talk) 10:50, 13 November 2016 (UTC)
Hi Brianhe I am not all that good at sign comments or use edit summaries if you can. can you please edit the Proposed cabinet of Donald Trump page. Thanks so much. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bobby232332 ( talk • contribs) 04:22, 14 November 2016 (UTC)
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Hi Brianhe, I don't understand why you undid all of my revisions. I took out several inaccurate statements by OceanFlynn (#1-2) and other inaccurate statements that are out of context when compared to the article that was by ManilaTimes
1 - Jose Roberto Antonio is not a special envoy to the US by President Duterte, his dad is (Jose E.B. Antonio)
2 - the statement “He is a board director of Operation Smile Philippines which was unveiled in 2012 by Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump” – that’s new and it sounds odd. The Trumps didn’t unveil Operation Smile Philippines.
3 - As for the part that says the article “characterized Antonio's personal spending on vanity projects and relatively modest philanthropic spending as indicative of inequality in the Philippines where the average family income in 2013 was $4,988” this is inaccurate if you read the original article by ManilaTimes and the use of the line “the average family income in 2013 was $4,988”. It seems to be a mishandling of the article.
This is what the original line says in context: One could sense a slight hint of disgust over such display of wealth in the Vanity Fair article, pointing out that the $15 million cost of the Antonio’s house “is in somewhat stark contrast to the average annual Filipino-family income of $4,988.”
4 - I do not understand what the original poster of the above is trying to portray, if he wants to say that Jose Roberto Antonio spends more on himself unlike other tycoons who fund schools (as the article points out) then he should rephrase his statement and use the ManilaTimes article properly.
124.104.227.126 ( talk) 10:20, 30 November 2016 (UTC)
I just wanted to say thank you very much for your helpful comments, both at WP:COIN and at WT:Harassment, today. Much appreciated! -- Tryptofish ( talk) 01:34, 3 December 2016 (UTC)
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Hi. I looked at your page for the Brightify LTA investigation and noticed a couple of minor details. 1. Staples goes to the DAB page Staples rather than the company. This might be intentional, but since it's under retail stores, maybe you mean Staples Inc. 2. "Technical minutae" should be "technical minutiae." Good luck. I hope you can get it stopped. BlackcurrantTea ( talk) 08:24, 9 December 2016 (UTC)
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Hi Brianhe, I'm an avid Political editor here on Wikipedia, and I appreciate your input re the election maps in Washington. I think the idea for a cartogram is cool, but I find the pie chart to be very hard to understand, and while decrying the use of county results in a state, Dennis uses counties in his pie chart. County results are not inherently biased, and do not contradict WPOV. All major networks uses county result maps, and so do all secs of State. Thanks for your input and please let me know what you think about my argument! PalmerTheGolfer ( talk) 02:55, 13 December 2016 (UTC)
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124.219.233.117 is not welcome to post to this talkpage. Stalkers please help by reverting his posts here. Brianhe ( talk) 06:22, 18 December 2016 (UTC)
I was wondering if you could take a look at the Smartmatic article for potential COI edits. I had an initial proposal on the COI noticeboard, but it was overlooked, so check out the updated proposal. The editing on there has only gotten worse with another single-purpose user.-- ZiaLater ( talk) 06:32, 21 December 2016 (UTC)
Ok, so a lot of single-purpose users came out and started editing the article. Some have been
warned before. Not trying to
canvass but I would appreciate another pair of eyes or something. With this many users attempting to edit the article, it makes things even more suspicious.--
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If you want to mess with improving the Sid Miller page, you might be able to just use his official State Of Texas portrait from 2014, [15] [16] which is © 2016 Texas Department of Agriculture. Problem being, obviously, figuring out whether stuff that is copyrighted by that state governmental department, is public domain or not. You might be able to get an answer by contacting the staffers via email at Customer.Relations_ATGLYPH_TexasAgriculture_SMALLCIRCLE_gov , or you might have to go through some REAL hoops and submit an official FOIA-equivalent request, which can also be done via email (or an online webform), [17] [18] but requires giving out your name/addr/email to get the data. There is a three-hundred-page user guide, [19] and a public records hotline (+1.877.OPEN.TEX) if needed. Sigh.
It is unclear whether copyright law protects the material of the department of agriculture, SOME departments can use it e.g. department of motor vehicles to keep records from getting abused (they don't give out driver's license info to anybody that asks for it). [20] Wikipedia also seems not to know the status of such works. [21] [22] [23] Harvard *implies* that there are few restrictions, but does not have much to say about how to utilize what is NOT restricted, or indeed, WHAT is not actually restricted. [24] Big pain, in other words, hence my shoving it off onto your plate ;-)
Although it would not be as useful long-term, as figuring out the copyright-status of works by the various branches of the governmental departments of the state of Texas, for faster results to the current Sid Miller (politician) difficulty, you might also be able to get permission from his campaign-website to use their 2013 portrait, [25] [26] via emailing millerfortexas_ATGLYPH_gmail_SMALLCIRCLE_com for permission. 47.222.203.135 ( talk) 12:02, 22 December 2016 (UTC)
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I had a request that you archived. -- CNMall41 ( talk) 21:57, 20 January 2016 (UTC)
Though you may want to see this since it looks like you were chasing this one a few months ago. Maybe you can remember the article(s) about slot machines that was/were previously deleted. Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Omamme. -- CNMall41 ( talk) 09:24, 24 January 2016 (UTC)
Hi Brianhe I am new for Wikipedia. I am trying to update my chairman current designation and some small content. Page name is Kushagra Bajaj. I'll be very thankful if you can help me to do this. I've already updated designation but how some reason you have deleted. You can find current designation at Bajaj Group. Can you please suggest me what should i do to update this. - User:Pankaj.kumar89 ( talk)
I wanted to wish you luck with your RfA. It's a unique experience! Expect to answer a lot of questions, it's just par for the course these days but at least now editors are limited to 2 a piece. Liz Read! Talk! 22:58, 29 January 2016 (UTC)
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Hello, I don't know if I should be bothering you with this but I read that you do COI work. At the above article the section on the loyalty card looks a bit like advertising and the section is only supported by a bad link to a gambling advert(inadvertentlly I think).Thanks. Atlantic306 ( talk) 14:45, 2 February 2016 (UTC)
I have a question for you and User:Nagle on how to address a potential concern. Wanting to assume good faith, on Talk:Tim_O'Reilly, User Tadghin Special:Contributions/Tadghin supposedly self-identifies himself as the subject of the article on that Talk page. I am not sure what steps were done by Wikipedia to verify this identity or not, however the edit history shows that this user who supposedly self-identified themselves also has edited the subject page of which the individual is the topic of with the self-written comment “Corrected companies I am on the board of” and edited the pages of his wife Jennifer Pahlka, to include creating the article and commenting “Added Jen’s role as Unted States Deputy CTO” with the White House, see Special:Contributions/Tadghin. How should this apparent possible conflict of interest be investigated since it seems to span years? The same user also has edited the page for White House CTO Todd Park which if this individual is the person that Special:Contributions/Tadghin self-identifies himself as, has a close professional relationship with per [1] and edited Maker Faire that the subject's company [2] spun-off the organization that sponsors these events. WatchDogUS ( talk) 17:00, 2 February 2016 (UTC)
I found another image that looks kinda suspicious.
What is the procedure for having images checked? Where do you report this kind of issue. Spacecowboy420 ( talk) 08:22, 3 February 2016 (UTC)
I'm sorry, but I strongly believe this article does not bring a net-benefit to the project and have started an AfD discussion at the usual place : Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Charles Sipkins Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 09:43, 5 February 2016 (UTC)
I regret to inform you that your request for adminship has been closed as unsuccessful. I encourage you to review all of the comments and discussions there (and on the talk page) apply any suggestions as appropriate. I encourage you to apply again in the future. If you have any questions, please let me know. ··· 日本穣 · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe · Join WP Japan! 01:25, 6 February 2016 (UTC)
Brian, the support expressed in my nomination still stands unwavered by the arguments put forth by the opposers. Although I respect them and thank them for their participation in the RfA process, I find their worries that you might become a rogue admin crusader to be unconvincing. I don't believe that you would abuse the tools but instead would have used them to help reduce some of the admin backlogs.
I believe that Wikipedia needs better communication mechanisms. The messages carried by the opposers had not made themselves apparent on either your talk page or to the others who work at COIN before this RfA at least not anywhere that I have seen. Your RfA appears to be a costly survey in trying to understand where the community's collective conscience stands on the issue. This seems disjointed and sends mixed signals in my opinion. I would like to have seen all of the opposers offer constructive criticism with suggestions for improving. Some of their replies are a disappointment in that regard, particularly some of the admin opposes. I would hope going forward that everyone who took part in the RfA would lend you a helping hand in the spirit of collaboration. You may want to stretch your legs a bit and try helping at some of the other noticeboards, the help desks, or ref desks. This experience might do you good.
DGG has made a very kind offer to you above about helping word the next one and I would urge you to take him up on that. You would find yourself in very good hands.
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Berean Hunter
(talk) 19:54, 10 February 2016 (UTC)
Most of the pages created by Jeremy112233, seems to be promotional in nature. Its surprising to see that the editor has created 558 pages and doesn't know the neutral point of view. Nearly, all of the pages seems to have a sort of WP:COIN. Ireneshih ( talk) 06:40, 9 February 2016 (UTC)
Yes ... I know I didn't have a citation for that edit, however he did indeed die and the memorial is this Saturday. There is an event page on Facebook [3] but I doubt that would fly as a Wikipedia citation especially since the event page will be deleted. I can't find a news article yet so don't know what to do. htfiddler ( talk) 01:40, 18 February 2016 (UTC)
Hi Brian, I was wondering if you could point me to where to turn for advice on how to deal with an undeclared paid editor (User:CLS Public Affairs). This seems to be an account for [CLS Strategies http://www.clsstrategies.com/] and (from their editing history) it seems like Columbia Law School is one of their clients. You'll see they were warned about their username a while ago but did nothing about it. Thanks for your help! - tucoxn\ talk 01:00, 19 February 2016 (UTC)
FYI: Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Jassy pal. — Ruud 22:27, 20 February 2016 (UTC)
This month:
Development of the extension for setting up WikiProjects, as described in the last issue of this newsletter, is currently underway. No terribly exciting news on this front.
In the meantime, we are working on a prototype for a new service we hope to announce soon. The problem: there are requests scattered all across Wikipedia, including requests for new articles and requests for improvements to existing articles. We Wikipedians are very good at coming up with lists of things to do. But once we write these lists, where do they end up? How can we make them useful for all editors—even those who do not browse the missing articles lists, or the particular WikiProjects that have lists?
Introducing Wikipedia Requests, a new tool to centralize the various lists of requests around Wikipedia. Requests will be tagged by category and WikiProject, making it easier to find requests based on what your interests are. Accompanying this service will be a bot that will let you generate reports from this database on any wiki page, including WikiProjects. This means that once a request is filed centrally, it can syndicated all throughout Wikipedia, and once it is fulfilled, it will be marked as "complete" throughout Wikipedia. The idea for this service came about when I saw that it was easy to put together to-do lists based on database queries, but it was harder to do this for human-generated requests when those requests are scattered throughout the wiki, siloed throughout several pages. This should especially be useful for WikiProjects that have overlapping interests.
The newsletter this month is fairly brief; not a lot of news, just checking in to say that we are hard at work and hope to have more for you soon.
Until next time,
Harej ( talk) 01:43, 24 February 2016 (UTC)
How would you know I made changes to my talk page. Why are you monitoring me? What gives you the right to tamper with my talk page. My friends did not care I shortened it. I did not change what he said. Please leave me alone and stay off my talk page you are not welcome there. Go live your life and stop harassing other people. Do I need to INVOLVE the admins here? 72bikers ( talk) 19:14, 24 February 2016 (UTC)
Hi Brianhe,
Can you help re-creating the Sudip Bose article? I know the tone of the article is bad. But he is a notable person. Let me know what can I do to get you started.
Thanks.
Sitaray ( talk) 06:28, 29 February 2016 (UTC)
Brian, hope you don't mind but I've unarchived the section in COIN as the discussion was not yet over, re the Sitaray paid editing disclosure, which has not yet been addressed by that user (I've posted on his talk page) or by editors on the board. If you feel strongly about it then go ahead and archive, but then I'd have to start a new discussion the paid editing disclosure and the stuff above gives it context. Coretheapple ( talk) 14:09, 2 March 2016 (UTC)
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Hi, can I interest you and page stalkers in participating in April? Up to £200 in Amazon vouchers and books up for grabs.♦ Dr. Blofeld 13:07, 9 March 2016 (UTC)
Hey first off I wanted to thank you for helping remove the punjabigrooves.com spam. I've also removed some so now we're down to 34 total, although not all of the remaining links are in articles. Are you coming across additional spam links in the process? I keep finding them and then following those, so it ends up taking forever (see User:Elaenia/sandbox). Anyway, I was wondering what your thoughts are on Ishq Vich: You Never Know. When searching for replacement references, I was unable to locate any. The majority of search results are download sites or spam blogs. Elaenia ( talk) 03:07, 12 March 2016 (UTC)
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Hello, please come join me to discuss our recent edits Talk:Marijuana_tourism_in_the_United_States#Amendment_64_campaign_logo_image on this page Marijuana_tourism_in_the_United_States. Thanks! -- Potguru ( talk) 02:00, 1 April 2016 (UTC)
Hi, Bri - was hoping you had a minute to look in on a new editor - a bit bold in his/her approach - but may need to rethink their position. Not sure what the issue is exactly - probably trying to be helpful by deleting a cited source instead of tagging it or opening a dialogue on the article TP. The deleted source is high ranking on Alexa and links to the university's website but the editor claims the link is to a malicious site and deserved being deleted. Not a biggy, but would appreciate you giving it a look see since you commented on the user's TP previously. I was simply trying to be helpful to a relatively new user by explaining a bit about WP protocol, but it isn't working. Thx in advance. Atsme 📞 📧 02:51, 2 April 2016 (UTC)
@ Atsme and Elaenia: Looks like the issues have been hashed out pretty well already. Recap 1) this particular source should probably go to WP:RSN if you want to delete it again in the future. 2) Best practice is to add a {{ cn}} tag if a reference is removed, leaving a statement uncited. Good enough? - Brianhe ( talk) 13:14, 3 April 2016 (UTC)
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Eko Hotels and Suites is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.
The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Eko Hotels and Suites until a consensus is reached, and anyone 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. - Takeaway ( talk) 15:16, 2 April 2016 (UTC)
Trying to add link to this petition started by the Overlanding Association: change org/p/european-commission-fia-allow-carnet-users-to-use-alternative-issuing-organisations-rac-treat-travellers-better, but unable to add it due to being blocked url. Do you know who to do it? Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.244.10.162 ( talk) 10:40, 8 April 2016 (UTC)
Dear Brianhe,
Thank you for commenting in the discussion and again for updating my age. I'm a bit concerned because the proposed deletion discussion for my page has not taken any particular new direction, but editors keep adding the discussion to article deletion pages related to different topics. I'm not sure how that works but, my sense is that some of these editors are trying very hard to get my page deleted or is this just part of the process of review? For instance, they have copied the general deletion discussion to academic deletion and Ohio deletion pages. I do hold advanced degrees, but have never claimed to be an academic researcher. I'm a practitioner, and as a zoological curator was appointed courtesy faculty and research positions. These are just fact mentioned in the article. In additon I don't live in Ohio. I'm a zoologist and nature writer who has worked as an animal trainer both independently and for facilities. Should my article be edited to reflect that more? I don't want it to misrepresent my professional background. As a journalist, I do a lot more writing in publications than I have articles written about me and that seems to be the nature of the journalism profession. I've been told on multiple occassions that I do meet the notability requirements for a Wikipedia article. So I feel that I'm being a bit unfairly treated. Am I being unreasonable? Do you have any thoughts? Thanks again for your commentary. Best Jpop73 ( talk) 01:58, 10 April 2016 (UTC)
Thank you Brianhe. I really appreciate your help and advice. It means a lot! Jpop73 ( talk) 05:50, 10 April 2016 (UTC)
Yes, I would be happy too Jpop73 ( talk) 16:11, 10 April 2016 (UTC)
Dear Brianhe, I quickly read through your essay, but need to read it again more carefully. Thank you for your comprehensive essay/synopsis. In the few instances that I have been paid to create an article, I explained to the person based on my experience writing them that the subject has to be notable in their field, and the content has to be neutral and non-promotional. I say the same thing to anyone who has been referred to me for a paid ot unpaid article. In fact, in the instances that I have been paid, I felt it was my responsibility to really make certain that the article get accepted, so I tend to be even more critical of their references and make extra effort to reduce the likelyhood that the article sounds promotional. I suspect that for the many that I have done without compensation, I have been less critical of what I have generated.
I understand that knowing the subject seems to be a concern to Wikipedia editors, but given the guidelines for getting an article accepted, I'm not really sure that it creates much bias from my end. That is just my opinion and I can only speak for myself. Maybe it is because I have a scientific background and I'm used to being able to criticize my own work and be objective about it. With that said, I may at times render something that sounds a little promotional, but that has more to to do with my need to practice conveying/generating content in a more neutral tone, and not because I'm trying to intentionally market the individual for their own gain. In other words, I can generate something promotional whether I know the person or not or whether I'm getting paid to write something or not. It is really often just a reflection of my writing style, which for the purposes of Wikipedia needs improvement. For instance, I wrote one for Kimberly Foss, who is a friend. It was deleted presumably because it sounded too promotional. I wrote one for Ron Smalstig who I don't know and it was deleted because it presumably sounded too promotional and although I thought he met the notability requirements, it seems he didn't. I wasn't paid for either. I just enjoyed writing biographies and I thought these individuals met the requirements. I've gotten better at writing less promotional articles as some editors can attest to, but again I'm not so sure how much of it is influenced by knowing the subject or by receiving compensation. I have ceased contributing because I have caused way too much trouble and I didn't mean to. Thank you for letting me share Jpop73 ( talk) 21:51, 10 April 2016 (UTC)
Dear Brianhe, I commented in the discussion of the deletion page and tonight someone added the following: "Delete as still nothing to suggest any solid independent notability. SwisterTwister talk 05:11, 12 April 2016 (UTC)" I'm not sure I understand what solid independent notability means. In addition, I noticed that the first attempt to delete the article was unsuccessful and that was before new references were added. I kind of feel like this is punitive and not really policy based. Is there anything that can be done to address this? Thanks Jpop73 ( talk) 05:56, 12 April 2016 (UTC)
I'm back, and stumbled across another paid COI venture too soon for my liking. Posted at WP:COIN, would like your input on it. cheers. — Spaceman Spiff 15:59, 17 April 2016 (UTC)
I'm extremely sorry that I seem to have ruined your SPI request by continuing the discussion there; I didn't foresee what the consequences would be, and I didn't do as good a job extricating myself from that long discussion with CF and CS as I should have. We seem to be a bit trapped, since the site administrator says they won't look at it as long as the page is too long, but we're also not allowed to shorten it. How do people usually proceed in this situation? Is there anything I can do to help? I hate to think we've hit a dead end here in pursuing FP1 after all this work of looking into their puppets. Again, my sincere apologies. -- EllenMcGill ( talk) 01:53, 19 April 2016 (UTC)
This month:
In the last issue of the WikiProject X Newsletter, I discussed the upcoming Wikipedia Requests system: a central database for outstanding work on Wikipedia. I am pleased to announce Wikipedia Requests is live! Its purpose is to supplement automatically generated lists, such as those from SuggestBot, Reports bot, or Wikidata. It is currently being demonstrated on WikiProject Occupational Safety and Health (which I work on as part of my NIOSH duties) and WikiProject Women scientists.
Adding a request is as simple as filling out a form. Just go to the Add form to add your request. Adding sources will help ensure that your request is fulfilled more quickly. And when a request is fulfilled, simply click "mark as complete" and it will be removed from all the lists it's on. All at the click of a button! (If anyone is concerned, all actions are logged.)
With this new service is a template to transclude these requests: {{
Wikipedia Requests}}. It's simple to use: add the template to a page, specifying article=
, category=
, or wikiproject=
, and the list will be transcluded. For example, for requests having to do with all living people, just do {{
Wikipedia Requests|category=Living people}}
. Use these lists on WikiProjects but also for edit-a-thons where you want a convenient list of things to do on hand. Give it a shot!
The value of Wikipedia Requests comes from being a centralized database. The long work to migrating individual lists into this combined list is slowly underway. As of writing, we have 883 open tasks logged in Wikipedia Requests. We need your help building this list.
If you know of a list of missing articles, or of outstanding tasks for existing articles, that you would like to migrate to this new system, head on over to Wikipedia:Wikipedia Requests#Transition project and help out. Doing this will help put your list in front of more eyes—more than just your own WikiProject.
WikiProject X maintains a database that associates article talk pages (and draft talk pages) with WikiProjects. This database powers many of the reports that Reports bot generates. However, until very recently, this database was not made available to others who might find its data useful. It's only common sense to open up the database and let others build tools with it.
And indeed: Citation Hunt, the game to add citations to Wikipedia, now lets you filter by WikiProject, using the data from our database.
Are you a tool developer interested in using this? Here are some details: the database resides on Tool Labs with the name s52475__wpx_p
. The table that associates WikiProjects with articles and drafts is called projectindex
. Pages are stored by talk page title but in the future this should change. Have fun!
Until next time,
Harej ( talk) 01:29, 20 April 2016 (UTC)
I have removed the {{ prod}} tag from [[{{{1}}}]], which you proposed for deletion. I'm leaving this message here to notify you about it. If you still think the article should be deleted, please don't add the {{ prod}} template back to the article. Instead, feel free to list it at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion. Thanks!
Hello Brianhe, Just to let you know, I removed the {{prod} tag you placed here. Reason - article currently in my sandbox, redrafting, additional sources etc. Would that be fine to wait till I finish those edits and you have a relook ? Happy Sunday. Cheers AM ( talk) 13:34, 24 April 2016 (UTC)
Reg this, I'm sure that this one was different from the Bangalorean. I know I've come across it, perhaps I've just deleted most of the spam from there. cheers. — Spaceman Spiff 13:05, 2 May 2016 (UTC)
The code you gave me worked for the pipes in the URL, thank you! The Master ---)Vote Saxon(--- 13:05, 3 May 2016 (UTC)
To my talkpage stalkers: I just made a rather impassioned keep !vote at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sarah Ballard. If I went over the line feel free to let me know. I'm finding Wikipedia's tolerance for marginal sportspeople and CEO articles, and apparent antipathy to a scientist who discovered several planets, to be hard to swallow at the moment. – Brianhe ( talk) 09:01, 9 May 2016 (UTC)
On 12 May 2016, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Evergreen Point Floating Bridge (2016), which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the new Evergreen Point Floating Bridge is the fourth floating bridge to connect Seattle with its Eastside suburbs, and the world's longest? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Evergreen Point Floating Bridge (2016). You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, Evergreen Point Floating Bridge (2016)), 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.
— Maile ( talk) 14:12, 12 May 2016 (UTC)
Hi Brianhe, this is SpiritedMichelle. You undid my edit describing Belstaff as a high-end brand, saying that my edit was not neutral. Belstaff products retail for several hundred dollars each. What other word or words would you use instead to describe Belstaff? SpiritedMichelle ( talk) 00:06, 17 May 2016 (UTC)
Thank you for the invitation to come here and discuss the question. I hope it is OK that I created a new section. Gabor Lukacs ( talk) 16:50, 23 May 2016 (UTC)
The present discussion stems from a discussion on WP:COIN relating to an allegation of COI about myself, Gabor Lukacs, being an air passenger rights advocate. It was alleged that I have a COI with respect to airlines and the Canadian Transportation Agency. The present discussion is motivated by the following comment of Roxy: "I think I understand the difficulty here Gabor. You are conflating your understanding of Conflict of Interest in the real world with WP:COI in wikipedia. They are not the same, and you have one in wikipedia"
In the "real world" (RW), COI is usually defined when a person has a stake (in the sense of gaining or losing something, typically financially) in an issue. Understandably, this definition needs to be adapted to the virtual world of Wikipedia. So, the questions to be resolved are:
Gabor Lukacs ( talk) 23:01, 23 May 2016 (UTC)
This is an open question for people following this conversation.
I think I know the answers but want to see if there's consensus on this. - Brianhe ( talk) 02:38, 24 May 2016 (UTC)
Hey, Brian. I was wondering if you might be willing to help me out with a pet project of mine: Wiki Loves Pride. The goal of the campaign is to document LGBT culture and history by photographing pride events, and creating/improving LGBT-related Wikipedia articles.
Here is a link to the page I made for Portland. Would you consider making a similar page for Seattle? I know you may not be interested or available to take pictures, but I was hoping you might be willing to get the ball rolling on an article called LGBT culture in Seattle. You can look at LGBT culture in Portland, Oregon for a similar list/article. There are better lists/articles for other cities, too, as evidenced in appropriate categories and navigation boxes.
No pressure, only if you are interested. My hope is that having a simple page dedicated to Wiki Loves Pride in Seattle may convince someone else to volunteer and go photograph the pride festivities there. Keep up the great work with the many drafts you've been creating lately! Talk soon, --- Another Believer ( Talk) 01:12, 26 May 2016 (UTC)
After adding several independent references, I removed the {{ prod}} tag from African Jesuit AIDS Network which you proposed for deletion. I'm leaving this message here to notify you about it. If you still think the article should be deleted, please don't add the {{ prod}} template back to the article. Instead, feel free to list it at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion. Thanks! Jzsj ( talk) 19:54, 26 May 2016 (UTC)
Hello, I wanted to upload a sound sample of "Roke Na Roku" form the film Phobia (2016 film). Can you help me how I can upload a sound sample on Wikipedia? It should be like File:Gubbare.ogg. Mr. Smart ℒION ⋠ ☎️ ✍⋡ 07:04, 28 May 2016 (UTC)
Just an FYI! HappyValleyEditor ( talk) 06:38, 29 May 2016 (UTC)
Is for pages coated in blue or links to humans and USA. Where links are helpful, if your common sense can't figure it out, WP:IAR and the other editors correcting your mistakes should point the way forward. It's great that you're here; kindly do something useful instead of making pages less helpful to their readers. — LlywelynII 01:57, 30 May 2016 (UTC)
The Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation has appointed a committee to lead the search for the foundation’s next Executive Director. One of our first tasks is to write the job description of the executive director position, and we are asking for input from the Wikimedia community. Please take a few minutes and complete this survey to help us better understand community and staff expectations for the Wikimedia Foundation Executive Director.
Thank you, The Wikimedia Foundation Executive Director Search Steering Committee via MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 21:48, 1 June 2016 (UTC)
On 3 June 2016, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Danell Lynn, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Danell Lynn rode 48,600 miles (78,214 km) to become the first solo woman to set a world record for longest motorcycle journey in a single country? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Danell Lynn. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, Danell Lynn), 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.
Cas Liber ( talk · contribs) 00:08, 3 June 2016 (UTC)
On 3 June 2016, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Cow tipping, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that according to scientists, cow tipping would require between 4 and 14 coordinated people, unlike the depiction of the urban legend in film and television? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Cow tipping. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, Cow tipping), 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.
Cas Liber ( talk · contribs) 00:08, 3 June 2016 (UTC)
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Road Runners Motorcycle Club is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.
The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Road Runners Motorcycle Club until a consensus is reached, and anyone 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. Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 05:57, 3 June 2016 (UTC)
Hi, Brianhe, I've restored the copyright violation template you placed at this article; it looks as if a second registered account may have a COI issue. Thanks, 2601:188:1:AEA0:61EB:D0DA:42E7:44BA ( talk) 13:49, 7 June 2016 (UTC)
I've formatted that list but...as it's so long, I wanted to change it into drop down list - however, I have no idea how to do that...do you? Spacecowboy420 ( talk) 10:18, 9 June 2016 (UTC)
On 12 June 2016, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Laurie Wolf, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Laurie Wolf has written children's books and a crowdfunded book of recipes for cooking with marijuana? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Laurie Wolf. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, Laurie Wolf), 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.
Cas Liber ( talk · contribs) 00:05, 12 June 2016 (UTC)
Hi. Just a reminder that in just over a week at Wikimania there's going to be a cross-Wiki discussion about the systems of control of new pages. This is a round-table rather than a presentation or a lecture. On the agenda are reforms to the new article reviewing systems and ways to help new users better understand our content policies. If you are going to Italy and would like to take part, please check out the conference schedule, and I look forward to seeing you there. -- Kudpung กุดผึ้ง ( talk) 18:09, 14 June 2016 (UTC)
Bri ( block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser ( log))
Request reason:
I am blocked at the location I use during most of the day by a rangeblock on 148.163.0.0/16. Request IPBE for this account and my alternate account, Brianhe.public.
Accept reason:
This is a procedural close, it looks like you're now unblocked and an IPBE should sort this out. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 10:48, 20 June 2016 (UTC)
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To give a Dobos torte and spread the WikiLove, just place {{ subst:Dobos Torte}} on someone else's talkpage, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. |
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Check out this month's issue of the WikiProject X newsletter, featuring the first screenshot of our new CollaborationKit software!
Harej ( talk) 00:23, 25 June 2016 (UTC)
On 28 June 2016, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Stuart Anderson (restaurateur), which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that before he founded Black Angus Steakhouse, Stuart Anderson opened a Seattle restaurant whose clientele was mostly "hookers, seamen, hustlers and wrestlers"? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Stuart Anderson (restaurateur). You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, Stuart Anderson (restaurateur)), 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.
Cas Liber ( talk · contribs) 07:24, 28 June 2016 (UTC)
Would you mind reviewing Template:Did you know nominations/Prince Romerson again?-- KAVEBEAR ( talk) 00:06, 1 July 2016 (UTC)
This RfC may be of interest to you: Wikipedia_talk:Notability#Adding_ways_to_assess_Systemic_Bias_to_WP:N. Montanabw (talk) 20:07, 7 July 2016 (UTC)
On 13 July 2016, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Case/lang/veirs, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the members of alt-country supergroup case/lang/veirs have collectively made more than 30 studio albums? You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, Case/lang/veirs), 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.
The DYK project ( nominate) 12:02, 13 July 2016 (UTC)
Hi Brianhe, I've had one or two discussions on the talk page of Bell Pottinger over the last year or so. The whole article is quite sprawling and there are quite a few things out of date. As I've posted on the talk page, I've prepared a shorter redraft (see here), which updates a few things and which I hope is an appropriate length and appropriately balanced. Would you mind taking a look when you have a moment? Note my COI - I work for Bell Pottinger. Many thanks. Jthomlinson1 ( talk) 13:14, 25 July 2016 (UTC)
The 25 DYK Creation and Expansion Medal | ||
We seem to be getting a bit behind with giving out DYK medals for 25 new or expanded articles. I think a few have exceeded the 25 count but I'd like to recognise Valenciano, Random86, Brianhe, EdChem, Raymie, Crispulop, Amgisseman(BYU), The Almightey Drill and Captain Assassin!. Maybe one thing to say is that anyone can give out these awards so do have a go. Meanwhile I have the pleasure of thanking you on behalf of the DYK project, the wiki readers and me. Well done. Victuallers ( talk) 19:15, 2 August 2016 (UTC) |
I wonder why you undid my addition ? Do you think it is useless ? Do you have deep information about this topic ?! — Preceding unsigned comment added by AGUWMT ( talk • contribs) 16:43, 17 August 2016 (UTC)
But why you consider this external source unimportant ?! AGUWMT ( talk) 22:43, 17 August 2016 (UTC)
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DataCore page was a mess before you head cleaned it out. Thanks a lot for accepting the challenge. APS (Full Auto) ( talk) 11:36, 19 August 2016 (UTC) |
Now that Ducati ST series is well established, perhaps it is time that the proposed merger with the ST2, ST3 & ST4 pages should proceed. I would do it, but I don't know how to mergers! Could you please assist (or else give me some tips)? Thanks. Arrivisto ( talk) 15:37, 29 August 2016 (UTC)
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Motorcycles is one of the best outlines. It's missing some annotations, but nothing to be worried about.
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[9]. I remember there was a group of socks a while back creating articles at random pages and then moving them to new titles to avoid NPP but I can't remember who... SmartSE ( talk) 14:03, 16 September 2016 (UTC)
If you create wrong page, please ask for speedy delete rather than blanking. Xx236 ( talk) 06:59, 12 October 2016 (UTC)
@ Doc James: You said that paid editors using Fiverr and such can "become relatively wealthy" by circumventing our ToS and working through socks, etc. I think this is a valid point and made me consider something I have been pondering lately. By the standards of many North Americans, working through Fiverr is not really lucrative and I think many Wikipedians see this as a low-grade threat because they would not do it for that level of compensation. However for many people in the world, it is indeed as you say relatively well compensated. So as more of the world acquires access to the Internet, higher levels of English education, and tools such as Fiverr that serve as conduits to wealthy individuals or organizations in the Global North, the impact on this project becomes greater. Hence the recent proliferation of COIN/SPI investigations pointing towards actors in Pakistan, Bangladesh, Uganda, Nigeria, the Phillipines, etc. (Interestingly, the Indian SPIs are often relatively locally-oriented, that is, Indian actors for Indian subjects, most significantly companies and film. Maybe this reflects the greater industrialization and locally available wealth of India?)
What this means for the long-term health of ENWP and for the people attracted to the business of undeclared paid editing, I don't know yet. Talking to WWB recently made me consider this issue more broadly; maybe there is an ethical opportunity for each side that hasn't been sussed out yet. - Brianhe ( talk) 19:24, 20 October 2016 (UTC)
A sock from this paid COI ring that I blocked has just submitted an unblock request after over a year (last SPI is also over a year old). I'm guessing the ring may be active again, so you or someone else may want to take a look for new activity. cheers. — Spaceman Spiff 05:49, 21 October 2016 (UTC)
Thank you, I wasn't entirely sure if I should have left it or not. 331dot ( talk) 17:14, 21 October 2016 (UTC)
Finally digging out after the road trip. Want to pick a new article to work on? Montanabw (talk) 23:55, 24 October 2016 (UTC)
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Hello. I got your message. Sorry if you're not happy with my changes. Please know I fought to keep that page. I was trying to help, please know that. And I did explain in great detail my changes on that talk page, but after you reverted my change I deleted that message. Perhaps I was too bold with this. Nobody else had jumped on the needed improvements, and since I'd chirped so much to keep it I felt obligated to help. All that aside, please consider your reversion, it has degraded the work terribly. I implore you to reconsider, or produce something better yourself. Your reversion is no where near the improvement I'd made, I'm quite confident. Anyway, good luck with it, I'm going to step back. — Preceding unsigned comment added by J. M. Pearson ( talk • contribs) 14:34, 1 November 2016 (UTC)
Just a quick beer for your assistance, from the pain-in-the-rear new guy. :) J. M. Pearson ( talk) 20:20, 1 November 2016 (UTC) |
Thanks for helping with the talk page banner. I'm looking forward to tagging new/expanded articles and adding check marks to the challenge's main page, and I'd certainly love your help when you have the time and interest. I wish there the WPUS 'article alerts' identified new articles... --- Another Believer ( Talk) 20:22, 1 November 2016 (UTC)
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Hi Brian. I noticed you had cleaned up a bit of the self-promotional dross on this article. I've completely re-written and re-referenced it and left a stern note at Talk:Tim Holmes. Hopefully the miscreant(s) will take notice, but would you mind putting this on your watchlist? Best, Voceditenore ( talk) 13:17, 3 November 2016 (UTC)
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Thank you for your guidance and detail analysis :) Light2021 ( talk) 15:36, 3 November 2016 (UTC) |
Hey Brianhe! Is there any way to appropriately resize the image for the page Suzuki GSX-R1000, as per the motorcycle infobox (specifically the photo of the 2001 K1), or at least increase the length of the lead material? The page looks a bit odd as it currently stands, because the lead in text is so short. I did a preview with resizing, which definitely looks better, but I'm not sure how desirable it would be to decrease the image size, just to get an aesthetically pleasing effect. Larger is definitely better and more encyclopedic. Unfortunately, the only other way I can see to fix it would be to pull in material from the body and incorporate it into the lead. -- FuzzyGopher ( talk) 00:21, 4 November 2016 (UTC)
Per your recent edits, you guys will probably like this article, [10]. Montanabw (talk) 17:10, 4 November 2016 (UTC)
Your comments appreciated here: Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Cannabis#Do_we_need_to_do_some_consolidation_of_multiple_overlapping_US_cannabis_articles.3F. Goonsquad LCpl Mulvaney ( talk) 22:27, 8 November 2016 (UTC)
Please see here: Talk:Washington_Initiative_502#Rename_to_Cannabis_in_Washington_.28state.29_or_split_off.2C_or_what.3F
Goonsquad LCpl Mulvaney ( talk) 23:04, 8 November 2016 (UTC)
Please see here: Talk:Initiative_71#Rename_to_Cannabis_in_Washington.2C_D._C..2C_split_off.2C_or_what.3F
Goonsquad LCpl Mulvaney ( talk) 23:19, 8 November 2016 (UTC)
This article is the most-viewed page for cannabis issues in the US (~1,500 views/day). I think we can streamline it to make it less clunky and more intuitive for readers, especially now that we have state-specific articles for all US states. Your feedback is invited: Talk:Legality_of_cannabis_by_U.S._jurisdiction#Changes_to_chart.3F. Goonsquad LCpl Mulvaney ( talk) 19:47, 10 November 2016 (UTC)
Good stuff! Rui ''Gabriel'' Correia ( talk) 22:23, 11 November 2016 (UTC)
Hi Branhe, User:FactChecker212's sole contributions appear to be to the page Julie Menin. User has a history of edit warring and copyright violation as well. Julie Menin page is currently on Wikipedia:Conflict of interest/Noticeboard as well. -- FuzzyGopher ( talk) 22:31, 11 November 2016 (UTC)
Hi I got your massage Why did you massage me? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bobby232332 ( talk • contribs) 22:21, 12 November 2016 (UTC)
Don't know about you, but this isn't just a Canadian thing, and a potentially fun article: Pancake_breakfast. Montanabw (talk) 02:24, 13 November 2016 (UTC)
I had gone to the Michael Flynn article and found that citation which had been there for over four months. I only checked to see if the URL was still viable. I've seen Yahoo cited regularly in WP articles. Certainly the Annenberg Center is vastly superior as a source. I would not normally use Yahoo as a source, though they do exercise editorial control, but I wasn't writing a dissertation, merely checking existing content to make sure it was not a dead URL and that the source contained the relevant info. I don't know what you're accusing me of, since "refactoring" doesn't seems to apply remotely to anything I did. I know about as much about computer code as I know about Tungusic. I provided a RSS for Palin's AGW denialism but an IP editor removed it: Global warming denialist. Palin: Global Warming Just "Snake Oil", CBS News, February 9, 2010. Retrieved 12 November 2016. It does however, seem germane to note that a prospective Energy Secretary takes that position. Her scientific credentials also include her believing that the world is less than 7,000 years old and men literally walked with dinosaurs, though those notions are substantially less relevant to the position. Lastly, I've been editing Wikipedia for over 10 years and the only other editor that has ever once taken issue with my USER name was tossed for sockpuppetry years ago. You have far more experience with Wikipedia than I. You don't have to mention my USER name to imply that by characterizing it as "provocative," that I'm not editing in Good Faith. I would think that removal of your comment and an apology by you would be in order. Activist ( talk) 10:50, 13 November 2016 (UTC)
Hi Brianhe I am not all that good at sign comments or use edit summaries if you can. can you please edit the Proposed cabinet of Donald Trump page. Thanks so much. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bobby232332 ( talk • contribs) 04:22, 14 November 2016 (UTC)
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Hi Brianhe, I don't understand why you undid all of my revisions. I took out several inaccurate statements by OceanFlynn (#1-2) and other inaccurate statements that are out of context when compared to the article that was by ManilaTimes
1 - Jose Roberto Antonio is not a special envoy to the US by President Duterte, his dad is (Jose E.B. Antonio)
2 - the statement “He is a board director of Operation Smile Philippines which was unveiled in 2012 by Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump” – that’s new and it sounds odd. The Trumps didn’t unveil Operation Smile Philippines.
3 - As for the part that says the article “characterized Antonio's personal spending on vanity projects and relatively modest philanthropic spending as indicative of inequality in the Philippines where the average family income in 2013 was $4,988” this is inaccurate if you read the original article by ManilaTimes and the use of the line “the average family income in 2013 was $4,988”. It seems to be a mishandling of the article.
This is what the original line says in context: One could sense a slight hint of disgust over such display of wealth in the Vanity Fair article, pointing out that the $15 million cost of the Antonio’s house “is in somewhat stark contrast to the average annual Filipino-family income of $4,988.”
4 - I do not understand what the original poster of the above is trying to portray, if he wants to say that Jose Roberto Antonio spends more on himself unlike other tycoons who fund schools (as the article points out) then he should rephrase his statement and use the ManilaTimes article properly.
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I just wanted to say thank you very much for your helpful comments, both at WP:COIN and at WT:Harassment, today. Much appreciated! -- Tryptofish ( talk) 01:34, 3 December 2016 (UTC)
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I was wondering if you could take a look at the Smartmatic article for potential COI edits. I had an initial proposal on the COI noticeboard, but it was overlooked, so check out the updated proposal. The editing on there has only gotten worse with another single-purpose user.-- ZiaLater ( talk) 06:32, 21 December 2016 (UTC)
Ok, so a lot of single-purpose users came out and started editing the article. Some have been
warned before. Not trying to
canvass but I would appreciate another pair of eyes or something. With this many users attempting to edit the article, it makes things even more suspicious.--
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If you want to mess with improving the Sid Miller page, you might be able to just use his official State Of Texas portrait from 2014, [15] [16] which is © 2016 Texas Department of Agriculture. Problem being, obviously, figuring out whether stuff that is copyrighted by that state governmental department, is public domain or not. You might be able to get an answer by contacting the staffers via email at Customer.Relations_ATGLYPH_TexasAgriculture_SMALLCIRCLE_gov , or you might have to go through some REAL hoops and submit an official FOIA-equivalent request, which can also be done via email (or an online webform), [17] [18] but requires giving out your name/addr/email to get the data. There is a three-hundred-page user guide, [19] and a public records hotline (+1.877.OPEN.TEX) if needed. Sigh.
It is unclear whether copyright law protects the material of the department of agriculture, SOME departments can use it e.g. department of motor vehicles to keep records from getting abused (they don't give out driver's license info to anybody that asks for it). [20] Wikipedia also seems not to know the status of such works. [21] [22] [23] Harvard *implies* that there are few restrictions, but does not have much to say about how to utilize what is NOT restricted, or indeed, WHAT is not actually restricted. [24] Big pain, in other words, hence my shoving it off onto your plate ;-)
Although it would not be as useful long-term, as figuring out the copyright-status of works by the various branches of the governmental departments of the state of Texas, for faster results to the current Sid Miller (politician) difficulty, you might also be able to get permission from his campaign-website to use their 2013 portrait, [25] [26] via emailing millerfortexas_ATGLYPH_gmail_SMALLCIRCLE_com for permission. 47.222.203.135 ( talk) 12:02, 22 December 2016 (UTC)
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