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I have a blog on Livejournal and I've just made a post to it where I have come out to my friends list as a wikipedia editor and invited them to ask me questions and come to me for help if they ever want to edit on a wiki.
Is this a good idea. Should I try to to get other wikipedians to do this too? Any idea how to make an "I edit Wikipedia. Ask me how!" user icon?
I am -- filceolaire ( talk) 13:42, 3 April 2011 (UTC)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambala
The Educational consultant column is clearly an advertisement to promote one's own company. As far as I remember, the last time I check Ambala's page, there were plenty of schools and a few colleges mentioned in the educational institution columns. But now, there are none.
Please rectify the problem.
Thanks
PS: I didn't know where else to post this topic. Hence, I came here. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Harshm2u ( talk • contribs) 12:42, 8 April 2011 (UTC)
It's the problem from Wikipedia:Village pump (miscellaneous)/Archive_31#Need_some_eyes again. User:DGG no longer feels capable of dealing with the situation. The anon is edit warring to discredit the researcher, e.g., saying that "he alleges" facts that are uncontested by anyone except the anon and that the sources (high-quality newspaper articles and scholarly journals) are all wrong or don't contain the material that they plainly do contain, apparently on the grounds that they don't support the anon's personal beliefs. We need help at The Man Who Would Be Queen. WhatamIdoing ( talk) 22:18, 8 April 2011 (UTC)
Would someone (ideally well-versed in image and Commons policy) be able to tell me what to do with this image? It was uploaded for a page that was repeatedly speedied in mainspace, and the original AfC submission was deleted here. The creator was indeffed as a disruption-only account, and this gigantic image of himself doesn't serve any useful purpose. I only ask because it was uploaded to Commons, and I haven't learned to navigate them. The Blade of the Northern Lights ( 話して下さい) 16:34, 10 April 2011 (UTC)
Currently, the non-uniquely-named politician, Jerry Lewis, has a biography entitled, " Jerry Lewis (California)." Convention, if I'm not mistaken, holds that this should be "Jerry Lewis (politician)." I'm not admin-grade, so I can't do this even if I was right. Suggestions? Jpatch ( talk) 14:29, 8 April 2011 (UTC)
Greetings, I've been helping out at Wikipedia:Requests for feedback and found it to be the most rewarding experience I've had improving others' WP efforts. I'm getting great response and feedback, seeing some "deletion worthy" articles turned into easily C-class in a matter of days, and just generally seeing some real impact. The downside is that I'm pretty much 90% of the RfF for the last couple weeks, so I could really use some backup. Even just two or three people would be a huge help. It's very easy, and even with literally 10 minutes a few times a week you can provide valuable feedback to newb editors eager to learn. Thanks for anyone who can drop by to help, even if it's just a handful of times here and there. MatthewVanitas ( talk) 05:18, 14 April 2011 (UTC)
I would like to invite you to a study conducted by KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology). The study is about “motivation to contribute to the Wikipedia articles”. The purpose of this research is to gather information on the English Wikipedia users’ perception on their contribution. For that reason, we will be surveying people like you, asking them to complete a very short questionnaire including only 22 questions, expecting you to spend 5 minutes. If you are willing to participate, our questionnaire will ask you about your motivation to contribute to Wikipedia. There are no foreseeable risks nor benefits to you associated with this project. All responses are confidential. Your participation is voluntary and you may withdraw from this project at any time. Thank you very much for your time. To participate in the survey, please visit the online form of the survey cooldenny ( talk) 20:03, 13 April 2011 (UTC)
The NASAWatch website got a takedown notice from the federal government about using the OSTP's logo ( File:US-OfficeOfScienceAndTechnologyPolicy-Seal.svg) on their pages. This is reminiscent of the FBI's attempts to get Wikipedia to take down the FBI logo a while back. I notice that didn't work. Corvus cornix talk 21:57, 13 April 2011 (UTC)
I am preparing a study about why people contribute to Wikipedia though the direct benefits does not exist. For the study, I have established the following questionnaire. Please let me know whether or not there are the mistakes from the perspective of the Wikipedia actual users. cooldenny ( talk) 20:24, 12 April 2011 (UTC)
contributing to the English Wikipeida by editing any kind of the English Wikipedia articles.
I know there is a template to be placed in a section to say it needs expansion, but I don't know what it is. Please point me to it. -- DThomsen8 ( talk) 13:21, 18 April 2011 (UTC)
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16:57, 18 April 2011 (UTC)One of the nice things about the rollback feature is that it allows one to quickly see if a particular edit is still the latest when looking at a user's contributions page. This is especially nice when checking for subsequent edits that might revert or modify a bold change. The same feature is also a quick way to browse a vandal's edit history, to see if they still have the last edit on any pages. This makes the mass edits generated by semi-automated tools, e.g., AWB, rather annoying. Bots, at least, can be hidden from watchlists, but every tiny AWB edit will jump right to the top, potentially obscuring more significant previous edits. I'm not suggesting that anything be done, but I would like to know how other users feel about this. Feezo (send a signal | watch the sky) 10:00, 14 April 2011 (UTC)
I'm required by BAG policy to notify this noticeboard of my nomination for BAG member. Headbomb { talk / contribs / physics / books} 07:44, 20 April 2011 (UTC)
Hi, I would like to know where can I report unethical behavior of a scientist (in this case a linguist) who systemically edited articles to include his theory. 79.177.33.134 ( talk) 13:31, 20 April 2011 (UTC)
The article Hentai (explicitly pornographic Japanese comics) is illustrated with a really explicit image right at the top of the page. An editor who removed it said it was self-advertising, but the person who first placed it put it back saying Wikipedia is uncensored.
I don't really wish to get into the middle of this, but are there not problems with using this sort of imagery?
Or is it self-advertising after all and thus simply to be removed? It is not an example from any comic, but someone's personal drawing. The image when you click on it goes to a truly gigantic picture file, one so big you could print professional posters from it, which seems to have a ton of earlier states of the image also uploaded, as if the artist put up every version as he worked on it. I mean seriously, the file history just goes back and back. And it's HUGE! I originally linked to it in this message, but it was too gargantuan to include. It's File:Hadako-tan.png. And it's only use is in this one article.
Maybe if it has *any* reason to stay it could be put lower on the page so it's not the first thing you see? There are other illustrations, one classical Japanese and one from actual comics, which are appropriate and just fine.
But really, it looks like someone trying to game the Wikipedia system. Artemis-Arethusa ( talk) 21:52, 18 April 2011 (UTC)
Wikipedia currently has no method to control content other than manually blocking individual images for logged-in users. There is an ongoing discussion on adding content control features; see meta:2010 Wikimedia Study of Controversial Content: Part Two, especially the section User-Controlled Viewing Options. See also WP:NOTCENSORED, WP:CHILDPROTECT and Wikipedia:Guidance for younger editors. ---— Gadget850 (Ed) talk 22:34, 18 April 2011 (UTC)
Thank you, Dcoetzee, for the information on the linking syntax. It's interesting to hear what the Wikipedia policy is. I understand that Wikipedia needs to be honest. I do think it odd, though, that even the main article of Pornography does not have any imagery this explicit. Artemis-Arethusa ( talk) 18:12, 19 April 2011 (UTC)
Since when is a user providing a completely free, high quality image to wikipedia "gaming the system"? No one would make the argument User:XXX is producing a couple dozen high quality maps and then placing them in their respective articles, they must be removed for self promotion, and by the way they are huge when you click on them, I mean, really big. And to one of the users up above who is calling the girl with adult sized body proportions (longer limbs in proportion to body) and the gigantic breasts a child because of her childlike facial features needs to look at an anime character sometime, yes they have big, cute eyes that take up half their face. You see this girl, she is fifty years old, but on another body could pass as a child.(site blacklisted)
This girl looks underage, but she is in her 30s. It's called moe, Japanese like cute looking things, Japanese art in general uses pure lines and shapes, simple colors, and has a child like playfulness to it. The introduction of these conventions in anime of big eyes, and stylized characters is the natural extension of their culture into their animation, seeking to portray the essence of people and things rather than physically depicting them in a realistic manner.
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03:59, 20 April 2011 (UTC)
A banner is appearing with the text
Please take the 2011 Editor Survey by clicking here. Share your experiences and improve Wikipedia.
You can save the survey at any time and finish it later, but this may be the only time you will see this message.
Actually, I've seen the message several times—it has appeared at the top of various pages—but the linked words "clicking here" lead nowhere; the link simply adds a pound sign to the url of whatever page I'm on. What is this survey and where can it be found? Rivertorch ( talk) 03:50, 21 April 2011 (UTC)
Unless I'm remembering this incorrectly, pages such as "Cheetah" had a link which would play the cry of the cheetah. Is it possible I could see the code for it? Abce2 ( talk) 17:22, 24 April 2011 (UTC)
An unregistered editor with few edits has made a change to each of the nuclear power plant articles in the US, which is his right. Furthermore, he has made it in favor of "no nukes" which is also his right. Okay to have a pov.
However, the material is poorly integrated with the former material and would seem non- WP:TOPIC to a npov reader. Because of the fairly large amount of work involved, he is not interested in discussing a way of integrating it and dismisses/intervenes with discussions about improvement. I cannot change all of these poorly attended articles myself. More importantly, I cannot change them at all without his consent. It is easier for him to rv my change than to help integrate it. And why should he? He also has a few registered user cronies who are probably not that pov, but he intervenes anytime I try to discuss it with them.
For example, his changes could be part of a "homeland security" set of articles. but he refuses to discuss this because a) it would require changing 60 articles or so in detail, and b) it might dilute his "no nukes" stance.
Not sure how to proceed here. To abandon the articles seems to presage a time when we may all be overwhelmed by "Barbarians at the Gate" which will probably happen someday. I was hoping later rather than sooner! :) Student7 ( talk) 20:44, 24 April 2011 (UTC)
Does anyone know, has a block of /16 (650000) IPs ever happened before? Take a look at this if you don't believe: block at hr. Regards, -- Biblbroks (talk) 21:55, 24 April 2011 (UTC)
A few comments, if I may:
– MuZemike 02:33, 26 April 2011 (UTC)
Greetings. I just finished my first essay and I wasn't sure when an essay is considered good enough to link back to from the policy page. My essay is written to try and explain the Verifiability Policy to beginners. I don't want to link back to it from the main policy page unless it has already been peer reviewed; I don't want any problems. Any help would be appreciated. (Note: I wasn't sure which category this should go in, so I decided to play it safe and ask here. Crisco 1492 ( talk) 10:10, 16 April 2011 (UTC)
Aw shucks. I went to this essay expecting it to be along the lines of "too much participation in discussing policy can be hazardous to your mental health", but it was about something else. (Now that topic would be worth writing about.) -- llywrch ( talk) 16:03, 26 April 2011 (UTC)
And now for something completely different. I thought people might like to see an entry 'The negotiation of contributions to public wikis' in the 2010 Dance your PhD contest, just search for 'wiki'. In fact the Chemistry video 'Selection of a DNA aptamer for homocysteine using SELEX' was the overall winner. Dmcq ( talk) 19:09, 23 April 2011 (UTC)
Isn't this video outdated?
File:Wikipedia_video_tutorial-2-Reliability-en.ogv
Its showing the old interface. -- Tyw7 ( ☎ Contact me! • Contributions) Changing the world one at a time! 00:25, 24 April 2011 (UTC)
The Chinese encyclopedia Baidu Baike which have 3 millions and more articles, however about 1600+ articles is copy from Wikipedia, and 28 of them is copied from English Wikipedia. See the list at zh:WP:BD for details. You are invited to sign the letter to Baidu on zh:WP:VPM#聯署簽名 by putting your signature there. A press release will also be sent out with the name of Chinese Wikipedia community. Them will be send out within a few weeks. More discussion may be found at foundation-l -- HW ( talk) 01:00, 27 April 2011 (UTC)
OK,
I took the survey today. It had some problems, some of which are fairly serious.
Hobit ( talk) 01:36, 22 April 2011 (UTC)
Some time ago, I uploaded this image that I believed was a portrait of Kentucky Congressman Alney McLean and added it to his article. Later, someone removed the image, saying it was not of Alney McLean, but Illinois Congressman John McLean. The removing editor cited The Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, which does indeed show a hazier version of this image as John McLean. I did not have time to do much research at the time the image was removed, but I just found the same image in historian Otto Rothert's History of Muhlenberg County, Kentucky, where it is labelled as Alney McLean, circa 1820 (p. 71). I wasn't sure whether to list the issue at the John McLean talk page, the Alney McLean talk page, the questioning editor's talk page, or the image's talk page (which is on Commons), so I'm listing it here! Please advise as to how I should proceed. Acdixon ( talk • contribs • count) 14:29, 26 April 2011 (UTC)
I think it is best for me, and i hope others also, if i express my apology for violating the WP:1RR one revert per week parole to which all editors/editresses of the article Kosovo are subject to. So i apologize for that. Wish you all the best, -- biblbroks (talk) 07:32, 27 April 2011 (UTC)
There is one extra step in this video You DO NOT have to click your own name in order to access preference. Just click on peference... -- Tyw7 ( ☎ Contact me! • Contributions) Changing the world one at a time! 14:11, 27 April 2011 (UTC)
there seems to be an argument over an Award renaming proposal i entered Here
The proposal i brought up, is the template:Working Man's Barnstar should not have any gender parameters and be renamed to "Hard Worker" to give the Barnstar a clearer meaning and making it more general without over-personalizing the Barnstar. However, i see these poor reasons to why it should be kept and seem to neglect the purpose of the proposal. That and i find it Bias and almost sexist. It would be great if i had more input on it (oppose or support, i just want a good reasons)> Bread Ninja ( talk) 23:13, 25 April 2011 (UTC)
Anyone else with a more neutral view? I'm exhausted of seeing these type of editors. Bread Ninja ( talk) 10:12, 26 April 2011 (UTC)
This is really what we have to argue about? Why don't we try to spend the time arguing over this on improving articles. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 132.3.29.68 ( talk) 20:15, 26 April 2011 (UTC)
Honestly, I can't be bothered with such minute details. For goodness sake, its just a name of an award!!! If you want, just set up a redirect called the Template:The Working Barnstar. These "political correctness" is just a dumb waste of time!
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Tyw7 ( ☎ Contact me! • Contributions) Changing the world one at a time! 21:35, 26 April 2011 (UTC) It's the principle....plus it is offensive. When you use political correctness, you say it's done fort he sake of that. Which is not. Bread Ninja ( talk) 21:39, 26 April 2011 (UTC)
As an effort to pacify this discussion, I have added two more options and moving the "Working Wikipedian's" to the "wiki" option and making the "Hard Worker's" option the default (n). This is done so that all sides are happy. All options are still there (for those who want those) but for Bread Ninja's sake, the "default" option is changed -- Tyw7 ( ☎ Contact me! • Contributions) Changing the world one at a time! 22:59, 26 April 2011 (UTC)
P.S. It's not me who want the changing. It's User:Bread Ninja -- Tyw7 ( ☎ Contact me! • Contributions) Changing the world one at a time! 22:59, 26 April 2011 (UTC) ( edit conflict) Done Moved to requested name... Hopefully no further rebuttals/reprisals by others. Redirect of old name in effect -- Tyw7 ( ☎ Contact me! • Contributions) Changing the world one at a time! 23:07, 26 April 2011 (UTC)
This discussion is going nowhere: the same point has been repeatedly made by several different people, & for some reason Bread Ninja either doesn't understand the point, or doesn't want to understand it. It's clear that the name of this barnstar will not be changed in the near future, & further posts to this thread by anyone will not change that. I propose that we end this discussion, & everyone move on to something else. -- llywrch ( talk) 17:38, 27 April 2011 (UTC)
The barnstar was renamed even though there is no consensus on this. This should not have been done. See Wikipedia_talk:Barnstars#the_working_man.27s_barnstar. — HELLKNOWZ ▎ TALK 11:17, 29 April 2011 (UTC)
I have avoided raising the obvious concern here, waiting for somebody else to bring it up, but since they haven't, I will: Why does the star have five points? Who decided on this prime number-centric choice, this pandering to phalages, this warlike reference to the Pentagon? The four-pointed star is, of course, vastly preferable for its numerical neutrality, its alignment to the four main compass points, its correspondence to the dimensions of our space-time continuum. I am outraged that nobody has changed it! - DavidWBrooks ( talk) 17:41, 29 April 2011 (UTC)
I didn't say this the first time around, because I didn't want to keep this thread going ... but since it has continued regardless of my actions, now I will. Anyone else here suspect that Bread Ninja is simply trolling us? If you do, then act accordingly. -- llywrch ( talk) 20:33, 29 April 2011 (UTC)
And C. Northcote Parkinson is proven right yet again... Mr. Z-man 22:03, 29 April 2011 (UTC)
Apparently, the article about Kronum has been created only because, when proposed to deletion on the french Wikipedia, someone noticed that this new sport was so few notorious that it didn't even have its own page on the english Wikipedia. At its creation, the english article was tagged "possible autobiography or conflict of interest" but the tag was quickly removed, the same day, by its creator himself [6], what it's not permitted. So I would like to get opinions on the admissibility of this article. I'm not familiar at all with the structure of the Village Pump, it's the first time that I come here, so I hope I've asked my question in the correct place. Thank you in advance for your opinions. -- Basilus ( talk) 12:55, 2 May 2011 (UTC)
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Yours truly, cooldenny ( talk) 01:36, 1 May 2011 (UTC)
Hi folks!
While preparing hu:user:Bináris/TOCbot (see above) and gathering archive name patterns, I found three secret archives in your wiki:
None of them is linked from anywhere in the Wikipedia! Neither the header of Wikipedia:Village pump (policy), nor the "older discussions" page, nor anywhere. I don't know if there are such hidden archives of other pages, I just listed the subpages of policy with my bot. You may think to link them somewhere and search for others. They are also valuable because TOCbot won't list archives made by difflinks such as Wikipedia:Village pump archive#October 2004 - October 2007. Sincerely, Bináris ( talk) 18:28, 4 May 2011 (UTC)
One more: Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)/Archive2 (not to be confused with Archive 2) is not linked from the header either. You have a good many skeletons in the cupboard. :-) Bináris ( talk) 18:54, 4 May 2011 (UTC)
Hi! If anyone knows archive names, either those of community pages or private talk archives that are composed using
please let me know, too. I am working on a bot that will create table of contents from archives (see hu:user:Bináris/TOCbot), and I need some examples for testing. Thanks a lot, Bináris ( talk) 18:58, 1 May 2011 (UTC)
After being inactive from Wikipedia (except for edits to my mainspace and a couple articles every time I used Wikipedia to look something up) for two years while going to college, what have I missed? :) — Moe ε 22:40, 7 May 2011 (UTC)
The file commons:File:Great seal of the state of New Mexico.png, which is used on a very large number of pages ( links), has been deleted on Wikimedia Commons for the following reason: Per commons:Commons:Deletion requests/File:Great seal of the state of New Mexico.png. Rather than notify a large number of talk pages I am raising this on WP:AN and WP:VP to obtain the right intervention.
This notification is provided by a Bot, currently under trial -- CommonsNotification ( talk) 15:24, 9 May 2011 (UTC)
Please help, edit this abstract (only 2-3 paragraphs). Aaabbbvvvqqq ( talk) 18:53, 9 May 2011 (UTC)
I only asked for help from Wikipedians. I'm going to use this abstract in writing an article on Wikipedia. Aaabbbvvvqqq ( talk) 21:15, 9 May 2011 (UTC)
The file commons:File:Coat of arms of the Kingdom of Hawaii.svg, which is used on a very large number of pages ( links), has been deleted on Wikimedia Commons for the following reason: Per commons:Commons:Deletion requests/File:Coat of arms of the Kingdom of Hawaii.svg. Rather than notify a large number of talk pages I am raising this on WP:AN and WP:VP to obtain the right intervention.
This notification is provided by a Bot, currently under trial -- CommonsNotification ( talk) 22:09, 9 May 2011 (UTC)
I think there should be an article about Mississippi River floods. The Mississippi River article is quite weak on the subject. Unfortunately, when I tried to find the place to make this suggestion, I couldn't. It would be nice if Wikipedia would automatically ask if someone wants to suggest an article when one cannot find an article on a given topic, as it used to. 05:54, 5 May 2011 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 211.225.34.173 ( talk)
I just came across this article while checking out the topic of folklore: Lifter Puller Folklore. It doesn't seem to have anything to do with folklore. I'm fairly new here so I don't want get into the deletion thing myself. Maybe it just needs to be retitled or something. Thanks. BigJim707 ( talk) 13:39, 7 May 2011 (UTC)
Not helping anyone here. Get it gone. Heimstern Läufer (talk) 05:00, 6 May 2011 (UTC)
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Do a Google Search for my username. It's my real name. First page that comes up, if you're in the UK, anyway - which I am, is a WikiSynergy page, http://www.wikisynergy.com/wiki/Adam_Cuerden_%28Shoemaker%27s_Holiday%29 It's an attack site. And what does it use to attack me? Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/Matthew_Hoffman - an ArbCom case which the ArbcCom themselves, years later, admitted was false, should never have been taken, and involved Charles Matthews, then an arbitrator, abusing his powers to attack someone who accidentally disrespected him. The case was about a block that had happened three months earlier which Charles Matthews asked me to undo, giving no reason, while I was about to head into exams. I offered to hand off to ANI. However, Charles Matthews was upset that I didn't just undo a block that I did not remember because it was several months previous, and didn't have toime to investigate as I was in the run in to exams. This wasn't good enough for him, so he decided to vindictively go for my head - and this after the user in question had been unblocked. The blocked user was undeniably a single-purpose account, and an ANI thread had reviewed an accepted the block and presumption of sockpuppetry, and an independent admin had reviewed it, and declined to unblock before Charles came around. Calling it a "test case", he called, for my head, and before I had evven given my evidence, UninvitedCompany had, at the request ofhis fellow-arbitratr, written a proposed decision calling for me to be desysoped, and many pother things. Because, you know, rushing to judgement before the defendant has had a chance to defend himself clearly shows this isn't a kangaroo court. Charles MAtthews went mad, attacking many respected admins. Quotes from him:
Oh, really, Charles Matthews? And yet, four years later, noone can see that block log, but your attack page is the first ranking in Google. Further, knowing that this was a possibility, I was forced to fight this case through my exams, since I'm the only person of my name in the world. This resulted in me having to drop out of university. Oh, and late in the case, they admitted that no other dispute resolution had occured. So they opened an RfC. The RfC came out strongly against a desysop. UninvitedCompany stated that the community were simply "circl[ing] wagons" and thus could be ignored. Meanwhile, Arbcom circled wagons around Charles Matthews.
Charles Matthews never received any negative consequences from this case, except for losing his next election in a landslide of anger at him. As mentioned before, the next arbcom reviewed, and ddeclared the case was a farce. The Arbcom has now accepted that the case was a mistake from start to finish. But they refuse to make any meaningful amends. The top-ranked page in my name is an attack page based on their ethical failures. They could issue a statement, attempt to edit the attack wiki, discuss the problem with others, or many other options. They will do none of those. Wikipedia has ruined my life. Adam Cuerden ( talk) 00:13, 6 May 2011 (UTC)
Quick reality check. This edit of yours - "while I was suffering from severe depression, illness, and on the verge of nervous breakdown from the monetary situation at the time - I was literally faced with being homeless" - suggests there was plenty of other bad stuff going on in your life. Arbcom is not to blame for your exit from university and the ruination of your life. At best it is the author of a wikidrama which should be seen as such. Besides, with the best will in the world, who searches for you (or might at the time have been presumed to have been searching for you) on the internet? What is the connection between a spat on wikipedia findable in google, and the ruination of your life? Have you no sense of perspective? And is not this thread you rekindling the wikidrama. WTF? How on earth do you expect to be taken seriously. As to the so-called attack site, it seems remarkably neutral in tone, and corroborates the claims you make here, that arbcom nullified its own decision. Unwelcome as it may be to have a page about one's self on the internet, exactly how is that website attacking you? -- Tagishsimon (talk) 00:52, 6 May 2011 (UTC)
My observations of Wikipedia is that it can be stressful, abusive, and grind people up. There is a sort of excuse I call the "one straw argument". Very often, when someone's life goes badly wrong, there is not one sole, single, isolated cause. There are typically multiple aggravating factors. But there's something wrong where for each factor, the cry goes up "I'm just one straw! It was the fault of all those other straws! - and since they obviously caused problems, I can't have caused a problem, so it's not my problem!" -- Seth Finkelstein ( talk) 02:29, 6 May 2011 (UTC)
Reality check, part 2. The initial case, whether Charles was right or wrong, was about misuse of admin tools, and that misuse was well evidenced. If Charles had never existed or had avoided his part, your misuse of admin tools to block content dispute opponents on false grounds and multiple occasions over a period of several months in 2007 was still more than enough for a desysopping case. Your story and claims related to your personal background led to a compassionate offer to consider extenuating circumstances. You were offered your adminship back if you coulkd show stability for a few months. Your story also changed or turned out to include significant contradictory details which didn't impress me very much either (details excluded here because I have no doubt you were genuinely in deep distress and these were partly covered in AC emails as well as in personal correspondence to individual arbs and on-wiki). Nonetheless you were correctly allowed and helped to vanish and multiple apologies for the procedural matters were made to you by various arbs both informally and formally. In 2009 (wrongly as I still believe) the case was fully vacated due to procedural concerns even though in fact its core findings of admin misconduct were not in doubt. You used this, and still use it, as a platform to claim loudly that everything was incorrect - it was not. You then continued to make a loud noise and also resumed editing under your own name. This is where the sad tale leads. With compassion, you have created most of your own mess here. I wish you had not, but that is what the evidence says. In May 2009, 2 years later and knowing without doubt from the past the possible effect of real name editing, you asked to have your pseudonym account renamed so that you could edit under your real name again, knowing more than most the effect real name editing can have. I stopped keeping an eye on the case around 2009. Now 3.5 years on, here you are ranting again about Charles Matthews and UC, and events from 2007 and making fallacious claims about how others view you. In sum, you had exceptionally helpful handling, vacating of a case in which you clearly (procedure aside) had done wrong to other users, help vanishing, even an offer of reinstatement as an admin if you could show yourself to be back to stability for a reasonable period of some months. You knew precisely the potential for problems from real-name editing by 2009, having previously vanished. You largely placed the fire under your own cauldron and jumped in. That is why others are linking to terms like locus of control and suggesting displaced anger. You have my sympathy for the outcome, but I cannot let you fully blame others for it in the manner you have done. FT2 ( Talk | email) 02:52, 6 May 2011 (UTC)
A statement by John Vandenberg was going to go up today, politely dealing with Sven's statements in the collapsed section above, as part of an attempt to peacefully resolve Sven having violated the terms of a mediation agreement we were party to, and which Sven's statements had violated the terms of. Last night, Sven used the private communications of the attempt at mediation as the basis for a further attack: [7]. In this attack, Sven has gone so far as claiming that me privately providing evidence from our chatlog to the person negotiating peace between us is a sign of malice. Before I did so, however, I sent Sven full copies of the logs I have, which I cannot post in full to John or anyone else, as they contain private information about User:La Pianista, and the first section of the log is him telling me, when we had only recently met, the full details of the secret project of Tony's which later became the focus of the dispute. He then restates previous attacks. I only have an older draft of the statement John was going to make today, as John was going to make some final changes after running it by Sven. I'll going to go ahead and post the first draft here. Among other things, he had agreed to fix the sentence beginning "It is possible that...", because the point of that sentence was that there was no reports of any problems, but the phrasing is the sort of thing used in newspaper reports when they want to imply something without being libellous. It was very early in the morning for him. We were also going to add in a very brief mention that he had seen evidence that Sven was wrong about his claims of me turning him against Tony1, etc, but I didn't want to go into too much detail, or ask him to judge the merits of that, as, whatever past disputes I had with them, they are past. I was in the process of leaving Wikipedia; I was hoping to have got by with John handling this himself. - [redacted; see history] As stated before, John, Sven, User:Tony1, and I were under a mediation agreement, which required Sven to have used dispute resolution, not vicious attacks. The agreement states it must be quoted in full if violated and negotiations broke down, and so is quoted below - [redacted; see history] Quite simply, Sven is a fantasist. He rewrites the past to suit him, and, when presented with evidence from chat logs - the second section of the chat log I have is him saying that because Tony1 was being too mean to certain users in his featured sound reviews that he hated him; this was long before I mentioned some other past issues. I just don't want to go into details on Sven's claims, because the other users don't deserve it. Suffice to say, of the claims directly involving me, John Vandenberg has shown me innocent; the rest of Sven's testimony is no more accurate. I would ask that Sven be censured for his behaviour. Goodbye. 86.176.75.157 ( talk) 10:18, 10 May 2011 (UTC)
Due to Sven's behaviour, I have been advised I will need to submit a report to move forwards; this is at Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents#Sven_Manguard. I really don't want to be here anymore, but this will not die... Adam Cuerden ( talk) 02:44, 12 May 2011 (UTC) |
I noticed a less than civil response from an editor regarding the usage of templates on their talk page. It is my understanding that Templates are authorized by the community as a standardized neutral way to notify a user of information. As part of their page's Edit notice they ban people from using templates on their talk page. If someone uses one of the community standardized tools (Like Twinkle, Huggle, or other tools) or follow the required community procedures they are likeley to get a abusive message back threatening the template placer. What does the VP(m) community think? Hasteur ( talk) 15:21, 11 May 2011 (UTC)
See Wikipedia:Perennial proposals#Prohibit removal of warnings. It is a legitimate option that a user may reject automated messages, and delete them from his talk page on sight. It is not forbidden to send them automated messages anyway, but it's a thing of common courtesy to avoid doing that. In any case, if you are required to warn a user that (for example) you are talking about him at a noticeboard, and the user deletes the message and refuses to comment in the noticeboard, there is no problem: it's all in the talk page history, that you wrote to him and that he read it (the removal implies that the user had read the comment). Similarily, if a user is escalating warning templates on some issue, three removed warnings are the same than three warnings still in place, to consider if the user has been "warned enough". Warning templates are not meant to work as a "badge of shame", but neither their removal stops the process they warn about Cambalachero ( talk) 21:34, 11 May 2011 (UTC)
At Darul Uloom New York there is a box on the bottom with the title "Rate this page" that does not show when I edit the page. I also can't find a place in the pages history when the box was placed. What's going on? Guy Macon ( talk) —Preceding undated comment added 10:13, 12 May 2011 (UTC).
I am a Ph.D. researcher at the Digital Enterprise Research Institute in Galway, Ireland. My Ph.D. topic is online discussions, specifically the reasoning and arguments people use. I am currently studying WP:AfD, to understand how article deletion decisions are made.
I am working on a prototype argument assistant to help newcomers understand what kinds of arguments make sense, much in the way that the Article Wizard provides guidance for creating an article. From reading discussions, I am learning what kinds of arguments people use in AfD, especially to see what comments advance the discussion. Next I need to get some perspectives from editors!
I'm looking for Wikipedians to interview about the deletion process. I envision a 30 minute skype or phone conversation. I'm interested in learning about what works well in AfD discussions, any frustrations you have with it, and why you generally do or don't !vote in AfD.
I hope to talk with Wikipedians with a wide variety of experience editing (from newcomers to EN-WP, to regular EN-WP editors, to admins, especially admins who close discussions), with people who spend little time commenting in deletion discussions, as well as those who do.
Would you be willing to talk with me? Let me know the best times for you; you can reach me via wiki email, leave public comments on my Talk page or find more contact info on my webpage. Jodi.a.schneider ( talk) 14:02, 12 May 2011 (UTC)
Is there any list of all users & IP's that were blocked? Just curious... Darkjedi10 ( talk) 12:52, 14 May 2011 (UTC)
I would appreciate your thoughts. - jc37 23:20, 14 May 2011 (UTC)
I'd like to propose a geo-targeted CentralNotice for the Great American Wiknic in June. See also here.-- Pharos ( talk) 21:16, 15 May 2011 (UTC)
I've been adding help on referencing when people submit unref'd AFC's, and it does seem to help (in some cases), and do no harm in others. It doesn't affect the remaining process of AFC, but the timely info helps.
Now seeking this to be automated, and was thus advised to mention it here. See Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/ChzzBot IV. Chzz ► 17:26, 16 May 2011 (UTC)
Everyone is invited to participate in Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Geographic.org, a discussion about over 2,500 articles. Due to the unusual character and the potential impact of the discussion, I believe that more participation than usual would be beneficial to get a true sense of the community's opinion on this. Fram ( talk) 08:24, 11 May 2011 (UTC)
Is anyone else having trouble with these? I haven't been able to open a .pdf archive file from the New York Times for two days now. Gatoclass ( talk) 22:11, 16 May 2011 (UTC)
Looking at the history of File:Shwedagon-Pano.jpg, it looks like after having uploaded the file in 2006, the original poster compressed the file a little bit vertically and quite a bit more horizontally, so the pagoda's dimensions are definitely different. Unless there is some reason the original upload might have been stretched horizontally. The image appears to be in use in a lot of Wikipedia language versions (even though it appears to be hosted on en) and I doubt a message left on the user's Discussion page on the Commons will be read. How should I proceed? I didn't want to just revert the image. Comet Tuttle ( talk) 00:08, 17 May 2011 (UTC)
Hello, I was curious about the data size (Terabytes) of the 3,636,000 or so English articles stored amongst the Wikipedia servers. What storage space would be required to hold a single copy of them all? Thank you. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Winallmoney ( talk • contribs) 05:06, 17 May 2011 (UTC)
An un-registered Wikipedian keeps saying Maria Gomes Valentim is older than Besse Cooper. Some registered Wikipedian please study the edits of this user to help see if this is right, and give MGV an article. Georgia guy ( talk) 14:35, 18 May 2011 (UTC)
Hi there, for some reason, completely out of the blue, I have started receiving emails from wiki@wikimedia.org
everytime somebody posts on my talkpage. Not only is this annoying, but I haven't changed any setting to allow this....anybody know how I can stop it? Thanks,
Giant
Snowman
14:07, 14 May 2011 (UTC)
NB: there is now Help:Email notification as a place for info about this. Rd232 talk 00:21, 23 May 2011 (UTC)
CAN ANY ONE HELP WITH THIS REQUEST. IF ANYONE KNOWS THEN PLEASE LET ME KNOW —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.142.87.110 ( talk) 10:48, 22 May 2011 (UTC)
why is there no article on this telephone company, it's infamous in the chinese community. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.99.131.84 ( talk) 01:19, 23 May 2011 (UTC)
Someone is undoing my edits just so they can do the same thing i am. Bread Ninja ( talk) 18:47, 18 May 2011 (UTC)
The Communicative Practices in Virtual Workspaces research group in Human Centered Design and Engineering department at the University of Washington ( http://courses.washington.edu/commprac/) is inviting editors like yourself to participate in an online survey that allows us to find connections among users in Wikipedia. We are particularly interested in the Wikipedia Request for Adminship (RfA) process. The survey will allow us to better understand the RfA process and to research tools that could make the process easier for members of the Wikipedia community. The survey will only take about 15 minutes to complete and no personally identifiable information will be linked to your survey responses. We want to research how the community is managed and how it makes decisions, specifically the process in which a person is decided by the community to be promoted to administrator status in Wikipedia. Questions in the survey will ask you how you evaluate an RfA candidate, what characterisics are most valuable when evaluating the candidate, and what information you use to evaluate the candidate.
The link to my user page is [ [12]]. Here is the link to the survey: https://catalyst.uw.edu/webq/survey/commprac/135246
Thank you and please share this opportunity to help our research group with other Wikipedia users you know. -- Avdelamerced ( talk) 20:20, 23 May 2011 (UTC)
(Note: The 18 and over confirmation is standard practices in research. It was required to include this in our survey.) -- Avdelamerced ( talk) 05:40, 10 June 2011 (UTC)
Hey, I've just started a project to try to get featured the vast and daunting topics listed at WP:VITAL. Please join up, people, as this highly worthwhile effort can not be done without lots of participation. Just head on over to WP:FAVA and take a look. Cheers, ☻☻☻ Sithman VIII ! !☻☻☻ 10:14, 18 May 2011 (UTC)
Comment: this is clearly a worthwhile endeavour (though I'd start with the lower aim of getting them all to WP:GA status), but as pointed out, very difficult. Anyone willing to try deserves encouragement, and I'll add the suggestion that attempting to get different wikiprojects on board to actively collaborate would probably be helpful. Rd232 talk 19:04, 18 May 2011 (UTC)
tl;dr version: plz keep WP:FAVA in Wikipedia: ☻☻☻ Sithman VIII ! !☻☻☻ 02:27, 21 May 2011 (UTC)
I've been trying to create templates for a few human rights/freedom of expression awards today, including Template:Footer Gwangju Prize for Human Rights laureates and Template:Footer Homo Homini Award laureates, which went well, and Template:Footer CPJ International Press Freedom Award laureates, which is going very badly due to the number of past winners (4-6 a year for twenty years). Would anyone with more experience in templates be willing to take a look at the latter and let me know if they have a formatting suggestion that would make this template more attractive and/or helpful? Or should I just give this one up as a lost cause? Thanks, Khazar ( talk) 07:18, 24 May 2011 (UTC)
Will someone unban me please? (User TCO). 71.246.153.105 ( talk) 21:52, 24 May 2011 (UTC)
Per past suggestions on Meta about wider announcements for IRC office hours, I just wanted to post a quick note that there will be one with Sue Gardner this week on Thursday the 26th at 17:00 UTC. [13] Instructions and local time conversions are on the office hours Meta page I just linked to. If you have suggestions for how to improve awareness about these meetings, please let me know. Also feel free to translate this message to other Village Pumps as you like. :) Thanks, Steven Walling at work 20:44, 23 May 2011 (UTC)
Custodial elements affiliated with Church_of_the_SubGenius are busy trying to keep a valid mention of a SubGenius affiliated criminal from their webpage due to the nature of his crimes. A couple of unbiased arbiters would be in order. 71.102.18.173 ( talk) 19:49, 25 May 2011 (UTC)
I am getting no response here:
The file commons:File:Deoband.jpg, which is used on a very large number of pages ( links), has been marked for nominated deletion on Wikimedia Commons for the following reason: Deletion requests May 2011. Rather than notify a large number of talk pages I am raising this on WP:AN and WP:VP to obtain the right intervention.
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I may be seen to be nitpicking here, but upon reading the article on the animal Potto just now, I reacted when the author asserted that: ""Potto" possibly comes from the African word "pata"". To my little mind, The idea of an 'African language' makes about as much sense as the idea of an 'European language'. Instead, I would think there are hundreds of languages spoken on the continent of Africa, just as there are many languages within the continent of Europe. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potto Deemdanna — Preceding unsigned comment added by Deemdanna ( talk • contribs) 17:03, 26 May 2011 (UTC)
I have proposed a change to the wording of Template:Non-free historic image (see the template's talk page for my proposal) but it needs more eyes and someone with the right permissions to edit the template, since it is protected. Barrylb ( talk) 02:29, 27 May 2011 (UTC)
I am trying to make this list and that list, this one and this one a little shorter. Many hands make light work. Thanks in advance, Wasbeer 02:58, 23 May 2011 (UTC)
I wanted to know if we have a Wikipedia project that documents instances where editing of Wikipedia by the students was a part of academic curriculum. I am in the midst of doing this currently with my students and any pointers to previous instances and best practices therein would be of immense help. TIA. -- Strategyprof ( talk) 09:40, 25 May 2011 (UTC)
Thank you both. I will contact User talk:Mdennis (WMF). -- Strategyprof ( talk) 16:42, 27 May 2011 (UTC)
According to this, "If you take any article, click on the first link in the article text not in parentheses or italics, and then repeat, you will eventually end up at Philosophy." Make of this what you will. Herostratus ( talk) 06:39, 26 May 2011 (UTC)
Trying on a few, so far all had to pass either "science" (7 times) or "mathematics" (3 times) before they arrived at "philosophy". Fram ( talk) 07:23, 26 May 2011 (UTC)
Is there a list where I could find lawsuits and legal action against Wikipedia? SwisterTwister ( talk) 02:03, 28 May 2011 (UTC)
St. Petersburg International Economic Forum and SPIEF are duplicate articles. -- MZMcBride ( talk) 21:19, 28 May 2011 (UTC)
Why do the Rate this page ratings not include negative ratings? I'm looking at Jonathan Drubner, an unrefenced BLP, and would have preferred to issue negative ratings for the article, but that's not an option. 216.93.212.245 ( talk) 03:43, 29 May 2011 (UTC)
This probably isn't the right place to discuss this, but I have no idea where is.
I saw the watchlist notice that the Wikimedia Board of Trustees election had begun, and I clicked on "please vote." That took me here. When I clicked on "go to the voting server," it said "Welcome, SlimVirgin," but it exposed my IP address in the top right corner, because it's a Foundation page, and I don't have a Foundation account.
Is this meant to happen, or does it raise privacy concerns? SlimVirgin TALK| CONTRIBS 01:11, 29 May 2011 (UTC)
If you're interested, I've documented it at Wikitech. — Andrew Garrett • talk 03:59, 29 May 2011 (UTC)
The file commons:File:Lascaux2.jpg, which is used on a very large number of pages ( links), has been marked for nominated deletion on Wikimedia Commons for the following reason: Deletion requests May 2011. Rather than notify a large number of talk pages I am raising this on WP:AN and WP:VP to obtain the right intervention.
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Hy there, I'm hereby asking for some advice. To cut things short: I found a translated English quote used by a reputed scholar and finding it interresting I went after the German orginal statement. To my surprise I found some rather important discrepancies between the German original and the English translation.
Now, I need to know if there any Wiki policy about this matter. Can and should we remove the translated sentence and replace it with a better one? Should the article only use the translated sentence which is used by the scholar despite its poor quality? Should the translation be tagged with a "dubious" or something else? Flamarande ( talk) 16:45, 29 May 2011 (UTC) PS: In case this request is on the wrong place could someone indicate me the proper place? Thanks
(If this is the wrong forum for this, feel free to move it to the correct forum ! )
I just made a cosmetic change on the drug box for
Bleomycin , as I've never worked with a drug box before I've left a note over there
On the talk page. Feel free to take a look, and if I've botched it up, feel free to change it and let me know where I erred. Thanks
KoshVorlon
' Naluboutes Aeria Gloris
18:05, 30 May 2011 (UTC)
I searched for answers to my question, but found nothing similar. Please let me know if there is an existing thread or a more appropriate location for raising it.
Does anyone know if it is possible to get a list of all articles with a given start date? Ideally, I would like to be able to find all articles with initial rev_timestamp within a given range. I'm sure I could do it by crawling Wikipedia, but that would cause a lot of unnecessary traffic to the millions of pages that don't have the desired timestamp. I'm hoping someone knows of an easier way. Thanks in advance. Wikipositivist ( talk) 18:22, 20 May 2011 (UTC)
The file commons:File:BrunetBoy.jpg, which is used on a very large number of pages ( links), has been marked for speedy deletion on Wikimedia Commons for the following reason: Other speedy deletions. Rather than notify a large number of talk pages I am raising this on WP:AN and WP:VP to obtain the right intervention.
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The file commons:File:.jpg, which is used on a very large number of pages ( links), has been deleted on Wikimedia Commons for the following reason: Unused and implausible, broken, or cross-namespace redirects. Rather than notify a large number of talk pages I am raising this on WP:AN and WP:VP to obtain the right intervention.
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Must images of historical importance be "subjects of commentary" before we can use them under a claim of fair use? See RfC here. Input from uninvolved editors would be particularly appreciated. SlimVirgin TALK| CONTRIBS 05:02, 1 June 2011 (UTC)
Is this to the article " cease and desist" worth some special (legal) attention? Cheers, -- Edcolins ( talk) 20:24, 1 June 2011 (UTC)
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I need help, Is there any global council for injustice in Wikimedia? I was a veteran wikipedian user with 4 years in spanish wikipedia. I have blocked for 6 months in Wikipedia by a dictatorial group that they control everything from year ago. Spanish wikipedia has a problem. We need help! Jimbo Wales! Someone for stop that injustice please!! Thor8 ( talk) 19:36, 1 June 2011 (UTC)
A draft of how to run the trial is now located here. Crossposting from WP:VPR. The Blade of the Northern Lights ( 話して下さい) 19:11, 2 June 2011 (UTC)
Is there some graphists ? Users loving to draw ? There is a Wikipedia:Graphic Lab/Illustration workshop and a Wikipedia:Graphic Lab/Map workshop. in need of creators. Most maps requests don't get comments and need a graphists. These places are some kind of graphic forum and school : we receive requests, discuss about them, share /Graphic & Map tutorials, a learn on the way. We need graphists to come, inject fresh knowledge, and help around on the Wikipedia:Graphic Lab/Map workshop. People interested, please come ! Map making is a specific skill, almost easy to do, while maps, or relate technical diagrams are wonderful tools to explain and illustrate articles and knowledges. Inkscape ( Download!) is a nice free software to create SVG maps. So come, come, come, and do what you like ! : ] -- Yug (talk) 04:28, 13 April 2010 (UTC)
This user [16] said he is an adm on Wiki-en. Is this true? He was looking for a "gay date" on Wiki in portuguese language. What is this?? If he is, I want his sysop tools removed NOW for bad behaviour. (Wiki-pt main page talk section is not an AOL sex room) MachoCarioca ( talk) 05:34, 4 June 2011 (UTC)
I may give away my ignorance in this question, and perhaps this is the wrong place to ask, but I will place the question here all the same. I was given the notice "The Wikimedia Board of Trustees election has started. Please vote", and I would like to participate and place my vote. However, when I was ready to place my vote, I realised that the voting was taken place at wikimedia, not wikipedia, where I have no account. Do I have the right to place my vote? I assume that a notice about the election would not have been sent to me otherwise? I have no account on wikimedia, which may disqualify me. Forgive me if I seem ignorant - I have been a member of wikipedia for several years but I have mainly been active in editing rather than taking part in the other sides of the project. Thank you in advance! -- Aciram ( talk) 21:31, 4 June 2011 (UTC)
The file commons:File:Creation of the Sun and Moon face detail.jpg, which is used on a very large number of pages ( links), has been marked for nominated deletion on Wikimedia Commons for the following reason: Deletion requests May 2011. Rather than notify a large number of talk pages I am raising this on WP:AN and WP:VP to obtain the right intervention.
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The dab page Unbroken has a rating thingy at the bottom. Explain to me why a dab page would need to be rated. Can someone remove this? Ten Pound Hammer, his otters and a clue-bat • ( Otters want attention) 16:36, 1 June 2011 (UTC)
Can someone please go through the lists of articles with Template:NOINDEX transcluded in them and determine (on a case-by-case basis) which of those articles should be indexed? I've already removed Template:NOINDEX from the following:
I attempted to remove the template from more articles, but I reverted myself, since I felt that the decision belonged to more knowledgeable users. -- Michaeldsuarez ( talk) 03:16, 7 June 2011 (UTC)
<meta name="robots" content="noindex,follow" />
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PrimeHunter (
talk)
11:46, 7 June 2011 (UTC)
I'm participating in a discussion about whether or not to delete this article, and it's pretty off-putting to see how little participation there has been. Hopefully some more editors will come and weigh in. Thanks! Hermione is a dude ( talk) 09:46, 7 June 2011 (UTC)
While going through an old box of my father-in-law I found a photo of the group from vmf 113 Capt Loren D. Everton Commanding May 8, 1943. I am interested to know if there is anyone out there who might want a copy of this picture or maybe I can figure out how to put it on the computer. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pdajg ( talk • contribs) 01:38, 8 June 2011 (UTC)
Sinaia hasn't had a single reference in a while, and has been tagged as unreffed for over two years. Is there any sort of organized citing effort for ancient unreffed tags? -- ۩ M ask 08:22, 8 June 2011 (UTC)
Uninvolved eyes would be much appreciated at Talk:Santorum (neologism)#Proposal to rename, redirect, and merge content. Many thanks, SlimVirgin TALK| CONTRIBS 16:49, 8 June 2011 (UTC)
Re http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:212.219.249.5 the year long ban of all public computers in a city for no real reason.
Does anyone know why User:Syrthiss is claiming to be the chief Administrator for The Wikipedia? I can find nothing about this on his User page. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Syrthiss. Ansotu ( talk) 17:30, 7 June 2011 (UTC)
As one of the administrators I am trusted by the community to respond to unblock requests and make decisions on those unblocks. We don't need any community review of simple blocking situations like this, though you as the IP are welcome to post another unblock request at that page if you feel my answer wasn't sufficient. If you're just looking for someone to be mad at, I'm happy to take the focus away from the original blocking admin. Glad to see you took my advice and made an account. Happy editing! Syrthiss ( talk) 11:07, 8 June 2011 (UTC)
I've started a discussion at Commons:Village_pump#Commons:Category_structure about changing the Commons category structure to more explicitly use English Wikipedia's category structure as a starting point. I don't want people charging over there to comment, but I'd like some sense here of what people's experience of using Commons' category system is. You may ask, by the way, "why base it on en.wp"? The answer is that as long as we don't have proper multilingual categories (probably years off; see Commons:Village_pump#Multi-lingual_category_naming) and/or a really good system for category redirects (ditto), Commons uses English category names by default. Given that, there's an obvious benefit in aligning Commons' and en.wp's category structures except where there's an actual reason not to. And en.wp's category system is generally more developed than Commons', so it makes sense to do the aligning in this direction. Also, a lot of the time this aligning is happening anyway, but in a disorganised, haphazard way; this would just write that down and build on it, and give the opportunity to clarify necessary exceptions. So - thoughts? Experiences? Rd232 talk 21:31, 10 June 2011 (UTC)
Hi everyone, I just wanted to let people know that I am in the midst of assigning the 'researcher' user right to a few people working with the Foundation. (More about the rights here and here.) This is a temporary assignment until September 1st. You can see the full list of project participants, as well as our research questions and results so far, on Meta at Research:Wikimedia Summer of Research 2011. Thanks, Steven Walling at work 19:24, 13 June 2011 (UTC)
I created Wikipedia:Deletion review/Log/2011 June 16 by following the directions on the WP:DRV page, but it isn't being transcluded onto DRV. What did I do wrong? The Mark of the Beast ( talk) 01:21, 16 June 2011 (UTC)
Ah, well, it showed up finally. The Mark of the Beast ( talk) 06:03, 16 June 2011 (UTC)
(moved from Policy village pump)
Hi everyone-
WMF's Fundraiser Team will continue to test banners, landing pages and analytics systems this week. The banners will appear for about 30-60 mins per country, and this week we should be working with USA, Saint Lucia, Samoa, Belize and Barbados.
I will update this thread in case we add any new countries to the testing schedule.
Thank you,
Wikimedia Foundation Fundraiser Team Ppena (WMF) ( talk) 17:30, 13 June 2011 (UTC)
Hello, I looking for applications android and applications homebrew for my psp and my phone that are using Wikipedia based dictionary and Wikipedia offline and i looking for to see offline articles from Wikipedia like books. Do you can help me?
I know Wikipediadictionary from a korean one, bjkim but I can not to find it with google. Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Futbol Flamenco Fiesta ( talk • contribs) 13:07, 17 June 2011 (UTC)
The debat is heating up about the wehereabout of the River Shannon. Most people and the paper Encyclopedia Britannica state that it is the longest river on the island Ireland. Others, mostly (but not exclusively) English, state that it is the longest river on the British Isles. Unfortunately that last term is politically sensitive. The debat is heating up, so some cool opinions are very welcome on the talkpage there. Night of the Big Wind ( talk) 01:17, 19 June 2011 (UTC)
For two weeks only one person has said anything in Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mondlango (2nd nomination), and he is unfortunately an IP editor. If a few people would go there to review the evidence and vote that would be fantastic. Hermione is a dude ( talk) 15:40, 21 June 2011 (UTC)
This biography page was clearly written by the same person as an autobiography to promote himself. He is not a welknown academic in his native Turkey and his biography page doesn't exist in Turkish Wikipedia for not meeting the required criteria. -- Abuk SABUK ( talk) 16:30, 21 June 2011 (UTC)
Perhaps it's a statistical fluctuation, but it's interesting that the quantity of humanities topics up for PR now seem to vastly outnumber the science, technology and engineering articles. Are editors starting to give up trying to slog difficult, technical articles through the FAC process? :-) Regards, RJH ( talk) 22:04, 9 June 2011 (UTC)
I've just PROD-ed a new article, KESERASIAN MUSYAWARAH ONLINE DAN TATAP MUKA ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views), as being a non-English unencyclopedic sociology essay. Since it should – presumably uncontroversially – be deleted on numerous grounds, is there any quicker way to get this done? Best, ╟─ Treasury Tag► directorate─╢ 15:16, 14 June 2011 (UTC)
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I have a blog on Livejournal and I've just made a post to it where I have come out to my friends list as a wikipedia editor and invited them to ask me questions and come to me for help if they ever want to edit on a wiki.
Is this a good idea. Should I try to to get other wikipedians to do this too? Any idea how to make an "I edit Wikipedia. Ask me how!" user icon?
I am -- filceolaire ( talk) 13:42, 3 April 2011 (UTC)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambala
The Educational consultant column is clearly an advertisement to promote one's own company. As far as I remember, the last time I check Ambala's page, there were plenty of schools and a few colleges mentioned in the educational institution columns. But now, there are none.
Please rectify the problem.
Thanks
PS: I didn't know where else to post this topic. Hence, I came here. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Harshm2u ( talk • contribs) 12:42, 8 April 2011 (UTC)
It's the problem from Wikipedia:Village pump (miscellaneous)/Archive_31#Need_some_eyes again. User:DGG no longer feels capable of dealing with the situation. The anon is edit warring to discredit the researcher, e.g., saying that "he alleges" facts that are uncontested by anyone except the anon and that the sources (high-quality newspaper articles and scholarly journals) are all wrong or don't contain the material that they plainly do contain, apparently on the grounds that they don't support the anon's personal beliefs. We need help at The Man Who Would Be Queen. WhatamIdoing ( talk) 22:18, 8 April 2011 (UTC)
Would someone (ideally well-versed in image and Commons policy) be able to tell me what to do with this image? It was uploaded for a page that was repeatedly speedied in mainspace, and the original AfC submission was deleted here. The creator was indeffed as a disruption-only account, and this gigantic image of himself doesn't serve any useful purpose. I only ask because it was uploaded to Commons, and I haven't learned to navigate them. The Blade of the Northern Lights ( 話して下さい) 16:34, 10 April 2011 (UTC)
Currently, the non-uniquely-named politician, Jerry Lewis, has a biography entitled, " Jerry Lewis (California)." Convention, if I'm not mistaken, holds that this should be "Jerry Lewis (politician)." I'm not admin-grade, so I can't do this even if I was right. Suggestions? Jpatch ( talk) 14:29, 8 April 2011 (UTC)
Greetings, I've been helping out at Wikipedia:Requests for feedback and found it to be the most rewarding experience I've had improving others' WP efforts. I'm getting great response and feedback, seeing some "deletion worthy" articles turned into easily C-class in a matter of days, and just generally seeing some real impact. The downside is that I'm pretty much 90% of the RfF for the last couple weeks, so I could really use some backup. Even just two or three people would be a huge help. It's very easy, and even with literally 10 minutes a few times a week you can provide valuable feedback to newb editors eager to learn. Thanks for anyone who can drop by to help, even if it's just a handful of times here and there. MatthewVanitas ( talk) 05:18, 14 April 2011 (UTC)
I would like to invite you to a study conducted by KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology). The study is about “motivation to contribute to the Wikipedia articles”. The purpose of this research is to gather information on the English Wikipedia users’ perception on their contribution. For that reason, we will be surveying people like you, asking them to complete a very short questionnaire including only 22 questions, expecting you to spend 5 minutes. If you are willing to participate, our questionnaire will ask you about your motivation to contribute to Wikipedia. There are no foreseeable risks nor benefits to you associated with this project. All responses are confidential. Your participation is voluntary and you may withdraw from this project at any time. Thank you very much for your time. To participate in the survey, please visit the online form of the survey cooldenny ( talk) 20:03, 13 April 2011 (UTC)
The NASAWatch website got a takedown notice from the federal government about using the OSTP's logo ( File:US-OfficeOfScienceAndTechnologyPolicy-Seal.svg) on their pages. This is reminiscent of the FBI's attempts to get Wikipedia to take down the FBI logo a while back. I notice that didn't work. Corvus cornix talk 21:57, 13 April 2011 (UTC)
I am preparing a study about why people contribute to Wikipedia though the direct benefits does not exist. For the study, I have established the following questionnaire. Please let me know whether or not there are the mistakes from the perspective of the Wikipedia actual users. cooldenny ( talk) 20:24, 12 April 2011 (UTC)
contributing to the English Wikipeida by editing any kind of the English Wikipedia articles.
I know there is a template to be placed in a section to say it needs expansion, but I don't know what it is. Please point me to it. -- DThomsen8 ( talk) 13:21, 18 April 2011 (UTC)
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16:57, 18 April 2011 (UTC)One of the nice things about the rollback feature is that it allows one to quickly see if a particular edit is still the latest when looking at a user's contributions page. This is especially nice when checking for subsequent edits that might revert or modify a bold change. The same feature is also a quick way to browse a vandal's edit history, to see if they still have the last edit on any pages. This makes the mass edits generated by semi-automated tools, e.g., AWB, rather annoying. Bots, at least, can be hidden from watchlists, but every tiny AWB edit will jump right to the top, potentially obscuring more significant previous edits. I'm not suggesting that anything be done, but I would like to know how other users feel about this. Feezo (send a signal | watch the sky) 10:00, 14 April 2011 (UTC)
I'm required by BAG policy to notify this noticeboard of my nomination for BAG member. Headbomb { talk / contribs / physics / books} 07:44, 20 April 2011 (UTC)
Hi, I would like to know where can I report unethical behavior of a scientist (in this case a linguist) who systemically edited articles to include his theory. 79.177.33.134 ( talk) 13:31, 20 April 2011 (UTC)
The article Hentai (explicitly pornographic Japanese comics) is illustrated with a really explicit image right at the top of the page. An editor who removed it said it was self-advertising, but the person who first placed it put it back saying Wikipedia is uncensored.
I don't really wish to get into the middle of this, but are there not problems with using this sort of imagery?
Or is it self-advertising after all and thus simply to be removed? It is not an example from any comic, but someone's personal drawing. The image when you click on it goes to a truly gigantic picture file, one so big you could print professional posters from it, which seems to have a ton of earlier states of the image also uploaded, as if the artist put up every version as he worked on it. I mean seriously, the file history just goes back and back. And it's HUGE! I originally linked to it in this message, but it was too gargantuan to include. It's File:Hadako-tan.png. And it's only use is in this one article.
Maybe if it has *any* reason to stay it could be put lower on the page so it's not the first thing you see? There are other illustrations, one classical Japanese and one from actual comics, which are appropriate and just fine.
But really, it looks like someone trying to game the Wikipedia system. Artemis-Arethusa ( talk) 21:52, 18 April 2011 (UTC)
Wikipedia currently has no method to control content other than manually blocking individual images for logged-in users. There is an ongoing discussion on adding content control features; see meta:2010 Wikimedia Study of Controversial Content: Part Two, especially the section User-Controlled Viewing Options. See also WP:NOTCENSORED, WP:CHILDPROTECT and Wikipedia:Guidance for younger editors. ---— Gadget850 (Ed) talk 22:34, 18 April 2011 (UTC)
Thank you, Dcoetzee, for the information on the linking syntax. It's interesting to hear what the Wikipedia policy is. I understand that Wikipedia needs to be honest. I do think it odd, though, that even the main article of Pornography does not have any imagery this explicit. Artemis-Arethusa ( talk) 18:12, 19 April 2011 (UTC)
Since when is a user providing a completely free, high quality image to wikipedia "gaming the system"? No one would make the argument User:XXX is producing a couple dozen high quality maps and then placing them in their respective articles, they must be removed for self promotion, and by the way they are huge when you click on them, I mean, really big. And to one of the users up above who is calling the girl with adult sized body proportions (longer limbs in proportion to body) and the gigantic breasts a child because of her childlike facial features needs to look at an anime character sometime, yes they have big, cute eyes that take up half their face. You see this girl, she is fifty years old, but on another body could pass as a child.(site blacklisted)
This girl looks underage, but she is in her 30s. It's called moe, Japanese like cute looking things, Japanese art in general uses pure lines and shapes, simple colors, and has a child like playfulness to it. The introduction of these conventions in anime of big eyes, and stylized characters is the natural extension of their culture into their animation, seeking to portray the essence of people and things rather than physically depicting them in a realistic manner.
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03:59, 20 April 2011 (UTC)
A banner is appearing with the text
Please take the 2011 Editor Survey by clicking here. Share your experiences and improve Wikipedia.
You can save the survey at any time and finish it later, but this may be the only time you will see this message.
Actually, I've seen the message several times—it has appeared at the top of various pages—but the linked words "clicking here" lead nowhere; the link simply adds a pound sign to the url of whatever page I'm on. What is this survey and where can it be found? Rivertorch ( talk) 03:50, 21 April 2011 (UTC)
Unless I'm remembering this incorrectly, pages such as "Cheetah" had a link which would play the cry of the cheetah. Is it possible I could see the code for it? Abce2 ( talk) 17:22, 24 April 2011 (UTC)
An unregistered editor with few edits has made a change to each of the nuclear power plant articles in the US, which is his right. Furthermore, he has made it in favor of "no nukes" which is also his right. Okay to have a pov.
However, the material is poorly integrated with the former material and would seem non- WP:TOPIC to a npov reader. Because of the fairly large amount of work involved, he is not interested in discussing a way of integrating it and dismisses/intervenes with discussions about improvement. I cannot change all of these poorly attended articles myself. More importantly, I cannot change them at all without his consent. It is easier for him to rv my change than to help integrate it. And why should he? He also has a few registered user cronies who are probably not that pov, but he intervenes anytime I try to discuss it with them.
For example, his changes could be part of a "homeland security" set of articles. but he refuses to discuss this because a) it would require changing 60 articles or so in detail, and b) it might dilute his "no nukes" stance.
Not sure how to proceed here. To abandon the articles seems to presage a time when we may all be overwhelmed by "Barbarians at the Gate" which will probably happen someday. I was hoping later rather than sooner! :) Student7 ( talk) 20:44, 24 April 2011 (UTC)
Does anyone know, has a block of /16 (650000) IPs ever happened before? Take a look at this if you don't believe: block at hr. Regards, -- Biblbroks (talk) 21:55, 24 April 2011 (UTC)
A few comments, if I may:
– MuZemike 02:33, 26 April 2011 (UTC)
Greetings. I just finished my first essay and I wasn't sure when an essay is considered good enough to link back to from the policy page. My essay is written to try and explain the Verifiability Policy to beginners. I don't want to link back to it from the main policy page unless it has already been peer reviewed; I don't want any problems. Any help would be appreciated. (Note: I wasn't sure which category this should go in, so I decided to play it safe and ask here. Crisco 1492 ( talk) 10:10, 16 April 2011 (UTC)
Aw shucks. I went to this essay expecting it to be along the lines of "too much participation in discussing policy can be hazardous to your mental health", but it was about something else. (Now that topic would be worth writing about.) -- llywrch ( talk) 16:03, 26 April 2011 (UTC)
And now for something completely different. I thought people might like to see an entry 'The negotiation of contributions to public wikis' in the 2010 Dance your PhD contest, just search for 'wiki'. In fact the Chemistry video 'Selection of a DNA aptamer for homocysteine using SELEX' was the overall winner. Dmcq ( talk) 19:09, 23 April 2011 (UTC)
Isn't this video outdated?
File:Wikipedia_video_tutorial-2-Reliability-en.ogv
Its showing the old interface. -- Tyw7 ( ☎ Contact me! • Contributions) Changing the world one at a time! 00:25, 24 April 2011 (UTC)
The Chinese encyclopedia Baidu Baike which have 3 millions and more articles, however about 1600+ articles is copy from Wikipedia, and 28 of them is copied from English Wikipedia. See the list at zh:WP:BD for details. You are invited to sign the letter to Baidu on zh:WP:VPM#聯署簽名 by putting your signature there. A press release will also be sent out with the name of Chinese Wikipedia community. Them will be send out within a few weeks. More discussion may be found at foundation-l -- HW ( talk) 01:00, 27 April 2011 (UTC)
OK,
I took the survey today. It had some problems, some of which are fairly serious.
Hobit ( talk) 01:36, 22 April 2011 (UTC)
Some time ago, I uploaded this image that I believed was a portrait of Kentucky Congressman Alney McLean and added it to his article. Later, someone removed the image, saying it was not of Alney McLean, but Illinois Congressman John McLean. The removing editor cited The Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, which does indeed show a hazier version of this image as John McLean. I did not have time to do much research at the time the image was removed, but I just found the same image in historian Otto Rothert's History of Muhlenberg County, Kentucky, where it is labelled as Alney McLean, circa 1820 (p. 71). I wasn't sure whether to list the issue at the John McLean talk page, the Alney McLean talk page, the questioning editor's talk page, or the image's talk page (which is on Commons), so I'm listing it here! Please advise as to how I should proceed. Acdixon ( talk • contribs • count) 14:29, 26 April 2011 (UTC)
I think it is best for me, and i hope others also, if i express my apology for violating the WP:1RR one revert per week parole to which all editors/editresses of the article Kosovo are subject to. So i apologize for that. Wish you all the best, -- biblbroks (talk) 07:32, 27 April 2011 (UTC)
There is one extra step in this video You DO NOT have to click your own name in order to access preference. Just click on peference... -- Tyw7 ( ☎ Contact me! • Contributions) Changing the world one at a time! 14:11, 27 April 2011 (UTC)
there seems to be an argument over an Award renaming proposal i entered Here
The proposal i brought up, is the template:Working Man's Barnstar should not have any gender parameters and be renamed to "Hard Worker" to give the Barnstar a clearer meaning and making it more general without over-personalizing the Barnstar. However, i see these poor reasons to why it should be kept and seem to neglect the purpose of the proposal. That and i find it Bias and almost sexist. It would be great if i had more input on it (oppose or support, i just want a good reasons)> Bread Ninja ( talk) 23:13, 25 April 2011 (UTC)
Anyone else with a more neutral view? I'm exhausted of seeing these type of editors. Bread Ninja ( talk) 10:12, 26 April 2011 (UTC)
This is really what we have to argue about? Why don't we try to spend the time arguing over this on improving articles. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 132.3.29.68 ( talk) 20:15, 26 April 2011 (UTC)
Honestly, I can't be bothered with such minute details. For goodness sake, its just a name of an award!!! If you want, just set up a redirect called the Template:The Working Barnstar. These "political correctness" is just a dumb waste of time!
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Tyw7 ( ☎ Contact me! • Contributions) Changing the world one at a time! 21:35, 26 April 2011 (UTC) It's the principle....plus it is offensive. When you use political correctness, you say it's done fort he sake of that. Which is not. Bread Ninja ( talk) 21:39, 26 April 2011 (UTC)
As an effort to pacify this discussion, I have added two more options and moving the "Working Wikipedian's" to the "wiki" option and making the "Hard Worker's" option the default (n). This is done so that all sides are happy. All options are still there (for those who want those) but for Bread Ninja's sake, the "default" option is changed -- Tyw7 ( ☎ Contact me! • Contributions) Changing the world one at a time! 22:59, 26 April 2011 (UTC)
P.S. It's not me who want the changing. It's User:Bread Ninja -- Tyw7 ( ☎ Contact me! • Contributions) Changing the world one at a time! 22:59, 26 April 2011 (UTC) ( edit conflict) Done Moved to requested name... Hopefully no further rebuttals/reprisals by others. Redirect of old name in effect -- Tyw7 ( ☎ Contact me! • Contributions) Changing the world one at a time! 23:07, 26 April 2011 (UTC)
This discussion is going nowhere: the same point has been repeatedly made by several different people, & for some reason Bread Ninja either doesn't understand the point, or doesn't want to understand it. It's clear that the name of this barnstar will not be changed in the near future, & further posts to this thread by anyone will not change that. I propose that we end this discussion, & everyone move on to something else. -- llywrch ( talk) 17:38, 27 April 2011 (UTC)
The barnstar was renamed even though there is no consensus on this. This should not have been done. See Wikipedia_talk:Barnstars#the_working_man.27s_barnstar. — HELLKNOWZ ▎ TALK 11:17, 29 April 2011 (UTC)
I have avoided raising the obvious concern here, waiting for somebody else to bring it up, but since they haven't, I will: Why does the star have five points? Who decided on this prime number-centric choice, this pandering to phalages, this warlike reference to the Pentagon? The four-pointed star is, of course, vastly preferable for its numerical neutrality, its alignment to the four main compass points, its correspondence to the dimensions of our space-time continuum. I am outraged that nobody has changed it! - DavidWBrooks ( talk) 17:41, 29 April 2011 (UTC)
I didn't say this the first time around, because I didn't want to keep this thread going ... but since it has continued regardless of my actions, now I will. Anyone else here suspect that Bread Ninja is simply trolling us? If you do, then act accordingly. -- llywrch ( talk) 20:33, 29 April 2011 (UTC)
And C. Northcote Parkinson is proven right yet again... Mr. Z-man 22:03, 29 April 2011 (UTC)
Apparently, the article about Kronum has been created only because, when proposed to deletion on the french Wikipedia, someone noticed that this new sport was so few notorious that it didn't even have its own page on the english Wikipedia. At its creation, the english article was tagged "possible autobiography or conflict of interest" but the tag was quickly removed, the same day, by its creator himself [6], what it's not permitted. So I would like to get opinions on the admissibility of this article. I'm not familiar at all with the structure of the Village Pump, it's the first time that I come here, so I hope I've asked my question in the correct place. Thank you in advance for your opinions. -- Basilus ( talk) 12:55, 2 May 2011 (UTC)
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Yours truly, cooldenny ( talk) 01:36, 1 May 2011 (UTC)
Hi folks!
While preparing hu:user:Bináris/TOCbot (see above) and gathering archive name patterns, I found three secret archives in your wiki:
None of them is linked from anywhere in the Wikipedia! Neither the header of Wikipedia:Village pump (policy), nor the "older discussions" page, nor anywhere. I don't know if there are such hidden archives of other pages, I just listed the subpages of policy with my bot. You may think to link them somewhere and search for others. They are also valuable because TOCbot won't list archives made by difflinks such as Wikipedia:Village pump archive#October 2004 - October 2007. Sincerely, Bináris ( talk) 18:28, 4 May 2011 (UTC)
One more: Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)/Archive2 (not to be confused with Archive 2) is not linked from the header either. You have a good many skeletons in the cupboard. :-) Bináris ( talk) 18:54, 4 May 2011 (UTC)
Hi! If anyone knows archive names, either those of community pages or private talk archives that are composed using
please let me know, too. I am working on a bot that will create table of contents from archives (see hu:user:Bináris/TOCbot), and I need some examples for testing. Thanks a lot, Bináris ( talk) 18:58, 1 May 2011 (UTC)
After being inactive from Wikipedia (except for edits to my mainspace and a couple articles every time I used Wikipedia to look something up) for two years while going to college, what have I missed? :) — Moe ε 22:40, 7 May 2011 (UTC)
The file commons:File:Great seal of the state of New Mexico.png, which is used on a very large number of pages ( links), has been deleted on Wikimedia Commons for the following reason: Per commons:Commons:Deletion requests/File:Great seal of the state of New Mexico.png. Rather than notify a large number of talk pages I am raising this on WP:AN and WP:VP to obtain the right intervention.
This notification is provided by a Bot, currently under trial -- CommonsNotification ( talk) 15:24, 9 May 2011 (UTC)
Please help, edit this abstract (only 2-3 paragraphs). Aaabbbvvvqqq ( talk) 18:53, 9 May 2011 (UTC)
I only asked for help from Wikipedians. I'm going to use this abstract in writing an article on Wikipedia. Aaabbbvvvqqq ( talk) 21:15, 9 May 2011 (UTC)
The file commons:File:Coat of arms of the Kingdom of Hawaii.svg, which is used on a very large number of pages ( links), has been deleted on Wikimedia Commons for the following reason: Per commons:Commons:Deletion requests/File:Coat of arms of the Kingdom of Hawaii.svg. Rather than notify a large number of talk pages I am raising this on WP:AN and WP:VP to obtain the right intervention.
This notification is provided by a Bot, currently under trial -- CommonsNotification ( talk) 22:09, 9 May 2011 (UTC)
I think there should be an article about Mississippi River floods. The Mississippi River article is quite weak on the subject. Unfortunately, when I tried to find the place to make this suggestion, I couldn't. It would be nice if Wikipedia would automatically ask if someone wants to suggest an article when one cannot find an article on a given topic, as it used to. 05:54, 5 May 2011 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 211.225.34.173 ( talk)
I just came across this article while checking out the topic of folklore: Lifter Puller Folklore. It doesn't seem to have anything to do with folklore. I'm fairly new here so I don't want get into the deletion thing myself. Maybe it just needs to be retitled or something. Thanks. BigJim707 ( talk) 13:39, 7 May 2011 (UTC)
Not helping anyone here. Get it gone. Heimstern Läufer (talk) 05:00, 6 May 2011 (UTC)
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Do a Google Search for my username. It's my real name. First page that comes up, if you're in the UK, anyway - which I am, is a WikiSynergy page, http://www.wikisynergy.com/wiki/Adam_Cuerden_%28Shoemaker%27s_Holiday%29 It's an attack site. And what does it use to attack me? Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/Matthew_Hoffman - an ArbCom case which the ArbcCom themselves, years later, admitted was false, should never have been taken, and involved Charles Matthews, then an arbitrator, abusing his powers to attack someone who accidentally disrespected him. The case was about a block that had happened three months earlier which Charles Matthews asked me to undo, giving no reason, while I was about to head into exams. I offered to hand off to ANI. However, Charles Matthews was upset that I didn't just undo a block that I did not remember because it was several months previous, and didn't have toime to investigate as I was in the run in to exams. This wasn't good enough for him, so he decided to vindictively go for my head - and this after the user in question had been unblocked. The blocked user was undeniably a single-purpose account, and an ANI thread had reviewed an accepted the block and presumption of sockpuppetry, and an independent admin had reviewed it, and declined to unblock before Charles came around. Calling it a "test case", he called, for my head, and before I had evven given my evidence, UninvitedCompany had, at the request ofhis fellow-arbitratr, written a proposed decision calling for me to be desysoped, and many pother things. Because, you know, rushing to judgement before the defendant has had a chance to defend himself clearly shows this isn't a kangaroo court. Charles MAtthews went mad, attacking many respected admins. Quotes from him:
Oh, really, Charles Matthews? And yet, four years later, noone can see that block log, but your attack page is the first ranking in Google. Further, knowing that this was a possibility, I was forced to fight this case through my exams, since I'm the only person of my name in the world. This resulted in me having to drop out of university. Oh, and late in the case, they admitted that no other dispute resolution had occured. So they opened an RfC. The RfC came out strongly against a desysop. UninvitedCompany stated that the community were simply "circl[ing] wagons" and thus could be ignored. Meanwhile, Arbcom circled wagons around Charles Matthews.
Charles Matthews never received any negative consequences from this case, except for losing his next election in a landslide of anger at him. As mentioned before, the next arbcom reviewed, and ddeclared the case was a farce. The Arbcom has now accepted that the case was a mistake from start to finish. But they refuse to make any meaningful amends. The top-ranked page in my name is an attack page based on their ethical failures. They could issue a statement, attempt to edit the attack wiki, discuss the problem with others, or many other options. They will do none of those. Wikipedia has ruined my life. Adam Cuerden ( talk) 00:13, 6 May 2011 (UTC)
Quick reality check. This edit of yours - "while I was suffering from severe depression, illness, and on the verge of nervous breakdown from the monetary situation at the time - I was literally faced with being homeless" - suggests there was plenty of other bad stuff going on in your life. Arbcom is not to blame for your exit from university and the ruination of your life. At best it is the author of a wikidrama which should be seen as such. Besides, with the best will in the world, who searches for you (or might at the time have been presumed to have been searching for you) on the internet? What is the connection between a spat on wikipedia findable in google, and the ruination of your life? Have you no sense of perspective? And is not this thread you rekindling the wikidrama. WTF? How on earth do you expect to be taken seriously. As to the so-called attack site, it seems remarkably neutral in tone, and corroborates the claims you make here, that arbcom nullified its own decision. Unwelcome as it may be to have a page about one's self on the internet, exactly how is that website attacking you? -- Tagishsimon (talk) 00:52, 6 May 2011 (UTC)
My observations of Wikipedia is that it can be stressful, abusive, and grind people up. There is a sort of excuse I call the "one straw argument". Very often, when someone's life goes badly wrong, there is not one sole, single, isolated cause. There are typically multiple aggravating factors. But there's something wrong where for each factor, the cry goes up "I'm just one straw! It was the fault of all those other straws! - and since they obviously caused problems, I can't have caused a problem, so it's not my problem!" -- Seth Finkelstein ( talk) 02:29, 6 May 2011 (UTC)
Reality check, part 2. The initial case, whether Charles was right or wrong, was about misuse of admin tools, and that misuse was well evidenced. If Charles had never existed or had avoided his part, your misuse of admin tools to block content dispute opponents on false grounds and multiple occasions over a period of several months in 2007 was still more than enough for a desysopping case. Your story and claims related to your personal background led to a compassionate offer to consider extenuating circumstances. You were offered your adminship back if you coulkd show stability for a few months. Your story also changed or turned out to include significant contradictory details which didn't impress me very much either (details excluded here because I have no doubt you were genuinely in deep distress and these were partly covered in AC emails as well as in personal correspondence to individual arbs and on-wiki). Nonetheless you were correctly allowed and helped to vanish and multiple apologies for the procedural matters were made to you by various arbs both informally and formally. In 2009 (wrongly as I still believe) the case was fully vacated due to procedural concerns even though in fact its core findings of admin misconduct were not in doubt. You used this, and still use it, as a platform to claim loudly that everything was incorrect - it was not. You then continued to make a loud noise and also resumed editing under your own name. This is where the sad tale leads. With compassion, you have created most of your own mess here. I wish you had not, but that is what the evidence says. In May 2009, 2 years later and knowing without doubt from the past the possible effect of real name editing, you asked to have your pseudonym account renamed so that you could edit under your real name again, knowing more than most the effect real name editing can have. I stopped keeping an eye on the case around 2009. Now 3.5 years on, here you are ranting again about Charles Matthews and UC, and events from 2007 and making fallacious claims about how others view you. In sum, you had exceptionally helpful handling, vacating of a case in which you clearly (procedure aside) had done wrong to other users, help vanishing, even an offer of reinstatement as an admin if you could show yourself to be back to stability for a reasonable period of some months. You knew precisely the potential for problems from real-name editing by 2009, having previously vanished. You largely placed the fire under your own cauldron and jumped in. That is why others are linking to terms like locus of control and suggesting displaced anger. You have my sympathy for the outcome, but I cannot let you fully blame others for it in the manner you have done. FT2 ( Talk | email) 02:52, 6 May 2011 (UTC)
A statement by John Vandenberg was going to go up today, politely dealing with Sven's statements in the collapsed section above, as part of an attempt to peacefully resolve Sven having violated the terms of a mediation agreement we were party to, and which Sven's statements had violated the terms of. Last night, Sven used the private communications of the attempt at mediation as the basis for a further attack: [7]. In this attack, Sven has gone so far as claiming that me privately providing evidence from our chatlog to the person negotiating peace between us is a sign of malice. Before I did so, however, I sent Sven full copies of the logs I have, which I cannot post in full to John or anyone else, as they contain private information about User:La Pianista, and the first section of the log is him telling me, when we had only recently met, the full details of the secret project of Tony's which later became the focus of the dispute. He then restates previous attacks. I only have an older draft of the statement John was going to make today, as John was going to make some final changes after running it by Sven. I'll going to go ahead and post the first draft here. Among other things, he had agreed to fix the sentence beginning "It is possible that...", because the point of that sentence was that there was no reports of any problems, but the phrasing is the sort of thing used in newspaper reports when they want to imply something without being libellous. It was very early in the morning for him. We were also going to add in a very brief mention that he had seen evidence that Sven was wrong about his claims of me turning him against Tony1, etc, but I didn't want to go into too much detail, or ask him to judge the merits of that, as, whatever past disputes I had with them, they are past. I was in the process of leaving Wikipedia; I was hoping to have got by with John handling this himself. - [redacted; see history] As stated before, John, Sven, User:Tony1, and I were under a mediation agreement, which required Sven to have used dispute resolution, not vicious attacks. The agreement states it must be quoted in full if violated and negotiations broke down, and so is quoted below - [redacted; see history] Quite simply, Sven is a fantasist. He rewrites the past to suit him, and, when presented with evidence from chat logs - the second section of the chat log I have is him saying that because Tony1 was being too mean to certain users in his featured sound reviews that he hated him; this was long before I mentioned some other past issues. I just don't want to go into details on Sven's claims, because the other users don't deserve it. Suffice to say, of the claims directly involving me, John Vandenberg has shown me innocent; the rest of Sven's testimony is no more accurate. I would ask that Sven be censured for his behaviour. Goodbye. 86.176.75.157 ( talk) 10:18, 10 May 2011 (UTC)
Due to Sven's behaviour, I have been advised I will need to submit a report to move forwards; this is at Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents#Sven_Manguard. I really don't want to be here anymore, but this will not die... Adam Cuerden ( talk) 02:44, 12 May 2011 (UTC) |
I noticed a less than civil response from an editor regarding the usage of templates on their talk page. It is my understanding that Templates are authorized by the community as a standardized neutral way to notify a user of information. As part of their page's Edit notice they ban people from using templates on their talk page. If someone uses one of the community standardized tools (Like Twinkle, Huggle, or other tools) or follow the required community procedures they are likeley to get a abusive message back threatening the template placer. What does the VP(m) community think? Hasteur ( talk) 15:21, 11 May 2011 (UTC)
See Wikipedia:Perennial proposals#Prohibit removal of warnings. It is a legitimate option that a user may reject automated messages, and delete them from his talk page on sight. It is not forbidden to send them automated messages anyway, but it's a thing of common courtesy to avoid doing that. In any case, if you are required to warn a user that (for example) you are talking about him at a noticeboard, and the user deletes the message and refuses to comment in the noticeboard, there is no problem: it's all in the talk page history, that you wrote to him and that he read it (the removal implies that the user had read the comment). Similarily, if a user is escalating warning templates on some issue, three removed warnings are the same than three warnings still in place, to consider if the user has been "warned enough". Warning templates are not meant to work as a "badge of shame", but neither their removal stops the process they warn about Cambalachero ( talk) 21:34, 11 May 2011 (UTC)
At Darul Uloom New York there is a box on the bottom with the title "Rate this page" that does not show when I edit the page. I also can't find a place in the pages history when the box was placed. What's going on? Guy Macon ( talk) —Preceding undated comment added 10:13, 12 May 2011 (UTC).
I am a Ph.D. researcher at the Digital Enterprise Research Institute in Galway, Ireland. My Ph.D. topic is online discussions, specifically the reasoning and arguments people use. I am currently studying WP:AfD, to understand how article deletion decisions are made.
I am working on a prototype argument assistant to help newcomers understand what kinds of arguments make sense, much in the way that the Article Wizard provides guidance for creating an article. From reading discussions, I am learning what kinds of arguments people use in AfD, especially to see what comments advance the discussion. Next I need to get some perspectives from editors!
I'm looking for Wikipedians to interview about the deletion process. I envision a 30 minute skype or phone conversation. I'm interested in learning about what works well in AfD discussions, any frustrations you have with it, and why you generally do or don't !vote in AfD.
I hope to talk with Wikipedians with a wide variety of experience editing (from newcomers to EN-WP, to regular EN-WP editors, to admins, especially admins who close discussions), with people who spend little time commenting in deletion discussions, as well as those who do.
Would you be willing to talk with me? Let me know the best times for you; you can reach me via wiki email, leave public comments on my Talk page or find more contact info on my webpage. Jodi.a.schneider ( talk) 14:02, 12 May 2011 (UTC)
Is there any list of all users & IP's that were blocked? Just curious... Darkjedi10 ( talk) 12:52, 14 May 2011 (UTC)
I would appreciate your thoughts. - jc37 23:20, 14 May 2011 (UTC)
I'd like to propose a geo-targeted CentralNotice for the Great American Wiknic in June. See also here.-- Pharos ( talk) 21:16, 15 May 2011 (UTC)
I've been adding help on referencing when people submit unref'd AFC's, and it does seem to help (in some cases), and do no harm in others. It doesn't affect the remaining process of AFC, but the timely info helps.
Now seeking this to be automated, and was thus advised to mention it here. See Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/ChzzBot IV. Chzz ► 17:26, 16 May 2011 (UTC)
Everyone is invited to participate in Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Geographic.org, a discussion about over 2,500 articles. Due to the unusual character and the potential impact of the discussion, I believe that more participation than usual would be beneficial to get a true sense of the community's opinion on this. Fram ( talk) 08:24, 11 May 2011 (UTC)
Is anyone else having trouble with these? I haven't been able to open a .pdf archive file from the New York Times for two days now. Gatoclass ( talk) 22:11, 16 May 2011 (UTC)
Looking at the history of File:Shwedagon-Pano.jpg, it looks like after having uploaded the file in 2006, the original poster compressed the file a little bit vertically and quite a bit more horizontally, so the pagoda's dimensions are definitely different. Unless there is some reason the original upload might have been stretched horizontally. The image appears to be in use in a lot of Wikipedia language versions (even though it appears to be hosted on en) and I doubt a message left on the user's Discussion page on the Commons will be read. How should I proceed? I didn't want to just revert the image. Comet Tuttle ( talk) 00:08, 17 May 2011 (UTC)
Hello, I was curious about the data size (Terabytes) of the 3,636,000 or so English articles stored amongst the Wikipedia servers. What storage space would be required to hold a single copy of them all? Thank you. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Winallmoney ( talk • contribs) 05:06, 17 May 2011 (UTC)
An un-registered Wikipedian keeps saying Maria Gomes Valentim is older than Besse Cooper. Some registered Wikipedian please study the edits of this user to help see if this is right, and give MGV an article. Georgia guy ( talk) 14:35, 18 May 2011 (UTC)
Hi there, for some reason, completely out of the blue, I have started receiving emails from wiki@wikimedia.org
everytime somebody posts on my talkpage. Not only is this annoying, but I haven't changed any setting to allow this....anybody know how I can stop it? Thanks,
Giant
Snowman
14:07, 14 May 2011 (UTC)
NB: there is now Help:Email notification as a place for info about this. Rd232 talk 00:21, 23 May 2011 (UTC)
CAN ANY ONE HELP WITH THIS REQUEST. IF ANYONE KNOWS THEN PLEASE LET ME KNOW —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.142.87.110 ( talk) 10:48, 22 May 2011 (UTC)
why is there no article on this telephone company, it's infamous in the chinese community. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.99.131.84 ( talk) 01:19, 23 May 2011 (UTC)
Someone is undoing my edits just so they can do the same thing i am. Bread Ninja ( talk) 18:47, 18 May 2011 (UTC)
The Communicative Practices in Virtual Workspaces research group in Human Centered Design and Engineering department at the University of Washington ( http://courses.washington.edu/commprac/) is inviting editors like yourself to participate in an online survey that allows us to find connections among users in Wikipedia. We are particularly interested in the Wikipedia Request for Adminship (RfA) process. The survey will allow us to better understand the RfA process and to research tools that could make the process easier for members of the Wikipedia community. The survey will only take about 15 minutes to complete and no personally identifiable information will be linked to your survey responses. We want to research how the community is managed and how it makes decisions, specifically the process in which a person is decided by the community to be promoted to administrator status in Wikipedia. Questions in the survey will ask you how you evaluate an RfA candidate, what characterisics are most valuable when evaluating the candidate, and what information you use to evaluate the candidate.
The link to my user page is [ [12]]. Here is the link to the survey: https://catalyst.uw.edu/webq/survey/commprac/135246
Thank you and please share this opportunity to help our research group with other Wikipedia users you know. -- Avdelamerced ( talk) 20:20, 23 May 2011 (UTC)
(Note: The 18 and over confirmation is standard practices in research. It was required to include this in our survey.) -- Avdelamerced ( talk) 05:40, 10 June 2011 (UTC)
Hey, I've just started a project to try to get featured the vast and daunting topics listed at WP:VITAL. Please join up, people, as this highly worthwhile effort can not be done without lots of participation. Just head on over to WP:FAVA and take a look. Cheers, ☻☻☻ Sithman VIII ! !☻☻☻ 10:14, 18 May 2011 (UTC)
Comment: this is clearly a worthwhile endeavour (though I'd start with the lower aim of getting them all to WP:GA status), but as pointed out, very difficult. Anyone willing to try deserves encouragement, and I'll add the suggestion that attempting to get different wikiprojects on board to actively collaborate would probably be helpful. Rd232 talk 19:04, 18 May 2011 (UTC)
tl;dr version: plz keep WP:FAVA in Wikipedia: ☻☻☻ Sithman VIII ! !☻☻☻ 02:27, 21 May 2011 (UTC)
I've been trying to create templates for a few human rights/freedom of expression awards today, including Template:Footer Gwangju Prize for Human Rights laureates and Template:Footer Homo Homini Award laureates, which went well, and Template:Footer CPJ International Press Freedom Award laureates, which is going very badly due to the number of past winners (4-6 a year for twenty years). Would anyone with more experience in templates be willing to take a look at the latter and let me know if they have a formatting suggestion that would make this template more attractive and/or helpful? Or should I just give this one up as a lost cause? Thanks, Khazar ( talk) 07:18, 24 May 2011 (UTC)
Will someone unban me please? (User TCO). 71.246.153.105 ( talk) 21:52, 24 May 2011 (UTC)
Per past suggestions on Meta about wider announcements for IRC office hours, I just wanted to post a quick note that there will be one with Sue Gardner this week on Thursday the 26th at 17:00 UTC. [13] Instructions and local time conversions are on the office hours Meta page I just linked to. If you have suggestions for how to improve awareness about these meetings, please let me know. Also feel free to translate this message to other Village Pumps as you like. :) Thanks, Steven Walling at work 20:44, 23 May 2011 (UTC)
Custodial elements affiliated with Church_of_the_SubGenius are busy trying to keep a valid mention of a SubGenius affiliated criminal from their webpage due to the nature of his crimes. A couple of unbiased arbiters would be in order. 71.102.18.173 ( talk) 19:49, 25 May 2011 (UTC)
I am getting no response here:
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I may be seen to be nitpicking here, but upon reading the article on the animal Potto just now, I reacted when the author asserted that: ""Potto" possibly comes from the African word "pata"". To my little mind, The idea of an 'African language' makes about as much sense as the idea of an 'European language'. Instead, I would think there are hundreds of languages spoken on the continent of Africa, just as there are many languages within the continent of Europe. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potto Deemdanna — Preceding unsigned comment added by Deemdanna ( talk • contribs) 17:03, 26 May 2011 (UTC)
I have proposed a change to the wording of Template:Non-free historic image (see the template's talk page for my proposal) but it needs more eyes and someone with the right permissions to edit the template, since it is protected. Barrylb ( talk) 02:29, 27 May 2011 (UTC)
I am trying to make this list and that list, this one and this one a little shorter. Many hands make light work. Thanks in advance, Wasbeer 02:58, 23 May 2011 (UTC)
I wanted to know if we have a Wikipedia project that documents instances where editing of Wikipedia by the students was a part of academic curriculum. I am in the midst of doing this currently with my students and any pointers to previous instances and best practices therein would be of immense help. TIA. -- Strategyprof ( talk) 09:40, 25 May 2011 (UTC)
Thank you both. I will contact User talk:Mdennis (WMF). -- Strategyprof ( talk) 16:42, 27 May 2011 (UTC)
According to this, "If you take any article, click on the first link in the article text not in parentheses or italics, and then repeat, you will eventually end up at Philosophy." Make of this what you will. Herostratus ( talk) 06:39, 26 May 2011 (UTC)
Trying on a few, so far all had to pass either "science" (7 times) or "mathematics" (3 times) before they arrived at "philosophy". Fram ( talk) 07:23, 26 May 2011 (UTC)
Is there a list where I could find lawsuits and legal action against Wikipedia? SwisterTwister ( talk) 02:03, 28 May 2011 (UTC)
St. Petersburg International Economic Forum and SPIEF are duplicate articles. -- MZMcBride ( talk) 21:19, 28 May 2011 (UTC)
Why do the Rate this page ratings not include negative ratings? I'm looking at Jonathan Drubner, an unrefenced BLP, and would have preferred to issue negative ratings for the article, but that's not an option. 216.93.212.245 ( talk) 03:43, 29 May 2011 (UTC)
This probably isn't the right place to discuss this, but I have no idea where is.
I saw the watchlist notice that the Wikimedia Board of Trustees election had begun, and I clicked on "please vote." That took me here. When I clicked on "go to the voting server," it said "Welcome, SlimVirgin," but it exposed my IP address in the top right corner, because it's a Foundation page, and I don't have a Foundation account.
Is this meant to happen, or does it raise privacy concerns? SlimVirgin TALK| CONTRIBS 01:11, 29 May 2011 (UTC)
If you're interested, I've documented it at Wikitech. — Andrew Garrett • talk 03:59, 29 May 2011 (UTC)
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Hy there, I'm hereby asking for some advice. To cut things short: I found a translated English quote used by a reputed scholar and finding it interresting I went after the German orginal statement. To my surprise I found some rather important discrepancies between the German original and the English translation.
Now, I need to know if there any Wiki policy about this matter. Can and should we remove the translated sentence and replace it with a better one? Should the article only use the translated sentence which is used by the scholar despite its poor quality? Should the translation be tagged with a "dubious" or something else? Flamarande ( talk) 16:45, 29 May 2011 (UTC) PS: In case this request is on the wrong place could someone indicate me the proper place? Thanks
(If this is the wrong forum for this, feel free to move it to the correct forum ! )
I just made a cosmetic change on the drug box for
Bleomycin , as I've never worked with a drug box before I've left a note over there
On the talk page. Feel free to take a look, and if I've botched it up, feel free to change it and let me know where I erred. Thanks
KoshVorlon
' Naluboutes Aeria Gloris
18:05, 30 May 2011 (UTC)
I searched for answers to my question, but found nothing similar. Please let me know if there is an existing thread or a more appropriate location for raising it.
Does anyone know if it is possible to get a list of all articles with a given start date? Ideally, I would like to be able to find all articles with initial rev_timestamp within a given range. I'm sure I could do it by crawling Wikipedia, but that would cause a lot of unnecessary traffic to the millions of pages that don't have the desired timestamp. I'm hoping someone knows of an easier way. Thanks in advance. Wikipositivist ( talk) 18:22, 20 May 2011 (UTC)
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Must images of historical importance be "subjects of commentary" before we can use them under a claim of fair use? See RfC here. Input from uninvolved editors would be particularly appreciated. SlimVirgin TALK| CONTRIBS 05:02, 1 June 2011 (UTC)
Is this to the article " cease and desist" worth some special (legal) attention? Cheers, -- Edcolins ( talk) 20:24, 1 June 2011 (UTC)
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I need help, Is there any global council for injustice in Wikimedia? I was a veteran wikipedian user with 4 years in spanish wikipedia. I have blocked for 6 months in Wikipedia by a dictatorial group that they control everything from year ago. Spanish wikipedia has a problem. We need help! Jimbo Wales! Someone for stop that injustice please!! Thor8 ( talk) 19:36, 1 June 2011 (UTC)
A draft of how to run the trial is now located here. Crossposting from WP:VPR. The Blade of the Northern Lights ( 話して下さい) 19:11, 2 June 2011 (UTC)
Is there some graphists ? Users loving to draw ? There is a Wikipedia:Graphic Lab/Illustration workshop and a Wikipedia:Graphic Lab/Map workshop. in need of creators. Most maps requests don't get comments and need a graphists. These places are some kind of graphic forum and school : we receive requests, discuss about them, share /Graphic & Map tutorials, a learn on the way. We need graphists to come, inject fresh knowledge, and help around on the Wikipedia:Graphic Lab/Map workshop. People interested, please come ! Map making is a specific skill, almost easy to do, while maps, or relate technical diagrams are wonderful tools to explain and illustrate articles and knowledges. Inkscape ( Download!) is a nice free software to create SVG maps. So come, come, come, and do what you like ! : ] -- Yug (talk) 04:28, 13 April 2010 (UTC)
This user [16] said he is an adm on Wiki-en. Is this true? He was looking for a "gay date" on Wiki in portuguese language. What is this?? If he is, I want his sysop tools removed NOW for bad behaviour. (Wiki-pt main page talk section is not an AOL sex room) MachoCarioca ( talk) 05:34, 4 June 2011 (UTC)
I may give away my ignorance in this question, and perhaps this is the wrong place to ask, but I will place the question here all the same. I was given the notice "The Wikimedia Board of Trustees election has started. Please vote", and I would like to participate and place my vote. However, when I was ready to place my vote, I realised that the voting was taken place at wikimedia, not wikipedia, where I have no account. Do I have the right to place my vote? I assume that a notice about the election would not have been sent to me otherwise? I have no account on wikimedia, which may disqualify me. Forgive me if I seem ignorant - I have been a member of wikipedia for several years but I have mainly been active in editing rather than taking part in the other sides of the project. Thank you in advance! -- Aciram ( talk) 21:31, 4 June 2011 (UTC)
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The dab page Unbroken has a rating thingy at the bottom. Explain to me why a dab page would need to be rated. Can someone remove this? Ten Pound Hammer, his otters and a clue-bat • ( Otters want attention) 16:36, 1 June 2011 (UTC)
Can someone please go through the lists of articles with Template:NOINDEX transcluded in them and determine (on a case-by-case basis) which of those articles should be indexed? I've already removed Template:NOINDEX from the following:
I attempted to remove the template from more articles, but I reverted myself, since I felt that the decision belonged to more knowledgeable users. -- Michaeldsuarez ( talk) 03:16, 7 June 2011 (UTC)
<meta name="robots" content="noindex,follow" />
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PrimeHunter (
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11:46, 7 June 2011 (UTC)
I'm participating in a discussion about whether or not to delete this article, and it's pretty off-putting to see how little participation there has been. Hopefully some more editors will come and weigh in. Thanks! Hermione is a dude ( talk) 09:46, 7 June 2011 (UTC)
While going through an old box of my father-in-law I found a photo of the group from vmf 113 Capt Loren D. Everton Commanding May 8, 1943. I am interested to know if there is anyone out there who might want a copy of this picture or maybe I can figure out how to put it on the computer. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pdajg ( talk • contribs) 01:38, 8 June 2011 (UTC)
Sinaia hasn't had a single reference in a while, and has been tagged as unreffed for over two years. Is there any sort of organized citing effort for ancient unreffed tags? -- ۩ M ask 08:22, 8 June 2011 (UTC)
Uninvolved eyes would be much appreciated at Talk:Santorum (neologism)#Proposal to rename, redirect, and merge content. Many thanks, SlimVirgin TALK| CONTRIBS 16:49, 8 June 2011 (UTC)
Re http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:212.219.249.5 the year long ban of all public computers in a city for no real reason.
Does anyone know why User:Syrthiss is claiming to be the chief Administrator for The Wikipedia? I can find nothing about this on his User page. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Syrthiss. Ansotu ( talk) 17:30, 7 June 2011 (UTC)
As one of the administrators I am trusted by the community to respond to unblock requests and make decisions on those unblocks. We don't need any community review of simple blocking situations like this, though you as the IP are welcome to post another unblock request at that page if you feel my answer wasn't sufficient. If you're just looking for someone to be mad at, I'm happy to take the focus away from the original blocking admin. Glad to see you took my advice and made an account. Happy editing! Syrthiss ( talk) 11:07, 8 June 2011 (UTC)
I've started a discussion at Commons:Village_pump#Commons:Category_structure about changing the Commons category structure to more explicitly use English Wikipedia's category structure as a starting point. I don't want people charging over there to comment, but I'd like some sense here of what people's experience of using Commons' category system is. You may ask, by the way, "why base it on en.wp"? The answer is that as long as we don't have proper multilingual categories (probably years off; see Commons:Village_pump#Multi-lingual_category_naming) and/or a really good system for category redirects (ditto), Commons uses English category names by default. Given that, there's an obvious benefit in aligning Commons' and en.wp's category structures except where there's an actual reason not to. And en.wp's category system is generally more developed than Commons', so it makes sense to do the aligning in this direction. Also, a lot of the time this aligning is happening anyway, but in a disorganised, haphazard way; this would just write that down and build on it, and give the opportunity to clarify necessary exceptions. So - thoughts? Experiences? Rd232 talk 21:31, 10 June 2011 (UTC)
Hi everyone, I just wanted to let people know that I am in the midst of assigning the 'researcher' user right to a few people working with the Foundation. (More about the rights here and here.) This is a temporary assignment until September 1st. You can see the full list of project participants, as well as our research questions and results so far, on Meta at Research:Wikimedia Summer of Research 2011. Thanks, Steven Walling at work 19:24, 13 June 2011 (UTC)
I created Wikipedia:Deletion review/Log/2011 June 16 by following the directions on the WP:DRV page, but it isn't being transcluded onto DRV. What did I do wrong? The Mark of the Beast ( talk) 01:21, 16 June 2011 (UTC)
Ah, well, it showed up finally. The Mark of the Beast ( talk) 06:03, 16 June 2011 (UTC)
(moved from Policy village pump)
Hi everyone-
WMF's Fundraiser Team will continue to test banners, landing pages and analytics systems this week. The banners will appear for about 30-60 mins per country, and this week we should be working with USA, Saint Lucia, Samoa, Belize and Barbados.
I will update this thread in case we add any new countries to the testing schedule.
Thank you,
Wikimedia Foundation Fundraiser Team Ppena (WMF) ( talk) 17:30, 13 June 2011 (UTC)
Hello, I looking for applications android and applications homebrew for my psp and my phone that are using Wikipedia based dictionary and Wikipedia offline and i looking for to see offline articles from Wikipedia like books. Do you can help me?
I know Wikipediadictionary from a korean one, bjkim but I can not to find it with google. Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Futbol Flamenco Fiesta ( talk • contribs) 13:07, 17 June 2011 (UTC)
The debat is heating up about the wehereabout of the River Shannon. Most people and the paper Encyclopedia Britannica state that it is the longest river on the island Ireland. Others, mostly (but not exclusively) English, state that it is the longest river on the British Isles. Unfortunately that last term is politically sensitive. The debat is heating up, so some cool opinions are very welcome on the talkpage there. Night of the Big Wind ( talk) 01:17, 19 June 2011 (UTC)
For two weeks only one person has said anything in Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mondlango (2nd nomination), and he is unfortunately an IP editor. If a few people would go there to review the evidence and vote that would be fantastic. Hermione is a dude ( talk) 15:40, 21 June 2011 (UTC)
This biography page was clearly written by the same person as an autobiography to promote himself. He is not a welknown academic in his native Turkey and his biography page doesn't exist in Turkish Wikipedia for not meeting the required criteria. -- Abuk SABUK ( talk) 16:30, 21 June 2011 (UTC)
Perhaps it's a statistical fluctuation, but it's interesting that the quantity of humanities topics up for PR now seem to vastly outnumber the science, technology and engineering articles. Are editors starting to give up trying to slog difficult, technical articles through the FAC process? :-) Regards, RJH ( talk) 22:04, 9 June 2011 (UTC)
I've just PROD-ed a new article, KESERASIAN MUSYAWARAH ONLINE DAN TATAP MUKA ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views), as being a non-English unencyclopedic sociology essay. Since it should – presumably uncontroversially – be deleted on numerous grounds, is there any quicker way to get this done? Best, ╟─ Treasury Tag► directorate─╢ 15:16, 14 June 2011 (UTC)