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I created a page with US candidates pageviews graphs - it could help visualize politics. I'm sure it can be used for much more than that. -- Yurik ( talk) 05:30, 18 February 2016 (UTC)
This morning, I was in the behavior of # wikipedia-en-help channels so many people angry, because I and my companions will replace user names to wm-bot style. At first we wanted to play a joke, but it did not, the result was within the channel of the user know, we were out of the ban. For that matter, I would like to apologize and hope to get the understanding, the future we will no longer make such things. For if you can let me enter the channel again, I would like to vote by the community (of course, the channel might be useful for me, I am a sysop in the Chinese Wikipedia, sometimes we need help here).
Above, once again apologize for the matter.-- Nbfreeh ( talk) 05:18, 19 February 2016 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:List of state leaders in 2016#RfC: Inclusion of Palestine as a sub state of Israel. Could you please give your opinion on whether or not Palestine should be considered a separate sovereign entity from Israel? Many thanks Spirit Ethanol ( talk) 09:25, 19 February 2016 (UTC)
Please forgive me - I am about to
ignore all rules and do a
personal attack on another editor. I am unable to
assume good faith.
I accuse
PCruiser of being a robot. I have not seen another bot like this -
Special:Contributions/PCruiser. It knows some specific Wikipedia functions and has pushed odd buttons to do things. It makes an almost reasonable effort in a lot of cases, and actually writes better nonsense than some human contributors, but it is a cold kind of weird and not the usual sort. This bot has wasted volunteer time by making nonsense requests and comments.
Please forgive me in the event that I have accused a real human of talking like a robot.
Has anyone seen other contributors like this one? What do we do with these? Blue Rasberry (talk) 16:11, 3 February 2016 (UTC)
{{
resolved}} removed resolved tag as uncertainty remains for multiple editors, see further below.
{{
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templates on some others. --
Redrose64 (
talk)
23:34, 13 February 2016 (UTC)
A diaphragm is giving it the power. Contrivingly it is un avoidable; but has its roots in sin. Sacred is the Graceful; and not spoiled of the spirit we can live with others.
Shiloh is a founding Baptist as well as church institution with a great history. Around since the turn of the 20th century it like some other Sacramento Churches was a cornerstone to Azusa and its principal seized waterways. Shiloh; the church informer and publicity of the Pastor bring to you an directory listing Boards, Ministries, Auxiliaries, and Committees. Get presented in our next 2016 Church Directory Smiling. Christ hasn't led everyone to this church home, but “Anthony J. Sadler among others is ever so more thankful for the years. And it willingly was the reason for his success. He devoted himself to discipleship and her Bible Study Fellowship.
Here are a couple examples of what I was mentioning earlier. First there is Racter (see also Getting a Computer to Write About Itself) and on a more recent note there is Once upon a bot: can we teach computers to write fiction? Koala Tea Of Mercy (KTOM's Articulations & Invigilations) 13:19, 19 February 2016 (UTC)
The more I look the deeper the rabbit hole goes (maybe I should have taken the blue pill)... Following up on Racter I found this
interview with the co-creator of the software. In that article is a mention of another software, INRAC (which we do not have an article for yet). Tracking that I found this JSTOR entry for an in-depth (7 pages!) software review entitled
"Talking Back: The INRAC Language Compiler". And this was all in the 1980's! I can't imagine this technology has not improved since then. Houston I think we have a problem.
Koala Tea Of Mercy (KTOM's
Articulations &
Invigilations)
13:38, 19 February 2016 (UTC)
I've noticed on Wikipedia over the years, that someone has gradually removed mention of the Australian monarch being Australia's head of state, while not mentioning who is. We also have the article Australian head of state dispute. SOMEBODY must be the head of state. So who is it? GoodDay ( talk) 21:20, 14 February 2016 (UTC)
Sor far the best source is a lesson plan on a public service website. Anything better? -- Pete ( talk) 10:05, 15 February 2016 (UTC)
Good point. I've reduced the Rfc to just the 'one' question. GoodDay ( talk) 15:25, 15 February 2016 (UTC)
Coming late to this. The Australian head of state dispute article has existed since 2011, has been much discussed and modified, is reliably sourced, and has been relatively stable for some years. The guts of it is that views are divided. User:GoodDay is well aware of the article, being a frequent contributor. I feel that he is being disingenuous by coming here cold, as it were. Discussion at the article continues, and a specific RfC has been opened here -- Pete ( talk) 21:06, 15 February 2016 (UTC)
Of course, the rest of the wiki-community will have a say about the aforementioned article, too. Neither myself or Skyring/Pete, will be the judge of what is & isn't acceptable :) GoodDay ( talk) 21:09, 15 February 2016 (UTC)
Good evening everybody! We are having trouble on pronouncing correctly the name of British actress Kathryn Beaumont. Her family name is beyond doubt a French one, but how is it pronounced in English? Since in the article in English is not given the name in IFA, please be kind enough to inform us on its correct pronunciation so we can write the corresponding article in Greek correctly. Thank you in advance. -- Ttzavaras ( talk) 23:37, 19 February 2016 (UTC)
Is Claudio Lotito dead? Morti nel 2016. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.185.175.84 ( talk) 12:43, 21 February 2016 (UTC)
At the entrance of the movie "Terms of Endearment" omitted mention the incestuous relationship of the protagonists. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 201.255.116.64 ( talk) 08:33, 17 February 2016 (UTC)
There are now web services that track the number of times papers are cited in Wikipedia. They use this as a way to estimate the impact factor of a paper. Authors can get updates in near-real time on who added (or removed) their paper from a particular article; and apparently this technology is largely being facilitated by the WMF [2]. Am I wrong in thinking that this is a terrible idea, and one that actively encourages COI editing? Can we somehow encourage the WMF to quit encouraging people to see Wikipedia cites and links as a commodity? Add a few more things to WP:NOT? Geogene ( talk) 00:47, 20 February 2016 (UTC)
Dear Geogene, Wikipedia is i=mmensely popular and already prone to conflict of interests.
"Can we somehow encourage the WMF to quit encouraging people to see Wikipedia cites and links as a commodity?" I'm afraid we can't make academics to think how to perceive Wikipedia. -- NaBUru38 ( talk) 22:09, 24 February 2016 (UTC)
Hello friends. i am a Wikipedia Writer in Persian Wikipedia and my English is not good do you think for article of Persian-speaking peoples, is name truth in English paragraph because Peoples is more peoples or just should be people? be people is multiplication. do you think what name is more correct to use?
It is also of interest to note that the English idiomatic usage when dealing with multiple nations or groups speaking a common language is borne out by the notable A History of the English-Speaking Peoples by Sir Winston S. Churchill. Collect ( talk) 21:15, 26 February 2016 (UTC)
In what way should the lead sentence of articles dealing with railway stations or train stations be fashioned? See discussion at Wikipedia_talk:Manual of Style/Lead section#Request for comment: Identification of train or railway stations in the lead. BeenAroundAWhile ( talk) 22:10, 22 February 2016 (UTC)
What's the policy on non-AfC article-like pages in the Wikipedia: namespace? The page linked in the section header and its subpages (e.g. Wikipedia:List of Monuments in Mechi Zone, [[]]) were created in WP: space, there don't seem to be articles with the same title/topic in mainspace, and they come complete with their own template. However, they seem to be a walled garden (other than the main page) with probably negligible views. They're also completely unsourced - they wouldn't survive in article space. What should we do with them? ansh 666 04:20, 23 February 2016 (UTC)
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Redrose64 (
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19:52, 23 February 2016 (UTC)Recently I, by myself, wrote my first GA and got it promoted. It's always been my understanding that unless an article is about a very controversial topic, it shouldn't have sources in the lead; the information in the lead should simply be a summary of the rest of the article, and the information should be sourced in the body, not the lead. This article is about a noncontroversial subject who has been dead for 15 years. Today there was a post on the talk page of the article questioning why there are no sources in the lead. I thought maybe it was a new user, but then I looked at their contribs I saw that their account is a over a year old and they are reviewing GAs. I pinged them at the article talk and sent them to the WP:Lead page. I'm just sort of wondering how people who don't seem to understand policy can be reviewing GAs, and if anybody else has seen this. I'm confused... 😕 White Arabian Filly ( Neigh) 00:35, 24 February 2016 (UTC)
I see a new feature on the article editor - when a section edit is previewed, a preview of references is automatically included!
This eliminates the need to insert a reflist tag for testing; on at least five occasions I've done that and forgotten to remove it before saving the edit.
Never again! Yay!
Many thanks to whichever developer did this.
(NOTE - I do most of my editing in Firefox 2.0.0.20 under Mac OS X 10.3.9. Really. It may seem hard to believe, but it works fine. A few features are missing, but it is entirely usable. I applaud the Wiki developer team for maintaining backwards compatibility, and not cluttering Wiki with clever-dick new "features". Some day there may be a wholly new editing system, and I expect to be left behind, but for the moment I can still be useful. When that day comes, I will upgrade if I can, but I'll probably stick with what I've got till then.)
Rich Rostrom ( Talk) 19:14, 24 February 2016 (UTC)
Can someone undelete that template for a while? I can't import it on The Multilingual Encyclopedia because I can't view them. -- stranger195 ( talk • contribs • guest book) 06:29, 26 February 2016 (UTC)
Hello everyone,
I'm pretty new around here (as an editor at least!). I've had a bit of a crash course on Wikipedia guidelines regarding things like COI due to mistakenly editing a page for which I had a COI (now disclosed). Anyway this lead to me suggested another user discloses their COI and this spiralled into a massive argument that's lead to the user threatening to report me for harassment (I don't want to name names here I've already requested a Third opinion to help resolve the problem). I would like to apologise to the user for the perceived harassment but I'm worried that doing so will (in his eyes) count as harassment, so in this case what should I do? I don't want to be rude, or allow the guy to call me rude when it wasn't my intention. (apologies if this isn't the right place - I'm more looking for general guidance on Wikipedia conduct than anything else)
Cheers,
FraserJamesRobinson ( talk) 03:34, 28 February 2016 (UTC)
Not really sure what the appropriate venue for this question is, but: Does anybody know why history from English Wikipedia articles seem to be imported into German Wikipedia articles? For example, this de.wiki revision seems to show that history from en.wiki's article on Georgia Groome has been imported there, as do some of the preceding edits ( example edit from de.wiki and corresponding en.wiki edit). I just don't see the point in doing something like that. CabbagePotato ( talk) 07:51, 28 February 2016 (UTC)
Hi people,
the calls for posters, discussions and trainings for Wikimania 2016 are officially opened, you can find all the relevant links on the conference wiki:
https://wikimania2016.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions
The calls will be closed on March 20.
Posters will be reviewed just to make sure that there aren't things which are too much out of scope. Since we have a whole village we will surely find places to attach them, even if we they will be a lot!
Discussions will be managed by a guiding committee who will work on the wiki to meld all the proposals and suggestions.
Trainings will be reviewed by the programme committee. Please note that we request that each training has at least 3-5 interested attendees in order to be put in the programme.
By the beginning of April we will have a first list of all the accepted proposals.
If you have questions we suggest you to ask them on the discussion pages on wiki, so that everyone will be able to see them (and their answers, of course).
We are looking forward to read your ideas! -- Yiyi ( Dimmi!) 13:20, 28 February 2016 (UTC)
Our article on ex-Philippines president Ferdinand Marcos had been relatively stable before 19:39, 22 February 2016 (UTC) but one prolific new editor has now made very many edits that other editors have characterised as 'whitewashing' Marcos' record.
Since this is a presidential election year in the Philippines and the only son of Ferdinand is currently a candidate for high office, it might be considered important that this article not become too unbalanced... BushelCandle ( talk) 16:52, 28 February 2016 (UTC)
I've had a wee skim through the MoS, but found no answers ... what's our position on wikilinking where there's a possessive apostrophe involved. Foobar's, or Foobar's?
Reason I ask is I came across this: The Huffington Post's in the article Leavin' (album), which looks particularly typographically crappy, but I guess this is as much to do with the decision to italicise the wikilink but not the possessive. Again, what should we be doing here? Extending the italics to cover the 's? -- Tagishsimon (talk) 23:36, 28 February 2016 (UTC)
Note that Ranginui Walker died on 29 february accordind to Google. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.185.175.84 ( talk) 06:45, 29 February 2016 (UTC)
Hi. I've made a couple of edit requests related to the Democratic primary for the 2016 U.S. Senate election in Ohio; specifically, I've made a very small request for the article on the election itself, and two slightly more substantial requests for candidates Ted Strickland and P.G. Sittenfeld. Given that the primary election is just fifteen days away, I think it is fairly important that the articles updated quickly, so that potential voters can get accurate information should they turn to Wikipedia. If someone could review those edit requests, I would really appreciate it. Thanks, IagoQnsi ( talk) 17:50, 29 February 2016 (UTC)
Why do people here create separate pages just for the destinations of an airline? Why don't they just list them under the "Destinations" section on the main page of the airline? The way I see it, these pages serve only one purpose: spiking the page count. Cédric wants to abolish " Convention №. 2" like abolishing slavery. 18:49, 29 February 2016 (UTC)
I also posted on Wikipedia:Help desk. Hello everyone, I have no idea on how to deal with it, but the article Waldorf education poses a severe issue of neutrality, particularly with the section Reception, where you would expect some hindsight if any is needed, and which is a laudatory. I can see no trace on criticism of these schools, there is absolutely no mention of sectarism. A nice job has been done by POV-pushers so far. Please take care of it, I can deal with French-speakers, but I can't do much here. There is an overall problem with anthroposophy, with well-coordinated "cleaners". For the peculiar article I cited, I can provide you this secondary source which offers a good starting point. Be brave, English-speakers! Totodu74 ( talk) 15:49, 1 March 2016 (UTC)
One study of the science curriculum compared a group of American Waldorf school students to American public school students on three different test variables. [1] Two tests measured verbal and non-verbal logical reasoning and the third was an international TIMMS test. The TIMMS test covered scientific understanding of magnetism. The researchers found that Waldorf school students scored higher than both the public school students and the national average on the TIMMS test while scoring the same as the public school students on the logical reasoning tests. [1] However when the logical reasoning tests measured students' understanding of part-to-whole relations, the Waldorf students also outperformed the public school students. [1] The authors of the study noted the Waldorf students' enthusiasm for science, but viewed the science curriculum as “somewhat old-fashioned and out of date, as well as including some doubtful scientific material.” [1] Educational researchers Phillip and Glenys Woods, who reviewed this study, criticized the authors' implication of an “unresolved conflict”: that it is possible for supposedly inaccurate science to lead to demonstrably better scientific understanding. [2]
References
There are unresolved conflicts here, principally between a science education based on "inaccurate science" that leads to better scientific understanding.
I am not trying to debate on the article here, I just want to let the community know about the Wikipedia:Civil POV pushing ongoing here. Does anyone care? :) Totodu74 ( talk) 09:47, 2 March 2016 (UTC)
The second Inspire Campaign has launched to encourage and support new ideas focusing on content review and curation in Wikimedia projects. Wikimedia volunteers collaboratively manage vast repositories of knowledge in our projects. What ideas do you have to manage that knowledge to make it more meaningful and accessible? We invite all Wikimedians to participate and submit ideas, so please get involved today! The campaign runs until March 28th.
All proposals are welcome - research projects, technical solutions, community organizing and outreach initiatives, or something completely new! Funding is available from the Wikimedia Foundation for projects that need financial support. Constructive, positive feedback on ideas is appreciated, and collaboration is encouraged - your skills and experience may help bring someone else’s project to life. Join us at the Inspire Campaign and help your project better represent the world’s knowledge! I JethroBT (WMF) 19:55, 2 March 2016 (UTC)
Following the tradition(?) of the last two years that I had seen on Wikimedia, I created a page this year for Women's History Month 2016. However, I don't know where to take it from here, after creating the page. Any advice or suggestion? I posted this question on WikiWomen's Collaborative and they suggested me to ask this here. Ankitashukla ( talk) 05:07, 3 March 2016 (UTC)
Professor Carl Hewitt has posted a letter that he sent via registered US mail to the Wikimedia Foundation here.
A member of the Wikimedia Foundation suggested that I post a notice here when I discussed the matter with them after they presented a seminar at Stanford Law yesterday. 171.66.208.134 ( talk) 00:34, 5 March 2016 (UTC)
I encourage Dr. Hewitt to file a request with the Arbitration Committee to modify the sanctions that currently affect his ability to speak on his own behalf on Wikipedia. I believe that the committee might well be amendable to amending the previous arbitration case, which was originally decided in 2006 and, in my opinion, has outlived its usefulness. The page for filing requests is Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Clarification_and_Amendment. Because the account User:CarlHewitt has been blocked, it may be necessary to obtain an unblock for the purposes of filing an appeal. Because I have not been an admin since January 2015, I am not able to block or unblock users. The arbitration committee may be contacted directly at arbcom-l@lists.wikimedia.org to facilitate the appeal. — Carl ( CBM · talk) 20:46, 6 March 2016 (UTC)
Looks like they can't edit until it is unlocked. 107.1.187.90 ( talk) 23:40, 11 March 2016 (UTC)
I've recently been asking other editors whether the infobox image at Planet Nine should be removed, and there is an ongoing discussion to that effect. Today I've been exploring the labyrinth looking for appropriate guidelines, and I've just been reading Wikipedia:Disinfoboxes. Basically, I'm starting to see the whole infobox as a sort of spoof. Though I'm certain that the editors have acted in good faith, what they have essentially done is create an infobox for a planet for an article about a hypothesis, if you catch my drift. Opinions are fairly polarized over there at the moment, so I'm loathed to add insult to injury by posting further criticism there. If anyone fancies casting an eye over it, please do. Regards, nagual design 15:26, 6 March 2016 (UTC)
I first asked this question at the Teahouse but this may be a better place. Can anyone tell me if it's OK technically to use row headers in the right hand column of a table instead of the left, by using a "!" at the beginning of the cell which is to appear in the right hand column. In fact is it OK to put "!" to make any cell bold, or should we always use the 3 apostrophes Jodosma (talk) 08:22, 7 March 2016 (UTC)
! scope="row" | Row header
. See
Help:Table#Color; scope of parameters. —
Dispenser
17:17, 7 March 2016 (UTC)See Talk:Bipolar disorder#RfC: Is the happy/sad mask in the infobox section appropriate? Cas Liber ( talk · contribs) 10:36, 7 March 2016 (UTC)
Hello
I am looking for two informations;
Thanks for any pointer. Anthere ( talk) 15:29, 7 March 2016 (UTC)
SELECT page_title, COUNT(DISTINCT rev_user_text) AS "Users"
FROM revision
JOIN page ON page_id=rev_page
WHERE page_namespace=0
GROUP BY rev_page ORDER BY Users DESC
LIMIT 10;
Forgot to thank you sorry Dispenser. I used the first link (very useful). The second option scared me :) Thanks Anthere ( talk)
There is an RfC about Jack Ruby and his legal status at the time of his death. To observe or participate, please follow the link:
Talk:Jack Ruby#RFC - Jack Ruby's constitutional presumption of innocence .
Richard27182 (
talk)
23:55, 9 March 2016 (UTC)
If you're into nicely decorated books , this one might be for you:
Last month the National Library of the Netherlands (KB) donated a selection of 760 historical bookbindings (period 1100-1875, public domain) from its collection of 12.000 bookbindings to Wikimedia Commons.
The bindings range from sober ones in leather and parchment to richly decorated in textile, silver or tortoise shell. They give a small insight into how historical binding techniques were used and how successive decorative styles developed over time. In the details one can recognize the requests of patrons, the craftsmanship of the binders and the preferences of collectors.
The upload was facilitated by the
GLAMWiki toolset for bulk uploads. --
OlafJanssen (
talk)
11:04, 11 March 2016 (UTC)
A small preview ('please put your cursor on an image to view the caption (in Dutch))
-- — Preceding unsigned comment added by OlafJanssen ( talk • contribs) 11:04, 11 March 2016 (UTC)
I've seen multiple IP editors (not sure if the same or different people) reverting removal of Persondata (by other people, and now one time by me) because "KasparBot will handle it". Does it actually cause any issue for the bot if it's removed? I'm not doing mass removals, just stumbled upon an article with one, and I verified to make sure it had nothing that's not already in Wikidata. There's nothing on WP:PDT that says we shouldn't remove them manually. nyuszika7h ( talk) 11:46, 13 March 2016 (UTC)
Out of curiosity, T.seppelt, if the data was copied off of WP more than 3 months ago what happens if the data (especially the sources for that data) were updated after that date? For example if a person dies or marries and changes names? In fact, is there any provision at all in Wikidata/Persondata for verifiability? Koala Tea Of Mercy (KTOM's Articulations & Invigilations) 18:51, 13 March 2016 (UTC)
@ Koala Tea Of Mercy: Yes, Wikidata has the concept of sources and verifiability; see d:Help:Sources. Kaspar (the tool) doesn't know anything about sources though--should it? It can't know what the sources are for most statements because most of the Persondata did not have "inline" sources in the context of the parameters. -- Izno ( talk) 14:34, 14 March 2016 (UTC)
Recently a bot searched for invalid ISSN codes. There were several and listed at Wikipedia:WikiProject Check Wikipedia/ISSN errors. Please help in fixing them. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 01:17, 14 March 2016 (UTC)
The Catalan Wikipedia's articles amount reached 500,000. Congratulations to all its contributors for both its high quantity and quality! And now, the Persian WP is going ahead just behind Catalan, as the 18th WP from the articles number point of view, with +485,000 articles. :) Hamid Hassani ( talk) 17:15, 14 March 2016 (UTC)
There is a case of mistaken identity here: two copies of the same photograph, File:Arthur Godley in later life.jpg and File:Thomas Spring Rice, 2nd Baron Monteagle of Brandon.jpg, were uploaded as if they were portraits of two different people. Is it possible to find who is the actual sitter?-- The Traditionalist ( talk) 15:26, 15 March 2016 (UTC)
Hi, can I interest anybody in contributing to a national edit-a-thon/contest for Wales in April, Wikipedia:WikiProject Wales/Awaken the Dragon. You can win up to £200 worth of Amazon vouchers and books of your choice for entering the contest. The idea is that Amazon vouchers and books can then be used by people to buy/have discount off more books and produce more articles for wikipedia. The scoreboard will be kept here. However, if contests and prize aren't your cup of tea you're very welcome to participate in the edit-athon throughout the month. Everything will count and be added to a list at the bottom. We have a number of missing listed buildings identified and a core list at Wikipedia:WikiProject Wales/Awaken the Dragon/Core articles. Already we have about 30 people interested but it would be great to see more get involved and producing content and really show what can be achieved in a month.The point of it is getting some of the core articles up to decent status and an overall improvement in quality. So if you generally work on military history or trains or whatever and you spot something which might interest you please consider working on it within the next six weeks! There is also a physical edit-athon at the National Library of Wales on April 22, see this for details.♦ Dr. Blofeld 16:04, 15 March 2016 (UTC)
I've just recently passed 750,000 edits (on English Wikipedia, of course). The party will be at User:BD2412/Edit milestones. Cheers! bd2412 T 17:28, 16 March 2016 (UTC)
Hey folks! The Individual Engagement Grants (IEG) program is accepting proposals from March 14th to April 12th to fund new tools, research, outreach efforts, and other experiments that enhance the work of Wikimedia volunteers. Whether you need a small or large amount of funds (up to $30,000 USD), IEGs can support you and your team’s project development time in addition to project expenses such as materials, travel, and rental space.
Also accepting candidates to join the IEG Committee through March 25th.
With thanks, I JethroBT (WMF) 23:01, 16 March 2016 (UTC)
Hi, there are many lang-links (interwikis) at local wikis which aren't removed. for finding them you should type insource:/\[\[xxx:/
(xxx is langlink like en,fr, de, fa,...) at local wiki search box like below:
...
most of these local pages have interwiki-conflict and should be solved by human.
if you have bot at local wiki, you can run this code to remove interwikis of without-conflict pages (you should bot-permission at wikidata and localwiki):
#This command will check and remove interwikis from en.wikipedia's pages which have fr: links
python pywikibot/pwb.py interwikidata -clean -langs:en -lang:en "-search:insource:/\[\[fr:/"
#Only categories
python pywikibot/pwb.py interwikidata -clean -langs:en -lang:en "-search:category:insource:/\[\[fr:/"
Yamaha5 ( talk) 06:33, 17 March 2016 (UTC)
Hi everyone. I would like to update you with regards to this campaign ( direct link) for one of our contributors, photographers, and administrators, User:Rehman. Since the campaign's launch about a month ago, we managed to raise $222; $1,378 short of the goal. At the current average of $27, the goal can be achieved if we're able to reach out to another 50 contributors. But our small contact circles are pretty much exhausted. Hence I think it is important, for the sake of the campaign's success, to ask for your support by sharing it with your contacts (on social media, mailing lists, talkpages, wherever). Thank you, Azeez talk 15:44, 17 March 2016 (UTC)
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There is currently a lot of vandalism of the global sandbox. I think this is putting off a lot of new users when they stumble across the dick pics etc., any thoughts how to prevent it?-- Laber□ T 21:28, 19 March 2016 (UTC)
Why do we need global sandboxes? Each user has a sandbox subpage. -- NaBUru38 ( talk) 13:32, 23 March 2016 (UTC)
Hello, I'm french and I need some help. I found two articles about the same travel writer : Abdellah el-Ayachi and Abu Salim al-Ayyashi . Can you fix it ? Thanks. HB ( talk) 22:24, 20 March 2016 (UTC)
Happy Nowruz ( [nouˈɾuːz]), the Iranian New Year, to everyone who cares. :) Hamid Hassani ( talk) 16:13, 21 March 2016 (UTC)
I am just wondering what if, on one day some boring group of vandals, say, of significant numbers, collectively came to attack the website for whatever reason, blanking all the pages and replacing them with nonsense? This is of course very unlikely but it is not to say its definitely never going to happen. If it really does happen, is there anything we can do about--is there another means other than by one-by-one reverting the edits of 5.1 million articles?
Wishds ( talk) 10:33, 22 March 2016 (UTC)
Activity on my watchlist has dropped off dramatically the last couple of weeks. Is it just random, or is there a more general reason? Spring break? Are there that many students here? — Gorthian ( talk) 20:27, 22 March 2016 (UTC)
If your watchlist seems unusually quiet, you may want to check your preferences to see whether pages that were mostly recently (NB: not "only") edited by a bot are being hidden. Whatamidoing (WMF) ( talk) 18:43, 29 March 2016 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Ford_Pinto#RfC: section lede of Safety section. The inclusion of content drawn from three commentators, including a long direct quote, in the lede of section Fuel system fires, recalls, and litigation of article Ford Pinto, is disputed. Please comment. Thank you. Hugh ( talk) 16:37, 23 March 2016 (UTC)
See RepRap project
One perspective of the situation might be that Wikipedia editors delete content which is not backed by reliable sources. Another perspective could be that Wikipedia's editorial process is a matter of individual opinion with no clear rule set. Other participation would be useful as this situation is getting external media attention. Blue Rasberry (talk) 18:39, 23 March 2016 (UTC)
Would it be technically possible and culturally acceptable to only count edits in mainspace for autoconfirmation? A set of articles on my watchlist are constantly vandalized by a longterm vandal who regularly creates new accounts that make just enough edits in sandbox pages to bypass the semi-protection on his or her target articles. I know that it would be a bad idea to make such a significant change to address one editor especially when this is such an obviously flawed and partial attempt to address the problem but I'm curious if this change is feasible and desirable. ElKevbo ( talk) 16:11, 24 March 2016 (UTC)
During the course of my work here, I often come across citations where the author has an article on Wikipedia, but with no link to that article. Is there any work going on, to address this? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 19:25, 24 March 2016 (UTC)
I have been reviewing the article on " Olga Bondareva" and I told encuenta this horribly, and contain a deep anti-Soviet bias. In addition, the article is deeply poor and skimp on glorious achievements. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 201.255.100.10 ( talk) 21:15, 25 March 2016 (UTC)
I don't have obligation to contribute to your encyclopedia. To you get paid for it and is the work they chose, I do not force them. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 201.255.115.170 ( talk) 01:46, 27 March 2016 (UTC)
I have just received the following e-mail:
[copy of email removed]
-- — Preceding unsigned comment added by Petebutt ( talk • contribs) 10:32, 26 March 2016
This mentions a Wikipedia article but is otherwise unconnected. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 14:06, 26 March 2016 (UTC)
A wiki pop off appeared when I tried to use wiki could not figure out how to remove or close so I remove wiki app from my phone thanks Craig — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:1008:B020:67F6:8592:DA94:16E9:AC90 ( talk) 16:24, 26 March 2016 (UTC)
Can somoene cleanup the talk page talk:Tymshare Super BASIC ? It doesn't seem to be meeting proper Wikipedia decorum. -- 70.51.46.39 ( talk) 04:39, 27 March 2016 (UTC)
Moved to Wikipedia:Related Pages extension/RfC, with discussion on its talk page. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 20:08, 28 March 2016 (UTC)
I don't know how to correct the birth date of an actual living person. Louis Ferreira is listed on Wikipedia as having been born on February 20, 1967; however, an interview (posted both as audio and transcript) with the actor on his personal website at [1] reveals that he celebrated his 50th birthday this year, which would place his birth date on February 20, 1966. Since this goes into the "persondata" field I assume it's a little more complicated than just making the change and providing a reference. Could someone please point me in the right direction on how to correct this mistake? Thanks!! Bczogalla Bczogalla ( talk) 18:05, 27 March 2016 (UTC)
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Keilana ( talk) 19:07, 28 March 2016 (UTC)
I'm not sure this is the best place to put this, but I collapsed this edit at RfC-talk as being off topic for that venue, but after some examination it does appear that the poster, while at the wrong venue, may have a point. There have been references to an alleged animated series from Russia, Galaxy World of Alisa, added by IP editors to over 200 articles, an effort which goes back months and has continued as late as this month. See this search. Google searches cannot find any direct references to the series and the references which can be found appear to be the same kind as added here, references slipped into pages about allegedly related subject matter. There do appear to be other genuine animated series about the same character Alisa Selezneva, but it may be significant that the Wikipedia-ru version of that character's page (via Google translate here) does not mention the Galaxy World series at all. Unless this is a truly obscure series, which would be hard to believe since the references put into the articles here refer to multi-country and multi-language versions (American English, British English, Hindi, Italian, Australian, and others), this smells like an Internet-wide spam or, more likely, hoax. Regards, TransporterMan ( TALK) 17:25, 29 March 2016 (UTC)
If this is a truly obscure series, it shouldn't be appearing in all of these places, as its appearance will be meaningless to everyone except a very few people familiar with the truly obscure series. And if it's a hoax, as appears to me to be almost certain, it definitely shouldn't be appearing in all of them. Perhaps we can remove it from its current locations and create an edit filter to prevent its addition to mainspace? Nyttend ( talk) 21:34, 29 March 2016 (UTC)Hello. Recently, while looking at Voice Over profiles, I keep seeing this thing called "Galaxy World of Alisa" on most pages. I don't know if I should believe you guys or not. When I looked it up, the only thing to exist is a video with the name "Alisa" on it, but it's totally unrelated! There's not even a page on here either!
I'm so frustrated over this! I want to know if it's just clickbait because I can't take this "Real or Fake" thing anymore! Any admin active right now, please respond as soon as you can so I can know all about this, thank you.
-From Anonymous Contributor — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:84:C800:E3F2:9965:DB7B:3DAA:9023 ( talk) 18:12, 29 February 2016 (UTC) P.S, I'M THE SAME PERSON AS ANONYMOUS CONTRIBUTOR 73.194.46.93 WHO SENT THIS MESSAGE
Special:WhatLinksHere/Galaxy World of Alisa shows that it's linked by six articles. Google says that there are over three thousand pages containing the string <"Galaxy World of Alisa">, but when you search for <"Galaxy World of Alisa" -wikipedia> to remove Wikipedia hits, there are about two pages of results, all autogenerated, social media, or unattributed copies of Wikipedia articles. Some of the twenty-odd hits mention it as a current TV series — but how many current English-language TV series would get so few appearances online? I too question the reality of this subject. Nyttend ( talk) 18:54, 29 February 2016 (UTC)
For the most part this seems like a pretty straightforward Wikihoax. The IBTimes article looks to be the only major off-wiki element, and that seems almost certainly like the author grabbed it from Wikipedia. I've reached out to IBTimes to ask (would've just contacted the author but the bio link is broken). The only thing complicating all of this is the potential for translation issues. When I tried to use machine translation to search in Russian, I also came to several Alisa Selezneva-related results. That at least some of the IPs adding the material are based in Russia suggest they may simply be translating "galaxy world" differently (e.g. this edit by this IP). That said, there's no explanation other than hoax for the list of stars purported to feature in the film. — Rhododendrites talk \\ 16:16, 30 March 2016 (UTC)
The Wikimedia Foundation will be running a major test of its newest data center in Dallas in mid-April. This will make sure Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia wikis can stay online even after a disaster. They will switch all traffic to the new data center on Tuesday, 19 April. On Thursday, 21 April, they will switch back to the primary data center.
Unfortunately, because of some limitations in MediaWiki, you will be able to read, but you will not be able to edit at any wiki for a short period of time on those days. They apologize for this disruption, and they are working to minimize it in the future.
You can read the schedule at wikitech.wikimedia.org. They will post any further changes on that schedule.
I have two requests:
Thanks, Whatamidoing (WMF) ( talk) 19:03, 29 March 2016 (UTC)
Hello, all. The VisualEditor team has been working on a community-requested design change for editing. This new feature only affects editors who already have access to the visual editor. (If you have disabled the visual editor, you will not see anything new, and this change won't affect your account.) They will be able to choose to have either one or two "Edit" tabs. Currently, all users of the visual editor are required to have two. If you choose one tab, then it also lets you choose what that "Edit" tab will do.
Everyone is already able to switch between the two editing systems via buttons on the toolbars (the "pencil" icon and the "square brackets" icon). If you start in one editing system, then you can switch to the other at any time.
Logged-in editors will be able to make their choices from a one-time pop-up dialog box or from Special:Preferences.
The change will likely happen on either (approximately) 12 or 26 April. (We can't do this during the week of 18–22 April because the server switch will result in a code freeze and temporary disabling of all editing.) Realistically, I expect this to have no effect on IPs and most experienced editors, and to temporarily slightly confuse some editors who currently have the visual editor enabled (and who will suddenly be wondering where their other Edit tab went, until they make their next edit).
What I want from you:
— Whatamidoing (WMF) ( talk) 16:48, 31 March 2016 (UTC)
Above, @ Whatamidoing (WMF): you claim "Newly registered editors on the desktop site use the visual editor for about half of their mainspace edits here at the English Wikipedia. (About 10% of new editors are using mobile.)" As usual with VE-promoting entities, this seems highly inflated. this page (linked from WP:VE) indicates that of al the main space non-bot editing, some 18% is done by newly registered editors using wikitext, while some 4% of the edits are made by newly registered editors using VE. Even taking into account the 10% mobile users not using VE, your maths seems to be way off. Newly registered users don't "use the visual editor for about half of their mainspace edits", but instead "use the visual editor for about 1/4th of their mainspace edits". (Existing users, by the way, use VE for about 1/50th of their edits!) Such incorrect figures have been used repeatedly when some new VE-related change had to be promoted, and for some reason always inflating the number of VE users. It would be better if the WMF started being honest with us for a change. Fram ( talk) 11:25, 4 April 2016 (UTC)
This tool is public, but not necessarily easy to interpret. It uses a sample of about 6% of edits (for performance reasons). "Success" and "failure" mean different things in different charts. For example, on one chart, "failure" means that the page didn't save during a single attempt (e.g., it triggered a captcha); it doesn't mean that the page never saved. In another, "failure" is the rate of pages that were never saved, after loading.
I'm using https://edit-analysis.wmflabs.org/compare/ with the settings at this calendar year, for enwiki only. (It's important to omit anything around the first of November, when the data is mostly missing.) You can use the "averaging" feature with a large number as a quick way to smooth the curves and get a long-term average.
For the information you're interested in, the most useful section is "Success by Experience of User" (defined in the hover text as "What proportion of times the editor was loaded and the resulting edit was finished and saved" [emphasis added]). This chart shows this information:
This shows us two facts:
Even among highly experienced editors, the success rate in the visual editor is consistently higher. For example, among editors with more than 1,000 edits, it's been running about 74% success in the visual editor versus 69% success in the wikitext editor. There are many possible explanations for this gap. For example, it may be that experienced editors frequently open the wikitext editor for the purpose of copying the wikitext code for a table or template, without any intention of saving an edit, and that will be recorded as a "failure"; this also applies to the visual editor when copying things to other pages, of course.
I don't know where you get the claim that "over the last 12 months, some 365,000 sessions made a successful VE edit, and some 14 million made a successful Wikitext edit". The 'sequence of edits' section at the top shows that 14 million out of 39 million wikitext attempts failed quickly (init > ready > end), but getting actual numbers of successful edits requires adding up all the paths: the 2.2 million wikitext edits in the most common success path (init > ready > attempt > success > end) plus the 330K wikitext edits that had minor problems upon loading (init > ready > ready > attempt > success > end) plus the 290K that ran init > ready > intent > attempt > success > end, and so forth. Also, note that in that dashboard all the numbers only cover the ‘’sampled’’ rate of edits, not even close to all edits; they’re internally consistent, but you should not try to compare them over time, or between each editor except via proportions.
I don't recall making any claims about what new editors do after their first edit; AFAIK that is unknown (and not obviously relevant to the question of whether new editors should be offered one edit tab or two before their first edit). I have said that comparing the choices made by the newest 1% of accounts against aggregated data for last month's behavior by accounts created during all of the last 33 months – including 24 months while the visual editor was either completely disabled or opt-in only for everyone – is not a sound basis for making assertions about whether editors are actually changing their preferences over time. That data could be equally explained by differences in the cohorts (e.g., editors who refused to use the wikitext editor when that was the only choice obviously available to them will be under-represented) and the product (e.g., the visual editor handles tables well now, and didn't then). You need a longitudinal study to determine whether editors change their actions over time. Instead, all you've got is an assumption that the affinity of now-experienced editors who created their accounts at a time when the visual editor was both less functional and hidden is identical to the affinity of current newbies for a much improved product. It is not an assumption that should be accepted without scrutiny.
Finally, the choice of editing environment is not really a popularity contest. I believe that we need all the content contributors, not just the ones who prefer one style or the other. Whatamidoing (WMF) ( talk) 20:34, 11 April 2016 (UTC)
Meanwhile, the WMF has done exactly the thing they promised us they wouldn't do, i.e. set VE as the default editor for all new accounts. See WP:VPT#VE WAS IMPOSED AS PRIMARY EDITOR. Yes, let's forget the promises we just made and put the editor used for 5% of the edits (assuming this is even true) as the default, just because we have spent so much money on it instead of on the wikitext editor. Fuck the editors, long live the WMF. As community liaison, perhaps you can (in some public space) discuss this witj JDForrester and other likeminded creatures? That would be more useful than your input here. Fram ( talk) 06:51, 13 April 2016 (UTC)
Most of the stat debate here is irrelevant. The WMF's May 2015 study found that VE helped an additional 0% of new users make their first edit, VE increased in new user retention by 0%, and VE resulted in a 0% increase in total contributions. The push to increase VE usage represents a null or negative value campaign to push for more cannibalization. Alsee ( talk) 13:19, 13 April 2016 (UTC)
Hi all
Today starts a new photo contest organized by Wikimedia Spain and focused on festivals declared of touristic interest in Spain: Wiki Loves Folk. The contest aims to collect images freely licensed to illustrate content on these festivals in Wikipedia and enhance the online presence of Spanish folklore. Along with its monumental and environmental richness, Spain has a rich and varied folklore: carnivals, food festivals, religious celebrations as Easter or Corpus Christi, cultural and sporting events or popular festivals, among others.
It is about sharing original photographs, taken recently or in the past, between April 1 and 30, 2016 or, in a second period, between November 15 and December 15, 2016. The subject of the contest is all those festivals declared of touristic interest by the various administrations: international, national, regional, provincial and local levels. The complete list, with additional information and a map for each region is available at wikilov.es/folk, the competition website. To participate, simply have an user account on Wikimedia Commons and upload the pictures by following the steps on the web.
Best, -- Rubén Ojeda (WMES) ( talk) 19:38, 1 April 2016 (UTC)
Article " Kostolac, Požarevac" should rename in "Selo Kostolac" ...and on Wikipedia on Serbian language article is renamed. See [6] -- MilanKovacevic ( talk) 12:04, 2 April 2016 (UTC)
This new template {{
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has been placed on three of the five high-profile policy pages linked at
Five pillars. There may be a case for distinguishing "five pillars" pages in this way, but I think there should be discussion on its usage and wording: should it go on the other two of the "five pillars" pages? and isn't "long history" (15 years?) and "profound significance" claiming rather too much?
: Noyster
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Can anyone place articles on Article Probation? I ask because a newly created article suddenly acquired an article probation tag [7] added by an editor who has no special privileges. Wouldn't adding {{ Community article probation}} require a notice at WP:AN or something? -- 70.51.46.39 ( talk) 02:32, 3 April 2016 (UTC)
I'm working on an admin hopeful version of WP:42. I could use a bit of a hand with the name etc. Cheers. Anna Frodesiak ( talk) 08:36, 3 April 2016 (UTC)
So, what do you think? Would it be MfD fodder or would it be acceptable to the community:
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Anna Frodesiak ( talk) 08:34, 6 April 2016 (UTC)
Hello all! After some acts of hate in Brussels, it is now time again for love. In this week and next week we organise a double writing week about Brussels! We like to invite you to join this project by writing about subjects related to this region in any Wikipedia you like.
More information, the participants list, and the list of articles that have been written, can be found at: Writing week/Brussels.
Participating is easy:
If you like you can also create a page for the writing weeks on your local wiki.
If you have any questions, do not hesitate to contact me. Greetings - Romaine ( talk) 08:55, 4 April 2016 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Chrysler#RfC: Reception; rankings in independent surveys and ratings of quality, reliability, and customer satisfaction . Please comment. Thank you. Hugh ( talk) 15:16, 4 April 2016 (UTC)
I was planning to add Sharavathi Wild life santuary for wild life santuaries of Karnataka. But there is a link for the same, which redirects to page Sharavathi. Eventhough that page has all the information about wild life santuary, it is under a section, so i cannot add it to wild life santuary category. I need a clear guidance for the next step. Prajwalmr62 ( talk) 06:58, 6 April 2016 (UTC)
Acknowledged.
Prajwalmr62 ( talk) 12:07, 7 April 2016 (UTC)
What is the copyright status of text and pictures in US patents that has expired? Can it be copied into Wikipedia? Bytesock ( talk) 16:59, 7 April 2016 (UTC)
I would like community input as to whether or not this kind of Talk page discussion is appropriate for an article talk page. I personally think it's not appropriate for an article talk page because it seems to be more about a contributor's editing habits than the article itself; however, the other side says that it is appropriate because it's an article-related issue and complaint. However, I want a wider community consensus on this matter, not just input from a few editors at ANI. Electric Burst( Electron firings)( Zaps) 19:50, 8 April 2016 (UTC)
Hi! I've requested an Individual Engagement Grant to greatly enhance the ProveIt gadget. For those of you who don't know it, the gadget scans the wikitext of any article you're editing and generates a visual interface for easily adding or editing references. I think that the gadget has a lot of further potential by connecting it with TemplateData and Wikidata, but developing this potential would take me too long, so I've requested a grant. I invite you all to read the proposal in detail, leave your comments and endorse it if you think it's a good idea. Thanks! -- Felipe ( talk) 09:34, 9 April 2016 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Ford_Pinto#RfC: section lede of Safety section. RfC update: Should an epigraph, a long direct quote from Lee and Erdmann (1999), and content sourced to Schwartz (1990) and Danley (2005), be included in the section lede? To date, this request for comment has broadened the discussion by bringing one (1) new editorial voice to the discussion. Please join the discussion at Talk:Ford_Pinto#RfC: section lede of Safety section. Thank you. Hugh ( talk) 15:29, 9 April 2016 (UTC)
Inspired by Katherine Craster's poem, I would like to have a poem accompanying our sort-of mascot. I'm no poet, so please take the below and feel free to wikipate and edit the below freely. — Sebastian 20:55, 10 April 2016 (UTC)
The Wikipede was happy – quite! |
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... something rotten about her Mum
and this led to a terrible fight.
Praemonitus (
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Does there exist an archive of deleted pages? I have looked around some and not found one, but I would suppose that such a thing does exist. I am looking in response to a question on Talk:Neo-orthodoxy about a missing page on Eduard Thurneysen. Dgndenver ( talk) 04:10, 11 April 2016 (UTC)
. Fences& Windows 17:27, 12 April 2016 (UTC)
Hello everyone. I am looking for the name of a French song by Céline Dion which I have forgotten the name! But, as I remember a sequence of the clip, she is sitting on the floor embracing a doll. The clip has been filmed with something like a yellowish filter as well. I heard it first in 1990s (may be 1998 or 1999). Would you please inform me of the name? Thank you in advance. Thank you in advance. Hamid Hassani ( talk) 04:30, 11 April 2016 (UTC)
Waaay back in the day, people used to reach out to Jimbo Wales when an especially thorny question came up. However, he turned over the reigns years ago to the board, so I'm at a loss to turn to.
In this case, there is a user from a remote village who wants to post an example of indigenous artwork, but can't because it doesn't fit neatly into our strict permissions and licensing framework. It seems like such an image satisfies the spirit of our licensing, but not the letter. Magog the Ogre ( t • c) 03:22, 13 April 2016 (UTC)
I was very pleased when I discovered Template:Reflistp. Now, when editing a section (especially of a long article), I didn't need to save the edit and look at the whole article to see how the references in it had come out. But now that template is No page with this title. What happened to it? Why was it deleted? It was very useful.-- Thnidu ( talk) 16:50, 14 April 2016 (UTC)
-- Izno ( talk) 19:07, 16 April 2016 (UTC)A page with this title has previously been deleted.
If you are creating a new page with different content, please continue. If you are recreating a page similar to the previously deleted page, or are unsure, please first contact the deleting administrator using the information provided below.
- 09:02, 24 February 2016 Sphilbrick (talk | contribs) deleted page Template:Reflistp (G6: Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2016 February 15#Template:Reflistp)
I have a research project proposal over on meta.wikimedia.org for measuring time contributions and editor workflow. Specifically I'm trying to find out about how much work is going on both on and off wiki and see if we can find attributes of the edit that indicate how much time was spent on it. Any comments would be appreciated. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Another Article ( talk • contribs) 20:38, 15 April 2016 (UTC)
It's awesome. I want to thank them from the bottom of my heart. -- Anthonyhcole ( talk · contribs · email) 12:51, 16 April 2016 (UTC)
95.1 FM is in Category:Lists of radio stations by frequency, but it's tagged with {{ WikiProject Disambiguation}} on the talk page. So which one is it then? nyuszika7h ( talk) 09:18, 17 April 2016 (UTC)
This remained there for 12 days. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 20:21, 17 April 2016 (UTC)
The other day, a user replaced "Catholicism" in the infobox of a King of Pamplona, with "Chalcedonian Christianity". I reverted, he reverted, and then another user replaced it with Hispano-Mozarabic. This change in the "Religion" field was made only in the article of this specific King, not his predecessors or successors, queen consort, etc. I'm just wondering if we should get into this high level of detail in the infobox. If this field was changed in the article of one king it should be done with all kings, family members or individuals who lived at that time, not only in the Iberian Peninsula, but in other countries. I really think that, in this case, that of a European monarch, "Catholicism" would suffice and we should not be that specific. Any ideas? Thanks, -- Maragm ( talk) 14:08, 2 April 2016 (UTC)
That's fine with me, though I think more should be involved in the discussion to reach a consensus...here or in the other thread mentioned above. -- Maragm ( talk) 20:41, 2 April 2016 (UTC)
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field of an infobox should tell Wikipedia editors all they need to know. Infobox fields are only for uncontentious and unambiguous key summary facts, and should be left blank and unused if there is any nuanced explanation involved. Fields most certainly should remain blank until the information, with sources, exists in the body of the article.
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21:21, 2 April 2016 (UTC)Put religion in the infobox if and only if the person was a religious leader. Otherwise, blank. Oiyarbepsy ( talk) 04:08, 3 April 2016 (UTC)
I used the Template:Copied in the case of DriveTime when I made a number of separate edits from a COI editor's draft. The template says the draft must never be deleted, although normally userspace drafts are deleted when they are moved. This draft won't be moved, but at some point the user might be finished with it. What is the best course of action in that case?— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 20:08, 18 April 2016 (UTC)
Can someone explain what aspects of [8] might be relevant for Wikipedia to expand or feel more comfortable with its "Fair Uses" of material? Wnt ( talk) 23:41, 18 April 2016 (UTC)
It has come to my attention by The Earwig that the copyvios-tool and CorenSearchBot will be shut down effectively this Monday, due to Yahoo BOSS! being shut down and Bing not allowing our usage due to their ToU (see more here). Google is apperently too costly, and other alternatives are eiter too "bad" or not suitable for our needs. Unless WMF's lawyers can strike a deal with Google's or Bings' lawyers, all copyvio detection will be effectively nill starting this Monday. This will affect WP:NPP most of all.
I just wanted to let you all know. Monday is the day that we will mark in history when copyvios will start going (even more) undetected on Wikipedia, and we no longer can differentiate between freee knowledge and illegally copied content. ( t) Josve05a ( c) 19:38, 16 April 2016 (UTC)
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Adia victoria | "Victoria’s family attended a predominately white Seventh Day Adventist Church." | http://www.wonderingsound.com/feature/adia-victoria-interview/ | No match |
Myles Chefetz | "Prior to his arrival, restaurants in Miami Beach featured a club-like environment" | http://mylesrestaurantgroup.com/?page_id=239 | http://mylesrestaurantgroup.com/?page_id=239 |
CIPHER Security LLC | "Implementing complex security technologies necessary to protect and defend against the constantly evolving security threats" | https://www.cipher.com/system-integration/ | https://www.cipher.com/system-integration/ |
JSB Reserve | "In 1910 A German farmer built a home nestled on the banks of the Ohio River" | http://jsbreserve.com/ | No match |
We had a guy create several new articles against tennis guidelines... "2003 player x season", "2004 player x season", etc. It would have been nice to delete them outright but some of the items could be used. These were all newly created articles with nothing really linking to them. We get a lot of editors trying to create these articles and they get the idea from searching for them and finding them in the very few players who warrant them. But this was a nothing player. Instead of deleting the articles outright, this time we decided to merge some of the content into a separate career stats article. That's fine, but now I'm being told we can't delete the multiple useless "player x season" articles" because the contents were merged. This is going to cause more headaches when editors do searches and find the redirects. My question: is it really against policy/guidelines to delete these types of pages after a merge? Had I known that, I would have insisted on deletion rather than a merge. I need direction to the policy that states this. Thanks. Fyunck(click) ( talk) 06:01, 17 April 2016 (UTC)
Can somebody explain to this user that the seal is used in the infobox under fair use? /info/en/?search=File:Gmuseal.svg Thank you. -- RaphaelQS ( talk) 22:31, 19 April 2016 (UTC)
Not sure if some newbies know about this but Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests is where we nominate Featured Articles to be on the main page. Folks can choose any article that hasn't been on the main page - see Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2008-08-18/Dispatches for ideas. Cas Liber ( talk · contribs) 10:28, 20 April 2016 (UTC)
Interested in helping to keep Wikipedia Library partnerships available? Then please sign up to be a metrics coordinator! With over 50 active partnerships requiring tracking and regular reports on source usage and general progress we're struggling to keep up, and would really appreciate an extra pair of hands or two. No particular skills required other than an interest in playing around with data (nothing more complicated than a spreadsheet), the ability to communicate clearly, and a desire to help the library continue to distribute free access to great resources. Feel free to drop me a message on my talk page or an email if you want more information. Sam Walton ( talk) 19:55, 20 April 2016 (UTC)
"Organic chemistry / hobbyist-molecular-physicist journeyman/expert/or diehard blow-hard who still cuts his/her mustard on the matter attention/opinion requested with much gratitude". Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 18:21, 22 April 2016 (UTC)
Could someone answer the question posed on this talk page about whether a certain kind of benzene (dubbed "eta-six-co-ordinated moiety" of a transition metal chelation) would fall into this stacking category? or would it be better noted as a Dewar–Chatt–Duncanson model, or both or neither and if so/nay, why? Thanks 66.96.79.217 ( talk) 01:58, 21 April 2016 (UTC)
Apologies if this has been asked before. It looks like Google has not updated the 'Wikipedia' layer in the Google Earth database in some time -- many of the placemarks are appearing at slightly (or significantly) different locations, that I know I and other editors have corrected.
Does anyone know who at Google is responsible for importing our dumps into their database layer, so that we can prod them into maybe doing a fresh update sometime?
(To cite one example, I corrected the coordinates in our article on the Buildings at 15-17 Lee Street a year and a half ago, but Google Earth is still displaying it at the old, less-accurate location.) — Steve Summit ( talk) 13:55, 22 April 2016 (UTC)
I recall a study being done on Wikipedia that proved that kinder user warnings resulted in less vandalism, but I can't find a link for it. If anybody could find a link to it, that would be awesome.-- Moist Towels ( talk) 05:16, 23 April 2016 (UTC)
Just note to those who have not seen it that User:Ktr101 was banned by WMF tonight. WMF staff never provide any reasons for globally banning users.-- Ymblanter ( talk) 07:32, 23 April 2016 (UTC)
Just because the gods above choose to strike someone down with a lightning bolt without explaining why, that doesn't mean their reasoning is completely inscrutable. Does anyone have any insight into why this might have happened? Everyking ( talk) 02:28, 30 April 2016 (UTC)
How's it going? South Nashua ( talk) 05:21, 25 April 2016 (UTC)
Simply, is Wikipedia Citizen science (CS) and are Wikipedians citizen scientists? I guess the crux of the matter is whether Wikipedia is seen as a science project. If so, then Wikipedians collect and manage science data as any good citizen scientist should. Personally, I think Wikipedia is a CS project and so is possibly the most successful example. Richard Nowell ( talk) 09:41, 26 April 2016 (UTC)
A few are incidentally scientists. Most are incidentally citizens of some place. We may be either, or neither, or both. Jim.henderson ( talk) 11:07, 2 May 2016 (UTC)
Does anyone think it is ok for an article on a notable subject to go from this [9] to this [10] in a matter of two hours? GigglesnortHotel ( talk) 21:54, 26 April 2016 (UTC)
Last year I took some pictures of a coastal ship. Unfortunately the pictures are not scharp enough to read the name. (also File:Oversteek Armadale Mallaig 6.JPG and File:Oversteek Armadale Mallaig 4.JPG) Are there Scots who know this ship. I suspect the ship is local. Smiley.toerist ( talk) 10:02, 27 April 2016 (UTC)
Can I get some thoughts on this situation, please? Adam Cuerden ( talk) 16:34, 27 April 2016 (UTC)
Before I make my request, I wish to apologize in advance. I am a brand new member and I realize that making a request as my first act on the site may offend some people. Please, that is not my intent and I respectfully ask for your assistance because it is for a noble cause. My best friend and boss (who lost his father to cancer) also has the disease. As a memorial to his father, he created a website to help cancer patients, survivors, care givers and family members with articles directed at their particular needs.
There is a storehouse of information that would be valuable in the Wikipedia format. Therefore, I am putting out a request for editors to assist in the editing process of these works (which will be uploaded in the next several days). Now I do realize that there is a huge backlog of works to be edited but my request is humanitarian in nature. My friend is a two time survivor and once again his cancer has come back with a vengeance. There is a strong possibility (with his latest prognosis) that he will not see the end of the year.
It is his wish to leave his website and the works published here as a final legacy. Therefore, I respectfully ask for your help and truly hope you understand that this is a legitimate request. I do not make this lightly nor is it simply an attempt to rush the line. I sincerely hope that what I have written conveys to you my true sentiments and goal.
If you can help out, please leave me a message on my talk page.
Thank you — Preceding unsigned comment added by Midnightmaniac45 ( talk • contribs) 22:00, 29 April 2016 (UTC)
There are sixteen articles (I think) using "in the world":
So,
I'm leaning toward "B", but it's kind of gnawing at me. Anna Frodesiak ( talk) 20:41, 30 April 2016 (UTC)
Dear all,
On behalf of Iberocoop, we want to invite you all to participate in our translating contest about Ibero-American culture.
The contest, launched today, will be open to participate until the 31st of May. Ibero -America has a rich cultural and historical heritage. Through this contest we want to make known our culture and bring new contents to other Wikipedias.
You can find the contents here: Translating Ibero-America
We wait for you to participate!
-- Anna Torres (WMAR) ( talk) 14:25, 2 May 2016 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:ExxonMobil climate change controversy#RfC: Context of Natuna gas field on the impact of climate expertise on ExxonMobil operational planning. Should the following, bolded for clarity, be added to ExxonMobil climate change controversy?
Exxon also studied ways of avoiding CO2 emissions if the East Natuna gas field (Natuna D-Alpha block) offshore of Indonesia were developed. An October 1984 internal report from Exxon's top climate modelers said that the gas field contained over 70% carbon dioxide and that if the carbon dioxide were released to the atmosphere it would make the gas field "the world's largest point source emitter of CO2 and raises concern for the possible incremental impact of Natuna on the CO2 greenhouse problem." Members of Exxon's board of directors told Exxon staff that the gas field could not be developed without a cost-effective and environmentally responsible method for handling the CO2.
Please comment at Talk:ExxonMobil climate change controversy#RfC: Context of Natuna gas field on the impact of climate expertise on ExxonMobil operational planning. Thank you! Hugh ( talk) 14:16, 3 May 2016 (UTC)}
Question Since this is being discussed here, are there rules as to what makes a RfC announcement neutral? Hugh has created quite a few RfCs recently. Once the RfC is made he posts many announcements, particurally if he isn't happy with the current result (see this swell of notifications after almost 30 days here [11]). Anyway, the notifications are typically of the form above. A simple question, "should X be added" and then a long quote and references. Is that really a neutral announcement? To me that would tend to bias the reader because it makes it sound like there is no other context. Regardless, it also makes the notifications quite long. Also, so long as I'm asking, what is the proper way to protest what appears to be a non-neutral or problematic RfC? In this case we have a RfC that doesn't mention the previous discussions. In the Chrysler case the RfC provides an exact quote but I think many of the supporters only support the material in general, not the exact quote thus a "support" vote may be confused. To what extent can others modify the RfC without being seen as trying to disrupt the process? Thanks Springee ( talk) 11:08, 4 May 2016 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:ExxonMobil climate change controversy#RfC: Context of Natuna gas field on the impact of climate expertise on ExxonMobil operational planning. [sig]before, which is about right per WP:Canvassing; I would tend to agree that adding the question at the place of advertisement could possibly bias the answer. -- Izno ( talk) 14:25, 4 May 2016 (UTC)
Note that Anthony Anenih has died according to Google. Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.185.175.84 ( talk) 14:14, 4 May 2016 (UTC)
I must have missed the discussion. Do you see it in articles now? Search "in other projects". Does this mean no more adding the commons category link to articles? Will a bot remove them? I see no mention of this at Wikipedia:Wikimedia Commons. I must be missing something obvious. Anna Frodesiak ( talk) 02:40, 5 May 2016 (UTC)
I tagged Draft:Hypixel as a db-advert because it looks like an advertising brochure. The author deleted the tag [12]; Should I revert the tag deletion? -- 70.51.200.96 ( talk) 05:35, 7 May 2016 (UTC)
It's funny to see two bots fighting each other. Strawberry4Ever ( talk) 06:22, 7 May 2016 (UTC)
{{
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Pipetricker (
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12:31, 7 May 2016 (UTC)This page contains discussions that have been archived from Village pump (miscellaneous). Please do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to revive any of these discussions, either start a new thread or use the talk page associated with that topic.
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I created a page with US candidates pageviews graphs - it could help visualize politics. I'm sure it can be used for much more than that. -- Yurik ( talk) 05:30, 18 February 2016 (UTC)
This morning, I was in the behavior of # wikipedia-en-help channels so many people angry, because I and my companions will replace user names to wm-bot style. At first we wanted to play a joke, but it did not, the result was within the channel of the user know, we were out of the ban. For that matter, I would like to apologize and hope to get the understanding, the future we will no longer make such things. For if you can let me enter the channel again, I would like to vote by the community (of course, the channel might be useful for me, I am a sysop in the Chinese Wikipedia, sometimes we need help here).
Above, once again apologize for the matter.-- Nbfreeh ( talk) 05:18, 19 February 2016 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:List of state leaders in 2016#RfC: Inclusion of Palestine as a sub state of Israel. Could you please give your opinion on whether or not Palestine should be considered a separate sovereign entity from Israel? Many thanks Spirit Ethanol ( talk) 09:25, 19 February 2016 (UTC)
Please forgive me - I am about to
ignore all rules and do a
personal attack on another editor. I am unable to
assume good faith.
I accuse
PCruiser of being a robot. I have not seen another bot like this -
Special:Contributions/PCruiser. It knows some specific Wikipedia functions and has pushed odd buttons to do things. It makes an almost reasonable effort in a lot of cases, and actually writes better nonsense than some human contributors, but it is a cold kind of weird and not the usual sort. This bot has wasted volunteer time by making nonsense requests and comments.
Please forgive me in the event that I have accused a real human of talking like a robot.
Has anyone seen other contributors like this one? What do we do with these? Blue Rasberry (talk) 16:11, 3 February 2016 (UTC)
{{
resolved}} removed resolved tag as uncertainty remains for multiple editors, see further below.
{{
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Redrose64 (
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23:34, 13 February 2016 (UTC)
A diaphragm is giving it the power. Contrivingly it is un avoidable; but has its roots in sin. Sacred is the Graceful; and not spoiled of the spirit we can live with others.
Shiloh is a founding Baptist as well as church institution with a great history. Around since the turn of the 20th century it like some other Sacramento Churches was a cornerstone to Azusa and its principal seized waterways. Shiloh; the church informer and publicity of the Pastor bring to you an directory listing Boards, Ministries, Auxiliaries, and Committees. Get presented in our next 2016 Church Directory Smiling. Christ hasn't led everyone to this church home, but “Anthony J. Sadler among others is ever so more thankful for the years. And it willingly was the reason for his success. He devoted himself to discipleship and her Bible Study Fellowship.
Here are a couple examples of what I was mentioning earlier. First there is Racter (see also Getting a Computer to Write About Itself) and on a more recent note there is Once upon a bot: can we teach computers to write fiction? Koala Tea Of Mercy (KTOM's Articulations & Invigilations) 13:19, 19 February 2016 (UTC)
The more I look the deeper the rabbit hole goes (maybe I should have taken the blue pill)... Following up on Racter I found this
interview with the co-creator of the software. In that article is a mention of another software, INRAC (which we do not have an article for yet). Tracking that I found this JSTOR entry for an in-depth (7 pages!) software review entitled
"Talking Back: The INRAC Language Compiler". And this was all in the 1980's! I can't imagine this technology has not improved since then. Houston I think we have a problem.
Koala Tea Of Mercy (KTOM's
Articulations &
Invigilations)
13:38, 19 February 2016 (UTC)
I've noticed on Wikipedia over the years, that someone has gradually removed mention of the Australian monarch being Australia's head of state, while not mentioning who is. We also have the article Australian head of state dispute. SOMEBODY must be the head of state. So who is it? GoodDay ( talk) 21:20, 14 February 2016 (UTC)
Sor far the best source is a lesson plan on a public service website. Anything better? -- Pete ( talk) 10:05, 15 February 2016 (UTC)
Good point. I've reduced the Rfc to just the 'one' question. GoodDay ( talk) 15:25, 15 February 2016 (UTC)
Coming late to this. The Australian head of state dispute article has existed since 2011, has been much discussed and modified, is reliably sourced, and has been relatively stable for some years. The guts of it is that views are divided. User:GoodDay is well aware of the article, being a frequent contributor. I feel that he is being disingenuous by coming here cold, as it were. Discussion at the article continues, and a specific RfC has been opened here -- Pete ( talk) 21:06, 15 February 2016 (UTC)
Of course, the rest of the wiki-community will have a say about the aforementioned article, too. Neither myself or Skyring/Pete, will be the judge of what is & isn't acceptable :) GoodDay ( talk) 21:09, 15 February 2016 (UTC)
Good evening everybody! We are having trouble on pronouncing correctly the name of British actress Kathryn Beaumont. Her family name is beyond doubt a French one, but how is it pronounced in English? Since in the article in English is not given the name in IFA, please be kind enough to inform us on its correct pronunciation so we can write the corresponding article in Greek correctly. Thank you in advance. -- Ttzavaras ( talk) 23:37, 19 February 2016 (UTC)
Is Claudio Lotito dead? Morti nel 2016. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.185.175.84 ( talk) 12:43, 21 February 2016 (UTC)
At the entrance of the movie "Terms of Endearment" omitted mention the incestuous relationship of the protagonists. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 201.255.116.64 ( talk) 08:33, 17 February 2016 (UTC)
There are now web services that track the number of times papers are cited in Wikipedia. They use this as a way to estimate the impact factor of a paper. Authors can get updates in near-real time on who added (or removed) their paper from a particular article; and apparently this technology is largely being facilitated by the WMF [2]. Am I wrong in thinking that this is a terrible idea, and one that actively encourages COI editing? Can we somehow encourage the WMF to quit encouraging people to see Wikipedia cites and links as a commodity? Add a few more things to WP:NOT? Geogene ( talk) 00:47, 20 February 2016 (UTC)
Dear Geogene, Wikipedia is i=mmensely popular and already prone to conflict of interests.
"Can we somehow encourage the WMF to quit encouraging people to see Wikipedia cites and links as a commodity?" I'm afraid we can't make academics to think how to perceive Wikipedia. -- NaBUru38 ( talk) 22:09, 24 February 2016 (UTC)
Hello friends. i am a Wikipedia Writer in Persian Wikipedia and my English is not good do you think for article of Persian-speaking peoples, is name truth in English paragraph because Peoples is more peoples or just should be people? be people is multiplication. do you think what name is more correct to use?
It is also of interest to note that the English idiomatic usage when dealing with multiple nations or groups speaking a common language is borne out by the notable A History of the English-Speaking Peoples by Sir Winston S. Churchill. Collect ( talk) 21:15, 26 February 2016 (UTC)
In what way should the lead sentence of articles dealing with railway stations or train stations be fashioned? See discussion at Wikipedia_talk:Manual of Style/Lead section#Request for comment: Identification of train or railway stations in the lead. BeenAroundAWhile ( talk) 22:10, 22 February 2016 (UTC)
What's the policy on non-AfC article-like pages in the Wikipedia: namespace? The page linked in the section header and its subpages (e.g. Wikipedia:List of Monuments in Mechi Zone, [[]]) were created in WP: space, there don't seem to be articles with the same title/topic in mainspace, and they come complete with their own template. However, they seem to be a walled garden (other than the main page) with probably negligible views. They're also completely unsourced - they wouldn't survive in article space. What should we do with them? ansh 666 04:20, 23 February 2016 (UTC)
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Redrose64 (
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19:52, 23 February 2016 (UTC)Recently I, by myself, wrote my first GA and got it promoted. It's always been my understanding that unless an article is about a very controversial topic, it shouldn't have sources in the lead; the information in the lead should simply be a summary of the rest of the article, and the information should be sourced in the body, not the lead. This article is about a noncontroversial subject who has been dead for 15 years. Today there was a post on the talk page of the article questioning why there are no sources in the lead. I thought maybe it was a new user, but then I looked at their contribs I saw that their account is a over a year old and they are reviewing GAs. I pinged them at the article talk and sent them to the WP:Lead page. I'm just sort of wondering how people who don't seem to understand policy can be reviewing GAs, and if anybody else has seen this. I'm confused... 😕 White Arabian Filly ( Neigh) 00:35, 24 February 2016 (UTC)
I see a new feature on the article editor - when a section edit is previewed, a preview of references is automatically included!
This eliminates the need to insert a reflist tag for testing; on at least five occasions I've done that and forgotten to remove it before saving the edit.
Never again! Yay!
Many thanks to whichever developer did this.
(NOTE - I do most of my editing in Firefox 2.0.0.20 under Mac OS X 10.3.9. Really. It may seem hard to believe, but it works fine. A few features are missing, but it is entirely usable. I applaud the Wiki developer team for maintaining backwards compatibility, and not cluttering Wiki with clever-dick new "features". Some day there may be a wholly new editing system, and I expect to be left behind, but for the moment I can still be useful. When that day comes, I will upgrade if I can, but I'll probably stick with what I've got till then.)
Rich Rostrom ( Talk) 19:14, 24 February 2016 (UTC)
Can someone undelete that template for a while? I can't import it on The Multilingual Encyclopedia because I can't view them. -- stranger195 ( talk • contribs • guest book) 06:29, 26 February 2016 (UTC)
Hello everyone,
I'm pretty new around here (as an editor at least!). I've had a bit of a crash course on Wikipedia guidelines regarding things like COI due to mistakenly editing a page for which I had a COI (now disclosed). Anyway this lead to me suggested another user discloses their COI and this spiralled into a massive argument that's lead to the user threatening to report me for harassment (I don't want to name names here I've already requested a Third opinion to help resolve the problem). I would like to apologise to the user for the perceived harassment but I'm worried that doing so will (in his eyes) count as harassment, so in this case what should I do? I don't want to be rude, or allow the guy to call me rude when it wasn't my intention. (apologies if this isn't the right place - I'm more looking for general guidance on Wikipedia conduct than anything else)
Cheers,
FraserJamesRobinson ( talk) 03:34, 28 February 2016 (UTC)
Not really sure what the appropriate venue for this question is, but: Does anybody know why history from English Wikipedia articles seem to be imported into German Wikipedia articles? For example, this de.wiki revision seems to show that history from en.wiki's article on Georgia Groome has been imported there, as do some of the preceding edits ( example edit from de.wiki and corresponding en.wiki edit). I just don't see the point in doing something like that. CabbagePotato ( talk) 07:51, 28 February 2016 (UTC)
Hi people,
the calls for posters, discussions and trainings for Wikimania 2016 are officially opened, you can find all the relevant links on the conference wiki:
https://wikimania2016.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions
The calls will be closed on March 20.
Posters will be reviewed just to make sure that there aren't things which are too much out of scope. Since we have a whole village we will surely find places to attach them, even if we they will be a lot!
Discussions will be managed by a guiding committee who will work on the wiki to meld all the proposals and suggestions.
Trainings will be reviewed by the programme committee. Please note that we request that each training has at least 3-5 interested attendees in order to be put in the programme.
By the beginning of April we will have a first list of all the accepted proposals.
If you have questions we suggest you to ask them on the discussion pages on wiki, so that everyone will be able to see them (and their answers, of course).
We are looking forward to read your ideas! -- Yiyi ( Dimmi!) 13:20, 28 February 2016 (UTC)
Our article on ex-Philippines president Ferdinand Marcos had been relatively stable before 19:39, 22 February 2016 (UTC) but one prolific new editor has now made very many edits that other editors have characterised as 'whitewashing' Marcos' record.
Since this is a presidential election year in the Philippines and the only son of Ferdinand is currently a candidate for high office, it might be considered important that this article not become too unbalanced... BushelCandle ( talk) 16:52, 28 February 2016 (UTC)
I've had a wee skim through the MoS, but found no answers ... what's our position on wikilinking where there's a possessive apostrophe involved. Foobar's, or Foobar's?
Reason I ask is I came across this: The Huffington Post's in the article Leavin' (album), which looks particularly typographically crappy, but I guess this is as much to do with the decision to italicise the wikilink but not the possessive. Again, what should we be doing here? Extending the italics to cover the 's? -- Tagishsimon (talk) 23:36, 28 February 2016 (UTC)
Note that Ranginui Walker died on 29 february accordind to Google. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.185.175.84 ( talk) 06:45, 29 February 2016 (UTC)
Hi. I've made a couple of edit requests related to the Democratic primary for the 2016 U.S. Senate election in Ohio; specifically, I've made a very small request for the article on the election itself, and two slightly more substantial requests for candidates Ted Strickland and P.G. Sittenfeld. Given that the primary election is just fifteen days away, I think it is fairly important that the articles updated quickly, so that potential voters can get accurate information should they turn to Wikipedia. If someone could review those edit requests, I would really appreciate it. Thanks, IagoQnsi ( talk) 17:50, 29 February 2016 (UTC)
Why do people here create separate pages just for the destinations of an airline? Why don't they just list them under the "Destinations" section on the main page of the airline? The way I see it, these pages serve only one purpose: spiking the page count. Cédric wants to abolish " Convention №. 2" like abolishing slavery. 18:49, 29 February 2016 (UTC)
I also posted on Wikipedia:Help desk. Hello everyone, I have no idea on how to deal with it, but the article Waldorf education poses a severe issue of neutrality, particularly with the section Reception, where you would expect some hindsight if any is needed, and which is a laudatory. I can see no trace on criticism of these schools, there is absolutely no mention of sectarism. A nice job has been done by POV-pushers so far. Please take care of it, I can deal with French-speakers, but I can't do much here. There is an overall problem with anthroposophy, with well-coordinated "cleaners". For the peculiar article I cited, I can provide you this secondary source which offers a good starting point. Be brave, English-speakers! Totodu74 ( talk) 15:49, 1 March 2016 (UTC)
One study of the science curriculum compared a group of American Waldorf school students to American public school students on three different test variables. [1] Two tests measured verbal and non-verbal logical reasoning and the third was an international TIMMS test. The TIMMS test covered scientific understanding of magnetism. The researchers found that Waldorf school students scored higher than both the public school students and the national average on the TIMMS test while scoring the same as the public school students on the logical reasoning tests. [1] However when the logical reasoning tests measured students' understanding of part-to-whole relations, the Waldorf students also outperformed the public school students. [1] The authors of the study noted the Waldorf students' enthusiasm for science, but viewed the science curriculum as “somewhat old-fashioned and out of date, as well as including some doubtful scientific material.” [1] Educational researchers Phillip and Glenys Woods, who reviewed this study, criticized the authors' implication of an “unresolved conflict”: that it is possible for supposedly inaccurate science to lead to demonstrably better scientific understanding. [2]
References
There are unresolved conflicts here, principally between a science education based on "inaccurate science" that leads to better scientific understanding.
I am not trying to debate on the article here, I just want to let the community know about the Wikipedia:Civil POV pushing ongoing here. Does anyone care? :) Totodu74 ( talk) 09:47, 2 March 2016 (UTC)
The second Inspire Campaign has launched to encourage and support new ideas focusing on content review and curation in Wikimedia projects. Wikimedia volunteers collaboratively manage vast repositories of knowledge in our projects. What ideas do you have to manage that knowledge to make it more meaningful and accessible? We invite all Wikimedians to participate and submit ideas, so please get involved today! The campaign runs until March 28th.
All proposals are welcome - research projects, technical solutions, community organizing and outreach initiatives, or something completely new! Funding is available from the Wikimedia Foundation for projects that need financial support. Constructive, positive feedback on ideas is appreciated, and collaboration is encouraged - your skills and experience may help bring someone else’s project to life. Join us at the Inspire Campaign and help your project better represent the world’s knowledge! I JethroBT (WMF) 19:55, 2 March 2016 (UTC)
Following the tradition(?) of the last two years that I had seen on Wikimedia, I created a page this year for Women's History Month 2016. However, I don't know where to take it from here, after creating the page. Any advice or suggestion? I posted this question on WikiWomen's Collaborative and they suggested me to ask this here. Ankitashukla ( talk) 05:07, 3 March 2016 (UTC)
Professor Carl Hewitt has posted a letter that he sent via registered US mail to the Wikimedia Foundation here.
A member of the Wikimedia Foundation suggested that I post a notice here when I discussed the matter with them after they presented a seminar at Stanford Law yesterday. 171.66.208.134 ( talk) 00:34, 5 March 2016 (UTC)
I encourage Dr. Hewitt to file a request with the Arbitration Committee to modify the sanctions that currently affect his ability to speak on his own behalf on Wikipedia. I believe that the committee might well be amendable to amending the previous arbitration case, which was originally decided in 2006 and, in my opinion, has outlived its usefulness. The page for filing requests is Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Clarification_and_Amendment. Because the account User:CarlHewitt has been blocked, it may be necessary to obtain an unblock for the purposes of filing an appeal. Because I have not been an admin since January 2015, I am not able to block or unblock users. The arbitration committee may be contacted directly at arbcom-l@lists.wikimedia.org to facilitate the appeal. — Carl ( CBM · talk) 20:46, 6 March 2016 (UTC)
Looks like they can't edit until it is unlocked. 107.1.187.90 ( talk) 23:40, 11 March 2016 (UTC)
I've recently been asking other editors whether the infobox image at Planet Nine should be removed, and there is an ongoing discussion to that effect. Today I've been exploring the labyrinth looking for appropriate guidelines, and I've just been reading Wikipedia:Disinfoboxes. Basically, I'm starting to see the whole infobox as a sort of spoof. Though I'm certain that the editors have acted in good faith, what they have essentially done is create an infobox for a planet for an article about a hypothesis, if you catch my drift. Opinions are fairly polarized over there at the moment, so I'm loathed to add insult to injury by posting further criticism there. If anyone fancies casting an eye over it, please do. Regards, nagual design 15:26, 6 March 2016 (UTC)
I first asked this question at the Teahouse but this may be a better place. Can anyone tell me if it's OK technically to use row headers in the right hand column of a table instead of the left, by using a "!" at the beginning of the cell which is to appear in the right hand column. In fact is it OK to put "!" to make any cell bold, or should we always use the 3 apostrophes Jodosma (talk) 08:22, 7 March 2016 (UTC)
! scope="row" | Row header
. See
Help:Table#Color; scope of parameters. —
Dispenser
17:17, 7 March 2016 (UTC)See Talk:Bipolar disorder#RfC: Is the happy/sad mask in the infobox section appropriate? Cas Liber ( talk · contribs) 10:36, 7 March 2016 (UTC)
Hello
I am looking for two informations;
Thanks for any pointer. Anthere ( talk) 15:29, 7 March 2016 (UTC)
SELECT page_title, COUNT(DISTINCT rev_user_text) AS "Users"
FROM revision
JOIN page ON page_id=rev_page
WHERE page_namespace=0
GROUP BY rev_page ORDER BY Users DESC
LIMIT 10;
Forgot to thank you sorry Dispenser. I used the first link (very useful). The second option scared me :) Thanks Anthere ( talk)
There is an RfC about Jack Ruby and his legal status at the time of his death. To observe or participate, please follow the link:
Talk:Jack Ruby#RFC - Jack Ruby's constitutional presumption of innocence .
Richard27182 (
talk)
23:55, 9 March 2016 (UTC)
If you're into nicely decorated books , this one might be for you:
Last month the National Library of the Netherlands (KB) donated a selection of 760 historical bookbindings (period 1100-1875, public domain) from its collection of 12.000 bookbindings to Wikimedia Commons.
The bindings range from sober ones in leather and parchment to richly decorated in textile, silver or tortoise shell. They give a small insight into how historical binding techniques were used and how successive decorative styles developed over time. In the details one can recognize the requests of patrons, the craftsmanship of the binders and the preferences of collectors.
The upload was facilitated by the
GLAMWiki toolset for bulk uploads. --
OlafJanssen (
talk)
11:04, 11 March 2016 (UTC)
A small preview ('please put your cursor on an image to view the caption (in Dutch))
-- — Preceding unsigned comment added by OlafJanssen ( talk • contribs) 11:04, 11 March 2016 (UTC)
I've seen multiple IP editors (not sure if the same or different people) reverting removal of Persondata (by other people, and now one time by me) because "KasparBot will handle it". Does it actually cause any issue for the bot if it's removed? I'm not doing mass removals, just stumbled upon an article with one, and I verified to make sure it had nothing that's not already in Wikidata. There's nothing on WP:PDT that says we shouldn't remove them manually. nyuszika7h ( talk) 11:46, 13 March 2016 (UTC)
Out of curiosity, T.seppelt, if the data was copied off of WP more than 3 months ago what happens if the data (especially the sources for that data) were updated after that date? For example if a person dies or marries and changes names? In fact, is there any provision at all in Wikidata/Persondata for verifiability? Koala Tea Of Mercy (KTOM's Articulations & Invigilations) 18:51, 13 March 2016 (UTC)
@ Koala Tea Of Mercy: Yes, Wikidata has the concept of sources and verifiability; see d:Help:Sources. Kaspar (the tool) doesn't know anything about sources though--should it? It can't know what the sources are for most statements because most of the Persondata did not have "inline" sources in the context of the parameters. -- Izno ( talk) 14:34, 14 March 2016 (UTC)
Recently a bot searched for invalid ISSN codes. There were several and listed at Wikipedia:WikiProject Check Wikipedia/ISSN errors. Please help in fixing them. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 01:17, 14 March 2016 (UTC)
The Catalan Wikipedia's articles amount reached 500,000. Congratulations to all its contributors for both its high quantity and quality! And now, the Persian WP is going ahead just behind Catalan, as the 18th WP from the articles number point of view, with +485,000 articles. :) Hamid Hassani ( talk) 17:15, 14 March 2016 (UTC)
There is a case of mistaken identity here: two copies of the same photograph, File:Arthur Godley in later life.jpg and File:Thomas Spring Rice, 2nd Baron Monteagle of Brandon.jpg, were uploaded as if they were portraits of two different people. Is it possible to find who is the actual sitter?-- The Traditionalist ( talk) 15:26, 15 March 2016 (UTC)
Hi, can I interest anybody in contributing to a national edit-a-thon/contest for Wales in April, Wikipedia:WikiProject Wales/Awaken the Dragon. You can win up to £200 worth of Amazon vouchers and books of your choice for entering the contest. The idea is that Amazon vouchers and books can then be used by people to buy/have discount off more books and produce more articles for wikipedia. The scoreboard will be kept here. However, if contests and prize aren't your cup of tea you're very welcome to participate in the edit-athon throughout the month. Everything will count and be added to a list at the bottom. We have a number of missing listed buildings identified and a core list at Wikipedia:WikiProject Wales/Awaken the Dragon/Core articles. Already we have about 30 people interested but it would be great to see more get involved and producing content and really show what can be achieved in a month.The point of it is getting some of the core articles up to decent status and an overall improvement in quality. So if you generally work on military history or trains or whatever and you spot something which might interest you please consider working on it within the next six weeks! There is also a physical edit-athon at the National Library of Wales on April 22, see this for details.♦ Dr. Blofeld 16:04, 15 March 2016 (UTC)
I've just recently passed 750,000 edits (on English Wikipedia, of course). The party will be at User:BD2412/Edit milestones. Cheers! bd2412 T 17:28, 16 March 2016 (UTC)
Hey folks! The Individual Engagement Grants (IEG) program is accepting proposals from March 14th to April 12th to fund new tools, research, outreach efforts, and other experiments that enhance the work of Wikimedia volunteers. Whether you need a small or large amount of funds (up to $30,000 USD), IEGs can support you and your team’s project development time in addition to project expenses such as materials, travel, and rental space.
Also accepting candidates to join the IEG Committee through March 25th.
With thanks, I JethroBT (WMF) 23:01, 16 March 2016 (UTC)
Hi, there are many lang-links (interwikis) at local wikis which aren't removed. for finding them you should type insource:/\[\[xxx:/
(xxx is langlink like en,fr, de, fa,...) at local wiki search box like below:
...
most of these local pages have interwiki-conflict and should be solved by human.
if you have bot at local wiki, you can run this code to remove interwikis of without-conflict pages (you should bot-permission at wikidata and localwiki):
#This command will check and remove interwikis from en.wikipedia's pages which have fr: links
python pywikibot/pwb.py interwikidata -clean -langs:en -lang:en "-search:insource:/\[\[fr:/"
#Only categories
python pywikibot/pwb.py interwikidata -clean -langs:en -lang:en "-search:category:insource:/\[\[fr:/"
Yamaha5 ( talk) 06:33, 17 March 2016 (UTC)
Hi everyone. I would like to update you with regards to this campaign ( direct link) for one of our contributors, photographers, and administrators, User:Rehman. Since the campaign's launch about a month ago, we managed to raise $222; $1,378 short of the goal. At the current average of $27, the goal can be achieved if we're able to reach out to another 50 contributors. But our small contact circles are pretty much exhausted. Hence I think it is important, for the sake of the campaign's success, to ask for your support by sharing it with your contacts (on social media, mailing lists, talkpages, wherever). Thank you, Azeez talk 15:44, 17 March 2016 (UTC)
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There is currently a lot of vandalism of the global sandbox. I think this is putting off a lot of new users when they stumble across the dick pics etc., any thoughts how to prevent it?-- Laber□ T 21:28, 19 March 2016 (UTC)
Why do we need global sandboxes? Each user has a sandbox subpage. -- NaBUru38 ( talk) 13:32, 23 March 2016 (UTC)
Hello, I'm french and I need some help. I found two articles about the same travel writer : Abdellah el-Ayachi and Abu Salim al-Ayyashi . Can you fix it ? Thanks. HB ( talk) 22:24, 20 March 2016 (UTC)
Happy Nowruz ( [nouˈɾuːz]), the Iranian New Year, to everyone who cares. :) Hamid Hassani ( talk) 16:13, 21 March 2016 (UTC)
I am just wondering what if, on one day some boring group of vandals, say, of significant numbers, collectively came to attack the website for whatever reason, blanking all the pages and replacing them with nonsense? This is of course very unlikely but it is not to say its definitely never going to happen. If it really does happen, is there anything we can do about--is there another means other than by one-by-one reverting the edits of 5.1 million articles?
Wishds ( talk) 10:33, 22 March 2016 (UTC)
Activity on my watchlist has dropped off dramatically the last couple of weeks. Is it just random, or is there a more general reason? Spring break? Are there that many students here? — Gorthian ( talk) 20:27, 22 March 2016 (UTC)
If your watchlist seems unusually quiet, you may want to check your preferences to see whether pages that were mostly recently (NB: not "only") edited by a bot are being hidden. Whatamidoing (WMF) ( talk) 18:43, 29 March 2016 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Ford_Pinto#RfC: section lede of Safety section. The inclusion of content drawn from three commentators, including a long direct quote, in the lede of section Fuel system fires, recalls, and litigation of article Ford Pinto, is disputed. Please comment. Thank you. Hugh ( talk) 16:37, 23 March 2016 (UTC)
See RepRap project
One perspective of the situation might be that Wikipedia editors delete content which is not backed by reliable sources. Another perspective could be that Wikipedia's editorial process is a matter of individual opinion with no clear rule set. Other participation would be useful as this situation is getting external media attention. Blue Rasberry (talk) 18:39, 23 March 2016 (UTC)
Would it be technically possible and culturally acceptable to only count edits in mainspace for autoconfirmation? A set of articles on my watchlist are constantly vandalized by a longterm vandal who regularly creates new accounts that make just enough edits in sandbox pages to bypass the semi-protection on his or her target articles. I know that it would be a bad idea to make such a significant change to address one editor especially when this is such an obviously flawed and partial attempt to address the problem but I'm curious if this change is feasible and desirable. ElKevbo ( talk) 16:11, 24 March 2016 (UTC)
During the course of my work here, I often come across citations where the author has an article on Wikipedia, but with no link to that article. Is there any work going on, to address this? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 19:25, 24 March 2016 (UTC)
I have been reviewing the article on " Olga Bondareva" and I told encuenta this horribly, and contain a deep anti-Soviet bias. In addition, the article is deeply poor and skimp on glorious achievements. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 201.255.100.10 ( talk) 21:15, 25 March 2016 (UTC)
I don't have obligation to contribute to your encyclopedia. To you get paid for it and is the work they chose, I do not force them. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 201.255.115.170 ( talk) 01:46, 27 March 2016 (UTC)
I have just received the following e-mail:
[copy of email removed]
-- — Preceding unsigned comment added by Petebutt ( talk • contribs) 10:32, 26 March 2016
This mentions a Wikipedia article but is otherwise unconnected. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 14:06, 26 March 2016 (UTC)
A wiki pop off appeared when I tried to use wiki could not figure out how to remove or close so I remove wiki app from my phone thanks Craig — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:1008:B020:67F6:8592:DA94:16E9:AC90 ( talk) 16:24, 26 March 2016 (UTC)
Can somoene cleanup the talk page talk:Tymshare Super BASIC ? It doesn't seem to be meeting proper Wikipedia decorum. -- 70.51.46.39 ( talk) 04:39, 27 March 2016 (UTC)
Moved to Wikipedia:Related Pages extension/RfC, with discussion on its talk page. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 20:08, 28 March 2016 (UTC)
I don't know how to correct the birth date of an actual living person. Louis Ferreira is listed on Wikipedia as having been born on February 20, 1967; however, an interview (posted both as audio and transcript) with the actor on his personal website at [1] reveals that he celebrated his 50th birthday this year, which would place his birth date on February 20, 1966. Since this goes into the "persondata" field I assume it's a little more complicated than just making the change and providing a reference. Could someone please point me in the right direction on how to correct this mistake? Thanks!! Bczogalla Bczogalla ( talk) 18:05, 27 March 2016 (UTC)
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Keilana ( talk) 19:07, 28 March 2016 (UTC)
I'm not sure this is the best place to put this, but I collapsed this edit at RfC-talk as being off topic for that venue, but after some examination it does appear that the poster, while at the wrong venue, may have a point. There have been references to an alleged animated series from Russia, Galaxy World of Alisa, added by IP editors to over 200 articles, an effort which goes back months and has continued as late as this month. See this search. Google searches cannot find any direct references to the series and the references which can be found appear to be the same kind as added here, references slipped into pages about allegedly related subject matter. There do appear to be other genuine animated series about the same character Alisa Selezneva, but it may be significant that the Wikipedia-ru version of that character's page (via Google translate here) does not mention the Galaxy World series at all. Unless this is a truly obscure series, which would be hard to believe since the references put into the articles here refer to multi-country and multi-language versions (American English, British English, Hindi, Italian, Australian, and others), this smells like an Internet-wide spam or, more likely, hoax. Regards, TransporterMan ( TALK) 17:25, 29 March 2016 (UTC)
If this is a truly obscure series, it shouldn't be appearing in all of these places, as its appearance will be meaningless to everyone except a very few people familiar with the truly obscure series. And if it's a hoax, as appears to me to be almost certain, it definitely shouldn't be appearing in all of them. Perhaps we can remove it from its current locations and create an edit filter to prevent its addition to mainspace? Nyttend ( talk) 21:34, 29 March 2016 (UTC)Hello. Recently, while looking at Voice Over profiles, I keep seeing this thing called "Galaxy World of Alisa" on most pages. I don't know if I should believe you guys or not. When I looked it up, the only thing to exist is a video with the name "Alisa" on it, but it's totally unrelated! There's not even a page on here either!
I'm so frustrated over this! I want to know if it's just clickbait because I can't take this "Real or Fake" thing anymore! Any admin active right now, please respond as soon as you can so I can know all about this, thank you.
-From Anonymous Contributor — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:84:C800:E3F2:9965:DB7B:3DAA:9023 ( talk) 18:12, 29 February 2016 (UTC) P.S, I'M THE SAME PERSON AS ANONYMOUS CONTRIBUTOR 73.194.46.93 WHO SENT THIS MESSAGE
Special:WhatLinksHere/Galaxy World of Alisa shows that it's linked by six articles. Google says that there are over three thousand pages containing the string <"Galaxy World of Alisa">, but when you search for <"Galaxy World of Alisa" -wikipedia> to remove Wikipedia hits, there are about two pages of results, all autogenerated, social media, or unattributed copies of Wikipedia articles. Some of the twenty-odd hits mention it as a current TV series — but how many current English-language TV series would get so few appearances online? I too question the reality of this subject. Nyttend ( talk) 18:54, 29 February 2016 (UTC)
For the most part this seems like a pretty straightforward Wikihoax. The IBTimes article looks to be the only major off-wiki element, and that seems almost certainly like the author grabbed it from Wikipedia. I've reached out to IBTimes to ask (would've just contacted the author but the bio link is broken). The only thing complicating all of this is the potential for translation issues. When I tried to use machine translation to search in Russian, I also came to several Alisa Selezneva-related results. That at least some of the IPs adding the material are based in Russia suggest they may simply be translating "galaxy world" differently (e.g. this edit by this IP). That said, there's no explanation other than hoax for the list of stars purported to feature in the film. — Rhododendrites talk \\ 16:16, 30 March 2016 (UTC)
The Wikimedia Foundation will be running a major test of its newest data center in Dallas in mid-April. This will make sure Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia wikis can stay online even after a disaster. They will switch all traffic to the new data center on Tuesday, 19 April. On Thursday, 21 April, they will switch back to the primary data center.
Unfortunately, because of some limitations in MediaWiki, you will be able to read, but you will not be able to edit at any wiki for a short period of time on those days. They apologize for this disruption, and they are working to minimize it in the future.
You can read the schedule at wikitech.wikimedia.org. They will post any further changes on that schedule.
I have two requests:
Thanks, Whatamidoing (WMF) ( talk) 19:03, 29 March 2016 (UTC)
Hello, all. The VisualEditor team has been working on a community-requested design change for editing. This new feature only affects editors who already have access to the visual editor. (If you have disabled the visual editor, you will not see anything new, and this change won't affect your account.) They will be able to choose to have either one or two "Edit" tabs. Currently, all users of the visual editor are required to have two. If you choose one tab, then it also lets you choose what that "Edit" tab will do.
Everyone is already able to switch between the two editing systems via buttons on the toolbars (the "pencil" icon and the "square brackets" icon). If you start in one editing system, then you can switch to the other at any time.
Logged-in editors will be able to make their choices from a one-time pop-up dialog box or from Special:Preferences.
The change will likely happen on either (approximately) 12 or 26 April. (We can't do this during the week of 18–22 April because the server switch will result in a code freeze and temporary disabling of all editing.) Realistically, I expect this to have no effect on IPs and most experienced editors, and to temporarily slightly confuse some editors who currently have the visual editor enabled (and who will suddenly be wondering where their other Edit tab went, until they make their next edit).
What I want from you:
— Whatamidoing (WMF) ( talk) 16:48, 31 March 2016 (UTC)
Above, @ Whatamidoing (WMF): you claim "Newly registered editors on the desktop site use the visual editor for about half of their mainspace edits here at the English Wikipedia. (About 10% of new editors are using mobile.)" As usual with VE-promoting entities, this seems highly inflated. this page (linked from WP:VE) indicates that of al the main space non-bot editing, some 18% is done by newly registered editors using wikitext, while some 4% of the edits are made by newly registered editors using VE. Even taking into account the 10% mobile users not using VE, your maths seems to be way off. Newly registered users don't "use the visual editor for about half of their mainspace edits", but instead "use the visual editor for about 1/4th of their mainspace edits". (Existing users, by the way, use VE for about 1/50th of their edits!) Such incorrect figures have been used repeatedly when some new VE-related change had to be promoted, and for some reason always inflating the number of VE users. It would be better if the WMF started being honest with us for a change. Fram ( talk) 11:25, 4 April 2016 (UTC)
This tool is public, but not necessarily easy to interpret. It uses a sample of about 6% of edits (for performance reasons). "Success" and "failure" mean different things in different charts. For example, on one chart, "failure" means that the page didn't save during a single attempt (e.g., it triggered a captcha); it doesn't mean that the page never saved. In another, "failure" is the rate of pages that were never saved, after loading.
I'm using https://edit-analysis.wmflabs.org/compare/ with the settings at this calendar year, for enwiki only. (It's important to omit anything around the first of November, when the data is mostly missing.) You can use the "averaging" feature with a large number as a quick way to smooth the curves and get a long-term average.
For the information you're interested in, the most useful section is "Success by Experience of User" (defined in the hover text as "What proportion of times the editor was loaded and the resulting edit was finished and saved" [emphasis added]). This chart shows this information:
This shows us two facts:
Even among highly experienced editors, the success rate in the visual editor is consistently higher. For example, among editors with more than 1,000 edits, it's been running about 74% success in the visual editor versus 69% success in the wikitext editor. There are many possible explanations for this gap. For example, it may be that experienced editors frequently open the wikitext editor for the purpose of copying the wikitext code for a table or template, without any intention of saving an edit, and that will be recorded as a "failure"; this also applies to the visual editor when copying things to other pages, of course.
I don't know where you get the claim that "over the last 12 months, some 365,000 sessions made a successful VE edit, and some 14 million made a successful Wikitext edit". The 'sequence of edits' section at the top shows that 14 million out of 39 million wikitext attempts failed quickly (init > ready > end), but getting actual numbers of successful edits requires adding up all the paths: the 2.2 million wikitext edits in the most common success path (init > ready > attempt > success > end) plus the 330K wikitext edits that had minor problems upon loading (init > ready > ready > attempt > success > end) plus the 290K that ran init > ready > intent > attempt > success > end, and so forth. Also, note that in that dashboard all the numbers only cover the ‘’sampled’’ rate of edits, not even close to all edits; they’re internally consistent, but you should not try to compare them over time, or between each editor except via proportions.
I don't recall making any claims about what new editors do after their first edit; AFAIK that is unknown (and not obviously relevant to the question of whether new editors should be offered one edit tab or two before their first edit). I have said that comparing the choices made by the newest 1% of accounts against aggregated data for last month's behavior by accounts created during all of the last 33 months – including 24 months while the visual editor was either completely disabled or opt-in only for everyone – is not a sound basis for making assertions about whether editors are actually changing their preferences over time. That data could be equally explained by differences in the cohorts (e.g., editors who refused to use the wikitext editor when that was the only choice obviously available to them will be under-represented) and the product (e.g., the visual editor handles tables well now, and didn't then). You need a longitudinal study to determine whether editors change their actions over time. Instead, all you've got is an assumption that the affinity of now-experienced editors who created their accounts at a time when the visual editor was both less functional and hidden is identical to the affinity of current newbies for a much improved product. It is not an assumption that should be accepted without scrutiny.
Finally, the choice of editing environment is not really a popularity contest. I believe that we need all the content contributors, not just the ones who prefer one style or the other. Whatamidoing (WMF) ( talk) 20:34, 11 April 2016 (UTC)
Meanwhile, the WMF has done exactly the thing they promised us they wouldn't do, i.e. set VE as the default editor for all new accounts. See WP:VPT#VE WAS IMPOSED AS PRIMARY EDITOR. Yes, let's forget the promises we just made and put the editor used for 5% of the edits (assuming this is even true) as the default, just because we have spent so much money on it instead of on the wikitext editor. Fuck the editors, long live the WMF. As community liaison, perhaps you can (in some public space) discuss this witj JDForrester and other likeminded creatures? That would be more useful than your input here. Fram ( talk) 06:51, 13 April 2016 (UTC)
Most of the stat debate here is irrelevant. The WMF's May 2015 study found that VE helped an additional 0% of new users make their first edit, VE increased in new user retention by 0%, and VE resulted in a 0% increase in total contributions. The push to increase VE usage represents a null or negative value campaign to push for more cannibalization. Alsee ( talk) 13:19, 13 April 2016 (UTC)
Hi all
Today starts a new photo contest organized by Wikimedia Spain and focused on festivals declared of touristic interest in Spain: Wiki Loves Folk. The contest aims to collect images freely licensed to illustrate content on these festivals in Wikipedia and enhance the online presence of Spanish folklore. Along with its monumental and environmental richness, Spain has a rich and varied folklore: carnivals, food festivals, religious celebrations as Easter or Corpus Christi, cultural and sporting events or popular festivals, among others.
It is about sharing original photographs, taken recently or in the past, between April 1 and 30, 2016 or, in a second period, between November 15 and December 15, 2016. The subject of the contest is all those festivals declared of touristic interest by the various administrations: international, national, regional, provincial and local levels. The complete list, with additional information and a map for each region is available at wikilov.es/folk, the competition website. To participate, simply have an user account on Wikimedia Commons and upload the pictures by following the steps on the web.
Best, -- Rubén Ojeda (WMES) ( talk) 19:38, 1 April 2016 (UTC)
Article " Kostolac, Požarevac" should rename in "Selo Kostolac" ...and on Wikipedia on Serbian language article is renamed. See [6] -- MilanKovacevic ( talk) 12:04, 2 April 2016 (UTC)
This new template {{
Important concept}}
has been placed on three of the five high-profile policy pages linked at
Five pillars. There may be a case for distinguishing "five pillars" pages in this way, but I think there should be discussion on its usage and wording: should it go on the other two of the "five pillars" pages? and isn't "long history" (15 years?) and "profound significance" claiming rather too much?
: Noyster
(talk),
20:02, 2 April 2016 (UTC)
Can anyone place articles on Article Probation? I ask because a newly created article suddenly acquired an article probation tag [7] added by an editor who has no special privileges. Wouldn't adding {{ Community article probation}} require a notice at WP:AN or something? -- 70.51.46.39 ( talk) 02:32, 3 April 2016 (UTC)
I'm working on an admin hopeful version of WP:42. I could use a bit of a hand with the name etc. Cheers. Anna Frodesiak ( talk) 08:36, 3 April 2016 (UTC)
So, what do you think? Would it be MfD fodder or would it be acceptable to the community:
Extended content
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Please say at User talk:Anna Frodesiak/43
Anna Frodesiak ( talk) 08:34, 6 April 2016 (UTC)
Hello all! After some acts of hate in Brussels, it is now time again for love. In this week and next week we organise a double writing week about Brussels! We like to invite you to join this project by writing about subjects related to this region in any Wikipedia you like.
More information, the participants list, and the list of articles that have been written, can be found at: Writing week/Brussels.
Participating is easy:
If you like you can also create a page for the writing weeks on your local wiki.
If you have any questions, do not hesitate to contact me. Greetings - Romaine ( talk) 08:55, 4 April 2016 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Chrysler#RfC: Reception; rankings in independent surveys and ratings of quality, reliability, and customer satisfaction . Please comment. Thank you. Hugh ( talk) 15:16, 4 April 2016 (UTC)
I was planning to add Sharavathi Wild life santuary for wild life santuaries of Karnataka. But there is a link for the same, which redirects to page Sharavathi. Eventhough that page has all the information about wild life santuary, it is under a section, so i cannot add it to wild life santuary category. I need a clear guidance for the next step. Prajwalmr62 ( talk) 06:58, 6 April 2016 (UTC)
Acknowledged.
Prajwalmr62 ( talk) 12:07, 7 April 2016 (UTC)
What is the copyright status of text and pictures in US patents that has expired? Can it be copied into Wikipedia? Bytesock ( talk) 16:59, 7 April 2016 (UTC)
I would like community input as to whether or not this kind of Talk page discussion is appropriate for an article talk page. I personally think it's not appropriate for an article talk page because it seems to be more about a contributor's editing habits than the article itself; however, the other side says that it is appropriate because it's an article-related issue and complaint. However, I want a wider community consensus on this matter, not just input from a few editors at ANI. Electric Burst( Electron firings)( Zaps) 19:50, 8 April 2016 (UTC)
Hi! I've requested an Individual Engagement Grant to greatly enhance the ProveIt gadget. For those of you who don't know it, the gadget scans the wikitext of any article you're editing and generates a visual interface for easily adding or editing references. I think that the gadget has a lot of further potential by connecting it with TemplateData and Wikidata, but developing this potential would take me too long, so I've requested a grant. I invite you all to read the proposal in detail, leave your comments and endorse it if you think it's a good idea. Thanks! -- Felipe ( talk) 09:34, 9 April 2016 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Ford_Pinto#RfC: section lede of Safety section. RfC update: Should an epigraph, a long direct quote from Lee and Erdmann (1999), and content sourced to Schwartz (1990) and Danley (2005), be included in the section lede? To date, this request for comment has broadened the discussion by bringing one (1) new editorial voice to the discussion. Please join the discussion at Talk:Ford_Pinto#RfC: section lede of Safety section. Thank you. Hugh ( talk) 15:29, 9 April 2016 (UTC)
Inspired by Katherine Craster's poem, I would like to have a poem accompanying our sort-of mascot. I'm no poet, so please take the below and feel free to wikipate and edit the below freely. — Sebastian 20:55, 10 April 2016 (UTC)
The Wikipede was happy – quite! |
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... something rotten about her Mum
and this led to a terrible fight.
Praemonitus (
talk)
20:01, 12 April 2016 (UTC)
Does there exist an archive of deleted pages? I have looked around some and not found one, but I would suppose that such a thing does exist. I am looking in response to a question on Talk:Neo-orthodoxy about a missing page on Eduard Thurneysen. Dgndenver ( talk) 04:10, 11 April 2016 (UTC)
. Fences& Windows 17:27, 12 April 2016 (UTC)
Hello everyone. I am looking for the name of a French song by Céline Dion which I have forgotten the name! But, as I remember a sequence of the clip, she is sitting on the floor embracing a doll. The clip has been filmed with something like a yellowish filter as well. I heard it first in 1990s (may be 1998 or 1999). Would you please inform me of the name? Thank you in advance. Thank you in advance. Hamid Hassani ( talk) 04:30, 11 April 2016 (UTC)
Waaay back in the day, people used to reach out to Jimbo Wales when an especially thorny question came up. However, he turned over the reigns years ago to the board, so I'm at a loss to turn to.
In this case, there is a user from a remote village who wants to post an example of indigenous artwork, but can't because it doesn't fit neatly into our strict permissions and licensing framework. It seems like such an image satisfies the spirit of our licensing, but not the letter. Magog the Ogre ( t • c) 03:22, 13 April 2016 (UTC)
I was very pleased when I discovered Template:Reflistp. Now, when editing a section (especially of a long article), I didn't need to save the edit and look at the whole article to see how the references in it had come out. But now that template is No page with this title. What happened to it? Why was it deleted? It was very useful.-- Thnidu ( talk) 16:50, 14 April 2016 (UTC)
-- Izno ( talk) 19:07, 16 April 2016 (UTC)A page with this title has previously been deleted.
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- 09:02, 24 February 2016 Sphilbrick (talk | contribs) deleted page Template:Reflistp (G6: Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2016 February 15#Template:Reflistp)
I have a research project proposal over on meta.wikimedia.org for measuring time contributions and editor workflow. Specifically I'm trying to find out about how much work is going on both on and off wiki and see if we can find attributes of the edit that indicate how much time was spent on it. Any comments would be appreciated. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Another Article ( talk • contribs) 20:38, 15 April 2016 (UTC)
It's awesome. I want to thank them from the bottom of my heart. -- Anthonyhcole ( talk · contribs · email) 12:51, 16 April 2016 (UTC)
95.1 FM is in Category:Lists of radio stations by frequency, but it's tagged with {{ WikiProject Disambiguation}} on the talk page. So which one is it then? nyuszika7h ( talk) 09:18, 17 April 2016 (UTC)
This remained there for 12 days. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 20:21, 17 April 2016 (UTC)
The other day, a user replaced "Catholicism" in the infobox of a King of Pamplona, with "Chalcedonian Christianity". I reverted, he reverted, and then another user replaced it with Hispano-Mozarabic. This change in the "Religion" field was made only in the article of this specific King, not his predecessors or successors, queen consort, etc. I'm just wondering if we should get into this high level of detail in the infobox. If this field was changed in the article of one king it should be done with all kings, family members or individuals who lived at that time, not only in the Iberian Peninsula, but in other countries. I really think that, in this case, that of a European monarch, "Catholicism" would suffice and we should not be that specific. Any ideas? Thanks, -- Maragm ( talk) 14:08, 2 April 2016 (UTC)
That's fine with me, though I think more should be involved in the discussion to reach a consensus...here or in the other thread mentioned above. -- Maragm ( talk) 20:41, 2 April 2016 (UTC)
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field of an infobox should tell Wikipedia editors all they need to know. Infobox fields are only for uncontentious and unambiguous key summary facts, and should be left blank and unused if there is any nuanced explanation involved. Fields most certainly should remain blank until the information, with sources, exists in the body of the article.
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21:21, 2 April 2016 (UTC)Put religion in the infobox if and only if the person was a religious leader. Otherwise, blank. Oiyarbepsy ( talk) 04:08, 3 April 2016 (UTC)
I used the Template:Copied in the case of DriveTime when I made a number of separate edits from a COI editor's draft. The template says the draft must never be deleted, although normally userspace drafts are deleted when they are moved. This draft won't be moved, but at some point the user might be finished with it. What is the best course of action in that case?— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 20:08, 18 April 2016 (UTC)
Can someone explain what aspects of [8] might be relevant for Wikipedia to expand or feel more comfortable with its "Fair Uses" of material? Wnt ( talk) 23:41, 18 April 2016 (UTC)
It has come to my attention by The Earwig that the copyvios-tool and CorenSearchBot will be shut down effectively this Monday, due to Yahoo BOSS! being shut down and Bing not allowing our usage due to their ToU (see more here). Google is apperently too costly, and other alternatives are eiter too "bad" or not suitable for our needs. Unless WMF's lawyers can strike a deal with Google's or Bings' lawyers, all copyvio detection will be effectively nill starting this Monday. This will affect WP:NPP most of all.
I just wanted to let you all know. Monday is the day that we will mark in history when copyvios will start going (even more) undetected on Wikipedia, and we no longer can differentiate between freee knowledge and illegally copied content. ( t) Josve05a ( c) 19:38, 16 April 2016 (UTC)
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Article searched | Text searched | Earwig results | Yandex Results |
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Adia victoria | "Victoria’s family attended a predominately white Seventh Day Adventist Church." | http://www.wonderingsound.com/feature/adia-victoria-interview/ | No match |
Myles Chefetz | "Prior to his arrival, restaurants in Miami Beach featured a club-like environment" | http://mylesrestaurantgroup.com/?page_id=239 | http://mylesrestaurantgroup.com/?page_id=239 |
CIPHER Security LLC | "Implementing complex security technologies necessary to protect and defend against the constantly evolving security threats" | https://www.cipher.com/system-integration/ | https://www.cipher.com/system-integration/ |
JSB Reserve | "In 1910 A German farmer built a home nestled on the banks of the Ohio River" | http://jsbreserve.com/ | No match |
We had a guy create several new articles against tennis guidelines... "2003 player x season", "2004 player x season", etc. It would have been nice to delete them outright but some of the items could be used. These were all newly created articles with nothing really linking to them. We get a lot of editors trying to create these articles and they get the idea from searching for them and finding them in the very few players who warrant them. But this was a nothing player. Instead of deleting the articles outright, this time we decided to merge some of the content into a separate career stats article. That's fine, but now I'm being told we can't delete the multiple useless "player x season" articles" because the contents were merged. This is going to cause more headaches when editors do searches and find the redirects. My question: is it really against policy/guidelines to delete these types of pages after a merge? Had I known that, I would have insisted on deletion rather than a merge. I need direction to the policy that states this. Thanks. Fyunck(click) ( talk) 06:01, 17 April 2016 (UTC)
Can somebody explain to this user that the seal is used in the infobox under fair use? /info/en/?search=File:Gmuseal.svg Thank you. -- RaphaelQS ( talk) 22:31, 19 April 2016 (UTC)
Not sure if some newbies know about this but Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests is where we nominate Featured Articles to be on the main page. Folks can choose any article that hasn't been on the main page - see Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2008-08-18/Dispatches for ideas. Cas Liber ( talk · contribs) 10:28, 20 April 2016 (UTC)
Interested in helping to keep Wikipedia Library partnerships available? Then please sign up to be a metrics coordinator! With over 50 active partnerships requiring tracking and regular reports on source usage and general progress we're struggling to keep up, and would really appreciate an extra pair of hands or two. No particular skills required other than an interest in playing around with data (nothing more complicated than a spreadsheet), the ability to communicate clearly, and a desire to help the library continue to distribute free access to great resources. Feel free to drop me a message on my talk page or an email if you want more information. Sam Walton ( talk) 19:55, 20 April 2016 (UTC)
"Organic chemistry / hobbyist-molecular-physicist journeyman/expert/or diehard blow-hard who still cuts his/her mustard on the matter attention/opinion requested with much gratitude". Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 18:21, 22 April 2016 (UTC)
Could someone answer the question posed on this talk page about whether a certain kind of benzene (dubbed "eta-six-co-ordinated moiety" of a transition metal chelation) would fall into this stacking category? or would it be better noted as a Dewar–Chatt–Duncanson model, or both or neither and if so/nay, why? Thanks 66.96.79.217 ( talk) 01:58, 21 April 2016 (UTC)
Apologies if this has been asked before. It looks like Google has not updated the 'Wikipedia' layer in the Google Earth database in some time -- many of the placemarks are appearing at slightly (or significantly) different locations, that I know I and other editors have corrected.
Does anyone know who at Google is responsible for importing our dumps into their database layer, so that we can prod them into maybe doing a fresh update sometime?
(To cite one example, I corrected the coordinates in our article on the Buildings at 15-17 Lee Street a year and a half ago, but Google Earth is still displaying it at the old, less-accurate location.) — Steve Summit ( talk) 13:55, 22 April 2016 (UTC)
I recall a study being done on Wikipedia that proved that kinder user warnings resulted in less vandalism, but I can't find a link for it. If anybody could find a link to it, that would be awesome.-- Moist Towels ( talk) 05:16, 23 April 2016 (UTC)
Just note to those who have not seen it that User:Ktr101 was banned by WMF tonight. WMF staff never provide any reasons for globally banning users.-- Ymblanter ( talk) 07:32, 23 April 2016 (UTC)
Just because the gods above choose to strike someone down with a lightning bolt without explaining why, that doesn't mean their reasoning is completely inscrutable. Does anyone have any insight into why this might have happened? Everyking ( talk) 02:28, 30 April 2016 (UTC)
How's it going? South Nashua ( talk) 05:21, 25 April 2016 (UTC)
Simply, is Wikipedia Citizen science (CS) and are Wikipedians citizen scientists? I guess the crux of the matter is whether Wikipedia is seen as a science project. If so, then Wikipedians collect and manage science data as any good citizen scientist should. Personally, I think Wikipedia is a CS project and so is possibly the most successful example. Richard Nowell ( talk) 09:41, 26 April 2016 (UTC)
A few are incidentally scientists. Most are incidentally citizens of some place. We may be either, or neither, or both. Jim.henderson ( talk) 11:07, 2 May 2016 (UTC)
Does anyone think it is ok for an article on a notable subject to go from this [9] to this [10] in a matter of two hours? GigglesnortHotel ( talk) 21:54, 26 April 2016 (UTC)
Last year I took some pictures of a coastal ship. Unfortunately the pictures are not scharp enough to read the name. (also File:Oversteek Armadale Mallaig 6.JPG and File:Oversteek Armadale Mallaig 4.JPG) Are there Scots who know this ship. I suspect the ship is local. Smiley.toerist ( talk) 10:02, 27 April 2016 (UTC)
Can I get some thoughts on this situation, please? Adam Cuerden ( talk) 16:34, 27 April 2016 (UTC)
Before I make my request, I wish to apologize in advance. I am a brand new member and I realize that making a request as my first act on the site may offend some people. Please, that is not my intent and I respectfully ask for your assistance because it is for a noble cause. My best friend and boss (who lost his father to cancer) also has the disease. As a memorial to his father, he created a website to help cancer patients, survivors, care givers and family members with articles directed at their particular needs.
There is a storehouse of information that would be valuable in the Wikipedia format. Therefore, I am putting out a request for editors to assist in the editing process of these works (which will be uploaded in the next several days). Now I do realize that there is a huge backlog of works to be edited but my request is humanitarian in nature. My friend is a two time survivor and once again his cancer has come back with a vengeance. There is a strong possibility (with his latest prognosis) that he will not see the end of the year.
It is his wish to leave his website and the works published here as a final legacy. Therefore, I respectfully ask for your help and truly hope you understand that this is a legitimate request. I do not make this lightly nor is it simply an attempt to rush the line. I sincerely hope that what I have written conveys to you my true sentiments and goal.
If you can help out, please leave me a message on my talk page.
Thank you — Preceding unsigned comment added by Midnightmaniac45 ( talk • contribs) 22:00, 29 April 2016 (UTC)
There are sixteen articles (I think) using "in the world":
So,
I'm leaning toward "B", but it's kind of gnawing at me. Anna Frodesiak ( talk) 20:41, 30 April 2016 (UTC)
Dear all,
On behalf of Iberocoop, we want to invite you all to participate in our translating contest about Ibero-American culture.
The contest, launched today, will be open to participate until the 31st of May. Ibero -America has a rich cultural and historical heritage. Through this contest we want to make known our culture and bring new contents to other Wikipedias.
You can find the contents here: Translating Ibero-America
We wait for you to participate!
-- Anna Torres (WMAR) ( talk) 14:25, 2 May 2016 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:ExxonMobil climate change controversy#RfC: Context of Natuna gas field on the impact of climate expertise on ExxonMobil operational planning. Should the following, bolded for clarity, be added to ExxonMobil climate change controversy?
Exxon also studied ways of avoiding CO2 emissions if the East Natuna gas field (Natuna D-Alpha block) offshore of Indonesia were developed. An October 1984 internal report from Exxon's top climate modelers said that the gas field contained over 70% carbon dioxide and that if the carbon dioxide were released to the atmosphere it would make the gas field "the world's largest point source emitter of CO2 and raises concern for the possible incremental impact of Natuna on the CO2 greenhouse problem." Members of Exxon's board of directors told Exxon staff that the gas field could not be developed without a cost-effective and environmentally responsible method for handling the CO2.
Please comment at Talk:ExxonMobil climate change controversy#RfC: Context of Natuna gas field on the impact of climate expertise on ExxonMobil operational planning. Thank you! Hugh ( talk) 14:16, 3 May 2016 (UTC)}
Question Since this is being discussed here, are there rules as to what makes a RfC announcement neutral? Hugh has created quite a few RfCs recently. Once the RfC is made he posts many announcements, particurally if he isn't happy with the current result (see this swell of notifications after almost 30 days here [11]). Anyway, the notifications are typically of the form above. A simple question, "should X be added" and then a long quote and references. Is that really a neutral announcement? To me that would tend to bias the reader because it makes it sound like there is no other context. Regardless, it also makes the notifications quite long. Also, so long as I'm asking, what is the proper way to protest what appears to be a non-neutral or problematic RfC? In this case we have a RfC that doesn't mention the previous discussions. In the Chrysler case the RfC provides an exact quote but I think many of the supporters only support the material in general, not the exact quote thus a "support" vote may be confused. To what extent can others modify the RfC without being seen as trying to disrupt the process? Thanks Springee ( talk) 11:08, 4 May 2016 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:ExxonMobil climate change controversy#RfC: Context of Natuna gas field on the impact of climate expertise on ExxonMobil operational planning. [sig]before, which is about right per WP:Canvassing; I would tend to agree that adding the question at the place of advertisement could possibly bias the answer. -- Izno ( talk) 14:25, 4 May 2016 (UTC)
Note that Anthony Anenih has died according to Google. Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.185.175.84 ( talk) 14:14, 4 May 2016 (UTC)
I must have missed the discussion. Do you see it in articles now? Search "in other projects". Does this mean no more adding the commons category link to articles? Will a bot remove them? I see no mention of this at Wikipedia:Wikimedia Commons. I must be missing something obvious. Anna Frodesiak ( talk) 02:40, 5 May 2016 (UTC)
I tagged Draft:Hypixel as a db-advert because it looks like an advertising brochure. The author deleted the tag [12]; Should I revert the tag deletion? -- 70.51.200.96 ( talk) 05:35, 7 May 2016 (UTC)
It's funny to see two bots fighting each other. Strawberry4Ever ( talk) 06:22, 7 May 2016 (UTC)
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