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Dear colleaques, allow me to inform you about the request I've posted recently at the Talk page of the relevant article. I kindly ask anybody for whom American English is the first language to consult about the correct pronunciation of J. B. Straubel's name in the U. S. A. - at least, to write the answer on the talk page of the article. Thanks in advance. Cherurbino ( talk) 14:54, 6 August 2020 (UTC)
(UPD) my POV is that the orthoepic standard for „Straubel” is the same, as for Levi Strauss - /ˈstraʊs/: „s”, not „sh”, and „au”, not „o” - am I right? Cherurbino ( talk) 02:09, 7 August 2020 (UTC)
Does anyone know the criteria of the significance of the article about Yegor Zhukov? In Russian Wikipedia, the article about this person is constantly removed, and in the discussion for the preservation of the article I haven't arguments. Maybe I can take advantage of the criteria from the article with a foreign speech Wikipedia? - Dmitry Pechenkov ( talk) 13:34, 7 August 2020 (UTC)-
I have put in a request for a geo-targeted CentralNotice for the Virtual Great American Wiknic on Sunday August 16. See the request on meta at m:CentralNotice/Request/Virtual Great American Wiknic.-- Pharos ( talk) 00:14, 8 August 2020 (UTC)
Where can I find this or this templates? I have been templated with both, but can't find them anywhere for me to use. I am pretty sure they were not created fresh for my talk page. Aditya( talk • contribs) 04:23, 9 August 2020 (UTC)
There doesn't seem to be a venue for novice users seeking assistance in writing rationales for non-free images. Do we have such a page? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 22:19, 8 August 2020 (UTC)
Deb has deleted a page called Gaza Sky Geeks (GSG) that I and other editors have worked on. The page is a few years old, was blanked/vandalized by someone and then deleted. Then it was created again by an ip user and then I asked on the Village Pump to have the draft restored because I knew that it was in a better condition. Given what Deb has written on his talk page ( User_talk:Deb), I don't think discussing the matter with him will lead anywhere. So I ask if an uninvolved moderator can restore the page. If Deb or anyone else wants to have the page deleted, he should nominate it for "Articles for Deletion" so that it can be discussed. GSG has received lots of news coverage and clearly fulfills the WP:N critera. ImTheIP ( talk) 19:57, 9 August 2020 (UTC)
I wish you would go back to the old home page format that had the featured article right below the search box. The info placed there now is just clutter we have to scroll past to get to the article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.248.210.220 ( talk) 13:35, 13 August 2020 (UTC)
There are 138 files in Category:Wikipedia files requiring renaming that were added by Jonteemil. These are mostly double extensions like File:A-Square (Of Course).JPEG.jpg and some odd things like File:AARP logo SVG.svg.
It's unclear if WP:FNC#5 would cover these. On Commons, there is #6 which covers "Non-controversial maintenance and bug fixes, including fixing double extensions, invalid or incorrect extensions, character handling problems, and other similar technical issues" but on WP we don't have this.
For some more info, see Wikipedia talk:File names#Addition of criterion.
The problem is that finding new requests in the category has been complicated by all these requests that can't be fulfilled right now. I'm keeping up with new requests so far, but I doubt anyone else will, and I don't like the extra work.
I have saved all the move links to User:Alexis Jazz/Double extension links. So if at any point we decide to move them, we can. No matter if we approve or decline these requests, the rename template on these files needs to go. I want to remove the {{ rename media}} templates now and make the category Category:Wikipedia files requiring renaming usable again.
Any opposition? — Alexis Jazz ( talk or ping me) 20:00, 13 August 2020 (UTC)
Can we get more input on this RfC: Talk:Winona Ryder#rfc_3EA12AB? The dispute is whether her relationships with two of her former boyfriends (Matt Damon and Dave Pirner) are notable enough to be included in the infobox 'partner' parameter. Thanks. Abbyjjjj96 ( talk) 20:31, 13 August 2020 (UTC)
Looks like we correctly identified in 2017 that DC Solar wasn't notable enough to get an article. According to a recently-submitted article, it turned out to be a Ponzi scheme and got shut down by the US federal government in 2018. signed, Rosguill talk 22:44, 13 August 2020 (UTC)
For the video game project, we long since suspected that how we defined the console generation (eg as First generation of video game consoles, etc.) was sorta our own original research from near the creation of Wikipedia, but could not verify this was easily the case. All we know is that the main, typically non-academic but gaming press and maisntream news sources we use for the project since --- 2010 nearly all use our numbering scheme (in that the current console gen is the 8th with the PS4, Xbox One, and Switch), so there's almost been no reason to change it. However, recently I've hit upon a key academic paper that has been key to saying, "yes you guys (Wikipedia) created your own system, but so did pretty much everyone else". I've been able to work that into the section History of video game consoles#Console generations (The paper itself is the Kemerer one in the refs).
My question or what advice I'm trying to seek is just making sure that how I've written that is "hands off" enough to reflect that Wikipedia had a role in identifying these, and that in how we present going forward stays with it as media since that point uses our scheme, but I've never seen a case of how to describe the "we" as in editors of Wikipedia in mainspace to the main audience like that in a more "active role" here (compared to other places like the Stop Online Piracy Act blackout). It's easy to write this way in WP: space as instructions, but not mainspace. -- Masem ( t) 21:22, 10 August 2020 (UTC)
Do I remove the asterisks? https://www.huffpost.com/entry/daily-tar-heel-editorial-unc-coronavirus_n_5f3b0385c5b670ab17aecc91 Charles Juvon ( talk) 16:03, 18 August 2020 (UTC)
If a person interviews another person and there is significant encyclopedic content in the interview, where does the interview have to be posted or published to serve as a Wikipedia reference? Assume neither person is currently a notable person. Also assume that no one has published a review of the interview. In fact, this is an interview of a WW2 veteran who states details about the Manhattan Project that may be heretofore unknown. Charles Juvon ( talk) 23:44, 13 August 2020 (UTC)
I'd like to point out that currently creating an article also has acquired a number of additional steps. (Not sure if all are required, but I feel compelled to do them.)
The barrier to creating articles is gradually growing higher. -- llywrch ( talk) 21:33, 15 August 2020 (UTC)
For other uses, see Foo (disambiguation), which only then links to the page. I'm sure there are other edge cases as well. A bot wouldn't need to be perfect if it's just flagging cases for human editors to fix, but it'd be need to be good enough to not be filled with false positives. {{u| Sdkb}} talk 18:59, 18 August 2020 (UTC)
The lead of an article needs to have a summary of the article, but Cleavage (breasts) has anything but that in the lead. I wrote the article in most part, but now I find myself unable to summarize it crisply enough for the lead. I have have been to the LEADTEAM and recieved some help. But not in summarizing the article. Is there anyone who can lend a hand here? I promise to be as much help as I can, but I need someone to take the lead in writing the lead (bad pun intended). I don't know where else I can go begging for help. Anyone? Please? Aditya( talk • contribs) 13:11, 22 August 2020 (UTC)
Please go on meta:Requests for new languages and change to created the Wikipedia Ladin on the approved section. Thank you in advance!!! -- 151.49.93.113 ( talk) 12:48, 23 August 2020 (UTC)
This signpost report got me thinking about measuring Wikipedia's growth. Has anyone ever measured it by the number of footnotes? Seems like it would be easy enough to do by counting instances of <ref>, and it would give an important measure of Wikipedia's progress over time. (Seems better than measuring article count, article length, etc.) I didn't see this when I looked in a few obvious places. Thanks, Calliopejen1 ( talk) 20:32, 24 August 2020 (UTC)
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Any chance of more input on this RfC: Talk:Christina Ricci#rfc_37B4931? The dispute is whether, since Ricci has filed for divorce from her husband, it should state "separated" in the marriage template or not. Thanks. Abbyjjjj96 ( talk) 01:10, 29 August 2020 (UTC)
I have a question that is there is any magic word or other wiki markup to make template display only once even if the template has multiple instances on the same page. For example, if the template is used at the first position, it appears after you submit the change, then if the template used at another position of content, it doesn't display at all. -- Great Brightstar ( talk) 12:41, 1 September 2020 (UTC)
Is La Valencia Mine = The Valenciana Mine? If so, is one article enough? // Zquid ( talk) 11:44, 1 September 2020 (UTC)
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Requesting peer review at Wikipedia:Peer review/Women in Islam/archive1,
Bookku ( talk) 09:54, 3 September 2020 (UTC)
Disagreement about deletion of section and sources. Requesting third opinion per WP:3O Bookku ( talk) 11:03, 3 September 2020 (UTC)
What does that mean? It shows up when you thank someone. Where can the "public" see who thanked whom and when and for what? -- SergeWoodzing ( talk) 10:03, 5 September 2020 (UTC)
See this archived discussion on AN.
I want to add {{
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to all the pages listed on
User:S Marshall/sandbox. As this is a mass edit I'm announcing it here.
Pinging @ Bradv, S Marshall. — Alexis Jazz ( talk or ping me) 00:36, 5 September 2020 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Abuse response has been marked as "closed down by community consensus, [and] retained only for historical reference" since 2013; the related template, {{ AR talk}}, likewise, is marked "currently inactive and is retained for historical reference".
Nonetheless, the template is transcluded on over 100 pages, mostly if not all IP talk pages, on which it says "this IP address is currently the subject of an open Abuse Response investigation"
Should the template be deleted, or each transclusion removed? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 16:22, 6 September 2020 (UTC)
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Hello,
Since some editors are contesting existence of articles associating religions and religious communities to superstitions, One of the article which concerns topic has been nominated for deletion. You can support or contest the deletion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Superstition in Judaism by putting forward your opinion.
Thanks and regards Bookku ( talk) 05:03, 7 September 2020 (UTC)
When posting a link to a Wikipedia page on facebook, if the page has no image on it, a fuzzy image of a padlock is substituted. This seems like a really peculiar choice! Assuming wp has some control, almost anything would be better! How about the wp globe, or a cap W? Mwanner | Talk 14:45, 25 August 2020 (UTC)
og:image
tag. Although called
Open Graph, this protocol appears to be specific to Facebook. If so then I think we should omit it as we do with Google Analytics and other proprietary tracking.
Certes (
talk) 19:29, 3 September 2020 (UTC)
Hi, ^_^ , first of all I am not angry at all, I am just frustrated at some policies. I was working on articles about Aum Shinrikyo members. They have all pages in the Japanese Wikipedia and most in the Chinese as well. My question is, why don't even the ones who were executed in 2018 qualify for an article but American articles about the Manson family, most of whom did not even commit a crime have their place? I see double standards or it's really me that is wrong?. Well, thank you and hope you have an awesome day. -- CoryGlee ( talk) 17:49, 4 September 2020 (UTC)
Question: I recently speedy deleted several drafts per G3 as hoaxes. In doing a BEFORE search at Google I was surprised to find that the drafts turned up in a Google search. I thought drafts were not supposed to be indexed? -- MelanieN ( talk) 20:04, 12 September 2020 (UTC)
I'm looking at some research that suggests part of what makes people edit frequently is working editing into a daily habit. I know I have one: I pick up my laptop every morning and click the button that opens a bunch of tabs, especially Special:Notifications and the history for WT:MED. I've done this for years.
But I don't know how it works for others. I think some folks are mostly after-work-hours editors. Do you have a daily habit that works for you, or that you would recommend to others? Whatamidoing (WMF) ( talk) 19:16, 13 September 2020 (UTC)
I'm looking at some research that suggests part of what makes people edit frequently is working editing into a daily habit. I know I have one: I pick up my laptop every morning and click the button that opens a bunch of tabs, especially Special:Notifications and the history for WT:MED. I've done this for years.
But I don't know how it works for others. I think some folks are mostly after-work-hours editors. Do you have a daily habit that works for you, or that you would recommend to others? Whatamidoing (WMF) ( talk) 19:16, 13 September 2020 (UTC)
Hello! I hope you cn help me with the translation of following Polish words:
Thank you in advance! Best wishes! -- Mbakkel2 ( talk) 07:12, 14 September 2020 (UTC)
Phil Bridger ( talk) 18:38, 14 September 2020 (UTC)
Just asking cause I think it's cool — Preceding unsigned comment added by The Sheldonator ( talk • contribs) 18:38, 15 September 2020 (UTC)
I've put a request for a three-day fashion campaign banner at meta:CentralNotice/Request/Wiki Loves Fashion 2020.-- Pharos ( talk) 20:40, 17 September 2020 (UTC)
Link. Tony (talk) 05:28, 18 September 2020 (UTC)
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My regards. SMB9 9thx my edits 09:40, 18 September 2020 (UTC)
I wrote a user script to watchlist sections. It's still pretty unreliable, but you can try it out at User:Enterprisey/section-watchlist. It's not ready for general use (I'll post, perhaps, on WP:VPT when that's the case) but I'm ready to see what everyone else thinks of it - what could be improved, bugs you come across, etc. Enterprisey ( talk!) 09:16, 18 September 2020 (UTC)
Can we get some more input on this RfC: Talk:Liu Yifei#rfc_E210EBF? The question is whether the lead should refer to her as "Chinese-born American" or "Chinese-American"? Thanks. Abbyjjjj96 ( talk) 19:01, 19 September 2020 (UTC)
9 times out 10, when I come across an image with a wide aspect ratio on a lesser-watched page, it's too small and needs to be made larger using thumb=1.25
or similar. Is there any way we could set up a tracking list of potentially too small images and then go through them with AWB or something to fix a bunch of them? {{u|
Sdkb}}
talk 00:31, 21 September 2020 (UTC)
As shown at Special:LongPages we now have 81 pages with over 400K of wikicode; the longest has 712,082 bytes; these pages should be subdivided, each into several sections. Please help to do so, or join disucsisons on their respective talk pages to decide how to do so. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 12:54, 21 September 2020 (UTC)
9 times out 10, when I come across an image with a wide aspect ratio on a lesser-watched page, it's too small and needs to be made larger using thumb=1.25
or similar. Is there any way we could set up a tracking list of potentially too small images and then go through them with AWB or something to fix a bunch of them? {{u|
Sdkb}}
talk 00:31, 21 September 2020 (UTC)
As shown at Special:LongPages we now have 81 pages with over 400K of wikicode; the longest has 712,082 bytes; these pages should be subdivided, each into several sections. Please help to do so, or join disucsisons on their respective talk pages to decide how to do so. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 12:54, 21 September 2020 (UTC)
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I invite people to look at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Articles for creation#Major AFC fail re: Korean literature. Just wanting to make sure the community is aware of some problems at AFC and thinking about how they can be solved. Thanks, Calliopejen1 ( talk) 17:55, 18 September 2020 (UTC)
Thanks KylieTastic for cross-posting this. My intention here was just to provide a pointer to the relevant discussion at WT:AFC. I propose that further discussion happen there, so all of the discussion is kept in one place. Calliopejen1 ( talk) 19:44, 19 September 2020 (UTC)
On looking for Battle of Cape Matapan I searched for "Cape Matapan" and got Cape Matapan, which has no redirect options to the battle, which is what I had expected. What Cape Matapan seems to need is one of those common Wikipedia statements that goes something like "for other uses of Matapan, see Matapan" (which is a disambiguation page). I do not seem to be able to track down the precise format for adding such a statement. Can someone point me at the right language and/or help text to explain its correct usage? Thanks, ThoughtIdRetired ( talk) 07:36, 23 September 2020 (UTC)
With the announcement of the 2020 TIME 100, a fellow Wikipedia editor has added "[NAME] was included in Time magazine 's 100 Most Influential People of 2020." in many (not all) of the people named in the list. Do you consider it worth mentioning in the lead (or at all)? It sounds like merely re-asserting the fact, well established by the content of the Wikipedia article, that world leaders such as Angela Merkel are influential. -- Jabo-er ( talk) 00:18, 24 September 2020 (UTC)
I've been noticing an author publishing his own research as part of a wiki article. This research has been published in a peer-reviewed journal. However - its very recent and has not been cited/critiqued by anybody else. What exactly are the policies regarding this? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Potaman ( talk • contribs) 06:04, 24 September 2020 (UTC)
Now I note that Mathglot bothered to look up my editing history. In the event that anyone worries that I have some pattern of introducing bias, I want to clear that issue up. I don't.
I have an idea for a new product for the Wikipedia store (a t-shirt saying "Be Bold", based off a mug design) but I'm not exactly sure where I would propose this. Any suggestions? Squid45 ( talk) 17:24, 26 September 2020 (UTC)
An RfC at Indian subcontinent looked initially like WP:SNOW, but then participation dried up, from both ends of the dispute. I have tried posting all relevant Wikiprojects (9 of them), but no result. I have also requested all the admins who took a look at the RfC to comment, no result again. How can I get more particpants in the discussion? Aditya( talk • contribs) 02:24, 27 September 2020 (UTC)
Shout-out to administrators of English Wikipedia! Please block this user User:Wan588 because he has been adding fake information in articles and had been blocked as well in Malay Wikipedia. Thank you. CyberTroopers ( talk) 15:27, 29 September 2020 (UTC)
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There will be two rounds of voting, each followed by legal review of candidates, with voting beginning on 29 September and 27 October. Our goal is to have a final project name selected on 8 December. If you would like to participate, then please learn more and vote now at meta-wiki. Thank you! -- Quiddity (WMF)21:19, 29 September 2020 (UTC)
<code for its name> = <code for a historic building>
", and the system could automagically translate that sentence into a hundred languages.
WhatamIdoing (
talk) 22:26, 30 September 2020 (UTC)
This article was deleted as "does not credibly indicate the importance or significance of the subject" . But Eyal Zamir is the current Deputy Chiefs of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces since december 2018. As far as I can see the admin that deleted the atricle - User:Bbb23 is retired. Can someone look at it. -- geagea Talk 23:13, 29 September 2020 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at User talk:SDZeroBot/Category cycles. — andrybak ( talk) 18:06, 2 October 2020 (UTC)
Please contribute to the discussion at Template talk:Undisclosed paid#Make talk page discussion mandatory when this template is used. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 21:15, 4 October 2020 (UTC)
I just found this page here, on the MetaWiki. This was intended to serve as an introductory to the project, but this shows miserable writing skill and was obviously written by a newcomer. Should we delete the page, rewrite it, or what should we do about this? - Wzth Regvrds, Ghoste | Dzscussixn 20:12, 5 October 2020 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia:Graphics Lab/Illustration workshop § Good article and featured article topicon redesign. {{u| Sdkb}} talk 05:29, 7 October 2020 (UTC)
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What are some examples of policies or guidelines based on explicit compromises? So examples where neither "side" would be entirely happy, but which provides a workable way forward. Not looking for theoretical compromises, like how NPOV can be framed as supporting compromise. One example that comes to mind is the way WP:ENGVAR, where we say that one variation is preferred in certain cases, but otherwise comes down to "go with whatever version was there first" rather than saying one version is correct. What else, along those lines? — Rhododendrites talk \\ 17:30, 28 September 2020 (UTC)
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If you're interested in guidance at a lower level: there used to be battles over the use of modified letters (accents and such) on ice hockey player names. In the absence of a consensus at an English Wikipedia-wide level, the ice hockey project reached a compromise where player names in articles related to North American hockey would be written without modified letters (unless the associated league generally uses them, such as Quebec leagues). The issue has largely faded out with many of the various involved parties losing interest. Note it was indeed a real compromise: the project chose an approach that people could live with, while waiting for a general consensus to one day emerge (and... still waiting on that). isaacl ( talk) 22:48, 8 October 2020 (UTC)
Template:WMF-legal banned user is used sometimes on User pages, sometimes on User talk pages, and often on both for the same user. I'm thinking of going through Category:Wikipedians banned by the Wikimedia Foundation and fixing these so it only appears on the user page, eliminating the duplicates. Is there any reason not to do this? -- RoySmith (talk) 19:49, 8 October 2020 (UTC)
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An editor stated that James Randi died today. I haven't seen any confirmation. Should this be removed until there is confirmation? Bubba73 You talkin' to me? 21:57, 9 October 2020 (UTC)
In other words, no source = not dead, so out it goes. -- Redrose64 🌹 ( talk) 22:45, 9 October 2020 (UTC)Contentious material about living persons (or, in some cases, recently deceased) that is unsourced or poorly sourced—whether the material is negative, positive, neutral, or just questionable—should be removed immediately and without waiting for discussion.
Last year during the expansive discussion on managing undesirable behaviour by editors, I started a brainstorming process on changing processes and procedures to encourage desired behaviour and dissuade poor behaviour. After trying to initiate discussion on suggestions from other editors, I've now written up some ideas I have on approaches to mitigate difficulties with managing mostly unmoderated online discussions in a large group across many time zones. These are not proposed as universal approaches, but offered as tools in a toolbox from which you can pick and choose as appropriate:
For more details, please see my content dispute resolution toolbox page, and feel free to comment on its talk page. I know these ideas have been used at times in the past. I've tried to refine them in ways that will encourage positive, effective collaboration. As these are just suggested approaches, anyone interested can adapt them to a specific situation as desired. isaacl ( talk) 20:18, 10 October 2020 (UTC)
I have just become aware of Category:Human rights abuses in Japan (and similar categories), in which the article North Kanto Serial Young Girl Kidnapping and Murder Case is included for some reason. I considered just removing it outright since "human rights abuses in [country]" usually refers to actions either performed by or tacitly sanctioned by the state rather than (possibly) unsolved crime sprees. But the inclusion of the Jōkyō uprising seems problematic for an entirely different reason (a farmers' uprising that was put down by a political entity that ceased to exist and was absorbed into the Empire of Japan well over a century ago, and happened long before human rights were first conceived of). So I figured that rather than just arbitrarily removing blatantly mistaken ones like the serial killer case, it would be better to ask here if the community was aware of and had sanctioned both the existence of these categories and these somewhat-strange inclusion criteria. Hijiri 88 ( 聖 やや) 04:01, 11 October 2020 (UTC)
Hello, please note that Editors are invited to provide feedback on the candidates for the 2020 Arbitration Committee Electoral Commission until 23:59 October 16, 2020 (UTC) - comments and endorsements are welcome at Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Arbitration Committee Elections December 2020/Electoral Commission. — xaosflux Talk 17:07, 11 October 2020 (UTC)
Hey guys, I read the signpost so I know paid editing is a problem. I am also on Reddit where I came across this:
https://www.reddit.com/r/wikipedia/comments/jai5aa/starting_a_wiki_site_for_consumer_products_was/
I am not the most knowledgeable editor, nor do I know a lot about how the different wiki's are connected. But I thought this could be a potential problem, so I figured I'll shine a light on it by showing it here. The 1 comment (as of me writing this) on Reddit is by the second person involved in trying to create this. --
Dutchy45 (
talk) 21:30, 13 October 2020 (UTC)
I made a website for exploring every geotagged article from the top 15 language-specific Wikipedias: https://wikimap.wiki
I've been slowly working on this project for a while, and just recently got it to the point where it's ready to share. The data is imported monthly from the Wikipedia XML/Wikidata JSON dumps, rendered with Mapnik, and displayed using OpenLayers.
Here are a few examples of how it can be used:
- Land art
- Radiation accidents and incidents
- Individual trees in California
- "crater" — Preceding unsigned comment added by Underion ( talk • contribs) 18:20, 12 October 2020 (UTC)
On this IP user's second edit, he put "fixed typo" in the edit summary. The editor did much more than fix a typo. Is there a problem with this edit? Bubba73 You talkin' to me? 03:30, 15 October 2020 (UTC)
I have previously read a study of the numbers of biographies in Wikipedia according to the subject's date of birth, but I have tried and failed to re-find that data. The number of biographies being heavily weighted towards living people, and within that to subjects whose notability has been established during the digital era IIRC, both simply because of editors' interests and because it is more difficult to find sources and establish notability for pre-digital-era subjects. Was there a project about this? Can you help, please? Monxton ( talk) 23:45, 17 October 2020 (UTC)
Where can I find the web colours of the parties mentioned in this list: List of Premiers of Alberta
Best wishes! -- Mbakkel2 ( talk) 09:58, 9 October 2020 (UTC)
Timelinesinhistory.com is a website that allows any user to submit any properly formatted textual information and present it on a timeline. Right now, we are testing the system out, allowing users to import any one of the several million Wikipedia articles. We plan on eventually allowing many different sources of information to be displayed as timelines, including any articles or books you may have written or possess. Even very complex family histories. We hope it will be useful to art historians when we add popup pictures. In a few months we plan on creating a timeline system of all of world history.
Going forward The conception of this system is 10 years old now. Which was when our first date parser from free form text was initially written. Given the complexity of this type of system we have restricted the dates that can be deduced and therefore placed on the timeline to 1000 AD to the present. We plan on doing 1 AD to 999 AD as soon as we can. We plan on doing BC dates also, which we understand will be very important for historians of antiquity. These are both very difficult technological challenges.
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Thanks Jeff Roehl Timelinesinhistory.com Jroehl ( talk) 22:21, 20 October 2020 (UTC)
Emma Coradi-Stahl: She died 1912, but the article says she started a buisness 1974... Can anyone german speaking see what the correct year is? (Text in german).
Thank you! // Zquid ( talk) 23:44, 20 October 2020 (UTC)
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The instructions on that page suggest posting a link at the Village Pump as that page doesn't get much traffic. So, er, here's the link: MediaWiki_talk:Recentchangestext#Filter_options_changes. Matt Deres ( talk) 17:27, 23 October 2020 (UTC)
There's a really nice op-ed in today's NY Times: To Learn the Truth, Read My Wikipedia Entry on Sichuan Peppers, by Mary Mann. Per policy, I won't identify the author by wiki user, but it's easy enough to figure out :-) -- RoySmith (talk) 22:55, 24 October 2020 (UTC)
I'm a university student and as part of one of my subjects I am hoping to expand on the wikipedia article for Rolf Muuss. I am having difficulty finding a photo of him with clear any clear copyright information. I have found one photograph that was used in an article and emailed the author who told me that the photo was given to him as a handout. This photo appears in several places online and none of them give any copyright information What can I do to find out whether I can use this image? Aoujwt ( talk) 01:52, 28 October 2020 (UTC)
It's a book. For the interested, it can be read here. Gråbergs Gråa Sång ( talk) 19:59, 28 October 2020 (UTC)
I apologise if this is the wrong forum. In December last year I made a proposal that Korean peninsula be merged to Korea. There were no objections so I performed the merge. Then this merge was reverted. In August I proposed a discussion on the merits of the merge. So far, there has been one response against (without reasons) and one for. Given that this has been going on for a year, has anyone got any suggestions for a way forward?-- Jack Upland ( talk) 00:05, 31 October 2020 (UTC)
Hello,
I'm wondering if anyone could point me to data/statistics on the number of pages in the project namespace (Wikipedia:) - I am working on a project and would like to be able to compare the amount of pages in mainspace with project namespace. Thanks Dr. Vetter ( talk) 14:59, 29 October 2020 (UTC)
Hi all, there is a discussion open at MediaWiki talk:WikiLove.js regarding removing goats from the localized wikilove utility, any feedback would be welcome there. — xaosflux Talk 16:49, 1 November 2020 (UTC)
Hi. I was looking at the uploads of User:Renamed user 995577823Xyn (formerly User:We hope) and found there are a bunch of files that are definitely public domain in the US, but are marked with {{ Keeplocal}}. I do not see any point in keeping the ones that are safe for Commons in two places — is there any real reason to not export all of them and delete the local copies? DemonDays64 ( talk) 06:25, 30 October 2020 (UTC) (please ping on reply)
This article in The Spectator could be driving a lot of people with, shall we say, a certain political interest, to Toby Young. Young is practically begging his readers to censor his past comments about eugenics from the article. More eyes on the article over the coming days would be very helpful, to make sure the article is broadly inline with our policies and standards. (As a sidenote, the Spectator piece is very funny given that he is the most or second-most significant contributor to the Wikipedia article. Also, feel free to point me to any other appropriate noticeboards to gather more attention on the subject.) — Bilorv ( talk) 18:10, 30 October 2020 (UTC)
Do we really need navboxes of US presidential & vice presidential candidate's spouses? See example at Eunice Kennedy Shriver article. GoodDay ( talk) 22:33, 1 November 2020 (UTC)
Please note that actor Faraaz Khan died on 4 november. Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.185.175.84 ( talk) 12:22, 4 November 2020 (UTC)
Earlier today I noticed Rodw had to fix a link in an automotive article talking about a car's pumper. The link bumper goes to a low traffic essay about running into other editors in real life. To actually find an article on bumpers like those on a car you need to search for bumper (car) (not to be confused with bumper car. There is no disambiguation page for various bumper related topics. How do we move an essay from the name space to WP:space? I would like to set up a disambiguation page for Bumper unless there is an obvious primary topic. Thanks! Springee ( talk) 17:24, 5 November 2020 (UTC)
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What are the rules on something like this?— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 20:58, 1 November 2020 (UTC)
Hi! Would anybody be able to point me to a place where I can ask technical questions that are not strictly related to the English-language edition? I contribute to a Wikipedia for a minority language, and we are way too small to have a help desk. My question is related to the use of subpages in the main namespace. I know this is normally discouraged, but I think we have a valid reason for it, and I'd like to discuss this with someone more experienced – especially to make sure we don't end up messing up Wikidata, etc. Thanks! Jean ( t· c) 18:12, 11 November 2020 (UTC)
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New York Times crossword puzzle, 13 November. 10-across: "Wikipedia articles that need expanding". Five letters. I'm not here seeking the answer (I already know it), but just to point out that we made the NYT crossword. I've been working it four days a week for many years and this is the first time I can recall. ― Mandruss ☎ 15:39, 17 November 2020 (UTC)
rot 13
would be ghiog
, correct?
Geo Swan (
talk) 23:20, 17 November 2020 (UTC)
The formatting of block quotations seems to have changed substantially. Can anyone point me to where this was discussed? 207.161.86.162 ( talk) 05:44, 10 November 2020 (UTC)
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The technique I use can be prefixed with colons
When I was a newbie in Wikipedia I used to make lots of copyright violations and plagiarism. Now altough them being deleted they are still in Wikipedia's database and can still be viewed by anyone by clicking page history. I heard that a Twitch streamer was fined in court due to a video which was violating copyright. But the thing is he was fined despite the fact he deleted that video. The court's reason for that was video still existing in Twitch's database. Could the same thing also be true for Wikipedia? Can someone's now fixed, amateurish, old edits haunt him back years later? -- Visnelma ( talk) 18:17, 18 November 2020 (UTC)
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A couple of years back, I wrote User:RoySmith/Three best sources. After getting tired of typing that every time, I created WP:THREE as a redirect, which (to my pleasurable surprise) became quite popular. This morning, Geo Swan raised some reasonable concerns on my talk page about the appropriateness of this redirect. I feel that userspace is basically an extension of project space, so I don't see this being as much cross-namespace as, say, a redirect from mainspace to userspace. Certainly, if you make a broad division of namespaces into "stuff we present to the public as part of the encyclopedia" vs "stuff we need to run the project", both are clearly in the latter group. On the other hand, I can see the concerns about WP:OWNERSHIP.
I don't want to turn this into a formal RFC, but I am interested in what other people think about the general concept of redirects from WP to userspace. And, more particularly, whether what I've done with WP:THREE is legitimate. -- RoySmith (talk) 16:05, 9 November 2020 (UTC)
and
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[[User:Geo Swan/opinions/Pick one|Pick one]]
would render as
Pick one. Years ago, when I got some pushback from contributors who voiced concerns that I was implying my user essays were in the wikipedia space, I started to always state the essay I was linking to was a user essay.My concern triggered this discussion, but I am not suggesting any of these essays be erased.
I have a simple suggestion to the authors of the user essays that have been linked from wikipedia namespace. (1) Wean yourself away from being the sole author of your essay; (2) move it into wikipedia namespace, where it can take its chances of being challenged at MfD, under the more stringent inclusion standards there. If every author agreed to do this, this problem would go away.
What if the author of a userspace essay won't agree to promote it to a shared essay in the wikipedia namespace?
Would it make sense to have all those cross namespace redirects point to a list, with a name like
Wikipedia:List of user essays formerly cross namespace redirected to project space? That list could have a schema, pointing to this discussion, that explained this kind of redirect had been employed, for years, but a discussion decided to deprecate this practice. The essay would still be available to be read - without, however a direct link from [[WP:]]
that implied they had survived the more stringent scrutiny applied to wikipedia space essays.
Geo Swan (
talk) 19:01, 17 November 2020 (UTC)
There seem to be dozens, or hundreds of these. These are the ones we are discussing here.
FWIW, none of the dozen or so I looked at since this discussion started show any obvious sign of being too controversial to take their chances in the wikipedia namespace. Geo Swan ( talk) 17:47, 19 November 2020 (UTC)
To use an example, Wii sales has a table built from Nintendo's reports of the sale of the system. It's great and all, but its clunky and for the general reader, I believe this is better done using a graph (like stacked bar). (This is anticipation of merging that into the Wii article itself) Replacing that is no problem, but an issue I see is that a reader may want to see the exact numbers in a tabular format like that, and I would like to still offer that tabular format somewhere. Unfortunately, I don't know of a good way to do this on en.wiki or any sister projects, as least as best as I can tell. Mainspace we're supposed to avoid subpages, and Wikisource doesn't not appropriate since we're not using PD sources here.
Any ideas of what's a good way to do this? -- Masem ( t) 14:59, 19 November 2020 (UTC)
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ping when replying. 04:53, 22 November 2020 (UTC)Good afternoon Village Pump. A question. The phrase "commit/committed suicide" is discouraged these days. The phrase litters Wikipedia. I wondered if there is a policy here about using the phrase and whether we have a policy on rephrasing the term to something else? doktorb words deeds 12:15, 19 November 2020 (UTC)
Why are there no interlanguage links for most template (and module) sandboxes? JsfasdF252 ( talk) 20:11, 20 November 2020 (UTC)
[[language code:Title]]
in noinclude tags without using Wikidata.
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SrpskiAnonimac ( talk) 16:43, 6 November 2020 (UTC)
I propose a new idea, and though I'm sure long time users of wikipedia will be divided, I think it is in line with the times.
What I suggest is simple: The option to comment on any wikipedia page. This will not only allow editors to gain feedback but also supplement any existing knowledge. There may be information within a given community that could only be had by this setup. Let's say x article has a cult following. There is a very elementary page about it but none of the users are willing to edit it for themselves. Their commentary would allow a contributor to update the page with new information. etc.
I think this could easily be implemented through disqus. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:743:4100:17A0:B879:3FB9:E430:8265 ( talk) 02:45, 18 November 2020 (UTC)
Some of the closes requested at WP:AN/RFC recently have been RfC's that had lingered without resolution long enough to be archived. This is most likely to happen at centralized discussion boards such as WP:BLPN, WP:RSN, etc. I have recently done multiple NAC's on threads that were archived, on one I linked from the current noticeboard to the close that I posted in the archives. On the other I did the opposite ad returned the thread to the current noticeboard to close it there. In both cases, I have been contacted by at least one person suggesting the opposite procedure is preferable, always by experienced editors. I therefore do not believe that there are clear standards on this situation.
The only rule I'm aware of on this situation is
WP:ARCHIVENOTDELETE within the
Talk Page Guidelines which says: If a thread has been archived prematurely, such as when it is still relevant to current work or was not concluded, unarchive it by copying it back to the talk page from the archive, and deleting it from the archive.
This seems like an option that is available, not a directive of a best practice. It goes on to say: Do not unarchive a thread that was effectively closed; instead, start a new discussion and link to the archived prior discussion.
That makes it seem that threads not "effectively closed" are likely to need to be unarchived but again is not very definitive.
I can see arguments for doing such closes either way. On the one hand, archives are supposed to preserve a record of discussions that are over so modifying a discussion in an archive is against that. On the other hand, restoring archived discussions to the current noticeboard clogs ongoing discussions. Either way, the archive is changed and something that was "over" is not really over. Do we know if there is a rule anywhere that explicitly covers this type of situation or a community preference for one type of closing procedure over the other? Thanks in advance. (courtesy pings: Guy, buidhe) Eggishorn (talk) (contrib) 15:44, 20 November 2020 (UTC)
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Normally I post only to relevant WikiProjects, but this may need attention from the Wikipedia community as a whole https://www.politico.com/news/2020/12/03/wikipedia-page-bidens-new-covid-czar-scrubbed-442735
There are allegations of Jeff Zients being scrubbed of political info WhisperToMe ( talk) 23:44, 3 December 2020 (UTC)
Wikipedia has a rival called Conservapedia for those who think Wikipedia has an anti-conservative bias. Would any one agree that at times, Wikipedia is TOO Conservative? I wrote comments on the talk page on the article on the Conservative Party of the U.K., but they were deleted. I was also accused of trolling the talk page of the article on Margaret Thatcher. Has the time come to start a rival to Wikipedia called "Radicalpedia"? Vorbee ( talk) 22:31, 3 December 2020 (UTC)
The far left already has websites like radtube and lefttube. Maybe someone could make a center-left one called liberalpedia explaining liberal and progressive philosophy. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Magnigornia ( talk • contribs) 23:25, 4 December 2020 (UTC)
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— Preceding unsigned comment added by Sdkb ( talk • contribs) 19:38, 11 December 2020 (UTC)
Greetings,
Wikipedia was launched on January 15, 2001 and coming January 15 will be of 20 years. Even after 20 years articles Encyclopedia and Compendium are still incomplete and not at their best.
Some of the issues and sources are shared @ Talk:Encyclopedia#Any takers ? & Talk:Compendium#Any takers ?.
I am already busy on multiple articles, I wish and request some volunteer supports in expanding and updating articles Encyclopedia and Compendium.
Thanks
Bookku ( talk) 06:28, 16 December 2020 (UTC)
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Hi guys. Is there any bots that can help in sorting list in alphabet order? CyberTroopers ( talk) 19:18, 15 December 2020 (UTC)
@ CyberTroopers: If it's a list of things on a wikipedia page, there is a Lua module that will sort it alphabetically: [bad example removed] -- Green C 04:29, 16 December 2020 (UTC)
{{
sort list}}
. I installed it and sorted the list. --
Green
C 05:47, 16 December 2020 (UTC)
On Max Crabtree, I have added a link from Questia ( this one) but I have noticed the site is about to close from tomorrow. Can I ask if someone can archive it at Wayback Machine/Internet Archive and put the link in the article please? I ask as I have tried to do that but my computer won't access the site and I don't want this to deadlink. The C of E God Save the Queen! ( talk) 08:24, 20 December 2020 (UTC)
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A good set of lists of what movies and books - published in 1925 - will become public domain in the United States come January 1, 2021 and thus fair game to be used as free media/content. [4], [5] -- Masem ( t) 18:29, 21 December 2020 (UTC)
Whenever any topic related to Muslim, Islam and Islamic comes for discussion on Wikipedia, one comes across 2 refrains frequently; First I/We don't have understanding on the topic, pl. go over to WP talk:WikiProject Islam, the second is even when topic is critical of Islam that is categorized Islamic project pl. go over to WP talk:WikiProject Islam. Here comes concept of normative. It's true that Wikipedians working on WikiProject Islam need to have a say, second side of the same coin is it risks throwing in and enforcing a sided normative.
Quick google search of term Normative gives definition as "...establishing, relating to, or deriving from a standard or norm, especially of behaviour...."
So when some thing does not fits in well with fixed normative still do we force the things there only ? The things I will be discussing here I will be discussing at WP talk:WikiProject Islam separately but reason of discussing here is to cross limiting normativity and become more inclusive in seeking inputs.
An average tendency on Wikipedia seems to be of transforming word Muslim into Islam or Islamic wherever possible without visiting nuanced aspects. As a small example title Islamic feminism is nuanced and correct since it specifically refers to theory of Islam. But is it correct to redirect title Muslim women to Women in Islam those who are not exposed to nuances might think so. Some might take refuge to fallacy of Appeal to popularity, but nuanced view suggests otherwise. Pl. do read on below given copy pasted discussion from Talk:Islamic literature
According to [6] Muslim is purely someone who practices Islam and Islamic is anything influenced by Islam or produced by Muslims. So I’ve done some of the (requested via women’s rights article) copyediting on that basis. Please correct my ignorances with sources if wrong. Thanks! Dakinijones ( talk) 17:14, 25 September 2020 (UTC)
- @ Dakinijones:, You do have an important point here. Understanding of this nuance will be very helpful. And Wikipedians need to revisit article titles to give better justice to article content and avoid mis perceptions.
- One academic scholar M.M. Knight too has pointed out this aspect as below. I am in process tabulating articles word Muslim and Islam and Islamic in article titles and putting up case better before Wikipedian community.
- According to M.M. Knight, when one does not speak for real Islam (i.e.'an abstracted ideal' that floats above, Muslim, human cultures but speaks for 'lived traditions') it is preferable to use the term Muslim instead of the term Islam or Islamic. [1]
- M.M. Knight further says, terms 'Islam/ Islamic' imposes claim of normativity, which is distinct with lived experiences hence need not be conflated. [2] (My emphasis)
- As far as this particular article is concerned I would support renaming it as Muslim literature and redirect Islamic literature to Islamic advice literature because most of Islamic literature as religion are either Tafsir or Islamic advice literature, What does not fit the bill as Tafsir or Islamic advice literature can always be included in Muslim literature .
- Hope and look forward to more discussion and awareness on this aspect.
- Thanks and warm regards Bookku ( talk) 07:30, 14 December 2020 (UTC)
References
- ^ Knight, Michael Muhammad (2016-05-24). Magic In Islam. Penguin. p. 24. ISBN 978-1-101-98349-2.
- ^ Knight, Michael Muhammad (2016-05-24). Magic In Islam. Penguin. p. 24. ISBN 978-1-101-98349-2.
Please see below given table.
Muslim | Islam | Comment | |
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Muslim dietary laws | This needs to be Islamic dietary laws | ||
Apostasy in Islam | Article Former Muslim of Ex Muslim needs to exist separately because title Apostasy in Islam has Islamic normativity that atheists don't share | ||
Islamic culture | Needs to be Muslim culture | ||
Islamic literature | Needs to be Muslim literature | ||
Islamic architecture | Needs to be Muslim architecture | ||
Needs to be Muslim Golden Age | |||
Women in Islam | Need to be Muslim women | ||
Islamophobia | Need to be Anti Muslim Sentiment |
Thanks Bookku ( talk) 11:07, 18 December 2020 (UTC)
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Article Netflix should be called Netflix Inc., and Netflix, the streaming service, should be spun off into the new article. — HoneymoonAve27 ( talk) 00:38, 17 December 2020 (UTC)
See Sparring
See under "names and types"
In boxing, sparring is commonly called sparring.
If that is allowed, then perhaps the United States article should have a sentence "In the United States, the United States is called the United States". Crazy. Suggestions? Vowvo ( talk) 20:54, 19 December 2020 (UTC)
Hi guys. greetings from fawiki community. :) I found loops in some categories in our wiki which are sorted based on category sorting in enwiki. category:Data laws → category:Data security → category:Information governance → and oops! you are again at category:Data laws! this can cause problems while using the WP:AWB (the list never comes out). some subcategories of Category:Library science also have this problem. i found this when i was trying to make a list using AWB and the tool stopped working. any solutions would be appreciated. -- Jeeputer ( talk) 07:18, 25 December 2020 (UTC)
@ PrimeHunter: Yes i know. categorization in fawiki is based on enwiki. it worked for me and gave about 6k pages of which 1k was duplicates. it can be caused by the breakage of the loop on fawiki. job done, thank you. :) -- Jeeputer ( talk) 17:31, 25 December 2020 (UTC)
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Dear colleaques, allow me to inform you about the request I've posted recently at the Talk page of the relevant article. I kindly ask anybody for whom American English is the first language to consult about the correct pronunciation of J. B. Straubel's name in the U. S. A. - at least, to write the answer on the talk page of the article. Thanks in advance. Cherurbino ( talk) 14:54, 6 August 2020 (UTC)
(UPD) my POV is that the orthoepic standard for „Straubel” is the same, as for Levi Strauss - /ˈstraʊs/: „s”, not „sh”, and „au”, not „o” - am I right? Cherurbino ( talk) 02:09, 7 August 2020 (UTC)
Does anyone know the criteria of the significance of the article about Yegor Zhukov? In Russian Wikipedia, the article about this person is constantly removed, and in the discussion for the preservation of the article I haven't arguments. Maybe I can take advantage of the criteria from the article with a foreign speech Wikipedia? - Dmitry Pechenkov ( talk) 13:34, 7 August 2020 (UTC)-
I have put in a request for a geo-targeted CentralNotice for the Virtual Great American Wiknic on Sunday August 16. See the request on meta at m:CentralNotice/Request/Virtual Great American Wiknic.-- Pharos ( talk) 00:14, 8 August 2020 (UTC)
Where can I find this or this templates? I have been templated with both, but can't find them anywhere for me to use. I am pretty sure they were not created fresh for my talk page. Aditya( talk • contribs) 04:23, 9 August 2020 (UTC)
There doesn't seem to be a venue for novice users seeking assistance in writing rationales for non-free images. Do we have such a page? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 22:19, 8 August 2020 (UTC)
Deb has deleted a page called Gaza Sky Geeks (GSG) that I and other editors have worked on. The page is a few years old, was blanked/vandalized by someone and then deleted. Then it was created again by an ip user and then I asked on the Village Pump to have the draft restored because I knew that it was in a better condition. Given what Deb has written on his talk page ( User_talk:Deb), I don't think discussing the matter with him will lead anywhere. So I ask if an uninvolved moderator can restore the page. If Deb or anyone else wants to have the page deleted, he should nominate it for "Articles for Deletion" so that it can be discussed. GSG has received lots of news coverage and clearly fulfills the WP:N critera. ImTheIP ( talk) 19:57, 9 August 2020 (UTC)
I wish you would go back to the old home page format that had the featured article right below the search box. The info placed there now is just clutter we have to scroll past to get to the article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.248.210.220 ( talk) 13:35, 13 August 2020 (UTC)
There are 138 files in Category:Wikipedia files requiring renaming that were added by Jonteemil. These are mostly double extensions like File:A-Square (Of Course).JPEG.jpg and some odd things like File:AARP logo SVG.svg.
It's unclear if WP:FNC#5 would cover these. On Commons, there is #6 which covers "Non-controversial maintenance and bug fixes, including fixing double extensions, invalid or incorrect extensions, character handling problems, and other similar technical issues" but on WP we don't have this.
For some more info, see Wikipedia talk:File names#Addition of criterion.
The problem is that finding new requests in the category has been complicated by all these requests that can't be fulfilled right now. I'm keeping up with new requests so far, but I doubt anyone else will, and I don't like the extra work.
I have saved all the move links to User:Alexis Jazz/Double extension links. So if at any point we decide to move them, we can. No matter if we approve or decline these requests, the rename template on these files needs to go. I want to remove the {{ rename media}} templates now and make the category Category:Wikipedia files requiring renaming usable again.
Any opposition? — Alexis Jazz ( talk or ping me) 20:00, 13 August 2020 (UTC)
Can we get more input on this RfC: Talk:Winona Ryder#rfc_3EA12AB? The dispute is whether her relationships with two of her former boyfriends (Matt Damon and Dave Pirner) are notable enough to be included in the infobox 'partner' parameter. Thanks. Abbyjjjj96 ( talk) 20:31, 13 August 2020 (UTC)
Looks like we correctly identified in 2017 that DC Solar wasn't notable enough to get an article. According to a recently-submitted article, it turned out to be a Ponzi scheme and got shut down by the US federal government in 2018. signed, Rosguill talk 22:44, 13 August 2020 (UTC)
For the video game project, we long since suspected that how we defined the console generation (eg as First generation of video game consoles, etc.) was sorta our own original research from near the creation of Wikipedia, but could not verify this was easily the case. All we know is that the main, typically non-academic but gaming press and maisntream news sources we use for the project since --- 2010 nearly all use our numbering scheme (in that the current console gen is the 8th with the PS4, Xbox One, and Switch), so there's almost been no reason to change it. However, recently I've hit upon a key academic paper that has been key to saying, "yes you guys (Wikipedia) created your own system, but so did pretty much everyone else". I've been able to work that into the section History of video game consoles#Console generations (The paper itself is the Kemerer one in the refs).
My question or what advice I'm trying to seek is just making sure that how I've written that is "hands off" enough to reflect that Wikipedia had a role in identifying these, and that in how we present going forward stays with it as media since that point uses our scheme, but I've never seen a case of how to describe the "we" as in editors of Wikipedia in mainspace to the main audience like that in a more "active role" here (compared to other places like the Stop Online Piracy Act blackout). It's easy to write this way in WP: space as instructions, but not mainspace. -- Masem ( t) 21:22, 10 August 2020 (UTC)
Do I remove the asterisks? https://www.huffpost.com/entry/daily-tar-heel-editorial-unc-coronavirus_n_5f3b0385c5b670ab17aecc91 Charles Juvon ( talk) 16:03, 18 August 2020 (UTC)
If a person interviews another person and there is significant encyclopedic content in the interview, where does the interview have to be posted or published to serve as a Wikipedia reference? Assume neither person is currently a notable person. Also assume that no one has published a review of the interview. In fact, this is an interview of a WW2 veteran who states details about the Manhattan Project that may be heretofore unknown. Charles Juvon ( talk) 23:44, 13 August 2020 (UTC)
I'd like to point out that currently creating an article also has acquired a number of additional steps. (Not sure if all are required, but I feel compelled to do them.)
The barrier to creating articles is gradually growing higher. -- llywrch ( talk) 21:33, 15 August 2020 (UTC)
For other uses, see Foo (disambiguation), which only then links to the page. I'm sure there are other edge cases as well. A bot wouldn't need to be perfect if it's just flagging cases for human editors to fix, but it'd be need to be good enough to not be filled with false positives. {{u| Sdkb}} talk 18:59, 18 August 2020 (UTC)
The lead of an article needs to have a summary of the article, but Cleavage (breasts) has anything but that in the lead. I wrote the article in most part, but now I find myself unable to summarize it crisply enough for the lead. I have have been to the LEADTEAM and recieved some help. But not in summarizing the article. Is there anyone who can lend a hand here? I promise to be as much help as I can, but I need someone to take the lead in writing the lead (bad pun intended). I don't know where else I can go begging for help. Anyone? Please? Aditya( talk • contribs) 13:11, 22 August 2020 (UTC)
Please go on meta:Requests for new languages and change to created the Wikipedia Ladin on the approved section. Thank you in advance!!! -- 151.49.93.113 ( talk) 12:48, 23 August 2020 (UTC)
This signpost report got me thinking about measuring Wikipedia's growth. Has anyone ever measured it by the number of footnotes? Seems like it would be easy enough to do by counting instances of <ref>, and it would give an important measure of Wikipedia's progress over time. (Seems better than measuring article count, article length, etc.) I didn't see this when I looked in a few obvious places. Thanks, Calliopejen1 ( talk) 20:32, 24 August 2020 (UTC)
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Any chance of more input on this RfC: Talk:Christina Ricci#rfc_37B4931? The dispute is whether, since Ricci has filed for divorce from her husband, it should state "separated" in the marriage template or not. Thanks. Abbyjjjj96 ( talk) 01:10, 29 August 2020 (UTC)
I have a question that is there is any magic word or other wiki markup to make template display only once even if the template has multiple instances on the same page. For example, if the template is used at the first position, it appears after you submit the change, then if the template used at another position of content, it doesn't display at all. -- Great Brightstar ( talk) 12:41, 1 September 2020 (UTC)
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Requesting peer review at Wikipedia:Peer review/Women in Islam/archive1,
Bookku ( talk) 09:54, 3 September 2020 (UTC)
Disagreement about deletion of section and sources. Requesting third opinion per WP:3O Bookku ( talk) 11:03, 3 September 2020 (UTC)
What does that mean? It shows up when you thank someone. Where can the "public" see who thanked whom and when and for what? -- SergeWoodzing ( talk) 10:03, 5 September 2020 (UTC)
See this archived discussion on AN.
I want to add {{
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to all the pages listed on
User:S Marshall/sandbox. As this is a mass edit I'm announcing it here.
Pinging @ Bradv, S Marshall. — Alexis Jazz ( talk or ping me) 00:36, 5 September 2020 (UTC)
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Should the template be deleted, or each transclusion removed? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 16:22, 6 September 2020 (UTC)
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Hello,
Since some editors are contesting existence of articles associating religions and religious communities to superstitions, One of the article which concerns topic has been nominated for deletion. You can support or contest the deletion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Superstition in Judaism by putting forward your opinion.
Thanks and regards Bookku ( talk) 05:03, 7 September 2020 (UTC)
When posting a link to a Wikipedia page on facebook, if the page has no image on it, a fuzzy image of a padlock is substituted. This seems like a really peculiar choice! Assuming wp has some control, almost anything would be better! How about the wp globe, or a cap W? Mwanner | Talk 14:45, 25 August 2020 (UTC)
og:image
tag. Although called
Open Graph, this protocol appears to be specific to Facebook. If so then I think we should omit it as we do with Google Analytics and other proprietary tracking.
Certes (
talk) 19:29, 3 September 2020 (UTC)
Hi, ^_^ , first of all I am not angry at all, I am just frustrated at some policies. I was working on articles about Aum Shinrikyo members. They have all pages in the Japanese Wikipedia and most in the Chinese as well. My question is, why don't even the ones who were executed in 2018 qualify for an article but American articles about the Manson family, most of whom did not even commit a crime have their place? I see double standards or it's really me that is wrong?. Well, thank you and hope you have an awesome day. -- CoryGlee ( talk) 17:49, 4 September 2020 (UTC)
Question: I recently speedy deleted several drafts per G3 as hoaxes. In doing a BEFORE search at Google I was surprised to find that the drafts turned up in a Google search. I thought drafts were not supposed to be indexed? -- MelanieN ( talk) 20:04, 12 September 2020 (UTC)
I'm looking at some research that suggests part of what makes people edit frequently is working editing into a daily habit. I know I have one: I pick up my laptop every morning and click the button that opens a bunch of tabs, especially Special:Notifications and the history for WT:MED. I've done this for years.
But I don't know how it works for others. I think some folks are mostly after-work-hours editors. Do you have a daily habit that works for you, or that you would recommend to others? Whatamidoing (WMF) ( talk) 19:16, 13 September 2020 (UTC)
I'm looking at some research that suggests part of what makes people edit frequently is working editing into a daily habit. I know I have one: I pick up my laptop every morning and click the button that opens a bunch of tabs, especially Special:Notifications and the history for WT:MED. I've done this for years.
But I don't know how it works for others. I think some folks are mostly after-work-hours editors. Do you have a daily habit that works for you, or that you would recommend to others? Whatamidoing (WMF) ( talk) 19:16, 13 September 2020 (UTC)
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Thank you in advance! Best wishes! -- Mbakkel2 ( talk) 07:12, 14 September 2020 (UTC)
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Just asking cause I think it's cool — Preceding unsigned comment added by The Sheldonator ( talk • contribs) 18:38, 15 September 2020 (UTC)
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I wrote a user script to watchlist sections. It's still pretty unreliable, but you can try it out at User:Enterprisey/section-watchlist. It's not ready for general use (I'll post, perhaps, on WP:VPT when that's the case) but I'm ready to see what everyone else thinks of it - what could be improved, bugs you come across, etc. Enterprisey ( talk!) 09:16, 18 September 2020 (UTC)
Can we get some more input on this RfC: Talk:Liu Yifei#rfc_E210EBF? The question is whether the lead should refer to her as "Chinese-born American" or "Chinese-American"? Thanks. Abbyjjjj96 ( talk) 19:01, 19 September 2020 (UTC)
9 times out 10, when I come across an image with a wide aspect ratio on a lesser-watched page, it's too small and needs to be made larger using thumb=1.25
or similar. Is there any way we could set up a tracking list of potentially too small images and then go through them with AWB or something to fix a bunch of them? {{u|
Sdkb}}
talk 00:31, 21 September 2020 (UTC)
As shown at Special:LongPages we now have 81 pages with over 400K of wikicode; the longest has 712,082 bytes; these pages should be subdivided, each into several sections. Please help to do so, or join disucsisons on their respective talk pages to decide how to do so. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 12:54, 21 September 2020 (UTC)
9 times out 10, when I come across an image with a wide aspect ratio on a lesser-watched page, it's too small and needs to be made larger using thumb=1.25
or similar. Is there any way we could set up a tracking list of potentially too small images and then go through them with AWB or something to fix a bunch of them? {{u|
Sdkb}}
talk 00:31, 21 September 2020 (UTC)
As shown at Special:LongPages we now have 81 pages with over 400K of wikicode; the longest has 712,082 bytes; these pages should be subdivided, each into several sections. Please help to do so, or join disucsisons on their respective talk pages to decide how to do so. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 12:54, 21 September 2020 (UTC)
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I invite people to look at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Articles for creation#Major AFC fail re: Korean literature. Just wanting to make sure the community is aware of some problems at AFC and thinking about how they can be solved. Thanks, Calliopejen1 ( talk) 17:55, 18 September 2020 (UTC)
Thanks KylieTastic for cross-posting this. My intention here was just to provide a pointer to the relevant discussion at WT:AFC. I propose that further discussion happen there, so all of the discussion is kept in one place. Calliopejen1 ( talk) 19:44, 19 September 2020 (UTC)
On looking for Battle of Cape Matapan I searched for "Cape Matapan" and got Cape Matapan, which has no redirect options to the battle, which is what I had expected. What Cape Matapan seems to need is one of those common Wikipedia statements that goes something like "for other uses of Matapan, see Matapan" (which is a disambiguation page). I do not seem to be able to track down the precise format for adding such a statement. Can someone point me at the right language and/or help text to explain its correct usage? Thanks, ThoughtIdRetired ( talk) 07:36, 23 September 2020 (UTC)
With the announcement of the 2020 TIME 100, a fellow Wikipedia editor has added "[NAME] was included in Time magazine 's 100 Most Influential People of 2020." in many (not all) of the people named in the list. Do you consider it worth mentioning in the lead (or at all)? It sounds like merely re-asserting the fact, well established by the content of the Wikipedia article, that world leaders such as Angela Merkel are influential. -- Jabo-er ( talk) 00:18, 24 September 2020 (UTC)
I've been noticing an author publishing his own research as part of a wiki article. This research has been published in a peer-reviewed journal. However - its very recent and has not been cited/critiqued by anybody else. What exactly are the policies regarding this? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Potaman ( talk • contribs) 06:04, 24 September 2020 (UTC)
Now I note that Mathglot bothered to look up my editing history. In the event that anyone worries that I have some pattern of introducing bias, I want to clear that issue up. I don't.
I have an idea for a new product for the Wikipedia store (a t-shirt saying "Be Bold", based off a mug design) but I'm not exactly sure where I would propose this. Any suggestions? Squid45 ( talk) 17:24, 26 September 2020 (UTC)
An RfC at Indian subcontinent looked initially like WP:SNOW, but then participation dried up, from both ends of the dispute. I have tried posting all relevant Wikiprojects (9 of them), but no result. I have also requested all the admins who took a look at the RfC to comment, no result again. How can I get more particpants in the discussion? Aditya( talk • contribs) 02:24, 27 September 2020 (UTC)
Shout-out to administrators of English Wikipedia! Please block this user User:Wan588 because he has been adding fake information in articles and had been blocked as well in Malay Wikipedia. Thank you. CyberTroopers ( talk) 15:27, 29 September 2020 (UTC)
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<code for its name> = <code for a historic building>
", and the system could automagically translate that sentence into a hundred languages.
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This article was deleted as "does not credibly indicate the importance or significance of the subject" . But Eyal Zamir is the current Deputy Chiefs of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces since december 2018. As far as I can see the admin that deleted the atricle - User:Bbb23 is retired. Can someone look at it. -- geagea Talk 23:13, 29 September 2020 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at User talk:SDZeroBot/Category cycles. — andrybak ( talk) 18:06, 2 October 2020 (UTC)
Please contribute to the discussion at Template talk:Undisclosed paid#Make talk page discussion mandatory when this template is used. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 21:15, 4 October 2020 (UTC)
I just found this page here, on the MetaWiki. This was intended to serve as an introductory to the project, but this shows miserable writing skill and was obviously written by a newcomer. Should we delete the page, rewrite it, or what should we do about this? - Wzth Regvrds, Ghoste | Dzscussixn 20:12, 5 October 2020 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia:Graphics Lab/Illustration workshop § Good article and featured article topicon redesign. {{u| Sdkb}} talk 05:29, 7 October 2020 (UTC)
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What are some examples of policies or guidelines based on explicit compromises? So examples where neither "side" would be entirely happy, but which provides a workable way forward. Not looking for theoretical compromises, like how NPOV can be framed as supporting compromise. One example that comes to mind is the way WP:ENGVAR, where we say that one variation is preferred in certain cases, but otherwise comes down to "go with whatever version was there first" rather than saying one version is correct. What else, along those lines? — Rhododendrites talk \\ 17:30, 28 September 2020 (UTC)
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If you're interested in guidance at a lower level: there used to be battles over the use of modified letters (accents and such) on ice hockey player names. In the absence of a consensus at an English Wikipedia-wide level, the ice hockey project reached a compromise where player names in articles related to North American hockey would be written without modified letters (unless the associated league generally uses them, such as Quebec leagues). The issue has largely faded out with many of the various involved parties losing interest. Note it was indeed a real compromise: the project chose an approach that people could live with, while waiting for a general consensus to one day emerge (and... still waiting on that). isaacl ( talk) 22:48, 8 October 2020 (UTC)
Template:WMF-legal banned user is used sometimes on User pages, sometimes on User talk pages, and often on both for the same user. I'm thinking of going through Category:Wikipedians banned by the Wikimedia Foundation and fixing these so it only appears on the user page, eliminating the duplicates. Is there any reason not to do this? -- RoySmith (talk) 19:49, 8 October 2020 (UTC)
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An editor stated that James Randi died today. I haven't seen any confirmation. Should this be removed until there is confirmation? Bubba73 You talkin' to me? 21:57, 9 October 2020 (UTC)
In other words, no source = not dead, so out it goes. -- Redrose64 🌹 ( talk) 22:45, 9 October 2020 (UTC)Contentious material about living persons (or, in some cases, recently deceased) that is unsourced or poorly sourced—whether the material is negative, positive, neutral, or just questionable—should be removed immediately and without waiting for discussion.
Last year during the expansive discussion on managing undesirable behaviour by editors, I started a brainstorming process on changing processes and procedures to encourage desired behaviour and dissuade poor behaviour. After trying to initiate discussion on suggestions from other editors, I've now written up some ideas I have on approaches to mitigate difficulties with managing mostly unmoderated online discussions in a large group across many time zones. These are not proposed as universal approaches, but offered as tools in a toolbox from which you can pick and choose as appropriate:
For more details, please see my content dispute resolution toolbox page, and feel free to comment on its talk page. I know these ideas have been used at times in the past. I've tried to refine them in ways that will encourage positive, effective collaboration. As these are just suggested approaches, anyone interested can adapt them to a specific situation as desired. isaacl ( talk) 20:18, 10 October 2020 (UTC)
I have just become aware of Category:Human rights abuses in Japan (and similar categories), in which the article North Kanto Serial Young Girl Kidnapping and Murder Case is included for some reason. I considered just removing it outright since "human rights abuses in [country]" usually refers to actions either performed by or tacitly sanctioned by the state rather than (possibly) unsolved crime sprees. But the inclusion of the Jōkyō uprising seems problematic for an entirely different reason (a farmers' uprising that was put down by a political entity that ceased to exist and was absorbed into the Empire of Japan well over a century ago, and happened long before human rights were first conceived of). So I figured that rather than just arbitrarily removing blatantly mistaken ones like the serial killer case, it would be better to ask here if the community was aware of and had sanctioned both the existence of these categories and these somewhat-strange inclusion criteria. Hijiri 88 ( 聖 やや) 04:01, 11 October 2020 (UTC)
Hello, please note that Editors are invited to provide feedback on the candidates for the 2020 Arbitration Committee Electoral Commission until 23:59 October 16, 2020 (UTC) - comments and endorsements are welcome at Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Arbitration Committee Elections December 2020/Electoral Commission. — xaosflux Talk 17:07, 11 October 2020 (UTC)
Hey guys, I read the signpost so I know paid editing is a problem. I am also on Reddit where I came across this:
https://www.reddit.com/r/wikipedia/comments/jai5aa/starting_a_wiki_site_for_consumer_products_was/
I am not the most knowledgeable editor, nor do I know a lot about how the different wiki's are connected. But I thought this could be a potential problem, so I figured I'll shine a light on it by showing it here. The 1 comment (as of me writing this) on Reddit is by the second person involved in trying to create this. --
Dutchy45 (
talk) 21:30, 13 October 2020 (UTC)
I made a website for exploring every geotagged article from the top 15 language-specific Wikipedias: https://wikimap.wiki
I've been slowly working on this project for a while, and just recently got it to the point where it's ready to share. The data is imported monthly from the Wikipedia XML/Wikidata JSON dumps, rendered with Mapnik, and displayed using OpenLayers.
Here are a few examples of how it can be used:
- Land art
- Radiation accidents and incidents
- Individual trees in California
- "crater" — Preceding unsigned comment added by Underion ( talk • contribs) 18:20, 12 October 2020 (UTC)
On this IP user's second edit, he put "fixed typo" in the edit summary. The editor did much more than fix a typo. Is there a problem with this edit? Bubba73 You talkin' to me? 03:30, 15 October 2020 (UTC)
I have previously read a study of the numbers of biographies in Wikipedia according to the subject's date of birth, but I have tried and failed to re-find that data. The number of biographies being heavily weighted towards living people, and within that to subjects whose notability has been established during the digital era IIRC, both simply because of editors' interests and because it is more difficult to find sources and establish notability for pre-digital-era subjects. Was there a project about this? Can you help, please? Monxton ( talk) 23:45, 17 October 2020 (UTC)
Where can I find the web colours of the parties mentioned in this list: List of Premiers of Alberta
Best wishes! -- Mbakkel2 ( talk) 09:58, 9 October 2020 (UTC)
Timelinesinhistory.com is a website that allows any user to submit any properly formatted textual information and present it on a timeline. Right now, we are testing the system out, allowing users to import any one of the several million Wikipedia articles. We plan on eventually allowing many different sources of information to be displayed as timelines, including any articles or books you may have written or possess. Even very complex family histories. We hope it will be useful to art historians when we add popup pictures. In a few months we plan on creating a timeline system of all of world history.
Going forward The conception of this system is 10 years old now. Which was when our first date parser from free form text was initially written. Given the complexity of this type of system we have restricted the dates that can be deduced and therefore placed on the timeline to 1000 AD to the present. We plan on doing 1 AD to 999 AD as soon as we can. We plan on doing BC dates also, which we understand will be very important for historians of antiquity. These are both very difficult technological challenges.
Special thanks to key people of the Ministry of National Education, Higher Education and Research (Ministere de l'education nationale, de l'enseignement superieur et de la recherche) in Paris, France.
Your support was important and we will continue to look forward to implementing a French, Spanish, German and Portuguese version as soon as we can.
Thanks Jeff Roehl Timelinesinhistory.com Jroehl ( talk) 22:21, 20 October 2020 (UTC)
Emma Coradi-Stahl: She died 1912, but the article says she started a buisness 1974... Can anyone german speaking see what the correct year is? (Text in german).
Thank you! // Zquid ( talk) 23:44, 20 October 2020 (UTC)
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The instructions on that page suggest posting a link at the Village Pump as that page doesn't get much traffic. So, er, here's the link: MediaWiki_talk:Recentchangestext#Filter_options_changes. Matt Deres ( talk) 17:27, 23 October 2020 (UTC)
There's a really nice op-ed in today's NY Times: To Learn the Truth, Read My Wikipedia Entry on Sichuan Peppers, by Mary Mann. Per policy, I won't identify the author by wiki user, but it's easy enough to figure out :-) -- RoySmith (talk) 22:55, 24 October 2020 (UTC)
I'm a university student and as part of one of my subjects I am hoping to expand on the wikipedia article for Rolf Muuss. I am having difficulty finding a photo of him with clear any clear copyright information. I have found one photograph that was used in an article and emailed the author who told me that the photo was given to him as a handout. This photo appears in several places online and none of them give any copyright information What can I do to find out whether I can use this image? Aoujwt ( talk) 01:52, 28 October 2020 (UTC)
It's a book. For the interested, it can be read here. Gråbergs Gråa Sång ( talk) 19:59, 28 October 2020 (UTC)
I apologise if this is the wrong forum. In December last year I made a proposal that Korean peninsula be merged to Korea. There were no objections so I performed the merge. Then this merge was reverted. In August I proposed a discussion on the merits of the merge. So far, there has been one response against (without reasons) and one for. Given that this has been going on for a year, has anyone got any suggestions for a way forward?-- Jack Upland ( talk) 00:05, 31 October 2020 (UTC)
Hello,
I'm wondering if anyone could point me to data/statistics on the number of pages in the project namespace (Wikipedia:) - I am working on a project and would like to be able to compare the amount of pages in mainspace with project namespace. Thanks Dr. Vetter ( talk) 14:59, 29 October 2020 (UTC)
Hi all, there is a discussion open at MediaWiki talk:WikiLove.js regarding removing goats from the localized wikilove utility, any feedback would be welcome there. — xaosflux Talk 16:49, 1 November 2020 (UTC)
Hi. I was looking at the uploads of User:Renamed user 995577823Xyn (formerly User:We hope) and found there are a bunch of files that are definitely public domain in the US, but are marked with {{ Keeplocal}}. I do not see any point in keeping the ones that are safe for Commons in two places — is there any real reason to not export all of them and delete the local copies? DemonDays64 ( talk) 06:25, 30 October 2020 (UTC) (please ping on reply)
This article in The Spectator could be driving a lot of people with, shall we say, a certain political interest, to Toby Young. Young is practically begging his readers to censor his past comments about eugenics from the article. More eyes on the article over the coming days would be very helpful, to make sure the article is broadly inline with our policies and standards. (As a sidenote, the Spectator piece is very funny given that he is the most or second-most significant contributor to the Wikipedia article. Also, feel free to point me to any other appropriate noticeboards to gather more attention on the subject.) — Bilorv ( talk) 18:10, 30 October 2020 (UTC)
Do we really need navboxes of US presidential & vice presidential candidate's spouses? See example at Eunice Kennedy Shriver article. GoodDay ( talk) 22:33, 1 November 2020 (UTC)
Please note that actor Faraaz Khan died on 4 november. Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.185.175.84 ( talk) 12:22, 4 November 2020 (UTC)
Earlier today I noticed Rodw had to fix a link in an automotive article talking about a car's pumper. The link bumper goes to a low traffic essay about running into other editors in real life. To actually find an article on bumpers like those on a car you need to search for bumper (car) (not to be confused with bumper car. There is no disambiguation page for various bumper related topics. How do we move an essay from the name space to WP:space? I would like to set up a disambiguation page for Bumper unless there is an obvious primary topic. Thanks! Springee ( talk) 17:24, 5 November 2020 (UTC)
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What are the rules on something like this?— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 20:58, 1 November 2020 (UTC)
Hi! Would anybody be able to point me to a place where I can ask technical questions that are not strictly related to the English-language edition? I contribute to a Wikipedia for a minority language, and we are way too small to have a help desk. My question is related to the use of subpages in the main namespace. I know this is normally discouraged, but I think we have a valid reason for it, and I'd like to discuss this with someone more experienced – especially to make sure we don't end up messing up Wikidata, etc. Thanks! Jean ( t· c) 18:12, 11 November 2020 (UTC)
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New York Times crossword puzzle, 13 November. 10-across: "Wikipedia articles that need expanding". Five letters. I'm not here seeking the answer (I already know it), but just to point out that we made the NYT crossword. I've been working it four days a week for many years and this is the first time I can recall. ― Mandruss ☎ 15:39, 17 November 2020 (UTC)
rot 13
would be ghiog
, correct?
Geo Swan (
talk) 23:20, 17 November 2020 (UTC)
The formatting of block quotations seems to have changed substantially. Can anyone point me to where this was discussed? 207.161.86.162 ( talk) 05:44, 10 November 2020 (UTC)
{| class="wikitable"
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Text to be quoted |
|}
The technique I use can be prefixed with colons
When I was a newbie in Wikipedia I used to make lots of copyright violations and plagiarism. Now altough them being deleted they are still in Wikipedia's database and can still be viewed by anyone by clicking page history. I heard that a Twitch streamer was fined in court due to a video which was violating copyright. But the thing is he was fined despite the fact he deleted that video. The court's reason for that was video still existing in Twitch's database. Could the same thing also be true for Wikipedia? Can someone's now fixed, amateurish, old edits haunt him back years later? -- Visnelma ( talk) 18:17, 18 November 2020 (UTC)
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A couple of years back, I wrote User:RoySmith/Three best sources. After getting tired of typing that every time, I created WP:THREE as a redirect, which (to my pleasurable surprise) became quite popular. This morning, Geo Swan raised some reasonable concerns on my talk page about the appropriateness of this redirect. I feel that userspace is basically an extension of project space, so I don't see this being as much cross-namespace as, say, a redirect from mainspace to userspace. Certainly, if you make a broad division of namespaces into "stuff we present to the public as part of the encyclopedia" vs "stuff we need to run the project", both are clearly in the latter group. On the other hand, I can see the concerns about WP:OWNERSHIP.
I don't want to turn this into a formal RFC, but I am interested in what other people think about the general concept of redirects from WP to userspace. And, more particularly, whether what I've done with WP:THREE is legitimate. -- RoySmith (talk) 16:05, 9 November 2020 (UTC)
and
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[[User:Geo Swan/opinions/Pick one|Pick one]]
would render as
Pick one. Years ago, when I got some pushback from contributors who voiced concerns that I was implying my user essays were in the wikipedia space, I started to always state the essay I was linking to was a user essay.My concern triggered this discussion, but I am not suggesting any of these essays be erased.
I have a simple suggestion to the authors of the user essays that have been linked from wikipedia namespace. (1) Wean yourself away from being the sole author of your essay; (2) move it into wikipedia namespace, where it can take its chances of being challenged at MfD, under the more stringent inclusion standards there. If every author agreed to do this, this problem would go away.
What if the author of a userspace essay won't agree to promote it to a shared essay in the wikipedia namespace?
Would it make sense to have all those cross namespace redirects point to a list, with a name like
Wikipedia:List of user essays formerly cross namespace redirected to project space? That list could have a schema, pointing to this discussion, that explained this kind of redirect had been employed, for years, but a discussion decided to deprecate this practice. The essay would still be available to be read - without, however a direct link from [[WP:]]
that implied they had survived the more stringent scrutiny applied to wikipedia space essays.
Geo Swan (
talk) 19:01, 17 November 2020 (UTC)
There seem to be dozens, or hundreds of these. These are the ones we are discussing here.
FWIW, none of the dozen or so I looked at since this discussion started show any obvious sign of being too controversial to take their chances in the wikipedia namespace. Geo Swan ( talk) 17:47, 19 November 2020 (UTC)
To use an example, Wii sales has a table built from Nintendo's reports of the sale of the system. It's great and all, but its clunky and for the general reader, I believe this is better done using a graph (like stacked bar). (This is anticipation of merging that into the Wii article itself) Replacing that is no problem, but an issue I see is that a reader may want to see the exact numbers in a tabular format like that, and I would like to still offer that tabular format somewhere. Unfortunately, I don't know of a good way to do this on en.wiki or any sister projects, as least as best as I can tell. Mainspace we're supposed to avoid subpages, and Wikisource doesn't not appropriate since we're not using PD sources here.
Any ideas of what's a good way to do this? -- Masem ( t) 14:59, 19 November 2020 (UTC)
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ping when replying. 04:53, 22 November 2020 (UTC)Good afternoon Village Pump. A question. The phrase "commit/committed suicide" is discouraged these days. The phrase litters Wikipedia. I wondered if there is a policy here about using the phrase and whether we have a policy on rephrasing the term to something else? doktorb words deeds 12:15, 19 November 2020 (UTC)
Why are there no interlanguage links for most template (and module) sandboxes? JsfasdF252 ( talk) 20:11, 20 November 2020 (UTC)
[[language code:Title]]
in noinclude tags without using Wikidata.
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SrpskiAnonimac ( talk) 16:43, 6 November 2020 (UTC)
I propose a new idea, and though I'm sure long time users of wikipedia will be divided, I think it is in line with the times.
What I suggest is simple: The option to comment on any wikipedia page. This will not only allow editors to gain feedback but also supplement any existing knowledge. There may be information within a given community that could only be had by this setup. Let's say x article has a cult following. There is a very elementary page about it but none of the users are willing to edit it for themselves. Their commentary would allow a contributor to update the page with new information. etc.
I think this could easily be implemented through disqus. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:743:4100:17A0:B879:3FB9:E430:8265 ( talk) 02:45, 18 November 2020 (UTC)
Some of the closes requested at WP:AN/RFC recently have been RfC's that had lingered without resolution long enough to be archived. This is most likely to happen at centralized discussion boards such as WP:BLPN, WP:RSN, etc. I have recently done multiple NAC's on threads that were archived, on one I linked from the current noticeboard to the close that I posted in the archives. On the other I did the opposite ad returned the thread to the current noticeboard to close it there. In both cases, I have been contacted by at least one person suggesting the opposite procedure is preferable, always by experienced editors. I therefore do not believe that there are clear standards on this situation.
The only rule I'm aware of on this situation is
WP:ARCHIVENOTDELETE within the
Talk Page Guidelines which says: If a thread has been archived prematurely, such as when it is still relevant to current work or was not concluded, unarchive it by copying it back to the talk page from the archive, and deleting it from the archive.
This seems like an option that is available, not a directive of a best practice. It goes on to say: Do not unarchive a thread that was effectively closed; instead, start a new discussion and link to the archived prior discussion.
That makes it seem that threads not "effectively closed" are likely to need to be unarchived but again is not very definitive.
I can see arguments for doing such closes either way. On the one hand, archives are supposed to preserve a record of discussions that are over so modifying a discussion in an archive is against that. On the other hand, restoring archived discussions to the current noticeboard clogs ongoing discussions. Either way, the archive is changed and something that was "over" is not really over. Do we know if there is a rule anywhere that explicitly covers this type of situation or a community preference for one type of closing procedure over the other? Thanks in advance. (courtesy pings: Guy, buidhe) Eggishorn (talk) (contrib) 15:44, 20 November 2020 (UTC)
{{
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) when a closure has been requested or is otherwise expected. Many closers will remove the pin when they close, and failing that any other editor may do so. ―
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☎ 03:58, 24 November 2020 (UTC)
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Normally I post only to relevant WikiProjects, but this may need attention from the Wikipedia community as a whole https://www.politico.com/news/2020/12/03/wikipedia-page-bidens-new-covid-czar-scrubbed-442735
There are allegations of Jeff Zients being scrubbed of political info WhisperToMe ( talk) 23:44, 3 December 2020 (UTC)
Wikipedia has a rival called Conservapedia for those who think Wikipedia has an anti-conservative bias. Would any one agree that at times, Wikipedia is TOO Conservative? I wrote comments on the talk page on the article on the Conservative Party of the U.K., but they were deleted. I was also accused of trolling the talk page of the article on Margaret Thatcher. Has the time come to start a rival to Wikipedia called "Radicalpedia"? Vorbee ( talk) 22:31, 3 December 2020 (UTC)
The far left already has websites like radtube and lefttube. Maybe someone could make a center-left one called liberalpedia explaining liberal and progressive philosophy. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Magnigornia ( talk • contribs) 23:25, 4 December 2020 (UTC)
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— Preceding unsigned comment added by Sdkb ( talk • contribs) 19:38, 11 December 2020 (UTC)
Greetings,
Wikipedia was launched on January 15, 2001 and coming January 15 will be of 20 years. Even after 20 years articles Encyclopedia and Compendium are still incomplete and not at their best.
Some of the issues and sources are shared @ Talk:Encyclopedia#Any takers ? & Talk:Compendium#Any takers ?.
I am already busy on multiple articles, I wish and request some volunteer supports in expanding and updating articles Encyclopedia and Compendium.
Thanks
Bookku ( talk) 06:28, 16 December 2020 (UTC)
Hi. Board elections and governance conversations are expected in the next months. In order to be ready when they happen, the Wikimedia Foundation is forming a team of facilitators to ensure good communication and representative participation across Wikimedia. We are hiring a full-time contractor focusing on English speaking projects and affiliates. We are looking for someone who is a good communicator and understands the peculiarities of Wikimedia. We need someone motivated by equity, diversity and inclusion, the drivers behind these conversations. Check the job description for more details and to apply. Please help us share this opportunity with your contacts and groups. If you have questions, you can ping me here or you can contact me at qgilwikimedia.org. Qgil-WMF ( talk) 14:48, 11 December 2020 (UTC)
Hi guys. Is there any bots that can help in sorting list in alphabet order? CyberTroopers ( talk) 19:18, 15 December 2020 (UTC)
@ CyberTroopers: If it's a list of things on a wikipedia page, there is a Lua module that will sort it alphabetically: [bad example removed] -- Green C 04:29, 16 December 2020 (UTC)
{{
sort list}}
. I installed it and sorted the list. --
Green
C 05:47, 16 December 2020 (UTC)
On Max Crabtree, I have added a link from Questia ( this one) but I have noticed the site is about to close from tomorrow. Can I ask if someone can archive it at Wayback Machine/Internet Archive and put the link in the article please? I ask as I have tried to do that but my computer won't access the site and I don't want this to deadlink. The C of E God Save the Queen! ( talk) 08:24, 20 December 2020 (UTC)
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SGrabarczuk (WMF) ( talk) 23:27, 20 December 2020 (UTC)
A good set of lists of what movies and books - published in 1925 - will become public domain in the United States come January 1, 2021 and thus fair game to be used as free media/content. [4], [5] -- Masem ( t) 18:29, 21 December 2020 (UTC)
Whenever any topic related to Muslim, Islam and Islamic comes for discussion on Wikipedia, one comes across 2 refrains frequently; First I/We don't have understanding on the topic, pl. go over to WP talk:WikiProject Islam, the second is even when topic is critical of Islam that is categorized Islamic project pl. go over to WP talk:WikiProject Islam. Here comes concept of normative. It's true that Wikipedians working on WikiProject Islam need to have a say, second side of the same coin is it risks throwing in and enforcing a sided normative.
Quick google search of term Normative gives definition as "...establishing, relating to, or deriving from a standard or norm, especially of behaviour...."
So when some thing does not fits in well with fixed normative still do we force the things there only ? The things I will be discussing here I will be discussing at WP talk:WikiProject Islam separately but reason of discussing here is to cross limiting normativity and become more inclusive in seeking inputs.
An average tendency on Wikipedia seems to be of transforming word Muslim into Islam or Islamic wherever possible without visiting nuanced aspects. As a small example title Islamic feminism is nuanced and correct since it specifically refers to theory of Islam. But is it correct to redirect title Muslim women to Women in Islam those who are not exposed to nuances might think so. Some might take refuge to fallacy of Appeal to popularity, but nuanced view suggests otherwise. Pl. do read on below given copy pasted discussion from Talk:Islamic literature
According to [6] Muslim is purely someone who practices Islam and Islamic is anything influenced by Islam or produced by Muslims. So I’ve done some of the (requested via women’s rights article) copyediting on that basis. Please correct my ignorances with sources if wrong. Thanks! Dakinijones ( talk) 17:14, 25 September 2020 (UTC)
- @ Dakinijones:, You do have an important point here. Understanding of this nuance will be very helpful. And Wikipedians need to revisit article titles to give better justice to article content and avoid mis perceptions.
- One academic scholar M.M. Knight too has pointed out this aspect as below. I am in process tabulating articles word Muslim and Islam and Islamic in article titles and putting up case better before Wikipedian community.
- According to M.M. Knight, when one does not speak for real Islam (i.e.'an abstracted ideal' that floats above, Muslim, human cultures but speaks for 'lived traditions') it is preferable to use the term Muslim instead of the term Islam or Islamic. [1]
- M.M. Knight further says, terms 'Islam/ Islamic' imposes claim of normativity, which is distinct with lived experiences hence need not be conflated. [2] (My emphasis)
- As far as this particular article is concerned I would support renaming it as Muslim literature and redirect Islamic literature to Islamic advice literature because most of Islamic literature as religion are either Tafsir or Islamic advice literature, What does not fit the bill as Tafsir or Islamic advice literature can always be included in Muslim literature .
- Hope and look forward to more discussion and awareness on this aspect.
- Thanks and warm regards Bookku ( talk) 07:30, 14 December 2020 (UTC)
References
- ^ Knight, Michael Muhammad (2016-05-24). Magic In Islam. Penguin. p. 24. ISBN 978-1-101-98349-2.
- ^ Knight, Michael Muhammad (2016-05-24). Magic In Islam. Penguin. p. 24. ISBN 978-1-101-98349-2.
Please see below given table.
Muslim | Islam | Comment | |
---|---|---|---|
Muslim dietary laws | This needs to be Islamic dietary laws | ||
Apostasy in Islam | Article Former Muslim of Ex Muslim needs to exist separately because title Apostasy in Islam has Islamic normativity that atheists don't share | ||
Islamic culture | Needs to be Muslim culture | ||
Islamic literature | Needs to be Muslim literature | ||
Islamic architecture | Needs to be Muslim architecture | ||
Needs to be Muslim Golden Age | |||
Women in Islam | Need to be Muslim women | ||
Islamophobia | Need to be Anti Muslim Sentiment |
Thanks Bookku ( talk) 11:07, 18 December 2020 (UTC)
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Article Netflix should be called Netflix Inc., and Netflix, the streaming service, should be spun off into the new article. — HoneymoonAve27 ( talk) 00:38, 17 December 2020 (UTC)
See Sparring
See under "names and types"
In boxing, sparring is commonly called sparring.
If that is allowed, then perhaps the United States article should have a sentence "In the United States, the United States is called the United States". Crazy. Suggestions? Vowvo ( talk) 20:54, 19 December 2020 (UTC)
Hi guys. greetings from fawiki community. :) I found loops in some categories in our wiki which are sorted based on category sorting in enwiki. category:Data laws → category:Data security → category:Information governance → and oops! you are again at category:Data laws! this can cause problems while using the WP:AWB (the list never comes out). some subcategories of Category:Library science also have this problem. i found this when i was trying to make a list using AWB and the tool stopped working. any solutions would be appreciated. -- Jeeputer ( talk) 07:18, 25 December 2020 (UTC)
@ PrimeHunter: Yes i know. categorization in fawiki is based on enwiki. it worked for me and gave about 6k pages of which 1k was duplicates. it can be caused by the breakage of the loop on fawiki. job done, thank you. :) -- Jeeputer ( talk) 17:31, 25 December 2020 (UTC)