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Your revert of my edit on Zoltron

I noticed that you reverted my edit on Zoltron. NIN points to a WP:Disambiguation page and I added a piped link to Nine Inch Nails. What article do you think NIN should point to?— Rod ^talk 17:03, 9 October 2021 (UTC)

Ok, sorry, I thought that it was a vandalism. Its good that you reverted it.

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Speedy deletion nominations

Please be more cautious about SD nominations. As best I can tell, all of your SD nominations have been reverted. David notMD (talk) 15:41, 7 November 2021 (UTC)

Please can you explain me the reason.

• You did an A7 on Davey Whitney Complex and it was reverted minutes later. Subsequently, an editor added references.
• You did an A1, A3, A7 on Archidemis and it was reverted minutes later. All species are considered notable. Many articles are stubs with only one references, but that is not grounds for SD. Your note to the creating editor was deleted.
• You did an A1 on Wólka Modrzejowa and it was reverted a minute later. All centers of population are considered notable. You note to the creating editor was deleted.

Hope this helps explain. David notMD (talk) 03:00, 8 November 2021 (UTC)

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as per request from my talk page. happy editing!  melecie  t - 09:49, 16 November 2021 (UTC)

@Melecie: Thanks a lot for this help. Itcouldbepossible (talk) 09:50, 16 November 2021 (UTC)

AfD

Experienced editors such as Possibly often have enough experience so as to bypass AfC (Possibly has done so MANY times). This does not mean that the articles are necessarily good enough - I agree with your recent AfD nomination - but advise there is no gain in mentioning lack of AfC as a reason. My hope is that Possibly will be activated to improve this stub. David notMD (talk) 11:54, 16 November 2021 (UTC)

Itcouldbepossible, as a new editor please read up on these WP guidelines WP:AFD and pay close attention to WP:BEFORE in the future if you want to continue to make deletion noms. You might want to try creating content for a while, it's really enjoyable to contribute to the encyclopedia. Thank you. Netherzone (talk) 13:05, 16 November 2021 (UTC)

I changed my mind and voted KEEP at AfD after finding and adding a useful reference. In general, a good suggestion is to try to improve a flawed article before deciding on AfD. David notMD (talk) 16:53, 16 November 2021 (UTC)

About your user page

"I don't know how to create attractive user pages, but I hope to learn in the future." I recommend checking out Wikipedia:User page design center for some inspiration and its coding. It says it's inactive, but it still works perfectly fine. Panini!^🥪 13:53, 17 November 2021 (UTC)

Thanks for your suggestion @Panini!. I would surely check that out. Itcouldbepossible (talk) 13:54, 17 November 2021 (UTC)

Linda Anderson (artist)

Moving this discussion from here from Possibly's talk page, as it seems they are on a WikiBreak.

@Possibly: Hi Mr. Possibly I nominated this for deletion also because it did not go through AfC. ANd I don't think https://mocaga.org/ is a reliable source. It is clearly for promotion as clearly stated here [1]. They specifically want to place their artists in what they call 'a global context'. So that is why I thought that there must be a discussion about this page. You can also give your views in the discussion page. Have a great day and regards. Itcouldbepossible (talk) 09:38, 16 November 2021 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) Itcouldbepossible, it seems that Possibly may be on a Wiki-break right now. Highly experienced users like Possibly have permissions to bypass AfC. They are well respected for their stubs on artists that are always properly sourced. My suggestion to you is to learn more about the encyclopedia, gain more experience with how things work on WP including deletion guidelines before nominating additional articles so as not to waste the time of volunteer editors. Also, you should not be messing around with other people's templates on their user subpages uninvited as you did here: [2] and here [3]. Netherzone (talk) 12:35, 16 November 2021 (UTC)

@Netherzone: Yes, I understand you, but he clearly stated that anyone can edit them, so I don't think there is something wrong in editing the template. And please can you explain me how you can say 'properly sourced' when an article has only 4 references, that too of websites that have been made for promotional purposes? Regards. Itcouldbepossible (talk) 12:42, 16 November 2021 (UTC)

Itcouldbepossible thanks for your reply. Their user page states If you have suggestions on how to improve the template, let me know on my talk page, or if you are experienced in such matters, just edit the template!; you are clearly not an experienced editor with only about 90 total edits. The courteous thing to do would have been to make suggestions on this talk page. On the other matter, the four refs substantiate the notable museum collections, and are not promotional. Netherzone (talk) 12:54, 16 November 2021 (UTC)

Netherzone Ok, but you see many of the articles created by this user has only 4-5 sentences in them. And each of them has been created without Afc. So is that legal considering that an article must have at least a couple of sentences to qualify for an article. Please correct me if I am saying something wrong. Regards. Itcouldbepossible (talk) 13:19, 16 November 2021 (UTC)

If the subject of a short "stub" article (see WP:STUB) is notable, per our guidelines for notability (see WP:N) and the sources are reliable (see WP:RS) and verifiable (see WP:V), it's fine. So yes, even very short articles on notable subjects are permitted. The user Possibly has been here for many years and is well respected. They know what they are doing and are trusted by the community for their expertise. They have made tens of thousands of edits to the encyclopedia. Please consider creating content and making improvements to the encyclopedia before rushing in to delete articles - that's just a suggestion. Netherzone (talk) 13:24, 16 November 2021 (UTC)

Netherzone Ok, I take your suggestion. Actually I was a little confused about this article. I had seen many articles, that had little content in it, and got itself deleted. So I thought that a delete discussion must be started on this article. That is why, I did not send it for speedy deletion. I am also confused, about which sources are reliable and which are not. Some articles had many sources, but got deleted because they did not have reliable sources. So that's why I had made an XFD page for this article. Ok, but now I have made this mistake, what is to be done now. Please close the delete discussion, and remove the delete tag from the article. Tell me if I can help in any way. Waiting for your valuable reply. Regards. Itcouldbepossible (talk) 05:08, 17 November 2021 (UTC)

(Moved discussion here)

Why the rush to delete articles? It's fine to want to keep junk or promotional spam articles off of the encyclopedia, but even very short articles are permitted if the subject is notable per our policies and guidelines. I saw from your contributions that immediately after joining you added Twinkle and started marking things for Speedy Deletion, PROD or Deletion. Did you ever edit here before using a different username? I'm curious why, and how you even figured out how to do that - it took me a few years learn how basic things like notability WP:N, verifiability WP:V, reliable sources WP:RS work; and a long time to understand the policies and guidelines for the encyclopedia WP:PG. I'd suggest you study those four links carefully. Then try improving articles and even try creating an article - but I suggest taking the tutorial first.

It's great that you want to remove junk or promo from the encyclopedia, and fight vandalism, but first learn what is an is not vandalism. See WP:VANDAL. It is also good you are asking questions at the Teahouse, that's the right place to go for help!

As to the AfD for Linda Anderson (artist), if you read about the AfD Process WP:AFD you will see that delete discussions usually are closed 7 days after they are posted by an unconnected administrator. So just let the process play out naturally. It would be wrong to simply remove the tag because that does not comply with the process. Take things slowly, study, learn, and remember, being a Wikipedia editor is not a race or a competition.

Reliable sources WP:RS are things like major newspapers (not blogs or fan sites, or social media); academic journals, reliable websites (like museums; but not personal websites or websites that sell things like AppleMusic or Amazon). Hope that helps. Netherzone (talk) 13:56, 17 November 2021 (UTC)

@NetherzoneNo actually you know one thing. I have a friend who has been editing Wikipedia for a couple of years. It is on his request that I am not giving out his username. He told me things like Twinkle and other Gadgets, and inspired me about Wikipedia. Then I created an account. If you still don't believe me, then you can obviously raise a sockpuppet investigation, though I assure you that I am completely new to Wikipedia. And thanks a bunch for giving the links to all the important articles on Wikipedia. You know one thing, I have already requested for all the important Wiki pages. You can see that in my talk page. I am also thinking of creating a Wikipedia article, but am not sure where and how to start, I am especially confused about WP:RS. I had asked @Bonadea about suggestions. You can see the conversation on his talk page. If you can help me out in that matter, then please do so in my talk page. I really thank you a lot for showing your eagerness in helping me. Thanks a lot. Regards. Yours respectfully. Itcouldbepossible (talk) 14:13, 17 November 2021 (UTC)

You are welcome, and good luck and happy editing. Netherzone (talk) 14:26, 17 November 2021 (UTC)

"Thread archived" notifications - anything wrong with them?

Hi! I am the maintainer of Muninnbot who leaves these "your thread has been archived" notifications. You recently posted on the Teahouse asking how to find the link to the archive. As I replied there, the notifications actually contain wikilinks to the correct archive sections.

Clearly, if you did not see that wikilink to the archive, other people will miss it, too. I would like to improve the template so that it does not happen again. Would you be so kind as to give me some feedback about the notification?

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Just to be entirely clear, the more bad things you can say about the notification, the better it is for me to improve, even if those things look unimportant or impossible to fix to you. I am not looking for an answer of the type "sorry, I was sleepy, I should have seen the link" because even if that is true, good design should not make it easy to miss the link when the reader is sleepy. Tigraan^{Click here for my talk page ("private" contact)} 14:32, 17 November 2021 (UTC)

@Tigraan Hi and thank you for worrying yourself so much in such a small matter. It means a lot for me. Your design is really nice, but as you said in option 2, it has a bad contrast, and it is quite easy to overlook it. Yes I know what a wiki link is. It is a clickable link, that redirects to the article page. I just said all these because you said that you want to improve. Actually you see, the notification that your bot left on my talk page, it had many Wiki links. So I overlooked it because you see all the links are blue in colour, so I thought it to be another Wiki page. But now I saw it. Anyway, it was my mistake, but see if you can make the background of the notification more prominent. I would really be delighted if you would take my suggestion, as it would not only help me but also other Wikipedia user. Thank you for bothering yourself so much. Regards. Itcouldbepossible (talk) 14:46, 17 November 2021 (UTC)

OK, so the bad contrast is a thing, but from your post I also gather that there are too many links in the notification and this might contribute to the important bit being lost. I will try to improve that.

Thanks a bunch for the feedback! I am not a designer / user experience person at all, so trial and error is really all I can do. It is really hard to get feedback, because on the one hand experienced users have an easy time understanding the notification even if something is wrong with it (they know what archival is etc.) and on the other hand new users would not know where to ask/complain if they fail to understand the notification. That is why I "jumped on you".

In my opinion it is not such a small matter - maybe it is not very important to you personally, but the bot is leaving around 400 notifications per month (when it is working), so the impact of a small improvement is multiplied by a big number of users reading a notification. Tigraan^{Click here for my talk page ("private" contact)} 15:15, 17 November 2021 (UTC)

@Tigraan: It may be worth looking at Dodger67's point at WP:Teahouse#Wikipedia Teahouse Archive. --David Biddulph (talk) 20:25, 17 November 2021 (UTC)

November 2021

This user's unblock request has been reviewed by an administrator, who accepted the request.

Itcouldbepossible (block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))

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Request reason:

@Blablubbs: Can you please explain me what's going on. I am not related to either socks, and I have no sock account, then why have I been blocked?? And also I see that an unregistered user, has raised the request for investigation, and that too he or she is blocked. What will happen now. I clearly state that I am in no relation with DasSoumik, or with any other sock. Please look into the matter. Waiting your valuable reply, and waiting for your judgement. Regards. Itcouldbepossible (talk) 13:38, 19 November 2021 (UTC)

Accept reason:

With the consent of the blocking admin, I have lifted your block. I strongly suggest staying away from Articles for Deletion until you have built up a substantial history of contributions. Yamla (talk) 23:29, 22 November 2021 (UTC)

Please hold. --Yamla (talk) 11:36, 20 November 2021 (UTC)

Help

Respected @Yamla, can you please tell me why I am blocked. I have no relation with DasSoumik. And before confirming about sockpuppetry, why am I blocked. I see that a checkuser has been requested, then why is no one confirming the same. I see that you are also a checkuser, then please check my account. I don't like being blocked just for nothing. I hope you would look into the matter. Regards. Itcouldbepossible (talk) 07:37, 21 November 2021 (UTC)

Moreover @Yamla, all the things that are being written on the investigation page, is being written by @Amkgp, a sock. He thinks me of being a sock of DasSoumik, and I am not a sock or meatpuppet. He is doing all this, because he was blocked, and this clearly states violence against people, whom he thinks is behind the cause behind his block. So please block that sock indefinitely before he does or says anything wrong. And please also look into my matter. Should I raise an Unblock Request in the UTRS system??? If you say 'yes' then only I will do it. Please guide me in this matter. Regards. Itcouldbepossible (talk) 14:08, 21 November 2021 (UTC)

@Yamla @Blablubbs What is happening with me is really unfair. First I get blocked for for being thought to be a sockpuppet, which should not be the case. No one can block me before I am confirmed sockpuppet. Secondly, I cannot defend myself in anyway, except to write here. And its really funny that the sockpuppet investigation request has been raised by another sockpuppet of @Amkgp, and still the administrators are keeping their eyes closed. Though it is wholly a wrong guess of being a sock of @DasSoumik, he is actually showing revenge against another user whom he thinks to be a sock of his enemy, and he is doing all this because his high profile Wiki account got disabled for editing logged out. My question is, on the first hand, why is the administrators or spi clerks accepting a checkuser request from a sockpuppet?? And secondly, even if it has been accepted, then why is no spi clerk bothering to investigate. And in the midst of all this, I am being blocked, just for nothing. Neither can I defend myself on the sockpuppet investigation page, nor can edit in Wikipedia. And I am sure for one thing, that if I say too much revolting things, then my talk page access will be revoked. But this should not be the case. Everyone here should have same value and priority - administrator and new users are thought to be the same. Then why is that not happening in my case. Please, I beg everyone in Wikipedia, and also those who are watching this talk page, and every user with checkuser rights, I am not telling you to unblock me just like that, but I am telling you, please please follow the legal way of checking the user, confirm everything that you can, and please unblock me. Please. I hope that everyone would respond to this pleas of help. Regards to everyone. Itcouldbepossible (talk) 13:09, 22 November 2021 (UTC)

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Hi and thank you for this welcome message. I really don't know who you are, but thanks anyway for the message. Can you tell me which welcome template you used? Thanks and regards, and soon make an account. Itcouldbepossible (talk) 05:34, 23 November 2021 (UTC)

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November 2021

Hello, I'm 2402:3A80:1A4C:6E8:43C:D3FB:1E1F:28CA. I wanted to let you know that one or more of your recent contributions to Piet van der Sluijs have been undone because they did not appear constructive. If you would like to experiment, please use your sandbox. If you have any questions, you can ask for assistance at the Teahouse. Thanks. It's a {{stub}} and has adequate citations. Same is applicable for Dré Saris. Thanks 2402:3A80:1A4C:6E8:43C:D3FB:1E1F:28CA (talk) 14:40, 24 November 2021 (UTC)

It is better that you create an account. Why make ip edits? Itcouldbepossible (talk) 15:55, 24 November 2021 (UTC)

Hang on, I think you are a sock of @Amkgp, wait, I need to confirm. Itcouldbepossible (talk) 15:56, 24 November 2021 (UTC)

Please do not add unreferenced or poorly referenced information, especially if controversial, to articles or any other page on Wikipedia about living (or recently deceased) persons, as you did to Peter Alexander (fashion designer). Thank you. bonadea contributions talk 07:45, 25 November 2021 (UTC)

@Bonadea Ok thanks, I thought that was a vandalism, since it was reverted and added many times. Itcouldbepossible (talk) 09:09, 25 November 2021 (UTC)

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Testing Draft Script moved to draftspace

An article you recently created, Testing Draft Script, is not suitable as written to remain published. It needs more citations from reliable, independent sources. (?) Information that can't be referenced should be removed (verifiability is of central importance on Wikipedia). I've moved your draft to draftspace (with a prefix of "Draft:" before the article title) where you can incubate the article with minimal disruption. When you feel the article meets Wikipedia's general notability guideline and thus is ready for mainspace, please click on the "Submit your draft for review!" button at the top of the page. Itcouldbepossible (talk) 15:59, 24 November 2021 (UTC)

Editing articles?

A very, very high percentage of your edits are not in the pursuit of improving articles. Rather, much of it is Teahouse, your Talk, other editors Talk pages... Early on, your dove into Speedy deletions and AfDs. I've seen that you have also deleted content from articles wherein adding a Citation needed could better serve. Please consider a bit more focus on improving existing articles. David notMD (talk) 11:07, 25 November 2021 (UTC)

@David notMD What should I do then, how should I improve existing articles??? I don't know have knowledge on most of the content in other articles. I always like maintenance work. Can you please tell me, how I can also add content to other articles?? Itcouldbepossible (talk) 12:59, 25 November 2021 (UTC)

If your comfort zone is maintenance, stick with that. I would still suggest avoiding deletion (Speedy, or AfD nominations) for a while. If you wish to become more familiar with AfD's you could follow existing AfD's, and then start participating (Keep, Delete, Comment), to see if your thinknig aligns with other AFD participants. David notMD (talk) 16:14, 25 November 2021 (UTC)

@David notMD Ok thanks, at the very beginning I thought that I would send things for deletion if I don't like them, but I was wholly wrong. Many corrected my mistake, and said not to send for deletion unnecessarily. But what you are saying is long back. I had sent two articles for deletion, because one was created by a sock (at that time, I did not know that articles created before a user is identified to be a sock does not fall for deletion) and the second I had send for deletion, because there was very little content in that. (I later came to know that size of content does not matter, if it is supported by reliable sources, then it is good to be an article). But which AFDs are you talking about??? All these things happened long back. From then I did not send any other article for CSD or AFD, except some of my test articles which I created to test the movetodraft script by Evad37, and some redirects which automatically got themselves nominated for R2 deletion criteria. So what articles are you talking about??? Could you be a little more clear. Itcouldbepossible (talk) 03:25, 26 November 2021 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Shreema Bhattacharjee (November 25)

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Theroadislong (talk) 14:52, 25 November 2021 (UTC)

This draft needed more work before submitting. David notMD (talk) 16:18, 25 November 2021 (UTC)

@David notMD Ok, I am trying to find sources. Can you help me out, or atleast tell me from where I can seek help. Obviously I will try myself, but I would also like to take some help. Itcouldbepossible (talk) 03:26, 26 November 2021 (UTC)

Outside my areas of interest and knowledge. This may be a WP:TOOSOON situation if those are all of her acting experienes. David notMD (talk) 11:13, 26 November 2021 (UTC)

@David notMD No she has done much than that. Anyway thanks, and happy editing. Itcouldbepossible (talk) 12:17, 26 November 2021 (UTC)

Category:Indian Births has been nominated for deletion

Category:Indian Births has been nominated for deletion. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. —SpacemanSpiff 06:55, 27 November 2021 (UTC)

• I'm not sure what you're trying to do here, I know that Yamla unblocked you accepting that you're not a sockpuppet, but the kind of edits your doing are clearly not productive and wasting everyone's time and your editing privileges will be revoked if this continues. —SpacemanSpiff 06:58, 27 November 2021 (UTC)

  @SpacemanSpiff Why, am I doing something wrong. I am categorizing all the people who are born in India, can you explain what I am doing wrong. Itcouldbepossible (talk) 07:40, 27 November 2021 (UTC)

  • If you can't understand the purpose of categories, then you shouldn't be creating them. People have tried to help you out, but you refuse to listen and are just wasting other people's time, finding new ways every time. —SpacemanSpiff 07:42, 27 November 2021 (UTC)

    @SpacemanSpiff How am I wasting time? I understand the purpose if categories, but what I am telling is that why will my category not serve a purpose. And how did I refuse to listen to them?? I am following what people are saying, then in which way am I wrong? Please tell me. Itcouldbepossible (talk) 07:51, 27 November 2021 (UTC)

    • As David notMD said above "A very, very high percentage of your edits are not in the pursuit of improving articles." _{(corrected quote at 12:58, 27 November 2021 (UTC))}. Now if before creating this absurd category, if you had read our policies on categorization, you'd know why this makes zero sense and is an unwanted waste of other editors' time and effort. You can't expect people to tell you at every task what to do and what not to do. This is a collaborative encyclopaedia relying on volunteers, if you can't respect that by going through our policies and guidelines, then this is not the place for you. I don't buy this innocent act right now, you seem to be perfectly capable of learning things here if you want to. —SpacemanSpiff 08:09, 27 November 2021 (UTC)

      • SpacemanSpiff is correct. If you see no problem with this category, it's time for you to stop editing Wikipedia until you've had a chance to read our policies and better understand how things work. If you are being intentionally disruptive, it's time for you to stop, immediately. --Yamla (talk) 11:56, 27 November 2021 (UTC)

        • At the deletion discussion, there is mention that categorizing people by nationality exists. That connects to where they are when becoming notable. Birth location has no connection to notability. David notMD (talk) 14:16, 27 November 2021 (UTC)

          @David notMD Ok thanks David. I surrender my mistake. From next time, I will ask everyone out here, before I do something. Itcouldbepossible (talk) 03:35, 2 December 2021 (UTC)

          @Yamla I am in no way being intentionally disruptive. I thought that I could categorize people to where they are born but then I got the point that Birth location has no connection to notability. And one more thing, could you possibly tell me what type of edits I should make, as being new here. Or what you call in wiki language "novice". Itcouldbepossible (talk) 03:59, 29 November 2021 (UTC)

        @SpacemanSpiff Ok please forgive me this time. From now on I promise to ask everyone before doing or creating something new. Thanks and Regards. Itcouldbepossible (talk) 03:37, 2 December 2021 (UTC)

Hello, Itcouldbepossible,

I saw your response to your category being nominated for deletion and there is one thing I wanted to explain to you. Wikipedia has existed for 20 years. I believe there are around 2 million categories. If you think of a category, it probably already exists or it doesn't fit into the existing Wikipedia category structure. For example, Wikipedia doesn't classify people by where they are born but by what their nationality is.

Most newly created categories have to do with new events, like elections or the Olympic games, things that didn't exist before this year. If you are creating an article and want to add categories, look for existing ones that would be appropriate. One tool that can help is Wikipedia:HotCat which will suggest existing categories. Please do not go overboard with it, like any tool, it requires judicious use.

Your enthusiasm is great but, again, Wikipedia has been around for 20 years and over that long time, it has created policies and processes that have helped it become one of the biggest websites. While we always need new articles on notable subjects, do not try to do things in a way that conflicts with the way things work here. That takes a while to learn (sometimes years!) so go slow and be patient. Good luck. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 01:48, 29 November 2021 (UTC)

Hello @Liz. Thanks for your suggestion. Actually I did not know that such a category existed, and also I did not know that people are sorted according to where they become notable and not where they are born. So it was my mistake to create such a category. You may delete the category. Thanks and Regards. Itcouldbepossible (talk) 03:58, 2 December 2021 (UTC)

@Liz Yes I sorted using HotCat, but I just copy pasted my category name to the search bar of the HotCat category search and then pressed enter, and then it automatically inserted the category to the page. Anyway thanks for guiding me. Itcouldbepossible (talk) 03:59, 2 December 2021 (UTC)

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Wikidata weekly summary #496

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Discussions
  • Project chat: Wikidata phase 1 regression (interwikis no longer visible in new layout used by some Wikipedias and its impact on minority languages)

• Events
  • Upcoming
    • Working with Siegfried, Wikidata, and Wikibase. December 2, 2021 4:00 pm CET
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Jan Ainali on WikiProject Govdirectory, a tool and associated Wikiproject for building a user-friendly directory of government agencies and their online presence. Agenda with call link, November 30.
    • Next LD4 Wikibase Working Hour. Thurs. 16 December 2021, 11AM-12PM Eastern, (time zone converter). "We will continue work developing our WBStack sandbox which seeks to explore how Wikibase could help track the usage of alternate labels for terms in vocabularies like LCSH"
    • LIVE Wikidata editing #64 - YouTube, Facebook, December 4 at 19:00 UTC
    • Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #89, December 5 at 13.00 UTC
  • Ongoing
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #18, Horse
  • Past
    • Wikibase Live session log, month of November 2021
    • Introduction to Wikibase (part 1), ISKO UK Hands-on Meetup (replay)

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Blog post on how Wikimedia Sweden has worked with two museums to open up their data and make it available on Wikidata (in Swedish)
    • Indigenous knowledge on Wikipedia and Wikidata
  • Videos
    • Video tutorial for Wikidata Scraping, data processing and import (Open Refine) (in Czech) - YouTube
    • (Wikidata intro) how it acts as one of the levers for the discoverability of cultural content in dance (in French) - YouTube
    • Archive and register of sound art / sound artists with Wikipedia, Wikidata and Wikimedia (in Spanish) - YouTube
    • Reconciliation server demonstration against Wikidata - YouTube
    • Wikidata: A Magic Portal for Siegfried and Roy - YouTube

• Tool of the week
  • New gadget available in the preferences: "compact items" makes the interface on item pages more compact (it was previously a gadget for common.css)

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikimedia Deutschland is looking for a Full-Stack Developer to join the Wikidata team.
  • Are you doing research around Wikidata? There is a new fund to support research work around the Wikimedia projects that you can apply to.
  • New strategies for Wikidata and the Wikibase Ecosystem published and waiting for your feedback. Add your comments!

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: death rate, image with color chart
    • External identifiers: Australian Prints + Printmaking artist ID, Australian Prints + Printmaking work ID, Dissernet institution ID, DHAC ID, Bildatlas-Künstler-ID, AHPRA registration number, FRACS Find a Surgeon profile ID, Databáze her ID, 7 Days person ID, Oùvoir.ça film ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Corruption Perceptions Index, surrounds the enclave, Harvard Art Museums ID, GISAID identifier, Nextstrain identifier, homophone lexeme, Numista
    • External identifiers: identifiant base Enluminures, The World of Shakespeare ID, oKino.ua film ID, kinobaza.com.ua film ID, kinobaza.com.ua actor ID, oKino.ua actor ID, Natural History Museum (London) person ID, svpressa.ru ID, Russian Academy of Sciences person ID, The Parliamentary Newspaper ID, Lib.ru author ID, politika-crimea.ru person ID, Institute of the History of Ukraine scientist ID, centrasia.org person ID, Music of Armenia ID, Encyclopedia of Transbaikalia ID
  • Query examples:
    • Number of items without any statements (last week: more than 1,300,000)
    • Number of items without any statements by sitelinks (sample: 1757 items link to nlwiki, but have no statements).
    • Taxa named after women (by place of birth) (Source)
    • List of articles on Blaise Pascal in all Wikipedias, sorted by decreasing article size (Source)
    • Texts on French Wikisource by people born in Puy-de-Dôme (Source)
    • List of countries by the highest elevation point (Source)
    • Number of distinct (UK parliament) seats returning someone who chose to sit elsewhere each year, 1830-1910 (Source)
    • List of services that support the OpenRefine Reconciliation service (Source)
    • Things depicted in art works in the Khalili Collections (Source)
    • Images of Wikidata's items linked to UBERON ids (Source)
    • Population density of administrative subdivisions exceeding 100,000 km² and 100 inhabitants / km² (Source)
    • List of government agencies in Scotland (Source)
    • Which day of the week people died on in the Mauthausen concentration camp (Source)

• Development
  • Mismatch Finder: Continued working on last remaining tickets for the first version. Added a footer to the site, improved documentation and added ability to delete a batch of mismatches.
  • Made good progress on migrating our on-wiki Vue apps to support the new Vue.createMwApp compatibility layer in MediaWiki core (phab:T294465)
  • Continued work on making it possible to define a custom ordering of grammatical features on Lexemes (phab:T232557)
  • More research and discussion on mul language code (phab:T285156)
  • Discussing with data re-users about their views on the ontology issue classification we worked on earlier this year to get their input (slides from Data Quality Days session)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

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December 2021

Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to vandalize Wikipedia, as you did at Marcus Satterfield, you may be blocked from editing. Schazjmd (talk) 15:29, 1 December 2021 (UTC)

I took a look at your contributions, and I don't believe that you intended to vandalize the article. But please take a look at the diff you restored. You reverted an IP editor who was removing vandalism from a BLP. Please be more aware of the content you're restoring when you revert another editor. Schazjmd (talk) 15:45, 1 December 2021 (UTC)

@Schazjmd Oh, I am really sorry. I revert a huge amount of vandalism, that is why I sometimes tend to make mistakes. Yes thanks for telling me. It was indeed a mistake from my side, but I did not really want to vandalize the article. But please don't select the auto warning while warning people. Because see I had already got 2 warnings and this is my third warning, and all the warnings were merely because I reverted a wrong edition of an article. Please give me a general note, as people will think me to be a criminal and soon an administrator will block me for my disruptive editing. I hope you understand my position. Regards. Itcouldbepossible (talk) 03:34, 2 December 2021 (UTC)

I have reverted this edit since it was not an error/vandalism but is used to bold headers. Be careful next time. Happy editing. 2402:3A80:6EA:A3C2:8C2A:C25B:359E:B54 (talk) 10:55, 2 December 2021 (UTC)

Why don't you get trained in vandalism if you love to do it. Visit WP:CVUA. I also corrected at one of your files File:Kudumbavilakku TV show poster.jpg. Never use " I will use", "My article" for files description etc. because in Wikipedia you are never an owner as per WP:OWNERSHIP policy. Please note, I am a random IP editor who came by your edits while updating some articles. 2402:3A80:6EA:A3C2:8C2A:C25B:359E:B54 (talk) 11:05, 2 December 2021 (UTC)

@ Hey anyway thanks, but I already know WP:CVUA. And thanks for correcting my edit in Shree Krishna Bhakto Meera. I thought that a ';' was a vandalism, I never knew it was used for bolding headers. Also thanks for correcting my description in Kudumbavilakku poster.

But two things you said here are not true. First of all you are not a random IP editor who came by my edits while updating some articles. I am noticing from a few days that you are following me or seeing what I am doing, or in simple terms, you are keeping an eye on me, my talk page, and my contributions, obviously which is not an offense. I saw that you had also written your review in the category deletion of the category which I had created. I am just rectifying what you are saying, so that when other editors come to my talk page, they don't get confused. So what you said was not correct.

And secondly, you are also not a random IP editor, you are actually an extremely experienced user, or rather @Amkgp in disguise. You have been blocked for being a sockpuppet, so you editing anonymously. I know by the first 16 bits of your IPV6 address (2402:3A80). Anyway, that is not my problem, whoever you are. You are helping me and guiding me, and I like that. If you disturb me, disrupt my editing, or do anything that I don't like, then I am surely going to take steps against you and report you to WP:ANI. But if you are doing good to me, and helping me, then you don't have anything to worry, I will regard you as my friend then. So you are good to go then. Happy anonymous editing then. Thanks and Regards. Itcouldbepossible ^{(Talk) (Contributions)} 12:45, 2 December 2021 (UTC)

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