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:I would like to nominate the amazing Czar to be Editor of the Week. This user is a long time editor and an admin to boot!! This is to recognize their instrumental work at [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Anarchism|WikiProject Anarchism]] and maintenance of the associated pages. Seriously, they do so much gnomish activity the project would hit a deadlock without them. Additionally, they have over 100 GA's and is always around to help others with their own GAs, asking for no recognition of their own. I believe they're a wonderful addition to the halls of EOTW and was genuinely floored when I didn't see the name already here. Czar generates a steady flow of high-quality FAs.
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Revision as of 21:53, 5 March 2023


I am obsessed by the plain facts:
writing them literally down
is all the poetry I can.

Know that I esteem my editorial independence. Even as

I reject payment to edit or advocate on anyone's behalf.


Declarations



    Your GA nomination of Kafka's Prayer

    The article Kafka's Prayer you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Kafka's Prayer for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already appeared on the main page as a "Did you know" item, or as a bold link under "In the News" or in the "On This Day" prose section, you can nominate it within the next seven days to appear in DYK. Bolded names with dates listed at the bottom of the "On This Day" column do not affect DYK eligibility. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Etriusus -- Etriusus (talk) 01:02, 14 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

    Domingos Passos

    Hi Czar! I already finished my article on Domingos Passos. It's a translation from the Portuguese Wikipedia article that I wrote, with some little improvements. It is considered a good article there. I'll be glad if you can review it. Feel free to fix any mistakes and improve the article's text if it is necessary. Greetings! El Descamisado (talk) 19:50, 16 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

    I gave it a copyedit and left some notes on the talk page. Nice work! czar 22:56, 17 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

    Hi King George56 (talk) 04:01, 2 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

    Your GA nomination of Emma Kinema

    Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Emma Kinema you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Some Dude From North Carolina -- Some Dude From North Carolina (talk) 17:01, 18 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

    Red

    Hello czar, I have opened a peer review for Red prior to taking it to FAC. If you have the time and are willing, I would greatly appreciate any comment or advice that you could give at the review. If you are unable, that is totally fine as well. Thank you! --TheSandDoctor Talk 01:14, 19 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

    Your GA nomination of Emma Kinema

    The article Emma Kinema you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:Emma Kinema for issues which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Some Dude From North Carolina -- Some Dude From North Carolina (talk) 20:01, 19 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

    Your GA nomination of Emma Kinema

    The article Emma Kinema you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Emma Kinema for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already appeared on the main page as a "Did you know" item, or as a bold link under "In the News" or in the "On This Day" prose section, you can nominate it within the next seven days to appear in DYK. Bolded names with dates listed at the bottom of the "On This Day" column do not affect DYK eligibility. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Some Dude From North Carolina -- Some Dude From North Carolina (talk) 02:21, 20 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

    Typequick DYK nom review request

    Hi Czar, I hope you're doing well! I was wondering if you would be willing to contribute to Template:Did you know nominations/Typequick? Another user RoySmith has begun a review, but it isn't very thorough. I believe the article could use a second opinion fromm a WP:VG mainstay. Thank you in advance!--Coin945 (talk) 11:22, 24 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

    About your proposal to remove ethical egoism in WT:VA5

    Actually Wikipedia:Vital_articles/Level/5/Philosophy_and_religion#Approaches_(21_articles) should be changed to Wikipedia:Vital_articles/Level/5/Philosophy_and_religion#Approaches_(22_articles), since the "approaches" sub-section in "ethics" section now contains 22 rather than 21 articles.--RekishiEJ (talk) 07:46, 28 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

    #Remove Ethical egoism
    @RekishiEJ, thanks! If it's easier in the future, I think it'd be uncontroversial to make that minor correction directly, especially as VIT5 counts continue to fluctuate. czar 15:36, 28 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]
    What did the "it" in "If it's easier in the future" mean? I don't understand the meaning at all.--RekishiEJ (talk) 16:44, 29 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]
    @RekishiEJ, I mean that while I do appreciate the heads up, it would be faster/more direct to simply make the minor, uncontroversial correction in my original edit instead of messaging me (or other editors like me in the future) to do so. czar 16:50, 29 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

    Books & Bytes – Issue 45

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    American vs. European dates

    Czar: You seem in the business of enforcing American-only style of dating MM DD YYYYY rather than accepting DD MM YYYY, which is standard practice in Europe (and elsewhere, I believe): is there some particular driver for your actions? Respectfully - Aboudaqn (talk) 15:03, 31 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

    Example: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Louis_Adamic&diff=next&oldid=1027887348
    Do not understand your explanation Aboudaqn (talk) 22:42, 1 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

    Administrators' newsletter – July 2021

    News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2021).

    Guideline and policy news

    • An RfC is open to add a delay of one week from nomination to deletion for G13 speedy deletions.

    Technical news

    • Last week all wikis were very slow or not accessible for 30 minutes. This was due to server lag caused by regenerating dynamic lists on the Russian Wikinews after a large bulk import. (T287380)

    Arbitration

    Miscellaneous

    Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 14:18, 1 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

    Your GA Nomination of Paul Goodman

    The page has been reviewed by me and it meets the GA rules. Sahaib3005 (talk) 06:39, 7 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

    Thanks at AfD

    Hey. Thanks for the kindly redirection on my too-frequent answers.

    I do think that the "contested" articles that TFD and I wiki-fence over get better for the mutual (if not always collegial) investment on both our parts, nevertheless. However, I may still be "shell shocked" from previous, and continuing wiki-fencing with TFD. Again, I appreciate your caution to pause to let other editors have a chance to chime in.
    (1) Last year ten months plus on the American Revolutionary War for American independence, with fighting ending at Siege of Yorktown pretty much, versus the 'real' worldwide French-Spanish-American war against Britain including the Siege of Gibraltar in Spain and the Second Mysore War in India.
    (2) It took over two calendar years to get the United States of America article to include Puerto Ricans as US citizens in a continuing (sometimes daily) wiki-fencing with TFD. Despite US law, federal court rulings, citizen PR military service, three UN-supervised referenda, Congressional Delegate privileges office, appointing two military freshmen to Army, Navy, Air Force and Coast Guard Academies, PR representation in National Republican and National Democratic Conventions ... But we still had to sort through all the UN committees, conferences and conventions chaired by Russia, Iran, China, North Korea, Cuba and Venezuela that contradicted the other internationally sourced evidence "on balance". Nothing denying PR citizenship in the US passes at the UN General Assembly, but there are so many reports from reliable sources that Puerto Ricans cannot be US citizens because of historical colonialism (sic), they each had to be vetted in context ... so it took some months to do that ... TheVirginiaHistorian (talk) 07:16, 7 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

    A technical question.

    • The previously published article on the 1778-1787 county, titled "Ohio County (Virginia)", on the NORTH BANK of the Ohio River, with adequate citations from reliable sources, is lost to public view by an automatic link to Ohio County, West Virginia on the SOUTH BANK of Ohio River.
    - Created at the American Revolutionary War incursion north of the Ohio River by Virginia militia Major George Rogers Clark, the LOST county article had substantial French-Speaking settlements at Cahokia and Vincennes. These together with Revolution veteran settlement were ceded by Virginia to the Northwest Territory in 1787.
    - Please help to recover and reinstate the information as a separate article. Or, if you can give me a lead for general guidance, I can launch off into the wiki-spheres and give the restoration a good ol' 'college try' on my own . . . TheVirginiaHistorian (talk) 07:20, 7 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]
    Hi @TheVirginiaHistorian, it looks like Ohio County, Virginia (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) has no prior edit history—it's always been a redirect. I see no edit history, deleted or not, at Ohio County (Virginia) (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs). Is there prior text somewhere you were looking to restore? If you have multiple, reliable, independent sources to substantiate a standalone article on the Virginia county in specific, feel free to click that page's "edit" link and start building it over the redirect. I'm not as familiar with how the geographic features notability guideline works with historical entities but unless these two counties have nothing to do with each other, usually it suffices to cover a similar topic within another. Wikipedia talk:WikiProject United States might be able to offer advice as well. Happy editing! czar 10:10, 7 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]
    They have nothing to do with one another, and all of the information that was found at the previous Ohio County (Virginia) has been extinguished, such as the French settlement in Spanish Louisiana at St. Louis, providing militia units to support Virginia Major George Rogers Clark's capture of the French settlement at Vincennes in the American Revolutionary War, and their acceptance of Virginia governance with the persuasive assistance of the local Roman Catholic parish priests. TheVirginiaHistorian (talk) 09:31, 8 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]
    I can't find any prior edits or logs at "Ohio County (Virginia)". Perhaps you are thinking of a different title or phrasing? In any event, you would want to build that potential article at either Ohio County, Virginia (over the redirect) or at Draft:Ohio County, Viriginia, which is a recommended draft area where you can build the article without risking deletion. But in order to find/restore the "extinguished" prior content, I would need more information on where it once was located. czar 19:42, 8 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]
    Thanks, despite your published dictum above. I may have confounded an "Ohio County" north of the Ohio River read on a map long ago, versus the Illinois County, Virginia here at Wikipedia. Thank you again for checking it out for me here at Wikipedia. TheVirginiaHistorian (talk) 18:52, 12 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

    Mass killings under communist regimes (again)

    I took a break from it and I would've hoped things would get better but they aren't. It's always the same stuff, the discussions go nowhere, etc. This is a good summary.

    I don't trust the AfD or RfC process for this article because, despite Wikipedia clearly not being about voting, it boils down to that, because more users are just going to say "per sources" and our arguments for why they're engaging in original research, synthesis, and other policy violations, and sources don't support what they claim they do... they're just going to be ignored. I may have to go to the noticeboard for sources and go one by one whether each source support the article. If you can write a neutral AfD or RfC, go for it.

    Even though I'm skeptical, that is the only solution. Thank you again for your time. Davide King (talk) 09:50, 11 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

    Your GA nomination of Paul Goodman

    The article Paul Goodman you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Paul Goodman for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already appeared on the main page as a "Did you know" item, or as a bold link under "In the News" or in the "On This Day" prose section, you can nominate it within the next seven days to appear in DYK. Bolded names with dates listed at the bottom of the "On This Day" column do not affect DYK eligibility. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Sahaib3005 -- Sahaib3005 (talk) 09:01, 12 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

    Deletion review for Alberta Association of Architects

    An editor has asked for a deletion review of Alberta Association of Architects. Because you closed the deletion discussion for this page, speedily deleted it, or otherwise were interested in the page, you might want to participate in the deletion review.

    Note I don't think you closed it incorrectly given the information available to you at the time but given the new information I think it might need reassessment. HighInBC Need help? Just ask. 23:38, 26 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

    Reporting: Editing clashes with another user

    Hello Czar. I am sending you this message as I am being targeted by a random user who is accusing me of vandalism and falsifying information on an article here on Wikipedia. The article is about the South Korean movie, Once Upon a Time in High School. This user is even threatened to report me to the admins to have my account or, at the very least, my editing privileges removed. Before I tell you my request on this issue, I need to tell you how it all happened. So I was browsing through different articles on Wikipedia and then I encountered the Once Upon a Time in High School article. Upon reading it, I noticed that the last paragraph of the movie's plot was incorrect as I have seen the movie multiple times before and the last paragraph of the plot did not match with the movie's. I initially was taken aback for a few moments until I eventually decided to change the article so that the last paragraph was more accurate and correct. This was my first time editing an article on Wikipedia so I took careful actions when doing it. I even took the time to re-watch the movie once more before finalizing it, making sure there wasn't any errors. A week later, another user, the one I am referring to, reverts it back and starts accusing me of vandalism and falsifying information of the article. I then responded to the other user on the user's talk page, clarifying that I wasn't falsifying information nor vandalizing anything and I even provided a link of the movie for the other user to view to back my statements, but I have not heard from the user since. From there, I went back and undid his/her revision of my revision. I gradually waited for the other user to respond to my reply, but the other user instead went back to undid my revision again of Once Upon a Time in High School and once again accuses me of vandalism. This time, I started to get irritated and think that this other user is disregarding what I have to say and believes that he/she has justification for his/her action. I even looked up the revision history of the article and it seems that this may or may not be the first time he/she has done this to the article. Soon after, I did once more revision to the article and this again clarify that I not vandalizing nor falsifying anything, but the user still reverts it back and threatens me that he/she will report me to the admins. This is when I started to get on edge and decided to take matters into my own hands and contact the admins myself. I took some time to look up how to report to the admins, came across your name, and decided to message you. As for my request, I would like for you to confront this user and probably consider having him/her removed or blocked. You can find the user using this link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/2604:3D09:A580:3900:7558:734B:E6FB:64D4. When you go to the article and read the revision history, you can see a small conversation between me and the other user. For the link to the movie I used to back my statement, here it is: https://archive.org/details/once-upon-a-time-in-high-school. You may view the movie and the article side by side and decide who is correct. This is urgent as the more people vandalize and make innocents fall to their schemes, the more victims will fall into misinformation and disinformation. I have been a long time guest on Wikipedia and it hurts me to see someone drastically change an article, inputs false information, and then accuses others of falsifying information when it gets corrected. Thank you. Detective Stranger (talk) 21:38, 28 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

    (talk page watcher) I don't know what can be done about the other editor, whose IP changes. However, I've reverted the article to the correct ending per the film. Schazjmd (talk) 22:11, 28 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]
    Hi @Detective Stranger, first, welcome to Wikipedia and I'm sorry your first editing experience has gone this way. It looks like @Schazjmd has confirmed the plot detail (thank you!) and can help monitor the page for changes. Since any editing community is bound to have disagreements, we have a general practice for resolving disputes: Wikipedia:BOLD, revert, discuss cycle. The gist is that editors are encouraged to be bold in their edits, but when the edit is disputed (reverted), to discuss on the talk page (Talk:Once Upon a Time in High School) rather than reverting back and forth out of desperation, which is known as Wikipedia:Edit warring (and note that more than three reverts on a single page in 24 hours will result in an automatic block). If the talk page discussion does not have traction, there are plenty of ways to move forward, first by seeking a third party as you did on my talk page but also by asking a forum like WT:FILM or others suggested at Wikipedia:Dispute resolution. There is no rush, so if your edit is reverted, remember that there is always time to discuss and restore the suggested text at some future point. Hope this helps and that you'll decide to edit some other film articles! :) czar 23:23, 28 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]
    Hello Czar. I have seen the recent changes to the article and I would like to show my appreciation to you for taking the time to read my issue regarding my recent experience here on Wikipedia and taking action. It really demonstrates how people like you genuinely care about your users, editors, the Wikipedia standards, and so on. My first editing experience may be rough, but I still look forward to future endeavors here on Wikipedia with you, @Schazjmd, and many others. Again, thank you. Detective Stranger (talk) 23:41, 28 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

    Talk:Candleabracadabra/Native Hawaiian cuisine

    Hello, Czar,

    I'm going through a list of orphaned talk subpages and came across this one you created. But there doesn't seem to be an associated article. Should this just be deleted or can you think of a place it can be moved to? Thanks. Liz Read! Talk! 22:34, 31 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

    Hi! Looks like something lost in the shuffle from User talk:Candleabracadabra/Native Hawaiian cuisine and, in any event, it's already covered in Talk:Native cuisine of Hawaii's templates so I've deleted it. Thanks for checking! czar 01:38, 1 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]
    Well, I'm glad you know what to do with it. I'm coming across a lot of odd stuff. Apparently, when AFDs or PRODs are closed, the tools don't always delete article subpages, like archived talk pages and "To do" pages. Most everything showing up on the 1000+ page list is from after ~2014 so I guess before that, administrators relied more on manual deleting each page rather than deletion tools. I've also recently found that Twinkle will delete article redirects but not article redirect talk pages so maybe it's the same problem. Liz Read! Talk! 01:52, 1 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]
    @Liz, if it helps, it looks like I was using a tool for that in 2014—probably User:Mr.Z-man/closeAFD. If so, the good news is that was deprecated in 2017 and replaced with WP:XFDC, which is more robust. czar 02:06, 1 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

    Z-Type

    Hello. It was the best I could do for now. I didn't find much material on the web. Best regards. ✍A.WagnerC (talk) 13:37, 5 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

    Crass

    Can you explain this edit to Crass (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)? —Locke Cole • t • c 19:35, 13 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

    @Locke Cole, looks like a days-old edit conflict from leaving the edit window open too long. It was meant to be a revert of the David King Estate edits but gone horribly wrong so I've reverted it. Thanks for the heads up! czar 01:59, 14 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]
    You're good, I wasn't sure what the intent was there so I figured it was best to ask in case I missed something. =) Thanks!! —Locke Cole • t • c 02:19, 14 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

    Could use your insight on the talk page regarding The Last of Us Part II

    Hey man so we're having a discussion on the talk page for The Last of Us Part II regarding whether or not the narrative/transgender character was polarizing among critics and if we should remove it. I saw you chime in on the "Universal acclaim" descriptor thing for The Last of Us Part II's reception, maybe you could chime in here as well. TheMassEffector (talk) 01:24, 18 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

    Books & Bytes – Issue 46

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    September 29: ONLINE WikiWednesday Salon + Annual Members' Meeting NYC

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    Administrators' newsletter – October 2021

    News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2021).

    Guideline and policy news

    Technical news

    Arbitration

    • A motion has standardised the 500/30 (extended confirmed) restrictions placed by the Arbitration Committee. The standardised restriction is now listed in the Arbitration Committee's procedures.
    • Following the closure of the Iranian politics case, standard discretionary sanctions are authorized for all edits about, and all pages related to, post-1978 Iranian politics, broadly construed.
    • The Arbitration Committee encourages uninvolved administrators to use the discretionary sanctions procedure in topic areas where it is authorised to facilitate consensus in RfCs. This includes, but is not limited to, enforcing sectioned comments, word/diff limits and moratoriums on a particular topic from being brought in an RfC for up to a year.

    Miscellaneous

    • Editors have approved expanding the trial of Growth Features from 2% of new accounts to 25%, and the share of newcomers getting mentorship from 2% to 5%. Experienced editors are invited to add themselves to the mentor list.
    • The community consultation phase of the 2021 CheckUser and Oversight appointments process is open for editors to provide comments and ask questions to candidates.
    Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:03, 1 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

    Anarchism

    Thank you for the links and suggestions, Czar. I'm not specifically interested in Anarchism but in plugging historical gaps, often to do with foreign subjects not covered in English Wikipedia pages. Most recently, this has had to do with the Spanish and French struggles from the last century.Dm4244 (talk) 18:30, 3 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

    Reply

    Hi Czar,

    To be fair, I'm happy to receive your invitation, and I'm willing to help improve articles' qualities about anarchism, especially about anarchism in Asia. However, I'm a little busy in real life recently. But if I have time I will help, so if you need my help, don't hesitate to let me know. Also, I had monitored some articles about anarchism.--ときさき くるみ not because they are easy, but because they are hard 15:22, 4 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

    Sunday: Wiki-Pavilion Picnic NYC (part of WikiConference NA, Oct 8-10)

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    Nomination of Bowser's Fury for deletion

    A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Bowser's Fury is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

    The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bowser's Fury until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

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    This Month in GLAM: September 2021



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    An editor has asked for a deletion review of Template:Flaglist+link. Because you closed the deletion discussion for this page, speedily deleted it, or otherwise were interested in the page, you might want to participate in the deletion review. * Pppery * it has begun... 02:54, 15 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

    Precious anniversary

    Precious
    Six years!

    --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:13, 18 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

    Battle for the Bones - return?

    Hey Czar,

    Due to recently announced conference realignment news, UAB and Memphis will return to playing regularly as conference opponents. I think this may warrant a revival of the previously deleted article on the rivalry.

    Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/UAB–Memphis rivalry

    — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lanternofdiogenes (talk • contribs) 19:18, 21 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

    Not so much that the conference realignment itself warrants revisiting the deleted article, but those two new, linked sources are a good reason to revisit it, absolutely. Restored! and subsequent discussion should move to its talk page. czar 03:43, 23 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

    Hi

    Hi Czar! How are you? Hope everything is alright. --Captain Assassin! «T ♦ C ♦ G» 07:56, 25 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

    Could you be able to please revert back the deleted history of Draft:Barbie (film), Draft:Flash Gordon (upcoming film), Draft:The Rosie Project (film), Draft:Untitled Disney fantasy animated film, Draft:The Division (film), and Draft:Bob the Musical? It seems to be deleted while I was gone. --Captain Assassin! «T ♦ C ♦ G» 07:56, 25 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
    Hi! All good—welcome back! Restored these. czar 02:25, 26 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
    Czar, when restoring G13 drafts, please make a minor edit to the page or remove the CSD tag or they are likely to be deleted again. See Draft:The Rosie Project (film). Liz Read! Talk! 03:24, 26 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
    Missed those. Thank you! czar 06:51, 26 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
    Hey, thanks man. --Captain Assassin! «T ♦ C ♦ G» 07:16, 27 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

    Growth Newsletter #19

    Welcome to the nineteenth newsletter from the Growth team!

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    Richard Ohmann

    This seems up your alley? AleatoryPonderings (???) (!!!) 00:41, 4 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

    @AleatoryPonderings, nice work! czar 04:09, 4 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
    Not much to speak of at the moment, but thought I'd mention in case you were interested. AleatoryPonderings (???) (!!!) 04:10, 4 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

    Hello

    Thanks for your mensage in my page! I have done one or two things in english wikipedia, but i am actually a editor in portuguese wikipedia, and i will problably remain exclusively there for some time since i do not have a sufficient grasp of english grammar to really contribute. But we should definetely do more exchanges to expand both projects! Nice to meet you! JoaquimCebuano (talk) — Preceding undated comment added 04:49, 6 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

    @JoaquimCebuano, thanks! Do you know if there is there some way for us to be notified when there are new articles for us to translate from the Portuguese Wikipedia? czar 14:42, 6 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
    @Czar I dont really know, i can only think that someone could do this mediation. Some articles that i dave done in portuguese that i think should exist in en.wiki is pt:Leila Al-Shami, pt:Maia Ramnath, pt:Federação das Organizações Sindicalistas Revolucionárias do Brasil and, another suggestion, is to translate it:Misato Toda. One thing that i really want to ask is why in en.wiki the ICL article got redirected to AIT? This seens really wrong for me... Anyway, thanks! Lets exchange recommendations about contemporary moviments and researchers of anarchism, i think this is a important part to cover! JoaquimCebuano (talk)

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    Restore

    Hi again, need restoration of deleted edits from Draft:The Woman King (film) and Draft:Blade (upcoming film). Thanks --Captain Assassin! «T ♦ C ♦ G» 20:30, 9 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

    @Captain Assassin!,  Done czar 06:37, 10 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
    Sorry, I'd ask that the Blade restoration be reversed. I asked for the edits prior to July 19, 2019 to be removed here due to a banned user sock puppet requesting the histories be restored and the request was carried out. Rusted AutoParts 06:54, 10 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
    Reapplied the May 2019 sock deletion (G5), refunded the prior non-sock edits from 2017 (G13). czar 03:04, 11 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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    Why Marx Was Right

    Hi! I gather anarchism is maybe more your area of expertise than Marxism, but I see you've worked on a lot of politics-related book articles and I'm looking for reviews at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Why Marx Was Right/archive1. All feedback welcome, if you're interested. Thanks! — Bilorv (talk) 14:33, 14 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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    This Month in GLAM: November 2021



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    Merry Christmas

    Merry Christmas, Czar!
    Or Season's Greetings or Happy Winter Solstice! As the year winds to a close, I would like to take a moment to recognize your hard work and offer heartfelt gratitude for all you do for Wikipedia. May this Holiday Season bring you nothing but joy, health and prosperity. Onel5969 TT me 23:01, 21 December 2021 (UTC)     [reply]

    Happy Holidays!

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    Anarchism edits

    Hello thank you for your message. I will check out the links when I have the time. Thank you for posting them. Please have a good day. Take care, Centralia1 Centralia1 (talk) 04:29, 29 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

    anarchism

    Hey Czar, thanks for reaching out. I'm admittedly very new to editing on wikipedia, so I appreciate the help and the heads up. Would definitely love to be more involved in coordinated efforts. Thanks! Anarkiddie (talk) 14:00, 31 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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    Thanks!

    Hi Czar, thanks for your kind message and the interesting references and opportunities. I'll have a closer look and see if I have the expertise to contribute references, citations or make any suggestions for some of those pages. Nice to meet you and thanks for welcoming me to the community. Communalist (talk) 00:51, 3 January 2022 (UTC)Communalist[reply]

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    The May Pamphlet at FAC

    Hi talk page watchers, long time no chat. I wanted to let you know that The May Pamphlet, an article on Paul Goodman's early anarchist essays that I've been incubating for a few years, is up for featured article candidacy, if you'd be interested in reviewing a neat little anarchist tract against the featured article criteria. Would love to know what you think. If it ends well, I'll potentially have a few more to nominate in the coming months. Happy New Year, all! czar 19:38, 9 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

    Kitchener and District Soccer League deletion

    Hi - I'm wondering if you would be able to give the reason behind the deletion of the Kitchener and District Soccer League wiki page which I have updated anonymously over more than a decade. Obviously I am hopeful it can be restored or be consideration for restoration. Happy to talk over email - Ticket#2022010910002901 opened with your volunteer desk. Message delivered by Pp99g -- 21:39, 9 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

    Hi @Pp99g, you can read the deletion discussion here: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kitchener and District Soccer League. Dedicated articles on Wikipedia require significant coverage in multiple reliable, independent sources. (?) In this case, the discussion participants said the topic's sources did not meet this standard. Those pages I've linked describe the standard and eligible sources in greater depth. If you enjoy editing on football topics, perhaps you would be interested in editing another article with our association football editing community? czar 22:28, 9 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
    Hi @Czar, Thank you for providing the link to the decision, sad to read it though. At this point I'm not sure about moving onto another topic. I had latched onto that one and helped improve it since about 2007 or so. I would probably say I had been responsible for more than 50% of the content, and probably the majority of the updates since 2007, even though I have not lived in that metro area for 30 years. I may go to the university library when I visit and pull references from the daily newspaper articles on the league. It was regularly covered with a minimum of one article per week for quite a long time. With the decline of print journalism, the daily in that metro area has suffered major decline even though population has grown significantly. Newspaper content is about a quarter of the size it used to be.Pp99g 5:06, 10 January 2022 (UTC)
    @Pp99g, if you'd like, I can restore the content to another wiki with a Wikipedia-compatible license (cc-by-sa) such as https://football.fandom.com, where you can continue to update it—just let me know where. Wikipedia tends to cover local topics one geographic region above, i.e., if it's a local league, we would want to see state or national coverage, not just local newspaper coverage. I hear you on the decline of print journalism but on the upside, local libraries tend to carry subscriptions to local paper archives and we also have a series of subscriptions available (for free) to Wikipedia editors who meet a certain level of editing activity. By the way, you can sign your posts on Wikipedia by typing four tildes. czar 05:59, 10 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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    Query

    I have followed with interest some of your contributions. Kafka's Prayer is one I particularly enjoyed. Is your focus more on anarchism or critical theory? I would eventually like to work on some articles, but presently don't have the time to improve/create ones like Minority (philosophy), Kafka: Towards a Minor Literature, Body without organs. Just wondering what the scope of your interests are, and if you have an interest in Deleuze. Maybe a future project together if you do, but no worries either way. Urve (talk) 05:47, 14 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

    Hi @Urve, when I was writing that one, I wondered who would read it (besides bots) so that's heartwarming to hear! My focus is more on anarchism and books than critical theory in specific, with the Kafka book as part of a larger Paul Goodman series. Somewhere in my pile of drafts I have an old one on Bourdieu's Distinction that was pretty good but... complicated. Around that time I joined the John Searle school of French theory. So while a part of me would love to unpack Capitalism and Schizophrenia for a general audience if only for the challenge, I'm fully aware that it's an exercise in futility. (Not to mention that the level of effort to write a decent article on a sociological subject absolutely dwarfs the effort it takes to write an article from contemporary news sources.) The thought of searching for French-language reviews from the 1970s is horrifying and thrilling at once. But I find myself more often doing just that. czar 07:06, 15 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
    Thanks so much for your comments. I see you've turned the redlink in my query blue ;) Thanks for that, and the Searle video. I'll keep in touch and keep watching what you do - because you do it well, and your series of articles provide a good base to work on related subjects. If you ever have inspiration to do some work on D&G, let me know and I'll see what my editing is looking like; for now I have some projects in the works about something totally different, but some of my first edits were related to D&G and Žižek, and looking back at our roots is what life's all about. Thanks again. Urve (talk) 05:06, 17 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
    Oh hey, look who it is. Hit me up for your inevitable GA nomination on these hypothetical articles. :) -- asilvering (talk) 01:42, 23 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
    Hi again, Czar and asilvering. I said I'd keep in touch, so I may as well ;) I've been reworking the body without organs article. Very early stages - planning on GA eventually, but far from now. It's hard, because many of the essential things D&G talk about (the egg example, which IMO is vital to understanding it, and helpful for lay readers) are just referenced in secondary sources, not explained in considerable depth. But time will tell :) Hope you're both well. Urve (talk) 16:14, 15 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
    You can summarize the example yourself, can't you? I would expect it to fall under the same kinds of guidelines as plot summaries for novels. Is that not the case? -- asilvering (talk) 20:42, 15 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
    Nice! Primary sources can be used insofar as they do not require our interpretation... which might unfortunately be the case here. I'd be surprised if this wasn't covered in one of the Deleuze and Guattari guides, though. And then, of course, what may exist yet in that otherworldly realm: French sources. czar 23:31, 15 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

    Your GA nomination of La Salute è in voi

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    A barnstar for your efforts

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    Your GA nomination of La Salute è in voi

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    Ok, this isn't 100% official because... where the heck do I put this in the Law section? I don't disagree that it's related to law, but it's extremely "one of these things is not like the other" in every possible category. It is a publication, but it's not exactly a legal publication. Ethics? Help. -- asilvering (talk) 01:45, 23 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
    @Asilvering, well, we could file under "literature" as a hat tip to Larabee... It looks like most topic groups have a "Miscellaneous" section, so this would be a good candidate for starting Law's Miscellaneous if there ever was one. czar 01:58, 23 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
    Done. That appears to have added a strange underline in the middle of the section for mysterious reasons, but in the interest of not pushing sixteen different minor edits to trial-and-error the source, I will leave sorting that out for someone who knows what they are doing. -- asilvering (talk) 02:14, 23 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
    Oh. Well. This is why I'm in "digital humanities" and not "programming". I guess I should be kinder to the people who couldn't count how many pages there are in that pamphlet. -- asilvering (talk) 08:18, 23 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

    Recent revert

    About Special:diff/1067340148, I'm genuinely not sure what the category is used for, looking through Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Bibliographies/archive, it's only been used 11 times last year, about half of them seems to be about individuals and a smaller portion about actual bibliographies. Starting to think that maybe a merge with Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/People might be needed, thoughts? Justiyaya 04:06, 23 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

    @Justiyaya, I assume it's for book/bibliography-related articles, though I can see why it's likely few would pass through AfD when there aren't that many in total. If anything, I think the action would be to retire it rather than merge it into People (where it wouldn't belong). But it's also not harmful to leave it as is, apart from the occasional confusion between Biography and Bibliography. Come to think of it, the Bibliography delsort (via Wikipedia:WikiProject Bibliographies/Article alerts) is how I found the discussion in question! czar 04:14, 23 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
    Mhm, the section probably won't be really harmful as is, thanks for clarifying the use of it :D Justiyaya 04:19, 23 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

    Query: Web interviews

    Thanks for taking a look at my edits to the Chomsky page and the need to cite non-web interviews. I am still new to all of this :)

    I am curious is this a standard throughout the whole of Wikipedia? Some of the information I put in there I think was novel and the interviewer has written for the New York Times and Wall Street Journal. It would be great to put some of the information in there. — Preceding unsigned comment added by CarlMarks51 (talk • contribs) 19:09, 25 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

    Moved to Talk:Noam Chomsky

    A little help please? Notability of politicians

    I see you are a regular commentator on the Noam Chomsky page.

    I am texting you because I want to know the policy on politicians. If a politician is one of two primary politicians for US Congress in 2022. who has had articles written about him with all large state papers in past elections, does that make this candidate notable?

    What policy can I look up about this? Thank you so much in advance. Quiet2 (talk) 03:40, 30 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

    Moved to user talk:Quiet2

    One Day at Horrorland

    I disagree with your reference assessment, but it did encourage me to look for more sources. I found that the book has been used for instruction in schools and that it was once adapted into a Walt Disney World attraction. I thank you for that, even if it wasn't your intention. SL93 (talk) 13:58, 30 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

    The HorrorLand series was adapted, not this individual book, but this conversation belongs on the article's talk page. czar 15:09, 30 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
    I'm here to apologize for overreacting. You can do what you want with merging since the content will still exist in some form. SL93 (talk) 19:27, 30 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

    Debate on military funding's influence on Noam's thought

    Hi, Could you advise me how to rewrite this so it is seen as acceptable:

    Chomsky has been open about who employed him at this time, saying “[MIT] was a Pentagon-based university. And I was at a military-funded lab."[1] What effect this had on his linguistic and political ideas has been debated in Open Democracy and the London Review of Books.[2]

    References

    1. ^ Chomsky 1996, p. 102.
    2. ^ Golumbia 2018; Knight 2018b; Levidow 2018; Lears 2017; Allott 2019.

    You said "these sources do not make a point about the Pentagon affiliation; if there is something specific to say, just say it, otherwise it's aspersions".

    Really sorry, but I'm not clear what is wrong. The debate at Open Democracy consisted of 10 contributions from Frederick Newmeyer, Randy Allen Harris, Chris Knight, Les Levidow, David Golumbia, Peter Jones, and Wolfgang Sperlich. The debate was all about the extent to which "Pentagon affiliation" had an effect on Chomsky's politics and linguistics. A similar debate occurred with Hilary Rose (sociologist), Chomsky and others in the London Review of Books and the debate continued in and around a UCL conference and the publication of the book: "The Responsibility of Intellectuals: Reflections by Noam Chomsky and Others After 50 Years (Nick Allott, Chris Knight, Neil Smith (linguist))". The debate also occurred in several online interviews, various book reviews and the Chronicle Of Higher Education.

    Is it not relevant to say, in two short sentences, that this debate occurred in the section concerning this crucial period of Noam's academic career: 'Early career: 1955–1966'? If so, how should it be described?

    Thanks!

    • Allott, Nick; Knight, Chris; Smith, Neil (2019). The Responsibility of Intellectuals - Reflections by Noam Chomsky and Others after 50 years (PDF). London: UCL Press. ISBN 9781787355514.
    • Golumbia, David (25 September 2018). "The Chomskyan revolution and the politics of linguistics". Open Democracy.
    • Levidow, Les (6 September 2018). "The Chomsky paradox: the responsibility of intellectuals, revisited". Open Democracy.
    • Lears, Jackson (4 May 2017). "Mysterian". London Review of Books. 39 (9).

    Morgan1874 (talk) — Preceding undated comment added 18:17, 5 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

    Moved to Talk:Noam Chomsky

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    Wikipedia:Press coverage 2022

    Hi! I removed the high five per "This set of pages lists any press coverage of Wikipedia that covers or discusses Wikipedia as a project – that is, any aspect of Wikipedia overall, such as its structure, success, information, goals, history – or views on Wikipedia in general, and so on. Press sources that reference content of a particular Wikipedia article but do not discuss the project itself should instead be noted on the talk page of the referenced Wikipedia article in question using the..."

    There are of course grey-areas but this didn't seem like one. The Ketanji Brown Jackson thing you added earlier was removed and redacted for more pressing reasons:[6] Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 19:59, 15 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

    Thanks, @Gråbergs Gråa Sång. That text would be helpful clarification to add to the 2022 page if it is to be enforced there. czar 23:23, 15 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
    I think it adds a bit of focus, adding for example all of the press at Talk:List of most expensive artworks by living artists is not obvious improvement. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 07:49, 16 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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    Promotion of The May Pamphlet

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    Ran Prieur

    regarding Draft:Ran Prieur --

    Thanks for the heads up regarding primary sources. It was a concern of mine that I had already tried to minimize, nevertheless I've simplified the draft further. At the moment draft only has three references to Ran's blog itself (about page which contains self-described political views, the original link to "How to Drop Out", and a miscellaneous about page which contains his birthplace). The other eight sources are secondary sources so my intuition is that it'll be appropriate to remove the template message. Haven't done so yet -- let me know your thoughts. cheers. quin 05:58, 19 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

    Moved to Draft talk:Ran Prieur

    Some stroopwafels for you!

    stumbled on your 'vita' page, it's gorgeously laid out. it's inspired me to do something similar for myself down the road :) quin 06:03, 19 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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    WikiCup 2022 March newsletter

    And so ends the first round of the WikiCup. Last year anyone who scored more than zero points moved on to Round 2, but this was not the case this year, and a score of 13 or more was required to proceed. The top scorers in Round 1 were:

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    Saffron Barker afd/redirect

    Hi, I’d like to ask you about the afd you closed for Saffron Barker, please. I apologise, because I’m new to editing Wikipedia, but am attempting to read the advice and follow the rules, it just gets a little confusing :) I believe that there wasn’t really enough discussion of her significance for there to justifiably considered a consensus. That, along with her further appearances in mainstream media has prompted me to attempt to get the redirect removed and the article reinstated. I’m not really sure how to go about that. I was hoping you could help, please? The advice on the deletion review page says to contact the closer of the afd in the first place- so, here I am. Saradipity*codes (talk) 17:33, 4 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

    Hi @Saradipity*codes, you've come to the right place. :) What new sources do you have that discuss her career that were not in place or discussed in its deletion discussion? If you can share several reliable sources that discuss her career in depth, I'd be happy to restore the article as a draft for you to expand. czar 18:30, 5 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

    Archival research and WP:OR

    You pulled most of the maybe-OR from Panteleimon Belochub when you removed the unsourced and unreliable-source stuff, but the "early life" and "WWI" sections are still mostly attributed to archival sources. I thought that was a no-go on Wikipedia? Or is this example fine because it's simple factual things like birth and death dates? (Though I suppose in this particular case there is an additional WP:V complication, since the State Archives of Donetsk Region may be some of the most inaccessible papers on earth right now...) -- asilvering (talk) 06:46, 6 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

    Moved to Talk:Panteleimon Belochub

    Request

    Hi Czar--could you possibly histmerge The Resort (TV series) into The Resort (American TV series), as they're essentially duplicates? Cheers! NathanielTheBold (talk) 04:58, 10 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

    @NathanielTheBold, since the histories overlap, I recommend just boldly merging the latter into the former (dropping "American" per WP:NCTV as the correct title) czar 05:31, 10 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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    Thanks, — Newslinger talk 04:12, 16 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

    Hi Czar, in December 2021, you made an excellent proposal at Template talk:Ds § Combine Ds/talk notice to overhaul the {{Ds/talk notice}} banner. I have just filed a request for amendment to advance this suggestion to the Arbitration Committee. Please feel free to comment on the request if you would like the Committee to hear your thoughts. Thanks! — Newslinger talk 04:12, 16 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

    Growth Newsletter #20

    Welcome to the twentieth newsletter from the Growth team!

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    Books & Bytes – Issue 49

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    Your GA nomination of Communitas (book)

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    Anarchist FAQ

    I didn't get to reply to you before the AfD was closed, but if I had I would've clarified that my hope was that a draft would allow for the possibility of a viable merge target being created, rather than new sources being found that would indicate notability. And I would have asked – so may as well ask now – what your thoughts are on the two possible as-yet-nonexistent targets I mentioned (Iain McKay and anarchism and the internet), and whether any others come to mind. I think the latter's probably a safer bet, and some sources definitely exist (Atton 1996, Owens and Palmer 2003, some of Franks 2006), but it's the sort of thing that would take me years to actually put together. Either way, I'm aware it's probably a long shot, but worth thinking about. – Arms & Hearts (talk) 13:40, 9 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

    Hi @Arms & Hearts, thanks for the follow-up. Would you have sources for McKay? I didn't have significant coverage last time I checked, hence the redirect. And what would be the scope of anarchism and the Internet? The merge target I had been envisioning was a section on introductions to anarchism, of which the "FAQ" would certainly be a part. I needed more reviews of other introductory material though and didn't get to that point. czar 13:07, 14 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
    No particular sources for McKay come to mind I'm afraid – articles on living writers aren't my forte but I think you're probably right that the coverage is insufficient. Hence why anarchism and the Internet's probably preferable, but I don't have much of a sense of what that would in involve either (at least without having had a proper look at the sources suggested above), or whether it really merits an article in its own right or would itself be better folded into issues in anarchism. So all rather vague, but I'll keep you posted. Introductions to anarchism is another interesting possibility – chapter 2 of Süreyya Evren Türkeli's thesis What is anarchism? A reflection on the canon and the constructive potential of its destruction, on Woodcock's Anarchism and similar introductions, might be a good source. – Arms & Hearts (talk) 18:01, 14 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

    Proposed deletion of Zohra Opoku

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    The May Pamphlet scheduled for TFA

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    Thank you today for the article, introduced: "One spring day in New York City, the irascible Paul Goodman marched into his World War II draft interview with these anarchist essays under his arm as a prop or perhaps totem that would show his country just how unfit for service he was. While the military immediately understood, it would take another 15 years for his country to hear. While largely forgotten today, Goodman was namechecked in Annie Hall as a prevailing public intellectual of the American mid-century: Dutch uncle to the 1960s counterculture, philosopher of the New Left, and the country's most prominent living anarchist. Goodman's career consisted of revealing mystic truths about the need to live out one's own animal instinct and the larger society's unfulfilled duty in fostering those impulses. The May 1945 essays that became known as the May Pamphlet outline Goodman's application of Reichian psychological theory to anarchist politics in the interregnum between the social revolutionary class warfare of turn-of-the-century classical anarchism and the rise of personal politics-focused, late-20th century contemporary anarchism. You can see Goodman bridge the twain in these very essays as he confronts the impossibility of large-scale social change by calling not for a massive social revolution but for an inward reformation: to instead realize one's own innate, individual powers and form a new society by living intentionally within the shell of the old."! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 05:41, 1 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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    Local standard

    Hi Czar, Can you help illuminate for me the "local" objection being made in the Mo Karn deletion debate? I know WP:NPOL sets some parameters around notability of local elected officials, but I've not encountered before the demand that someone or something have greater than local-level coverage in reliable sources to meet notability. Thanks, —Carter (Tcr25) (talk) 14:53, 10 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

    Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mo Karn
    Hi @Tcr25, usually exclusively local coverage is an indicator that the subject has not been covered as noteworthy by wider press. For example, local activism is common but what makes it notable is its coverage by regional or national press. I.e., "5 Questions with a Foodie" is a human interest story, not evidence of the subject's noteworthiness ("Richmond's very own Food Not Bombs celebrity" is, one can only presume, tongue-in-cheek). But any discussion of specifics should continue at the AfD. My database searches had plenty of passing mentions from local press, but gluing those together to form an article would not do justice to the subject. czar 17:42, 12 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]
    Thanks, @[[[User:Czar|Czar]], thanks for the reply. I'm not trying to litigate the specific question around Mo Karn here, I just want to make sure I'm understanding the logic and where it fits into WP policies, although I'm not completely convinced that WP:GNG requires regional or national coverage. A human interest story may raise reliability questions, but they also can indicate a degree of notability in so much as a reporter and editor deemed the subject worthy of an interview/profile. —Carter (Tcr25) (talk) 18:43, 12 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

    I am reading Communitas, by the way...

    It's on my bedside table right now. A fascinating book, certainly the sort that would make me want to write a GA about it, so I see why you put in all that work. Thanks for all you do here! ezlev (user/tlk/ctrbs) 01:42, 16 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

    Aw, thank you! With a little bit of that energy, perhaps I can make the final FAC push... czar 04:07, 16 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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    Sri Aurobindo School of Integral Education, Chandigarh

    hi, the article Sri Aurobindo School of Integral Education, Chandigarh, i created has been properly cited with all valid links and is not a promotional article or a paid article and the article has been created with new and different content available on government websites and other trusted sources but has been marked for speedy deletion. help me stop the deletion of this page. please verify the article with all links and help me not to lost this article, do not delete it — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rishixkumar (talk • contribs) 10:13, 26 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

    See also User talk:Justiyaya#Question from Rishixkumar (10:09, 26 May 2022), not sure why they went on your talk page (edit: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sri Aurobindo School of Integral Education, Chandigarh) Justiyaya 10:25, 26 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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    Hidden text on Paul Goodman

    I noticed that a few years ago you introduced a number of hidden text passages to Paul Goodman. Since hidden text often gets forgotten and abandoned, we are working to reduce instances of hidden text to short notes necessary to be perpetually maintained in the wikitext, such as cautions not to use disapproved wording. Eventually, this may become a bot task, in which more extensive hidden passages are automatically removed from the article to the talk page for discussion. Do you intend to address the hidden passages of text currently in the article? BD2412 T 22:18, 29 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

    I'm actively editing the article and ideally, when finished, there will be little hidden text left. Are you saying that a group of editors are looking to remove all hidden text that doesn't provide a warning? Where is this coordination taking place? czar 04:44, 30 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]
    I have initiated a discussion at Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)#Lots and lots and lots of hidden text, focused primarily on long-abandoned hidden text—there are cases where some block of text in an article was hidden due to an editorial disagreement a decade or more ago, and apparently not revisited since. I have also proposed a bot request to catalogue instances of hidden text by size and age. Bear in mind that something could happen to any editor at any time, so I would ask you to think about what would become of this content and this article if you were no longer around. Perhaps a better way to handle it would be to create a subpage linked from the talk page? Or to try and resolve as much of this lengthy content as possible in relatively short order, before taking up other things? BD2412 T 05:06, 30 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

    Thanks for starting Molly White

    I started drafting an article about the same time as you and it's almost identical! All my work for nought. :) I'll see how I can add a bit here and there. --Jprg1966 (talk) 16:13, 30 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

    If it took this long, I'm sure yours and mine were among many. Looking forward to your contributions! :) czar 16:23, 30 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

    Yes, thanks so much. She is awesome. -- Valjean (talk) (PING me) 15:05, 2 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

    Molly White article

    My read on things is that Molly is indeed notable so on that basis sure she is eligible for a page. That said, I'm wondering if you contacted her before writing the article? I know this is something Molly does in her own work because as we both know there are pluses and minuses to having an article and not everyone wants one. I have no idea how she feels about this, so she might be great with it, but felt it important to ask the question. Best, Barkeep49 (talk) 16:43, 30 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

    @Barkeep49: I emailed her this morning, as I was also planning to write an article. I offered her the chance to air any concerns, but she acknowledged the notification and thanked me for the heads-up without raising any issues. --Jprg1966 (talk) 16:51, 30 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]
    Yes, I think all's sorted. Thanks for checking. czar 18:30, 30 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

    Books & Bytes – Issue 50

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    TFA

    Thank you today for Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels, introduced: "This article is the most complete resource on the web for the Japanese sequel to Nintendo's 1985 smash hit Super Mario Bros. Critics say the title is best known for its extreme difficulty, but I'd wager it's better known for being confused with Super Mario Bros. 2, a completely different game. The Lost Levels was so difficult as to convince Nintendo of America against releasing the title in North America (that's how the "lost levels" were lost, until its re-introduction to English-speaking regions in 1993). But despite The Lost Levels' cultural confinement, the game performed a fair amount of forecasting for the series: its sadistic poison mushroom power-ups and differentiated abilities for Luigi persisted into other series games, but perhaps more salient is how the game served as a precursor to the contemporary fan community that creates challenging (read: impossible) Mario levels for each other, as well as the speedrunning community that attempted not just to finish these sadistic challenges, but with prowess.

    The original Mario pulled the video game industry from the crash several years prior, and there was little games journalism infrastructure in place in 1986, nevertheless in English on a Japan-only title."!- --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:17, 3 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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    A question regarding List of books about anarchism

    Hi Czar, I've recently been motivated to add something about anarchism in East Asia (i.e. Anarchism in China, Anarchism in Japan, Anarchism in Korea) to this list, but I'm not sure how notable these books would have to be to fit in, and would like to request your opinion. I don't mind moving this discussion if there is a more appropriate place for it. Many thanks! ときさき くるみ not because they are easy, but because they are hard 14:46, 6 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

    Hi @Tokisaki Kurumi, glad to hear it! Which books—the ones in the bibliographies of those articles? The books with their own Wikipedia articles are the safest to not be contested additions but the Wikipedia way is to "be bold", add the books you feel fit the stated scope and if someone disagrees, they will say so and you will discuss. My take is that the whole list would be better off replaced with an overall bibliography. czar 02:08, 15 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]
    Thanks for your thoughts. BTW, I would like to share a little bit of the things: Firstly, Ba Jin wrote some pamphlets before the founding of PRC, I may examine them one by one. Secondly, both Peter Kropotkin and Max Stirner were once popular in East Asia, I may also add some works about them. ときさき くるみ not because they are easy, but because they are hard 17:06, 17 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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    Collectivism

    With all due respect to your change at Collectivism, I have now some troubles. I try to solve links to disambiguation pages in templates, but I have no clue where the links in the following templates should go:

    1. Template:Communism
    2. Template:Christian democracy sidebar
    3. Template:Communism sidebar
    4. Template:Christian Democracy
    5. Template:Community

    Can you solve these ones? It would solve 300+ links to disambiguation pages. The Banner talk 11:18, 14 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

     Done For what it's worth, I don't know what help those political sidebars really are to readers. They rarely cohere to a narrow enough scope that would make sense to a general, browsing reader. czar 02:04, 15 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]
    Thank you. The Banner talk 08:28, 15 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

    Apologies and thanks

    Just an apology for not participating in the Commune AfD, I got sucked down some rabbit-holes elsewhere, but thank you for persevering and helping to clean all that up. Kind regards, Goldsztajn (talk) 12:01, 19 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

    No worries. Thanks for your help researching the topic! czar 00:45, 20 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

    June 22: ONLINE WikiWednesday Salon NYC

    June 22, 7pm: ONLINE WikiWednesday Salon NYC
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    WikiCup 2022 July newsletter

    The third round of the 2022 WikiCup has now come to an end. Each of the sixteen contestants who made it into the fourth round had at least 180 points, which is a lower figure than last year when 294 points were needed to progress to round 4. Our top scorers in round 3 were:

    • Zulu (International Code of Signals) BennyOnTheLoose, with 746 points, a tally built both on snooker and other sports topics, and on more general subjects.
    • Kingdom of Scotland Bloom6132, with 683 points, garnered mostly from "In the news" items and related DYKs.
    • Sammi Brie, with 527, from a variety of submissions related to radio and television stations.

    Between them contestants achieved 5 featured articles, 4 featured lists, 51 good articles, 149 DYK entries, 68 ITN entries, and 109 good article reviews. As we enter the fourth round, remember that any content promoted after the end of round 3 but before the start of round 4 can be claimed in round 4. Please also remember that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them. When doing GARs, please make sure that you check that all the GA criteria are fully met. Please also remember that all submissions must meet core Wikipedia policies, regardless of the review process.

    If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is a good article nomination, a featured process, or anything else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed (remember to remove your listing when no longer required). Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. WikiCup judges: Sturmvogel 66 (talk) and Cwmhiraeth (talk) MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 12:51, 3 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

    Mother 3 GA Reassessment

    Mother 3 has been nominated for a community good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Eldomtom2 (talk) 17:51, 4 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

    Growth team newsletter #21

    Welcome to the twenty-first newsletter from the Growth team!

    New project: Positive reinforcement

    Design mockup of the Positive reinforcement module for mobile users. The new module is first a summary of the number of views and can be expanded to show stats, graphs, and other contribution information.
    Mockup of the Impact module, redesigned to add Positive reinforcement.
    • The Growth team started a new project: Positive reinforcement. We want newcomers to understand there is an interest in regularly editing Wikipedia, and we want to improve new editor retention.
    • We asked users from Arabic, Bangla, Czech and French Wikipedia about their feedback. Some people participated at mediawiki.org as well.
    • We summarized the initial feedback gathered from these community discussions, along with how we plan to iterate based on that feedback.
    • The first Positive Reinforcement idea is a redesign of the impact module: incorporating stats, graphs, and other contribution information. This idea received the widest support, and we plan to start our work based on the design illustrated on the side.
    • Please let us know what you think of this project, in any language.

    For mentors

    Scaling

    • "Add a link" available at more wikis ― Add a link feature has been deployed to more wikis: Catalan Wikipedia, Hebrew Wikipedia, Hindi Wikipedia, Korean Wikipedia, Norwegian Bokmål Wikipedia, Portuguese Wikipedia, Simple English Wikipedia, Swedish Wikipedia, Ukrainian Wikipedia, Abkhazian Wikipedia, Achinese Wikipedia, Adyghe Wikipedia, Afrikaans Wikipedia, Akan Wikipedia, Alemannisch Wikipedia, Amharic Wikipedia, Aragonese Wikipedia, Old English Wikipedia, Syriac Wikipedia, Egyptian Arabic Wikipedia, Asturian Wikipedia, Atikamekw Wikipedia, Avaric Wikipedia, Aymara Wikipedia, Azerbaijani Wikipedia, South Azerbaijani Wikipedia. This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias. The communities can configure locally how this feature works.
    • "Add an image" available at more wikis ― Add an image feature will be deployed to more wikis: Greek Wikipedia, Indonesian Wikipedia, Polish Wikipedia, Chinese Wikipedia. These communities will be able to configure locally how this feature works. [7]

    Suggested edits

    • Selecting topics ― We have created an "AND" filter to the list of topics at Special:Homepage. This way, newcomers can decide to select very specific topics ("Transportation" AND "Asia") or to have a broader selection ("Transportation" OR "Asia"). At the moment this feature is tested at pilot wikis.
    • Changes for Add a link ― We have built several improvements that came from community discussion and from data analysis. They will be available soon at the wikis.
      • Algorithm improvements ― The algorithm now avoids recommending links in sections that usually don't have links and for first names. Also, it now limits each article to only having three link suggestions by default (limited to the highest accuracy suggestions of all the available ones in the article).
      • User experience improvements ― We added a confirmation dialog when a user exits out of suggestion mode prior to making changes. We also improved post-edit dialog experience and allow newcomers to browse through task suggestions from the post-edit dialog.
      • Community configuration ― We allow communities to set a maximum number of links per article via Special:EditGrowthConfig.
      • Future change for Add a link feature ― We will suggest underlinked articles in priority. [8]
    • Patrolling suggested edits ― Some users at Arabic Wikipedia, Spanish Wikipedia, and Russian Wikipedia told us that "Add a link" and "Add an image" edits can be challenging to patrol. We are now brainstorming improvements to help address this challenge. We have already some ideas and we started some work to address this challenge. If you have any thoughts to add about the challenges of reviewing these tasks or how we should improve these tasks further, please let us know, in any language.

    Community configuration

    Communities can configure how the features work, using Special:EditGrowthConfig.

    • Communities can set the maximum number of "add an image" suggested tasks a newcomer can complete daily. [9]
    • Future change: allow communities to customize the "add a link" quality gate threshold easily, using Special:EditGrowthConfig. [10]

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    13:03, 5 July 2022 (UTC)

    IABot weirdness

    Hey Czar. In this edit you added a bunch of IA archive links, but the second one is a completely different source to what was originally cited. Any idea how that happened? Nikkimaria (talk) 01:41, 7 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

    Super strange! I can't see any reason why iabot would pull that archive URL. I've filed a bug report here with some detail on reproducing the error and fixed it manually in the meantime. Appreciate the heads up czar 06:41, 7 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

    Discussion at WP:THQ § BLP article changed to redirect?

     You are invited to join the discussion at WP:THQ § BLP article changed to redirect?. -- Marchjuly (talk) 13:12, 10 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

    Hi Czar. Perhaps you can answer this user's question at the Teahouse since you're (1) an admin and (2) the person who redirected Samantha Gorman. -- Marchjuly (talk) 13:14, 10 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
    Hi, the Teahouse response looks good to me but I'll watch the section in case a follow-up is needed. Thanks for the heads up. czar 17:24, 10 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

    Deletion review for Samantha Gorman

    An editor has asked for a deletion review of Samantha Gorman. Because you closed the deletion discussion for this page, speedily deleted it, or otherwise were interested in the page, you might want to participate in the deletion review. Lijil (talk) 20:26, 24 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

    Administrators' newsletter – July 2022

    News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2022).

    Technical news

    • user_global_editcount is a new variable that can be used in abuse filters to avoid affecting globally active users. (T130439)

    Arbitration

    Miscellaneous

    • The New Pages Patrol queue has around 10,000 articles to be reviewed. As all administrators have the patrol right, please consider helping out. The queue is here. For further information on the state of the project, see the latest NPP newsletter.
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    This Month in GLAM: June 2022



    Headlines
    • Albania report: CEE Spring 2022 in Albania and Kosovo
    • Argentina report: In the middle of new projects
    • Australia report: A celebration, a commitment, an edit-a-thon: Know My Name returns for 2022
    • Belgium report: Heritage and Wikimedian in Residence
    • Brazil report: FIRST WikiCon Brazil & Three States of GLAM
    • Croatia report: Network(ing) effect(s)
    • France report: French open content report promotion
    • Italy report: Opening and closing projects in June
    • Kosovo report: Edit-a-thon with Kino Lumbardhi; DokuTech; CEE Spring 2022 in Albania and Kosovo
    • New Zealand report: West Coast Wikipedian at Large and Auckland Museum updates
    • Poland report: Wikipedian in residence in the National Museum in Cracow; The next online meeting within the cycle of monthly editing GLAM meetings; Steps to communicate GLAM partnerships better and involve the Wikimedian community
    • Sweden report: 100 000 memories from the Nordic Museum; Report from the Swedish National Archives
    • Switzerland report: Diversity in GLAM Program
    • UK report: Featured images and cultural diversity
    • USA report: Fifty Women Sculptors; Juneteenth Edit-a-thon; Juneteenth Photobooths 2022; Wiknic June 2022; New York Botanical Garden June 2022; LGBT Pride Month
    • Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons report: Structured data on Commons editing now possible with OpenRefine 3.6; file uploading with 3.7
    • Calendar: July's GLAM events
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    Thu July 14: Astoria Beer Garden Wiki-Picnic

    Thu July 14, 7-9pm: Astoria Beer Garden Wiki-Picnic
    Beer garden at Bohemian Citizens' Benevolent Society.

    You are invited to join us for a planned outdoor gathering with the local Wikimedia NYC community at the beer garden of Queens's Bohemian Citizens' Benevolent Society, better known as "Bohemian Hall".

    All attendees are subject to Wikimedia NYC's Code of Conduct. In addition, to participate in person you should be vaccinated and also be sure to respect others' personal space, and we may limit overall attendance size if appropriate.

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    Your GA nomination of Molly White (writer)

    Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Molly White (writer) you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Hawkeye7 -- Hawkeye7 (talk) 19:42, 21 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

    Your GA nomination of Molly White (writer)

    The article Molly White (writer) you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Molly White (writer) for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already appeared on the main page as a "Did you know" item, or as a bold link under "In the News" or in the "On This Day" prose section, you can nominate it within the next seven days to appear in DYK. Bolded names with dates listed at the bottom of the "On This Day" column do not affect DYK eligibility. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Hawkeye7 -- Hawkeye7 (talk) 20:22, 21 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

    July 27: WikiWednesday Salon NYC (+Aug in-person for Wikimania)

    July 27, 7pm: ONLINE WikiWednesday Salon NYC
    Welcome to Wikimedia New York City!

    You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our monthly "WikiWednesday" evening salon (7-8pm) and knowledge-sharing workshop. To join the meeting from your computer or smartphone, just visit the Zoom link on the meetup page.

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    P.S. next in-person August 12-14 Wiki World's Fair for Wikimania

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    Books & Bytes – Issue 51

    The Wikipedia Library

    Books & Bytes
    Issue 51, May – June 2022

    • New library partners
      • SAGE Journals
      • Elsevier ScienceDirect
      • University of Chicago Press
      • Information Processing Society of Japan
    • Feedback requested on this newsletter
    • 1Lib1Ref May 2022

    Read the full newsletter

    Sent by MediaWiki message delivery on behalf of The Wikipedia Library team --16:45, 1 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

    Wikipedia talk:Wikipedia Signpost/2022-08-01/Essay

    Responded to you there, but forgot to ping. Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 8% of all FPs 03:58, 3 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

    Administrators' newsletter – August 2022

    News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2022).

    Administrator changes

    readded Valereee
    removed Anthony Appleyard (deceased) • Capitalistroadster • Samsara

    Guideline and policy news

    • An RfC has been closed with consensus to add javascript that will show edit notices for editors editing via a mobile device. This only works for users using a mobile browser, so iOS app editors will still not be able to see edit notices.
    • An RfC has been closed with the consensus that train stations are not inherently notable.

    Technical news

    • The Wikimania 2022 Hackathon will take place virtually from 11 August to 14 August.
    • Administrators will now see links on user pages for "Change block" and "Unblock user" instead of just "Block user" if the user is already blocked. (T308570)

    Arbitration

    • The arbitration case request Geschichte has been automatically closed after a 3 month suspension of the case.

    Miscellaneous

    • You can vote for candidates in the 2022 Board of Trustees elections from 16 August to 30 August. Two community elected seats are up for election.
    • Wikimania 2022 is taking place virtually from 11 August to 14 August. The schedule for wikimania is listed here. There are also a number of in-person events associated with Wikimania around the world.
    • Tech tip: When revision-deleting on desktop, hold ⇧ Shift between clicking two checkboxes to select every box in that range.
    Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 08:44, 5 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

    Fri/Sat/Sun Aug 12-14 with Saturday flagship Wiki World's Fair at Queens Museum

    Aug 12-14: Wiki World's Fair for Wikimania in NYC
    Queens Museum, venue of our Saturday flagship event, with the Unisphere just outside.

    You are invited to join the local Wikimedia NYC community for its flagship event to be held all-day on Saturday August 13, 2022 at the Queens Museum, in the context of the 1939/1964 fairgrounds at Flushing Meadows–Corona Park. There will also be smaller sessions for much of August 12-14 (Friday, Saturday, Sunday) as hybrid local gatherings for the global online conference Wikimania 2022.

    You are also encouraged to sign up for a lightning talk!

    All attendees are subject to Wikimedia NYC's Code of Conduct. In addition, to participate in person you should be vaccinated and also be sure to respect others' personal space, and we may limit overall attendance size if appropriate.

    Flagship event:

    10:00 am - 5:00 pm + evening
    (Queens Museum and Flushing Meadows–Corona Park, in the evening Queens Night Market)

    Other sessions (subject to change, see full Agenda):

    • Friday August 12 Evening welcome reception in Queens
    6:00 pm - 10:00 pm
    • Sunday August 14 Morning global breakfast banquet + Afternoon closing ceremony in Brooklyn
    10:00 am - 3:00 pm

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    Blocking from it.wiki filter

    Certainly it is possible to have the filter act in two steps, first the warning then the blocking, unfortunately the vandalism found was too much and too fast and we opted for immediate blocking. The problem is the continuous substitution of terms and expressions from Russian/Ukrainian and vice versa. I would have explained better by email but I see that is not possible. For now I only made a small change by reducing the blocking time and reported the issue to my sysop colleagues who created the filter. Elwood (talk) 23:31, 7 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

    Thanks for the context, @Elwood. I've reset my permissions to allow emails, if helpful. I didn't realize I had it turned off. czar 00:44, 8 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]
    @Elwood, I was just blocked a second time for attempting a simpler (single sentence) version of the edit I mentioned in w:it:Wikipedia:Richieste agli amministratori/Richieste correnti#Blocco filtro anti abusi: "erunda durnizi" su Territorio Libero. Is there any way to exempt me from the bot or should I give up on it? For context, here is the diff the edit I would like to eventually make, and I had only attempted to edit the first sentence of the first paragraph (the one sentence) from that diff when I was just blocked a second time. I currently can't edit it.wiki and haven't had this issue when making these fixes at any other Wikipedia. czar 01:03, 8 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]
    I've unblocked you but I recommend waiting until tomorrow, it's 3 a.m. here and I haven't got a response from the filter experts yet. --Elwood (talk) 01:13, 8 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

    This Month in GLAM: July 2022



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    January 6 United States Capitol attack

    Hello! Just an FYI, 2021 United States Capitol attack has been moved to January 6 United States Capitol attack, if you wish to update the prose at Jason Moore (Wikipedia editor) or elsewhere. Thanks! ---Another Believer (Talk) 15:14, 12 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

    Thanks. That's a strange move—wouldn't be surprised if it's overturned. As long as the original title doesn't become a dab page, I think it's fine to leave as is. czar 18:35, 12 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

    MOS reversion?

    Today, your August 2021 edit to WP:TPL was reverted as being "dubious". — Fourthords | =Λ= | 22:14, 17 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

    @Fourthords, thanks. I've started a discussion on the talk page. czar 02:18, 18 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

    Fabrizio De André page

    As I was one of the main compilers of that page, I would like to inform you that all the sections written by myself are not original research but based on information taken from books and magazines published during De André's lifetime and immediately after. Ugo1970 (talk) 14:13, 18 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

    Moved to Talk:Fabrizio De André § Unsourced text

    Aug 24: WikiWednesday Salon NYC (+Sep annual meeting)

    August 24, 7pm: ONLINE WikiWednesday Salon NYC
    Welcome to Wikimedia New York City!

    You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our monthly "WikiWednesday" evening salon (7-8pm) and knowledge-sharing workshop. To join the meeting from your computer or smartphone, just visit the Zoom link on the meetup page.

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    Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand

    Hey Czar

    When I asked a question at the Teahouse, you responded (with other editors) that some other assassinators' articles may be worth redirecting. So, is redirecting some articles involving the conspirators worth it? Or just keep it the way it is and improve it with more sources/references? Sarrail (talk) 17:42, 26 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

    Hi @Sarrail, every article topic is judged on its own merits so it really depends how much has been written about each individual. I believe someone mentioned that if all that can be written about an individual is that they participated in the assassination and later had a disease, then that would be good cause to redirect that person's name to the article about the assassination. czar 17:47, 26 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]
    So this would include Trifko Grabež. The section under assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand has basically no sources. Any others? Sarrail (talk) 17:55, 26 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]
    Well, it depends. Since every article is judged on its own merits, before redirecting an article, I recommend searching book and academic databases for articles on the topic. Since the subject is Serbian, there might be Serbian articles that just aren't as prominent in English-language search engines. Sometimes that research is worth sharing on the talk page for consideration. Other times the article can be redirected with an explanation of the lack of sourcing in the edit's edit summary. I wouldn't know about the other articles without taking a systematic look through them. With a cursory search on Grabež, yes, looks okay to redirect, given no major subject heading or monograph in WorldCat. czar 18:06, 26 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]
    The other assassinators were Cvjetko Popovic, Muhamed Mehmedbasic, Nedeljko Cabrinovic, Vaso Cubrilovic, and Danilo Ilic. Gavrilo Princip, Cubrilovic and Mehmedbasic seems like they are in the clear for now; what about the rest? What is your opinion on this? Sarrail (talk) 18:14, 26 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]
    Pardon the redirects, no way I can fix the accents on the keyboard. Sarrail (talk) 18:15, 26 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]
    @Sarrail, it'd be a significant project to investigate the sourcing of each, especially considering what very well may exist in offline, Serbian books. For example, Ilić is the weakest article right now, but it may just be a poor representation of what exists in hard-to-find-sources. czar 02:20, 31 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]
    Ok, thank you for your advice. Sarrail (talk) 14:39, 29 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

    Starbucks unions

    Hi, @Czar! I recently proposed your article Starbucks unions for the Meta-Wiki project Translation of the week, so I would really appreciate it if you could vote here for the proposal to succeed in a way that other Wikipedias are encouraged to translate it into their language. Thank you! --Brunnaiz (talk) 23:25, 30 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

    Thanks but that makes me want even more to rewrite it before it's translated! :) czar 02:17, 31 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

    Administrators' newsletter – September 2022

    News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2022).

    Guideline and policy news

    • A discussion is open to define a process by which Vector 2022 can be made the default for all users.
    • An RfC is open to gain consensus on whether Fox News is reliable for science and politics.

    Technical news

    Arbitration

    • An arbitration case regarding Conduct in deletion-related editing has been closed. The Arbitration Committee passed a remedy as part of the final decision to create a request for comment (RfC) on how to handle mass nominations at Articles for Deletion (AfD).
    • The arbitration case request Jonathunder has been automatically closed after a 6 month suspension of the case.

    Miscellaneous

    • The new pages patrol (NPP) team has prepared an appeal to the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) for assistance with addressing Page Curation bugs and requested features. You are encouraged to read the open letter before it is sent, and if you support it, consider signing it. It is not a discussion, just a signature will suffice.
    • Voting for candidates for the Wikimedia Board of Trustees is open until 6 September.
    Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 11:11, 1 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

    GOCE copy edit of Spanish Revolution of 1936


    WikiCup 2022 September newsletter

    WikiCup 2022 September newsletter

    The fourth round of the WikiCup has now finished. 383 points were required to reach the final, and the new round has got off to a flying start with all finalists already scoring. In round 4, Bloom6132 with 939 points was the highest points-scorer, with a combination of DYKs and In the news items, followed by BennyOnTheLoose, Sammi Brie and Lee Vilenski. The points of all contestants are swept away as we start afresh for the final round.

    At this stage, we say goodbye to the eight competitors who didn't quite make it; thank you for the useful contributions you have made to the Cup and Wikipedia, and we hope you will join us again next year. For the remaining competitors, remember that any content promoted after the end of round 4 but before the start of round 5 can be claimed in round 5. Remember too that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them, and importantly, before the deadline on October 31st!

    If you are concerned that your nomination, whether it be for a good article, a featured process, or anything else, will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed (remember to remove your listing when no longer required). If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to help keep down the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. The judges are Sturmvogel 66 and Cwmhiraeth. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 12:43, 3 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

    Growing Up Absurd up at FAC

    Hi talk page watchers, for anyone following my Paul Goodman project with interest in reviewing, I have a featured article nomination up for Growing Up Absurd, the 1960 countercultural bible that launched Goodman from the unknown to the limelight in the luminous twilight of his career.

     Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Growing Up Absurd/archive1.

    czar 17:56, 4 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

    DYK for Citizen Sleeper

    On 10 September 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Citizen Sleeper, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the developer of Citizen Sleeper was inspired by the feeling of people coming together and their own experiences as a non-binary person struggling to make ends meet through the gig economy? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Citizen Sleeper. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Citizen Sleeper), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

    — Maile (talk) 00:03, 10 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

    Your GA nomination of Zhemao hoaxes

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    This Month in GLAM: August 2022



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    Restoring a deleted page

    I know it was deleted but might there be a chance of restoring the page for Ling Tai? I have found better sources (such as newspapers regarding her childhood). Previously deleted pages (such as the actor John Brandon) have been restored so it's possible.Silurian25 (talk) 08:20, 16 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

    Hi @Silurian25, can you link the sources you have? The standard you'd be looking to meet with source quality and quantity is here. czar 15:01, 16 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]
    What I have are from Newspapers.com (you have to be a member to view).
    • Planned return to Hong Kong - 10 years ago, Ruislip and Northwood Gazette, 13 June 1990 (pg.8) plus other local newspapers that day
    • Theatre (first two: Aladdin pantomimes) - "The Stage", 10 January 1985 (pg.27); The Stage, 17 October 1985 (pg.3); Theatricalia
    Hopefully, these will be acceptable. Perhaps the page could be brought back briefly so improvements with these references can be used. Some people who have had pages on Wikipedia for years don't have any sources in comparison.Silurian25 (talk) 11:50, 17 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]
    Viewing those sources, (1) The Sunday People does not appear to be a reliable, encyclopedic source, as a tabloid, (2) the Gazette appears to be a single sentence mention, and (3) is a database listing so we're not sure what's in it. I can say on its face that this wouldn't be enough to overturn the existing consensus. I can, however, restore the article to draft status for you to find further sources (if you are confident more exist) and submit through the Articles for Creation process, but you shouldn't restore that article until someone has reviewed its contents. Let me know if you would like that. czar 04:56, 21 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

    Sep 28: Wikimedia NYC Annual Election/Members Meeting (+October 2 picnic)

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    Growth team newsletter #22

    Welcome to the twenty-second newsletter from the Growth team!

    Newcomers tasks reach the 500,000 edits milestone — more data publicly available

    As of the last week of June 2022, the newcomers of the world have completed over 500,000 newcomer tasks. In other words, newcomers have made over half a million Wikipedia edits via Growth’s “Suggested Edits” module.

    • About 30% of those edits were completed on mobile devices.
    • Usage continues to increase; in June 2022 almost 50,000 newcomer tasks were completed.

    We have added some new data to Grafana. You can now check the number of edits and reverts by task types, or the number of questions asked to mentors. You can filter the data by wiki.

    If you have any questions, or there is more data you want access to, please let us know.

    Ongoing projects and explorations

    The new impact module is part of the Positive Reinforcement project. The image displays the mockup for mobile we used for user testing.

    We are continuing our work on our new project, Positive Reinforcement. User testing of initial Positive Reinforcement designs was just completed. Interviews were conducted in Arabic, English, and Spanish. The outcome has been published on the Positive Reinforcement page. We are now utilizing user testing feedback along with prior community feedback to iterate and improve designs.

    We are exploring the idea of a Copy Edit structured task. We have tested copy edits in Wikipedia articles for arwiki, bnwiki, cswiki, eswiki (Growth pilot-wikis) and enwiki with two different methods: LanguageTool and Hunspell. We will share more details here and on the associated Copy Edit page once the evaluation is complete.

    Add an image was utilized at GLAM events in Argentina, Mexico, and Chile. For an overview of what was learned from these events, read: #1Pic1Article I: how Latin American heritage experts added images to Wikipedia (in English).

    Experiments analysis

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    • The feature also increases edit volume (i.e. the number of constructive edits made across the first couple weeks), while at the same time improving edit quality (i.e. the likelihood that the newcomer's edits aren't reverted).

    Newcomer task edit type analysis has been published.

    • Communities had expressed concern that newcomers whose initial edits were structured tasks wouldn’t go on to learn how to complete more difficult tasks. The Growth team data scientist conducted a Newcomer task edit type analysis to see if this was indeed the case.
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    The deployment will happen first at the pilot wikis, then at all wikis. Existing lists of mentors will be automatically converted, no action will be needed from the mentors. [11][12]

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    See also section on Noam Chomsky

    I realize this isn't the place to discuss content on the Chomsky page but I think your revert may have been mistaken. I could be mistaken but as far as I can tell the "see also" section isn't just a list of works by Chomsky nor is it supposed to be, as demonstrated by the current content and by the MOS. XeCyranium (talk) 02:42, 26 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

    That was my error—I thought it was added the Selected bibliography section, not See also, per the prior edit. This said, when a proposed edit is reverted as controversial, the general Wikipedia practice is to start a discussion on the article's talk page to find consensus. Reverting the revert is seen as disruptive (edit warring). That's where this should go next. czar 04:08, 26 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

    "Plessie" listed at Redirects for discussion

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    Sun Oct 2: WikiNYC Post-Election Wiki-Picnic

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    Books & Bytes – Issue 52

    The Wikipedia Library

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    Issue 52, July – August 2022

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    Administrators' newsletter – October 2022

    News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2022).

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    • The Articles for creation helper script now automatically recognises administrator accounts which means your name does not need to be listed at WP:AFCP to help out. If you wish to help out at AFC, enable AFCH by navigating to Preferences → Gadgets and checking the "Yet Another AfC Helper Script" box.

    Arbitration

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    Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 11:42, 1 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

    Improper close?

    Not that I think the final result would differ, but you closed Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Cul (software) in 48h. Shouldn't we wait 7d before closing any discussion? Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 09:59, 3 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

    Hi, it was opened on 14:26, 24 September 2022 (UTC) and closed slightly over a week later: 22:57, 1 October 2022 (UTC) but let me know if I missed something. czar 10:08, 3 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]
    My apologies, I must have been looking at some wrong date. You are correct. Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 06:17, 5 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

    This Month in GLAM: September 2022



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    Thanks and request(s)

    Hello! I wanted to thank you belatedly for your invitation to explore WP:WikiProject Anarchism. I think my contributions in this area would be occasional at best, but have been very impressed with how organized the WikiProject is compared to most. On that note, I have a couple of requests:

    • Might be worthing checking the embedded links in the "Anarchism" welcome message moving forward (if it hasn't been updated already). At least one of them – the one for "adopting a cleanup category" – was broken and should point to here instead of there (I think).
    • Could you please send an Anarchism project welcome message to the following user: Janosabel? Apparently he is quite keen on following the project discussions, and was impressed when I mentioned it was the very first WikiProject invitation I received as a new editor on WP last year.
    • If/when you have time, could you please have a read of Seven Days (magazine)? The magazine was started as an anti-establishment news magazine of the American Left in the 1970s by a group of editors including David Dellinger. Most people associate Dellinger with socialism but in his later years he leaned more anarchist, and I've taken great pains to make sure we don't automatically label Seven Days as "socialist" (or "anarchist" for that matter) unless there are reliable secondary sources that say so. For now the label "anti-establishment" is definitely sourced; in any case, they aspired to appeal to the American Left as a whole so probably resisted being pigeonholed either way. Anyway interested in any feedback or suggestions you may have on the article. Thanks in advance!

    Cielquiparle (talk) 09:53, 10 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

    Thanks, @Cielquiparle! It's appreciated.
    re: that link, I use the old (broken?) one because I wager it has the longest chance of redirecting to the right place if it moves again.
    Nice work on Seven Days! I'm familiar with Dellinger from his work with Paul Goodman, both Liberation (magazine) and the press in Dellinger's tiny NJ commune that printed (and crowdfunded) what Goodman contended was his best work. I've been chipping away at our Goodman articles for close to a decade now. I also have Andrew Hunt's Dellinger biography if that would be helpful. czar 02:16, 19 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

    Your draft article, Draft:Haunted Chocolatier

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    Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Liz Read! Talk! 04:13, 12 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

    Your GA nomination of Katie Sierra suspension controversy

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    Your GA nomination of Katie Sierra suspension controversy

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    Your GA nomination of Katie Sierra suspension controversy

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    Sat Oct 29: Wikidata Day in NYC

    Sat Oct 29: Wikidata Day in NYC
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    Wikidata 10th Birthday

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    It is inspired by such past events as the Wikipedia Day tradition in New York City.

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    Precious anniversary

    Precious
    Seven years!

    --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:41, 18 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

    Thank you today for Mischief Makers, introduced (in 2014): "Shake, shake! Another cult classic, MM was a strange game—perhaps par for Treasure—but also their first Nintendo game. It had really strange gameplay centered around grabbing and shaking things—I haven't heard of it being adopted since. While it got mixed reviews at the time, perhaps due to the unpopularity of a 2D game during great hype for 3D technology, GamesRadar called the game "possibly the most underrated and widely ignored ... on the N64"." --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:02, 26 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

    Thank you today for Blast Corps, introduced: "Flush from its recent expansion as Nintendo bought major stake in the company, Rare handed an ambitious Nintendo 64 console project to four young, recent grads in 1996. They, in turn, released Blast Corps, a game of creative destruction, to universal acclaim, with one million copies sold. Even minding the indie movement, projects of such stature are scoped much differently today. Blast Corps led a series of Nintendo console games with consistently high critical acclaim (think GoldenEye 007, Banjo-Kazooie, Perfect Dark, Jet Force Gemini). In comparison, Blast Corps was not so much a cult classic or sleeper hit as simply cherished. The game's creative concept was emblematic of the company's spirit and left fans hungry for more even two decades later. It was among the most anticipated re-releases in the 2015 Rare Replay retrospective compilation and proved to be the standout favorite among reviewers." - Enjoy the day and the season! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:14, 23 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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    Tomb of the Mask

    I noticed your early 2016 draft but it wasnt used. So i created my own Tomb of the mask article but i used some of your draft. SMBMovieFan (talk) 00:49, 20 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

    Orphaned non-free image File:Mario characters.jpg

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    Your GA nomination of Jason Moore (Wikipedia editor)

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    Your GA nomination of Jason Moore (Wikipedia editor)

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    Thanks for your work on this article, Czar. I was a bit bothered by how the entry was created, but the article's in a much better place now. Happy editing! ---Another Believer (Talk) 13:07, 2 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]
    By the way, I'm not sure if project or user pages can be linked within "In the news" hooks. If not, a better hook might be: "... that Jason Moore and other Wikipedia editors curated the entry about the January 6 United States Capitol attack in real time?" (or similar). Just a thought, take care! ---Another Believer (Talk) 15:08, 3 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]
    Thanks! I think it ended up in a good place, but do continue to let me know if you have ideas for improvements. And I'll pass the hook idea along czar 14:44, 5 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]
    Well, definitely not a big deal, but since you asked, I'll just say the article is slightly inaccurate in that I don't live in Portland currently. However, I'm not aware of any sources verifying my current location. There are sources published from 2013 to 2021 which confirm my residence in Portland at the time, so the article could be updated to say I "lived in Portland as of 2013–2021" or similar, but perhaps this is a minor thing to worry about. I was just planning to wait until a source confirmed my new location before submitting a request to update the entry. I'll let you decide if changes are necessary. Take care! ---Another Believer (Talk) 16:56, 10 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]
    Have a tweet we can cite? :) czar 04:25, 11 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]
    Wow, Another Believer, you're a GA! Congratulations! Liz Read! Talk! 08:59, 12 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]
    @Liz Thanks! (Czar did the major lift here.) I never imagined I'd see the day and I'm flattered. A dream come true :) ---Another Believer (Talk) 17:33, 12 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]
    Sorry, Czar, I don't tweet. ---Another Believer (Talk) 17:30, 13 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]
    Fascinating! nl:Wikipedia:Te_beoordelen_pagina's/Toegevoegd_20221218#Jason_Moore_(Wikipedia_Editor) Thought I'd put this on your radar as the primary author of the ENWP bio. ---Another Believer (Talk) 23:29, 18 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

    Instead of posting a formal request on the article's talk page, I'll ask you here if applying Category:American Wikimedians is appropriate. Also, I had added a COI template to talk page at th:ฉบับร่าง:เจสัน มัวร์ (บรรณาธิการวิกิพีเดีย), which was deleted by another editor for some reason. Sharing in case you'd like to add a talk page translation template like you did at es:Discusión:Jason Moore. Either way, thanks again and happy editing! ---Another Believer (Talk) 17:58, 14 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

    ty! That looks like a user category so I wouldn't use that in mainspace. I think Category:Wikipedia people is the best mainspace category for present purposes. Will take a look at the Thai article too. czar 04:49, 15 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    I view Category:American Wikimedians as a content category and Category:American Wikipedians as a user category, but I don't feel strongly about including. Thanks and take care for now! ---Another Believer (Talk) 18:37, 15 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

    Administrators' newsletter – November 2022

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    Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:22, 1 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

    Hello

    Hello Czar

    Sorry I am terrible at using the Wikipedia interface but I'm a historian v much interested in Anarchism. I keep meaning to update things on Wikipedia but find the ui on this site v difficult to use. I promise I am not v old haha, not that that matters. Anyway, I often have a lot of information with good sources. Would you be interested at all on collaborating on stuff like this? I can provide a lot of the info and you can help with the Wikipedia side? I am a historian tho and not v knowledgeable of the broader philosophy of Anarchism or its modern theory especially.

    Sjp Shaunjpitt (talk) 22:55, 1 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

    @Shaunjpitt, you bet—happy to help with whatever you need! Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Anarchism would definitely chip in too with any hands-on collaboration. czar 01:00, 2 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

    New message from Jo-Jo Eumerus

    Hello, Czar. You have new messages at Talk:TRAPPIST-1.
    Message added 09:02, 2 November 2022 (UTC). You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

    Pinging you since you did comment on the second FAC, in case you have suggestions for resolving the issues noted there. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk) 09:02, 2 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

    Sat Nov 12: WikiConference North America in NYC

    Sat Nov 12: WikiConference North America in NYC
    Like Wikidata Day last month, this event will be at Brooklyn Public Library by Grand Army Plaza.
    WikiConference North America 2022.

    You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for WikiConference North America in NYC, as a local satellite event and celebration of the primarily online WikiConference 2022 (Nov 11-13). The Saturday in-person event will feature beginner workshops, keynote presentations, breakout group discussions, and lightning talks.

    It is inspired by such past events as the Wikipedia Day tradition in New York City.

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    Promotion of Growing Up Absurd

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    WikiCup 2022 November newsletter

    The 2022 WikiCup has drawn to a close with the final round going down to the wire. The 2022 champion is

    • England Lee Vilenski (1752 points), who won in 2020 and was runner up in both 2019 and last year. In the final round he achieved 3 FAs and 15 GAs, mostly on cue sports. He was closely followed by
    • Kingdom of Scotland Bloom6132 (1732), who specialised in "In the news" items and DYKs, and who has reached the final round of the Cup for the past three years. Next was
    • Zulu (International Code of Signals) BennyOnTheLoose (1238), another cue sports enthusiast, also interested in songs, followed by
    • New York City Muboshgu (1082), an "In the news" contributor, a seasoned contestant who first took part in the Cup ten years ago. Other finalists were
    • Sammi Brie (930), who scored with a featured article, good articles and DYKs on TV and radio stations,
    • United Nations Kavyansh.Singh (370), who created various articles on famous Americans, including an FA on Louis H. Bean, famed for his prediction of election outcomes. Next was
    • Chicago PCN02WPS (292), who scored with good articles and DYKs on sporting and other topics and
    • Toronto Z1720 (25) who had DYKs on various topics including historic Canadians.

    During the WikiCup, contestants achieved 37 featured articles, 349 good articles, 360 featured article reviews, 683 good article reviews and 480 In the news items, so Wikipedia has benefited greatly from the activities of WikiCup competitors. Well done everyone! All those who reached the final round will receive awards and the following special awards will be made, based on high performance in particular areas of content creation and review. So that the finalists do not have an undue advantage, these prizes are awarded to the competitor who scored the highest in any particular field in a single round, or the overall leader in this field.

    • England Lee Vilenski wins the featured article prize, for a total of 6 FAs during the course of the competition and 3 in the final round.
    • United Nations Kavyansh.Singh wins the featured list prize, for 3 FLs in round 2.
    • Adam Cuerden wins the featured picture prize, for 39 FPs during the competition.
    • Toronto Z1720 wins the featured article reviewer prize, for 35 FARs in round 4.
    • New York (state) Epicgenius wins the good article prize, for 32 GAs in round 1.
    • SounderBruce wins the featured topic prize, for 4 FT articles in round 1.
    • England Lee Vilenski wins the good topic prize, for 34 GT articles in round 5.
    • Sammi Brie wins the good article reviewer prize, for 71 GARs overall.
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    Women in Green Editathon — October '22
    Thank you for your excellent contributions to GA nomination Katie Sierra suspension controversy at the WiG Wildcard Edition editathon! Best, Alanna the Brave (talk) 14:58, 12 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

    DYK for Jason Moore (Wikipedia editor)

    On 15 November 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Jason Moore (Wikipedia editor), which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Jason Moore and other Wikipedia editors curated the entry about the January 6 United States Capitol attack in real time? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Jason Moore (Wikipedia editor). You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Jason Moore (Wikipedia editor)), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

    Cwmhiraeth (talk) 00:02, 15 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

    Books & Bytes – Issue 53

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    Growth team newsletter #23

    Welcome to the twenty-third newsletter from the Growth team!

    Highlights

    Screenshot of the positive reinforcement module improvements.

    Positive reinforcement: an improved impact module to test

    The goal of the Growth team is to encourage newcomers to try editing for the first time, and encourage them to keep editing. We want to increase newcomers' motivation by showing them how impactful their edits are.

    Newcomers have access to an impact module; you can find yours at Special:Impact. The revised impact module provides new editors with more context about their impact. It will display the number of edits, the number of thanks received, the last time they edited, the number of consecutive days they edited, and the number of views for the articles they edited.

    This module will soon be available at our pilot wikis starting December 1. You can already test this new module at Beta Wikipedia. For safety reasons, do not use your regular account and password at Beta wiki. Create a new, specific account for this wiki, with a different password.

    Structured tasks: improvements based on patroller feedback

    After the deployment of Structured tasks, we received feedback from various communities regarding how patrollers of recent changes were feeling overwhelmed by an increase in edits to check, and how some edits were poor quality or of poor relevance.

    We made several improvements based on the feedback we received. Several points of improvement have already been addressed:

    • Patroller fatigue:
      • By default, newcomers can complete up to 25 "add a link" tasks and 25 "add an image" tasks per day. If patrollers are overburdened, each community can use Special:EditGrowthConfig to lower that limit.
    • Quality of edits: what constitutes a "quality edit" is not a well defined concept. We initiated a discussion and summarized our findings. We also worked on the following improvements:
      • Add a Link
        • Underlinked articles are now prioritized, so it's less likely that newcomers are adding links to articles that are already have a lot of links.
        • The confidence score was increased, so suggestions are more likely to be accurate.
        • The default number of suggested links per article has been lowered to 3. This can be changed at Special:EditGrowthConfig. Communities can also exclude articles containing certain templates or categories from being suggested.
      • Add an Image
        • Lists will no longer receive "add an image" suggestions.
        • Disambiguation pages will no longer receive "add an image" suggestions.
        • We have many further improvements we plan to make to "add an image" in early 2023. [20]

    The Positive Reinforcement project will also address some of the concerns around encouraging newcomers to progress to higher value edits. The Growth team will soon work on strategies geared at "Leveling up" newcomers so they progress from easy to more difficult tasks.

    Recent changes

    • All Wikipedias now have the same onboarding experience. Previously, at a few wikis, 20% of new accounts didn't get the Growth features when they created their account. These 20% of new accounts were used as a control group, in order to know if the Growth features were changing newcomers' behavior. Experiments have shown that Growth features improve activation and retention, and as we want to provide the same onboarding experience at all Wikipedias, we have decided to remove the control groups. We will utilize control groups when testing new features, and German Wikipedia keeps a control group at their request. [21]
    • The quality score for "add a link" suggestions will change. We will suggest less links for each article, but they will be more accurate. We will first deploy it at our pilot wikis, and then to all other wikis where this feature is available. [22][23]
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    • The Mentor dashboard's "Your mentees" module will have a new footer, called "Recent changes by your mentees". This footer will include a link to Recent changes, where mentors can see only edits made by their own mentees. [24]

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    News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2022).

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    Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 12:43, 1 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

    Update on my Article's Subject: More Official and Significant News Coverage

    Hello. A couple of months ago, you or somebody deleted my first article Matthew Kenslow on grounds you guys listed and I had to agree with you guys on them. However guess what, I kept tabs on Matthew Kenslow periodically and found that he got all over news media. Please take time to look at these RECENT coverage but know that this is not all. Please also take the time to Google his name and keep scrolling. He is beginning to appear everywhere worldwide which makes me believe that he is (or is nearly) encyclopedic material. Please let me know what you think. If there are more, I'll let you know:

    Yahoo!Entertainment: https://www.yahoo.com/now/matthew-kenslow-released-juggling-issues-111200764.html

    Digital Journal: https://www.digitaljournal.com/pr/matthew-kenslow-has-released-juggling-the-issues-living-with-aspergers-syndrome-an-award-winning-book-on-autism-spectrum-disorder

    SNNTV News: https://www.snntv.com/story/47888706/matthew-kenslow-has-released-juggling-the-issues-living-with-aspergers-syndrome-an-awardwinning-book-on-autism-spectrum-disorder

    Benzinga: https://www.benzinga.com/pressreleases/22/12/30003488/matthew-kenslow-has-released-juggling-the-issues-living-with-aspergers-syndrome-an-award-winning-bo

    Shoreline Beacon: https://www.shorelinebeacon.com/newsfile/147086-matthew-kenslow-has-released-juggling-the-issues-living-with-aspergers-syndrome-an-awardwinning-book-on-autism-spectrum-disorder

    Keep the Faith Magazine: https://www.keepthefaith.co.uk/2022/07/26/aspergers-and-unstoppable-matthew-kenslow-doesnt-let-labels-limit-him/

    YourTango: https://www.yourtango.com/self/went-from-being-teased-having-autism-social-media-influencer

    e27: https://e27.co/how-autism-shaped-my-life-and-what-i-want-people-to-know-20220906/

    KTTC Minnesota : https://kttc.marketminute.com/article/newsfile-2022-12-8-matthew-kenslow-has-released-juggling-the-issues-living-with-aspergers-syndrome-an-award-winning-book-on-autism-spectrum-disorder

    The Sun Chronicle: https://thesunchronicle.marketminute.com/article/newsfile-2022-12-8-matthew-kenslow-has-released-juggling-the-issues-living-with-aspergers-syndrome-an-award-winning-book-on-autism-spectrum-disorder

    The Daily Press: https://www.timminspress.com/newsfile/147086-matthew-kenslow-has-released-juggling-the-issues-living-with-aspergers-syndrome-an-awardwinning-book-on-autism-spectrum-disorder/


    and hundreds more. I just keep seeing more and more that it's impossible to list them all here.

    I hope this will get my first and at this time only article reinstated.


    Regards,

    CCFT Historian

    CCFT Historian (talk) 06:53, 10 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

    Pinging Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Matthew Kenslow participants @TomStar81, Robert C 571, ReaderofthePack, and GPL93 for your consideration.
    I wasn't involved in this discussion apart from judging its consensus but I can already tell from the URLs that most of these are press releases (PR). Wikipedia requires significant coverage in multiple reliable, independent sources (?) to warrant a dedicated article. Off the bat, it looks like these sources have the same issues with those listed in the deletion discussion, on which ReaderofthePack had elaborated on the article's talk page. Wikipedia cares about the quality and depth of the coverage, such that we can write an article without delving into original research from primary sources. Whether there are hundreds or thousands of press releases on this topic is immaterial.
    re: your "first and ... only article", on Wikipedia no one "owns" any content. Part of the nature of Wikipedia is that your contributions will be continually rewritten and removed, especially as you get started. Some of the better ways to avoid that are to work on existing articles that already have reliable, secondary source coverage. czar 17:12, 10 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]
    OK thanks. I understand that. Well I will wait for what the other participants says and I will keep looking for more articles. I got excited when I saw all those but as you say I guess PR doesn't really count.
    Also I have worked on a lot of other existing articles, but I meant to say this was the only one I started myself.
    CCFT Historian (talk) 19:42, 10 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]
    • I'm seeing a lot of fluff, but not a lot gold. Most of this only establishes that he exisits, not that he's done anything worthy of inclusion here (no Oscar award, or Tony, or Emmy, or Grammy, or Nobel Prize , or Election to the papacy, or declaration of a new nation as its leader, etc). To your credit, you've successfully managed to find plenty of sources that confirm he exists, but thats true of just about anyone. If I went digging I'd find enough information on myself to write an article, but yearbooks and newspaper quotes and those three times I happened to be in the background of pictures at important moments don't count for anything when trying to establish notability. What we need, if you will, is precious material: Anyone can dig a hole anywhere, but yours need to result in people finding gold, or oil, or fossils, or so forth. Without that, your hole is no more remarkable than anyone else's hole, save but to those of us who have the job of filling the holes so others don't fall in them. TomStar81 (Talk) 13:30, 14 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]
    • I remember this AfD - it was frustrating since there was coverage, but not really enough of the type that could help establish notability. It's really super difficult to establish notability nowadays on Wikipedia and honestly, it can feel discouraging when you see someone get famous for doing something silly, stupid, or outright dangerous, yet people who are doing great things don't get even a small percentage of their coverage. We can't really do anything to make up that difference, something that is sometimes really unfortunate. I've seen a lot of pages deleted on people who I felt deserved an article for the work they've done, but just didn't get that coverage. In the meantime what I recommend is looking for articles that need work - if you are interested in autism specific articles, there is a category for articles that need more expansion: Category:Autism stubs. Some of them may be articles that fail notability (and as such, would need to be nominated), but some of them are articles on topics that meet guidelines but need to be more fleshed out. There are a wide variety of topics in there, from people to organizations to films and so on. My only caution would be to exercise extra caution if the topic is health and medicine related, as those have a specific set of rules that must be followed. (You can read more about this at WP:MEDRS.) ReaderofthePack(formerly Tokyogirl79) (｡◕‿◕｡) 20:42, 27 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

    This Month in GLAM: November 2022



    Headlines
    • Africa report: Wiki Loves Africa 2022 Winners & 2022 ISA Drive
    • Albania report: An event at the National History Museum in Tirana
    • Brazil report: WLM tool, Wiki Takes, New WMB's Strategy, and 2 new GLAMs
    • India report: Two Open Culture films on India's Odia language, made with volunteer labour
    • Indonesia report: Open GLAM Conference; Sundanese Wikisource Workshop; Minangkabau books digitization
    • Italy report: Video and photo to share the beauty of Italy's heritage
    • Netherlands report: Linking heritage data at HackaLOD
    • New Zealand report: Integrating with the BHL, loading natural science specimens and data
    • Poland report: How Wiki helps to explore and enjoy art & culture; Wiki workshop for the National Museum in Krakow; GLAM online meeting on ideas for 2023; Wiki Loves Monuments 2022
    • Serbia report: Wikipedian in residence at Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade and National Museum of Zrenjanin
    • Sweden report: Wikipedian in Residence at Musikverket; Women and architecture; Gymnasiearbete; New uploads from the Swedish National Archives; WLM winners; Images of Äpplet
    • Switzerland report: Swiss GLAM Program
    • UK report: Khalili Foundation
    • Uruguay report: Let's GLAM Together in Uruguay: Help us organize the GLAM Wiki Conference 2023
    • USA report: WikiConference North America 2022; Punk Wikipedia Edit-a-thon; Kensho Technologies Impact-a-thon
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    Nomination of Emma Goldman: A Documentary History of the American Years for deletion

    A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Emma Goldman: A Documentary History of the American Years is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

    The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Emma Goldman: A Documentary History of the American Years until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

    Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article until the discussion has finished.

    JMWt (talk) 18:12, 11 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

    a user you may know has passed away

    Hi Czar, I don't know if you already heard, but Digitaleffie recently died. There is a memorial on her talk page. I thought since you did some work with the Smithsonian that you might know her and want to know. Rachel Helps (BYU) (talk) 17:36, 14 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

    YYYY categories

    When you create "Year in X" categories that are template-based and thus autogenerate their own parent categories through the template, such as Category:2024 video games, could you please also ensure that you take the time to also create any parent categories that don't exist yet, such as Category:2024 in video gaming, Category:Products introduced in 2024, Category:2024 software and Category:Games and sports introduced in 2024? Content can't be left sitting in redlinked categories, but since those are autogenerated by a template they're impossible to remove and can be resolved only by creating them -- so any time you create a template-generated category like that, you need to ensure that you also create any and all missing parent categories, so that that you're not making unnecessary cleanup work for other people by leaving any redlinked parent categories for Special:WantedCategories to pick up after the fact. Thanks. Bearcat (talk) 16:31, 15 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

    Wouldn't the better route be to have the template suppress showing those red categories if they don't exist? It's treacherous enough creating a 2024 year-based category for a single entity, but at least I could justify it, whereas the categories you mention will be empty (apart from this). czar 18:11, 15 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

    Walter James

    Why did you move Walter James without changing any of the incoming links? Now there are over 100 links to a disambiguation page. Steelkamp (talk) 06:04, 20 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

    My edit summary explains the "why" part but I think you know that already. That incoming links subsequently need disambiguating is unfortunate but all part of normal follow-up editing, not borne by the page mover. czar 06:13, 20 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]
    I can't say I'm a fan of page movers not cleaning up links after themselves. Steelkamp (talk) 06:21, 20 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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    Merry Christmas!

    Merry Christmas, Czar

    Or Season's Greetings or Happy Winter Solstice!
    As the year winds to a close, I would like to take a moment to
    recognize your hard work and offer heartfelt gratitude for all you do for Wikipedia.
    May this Holiday Season bring you and yours nothing but joy, health and prosperity.
    Onel5969 TT me 20:07, 20 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

    Happy holidays!

    Happy New Year!

    Happy Holidays and Happy New Year, Czar!

    The other day, I was having a conversation with someone about holiday cards and social media. It occurred to me that, in the years since I left Facebook, the site I use most to communicate with people I like isn't actually a social media site at all. If you're receiving this, it's pretty likely I've talked with you more recently than I have my distant relatives and college friends on FB, at very least, and we may have even collaborated on something useful. So here's a holiday "card", Wikipedia friend. :) Hope the next couple weeks bring some fun and/or rest. — Rhododendrites talk \\ 18:12, 22 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

    Dec 28: WikiWed Salon (+ Wikipedia Day on Jan 15)

    Dec 28: WikiWednesday @ BPL + on Zoom
    WikiWednesday is back in-person, pizza included!

    You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our WikiWednesday Salon, with in-person at Brooklyn Public Library by Grand Army Plaza, in the Central Library's Info Commons Lab, as well as an online-based participation option. No experience of anything at all is required. All are welcome!

    We are proud to announce that monthly PIZZA has returned!

    All attendees are subject to Wikimedia NYC's Code of Conduct. In addition, to participate in person you should be vaccinated and also be sure to respect others' personal space, and we may limit overall attendance size if appropriate. Brooklyn Public Library encourages the wearing of masks when indoors, and especially be mindful of those in your proximity.

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    New article you may be interested in

    Hey, Czar. Merry Christmas! Back in 2014, you created a redirect for Mew-Genics, for the game that would eventually find itself in development hell. I wanted to inform you that a couple days back, I finally created a standalone article for Mewgenics and was sure to change the target of your redirect to it. I hope to see you contribute to the article in the future. All the best! BOTTO (T•C) 18:10, 24 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

    Merry Christmas!

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    Весела Коледа!

    Hello, Czar! Thank you for your work to maintain and improve Wikipedia! Wishing you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
    CAPTAIN RAJU(T) 23:01, 25 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

    Spread the WikiLove and leave other users this message by adding {{subst:Multi-language Season's Greetings}}

    CAPTAIN RAJU(T) 23:01, 25 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

    Your GA nomination of Parents' Day (novel)

    Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Parents' Day (novel) you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Urve -- Urve (talk) 07:40, 26 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

    Merry Merry!

    Merry Christmas and a Prosperous 2023!

    Hello Czar, may you be surrounded by peace, success and happiness on this seasonal occasion. Spread the WikiLove by wishing another user a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past, a good friend, or just some random person. Sending you heartfelt and warm greetings for Christmas and New Year 2023.
    Happy editing,
    JOEBRO64 14:13, 26 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

    Spread the love by adding {{subst:Seasonal Greetings}} to other user talk pages.

    JOEBRO64 14:13, 26 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

    Happy New Year!

    Czar,
    Thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia, and a Happy New Year to you and yours!     CAPTAIN RAJU(T) 21:51, 31 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]
    – Send New Year cheer by adding {{subst:Happy New Year}} to user talk pages.
    CAPTAIN RAJU(T) 21:51, 31 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

    Your GA nomination of Parents' Day (novel)

    The article Parents' Day (novel) you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Parents' Day (novel) for comments about the article, and Talk:Parents' Day (novel)/GA1 for the nomination. Well done! If the article has not already appeared on the main page as a "Did you know" item, or as a bold link under "In the News" or in the "On This Day" prose section, you can nominate it within the next seven days to appear in DYK. Bolded names with dates listed at the bottom of the "On This Day" column do not affect DYK eligibility. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Urve -- Urve (talk) 04:22, 1 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

    Welcome to the 2023 WikiCup!

    Happy New Year and Happy New WikiCup! The 2023 competition has just begun and all article creators, expanders, improvers and reviewers are welcome to take part. Even if you are a novice editor you should be able to advance to at least the second round, improving your editing skills as you go. If you have already signed up, your submissions page can be found here. If you have not yet signed up, you can add your name here and the judges will set up your submissions page ready for you to take part. Any questions on the scoring, rules or anything else should be directed to one of the judges, or posted to the WikiCup talk page. Signups will close at the end of January, and the first round will end on 26 February; the 64 highest scorers at that time will move on to round 2. The judges for the WikiCup this year are: Sturmvogel 66 (talk · contribs · email) and Cwmhiraeth (talk · contribs · email). Good luck! MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 14:16, 1 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

    Happy New Year, Czar!

    Happy New Year!

    Czar,
    Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia.
    — Moops ⋠T⋡ 03:04, 2 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

       Send New Year cheer by adding {{subst:Happy New Year fireworks}} to user talk pages.

    — Moops ⋠T⋡ 03:04, 2 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

    Growing Up Absurd scheduled for TFA

    This is to let you know that the above article has been scheduled as today's featured article for 16 February 2023. Please check that the article needs no amendments. Feel free to amend the draft blurb, which can be found at Wikipedia:Today's featured article/February 16, 2023, or to make comments on other matters concerning the scheduling of this article at Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/February 2023. I suggest that you watchlist Wikipedia:Main Page/Errors from the day before this appears on Main Page. Thanks and congratulations on your work. Gog the Mild (talk) 17:42, 3 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

    Administrators' newsletter – January 2023

    News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2022).

    Guideline and policy news

    Arbitration

    Miscellaneous

    • Voting for the Sound Logo has closed and the winner is expected to be announced February to April 2023.
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    Sun Jan 15: Wikipedia Day returns to NYC!

    Sunday January 15: Wikipedia Day 2023 NYC
    Wikipedia Day NYC is back in-person at Jefferson Market Library, cake included!

    You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our Wikipedia Day 2023 at Jefferson Market Library in Greenwich Village, a Wikipedia and Public Domain Day celebration and mini-conference as part of birthday festivities marking the project's founding in 2001. In addition to the party, the event features presentations by Jason Scott of the Internet Archive and Anne Hunnell Chen of the International (Digital) Dura-Europos Archive, panels, and, of course, lightning talks. Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues!

    And there will be WIKICAKE.

    1 - 5PM at Jefferson Market Library, 425 Sixth Avenue in Manhattan
    After 5PM, migration to afterparty at Ace Hotel, 20 West 29th St
    Livestreaming is likely, watch the wiki meetup page

    All attendees are subject to Wikimedia NYC's Code of Conduct. In addition, to participate in person you should be vaccinated and also be sure to respect others' personal space, and we may limit overall attendance size if appropriate. New York Public Library encourages the wearing of masks when indoors, and especially be mindful of those in your proximity.

    P.S. Next regular event February 15 will be Feb WikiWednesday.

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    Your GA nomination of Ilie Cătărău

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    Your GA nomination of Trader Joe's unions

    Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Trader Joe's unions you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Shushugah -- Shushugah (talk) 05:22, 10 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

    This Month in GLAM: December 2022



    Headlines
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    Your GA nomination of Trader Joe's unions

    The article Trader Joe's unions you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Trader Joe's unions for comments about the article, and Talk:Trader Joe's unions/GA1 for the nomination. Well done! If the article has not already appeared on the main page as a "Did you know" item, or as a bold link under "In the News" or in the "On This Day" prose section, you can nominate it within the next seven days to appear in DYK. Bolded names with dates listed at the bottom of the "On This Day" column do not affect DYK eligibility. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Shushugah -- Shushugah (talk) 14:02, 11 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

    Sparticist uprising -- "bloody week"

    I can't find any other source besides Schwartzwald that refer to the uprising as Bloody Week. There aren't any German hits on "blutige Woche" either, except for the Paris Commune, which is also where most of the English searches end up. I'm fairly familiar with the topic and the period through my reading and my translations from German Wikipedia articles, and I never saw any Bloody Week references while I was verifying sources and info. Because of that, I'd like to have your update reverted unless you have something else to back up the usage of the phrase. It's probably better left with the Paris Commune.

    Thanks, GHStPaulMN (talk) 15:03, 11 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

    @GHStPaulMN Reichstag Bloodbath and Spartacist uprising both come to mind in case there's confusion from author/editors. ~ 🦝 Shushugah (he/him • talk) 15:16, 11 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    @Shushugah Sorry, but I don't quite understand your point. What's the connection between the Reichstag Bloodbath and the Sparticist uprising -- or for that matter to referring to the latter as the Bloody Week? And how would they clear up any confusion? GHStPaulMN (talk) 15:29, 11 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    @Shushugah It belatedly came to me what you mean, and I agree that there's unlikely to be confusion, but for a different reason -- that I don't think Bloody Week is at all a common way to refer to the Sparticist uprising, so it's simply not likely to come up. I still know of only the one use of the phrase, and after reading p. 288 in Schwartzwald with its rather inflammatory wording (that I would flag in Wikipedia for its tone), I have question marks in my head about how reliable a source it is. So again, unless you know of another source or sources, I don't think the update / redirect add any value and should be reverted. Your thoughts on my main point about the phrase not being common? Thanks, GHStPaulMN (talk) 22:12, 11 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    Let's move this to the article's talk page (Talk:Spartacist uprising#Bloody Week) where it will be of better use to future editors. czar 02:50, 12 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

    Interview request

    Congrats again on another Good Article. I would be delighted if you answered some questions in Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Next issue/WikiProject report on WP:LABOR. The question about WP:ANARCHISM is one I had in special mind for you. Feel free to directly edit/add any questions as you see fit. ~ 🦝 Shushugah (he/him • talk) 18:00, 11 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

    Thanks for the ping. I'll take a look later this week. czar 03:20, 12 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

    Bloody week redux

    So have I figured this question out correctly? As part of a discussion on the use of semaine sanglante, the Révolte spartakiste de Berlin article was brought in because it has a single unsourced use of the phrase. That then led to the English Spartacist article, with the Schwartzkopf book – which isn't referenced by any other Wikipedia article – as the source for adding a bolded Bloody Week to it. That was where I stepped in as (quite possibly) the Wikipedia subject-matter expert on the Weimar Republic with the objection that one English language source and none in German isn't enough to raise Bloody Week to the level of a "synonym" for the Sparticist uprising. It simply isn't accurate and could be potentially misleading.

    I plan to remove the Bloody Week reference in the Sparticist uprising article by Monday unless there's some stronger supoort for it somewhere that I don't know of. I'd appreciate your thoughts. Thanks. GHStPaulMN (talk) 12:42, 13 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

    Hi @GHStPaulMN, the place for this discussion is on the article's talk page, for other editors' future reference. That's where I replied and where you should too. I supplied a panoply of sources in which it's known by this name. czar 15:13, 13 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

    Propose/subject

    Proposed merge of Spontaneous order into Self-organization

    Depends on the extent of predict.ability. Suggest change from "weak oppose" to "medium oppose". 110.174.102.124 (talk) 00:19, 15 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]


    Self-organization is 'human race' based. It was the global destabilizing factor. Spontaneous order is "human kind" based. Turtle knows best. :-) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 110.174.102.124 (talk) 01:01, 15 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

    Hi 110.174, if you're looking to participate in that discussion, it's here: Talk:Self-organization#Proposed merge of Spontaneous order into Self-organization czar 02:58, 15 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

    "Nabbit" listed at Redirects for discussion

    An editor has identified a potential problem with the redirect Nabbit and has thus listed it for discussion. This discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2023 January 15 § Nabbit until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. (Note: Just the messenger, not the proposer.) --Super Goku V (talk) 07:05, 15 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

    Your GA nomination of Supermarket scanner moment

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    Books & Bytes – Issue 54

    The Wikipedia Library: Books & Bytes
    Issue 54, November – December 2022

    • New collections:
      • British Newspaper Archive
      • Findmypast
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      • ACLS
      • Duke University Press
    • 1Lib1Ref 2023
    • Spotlight: EDS Refine Results

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    Your GA nomination of Supermarket scanner moment

    The article Supermarket scanner moment you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:Supermarket scanner moment and Talk:Supermarket scanner moment/GA1 for issues which need to be addressed. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of LunaEatsTuna -- LunaEatsTuna (talk) 18:23, 23 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

    Your GA nomination of Ilie Cătărău

    The article Ilie Cătărău you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Ilie Cătărău for comments about the article, and Talk:Ilie Cătărău/GA1 for the nomination. Well done! If the article has not already appeared on the main page as a "Did you know" item, or as a bold link under "In the News" or in the "On This Day" prose section, you can nominate it within the next seven days to appear in DYK. Bolded names with dates listed at the bottom of the "On This Day" column do not affect DYK eligibility. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Ezlev -- Ezlev (talk) 04:01, 24 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

    Your GA nomination of Supermarket scanner moment

    The article Supermarket scanner moment you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Supermarket scanner moment for comments about the article, and Talk:Supermarket scanner moment/GA1 for the nomination. Well done! If the article has not already appeared on the main page as a "Did you know" item, or as a bold link under "In the News" or in the "On This Day" prose section, you can nominate it within the next seven days to appear in DYK. Bolded names with dates listed at the bottom of the "On This Day" column do not affect DYK eligibility. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of LunaEatsTuna -- LunaEatsTuna (talk) 05:42, 24 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

    Good Job! It's a fun read. Panini! • 🥪 16:07, 24 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

    DYK for Parents' Day (novel)

    On 28 January 2023, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Parents' Day (novel), which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that before Paul Goodman became known for his views on education, he wrote an autobiographical novel about a teacher's sexual relationship with his student? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Parents' Day (novel). You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Parents' Day (novel)), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

    BorgQueen (talk) 00:02, 28 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

    Growth team newsletter #24

    Welcome to the twenty-fourth newsletter from the Growth team!

    Newcomer experience projects

    The Growth team partnered with other WMF teams to conduct several experiments around increasing account creation and new editor retention. Results from four of these experiments are now available:

    Newcomer tasks

    • Several communities suggested improving "add a link", by suggesting underlinked articles first. We released this change to Growth pilot wikis. We will review the data and collect feedback before considering releasing it to more wikis. [26]
    • The deployment of the "add a link" to all Wikipedias is still in progress. Suggested links use a prediction model, which has to be trained. The deployments will resume after we finish training all models. [27]

    Mentorship

    • When someone wants to signup as a mentor, they are now informed if they don't meet the defined criteria. [28]
    • Workshop hosts asked us to have workshop attendees assigned to them. They can soon use a custom URL parameter. This way, workshop hosts will continue mentoring the event's attendees after the workshop. It will be available in February. [29]
    • Have you considered to help new editors on your wiki, by signing up to be a Mentor?

    Other news

    • In Special:SpecialPages, Growth experiments now have their own section. [30]
    • This newsletter will have a new publication period, 6 times a year: January, March, May, July, September, November.

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    Administrators' newsletter – February 2023

    News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2023).

    Guideline and policy news

    Technical news

    • The Vector 2022 skin has become the default for desktop users of the English Wikipedia.

    Arbitration

    Miscellaneous

    • Voting in the 2023 Steward elections will begin on 05 February 2023, 21:00 (UTC) and end on 26 February 2023, 21:00 (UTC). The confirmation process of current stewards is being held in parallel. You can automatically check your eligibility to vote.
    • Voting in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey will begin on 10 February 2023 and end on 24 February 2023. You can submit, discuss and revise proposals until 6 February 2023.
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    Feb 15: WikiWednesday Salon in Brooklyn

    Feb 15: WikiWednesday @ BPL + on Zoom
    WikiWednesday is back in-person, pizza included!

    You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our WikiWednesday Salon, with in-person at Brooklyn Public Library by Grand Army Plaza, in the Central Library's Info Commons Lab, as well as an online-based participation option. No experience of anything at all is required. All are welcome!

    We are proud to announce that monthly PIZZA has returned!

    All attendees are subject to Wikimedia NYC's Code of Conduct. In addition, to participate in person you should be vaccinated and also be sure to respect others' personal space, and we may limit overall attendance size if appropriate. Brooklyn Public Library encourages the wearing of masks when indoors, and especially be mindful of those in your proximity.

    6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
    (Brooklyn Public Library, Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn)
    Also online via Zoom

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    Promotion of La Salute è in voi

    Congratulations, Czar! The article you nominated, La Salute è in voi, has been promoted to featured status, recognizing it as one of the best articles on Wikipedia. The nomination discussion has been archived.
    This is a rare accomplishment and you should be proud. If you would like, you may nominate it to appear on the Main page as Today's featured article. Keep up the great work! Cheers, Gog the Mild (talk) via FACBot (talk) 00:05, 8 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

    This Month in GLAM: January 2023



    Headlines
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    DYK for Supermarket scanner moment

    On 16 February 2023, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Supermarket scanner moment, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Dr. Oz called his veggie tray "crudité" in his supermarket scanner moment? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Supermarket scanner moment. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Supermarket scanner moment), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

    Z1720 (talk) 00:03, 16 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

    Hook update
    Your hook reached 17,507 views (729.5 per hour), making it one of the most viewed hooks of February 2023 – nice work!

    GalliumBot (talk • contribs) (he/it) 03:27, 17 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

    Thanks for writing this, I really enjoyed reading it. 78.26 (spin me / revolutions) 03:40, 16 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

    Category:Unsuccessful Kickstarter campaigns has been nominated for merging

    Category:Unsuccessful Kickstarter campaigns has been nominated for merging. 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. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 23:51, 18 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

    Re: Talk page length

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    A Barnstar for you!!!

    The Teamwork Barnstar
    For your participation and help at Wikipedia:Good Article proposal drive 2023. It wouldn't have been such a success without you. 🏵️Etrius ( Us) 20:43, 21 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

    Mar 8: WikiWednesday Salon by Grand Central

    Mar 8: WikiWednesday Salon by Grand Central
    The gathering is in the vicinity of Grand Central Terminal.

    You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community and visitors from the global Wikimedia Foundation for our WikiWednesday Salon by Grand Central, in-person at Convene 101 Park Avenue in the vicinity of Manhattan's Grand Central Terminal. No experience of anything at all is required. All are welcome!

    This is somewhat of a sequel to last year's Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/Brunch in terms of the participants, though this time it is an evening event in a different borough.

    We may leaven the event with a few impromptu lightning talks, a Wiki-fashion show (yes, really!), and likely an afterparty tour.

    All attendees are subject to Wikimedia NYC's Code of Conduct. In addition, to participate in person you should be vaccinated and also be sure to respect others' personal space, and we may limit overall attendance size if appropriate.

    5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
    (Convene 101 Park Avenue, near Manhattan's Grand Central Terminal)

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    Administrators' newsletter – March 2023

    News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2023).

    Guideline and policy news

    Technical news

    Arbitration

    Miscellaneous

    • The 2023 appointees for the Ombuds commission are AGK, Ameisenigel, Bennylin, Daniuu, Emufarmers, Faendalimas, JJMC89, MdsShakil, Minorax and Renvoy as regular members and Zabe as advisory members.
    • Following the 2023 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: Mykola7, Superpes15, and Xaosflux.
    • The Terms of Use update cycle has started, which includes a [p]roposal for better addressing undisclosed paid editing. Feedback is being accepted until 24 April 2023.
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    WikiCup 2023 March newsletter

    So ends the first round of the 2023 WikiCup. Everyone with a positive score moved on to Round 2, with 54 contestants qualifying. The top scorers in Round 1 were:

    • Unlimitedlead with 1205 points, a WikiCup newcomer, led the field with two featured articles on historical figures and several featured article candidate reviews.
    • New York (state) Epicgenius was in second place with 789 points; a seasoned WikiCup competitor he specialises in buildings and locations in New York.
    • Germany FrB.TG was in third place with 625 points, garnered from a featured article on a filmmaker which qualified for an impressive number of bonus points.
    • United States TheJoebro64, another WikiCup newcomer, came next with 600 points gained from two featured articles on video games.
    • Byzantine Empire Iazyges was in fifth place with 532 points, from two featured articles on classical history.

    The top sixteen contestants at the end of Round 1 had all scored over 300 points; these included Berkelland LunaEatsTuna, Thebiguglyalien, Sammi Brie, New England Trainsandotherthings, England Lee Vilenski, Indonesia Juxlos, Unexpectedlydian, Washington (state) SounderBruce, Wales Kosack, BennyOnTheLoose and Chicago PCN02WPS. It was a high-scoring start to the competition.

    These contestants, like all the others, now have to start again from scratch. The first round finished on February 26. Remember that any content promoted after that date but before the start of Round 2 can be claimed in Round 2. Some contestants made claims before the new submissions pages were set up, and they will need to resubmit them. Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. Remember, if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed.

    If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to keep down the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Sturmvogel 66 and Cwmhiraeth. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 19:36, 2 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

    Editor of the Week

    Editor of the Week
    Your ongoing efforts to improve the encyclopedia have not gone unnoticed: You have been selected as Editor of the Week in recognition of {{{briefreason}}}. Thank you for the great contributions! (courtesy of the Wikipedia Editor Retention Project)

    User:Etriusus and User:Gog the Mild submitted the following nomination for Editor of the Week:

    I would like to nominate the amazing Czar to be Editor of the Week. This user is a long time editor and an admin to boot!! This is to recognize their instrumental work at WikiProject Anarchism and maintenance of the associated pages. Seriously, they do so much gnomish activity the project would hit a deadlock without them. Additionally, they have over 100 GA's and is always around to help others with their own GAs, asking for no recognition of their own. I believe they're a wonderful addition to the halls of EOTW and was genuinely floored when I didn't see the name already here. Czar generates a steady flow of high-quality FAs.

    You can copy the following text to your user page to display a user box proclaiming your selection as Editor of the Week: 

    {{User:UBX/EoTWBox}}

    Thanks again for your efforts! ―Buster7 ☎ 21:47, 5 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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