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dcSolutions deletion

Thank you for the response. I have a new draft I'll be submitting soon. — Preceding unsigned comment added by CrimsonGhost88 (talk • contribs) 14:09, 30 August 2018 (UTC)

I fixed this for you. And please do read and understand WP:PAID and WP:COI guidelines clearly. Also always keep no promotion principle in mind. –Ammarpad (talk) 15:37, 30 August 2018 (UTC)

A Barnstar for you!

The Working Wikipedian's Barnstar
For this amazing work. — Insertcleverphrasehere (or here) 04:44, 3 September 2018 (UTC)


Tech News: 2018-36

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Recent changes

  • There is a new user right for users who can edit CSS and JavaScript for the entire wiki. Before this all admins could edit CSS and JavaScript. This was a security risk. This group is called interface administrators. Administrators can delete user CSS and JavaScript pages. [1][2]
  • There will be an A/B test on the Wikipedia mobile website. It starts this week. It tests how we show templates that show information about an article. The test will last two weeks. [3][4]
  • You can now use different CSS rules for different skins when you edit templates. This is because of TemplateStyles. [5]
  • wp10 in ORES is now called articlequality. [6]
  • When you get a new message on your talk page you get a yellow message in the toolbar. The preference to show or not show this has been removed. [7]

Problems

  • UploadWizard had problems with campaigns. Users could not upload files. This has now been fixed. [8]
  • You can get a notification when a link is made to a page you created. This has not worked since June. It was fixed last week. [9]

Changes later this week

  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 4 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 September. It will be on all wikis from 6 September (calendar).

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16:47, 3 September 2018 (UTC)

AfroCine: Join us for the Months of African Cinema in October!

Greetings!

You are receiving this message because your username or portal was listed as a participant of a WikiProject that is related to Africa, the Carribean, Cinema or theatre.

This is to introduce you to a new Wikiproject called AfroCine. This new project is dedicated to improving the Wikipedia coverage of the history, works, people, places, events, etc, that are associated with the cinema, theatre and arts of Africa, African countries, the carribbean, and the diaspora. If you would love to be part of this or you're already contributing in this area, kindly list your name as a participant on the project page here.

Furthermore, In the months of October and November, the WikiProject is organizing a global on-wiki contest and edit-a-thon tagged: The Months of African Cinema. If you would love to join us for this exciting event, also list your username as a participant for this event here. In preparation for the contest, please do suggest relevant articles that need to be created or expanded in different countries, during this event!

If you have any questions, complaints, suggestions, etc., please reach out to me personally on my talkpage! Cheers!--Jamie Tubers (talk) 20:50, 5 September 2018 (UTC)

Creating a Wikipedia Article for a Client

Hi Ammarpad,

The author of this book A Quarter-Million Steps has asked me to create a Wikipedia Article for his book. He may or may not pay me, and I may or may not do further work for him in the future. Can I create an article for Dr. Paustian's book while remaining objective and not casting aspersions on Wikipedia? Do you have any suggestions to help me navigate this process?

Thanks!--VictoriaConoan (talk) 05:16, 9 September 2018 (UTC)

The relevant guidelines/policies for you to start with are: WP:NOTABILITY, WP:COI and WP:PAID. It doesn't matter whether he'll pay you now, later or not at all, because there's no way for me or anyone else to verify that claim. But the very first thing to start with, is to ask yourself: "is this book notable?," that means are there multiple independent and reliable sources that discuss the book in detail? Note: promotional sources like this which you linked cannot count towards that notability. After that, then Conflict of interest. Now that you know the author personally, and you're even so close to talk that he asked you to create article for his book on Wikipedia, then you've conflict of interest and it's very hard for you to write objectively. Though you may not understand why that, you should read the guideline for more information.. Then finally, he is/was considering paying you, and you're considering to even probably do more paid work for him in the future, then WP:PAID and WP:PAYDISCLOSE are very important for you. Read them. –Ammarpad (talk) 06:52, 9 September 2018 (UTC)

Existence Theatre

Hi Ammarpad, we have been working on a new kind of theatre style during the last few years and created basically the name 'Existence Theatre' for this kind of work. We would like to engrave it somehow into the Internet as the founders of this practice. I understand that you think it is promotional. How could I change the article to become more what I really want it to be, like a patent for its name? Thanks and your reply is very much appreciated! elisabeth — Preceding unsigned comment added by EXISTENCE THEATRE (talk • contribs) .

Contested deletion

Hi - how do I know whether I am being promotional or factual with regards to this page?

Also it is meant to be private according to Wiki - how did you find it?

Kind regards, Peter — Preceding unsigned comment added by Diversifyer (talk • contribs)

Please comment on Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (Taiwan stations)

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The Bugle: Issue CXLIX, September 2018

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Tech News: 2018-37

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Recent changes

  • When you added or edited a template with the visual editor the input boxes were very big. This has been fixed. The input boxes will now be smaller until you click on them. Then they will change size to fit the text. [11]

Problems

  • Some diffs showed lines in the wrong order. This was fixed last week. [12]
  • Marking a cross-wiki notification as read didn't work every time. The other wiki was not updated. This has now been fixed. [13]
  • <maplink> did not work for a few days. This was because of a bug. This has now been fixed. [14]
  • {{subst:REVISIONUSER}} is used by some templates. For a period edits saved with {{subst:REVISIONUSER}} would save the previous user's name and not your username. This is now fixed. Edits made before the bug was fixed will still be wrong and need to be corrected. [15]
  • When you move a page the title still shows the old page name. The developers are working on fixing this. [16]

Changes later this week

  • Because of a data centre test you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for up to an hour on 12 September and 10 October. This will start at 14:00 (UTC). You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. The time when you can't edit might be shorter than an hour. You can read more about this.
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22:35, 10 September 2018 (UTC)

ITN recognition for Abu Hassan Omar

On 10 September 2018, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Abu Hassan Omar, which you nominated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. Stephen 22:53, 10 September 2018 (UTC)

Invitation to join WikiProject Computational Biology

Please accept this invite to join the Computational Biology WikiProject, an attempt to build a comprehensive and detailed guide to computational biology.
Simply click here and add your username to the list to accept! Amkilpatrick (talk) 12:02, 11 September 2018 (UTC)


Tech News: 2018-38

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Recent changes

  • The Wikimedia Commons mobile app has a new version. Images uploaded using Nearby are now automatically added to the associated Wikidata item. You can browse other images on Commons. You can see your achievements and your upload statistics. It has also fixed some bugs. [17]
  • Advanced item MediaWiki web requests now have a time limit of 60 seconds for GET requests and 200 seconds for POST requests. [18]

Problems

  • You could not see the menu on the notifications page on the mobile version. This has now been fixed. [19]

Changes later this week

  • Special:AncientPages can hide disambiguation pages. [20]
  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 September. It will be on all wikis from 20 September (calendar).

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21:57, 17 September 2018 (UTC)

NPR Newsletter No.13 18 September 2018

Hello Ammarpad, thank you for your work reviewing New Pages!

The New Page Feed currently has 2700 unreviewed articles, up from just 500 at the start of July. For a while we were falling behind by an average of about 40 articles per day, but we have stabilised more recently. Please review some articles from the back of the queue if you can (Sort by: 'Oldest' at Special:NewPagesFeed), as we are very close to having articles older than one month.

Project news
As part of this project, the feed will have some larger updates to functionality next month. Specifically, ORES predictions will be built in, which will automatically flag articles for potential issues such as vandalism or spam. Copyright violation detection will also be added to the new page feed. See the projects's talk page for more info.
Other
Moving to Draft and Page Mover
  • Some unsuitable new articles can be best reviewed by moving them to the draft space, but reviewers need to do this carefully and sparingly. It is most useful for topics that look like they might have promise, but where the article as written would be unlikely to survive AfD. If the article can be easily fixed, or if the only issue is a lack of sourcing that is easily accessible, tagging or adding sources yourself is preferable. If sources do not appear to be available and the topic does not appear to be notable, tagging for deletion is preferable (PROD/AfD/CSD as appropriate). See additional guidance at WP:DRAFTIFY.
  • If the user moves the draft back to mainspace, or recreates it in mainspace, please do not re-draftify the article (although swapping it to maintain the page history may be advisable in the case of copy-paste moves). AfC is optional except for editors with a clear conflict of interest.
  • Articles that have been created in contravention of our paid-editing-requirements or written from a blatant NPOV perspective, or by authors with a clear COI might also be draftified at discretion.
  • The best tool for draftification is User:Evad37/MoveToDraft.js(info). Kindly adapt the text in the dialogue-pop-up as necessary (the default can also be changed like this). Note that if you do not have the Page Mover userright, the redirect from main will be automatically tagged as CSD R2, but in some cases it might be better to make this a redirect to a different page instead.
  • The Page Mover userright can be useful for New Page Reviewers; occasionally page swapping is needed during NPR activities, and it helps avoid excessive R2 nominations which must be processed by admins. Note that the Page Mover userright has higher requirements than the NPR userright, and is generally given to users active at Requested Moves. Only reviewers who are very experienced and are also very active reviewers are likely to be granted it solely for NPP activities.
List of other useful scripts for New Page Reviewing

  • Twinkle provides a lot of the same functionality as the page curation tools, and some reviewers prefer to use the Twinkle tools for some/all tasks. It can be activated simply in the gadgets section of 'preferences'. There are also a lot of options available at the Twinkle preferences panel after you install the gadget.
  • In terms of other gadgets for NPR, HotCat is worth turning on. It allows you to easily add, remove, and change categories on a page, with name suggestions.
  • MoreMenu also adds a bunch of very useful links for diagnosing and fixing page issues.
  • User:Equazcion/ScriptInstaller.js(info): Installing scripts doesn't have to be complicated. Go to your common.js and copy importScript( 'User:Equazcion/ScriptInstaller.js' ); into an empty line, now you can install all other scripts with the click of a button from the script page! (Note you need to be at the ".js" page for the script for the install button to appear, not the information page)
  • User:TheJosh/Scripts/NewPagePatrol.js(info): Creates a scrolling new pages list at the left side of the page. You can change the number of pages shown by adding the following to the next line on your common.js page (immediately after the line importing this script): npp_num_pages=20; (Recommended 20, but you can use any number from 1 to 50).
  • User:Primefac/revdel.js(info): Is requesting revdel complicated and time consuming? This script helps simplify the process. Just have the Copyvio source URL and go to the history page and collect your diff IDs and you can drop them into the script Popups and it will create a revdel request for you.
  • User:Lourdes/PageCuration.js(info): Creates a "Page Curation" link to Special:NewPagesFeed up near your sandbox link.
  • User:Writ Keeper/Scripts/deletionFinder.js: Creates links next to the title of each page which show up if it has been previously deleted or nominated for deletion.
  • User:Evad37/rater.js(info): A fantastic tool for adding WikiProject templates to article talk pages. If you add: rater_autostartNamespaces = 0; to the next line on your common.js, the prompt will pop up automatically if a page has no Wikiproject templates on the talk page (note: this can be a bit annoying if you review redirects or dab pages commonly).

Go here to remove your name if you wish to opt-out of future mailings. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 23:11, 17 September 2018 (UTC)

A speady deletion contest

Hi Ammarpad,

I have just filled the contest angainst speedy deletion because I do noot see the page created as promotional. Well, maybe a link to a youtube site could be doubtful so I have just deleted it. The rest information are facts. I am new to Wikipedia so please excuse my mistakes if I made any. Kindly please suggest what should I have to correct. Many thanks in advance. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Skidpatch (talk • contribs) 10:24, 14 September 2018 (UTC)

You claim "This is newly created page on behalf of the company Muzikinė partija. The information is directly provided by the company Muzikinė partija itself." [21]. Then you should also explain who paid you and also put that on your userpage. You shouldn't declare only the one who provided the text. –Ammarpad (talk) 10:35, 14 September 2018 (UTC)

Dear Ammarpad, thank you for your notice and please accept my apologies for late reply. I still find it very complicated to communicate here. With this answer I am stating that I am NOT directly or indirectly compensated for my edits. I am just a former insider of the field who now has enough time and knowledge where to find the facts that need to be put into encyclopedia. My first article is about the company that I was working for many years. The information and the logo was provided by its director Ms. Daiva Adomaviciene. Kindly please advise what steps to be taken nezt to get it published. Many thanks in advance. (User talk:Skidpatch) 12:29, 18 September 2018 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Skidpatch (talk • contribs)

Your GA nomination of 2018 Kentucky Derby

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article 2018 Kentucky Derby 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 Matt294069 -- Matt294069 (talk) 00:41, 22 September 2018 (UTC)

Nigeria, number of ethnic groups

Hello. Your attention is required in this semi-protected article. Thank you. 95.114.61.208 (talk) 10:06, 24 September 2018 (UTC)

Responded. –Ammarpad (talk) 10:37, 24 September 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-39

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  • The preferences form will change to use the standard look. If you see any problems please report them on Phabricator. [22]
  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 September. It will be on all wikis from 27 September (calendar).

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15:22, 24 September 2018 (UTC)

Source at Al-Razi

Hi, i fixed the source you removed at Muhammad ibn Zakariya al-Razi, as you can see here. Since you seem to be an experienced user, i would suggest you to fix sources in articles instead of removing them when they're not well cited. Thanks.---Wikaviani (talk) (contribs) 19:53, 26 September 2018 (UTC)

@Wikavian: I filled {{Cite book}} to add it, then I edit-conflicted with you. I am fixing them already. So you needn't request so. –Ammarpad (talk) 20:00, 26 September 2018 (UTC)
Yeah, i've seen that, this is why i sent you a thank. Cheers.---Wikaviani (talk) (contribs) 20:03, 26 September 2018 (UTC)

The Signpost: 1 October 2018

* Read this Signpost in full * Single-page * Unsubscribe * MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:44, 1 October 2018 (UTC)

Email contact of faz3

Hi I want verify if the email adress attached still few days ago its the true one. And why is removed now. Thanks GBSNetworks (talk) 00:15, 1 October 2018 (UTC)

If you open Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-personal and scroll down you'll see Email options section. You'll also see further instructions on verifying, removing or adding email address.. –Ammarpad (talk) 07:57, 1 October 2018 (UTC)

Disambiguation link notification for October 1

An automated process has detected that when you recently edited 2018 Kentucky Derby, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page AP (check to confirm | fix with Dab solver).

(Opt-out instructions.) --DPL bot (talk) 09:19, 1 October 2018 (UTC)

Review the Article.

Hello Ammarpad (talk · contribs) Could you make the independent review for the article. Rakeshroshan1992 (talk) 11:10, 1 October 2018 (UTC)

No I can't. Yo were paid to create it and suddenly new account and an IP user are all interested for it to be moved to mainspace hurriedly. Just wait, the independent reviewer will come independently. –Ammarpad (talk) 11:18, 1 October 2018 (UTC)
Main issue was pending from past 60 days. That's the reason for hurry. Yes waiting for independent reviewer also, Will hope for the best. Rakeshroshan1992 (talk) 11:23, 1 October 2018 (UTC)
That's how all other people are waiting, even though they are not getting paid while you are. So I don't see how this is a problem. –Ammarpad (talk) 11:26, 1 October 2018 (UTC)

Off-course am following community guidelines for authenticity of articles. whether got to be worried for the paid activity. This was my concern Rakeshroshan1992 (talk) 11:30, 1 October 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-40

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  • Ordinary pages can no longer be loaded as javascript. You could do this using ?action=raw&ctype=text/javascript in the URL. Only fully protected pages in the MediaWiki: namespace or user javascript subpages can be loaded as javascript now. This is for better security. [23][24]

Problems

  • New and updated translations from translatewiki.net will not reach the wikis for a while. You can still translate messages on translatewiki.net. The Wikimedia wikis will be updated with the new translations later. This is because of work on the translation system. [25][26]

Changes later this week

  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 October. It will be on all wikis from 4 October (calendar).

Meetings

  • Recurrent item Advanced item You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 3 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
  • You can join the meeting with the Wikimedia Foundation Search Platform team. The meeting will be on 3 October at 15:00 UTC. See how to join if you want to know how the search function works or have questions.

Future changes

  • Because of a data centre test you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for up to an hour on 10 October. This will start at 14:00 (UTC). You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. The time when you can't edit might be shorter than an hour. You can read more about this.

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17:34, 1 October 2018 (UTC)

Results from global Wikimedia survey 2018 are published

Hello! A few months ago the Wikimedia Foundation invited you to take a survey about your experiences on Wikipedia. You signed up to receive the results. The report is now published on Meta-Wiki! We asked contributors 170 questions across many different topics like diversity, harassment, paid editing, Wikimedia events and many others.

Read the report or watch the presentation, which is available only in English. Add your thoughts and comments to the report talk page. Feel free to share the report on Wikipedia/Wikimedia or on your favorite social media. Thanks!
--EGalvez (WMF)

19:25, 1 October 2018 (UTC)

ITN recognition for Charles Aznavour

On 2 October 2018, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Charles Aznavour, which you nominated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. Black Kite (talk) 00:39, 2 October 2018 (UTC)

Thanking and Requesting you

Thanks for your kind response on Talk:Yumna Zaidi, since you are senior user i want to request you one more thing, will you please look at draft:Dil Kiya Karey that if its able to be on wikipidea or not, actually that series will go on air next month and if you publish that draft then will be very nice of you. This draft is the same which i wanted to be linked on the article where you responded earlier. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.8.27.150 (talk) 17:44, 30 September 2018 (UTC)

Please no need for rushing, there are also many people who want their drafts be reviewed. Many are reviewed everyday and yours will surely be reviewed too.–Ammarpad (talk) 17:05, 2 October 2018 (UTC)

Welcome to the Months of African Cinema!

Greetings!

The AfroCine Project welcomes you to October, the first out of the two months which has been dedicated to improving contents that centre around the cinema of Africa, the Caribbean, and the diaspora.

This is a global online edit-a-thon, which is happening in at least 5 language editions of Wikipedia, including the English Wikipedia! Join us in this exciting venture, by helping to create or expand articles which are connected to this scope. Also remember to list your name under the participants section, if you haven't done so already.

On English Wikipedia, we would be recognizing Users who are able to achieve the following:

  • Overall winner (1st, 2nd, 3rd places)
  • Country Winners
  • Diversity winner
  • High quality contributors
  • Gender-gap fillers
  • Page improvers
  • Wikidata Translators

For further information about the contest, the recognition categories and how to participate, please visit the contest page here. For further inquiries, please leave comments on the contest talkpage or on the main project talkpage. See you around :).--Jamie Tubers (talk) 22:50, 03 October 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of 2018 Kentucky Derby

The article 2018 Kentucky Derby you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:2018 Kentucky Derby for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Matt294069 -- Matt294069 (talk) 08:42, 4 October 2018 (UTC)

Congratulations! Jlvsclrk (talk) 09:58, 4 October 2018 (UTC)
Thank you Jlvsclrk. We did it together. –Ammarpad (talk) 11:36, 4 October 2018 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CL, October 2018

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Welfare Quality

Hi Ammarpad, thanks for your message. Can you elaborate on how you view the/my Welfare Quality page as promotional? I explicitly tried to avoid this, therefore I am a little disappointed with your uptake of it. This is a multi-institutional, multidisciplinary, multicountry research project, it does not sell anything; not implicitly or explicitly. It only explains the project. I set up the Wikipedia page as an archive of the project and to provide information relevant for farmers, animal welfare groups, and anyone else who wants to know more about research endeavours in animal welfare. This makes it inherently encyclopedic in my view. Please elaborate? Thank you, DNMBeljaars — Preceding unsigned comment added by DNMBeljaars (talk • contribs) 15:08, 6 October 2018 (UTC)

Please read promotion and conflict of interest editing guidelines/policies for more detailed information. Promotion doesn't occur only when you're trying to sell something, it's far beyond that. You should understand this first. In addition, please read the answer given to you here already.–Ammarpad (talk) 07:36, 7 October 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-41

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Problems

  • There was a problem when you copied and pasted from a table with the visual editor. It could add href where it shouldn't be. This has now been fixed. [28]

Changes later this week

  • Because of a data centre test you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for up to an hour on 10 October. This will start at 14:00 (UTC). You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. The time when you can't edit might be shorter than an hour. You can read more about this.
  • Because of the data centre test there will be no new version of MediaWiki this week. Changes for this week will come next week instead.

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23:38, 8 October 2018 (UTC)

Please comment on Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (Canadian roads)

The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (Canadian roads). Legobot (talk) 04:29, 10 October 2018 (UTC)

Nominating Petar Brzica for Deletion

Hi, first of all, sorry if I misunderstood the process on how to nominate an article for deletion. I browsed Wikipedia for that and I'm pretty sure it read somewhere to add Category:Delete to the article and that would open it for deletion discussion. I have now followed the process as described in the deletion policy article. Again, sorry for doing it wrong. Kind regards EviL GaMer (talk) 16:03, 9 October 2018 (UTC)

You haven't done it correctly yet. You should read this. –Ammarpad (talk) 08:09, 10 October 2018 (UTC)

ITN

Re your note, yeah, I figured that out after my last post. It happens sometimes. No prob. Sca (talk) 21:22, 14 October 2018 (UTC)

OK. Good. –Ammarpad (talk) 06:59, 15 October 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-42

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Problems

  • Some pages, edits and users disappeared for a short while after the server switch. Missing content and users was fixed within a day. Some preferences and other things might take a few more days to fix. [29]
  • Wikis are updated with new and updated translations from translatewiki.net again. This will happen once a week. The developers are working on fixing the problem so we can have translation updates more often again. [30]

Changes later this week

  • When you create an abuse filter that prevents edits you can now write a specific error message for it. Before this all abuse filters that prevented edits had the same error message. [31]
  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 October. It will be on all wikis from 18 October (calendar).

Meetings

  • There will be no more meetings with the Editing team. This is because not enough Wikimedians were interested. To tell developers which bugs you think are the most important you can use Phabricator as normal. [32]
  • Recurrent item Advanced item You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 17 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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22:40, 15 October 2018 (UTC)

Talkback

Hello, Ammarpad. You have new messages at Talk:Jamal_Khashoggi#Stripping_the_article_of_the_death_section.
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23:11, 22 October 2018 (UTC)

A bowl of strawberries for you!

Thanks for fixing that citation. Quick and efficient. scope_creep (talk) 11:25, 23 October 2018 (UTC)
Thank you. –Ammarpad (talk) 13:07, 23 October 2018 (UTC)

Your deletion of part of Killing of Jamal Khashoggi from Erdogan`s speech

Hi, on the 23rd of October you deleted some things that Turkish President Erdogan said in a speech he made on same day which had been added to the wikipedia article "Killing of Jamal Khashoggi", decribing your deletion by suggesting it was lacking in source, and somehow contentious, neither of which are true. Would you mind undoing your error?126.3.20.194 (talk) 20:56, 23 October 2018 (UTC)

No, it wasn't an error. And I was not merely suggesting, it indeed didn't have any reference and is politically charged in the current circumstances. If you have the source that can back the statement, then you can just add it yourself. But re-adding the content without reliable sources will not do, as it will be removed again. –Ammarpad (talk) 21:32, 23 October 2018 (UTC)

AfC

Greetings! Thanks for the help with AfC, any help with that massive backlog is appreciated. I just wanted to ask if when you tag a AfC for speedy delete if you could review it as well. If you just tag it for speedy delete and not review the AfC at the same time the AfC still shows on the backlog. Thanks! Whispering 18:15, 24 October 2018 (UTC)

Hi, thank you for your suggestion. But actually I do that intentionally and with reason. I am extremely careful about what I tag for speedy deletion and only do so when I have high assurance that it will be deleted. So it doesn't make sense to tag for speedy deletion and also send a verbose boilerplate to the author asking them to "Please check the submission for any additional comments left by the reviewer. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit when they have been resolved". As you can see, it's not only misleading but also confusing when they attempt to follow the instructions and find the article no where in existence. I also believe CSDs are taken care of regularly, so few hours backlog is not really an issue. –Ammarpad (talk) 16:56, 24 October 2018 (UTC)
Ammarpad, I do the same as you. If the viewing admin agrees with the deletion, the article will be gone soon enough. Whispering, there's no need to add process which is likely to be at best confusing. DGG ( talk ) 18:00, 24 October 2018 (UTC)
DGG, well that makes sense nevermind then. Whispering 18:15, 24 October 2018 (UTC)

Regarding Draft:Kanishk Sajnani

Please refer to this discussion at the deletion review? It seems you did something wrong while declining the above submission. 2405:205:C84B:66:2CE6:6E14:8018:80A3 (talk) 11:16, 18 October 2018 (UTC)

Then you should tell what I did wrong. Declining your draft or what? The draft was submitted to AFC and found non viable for standalone article apart from being deleted multiple times earlier I declined it, you should read the message left for way forward. The discussion you linked is something different and you can continue your argument there. –Ammarpad (talk) 12:32, 18 October 2018 (UTC)

Draft submissions should only be declined according to WP:AFCSTANDARDS. The message that you left on the draft doesn't stand right according to WP:POLICY. You should also mention the specific guidelines which possibly fail for any submission.
Regarding this particular Draft:Kanishk Sajnani, it had already been established in my above cited discussion that the artilce meets WP:PG. I am more than happy to explain it to you (again) in-detail over here.
1) Let me ask you if there is an offical policy that denies notablity just because the listed sources had taken any kind of inputs(as an interview or otherwise) by the subject of the article himself? Jimbo Wales believes there isn't. Please refer to his comment on this Afd.
The draft listed above has references [3] & [2] that involve no direct inputs from the subject himself. Therefore, it should seem safe to state them as Independent Sources.
"The core policy WP:NOT requires that it be possible to verify a subject with at least one independent source, or else the subject may not have a separate article in Wikipedia." Reference- Relationship to Notability at WP:IS
Also, look closely & you would notice that 5/6 references(stated in the article) are based on the subject's work ONLY(Not passing mentions). Furthermore, WP:BLP1E is only applicable when the subject is notable for a single event, Am I correct? The article states 4 different events(at different times) for which the sources are available. I am not sure if Wikipedia:BLP2E could have been applied, even if it was a real thing. Aren't the above facts enough to tell us that the article complies with the WP:BASIC & WP:GNG (official Wikipedia policies) & hence, it is all the evidence that we need? 2405:205:C84B:F990:2068:B4AF:6B32:497A (talk) 13:31, 18 October 2018 (UTC)

AFCSTANDARD is a loose guideline not hard-and-fast rule and opinion of Jimmy Wales holds no special authority in accepting drafts at AFC as you're wrongly assuming. This semi-promotional article has been deleted four times including three AfDs and once salted but you're fighting for it in multiple fronts, AfD, DRV and talkpages not sure why. You can go and resubmit it for another reviewer to review, this is not the first draft to be declined. –Ammarpad (talk) 14:03, 18 October 2018 (UTC)

So your excuse is that "Since it has already been deleted 3 times, I am free to do it again without citing any appropriate reasons?" An AFC reviewer should only be concerned about the recent draft that has been put up for submission.
The Draft for a matter-of-fact is non-promotional at this moment.
"You can go and resubmit it for another reviewer to review, this is not the first draft to be declined." is not exactly the correct way to respond to this.
Also, I know Jimmy wales holds no special authority in accepting drafts at AFC. But, he's surely a lot more experienced than you are here, right? I just gave you every possible explanation as to why declining this particular draft was not right on your part. Stop fighting & please get used to accepting your mistakes. 2405:205:C84B:F990:3D03:6BE7:C269:236C (talk) 14:37, 18 October 2018 (UTC)

I did no mistake and I stand with my rejection: get this right and stop grandstanding. The fact that you don't see the problem with article deleted 4 times, three times after full discussions and salted as well as your caviling about it across several forums simultaneously speaks volume. "Jimmy Wales is more experienced than me" (What ever the heck that mean) doesn't give his opinion a sort of heavenly powers as you're wrongly assuming and I said this before and I am repeating for the last time.–Ammarpad (talk) 14:59, 18 October 2018 (UTC)

Maybe you didn't notice that the SALTing was 5 1/2 months ago. That's enough time for new references to appear. Any experienced editor here knows that. The title is currently UnSALTED F.Y.I. An Admin would have done it obviously after re-reviewing the article. What you term as "caviling" is me merely standing FOR Wikipedia's official rules & guidelines. You still didn't clarify for you actions & did nothing but beat around the bush.
I'm out of here. Peace. 2405:205:C84B:F990:3D03:6BE7:C269:236C (talk) 15:18, 18 October 2018 (UTC)

1. The standard for accepting an AfC is "likely to survive an AfD nomination ". As the closing admin, Sandstein said at the deletion review " There is a draft, it can be moved into mainspace, if that is done it can be submitted to AfD, and will likely be deleted there based on this discussion" So they too thinks it is unlikely to survive if moved. II interpret the "can be moved" as saying "there is a possible route to an article, so nothing need be done at Deletion Review" , not that it should be moved. At AfC there is 6 months to improve it. Perhaps it can be improved if better sources become available, and then it might have a reasonable chance of passing Afd ; there is no reason to keep resubmitting it otherwise. 2. Whether to accept interviews as RSs for notability depends on the nature of the interview and of the article. For organizations, we usually do not under the current interpretation at NCORP. For people, it would go case by case and the decision would be by consensus at the afd. Jimmy's opinion has exactly the same weight in an afd as any other editor here. He had great input into our original guidelines, of course, but they have been changing for the subsequent 15 years, and he usually has chosen not to involve himself in the various notability policy discussions.. In any event, I think the key reason the Jain article was kept was the New Yorker article, which appeared after the afd nomination but in time to be mentioned in the discussion. Had it appeared afterwards, the AFD would probably have been closed as delete, but a Deletion Review would surely have reversed the deletion. If such sources appear for Sajnani, the article on him will be kept also. DGG ( talk ) 18:43, 24 October 2018 (UTC)

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Tahera Rahman

Hi,

Please clarify why you believe that the exact date of the subject's birthday must be given, in accordance with Wikipedia's policies. The existence of templates like {{Birth year and age}} implies that this is not the case. The current information is accurate, because the sources from early 2018 state that she was 27. 2018 - 27 = 1990. Thus, her birth year is either 1990 (Jan/Feb) or 1989. This does not violate any policies. As well, you state that external images aren't added to infoboxes, but I am unaware of such a prohibition. I cannot upload the image to Commons as it is non-free. – Batreeq (Talk) (Contribs) 23:42, 26 October 2018 (UTC)

Read BLP. This is someone so young as born in the 1990s, it's just easier to find a source that mentions her full date of birth otherwise it can be left out, it's not necessary and better than saying "she is 27 or 28 or 29 or whatnot," which in all no definitive source on which is correct. Second, external image is not way of circumventing image policy. Also since you said you're not aware, now you should be; you cannot use non-free image of a person who is alive. Either get freely-licensed one, or leave it out too. –Ammarpad (talk) 04:34, 27 October 2018 (UTC)
Hi. Can you quote the part that prohibits the inclusion of the possible birth years based on reliable sources? As well, the image is not hosted on Wikimedia’s servers, so it is legal to use. Template:External media states that this template can be used when media: “cannot be uploaded to Wikipedia, even under fair-use rules”. – Batreeq (Talk) (Contribs) 21:05, 27 October 2018 (UTC)
Please read policy not template. You cannot use non-free image of a living person. Also date of birth should be widely published by reliable sources, you've only one source which didn't even know the correct date, only guessing. Please find two or more sources that agree on that, then you can use it. You can also discuss further issue about the article on its talkpage Talk:Tahera Rahman, so that other people can join. –Ammarpad (talk) 06:59, 28 October 2018 (UTC)
The policy only applies to content hosted on Wikimedia servers. The purpose of the template is to link to external content that cannot be uploaded to Wikipedia. As well, WP:DOB states that the DOB can only be published when publicly available from reliable sources. Several secondary sources (news articles) refer to her as a 27-year-old.[1][2][3][4] – Batreeq (Talk) (Contribs) 23:04, 1 November 2018 (UTC)

References

  1. ^ https://metro.co.uk/2018/02/27/america-just-got-its-first-full-time-muslim-tv-reporter-who-wears-a-hijab-7344956/
  2. ^ https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/life/2018/02/23/iowa-journalist-makes-history-first-hijabi-reporter-american-tv-tahera-rahman-whbf-local-4/335297002/
  3. ^ http://emirateswoman.com/tahera-rahman-is-the-usas-first-hijabi-newsreader/
  4. ^ https://www.albawaba.com/editorchoice/americas-1st-hijab-wearing-tv-reporter-tahera-rahman-goes-air-without-glitch-1171370
If you want argue the policy, you should do it at Wikipedia talk:Non-free content not on my talkpage. Since you don't agree with the policy part I quote --and prefer what template says-- there's nothing I can do. You should ask for clarification on the policy's talkpage, so other people can join the discussion.–Ammarpad (talk) 05:56, 2 November 2018 (UTC)

Decision to Flag George P. Smith II page for copyright issues

Hi,

I'm a librarian who monitors George's Wikipedia page. It was set up by my predecessors, but I've done updates for George a couple of times. It was brought to my attention that it had been flagged for copyright violations today, but I cannot tell why. I tried to read the copyright report, but I couldn't decipher what parts of the article the system thought violated copyright and what secondary document it used as a reference, to show the violation. I'd like to rectify this as soon as possible, but don't know how to proceed. Could you please let me know what brought you to this decision as soon as possible?

Thanks.— Preceding unsigned comment added by AshleyAAhlbrand (talk • contribs)

Hi, @AshleyAAhlbrand: You can take a look at the investigation subpage here and read what I explained, specifically with regard to 1, 2 and 3. And also because the page has been sitting for long undetected, so both legitimate edits and copyright violations got intertwined and complicated the issue. There's no volunteer yet to investigate the issue further as there are many articles in the backlog, but it will be resolved. –Ammarpad (talk) 09:45, 2 November 2018 (UTC)
Thanks, @Ammarpad:. I'll take a look. Am I able to work on correcting the issues you've flagged (like the puffery) while we wait on a volunteer to look it over? AshleyAAhlbrand (talk) 13:47, 2 November 2018 (UTC)
Yes, but in the meantime it is better to rewrite it at this temporary subpage provided for that. From there it can be reviewed and moved to the mainpage later if appropriate. By rewrite, that means in whole so as to not include any further copyright infringement, close paraphrasing or other unwanted flattery. But since you're staff of the George's institution, you should read Wikipedia's Conflict of interest editing guideline and be familiar with its salient point regarding contributing to articles where editors have personal/work relationship with the subject and also disclosure of such. –Ammarpad (talk) 14:14, 2 November 2018 (UTC)

Review for English/French speaker / Urgently need your help!

Hello Ammarpad. I am contacting you because you are a speaker of both English and French. I have created the page Draft:Pierre_Jovanovic nearly 2 months ago, and I am waiting for a review. Could you please consider having a look at it ? Please excuse me if my request is improper. I am learning the ropes. Best regards. Micha Jo (talk) 08:11, 2 November 2018 (UTC)

Hi, @Micha Jo: I will take a look, possibly tonight, UTC+1. –Ammarpad (talk) 10:01, 2 November 2018 (UTC)
@Ammarpad: Please, I need your help. My first article, which was approved after a 2 month review process was submitted for deletion by user Bradv. See here Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Pierre Jovanovic. I presented strong arguments in the talk page Talk:Pierre_Jovanovic, but they were not considered. Could you please have a look, and support my page if you like it ? Also note that Bradv is the infamous user which deleted the page of Mrs Strickland who later won the Nobel prize in physics: [[38]] and [[39]]. Thank you and kind regards. Micha Jo (talk) 03:01, 4 November 2018 (UTC)
Please, I am afraid I cannot do that. The arguments you presented is the right thing to do and you already did, so no need of any help. –Ammarpad (talk) 09:33, 5 November 2018 (UTC)

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Rant?

That was not a rant. You got unnecessarily offended. For someone who believes in civility and good faith, you took it as anything but. You took offense to someone leaving a friendly bit of advice. That's all I did. Mr. C.C.Hey yo!I didn't do it! 15:06, 1 November 2018 (UTC)

That was not advice. If you believe the page should be deleted, take it to AfD. Period.–Ammarpad (talk) 16:23, 1 November 2018 (UTC)
It was advice. You're failing to realize that nobody is bothering to expand the article. Mr. C.C.Hey yo!I didn't do it! 15:13, 8 November 2018 (UTC)
No. You were instructing me in officious tone to move article to draft "because it's a stub," an article that I did not create. That shows your poor understanding of policy. And when I declined --instead for you to check relevant policy pages-- you went further in fury to nominate the article for deletion with another flimsy, non-policy based reason that "there has been no attempt to expand the article...." Now the AfD haas been closed as clear keep, I hope you will now refresh your policy understanding on small pages and also learn a thing or two in general.–Ammarpad (talk) 17:32, 8 November 2018 (UTC)

Talk:List of Presidents of Angola

Hello. When you closed a move request at Talk:List of Presidents of Angola#Requested move 2 November 2018 and moved List of heads of state of Angola to List of Presidents of Angola, you forgot to move List of heads of state of Mozambique to List of Presidents of Mozambique and List of heads of government of Mozambique to List of Prime Ministers of Mozambique. It was a part of the request in the same way as the part which you completed by moving the Angolan article. --Sundostund (talk) 06:23, 9 November 2018 (UTC)

Fixed. I thought Anthony Appleyard was only suggesting them. –Ammarpad (talk) 07:00, 9 November 2018 (UTC)

AfroCine: The Months of African Cinema Continues….

Greetings!

Thank you very much for signing up to participate in the Months of African Cinema global contest/edit-a-thon, and thank you for your contributions so far.

It is already the middle of the contest and a lot have been achieved already! We have been able to get over 200 articles created in over seven (7) languages! The figures soars to up to a thousand, if Wikidata entries are included. Furthermore, there have been about 5 in-person gatherings of Wikipedians in different countries across the world to create articles about African(a) cinema!

We are very excited about what has been achieved so far, but your contributions are still needed to further exceed all expectations! Let’s create more articles before the end of this contest, which is this November!!!

  • Article suggestions can be found here. You can also add to this list.
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RMs and redirects

Hi, I mentioned you here, but now I realise that you've only been involved in fulfiling a request at RMT, which was placed there by the editor who closed the RM. So probably fixing the redirects wasn't probably what you were expected to do. Is there a typical division of labour in such cases? Though I guess ideally, people shouldn't be closing RMs they don't have the technical means to carry out. – Uanfala (talk) 15:32, 17 November 2018 (UTC)

@Uanfala: Usually I don't close RMs I cannot implement, maybe because of Blacklist or Move protection, but we well know there's no policy that prohibits doing so, it's left to common sense. Then in that case, I am the one who should've actually fix the redirect but somehow I forgot. Fixing redirect is responsibility of the editor who actually moved a page. There are also several bots that fix fixable cases like that after sometime. –Ammarpad (talk) 16:04, 17 November 2018 (UTC)

Passport move

Hi Ammarpad, User:Dreamy Jazz had already relisted this move discussion. And within a few hours you have reverted his relist and closed it. I feel your closure is unjustified as the discussion still deserves more comments from the community to reach a conclusion. Consensus is not counting of heads. Can you self revert and allow the discussion more time so that a clear consensus is reached. --DBigXrayᗙ 04:03, 19 November 2018 (UTC)

It was listed as due for closure because the relist was incorrect and not recognised by the bot. It must be placed immediately following the first dated signature, but they placed it after another. I did not revert a relist, can you show where I did?. If you look again, preceding the relist tag is a signature dated 12th, I thought it was for the relist time. I now reopened it and fixed the error of the relist. –Ammarpad (talk) 04:22, 19 November 2018 (UTC)
Thanks, i think the font is small, it might need more tweaking regards --DBigXrayᗙ 04:32, 19 November 2018 (UTC)
OK. I did it myself, by reverting to the version by Dreamy Jazz. I can see the discussion is listed at Wikipedia:Requested_moves#November_18,_2018 by Jazz and also on Wikipedia:Dashboard/Requested moves. So I believe it's all good now. I am still not sure why it did not show up at the Dashboard you listed above. --DBigXrayᗙ 04:47, 19 November 2018 (UTC)
It seems you're yet to understand. I fixed it here by moving his "relist signature" to be immediately following the first dated signature which is your own and has timestamp of (12:21, 11 November 2018). But you now moved it again to be after the second dated signature which is your own too but with timestamp (14:59, 12 November 2018). You actually broke it again, and the bot reacted by moving it back as due for closure. When you saw it working normally it was because of my fix which you now overriden, but now before you do anything check the page Wikipedia:Requested_moves#November_18,_2018 to see what I am telling you. The reason why it did not show in my Dashboard link above was because it's in a permalink form.
@DBigXray: OK, I see you now understand and even fixed it. That's great. –Ammarpad (talk)
Please see the state of the font after your last edit [47]. I did achieve this feat by using the relist template, but now there is an unnecessary relist signature with my name. Can I go ahead and remove my signature now ? --DBigXrayᗙ 05:16, 19 November 2018 (UTC)
OK. I don't bother checking the rest of the text, I stopped just by the relist date. So pardon me that's why I don't get your "font" issue above. Yes this second signature is unnecessary. The Dreamy Jazz's sign is enough, you can remove the second one and see. –Ammarpad (talk) 05:30, 19 November 2018 (UTC)
I took the liberty of removing the second sig. You can now check if everything is OK. –Ammarpad (talk) 05:34, 19 November 2018 (UTC)
Thank you, lets hope the bot doesn't break it now. Wikipedia:Requested_moves#November_19,_2018 --DBigXrayᗙ 05:44, 19 November 2018 (UTC)

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23:28, 19 November 2018 (UTC)

Should have left a redirect here

You broke a link to Talk:Language Movement/Archive 1. – wbm1058 (talk) 23:21, 19 November 2018 (UTC)
@Wbm1058: It wasn't possible to leave a redirect at the time. Otherwise I couldn't have been able to restore Draft:Move/Bengali language movement back to the base title Language Movement which is needed for attribution. In a round-robin page move all redirects must be suppressed. What I should have done was to recreate the redirect manually, but somehow I forgot, and now it has been done. –Ammarpad (talk) 05:02, 20 November 2018 (UTC)
Only round-robin a page when you absolutely have to (from my perspective, R-R is usually a less-than-ideal solution). If you use the "Swap" script (listed on the "More" dropdown) it asks you "Move subpages? (OK for yes, Cancel for no)" Say NO to that and just MOVE the subpages separately (which was easy in this case since there was only one). As a general rule of thumb I'd try moving everything conventionally, and only resort to R-R when you're blocked from doing that. Sorry, I realize this is a relatively minor knit, but I see an increasing number of round-robins with various issues left behind that I find myself cleaning up... I wish there were more admins doing this work. wbm1058 (talk) 12:45, 20 November 2018 (UTC)
No problem. I will take more care next time. –Ammarpad (talk) 13:57, 20 November 2018 (UTC)

single use template

Hi, you say this should be allowed to bend the rule. BTo which rule do you refere? All of the discussions end the same and nobody quotes the rule that is violated. It is mostly the hear say rule of dsingle use templates but where is it written? --Stone (talk) 07:04, 20 November 2018 (UTC)

@Stone: I assume you're referring to this TfD about {{Infobox_actinium}}. My comment used what is called hypothetical example. I hope you should reread it to understand better. Thanks. –Ammarpad (talk) 07:33, 20 November 2018 (UTC)
A hypothetical example is of no use in this discussion. There is no written guideline or rule to bend, so we do not bend anything. We stick to the rule. --Stone (talk) 08:14, 21 November 2018 (UTC)
This shows you don't understand what's hypothetical example in the first place. You should know it first, then reread my comment. I believe other people in the discussion understand what I mean which is even quite clear. –Ammarpad (talk) 10:02, 21 November 2018 (UTC)

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Automated archival (Teahouse)

Hello Ammarpad,

We discussed automated archival in the teahouse. The thread has been archived now ;Wikipedia:Teahouse/Questions/Archive_869#Automated_Archival_with_at_least_two_signed_edits/_done_template Do you still have the time to help me with the automated archival on my own talk page as discussed? Thanks in advance and best regards --Hundsrose (talk) 10:36, 3 December 2018 (UTC)

Hi, @Hundsrose: I have added it for you now. Once there are more than 3 posts, that are older than 3 days, a bot will automatically archive the rest leaving only two. You can read how to change the behavior here to further tweak it or you can ask me if you need further clarification. –Ammarpad (talk) 15:49, 3 December 2018 (UTC)
Hello Ammarpad, thanks a lot for your help. I increased the algo parameter to 30 now. I'm still unsure how to implement the minimum of signed edits for a section and the "done" template. I can't find those in the link above. Maybe you can assist me there once again? Much appreciated. Best regards --Hundsrose (talk) 16:24, 3 December 2018 (UTC)
@Hundsrose: To make sure we're together, the |algo= parameter you changed to 30 means a post will not be archived until after 30 days elapsed according to its timestamp. If that's what you want it's OK. Then the bot archives according to number of sections (threads) not timestamps. So it cannot recognize number of signed edits within a section. A section with two signed edits and a section with 10 signed edits are all treated as equal; only the age (which you specified) matters. I don't know of any template that may trigger the bot to immediately arhive, you may consider asking the bot's operator for that. –Ammarpad (talk) 16:56, 3 December 2018 (UTC)
I thought archival is always done by section and not single posts and wanted to archive every section which oldest post is older than 30 days and which has at least 2 posts. In addition, if a section has only one post, I'd like to mark this one with the template so I can decide if it gets archived or not. How should I proceed now, should I write on the bot's talk page? Thanks for the help. Best regards --Hundsrose (talk) 17:05, 3 December 2018 (UTC)
OK, I thought you want ask it to archive a particular post within a section and not the other. Now what you want can be done by {{DNAU}}. –Ammarpad (talk) 17:19, 3 December 2018 (UTC)

Thanks a lot, Ammarpad! --Hundsrose (talk) 12:56, 4 December 2018 (UTC)

Growth team updates #4

Welcome to the fourth newsletter for the new Growth team!  

The Growth team's objective is to work on software changes that help retain new contributors in mid-size Wikimedia projects.

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Two Growth team projects have been deployed (detailed updates here)

  • Personalized first day (welcome survey) was deployed on November 20 on both Czech and Korean Wikipedias.
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