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Happy to help where I can! Eddie891TalkWork 15:05, 12 October 2023 (UTC)
Question from Anwar369sadat (07:47, 13 October 2023)
Hi, I want to create pages for some of living legends but they are not familiar with Wikipedia. to start this first I want to creat a page for myself, not a legend but want to understand the process. can you help and guide me how to do it --Anwar369sadat (talk) 07:47, 13 October 2023 (UTC)
if the subject does, I would begin by creating a draft through the articles for creation project. If you navigate to that link, there will be a blue button that says "Click here to start a new article". Click it! And you can create a draft page start writing your article, and submit it for review when it is 'done'.
For help with this, I would recommend reading this page, and looking at existing articles on similar topics to see how they are written. The Wikipedia Adventure is an interactive guide to the *basics* of editing, and if you have any further questions, feel free to ask them here or at the teahouse! There are a lot of friendly editors happy to help you out. You can also experiment with editing on the draft you create (in step 2) without any major repercussions, or at the sandbox. One of the best ways to learn how to edit is by doing it! We're here to help you through the inevitable mistakes
Hello Eddie891 (talk·contribs). I have an email set in my preferences but, if you’re like me, the familiar tools are easiest. You can send the scans outside WP to [email protected]. It isn’t a secret but I’d rather not post it on the board. Thanks for your help. Humphrey Tribble (talk) 03:13, 16 October 2023 (UTC)
Hey just curious, why you change your mind here? - wolf 03:38, 16 October 2023 (UTC)
See discussion a couple sections above. When an established user asks in good faith I'm generally pretty amenable to reopening discussion. If it means consensus can be found quicker, it saves the broader site a lot of time/effort (as opposed to DRV). Eddie891TalkWork 11:42, 16 October 2023 (UTC)
Just saw that now. Don't know about the 'good faith' bit, but's it's your call. Thanks for the reply. Cheers - wolf 14:32, 16 October 2023 (UTC)
I get what you're saying, and I obviously wouldn't have made the closure if I didn't think it was correct, but there's no harm in reopening. Eddie891TalkWork 15:12, 16 October 2023 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of roles in the British Army
I mean, sure. I can't see how any consensus besides keep or no consensus could have been found, but happy to let someone else close. It's worth noting that several of the !keep voters felt the list met notability criteria, and others alluded to why they felt the list fulfilled a valid purpose to be a stand alone list. Just because you disagree with them doesn't mean they are inherently not policy based. However, happy to see what another closer thinks. Eddie891TalkWork 02:47, 16 October 2023 (UTC)
Pointing to MOS does not satisfy N. An inclusionist admin claiming that they "don't see there's a problem with it" is not a policy-based argument. Someone else saying "These articles are common" is not a reasoned argument, either. Only one person thought the subject passed NLIST and they are mistaken. The editing community expects better from a closing admin than counting !votes on an equal basis; a bot does that. I'm trying to work the NPP backlog which is the only reason I got involved in this. Chris Troutman (talk) 13:19, 16 October 2023 (UTC)
Thanks for your work on the NPP backlog, and I’m sorry to hear you’re disappointed. That is certainly never my aim. However, you’re also misrepresenting the nature of the !votes. Necrothesp in a subsequent comment explicitly stated what's relevant at AfD is the notability of the topic — this, to me, is a direct invocation of NLIST with the implication that they have considered and feel the article meets that, as are !voters who said ‘per X’. We are also not in the business of discounting comments based on whether someone is an inclusionist (or not) last I checked. If we were, I would have to ask whether your record means any delete comments should be discounted (it doesn't). Eddie891TalkWork 14:34, 16 October 2023 (UTC)
Sorry about that, I started looking for free images before you had uploaded a fair use one. Yours was certainly better quality. --GRuban (talk) 17:02, 17 October 2023 (UTC)
@GRuban: That one you uploaded kind of looks like the same one from the bowl.com website, except lower quality - doesn't it? If it is, what is done in this situation? BeanieFan11 (talk) 17:25, 17 October 2023 (UTC)
File:Louise Fulton headshot.jpg and https://bowl.com/usbc-hall-of-fame/hall-of-famers/louise-fulton ... it does look as if the first was cropped from the second, doesn't it? Well, if we knew for sure that second image was published in the US without copyright notice before 1978, it would also be public domain, and we should certainly use the better quality image. Honestly, if the newspaper image were even a complete copy, I'd use it; the newspapers.com scanner isn't the best we could wish for. But as is, there is some chance only the cropped version was published. Want to email bowl.com and ask them where their image came from? 90% chance they either won't answer or don't even know themselves ... but that does leave a 10% chance they'll say! https://bowl.com/usbc-hall-of-fame/information does say "If you have any questions in the meantime, please contact Dave Schroeder at [email protected]." so it's a real person which is somewhat encouraging. --GRuban (talk) 18:22, 17 October 2023 (UTC)
The project may meet the notability guidelines (such as WP:GNG) now, yes, though that is not a guarantee. You'd have to look at the coverage it has gotten. Eddie891TalkWork 15:31, 24 October 2023 (UTC)
Women in Red - November 2023
Women in Red November 2023, Vol 9, Iss 11, Nos 251, 252, 287, 288, 289
I have to delete a useless, incomplete and Empty misinformation page.How to delete this Page --Nnn edits (talk) 21:48, 25 October 2023 (UTC)
Hi @Nnn edits, what is the page, specifically? I can help you out a bit better if. I know what we're looking at. Eddie891TalkWork 13:33, 26 October 2023 (UTC)
This is to let you know that the above article has been scheduled as today's featured article for 24 December 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/December 2023, or to make comments on other matters concerning the scheduling of this article at Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/December 2023. Please keep an eye on that page, as comments regarding the draft blurb may be left there by user:dying, who assists the coordinators by making suggestions on the blurbs, or by others. I also suggest that you watchlist Wikipedia:Main Page/Errors from two days before the article appears on the Main Page. Thanks and congratulations on your work!—Wehwalt (talk) 18:51, 29 October 2023 (UTC)
November Articles for creation backlog drive
Hello Eddie891:
WikiProject Articles for creation is holding a month long Backlog Drive!
The goal of this drive is to reduce the backlog of unreviewed drafts to less than 2 months outstanding reviews from the current 4+ months. Bonus points will be given for reviewing drafts that have been waiting more than 30 days. The drive is running from 1 November 2023 through 30 November 2023.
Barnstars will be given out as awards at the end of the drive.
There is a backlog of over 2400 pages, so start reviewing drafts. We're looking forward to your help! MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:24, 31 October 2023 (UTC)
Question from Weaver FROG (13:41, 31 October 2023)
What is the minimum age you need to have to participate wikipedia --Weaver FROG (talk) 13:41, 31 October 2023 (UTC)
Hi, @Weaver FROG! There is no minimum age. Anyone is welcome to edit, though you generally need a certain degree of maturity. Eddie891TalkWork 15:32, 31 October 2023 (UTC)
Thank you for improving articles in October! - Today, it's a place that inspired me, musings if you have time. My corner for memory and music has today a juxtaposition of what our local church choirs offer. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:03, 20 October 2023 (UTC)
What a fine piece of work, again. I'm looking at it, hoping to aid with the FA. Here's something I can't easily tweak or explain in an edit summary--a few things that are connected. I think "controversial by some" can easily do without the "some", if I understand it correctly: there was plenty, right? Plus I think "controversial" is pretty black and white: it's there or it's not, though it can be major or minor. A bigger things, for me, is the quoted "homoerotic overtones", which is of course a modern evaluation since that language didn't really exist. In other words, I think it needs attribution, or the statement should be made in a different way. Does that make sense to you? Drmies (talk) 16:32, 28 October 2023 (UTC)
Thanks for taking a look. I agree with what you're saying, I attributed and removed the 'by some', if that works? Eddie891TalkWork 17:49, 28 October 2023 (UTC)
Re: "culminating hour". I have to dig into the sourcing. Kaplan's citations don't include it (*angry face*) and Reynold's don't give enough context Eddie891TalkWork 18:40, 28 October 2023 (UTC)
Works for me! What a nice collection of articles you've been building. Ha, I'm on the other side, if you like; I've been working on Sidney Lanier, who was not as great a poet, but he was a fan of Leaves of Grass though he probably despised Whitman's classless ideas about democracy. Drmies (talk) 20:19, 28 October 2023 (UTC)
@Drmies: I found the source of the quote. Turns out it has been shortened and is from Whitman's friend John Johnston, who writes:
"Two hundred callers came and paid homage to "The Good Gray Poet," Walt afterwards told me it was "the culminating hour of his life,
Johnston doesn't even bother to close the quote, so it's hard to tell where his writing begins and ends, or even what's being quoted. I'm not sure what to do with this, but think I will remove it from the lead at the least. Need to think more about the best way to add context... Eddie891TalkWork 21:32, 28 October 2023 (UTC)
Shoot, I hope I'm not making you go through all the source material... I know how that feels. But thank you for your diligence. Drmies (talk) 21:34, 28 October 2023 (UTC)
@Drmies, no apologies at all! The source material needs digging, and your questions have led me to find a couple more mistakes in the scholarly record to put into the article. Eddie891TalkWork 18:54, 29 October 2023 (UTC)
@Drmies, The sourcing doesn't really date either of his statements. So I've tried to not put either as later than the others. Eddie891TalkWork 23:57, 1 November 2023 (UTC)
@Drmies, I think Whitman would just about roll over in his grave if he read this poem written 'in his memory'! Eddie891TalkWork 01:52, 2 November 2023 (UTC)
Oh I gotta teach and I have a few meetings, but I can't wait to look at that. Drmies (talk) 14:20, 2 November 2023 (UTC)
WikiCup 2023 November newsletter
The WikiCup is a marathon rather than a sprint and all those reaching the final round have been involved in the competition for the last ten months, improving Wikipedia vastly during the process. After all this hard work, BeanieFan11 has emerged as the 2023 winner and the WikiCup Champion. The finalists this year were:-
Congratulations to everyone who participated in this year's WikiCup, whether they made it to the final round or not, and particular congratulations to the newcomers to the competition, some of whom did very well. Wikipedia has benefitted greatly from the quality creations, expansions and improvements made, and the numerous reviews performed. All those who reached the final round will win awards. The following special awards will be made based on high performance in particular areas of content creation and review. Awards will be handed out in the next few days.
Unlimitedlead wins the featured article prize, for 7 FAs in total including 3 in round 2.
MyCatIsAChonk wins the featured list prize, for 5 FLs in total.
Lee Vilenski wins the featured topic prize, for a 6-article featured topic in round 4.
MyCatIsAChonk wins the featured picture prize, for 6 FPs in total.
BeanieFan11 wins the good article prize, for 75 GAs in total, including 61 in the final round.
Epicgenius wins the good topic prize, for a 41-article good topic in the final round.
LunaEatsTuna wins the GA reviewer prize, for 70 GA reviews in round 1.
MyCatIsAChonk wins the FA reviewer prize, for 66 FA reviews in the final round.
Epicgenius wins the DYK prize, for 49 did you know articles in total.
Muboshgu wins the ITN prize, for 46 in the news articles in total.
The WikiCup has run every year since 2007. With the 2023 contest now concluded, I will be standing down as a judge due to real life commitments, so I hope that another editor will take over running the competition. Please get in touch if you are interested. Next year's competition will hopefully begin on 1 January 2024. You are invited to sign up to participate in the contest; the WikiCup is open to all Wikipedians, both novices and experienced editors. It only remains to congratulate our worthy winners once again and thank all participants for their involvement! (If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send.) Sturmvogel 66 and Cwmhiraeth. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:51, 5 November 2023 (UTC)
Question from Lefthandesign (19:57, 6 November 2023)
How do you credit a designer to their design? --Lefthandesign (talk) 19:57, 6 November 2023 (UTC)
Hi, @Lefthandesign, could you be a bit more specific? What are you hoping to credit a designer for? Eddie891TalkWork 20:50, 6 November 2023 (UTC)
Wikipedia has strict guidelines against self-promotion or conflict of interest. I believe It’s generally discouraged to add information about own designs. However in terms of adding factual information to articles in Wikipedia, how do I add missing information to devices I've designed? Or do I inform others who could do this? Lefthandesign (talk) 21:02, 6 November 2023 (UTC)
@Lefthandesign, you are correct on your first point. The best thing to do would be to find reliable sources that discuss the missing information. Next, I would recommend post on the talk page of the article they want to change with your proposed changes and citations to reliable sources. You can then flag them with the {{edit COI}} template, or post a note at the COI noticeboard, so that they can be peer reviewed. Does that make sense/sound like what you're looking for? Happy to expand if you need clarification. Eddie891TalkWork 00:32, 7 November 2023 (UTC)
Following a motion, the contentious topic designation of Prem Rawat has been struck. Actions previously taken using this contentious topic designation are still in force.
Following several motions, multiple topic areas are no longer designated as a contentious topic. These contentious topic designations were from the Editor conduct in e-cigs articles, Liancourt Rocks, Longevity, Medicine, September 11 conspiracy theories, and Shakespeare authorship question cases.
Following a motion, remedies 3.1 (All related articles under 1RR whenever the dispute over naming is concerned), 6 (Stalemate resolution) and 30 (Administrative supervision) of the Macedonia 2 case have been rescinded.
Following a motion, remedy 6 (One-revert rule) of the The Troubles case has been amended.
An arbitration case named Industrial agriculture has been opened. Evidence submissions in this case close 8 November.
Miscellaneous
The Articles for Creation backlog drive is happening in November 2023, with 700+ drafts pending reviews for in the last 4 months or so. In addition to the AfC participants, all administrators and New Page Patrollers can conduct reviews using the helper script, Yet Another AFC Helper Script, which can be enabled in the Gadgets settings. Sign up here to participate!
By the authority vested in me by myself it gives me great pleasure to present you with this award in recognition of the thorough, detailed and actionable reviews you have carried out at FAC. Your latest in particular was a model. This work is very much appreciated. Gog the Mild (talk) 23:12, 8 November 2023 (UTC)
Thanks, Gog. Am enjoying the reviewing I can get done with my time! Eddie891TalkWork 23:38, 8 November 2023 (UTC)
New Pages Patrol newsletter June 2023
Hello Eddie891,
New Page Review queue April to June 2023
Backlog
Redirect drive: In response to an unusually high redirect backlog, we held a redirect backlog drive in May. The drive completed with 23851 reviews done in total, bringing the redirect backlog to 0 (momentarily). Congratulations to Hey man im josh who led with a staggering 4316 points, followed by Meena and Greyzxq with 2868 and 2546 points respectively. See this page for more details. The redirect queue is steadily rising again and is steadily approaching 4,000. Please continue to help out, even if it's only for a few or even one review a day.
Redirect autopatrol: All administrators without autopatrol have now been added to the redirect autopatrol list. If you see any users who consistently create significant amounts of good quality redirects, consider requesting redirect autopatrol for them here.
WMF work on PageTriage: The WMF Moderator Tools team, consisting of Sam, Jason and Susana, and also some patches from Jon, has been hard at work updating PageTriage. They are focusing their efforts on modernising the extension's code rather than on bug fixes or new features, though some user-facing work will be prioritised. This will help make sure that this extension is not deprecated, and is easier to work on in the future. In the next month or so, we will have an opt-in beta test where new page patrollers can help test the rewrite of Special:NewPagesFeed, to help find bugs. We will post more details at WT:NPPR when we are ready for beta testers.
Articles for Creation (AFC): All new page reviewers are now automatically approved for Articles for Creation draft reviewing (you do not need to apply at WT:AFCP like was required previously). To install the AFC helper script, visit Special:Preferences, visit the Gadgets tab, tick "Yet Another AFC Helper Script", then click "Save". To find drafts to review, visit Special:NewPagesFeed, and at the top left, tick "Articles for Creation". To review a draft, visit a submitted draft, click on the "More" menu, then click "Review (AFCH)". You can also comment on and submit drafts that are unsubmitted using the script.
You can review the AFC workflow at WP:AFCR. It is up to you if you also want to mark your AFC accepts as NPP reviewed (this is allowed but optional, depends if you would like a second set of eyes on your accept). Don't forget that draftspace is optional, so moves of drafts to mainspace (even if they are not ready) should not be reverted, except possibly if there is conflict of interest.
Pro tip: Did you know that visual artists such as painters have their own SNG? The most common part of this "creative professionals" criteria that applies to artists is WP:ARTIST 4b (solo exhibition, not group exhibition, at a major museum) or 4d (being represented within the permanent collections of two museums).
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WikiCup 2023 September newsletter
The fourth round of the competition has finished, with anyone scoring less than 673 points being eliminated. It was a high scoring round with all but one of the contestants who progressed to the final having achieved an FA during the round. The highest scorers were
Epicgenius, with 2173 points topping the scores, gained mainly from a featured article, 38 good articles and 9 DYKs. He was followed by
Sammi Brie, with 1575 points, gained mainly from a featured article, 28 good articles and 50 good article reviews. Close behind was
Thebiguglyalien, with 1535 points mainly gained from a featured article, 15 good articles, 26 good article reviews and lots of bonus points.
Between them during round 4, contestants achieved 12 featured articles, 3 featured lists, 3 featured pictures, 126 good articles, 46 DYK entries, 14 ITN entries, 67 featured article candidate reviews and 147 good article reviews. Congratulations to our eight finalists and all who participated! It was a generally high-scoring and productive round and I think we can expect a highly competitive finish to the competition.
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 10 days of "earning" them and within 24 hours of the end of the final. If you are concerned that your nomination will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. It would be helpful if this list could be cleared of any items no longer relevant. 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. If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send.
I will be standing down as a judge after the end of the contest. I think the Cup encourages productive editors to improve their contributions to Wikipedia and I hope that someone else will step up to take over the running of the Cup. Sturmvogel 66 (talk), and Cwmhiraeth (talk)
Hi, @Adammaurer, and thanks for your your work so far! If you feel a warning has been resolved, you can feel free to remove the warning. In this case, I went ahead and did it for you, in this edit. If you look at the revision in the edit, you can see how some of the sources you added were still in the format of bare urls- a form that is not is when you use a citation template like {{cite web}}. Basically, you want there to be more information (ie author, publication, date of publication) so that if the URL ever goes down, someone can access it again. Another tool you can use for fixing broken links is a site like archive.today or web.archive.org, which stores copies of webpages forever. So, for instance, I was able to access this source (which you had removed) at this link. See this edit for an example of how to cite that. Removing a source should only be done as a last resort. Best wishes, Eddie891TalkWork 14:38, 9 November 2023 (UTC)
Hi @Eddie891, thanks for your helpful comments! I went to another page to try and get the citing right. Could you please confirm that what I did at David Braine (athletic director) is OK? Adammaurer (talk) 15:45, 9 November 2023 (UTC)
Hi, @Adammaurer, the formatting of that citation looks good! And your choice to change the phrasing is good. One point is the sentence you added to the article is super similar to the sentence of the citation ("David Braine was instrumental in helping the Hokies join the long sought-after Atlantic Coast Conference"). Because of copyright policies, Wikipedia has to be written in our own words. Can you think of any ways to rephrase this sentence? Eddie891TalkWork 15:52, 9 November 2023 (UTC)
Ah, I thought it would have to as close as possible to the source! I have rephrased it, hope it is better. Adammaurer (talk) 15:49, 10 November 2023 (UTC)
Yes, I think your edit is fine. There's not too many different ways to phrase that sentence. Thanks for your dilligence! Eddie891TalkWork 16:01, 10 November 2023 (UTC)
A librianic wonder!
The Diligent Librarian Barnstar
For exemplary service at the Resource Exchange, tirelessly delivering the reliable sources on which this encyclopedia depends, please accept this award. :) Thanks for everything you do at WP:RX, and especially for your most recent valuable (and massive!) help there! ——Serial 13:04, 14 November 2023 (UTC)
Thanks for this kind note, Serial Number 54129! Happy to be of assistance where I can, and I enjoy seeing the work users do with the sources I help them get access to. Eddie891TalkWork 16:13, 14 November 2023 (UTC)
PS: I'm hanging on to the book until it's due (early December), so if you need any other pages or any pages re-scanned, just let me know. Eddie891TalkWork 16:14, 14 November 2023 (UTC)
Boulez
Hi there, you kindly made some comments on the Pierre Boulez page a while back. I've now nominated it for FA, if you happen to have time to stop by...Dmass (talk) 07:41, 16 November 2023 (UTC)
Thanks for the note, I will add it to my list, though I'm not quite sure what I'll have the time for yet. Eddie891TalkWork 13:57, 16 November 2023 (UTC)
Time to say thank you for improving article quality in November! - Vacation pictures offered if you click on songs, and my story today is a DYK hook from 13 years ago OTD: about the great music at one of my churches. Mozart's Requiem to come on Sunday, coupled with Arvo Pärt's Da pacem Domine, - I guess you might come if it was a bit closer. Perhaps watch the video of our last production, our first on yt, ever. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:31, 21 November 2023 (UTC)
If you have a chance, could you give the above article a review? It is languishing a bit at FAC. Many thanks. Wehwalt (talk) 14:27, 9 November 2023 (UTC)
I'd be happy to. I've got a six-hour train ride up to WikiConference North America tomorrow, so will try to take a look at it then. Eddie891TalkWork 14:29, 9 November 2023 (UTC)
@Wehwalt, Sorry that I forgot to circle back to this one. Interesting article. Eddie891TalkWork 00:53, 21 November 2023 (UTC)
Not an issue. If I do another one of these individual game articles, I will give a lot of attention to the question of jargon. But right now I don't have a game in mind. Wehwalt (talk) 23:13, 24 November 2023 (UTC)
Congratulations, Eddie891! The article you nominated, Walt Whitman's lectures on Abraham Lincoln, 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, FrB.TG (talk) via FACBot (talk) 12:05, 17 November 2023 (UTC)
Eddie891, any thoughts on running this at WP:TFA on April 14 or 15? - Dank (push to talk) 03:45, 25 November 2023 (UTC)
@Dank, I think either would be great, April 14 probably a bit better. Thanks for bringing up. Eddie891TalkWork 00:30, 27 November 2023 (UTC)
Okay, it's on TFAP for April 14. - Dank (push to talk) 00:33, 27 November 2023 (UTC)
Women in Red December 2023
Women in Red December 2023, Vol 9, Iss 12, Nos 251, 252, 290, 291, 292
Hey! Would adding a source/multiple sources to an article be considered a minor or major edit? Thanks! --Oh-rainworld-guy (talk) 13:49, 30 November 2023 (UTC)
Hi @Oh-rainworld-guy, good question! That would definitely be considered a major edit. You should only use the 'minor edit' button when making really small changes, such as fixing a typo or changing a couple words. Here's an example of such an edit, where the user removed 'has'. Compare that to the edit immediately before it, which added new information, and a reference, and was not marked as 'minor'. Hope that helps! Eddie891TalkWork 14:54, 30 November 2023 (UTC)
Happy First Edit Day! Hi Eddie891! On behalf of the Birthday Committee, I'd like to wish you a very happy anniversary of the day you made your first edit and became a Wikipedian! Hemlock :3leave a message 20:40, 5 December 2023 (UTC)
Following a talk page discussion, the Administrators' accountability policy has been updated to note that while it is considered best practice for administrators to have notifications (pings) enabled, this is not mandatory. Administrators who do not use notifications are now strongly encouraged to indicate this on their user page.
Arbitration
Following a motion, the Extended Confirmed Restriction has been amended, removing the allowance for non-extended-confirmed editors to post constructive comments on the "Talk:" namespace. Now, non-extended-confirmed editors may use the "Talk:" namespace solely to make edit requests related to articles within the topic area, provided that their actions are not disruptive.
The Arbitration Committee has announced a call for Checkusers and Oversighters, stating that it will currently be accepting applications for CheckUser and/or Oversight permissions at any point in the year.
Hello Eddie891: Enjoy the holiday season and winter solstice if it's occurring in your area of the world, and thanks for your work to maintain, improve and expand Wikipedia. Cheers, MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 02:33, 9 December 2023 (UTC)
On 18 December 2023, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article T. K. Jones, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that T. K. Jones thought that a nuclear war was survivable if "there are enough shovels to go around"? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/T. K. Jones. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, T. K. Jones), 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.
Question from Leonorm2023 (22:42, 21 December 2023)
Hey Eddie! How can I go about deleting a draft that got rejected twice? For reference this is the Cinematographer: Sam Levy --Leonorm2023 (talk) 22:42, 21 December 2023 (UTC)
Hi, @Leonorm2023, if you are the sole author of the page, you can tag it for deletion with {{db-g7}}. Eddie891TalkWork 00:19, 22 December 2023 (UTC)
Voting for the WikiProject Military History newcomer of the year and military historian of the year awards for 2023 is now open!
Voting is now open for the WikiProject Military History newcomer of the year and military historian of the year awards for 2023! The the top editors will be awarded the coveted Gold Wiki . Cast your votes vote here and here respectively. Voting closes at 23:59 on 30 December 2023. On behalf of the coordinators, wishing you the very best for the festive season and the new year. Hawkeye7 (talk·contribs) via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 23:56, 22 December 2023 (UTC)
Thank you for what you do and stand for! I wish you a good festive season and a peaceful New Year! -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:30, 20 December 2023 (UTC)
Thanks, and the same to you! Eddie891TalkWork 20:31, 20 December 2023 (UTC)
Thank you today for the timely Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus, introduced: "One of the most famous editorials of all time, I think this article is comprehensive and otherwise meets the FA criteria. A nice Christmastime theme, if nothing else."! - My wishes - with a timely DYK (sometimes it works) - in today's story, and more to come if you keep reading. Silent Night. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:16, 24 December 2023 (UTC)
Question from Saurabhgarg01 (12:56, 24 December 2023)
Hi Eddie, Thank you for being my mentor. I would request you, if you can guide me the parameters to review while suggesting an edit. Once again thank you and looking forward forward to support you in all your endeavour. --Saurabhgarg01 (talk) 12:56, 24 December 2023 (UTC)
Hi @Saurabhgarg01, I'm not exactly sure what you mean by "suggesting an edit". There are many different forms and edit can take, from writing a new article to fixing a minor typo. Could you clarify what you are hoping to work on? Best, Eddie891TalkWork 13:08, 27 December 2023 (UTC)
A solstice greeting
❄️Happy holidays!❄️
Hi Eddie! I'd like to wish you a splendid solstice season as we wrap up the year. Here is an artwork, made individually for you, to celebrate. It was great to meet you in Toronto! Take care, and thanks for all you do to make Wikipedia better!Cheers, {{u|Sdkb}}talk
Solstice Celebration for Eddie891, 2023, DALL·E 3.
Thanks, @Sdkb, really neat idea! I really enjoyed Toronto, hoping to go to more meet-ups soon. And, best wishes for the end of the year! Eddie891TalkWork 13:09, 27 December 2023 (UTC)
Firstly , I would like to thank you for your service in helping me with my project. --Sharda23 (talk) 22:06, 27 December 2023 (UTC)
Hi @Sharda23, and welcome to Wikipedia! I'm happy to help in whatever way I can. Let me know if you have any questions I can answer. Eddie891TalkWork 16:10, 28 December 2023 (UTC)
Hi Eddie, I'll plan to be active many years and am now a monthly donor after giving annually for several years. I've written a lot of refereed technical papers with refs, so I don't expect to have much trouble here.
But I do have a problem that I set up this new account today, but now I see MDNNM is also alive, with the same email address attached. Since that one has no content attached, can you kill that account and leave this one? I don't see a delete account feature available to me anywhere, so maybe I'm just missing it?
Thanks for the help, and we may talk more about content soon. --MarkDSF (talk) 15:09, 28 December 2023 (UTC)
Hi @MarkDSF! It's great to hear that you plan to contribute more. There is unfortunately no way to delete an account once it has been registered, but you should be fine just not editing on the other one, and it will be left inactive. If you want, you can disable email on that other account. Does that help? Eddie891TalkWork 16:12, 28 December 2023 (UTC)
yes, that's what I'll do. all this started when I saw you blocked all the TMUS IP addresses, and we are FWA customers of them on Wi-Fi. Since there are millions of such accounts, perhaps WP would consider sending out a general advisory on how to fix that problem, as I also had to delete and reinstall my phone app, to make it drop the blocked account MarkDSF (talk) 16:17, 28 December 2023 (UTC)
Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 23
New year, new scripts. Welcome to the 23rd issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter, covering around 39% of our favorite new and updated user scripts since 24 December 2021. That’s right, we haven’t published in two years! Can you believe it? Did you miss us?
Got anything good? Tell us about your new, improved, old, or messed-up script here!
User:Alexander Davronov/HistoryHelper has now become stable with some bugfixes and features such as automatically highlighting potentially uncivil edit summaries and automatically pinging all the users selected.
To a lesser extent, the same goes for User:PrimeHunter/Search sort.js. I wish someone would integrate the sorts into the sort menu instead of adding 11 portlet links.
Aaron Liu: Watchlyst Greybar Unsin is a rewrite of Ais's Watchlist Notifier with modern APIs and several new features such as not displaying watchlist items marked as seen (hence the name), not bolding diffs of unseen watchlist elements which doesn’t work properly anyways, displaying the rendered edit summary, proper display of log and creation actions and more links.
Alexis Jazz: Factotum is a spiritual successor to reply-link with a host of extra features like section adding, link rewriting, regular expressions and more.
User:Aveaoz/AutoMobileRedirect: This script will automatically redirect MobileFrontend (en.m.wikipedia) to normal Wikipedia. Unlike existing scripts, this one will actually check if your browser is mobile or not through its secret agent string, so you can stay logged in on mobile! Hooray screen estate!
Deputy is a first-of-its-kind copyright cleanup toolkit. It overrides the interface for Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations for easy case processing. It also includes the functionality of the following (also new) scripts:
User:Elominius/gadget/diff arrow keys allows navigation between diffs with the arrow keys. It also has a version that requires holding Ctrl with the arrow key.
Frequently link to Wikipedia on your websites yet find generating CC-BY credits to be such a hassle? Say no more! User:Luke10.27/attribute will automatically do it for ya and copy the credit to yer clipboard.
User:MPGuy2824/MoveToDraft, a spiritual successor (i.e. fork) to Evad37's script, with a few bugs solved, and a host of extra features like check-boxes for choosing draftification reasons, multi-contributor notification, and appropriate warnings based on last edit time.
/CopyCodeBlock: one of the most important operations for any scripter and script-user is to copy and paste. This script adds a copy button in the top right of every code block (not to be confused with <code>) that will, well, copy it to your clipboard!
m:User:NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh/AceForLuaDebugConsole.js adds the Ace editor (a.k.a. the editor you see when editing JS, CSS and Lua on Wikimedia wikis) to the Lua debug console. "In my opinion, whoever designed it to be a plain <textarea> needs to seriously reconsider their decision."
GANReviewTool quickly and easily closes good article nominations.
ReviewStatus displays whether or not a mainspace page is marked as reviewed.
SpeciesHelper tries to add the correct speciesbox, category, taxonbar, and stub template to species articles.
User:Opencooper/svgReplace and Tol's fork replaces all rasterized SVGs with their original SVG codes for your loading pleasures. Tell us which one is better!
ArticleInfo displays page information at the top of the page, directly below the title.
/HeaderIcons takes away the Vector 2022 user dropdown and replaces it with all of the icons within, top level, right next to the Watchlist. One less click away! There's also an alternate version that uses text links instead of icons.
Happy New Year and Happy New WikiCup! The 2024 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 on 31 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: Cwmhiraeth (talk·contribs·email), Epicgenius (talk·contribs·email), and Frostly (talk·contribs·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. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:21, 1 January 2024 (UTC)
Following a motion, the Arbitration Committee rescinded the restrictions on the page name move discussions for the two Ireland pages that were enacted in June 2009.
Request to restore deleted article for Fsn (file manager)
You recently deleted this article because you determined that File System Navigator was not notable. I believe it is notable and should be restored. I say this because it appeared in Jurassic Park, and was a rare glimpse at real computer software in a very popular film. As such, it shaped countless viewers' perceptions of computing and "hacking". I realize that Notability_(software) does not list cultural impact as a reason for notability, but it does state that there may be exceptions, and I would suggest this qualifies. This article supports my claim of cultural impact. If this is not sufficient, I can find additional sources. Thanks for your consideration. 24.20.59.206 (talk) 23:42, 29 December 2023 (UTC)
Hey IP, the (albeit loose) consensus at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Fsn (file manager) was that the program was not sufficiently notable for an article. What we'd really want to see to rebut that discussion is substantial coverage in reliable sources, which the WIRED article you linked is not-- are there, for instance, any articles that give in-depth consideration to the "cultural impact" of fsn? Eddie891TalkWork 15:31, 1 January 2024 (UTC)
Hi @George Ho, this does seem like it could change his notability. He would no be longer a BLP1E, so I'd imagine if he received significant coverage for both of the roles he'd be notable. Eddie891TalkWork 20:40, 8 January 2024 (UTC)
Hmm... I don't think the Parade interview indicates his notability outside Survivor. I treat the source as "primary". Same for the EW questionnaire/interview and E! interview. I also don't think Collider article suffices as I figured there aren't any other reliable secondary sources verifying his non-Survivor notability. George Ho (talk) 00:20, 9 January 2024 (UTC)
Yeah, if that's all there is, then probably not. Eddie891TalkWork 02:00, 9 January 2024 (UTC)
I can't understand how you read this dicussion as a consensus to redirect. Can you clarify? JBW (talk) 19:04, 11 January 2024 (UTC)
@JBW, on mobile so can’t write a lot until I get home, but redirect as opposed to what? Eddie891TalkWork 21:39, 11 January 2024 (UTC)
There is no overwhelming consensus, and I wouldn't object to a "no consensus" close, but there is clearly more support for delete than redirect, if anything is to be seen as a consensus. JBW (talk) 10:50, 12 January 2024 (UTC)
@JBW it doesn’t make sense to consider !votes to delete or redirect as particularly different: they’re both !votes that consider the topic to not be notable for a stand alone article. There was only one !vote to keep, which imv was well countered by subsequent well-rationaled delete !votes and comment. I think there’s a clear consensus here against notability. However, none of the delete !voters convincingly established why deletion would be preferred to redirection, which at least two !voters explicitly advocated for, so I closed as redirect instead. Eddie891TalkWork 12:23, 12 January 2024 (UTC)
An editor has asked for a deletion review of Hucksters.net. 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. Foweirp (talk) 19:34, 12 January 2024 (UTC)
Your comments on my FA nomination
Thanks. I was actually able to find some more about the geology of the area, which I am going to work on today. In general, is this the kind of thing where I ought to just withdraw the nomination and resubmit later when I've made the improvements, or what? jp×g🗯️ 20:54, 18 January 2024 (UTC)
@JPxG, it depends on how long you think you will take to make the changes. If it’s a few days, no point in withdrawing, but if more on the timeframe of weeks I would withdraw and renom later. If you’re thinking of making more substantive changes, a withdrawal might be more appropriate as well. Either way, please ping me when done, I look forward to giving a full review. Eddie891TalkWork 22:53, 18 January 2024 (UTC)
Women in Red February 2024
Women in Red| February 2024, Volume 10, Issue 2, Numbers 293, 294, 297, 298
--Lajmmoore (talk 20:08, 28 January 2024 (UTC) via MassMessaging
Letterheads
Hi Eddie, a while back you were involved in the deletion of a page about the Letterheads. While not a formal organisation, this movement is an international phenomenon approaching its 50th year in 2025, and of significance within the sign painting and lettering community.
With one of the founders, we are trying to write a detailed history and overview of what the Letterheads are, and would like to include this on Wikipedia. There are various citations that we can provide to published materials, for example Signs of the Times in 1985, and more recently in my own print and online magazine.
As a newcomer here, I would like to know what the conventions are for reinstating a page in this manner, and what guidance you can offer in terms of how we prepare and structure our submission for the entry?
Many thanks, Sam Strebormas (talk) 19:56, 8 January 2024 (UTC)
Hi @Sam. The main thing we consider is: has the topic received significant coverage in multiple reliable sources independent of the subject. Specifically, this topic should meet our guideline on organization notability. Is this the case with the group? Eddie891TalkWork 20:49, 8 January 2024 (UTC)
We can certainly demonstrate coverage in respected national and international trade and design press; my collaborator and I will gather this evidence together. Some of it is in the form of online articles, whereas some are saved PDFs and scans from print publications. Can we present those to you via dropbox or similar?
The particular challenge with this 'organisation' is that it is less an organisation, and more of a 'movement'. (MeToo and Black Lives Matter could be comparable 'movement'-based entries on Wikipedia, although the Letterheads is not directed towards social justice, rather at keeping the craft of sign painting alive through inter-generational sharing of knowledge and skills.)
Under the Letterheads banner, there have been hundreds of events hosted around the world over the last five decades, but there has never been a central organising committee or identified/nominated leader. It is what I describe as an 'anarchic organisation' and its existence is only maintained through the voluntary efforts of people around the world. While there are volunteer-run websites, none of these are 'official', and there is no formal means of 'joining' the Letterheads, other than saying you are one, and participating in an event.
I know this is quite an anomaly, and sits outside of traditional organisational structures, but I hope the above conveys some sense of what the 'organisation' consists of. We will continue to gather our evidence/references, but here are some links to get things started, each from respected secondary sources:
And, while this magazine site is my own, I have covered numerous events, including those I haven't attended/hosted, see https://bl.ag/tag/letterheads/Strebormas (talk) 06:08, 9 January 2024 (UTC)
Yeah, that all makes sense. Since you have somewhat of a conflict of interest, if you decide to go ahead with writing the article, you should go about drafting the article as a draft through WP:AFC so editors can independently review it. The best option for pdf scans if you want me to look over them might be to send scans/links to me over email-- we want to respect copyright, so uploading a link that anyone can view might be a bad idea. Another thought: Does the organization get mentioned in any books about sign painting? Anyways, the old deletion discussion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Letterheads was where the consensus to delete was actually found-- but if, as you say, there is a lot of in-depth coverage of the movement, notability may still be found. Eddie891TalkWork 01:40, 10 January 2024 (UTC)
OK, thank you, will try to navigate the draft approach. Does this mean starting a new article from scratch, or are we able to use the deleted entry as a basis for improvement? 37.135.83.95 (talk) 09:38, 10 January 2024 (UTC)
I'm reluctant to restore the deleted entry, because there is no content there sourced to reliable independent sources. In my experience, it's easier to write new sourced content than trying to find sourcing for old content. But if you disagree, I could restore the article as a draft. Eddie891TalkWork 12:52, 10 January 2024 (UTC)
OK, Monocle and Eye Magazine referenced above are both international publications, and we will have more when we compile our final body of evidence. Happy to work on a new draft, will try to figure out how to open it. Strebormas (talk) 13:55, 10 January 2024 (UTC)
I have gathered about 30 articles and some films and wondered if I could share them with you via email for an initial assessment of their validity in making the claim of notability for the Letterheads. I do this with a link to a dropbox or google drive according to your preference, but will obviously need your email address Strebormas (talk) 10:05, 28 January 2024 (UTC)
if you go to my userpage, you can click the button that says 'email user', or click this link Special:EmailUser/Eddie891, where you could send a google drive link (might be best). Eddie891TalkWork 16:57, 29 January 2024 (UTC)
An RfC about increasing the inactivity requirement for Interface administrators is open for feedback.
Technical news
Pages that use the JSON contentmodel will now use tabs instead of spaces for auto-indentation. This will significantly reduce the page size. (T326065)
Arbitration
Following a motion, the Arbitration Committee adopted a new enforcement restriction on January 4, 2024, wherein the Committee may apply the 'Reliable source consensus-required restriction' to specified topic areas.
Community feedback is requested for a draft to replace the "Information for administrators processing requests" section at WP:AE.
A vote to ratify the charter for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) is open till 2 February 2024, 23:59:59 (UTC) via Secure Poll. All eligible voters within the Wikimedia community have the opportunity to either support or oppose the adoption of the U4C Charter and share their reasons. The details of the voting process and voter eligibility can be found here.
Community Tech has made some preliminary decisions about the future of the Community Wishlist Survey. In summary, they aim to develop a new, continuous intake system for community technical requests that improves prioritization, resource allocation, and communication regarding wishes. Read more
Hello
Is it possible to upload a resume and have the information compared for my home page use? --Drafter707 (talk) 17:43, 8 February 2024 (UTC)
Hi, @Drafter707, that is not really the purpose of Wikipedia. Wikipedia articles are intended to provide independent sources of information on notable topics. You'd want to use a different website for what you're asking about. Let me know if I can help you with editing at all! Best, Eddie891TalkWork 17:57, 8 February 2024 (UTC)
Thank You, I'm trying too create the Information on my home page. thank You again. Drafter707 (talk) 18:01, 8 February 2024 (UTC)
TFA for Walt Whitman's lectures on Abraham Lincoln
I think we talked about this one for April 14 at TFA? Anyway, I've got it listed on the calendar. No need to do anything. Let me know if there's anything I can do. - Dank (push to talk) 00:31, 11 February 2024 (UTC)
Thanks, yeah April 14 sounds good to me! I will make some time to tweak things a bit, but I think this one should be roughly good to go. Eddie891TalkWork 02:51, 11 February 2024 (UTC)
WikiCup 2024 February newsletter
The 2024 WikiCup is off to a flying start, with 135 participants. This is the largest number of participants we have seen since 2017.
Our current leader is newcomer Generalissima (submissions), who has one FA on John Littlejohn (preacher) and 10 GAs and 12 DYKs mostly on New Zealand coinage and Inuit figures. Here are some more noteworthy scorers:
As a reminder, competitors may submit work for the first round until 23:59 (UTC) on 27 February, and the second round starts 1 March. Remember that only the top 64 scoring competitors will make it through to the second round; currently, competitors need at least 15 points to progress. If you are concerned that your nomination will not receive the necessary reviews, and you hope to get it promoted before the end of the round, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. However, please remember to continue to offer reviews at GAN, FAC and all the other pages that require them to prevent any backlogs which could otherwise be caused by the Cup. As ever, questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup and the judges (Cwmhiraeth (talk·contribs), Epicgenius (talk·contribs), and Frostly (talk·contribs)) are reachable on their talk pages. 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. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:58, 11 February 2024 (UTC)
yes, that draft, it was deleted because of lack of news links I thought. It can be rewritten in a neutral tone if necessary. but it was written exactly how I saw other food banks and similar organization pages were Founderofthecity1234 (talk) 00:21, 21 February 2024 (UTC)
The first round of the 2024 WikiCup ended at 23:59 (UTC) on 27 February. Everyone with at least 30 points moved on to Round 2, the highest number of points required to advance to the second round since 2014. Due to a six-way tie for the 64th-place spot, 67 contestants have qualified for Round 2.
The following scorers in Round 1 all scored more than 300 points:
Generalissima (submissions), who has 916 points mostly from one FA on John Littlejohn (preacher), 15 GAs, and 16 DYKs on a variety of topics including New Zealand coinage and Inuit figures, in addition to seven reviews
In this newsletter, the judges would like to pay a special tribute to Vami_IV (submissions), who unfortunately passed away this February. At the time of his death, he was the second-highest-scoring competitor. Outside the WikiCup, he had eight other featured articles, five A-class articles, eight other good articles, and two Four Awards. Vami also wrote an essay on completionism, a philosophy in which he deeply believed. If you can, please join us in honoring his memory by improving one of the articles on his to-do list.
Remember that any content promoted after 27 February but before the start of Round 2 can be claimed in Round 2. 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, feel free to review one of the nominations listed on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed. Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages. 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. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:40, 28 February 2024 (UTC)
Thank you for improving quality articles in February. - The image, taken on a cemetery last year after the funeral of a distant but dear family member, commemorates today, with thanks for their achievements, four subjects mentioned on the Main page and Vami_IV, a friend here. Thank you for taking care of his articles! - Listen to music by Tchaikovsky (an article where one of the four is pictured), sung by today's subject (whose performance on stage I enjoyed two days ago). -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:49, 20 February 2024 (UTC)
Thanks, Gerda, as always. Hope all is well! Eddie891TalkWork 17:52, 29 February 2024 (UTC)
Too many die, but Rossini music helps. Listen to that mass if you have time, at least the beginning with the rhythm that stays ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:30, 29 February 2024 (UTC)
Hello everyone, and welcome to the 24th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter, covering all our favorite new and updated user scripts since 24 December 2021. Uh-huh, we're finally covering the good ones among the rest! Aren't you excited? Remember to include a link in double brackets to the script's .js page when you install the script, so that we can see who uses the script in WhatLinksHere! The ScriptInstaller gadget automatically does this. Aaron Liu (talk) 01:00, 1 March 2024 (UTC)
Got anything good? Tell us about your new, improved, old, or messed-up script here!
Featured script
Making user scripts load faster by SD0001 is this month's featured script, which caches userscripts every day to eliminate the overhead caused by force-downloading the newest version of scripts every time you open a Wikipedia page. Despite being released in April 2021, our best script scouters have failed to locate it due to its omission from the US of L. For security reasons, the script only supports loading JavaScript pages.
Newly maintained scripts
After earthly attempts at improving the original have failed...
Ahecht has created a fork of SiBr4/TemplateSearch, which adds the "TP:" shortcut for "Template:" in the search box, and updated it to be compatible with Vector 2022.
AquilaFasciata/goToTopFast is a much faster fork of the classic goToTop script that also adds compatibility for Minerva and Vector 2022.
Without caching. Each script takes 400–500ms. A particularly large script takes 1.11 s! Internet download speed is 50 Mbps.With caching enabled. Each script takes just 1-2 ms to load.
Improve a script
Unfortunately, this section has remained nearly identical. Help us out here!
To a lesser extent, the same goes for PrimeHunter/Search sort. I wish someone would integrate the sorts into the sort menu instead of adding 11 portlet links.
Dragoniez/SuppressEnterInForm stops you from accidentally submitting anything due to pressing enter while in the smaller box, and works on almost anything... except the InputBox element itself, used in subscription lists and the Signpost Crossword! Oh, the humanity!
Doǵu/Adiutor(pictured) provides a nice, integrated interface to do some twinkley tasks such as copyvio detection, CSD tagging, and viewing the most recent diff.
Eejit43 has quite the aesthetically pleasing scripts, all made in TypeScript.
/afcrc-helper is a replacement for the unmaintained Enterprisey/AFCRHS and processes Redirects for Creation and Categories for Creation requests.
/ajax-undo stops the "undo" button from taking you to another page while providing a text box to provide a reason for the revert.
/redirect-helper(pictured) adds a much better interface for editing and redirects, including categorization, for which valid categories are dictated by /redirect-helper.json.
/rmtr-helper helps process technical requested moves without being able to actually move them.
Guycn2/UserInfoPopup(pictured) adds a flyout after the watchlist star on userspace pages that displays the common information you might use about a user.
Jeeputer/editCounter, under userspace, adds a portlet link to count your edits by namespace, put them in a table, and put that table in a hardcoded subpage, all in the background.
Hilst/Scripts/sectionLinks converts all section links to use the § sign, which are known to be preferred over the ugly # by 99% of the devils I've met.
PrimeHunter/Category source.js adds portlet links to tell you where a category for an article comes from and supports those from template transclusions.
Sophivorus's MiniEdit adds some nice, li'l buttons next to paragraphs to edit their wikitext with a minimal interface.
Edit-listings
Dragoniez/ToollinkTweaks adds more and customizable links next to users in page history, logs, watchlist, recent changes, etc.
Firefly/more-block-info optimizes the display of rangeblocks in contribution pages. Doesn't work outside the English locale of any wiki, unfortunately.
NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh/AjaxLoader makes paging links (e.g. older 50, 500, newest) load without refreshing and makes you realize how slow your internet actually is.
Appearance-ricing
Ahecht/RedirectID adds the redirect target to all redirects. For all the WP:NAVPOPS haters. (Do these exist?)
Dragoniez/MarkBLockedGlobal: Remember the "strike blocked usernames" gadget? Now you can use a red, dotted line to highlight rangeblocks and global locks!
Jonesey/common(pictured) has some styles to overhaul your Vector 2022 experience. It reduces padding everywhere, and makes the top bar animation faster.
Aaron Liu/V22 is a fork that narrows the sidebars instead of upheaving them, reverts the January 2024 dropdown changes, and restores the old page-link color for links that don't go outside the current wiki.
Nardog: SmartDiff is a spiritual successor to Enterprisey/fancy-diffs. It makes the page title part of links in diffs clickable, along with template and parser function calls. Unnamed parameters can be configured per template to also be linked. All links are styled based on the normal CSS classes of rendered links.
For the paranoid: Rublov/anonymize replaces your username at the top of the screen with the generic "User page" text. Remember, it is your duty to persuade everyone that editing is an honor.
/AjaxBlock provides a dialog box for easy input of reasons while blocking users.
/Selective Rollback(pictured) provides a dialog box to customize rollback edit summaries and does them without reloading the page. Seriously, why doesn't MediaWiki already do this?
/flickrsearch adds a portlet link to search for uploadable flickr images about the subject.
/randomincategory adds a portlet link when on Category pages to go to a random page in the current category.
Vghfr/EasyTemplates adds a portlet link to automatically insert some of the most common inline {{fix}} templates.
Yes, we're just doing 'em as we go now. Thanks for reading through this looong issue, if you did! I'm sure this'll send a record for the longest issue ev-ah. You may need to wait even longer for the last issue, as our reserve of old-y and goodie scripts have ran out... We encourage you to try and do some of the requests or improvement tasks. See you in Summer, hopefully!
February 2024 WikiProject Unreferenced articles backlog drive – award
Citation Barnstar
This award is given in recognition to Eddie891 for collecting more than 10 points during the WikiProject Unreferenced articles's FEB24 backlog drive. Your contributions played a crucial role in sourcing 14,300 unsourced articles during the drive. Thank you so much for participating and helping to reduce the backlog! – – DreamRimmer (talk) 18:10, 8 March 2024 (UTC)
Why are you deleting it for now reason? --Sinanshanavas444 (talk) 16:32, 9 March 2024 (UTC)
Hi, I'm not sure exactly what you're talking about here, sorry. Eddie891TalkWork 19:47, 10 March 2024 (UTC)
RFA2024 update: no longer accepting new proposals in phase I
Hey there! This is to let you know that phase I of the 2024 requests for adminship (RfA) review is now no longer accepting new proposals. Lots of proposals remain open for discussion, and the current round of review looks to be on a good track towards making significant progress towards improving RfA's structure and environment. I'd like to give my heartfelt thanks to everyone who has given us their idea for change to make RfA better, and the same to everyone who has given the necessary feedback to improve those ideas. The following proposals remain open for discussion:
Proposals 3 and 3b, initiated by Barkeep49 and Usedtobecool, respectively, provide for trials of discussion-only periods at RfA. The first would add three extra discussion-only days to the beginning, while the second would convert the first two days to discussion-only.
Proposal 5, initiated by SilkTork, provides for a trial of RfAs without threaded discussion in the voting sections.
Proposals 6c and 6d, initiated by BilledMammal, provide for allowing users to be selected as provisional admins for a limited time through various concrete selection criteria and smaller-scale vetting.
Proposal 7, initiated by Lee Vilenski, provides for the "General discussion" section being broken up with section headings.
Proposal 9b, initiated by Reaper Eternal, provides for the requirement that allegations of policy violation be substantiated with appropriate links to where the alleged misconduct occured.
Proposals 12c, 21, and 21b, initiated by City of Silver, Ritchie333, and HouseBlaster, respectively, provide for reducing the discretionary zone, which currently extends from 65% to 75%. The first would reduce it 65%–70%, the second would reduce it to 50%–66%, and the third would reduce it to 60%–70%.
Proposal 13, initiated by Novem Lingaue, provides for periodic, privately balloted admin elections.
Proposal 14, initiated by Kusma, provides for the creation of some minimum suffrage requirements to cast a vote.
Proposals 16 and 16c, initiated by Thebiguglyalien and Soni, respectively, provide for community-based admin desysop procedures. 16 would desysop where consensus is established in favor at the administrators' noticeboard; 16c would allow a petition to force reconfirmation.
Proposal 16e, initiated by BilledMammal, would extend the recall procedures of 16 to bureaucrats.
Proposal 17, initiated by SchroCat, provides for "on-call" admins and 'crats to monitor RfAs for decorum.
Proposal 25, initiated by Femke, provides for the requirement that nominees be extended-confirmed in addition to their nominators.
Proposal 27, initiated by WereSpielChequers, provides for the creation of a training course for admin hopefuls, as well as periodic retraining to keep admins from drifting out of sync with community norms.
To read proposals that were closed as unsuccessful, please see Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/2024 review/Phase I/Closed proposals. You are cordially invited once again to participate in the open discussions; when phase I ends, phase II will review the outcomes of trial proposals and refine the implementation details of other proposals. Another notification will be sent out when this phase begins, likely with the first successful close of a major proposal. Happy editing! theleekycauldron (talk • she/her), via:
I want write a biography for an artist how can I start? --Christopher ChisopaIII (talk) 11:07, 22 March 2024 (UTC)
Hi, @Christopher ChisopaIII! The first thing you should do is make sure that the artist meets our notability requirements for artists. If they do not, an article on them is likely to be deleted. I'd suggest having a look at this page for advice on drafting an article; in short, use the Article wizard to create a draft, and don't be afraid to look at existing high quality artist articles for ideas on how to format/write the page. I, of course, am here to answer any questions that may come up. Eddie891TalkWork 12:44, 22 March 2024 (UTC)
Sorry to disturb you but I just wanted to ask: How do I check information of an image on Wikipedia like copyright status, reason used to defend the use of image on Wikipedia and all other information? For example the image on this page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nemophila_%28band%29?wprov=sfla1 --Jackdrophammer (talk) 06:44, 22 March 2024 (UTC)
Hi, @Jackdrophammer! If you click on the image you want to see, and then click the blue 'more details' button, it should take you to the file page of the image you want more information on. For instance, that page is here for the first image on Nemophilia (band). Does that help? Eddie891TalkWork 12:37, 22 March 2024 (UTC)
In August 2023, I requested for information about Charles Chieng in the journal "Who's Who in American Colleges and Universities", 1981, Vol. 47, and you said that you had gotten a pdf from your library. Sorry I didn't see your mention, do you still have the pdf? GoldenBootWizard276 (talk) 08:33, 22 March 2024 (UTC)
The Core Contest—Wikipedia's most exciting contest—returns again this year from April 15 to May 31. The goal: to improve vital or other core articles, with a focus on those in the worst state of disrepair. Editing can be done individually, but in the past groups have also successfully competed. There is £300 of prize money divided among editors who provide the "best additive encyclopedic value". Signups are open now. Cheers from the judges, Femke, Casliber, Aza24. – Aza24 (talk) 02:20, 25 March 2024 (UTC)
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I saw this article on the unassessed military history project articles list. I have assessed it as B class for military history and biography. The Milhist Bot added erroneous parameters such as "African", which I have corrected. Donner60 (talk) 02:55, 25 March 2024 (UTC)
Thanks for taking a look, @Donner60. I agree that the article is B-class, or thereabouts. I have not found more information on Daly that is not in the article. Eddie891TalkWork 02:58, 25 March 2024 (UTC)
Thanks. Since a higher assessment would require the more formal request and review process, I could not consider a higher rating on my own motion. I suspect a rater might want some more details for a higher rating but that is only a guess. Donner60 (talk) 03:10, 25 March 2024 (UTC)
"These include academic journals, books, newspapers, magazines, and media with a reputation for fact checking. Social media, press releases or corporate/professional profiles do not qualify." is what the article says for citations. I was thinking of writing an article on a *VERY* new band called "tonerico" whose members are well-known but the new band isn't. Their first MV has 67k views on yt. Now, there are *no* third party sources that mention them other than their own pages so the *only* source is their official pages, should I create a page on them? do you think it has a chance of getting deleted? The article is going to be *quite* short, afterall, the band released their first album last month and it went on sale in cd format on 20th march 2024, so last month if that's relevant. I'd also like to ask if search engines like google not list articles with same name on wikipedia(but in different languages), but it's ok if you can't answer this one. --Jackdrophammer (talk) 14:13, 25 March 2024 (UTC)
Hi, @Jackdrophammer, if there is not independent and reliable coverage of an article topic, the article will be deleted, yes. Unfortunately (or perhaps fortunately), not all topics can have a Wikipedia article-- there simply isn't enough reliable information to say about them. For instance, have a read about our notability criteria for bands. I don't think this band would meet any of these criteria yet. Sorry that that may not be what you want to hear :/. Re your other question, to exclude wikipedia from your search results, you can append -wiki to your search query. Happy to answer any other questions you may have! Best, Eddie891TalkWork 17:24, 25 March 2024 (UTC)
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BeanieFan11 has emerged as the 2023 winner and the WikiCup Champion. The finalists this year were:-
BeanieFan11 with 2582 points
Thebiguglyalien with 1615 points
Epicgenius with 1518 points
MyCatIsAChonk with 1012 points
BennyOnTheLoose with 974 points
AirshipJungleman29 with 673 points
Sammi Brie with 520 points
Unlimitedlead with 5 points
Lee Vilenski wins the featured topic prize, for a 6-article featured topic in round 4.
LunaEatsTuna wins the GA reviewer prize, for 70 GA reviews in round 1.
Muboshgu wins the ITN prize, for 46 in the news articles in total.
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AirshipJungleman29 (submissions), with one FA on Hö'elün, two GAs on Mongolia-related articles, and two DYKs;
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Generalissima (submissions), who has 916 points mostly from one FA on John Littlejohn (preacher), 15 GAs, and 16 DYKs on a variety of topics including New Zealand coinage and Inuit figures, in addition to seven reviews
Vami_IV (submissions), who unfortunately passed away this February. At the time of his death, he was the second-highest-scoring competitor. Outside the WikiCup, he had eight other featured articles, five A-class articles, eight other good articles, and two Four Awards. Vami also wrote an essay on completionism, a philosophy in which he deeply believed. If you can, please join us in honoring his memory by improving one of the articles on his to-do list.
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