Contents
- 1 Introducing the new WikiProject Ghana!
- 2 Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Catflap08 and Hijiri88
- 3 A barnstar for you!
- 4 Precious anniversary
- 5 Q re: a Negro league edit from l-o-o-o-ng ago
- 6 Lá Fhéile Bríde Sona Daoibh!
- 7 Notification
- 8 This week's article for improvement (week 15, 2016)
- 9 ArbCom reform proposal
- 10 DRN help needed and volunteer roll call
- 11 Request
- 12 This week's article for improvement (week 16, 2016)
- 13 Gamaliel and others arbitration case opened
- 14 WikiProject X Newsletter • Issue 8
- 15 Editor of the Week : nominations needed!
- 16 This week's article for improvement (week 17, 2016)
- 17 This week's article for improvement (week 18, 2016)
- 18 Discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents
- 19 Encyclopedias and/or reference works
- 20 WikiCup 2016 May newsletter
- 21 Sources for Khema article?
- 22 This week's article for improvement (week 19, 2016)
- 23 This week's article for improvement (week 19, 2016)
- 24 This week's article for improvement (week 20, 2016)
- 25 Nomination of Abdrianahoabu for deletion
- 26 This week's article for improvement (week 21, 2016)
- 27 This week's article for improvement (week 22, 2016)
- 28 Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Gamaliel and others closed
- 29 This week's article for improvement (week 23, 2016)
- 30 R2-45
- 31 Murder of Kylie Maybury
- 32 Isidor Sauers - skeptic?
- 33 This week's article for improvement (week 24, 2016)
- 34 This week's article for improvement (week 25, 2016)
- 35 WikiProject X Newsletter • Issue 9
- 36 This week's article for improvement (week 26, 2016)
- 37 This week's article for improvement (week 27, 2016)
- 38 This week's article for improvement (week 28, 2016)
- 39 This week's article for improvement (week 29, 2016)
- 40 Your page
- 41 Contests
- 42 This week's article for improvement (week 30, 2016)
- 43 This week's article for improvement (week 31, 2016)
- 44 This week's article for improvement (week 32, 2016)
- 45 This week's article for improvement (week 33, 2016)
- 46 Frank Sinatra
- 47 This week's article for improvement (week 34, 2016)
- 48 This week's article for improvement (week 35, 2016)
- 49 This week's article for improvement (week 36, 2016)
Introducing the new WikiProject Ghana!
Greetings!
I am happy to introduce you to the new WikiProject Ghana! The newly designed WikiProject features automatically updated work lists, article quality class predictions, and a feed that tracks discussions on the 3,474 talk pages tagged by the WikiProject. Our hope is that these new tools will help you as a Wikipedia editor interested in Ghana.
- Browse the new WikiProject page
- Become a member today! – members have access to an opt-in notification system
Hope to see you join! Harej (talk) 20:48, 10 July 2015 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Catflap08 and Hijiri88
You were recently listed as a party to a request for arbitration. The Arbitration Committee has accepted that request for arbitration and an arbitration case has been opened at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Catflap08 and Hijiri88. Evidence that you wish the arbitrators to consider should be added to the evidence subpage, at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Catflap08 and Hijiri88/Evidence. Please add your evidence by November 4, 2015, which is when the evidence phase closes. You can also contribute to the case workshop subpage, Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Catflap08 and Hijiri88/Workshop. For a guide to the arbitration process, see Wikipedia:Arbitration/Guide to arbitration. For the Arbitration Committee, Liz Read! Talk! 18:14, 21 October 2015 (UTC)
- Thanks. I was kind of wondering what the apparent delay in notifications was, although not knowing all the tasks involved I didn't want to say anything and maybe once again prove how stupid I can be. John Carter (talk) 18:16, 21 October 2015 (UTC)
A barnstar for you!
The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar | |
Thank you for your kind comments about my Quality improvement efforts to Wikipedia, at my appeal request to work on Quality improvement for an article I'd previously brought to WP:GA quality, Typewriter in the Sky.
You didn't have to go over there and put yourself on the line like that and comment on my behalf, but you did anyways, and I thank you for it. I'll continue to strive to better Wikipedia by engaging in the Quality improvement process, and bring articles to WP:GA and WP:FA quality. I'll work with my mentor The Rambling Man and do my best to learn from his example and guidance. |
- Cirt, believe me when I say that you don't have much that you need to learn from anyone around here, and I sincerely hope that the Arbs come to realize that soon. Your contributions are some of the most consistently impressive we have around here, and it is an honor to be able to help out in a small way someone who has done as much as you have, over as long as you have been here, and still has the spirit and drive to improve this site that you have. John Carter (talk) 18:14, 25 October 2015 (UTC)
- Thank you, John Carter. I hope, in time, your views regarding my Quality improvement efforts will be shared by more editors within our Wikipedia community. Hopefully someday. :) But for now, I'll go back to attempting to improve the articles that I can — to higher levels of quality including WP:GA and WP:FA. If you've got any advice on how to bring about the change in perspective you wish for, above, John Carter, I'd appreciate it. — Cirt (talk) 19:09, 25 October 2015 (UTC)
Precious anniversary
A year ago, you were recipient no. 1068 of
Precious, a prize of QAI!
--Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:29, 20 December 2015 (UTC)
Q re: a Negro league edit from l-o-o-o-ng ago
Hello, John Carter! Back in 2007, you added this [1] to the Harrisburg Giants and this [2] to the American Negro League. The source you used was Loverro, Thom. The Encyclopedia of Negro League Baseball, but no page number. I do not have access to that book, but I can't find any other mention of the H-burg Giants operating after 1927 nor competing in the ANL in 1929. Could you confirm if this is the exact same team or some reincarnate, and why did they join but not compete in the ANL in 1929. I see you are semi-retired, so let me know if you are unavailable. I have a dynamic IP that changes when I log off, but I check WP regularly and will watch here for a response. Rgrds. --64.85.217.106 (talk) 06:07, 22 January 2016 (UTC)
- I found no other sources supporting this, and I was unable to locate a copy of The Encyclopedia at local libraries, so I removed the statements for now. Rgrds. (I'm the same dynamic IP as the above IP.) --64.85.217.184 (talk) 14:23, 4 April 2016 (UTC)
Lá Fhéile Bríde Sona Daoibh!
I was looking for some information on Our Lady of Consolation and was redirected to the Basilica page. The redirect says "This is a redirect from a title that potentially could be expanded into a new article". The information on OLC now exceeds that for the Shrine. I'm not clear on whether it should be sent to the redirect page or not. (or for that matter how to do it.) I don't want to tag it for a separate article lest someone miss that there had already been a previous one back in 2008. Any assistance you could provide would be appreciated it. I will continue to work on it. ---(I was particularly interested to find there was an Our Lady of Consolation Fireworks Factory.) Thank you for your time. Mannanan51 (talk) 06:27, 31 January 2016 (UTC)
Notification
This is to notify you that you are hereby banned from posting on the talk page of Hijiri88 under pain of a block. Such ban applies whether you are logged in or not. The only exception is that you are permitted to post any notification required, such as informing them of an issue at WP:ANI that involves them. Mjroots (talk) 22:03, 9 April 2016 (UTC)
This week's article for improvement (week 15, 2016)
Various foods in a delicatessen in Rome, Italy The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Pecan pie • Gates of hell Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:08, 11 April 2016 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI • |
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ArbCom reform proposal
Just thinking here. Maybe one way to revise things might be to create an umbrella entity, perhaps a Dispute Resolution Committee, which might be eligible for election.
At least in my eyes, one of the big reasons for the problems of the ArbCom last year was that both User:Newyorkbrad and User:Kirill Lokshin were gone, and there were no immediately obvious replacements for them. User:Doug Weller and User:DGG, the two members of the board who would at least strike me as being the leading candidates for the sage positions vacated by those two, were both new that year, and, given the greatly reduced number of cases lately, it took a while for them to know the ropes and the others to learn how they work. The reduced caseload and possible/probable loss of institutional memory with the loss of old hands could well have been one of the big problems then.
I know a hell of a lot less about MedCom and other entities, but I think maybe one way to ensure that we don't lose the institutional memory aspect might be to create a DRC from which the arbs for any individual case can be drawn. Granted, I don't expect Brad to want to join every case after retirement, God knows I wouldn't want to, but it could very easily be very beneficial for the other members of the committee to have access to him for a particular case, maybe even in a "rotating chair" or something like that.
So, as a sort of proposal, have elections every year to elect a largish number of members of DRC or similar. Say, for instance, 60 members. All qualified editors are welcome to sign a predetermined number of petitions for candidates, up to and including "draft" petitions, and those which get sufficient signatures are on the ballot. Then, allow each qualified editor to vote, preferably for only a smaller number of candidates, for instance 30. The top 60 votegetters are determined, and then those 60 individuals cast the final, deciding, public votes for who are the 12 individuals on the "standing" ArbCom, MedCom, ArbCom clerks, AE enforcers, and the like. I figure only about half of those 60 would actually get "standing" positions, which is really what I would want. This would give the bottom 30 finishers a chance to maybe take one a case or two to see if they really want to do that. preferably with the help of an old hand, and maybe more actively seek a "standing" position in a following year if they want to take that role on regularly.
But, if all 60 were, at least theoretically, capable of filling any of the positions for a given year, we might have a much better chance of avoiding the discontinuity of community memory and leadership which I think happened when Kirll and Brad left the ArbCom.
Anyway, any ideas? John Carter (talk) 18:14, 11 April 2016 (UTC)
- 1) Arb com is complicated enough already.. We should be looking at procedures to simplify the process.
- 2) Perhaps I have a prejudice here, but the difficulties last year were not due to lack of experience of myself or the other new people. If anything, perhaps there were last year altogether too many people on that committee whose long experience led them to an apparent commitment to entrenched ways of doing things; I at least certainly felt difficulty in getting an effective voice, especially in internal discussions. But the real difficulties were due to the unfortunate but unavoidable situation that several major cases had no really satisfactory solution. DGG ( talk ) 18:33, 11 April 2016 (UTC)
- Well, you, having been there and all, would probably know a hell of a lot more about it than me, who wasn't there. :) But, maybe, the "entrenchment" you speak of might be a symptom of loss of earlier leadership, I dunno. Regarding simplification, I think in a sense this might be a bit simpler. One of the problems that several have commented on is that few people really read the questions to candidates, and the sometimes questionable nature of the questions, and act however they would anyway, generally based on possibly questionable opinion they have as outsiders to the system who know the system even less than well than I might. Creating a publicly seen final discussion among the electeds might make it easier for at least that select group to deal with what they might see as real issues involved. And, a proposal like this, of the House/Senate type, sort of, might be a bit easier for a lot of people in the US anyway to understand, although I admit it might be harder for non-US people or people who don't have a bicameral system to follow. John Carter (talk) 19:02, 11 April 2016 (UTC)
- I'm not quite clear on your proposal: how are the 48 members not on the standing sub-committee "drawn" to participate in an arbitration committee task? Are you envisioning that for each task, be it a case, an appeal review, responding to incoming email, and so forth, that X number of people be drawn from the pool of 48, and added to those from the standing sub-committee who are also participating in the task? On a side note, I don't see how this relates to a bicameral system, where there are two separate deliberative bodies, and they act as a balance for each other. (Unless you are suggesting that any task be replicated by the standing sub-committee and the rest of the larger committee, independently?) This is more like an organization forming a sub-committee with a set of standing members and a set of rotating guest members. isaacl (talk) 03:49, 13 April 2016 (UTC)
- First, I think it worth noting that the proposed board is where not only the ArbCom itself would be drawn from, but also maybe the MedCom, the Arb clerks, the regular AE enforcers, and other similar functionaries be drawn from. Basically, if something like this were done, the 60 or so would elect all the holders of those positions, which would probably be about 30 or so people. The other 30 who aren't selected and haven't yet filled such functions could, at request, if they wanted to, maybe ask to take part in specific processes (individual Arb cases, Med cases, clerking for a single case, etc.) which more or less requires selection of some sort, as either an observer or additional member of the "team", under the supervision of an existing "team" member to see if they might think they want to more actively seek such a post in the future. And, yeah, you're right, it is more like legislative committee appointments and officer selection than a bicameral legislature. John Carter (talk) 14:48, 15 April 2016 (UTC)
DRN help needed and volunteer roll call
You are receiving this message because you have listed yourself on the list of volunteers at Wikipedia:Dispute resolution noticeboard/Volunteering#List of the DRN volunteers.
First, assistance is needed at DRN. We have recently closed a number of cases without any services being provided for lack of a volunteer willing to take the case. There are at least three cases awaiting a volunteer at this moment. Please consider taking one.
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Request
There is an important discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Editor Retention about possibly finding a way to salvage Single-purpose editors and transforming them into positive WP collaborators in the general mainspace. I'm sure you run in to many of them as you wander around WP. I'm also sure that every now and then one of the SPA editors rises above the crowd and seems worthy of more of your time and effort. Your personal insight and experience would be appreciated. WP:WER has become a relative ghost town (and I may be one of the few ghosts left in town) and User:Robert's idea may be just the boost the Project needs to revitalize. It's an opportunity for the Project to actually do something beyond handing out awards. I think Dennis Brown would like it. Buster Seven Talk 14:15, 14 April 2016 (UTC)
This week's article for improvement (week 16, 2016)
Debt is the amount of money that is owed or due. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Delicatessen • Pecan pie Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:07, 18 April 2016 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI • |
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Gamaliel and others arbitration case opened
You recently offered a statement in a request for arbitration. The Arbitration Committee has accepted that request for arbitration and an arbitration case has been opened at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Gamaliel and others. The scope of this case is Gamaliel's recent actions (both administrative and otherwise), especially related to the Signpost April Fools Joke. The case will also examine the conduct of other editors who are directly involved in disputes with Gamaliel. The case is strictly intended to examine user conduct and alleged policy violations and will not examine broader topic areas. The clerks have been instructed to remove evidence which does not meet these requirements. The drafters will add additional parties as required during the case. Evidence that you wish the arbitrators to consider should be added to the evidence subpage, at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Gamaliel and others/Evidence.
Please add your evidence by May 2, 2016, which is when the evidence phase closes. You can also contribute to the case workshop subpage, Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Gamaliel and others/Workshop. For a guide to the arbitration process, see Wikipedia:Arbitration/Guide to arbitration. This notification is being sent to those listed on the case notification list. If you do not wish to recieve further notifications, you are welcome to opt-out on that page. For the Arbitration Committee, Kevin (aka L235 · t · c) via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:39, 18 April 2016 (UTC)
WikiProject X Newsletter • Issue 8
This month:
In the last issue of the WikiProject X Newsletter, I discussed the upcoming Wikipedia Requests system: a central database for outstanding work on Wikipedia. I am pleased to announce Wikipedia Requests is live! Its purpose is to supplement automatically generated lists, such as those from SuggestBot, Reports bot, or Wikidata. It is currently being demonstrated on WikiProject Occupational Safety and Health (which I work on as part of my NIOSH duties) and WikiProject Women scientists.
Adding a request is as simple as filling out a form. Just go to the Add form to add your request. Adding sources will help ensure that your request is fulfilled more quickly. And when a request is fulfilled, simply click "mark as complete" and it will be removed from all the lists it's on. All at the click of a button! (If anyone is concerned, all actions are logged.)
With this new service is a template to transclude these requests: {{Wikipedia Requests}}. It's simple to use: add the template to a page, specifying article=
, category=
, or wikiproject=
, and the list will be transcluded. For example, for requests having to do with all living people, just do {{Wikipedia Requests|category=Living people}}
. Use these lists on WikiProjects but also for edit-a-thons where you want a convenient list of things to do on hand. Give it a shot!
The value of Wikipedia Requests comes from being a centralized database. The long work to migrating individual lists into this combined list is slowly underway. As of writing, we have 883 open tasks logged in Wikipedia Requests. We need your help building this list.
If you know of a list of missing articles, or of outstanding tasks for existing articles, that you would like to migrate to this new system, head on over to Wikipedia:Wikipedia Requests#Transition project and help out. Doing this will help put your list in front of more eyes—more than just your own WikiProject.
WikiProject X maintains a database that associates article talk pages (and draft talk pages) with WikiProjects. This database powers many of the reports that Reports bot generates. However, until very recently, this database was not made available to others who might find its data useful. It's only common sense to open up the database and let others build tools with it.
And indeed: Citation Hunt, the game to add citations to Wikipedia, now lets you filter by WikiProject, using the data from our database.
Are you a tool developer interested in using this? Here are some details: the database resides on Tool Labs with the name s52475__wpx_p
. The table that associates WikiProjects with articles and drafts is called projectindex
. Pages are stored by talk page title but in the future this should change. Have fun!
- The work on the CollaborationKit extension continues. The extension will initially focus on reducing template and Lua bloat on WikiProjects (especially our WPX UI demonstration projects), and will from there create custom interfaces for creating and maintaining WikiProjects.
- The WikiCite meeting will be in Berlin in May. The goal of the meeting is to figure out how to build a bibliographic database for use on the Wikimedia projects. This fits in quite nicely with WikiProject X's work: we want to make it easier for people to find things to work on, and with a powerful, open bibliographic database, we can build recommendations for sources. This feature was requested by the Wikipedia Library back in September, and this meeting is a major next step. We look forward to seeing what comes out of this meeting.
Until next time,
Harej (talk) 01:29, 20 April 2016 (UTC)
Editor of the Week : nominations needed!
The Editor of the Week initiative has been recognizing editors since 2013 for their hard work and dedication. Editing Wikipedia can be disheartening and tedious at times; the weekly Editor of the Week award lets its recipients know that their positive behaviour and collaborative spirit is appreciated. The response from the honorees has been enthusiastic and thankful.
The list of nominees is running short, and so new nominations are needed for consideration. Have you come across someone in your editing circle who deserves a pat on the back for improving article prose regularly, making it easier to understand? Or perhaps someone has stepped in to mediate a contentious dispute, and did an excellent job. Do you know someone who hasn't received many accolades and is deserving of greater renown? Is there an editor who does lots of little tasks well, such as cleaning up citations?
Please help us thank editors who display sustained patterns of excellence, working tirelessly in the background out of the spotlight, by submitting your nomination for Editor of the Week today!
Sent on behalf of Buster Seven Talk for the Editor of the Week initiative by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 06:18, 22 April 2016 (UTC)
This week's article for improvement (week 17, 2016)
Hello, John Carter.
The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Debt • Delicatessen Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:07, 25 April 2016 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI • |
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This week's article for improvement (week 18, 2016)
Steak à la carte The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Fame (Irene Cara song) • Debt Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 02:07, 2 May 2016 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI • |
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Discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents
You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents. Sam Sailor Talk! 17:08, 2 May 2016 (UTC)
Encyclopedias and/or reference works
Thank you for the help with the template. This is my first project proposal and I am not completely sure how to go about it. As to the scope, I am suggesting a project about encyclopedias and reference works, and not a larger encyclopedic project.--Bellerophon5685 (talk) 18:39, 4 May 2016 (UTC)
WikiCup 2016 May newsletter
Round 2 is over and 35 competitors have moved on to Round 3.
Round 2 saw three FAs (two by Cas Liber (submissions) and one by Montanabw (submissions)), four Featured Lists (with three by Calvin999 (submissions)), and 53 Good Articles (six by Worm That Turned (submissions) and five each by Hurricanehink (submissions), Cwmhiraeth (submissions), and MPJ-DK (submissions)). Eleven Featured Pictures were promoted (six by Adam Cuerden (submissions) and five by Godot13 (submissions)). One Featured Portal, Featured Topic and Good Topic were also promoted. The DYK base point total was 1,135. Cwmhiraeth (submissions) scored 265 base points, while The C of E (submissions) and MPJ-DK (submissions) each scored 150 base points. Eleven ITN were promoted and 131 Good Article Reviews were conducted with MPJ-DK (submissions) completing a staggering 61 reviews. Two contestants, Cwmhiraeth (submissions) and Cas Liber (submissions), broke the 700 point mark for Round 2.
If you are concerned that your nomination will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Thanks to everyone for participating, and good luck to those moving into round 2. Sturmvogel 66 (talk · contribs · email), Figureskatingfan (talk · contribs · email), and Godot13 (talk · contribs · email) -- MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 03:00, 5 May 2016 (UTC)
Sources for Khema article?
Hello @John Carter:. I've been over looking at the page on Khema that I believe you began back in September of 2007, assuming I read the history right. I'm a new editor, so please forgive me if I've made a mistake. I was thinking of working on the article a little bit and I wonder if you happen to remember the original sources that you used when writing the article? I'd like to be able to insert them now as proper references. I know you are semi-retired, and so may not get this right away. Any help you might be able to offer would be appreciated. Best wishes, AD64 (talk) 20:25, 5 May 2016 (UTC)
This week's article for improvement (week 19, 2016)
Hello, John Carter.
The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: À la carte • Fame (Irene Cara song) Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:08, 9 May 2016 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI • |
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This week's article for improvement (week 19, 2016)
Hello, John Carter.
The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: À la carte • Fame (Irene Cara song) Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:39, 9 May 2016 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI • |
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This week's article for improvement (week 20, 2016)
Ozone-oxygen cycle in the ozone layer. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Gustaf Skarsgård • À la carte Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:09, 16 May 2016 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI • |
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Nomination of Abdrianahoabu for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Abdrianahoabu is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.
The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Abdrianahoabu until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.
Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Boleyn (talk) 17:45, 20 May 2016 (UTC)
This week's article for improvement (week 21, 2016)
A small whirlpool in a pond The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Ozone layer • Gustaf Skarsgård Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:07, 23 May 2016 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI • |
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This week's article for improvement (week 22, 2016)
A photodetector salvaged from a CD-ROM. The photodetector contains 3 photodiodes visible in the photo (in center). The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Whirlpool • Ozone layer Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:06, 30 May 2016 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI • |
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Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Gamaliel and others closed
An arbitration case regarding Gamaliel and others has now closed and the final decision is viewable at the link above. The following remedies have been enacted:
- Gamaliel is admonished for multiple breaches of Wikipedia policies and guidelines including for disrupting Wikipedia to make a point, removing a speedy deletion notice from a page he created, casting aspersions, and perpetuating what other editors believed to be a BLP violation.
- DHeyward and Gamaliel are indefinitely prohibited from interacting with or discussing each other anywhere on Wikipedia, subject to the usual exemptions.
- DHeyward (talk · contribs) is admonished for engaging in incivility and personal attacks on other editors. He is reminded that all editors are expected to engage respectfully and civilly with each other and to avoid making personal attacks.
- For conduct which was below the standard expected of an administrator — namely making an incivil and inflammatory close summary on ANI, in which he perpetuated the perceived BLP violation and failed to adequately summarise the discussion — JzG is admonished.
- Arkon is reminded that edit warring, even if exempt, is rarely an alternative to discussing the dispute with involved editors, as suggested at WP:CLOSECHALLENGE.
- The community is encouraged to hold an RfC to supplement the existing WP:BLPTALK policy by developing further guidance on managing disputes about material involving living persons when that material appears outside of article space and is not directly related to article-content decisions.
For the Arbitration Committee, Kevin (aka L235 · t · c) via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 03:38, 4 June 2016 (UTC)
- Discuss this at: Wikipedia talk:Arbitration Committee/Noticeboard#Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Gamaliel and others closed
This week's article for improvement (week 23, 2016)
The Hilton Athens is part of the Hilton Hotels & Resorts hotel chain. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Photodetector • Whirlpool Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:07, 6 June 2016 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI • |
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R2-45
Thanks for your message. My problem is that Sfarney is being unfairly targeted for doing right by policy, while Prioryman, Feoffer (a new editor, possibly a sockpuppet), Slashme (former Wikimedia South Africa member), Damotclese (old school Usenet anti-Scientology activist) all get off scot-free. Here's the thing about your suggestions. I don't like particularly like Scientology. In fact, I've received death threats from Scientologists, as I have from anti-Scientologists about my editing here. I don't want to waste time debating with editors who obviously have a hopeless bias against a particular subject and force me into a position where I end up having to defend Scientology. I don't want to do that. In my experience, both Scientologists and anti-Scientologists are flipsides of the same coin -- they're all crazy in one way or another. They're fanatics. Prioryman is a fanatic, as are Feoffer and Damotclese. Feoffer seems to be a single purpose account, as with Thimbleweed and Damotclese. They have no interest here beyond attacking and denigrating Scientology. These people are not here to build a neutral, accurate encyclopedia. Sfarney's arguments are totally on the money in this respect. I've got health issues, so I don't need this kind of stress. My concern is for someone like Sfarney who is here without such an agenda, who has no history of violating the spirit or the letter of Wikipedia policy, and whose edits have largely improved Wikipedia as a knowledge resource. There's backdoor politics going on here, and it's obvious they're communicating via email. That's why I've never used an email address with my Wikipedia account, so that there is total transparency and no one could ever accuse me of back-channel communication. But Prioryman, Slashme, Damotclese, Feoffer have all engaged in such, all toward finding a way to royally screw over Sfarney and get him out of the way. A decent, competent editor like Sfarney doesn't deserve what they're doing to him. I've been here since 2007. I regret every single edit I've ever made. If I could undo all of them, honest to God, I would. Laval (talk) 05:41, 7 June 2016 (UTC)
Murder of Kylie Maybury
Could you help me in adding the information about the breakthrough in the case - http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/law-order/man-arrested-over-historical-child-abduction-and-murder/news-story/1c59dc4508b341474473ce6042a2be37 - to Murder of Kylie Maybury ? Paul Benjamin Austin (talk) 14:21, 9 June 2016 (UTC)
- @Paul Benjamin Austin: The article you linked to seems to be available only by subscription. Do you maybe have some other site containing pertinent information? John Carter (talk) 17:39, 14 June 2016 (UTC)
Isidor Sauers - skeptic?
I was just casting around for things to clean up and fix in Wikiproject Skepticism, and I noticed the article Isidor Sauers. WAY back in October 2007 you tagged into the project (here's the diff: [3]). I'm just curious - why? I've pored over the current state of the article and done some Googling of this fellow and I can't for the life of me figure out his connection to Skepticism. Apologies in advance if I'm missing something obvious here. --Krelnik (talk) 19:59, 9 June 2016 (UTC)
- @Krelnik: I'm guessing the article has been changed a bit since then, maybe. That page is currently included in the Category:Scientific skepticism, and that was probably the reason for the tagging, but it might be that the content supporting for that categorization has been perhaps removed. John Carter (talk) 17:42, 14 June 2016 (UTC)
- I thought the same thing, but I dug around in the article history, and I can't find any "smoking gun" removals of text that might explain it. Here is what the article looked like the day you tagged it. Ah well, just one of those mysteries I guess. --Krelnik (talk) 18:25, 14 June 2016 (UTC)
This week's article for improvement (week 24, 2016)
A cubic zirconia crystal made by the Shelby Gem Factory The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Hilton Hotels & Resorts • Photodetector Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:07, 13 June 2016 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI • |
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This week's article for improvement (week 25, 2016)
The aqueduct of Segovia, Spain The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: List of aqueducts in the Roman Empire Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Shelby Gem Factory • Hilton Hotels & Resorts Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:07, 20 June 2016 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI • |
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WikiProject X Newsletter • Issue 9
Check out this month's issue of the WikiProject X newsletter, featuring the first screenshot of our new CollaborationKit software!
Harej (talk) 00:23, 25 June 2016 (UTC)
This week's article for improvement (week 26, 2016)
Home page of Wikipedia The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: List of aqueducts in the Roman Empire • Shelby Gem Factory Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:07, 27 June 2016 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI • |
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This week's article for improvement (week 27, 2016)
Hello, John Carter.
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This week's article for improvement (week 28, 2016)
An ear of rye The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Answering machine • Home page Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:07, 11 July 2016 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI • |
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This week's article for improvement (week 29, 2016)
RMS Olympic's deck The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Rye • Answering machine Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:08, 18 July 2016 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI • |
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Your page
Wikipedia:User categories: "user categories should not be used as "bottom-of-the-page" notices.[7] If a Wikipedian wishes to have such a notice, they may edit their user page and add the notice in some other way (such as by adding text or a userbox), rather than inappropriately creating a category grouping.[8]"Rathfelder (talk) 13:49, 18 July 2016 (UTC)
Contests
User:Dr. Blofeld has created Wikipedia:WikiProject Africa/Contests. The idea is to run a series of contests/editathons focusing on each region of Africa. He has spoken to Wikimedia about it and $1000-1500 is possible for prize money. As someone who has previously expressed interest in African topics, would you be interested in contributing to one or assisting draw up core article/missing article lists? He says he's thinking of North Africa for an inaugural one in October. If interested please sign up in the participants section of the Contest page, thanks.♦ --Ser Amantio di NicolaoChe dicono a Signa?Lo dicono a Signa. 01:27, 21 July 2016 (UTC)
This week's article for improvement (week 30, 2016)
Closeup view of a Squeegee The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Sun deck • Rye Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:08, 25 July 2016 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI • |
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This week's article for improvement (week 31, 2016)
History of the constellations, Ursa Minor constellation map The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Squeegee • Sun deck Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:07, 1 August 2016 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI • |
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This week's article for improvement (week 32, 2016)
One of many icons associated with The Sims The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: History of the constellations • Squeegee Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:07, 8 August 2016 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI • |
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This week's article for improvement (week 33, 2016)
Archaeological record example: a section of the Papyrus of Ani showing cursive hieroglyphs The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: The Sims (video game) • History of the constellations Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:10, 15 August 2016 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI • |
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Frank Sinatra
I did email you a week or two back but no response! Any chance you could create some project banners and assessments for Wikipedia:WikiProject Frank Sinatra?♦ Dr. Blofeld 14:48, 18 August 2016 (UTC)
This week's article for improvement (week 34, 2016)
Heraldic Badge of the Spanish West Indies The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Archaeological record • The Sims (video game) Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:07, 22 August 2016 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI • |
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This week's article for improvement (week 35, 2016)
The Holy Family with God the Father and the Holy Spirit by Carlo Dolci The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Spanish West Indies • Archaeological record Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:08, 29 August 2016 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI • |
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This week's article for improvement (week 36, 2016)
Wedding ring being placed on during a wedding ceremony The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Holy Spirit • Spanish West Indies Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:07, 5 September 2016 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI • |
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