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Hello, I added media to Paweł Kowalewski profile after OTRS [Ticket#2020032510003381] Link: https://wiki.alquds.edu/?query=Pawe%C5%82_Kowalewski. Could you be so kind and accept the changes? Thank you for your help! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ojdobrzejuz (talk • contribs) 14:31, 25 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

It's not necessary for them to be accepted, on this biography they are published immediately. All the best: Rich Farmbrough (the apparently calm and reasonable) 15:16, 25 March 2020 (UTC).[reply]

Re: Help in moving a page

Good day User:Rich Farmbrough!

I dropped your talk page to seek your help in moving a page back to it's proper name. I have to admit I flubbed moving it back because it was moved by another editor without discussing the matter in the page's talk page. I flubbed moving the page back to it's original name, then we discussed what should be the name of the page based on the actual movie title, and I decided to acquiese to his suggestion - from the name Magnum Muslim .357, the actual name of the film is Muslim .357. But I couldn't move it back sadly, because it appears you can't move a page back to its original name if you don't have a page mover priveledge. As it stands, the page bears the very embarassing name Manum Muslim .357, we just need to take the pretty bad "Manum" spelling so that it can revert to its proper name "Muslim .357".

Hey, even if you haven't moved the page back just yet, I'd like to thank you in advance. You've helped me before when I flubbed the citations on Ang Probinsyano and its related pages, that's why I know I can count on you.

Warmest regards.

Gardo Versace (talk) 07:49, 31 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

You can generally move it back, if the redirect hasn't been edited. However this redirect points somewhere else. And the intermediate redirect has two edits for some reason so it can't be "un-wound".
Magnum Muslim .357 2014
City Hunter: .357 Magnum 1989
.357 Magnum 1977
Muslim .357 1987
These are the films I am aware of, let me just review them.
All the best: Rich Farmbrough (the apparently calm and reasonable) 08:59, 31 January 2020 (UTC).[reply]
I have requested this at Wikipedia:Requested moves/Technical requests#Uncontroversial technical requests. All the best: Rich Farmbrough (the apparently calm and reasonable) 09:37, 31 January 2020 (UTC).[reply]
@Rich Farmbrough: Hey, I just found out the good news! Thanks again Rich! You're a lifesave, always know that I can always count on you. Warmest regards Gardo Versace (talk) 11:06, 31 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – February 2020

News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2020).

Guideline and policy news

  • Following a request for comment, partial blocks are now enabled on the English Wikipedia. This functionality allows administrators to block users from editing specific pages or namespaces rather than the entire site. A draft policy is being workshopped at Wikipedia:Partial blocks.
  • The request for comment seeking the community's sentiment for a binding desysop procedure closed with wide-spread support for an alternative desysoping procedure based on community input. No proposed process received consensus.

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  • Twinkle now supports partial blocking. There is a small checkbox that toggles the "partial" status for both blocks and templating. There is currently one template: {{uw-pblock}}.
  • When trying to move a page, if the target title already exists then a warning message is shown. The warning message will now include a link to the target title. [1]

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  • Following a recent arbitration case, the Arbitration Committee reminded administrators that checkuser and oversight blocks must not be reversed or modified without prior consultation with the checkuser or oversighter who placed the block, the respective functionary team, or the Arbitration Committee.

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Wikidata weekly summary #401

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  • Development
    • Enable the first version of tainted/mismatched references on wikidata.org
    • Work on adding a button to hide the notification (phab:T234789)
    • Show the icon after canceling editing if the icon was shown before (phab:T234790)
    • More work on Wikidata Bridge (restrict editing based on user rights or data types)
    • More work on wb_terms migration

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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Caustic Christ albums

A tag has been placed on Category:Caustic Christ albums requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the category has been empty for seven days or more and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. UnitedStatesian (talk) 05:28, 4 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The Great Britain/Ireland Destubathon

Hi. The Wikipedia:The Great Britain/Ireland Destubathon is planned for March 2020, a contest/editathon to eliminate as many stubs as possible from all 134 counties. Amazon vouchers/book prizes are planned for most articles destubbed from England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland and Northern Ireland and whoever destubs articles from the most counties out of the 134. Sign up on page if interested in participating, hope this will prove to be good fun and productive, we have over 44,000 stubs!♦ Dr. Blofeld 18:08, 4 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Dr. Blofeld: At first I misread that as "Disurbathon". Heh.  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  13:02, 5 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
It's not a Disturbathon either, don't worry SMcCandlish  :-) ♦ Dr. Blofeld 13:10, 5 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Fictional location redirects has been nominated for discussion

Category:Fictional location redirects, which you created, has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you.
Specifically, this is a CfM upmerge to Category:Redirects from fictional locations.  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  13:02, 5 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Adequate Seven albums

A tag has been placed on Category:Adequate Seven albums requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the category has been empty for seven days or more and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. UnitedStatesian (talk) 03:33, 6 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Ezra Bayda page

Hi! I see you have edited the page for White Plum Asanga. I have made a change for Ezra Bayda's page, who was affiliated with White Plum Asanga.

I did so previously but it was removed because there was no verifiable reference given. Would you be willing to check the citation to make sure it is the correct form?

https://wiki.alquds.edu/?query=Ezra_Bayda

https://wiki.alquds.edu/?query=Ezra_Bayda#cite_ref-10

Thanks! Mizeditor (talk) 23:36, 9 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The change you made needs a reference from a verifiable "reliable source". If you were writing a book or a paper you could refer to "personal communication", but we don't allow this on Wikipedia for any claim. In particular we are extra careful about living or recently dead people. The relevant guidance pages are Verifiability, Reliable Sources and Biographies of Living People.
If the mailing that you refer to was public, then perhaps it could be used, but we would still need to be careful, as the findings of an enquiry are not the same as the findings of a court of law.
As a separate matter, the question of Joko Beck's revocation of dharma transmission may be relevant and sourceable.
All the best: Rich Farmbrough (the apparently calm and reasonable) 09:51, 10 February 2020 (UTC).[reply]
You might want to look at the paper The Borderless Borders of the White Plum Asanga by Franz Metcalf. All the best: Rich Farmbrough (the apparently calm and reasonable) 10:10, 10 February 2020 (UTC).[reply]

Wikidata weekly summary #402

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  • Tool of the week
    • Reasonator offers a visual formatted display of Wikidata information. It is useful for introducing Wikidata to new audiences and can help find missing or incorrect data by presenting a different view than the standard editing interface.
  • Development
    • Wikidata Bridge: more work on enabling error messages for various cases (datatype not supported, user can't edit on client or repo, etc.)
    • Including the property label in the title of the Data Bridge dialog (phab:T233295)
    • Mismatched references: follow-up of the deployment in production, adding the "remove warning" button
    • Monitoring the number of times the feature reference warnings are being triggered and opened (phab:T231731)
    • Fixing some issues connected to the train deployment
    • Fixing an issue with new edit summaries not being displayed on client wikis (phab:T244129)
    • Fixing an issue with ittem having label conflict with itself (phab:T243158)

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A Tradesman of Philidelphia?

Hi, Rich. What's the story with the A Tradesman of Philidelphia redirect you created that links to the Benjamin Franklin article? Doesn't appear discussed in the article, redirect have no templates or categories, and Philadelphia is misspelled. Jason Quinn (talk) 04:52, 12 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

A Tradesman of Philadelphia is the non-de-plume under which he wrote PLAIN TRUTH: OR, SERIOUS CONSIDERATIONS On the PRESENT STATE of the CITY of PHILADELPHIA, AND PROVINCE of PENNSYLVANIA.. Thanks for noticing the typo.
All the best: Rich Farmbrough (the apparently calm and reasonable) 09:00, 12 February 2020 (UTC).[reply]

Wikidata weekly summary #403

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  • Development
    • Wikidata Bridge: more work on unsupported edit cases (unsupported datatypes phab:T235753, ambiguous statements phab:T240212, deprecated statements phab:T238660, unknown value or no value statements phab:T242747)
    • Including the property label in the title of the Data Bridge dialog (phab:T233295)
    • Making the edit based on the user's fixed/updated choice (phab:T238662)
    • Style fixes and font size adjustments (phab:T239421, phab:T243192)
    • Create Grafana boards to track the results of the tainted references feature
    • Increase factor for query service that is taken into account for maxlag (later reverted) (phab:T244722)
    • Fix edit summaries not displayed on client wikis (phab:T244129)
    • Fixed some issues causes by the wb_terms migration

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Wikidata weekly summary #404

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  • Development
    • Provide better redirect for statement nodes (phab:T203397)
    • Wikidata Bridge: style fixes and font size adjustments (phab:T239421, phab:T243192)
    • making the edit based on the user's fixed/updated choice (phab:T238662)
    • research how to do reference rendering (phab:T244987)
    • showing the loading bar while saving (phab:T237433)
    • More work on wb_terms table and fixing various issues
    • Removing all of pre-entity source based federation code
    • Fixing various issues causing errors in production
    • Investigate on an issue with pasting exact Commons file title (phab:T196165)
    • Update the APIs to specify an errorformat and a uselang parameter (phab:T242769)

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Molly Raynor

Maybe not one of your proudest articles: Molly Raynor. It doesn't make the point of notability, but maybe there's stuff that you were aware of at the time that didn't make it into the article. I note that despite the brevity, there is confusion regarding her birth year. I've had a look on the New Zealand birth, death and marriages database and I find a Ada Mary Raynor (parents William and Mary Elizabeth) born on 17 October 1903 (registration number 1903/7894). Is it worth putting some effort into that? Worth keeping (well, you created it, so you must think that it is)? I'm happy to help; this from March 1928 could make a start: "Miss Raynor began stage work professionally only last February". Schwede66 17:44, 24 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your note, and contributions to the article. On the contrary I am most proud of those pages that give people an opportunity to contribute. There is absolutely no shortage of material on Molly Raynor in the contemporary record, clearly enough to pass GNG. We should have an article on the Cheer-Oh Girls, of that there is no doubt. All the best: Rich Farmbrough (the apparently calm and reasonable) 19:20, 24 February 2020 (UTC).[reply]

new drafts

Hi Rich. I made new drafts here. Can you check and published them. The previous drafts were gone i added them too. I removed unreliable sources and added reliable sources to each draft. If there's anything tell me. New drafts

Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 39.43.106.162 (talk) 18:01, 26 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed deletion of Emergency (UK television programme)

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The article Emergency (UK television programme) has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

No evidence this radio programme meets WP:NMEDIA/GNG.

While all constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, pages may be deleted for any of several reasons.

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Nomination of Emergency (UK television programme) for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Emergency (UK television programme) 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/Emergency (UK television programme) until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 15:27, 29 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Administrators' newsletter – March 2020

News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2020).

Guideline and policy news

  • Following an RfC, the blocking policy was changed to state that sysops must not undo or alter CheckUser or Oversight blocks, rather than should not.
  • A request for comment confirmed that sandboxes of established but inactive editors may not be blanked due solely to inactivity.

Technical news

  • Following a discussion, Twinkle's default CSD behavior will soon change, most likely this week. After the change, Twinkle will default to "tagging mode" if there is no CSD tag present, and default to "deletion mode" if there is a CSD tag present. You will be able to always default to "deletion mode" (the current behavior) using your Twinkle preferences.

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Wikidata weekly summary #405

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  • Development
    • Started working on Federated Properties for Wikibase
    • Bridge: more style adjustments
    • Research on reference rendering for the Bridge (phab:T244987)
    • Disable WDQS jump to focus when used in an iframe (phab:T245637)

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Rename draft.

Hi Rich. Can you rename the south korean actors and actress drafts like this. If there is anything inform me. Thank you.

Hello Rich. Can you published these drafts they are ready.

Oh can you rename the other drafts above. Thank you.

Speedy deletion nomination of Arahad (disambiguation)

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Wikidata weekly summary #406

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  • Events
    • WikiGap Challenge, online editing challenge to improve the coverage of women on Wikipedia and Wikidata, from March 8th to April 8th
  • Development
    • Querying the URL datatype with haswbstatement is now possible (phab:T243693). It will take two to three months before URLs are indexed for all Wikidata items.
    • Wikidata Bridge: more style fixes, preparing a prototype to show how we will display references
    • Fixing various production errors
    • Monitoring the run of wb_terms migration
    • Fixing an issue with the Commons files search field (phab:T196165)

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Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 16:34, 9 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Unexplained removal of content

Hello, I am just curious as to why you removed a large portion of content from 2019–20_coronavirus_outbreak without any discussion. NoahTalk 22:46, 10 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I am sorry my overreaction on the removal on the article. I did not see that a new article was created and thus interpretted it as a pure removal of content. The section you started on the talk page (which was quite burried by everything else) hasn't really had enough discussion to determine whether or not a new article is needed. I do think the section left behind in the main article does need a bit of work since it became quite small with the split. NoahTalk 22:54, 10 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
No worries! All the best: Rich Farmbrough (the apparently calm and reasonable) 22:58, 10 March 2020 (UTC).[reply]

Corona virus

I wars wandering if tu you could reprogramm the apoptosis to Attack the virus and the infected cells. Recently there have bene breackthourhs in genetics so maybe It could work. Maybe i'm stupid but it's worth at least thinking anout this option. Antonsko (talk) 19:42, 11 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Wikidata weekly summary #407

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Tool of the week
  • Development
    • Add monolingual codes nrf-gg (Guernésiais), nrf-je (Jèrriais), thanks to Mbch331! (phab:T165648)
    • Article Placeholder: make the entity field required (phab:T247478)
    • Remove legacy Wikibase service containers (phab:T245865)
    • Fix an error UnresolvedEntityRedirectException when viewing certain Wikidata item pages (phab:T243779)
    • Fix an issue with new edit summaries not always showing what expected (phab:T246873)
    • Federated properties: enable search with remote properties (wbsearchentities) (phab:T246349)
    • showing the updated Wikipedia article after changing a value via Bridge (phab:T235208)
    • research how to do reference rendering (phab:T244987)

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Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 16:57, 16 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Misreminiscience

I tried to skip town, but slid your thank you note under Ritchie333's door instead of yours. I ain't retyping it and can't paste, because I'm as slow as you are fast, but it's on his Talk Page, if you're interested. "Thanks for clearing everything up", it's (ironically?) called. InedibleHulk (talk) 01:27, 17 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the note! Unusual delivery. All the best: Rich Farmbrough (the apparently calm and reasonable) 17:35, 23 March 2020 (UTC).[reply]
Have you ever seen the Night Gallery episode "Deliveries in the Rear"? Or the South Park episode "The Death Camp of Tolerance"? Or the Fraggle Rock episode "The Terrible Tunnel"? Or the Tales from the Darkside episode "The Last Car"? Or the Poltergeist episode "III"?
Well, now is not the time to look inside! So I didn't Wikilink anything good people of the world don't want to know (important things!) Without putting too fine a point on it, I'm currently going nowhere fast, so cheers to amenability-diddly-googley! This shadowy clog at the end of the pipeline will move its ass in good time, and the good shit will flow back into the light before you can say "rat race". Well, not you because you're scary quick, but one.
Thanks for remaining reasonably apparent, and remember, talking about things makes them happen! InedibleHulk (talk) 04:20, 24 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Gerry Weil albums

A tag has been placed on Category:Gerry Weil albums requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the category has been empty for seven days or more and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Liz Read! Talk! 03:40, 20 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

April 2020 at Women in Red

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Wikidata weekly summary #408

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Tool of the week
    • Wikidata Lexeme Forms allows quickly generating a new lexeme with all its forms in selected languages; you can also use the tool to add forms to an existing lexeme, or bulk upload many lexemes and forms at once.
  • Development

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Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 16:24, 23 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

"Il Moro (disambiguaiton)" listed at Redirects for discussion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the redirect Il Moro (disambiguaiton) should be deleted, kept, or retargeted. It will be discussed at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2020 March 23#Il Moro (disambiguaiton) until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines. 1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk) 22:32, 23 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination for merging of Template:Infobox event

Template:Infobox event has been nominated for merging with Template:Infobox sporting event organization. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Thank you. PPEMES (talk) 22:08, 24 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination of Coronavirus party for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Coronavirus party 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/Coronavirus party until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. jamacfarlane (talk) 00:53, 28 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 29 March 2020

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Wikidata weekly summary #409

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Tool of the week
    • IdentifierInput: when adding identifiers, it lets you paste the full URL, and extracts the ID part
  • Development
    • Fix an issue with the Wikidata dumps (phab:T248612)
    • Migrate to and read from new store for item terms (phab:T219123)
    • Create wb_terms_no_longer_updated to ease the transition to the new tables
    • Bridge: improve the rendering of references (phab:T238661)
    • More work on editing references (phab:T240333)
    • Continue setting up a test system to work on federated properties
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date formats, perfect world (film)

can explain the meaning of the date formats. what is it that I have to take note.

Jjaey (talk) 04:06, 31 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Answered on user's talk page. All the best: Rich Farmbrough (the apparently calm and reasonable) 16:16, 31 March 2020 (UTC).[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – April 2020

News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2020).

Guideline and policy news

  • There is an ongoing request for comment to streamline the source deprecation and blacklisting process.

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Arbitration

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  • The WMF has begun a pilot report of the pages most visited through various social media platforms to help with anti-vandalism and anti-disinformation efforts. The report is updated daily and will be available through the end of May.
Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 07:00, 1 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Descriptive edit summary

You are making countless edits with the rather deceptive edit summary "Update date format tag", while the most important thing you do in these edits is adding "authority control". It is very debatable if any of the changes you make (the dmy tag date, replacing templates no one has a problem with (like refimprove) with the ones you rae trying to impose for years now ("more citations needed"), and adding the empty authority control tag) is actually needed, but the last one is the only one that could have an impact on the actual article, and thus the only one that actually needed to be in the edit summary. Please (preferably) stop with these edits, or (at the very least) make sure that the edit summary indicates the actual, impactful edit, and not the superfluous one.

Note that you are also adding authority control to localities, which is very often a bad idea as it links too often to pages about different subjects or to 404 error pages (e.g. for Worldcat), if anything is found at all. For example Saint-Josse-ten-Noode now has some links to pages repeating that yes, it is a municipality of Brussels, and some about a museum in the municipality, not the municipality itself. An "authority control" which is about more than one subject is not an authority control. Sall (a village in Denmark) has this Worldcat identity, this VIAF, and this Library of Congress link All three are wrong.

I don't know if there is any consensus that adding authority control to all articles, no matter the subject, is wanted. A quick check shows you adding it to tv shows, movies, train services, mobile phones, ...Fram (talk) 15:15, 1 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

One of the principles I try to operate under, is to reduce the number of edits for the same benefit. As you know there are many hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of edits that simply add {{Authority control}}. For this reason it seems a good idea to add the template whenever editing an article for some other reason. Mentioning this in the edit summary might well be a good idea in principle, but it seems a minor thing.
I'm not sure why you are annoyed with {{Refimprove}} being replaced with {{More citations needed}}, this template was moved to its present name in 2018, by User:Timrollpickering after a requested move by User:SMcCandlish, supported by User:BD2412 and User:Galobtter. The move was reviewed by User:SkyWarrior, and upheld. The template move was promptly reflected in the AWB list by User:JJMC89. It is not as you claim, something I have been trying to impose, though it does seem a good idea worth supporting.
After a relatively short period, around half the usages are at the new name. I would expect in another five years 7/8 will be there, without anyone having to make any special effort at all. This is a system that works well in my book.
You refer to difficulties with the {{Authority control}} template itself. I have fixed the template to resolve the 404 issue you mention.
You further refer to issues in the authority control fields for Saint-Josse-ten-Noode and Sall.
For the first I have suppressed the VIAF/WorldCat entities, and have contacted VIAF about the confusion in their authority file (as well as contacting the Wikidata community). The authority control record itself is an authority control record, it simply has incorrect links to other perfectly valid records. This is the identical problem that we used to have with interwiki links on the Wikipedias.
For the second I have removed the VIAF/WorldCat/LCCN links from Wikidata, as they plainly link the Wikidata item to the wrong records.
All these resolutions are within the grasp of any Wikipedian, with the possible exception of the template fix.
Authority control records cover a wide variety of matter. While people and places are prominent, organisations and publications are also important. Sachbegriff or headwords can include any item which a publication can be "about".
Hope that helps clarify the matters you raised, stay safe.
All the best: Rich Farmbrough (the apparently calm and reasonable) 00:54, 10 April 2020 (UTC).[reply]
So you will continue making pointless edits because you prefer to have it your way, got it. As usual, you don't check the results of your edits, and only when someone else spotchecks some of them may you consider acting on these spotchecks, without checking whether other edits had similar problems. This is a pattern going back more than ten years, but little seems to have changed in the meantime. That a template is renamed doesn't mean that all instances of that template have to be renamed, and that many have been renamed since is a self-fulfilling prophecy. The end result of your edits was still nothing substantial added, and the potentially problematic part of the edit not included in the edit summary, making it less likely that others would check what these many changes on their catchlist actually did. Fram (talk) 08:11, 10 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
I notice for example that you are still changing e.g. 20th century to twentieth century, a change for which there is no consensus at all but which you have been pushing in your mass edits for years. You are still trying to impose your preferred style through your mass editing, even though it has been pointed out to you on many occasions (and by many people) that this is not allowed in many cases. Fram (talk) 08:35, 10 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
For example you most recent edit, [2]: you change a perfectly working and acceptable template to one that has the exact same result (and this change is not included in Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Template redirects), and you change "TV" to "television" even though this goes against WP:MOSABB#Exceptions. It looks as if you are just trying to skirt the older restrictions you have had for years, and the new one imposed in January (which you dramatically claimed would be a "ban from editing", without actually adressing the underlying issues, i.e. that you should stop making these edits which do nothing to actually improve the article but just continue the same needless meddling with pages to get them closer to your preferred vision of what MOS, templates, spelling, everyone should use. Fram (talk) 08:51, 10 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
You do the same, with a false edit summary, here. And here you change the official name of a machine to one without caps, in your zeal to erase all erroneous capitalization. Basically, you are again, as way too often happened before, making mostly inconsequential edits where the end result is just as likely to be an error or an improvement. And when you do make a substantial edit, like in creating Mohammad Ali Younes, you violate basic policies and create an article which is simply not acceptable for the mainspace: a BLP (very recent death) with allegations of murder sourced solely to an opinion piece? I moved the article to draft space, to get it improved (the sourcing is just the most major problem) or deleted. Fram (talk) 09:21, 10 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
I spent a considerable effort on replying to your initial screed, in the forlorn hope that you would engage collegially. Once again you reply with personal attacks and negativity.
Please think about the people you are engaging with, who are not automata.
All the best: Rich Farmbrough (the apparently calm and reasonable) 15:26, 10 April 2020 (UTC).[reply]
I have learned not to judge you by your passive agressive civility, but by your actions. Your edits are those of an automaton in way too many cases, and have been condemned as such by many people over many years. Ignoring the actual issues raised here because of some perceived personal attack is not surprising, but if you continue to edit in this vein, with hidden scripts causing many problems (like the multiple different short descriptions you added to articles but, on a positive note, self-reverted some days later), then you will again end up at ANI and probably face another editing restriction. Fram (talk) 16:28, 10 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
FWIW, I agree that more descriptive edit summaries (especially to identify the more important aspects of an edit) are better. On the other hand, I think it's silly to complain about replacing old template redirects with links to the actual templates unless (per WP:MEATBOT, WP:NOTBROKE) it is the only change being made in the edit. Not going to wade through all the rest of that back-'n'-forth up there. This is all a WP:Common sense matter: don't sweat the small stuff or obsess over trivia, but also do not mislead other editors, either intentionally or through error of omission. We almost all have a lot of extra time on our hands and extra stress (especially those of us under financial hardship due to this F'ing virus), so let's go out of our way to avoid irritating each other. :-)  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  01:01, 11 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination for deletion of Template:Current COVID

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Wikidata weekly summary #410

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Tool of the week
    • Scholia highlights the scholarly data in Wikidata, including scholarly works, projects, topics, and individual researchers, including their relationships and statistics. It encourages further enrichment of Wikidata through links on the "missing" pages.
  • Development
    • Working on a first prototype for automated finding references (board)
    • Bridge: improve rendering of references (phab:T238661)
    • Only send incremental changes through the API (phab:T230343)
    • Adding a screen allowing people to go edit the references on Wikidata (phab:T240333)
    • Reducing the size of the extra Javascript that the user has to download for Bridge (phab:T228857)

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"Pafnuti Chebychev" listed at Redirects for discussion

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"Kelvin Moore (footballer) (disambiguation)" listed at Redirects for discussion

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"Hiram (given name) (disambiguation)" listed at Redirects for discussion

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Editing restriction...

This edit does not appear to change anything on the rendered page. Are you not still under an editing restriction that prevents you making such edits? See Wikipedia:Editing restrictions#Placed by the Wikipedia community. --Ealdgyth (talk) 18:34, 13 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, it changes the category Category:Use dmy dates from September 2010 to Category:Use dmy dates from April 2020, it has been established that this constitutes a change to the rendered page. All the best: Rich Farmbrough (the apparently calm and reasonable) 18:41, 13 April 2020 (UTC).[reply]
There's another applicable restriction. From ANI 3 months ago: Rich Farmbrough is not permitted to make any mass changes to articles, broadly construed, and regardless of editing method, cosmetic or not, without a demonstrable consensus from the community that he is explicitly permitted to do so (Special:Diff/935340986). Is there such a consensus for these edits? Mdaniels5757 (talk) 19:20, 13 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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