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Joining the January 2012 MtC drive
Well, welcome, but I saw that you forgot to add yourself to the logs subpage. The reviewers won't review what's not there. ~~Ebe123~~ → report on my contribs. 11:54, 22 November 2011 (UTC)
- Thanks, added self. --Philosopher Let us reason together. 18:34, 23 November 2011 (UTC)
Please update the table, Mathis was sworn in [1][2]. I tried, but I screwed it up, I'm very anti-table, thanks, CTJF83 16:13, 22 November 2011 (UTC)
Done. Thanks for pointing it out. --Philosopher Let us reason together. 18:29, 23 November 2011 (UTC)
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Feedback Dashboard upgrade
Hi Philosopher,
Thanks for signing up for the Feedback Dashboard response team! I wanted to let you know that the tool just got an important update (see here for details). I also wanted to invite you to the IRC office hours session that Steven and I are going to hold this Sunday, December 4. Hope you can make it and share your experience/questions with us! Thanks again, Maryana (WMF) (talk) 00:02, 3 December 2011 (UTC)
- Thanks for the invite. I don't use IRC currently, so I won't be able to join you. --Philosopher Let us reason together. 00:07, 3 December 2011 (UTC)
Deletion review for Kennedy Middle School (Cupertino, California)
I have asked for a deletion review of Kennedy Middle School (Cupertino, California). 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. Blue Ribbon evidence has been found which may force reexamination. Raymie (t • c) 01:58, 4 December 2011 (UTC)
- Thanks, I've commented there! --Philosopher Let us reason together. 04:59, 4 December 2011 (UTC)
- I have opened a discussion at Wikipedia talk:Notability (organizations and companies)#US elementary schools: Inherent notability: for "Blue Ribbon Schools" as to whether the 5200 schools which have been found awarded the "Blue Ribbon" seal of approval get inherent notability, or if they each have to satisfy WP:ORG via significant coverage in multiple reliable and independent sources.I'm not sure if I'm supposed to notify those who commented at the AFD or the Deletion Review. I received no notification of the Deletion Review, and I was the one who initiated the AFD. I would have certainly had something to say at the Deletion Review, which was closed after 2 days. Edison (talk) 19:12, 7 December 2011 (UTC)
- Should the discussion I opened be made an "RFC?" I don't believe I've ever opened one and am not sure of the process. I'd like to see a wide input on this notability issue rather than just starting another AFD. Edison (talk) 19:45, 7 December 2011 (UTC)
- The RfC tag seems to be used fairly often these days, so I think you could open it as an RfC - I don't think I've ever opened an RFC either, though I've helped close at least one. Thanks for notifying me about the discussion, btw, but I think I'm going to sit this one out - I support the idea of inherent notability for some subjects, but have no idea whether this subject is appropriate for inherent notability or not. --Philosopher Let us reason together. 21:31, 7 December 2011 (UTC)
- As far as notification, Raymie should have notified you of the DR - and I should have noticed that that hadn't happened and notified you myself, sorry. Then again, I would have just undone the redirection on my own w/o a DR if I'd been asked, so... --Philosopher Let us reason together. 21:44, 7 December 2011 (UTC)
- The RfC tag seems to be used fairly often these days, so I think you could open it as an RfC - I don't think I've ever opened an RFC either, though I've helped close at least one. Thanks for notifying me about the discussion, btw, but I think I'm going to sit this one out - I support the idea of inherent notability for some subjects, but have no idea whether this subject is appropriate for inherent notability or not. --Philosopher Let us reason together. 21:31, 7 December 2011 (UTC)
- Should the discussion I opened be made an "RFC?" I don't believe I've ever opened one and am not sure of the process. I'd like to see a wide input on this notability issue rather than just starting another AFD. Edison (talk) 19:45, 7 December 2011 (UTC)
- I have opened a discussion at Wikipedia talk:Notability (organizations and companies)#US elementary schools: Inherent notability: for "Blue Ribbon Schools" as to whether the 5200 schools which have been found awarded the "Blue Ribbon" seal of approval get inherent notability, or if they each have to satisfy WP:ORG via significant coverage in multiple reliable and independent sources.I'm not sure if I'm supposed to notify those who commented at the AFD or the Deletion Review. I received no notification of the Deletion Review, and I was the one who initiated the AFD. I would have certainly had something to say at the Deletion Review, which was closed after 2 days. Edison (talk) 19:12, 7 December 2011 (UTC)
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Law Practice Optimizers?
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Hey Philosopher, I hope you're having a great day. As you are familiar with legal matters (according to your user page and my prior interactions with you, anyway), would you mind taking a quick look at Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Law practice optimization to see if there is any encyclopedic potential with this article? Asking because I've never heard of "Law Practice Optimizers" before and it sounds like one of hundreds of non-notable consultancy "fields". This is in reference to User talk:CharlieEchoTango#Finding Citations; if you have any comments, and suggestions, I'd like to hear them. Best regards, CharlieEchoTango (contact) 17:39, 8 December 2011 (UTC)
- I normally reply here, but since there's already a discussion there, I've replied at your talk. --Philosopher Let us reason together. 02:21, 9 December 2011 (UTC)
- Very nice of you, much appreciated. :-) CharlieEchoTango (contact) 02:45, 9 December 2011 (UTC)
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Commons category to indicate whether a file page link is required
In Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)/Archive 81#Proposal for a new free image category, you said you were going to consider the idea and propose some changes at Commons. Are you still interested in doing that? Anomie⚔ 18:55, 10 December 2011 (UTC)
- Yeah, thanks for reminding me. I'm a little busy in RL at the moment, so it may be a few days. --Philosopher Let us reason together. 20:07, 12 December 2011 (UTC)
- That's fine, I'll be patient. Anomie⚔ 23:49, 12 December 2011 (UTC)
- Proposed at commons:Commons:Village pump/Proposals#Keeping track of Attribution requirements. --Philosopher Let us reason together. 23:26, 15 December 2011 (UTC)
- Thanks! One criticism though: I don't think that modifying {{Information}} would be the best way to do it on Commons; it should probably be done in the licensing templates instead. While you could do it in {{Information}}, that would require editing every image page on Commons to add the parameter and would require everyone to correctly specify the value of the parameter corresponding to the licensing tags.
- I see my reference to {{Free media}} is confusing. Here on enwiki, every free license template contains {{Free media}}, which handles adding of Category:All free media. So the obvious thing to do here is modify that template to take a parameter and modify all the calls to it in the various licensing templates to pass that parameter. Of course, everything on Commons is supposed to be free media, so you probably don't have the equivalent in your licensing templates. You could create a helper template (along the lines of our {{Free media}}) to apply this category, or you could just have the appropriate licensing tags apply the category directly if that's how Commons likes to do things.
- Most templates will be unambiguous, but some like commons:Template:Copyrighted free use provided that would need an extra parameter that the user needs to specify to indicate whether the "provided that" requires a link or not. Anomie⚔ 17:18, 16 December 2011 (UTC)
- Proposed at commons:Commons:Village pump/Proposals#Keeping track of Attribution requirements. --Philosopher Let us reason together. 23:26, 15 December 2011 (UTC)
- That's fine, I'll be patient. Anomie⚔ 23:49, 12 December 2011 (UTC)
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- A belated thank you! --Philosopher Let us reason together. 03:50, 3 January 2012 (UTC)
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Lmatt AWB vandalism
I see that you gave Lmatt AWB access. Please take it away. His excessive vandalism is highly disruptive.
- He changed the template Earthsatmosphere to Earth's atmosphere and then modified pages under a 1RR restriction. This is a simply a highly disruptive nonsense change. So far, he has only modified a few pages with this, but there are about 20 that might be affected.
- He changed the cite templates on those same pages so they they no longer match the templates, similar to the following.
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His editing is highly disruptive. Q Science (talk) 18:41, 22 December 2011 (UTC)
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WikiProject Maps - File class articles
Hello Philosopher,
I'm stuck, I've manually created this category Category:File-Class_Maps_articles which successfully appears here Category:File-Class_articles&from=M
the reason I created the category is that the majority of items in Category:NA-Class_Maps_articles appear to be files - and all of those articles for example File_talk:1490_map.jpg&action=edit got tagged by the Bot as class=File, importance=NA which seems great.
However I had not already created the Category:File-Class_Maps_articles, so they all appear to show up as Category:NA-Class_Maps_articles which you'll see if you look at File_talk:1490_map.jpg
I've tried purging various pages, I've tried updating the documentation on the template, i've tried running the webform assessment update bot - and it's also run on it's own a few times (i think - or at least it's been a couple of weeks) and I've finally got to the point where I don't know which bit I didn't do in order to get that to work.
my last option (that I've not attempted out of fear of messing it up) might be to directly edit this page User:WP_1.0_bot/Tables/Project/Maps but that still doesn't explain to me why the File class articles end up in the NA class articles category.
I'm a bit confused to be fair - it all seems like it ought to work ok - but perhaps I 've missed something obvious and so I thought I'd ask you as you clearly know a fair bit about this sort of stuff. Sorry to be a burden. EdwardLane (talk) 02:10, 29 December 2011 (UTC)
- My fault - I used the default categorization, not the extended version in the project template - meaning that it didn't know what to do with "File" and threw it in with everything else it didn't know what to do with in NA. I've expanded the template - it may take a bit for the database to update, but the articles should be in the right categories now. --Philosopher Let us reason together. 02:53, 30 December 2011 (UTC)
- Thanks and it may have been my fault - as I probably didn't mention the extended categories when we started the thing up - but that was in ignorance of what files actually ought to be part of wp maps so no one at fault :) I just 'purged' a file and it appeared in the category correctly so it looks like it will get sorted over time now. Thanks very much. EdwardLane (talk) 11:39, 30 December 2011 (UTC)
- Just to let you know it's all now working fine - thanks EdwardLane (talk) 08:16, 11 January 2012 (UTC)
- That's good to know.
--Philosopher Let us reason together. 08:22, 11 January 2012 (UTC)
- That's good to know.
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My Request For Rollback Permission
Hello Philosopher, I was just letting you know that I would like to request rollback permission. I would mainly want to use it for reverting things that are vandalism. I have done this in the past with Twinkle, but I have heard that this interface is much better. See my history for details. Thanks!
--RubinkumarTalk 22:53, 6 January 2012 (UTC)
- Replied at your talk. --Philosopher Let us reason together. 03:22, 7 January 2012 (UTC)
- Just so you know, if you look my contributions, and switch to the 500 edits per page view, you can see that I have nominated around 30 pages for CSD, as I have warned vandals about 25 times making the total amount around 55. --RubinkumarTalk 15:04, 7 January 2012 (UTC)
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WikiCup 2022 March newsletter
And so ends the first round of the WikiCup. Last year anyone who scored more than zero points moved on to Round 2, but this was not the case this year, and a score of 13 or more was required to proceed. The top scorers in Round 1 were:
Epicgenius, a finalist last year, who led the field with 1906 points, gained from 32 GAs and 19 DYKs, all on the topic of New York buildings.
AryKun, new to the contest, was second with 1588 points, having achieved 2 FAs, 11 GAs and various other submissions, mostly on the subject of birds.
Bloom6132, a WikiCup veteran, was in third place with 682 points, garnered from 51 In the news items and several DYKs.
GhostRiver was close behind with 679 points, gained from achieving 12 GAs, mostly on ice hockey players, and 35 GARs.
Kavyansh.Singh was in fifth place with 551 points, with an FA, a FL, and many reviews.
SounderBruce was next with 454 points, gained from an FA and various other submissions, mostly on United States highways.
Ktin, another WikiCup veteran, was in seventh place with 412 points, mostly gained from In the news items.
These contestants, like all the others who qualified for Round 2, now have to start scoring points again from scratch. Between them, contestants completed reviews of a large number of good articles as the contest ran concurrently with a GAN backlog drive. Well done all! To qualify for Round 3, contestants will need to finish Round 2 among the top thirty-two participants.
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21:00, 4 April 2022 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – April 2022
News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2022).
- An RfC is open proposing a change to the minimum activity requirements for administrators.
- Access to Special:RevisionDelete has been expanded to include users who have the
deletelogentry
anddeletedhistory
rights. This means that those in the Researcher user group and Checkusers who are not administrators can now access Special:RevisionDelete. The users able to view the special page after this change are the 3 users in the Researcher group, as there are currently no checkusers who are not already administrators. (T301928) - When viewing deleted revisions or diffs on Special:Undelete a back link to the undelete page for the associated page is now present. (T284114)
- Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Procedures § Opening of proceedings has been updated to reflect current practice following a motion.
- A arbitration case regarding Skepticism and coordinated editing has been closed.
- A arbitration case regarding WikiProject Tropical Cyclones has been opened.
- Voting for the Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement guidelines has closed, and the results were that 56.98% of voters supported the guidelines. The results of this vote mean the Wikimedia Foundation Board will now review the guidelines.