@Xender Lourdes:, I'm glad you liked it. :) You did good work to find those three sources, now used in the article. I have to agree the article could have been dropped and a new separate article could be started, but I have a strong preference at AFD to support contributors and expand or transform their work where possible, rather than deleting it. And sometimes I have been accused of co-opting/twisting others' arguments, oops! :) Thanks for the compliment of your visit . doncram 16:14, 4 March 2016 (UTC)
Understood :-) I have added support to your proposal at the Afd. Well done, I should say again. See ya around. Xender Lourdes (talk) 03:40, 5 March 2016 (UTC)
Thanks, and AFD closed Keep, with article needing rename and revision though. Renamed, revised some. Done? doncram 21:35, 14 April 2016 (UTC)
arbitration amendment request
It's true, I have made request at Doncram arbitration amendment request seeking to lift arbitration sanctions on my creating new articles, on my editing in NRHP area, and for general probation. Notice was posted at wt:NRHP: "Please review the amendment request at your convenience, and if so inclined, give a statement addressing why or why not the Committee should accept the amendment request." I accepted the sanctions when imposed in 2013 and did not appeal them, but I feel they have served their purpose and I would like to move on. --doncram 06:09, 11 April 2016 (UTC)
Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Dodger67 was:
Agree with previous reviewer, this is an arbitrary list with no clearly defined scope. It is patently obviously impossible to list every single notable court in the entire world in a single page. It makes no sense to even try. This type of information is better served by the Category system, where such lists are logocally subdivided into multiple different subcategories, each with a clearly defined scope.
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Hello! Doncram, I noticed your article was declined at Articles for Creation, and that can be disappointing. If you are wondering why your article submission was declined, please post a question at the Articles for creation help desk. If you have any other questions about your editing experience, we'd love to help you at the Teahouse, a friendly space on Wikipedia where experienced editors lend a hand to help new editors like yourself! See you there! Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 20:11, 19 April 2016 (UTC)
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!
Help us build our list!
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.
An open database means new tools
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!
On the horizon
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.
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?
Hello, Doncram. You have new messages at Stifle's talk page. Message added 13:06, 29 April 2016 (UTC). You can at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.
Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Music1201 was:
The list is incomplete and will be too big when it's finished. There are many notable courthouses in the world and I don't think a need is present.
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Arbitration motion in response to your amendment request
Hi Doncram, just letting you know that I've posted a motion in response to the amendment request you posted. Regards, Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 08:05, 2 May 2016 (UTC)
Amendment motion
The Doncram arbitration case is amended as follows:
The topic ban imposed by Seraphimblade is rescinded. For clarity, this means that Doncram is permitted to edit existing articles but not create new articles that are related to the National Register of Historic Places, broadly construed.
The following remedy is added to the case: Doncram (talk· contribs) is indefinitely restricted from creating new pages, except for redirects, in article space which are related to the National Register of Historic Places, broadly construed.
Passed 10 to 0 by motion at 13:11, 11 May 2016 (UTC)
For the Arbitration Committee, Miniapolis 13:18, 11 May 2016 (UTC)
Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Onel5969 was:
Hi Doncram - You could have simply changed the redirect into a dab page, which I did for you.
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I noticed a few of your edits popping up on my watchlist relating to NRHP articles, and I just realized the topic ban was eventually lifted. Forgive me, but I also snooped around in your contributions and it appeared you were trying to compile a list of NRIS-only articles you created on one of your user pages. The code that I wrote to determine how many articles were created by each editor also outputs a list of the article titles. I've included the list of yours in the collapsible box below:
I also noticed you were looking at how to get NRIS-only articles in each state. While I don't think it's exactly what you're looking for, the NRHPstats script now has the ability to display only NRIS-only articles in each county list (as well as only the unarticled, unillustrated, stubs, etc.), so that may be even better than what you're looking for. If you add the script to your vector.js, it will display a yellow box above each county list upon loading the page with all that information.
Though we've had our differences in the past, I hope that with all the time that has gone by, all of that can be a thing of the past, and I look forward to your re-integration into the project. Let me know if there is anything else I can do to help.--Dudemanfellabra (talk) 05:18, 13 May 2016 (UTC)
Thanks, that's what I was looking for. (And noting here that for other purposes, use of category intersection tool Wikipedia:PetScan (at "Petscan") is a relevant tool, e.g. with depth=9, using categories "Articles sourced only to NRIS" and "Elks buildings", yields 19; with "North Dakota" yields 41.) Argh, the wp:catscan3 application i promoted here and i documented (at toollabs? at wikimedia?) is gone, rats.) --doncram 07:05, 13 May 2016 (UTC)
White County Courthouse, which you submitted to Articles for creation, has been created.
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Hi! I hope this isn't bad timing, but I've blanked Lars and Christina Olsen House and listed it at WP:CP, as a chunk of content was apparently copy-pasted from here, which as far as I can see is not a public domain source (and even if it was, there's no attribution, so it'd still be WP:PLAGIARISM). The page was previously listed at Wikipedia:Copyright problems/2016 May 6, but the content was not blanked and you weren't notified. Sorry about that, Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 16:34, 17 May 2016 (UTC)
Hi, this is not bad timing at all. Thank you for noticing the out-of-place passage. It was left there by an editing error and should simply be removed. I reply more fully in this diff at the copyright problems page. BTW, I will also do some more development of the article--about a house that is relatively more interesting than many others--now that you brought it to my attention. --doncram 21:25, 17 May 2016 (UTC)
OK. Your removal of the text there has indeed solved the problem. However, in general, please don't remove the copyvio template from articles, even if you think the matter is resolved (removing it is part of a process that has other parts too). Regards, Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 09:28, 19 May 2016 (UTC)
Thanks. That it is completely resolved--after other steps by Justlettersandnumbers, including revdel request, thanks-- is now confirmed at Wikipedia:Copyright problems/2016 May 17 where it had been relisted. --doncram 19:16, 19 May 2016 (UTC)
Chicago boulevard system
Greetings! Even though we didn't agree on every detail at the article Talk Page discussion, I must say that the state of the article has improved a lot! Thanks for your contibutions, Doncram! Jayaguru-Shishya (talk) 22:03, 17 May 2016 (UTC)
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The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Oheka 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.
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Puente de Trujillo Alto, which you submitted to Articles for creation, has been created.
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