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Tech News: 2021-38
18:29, 20 September 2021 (UTC)
Question from Rajkaushikkk on Wikipedia:About (07:24, 21 September 2021)
Hello, how can i edit an locked page like Assam or kolkata? How can i unlock the edit page? --Rajkaushikkk (talk) 07:24, 21 September 2021 (UTC)
- Hi @Rajkaushikkk, and sorry for answering late, I was busy today. There are two parts to you're question I think, editing a page protected (locked) at a higher level than you have, and how to lower the protection on a page. To answer the first, you can leave a Edit request on the page's talk page which is most easily done via the Edit Request Wizard. If you instead want to have an page unprotected, you'll first need to check which administrator placed the protection, by clicking the more menu and then selecting the log button, and then leaving a message on their talkpage, a link to which can be found in the relevant log entry. -- Asartea Talk | Contribs 14:57, 21 September 2021 (UTC)
Question from Dklovessg69 on Help:Getting started (16:28, 25 September 2021)
HELLO will ye be my assistant all's the time! --Dklovessg69 (talk) 16:28, 25 September 2021 (UTC)
Question from Ihsanullah Danish on Abdul Latif Ayoubi (18:15, 25 September 2021)
Hello --Ihsanullah Danish (talk) 18:15, 25 September 2021 (UTC)
- Hi @Ihsanullah Danish, is there anything you need help with? -- Asartea Talk | Contribs 18:21, 25 September 2021 (UTC)
Question from Elrowmeim on US public opinion on the North American Free Trade Agreement (07:50, 26 September 2021)
Hi there! I want to write some articles can you give me some feedback before I post them. Thank You! --Elrowmeim (talk) 07:50, 26 September 2021 (UTC)
- Hi, @Elrowmeim I would be happy to help you proofread some articles. You can also start creating articles through the Articles for Creation process, which means a experienced reviewer will take a look before its moved and becomes a viewable article. You can find a wizard to help you create a draft here. -- Asartea Talk | Contribs 07:53, 26 September 2021 (UTC)
The Signpost: 26 September 2021
- News and notes: New CEO, new board members, China bans
- In the media: The future of Wikipedia
- Op-Ed: I've been desysopped
- Disinformation report: Paid promotional paragraphs in German parliamentary pages
- Discussion report: Editors discuss Wikipedia's vetting process for administrators
- Recent research: Wikipedia images for machine learning; Experiment justifies Wikipedia's high search rankings
- Community view: Is writing Wikipedia like making a quilt?
- Traffic report: Kanye, Emma Raducanu and 9/11
- News from Diff: Welcome to the first grantees of the Knowledge Equity Fund
- WikiProject report: The Random and the Beautiful
Tech News: 2021-39
22:20, 27 September 2021 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – October 2021
News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2021).
- Following an RfC, extended confirmed protection may be used preemptively on certain high-risk templates.
- Following a discussion at the Village Pump, there is consensus to treat discord logs the same as IRC logs. This means that discord logs will be oversighted if posted onwiki.
- DiscussionTools has superseded Enterprisey's reply-link script. Editors may switch using the "Discussion tools" checkbox under Preferences → Beta features.
- A motion has standardised the 500/30 (extended confirmed) restrictions placed by the Arbitration Committee. The standardised restriction is now listed in the Arbitration Committee's procedures.
- Following the closure of the Iranian politics case, standard discretionary sanctions are authorized for all edits about, and all pages related to, post-1978 Iranian politics, broadly construed.
- The Arbitration Committee encourages uninvolved administrators to use the discretionary sanctions procedure in topic areas where it is authorised to facilitate consensus in RfCs. This includes, but is not limited to, enforcing sectioned comments, word/diff limits and moratoriums on a particular topic from being brought in an RfC for up to a year.
- Editors have approved expanding the trial of Growth Features from 2% of new accounts to 25%, and the share of newcomers getting mentorship from 2% to 5%. Experienced editors are invited to add themselves to the mentor list.
- The community consultation phase of the 2021 CheckUser and Oversight appointments process is open for editors to provide comments and ask questions to candidates.
Tech News: 2021-40
16:28, 4 October 2021 (UTC)
Question from RJ Raawat (08:05, 8 October 2021)
Hi,
I want to make a page about NGO, is it possible for me? The non governmental organization is register with Indian Government. and it is also have certified from Income tax act of 80G and 12A. But I am not sure that it is enough to publish a page about this NGO. Pls help me --RJ Raawat (talk) 08:05, 8 October 2021 (UTC)
- Hi @RJ Raawat generally speaking you will need to find several reliable sources which are independent of the subject, and discuss it in depth. (from Wikipedia's guideline on the notability of companies). If its only registered with the government that is almost certainly not enough to prove its a notable company. -- Asartea Talk | Contribs 08:26, 8 October 2021 (UTC)
: Active discussion on Playboy introduction
Hello Asartea. This is Zach from PLBY Group. You helped me with an edit request I made for the Playboy article a few months back. There's currently an active discussion I'm having with another editor on whether the introduction should identify Playboy as a lifestyle brand, in addition to its origins as a magazine. We're looking for some extra opinions, and I thought you might be willing to weigh in. If so, you can find the discussion here. Thanks! PLBY ZG (talk) 23:21, 8 October 2021 (UTC)
Edmonia Lewis
I tried following your instructions, but it still doesn't work. deisenbe (talk) 10:21, 10 October 2021 (UTC)
- Deisenbe, fixed, you forgot a capital somewhere -- Asartea Talk | Contribs 11:10, 10 October 2021 (UTC)
After writing this I read in your introduction that I should have put it on my talk page. But that's not what the automated notice that closed the help request said.
Tech News: 2021-41
15:28, 11 October 2021 (UTC)
Question from ASploopyPerson (21:15, 13 October 2021)
Hi. Was I automatically assigned to you as a mentee? You show up as my mentor in my homepage. I don't want to be of bother, otherwise. ASploopyPerson (talk) 21:15, 13 October 2021 (UTC)
- @ASploopyPerson yes you were automatically assigned to me from the list of available mentors, so I opted in into getting questions, so you aren't bothering me. -- Asartea Talk | Contribs 05:29, 14 October 2021 (UTC)
Question from RJ Raawat (08:04, 14 October 2021)
Hi Team,
I would like to know, why I am not eligible for auto-confirmed ? Is there any protocol for qualifying for auto-confirmed status ?
Please help Thank you with regards --RJ Raawat (talk) 08:04, 14 October 2021 (UTC)
- @RJ Raawat as far as I can see you're autoconfirmed, and have been since October 8th. -- Asartea Talk | Contribs 13:40, 14 October 2021 (UTC)
Tech News: 2021-42
20:52, 18 October 2021 (UTC)
Tech News: 2021-43
20:06, 25 October 2021 (UTC)
Question from Tom-Epsilon (08:37, 31 October 2021)
Hello, my mentor Asartea! Nice to meet you. How are you? Tom-Epsilon (talk) 08:40, 31 October 2021 (UTC)
The Signpost: 31 October 2021
- From the editor: Different stories, same place
- News and notes: The sockpuppet who ran for adminship and almost succeeded
- Discussion report: Editors brainstorm and propose changes to the Requests for adminship process
- Recent research: Welcome messages fail to improve newbie retention
- Community view: Reflections on the Chinese Wikipedia
- Traffic report: James Bond and the Giant Squid Game
- Technology report: Wikimedia Toolhub, winners of the Coolest Tool Award, and more
- Serendipity: How Wikipedia helped create a Serbian stamp
- Book review: Wikipedia and the Representation of Reality
- WikiProject report: Redirection
- Humour: A very Wiki crossword
Administrators' newsletter – November 2021
News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2021).
- Phase 2 of the 2021 RfA review has commenced which will discuss potential solutions to address the 8 issues found in Phase 1. Proposed solutions that achieve consensus will be implemented and you may propose solutions till 07 November 2021.
- Toolhub is a catalogue of tools which can be used on Wikimedia wikis. It is at https://toolhub.wikimedia.org/.
- GeneralNotability, Mz7 and Cyberpower678 have been appointed to the Electoral Commission for the 2021 Arbitration Committee Elections. Ivanvector and John M Wolfson are reserve commissioners.
- Eligible editors are invited to self-nominate themselves to stand in the 2021 Arbitration Committee elections from 07 November 2021 until 16 November 2021.
- The 2021 CheckUser and Oversight appointments process has concluded with the appointment of five new CheckUsers and two new Oversighters.
Tech News: 2021-44
20:26, 1 November 2021 (UTC)
WikiCup 2021 November newsletter
The WikiCup is over for another year and the finalists can relax! Our Champion this year is The Rambling Man (submissions), who amassed over 5000 points in the final round, achieving 8 featured articles and almost 500 reviews. It was a very competitive round; seven of the finalists achieved over 1000 points in the round (enough to win the 2019 contest), and three scored over 3000 (enough to win the 2020 event). Our 2021 finalists and their scores were:
- The Rambling Man (submissions) with 5072 points
- Lee Vilenski (submissions) with 3276 points
- Amakuru (submissions) with 3197 points
- Epicgenius (submissions) with 1611 points
- Gog the Mild (submissions) with 1571 points
- BennyOnTheLoose (submissions) with 1420 points
- Hog Farm (submissions) with 1043 points
- Bloom6132 (submissions) with 528 points
All those who reached the final round will win awards. The following special awards will be made based on high performance in particular areas of content creation and review. Awards will be handed out in the next few days.
- The Rambling Man (submissions) wins the featured article prize, for 8 FAs in round 5.
- Lee Vilenski (submissions) wins the featured list prize, for 3 FLs in round 5.
- Gog the Mild (submissions) wins the featured topic prize, for 13 articles in a featured topic in round 5.
- Epicgenius (submissions) wins the good article prize, for 63 GAs in round 4.
- The Rambling Man (submissions) wins the good topic prize, for 86 articles in good topics in round 5.
- The Rambling Man (submissions) wins the reviewer prize, for 68 FAC reviews and 213 GAN reviews, both in round 5.
- Epicgenius (submissions) wins the DYK prize, for 30 did you know articles in round 3 and 105 overall.
- Bloom6132 (submissions) wins the ITN prize, for 71 in the news articles in round 1 and 284 overall.
Congratulations to everyone who participated in this year's WikiCup, whether they made it to the final round or not, and particular congratulations to the newcomers to the WikiCup, some of whom did very well. Wikipedia has benefitted greatly from the quality creations, expansions and improvements made, and the numerous reviews performed. Thanks to all who have taken part and helped out with the competition, not forgetting User:Jarry1250, who runs the scoring bot.
If you have views on whether the rules or scoring need adjustment for next year's contest, please comment on the WikiCup talk page. Next year's competition will begin on 1 January. You are invited to sign up to participate; the WikiCup is open to all Wikipedians, both novices and experienced editors, and we hope to see you all in the 2022 competition. Until then, it only remains to once again congratulate our worthy winners, and thank all participants for their involvement! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Sturmvogel 66 and Cwmhiraeth. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 19:55, 3 November 2021 (UTC)
Question from Schkayatwa (01:33, 5 November 2021)
Hello, is there an algorithm for what types of things you like to read for? --Schkayatwa (talk) 01:33, 5 November 2021 (UTC)
Tech News: 2021-45
20:34, 8 November 2021 (UTC)
Question from Schkayatwa (01:36, 5 November 2021)
Do you need to be asian or speak an asian language in order to join the November Asian Postcard? --Schkayatwa (talk) 01:36, 5 November 2021 (UTC)
- Hi @Schkayatwa sorry to get back to you so late; could you give me a link to the main page of this project? I can't find it at a glance -- Asartea Talk | Contribs 20:37, 8 November 2021 (UTC)
Question from Please sign my guestbook (20:03, 12 November 2021)
Hello Astarea, I am trying to figure out how to nominate a page for deletion using the visual editor. I can't find any way to add the template. What am I missing? --Please sign my guestbook (talk) 20:03, 12 November 2021 (UTC)
- Hi @Please sign my guestbook you can do it by typing
{{
, and then add the template via the interface that should pop up. Alternatively you can wait until you are autoconfirmed (4 days and 10 edits) and then use Twinkle. -- Asartea Talk | Contribs 20:16, 12 November 2021 (UTC)
Question from Biteoffmorethanyoucanchew (16:22, 13 November 2021)
Hey mentor. I have some questions about citations on sources. Can a user cite a source that does not directly reference the subject of the Wikipedia article? Can you cite a source that is discussed in the article about another subject being referenced? --Biteoffmorethanyoucanchew (talk) 16:22, 13 November 2021 (UTC)
Tech News: 2021-46
22:05, 15 November 2021 (UTC)
Animoca Brands
Hello Asartea, you reverted my edits on Animoca Brands: I put lot's of efford in it to make it more readable, structure it and tried to find references. can you review your edit? thanks, regards 2A02:2455:465:9600:50E1:7E1C:42C9:60B3 (talk) 15:17, 17 November 2021 (UTC)
Question from Jeroxxxxx (04:39, 22 November 2021)
hey how to post an article? --Jeroxxxxx (talk) 04:39, 22 November 2021 (UTC)
Tech News: 2021-47
20:00, 22 November 2021 (UTC)
ArbCom 2021 Elections voter message
Question from SumPrezident (22:14, 27 November 2021)
How do I create a Wikipedia article? --SumPrezident (talk) 22:14, 27 November 2021 (UTC)
The Signpost: 29 November 2021
- In the media: Denial: climate change, mass killings and pornography
- WikiCup report: The WikiCup 2021
- Deletion report: What we lost, what we gained
- From a Wikipedia reader: What's Matt Amodio?
- Arbitration report: ArbCom in 2021
- Discussion report: On the brink of change – RFA reforms appear imminent
- Technology report: What does it take to upload a file?
- WikiProject report: Interview with contributors to WikiProject Actors and Filmmakers
- Recent research: Vandalizing Wikipedia as rational behavior
- Humour: A very new very Wiki crossword
Tech News: 2021-48
21:13, 29 November 2021 (UTC)
Toolhub Interview
Hi Asartea!
I am the product manager of Toolhub and in our efforts to improve the experience for its users, I would love to schedule time with you to ask a few questions about your experience and how you incorporate tools into your contributions. If you're available, please send me an email @ skim@wikimedia.org with the times and timezone that work best for you!
Looking forward to hearing from you,
Seve
SKim (WMF) (talk) 14:55, 3 December 2021 (UTC)
Tech News: 2021-49
21:57, 6 December 2021 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – December 2021
News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2021).
- Unregistered editors using the mobile website are now able to receive notices to indicate they have talk page messages. The notice looks similar to what is already present on desktop, and will be displayed on when viewing any page except mainspace and when editing any page. (T284642)
- The limit on the number of emails a user can send per day has been made global instead of per-wiki to help prevent abuse. (T293866)
- Voting in the 2021 Arbitration Committee Elections is open until 23:59, 06 December 2021 (UTC).
- The already authorized standard discretionary sanctions for all pages relating to the Horn of Africa (defined as including Ethiopia, Somalia, Eritrea, Djibouti, and adjoining areas if involved in related disputes), broadly construed, have been made permanent.
Question from LocokidLNWR (23:05, 12 December 2021)
What does it mean by your my mentor? like do you really oversee what im doing on wikipedia? --LocokidLNWR (talk) 23:05, 12 December 2021 (UTC)
- Hi @LocokidLNWR, no I do not manually check every edit you make. Rather I serve as your first point of contact for questions you might have about Wikipedia. -- Asartea Talk | Contribs 06:43, 13 December 2021 (UTC)
Tech News: 2021-50
22:26, 13 December 2021 (UTC)
Your revert
"Wikipedia list article" is the standard short description for lists. --🐔 Chicdat Bawk to me! 15:41, 18 December 2021 (UTC)
- @Chicdat yes it is. Its also incredibly useless to readers, and should never be used when a better and more descriptive short description is available. -- Asartea Talk | Contribs 15:47, 18 December 2021 (UTC)
- Where's the discussion for this? 🐔 Chicdat Bawk to me! 18:16, 18 December 2021 (UTC)
- (talk page watcher) @Chicdat - I'm not sure we need an explicit consensus that something like "List of notable tornadoes occurring in 2008" is better than the effectively content-free "Wikipedia list article". As far as I know, list articles don't need a short description at all (see WP:SDNONE), but if they're going to have one (was there a specific discussion that said that tornado lists need one? I'm not really active in that area), we should at least try to make them useful to our readers. firefly ( t · c ) 18:46, 18 December 2021 (UTC)
- Where's the discussion for this? 🐔 Chicdat Bawk to me! 18:16, 18 December 2021 (UTC)
Tech News: 2021-51
22:04, 20 December 2021 (UTC)
Happy Holidays!
Merry Christmas and a Prosperous 2022! | |
Hello Asartea, may you be surrounded by peace, success and happiness on this seasonal occasion. Spread the WikiLove by wishing another user a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past, a good friend, or just some random person. Sending you heartfelt and warm greetings for Christmas and New Year 2022. Spread the love by adding {{subst:Seasonal Greetings}} to other user talk pages. |
Happy holidays!
Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 22
Article on Nazia Hassan
User @Kasim8999 & @Limited Idea4me is vandalizing the facts. The marriage record provided on website can be added easily by paying some fee. And continuous editing the same thing again and again even after removing several time showing the criminal acts of users. These users can be easily judged that they are targeting Queen of hearts. Authentic media or newspaper never reported such marriage. A researcher and documentary maker on Nazia Hassan's life ahmad_haseeb never talked about such facts. It is very clear that article has been vandalized as personal target. Interestingly New York marriage records are mentioning Nazia's marriage with Ishtiaq baig but the marriage was took place at Pakistan and in London. New York marriages record keep the records of marriages that took place in New York only. Website resource is not authentic and it can be distorted for personal benefits.
Question from Aamir Hamid Wagay (19:56, 26 December 2021)
Hello --Aamir Hamid Wagay (talk) 19:56, 26 December 2021 (UTC)
The Signpost: 28 December 2021
- From the editor: Here is the news
- News and notes: Jimbo's NFT, new arbs, fixing RfA, and financial statements
- Serendipity: Born three months before her brother?
- In the media: The past is not even past
- Arbitration report: A new crew for '22
- By the numbers: Four billion words and a few numbers
- Deletion report: We laughed, we cried, we closed as "no consensus"
- Gallery: Wikicommons presents: 2021
- Traffic report: Spider-Man, football and the departed
- Crossword: Another Wiki crossword for one and all
- Humour: Buying Wikipedia
Happy New Year!
Happy New Year!
User:1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk) 01:40, 1 January 2022 (UTC)
Send New Year cheer by adding {{subst:Happy New Year snowman}} to people's talk pages with a friendly message.
Administrators' newsletter – January 2022
News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2021).
- Following consensus at the 2021 RfA review, the autopatrolled user right has been removed from the administrators user group; admins can grant themselves the autopatrolled permission if they wish to remain autopatrolled.
- Additionally, consensus for proposal 6C of the 2021 RfA review has led to the creation of an administrative action review process. The purpose of this process will be to review individual administrator actions and individual actions taken by users holding advanced permissions.
- Following the 2021 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been appointed to the Arbitration Committee: Beeblebrox, Cabayi, Donald Albury, Enterprisey, Izno, Opabinia regalis, Worm That Turned, Wugapodes.
- The functionaries email list (functionaries-enlists.wikimedia.org) will no longer accept incoming emails apart from those sent by list members and WMF staff. Private concerns, apart from those requiring oversight, should be directly sent to the Arbitration Committee.
Неllo, Asartea. Thanks for your editing page. My mistake was that the changes were not justified enough. The removal of the part about Antonov's participation in the Business 100 project was due to changes on the project's website - https://business100.org/#whoweare. There is currently no member with the last name "Antonov". Thanks! Always in black (talk) 14:04, 5 January 2022 (UTC) Always in black
Welcome to the 2022 WikiCup!
Happy New Year and Happy New WikiCup! The 2022 competition has just begun and all article creators, expanders, improvers and reviewers are welcome to take part. Even if you are a novice editor you should be able to advance to at least the second round, improving your editing skills as you go. If you have already signed up, your submissions page can be found here. If you have not yet signed up, you can add your name here and the judges will set up your submissions page. Any questions on the rules or on anything else should be directed to one of the judges, or posted to the WikiCup talk page. Signups will close at the end of January, and the first round will end on 26 February; the 64 highest scorers at that time will move on to round 2. The judges for the WikiCup this year are: Sturmvogel 66 (talk · contribs · email) and Cwmhiraeth (talk · contribs · email). Good luck! MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 14:36, 5 January 2022 (UTC)
Welcome to the 2022 WikiCup!
Happy New Year and Happy New WikiCup! The 2022 competition has just begun and all article creators, expanders, improvers and reviewers are welcome to take part. Even if you are a novice editor you should be able to advance to at least the second round, improving your editing skills as you go. If you have already signed up, your submissions page can be found here. If you have not yet signed up, you can add your name here and the judges will set up your submissions page. Any questions on the rules or on anything else should be directed to one of the judges, or posted to the WikiCup talk page. Signups will close at the end of January, and the first round will end on 26 February; the 64 highest scorers at that time will move on to round 2. The judges for the WikiCup this year are: Sturmvogel 66 (talk · contribs · email) and Cwmhiraeth (talk · contribs · email). Good luck! MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 15:01, 5 January 2022 (UTC)
Tech News: 2022-02
01:22, 11 January 2022 (UTC)
Visa requirements for Serbian citizens
Hello, may i ask why did you remove flags from this wiki section ? I can remove flags from "future" section, but i think it looks much better and cleaner on "Recent" section. ~SonePFC — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sonepfc (talk • contribs) 12:45, 16 January 2022 (UTC)
- Hi @Sonepfc. I removed the images because having these kind of images in the prose of a article tends to disrupt the flow of reading and makes it harder for the reader to stay focused on the text. Because of this the Manual of Style explicitly forbids the inclusion of such images (see MOS:NOICONS). -- Asartea Talk | Contribs 14:34, 16 January 2022 (UTC)
Question from Gallodrow on User:Gallodrow/sandbox (22:36, 16 January 2022)
Hello! I was trying to learn to use div column and made a mistake. All of my references from the bottom of the article ended up in the columns and now they have disappeared completely. I don't know how to find them. I've got other problems with my divided columns.. --Gallodrow (talk) 22:36, 16 January 2022 (UTC)
- Hi @Gallodrow, am I correct in thinking your references have reappeared? Your issue with {{div col}} is that you forgot to add {{div col end}} at the end of the exhibitions section, so it continued on to the end of the page, causing the bugs you observed. Hope this helps, -- Asartea Talk | Contribs 17:05, 17 January 2022 (UTC)
Question from Geoffrey H. Sperber (11:35, 17 January 2022)
Can I enter my curriculum vitae as an entry to Wikipedia? Geoffrey H. Sperber (Redacted) --Geoffrey H. Sperber (talk) 11:35, 17 January 2022 (UTC)
- Hi @Geoffrey H. Sperber, unfortunately you cannot. Wikipedia is a encyclopedia, not an place to store your curriculum vitae. Also I would discourage you from adding your email address onwiki, as it will normally be visible to everyone forever, which may cause spam and leak your real identity. An volunteer has removed it and suppressed it from the history of this page. Hope this helps, -- Asartea Talk | Contribs 17:14, 17 January 2022 (UTC)
Speedy deletion nomination of User talk:Alexander.schliker
A tag has been placed on your user page, User talk:Alexander.schliker, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page appears to be advertising which only promotes or publicises someone or something. Promotional editing of any kind is not permitted, whether it be promotion of a person, company, product, group, service, belief, or anything else. This is a violation of our policies regarding acceptable use of user pages — user pages are intended for active editors of Wikipedia to communicate with one another as part of the process of creating encyclopedic content, and should not be mistaken for free webhosting resources or advertising space. Please read the guidelines on spam, the guidelines on user pages, and, especially, our FAQ for Organizations.
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. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator. ItcouldbepossibleTalk 06:03, 31 January 2022 (UTC)
Tech News: 2022-03
19:53, 17 January 2022 (UTC)
Tech News: 2022-04
21:36, 24 January 2022 (UTC)
The Signpost: 30 January 2022
- Special report: WikiEd course leads to Twitter harassment
- News and notes: Feedback for Board of Trustees election
- Interview: CEO Maryana Iskander "four weeks in"
- Black History Month: What are you doing for Black History Month?
- WikiProject report: The Forgotten Featured
- Arbitration report: New arbitrators look at new case and antediluvian sanctions
- Traffic report: The most viewed articles of 2021
- Obituary: Twofingered Typist
- Essay: The prime directive
- In the media: Fuzzy-headed government editing
- Recent research: Articles with higher quality ratings have fewer "knowledge gaps"
- Crossword: Cross swords with a crossword
Tech News: 2022-05
17:41, 31 January 2022 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – February 2022
News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2022).
- The Universal Code of Conduct enforcement guidelines have been published for consideration. Voting to ratify this guideline is planned to take place 7 March to 21 March. Comments can be made on the talk page.
- The user group
oversight
will be renamedsuppress
in around 3 weeks. This will not affect the name shown to users and is simply a change in the technical name of the user group. The change is being made for technical reasons. You can comment in Phabricator if you have objections. - The Reply Tool feature, which is a part of Discussion Tools, will be opt-out for everyone logged in or logged out starting 7 February 2022. Editors wishing to comment on this can do so in the relevant Village Pump discussion.
- The user group
- Community input is requested on several motions aimed at addressing discretionary sanctions that are no longer needed or overly broad.
- The Arbitration Committee has published a generalised comment regarding successful appeals of sanctions that it can review (such as checkuser blocks).
- A motion related to the Antisemitism in Poland case was passed following a declined case request.
- Voting in the 2022 Steward elections will begin on 07 February 2022, 14:00 (UTC) and end on 26 February 2022, 13:59 (UTC). The confirmation process of current stewards is being held in parallel. You can automatically check your eligibility to vote.
- Voting in the 2022 Community Wishlist Survey is open until 11 February 2022.
Question from Gene Hartley (18:06, 3 February 2022)
I wanted to make a contribution for someone (me) who has no Wikipedia page. Is that possible? --Gene Hartley (talk) 18:06, 3 February 2022 (UTC)
- @Gene Hartley Hi. Writing an article about yourself is highly discouraged by policy, and is a conflict of interest. I highly recommend you do not write a article about yourself. If you meet the notability guidelines someone will eventually create a article for you -- Asartea Talk | Contribs 18:14, 3 February 2022 (UTC)
Question from Caltonic SA (16:45, 31 January 2022)
How to create bio or article on Wikipedia --Caltonic SA (talk) 16:45, 31 January 2022 (UTC)
- Hi @Caltonic SA, sorry for taking so long to get back to you. It is highly discouraged to create a article about yourself if that is what you meant. Otherwise you can create a draft article. -- Asartea Talk | Contribs 18:16, 3 February 2022 (UTC)
Question from BBS Musika (05:35, 5 February 2022)
Good Morning.
How do i get a link to a page i edited ? --BBS Musika (talk) 05:35, 5 February 2022 (UTC)
Tech News: 2022-06
21:14, 7 February 2022 (UTC)
Tech News: 2022-07
19:17, 14 February 2022 (UTC)
Signature
Hey! I noticed that your signature is pretty much all red. Just so you know, this can be a bit confusing since links to pages/articles that haven't been created yet also have red text, so it can appear that you don't have a talk page or userpage when really you do. ― Blaze WolfTalkBlaze Wolf#6545 19:44, 15 February 2022 (UTC)
Tech News: 2022-08
19:10, 21 February 2022 (UTC)
Category:Wikipedians who use Ultraviolet has been nominated for discussion
Category:Wikipedians who use Ultraviolet 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. * Pppery * it has begun... 00:29, 24 February 2022 (UTC)
Question from Tedaxe (17:29, 25 February 2022)
Hi,I just created a page for Ted Axe that appears as Tedaxe/sandbox.How can I get it to appear simply as Ted Axe when people search for that name. --Tedaxe (talk) 17:29, 25 February 2022 (UTC)
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The Signpost: 27 February 2022
- From the team: Selection of a new Signpost Editor-in-Chief
- News and notes: Impacts of Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Special report: A presidential candidate's team takes on Wikipedia
- In the media: Wiki-drama in the UK House of Commons
- Technology report: Community Wishlist Survey results
- WikiProject report: 10 years of tea
- Featured content: Featured Content returns
- Deletion report: The 10 most SHOCKING deletion discussions of February
- Recent research: How editors and readers may be emotionally affected by disasters and terrorist attacks
- Arbitration report: Parties remonstrate, arbs contemplate, skeptics coordinate
- Gallery: The vintage exhibit
- Traffic report: Euphoria, Pamela Anderson, lies and Netflix
- News from Diff: The Wikimania 2022 Core Organizing Team
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- Humour: Notability of mailboxes
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Question from Dj Consiler (12:26, 1 March 2022)
i want to add my bio --Dj Consiler (talk) 12:26, 1 March 2022 (UTC)
- Hi @Dj Consiler. Creating a autobiography on Wikipedia is strongly discouraged. See Wikipedia's guideline on autobiographies for more info. -- Asartea Talk | Contribs 16:22, 1 March 2022 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – March 2022
News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2022).
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- A RfC is open to change the wording of revision deletion criterion 1 to remove the sentence relating to non-infringing contributions.
- A RfC is open to discuss prohibiting draftification of articles over 90 days old.
- The deployment of the reply tool as an opt-out feature, as announced in last month's newsletter, has been delayed to 7 March. Feedback and comments are being welcomed at Wikipedia talk:Talk pages project. (T296645)
- Special:Nuke will now allow the selection of standard deletion reasons to be used when mass-deleting pages. This was a Community Wishlist Survey request from 2022. (T25020)
- The ability to undelete the talk page when undeleting a page using Special:Undelete or the API will be added soon. This change was requested in the 2021 Community Wishlist Survey. (T295389)
- Several unused discretionary sanctions and article probation remedies have been rescinded. This follows the community feedback from the 2021 Discretionary Sanctions review.
- The 2022 appointees for the Ombuds commission are Érico, Faendalimas, Galahad, Infinite0694, Mykola7, Olugold, Udehb and Zabe as regular members and Ameisenigel and JJMC89 as advisory members.
- Following the 2022 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: AntiCompositeNumber, BRPever, Hasley, TheresNoTime, and Vermont.
- The 2022 Community Wishlist Survey results have been published alongside the ranking of prioritized proposals.
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.
Remember that any content promoted after the end of Round 1 but before the start of Round 2 can be claimed in Round 2. Anything that should have been claimed for in Round 1 is no longer eligible for points. Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. Remember, if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed.
Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Sturmvogel 66 (talk) and Cwmhiraeth (talk) MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 12:06, 3 March 2022 (UTC)
Question from Tombritchi (20:56, 7 February 2022)
I've been trying to create a page for myself on Wikipedia. I'm new to Wikipedia so please bear with me. Could you let me know *specifically* what I did wrong in the most recent edit which you have once again removed? I took out the link to my website from the previous submission, which I can see could be considered self-promotion. However, the rest of the article was merely a summary of my life thus far, a biography if you will. Please let me know what I need to do to have it approved and not deleted yet again. I'm also not sure how my editing is "disruptive" as you claimed in your message. I'm certainly not trying to be disruptive.