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UFC fights numeration is four off

Latest comment: 4 years ago4 comments3 people in discussion

Hi Cassiopeia, just letting you know, following UFC on ESPN+ 28 back on March 14, the numeration for UFC on ESPN+ and UFC Fight Night within Wikipedia's articles have become inconsistent with one another by a difference of four digits, which are throwing the articles off by four fights. Maybe just rid those four COVID-19-cancelled fights of their numerations while just retaining their titles, so as to correct the issue and eliminate false info. Otherwise, good job with handling MMA articles. Memorial Day cheers, --Discographer (talk) 13:23, 25 May 2020 (UTC)

List of UFC events
Date UFC on ESPN+ no. UFC Fight Night no.
January 19, 2019 UFC on ESPN+ 1 UFC Fight Night 143
February 2, 2019 UFC on ESPN+ 2 UFC Fight Night 144
February 23, 2019 UFC on ESPN+ 3 UFC Fight Night 145
March 9, 2019 UFC on ESPN+ 4 UFC Fight Night 146
March 16, 2019 UFC on ESPN+ 5 UFC Fight Night 147
March 23, 2019 UFC on ESPN+ 6 UFC Fight Night 148
April 20, 2019 UFC on ESPN+ 7 UFC Fight Night 149
April 27, 2019 UFC on ESPN+ 8 UFC Fight Night 150
May 4, 2019 UFC on ESPN+ 9 UFC Fight Night 151
May 18, 2019 UFC on ESPN+ 10 UFC Fight Night 152
June 1, 2019 UFC on ESPN+ 11 UFC Fight Night 153
June 22, 2019 UFC on ESPN+ 12 UFC Fight Night 154
July 13, 2019 UFC on ESPN+ 13 UFC Fight Night 155
August 10, 2019 UFC on ESPN+ 14 UFC Fight Night 156
August 31, 2019 UFC on ESPN+ 15 UFC Fight Night 157
September 14, 2019 UFC on ESPN+ 16 UFC Fight Night 158
September 21, 2019 UFC on ESPN+ 17 UFC Fight Night 159
September 28, 2019 UFC on ESPN+ 18 UFC Fight Night 160
October 12, 2019 UFC on ESPN+ 19 UFC Fight Night 161
October 26, 2019 UFC on ESPN+ 20 UFC Fight Night 162
November 9, 2019 UFC on ESPN+ 21 UFC Fight Night 163
November 16, 2019 UFC on ESPN+ 22 UFC Fight Night 164
December 21, 2019 UFC on ESPN+ 23 UFC Fight Night 165
January 25, 2020 UFC on ESPN+ 24 UFC Fight Night 166
February 15, 2020 UFC on ESPN+ 25 UFC Fight Night 167
February 22, 2020 UFC on ESPN+ 26 UFC Fight Night 168
February 29, 2020 UFC on ESPN+ 27 UFC Fight Night 169
March 14, 2020 UFC on ESPN+ 28 UFC Fight Night 170
May 13, 2020 UFC on ESPN+ 29 UFC Fight Night 171
June 13, 2020 UFC on ESPN+ 30 UFC Fight Night 172
June 20, 2020 UFC on ESPN+ 31 UFC Fight Night 173

@Discographer: Was aware of issue from the start. The issues were caused by the COVID-19 and this really started after UFC 249...ufc commentary just calls it ""UFC Fight Night (fighter name) vs (fightername) ......on ESPN or ESPN+" or whatever their broadcast. The numbers were deprecated. Only media calls it by number, but obviously there are inconsistent caused by COVID-19 issue. Regice2020 (talk) 21:28, 25 May 2020 (UTC)

Some are monitoring the events naming issues from UFC 249 to UFC 251. I believe after UFC 251 these issue should be stabilized with new things. Regice2020 (talk) 21:56, 25 May 2020 (UTC)
Discographer G'day. I know and I knew it would happen when covid-19 happened. We have issues where MMA editors think some of the events should be merged and some editors think otherwise and some with no much Wikipedia mma background do not understand how the events are named/page name, for reasons that they dont understand the Wikipedia guidelines, MMA naming background, and do not want to listen to advice. Thus, things can not move forward and correct the numbering problem and this lead to confusion for readers to find pages in the midst of all this mess. This sadden me as we the contributor should work together and try to understand the issue especially with experience editors and edit/expand the page instead now, so many discussions about merging and change of article names and editors revert each other edits. MMA editors have not been working together for a long time and now is getting worse. I try to sort it out as the best I can and hope editors could understand what have been established for the last 16 years and more than 500+ events in Wikipedia. I thank you for message me. Stay safe and best. Cassiopeia(talk) 09:34, 26 May 2020 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #417

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poster

Can you put the posters up for the upcoming UFC events? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:8800:5a86:8900:993c:70f8:4779:e634 (talk) 16:16, May 28, 2020 (UTC)

Advice. looking into what i can do to have a Wikipedia article semi protected from vandalism

Latest comment: 4 years ago3 comments2 people in discussion

Hello Cassiopeia Been awhile hope things have been well with you. The issue that Im writing to you about seems to be bothering quite a few editors on Wikipedia, it is in regards to vandalism of article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jorge_Masvidal . Myself and many other have tried to add his recent accolades of winning the BMF title against Nate Diaz last year ref: https://www.espn.com/mma/story/_/id/28096549/jorge-masvidal-bmf-title-win-ufc-244-espn+ . But because fans of Nate Diaz who either believe that it was not a real win (because of the TKO via cut) they have constantly changed the referenced info on his page usually with Anon accounts(Both in his intro paragraph were is stated he was the inaugural BMF Champion and in his fight record notes section where it states that he won the BMF title) whatever their reasons Jorge won the BMF title that night regardless of what the ref did. looking into it someone seems to have tried to do what Im doing already but they have not corrected top paragraph and refer to it in fight notes as symbolic ufc belt(terrible wording could even say symbolic BMF Championship if you had to put the word in there). it is a symbolic belt(like all other belts) its more like the return of the old Super fight Championship were they literally fought to see who was the baddest in the organization https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_UFC_champions#Superfight_Championship_(defunct) . i would say the BMF title should be just as regarded as other belts like grand prix/tournament belts. Don't know why it has to be down played the ufc made a big deal out of it they say its important doesn't that make it important, its a sanctioned belt its not like Saku belt from Pride fc or Stephen Thompson's Nicest Mofo title https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsEXjBDM7n8 (made by coaches or fighters) i feel like this page could be more accurately edited. any input u could give maybe helpfulTsims23 (talk) 06:09, 30 May 2020 (UTC)

Tsims23 G'day. See Talk:List of UFC champions, Talk:Nate Diaz message title "BMF title" and Talk:Jorge Masvidal outcmome. Stay safe and best. Cassiopeia(talk) 05:17, 31 May 2020 (UTC)
Cassiopeia thank you I will check it out. You stay safe aswell Tsims23 (talk) 05:55, 31 May 2020 (UTC)

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22:31, 1 June 2020 (UTC)

Latest comment: 4 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Hi, Cassiopeia as per information at WP:AFC/RBS, I would like to draw your attention to Draft:Anissa Haddaoui and Draft:Anke Van Gestel which you might be interested to review. Thank you. ~ Amkgp ✉ 07:45, 3 June 2020 (UTC)

WP:DTR

Latest comment: 4 years ago2 comments2 people in discussion

The comment could have sufficed. Didn't need the lazy, generic template. GhostOfDanGurney (talk) 13:21, 4 June 2020 (UTC)

GhostOfDanGurney Good day. I placed both template and comment, dont see how that would considered lazy. Stay safe and best. Cassiopeia(talk) 09:40, 5 June 2020 (UTC)

Chronological order of UFC events

Latest comment: 4 years ago10 comments2 people in discussion

Just in case anyone else makes any more mistakes, here is how the upcoming UFC events should look chronologically:

Upcoming events

Event Date Venue City Country Status Ref.
UFC 250: Nunes vs. Spencer June 6, 2020 UFC APEX Las Vegas, Nevada United States Planned [1]
UFC Fight Night: Eye vs. Calvillo – UFC Fight Night 172 June 13, 2020 UFC APEX Las Vegas, Nevada United States Planned [2]
UFC Fight Night: Blaydes vs. Volkov – UFC Fight Night 173 June 20, 2020 UFC APEX Las Vegas, Nevada United States Planned [3]
UFC on ESPN 10 June 27, 2020 TBD TBD TBD Planned [4]
UFC 251 July 11, 2020 TBD TBD TBD Planned [5]
UFC Fight Night 174 July 18, 2020 TBD TBD TBD Planned [6]
UFC Fight Night August 15, 2020 3Arena Dublin Ireland Postponed [7]

The following events should not exist yet, or at all for that matter:

References

  1. ^ Steven Marrocco (2020-05-27). "NSAC approves UFC 250 for UFC APEX, approves new COVID-19 protocols". mmafighting.com. Retrieved 2020-05-28.
  2. ^ "UFC Fight Night: Eye vs. Calvillo, June 14, 2020, UFC APEX, Las Vegas, NV". ESPN. 2020-06-02. Retrieved 2020-06-02.
  3. ^ "UFC Fight Night: Blaydes vs. Volkov, June 21, 2020, UFC APEX, Las Vegas, NV". ESPN. 2020-06-02. Retrieved 2020-06-02.
  4. ^ Lee, Alexander K. (2020-05-21). "UFC announces cancellation of Saskatoon, Austin events". MMA Fighting. Retrieved 2020-05-25.
  5. ^ DNA, MMA. "Shamil Abdurakhimov vs. Ciryl Gane tijdens UFC 251's IFW week evenement". Retrieved 2020-05-14.
  6. ^ DNA, MMA. "Figueiredo vs. Benavidez 2 voor vacante titel + Pantoja vs. Askarov, waarschijnlijk "Fight Island"". Retrieved 2020-05-25.
  7. ^ "UFC 249 off for April 18; all other events ppd". ESPN.com. 2020-04-09. Retrieved 2020-04-10.

Hopefully, this helps clear things up for you guys. Good luck! — 29cwcst (talk) 00:35, 6 June 2020 (UTC)

29cwcst Greetings. Thank you for the info above, I will try to do my best to get things settle and believe I want the same as you do to get all the event names and info right; however, at the mean time I need you to remove the merge tag - see Talk:UFC Fight Night 174 so I could do what is needed. Stay safe and thank you very much. Cassiopeia(talk) 04:57, 6 June 2020 (UTC)
@Cassiopeia:   Done. Likewise, keep well and all the best. — 29cwcst (talk) 05:50, 6 June 2020 (UTC)
29cwcst Thank you very much, give me a few days to get things done as the best I can. Stay safe. Cassiopeia(talk) 05:53, 6 June 2020 (UTC)
@Cassiopeia: Sure thing. As with UFC 249 though, I would strongly consider merging together UFC Fight Night: Smith vs. Teixeira and Cancelled UFC event on April 25, 2020 as well. — 29cwcst (talk) 23:15, 6 June 2020 (UTC)
29cwcst I am trying to get another editor to move all the merge request to WikiProject MMA talk page so the numbering can be restored and merge issues can be addressed separately, however, I have not heard from the editor yet. Best. Cassiopeia(talk) 01:09, 8 June 2020 (UTC)
@Cassiopeia: Please excuse what I'm going to do, but I'm going to shift the UFC Fight Night 174, UFC Fight Night 175, UFN 176, UFC Fight Night 177 and UFC Fight Night 178 articles around as per the current scheduled events list featured on the 2020 in UFC page. This should help clear things up for you a bit. — 29cwcst (talk) 23:55, 9 June 2020 (UTC)
29cwcst I have reverted your edits. Pls read the consensus agreement on UFC event namings - Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Mixed martial arts titled - UFC Fight Night articles. Pls do not do it again. Thank you. Cassiopeia(talk) 11:13, 10 June 2020 (UTC)
@Cassiopeia: Very well. I tried saving you time ahead of time, but I was obviously just wasting mine in the process. As it turns out, everything requires a consensus here. Godspeed because I'm leaving it all to you now. — 29cwcst (talk) 01:00, 11 June 2020 (UTC)
29cwcst, the was a new development. I included you on the ping on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Mixed martial arts message titled - UFC on ESPN 10 → UFC on ESPN: Eye vs. Calvillo - go ahead and do as what was proposed. Sorry about the inconvenience and thank you for helping out. Stay safe and best. Cassiopeia(talk) 10:39, 11 June 2020 (UTC)

CVU training request

Latest comment: 4 years ago8 comments2 people in discussion

Hello Cassiopeia, can you start a Counter Vandalism Unit training for me? I am going to be doing long term counter vandalism. Thanks, RedRiver660 (talk) 03:52, 6 June 2020 (UTC)


Hi RedRiver660, Good day. Please read Counter-Vandalism training and if you still want to participate the CVUA program, then let me know so I may set up the program for you. Stay safe and best. Cassiopeia(talk) 00:09, 8 June 2020 (UTC)
I have read the section and I definitely still want to do the CVUA program. RedRiver660 (talk) 00:20, 8 June 2020 (UTC)
RedRiver660, Pls note that you need to know how to provide hist diff when answering the assignments' questions thus pls read Wikipedia:Simplest diff guide or Wikipedia:Complete diff and link guide if you yet to familiar to know how to provide hist diff. Secondly, since you are a new editor, pls complete Wikipedia Adventure so you may understand some basic Wikipedia guidelines which is very important. Lastly, pls note do NOT revert more than 3 times on the same article withing 24 hours time frame unless the edits are "blatantly vandalism edits" for you will be blocked/banned from editing. (this is very important -if you are not sure, leave the edit as it is). Once you have finished Wikipedia Adventure program (maybe it will take you 30-45 mins to finish the program), pop back here and I will set up the program for you. Do remember the CUVA motto is Civility – Maturity – Responsibility. Stay safe and best. Cassiopeia(talk) 00:55, 8 June 2020 (UTC)
I have read Wikipedia:Simplest diff guide and I understand Wikipedia policy on 3RR. (I have spent several hours reading Wikipedia policy pages.) However, when I tried using WP:TWA, it wasn't working and kept asking me to provide an edit summary (when I did). I am going to try again and hopefully it works this time. — Preceding unsigned comment added by RedRiver660 (talk • contribs) 01:20, 8 June 2020 (UTC)
RedRiver660 It should work. Just read / answer and follow the instructions. Btw Please remember to sign your posts on talk pages by typing four tildes (~~~~).. best. Cassiopeia(talk) 01:27, 8 June 2020 (UTC)
I finished. I learned some new skills as well! RedRiver660 (talk) 01:51, 8 June 2020 (UTC)
RedRiver660 I have set up the program for you. Ping me when you have finished assignment 1. Pls provide "all" hist diffs when you revert an edit, provide info of any examples, reports, result of the reports and etc. Welcome to CUVA. Stay safe and best. Cassiopeia(talk) 02:47, 8 June 2020 (UTC)

Fighter profile

Latest comment: 4 years ago11 comments2 people in discussion
Hello Cassiopeia sorry for getting back to you late I've been busy as of late getting back to work and such. I'm sorry I posted that on there without reading the full thing I understand that you guys came to a fair decision once I took the time to read it I was busy at the time but I should have read it. Anyways I message you about a different matter I have a question in terms of what we consider top tier promotions on Wikipedia from what I understand Bellator used to be but is not currently but what if someone fought at Bellator during the years of 2012 to 2014? Would that be considered fighting for major promotion. I'm just wondering as many bellator fighters(fighters that have never fought in ufc, pride etc. Have pages) it's not for one of the previous ones it's a new person I'm looking at putting on thereTsims23 (talk) 16:55, 7 June 2020 (UTC)
The fighter I'm talking about has 2 fights in bellator (during the years of 2009-2015 when I was listed as top tier) and they also had 2 in the UFC thought I'd see what others think before I do too much Tsims23 (talk) 04:48, 8 June 2020 (UTC)
Tsims23 Hi Pls provide the fighters' names pls. Thank you. Cassiopeia(talk) 04:52, 8 June 2020 (UTC)
Kyle prepolec he had 2 in bellator at bellator 64 and bellator 76 in 2012(when promotion was still considered top tier by wikipedia standards) and also had 2 showings in the UFC. UFC on ESPN 9 came in on short notice in a weight class above his did quite well even though he lost against another Canadian(not relevant to discussion just wanted to say that) and UFC on ESPN 16. For 4 fights in major promotions. He did have another fight scheduled but suffered an MCL tear I believe so he was sitting around for a while they actually earlier this year for many possible reasons his performances weren't wins but were enough to get another fight in the talks inactivity due to injury may be one or they are saying some of these fighters that were released were done so because of Visa issues or because they may be didn't want to cover them during the pandemic I'm not going to assume any of that but all I know is that he promised that he will try his best to get back in there so if I can't make it now I'll have time to make it in the future when he makes it back to the UFC. Let me know if so I will get to work Tsims23 (talk) 23:12, 8 June 2020 (UTC)
They actually released* himTsims23 (talk) 23:17, 8 June 2020 (UTC)
Tsims23 Morning, Kyle Prepolec had 2 fights in UFC and 2 in Bellator during the time Bellator was in the top tier promotion - see HERE. He is notable to have a page in Wikipedia maispace as per WP:MMATIER. You can write the article and when and make sure all the UFC and Bellator fights are supported by secondary sources (newspaper or MMA sites but not tapology or sherdog databases). Let me know when you finsihed and I will review for you. Stay safe and best. Cassiopeia(talk) 00:27, 9 June 2020 (UTC)
Ok I asumed just wanted to confirm !! Thank you Cassiopeia I shall get to work and provide proper sources!!!Tsims23 (talk) 00:47, 9 June 2020 (UTC)
Tsims23 OK, thanks advance for your contribution. cheers. Cassiopeia(talk) 00:56, 9 June 2020 (UTC)
Thank you for you advice as always. Stay safeTsims23 (talk) 04:33, 9 June 2020 (UTC)
Tsims23 Review   Done. Thank you for your contribution. Cassiopeia(talk) 09:04, 10 June 2020 (UTC)
Cassiopeia thank you very much and always happy to help. Until we speak again. Stay safeTsims23 (talk) 22:10, 10 June 2020 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #419

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Cancelled UFC event on March 25, 2020

Latest comment: 4 years ago4 comments2 people in discussion

Hey, how are you? I noticed you moved the UFC Fight Night 176 content to Cancelled UFC event on March 25, 2020, but there was never an event in that date. Can you ask for deletion? Gsfelipe94 (talk) 19:29, 8 June 2020 (UTC)

Gsfelipe94 I am well and safe in AUS. We are doing very well against c-19 and we are being isolated from the world (no in or out travelling) maybe for next 12 months or more. Believe you are all well in BR as I understand c-19 cases are very high in your homeland, regretfully to know that. I re-read the bodytext and changed the name to May 30 Cancelled UFC event on May 30, 2020 instead.
We can't nominate the page for deletion via PROP, CSD, AfD or TfD for the page doesnt not meet the criteria since it is well-sourced and considered notable as per original content. We can either redirect or merge the page to another page. As long as we get the event numbering sorted out, we can let the merge discussion takes its place as normal. Stay safe Felipe and best. Cassiopeia(talk) 00:54, 9 June 2020 (UTC)
Glad to hear your ok as well. Yeah, but there was no event cancelled on May 30 whatsoever. We could've kept the original article as a redirect for List of UFC Events until it was confirmed. Perhaps merge it with UFC on ESPN: Woodley vs. Burns. Gsfelipe94 (talk) 01:35, 9 June 2020 (UTC)
Gsfelipe94, There is already a merge request on the page to UFC on ESPN: Woodley vs. Burns 28 May 2020,- see Merger discussion. Actually there are at about 4 merge requests going on at the moment by several editors - see Articles to be merged. We just need to get the UFC Fight Night article name released so the event name would be sorted out. Cheers. Cassiopeia(talk) 02:04, 9 June 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-24

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21:11, 8 June 2020 (UTC)

Request

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I want to join counter-vandalism academy as a student Tbiw (talk) 10:58, 9 June 2020 (UTC)

Hi Tbiw, Good day. Please read Counter-Vandalism training and if you still want to participate the CVUA program, then let me know so I may set up the program for you. Stay safe and best. Cassiopeia(talk) 10:43, 11 June 2020 (UTC)
Yes still interested sir. I have gone through it. Tbiw (talk) 17:17, 11 June 2020 (UTC)
Hi Tbiw,Pls note that you need to know how to provide hist diff when answering the assignments' questions thus pls read Wikipedia:Simplest diff guide or Wikipedia:Complete diff and link guide if you yet to familiar to know how to provide hist diff. Secondly, since you are a new editor, pls complete Wikipedia Adventure so you may understand some basic Wikipedia guidelines which is very important. Lastly, pls note do NOT revert more than 3 times on the same article withing 24 hours time frame unless the edits are "blatantly vandalism edits" for you will be blocked/banned from editing. (this is very important -if you are not sure, leave the edit as it is). Once you have finished Wikipedia Adventure program (maybe it will take you 30-45 mins to finish the program), pop back here and I will set up the program for you. Do remember the CUVA motto is Civility – Maturity – Responsibility. Stay safe and best. Cassiopeia(talk) 08:58, 12 June 2020 (UTC)
Sir I am not using computer I am using phone.Tbiw (talk) 14:18, 12 June 2020 (UTC)
Hi Tbiw, It would be hard for you to do vandalism revert as we need to use WP:Twinkle if you just using phone alone. Cassiopeia(talk) 05:02, 13 June 2020 (UTC)
Will you set up the program for me.Tbiw (talk) 10:54, 13 June 2020 (UTC)
Hi Tbiw, You have not gone through the Wikipedia Adventure as requested and if you use phone to do counter vandalism it would be very hard for you for your need Twinkle. Thank you. Cassiopeia(talk) 11:12, 13 June 2020 (UTC)
Wikipedia adventure is not for those using phone and if am not qualify due i only use phone than let me use twinkle still anti-vandalism.Tbiw (talk) 11:15, 13 June 2020 (UTC)
Hi Tbiw To learn CVUA you need to know the fundamental guidelines of Wikipedia, using Twinkle to revert, and etc which would be hard without know or using the tool. When you have a computer to edit, then drop back here. Thank you. Cassiopeia(talk) 11:24, 13 June 2020 (UTC)

Okay bye see you later.Tbiw (talk) 20:08, 13 June 2020 (UTC)

Ultimate Fighting Championship

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your edit of 09:41, 24 May 2019 of Ultimate Fighting Championship introduced this reference markup:

{{Cite journal|date=2015-06-30|url=http://dx.doi.org/10.20513/2447-6595.2015v55n1|journal=Revista de Medicina da UFC|volume=55|issue=1|doi=10.20513/2447-6595.2015v55n1|issn=2447-6595}}
Revista de Medicina da UFC. 55 (1). 2015-06-30. doi:10.20513/2447-6595.2015v55n1. ISSN 2447-6595 http://dx.doi.org/10.20513/2447-6595.2015v55n1. {{cite journal}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)

This results in a red Missing or empty |title= error, and the doi link goes to an entire issue of a journal, rather than the specific article. This reference should name the specific article that supports the material just before it. —Anomalocaris (talk) 02:27, 10 June 2020 (UTC)

Top Tier Organizations

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So I posted in the talk page and no one has replied at all. In regards to the unanimous decision, who's exactly opinion are we waiting for and how long do you have to wait for responses HeinzMaster (talk) 20:55, 10 June 2020 (UTC)

HeinzMaster Pls see [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Mixed_martial_arts/MMA_notability/Archive_10 ] message titled "Proposal: promote Bellator MMA as the top tier promoter for male and female categories". Stay safe and thank you. Cassiopeia(talk) 10:48, 11 June 2020 (UTC)


Fight Island

Latest comment: 4 years ago3 comments2 people in discussion

FIGHT ISLAND IS NOT A ARENA FOR UFC 251 EVENT.— Preceding unsigned comment added by Kent Bargo (talk • contribs) 07:27, June 12, 2020 (UTC)

Kent Bargo, Greetings. I didnt revert you edit. Please remember to sign your posts on talk pages by typing four tildes (~~~~).. Stay safe and best. Cassiopeia(talk) 09:13, 12 June 2020 (UTC)
DO YOU EVEN KNOW WHAT THE ARENA CALLED? WhY THEY KEEP ADDING FIGHT ISLAND? Kent Bargo (talk) 17:48, 13 June 2020 (UTC)
Kent Bargo, Good day. I doubt it was your intention but, pls note that the normal internet communication for all high cap means "yelling/screaming". If you look at the UFC event page, UFC always lists the venues, cities and countries for all the events - example see - here. For UFC 251 UFC listed "UFC Fight Island" is the venue - see here. Thank you. Cassiopeia(talk) 03:25, 20 June 2020 (UTC)

Update: UFC page numberings / event names

Latest comment: 4 years ago8 comments2 people in discussion

@Ppt1973, Gsfelipe94, PabloLikesToWrestle, Discographer, 29cwcst, Powderkegg, and Roberthealien: - All UFC fight event names and numberings are sorted as per this version (up to UFC Fight Night 175. All fighters pages, redirect List of current UFC fighters and 2020 in UFC are updated as per the UFC page numbering/event names. No page named UFC Fight Night 176 and UFC Fight Night 177 at the moment and UFC Fight Night 178 is redirect to List of UFC events. See below summary. Have requested an uninvolved editor to close the merge UFC event page requests and hope they would be done in next few days.

Scheduled events

Event / Page Name Date Venue Location redirect: UFC on ESPN+ xx /
UFC on ESPN /
PPV
UFC 252: Miocic vs. Cormier 3 Aug 15, 2020 TBD TBD PPV event
UFC Fight Night 175 Aug 1, 2020 TBD Las Vegas, United States UFC on ESPN+ 33
UFC Fight Night 174 July 25, 2020 Yas Island Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates UFC on ESPN+ 32
UFC Fight Night 173 July 18, 2020 Yas Island Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates UFC on ESPN+ 31
UFC Fight Night 172 July 15, 2020 Yas Island Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates UFC on ESPN+ 30
UFC 251: Usman vs. Burns July 11, 2020 Yas Island Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates PPV event
UFC on ESPN: Poirier vs. Hooker Jun 27, 2020 UFC APEX Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S. UFC on ESPN 12
UFC on ESPN: Blaydes vs. Volkov Jun 20, 2020 UFC APEX Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S. UFC on ESPN 11
UFC on ESPN: Eye vs. Calvillo Jun 13, 2020 UFC APEX Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S. UFC on ESPN 10


Stay safe everyone and best. Cassiopeia(talk) 10:02, 13 June 2020 (UTC)

@Cassiopeia: Thanks very much, you've done well. Please consider doing the following though:

Give it some thought! — 29cwcst (talk) 04:10, 14 June 2020 (UTC)

29cwcs UFN 176 and UFC Fight Night 178 have redirect to List of UFC events and when UFC Fight Night 176 is created then UFN 176 will be redirect to UFC Fight Night 176. All the merge proposed was majority oppose and closed. So all is settle now. stay safe and thank you. Cassiopeia(talk) 10:13, 15 June 2020 (UTC)
@Cassiopeia: That's good to hear. Why was the cancelled event on April 25, 2020 not merged with UFC Fight Night: Smith vs. Teixeira though? They essentially merged the old UFC 249 event on April 18, 2020 with the new one on May 9, so that doesn't make sense to me. Neither does the fact that cancelled events for April 9, 2020 and May 30, 2020 actually have their own articles. No event was ever planned for April 9 and UFC on ESPN: Woodley vs. Burns went down on May 30 so, ultimately, an event did in fact take place on the latter date. Seriously, what is going on here? — 29cwcst (talk) 01:45, 16 June 2020 (UTC)
@Cassiopeia: I have moved UFN 171, UFN 172, UFN 173, UFN 176 and UFC Fight Night 178 to UFC on ESPN+ 34, UFC on ESPN+ 35, UFC on ESPN+ 36, UFC on ESPN+ 37 and UFC on ESPN+ 38 respectively. For the time being at least, they're all redirects to the List of UFC events page. They're also in a cleaner order that retains better chronological and historical consistency. — 29cwcst (talk) 02:30, 16 June 2020 (UTC)
29cwcst, I have redo some of your redirect as they are incorrect. The merge requests have all been closed and all of them close and we need to go by the closing decision since they were closed as majority oppose. All the mess is now corrected which took a lot of efforts and time and now the pages are in stable status. Stay safe and best. Cassiopeia(talk) 08:46, 16 June 2020 (UTC)
@Cassiopeia: Of course you have, because all that collaborating simply wasn't enough. When you're not conferring with other users, you're reverting my edits. Until you want to start conferring with me on my talk page again, this is the last time I'll be trying to help you out. I'm moving UFN 176 to UFC Fight Night 176 and UFC Fight Night 178 to UFC Fight Night 177 because those redirects should currently exist instead. Ahead of UFC Fight Night 178, why are UFC Fight Night 176 and UFC Fight Night 177 not redirects? How does what you've been working on make sense? I expect you to revert these redirects as well, so I'll finish off by asking two final questions. Be bold? Seriously, how can I possibly do that here? — 29cwcst | 00:50, 17 June 2020 (UTC)
29cwcst It is up to users if they want to participate in the discussion. Many mma editors would update the fight results but most of the dont like to invovle in discussions either in talk page or in WikiProject MMA. UFC Fight Night 176 is in mainspace now and UFN 176 is redirect to the page. stay safe and best. Cassiopeia(talk) 12:52, 17 June 2020 (UTC)

Deleting drafts

Latest comment: 4 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Hey what's up? Sorry 4 bothering but I thought maybe u could tell me how to delete drafts. I have a lot of drafts that are projects I will never submit, others that I've already submitted and the ones that I'm working on. I'd like to delete the ones I won't submit such as Draft:Pat Downey (wrestler) and the ones that have already been moved such as Draft:Nick Piccininni. Any suggestions? Thank u— Preceding unsigned comment added by PabloLikesToWrestle (talk • contribs) 06:12, June 15, 2020 (UTC)

PabloLikesToWrestle Good day. You are ot bothering me as I am here to help an editor who seek assistance in Wikipedia. If you are the creator of the page, you would (1) black the content and place Template:Db-g7 (pls read the page for instruction on how to place G7) on the page and (2) place "creator requests to delete the page" on the edit summary prior save your edit. The page will be delete on the same day. If you have problem to place G7 then let me know here and I will do it for you (in other words I need your permission / request for me to do it for you). Let me know if anything else I could help. Stay safe and best. Cassiopeia(talk) 10:34, 15 June 2020 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #420

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Tool of the week
    • Mix'n'match lets you match lists of external identifiers to Wikidata items, or create new items if necessary. Thousands of catalogs already exist, in dozens of different topic areas, and it's easy to import new ones.
  • Development
    • Collecting a lot of feedback and doing research around how to improve our APIs to start making it easier to access Wikidata's data for programmers
    • Finalized the initial feature list for the query builder and working on designs and prototypes for testing
    • Doing user research on the Merge gadget to prepare for making it part of the proper code-base so that other Wikibase instances also benefit from easier merging
    • Federated Properties: continued working on the first version of Federation that will make it possible to use Wikidata's Properties in another Wikibase installation
    • Start of a new project (Wikibase Decoupling & Extension Registration) in order to clean up our codebase a bit and make it easier to extend with new features in the future
    • More work on the design system to have a set of unified components for Wikidata that will make it easier to develop new features in the future because we don't have to rewrite components that are used in a lot of places
    • Some MediaWiki skin changes meant broken edit links on Wikipedia and co. Fixed now. (phabricator:T252800)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

Any space for another student?

Latest comment: 4 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Hello, I'm interested in starting out here. Any spaces available? Thanks Alevaten (talk)

Alevaten Greetings. I am not sure which program you are after as I am one of the trainer for CUVA and NPPSCHOOL. Since you have only 4 edits and none of them is on main space, you dont meet the requirement for either program for this state. I do suggest you to take up WP:ADVENTURE program which you would gain knowledge on the Wikipedia basic guidelines. Stay safe and best. Cassiopeia(talk) 08:40, 16 June 2020 (UTC)

Editing news 2020 #2 – Quick updates

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This edition of the Editing newsletter includes information the Wikipedia:Talk pages project, an effort to help contributors communicate on wiki more easily. The central project page is on MediaWiki.org.

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Tech News: 2020-25

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

  •   Toolforge hosts several tools created by the Wikimedia community like edit counters or enhanced editors. It is changing the domain from tools.wmflabs.org to toolforge.org. The routing scheme is moving from tools.wmflabs.org/toolname to toolname.toolforge.org. You can read the details. Tools that use OAuth will have to be updated to keep working. You can ask for help.

Problems

  • There is a Wikidata item link in the sidebar on many pages. This disappeared for a couple of days for users who have the Monobook skin. This was because of a bug. It has now been fixed. [13]
  • Editing, logging in and logging out didn't work properly for a short period of time last week. It was soon fixed. [14]

Changes later this week

  •   The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 June. It will be on all wikis from 18 June (calendar).

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CVUA request

Latest comment: 4 years ago4 comments2 people in discussion

Hello, Cassiopeia! I'm interested in joining the CVUA as your student! I should have sufficient contributions, and I've been using Twinkle for a bit, but I'd like to gain experience with other tools in the world of counter-vandalism. I'm in EDT, so coordinating things might pose a challenge, but I'm flexible and either way I should be able to respond during the day over here. Thanks, Pupsterlove02 talk • contribs 13:40, 16 June 2020 (UTC)

Pupsterlove02 Good day. Please read Counter-Vandalism training and if you still want to participate the CVUA program, then let me know so I may set up the program for you. Stay safe and best. Cassiopeia(talk) 12:56, 17 June 2020 (UTC)
I have read through the syllabus and goals you linked to, and I would still like to take the program. Thank you for your consideration! Pupsterlove02 talk • contribs 14:22, 17 June 2020 (UTC)
Pupsterlove02 Pls note that you need to know how to provide hist diff when answering the assignments' questions thus pls read Wikipedia:Simplest diff guide or Wikipedia:Complete diff and link guide if you yet to familiar to know how to provide hist diff. Secondly, pls note do NOT revert more than 3 times on the same article withing 24 hours time frame unless the edits are "blatantly vandalism edits" for you will be blocked/banned from editing. (this is very important -if you are not sure, leave the edit as it is). Lastly, I have set up the program for you. Ping me when you have finished assignment 1. Pls provide "all" hist diffs when you revert an edit, provide info of any examples, reports, result of the reports and etc. Welcome to CUVA. Stay safe and best. Cassiopeia(talk) 10:02, 18 June 2020 (UTC)

New Page Reviewer newsletter June 2020

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Hello Cassiopeia,

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