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Wikidata weekly summary #298

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Discussions
  • AICAT grants proposal
  • ScienceSource grants renewal
  • Open request for adminship: Kostas20142

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • From the life of Wikidata: with the Wikidata Concepts Monitor we can now begin to discover how our communities use knowledge across the Wikimedia projects, by Goran S. Milovanović
  • See also: WDCM Journal, several examples of the use of Wikidata on the Wikimedia projects
  • What GLAM can teach us about multimedia metadata on Wikimedia Commons, by Jonathan Morgan and Sandra Fauconnier
  • Wikidata and the German handball player nicknames by k-nut

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • We are saddened to report that Polish Wikimedian Krzysztof Machocki (who was also active on Wikidata) died on 31 January 2018, aged 36, after a couple of weeks of illness. Our condolences to his family and friends.
  • Notes of the IRC office hour of January 30th
  • The call for submissions for Wikimania (Cape Town, July 2018) is now open. Deadline is March 18th. Ideas of submissions related to Wikidata can be discussed here
  • Based on community discussions, the ArticlePlaceholder will soon be deployed on Urdu and Estonian Wikipedias.
  • Statistics
    • January 2018 brought us 9,770,248 edits, 445,027 new items were created.
    • The number of users that edited Wikidata per day grew in 2017 from 2439 to 2672 users, 9,6% more compared to 2016. The number of edits by them grew with 18% to 190k edits per day. We also get edited by 542 IP adresses per day, 50% more than in 2016.
    • In 2017, Wikidata got edited by 46 various bots per day, executing 334k edits per day (63% more than in 2016). The most active bot in 2017 was Emijrpbot, who added 18 million edits to Wikidata.
    • 284 million statements now contain references, compared to 67 million at the start of 2017. The average number of statements per item grew from 5 to almost 9. 73 million qualifiers are now used to provide more details for statements, 13 million in early 2017.
  • New tool based on Wikidata: Random TV episodes

• Did you know?
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    • General datatypes: uses data storage type, commanded by, dam
    • External identifiers: Who's Who UK ID, Basketball-Reference.com euro player ID
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    • Members of the current UK Parliament who have ancestors in Wikidata who are identified as possibly mythical (source)
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    • List of tram lines in Vienna (source)
    • Adjacent districts in Vienna that have no tram line connecting them (source)
    • Places of birth, death and burial of the artists hosted in the Sweden’s museum of art and design (source)
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• Development
  • Diffs now show the entity ID in the page title (phab:T181077)
  • Improved handling of translations in the Query Service UI (gerrit:406301, gerrit:406996), thanks to Li Song
  • Continued working on diffs for forms on Lexemes (eg. phab:T186317)
  • Added summaries for edits on representations or grammatical features of a form (phab:T184702)
  • Worked on showing links to Lexemes and statements (phab:T185332)
  • Rolling out fine grain usage tracking on more wikis, so only relevant changes are shown in the watchlist and recent changes (phab:T185032)
  • Improved scalability of fine grain usage tracking (phab:T185693)

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Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 15:14, 5 February 2018 (UTC)

Herodotus Machine

I edited the Herodotus Machine article and my edits do not show up. Is there a lag time, or have I been reverted? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Keith Jenkins (talk • contribs) 12:47, 6 February 2018 (UTC)

@Keith Jenkins: No time lag, I did revert you, leaving an edit summary which you can see in the history.[1] Sorry for the typing, my keyboard died. Using a cheap replacement until my replacement ergonomic one arrives tomorrow. Only if it was discussed by several sources meeting WP:RS would we mention a patent. If you want more help, try the WP:TEAHOUSE Doug Weller talk 14:36, 6 February 2018 (UTC)

Why are you only going after me for edit warring?

User 39.57.145.242 was also involved with this dispute yet I didn't see any warning on his talk page like I saw on mine. I feel like you're unfairly singling me out on this. I was reverting his edit back to the original because I felt it was a more appropriate title as the subsection didn't focus on the IVC only and talked about the neolithic cultures preceding it and the culture succeeding it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 73.15.114.246 (talk) 07:21, 7 February 2018 (UTC)

You get the warning when you revert 3 times in 24 hours. You did, the other Ip didn't. Doug Weller talk 07:26, 7 February 2018 (UTC)

Please comment on Wikipedia talk:Notability (events)

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________________

list of Goans

To, Doug Weller,

Dear Sir,

IronGargoyle (talk) IronGargoyle is deleting inthis section I showed the rule now IronGargoyle is missing ....

Hello IronGargoyle Kindly undo what you deleted on List of Goans please thank you they are both activists in their own right IronGargoyle if you want further info on them I will give just ask. here There are some common exceptions to the typical notability requirement:

If the person is famous for a specific event, the notability requirement need not be met. If a person in a list does not have a Wikipedia article about them, a citation (or link to another article) must be provided to: a) establish their membership in the list's group; and b) to establish their notability on either BLP1E or BIO1E. Decan.reporter (talk) 15:12, 8 February 2018 (UTC)

---

You can request an article at

Regarding this new article. and thanks for your guidance, as I told you I have got press cutting copies from times of India which are not on internet... so how to use them in this article Thanks for your time Decan.reporter.

Wikipedia:Requested articles. I can't really help with images. And do remember, everything needs to have reliable published sources, our own experience or knowledge can't be used. Doug Weller talk 17:34, 16 January 2018 (UTC) Decan.reporter (talk) 15:23, 8 February 2018 (UTC)

The Banner

To Doug Weller Dear Sir, this user by name The Banner is undoing all my edits and pics..... jealousy? how much one can be harassed here ??? The Banner talk 16:25, 7 February 2018 (UTC) Decan.reporter (talk) 19:19, 8 February 2018 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #299

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Upcoming: Monthly Wikidata workshop in Paris, February 16th
  • Upcoming: Wikimedia Community User Group Brasil promotes the 4th Wikdata Lab: How to add a lot of data, 22th February 2018
  • Upcoming: #datatónCervantes, Wikidata workshop in Madrid, February 24th
  • Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in Lausanne, February 24th
  • Discovering Types for Entity Disambiguation, on OpenAI blog
  • The File (Dis)connect, by Magnus Manske
  • WDCM Journal: What is Love (Q316)? Accessing Wikidata P279 and P31 paths from WDCM by Goran Milovanović

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • IRC office hour for Structured Data on Commons on Tuesday, 13 February from 18:00-19:00 UTC. More information available on Meta.
  • mySociety is looking for a vacancy for a WikiData-experienced Community Manager for their Democratic Commons project
  • The next Weekly Summary (February 19th) will be the 300th edition of the newsletter! To help making it special, you can share your favorite Wikidata tool, so the other readers discover nice tools

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    • Biologists with Twitter accounts (source)
    • Feed readers by license and operating system (source)
    • List of female UK MPs who were descended from UK MPs (source)

• Development
  • Make grammatical forms persistent (phab:T173742)
  • Improve the edit summary of Forms (phab:T184702)
  • Handle adding and/or removing forms in lexeme diffs (phab:T186317)
  • Improve formatting of the Lexemes(phab:T185332)
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Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 15:39, 12 February 2018 (UTC)

Advice

Greetings! There is some uncertainty here about how the WP:NPOV/WP:UNDUE policies work with regard to ethnic groups. As an experienced moderator, could you please explain this on the talkpage? In particular, what exactly those policies mean by "significant viewpoints that have been published by reliable sources"? Kind Regards-- Soupforone (talk) 16:58, 12 February 2018 (UTC)

Druckmashine

Hello Doug Weller. You've reverted user Druckmashine on an article[2]. After this, an user has created an article with exactly the same content you reverted[3]. Also see this ip edit[4]. Probably they are socks of the same ip user banned by Ymblanter. 99.227.27.84 (talk) 23:01, 12 February 2018 (UTC)

Please comment on Wikipedia talk:Did you know

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Qanon740

Pssst --NeilN ^{talk to me} 16:08, 13 February 2018 (UTC)

Thanks to you Arbcom members insisting an editor has to know what "the rules" are before being blocked (what a concept :-)), I have this page bookmarked. --NeilN ^{talk to me} 16:35, 13 February 2018 (UTC)

@NielN: So do I. But I thought that my laptop didn't. I was wrong. What I hate is the consensus required, which means any flake/racist can come along, revert and then unless we can see a consensus on the talk page we have to argue it. Doug Weller talk 16:47, 13 February 2018 (UTC)

The "consensus required" clause is by admin discretion so I don't use it much when applying restrictions. Unfortunately, per policy, another admin can come along and "strengthen" the restrictions without needing to consult me. But flakes/racists do not have a free hand the way I see it. If the material is longstanding (and the definition of longstanding can vary) then the revert needs consensus, not the presence of the material. --NeilN ^{talk to me} 17:06, 13 February 2018 (UTC)

I'd prefer to get rid of it. I have seen talk pages with actual lists of consensus statements. I think these were done by Coffee Doug Weller talk 17:08, 13 February 2018 (UTC)

I've been threatened with an Arbcom case if I moved to reduce restrictions so not my call :-) --NeilN ^{talk to me} 17:12, 13 February 2018 (UTC)

• (talk page stalker)If the material is longstanding (and the definition of longstanding can vary) then the revert needs consensus, not the presence of the material. I've seen this play out exactly that way at least a few times in Trump-related articles. So far, the consensus-required clause hasn't been too bad in my experience, but it's totally fair to say that my experience may not have been typical. ᛗᛁᛟᛚᚾᛁᚱPants Tell me all about it. 17:26, 13 February 2018 (UTC)
  • How much has it been added by Admins other than Coffee? Doug Weller talk 18:48, 13 February 2018 (UTC)
    • Logs at Wikipedia:Arbitration_enforcement_log/2017#American_politics_2 and other years will give you a good idea. --NeilN ^{talk to me} 18:52, 13 February 2018 (UTC)
      • Of course, doh! And ouch, I seem to have added it also. I need to see if I have to jump through hoops to remove it where I added it. Doug Weller talk 19:09, 13 February 2018 (UTC)
        • I noticed that :-) And as the restrictions-imposing admin, you are free to lift what you want. --NeilN ^{talk to me} 19:20, 13 February 2018 (UTC)
          • And log it I presume. I'll probably do that sometime this week. Doug Weller talk 19:24, 13 February 2018 (UTC)
            • Filling out the required paperwork - one of the perqs of this job. But record keeping comes in handy as you've just proven. --NeilN ^{talk to me} 19:32, 13 February 2018 (UTC)

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Please comment on Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)

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If you're interested

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Suzanne Olsson (3rd nomination) Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 10:02, 16 February 2018 (UTC)

Fomenko Pseudo...

Flatly labeling Fomenko's assertions as "pseudo" assumes the labeler has access to irrefutable information. Obviously, Fomenko may be dead wrong or even a frank fabulist. Citing a counterargument or discrepancies would be a more honest way of saying Fomenko is pushing bunk. Pointing to the opinion of conventional historians, that his history is 'pseudo', is enough, and appropriate, but stating it as established fact (by label) is coercive (considering the pseudo-authority of this site). And, that there is some other article on this site which calls Fomenko's position "Pseudohistory" and then saying the articles must match as justification for the characterization on the Fomenko page, is circular. It is an error of logic. — Preceding unsigned comment added by HimsAhimsa (talk • contribs) 18:26, 17 February 2018 (UTC)

You've misread what I wrote. I said that we should describe his work as pseudohistorical, following the article on his chronology, rather than pseudoscience. But I've decided I was wrong and changed it back. He is creating a pseudohistory using pseudoscientific methods. But this is the wrong page for this discussion, it belongs on the article talk page where other people might see it and participate. . Doug Weller talk 19:09, 17 February 2018 (UTC)

Calendar

Hello Doug,

Is the Bible a realizable source? If not, why not? I am a modern-day expert in the timeline of the Bible. Question, do you consider these Scriptures factual or an opine. Genesis 1 King James Version (KJV) 1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. 2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. 3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. 4 And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness. 5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.

Can anyone verify this? Would you agree or disagree if said this was Sunday the first, first month, zero year. [Source KJV Genesis 1:1-5] "One for Jesus" (talk) 19:33, 17 February 2018 (UTC)"One for Jesus"

(talk page stalker) One for Jesus has cited here and in this section, the book Jesus Was Born in Zero BC by Clarence Boykin (ISBN 978-1538019108), the publisher of which is New Beginning Ministry], which is run by... Clarence Boykin. This is a self-published book and not a reliable source for anything other than statements attributed to the book per WP:SPS. And I doubt such statements would be WP:DUE. Jytdog (talk) 19:43, 17 February 2018 (UTC)

Forum

You suspected that the thread itself was as such, and I assume it is for propaganda reasons (with a linked opinion piece and one from unclesamsmisguidedchildren.com, a clearly propaganda site) but removing just a reply and retaining the original strengthens the message, surely? 86.175.182.129 (talk) 20:39, 17 February 2018 (UTC)

Edits to Shi Xing Mi

Hi, just informing you that I reverted some of your edits on the Shi Xing Mi page as they are indeed referenced from multiple independent sources (various Shaolin schools and official associations websites as well as several prominent international newspapers). There are many more sources available - newspapers, magazines and various other media outlets - detailing what is written and therefore I will add more in the coming days, it's just a matter of doing a search for the specific content in english (numerous sources are in Italian, German, Russian and Chinese). — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:120B:C3E2:E4B0:FDB7:2BE0:D93:182A (talk) 08:48, 18 February 2018 (UTC)

"Template a dead link"?

Would you please tell me what this means? Thank you. Dayirmiter (talk) 15:51, 17 February 2018 (UTC)

@Dayirmiter: - on my talk page it is a redirect to a page with advice (which links to another page with further advice). I really should have added the archive bit. But when you put it in an article, it goes to Template:Dead link. See also Wikipedia:Template messages/Cleanup. Doug Weller talk 16:05, 17 February 2018 (UTC)

This was helpful. Thanks! Dayirmiter (talk) 11:46, 18 February 2018 (UTC)

A confession

Hi, Doug. Just in case you may be interested, and not see it for yourself, in this edit I think it's fairly clear that you were giving the benefit of the doubt while really not being convinced of the editor's good faith. In this edit I did the same. (Note my use of the word "assuming".) Here we have something closer to the truth, though I am still reserving judgement as to whether it's the whole truth. The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 21:41, 18 February 2018 (UTC)

@JamesBWatson: Thanks. They are on my warchlist and like you I'm waiting to see what lies ahead. Doug Weller talk 21:47, 18 February 2018 (UTC)

Please comment on Wikipedia talk:Banning policy

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A concern

Following a discussion Talk:List of Arab scientists and scholars with Frasfras17. I was of the understanding Frasfras17 would be adding sources before adding any names to the current list, following my statement, "As per Wikipedia:Verifiability, unless their individual articles state Arab ethnicity(with a source) they should not be listed here. Those names which have reliable sources can be re-added."

Instead Frasfras has been adding Arab categories to articles, many of which have no sources to support Arab, and Frasfras' addition of a source,[5] upon further inspection reveals no mention of Arab ethnicity for Jabir b. Aflah. AND, said scholar(Jabir b. Aflah) was just conveniently added to the List of Arab scientists and scholars by user:Nabataeus.[6] I have posted on Frasfras17's talk page about said source misrepresentation.[7] However, said editor believes their opinion/interpretation of a scholar's ethnicity is comparable to Wikipedia:You don't need to cite that the sky is blue,[8] and does not need to provide sources.

Your thoughts?--Kansas Bear (talk) 00:40, 19 February 2018 (UTC)

@Kansas Bear: Not sure, either RSN or NORN. Not enough warnings for ANI. Doug Weller talk 14:24, 19 February 2018 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #300

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• Welcome to the 300th Weekly Summary!

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  • Recoin measures the degree of completeness of relevant properties of a Wikidata item and suggests any relevant statements that can be added to the item. (Rachmat04)
  • Template:Wikidata list ("Listeria") Self-updating lists on wiki pages, to drive projects and show results. Over 14,000 now live. (Jheald)
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  • checkConstraints gadget adds notifications on the interface to easily notice the violation of constraints and help people fixing them (Léa)
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  • Upcoming: #datatónCervantes, Wikidata workshop in Madrid, February 24th
  • Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in Lausanne, February 24th
  • Upcoming: Wikidata seminar, Oxford e-Research Centre, February 28th
  • Ongoing: Fourth Annual month wide d:Wikidata:Events/Nepal#Datathon_2018
  • Past: Wikidata doathon, 14-15 February 2018, Göttingen
  • A Reconciliation Recipe for Wikidata by Martin Poulter
  • Some ways Wikidata can improve search and discovery by Martin Poulter
  • From Wikidata to Scholia: creating structured linked data to generate scholarly profiles
  • Querying Wikidata about Vienna tram lines, by Stefan Daschek
  • Using wikidata for linked data WordPress indexes, by Phil Barker
  • Using Wikidata to build an authority list of Holocaust-era ghettos

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
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• Development
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  • Continued work on caching constraint check results.
  • Enabled Lua fine-grained usage tracking for better performance on several more wikis: hywiki, frwiki, svwiki, itwiki, zhwiki, bewiki, nlwiki, glwiki, and Wikimedia Commons (phab:T187265 phab:T186714)
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Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 15:35, 19 February 2018 (UTC)

Thanks on the 3%er

I changed it before I realised it was a violation of the IBAN, I had to undo it. Thanks for fixing my mistake. C. W. Gilmore (talk) 13:22, 20 February 2018 (UTC)

The Signpost: 20 February 2018

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Reliable source?

Erich B Anderson, "Cataphracts: Knights of the Ancient Eastern Empires". Anderson's website states he has a BA in history.[9]

DK publishing, "The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Warfare". Main contributors appear to be just authors. --Kansas Bear (talk) 19:57, 20 February 2018 (UTC)

Blanket revert at Identitarian movement without any apparent reading of the text or the sources

I've reverted you. Try reading text and sources again. For example, 6 sources are affixed to the label "white nationalist", but none of them actually use that term to describe "identitarians". Neither does the source cited (6) refer to identitarians "believing in the white genocide conspiracy theory". Sources 11-through 14 do not link the movement to "white supremacism", and "various governments" and "civil-rights organizations" are again, not mentioned in the sources. ZinedineZidane98 (talk) 05:12, 21 February 2018 (UTC)

You're wrong, and I've responded at the appropriate place. With 5 blocks for disruptive editing, two reverts and then tag bombing isn't a good idea. Doug Weller talk 07:55, 21 February 2018 (UTC)

Jewishness

See [10] [11] and Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Enforcement/Archive223#ScratchMarshall. This editor's been pinging my "POV pusher" radar for a while, but never really done anything to set off the alarms. They might be worth keeping an eye on. ᛗᛁᛟᛚᚾᛁᚱPants Tell me all about it. 17:07, 21 February 2018 (UTC)

@MPants at work: Maybe mention the AE at the Jesus talk page? I've seen this behavior for a long time. Doug Weller talk 17:16, 21 February 2018 (UTC)

If it turns into a debate, I will. I get the impression that this editor is fairly canny, and won't push where they know they might end up sanctioned. With pretty much universal opposition so far, I doubt this will turn into a stink, and I'd rather not be the guy who brings up someone's past brushes with sanctions every time they make a suggestion I disagree with, even when it's such a bizarre suggestion as this (which, if you read the OP, is worded as a suggestion that we bolster the sourcing for claiming Jesus is Jewish, not complaining that Jesus might not be Jewish). I just want to make sure I'm not the only one watching in case they do go off the deep end at some point. ᛗᛁᛟᛚᚾᛁᚱPants Tell me all about it. 18:16, 21 February 2018 (UTC)

Aksum, Eritrea and Ethiopia

You may need to refer better sources as your article on the kingdom of Aksum is inaccurate. The well-known and well-established history is that the Aksumite empire had its base in Northern Ethiopia city of Axum and gradually expanded as far as Meroe and South Yemen. Its main ports are now in the southern Eritrea and present day Somaliland. If you have the intent to add Eritrea, you should also have added Djioubti and Somaliland which also were parts of the Aksumite Empire. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ttimes93 (talk • contribs) 14:46, 22 February 2018 (UTC)

@Ttimes93:I didn't add Eritrea, it was added in 2004. I don't know what your problem is with the Oxford University source that makes you remove Tigray region and replace it with an ungrammatical statement "located in the Northern Ethiopia". After all, Aksum is in Tigray. Doug Weller talk 15:50, 22 February 2018 (UTC)

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Wikidata weekly summary #301

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Upcoming: IMLD-ODD 2018 Wikidata India Edit-a-thon, February 21st to March 3rd
  • Upcoming: presentation of the paper "Knowledge Graphs and Pluralism on Wikidata", February 27th, Luxembourg
  • Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in Hyderabad, India, March 2nd

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Stewards election is running until February 28th
  • Structured data on Commons ontology discussion continues until March 1st.
  • Decision about the licensing of Lexeme namespace
  • It's been possible for a while (but not previously reported here) to include Wikidata IDs in Wikivoyage listings, like this example edit.
  • Q50000000 was created on February 23rd.
  • You can give feedback about this newsletter
  • Constraint checks will be integrated in the interface of Wikidata

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: conscription number, recognition sequence, cutting site of restriction enzyme, RFE symbol, isoschizomer, neoschizomer, number of records, P4877, symbolizes, segmental innervation
    • External identifiers: AtariAge identifier, Atari Legend identifier, Atarimania identifier, BMI Work ID, Charity Navigator ID, Amazon author page, REBASE Enzyme Number, Hispania Nostra Red List of Endangered Heritage ID, Operabase ID, GEPRIS project ID, GEPRIS organization ID, GEPRIS person ID, World Rugby Women's Sevens Series player ID, FFR Sevens player ID, Maison d'écrivain ID
  • Query examples:
    • Actors who have starred in at least three Oscar Best Picture-nominated films in the same year (Inspired by this Vulture article)
    • Items in the part of the Getty AAT thesaurus (P1014) below costume accessory (Q1065579) where the upward relationship in the thesaurus cannot as yet be 'explained' by our existing subclass (P279) relations (thread1;thread2;thread3)
    • Where were people who went to space born? (source)
    • National flags featuring the Union Jack as a canton (the top inner corner of a flag) (source)
    • Number of mass shootings by country since 1990 (source)
  • Newest database reports: sleds, sleighs and sledges

• Development
  • Make it possible to link to Lexemes and Statements (phab:T1854997)
  • Disabling senses for the first release of Lexemes (phab:T186995)
  • Caching for constraints check

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Eye color article

Good to see you at that article. Flyer22 Reborn (talk) 19:43, 27 February 2018 (UTC)

Mound builders

That info in the last reversion of yours at Mound Builders could probably be left out per WP:CITE and WP:UNDUE, the IP was reverting their own earlier addition. Heiro 14:29, 28 February 2018 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – March 2018

News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2018).

Administrator changes

Lourdes†

AngelOfSadness • Bhadani • Chris 73 • Coren • Friday • Midom • Mike V

† Lourdes has requested that her admin rights be temporarily removed, pending her return from travel.

Guideline and policy news

• The autoconfirmed article creation trial (ACTRIAL) is scheduled to end on 14 March 2018. The results of the research collected can be read on Meta Wiki.
• Community ban discussions must now stay open for at least 24 hours prior to being closed.
• A change to the administrator inactivity policy has been proposed. Under the proposal, if an administrator has not used their admin tools for a period of five years and is subsequently desysopped for inactivity, the administrator would have to file a new RfA in order to regain the tools.
• A change to the banning policy has been proposed which would specify conditions under which a repeat sockmaster may be considered de facto banned, reducing the need to start a community ban discussion for these users.

Technical news

• CheckUsers are now able to view private data such as IP addresses from the edit filter log, e.g. when the filter prevents a user from creating an account. Previously, this information was unavailable to CheckUsers because access to it could not be logged.
• The edit filter has a new feature contains_all that edit filter managers may use to check if one or more strings are all contained in another given string.

Miscellaneous

• Following the 2018 Steward elections, the following users are our new stewards: -revi, Green Giant, Rxy, There'sNoTime, علاء.

Obituaries

• Bhadani (Gangadhar Bhadani) passed away on 8 February 2018. Bhadani joined Wikipedia in March 2005 and became an administrator in September 2005. While he was active, Bhadani was regarded as one of the most prolific Wikipedians from India.

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Pope Sixtus V

Youtube used as a reference? --Kansas Bear (talk) 19:20, 4 March 2018 (UTC)

No, deleted it from two articles. Doug Weller talk 20:15, 4 March 2018 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #302

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Past: Wikidata workshops in different places in the world for Open Data Day
  • WikiCite presentation (video) as part of Wikimedia Foundation metrics and activities meeting - February 2018
  • Wikidata: Knowledge as a Service, by martin Poulter

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Global preferences are available for testing
  • Statement 400.000.000 was created
  • You can now use a SPARQL query to match the result labels against Mix’n’match entries

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: court, time index, 3D model, broader concept, season, number of players in region, century breaks, dialect of, produces cohesive end, isocaudomer
    • External identifiers: FFF male player ID, AFL Tables coach ID, FFF female player ID, Webumenia creator ID, AFL Tables umpire ID, MuIS person or group ID, EPHE ID, Patrons de France ID, Siprojuris ID, ESPN X Games athlete ID, ACE work ID, AICTE institute ID, Chronicling America newspaper ID, Brooklyn Museum Exhibition ID, Zenodo ID, CONABIO ID, New Georgia Encyclopedia ID, Tropicos publication ID, KMSKA work PID, Bargeton ID, Guide Nicaise ID, AlloCiné company ID, Annuaire des fondations ID
  • Query examples:
    • 3D models on Commons (source)
    • Timeline of programming languages (source)
    • Date of birth of computer scientists (source)
    • Women born in Latin America without an article on Spanish Wikipedia (source)
    • Timeline of Düsseldorf mayors (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: Energy, Motorsports
  • Newest database reports: nomes de países em português

• Development
  • Re-enable Wikidata Recent Changes integration on Russian Wikipedia (phab:T179012)
  • Investigate on the size of logging table (phab:T188635)
  • Fix issues with graph vizualisation UI (phab:T186467)
  • Work on results of security review for the deployment of Wikibase-Lexeme (phab:T186726)
  • Enable constraint result caching on Wikidata (phab:T184812)

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Bad Laver RfC

Well, this is what I am dealing with now. New RfC on Rod Laver. I can't even begin to tell you the bias in the synopsis, but I can say I've about had it with this whole thing. I've edited for so many years here and work on so many tennis articles that it's becoming not worth my time to deal with the antics of this editor any longer. Sitting here typing I'm starting to not care what happens to this article in the future. Something is not kosher here. His lies are upsetting me and I have better things to do than worry about what this guy does to the article. I hope you got what you wanted. I could have done this privately but that is not my style. Openness is. Fyunck(click) (talk) 01:55, 7 March 2018 (UTC)

I am more than willing to discuss any changes you would like to make to the article in question. Saying I hope you got what you wanted is not fair to Doug Weller. He has no bias, he was just offering his neutral opinion and it was a very nice gesture for him to look through our discussion and weigh in. Zerilous (talk) 02:00, 7 March 2018 (UTC)

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Christmas Controversies

Doug, I'm sure we've encountered each other before, thought it's been about two years since I was very active. Do you remember me?

I'm sorry you found my comments at the article talk page "chilling". I wasn't intending to threaten anything. I was leaving the statement vague because I hadn't yet decided what I was going to do. But it seemed only right to inform the community that I wasn't abandoning the issues. Many people these days seem to think that if you don't give a knee-jerk reaction, then you've retreated, and that was an impression I did not want to leave behind. Thanks for listening. Evensteven (talk) 16:58, 10 March 2018 (UTC)

Hi User:Evensteven. I'm afraid I don't recall you. And I don't agree that many people think a knee-jerk reaction is required. Thanks for the explanation, but I think you could have made it shorter and clearer. As for the lead issue, I'm surprised if even needs a source given the content of the article. It seems pretty obvious. Doug Weller talk 18:03, 10 March 2018 (UTC)

Well, my position is that it is a biased statement, and any non-neutral verbiage requires proper sourcing. I understand the article content is also biased, but I chose to start there. The only thing that's obvious is that it's a widely shared view, but that doesn't mean it isn't opinion. Rewording to make it neutral is an option, but I didn't see a way to do that without introducing weasel qualifications, which complicates and extends the text, and it is the lead, after all.

As for knee-jerking, I do suppose I expected the worst, once I saw the attitude I was confronted with. And indeed, he carried matters farther and much more quickly than I intended to do. But, please count that as my exaggeration. However, I have many times experienced in heated debate where others did not understand or accept a pause of a day or two.

Brevity and clarity, yep. It's always the target. But I'm not a perfect shot any more than anyone, and I agree I missed that mark. Evensteven (talk) 21:12, 10 March 2018 (UTC)

Asking other editors to harass someone on your behalf tends to get a reaction. And if you had bothered to try to discuss the content instead of immediately assuming that I wouldn't (despite me explicitly saying that you should take it to the article talk page in my edit summary), I'd have happily discussed the content.

You want to be amazed? Copy what you've said about the content here to the article's talk page, and then watch me respond to the content discussion. (The only reason I don't do it here is because I'm sure Doug doesn't want his talk page to host that discussion. Doug, correct me if I'm wrong and I'll say my bit here.) Next time you come into a conflict with someone, don't take anything less that "I'm not going to discuss the content with you" as meaning they won't discuss the content with you. WP:AGF is a policy, and it applies even when you think the other party is misbehaving. In fact, it applies especially when you think the other party is misbehaving. ᛗᛁᛟᛚᚾᛁᚱPants Tell me all about it. 21:23, 10 March 2018 (UTC)

But I never said I wouldn't discuss it. I only said I would wait. Evensteven (talk) 21:27, 10 March 2018 (UTC)

I don't want to continue litigating this, because I honestly don't care who was at fault, to what extent or why. If you want to discuss the content, go post a new section to the article talk page and I'll be along to respond. ᛗᛁᛟᛚᚾᛁᚱPants Tell me all about it. 21:41, 10 March 2018 (UTC)

Yeah, I'm through arguing too. Not what I came to do. Evensteven (talk) 22:29, 10 March 2018 (UTC)

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A possible sock of Peeta Singh

Hello Doug Weller, can you please take a look at user Trixilip. He is repeating same kind of edits and creating same kind of pages related to Punjabi films. His most recent edit at Template:Punjabi-film-stub is exactly same as Peeta Singh (talk · contribs) you blocked last year. Thank you – GSS (talk|c|em) 10:11, 11 March 2018 (UTC)

I strongly feel its Peeta Singh as per his editing behaviour for what PS was topic-banned e.g. removing Indian flag, changing Indian to Punjabi in biographies, marking every edit as minor, creating cats and templates related to Punjab or Punjabi cinema etc. He also recreated few tempaltes and cats earlier created by PS. GSS (talk|c|em) 11:45, 11 March 2018 (UTC)

@GSS-1987: Thanks. I'm checking with a couple of other Admins. I think you're right though. Will deal with it tomorrow. Doug Weller talk 19:27, 11 March 2018 (UTC)

Their propaganda is very very clear please see this, this, this and there are more. GSS (talk|c|em) 06:43, 12 March 2018 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #303

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Discussions
  • New request for comments: Notability and Commons

• Events
  • Upcoming: WikiIndaba in Tunis, 16-18 March. There will be several Wikidata-related sessions
  • Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in Paris, March 16th

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Structured Data on Commons is the most important development in Wikimedia's usability, by John Lubbock
  • Data on the history of Scottish witch trials added to Wikidata, by John Lubbock
  • German Wikidata Workshop on "Wikidata: Potential uses and application examples for digital cultural heritage" during the conference DHd 2018
  • Automatically Generating Wikipedia Info-boxes from Wikidata, by Tomás Sáez and Aidan Hogan
  • Linking ImageNet WordNet Synsets with Wikidata, by Finn Årup Nielsen
  • Towards a Question Answering System over the Semantic Web, by Dennis Diefenbach et al.
  • Practical Linked Data Access via SPARQL: The Case of Wikidata, by Markus Krötzsch et al.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • WDQS updater switched to Kafka
  • First version of Lexicographical Data will be released in April
  • Wikidata:Database reports/Constraint violations updated
  • "autopatrolled" entries to be removed from the logging table
  • You can have a look at the Europeana migration campaign and help with translations in your languages
  • Mix'n'Match new features: Creation Candidates and Top missing entries
  • WDCM Journal: gender equity in Wikidata usage

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: calculated from
    • External identifiers: Ready64 identifier, GameBase 64 identifier, Plus/4 World identifier, Rugby Football Union men's player ID, Snooker.org tournament ID, Rugby Football Union women's sevens player ID, Rugby Football Union men's sevens player ID, CueTracker tournament ID, Rugby Football Union women's player ID, PRotein Ontology ID, Invaluable.com artist ID, Ricorso author ID, AINM ID, Julien ID, Todotango.com artist ID, Todotango.com work ID, The Big Cartoon DataBase ID, Small Monuments of Plzeň Catalogue ID, SFMOMA artist ID, Japan Rugby Football Union men's player ID, Japan Rugby Football Union women's player ID, BFMTV.com director ID, Japan Rugby Football Union women's sevens player ID, Japan Rugby Football Union men's sevens player ID, Societe.com director ID, Dominicains ID, Premiers préfets ID
  • Query examples:
    • Some costume items ending in 'us'
    • Women on Wikidata without article in any Wikipedia, ordered by number of statements (source)
    • WikiProjects about women (source)
    • Software of the KDE community (source)
    • Films starring more than one future head of government (source)
    • Timeline of prominent Women Computer Scientists (source)
  • Newest database reports: list of episodes of Borgen

• Development
  • Significantly (on average to 1/4th) reduced the number of changes from Wikidata showing up on the watchlists and recent changes on Wikipedias and the other sister projects. This way changes that do not affect an article should no longer show up. We're still holding off roll-out to Commons, Cebuano, Waray-Waray and Armenian Wikipedia because of scalability concerns.
  • Working on optimizing one of the largest database tables (wb_terms) (phab:T188279)
  • Fixing a bug on how Wikidata changes are shown on Wikipedia (phab:T189320)
  • Continued addressing security review issues for Wikibase-Lexeme extension (phab:T186726)

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Trolling, Part 2?

• "Most tertiary sources are not credible if it couldn't be verified by a reliable secondary source." --user:Nabataeus --Kansas Bear (talk) 16:41, 12 March 2018 (UTC)

Trolling?

Can you check out this conversation? Thanks. --Kansas Bear (talk) 19:16, 11 March 2018 (UTC)

I believe this has entered the realm of "I don't care what you say....". --Kansas Bear (talk) 16:51, 12 March 2018 (UTC)

Leo1pard has removed "Pre-Islamic" again. Thoughts? --Kansas Bear (talk) 04:20, 13 March 2018 (UTC)

SPA on "life mission" to "connect the dots" on Y-DNA using... bible verses...

The edit summary by the SPA here sums things up nicely: ["you are not the owner of this article , and im sorry you dont like this fact of the bible, i will change it every day of my life from now on, this is my mission now!"]. It's been a slow motion edit war for probably weeks now. Not sure what the appropriate action is, it's quite annoying as he's persistent but not persistent enough for 3RR. There is no question that this is not material that can be included in any form, however. Any advice? --Calthinus (talk) 17:16, 8 March 2018 (UTC)

@Calthinus:. Sorted. He's clearly not here to improve the encyclopedia. Doug Weller talk 19:37, 8 March 2018 (UTC)

Thanks Doug! --Calthinus (talk) 04:17, 14 March 2018 (UTC)

Q

hello doug, sorry for the inconvenience. i have an important subject to discuss with you, would love to get your twitter or insta page, i would appreciate it :). — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dovahkiiniq (talk • contribs) 09:31, 13 March 2018 (UTC)

may i have your twitter user? i just wanted to talk to you about something really important and i wouldn't take much of your time :). or you can message me on twitter @ehsan_lq Ehsan Ammar. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dovahkiiniq (talk • contribs) 04:56, 14 March 2018 (UTC)

Congratulations..

...on your honourable mention here! Bishonen | talk 14:58, 14 March 2018 (UTC).

I've never said it before because I wanted to avoid the appearance of sucking up to admins, but what the hell: You do good work. And so do you Bish. We're lucky to have the two of you. Shock Brigade Harvester Boris (talk) 15:12, 14 March 2018 (UTC)

@Shock Brigade Harvester Boris: Thanks very much. Let me take this opportunity to say how much I like your Pocket guide to Arbitration, wise words! Doug Weller talk 15:27, 14 March 2018 (UTC)

Yes, I am a wise guy. I had almost forgotten about that page and see that it is in serious need of updating. Hard to believe it's been nearly a decade since I wrote that. Shock Brigade Harvester Boris (talk) 16:02, 14 March 2018 (UTC)

Only cos no-one sucks up to temporarilly stood-down admins :p ;) —SerialNumber54129^{...speculates} 15:16, 14 March 2018 (UTC)

Ditto. I suppose it is inevitable, given the publisher, but it irks me that it infers "civil POV" to be an issue solely related to the far-right people etc. It isn't, not by a long way. - Sitush (talk) 15:14, 14 March 2018 (UTC)

I agree, and I certainly wasn't trying to suggest it wasn't more wide-spread. Doug Weller talk 15:27, 14 March 2018 (UTC)

A very honourable mention indeed. warshy ^(¥¥) 15:40, 14 March 2018 (UTC)

Hiding behind a cloak of civility isn't a behavior that's exclusive to those editing with a far-right agenda (and the SPLC article doesn't say that it is), but it is one that is adopted by such editors more than frequently enough to be worth noting. Anyway...nice job, Doug. Rivertorch^FIRE_WATER 15:46, 14 March 2018 (UTC)

• Doug, I am proud to work with you. Thank you. Drmies (talk) 18:47, 14 March 2018 (UTC)
• Not to be a spoil sport, but that articles makes some good critiques, so instead of patting each other on the back, maybe we should get some work done? Anyone willing to help resolve some of them (I've already started work on others) should head on over to Talk:Race and intelligence and help us figure out if the SPLC is right about the imbalance, and if so, how best to coordinate fixing it.

Doug, that's awesome, by the way. I too, am proud to work with you.ᛗᛁᛟᛚᚾᛁᚱPants Tell me all about it. 20:21, 14 March 2018 (UTC)

My only involvement in R&I is vandal/sock fighting, there are too many other areas where I have more experience. Sorry. Doug Weller talk 20:48, 14 March 2018 (UTC)

Another sock?

You blocked this account yesterday. Now we have this one complaining about the G5'd pages. --NeilN ^{talk to me} 12:56, 13 March 2018 (UTC)

Thanks for looking into this. Just FYI, we have a sock/meat puppet infestation here and here. --NeilN ^{talk to me} 00:40, 14 March 2018 (UTC)

@NeilN: Thanks, not a lot that we can do about it I think except what you're doing. Doug Weller talk 20:49, 14 March 2018 (UTC)

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Wikidata weekly summary #304

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Discussions
  • Open requests for adminship: Putnik, Okkn

• Events
  • Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in Eindhoven, NL, March 24th

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Mind the (Language) Gap: Generation of Multilingual Wikipedia Summaries from Wikidata for ArticlePlaceholders by Lucie-Aimée Kaffee et al.
  • Semantic labeling for quantitative data using Wikidata, by Phuc Nguyen and Hideaki Takeda
  • OpenStreetMap Interview: Andy Mabbett, Wikidata and OSM - The OpenCage Geocoder blog
  • How we’re using machine learning to visually enrich Wikidata, by Miriam Redi on WMF's blog

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The property suggestions were updated last week, the last update was in December 2017. The most noticable effect is the higher ranking of "family name" (P734) on items about people. Input about the suggester is still welcome.
  • There is an early conversation about structured licensing and copyright on Wikimedia Commons.
  • George, le deuxième texte (fr), a website querying Wikidata to find French female authors, in order to bring more diversity in the literature school programs
  • New, configurable download page for Mix’n’match catalogs (example)
  • The Su Lab is looking for a postdoctoral researcher to work on Wikidata in the Gene Wiki team
  • Help:Conflation of 2 persons

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: download link, INCI name, safety classification and labelling, may prevent, classification of the best at metas volantes
    • External identifiers: Library of Congress Demographic Group Terms ID, TMDb movie ID, DDB ID, Irish Rugby Football Union men's sevens player ID, Irish Rugby Football Union women's sevens player ID, Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms ID, MR Author ID, BDH edition ID, AIDA freediver ID, equipement.paris.fr place ID, Generation MSX identifier, Sega8bit.com identifier, Abandonia identifier
  • New property proposals to review: Norwegian war sailor register ID, PRS Legislative Research MP ID, Thésaurus de la désignation des œuvres architecturales et des espaces aménagés ID, Thésaurus de la désignation des objets mobiliers ID, TMDB person id, TMDB TV series ID, Biographical Dictionary of Georgia ID, ruchess ID, UK Provider Reference Number, Hungarian public body ID, medical evacuation to, hearing date, TMDB person id, TMDB TV series ID, RKDlibrary ID, IDA place ID, Kinoliste ID, Routard.com place ID, Scottish Rugby Union men's player ID, Scottish Rugby Union women's player ID, Scottish Rugby Union men's sevens player ID, Scottish Rugby Union women's sevens player ID, Women’s Elite Rugby ID
  • Query examples:
    • Megalithic sites in Spain (source)
    • Major periods of Japanese history and what they were named after (source)
    • Islandic names that are not ending in "son" or "dottir (source)
    • In what language does Q137 and Q12518 have the same label? (source)
    • Timeline of Earth's artificial satellites (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: Indigenous peoples of North America
  • Newest database reports: Friends episodes list

• Development
  • Looking into current Lua usage to see where we can improve the Lua functions we provide (phab:T189506)
  • When there is a constraint violation in a reference, the reference is now automatically expanded to make it more visible (phab:T177970)
  • Looked into issues around notifying the Wikipedias about changes happening on Wikidata (sometimes delayed due to too quick bot editing) (phab:T189772)
  • Fixed some translation issues in the embeded part of the Query Service (phab:T188990)
  • Fixed an issue with usernames being broken for Wikidata changes in watchlist and RC on Wikipedia (phab:T189320)
  • Optimizing a heavily used database table (wb_terms) (phab:T188279)
  • Polishing a lot of things for lexicographical data first deployment
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Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 16:07, 19 March 2018 (UTC)

Why deleted my article

Hi

I hope you're well.

I wondering why my article about ArabiCollege was deleted and how can do such article without being deleted.

Thanks a lot — Preceding unsigned comment added by 154.185.56.181 (talk) 11:24, 19 March 2018 (UTC)

I explained on your account's talk page (User:Mohamed Abdellah223 that it was a copyright violation. It was also purely promotional. Our articles are meant to first meet certain notability criteria, eg Wikipedia:Notability (organizations and companies) in the case of a college, and to be based on what reliable independent sources say about the subject (of course if those don't exist then our criteria for notability won't be met. If you are in any way connected with it you need to declare that. You should use articles for creation and read what it says very carefullyh. Doug Weller talk 19:34, 19 March 2018 (UTC)

Siege of Jerusalem

Its helpful to have similar events listed at top, otherwise the article is pidgeonholed by specific title. -Inowen (talk) 21:47, 19 March 2018 (UTC)

See the link at the top of the life article, and then explain how my linking was improper. -Inowen (talk) 23:06, 19 March 2018 (UTC)

@Inowen: see Template:Other uses which says "Do not use this template on an article with an unambiguous title; for example, a reader who searches specifically for "Paris, Virginia" is not likely to have been looking for an article about a city in France (or anywhere else), so it would no tbe appropriate to add

For other uses, see Paris.

to the top of the Paris, Virginia article." For instance, Siege of Jebus has an unambiguous title. Doug Weller talk 15:29, 20 March 2018 (UTC)

Wow, I never knew that. I have used it a lot over the years. It's an interesting decision because we don't actually know what the reader was searching for, only where they landed. - Sitush (talk) 15:45, 20 March 2018 (UTC)

L@Sitush: Inowen used it for Siege of Jebus, which seems pretty specific. Doug Weller talk 15:48, 20 March 2018 (UTC)

Oh, yes. I agree that it seems rather unnecessary there. I'm just surprised at the potential for a less widespread application of something that could be genuinely useful to the reader even when the article title is unambiguous, such as the Paris example you give. Think of things such as, say, the White Mountains when someone lands on White Mountains (New Hampshire) - they may not even be aware that there are other places bearing the name and unless they understand our titling guidelines being at the latter article is not a means of informing them otherwise. - Sitush (talk) 16:01, 20 March 2018 (UTC)

Blocked editor Truequeenofisreal

Hello. Trueshemitiequeen (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log), who was active two days ago, is obviously the same user as Truequeenofisreal. Cheers, - Tom | Thomas.W ^talk 20:03, 21 March 2018 (UTC)

@Thomas.W: Thanks. Pretty obvious. I'll block and do a CU later. Doug Weller talk 20:18, 21 March 2018 (UTC)

Please comment on Wikipedia:Autoconfirmed article creation trial/Request for comment on permanent implementation

The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Wikipedia:Autoconfirmed article creation trial/Request for comment on permanent implementation. Legobot (talk) 04:32, 22 March 2018 (UTC)

Warning about vandalising and history-censoring of the now 4 year existing Ezidistan autonomous area

Dear Doug, I would please ask you to stop you're highly offensive actions against the now 4 year existing Ezidistan de facto autonomous area in West-Sinjar. Nobody is trying to remove the state you're living from wikipedia. Why are you even considering this doing these kind of vandalism toward other peoples state.

Please show some respect toward the Yezidi people that live and govern the de facto autonomous region in Iraq and do not try to remove an entire currently de facto autonomous region from wikipedia.

This is extra offensive as Daesh tried to whipe out the Yezidi people from history in a genocide recognized by UN. Now they bounced up and created a peacefull autonomous area governed by themeself, you are trying to whipe out any knowledge about this autonomous area. In the procces you removed 25 sources about the area from wikipedia, providing not one source you'reself and in statments only making clear you have no clue whatsowever governing divisions in this region.

You're effort to hide important and essential geographical and geopolitical information is at moment extra problematic, as Erdogan in several news outlets threatend to attack the Ezidistan de facto autonomous area in Iraq, in an effort (just like you) to wipe it of the map.

How would anyone in the world understand such a new war, if one party in the conflict is banned without any logic or reason by you from wikipedia? You also do not remove the existence of Turkey from wikipedia, why do try to remove the existens of autonomous region Yezidis established and maintained for 4 years now?

It is unbelievable that something like this can happen on wikipedia. It is trying to falsify history. Sensoring the existance of a autonomous area, in an highly NPOV-effort to try to let the world forget and ignore this autonomous area.

While all mapmakers on wikipedia are mapping this autonomous area with a seperate colour on all the current maps of the area, you seem to think that you can lift you're personal ignorance about the region, above the +25 provided sources and all mapmaker experts on wikipedia, caring just nothing about the fact you're falsifying history by doing so.

If you keep doing this I will report you're offensive actions, as they are completly irresponsable, unethical and 100% against wikipedia's goal of providing reliable, sourced and correct information to the world.--Niele~enwiki (talk) 02:47, 20 March 2018 (UTC)

• Niele~enwiki, the moment you suggest that one of your editors is a genocide artist because they wish to uphold the integrity of our beautiful project is the moment some admins will take a very close look at your work here. To make sure you know I'm serious, I am placing a templated warning on your user talk page. Your accusations are uncalled for, unjust, and unacceptable. Drmies (talk) 02:51, 20 March 2018 (UTC)
  • Users that remove autonomous area's like Abchazia, South Ossetia, Rojava, KRG, Nagorno-Karabach,... from wikipedia including +25 sources do not uphold 'the integrety' of this beautiful project but or attacking and damaging it.
  • I'm also very serious about this, this is higly offensive toward the inhabitants of this autonomous region and '...' history. The action of emptying these pages is called like they are by everybody? --Niele~enwiki (talk) 03:12, 20 March 2018 (UTC)

@Niele~enwiki: please stop personalizing disputes and making claims that normal editing activities by respected, experienced editors are "highly offensive" to anyone. Acroterion (talk) 03:18, 20 March 2018 (UTC)

Beïng 11 years on wikipedia is not giving does not void Doug Wellers lack of any touch with reality in northern Iraq. I'm myself am more then 13 years on wikipedia now and know very well how WP works.

Doug is spreading absurd lies about the Ezidikhan Autonomous Region, pushing his personal unfounded beliefs that are not backed up or even suggested by any ANY source watsoever.

The Ezidikhan autonomous region is an undeniable ground-reality for more then 4 years now.

A now 4 year existing autonomous region, fully controlled and governed by an selfgoverning instituations of the EPC with no outside troops inside and with understanding/agreements with the Iraqi federal goverement.

It is a higly encyclopedical topic.

Moreover very relavent and actual because Turkish goverment has today anounced a operational room with the goal to attack the Ezidikhan Autonomous region in an effort to wipe it of the map

The iraqi government already announced that it will not support Turkey.

What Doug is doing is censorship of non-questionable non-opinionated ground reality and systematicly preventing wikipedia-users of adding sources and adding sourced material based upon his personal completly out of touch beliefs. --Niele~enwiki (talk) 09:54, 22 March 2018 (UTC)

@Niele~enwiki:, you may have been around for 11 years but you have less than 2000 edits with less than 500 of them to articles. That isn't enough to make yourself familiar with our policies and guidelines and that's obvious in your editing. I've got about 18o,000 edits, half of them to articles. You also don't seem to care at all about WP:Civility or good faith, having decided that rather than find the sources that 3 Administrators have asked you two you're just going to call me names. I have no stake in whether or not there is an article so long as it meets our polices of no original research and has independent reliable sources. The fact that you haven't provided any directly discussing such a region but resulted to name-calling suggests that you can't. Of course, if you can source your claim about Turkey, great. The issue for me is not whether such a region has been proclaimed, it clearly has. That doesn't mean it actually exists. At the risk of repeating myself, to show that this is a notable topic, find reliable independent sources directly discussing it by name. Doug Weller talk 11:21, 22 March 2018 (UTC)

I have different account on different language-wiki's. And I edited already on wikipedia in 2003. You simply ignore all provided sources and immidiatly prevent any source from being added.

While you yoursef keep making false claimes without provideing any source whatsoever. You can simply stay dismissing every source provided and preventing any source from beïng added

You do not have one source to back-up that west-Sinjar is not under the control of the 4 Sinjar Alliance groups. While there are many articles even on wikipedia that state it does.

The autonomous region is discussed by several douzens of different names in the press and there exist already a douzend different writings of the word 'Ezidikhan'.

The major international press groups will just go on referring to the larger area as Sinjar simplifing things for their audience. Most press don't provide non-audience-symplified long reads.

That offcourse does NOT change the obvious reality about the ground control.

Besides of that a large amount of sources from different news organisation, ARE provided. You just dismisss all larger news organisations located in ther region of North-Iraq and North Syria.

All conflict maps, including all those of Wikipedia, draw the area under the control of Sinjar alliance groups. But you just claim to know it better than all the conflict maps available.

The Federal Iraqi government forces did not enter this West-Sinjar since 2013-2014 when they fled from IS. They did took Sinjar town, and took Sinjar towns militairy base and east-Sinjar from the KRG.

But they made a deal with the Sinjar alliance that controlled west-Sinjar and Sinjar mountain that only seeks 'self governence within Iraq' as alowed in the Iraqi constitution, in a bid to weaken the KRG in east-Sinjar and Sinjar Town after KRG's full independence bid.

You simply removed 30 sources and then falsely claim 'own research' while there was NO 'own reseach' in the article.--Niele~enwiki (talk) 12:09, 22 March 2018 (UTC)

Yes, I know you work on other Wikipedias, but our policies and guidelines are much stricter than most of not all. And they've gotten stricter over time. Your original research is interpreting your sources, something we should never do. You've been told Wikipedia's maps aren't reliable sources. I repeat, you've been told by 3 Admins that if you can provide sources that actually talk directly about an Ezidkhan autonomous region, not Sinjar alliance etc (which is where you are doing original research), then it will possibly show that you meet our notability requirements. Why can't you find quotations doing that? I don't need sources proving that something doesn't exist, why would I? Doug Weller talk 12:18, 22 March 2018 (UTC)

Weighing scale

This [12] doesn't actually help the Encyclopedia; if you have a specific suggestion for how to improve the article -- well, you know how article talk pages work. NE Ent 00:50, 23 March 2018 (UTC) @NE Ent: yes, I'm pretty sure I know how to use talk pages. But you're right and I don't know epsht I did that. I definitely should have clarified my reasons. Doug Weller talk 18:44, 23 March 2018 (UTC)

How was Sagittal Keel off topic?

It was in the talk section for the Mark of Cain page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 137.118.100.224 (talk) 18:04, 23 March 2018 (UTC)

Which is not for speculation about the subject of the article. If you think something should be added you need to show reliable sources. Doug Weller talk 18:46, 23 March 2018 (UTC)

Fake News Page edit reversion

I added a piece in about Sun Tzu and his comment on all warfare being about Deception. A critical element of deception is Fake News or propaganda or Information Operations...It was used during many conflicts - one of the most famous being operation Fortitude during WW2, the Russians have it as a doctrine (маскировка (maskirovka)) - So can you please tell me why my edit was removed - it met all of Wikipedias rules. Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by PhilipIngram65 (talk • contribs) 14:27, 24 March 2018 (UTC)

@PhilipIngram65: actually it doesn't meet one element of basic policy, WP:VERIFY. You would need sources meeting WP:RS stating that The Art of War is an example of fake news. You're interpreting it, and that's against policy, see no original research. As editors we should not be deciding what is or is not fake news. Minor point, "6th century" is ambiguous. 15:44, 24 March 2018 (UTC)

Phoenicia Intro

I have listed Lebanon first on the Phoenicia page so as to avoid confusion, putting aside the fact that I'm Lebanese. Phoenicia existed along the entire coast of Lebanon, and -some- parts of the coasts of Syria and Israel. Grammatically it makes sense to list Lebanon first, and then the "extension" of the Phoenician empire (heartland first, and then boundaries). Furthermore the most prominent cities of the Phoenician empire existed in modern Lebanon. To write it any other way is misleading, and confusing for the reader. I added this to my edit, and discussed this on the talk page. LebaneseBebe (talk) 21:34, 24 March 2018 (UTC)

Edit summary

This: "(Allred is not a scholar, he is Director of Parking and Transportation Services at the University of Utah. and has only a BA in History.)" has got to be one of my favorite recent edit summaries. Beyond My Ken (talk) 15:33, 25 March 2018 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:David Ogden Stiers

The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Talk:David Ogden Stiers. Legobot (talk) 04:29, 26 March 2018 (UTC)

Response

I did not attack anyone. I posted something and was responded back with bigotry and discrimination. Creating a new definition for an Arabic word is akin to using the Spanish word for black “negro” and adapting that to indicate something derogatory. This is the only example that can be isolated or identified, what you’re doing now is repeating that sort of monumental slur, you’re repeating that process of creating slur by corrupting the established meaning of the word. And as an administrator your job is to be impartial and unbiased, and aren’t you supposed to be bound by the Wikipedia guideline, including those referencing racism and bigotry. The climate that is developing because of this isn’t something I want to take part in. Please stop harassing me for the simple reason of me not wanting discrimination to be applied towards me and my people. Do not attack me for defending myself from racist definitions. Are you going to block me for not sitting at the back of the bus? Oh, you’re the guy who had an issue with me listing Lebanon first on the Phoenicia page (my reasoning was due to coastal areas covered), you wanted Israel and Syria to be listed first. Nice to see that you are all friends. There are guidelines on Wikipedia regarding civility as well, and not misusing your editing administrative “authority”. These things are good for the project itself.LebaneseBebe (talk) 22:39, 25 March 2018 (UTC)

I see you've been blocked for disruptive editing. My only issue with you was that I didn't know why you did it, I didn't care about the order, but given the lack of an explanation and your username it looked suspicious. Your explanation seemed reasonable so I left it. And you definitely made a personal attack. Doug Weller talk 06:04, 26 March 2018 (UTC)

Dear Doug Weller

Hello Doug,

How are you ? This is not an Arbitration message or discussion. Just wanting to say hello and if you need any assistance on the Norse settlements or Viking settlements located at Canada or USA. I will be happy to help during the discussions.

Regards

Showerman05 (talk) 12:25, 26 March 2018 (UTC) Showerman05.

@Showerman05: Thanks very much. The current most active discussion, maybe settled, is at Talk:Point Rosee. Are you aware that Yale is going to test the Vinland map again? Doug Weller talk 12:29, 26 March 2018 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #305

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Discussions
  • Closed request for adminship: Putnik, Okkn. Welcome on board!
  • Closed request for comments: Former ATE

• Events
  • Upcoming: 1st Workshop on Quality of Open Data, Berlin, July 18–20 (submission deadline May 27)
  • Upcoming: EuropeanaTech and Wikidata Workshop Day for GLAMs, Rotterdam (NL), Monday 14 May. A day of GLAM-related workshops around Wikidata and Structured Commons, for beginners and advanced users.

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • SPLASHes in Wikidata, by Egon Willighagen

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • report about items with identical birth and death dates updated
  • Relator, a tool to improve family relations in Wikidata
  • Descendants check: consistency across multiple generations
  • Due to Easter Monday, the next issue of the Weekly Summary will be sent on Tuesday, April 3rd. Until that day, feel free to add information in there

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: prerequisite, relevant qualification, derivative work, alternate names, test method
    • External identifiers: Biographical Dictionary of Swedish Women, SPLASH, Behind the voice Actors video games ID, Hungarian MP identifier, UK Provider Reference Number, Norwegian war sailor register ID, Wikitribune category, Scottish Rugby Union men's player ID, Scottish Rugby Union men's sevens player ID, Scottish Rugby Union women's player ID, IDA place ID, PRS Legislative Research MP ID, Thésaurus de la désignation des objets mobiliers ID, Thésaurus de la désignation des œuvres architecturales et des espaces aménagés ID, Kinoliste ID, Women’s Elite Rugby ID, TMDb TV series id, TMDb person id, Routard.com place ID, Scottish Rugby Union women's sevens player ID, RKDlibrary ID, Statistics Canada Geographic code, Biographical Dictionary of Georgia ID, DBA ID, Hungarian public body ID, ruchess ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: had part, METAR code, Zulassungszahlen, Analog or derivative of, GHS labelling elements, en opposition à, output method
    • External identifiers: Filmweb.pl film ID, Filmweb.pl person ID, Orthodox Encyclopedia Online ID, National Thesis Number, Deutsche Biographie Identifikator, Welsh Rugby Union IDs (women's XV and men's 7s)
  • Query examples:
    • Airports named after a person, color-coded by gender (source)
    • Movies that Wikidata knows about and that have a German title that implies that someone or something doesn't answer (source)
    • Software developed by people/organizations that have archival material at the ComputerHistory museum (source)
    • Most common eponyms of French departments (source)
  • Newest database reports: HOLBY CI⁺Y episode list, list of 2-part episodes

• Development
  • New search code for Wikidata merged. You may notice the improvement in the search results output for Wikidata item. However, new code for search is not enabled, only new results format. The search code will be enabled next week.
  • Improving formatting of language and lexical category in diff for Lexemes (phab:T189679)
  • Allow to remove a Form (phab:T189675)
  • Translate the grammatical feature properly on Lexemes (phab:T189143)
  • Investigate and fix a bug on Lexemes when undoing an edit (phab:T187215)
  • Progress on refactoring the table wb_terms (phab:T189777, phab:T188993, phab:T188279)
  • Fixing an error on the caching of the constraint checks (phab:T189842)
  • Improving the performance of a table in the database (phab:T180834)
  • Improving the way we're building dumps (phab:T177550)
  • Investigate on improving Lua functions (phab:T143970)

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.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 13:38, 26 March 2018 (UTC)

Alex Jones Revert

My goal in posting what I did on the Alex Jones page was simply to ask that the neutrality of that article to be looked at. If Wikipedia wishes to become the next Encyclopedia Brittanica, they can't allow liberal partisans to paint public citizens in a negative light simply because they can. That you reverted my edit when that was my only issue demonstrates to me that Wikipedia is extremely liberal and rigid in ideology. Jamdud22 (talk) 16:38, 26 March 2018 (UTC)

@Jamdud22: I haven't edited his page for months. I've simply warned you about our editwarring policy. You've been told what to do if you want to add a pov tag. Doug Weller talk 16:54, 26 March 2018 (UTC)

Apologies

Somehow, I didn't realize that was an arbcom motion instead of a general request for comments. Sorry for messing things up. --SarekOfVulcan (talk) 18:59, 27 March 2018 (UTC)

@SarekOfVulcan: no need to apologise. Not nearly as bad when I chastised an Admin for posting at AE in the uninvolved Admin section somehow confusing them with a non-admin. I now have a script that highlights Admin sigs. Very useful. As does the script that strikes through the named of blocked editors. Doug Weller talk 19:07, 27 March 2018 (UTC)

Peeta Singh sock

They are now using multiple IP addresses, please look at 1.245.105.41, 24.4.75.46, 173.195.20.53, 202.169.61.85 and 126.106.255.130 repeating same stuff. Thank you – GSS (talk|c|em) 12:37, 28 March 2018 (UTC)

@GSS-1987: Where there's been multiple socking I've protected, the others seem controllable fairly easily. That's the only way to deal with this IP socking.

Perfect, I have most of their pages in my watchlist so will keep my eyes on. Thank you – GSS (talk|c|em) 16:08, 28 March 2018 (UTC)

Signpost issue 4 – 29 March 2018

• Op-ed: Death knell for The Signpost?

• News and notes: Wiki Conference roundup and new appointments.

• Arbitration report: Ironing out issues in infoboxes; not sure yet about New Jersey; and an administrator who probably wasn't uncivil to a sockpuppet.

• In the media: The media on Wikipedia's workings: the good and not-so-good

• Traffic report: Real sports, real women and an imaginary country: what's on top for Wikipedia readers

• Featured content: Animals, Ships, and Songs

• Technology report: Timeless skin review by Force Radical.

• Special report: ACTRIAL wrap-up.

• Humour: WikiWorld Reruns

* Read this Signpost in full * Single-page * Unsubscribe * MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:49, 29 March 2018 (UTC)

Could you help me?

Hi Doug, would you mind helping me. I am in the early stages of a revert war and would like to stop it early. Could you check that I am acting appropriately and within the guidelines. The page is Choy_Li_Fut#King_Mui_Choy_Li_Fut and I have reverted some vandalism and tried to compromise with the user in question. Thank you for your time. Mielhoney (talk) 07:24, 29 March 2018 (UTC)

I haven't had a chance to look. I did see your edit summary about trademark. We use trademarked names all the time. We do have a manual of style page on i,t Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Trademarks. This seems to be a long running dispute even if this is a new editor. WP:DRN? Doug Weller talk 19:18, 29 March 2018 (UTC)

Please comment on Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)

The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Wikipedia:Village pump (policy). Legobot (talk) 04:27, 30 March 2018 (UTC)

Assistance, User:Staringeyes

Hey Doug. I noticed you posted on the talk page of User:Staringeyes so I'm reaching out to you. I blocked them recently for their edits, all the reasons of which are listed on their talk page, but chief being the editing of pages to impose an Irish nationalist slant and the fact that every single one of their edits has been reverted. I gave them a warning that if their continue their editing pattern when they return they would be blocked indefinitely. They have just returned and this was their first article edit since returning. This edit shows a lack of reading the article, a really biased slant and ignorance of simple history of Ireland. I am concerned I could be considered involved with this, so I'm looking for another admin to do what they think needs to be done here. Let me know. Cheers. Canterbury Tail talk 14:58, 30 March 2018 (UTC)

@Canterbury Tail: I would if I could but I'm involved, see the discussion on the bottom of their talk page. Sorry about that. It's completely unacceptable of course. However, previous Admin actions themselves don't make you involved. That's been discussed in a number of places. Even we Arbs don't need to recuse if we've blocked a party. Doug Weller talk 15:12, 30 March 2018 (UTC)

(talk page watcher) Indefinitely blocked. They don't seem to get they can't add their personal commentary to articles. --NeilN ^{talk to me} 15:21, 30 March 2018 (UTC)

Thanks NeilN. Canterbury Tail talk 15:26, 30 March 2018 (UTC)

Heads up ....

Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard#Unblock Request: Paul_Bedson Ealdgyth - Talk 12:16, 31 March 2018 (UTC)

@Ealdgyth: Thanks, I was expecting it. Doug Weller talk 12:45, 31 March 2018 (UTC)

Creativity

Article about creativity religion on wikipedia and also on non english language editions is mostly written by members of violent sects of creativity named creativity movement and creativity alliance.most of their members are criminals like william christopher gibbs and allen goff and 90% of true creators are not linked to those criminal organisations.they spammed whole internet with their lies and when you google "creativity religion" you get on pages of those madmen campbel , logsdon ' costello , ... creativity is not creativity movement.ben klassen woild never be their member if now alive. Please correct this. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.131.189.170 (talk) 12:36, 31 March 2018 (UTC)

I've set the article to pending changes because of members of Creativity trying to promote a Creativity website under the guise of denouncing the other sects. Ian.thomson (talk) 15:20, 31 March 2018 (UTC)

Thanks. I was starting to think that also. Doug Weller talk 16:07, 31 March 2018 (UTC)

ARCA

I believe that you should recuse from this appeal. When I was notifying Sandstein, I had accidentally left the message where you were having a discussion with him,[13] and I followed those discussions on his talk page. Sandstein told an editor that "if you can convince Doug Weller that there are now adequate sources for this topic, I'll restore the article",[14] that means he was relying on your judgement there. That's why you need to recuse, since you will more likely also endorse his judgement because he endorsed your actions wrt the article that you were editing as an editor.[15]

You have been also involved with Sandstein on a number articles such as 1:[16][17], 2:[18][19], 3:[20][21] [22](you reverted both sandstein's edits), 4:[23][24], 5:[25][26], and some others. MapSGV (talk) 16:25, 31 March 2018 (UTC) @MapSGV: That's not a reason for me to recuse. You're the party appealing. Doug Weller talk 16:28, 31 March 2018 (UTC)

Reliable source?

The Plantagenet Ancestry of King Edward III and Queen Philippa of Hainault, George Andrews Moriarty, Mormon Pioneer Genealogy Society, 1985. --Kansas Bear (talk) 16:53, 31 March 2018 (UTC)

I think the Mormons are keen on accuracy, but in any case it's by George Andrews Moriarty Jr. so I'd say yes. Doug Weller talk 16:57, 31 March 2018 (UTC) @Kansas Bear: Doug Weller talk 18:15, 31 March 2018 (UTC)

Ok. Well, I removed it and the journal article. The Moriarty source had no page number and the journal article simply listed the entire article(ie. no specific page). --Kansas Bear (talk) 18:58, 31 March 2018 (UTC)

Barnstar award for improving List of Chinese inventions

		The Editor's Barnstar
		I award thee, Doug Weller, for your tireless contributions in improving the quality of List of Chinese inventions, a featured list article that has recently seen a growing number of entries from questionable and unacceptable sources by other users. You have taken the time to investigate sources and excised the worst material from the article. For that you should be highly commended. Pericles of AthensTalk 18:01, 1 April 2018 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – April 2018

News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2018).

Administrator changes

331dot • Cordless Larry • ClueBot NG

Gogo Dodo • Pb30 • Sebastiankessel • Seicer • SoLando

Guideline and policy news

• Administrators who have been desysopped due to inactivity are now required to have performed at least one (logged) administrative action in the past 5 years in order to qualify for a resysop without going through a new RfA.
• Editors who have been found to have engaged in sockpuppetry on at least two occasions after an initial indefinite block, for whatever reason, are now automatically considered banned by the community without the need to start a ban discussion.
• The notability guideline for organizations and companies has been substantially rewritten following the closure of this request for comment. Among the changes, the guideline more clearly defines the sourcing requirements needed for organizations and companies to be considered notable.
• The six-month autoconfirmed article creation trial (ACTRIAL) ended on 14 March 2018. The post-trial research report has been published. A request for comment is now underway to determine whether the restrictions from ACTRIAL should be implemented permanently.

Technical news

• There will soon be a calendar widget at Special:Block, making it easier to set expiries for a specific date and time.

Arbitration

• The Arbitration Committee is considering a change to the discretionary sanctions procedures which would require an editor to appeal a sanction to the community at WP:AE or WP:AN prior to appealing directly to the Arbitration Committee at WP:ARCA.

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I am the person who added some ancient cities to Iran's list and I have some comments for you.

Hello, I wanted to say that these cities that I add, some of them still exist today and they are considered villages, because of their low population.But some of them had a lot of inhabitants in past of thousands of people which makes it to be a village now but it was a city in ancient times.Some of these cities are from prehistoric times which is the period before writing and they date back to 8000-3600 B.C.E.I check these cities before I put them in. Jiroft is also a city other than a ziggurat and excavations in it shows that. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:45:401:3598:D105:D837:4053:7CCB (talk) 18:05, 2 April 2018 (UTC)

The articles on them do not say they are cities. Even the sources were calling them villages. You'd need archaeological sources saying they were cities, and for the ones that have articles those should be in the articles first. Jiroft is of course a city, but I see no indication that the area where the Ziggurat was built was Jiroft at the time. Ancientorigins.net is not a suitable source, we need genuine archaeological sources. I've raised this at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Archaeology#List of cities of the ancient Near East to get more input. Doug Weller talk 18:35, 2 April 2018 (UTC)

I can prove it to you that Jiroft is a city.

Hello, There is a video on youtube which is old and was created a little bit after Jiroft was discovered in the 2000s and it shows a lot of graves in 3 nearby cemeteries of Jiroft which tomb robbers had taken all the pieces inside them out.There is also a ziggurat with the base of 400 meters on each side. There are also homes discovered in two mounds with many pieces of art.Jiroft is suggested as the capital of a lost kingdom (Aratta) which is also mentioned in Sumerian texts.There is also evidence of trade with Indus Valley civilization and Mesopotamian civilization.Jiroft is even older than those two civilizations that are traditionally considered as the cradle of civilization.There are also writings found in a palace in Jiroft."The only ancient inscriptions known to experts before the Jiroft discovery were cuneiform and hieroglyph," said Majidzadeh, adding that," The new-found inscription is formed by geometric shapes and no linguist around the world has been able to decipher it yet." Some mythical stories such as Gilgamesh and Etana that are later found in Sumer are originated here and this can be found from pieces found here.Gilgamesh is a man with a tail like a scorpion that is found a lot in these pieces but is only found once is Sumer and Etana is a story of a snake who wants to take revenge from an eagle which is also found a lot on these artifacts.The proposition of grouping these sites as an "independent Bronze Age civilization with its own architecture and language", intermediate between Elam to the west and the Indus Valley Civilization to the east, is due to Yusef Majidzadeh, head of the archaeological excavation team in Jiroft. He speculates they may be the remains of the lost Aratta Kingdom, but his conclusions have met with skepticism from some reviewers. The team uncovered more than two square kilometers of remains from a city dating back to at least the late 3rd millennium BC. The data Madjidzadeh's team has gathered demonstrates that Jiroft's heyday was from 2500 BC to 2200 BC.But the discoveries are not finished yet and there is evidence that dates Jiroft back to 7000 years old, but it may be even older.You are right, it wasn't called Jiroft at the time, but we don't know its name at its time and its writings are not deciphered, so this ancient city is also called Jiroft right now.Sasan Sedighi (talk) 20:16, 2 April 2018 (UTC)

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How meta. – Joe (talk) 10:33, 3 April 2018 (UTC)

The reference other than those ones in the article :

Hello, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlEB7Iucku8

Why can't we have red links, should I leave it black?Some of this cities don't have an English page on Wikipedia and are available in other languages.Sasan Sedighi (talk) 20:31, 2 April 2018 (UTC)

@Sasan Sedighi: We don't normally use YouTube as a source, we really need something "reliably published" per WP:VERIFY and WP:RS. Blue linked cities will hve articles which must have sources stating that they are ancient cities. Red linked won't have articles, so they would need sources to be in the list. That would be fine. Doug Weller talk 10:47, 3 April 2018 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #306

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Events
  • Talk by Morane Gruenpeter and Katherine Thornton, presented at LibrePlanet 2018 about software metadata in Software Heritage and Wikidata. Video of the talk. Slides for the talk.

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Making women more visible online—with Wikidata tools by Sandra Fauconnier on WMF's blog

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • if you're working with Lua modules, you can give input here about new functions
  • you can still fill this page if you encounter a problem with suggester ranking

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  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: National Governors Association biography URL, key press, number of clubs, analog or derivative of, in opposition to
    • External identifiers: Biographical Dictionary of Georgia ID, DBA ID, Hungarian public body ID, ruchess ID, World Para Snowboard athlete ID, METAR code, Orthodox Encyclopedia ID, Amphibians of India ID, National Thesis Number (France)
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: maximum operating temperature, minimum operating temperature, maximum non-operating temperature, minimum non-operating temperature, Специальное звание или классный чин, member of the crew of, service life, Gens, Code of Household Registration and Conscription Information System, Wikipedia glossary entry, assistant director, choral conductor, lighting designer, sound designer, projection designer, video designer, stage crew member, number of representations, talk show guest, adaptation or arrangement of, revival or touring version of
    • External identifiers: DNV GL Vessel register ID, Behind the voice Actors person ID, Identifier of object at prazdnedomy.cz, Digital Typhoon ID, Territographie ID, Chile Rugby player ID, Directory of Open Access Journals ID, Brockhaus Enzyklopädie online ID, Researchmap ID, OpenEdition Books ID, KIT Linked Open Numbers ID, Animated Knots ID
  • Sparsely used properties created >3 months:
    • Spider Ontology ID (P4537), has listed ingredient (P4543), sexually homologous with (P4545), Everyone Remembered ID (P4551), ICRC PoW ID (P4554), SNCZI-IPE dam ID (P4558), Art Museum of Estonia artwork ID (P4564), electoral district number (P4565), awarded for period (P4566), BPH journal ID (P4569)
  • Deleted properties: P1124 (teu), P3484 (name shares origin with), P4990 (Statistics Canada Geographic code)
  • Query examples:
    • Most common title of paintings in English
    • Timeline for German author Heinrich Mann (source)
    • Density in kilograms per cubicmeter for books (source)
    • Books by weight (source)
    • Train stations in the UK (source)
    • Map of megaliths in Portugal and Spain (source)
  • Newest database reports: pilot and first episodes of television series

• Development
  • Work on a script to generate MassMessage target lists (phab:T190812)
  • Test validity of Wikidata IDs in Lua modules (phab:T143970)
  • Rename Lua functions in old naming scheme (phab:T190382)
  • More work on wb_terms table (phab:T188992)
  • More work on logging autopatrol actions (phab:T184485)
  • Include checksums in dumps (phab:T190457)
  • Add mobile edits to Grafana (phab:T191111)
  • Allowing to remove a Form from a Lexeme (phab:T173332)
  • Fixing bugs on Lexemes (phab:T189185)
  • Checking permissions for actions on Lexemes

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FYI

Hello DW. You may have already seen it but I thought I would leave you a link to this Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#Im not sure how to use this page but@ mr weller so that you can respond. Best regards MarnetteD|Talk 19:05, 4 April 2018 (UTC)

@MarnetteD: Thanks very much, I hadn't seen it, trying to buy a new printer as mine suddenly stopped printing black!. It gets frustrating dealing with some new editors at times. Doug Weller talk 19:15, 4 April 2018 (UTC)

You are welcome. I just got home from running errands and see that things have gone the way I thought they might. I hope the printer situation works itself out as well. Cheers. MarnetteD|Talk 20:16, 4 April 2018 (UTC)

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Sourced

The pages you reported as "unsourced commentaries" were sucessfully sourced by books. Anything else you want me to do, just tell me. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Truexfalse (talk • contribs) 20:18, 7 April 2018 (UTC)

Hello, i'm rihab ri ri thanks for cookies — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rihab ri ri (talk • contribs) 14:08, 8 April 2018 (UTC)

Mary Magdalene

In case you missed it. Thanks. Martinevans123 (talk) 21:14, 8 April 2018 (UTC)

Barnstar

A bernster for you. 47.20.71.190 (talk) 00:21, 10 April 2018 (UTC)

American Thinker

Hello Doug

Sorry. I did change the wording some, but it was a short sentence (with a reference), and I was wanting their basic description of themselves. I will be more careful when writing descriptions in the future. Also, I didn't see the sentence you referred to at the time, but I don't think it's a good idea to label, unless all--in this case--news websites/magazine--are labeled. That's why I deleted "conservative." It was an opinion with no reference. 04:31, 10 April 2018 (UTC)Liz Sterling (talk)

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Ancient yemenite kingdoms

Are ancient yeminite kingdoms considered arab kingdoms by scholars (historians, archaologists)? The sources that I have read do not consider them as such. I'm asking you this because I removed these five kingdoms from this Template (Historical Arab states and dynasties). I want your opinion. Regards -Aṭlas (talk) 20:22, 12 April 2018 (UTC)

@Aṭlas: I found this: "South Arabian differs from the Arabic spoken by most Arabs. It descends directly from the Arabic of the ancient Yemeni kingdoms and is a major influence on the Semitic and Cushitic languages of the Horn of Africa."[27] The author seems an expert in the field.[28] OUr article Ancient history of Yemen certainly calls it South Arabia and the language spoken South Arabian. Doug Weller talk 13:55, 13 April 2018 (UTC)

Political bias edits

Hello. Just wanted to share that the University of Michigan Library source does not only use AllSides, but also Pew and others.----ZiaLater (talk) 08:24, 17 April 2018 (UTC)

The University of Michigan Library source (found here) is not a reliable source, regardless of whether it uses AllSides or anything else. (I am not watching this page, so please ping me if you want my attention.) --Dr. Fleischman (talk) 18:37, 17 April 2018 (UTC)

@ZiaLater:, pinging you just for information as I think you understand this now. Doug Weller talk 18:42, 17 April 2018 (UTC)

Talk:The Beast (Revelation)

I'm not sure removing the section was in order. There's a fundamental lack of discussion on something that is obviously a cornerstone of Thelma and other Wiccan derivatives. And the 999 vs 666 discussion was useful to maybe ENCOURAGE others to seek out information, and eventually add and expand to the article page. Which; was my intention. I may not be in a place to do such changes myself, but the talk pages are there for discussion the article; and a minor prod DID get the very interest I had hoped for, though not the response I expected. What ELSE it did was add other thoughts that I had not, personally, considered. Those could ALSO be woven into the article at some point down the line. I kindly request you restore the section at hand. Lostinlodos (talk) 20:47, 17 April 2018 (UTC)

@Lostinlodos: the page seems to be a forum magnet. If you are correct there will be reliable sources that you can suggest on the talk page. I really don't see the problem. Either what you are talking about is significant and thus sourced, or it isn't and doesn't belong. Doug Weller talk 14:25, 18 April 2018 (UTC)

Books & Bytes - Issue 27

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Books & Bytes
Issue 27, February – March 2018

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• New collections
  • Alexander Street (expansion)
  • Cambridge University Press (expansion)
• User Group
• Global branches update
  • Wiki Indaba Wikipedia + Library Discussions
• Spotlight: Using librarianship to create a more equitable internet: LGBTQ+ advocacy as a wiki-librarian
• Bytes in brief

Arabic, Chinese and French versions of Books & Bytes are now available in meta!
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Thanks a lot, Doug Weller!

Thanks a lot, Doug Weller! I don't remember the other two times you talk about, but I won't forget it this time. Regards from Mexico City (CDMX, not anymore DF)! --Correogsk or Gustavo (Editrocite or ¡Heme aquí!/Heme here!) 00:44, 19 April 2018 (UTC)

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Please comment on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Boxing

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stateless nation

You know the lead sentence for stateless nation is unsourced too as well right?ApolloCarmb (talk) 12:11, 22 April 2018 (UTC)

I found a source calling Texans a stateless nation. https://books.google.com/books?id=Zu5GpDby9H0C&pg=PA1887&lpg=PA1887&dq=texas+stateless+nation&source=bl&ots=IOR9o0hyVK&sig=aMS9IyQGlg7BfTfIWB7NGgcQFWM&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwix2PS99c3aAhXHasAKHXkgB-gQ6AEIODAC#v=onepage&q=texas%20&f=false ApolloCarmb (talk) 12:50, 22 April 2018 (UTC)

• See MOS:CITELEAD. Doug, that book is interesting. Greenwood is usually reputable, but that particular entry is so full of jingoism and jubilation that I wonder whether it slipped in after the final revision. I think it would be a good idea for some experts to look into that article before we accept that at face value--every now and then you run into these sources and wonder what the author, editor, managing editor, and publisher were thinking. Drmies (talk) 13:30, 22 April 2018 (UTC)

@Drmies: Yes, I read that while working on something else (ISIR), and was just amazed at the partisan nature of his comments. The book has other dubious statements if I recall correctly. I'm not sure what to do about it.

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Wikidata weekly summary #309

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Events
  • Past: Wikimedia Conference in Berlin
    • Wikidata meetup
    • how to train new Wikidata trainers
    • Structured Data on Commons and GLAM pilots session
  • Wikibase workshop in Antwerp, Belgium, April 23-25
  • WikiWorkshop, a forum bringing together researchers exploring all aspects the Wikimedia projects, in Lyon, April 24th. Seven papers related to Wikidata will be presented.
  • Wikidata meetup in Zurich, Switzerland, April 25th
  • DDJ Monaco: Wikidata for digital Journalists; Open-Source-Treffen: SPARQL-Workshop, Munich, April 25 and 27

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Old Periodicals, a New Datatype and Spiderfied Query Results in Wikidata by Simon Cobb (National Library of Wales)
  • Wikimedia and The Met: A Shared Digital Vision by Katherine Maher and Loic Tallon

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikidata:Tools has been reorganized and updated, thanks to Pasleim! Feel free to help keeping this page up to date.
  • Wikidata:List of properties has also been reorganized and updated.
  • Lexicographical data on Wikidata will start at the end of May. Some property proposals are already discussed
  • A rate limit for edits and page creation has been set up
  • Please give feedback on a first proposal on GLAM metadata and ontology mapping for Structured Data on Commons. This feedback round runs until 4 May.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: fastest lap, cabinet, patronym or matronym for this person, modified version of, unit symbol, wind speed, operating temperature, non-operating temperature, service life, French standard size for oil paintings, boiler pressure, presented in
    • External identifiers: IRMNG taxon ID, Handball Bundesliga ID, e-teatr.pl ID, DOAB publisher ID, ILI ID, World of Physics identifier, Flanders Arts Institute person ID, JAAF ID, Polish Athletics Federation ID, Römpp online ID, Russian Athletics ID, Athletics Canada ID, NVE lake ID, Norsk biografisk leksikon ID, Norsk kunstnerleksikon ID, Store medisinske leksikon ID, Adult Film Database film ID, Yahoo Answers category, Pschyrembel Online ID, FIPS string code for US states, FIPS numeric code for US states, Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy ID, USGS-ANSS event page, ARRS race ID, HanCinema drama ID, ISC event ID, road number (Estonia), Heritage of Portuguese Influence ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Commercialized from, synonym, translation, antonym, demonym of, item for this sense, pronunciation variety, grammatical gender, grammatical number, etymology, person, areas affected, award category, nature of statement, donation platform, has grammatical gender, has grammatical person, Phonetic pronunciation, medical finding model, landmass, accessed from, research measurement, hyperonym, hyponym, meronym, holonym, troponym
    • External identifiers: Swedish Literature Bank, Logainm ID, Wikipedia glossary entry, Réunion des musées nationaux id, Il mondo dei doppiatori ID, FIS speed skier ID, cryptocurrency address, New Zealand Gazetteer ID, Bridge number, HanCinema film, Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures ID
  • Scarcely used properties created >3 months:
    • Indian Financial System Code (P4635), RCR number (P4645), partition type identifier (P4654), partition table type (P4653), Wiki Aves bird ID (P4664), Buenos Aires legislator ID (P4667), Sjukvårdsrådgivningen Category ID (P4670), tabular software version (P4669), constraint scope (P4680), GEMS Code (P4695)
  • Query examples:
    • Historical monuments in Wales (source)
    • Software titles ranked by the number of dependencies listed for them (source)
    • National parks around the world (source)
    • Narrative locations of TV series and episodes (source)
  • Newest database reports: Sports equipment: balls

• Development
  • Track the number of constraints by type (phab:T191891)
  • Include thumbnails in image statements (phab:T46727)
  • Install Query Service on Factgrid (phab:T189863)
  • Page creation and edit rates (phab:T184948)
  • Implement unit constraint (phab:T164372)
  • Implement no bounds constraint (phab:T170610)
  • Started working on the constraint violation type to restrict to indicate that certain properties can only be used on items or lexemes (phab:T164744)
  • Creating a Docker container for QuickStatements (phab:T192079)
  • Removed hardcoded demo data in Wikibase Lexeme (phab:T188899)
  • New data type for linking to Forms (phab:T165579)

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Interaction ban request

Hi. If I want an interaction ban with another editor, can I ask for it? If yes, how and where? Ktrimi991 (talk) 14:13, 25 April 2018 (UTC)

@Ktrimi991: The correct venue would be WP:ANI. You'd need to have diffs saying that there is conflict so great that an IBAN is necessary. Read WP:IBAN. Doug Weller talk 17:41, 25 April 2018 (UTC)

Thanks Doug Weller. Cheers, Ktrimi991 (talk) 17:47, 25 April 2018 (UTC)

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Thank you a ton

Thanks for thanking me. Whenever any user does it, new or old, it always motivates me to keep moving forward as an editor. As you are a long-time administrator, it really does mean a lot to me in this case. Rock on. UnsungKing123 (talk) 11:06, 27 April 2018 (UTC)

Reliable source?

James Falkner, The War of the Spanish Succession 1701-1714. Pen & Sword.

Per Amazon.com;

• "James Falkner is a leading writer on seventeenth- and eighteenth-century warfare James Falkner is a leading writer on seventeenth- and eighteenth-century warfare and he has made a special study of the War of the Spanish Succession and the military exploits of the 1st Duke of Marlborough. His book, Great and Glorious Days: Marlborough's Battles 1704-1709, is one of the outstanding studies of the subject. His books include Blenheim 1704, Ramillies 1706, Marlborough Goes to War: Eyewitness Accounts 1702-1713, Marlborough's Sieges, Marlborough's Battlefields, Fire Over the Rock: The Great Siege of Gibraltar 1779-1783, Marshal Vauban and the Defence of Louis XIV's France and Marlborough's War Machine." --Kansas Bear (talk) 22:45, 27 April 2018 (UTC)

Amazon.com is never a reliable source. --Orange Mike | Talk 22:53, 27 April 2018 (UTC)

I think Bear is asking about Faulkner’s book. Pen & Sword is generally reliabe, although there are likely academic sources in plenty on that conflict. But P&S would be generally reliable for most stuff. Faulkner sounds like a decent authority, although again, there are likely academics who study the period also. Ealdgyth - Talk 23:00, 27 April 2018 (UTC)

Manky edit summary

Think this edit summary is worth getting rid of? Hope all's well! —SerialNumber54129 ^{paranoia /cheap sh*t room} 11:08, 29 April 2018 (UTC)

@Serial Number 54129: sure. I've blocked the editor indefinitely also. I don't mind another Admin unblocking him if he can convincingly guarantee that won't happen again, but no one should have to put up with that. Doug Weller talk 11:34, 29 April 2018 (UTC)

Agreed, many thanks. Happy Sunday! —SerialNumber54129 ^{paranoia /cheap sh*t room} 11:38, 29 April 2018 (UTC)