User talk:Isochrone/Archives/2021/December

Question from Vitaium (04:03, 30 November 2021)

Hello Berrely! Why open proxies and VPNs are blocked from editing in Wikipedia? --Vitaium (talk) 04:03, 30 November 2021 (UTC)

Hi Vitaium, as you can see at WP:PROXY, open proxies and VPNs generally are used by sockpuppets and LTAs to bypass IP blocks and checkuser checks. If you have a valid reason do so, you can also request an IP block exemption to bypass these IP blocks. — Berrely • ^Talk∕_Contribs 07:11, 30 November 2021 (UTC)

Alexandria times

Hi, I'm not sure the source you added for Arundel's claim to be founder of the Alexandria Times is adequate? It's very primary (being a US trademark publication), and, at least in the form it opens in my browser, it merely shows me that someone of Arundel's name who lived in Alexandria applied for something; the reference as it currently appears doesn't actually show the Alexandria Times' trademark (though it must surely be there). Is there any way this can at least be formatted in such a way that it demonstrates to the reader that the fact is actually true? Also I think we should be very cautious about such heavily conflict-of-interest editing. When someone identifies themselves as the very person they are writing about, it's a bit problematic that they charge in and edit the article. Thank you for not reinstating the rather promotional material he wrote about himself; I would very much prefer to see that discussed at the talk-page than simply accepted. Thanks! Elemimele (talk) 20:37, 30 November 2021 (UTC)

Hi Elemimele, apologies for the source being a bit weird. The relevant page is 459, you can ctrl f for "Alexandria Times". If you feel the source is unreliable due to its primary status, I'm happy for you to go ahead and remove it. As another editor already informed the user on COI disclosures, I thought that was sufficient. Of course, the content they added was just promo garbage and has no place in that article. — Berrely • ^Talk∕_Contribs 07:14, 1 December 2021 (UTC)

thanks for the reply. I never know what to think about sources like that. Technically they're primary, but I can't see the US trademark system as unreliable. I'm inclined to leave it the way you put it - it's probably accurate and the best we can do. I was just a bit cheesed-off with the flurry of stuff going on yesterday, particularly as the CoI editing was very promotional. You left the article in a much better state. Elemimele (talk) 10:22, 1 December 2021 (UTC)

Question from Vitaium on Wikipedia:Categorization (10:28, 2 December 2021)

Hello Berrely! How to make a category becoming a subcategory by putting it in the parent category? --Vitaium (talk) 10:28, 2 December 2021 (UTC)

Vitaium, you simply add the parent category to the one you want to be a subcategory, just like how you would in an article. — Berrely • ^Talk∕_Contribs 13:40, 2 December 2021 (UTC)

Question from Deepa254 (14:15, 3 December 2021)

Hello I am new to Wikipedia, and wish to create a page for one of the public figures. How should I go about it? Thank you! --Deepa254 (talk) 14:15, 3 December 2021 (UTC)

Deepa254 Help:Your first article helps on this. If you have any relation with the subject, please read WP:COI. The introduction may also be helpful. Hope this helps :) — Berrely • ^Talk∕_Contribs 16:11, 3 December 2021 (UTC)

TWW ;)

Greetings! December 2021 is ready for you to proofread it, please and thank you! ;) Happy Holidays! つがる Talk to つがる:) 🍁 20:59, 5 December 2021 (UTC)

つがる,  Done! — Berrely • ^Talk∕_Contribs 16:38, 6 December 2021 (UTC)

TheWikiWizard- December 2021

Hi, Berrely! Here is the December 2021 issue of TheWikiWizard!

Humour

• Christmas is here again, time to bug people to get you the stuff you really, really want! (Anyone going to get me some butter cookies, or that giant Costco teddy bear?)
• If you don't like turkey, there's always the rotisserie chicken!
• If you ate too much turkey and regret it, then you should have read the above message ;)

Wikipedia News

We don't have much to report this month, but we do have the following...

• The Simple English Wikipedia has almost reached 200,000 articles!
• Wikipedia Asian Month which took place in November, has finished. Now, all the articles are judged and then it is determined who gets the postcards, even if you don't get one, or didn't participate, there is always next year, and we thank you for everything you have done!
• Arbitration Committee Elections December 2021 took place earlier this month, for elegible editors. (At the time of this writing it was still taking place, but I assumed by the time this issue was sent, it would have been finished - It is set to finish at December 6 2021 at 23:59 UTC )

Editor's Notes

• I haven't forgotten about TWW ;) Don't worry.
• TWW is in the process of getting a new main page, if you have any ideas, or would like to help, please shoot a message on the TWW talk page.
• That's it for this issue! This is the last issue for 2021. See you all in 2022! Have a safe and happy holiday season!

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Happy Holidays! --つがる Talk to つがる:) 🍁 01:06, 7 December 2021 (UTC)

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Question from Vitaium (06:08, 7 December 2021)

Hello Berrely! Why newcomers cannot create articles and move pages although it is not protected? --Vitaium (talk) 06:08, 7 December 2021 (UTC)

Vitaium, for spam prevention reasons, creating of new articles is limited to autoconfirmed users (like you an I), which requires 10 edits and 30 days of tenure. — Berrely • ^Talk∕_Contribs 07:05, 7 December 2021 (UTC)

Romulus and Remus (Rubens)

Good day! Add text in this article, please, Xmac!--Станислав Савченко (talk) 18:34, 24 November 2021 (UTC)

@Станислав Савченко, sorry, but I can only really expand or create articles in topics I have an interest and/or knowledge in, which I don't in this case. If you want you can do this yourself by reading Help:Introduction. — Berrely • ^Talk∕_Contribs 10:38, 27 November 2021 (UTC)

• • it's clear, thank you! --Станислав Савченко (talk) 14:31, 27 November 2021 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free image File:Private Eye logo.gif

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Thanks for uploading File:Private Eye logo.gif. The image description page currently specifies that the image is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, the image is currently not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the image was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that images for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (see our policy for non-free media).

Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described in section F5 of the criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. --B-bot (talk) 18:38, 10 December 2021 (UTC)

Question from Vitaium (13:47, 9 December 2021)

Hello Berrely! What is the differences between declined and rejected AfC submission? --Vitaium (talk) 13:47, 9 December 2021 (UTC)

Vitaium rejected submissions mean that it cannot be resubmitted, whereas decline submissions can be — Berrely • ^Talk∕_Contribs 07:01, 14 December 2021 (UTC)

Mentor?

On my Homepage (or whatever it's called, forgot) it says you're my "mentor". What does that mean? Ex-stepp (talk) 02:13, 14 December 2021 (UTC)

Ex-stepp it means that I'm here to help you with any questions you have about Wikipedia :) — Berrely • ^Talk∕_Contribs 07:02, 14 December 2021 (UTC)

OK, thanks for the help. Ex-stepp (talk) 22:52, 15 December 2021 (UTC)

Question from Gilles Guichard (23:54, 14 December 2021)

Hello, how do I change my credit card information? I changed bank and make donation monthly. Thank you Gilles Guichard --Gilles Guichard (talk) 23:54, 14 December 2021 (UTC)

Gilles Guichard, depending on how you've donated, you'll need to follow different instructions. The Wikimedia Foundation has a guide helping with such payments. Thanks — Berrely • ^Talk∕_Contribs 07:20, 15 December 2021 (UTC)

Barrel, thank you very much for your reply and support. they cancelled my American Express card so I can start with the new one. all done.

So, maybe you can help me understand the correct way to make correction if you don't mind? Thank you Barrel Gilles Guichard (talk) 09:15, 15 December 2021 (UTC)

Gilles Guichard as said in the guide here, do the following:

Please email donate@wikimedia.org including what type of change you would like to make and as much information as you can about the original gift such as:

Email that was used for the donation receipt Full name used You will receive an email confirmation when the change is completed.

Please do not include your credit card number or other financial information when contacting us.

As a volunteer editor I cannot assist you with payment enquires, and to rectify the card details, you should contact the email above. Feel free to ask any further questions you may have :) — Berrely • ^Talk∕_Contribs 11:06, 15 December 2021 (UTC)

it's done, thank you Berrely. Gilles Gilles Guichard (talk) 11:53, 15 December 2021 (UTC)

Happy Holidays!

--Станислав Савченко (talk) 02:58, 15 December 2021 (UTC)

Thanks Станислав Савченко :D. You too! — Berrely • ^Talk∕_Contribs 07:20, 15 December 2021 (UTC)

Thanks, Berrely :D!--Станислав Савченко (talk) 15:38, 15 December 2021 (UTC)

Question from Jaiswalgreenfield1 (11:42, 15 December 2021)

How to start a fresh page --Jaiswalgreenfield1 (talk) 11:42, 15 December 2021 (UTC)

@Jaiswalgreenfield1 for information on starting an article, see Help:Your first article — Berrely • ^Talk∕_Contribs 16:58, 15 December 2021 (UTC)

Sorry hello

Hi I'm so sorry I'm new and so I'm not sure how to reply. Thank you for your help with our disorder question! /gen -Janis — Preceding unsigned comment added by TheHamiPotterGeek (talk • contribs) 18:43, 15 December 2021 (UTC)

TheHamiPotterGeek perhaps enabling "Discussion tools" in preferences. Otherwise, no problem :) — Berrely • ^Talk∕_Contribs 18:49, 15 December 2021 (UTC)

Thank you! Have an amazing day! What's your preferred name and pronouns? -Janis TheHamiPotterGeek (talk) 18:52, 15 December 2021 (UTC)

TheHamiPotterGeek I'm fine to go by just "Berrely" and he/him as my pronouns (or they/them). Should probably add that to my userpage :P. — Berrely • ^Talk∕_Contribs 18:56, 15 December 2021 (UTC)

Okay! I'll make sure to tell the rest of our alters! Thank you for your help! -Gretchen TheHamiPotterGeek (talk) 19:10, 15 December 2021 (UTC)

Please stop vandalizing the Hunter Wise Financial Group page

Please stop vandalizing the Hunter Wise Financial Group page. Futures Magazine did not do any research. If you bothered to check the original GOVERNMENT PRESS RELEASE (yes, believe it or not, the CFTC is a U.S. GOVERNMENT organisation), you would have noticed that Futures Magazine simply copied from the CFTF press release. Futures magazine has no copyright on U.S. government issued press releases. Duh. Thank you for your cooperation, and I hope you research your edits in future before making them. — Preceding unsigned comment added by EricSavage (talk • contribs) 22:18, 17 December 2021 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) Not vandalism, which has a very specific definition here. DBaK (talk) 22:35, 17 December 2021 (UTC)

There isn't much use in saying this to a user who is sock-blocked, but in the future (if there is one) you should add {{pd-notice}} when copying from public domain sources; your edits showed up in copyright systems four times. I didn't know it was copied from the CFTC article because you only sourced the magazine in your edit. — Berrely • ^Talk∕_Contribs 11:30, 18 December 2021 (UTC)

college football ad

i want a ad this wikiproject thanks Hamadi31 (talk) 05:04, 20 December 2021 (UTC)

Hi Hamadi31 is it possible you could give a little more description as to what you want on the ad? — Berrely • ^Talk∕_Contribs 11:29, 20 December 2021 (UTC)

Berrely hi I want a ad that says Do you watch College football? and then Are you interested in helping Wikipedia in its College Football pages? and after that say If any of these questions are yes then join WikiProject College football! with college football teams logo in the background and when you click it it leads you to the wikiproject with Click her for details at the bottom thanks Hamadi31 (talk) 17:19, 20 December 2021 (UTC)

Question from Vitaium on Help:Magic words (05:52, 23 December 2021)

Hello Berrely! Why do some pages are noindexed automatically although i didn't put the magic word __NOINDEX__? --Vitaium (talk) 05:52, 23 December 2021 (UTC)

Vitaium unreviewed articles are not indexed as to prevent spam being indexed by search engines. I'm not aware of noindex tags by default for any other namespace (other than draft) — Berrely • ^Talk∕_Contribs 11:42, 23 December 2021 (UTC)

Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 22

Hello everyone, and welcome to the 22nd issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter. This issue will be covering new and updated user scripts from the past seven months (June through December 2021).

Got anything good? Tell us about your new, improved, old, or messed-up script here!

Featured script

LuckyRename, by Alexis Jazz, is this month's featured script. LuckyRename makes requesting file moves easier, and automates the many steps in file moving (including automatic replacement of existing usage). Give it a shot!

Updated scripts

• SD0001: hide-reverted-edits has been updated to take into account changes in reversion tools like Twinkle and RedWarn.
• Writ Keeper: massRollback.js has added a rollback-some option (missed in last issue).
• ClaudineChionh: SkinSwitcher (a fork and update of Eizen's script) provides an options menu/toolbox/toolbar allowing users to view a given page in MediaWiki's default skins.

Scripts++ Newsletter

Pending requests

• Mass-patrolling at Special:NewPages
• Taking up the mantle of an almost completed peer review javascript bot
• Restore the Wikipedia Citation Tool for Google Books
• Autohighlighting specific characters (Greek)
• ...and many more, all available at Wikipedia:User scripts/Requests

Miscellaneous

• Wikipedia:User scripts/Ranking is a sortable table of Wikipedia's thousand-or-so most commonly used scripts; it includes their author, last modification date, installation count, and sometimes a short description.
• Toolhub is a community managed catalog of software tools used in the Wikimedia movement. Technical volunteers can use Toolhub to document the tools that they create or maintain. All Wikimedians can use Toolhub to search for tools to help with their workflows and to create lists of useful tools to share with others.

New scripts

• Ahecht:
  • draft-sorter sorts AfC drafts by adding WikiProject banners to their talk pages. It supersedes User:Enterprisey/draft-sorter, adding a few features and fixing some bugs.
  • massmove, a modified User:Plastikspork/massmove.js that adds a link to the left column, allows adding and removing both prefixes and suffixes.
  • watchlistcleaner removes missing pages (redlinks), redirects, pages you haven't edited recently, and/or pages you've never edited from your watchlist.
• Awesome Aasim:
  • Infiniscroll adds infinite scrolling to user contributions, page histories, and log pages.
  • Quick create allows for the fast creation of red-linked pages with two clicks.
• Caburum:
  • UTCclock adds a clock displaying the current UTC time.
• Chlod:
  • CopiedTemplateEditor, mainly for CCI case handlers, allows graphically editing a talk page's {{copied}} templates.
• DaxServer:
  • BooksToSfn adds a portlet link in Visual Editor's source mode editing, in main namespace articles or in the user's Sandbox. When clicked, it converts one {{cite book}} inside a <ref>...</ref> tag block into an {{Sfn}}.
• FlightTime:
  • OneClickArchiver is a custom version of User:Technical_13/Scripts/OneClickArchiver which doesn't prepend {{Clear}} to the top of each section on the archive page.
• Jon Harald Søby:
  • diffedit enables editing directly from viewing a diff "when, for instance, you notice a tiny mistake deep into an article, and don't want to edit the entire article and re-find that one line to fix that tiny mistake".
  • warnOnLargeFile warns you if you're about to open a very large file (width/height >10,000px or file size >100 MB) from a file page.
• JPxG:
  • PressPass adds a collection of tools for Newspapers.com including configurable automatic citation generation in five different formats.
  • CurrentSwitcher gives you links on the contribs page to hide duplicate entries, current revisions, rollbacks, huggles, twinkles, and redwarns.
  • TrackSum lets you automatically sum the lengths of tracks in templates like {{track listing}} and get total runtimes.
• Nardog:
  • CopySectLink adds a button to copy the unencoded page title or section path next to each heading.
  • IPAInput allows you to type in IPA symbols by directly looking at an IPA key like Help:IPA/English and clicking on the symbols.
  • TemplatePreviewGuard warns when you try to use "Preview page with this template" with a page that doesn't transclude the template.
• NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh:
  • ContribsTabVector adds "Contributions" and "Statistics" tabs to user and user talk pages on the Vector skin.
  • CopyvioChecker adds a "CopyvioCheck" tab to all pages, except Special (Vector skin only).
  • LiveDiffLink is a version of Equazcion's LiveDiffLink which shows a wikilink instead of a URL.
  • QuickDiff (by OneTwoThreeFall at Fandom) lets you quickly view any diff link on a wiki, whether on Recent Changes, contribs pages, history pages, the diff view itself, or elsewhere. For more information, view its page on Fandom.
• Novem Linguae:
  • DetectSNG scans a list of 1,600 SNG keywords and displays them at the top of the article.
  • NotSoFast highlights recently created articles in the new pages feed, to discourage patrolling them too quickly.
  • UserRightsDiff concisely displays what perm was added or removed when viewing Special:UserRights.
  • VoteCounter displays a rough count of keeps and deletes at XFDs, RFCs, etc.
  • WatchlistAFD automatically watchlists the AFDs of any pages you AFC accept or NPP patrol, to help you calibrate your reviewing.
• P.T.Đ:
  • TwinkleMobile enables Twinkle on mobile view (Minerva skin).
• Qwerfjkl:
  • editRedirect adds a → link after redirects to edit them.
  • RegExTypoFix, a script for fixing typos, is a wrapper for User:Joeytje50/RETF.js.
  • talkback creates links after user talk page links like this: |C|TB (with the first linking to the user's contributions, and the latter giving the option of sending a {{talkback}} notice). It also adds a [copy] link next to section headers.
• Rublov:
  • diff-link shows "copy" links on history and contributions pages that copy an internal link to the diff (e.g., Special:Diff/1026402230) to your clipboard when clicked.
• Rummskartoffel:
  • auto-watchlist-expiry automatically watchlists every page you edit for a user-definable duration (you can still pick a different time using the dropdown, though).
  • generate pings generates the wikitext needed to ping all members of a category, up to 50 editors (the limit defined by MediaWiki).
  • share ExpandTemplates url allows for easy sharing of your inputs to Special:ExpandTemplates. It adds a button that, when clicked, copies a shareable URL to your exact invocation of the page, like this. Other editors do not need to have this script installed in order to access the URL generated.
  • show tag names shows the real names of tags next to their display names in places such as page revision histories or the watchlist.
• Tol:
  • VisualEditor Citation Needed adds a button (under "Insert") in VisualEditor to add a {{citation needed}} tag.
• Venkat TL:
  • ColourContrib color-codes the user contributions page so that pages you've edited last are sharply distinguished from pages where another editor was the last to edit the page.
• Vukky:
  • StatusChanger is a fork of Enterprisey's Status Changer, which adds a UI to the script. (using Morebits, so you'll need to have Twinkle enabled to use it).

All in all, some very neat scripts were written in these last few months. Hoping to see many more in the next issue -- drop us a line on the talk page if you've been writing (or seeing) anything cool and good. Filling in for DannyS712, this has been jp×g. Take care, and merry Christmas! jp×g 07:30, 24 December 2021 (UTC)

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The Signpost: 28 December 2021

• From the editor: Here is the news

• News and notes: Jimbo's NFT, new arbs, fixing RfA, and financial statements

• Serendipity: Born three months before her brother?

• In the media: The past is not even past

• Recent research: STEM articles judged unsuitable for undergraduates below the first paragraph

• Arbitration report: A new crew for '22

• By the numbers: Four billion words and a few numbers

• Deletion report: We laughed, we cried, we closed as "no consensus"

• Gallery: Wikicommons presents: 2021

• Traffic report: Spider-Man, football and the departed

• Crossword: Another Wiki crossword for one and all

• Humour: Buying Wikipedia

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Question from Vitaium on Wikipedia:Protection policy (15:08, 29 December 2021)

Hello Berrely! Why edit warring is fully protected, not semi-protection or extended confirmed protection although some edit warring is not performed by extended confirmed accounts (e.g. IP, newcomers, or autoconfirmed users)? --Vitaium (talk) 15:09, 29 December 2021 (UTC)

@Vitaium in rare cases, edit warring may be between multiple extended confirmed users. In these cases, pages are fully protected. However generally the most an admin will protect an article is extended confirmed. — Berrely • ^Talk∕_Contribs 15:17, 29 December 2021 (UTC)