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Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- There is a new version of the Wikimedia Commons app for Android. It should fix the failed uploads problem. [1]
Problems
- There was a problem with the new MediaWiki version last week. It deleted some messages by accident. The new version was late because it was stopped to fix things. [2]
Changes later this week
The MediaWiki action API is used by various tools like bots and gadgets. Some error codes will change. Some parameter values that do not follow the standard will no longer work. [3]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 11 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 February. It will be on all wikis from 13 February (calendar).
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19:12, 10 February 2020 (UTC)
This week's article for improvement (week 7, 2020)
 The Pyramid Texts are the oldest known corpus of ancient Egyptian religious texts dating to the Old Kingdom.
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Would you look at Portal:Malawi page history?
It's a bit different from the other portal reverts I've observed. You would know best what you intended. Thanks! BusterD (talk) 22:46, 31 January 2020 (UTC)
- Hi BusterD: My preferred version of the portal exists here, the 22 September 2019 version of the portal. The two subsequent edits that occurred removed 59 new selected articles that were there, reverting back to the portal displaying only a meager three articles, which are viewable at Portal:Malawi/Featured article. The General images section was also removed. Neither of these removals were disclosed in the edit summaries that were left, which consisted of "Comment out stale and/or fake DYKs" and "remove missing DYKs".
- Furthermore, the DYKs that were removed were not "fake", which is discernable by noting the attribution to Wikipedia:Recent additions that is attributed to each one of them. It's possible that the subpages were not checked before the content was removed. Open the following pages for more information:
- Also, I don't consider portal DYK content to be stale, because they provide interesting factoids that can generate interest in topics. North America1000 23:19, 31 January 2020 (UTC)
- Also, for accuracy here, I had moved the three selected bio entries into the selected article section, to consolidate data. Those are viewable at Portal:Malawi/Featured biography. North America1000 23:31, 31 January 2020 (UTC)
New Page Reviewer newsletter February 2020
Hello Northamerica1000,
- Source Guide Discussion
The first NPP source guide discussion is now underway. It covers a wide range of sources in Ghana with the goal of providing more guidance to reviewers about sources they might see when reviewing pages. Hopefully, new page reviewers will join others interested in reliable sources and those with expertise in these sources to make the discussion a success.
- Redirects
New to NPP? Looking to try something a little different? Consider patrolling some redirects. Redirects are relatively easy to review, can be found easily through the New Pages Feed. You can find more information about how to patrol redirects at WP:RPATROL.
- Discussions and Resources
- There is an ongoing discussion around changing notifications for new editors who attempt to write articles.
- A recent discussion of whether Michelin starred restraunts are notable was archived without closure.
- A resource page with links pertinent for reviewers was created this month.
- A proposal to increase the scope of G5 was withdrawn.
- Refresher
Geographic regions, areas and places generally do not need general notability guideline type sourcing. When evaluating whether an article meets this notability guideline please also consider whether it might actually be a form of WP:SPAM for a development project (e.g. PR for a large luxury residential development) and not actually covered by the guideline.
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16:08, 13 February 2020 (UTC)
Nomination of Museum of Beer and Brewing for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Museum of Beer and Brewing is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.
The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Museum of Beer and Brewing until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.
Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Cardiffbear88 (talk) 17:32, 15 February 2020 (UTC)
Request
@Northamerica1000: you are invited to use refill that works, for the article Harry Anderson (artist) and the article Taiwan Adventist Hospital. Catfurball (talk) 19:00, 23 January 2020 (UTC)
- @Catfurball: Are you referring to User:Zhaofeng Li/reFill? From a cursory viewing, the sources in both articles appear to be in order. North America1000 23:22, 31 January 2020 (UTC)
- @Northamerica1000: OK if you say so. Catfurball (talk) 16:31, 1 February 2020 (UTC)
- @Catfurball: reFill typically doesn't do much when sources are already formatted, such as with the cite web template, etc. However, sure, the sources in these articles could be improved by using a full citation style. I sometimes use Citer to perform this. However, I don't have any interest in working on these articles at this time. North America1000 00:29, 8 February 2020 (UTC)
This week's article for improvement (week 8, 2020)
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Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- Pages on Wikidata and Commons now load faster. You can read more about page load performance. [4][5]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 February. It will be on all wikis from 20 February (calendar).
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16:17, 17 February 2020 (UTC)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 February. It will be on all wikis from 27 February (calendar).
Future changes
- There will be a reply button after each post on a talk page if you want one. This will soon be a beta feature on the Arabic, French, Dutch and Hungarian Wikipedias. You will have to turn it on if you want to use it. It will come to more wikis later. You can test the reply button. It was briefly shown earlier than planned by mistake on the four first wikis last week.
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21:00, 24 February 2020 (UTC)
Idea for new community workspace
Hi. I would like to create some kind of collaborative workspace where coordinators or members of various WikiProjects would gather and provide updates and information on what is going on at each wikiproject, i.e. regarding their latest efforts, projects, and where interested editors can get involved.
You have been very helpful, so I wanted to get your brief input on whether you'd be interested in helping me to make this happen. I see a few possible options for making this happen, so I would like to get your input and feedback on this. which of the options below would you prefer? also, please reply to the brief questions below.
- Would you be interested in an idea of this nature?
- If so, which option below seems most feasible to you?
- Create a new page/talk page at the existing WikiProject Council, where members of various WikiProject can gather to offer updates, information and ideas on the latest efforts at each of their own WikiProject, such as Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Town Hall.
- Create an entirely new WikiProject with an inclusive name such as
- Create a new collaborative page or forum, but not as a new WIkiProject, i.e. with some name like
- Create a new sub-page in my own userspace, such as User:Sm8900/Town Hall
- Create a subpage at an umbrella-type WikiProject that already covers a broad topical area, such as Wikipedia:WikiProject History/Town Hall
Please feel free to let me know what you think of this idea, and please let me know your preference, regarding the options above. if you do not see any need for this idea, that is totally fine. However, I think that the majority of editors lack awareness of where the truly active editing is taking place and at which WikiProjects, and I would like to do whatever I can to help make people more aware of where the activity is, what they can do to help, and also which areas of Wikipedia offer ideas and efforts that might help them in their own editing activities. Please feel free to let me know. --Sm8900 (talk) 05:23, 9 February 2020 (UTC)
- @Sm8900: A lot of interesting and functional ideas here. I will need some time to think all of this over, but will reply in the very near future with my ideas. North America1000 20:48, 9 February 2020 (UTC)
- @Sm8900: I see you've started out with the creation of Wikipedia:Town Hall. Will this cover matters on Wikipedia in addition to Wikiprojects? If you're interested in creating a forum only for WikiProjects, it may be wise to set it up as a Wikiproject itself, such as Wikipedia:WIkiProject Town Hall you denoted above. A central location for Wikiprojects only to provide information is a great idea, and would serve to keep the forum focused on specific matters, rather than upon any matters. North America1000 00:12, 11 February 2020 (UTC)
- thanks so much!! I agree with your idea to some extent. however there are a few drawbacks to setting up a WikiProject for this right now, as stated below.
- firstly, we don't have a consensus for this yet. I truly appreciate your helpful support on this; I simply need a few more editors to express active interest, in order for this to be set up with some real chance for growth.
- actually, I don't mean for this to be only for WikiProjects. I mean for it to be for any group project. however, setting this up as a WikiProject would be fine with me. however, I still need a few more editors to support this idea, before I can do so.
- right now, I am keeping this page as a draft in my own user space. that way, I can give this idea time to develop, and allow the discussion to develop positively. I think that is the best way to allow this to be a healthy and positive discussion.
- by the way, Nick Moyes is an admin here who has been extremely helpful. I have pinged him from the page that I set up as a draft. If he provides more insights, I will let you know.
- feel free to let me know any other comments that you may have. thanks!! --Sm8900 (talk) 01:30, 11 February 2020 (UTC)
- by the way, if you know of any other editors whom you think might like this idea, feel free to send them over. right now, we still need at least a few more editors to support this, in order to give this any practical means to be a real resource. thanks!! --Sm8900 (talk) 01:32, 11 February 2020 (UTC)
- thanks so much!! I agree with your idea to some extent. however there are a few drawbacks to setting up a WikiProject for this right now, as stated below.
Cleaned up
@Northamerica1000: Just to let you know I just cleaned up my work on Taiwan Adventist Hospital, so you don't have to worry about it.Catfurball (talk) 23:46, 18 February 2020 (UTC)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- There is a new search word called
articletopic. You can use it to search for articles on a specific topic. It is available on the Arabic, Czech, English and Vietnamese Wikipedias. It will come to more Wikipedias soon. [6][7][8]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 10 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 11 March. It will be on all wikis from 12 March (calendar).
Future changes
- There is a plan for new requirements for user signatures. You can give feedback.
- The Wikipedia Android app will do push notifications if users want them. This could help you see for example when someone wrote on your talk page or your edit was reverted. This will come later this year. [9]
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17:15, 9 March 2020 (UTC)
This week's article for improvement (week 11, 2020)
Hello, Northamerica1000.
The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Company • Nature reserve Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 9 March 2020 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI • |
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Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Problems
- Readers who were not logged in briefly saw the interface in a language decided by their browser. It should normally be in the language of the wiki. This happened for a short period of time last week. This was because of a bug. [10]
Changes later this week
- If you forget your password you can ask for a new one to be sent to your email address. You need to know your email address or your username. You will now be able to choose that you need to enter both your email address and your username. This will be a preference. This is to get fewer password reset emails someone else asked for. [11]
- When you asked for a new password you could see if the username didn't exist on Special:PasswordReset. Now the page will show the username you entered and tell you an email has been sent if the username exists. This is for better security. [12]
- On Special:WhatLinksHere you can see what other pages link to a page. You can see if the link is from a redirect. You can now see which section the redirect links to. [13]
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 3 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 4 March. It will be on all wikis from 5 March (calendar).
Future changes
- The developers are working on a new interface to solve edit conflicts on talk pages. You can give feedback. [14]
- There is a vote on the creation of a new user group called abuse filter manager. The vote runs from March 1 to March 31 on Meta.
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wgMFSpecialCaseMainPagewas used for the mobile site. It was deprecated in 2017. It will stop working in April. Wikis should see if they use it. If they do they should fix it. You can read more and ask for help. This affects 183 wikis. There is a list. [15]
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00:36, 3 March 2020 (UTC)
This week's article for improvement (week 9, 2020)
The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Length • Religious text Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:06, 24 February 2020 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI • |
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G13 Eligibility Notice
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G13 Eligibility Notice
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Here's another. FloridaArmy (talk) 00:04, 26 February 2020 (UTC)
The Signpost: 1 March 2020
- From the editor: The ball is in your court
- News and notes: Alexa ranking down to 13th worldwide
- Special report: More participation, more conversation, more pageviews
- Discussion report: Do you prefer M or P?
- Arbitration report: Two prominent administrators removed
- Community view: The Incredible Invisible Woman
- In focus: History of The Signpost, 2015–2019
- From the archives: Is Wikipedia for sale?
- Traffic report: February articles, floating in the dark
- Gallery: Feel the love
- On the bright side: What's making you happy this month?
- Opinion: Wikipedia is another country
- Humour: The Wilhelm scream
This week's article for improvement (week 10, 2020)
 A company is a legal entity made up of an association of people, be they natural, legal, or a mixture of both, for carrying on a commercial or industrial enterprise.
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FYI
just FYI adding {{portalbar|'border=no" makes it visible in mobile view. More at WP:PORTL.☺--Moxy 🍁 02:27, 23 February 2020 (UTC)
Greetings. I thought you might be able to help with this draft. FloridaArmy (talk) 23:34, 25 February 2020 (UTC)
This is another interesting one. FloridaArmy (talk) 00:04, 26 February 2020 (UTC)
GOCE March newsletter
Guild of Copy Editors March 2020 Newsletter
  Hello and welcome to the March newsletter, a brief update of Guild activities since December 2019. All being well, we're planning to issue these quarterly in 2020, balancing the need to communicate widely with the avoidance of filling up talk pages. Don't forget you can unsubscribe at any time; see below. Election results: There was little changeover in the roster of Guild Coordinators, with Miniapolis stepping down with distinction as a coordinator emeritus while Jonesey95 returned as lead coordinator. The next election is scheduled for June 2020 and all Wikipedians in good standing may participate. January Drive: Thanks to everyone for the splendid work, completing 215 copy edits including 56 articles from the Requests page and 116 backlog articles from the target months of June to August 2019. At the conclusion of the drive there was a record low of 323 articles in the copy editing backlog. Of the 27 editors who signed up for the drive, 21 copyedited at least one article. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. February Blitz: Of the 15 editors who signed up for this one-week blitz, 13 completed at least one copy edit. A total of 32 articles were copy edited, evenly split between the twin goals of requests and the oldest articles from the copy-editing backlog. Full results are here. March Drive: Currently underway, this event is targeting requests and backlog articles from September to November 2019. As of 18 March, the backlog stands at a record low of 253 articles and is expected to drop further as the drive progresses. Awards will be given to everyone who copyedits at least one article from the backlog. Help set a new record and sign up now! Progress report: As of 18 March, GOCE copyeditors have completed 161 requests in 2020 and there was a net reduction of 385 articles from the copy-editing backlog – a 60% decrease from the beginning of the year. Well done and thank you everyone! Election reminder: It may only be March but don't forget our mid-year Election of Coordinators opens for nominations on 1 June. Coordinators normally serve a six-month term and are elected on an approval basis. Self-nominations are welcome. If you've thought of helping out at the Guild, or know of another editor who would make a good coordinator, please consider standing for election or nominating them here. Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators Jonesey95, Baffle gab1978, Reidgreg, Tdslk and Twofingered Typist To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.
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Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- There is a new API module for changing the content model of existing pages. Use
action=changecontentmodelto specify the new model. You can read the documentation on mediawiki.org. [16]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 March. It will be on all wikis from 19 March (calendar).
Future changes
- If you edit a page at the same time as someone else you can get an edit conflict. There is a new two-column interface to make it easier to solve this. It will soon be active by default on the German, Arabic, and Farsi Wikipedias. It will be on by default on more wikis within the next months. You will be able to opt out of the new interface. [17][18]
- You can see a proposed design for replying to comments in an easier way.
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21:16, 16 March 2020 (UTC)
This week's article for improvement (week 12, 2020)
Hello, Northamerica1000.
The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Transglobe Expedition • Company Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:06, 16 March 2020 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI • |
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Administrators' newsletter – March 2020
News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2020).
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Guideline and policy news
- Following an RfC, the blocking policy was changed to state that sysops
must not
undo or alter CheckUser or Oversight blocks, rather thanshould not
. - A request for comment confirmed that sandboxes of established but inactive editors may not be blanked due solely to inactivity.
- Following an RfC, the blocking policy was changed to state that sysops
Technical news
- Following a discussion, Twinkle's default CSD behavior will soon change, most likely this week. After the change, Twinkle will default to "tagging mode" if there is no CSD tag present, and default to "deletion mode" if there is a CSD tag present. You will be able to always default to "deletion mode" (the current behavior) using your Twinkle preferences.
Miscellaneous
- Following the 2020 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: BRPever, Krd, Martin Urbanec, MusikAnimal, Sakretsu, Sotiale, and Tks4Fish. There are a total of seven editors that have been appointed as stewards, the most since 2014.
- The 2020 appointees for the Ombudsman commission are Ajraddatz and Uzoma Ozurumba; they will serve for one year.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Problems
- Some development will be slower than planned. This is because of the current pandemic. You can see the new deployment guidelines. This is to avoid risks when some persons could be unavailable.
- There was a problem when adding interwiki links. The tool you use to add interwiki links could suggest the wrong project to link to. This has now been fixed. [19][20]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 24 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 25 March. It will be on all wikis from 26 March (calendar).
Future changes
- There is a project to make editing easier for newcomers. The developers are trying to understand what initiatives different Wikipedias have to welcome newcomers. They also want to know which templates are often used for maintenance activities. You can help this project by checking if your wiki's pages are listed on Wikidata.
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17:08, 23 March 2020 (UTC)
Orphaned non-free image File:Home Chef logo.png
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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) 17:31, 28 March 2020 (UTC)
This week's article for improvement (week 13, 2020)
Hello, Northamerica1000.
The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Darts • Transglobe Expedition Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 23 March 2020 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI • |
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G13 Eligibility Notice
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Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- The beta version of the Wikipedia app for Android can now help users add tags on Commons. These tags are called depicts. [21]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 31 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 April. It will be on all wikis from 2 April (calendar).
Future changes
- The video player will change to be simpler and more modern. The current beta feature will become the video player for everyone. The old player will be removed. [22]
- There is a project to make templates easier to use. The next few weeks the developers will present ideas on the project page. You can watch that page if you are interested in giving feedback. [23]
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17:25, 30 March 2020 (UTC)
G13 Eligibility Notice
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urgent BLP vandalism intervention needed
Howdy! You're showing up in the "recently active admins" queue and AIV isn't getting to this disaster: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/162.154.216.124
Thanks for any help you can offer! - Julietdeltalima (talk) 01:43, 26 March 2020 (UTC)
- @Julietdeltalima: Another admin beat me to it. North America1000 01:47, 26 March 2020 (UTC)
So sorry
I don't know what the heck happened to me at Livermush. I intended to remove one wikilink but ended up reverting a lot of your good work. And now I see that the link is removed. I must have had a major senior moment!! Sincere apologies, and thanks for your work on the article. Sundayclose (talk) 16:27, 14 March 2020 (UTC)
- Hi Sundayclose: No worries, sometimes these things happen, and we're all potentially one accidental misclick away from ruination. Thanks for caring, North America1000 20:45, 14 March 2020 (UTC)
Deletion of page Thomas Lehmann
Hello, I am Tom Lehmann, game designer and subject of a wikipedia page Thomas Lehmann that was deleted by you on 22 Jan. 2020.
After I was alerted to this, I looked at the deletion log and discussion. The AFD request was made by Beemer69, who is, according to his own page, a video game -- not a board game -- enthusiast. While a few video games have been made of my board games, the majority of my work has been in board games, a field that he does not appear to be well versed in. Further, it was included in the Video games-related deletion discussion, which is not my professional field.
His request begins: "Non-notable game designer with no third-party coverage." This is incorrect. Within the board-game field, I have received multiple awards and numerous nominations for my games, most notably for Race for the Galaxy in 2007 and most recently the 2020 As D'Or (Best Expert Game) for my 2019 game Res Arcana. On the site Boardgamegeek, I have 6 games in the top 1000 all-time games.
The user Australianblackbelt then comments "There is nothing on the internet referring to the subject". This is incorrect. A simple google search of "Tom Lehmann board games" will produce over 1.4M results, many of them articles about my games, press interviews with me, etc.
Please restore this article. If the issue is that it needs more sources, I am happy to add some. Thanks.99.40.5.48 (talk) 03:09, 13 March 2020 (UTC)
- Hello 99.40.5.48: A problem is that per the deletion discussion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Thomas Lehmann, it was determined that you presently do not meet Wikipedia's notability standards (e.g. see WP:BASIC and WP:NOTE) for inclusion in the encyclopedia. Per the overall arguments and consensus at the deletion discussion, I'm not allowed to restore the deleted article under these circumstances.
- Of note is that subjects need to meet Wikipedia's notability criteria to qualify for an article. For example, have you received significant coverage in reliable sources that is beyond routine, local coverage? For example, I looked at the Board game geek profile page, but it is simply in the form of a short directory listing, and does not consist of significant coverage. Furthermore, the reliability of the source itself may be questionable relative to Wikipedia's purposes as an encyclopedia.
- I understand your frustration, but interests of the nominator for deletion (e.g. video games, rather than board games) does not necessarily correspond with their ability to ascertain notability for other subjects and topics. Furthermore, the Video games and People deletion sorting notices in the deletion discussion and corresponding listings were not placed by the nominator, they were placed by another user.
- A way to move forward would be for me to move the deleted page into Wikipedia's WP:DRAFT namespace, where you could work on the article to demonstrate notability per Wikipedia's standards. After, I recommend that you submit the draft to Articles for creation, where your submission can be reviewed. An easy way to do this is to place
{{Userspace draft}}{{draft}} atop the draft page and then select the "Submit your draft for review" link. Please let me know if you are interested in having the deleted article moved into the draft namespace. North America1000 09:26, 13 March 2020 (UTC)- My games have won multiple awards, which have received press coverage from independent sources: for example, the coverage of Res Arcana winning the As D'Or at the latest Cannes Games Festival in France, reported here. I've been a guest of honor at multiple gaming conventions; on gaming panels at multiple World Science Fiction conventions; and have been invited to give talks at game design conferences, such as this talk.
- Please move the deleted article into the draft namespace. Thanks.99.40.5.48 (talk) 12:11, 13 March 2020 (UTC)
- A stalker writes: I think there's potential for a viable article here, even if the previous version (which I have not seen) didn't have enough good references. Several of the designer's games rightly have articles, and other Wikipedias have de:Tom Lehmann (Spieleautor) and fr:Thomas Lehmann. (Disclosure: I have some of those games on my shelf.) Certes (talk) 13:40, 13 March 2020 (UTC)
- (talk page stalker) I hadn't seen the deleted article, but I also think there's a reasonable shot at finding better references. (and the video game categorization at the AfD couldn't have helped) Support moving back to draft to at least make an attempt. (Disclosure: In addition to owning several of his games, I've also shared a gaming table with him a couple of times when he guested at a local convention (EGG, if you were wondering, Tom...)) --Finngall talk 17:19, 13 March 2020 (UTC)
- A stalker writes: I think there's potential for a viable article here, even if the previous version (which I have not seen) didn't have enough good references. Several of the designer's games rightly have articles, and other Wikipedias have de:Tom Lehmann (Spieleautor) and fr:Thomas Lehmann. (Disclosure: I have some of those games on my shelf.) Certes (talk) 13:40, 13 March 2020 (UTC)
- Hello 99.40.5.48, Certes and Finngall: The article and its corresponding talk page have been draftified, and are now located at Draft:Thomas Lehmann and Draft talk:Thomas Lehmann, respectively. North America1000 07:33, 14 March 2020 (UTC)
Yomeishu
Are you trying to get someone to start a page for Yomeishu? Why not start the page yourself? -- Doctorx0079 (talk) 00:47, 18 March 2020 (UTC)
- No. List of liqueurs is tagged as needing more citations for verification. It's unclear why you are removing new sources that I am adding, but it is not improving the article, it is deteriorating it. It is difficult to improve articles when you keep erasing the improvements. North America1000 01:24, 18 March 2020 (UTC)
- More citations doesn't mean longer descriptions. I didn't remove your citation, I removed your long information about the liqueur. However I think your current short description is fine. -- Doctorx0079 (talk) 01:29, 18 March 2020 (UTC)
- You previously removed a reference and note in this edit, stating in the edit summary, "This belongs in a separate article about Yomeishu". However, the list article is tagged as needing more citations, and removing the source deteriorated the article. North America1000 01:48, 18 March 2020 (UTC)
- The new source is better. -- Doctorx0079 (talk) 02:09, 18 March 2020 (UTC)
- You previously removed a reference and note in this edit, stating in the edit summary, "This belongs in a separate article about Yomeishu". However, the list article is tagged as needing more citations, and removing the source deteriorated the article. North America1000 01:48, 18 March 2020 (UTC)
- More citations doesn't mean longer descriptions. I didn't remove your citation, I removed your long information about the liqueur. However I think your current short description is fine. -- Doctorx0079 (talk) 01:29, 18 March 2020 (UTC)
Reference fill tool
Are you familiar with this refill tool?. May come in handier than Template:Cleanup bare URLs.Djflem (talk) 07:32, 24 March 2020 (UTC)
- Hi @Djflem: Yes, I use reFill and Webreflinks from time-to-time. A problem I've been having is that when I use these tools, I am then logged off of Wikipedia automatically at times, which is a serious problem. Another issue is that sometimes these tool pages won't load for minutes at a time for me, and when they do, they will parse for minutes before providing any output to publish. North America1000 07:35, 24 March 2020 (UTC)
- Yes, it is a pain sometimes.Djflem (talk) 07:49, 24 March 2020 (UTC)
- Hello N and Djflem. I see that you are using the original refill tool. The tool was updated last year. While the old one is still available for use it is AFAIK not maintained and I think that is why you getting logged off. I just made a long post about this here Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)#Logged out by using REFILL and it might have some information that will be useful for you - or not :-) Best regards to you both and stay safe and well. MarnetteD|Talk 16:19, 24 March 2020 (UTC)
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