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Template:Did you know nominations/Alibabavum 40 Thirudargalum (1956 film)

Over there you wrote, "A full QPQ review was not provided by the nominator (here). A proper QPQ review needs to be performed before this can move forward." Now that I have performed one, can we please move forward with my DYK? We're running out of time. Kailash29792 (talk) 07:58, 31 December 2016 (UTC)

Hi Kailash29792: I may not revisit the discussion at this time, but as you noticed (per the Thanks notification I received from you), I have tagged the nomination as needing a full review. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 08:07, 31 December 2016 (UTC)

Never mind. But thank you anyway for tagging the nomination for needing a full review. I know Captain Assassin is supposed to review it, but he hasn't been on Wikipedia since 24 December. Kailash29792 (talk) 08:15, 31 December 2016 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Farmdrop

Hello! Your submission of Farmdrop at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Yoninah (talk) 23:49, 31 December 2016 (UTC)

A decoration for you (epiphylly)

	Happy New Year!
	Thank you for your efforts to keep Wikipedia smoothly functioning and improving! May 2017 bring you overall happiness as well as unexpected good news. Sminthopsis84 (talk) 14:04, 31 December 2016 (UTC)

• Sminthopsis84: Thanks for the nice message, and Happy New Year to you. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 23:26, 31 December 2016 (UTC)

Happy New Year, Northamerica1000!

Happy New Year!

Northamerica1000,
Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia. -- Dane ^talk 02:26, 1 January 2017 (UTC)

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• Hi Dane: Thanks, and Happy New Year to you too. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 02:40, 1 January 2017 (UTC)

Happy New Year

Happy New Year!

Northamerica1000,
Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia. CambridgeBayWeather, Uqaqtuq (talk), Sunasuttuq 03:16, 1 January 2017 (UTC)

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Happy New Year, Northamerica1000!

Happy New Year!

Northamerica1000,
Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia. –Davey2010 ^{Merry Xmas / Happy New Year} 03:33, 1 January 2017 (UTC)

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Happy New Year, Northamerica1000!

Happy New Year!

Northamerica1000,
Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia.
–Davey2010 ^{Merry Xmas / Happy New Year} 12:21, 1 January 2017 (UTC)

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Happy New Year

Happy New Year!

Hello Northamerica1000: Thanks for all of your contributions to Wikipedia, and have a great New Year! Cheers, CAPTAIN RAJU ^(✉) 21:40, 1 January 2017 (UTC)

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Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!!!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Northamerica,
I hope 2017 started well for you. You have my very best wishes for the holiday season and for the new year. Thank you for all the countless hours you put into Wikipedia!
--Crystallizedcarbon (talk) 23:12, 1 January 2017 (UTC)

Happy New Year, Northamerica1000

(Charles R. Knight, 1922)

Thank you for all you did for this project in 2016, Northamerica1000. May your house be safe, and may you and those having the privilege of your company enjoy good health in a Happy New Year 2017! Kind regards, — Sam Sailor 01:51, 2 January 2017 (UTC) Pass on! Send this greeting by adding {{subst:User:Sam Sailor/Templates/HappyNewYear}} to user talk pages. Automatic level-2 heading and auto-signing included.

Happy New Year, Northamerica1000!

Happy New Year!

Northamerica1000,
Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia.
Donner60 (talk) 03:33, 2 January 2017 (UTC)

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Happy New Year!

Happy New Year!

Hi Northamerica1000 - I hope you had a very merry holiday season. May your new year be happy and prosperous! ~SuperHamster Talk Contribs 04:20, 2 January 2017 (UTC)

Thanks!

• Hello @CambridgeBayWeather, Davey2010, CAPTAIN RAJU, Crystallizedcarbon, Sam Sailor, Donner60, and SuperHamster: Wow, thanks for the holiday cheer, and have a prosperous 2017. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 05:36, 2 January 2017 (UTC)

Happy New Year Northamerica1000!

Happy New Year!

Northamerica1000,
Have a prosperous, productive and wonderful New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia.

Rubbish computer (HALP!: I dropped the bass?) 15:17, 2 January 2017 (UTC)

Happy 2017

Great picture too! -- GreenC 21:50, 2 January 2017 (UTC)

Thanks

• Thanks @Rubbish computer and Green Cardamom: Hope you both have a great 2017. It's been all right so far... North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 00:20, 3 January 2017 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 1, 2017)

Some of the Aeolian Islands Hello, Northamerica1000. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Aeolian Islands Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Tectonics • Helena Bergström Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:07, 2 January 2017 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

Template:Did you know nominations/Alibabavum 40 Thirudargalum (1956 film)

Hi NA, one of our esteemed colleagues who works a lot in Indian cinema articles, Kailash29792, is interested in getting Template:Did you know nominations/Alibabavum 40 Thirudargalum (1956 film) up and running by 17 January, the 100th birthday of Indian actor M. G. Ramachandran. He's asked me to take a look at the DYK nomination, but I haven't the first idea how the DYK process works, so I don't know how I can help out. Is there any way that I could impose upon you to highlight whatever steps remain to get this thing up and running so at least Kailash has a checklist? And would there be any way you might consider keeping an eye on the process so that it has a chance to succeed in time for the 100th bday? I'd consider it a favor, since I have no other idea how to get this thing moving for him. Thanks, and if you don't have time, I understand that as well. Regards and happy new year, Cyphoidbomb (talk) 04:37, 4 January 2017 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) actually, NA did what he could, but that didn't help gain a new reviewer (the original reviewer, Captain Assassin hasn't edited in over a week). Kailash29792 (talk) 04:42, 4 January 2017 (UTC)

N.b. @Cyphoidbomb and Kailash29792:  Resolved. After the above was posted, Yoninah provided a review that approved the submission (diff). North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 22:33, 4 January 2017 (UTC)

Cool, thanks. I sure didn't know what to do here... Cyphoidbomb (talk) 22:44, 4 January 2017 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sherilyn Reyes-Tan

Hi there. I see you're taking a semi-wikibreak, but thought I'd throw this out there on the off chance you check in. I had placed the above article up for an AfD, but another user (not the article's creator) has moved the article to draftspace. However no mention was made on the AfD discussion... not sure how to proceed, thought you might. Oh, btw, Happy New Year. Onel5969 ^{TT me} 22:01, 4 January 2017 (UTC)

Never mind... GB Fan took care of it. Hope all is well. Onel5969 ^{TT me} 22:34, 4 January 2017 (UTC)

Onel5969 Yep, GB fan moved the article back to main namespace. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 22:36, 4 January 2017 (UTC)

Block this user

Thg099 is vandalized the page like Chandler Parsons was called robbery, you can block this user indefinitely. cyɾʋs ɴɵtɵ₃at ^BULAGA!!! 10:13, 6 January 2017 (UTC)

N.b. Another administrator has blocked the user. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 10:34, 6 January 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-02

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

• You can now use datasets on Commons. You can see an example that is using this source. [1]
• There is a new opt-in beta feature of a wikitext mode for the visual editor. You can try it out.
• When you update a page with translations on wikis with the Translate extension the existing translations will be marked as outdated instead of removed. [2]
• The new version of MediaWiki was released to all wikis last week (calendar).
• MoodBar has been removed from the Wikimedia wikis. [3]
• The live option for the Tipsy notice tool has been removed. Gadgets and user scripts which use it need to be updated. [4]

Problems

• Editors who use Firefox 50 might get logged out or fail to save their edits. This is because of a browser bug. Until this is fixed you can enter about:config in the address bar and set network.cookie.maxPerHost to 5000. Firefox 50 is the current version of the Firefox. [5]

Changes this week

• There is no new version of MediaWiki this week because of the Wikimedia Developer Summit.

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19:12, 9 January 2017 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Jumbo slice

Hello! Your submission of Jumbo slice at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Yoninah (talk) 19:48, 11 January 2017 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Brandon Schmidt (ice hockey)

You closed Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Brandon Schmidt (ice hockey). Did you close this as NN or Hoax? Your answer affects Puerto Rico Ice Hockey League and San Juan Ice Dogs. Agathoclea (talk) 14:28, 1 January 2017 (UTC)

• Hi Agathoclea: The discussion was closed with a majority of the weight of the subject being non-notable, as per the nomination for deletion. Two users stated that it is a hoax, but only one user provided some, but not absolutely conclusive evidence; the other user simply stated "looks like a hoax". Two users called for speedy deletion, with one stating it qualified per WP:A7 and another stating "... article is made up nonsense and should have been speedy deleted". Ultimately, while AfD discussion closures are not based upon an !vote count, the majority of users stated that the subject does not meet notability guidelines. I would need more evidence of the subject being a hoax to feel comfortable closing the discussion specifically as such. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 05:46, 2 January 2017 (UTC)

I will write up an AfD for the remaining articles once I have time to write an expose of "sources" used there and in the already deleted article. Might be a while as I have currently a larger project with deadlines Agathoclea (talk) 07:18, 5 January 2017 (UTC)

N.b. Agathoclea: I prodded Puerto Rico Ice Hockey League yesterday because source searches did not provide any significant coverage in reliable sources to qualify topic notability. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 20:56, 5 January 2017 (UTC)

Proding might take care of it painlessly. Thanks. Agathoclea (talk) 20:59, 5 January 2017 (UTC)

Stop normalizing AfD

Giving you a heads up since you deproded Stop Normalizing Alt Right Chrome extension the first time and moved it. If you feel like commenting you can here: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Stop Normalizing Alt Right Chrome extension. TonyBallioni (talk) 19:01, 8 January 2017 (UTC)

@TonyBallioni: Thanks for the notification. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 00:47, 9 January 2017 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 2, 2017)

Professional audio – pictured is a portable setup of various live audio production and recording equipment Hello, Northamerica1000. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Professional audio Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Aeolian Islands • Tectonics Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:08, 9 January 2017 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

Proposal to be admin on my profile

Please, I want to be an admin because I am active on English Wikipedia. cyɾʋs ɴɵtɵ₃at ^BULAGA!!! 10:12, 9 January 2017 (UTC)

• Hello Cyrus noto3at bulaga: For starters, I recommend reading Wikipedia:Guide to requests for adminship, particularly the "General advice for nominees" section. Wikipedia:Administrators also provides useful information. Users interested in adminship need to demonstrate a general need for access to the admin toolset. You're a relatively new user having begun editing under your registered account since early October 2016, so if you were to run for adminship, you may encounter opposition for lacking overall experience in areas that administrators manage. What type of administrative duties would you be interested in? North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 23:39, 9 January 2017 (UTC)

Editing the RfC listings

Please don't make edits like this, this, or this. It's a bot-built page; Legobot (talk · contribs) updates it hourly based upon what it finds on other pages, and when doing so it ignores the current contents of the RfC listing (this is a useful anti-vandal measure). The syntax of the {{rfc}} template is critical too; to get an RfC listed at Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Wikipedia policies and guidelines, you need to add the |policy parameter to the existing {{rfc}} template, and it needs to be before any existing |rfcid= parameter. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 23:46, 14 January 2017 (UTC)

So, I made this edit with this result. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 00:07, 15 January 2017 (UTC)

@Redrose64: Thanks for the fix. I have taken note of of where the parameter goes when adding new topic areas to the rfc template for future reference (before the rfcid). Your edits are all it took to get it done right! North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 11:13, 15 January 2017 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 3, 2017)

Some of the human organs Hello, Northamerica1000. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Organ (anatomy) Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Professional audio • Aeolian Islands Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:08, 16 January 2017 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

Tech News: 2017-03

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

• You can now upload WebP files to Commons. [6]

Problems

• video2commons was down for two weeks. This was because of a problem with Commons video transcoders. It is now back up. [7]

Changes this week

• There is a new magic word called {{PAGELANGUAGE}}. It returns the language of the page you are at. This can be used on wikis with more than one language to make it easier for translators. [8]
• When an admin blocks a user or deletes or protects a page they give a reason why. They can now get suggestions when they write. The suggestions will be based on the messages in the dropdown menu. [9]
• You will be able to use <chem> to write chemical formulas. Before you could use <ce>. <ce> should be replaced by <chem>. [10]
• You now can add exceptions for categories which shouldn't be shown on Special:UncategorizedCategories. The list is at MediaWiki:Uncategorized-categories-exceptionlist. [11]
• The "Columns" and "Rows" settings will be removed from the Editing tab in Preferences. If you wish to keep what the "Rows" setting did you can add this code to your personal CSS: #wpTextbox1 { height: 50em; } You can change the number 50 to make it look like you want to. [12]
• Sometimes edits in MediaWiki by mistake are shown coming from private IP addresses such as 127.0.0.1. Edits and other contributions logged to these IP addresses will be blocked and shown the reason from MediaWiki:Softblockrangesreason. This should not affect most users. Bots and other tools running on Wikimedia Labs, including Tool Labs will receive a "blocked" error if they try to edit without being logged in. [13]
• When you edit with the visual editor categories will be on the top of the page options menu. [14]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 January. It will be on all wikis from 19 January (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on January 17 at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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23:24, 16 January 2017 (UTC)

The Signpost: 17 January 2017

• From the editor: Next steps for the Signpost

• News and notes: Surge in RFA promotions—a sign of lasting change?

• Interview: What is it like to edit Wikipedia when you're blind?

• In the media: Year-end roundups, Wikipedia's 16th birthday, and more

• Featured content: One year ends, and another begins

• Arbitration report: Concluding 2016 and covering 2017's first two cases

• Traffic report: Out with the old, in with the new

• Technology report: Tech present, past, and future

• Recent research: Female Wikipedians aren't more likely to edit women biographies; Black Lives Matter in Wikipedia

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Nomination for deletion of Template:2017 Women's Marches

Template:2017 Women's Marches has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. - CHAMPION ^{(talk) (contributions) (logs)} 02:28, 23 January 2017 (UTC)

DYK for Farmdrop

On 10 January 2017, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Farmdrop, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that farmers and fishermen receive a higher percentage of the retail price using Farmdrop because no middlemen are involved in the supply chain? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Farmdrop. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Farmdrop), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 12:02, 10 January 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-04

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

• You can see a list of the templates on a page you edit with the visual editor. [15]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 24 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 25 January. It will be on all wikis from 26 January (calendar).

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20:15, 23 January 2017 (UTC)

Category:Action heroes has been nominated for discussion

Category:Action heroes, which you created, has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. A discussion is taking place to see if it abides with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. Marcocapelle (talk) 19:48, 26 January 2017 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 4, 2017)

Ghanaian nationalists celebrating the 50th anniversary of national independence in 2007 Hello, Northamerica1000. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: African nationalism Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Organ (anatomy) • Professional audio Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:09, 23 January 2017 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

2017 Women's March

I may have stomped on one or more of your edits of 2017 Women's March. If so, it was unintentional. Since you know what you were doing, it would probably be easier for you than for me to restore anything you wanted. —Anomalocaris (talk) 11:35, 23 January 2017 (UTC)

Alive and kicking I see!

Good!--Mark Miller (talk) 12:45, 24 January 2017 (UTC) Thanks for adding the talk page attribution. I was a bit sic and went to finish that just now and saw that you had done it.--Mark Miller (talk) 01:51, 25 January 2017 (UTC)

Hey Mark Miller: Yep, still around. Regarding the attribution notices on the talk pages, you're welcome. I figured I'd just get it done, rather than ask you to do it, etc. For future reference, the bare minimum for copy/move attribution is to state in edit summaries that content is being copied/moved, including the links to the articles. Edit summary examples include: "Moved content here from foo" for the target and "Moved content to foo1" in an edit summary in the article where content is being moved from. Anyway, hope you're doing well, and happy editing. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 07:11, 25 January 2017 (UTC)

Yeah. I forgot to add it in edit summary. And when I came back you had done it. I understand the process, it's part of the merge process and I had to research the ins and outs to document the Project process at Wikipedia:WikiProject Merge. So..there is really no excuses for my not taking care of it as I worked. I just wasn't able to even get a talk page up so thanks for that as well.--Mark Miller (talk) 21:40, 25 January 2017 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
	Let's stop those who impoverish the W-Project. Ficxitalf2 (talk) 19:20, 17 January 2017 (UTC)

• @Ficxitalf2: Thanks for the star. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 00:09, 19 January 2017 (UTC)
  • Deserved.--Ficxitalf2 (talk) 04:35, 19 January 2017 (UTC)

DYK for Soup and sandwich

On 19 January 2017, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Soup and sandwich, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the soup and sandwich combination (example pictured) has been a popular lunch dish in the United States since the 1920s? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Soup and sandwich. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Soup and sandwich), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 12:01, 19 January 2017 (UTC)

Congrats on your DYK. It's still amazing to me that so many seemingly ordinary things don't have articles, and some people say "Wikipedia is done". Anyhow you might be interested in listing it at Wikipedia:The 50,000 Challenge -- we are at just 2% of our goal. - Brianhe (talk) 16:43, 19 January 2017 (UTC)

Hi Brianhe: I may hold off on that, because another user recently tagged the article with the globalize template. If sources are available about the topic in other countries, then it may not fit in neatly within the scope of "U.S. only", or being primarily a U.S.-based topic. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 16:48, 19 January 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-05

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 OAuth management interfaces now look slightly different. [16]

Changes this week

• ElectronPdfService will be enabled by default on Meta and German Wikipedia. This is a new way to get articles as PDF files you can download. It will come to more wikis later. [17]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from January 31. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from February 1. It will be on all wikis from February 2 (calendar).

Future changes

• The Community Tech team will develop more tools to handle harassment of Wikimedia editors. The goal is to give the communities better tools to find, report and evaluate harassment. They will also work on more effective blocking tools. [18][19]
• The Wikimedia technical community is doing a Developer Wishlist survey. Developers can propose ideas before 31 January 23:59 UTC. This is soon.

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18:45, 30 January 2017 (UTC)

Re List of 2017 Women's March locations

Point taken. I guess when I am trimming, removing OR, removing unreliable social media sources, etc, and I see an empty section I guess I was just including that as part of wikifying. I take your point. If you think that the editors need more time and that it is not a mistake then I will certainly follow your advice. Apologies for any inconveniences or extra work on your part. Yours, Quis separabit? 07:22, 28 January 2017 (UTC)

• @Rms125a@hotmail.com: Thanks for being so considerate, much appreciated! North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 07:28, 28 January 2017 (UTC)

Mark McKenna

Undoing Although the deletion was probably valid (I guess there's some minor actor with the same name), an article entitled Mark McKenna is a legit redlink as the comics inker has been around for a few decades and had a lot of work. I'm rolling back a lot of these removals but I want you to know that I realize that they aren't vandalism or inappropriate as such. ―Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 02:06, 29 January 2017 (UTC)

• @Koavf: No problem. I was not aware of the comics illustrator named Mark McKenna, so it makes sense to restore the link in comics-related articles. Thanks for your attention to detail regarding this matter. Perhaps you should consider creating a new article for this subject, if he is notable. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 02:29, 29 January 2017 (UTC)
  • Thank you Some guys get really bent out of shape about rollbacking. I would like to but I'm snowed under at the moment. ―Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 02:36, 29 January 2017 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 5, 2017)

Hello, Northamerica1000. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Nvidia Shadowplay Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: African nationalism • Organ (anatomy) Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:07, 30 January 2017 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

DYK for Raisin cake

On 21 January 2017, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Raisin cake, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that David distributed raisin cake? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Raisin cake. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Raisin cake), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 12:01, 21 January 2017 (UTC)

New Wikiproject!

Hello, Northamerica1000! I saw you recently edited a page related to the Green party and green politics. There is a new WikiProject that has been formed - WikiProject Green Politics and I thought this might be something you'd be interested in joining! So please head on over to the project page and take a look! Thanks for your time. Me-123567-Me (talk) 02:49, 23 January 2017 (UTC)

• Hi Me-123567-Me: Thanks for the notification, and I'll think it over. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 02:51, 23 January 2017 (UTC)
  • I can't ask any more than that! Me-123567-Me (talk) 02:53, 23 January 2017 (UTC)

DYK for Rabbit stew

On 23 January 2017, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Rabbit stew, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that rabbit stew (pictured) sometimes includes rabbit blood as an ingredient to thicken and enrich it? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Rabbit stew. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Rabbit stew), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Schwede66 12:01, 23 January 2017 (UTC)

New articles

Hi. There apparently is a school project going on (or was back in September). Just ran across 2 articles in the NPP queue, Oogonial (Female Germline) stem cells and Spermatogonial Stem Cells. Do you know any editor with experience on medical or biology? If so, could you have them take a look? Onel5969 ^{TT me} 12:38, 27 January 2017 (UTC)

• Hi Onel5969: Not offhand. You could post notices at the Wikipedia:WikiProject Biology and Wikipedia:WikiProject Medicine talk pages to request assistance with the articles. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 21:44, 27 January 2017 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter - February 2017

News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2017). This first issue is being sent out to all administrators, if you wish to keep receiving it please subscribe. Your feedback is welcomed.

Administrator changes

NinjaRobotPirate • Schwede66 • K6ka • Ealdgyth • Ferret • Cyberpower678 • Mz7 • Primefac • Dodger67

Briangotts • JeremyA • BU Rob13

Guideline and policy news

• A discussion to workshop proposals to amend the administrator inactivity policy at Wikipedia talk:Administrators has been in process since late December 2016.
• Wikipedia:Pending changes/Request for Comment 2016 closed with no consensus for implementing Pending changes level 2 with new criteria for use.
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13:37, 1 February 2017 (UTC)

Nomination of SRT Tomahawk for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article SRT Tomahawk 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/SRT Tomahawk (2nd nomination) until a consensus is reached, and anyone 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. --Dennis Bratland (talk) 07:19, 6 February 2017 (UTC)

Nissan Caravan hat note debate

Hi Northamerica1000 There is a lenghty debate about a hat note on the Talk:Nissan Caravan page. Essentially the debate is around the need for a hat note because there is another make of vehicle, a Dodge, with the Caravan model. Those for the hat note say that it would be helpful to have a hat note indicating that there is more than one manufacturer with a model called a Caravan. Those of us who do not agree suggest that as there is a disambiguation page for the term Caravan this should be sufficient because it is unlikely readers who are unaware of a vehiles ake would arrive at either the Dodge or the Nissan pages without first going through the Caravan page. We have suggested that the hat note does not reach the threshold to meet WP:hatnote. My thought is that a compromise solution, while not ideal, may be to leave the hat note as something along the lines For other makes of vehicle with the same name see Caravan]] I would like some guidance as to whether this could be an appropriate answer. NealeFamily (talk) 10:10, 2 February 2017 (UTC)

• Hi @NealeFamily: While I may not become in involved in the massive debate occurring at the Nissan Caravan talk page, your idea seems like it would be fine to me. Whether or not others agree with it is another matter. Hatnotes can be custom-made. See examples below. I prefer the latter (less wordy). North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 15:23, 2 February 2017 (UTC)

For other makes of vehicle with the same name see Caravan § Automobile models

For other makes of vehicle named "Caravan" see Caravan § Automobile models

Thanks for your assistance, I will put the idea forward. NealeFamily (talk) 23:18, 2 February 2017 (UTC)

DYK for Jumbo slice

On 17 January 2017, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Jumbo slice, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that a single jumbo slice (pictured) may contain over 1,000 calories? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Jumbo slice. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Jumbo slice), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 12:01, 17 January 2017 (UTC)

• N.b. I only nominated this for DYK; my edits were not significant enough to qualify as having expanded the article. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 18:01, 17 January 2017 (UTC)

Congratulations! With 29,422 hits, it's currently the leader for January hooks! Yoninah (talk) 00:02, 20 January 2017 (UTC)

@Yoninah: Thanks for letting me know. Pizza is a very popular food in many areas of the world, so anything on Main page about it is likely to get lots of page views. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 09:40, 25 January 2017 (UTC)

Nomination of List of carbon accounting software for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article List of carbon accounting software 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/List of carbon accounting software until a consensus is reached, and anyone 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. Waggie (talk) 18:42, 6 February 2017 (UTC)

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• The block log sometimes showed blocks as being much longer than they were. This has now been fixed. [20]

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19:45, 6 February 2017 (UTC)

OmarGosh

Well the thing is ... the draft was presumably the same as the article deleted at AfD, and you all were considering doing a move and re-delete concerning that material. And the editor has now copied and pasted the draft contents to OmarGosh. So the article deleted via AfD exists again no matter which way you slice it. I'll leave you admins to sort the matter out, but since you were talking about deletion ... Yngvadottir (talk) 22:27, 2 February 2017 (UTC)

• Hello @Yngvadottir: Yes, the content that was deleted from OmarGoshTV is the same as content presently at OmarGosh.
• Just to be clear, the present content at OmarGoshTV consists of content that existed before the article was rewritten to be about the subject OmarGosh while the article was being discussed at AfD.
• Since the article is now in main namespace, I have redirected the draft article at Draft:OmarGosh to OmarGosh.
• At the talk page discussion here, I did not opine to move the content and then delete it. I stated the following (verbatim) (diff):

In re the idea above by Premeditated Chaos about moving some content to OmarGosh and then deleting it, I'd just leave it as-is at this point. I'm not saying that the delete !voters are incorrect regarding the latter subject's notability, but this could be perceived as a fait accompli decision regarding the matter, based upon a deletion discussion for this subject that only occurred between 30 January 2017 to 31 January 2017 (they typically run a full seven days). Just my 2¢.

• If you feel that the OmarGosh is not notable, as others did, feel free to nominate it for deletion at AfD. It would be best for a close to be made after a full seven days have occurred in such discussion, if you choose to nominate it. This is typically the standard time period at AfD before deletion occurs.
• Hope this helps out. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 01:27, 3 February 2017 (UTC)

Not really, frankly; I'm glad OmarGoshTV is reconstituted, but I thought the 3 of you were agreeing the Omar Gosh article, the one it can be argued was really deleted after AfD, should stay deleted? And the current Omar Gosh article appears to be a cut and paste, although since the draft may be one-author, I guess that's all right. I'm still figuring G4, and at least a note on the talk page, but I guess I'll leave it to you and to anyone who feels like AfD'ing a second time ... Yngvadottir (talk) 05:21, 3 February 2017 (UTC)

Pinging Drmies and Adog104 since they opined for deletion of the OmarGosh article and have been involved in this matter. If anyone wants to renominate it for deletion, go for it. I'm not particularly involved in terms of researching the subject's notability. Have at it if you'd like. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 12:56, 3 February 2017 (UTC)

Thanks NA. OmarGosh is not notable and should be deleted. Whether it should have stayed deleted or not, yeah, maybe, but the hijacking has thrown us all off. Tell you what, I'll nominate it. Drmies (talk) 17:00, 3 February 2017 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 6, 2017)

A high school in Malaysia Hello, Northamerica1000. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Secondary school Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Nvidia Shadowplay • African nationalism Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:09, 6 February 2017 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

A bit of help

With a spam account and copyright violations would be appreciated. Thank you, JNW (talk) 05:01, 30 January 2017 (UTC)

@JNW: I will need more context here about what you are advancing to figure out how I could be of assistance. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 17:33, 30 January 2017 (UTC)