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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Crown Pop

Hi, you closed this AfD as "delete", but the article was restored (with some changes) the same day. Don't know whether this qualifies as G4, but it sure looks kind of disruptive. Just a heads up. Cheers! --Randykitty (talk) 16:44, 20 December 2018 (UTC)

Hi, I just noticed the same thing! I see the article creator contested a G4 prod on the grounds that the new page is not substantially the same as the old one. As a non-admin, I can't see the old version to know if this is the case or not, so I removed my G4, but it is definitely worth a look. Thanks! PohranicniStraze (talk) 19:08, 20 December 2018 (UTC)

I don't know why you say there are "some changes" cause I created it from scratch after seeing Northamerica1000 unlinking the group from some articles in my watchlist.
And surely I looked at the AfD discussion, but I didn't know what to think about the nomination that said that the chart position "couldn't be verified" (it's a matter of seconds, maybe minutes, for anyone who knows what Oricon is). And it is very strange how there were people who casted all those "delete, delete" votes, obviously without trying to check the charts or anything: --Moscow Connection (talk) 20:29, 20 December 2018 (UTC)

If you or someone else removes the notability tag, I may as well nominate the article for DYK. (After adding a couple more sentences, surely. There were some concerts and member changes. Nothing important, but enough to expand it a bit more.)
Could you remove the tag, please? I didn't plan to spend much time on this article, but since I have already spent some, why not spend some more. (I didn't really think it's DYK-worthy and I don't have a hook yet, but there are all sorts or articles on DYK, some are good, some aren't so good, so why not...) --Moscow Connection (talk) 20:44, 20 December 2018 (UTC)

• @Randykitty, PohranicniStraze, and Moscow Connection: I have compared the new version of the article to the deleted version, and the new version is significantly different in prose and style, and is not identical to the deleted version whatsoever. As such, the new version of the article does not qualify for WP:G4 deletion. I have also denoted this on the article's talk page. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 08:32, 21 December 2018 (UTC)

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas from me too North, and wishing you a very happy 2019! FeydHuxtable (talk) 08:38, 24 December 2018 (UTC)

• @FeydHuxtable: Hey Feyd, long time! Best wishes to you and yours during the consumerism holiday season, and stay warm! North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 03:28, 25 December 2018 (UTC)

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Merry Christmas and a Prosperous 2019!

Hello Northamerica1000, may you be surrounded by peace, success and happiness on this seasonal occasion. Spread the WikiLove by wishing another user a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past, a good friend, or just some random person. Sending you a heartfelt and warm greetings for Christmas and New Year 2019. Happy editing, Meatsgains(talk) 16:25, 24 December 2018 (UTC) Spread the love by adding {{subst:Seasonal Greetings}} to other user talk pages.

• @Meatsgains: Thanks for the greetings, and happy holidays to you too! Per the userbox on your user page ("This user is an escaped genetic experiment"), hopefully whoever experimented upon you won't find you while Santa is in town! North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 03:32, 25 December 2018 (UTC)

Xmas

FWiW Bzuk (talk) 01:36, 25 December 2018 (UTC)

• @Bzuk: Holiday greetings to you and yours as well, Merry Christmas! North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 03:40, 25 December 2018 (UTC)

Santa Claus is coming to town!

	Santa Claus is coming to town!
	Wishing you a very happy holiday season. I'm ready to jump on my bike and tour the warm parts of the country!! Atsme✍🏻📧 23:31, 11 December 2018 (UTC)

Thanks atsme, and a happy holiday season to you as well. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 22:49, 12 December 2018 (UTC)

Peace Dove Christmas

Peace is a state of balance and understanding in yourself and between others, where respect is gained by the acceptance of differences, tolerance persists, conflicts are resolved through dialog, peoples rights are respected and their voices are heard, and everyone is at their highest point of serenity without social tension.

Happy Holidays. ―Buster7 ☎ 20:04, 18 December 2018 (UTC)

• Wow, nice one. Thanks Buster7 for the inspired message. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 07:14, 19 December 2018 (UTC)

Merry Merry

		Happy Christmas!
		Hello Northamerica1000, Early in A Child's Christmas in Wales the young Dylan and his friend Jim Prothero witness smoke pouring from Jim's home. After the conflagration has been extinguished Dylan writes that Nobody could have had a noisier Christmas Eve. And when the firemen turned off the hose and were standing in the wet, smoky room, Jim's Aunt, Miss. Prothero, came downstairs and peered in at them. Jim and I waited, very quietly, to hear what she would say to them. She said the right thing, always. She looked at the three tall firemen in their shining helmets, standing among the smoke and cinders and dissolving snowballs, and she said, "Would you like anything to read?" My thanks to you for your efforts to keep the 'pedia readable in case the firemen chose one of our articles :-) Best wishes to you and yours and happy editing in 2019. MarnetteD|Talk 19:23, 19 December 2018 (UTC)

• Hi MarnetteD: Thanks for the kind note. I was previously unaware of the work of Thomas, so this enlightened me a bit as well. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 21:14, 19 December 2018 (UTC)

You are welcome. This particular work has become a "read out loud" tradition whether with friends, family or just myself on Dec 24th. Best regards. MarnetteD|Talk 21:16, 19 December 2018 (UTC)

Seasons Greetings

Hello Northamerica1000: From high in the Canadian Arctic I hope you enjoy the holiday season, the Winter or Summer solstice, Quviahugvik, Eid, Diwali, Hogmanay, Hanukkah or even the Saturnalia, and thanks for your work to maintain, improve and expand Wikipedia. Cheers, CambridgeBayWeather, Uqaqtuq (talk), Sunasuttuq 09:00, 21 December 2018 (UTC)

Adapted from {{Season's Greetings}}

A sunset at Cambridge Bay

• @CambridgeBayWeather: Thanks very much, and I continue to be intrigued by your choice of residence; an intense lifestyle. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 09:30, 21 December 2018 (UTC)

Merry Christmas!

BOZ (talk) is wishing you a Merry Christmas! This greeting (and season) promotes WikiLove and hopefully this note has made your day a little better. Spread the WikiLove by wishing another user a Merry Christmas, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past, a good friend, or just some random person. Don't eat yellow snow!

Spread the holiday cheer by adding {{subst:User:Flaming/MC2008}} to their talk page with a friendly message.

I'm wishing you a Merry Christmas, because that is what I celebrate. If you don't like Christmas or just don't celebrate it in any of its forms, then please accept a generic "Happy Holidays". If you celebrate no holidays at this time of year, then hopefully you will be satisfied with an even more generic "Season's Greetings".  :) BOZ (talk) 15:43, 22 December 2018 (UTC)

• @BOZ: Thanks BOZ, and season's greetings to you and yours as well! North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 17:20, 23 December 2018 (UTC)

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year

	Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year
	Hi Northamerica1000, I wish you and your family a very Merry Christmas and a very Happy and Prosperous New Year, Thanks for all your help and thanks for all your contributions to the 'pedia,    –Davey2010 Merry Christmas / Happy New Year 14:50, 23 December 2018 (UTC)

• @Davey2010: Thank you sir Diamond Dave, and warm holiday greetings to you as well! North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 17:21, 23 December 2018 (UTC)

You're very welcome and thanks so much :), –Davey2010 ^{Merry Christmas / Happy New Year} 19:00, 23 December 2018 (UTC)

Merry Chrismouse:)

so, just where Chrismousies hidden?

Hi Northamerica1000, hope you have a great festive season. Coolabahapple (talk) 22:24, 23 December 2018 (UTC)

• @Coolabahapple: Thanks for the kind message, and look, I found the mouse! North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 07:27, 24 December 2018 (UTC)

Christmas Mouse in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada

• Wow! My kitties have just fainted!:)) Coolabahapple (talk) 07:32, 24 December 2018 (UTC)

@Coolabahapple: Big mouse eats lots of cheese! North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 07:34, 24 December 2018 (UTC)

Happy Holidays!

Merry Christmas and a Prosperous 2019!

Hello Northamerica1000, may you be surrounded by peace, success and happiness on this seasonal occasion. Spread the WikiLove by wishing another user a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past, a good friend, or just some random person. Sending you a heartfelt and warm greetings for Christmas and New Year 2019. Happy editing, AmericanAir88(talk) 03:24, 24 December 2018 (UTC) Spread the love by adding {{subst:Seasonal Greetings}} to other user talk pages.

• Thanks AmericanAir88, and best wishes to you and yours this holiday season. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 07:24, 24 December 2018 (UTC)

A cookie for you!

I am sure you get a lot of Wikilove but I really appreciated your season's greetings message and wish you a very happy holiday season. HickoryOughtShirt?4 (talk) 07:05, 24 December 2018 (UTC)

• @HickoryOughtShirt?4: Thanks, and thanks again for your work to neutralize vandalism on the wiki. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 07:24, 24 December 2018 (UTC)

Merry Christmas!!

Thank you for all great contributions to the project Northamerica! My very best wishes for this holiday season. May your heart and the heart of those around you be filled with happiness during this special time. --Crystallizedcarbon (talk) 09:34, 24 December 2018 (UTC)

• @Crystallizedcarbon: Thanks, this is like one of those cards you open and it plays a song! Have a pleasant holiday season! North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 03:04, 25 December 2018 (UTC)

Yes, you are right! .--Crystallizedcarbon (talk) 07:43, 25 December 2018 (UTC)

Seasonal Greetings

Merry Christmas and a Prosperous 2019!

Hello Northamerica1000, may you be surrounded by peace, success and happiness on this seasonal occasion. Spread the WikiLove by wishing another user a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past, a good friend, or just some random person. Sending you a heartfelt and warm greetings for Christmas and New Year 2019. Happy editing, 7&6=thirteen (☎) 19:40, 24 December 2018 (UTC) Spread the love by adding {{subst:Seasonal Greetings}} to other user talk pages.

• Thanks 7&6=thirteen, happy holidays to you, and in case you didn't know, per this The Daily Telegraph article, in golf, the term "Dog licence" is "a colloquialism, originating in the UK, for the resounding matchplay winning margin of 7&6 (winning with six holes to spare). So called because a dog licence used to cost seven shillings and sixpence, seven and six, before decimalisation in 1971." North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 03:37, 25 December 2018 (UTC)

Thank you for the information. Since I don't golf, it is hard to envision how this will come up in conversation. But it is in reserve, perhaps when I am invited to Mar a Lago for a foursome. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 17:17, 26 December 2018 (UTC)

BTW, ping doesn't work for me. Use [[User:7&6=thirteen]] Cheers. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 11:57, 28 December 2018 (UTC)

Personal Wiki contribution automatized assesment

Hi,

I noticed that you edited Template:Project assessments so I thought that maybe you could help me.

I would like to create a table with my contributions, listed per quality and importance criteria. Similar to table at above mentioned template.

Would it be possible to create such table? If yes, how?--Antidiskriminator (talk) 16:44, 25 December 2018 (UTC)

• @Antidiskriminator: Offhand, I'm not sure. For either contributions or only articles created, you could manually go through your edits and manually populate a standalone table. The qualify and importance parameters listed in the Project assessments tables are derived from the WikiProject banner templates atop talk pages, but not sure how one could go about this without designing a custom bot to parse their edits, or by using a category system for one's own edits (e.g. Category:Articles worked-on by user), the latter of which which isn't allowed. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 07:38, 26 December 2018 (UTC)

Miss Multinational 2019

Please restore the article to my sandbox. I don't know how they managed to sneak the AfD past me. I would have commented had I had known. You bought into the "too soon" idea, so that will suffice for about a month until the pageant actually occurs and all of the content will become valid again. I'd much rather not start from scratch, but then I would much rather these idiots not be so damned impatient when it is obvious there will be more to the already developing story soon. Trackinfo (talk) 05:57, 26 December 2018 (UTC)

• @Trackinfo: Well, I wouldn't characterize the rationales for deletion at the AfD discussion as idiotic, particularly when Gnews only provides three hits at this time, with all being press releases, which do not establish notability (link). Ultimately, the topic is not notable at this time to be in Wikipedia's main namespace as an article.

That said, I would be willing to userfy the article to User:Trackinfo/Miss Multinational 2019. If the topic becomes notable and the article is fleshed out, I recommend that you then submit it to Articles for creation, where your submission can be reviewed by an uninvolved user. An easy way to do this is to place {{Userspace draft}} atop the draft page and then select the "Submit your draft for review" link. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 09:45, 26 December 2018 (UTC)

I don't recall the exact date of the pageant, but I believe it was intended to be January or February at the latest. The substance of the existing article is that contestants have been selected and entered already. For a future event, this is a normal course of development. The idiocy is in rushing this to AfD as this process is developing. If this is a non-notable pageant, sources will not build up as the event comes closer to occurring. This is just jumping the gun to cause trouble. So your suggestion of going through the normally unnecessary step of taking it through Articles for Creation is caused by their impatience and unfortunately your willingness to go along with it. I've created about 1,000 articles and never had to go through that previously. Had I known of this AfD, I would have aggressively defended it, as I am prone to doing. Instead I apparently missed one notice and there was zero activity on the article since. 3 votes and you accept it.

You are not a party to it (I hope, or its COI), but there is a group that wants to abolish the subject of pageants entirely and are targeting any sidebar or expansion articles. Thats how I got involved, trying to defend their territory against the mounting force of evil doers trying to remove all their content. So you have added additional salt to help the forces of evil. Assuming this pageant gets the coverage like last year, we'll have sources and will win on simple GNG if nothing else. If not, the entire pageant as a series is a bust.Trackinfo (talk) 05:04, 27 December 2018 (UTC)

• @Trackinfo: It's like I said, I can userfy it if you'd like; the AfC process is just a suggestion, not a dictum whatsoever. If sources that qualify notabilty are realized, you can republish the article in main namespace. Let me know, and keep in mind that if the article were to be published prematurely without new sources that qualify notability, it could be deleted again via AfD. Also, in case you are not aware of it, if a verbatim copy to the deleted version is published without some changes, then someone could come along and nom for speedy deletion per WP:G4. Just letting you know these (bureaucratic) details from the start.

Personally, if you want it userfied, I would wait for more sources, expand, and publish after actual notability is apparent, rather than upon predictions that notability may occur or is likely to occur. So, let me know if you'd like it userfied, or not, and hope you're enjoying the holiday season. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 14:47, 28 December 2018 (UTC)

Please userfy now. I have no intention of forcing the article forward now. I expect a bunch of content when the pageant happens in a few weeks. The only way I will know about it is if sources materialize. Last year they were major, conventional media from India (host country) and Philippines (winner's country) primarily. If something similar doesn't happen this time, I have nothing to move forward with. However, other people with a little touch up from me, did the initial formatting on what was deleted. I'd rather not backtrack. Trackinfo (talk) 17:30, 28 December 2018 (UTC)

@Trackinfo:  Done. See User:Trackinfo/Miss Multinational 2019. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 18:14, 28 December 2018 (UTC)

Happy holidays!

Hello Northamerica1000: Enjoy the holiday season, and thanks for your work to maintain, improve and expand Wikipedia. Cheers, Jovanmilic97 (talk) 11:38, 26 December 2018 (UTC)

Spread the WikiLove; use {{subst:Season's Greetings1}} to send this message

• @Jovanmilic97: Season's greetings! North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 11:39, 26 December 2018 (UTC)

Have a nice holiday!

Merry Christmas and a Prosperous 2019!

Hello Northamerica1000, may you be surrounded by peace, success and happiness on this seasonal occasion. Spread the WikiLove by wishing another user a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past, a good friend, or just some random person. Sending you heartfelt and warm greetings for Christmas and New Year 2019. Happy editing, Hhkohh (talk) 11:42, 26 December 2018 (UTC) Spread the love by adding {{subst:Seasonal Greetings}} to other user talk pages.

• @Hhkohh: Thanks, and have a great holiday season. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 11:51, 26 December 2018 (UTC)

Happy new year

Happy New Year!

Hello Northamerica1000: Thanks for all of your contributions to Wikipedia, and have a great New Year! Cheers, Hhkohh (talk) 15:36, 1 January 2019 (UTC)

Send New Year cheer by adding {{subst:Happy New Year snowman}} to people's talk pages with a friendly message.

• Thanks Hhkohh, and hope your 2019 is a good one too. Happy editing! North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 15:41, 1 January 2019 (UTC)

Wikipedia:WikiProject Portals update #025, 30 Dec 2018

We can now crop the tops of pics to make banners

Before, we could only cut off the bottom of pics.

User:FR30799386 has pulled it off, and made the upgrade to {{Portal image banner}}...

So, this:

Niagara falls, from the Canadian side

Becomes this:

Niagara falls, from the Canadian side

Here's the code for the above banner:

{{Portal image banner|File:American Falls from Canadian side in winter.jpg | [[Niagara falls]], from the Canadian side |maxheight=175px |overflow=Hidden|croptop=10}}

To see it employed in a portal, check out Portal:Niagara Falls.

About that end of the year goal...

We were racing against time to create 5,000 portals by the end of the year (just for the heck of it).

We made it. We've passed the 5,000 portals mark, with time to spare!

And the 5,000th portal is Portal:Major League Baseball, by Happypillsjr.

Congratulations!

What's next?

The 10,000th portal mark. But...

...there is plenty else to do in addition to building new portals:

1. The new portals need to be linked to from the encyclopedia.
2. On those portals about subjects that are not typically capitalized, the search parameters need to be refined/expanded, to maximize the chances of Did you know and In the news items being found and displayed.
3. A Recognized content section needs to be added to each portal that has a corresponding WikiProject.
4. Addition of a category on those portals that lack a subject category.
5. Implement the portal category system, adding the appropriate categories to each portal.
6. Upgrade, and complete (as per the tasks enumerated above), the old-style portals that are not regularly maintained, which have not been converted yet (about 1,100 of them).
7. Find and fix the remaining bugs in the underlying lua modules.
8. Build portal tools (scripts) to assist in the creation, development, and maintenance of portals.
9. Build a script to help build navbox footer templates, via the harvesting of categories, amongst other methods.
10. Update the portal building instructions.
11. Update the portal guideline.
12. Refine the programming of the portals to reduce their load time.
13. Design and develop the next generation of portals and portal components.

And whatever else you can dream up.

But most of all, have a...

Happy New Year!

Northamerica1000, thank you for your contributions to the Portals Project, and have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year.

Sincerely,    — The Transhumanist   12:04, 30 December 2018 (UTC)

• @The Transhumanist: Please consider updating the Template:Portal image banner page with instructions about how to crop. Without information about it, nobody is going to know about it into the future when they read the page; only those that read the newsletter will know about it. It's also unclear what types of parameters should be used within the template, which would come in handy on the actual Portal image banner page. More food for thought. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 08:25, 31 December 2018 (UTC)
  • Pinging the author, @FR30799386:, as they may have plans/ideas on how to handle this.    — The Transhumanist   22:38, 1 January 2019 (UTC)
    • I have updated the documentation. — fr ^❄ 11:15, 2 January 2019 (UTC)
      • @FR30799386: Thanks for the timely update! Much appreciated. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 11:46, 2 January 2019 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 1, 2018)

Poster for a production of Boucicault's farce Contempt of Court, c. 1879. From the Library of Congress. Hello, Northamerica1000. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Farce Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Scalp • Bookworm (insect) Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 31 December 2018 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

Discussion

Northamerica1000, why the header is week 1, 2018 not week 1, 2019? Also pinging MusikAnimal Hhkohh (talk) 04:10, 31 December 2018 (UTC)

@Hhkohh: I'm not sure why the header for the weekly talk page article selection notices is reading "This week's article for improvement (week 1, 2018)", but it's likely a bot matter. The Schedule page appears to be in order. For what it's worth, MusikBot did not add the TAFI template atop this week's selection as it normally does either, so I manually added it (diff). Pinging MusikAnimal as well. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 08:17, 31 December 2018 (UTC)

Also, bot wrongly tagged 2018/1 article [1] Hhkohh (talk) 08:26, 31 December 2018 (UTC)

I went ahead and removed that from the Economic recovery article just now. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 08:30, 31 December 2018 (UTC)

Err... and this bot edit. This discussion made me recall User talk:MusikAnimal/Archive 39#TAFI. Maybe same issue Hhkohh (talk) 08:40, 31 December 2018 (UTC)

Houston, we have a problem. Well, I added a talkback notice on MusikAnimal's talk page as well, directing them here. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 08:43, 31 December 2018 (UTC)

I am afraid that bot will action wrong things next Monday. BTW, and this bot edit (bot notified wrong WikiProject!) Hhkohh (talk) 08:53, 31 December 2018 (UTC)

Yep, the script needs updating. I understand that MusikAnimal may need some time to respond and hopefully attend to the matter. Hopefully the errors can be corrected in a timely manner, without being a tedious pain for MAnimal. I'm certainly not going to tinker with the bot. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 14:07, 31 December 2018 (UTC)

Hello! Also pinging Hhkohh. The header says 2018 because it was posted in 2018. I believe all the other mishaps were a consequence of this bug. The bug itself is due to a conflict of how we get the current week and the year. The week number comes from a Ruby core function called cweek. It gave 1 instead of 53 in adherence to the ISO week date specification, which is an international standard. The function used to get the current year works differently, however. It gives the literal current year (which makes sense). This is all very confusing... I think the solution is to make the bot use the following year if cweek is 1, unless the current day is on or after the 1st. Hopefully that makes sense. At any rate, I'm fairly certain all will be fine next week. Note however 2019-01-07 (the next scheduled date) is considered week #2. I will look into fixing the bug soon, but fortunately I have a whole year to fix it! :) Thanks for the ping, — MusikAnimal ^talk 01:02, 2 January 2019 (UTC)

Turns out it's really easy to fix... just use the cwyear function instead of year. Out of an abundance of caution, I'm going to supervise next Monday's run to make sure there are no mistakes, but I think this should fix it. Regards — MusikAnimal ^talk 01:08, 2 January 2019 (UTC)

MAnimal: Thanks for your timely response to all of this, and have a Happy New Year! North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 11:48, 2 January 2019 (UTC)

Happy New Year, Northamerica1000!

Happy New Year!

Northamerica1000,
Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia.
Rubbish computer (Talk: Contribs) 07:56, 31 December 2018 (UTC)

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• @Rubbish computer: Happy holidays and New Year's cheer to you as well. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 08:19, 31 December 2018 (UTC)

Best wishes for a happy 2019

^{The Hill Country (c.1913) by Walter Elmer Schofield, Woodmere Art Museum.}
Thank you for your contributions toward making Wikipedia a better and more accurate place.
BoringHistoryGuy (talk) 16:03, 31 December 2018 (UTC)

@BoringHistoryGuy: Happy New Year to you as well, and wow, that painting looks like a photograph at first glance. Nice. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 13:25, 1 January 2019 (UTC)

The painting is extraordinary. By Walter Elmer Schofield, an artist that I didn't know until this (last) year. == BoringHistoryGuy (talk) 13:41, 1 January 2019 (UTC)

@BoringHistoryGuy: Elements of realism in painting can be difficult to accomplish. I find it to be impressive. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 13:45, 1 January 2019 (UTC)

His best-known painting is probably The Rapids, at the Smithsonian. Also dazzling.

The MET has one of his works, but it's kind of blah. == BoringHistoryGuy (talk) 14:15, 1 January 2019 (UTC)

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 Christmas / Happy New Year} 01:25, 1 January 2019 (UTC)

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Hi North "Amazing" America (Sorry I tried!:))

I hope you and yours have a happy, prosperous and healthy new year,

I wish you all the best for 2019 mate,

Take care, Dave. –Davey2010 ^{Merry Christmas / Happy New Year} 01:28, 1 January 2019 (UTC)

Thanks Diamond Dave, and hope your 2019 is great as well. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 13:26, 1 January 2019 (UTC)

Happy New Year, Northamerica!

Happy New Year!

Some celestial fireworks to herald another year of progress for mankind and Wikipedia. All the very best , Northamerica,
Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 01:42, 1 January 2019 (UTC)

• @Kudpung: Thanks for the astronomical inspiration; space, the final frontier. Happy New Year! North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 13:28, 1 January 2019 (UTC)

Happy New Year !

CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) — is wishing you a Happy New Year! This greeting (and season) promotes WikiLove and hopefully this note has made your day a little better. Spread the WikiLove by wishing another user a Happy New Year, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past, a good friend, or just some random person. Happy New Year!

Spread the New Year cheer by adding {{subst:New Year 1}} to their talk page with a friendly message.

• @CAPTAIN RAJU: A Happy New Year to you as well, and thanks for your work in deletion sorting as well as in other areas of Wikipedia. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 13:29, 1 January 2019 (UTC)

Gwin poeth sbeislyd i chi ...

... gan yr hen Gymro; rwy'n gobeithio eich bod wedi cael gwyliau Nadolig gwych ac rwy'n dymuno 2019 heddychlon i chi! That is Welsh and translates to: Spicy hot wine for you from the old Welshman; I hope you have had a great Christmas holiday and I wish you a peaceful 2019! Thank you for your excellent work on the 'pedia. Sincerely, Gareth Griffith-Jones (contribs) (talk) 14:05, 1 January 2019 (UTC)

• @Gareth Griffith-Jones: Hmmm, spicy hot wine sounds nice! Thanks for the soothing message, and have a great New Year. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 14:27, 1 January 2019 (UTC)

something needs attention

[2] it is getting boring - thanks JarrahTree 14:28, 1 January 2019 (UTC)

@JarrahTree: Ad Orientem indeffed the user. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 14:32, 1 January 2019 (UTC)

Ta - have a HNY - one small problem is that recent blocks have not been tallied against the core sock [3] JarrahTree 14:34, 1 January 2019 (UTC)

@JarrahTree: I may not get further involved in the matter at this time. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 14:37, 1 January 2019 (UTC)

no big problem - the sheer predictability of the very few articles that are descended upon with such youthful vigour, means that anyone - even someone who is not an admin or experienced editor, or even with the lack of indonesian language capacity, could trace the items without much more than a visual - no ultrasound, radar or intuition required...sad, really JarrahTree 14:40, 1 January 2019 (UTC)

Happy New Year!

Right back at 'ya! FWiW Bzuk (talk) 14:44, 1 January 2019 (UTC)

• @Bzuk: We're all unique snowflakes, and each one is different. Happy New Year! North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 14:46, 1 January 2019 (UTC)

Happy New Year, Northamerica1000!

Happy New Year!

Northamerica1000,
Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia.
CambridgeBayWeather, Uqaqtuq (talk), Sunasuttuq 16:43, 1 January 2019 (UTC)

   Send New Year cheer by adding {{subst:Happy New Year fireworks}} to user talk pages.

• Thanks CambridgeBayWeather, Happy New Year to you as well, and be sure to stay warm! North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 20:53, 1 January 2019 (UTC)

2019

Die Zeit, die Tag und Jahre macht

Happy 2019 -

begin it with music and memories

Thank you for your help last year, and your good wishes! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:55, 1 January 2019 (UTC)

• @Gerda Arendt: A happy New Year to you and yours, and hey, J.S. Bach rocked! North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 20:57, 1 January 2019 (UTC)

Happy New Year!!

HAPPY 2019!

Thank you Northamerica, That was an awesome greeting card. Happy New Year!! I hope that 2018 brought you good experiences and that you start this brand new 2019 with eagerness and full of positive energy. Cheers.--Crystallizedcarbon (talk) 10:56, 2 January 2019 (UTC)

• Thanks Crystallizedcarbon, and a happy New Year to you too. Happy editing, North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 11:49, 2 January 2019 (UTC)

Happy New Year!

Northamerica1000,
Thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia, and a Happy New Year to you and yours! ReaderofthePack(formerly Tokyogirl79) (｡◕‿◕｡) 20:40, 2 January 2019 (UTC)

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– Send New Year cheer by adding {{subst:Happy New Year}} to user talk pages.

• Thanks ReaderofthePack, and hope you have a fruitful and prosperous New Year. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 22:34, 2 January 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-02

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

Tech News writers, editors and translators wish you a pleasant 2019 year.

Recent changes

• RelatedSites extension has been undeployed. It was used to create interwiki links on Wikivoyage, now handled by Wikidata. [4]
• MediaWiki logstash logging is moving to a new infrastructure. This is an ongoing deployment. [5]
• codesearch.wmflabs.org has been updated, with new and updated repositories and a new search options for code. [6]
• On several wikis, an account named "Edit filter" has been created on December 17 to perform some technical maintenance on AbuseFilter. This account has sysop rights but it's a system user and no human can use it. The account already existed on wikis where AbuseFilter can perform blocks, which are issued using this account. See T212268 for more information and future plans.

Problems

• In AbuseFilter, the "Throttle" action takes three parameters: count, period and groups. They must now strictly respect the requirements listed on mediawiki.org. A list of broken filters is on Phabricator. If you're familiar with AbuseFilter, please take a look and fix them. [7]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from January 8. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from January 9. It will be on all wikis from January 10 (calendar).

Meetings

• Search Platform Office Hours is rescheduled to January 9. Check the details for time and date.

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18:29, 7 January 2019 (UTC)

So, so disgusting

Gross!

Marmite is almost better. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 20:09, 8 January 2019 (UTC)

Your page width is all screwy, by the way. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 20:11, 8 January 2019 (UTC)

@Anna Frodesiak: My page width looks fine in Chrome. What browser are you using? North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 20:40, 8 January 2019 (UTC)

Firefox. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 20:51, 8 January 2019 (UTC)

@Anna Frodesiak: I just checked it out using Firefox, looks perfectly fine on my end. Perhaps you need to change your settings or update the software. At any rate, Firefox's coloration reminded me of Iris the kitten! North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 20:55, 8 January 2019 (UTC)

Iris the kitten loves you!

Parson the puppy eats Iris the kitten.

It's your motorbike pic. It is so wide, I have to scroll right to see the pizza pic. No worries, though. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 21:03, 8 January 2019 (UTC)

Peaceful coexistence

I don't know how it can be fixed; it's likely your browser settings, or you have a short-width screen... North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 22:08, 8 January 2019 (UTC)

Actually, I think you are right. I've been viewing at 140%. At 100%, it is fine. I use a giant, wide flat screen as the monitor. It's just a little far away, so I blow it up. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 22:21, 8 January 2019 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 2, 2019)

An example of page orientation: a smartphone positioned upright (portrait orientation) and horizontally (landscape orientation) Hello, Northamerica1000. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Page orientation Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Farce • Scalp Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:27, 7 January 2019 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

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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) 03:38, 10 January 2019 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: House of Knowledge International School (January 17)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Robert McClenon was:  The comment the reviewer left was: Please check the submission for any additional comments left by the reviewer. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit when they have been resolved.

• If you would like to continue working on the submission, go to User:Avaldesm/House of Knowledge International School and click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window.
• If you now believe the draft cannot meet Wikipedia's standards or do not wish to progress it further, you may request deletion. Please go to User:Avaldesm/House of Knowledge International School, click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window, add "{{db-self}}" at the top of the draft text and click the blue "publish changes" button to save this edit.
• If you need any assistance, you can ask for help at the Articles for creation help desk or on the reviewer's talk page.
• You can also use Wikipedia's real-time chat help from experienced editors.

Robert McClenon (talk) 03:16, 17 January 2019 (UTC)

Hello, Northamerica1000! Having an article declined at Articles for Creation can be disappointing. If you are wondering why your article submission was declined, please post a question at the Articles for creation help desk. If you have any other questions about your editing experience, we'd love to help you at the Teahouse, a friendly space on Wikipedia where experienced editors lend a hand to help new editors like yourself! See you there! Robert McClenon (talk) 03:16, 17 January 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-03

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 use Google Translate in the content translation tool. [8][9]
• You can now add captions to files on Commons. Captions are short descriptions of the file. They can be translated to all languages we use. They can't use wikitext markup.
• Earlier a quoted HTML attribute had to be followed by a space. Now it doesn't. This means that some pages could look different when you save them even if you didn't edit that part of the text. [10][11]
• Templates with could not show the difference between the live template and the sandbox version when they were tested. This has now been fixed. has a new wrapper parameter now. You can use it for selectors like .mw-parser-output <wrapper parameter value> <selector from CSS page>. [12]

Problems

• When you see an edit in the recent changes feed or in the history of a page some of them have tags. Some tags are added automatically. You can also add tags manually. Tags for edits that have been added manually can be edited. This didn't work for a little while. This has now been fixed. [13]

Changes later this week

• You can move files from your wiki to Wikimedia Commons and keep the file history with the new FileExporter. It will be a beta feature on all wikis from 16 January. If you want to test it you activate it and check your wiki's configuration file.
• Users who could cause more damage to the wikis if someone took over their account have to have more secure passwords. This includes administrators and other user groups. They can't use passwords that are in a list of common passwords. Accounts with common passwords are easy to take over. The list of common passwords was made longer a few weeks ago and has a different error message. Some user groups have been added to those who can't use common passwords. This is to protect all accounts with user rights that could cause damage. [14]
• The AbuseFilter variable minor_edit has been removed. It was deprecated in 2016. Now you can't use it. You can fix the filters using it. You can find them if you use the search bar on Special:AbuseFilter.
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from January 15

17:54, 14 January 2019 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 3, 2019)

Vicki Gunvalson in 2009 Hello, Northamerica1000. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Vicki Gunvalson Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Page orientation • Farce Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 14 January 2019 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •