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I have unreviewed a page you curated

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Hi, I'm GreenMeansGo. I wanted to let you know that I saw the page you reviewed, Neudorf (Strasbourg), and have un-reviewed it again. If you have any questions, please ask them on my talk page. Thank you.

GMGtalk 13:23, 12 December 2018 (UTC)

Miss click. Disregard. GMGtalk 13:27, 12 December 2018 (UTC)

User:OfficialDuaLipa

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Why did you mark this for speedy as an attack page? I'm not seeing any disparaging content. It's definately speediable under unambiguous advertising or promotion, but I don't see it as an attack page. Am I missing something? ~ ONUnicorn(Talk|Contribs)problem solving 13:56, 12 December 2018 (UTC)

Vandalism only account impersonating a famous person. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 13:57, 12 December 2018 (UTC)

Taxon identifiers: IRMNG (how to link)

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Hi Andy, Tony Rees here (IRMNG compiler-in-chief). Some time back there was a conversation about including IRMNG IDs in the "Taxon identifiers" section of wikipedia taxon pages, based on wikidata - now done, all good, e.g. see the bottom of Firmicutes. I am thinking I should probably now do a Wikipedia entry for IRMNG (the Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera, http://www.irmng.org) since one does not exist, but am wondering how then that can get to be linked from the term "IRMNG" on each of the hundreds off thousands of relevant Wikipedia taxon pages - presumably by some automated update process which is unknown to me. (For other databases such as WoRMS, ITIS etc., such links are automatically created). So if I create the relevant new IRMNG page, can you assist? Regards - Tony Tony 1212 (talk) 19:10, 10 December 2018 (UTC)

@Tony 1212: I'd advise you not to create a page yourself, as you have a conflict of interest - see [[WP:COI|] for Wikipedia's policy on this. I'll be happy to start such an article; please let me know if you have any relevant sources, that I can cite. Once an article is created, and added to the {{Taxonbar}} template, it will appear on all the relevant pages. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 19:24, 10 December 2018 (UTC)
Thanks Andy, if you are happy you can write something from scratch based on https://journals.ku.edu/jbi/article/view/6522 (the full article is open access and contains a lot of detail) and information provided at http://www.irmng.org/ . There is also an early (2008) description of IRMNG "18.8. IRMNG – The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera" at p. 72-3 of "The Proceedings of TDWG: Provisional Abstracts of the 2008 Annual Conference of the Taxonomic Databases Working Group", https://static.tdwg.org/conferences/2008/tdwg_2008_proceedings.pdf, which should be an early citable source I believe.
IRMNG also presently contributes content to the Catalogue of Life (see http://www.catalogueoflife.org/col/details/database/id/501), Open Tree of Life (https://tree.opentreeoflife.org/about/taxonomy-version/ott3.0), Encyclopedia of life (eol.org/collections/100585, apparently down at the moment), GBIF (https://www.gbif.org/dataset/0938172b-2086-439c-a1dd-c21cb0109ed5) and other sources which I can elaborate on later as needed. Hope this is sufficient to get going.
BTW I would be inclined to create a master page "Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera" with the information, plus a redirect page "IRMNG" which is a likely entry point for some users.
I am presuming that once the page is created, there should be no problem about me editing further, accompanied if needed by a relevant declaration of interest in that page's talk page. Regards - Tony Tony 1212 (talk) 20:45, 10 December 2018 (UTC)
@Tony 1212: Thank you; our messages crossed, and I've already started Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera. It would be good to have some independent citations, writing about IRMNG if there are any, but it should stand as it is. I would advise you to avoid making anything other than very routine edits, if any; better to drop me a note, or drop one on the article's talk page. I've aslo asked for it to be linked from {{Taxonbar}}. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 21:10, 10 December 2018 (UTC)
Thanks Andy, looks fine for now, all good. Ta muchly. Tony 1212 (talk) 21:16, 10 December 2018 (UTC)
Small text change request, if you are agreeable, to correctly reflect the current situation: Present text: "IRMNG is managed and curated by Tony Rees" could/should now read: "IRMNG is presently managed and curated by Tony Rees, with assistance (2016 onwards) from the VLIZ Data Management Team (DMT)." Thanks - Tony Tony 1212 (talk) 22:03, 10 December 2018 (UTC)
Thanks Andy. You can get to bed now maybe...Tony 1212 (talk) 22:42, 10 December 2018 (UTC)
Also thanks for your updates at https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q58226248 . Let me know if there is any additional information I can supply, and how :) . Cheers - Tony Tony 1212 (talk) 00:55, 11 December 2018 (UTC)
@Pigsonthewing: I just checked, and the wikilinks to the IRMNG page are now displaying via the Taxonbar, so thanks for arranging that. Cheers - Tony Tony 1212 (talk) 05:31, 11 December 2018 (UTC)

Hi Andy, I sent a couple of messages to your pigsonthewing.org.uk email RE editing the new IRMNG page, just checking that they were received OK and that maybe you agree with the practice I have suggested (declaration of connection at the top of the talk page as recommended at Wikipedia:Conflict_of_interest#How_to_disclose_a_COI) which would permit me to make non-controversial changes and any additions needed to the IRMNG page without bothering a third party. Let me know what you think, Cheers - Tony Tony 1212 (talk) 21:14, 11 December 2018 (UTC)

@Tony 1212: No, I haven't got your emails; nor do I have another set recently via the same route; I'll investigate the matter, tomorrow. Please try re-sending, to andy@[my domain], rather than the other address you have for me. I reiterate my earlier advice regarding CoI edits: there be dragons. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 22:00, 11 December 2018 (UTC)
Emails re-sent as advised 4 hours ago, let me know if not received... Tony 1212 (talk) 08:14, 12 December 2018 (UTC)
@Pigsonthewing: Hi Andy, not sure if you received the re-sent emails to the alternative address, but here is the gist of them: first, I have filled out the template for "Connected contributor" as requested in the Wikipedia guidelines "How_to_disclose_a_COI", at the top of the IRMNG article's "Talk" page; second, I have added a statement to that page detailing the actions I propose to make as needed; and third, I have adjusted a few details in the article where these were incomplete or incorrect (the latter an erroneous word I had added myself, now fixed). I believe these should be permissible within the Wikipedia guidelines and in any case, can be discussed on the talk page if considered biased, self-advertisement, or contentious in any way. Also please note, I have no paid connection with Wikipedia (I contribute to WP as a "public good" activity) and have had no paid connection with IRMNG or its sponsors since I retired from my position in CSIRO in 2014; ongoing contributions to IRMNG since that time are also in a voluntary, "public good" role (creating machine-usable data out of otherwise chaotic material for the benefit of current and future users). I hope this steers the correct side of the "there be dragons" warning and reiterate, I am more than happy to discuss any matters in more detail on the article's "Talk" page. Best - Tony Tony 1212 (talk) 21:47, 13 December 2018 (UTC)
@Tony 1212: Yes, I have your mails now, thank (you and the original route is now working again - stupid ISP!). Thanks for making declarations. I don't see an issue with your edits, but others may; and some of our colleagues can be very unreasonable about such matters. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 10:26, 14 December 2018 (UTC)
Thanks Andy, I am forewarned - whatever happened to "presume good faith", I wonder... Tony 1212 (talk) 10:32, 14 December 2018 (UTC)

NPR Newsletter No.16 15 December 2018

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Hello Pigsonthewing,

Reviewer of the Year
 

This year's award for the Reviewer of the Year goes to Onel5969. Around on Wikipedia since 2011, their staggering number of 26,554 reviews over the past twelve months makes them, together with an additional total of 275,285 edits, one of Wikipedia's most prolific users.

Thanks are also extended for their work to JTtheOG (15,059 reviews), Boleyn (12,760 reviews), Cwmhiraeth (9,001 reviews), Semmendinger (8,440 reviews), PRehse (8,092 reviews), Arthistorian1977 (5,306 reviews), Abishe (4,153 reviews), Barkeep49 (4,016 reviews), and Elmidae (3,615 reviews).
Cwmhiraeth, Semmendinger, Barkeep49, and Elmidae have been New Page Reviewers for less than a year — Barkeep49 for only seven months, while Boleyn, with an edit count of 250,000 since she joined Wikipedia in 2008, has been a bastion of New Page Patrol for many years.

See also the list of top 100 reviewers.

Less good news, and an appeal for some help

The backlog is now approaching 5,000, and still rising. There are around 640 holders of the NPR flag, most of whom appear to be inactive. The 10% of the reviewers who do 90% of the work could do with some support especially as some of them are now taking a well deserved break.


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Wikidata weekly summary #343

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
  • Test that the issue with blocked users will not happen anymore (phab:T211120)
  • Finish up on showing Language and Language codes when editing glosses (phab:T209931)
  • Work towards having QualityContraints on Beta (phab:T209957)
  • Work on tracking usage of Wikibase Lua Functions (phab:T191416)
  • Some more work on string length limits (phab:T154660)
  • Work on some Wikidata toolkit improvements (phab:T209399)
  • Fix some errors happening in production (phab:T208924)
  • More under-the-hood work for the termbox on mobile

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.


Precious anniversary

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Precious
 
Six years!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:36, 20 December 2018 (UTC)

Zapped leftovers, should maybe have done something more helpful?

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Hi Andy, in this edit you did something clever with the infobox but it left a couple of orphaned lines, which I removed in this edit. I should probably have done something more helpful than that but I wasn't sure if the data was meant to be reintegrated into the new box, or was now redundant or what ... sorry! So I am just mentioning here in case I've done something daft and you need to put it right. Thanks and all good wishes DBaK (talk) 13:13, 20 December 2018 (UTC)

@DisillusionedBitterAndKnackered: Thank you for cleaning up; you edit was correct. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 14:08, 20 December 2018 (UTC)

Thank you! I'm very relieved to hear that I did the right thing. Best wishes DBaK (talk) 22:02, 20 December 2018 (UTC)

WikiProject X Newsletter • Issue 13

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Newsletter • December 2018

This month: A general update.

The current status of the project is as follows:

  • Progress of the project has been generally delayed since September due to development issues (more bitrot than expected, some of the code just being genuinely confusing, etc) and personal injury (I suffered a concussion in October and was out of commission for almost two months as a result).
  • I currently expect to be putting out a proper call for CollaborationKit pilots in January/February, with estimated deployment in February/March if things don't go horribly wrong (they will, though, don't worry). As a part of that, I will properly update the page and send out announcement and reach out to all projects already signed up as pilots for WikiProject X in general, at which point those (still) interested can volunteer specifically to test the CollaborationKit extension.
    • Wikipedia:WikiProject X/Pilots was originally created for the first WikiProject X prototype, and given this is where the project has since gone, it's only logical to continue to use it. While I haven't yet updated the page to properly reflect this:
    • If you want to add your project to this page now, feel free. Just bear in mind that more information what to actually expect will be added later/included in the announcement, because by then I will have a much better idea myself.
  • Until then, you can find me in my corner working on making the CollaborationKit code do what we want and not just what we told it, per the workboard.

Until next time,

-— Isarra ༆ 22:44, 20 December 2018 (UTC)

Books & Bytes, Issue 31

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January 2019 at Women in Red

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Merry Christmas and a Prosperous 2019!

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  Merry Christmas and a Prosperous 2019!

Hello Pigsonthewing, 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,
Walk Like an Egyptian (talk) 05:27, 25 December 2018 (UTC)

Spread the love by adding {{subst:Seasonal Greetings}} to other user talk pages.

Merry Christmas

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Redrose64 🌹 (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. Happy New Year!

Spread the cheer by adding {{subst:Xmas6}} to their talk page with a friendly message.

--Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 12:39, 25 December 2018 (UTC)

Nomination for merging of Template:Infobox Korean name

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 Template:Infobox Korean name has been nominated for merging with Template:Infobox Chinese. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Thank you.

Hi, you participated in the Infobox East Asian name removal here. I'm not sure if you're a a person who contriubtes to China-related articles but as someone who commented I very much would be interested in your input for this discussion here. Thanks, DanielleTH (Say hi!) 15:28, 26 December 2018 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #344

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • Writing a maintenance script to make configuring WikibaseQualityConstraints easier (phab:T209958)
    • Working on new ID generator using different SQL to attempt to stop lock errors when creating lots of items (phab:T194299)
    • Making more parts of the Query Service UI more configurable such as the copyright page, title, and started work on the favicon / logos (phab:T194175)
    • Adding tracking for Wikibase Lua functions so we can see how they are used on various different projects (phab:T191416)
    • Working on fixing alignment issues with glosses (phab:T207401)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.


Help creating a new BLP

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I've been working on creating a new BLP for a doctor, Luis Diaz (sandbox link). I have a paid COI with Memorial Sloan Kettering, and I saw you're a member of WP:ACADEMICS. If you've got the time to spare, do you think you could take a look at this to help ensure it's in line with Wikipedia's guidelines? I appreciate any help I can get.--FacultiesIntact (talk) 01:08, 23 December 2018 (UTC)

@FacultiesIntact: I've done some cleanup on the article, but I'm not seeing how he meets our notability requirements. I can see that his team have won awards and done good work, but he doesn't inherit that notability. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 11:35, 23 December 2018 (UTC)
Thanks for the edits! I think they're all positive improvements. I do however disagree with your assessment that he doesn't meet WP:GNG. There's a reasonable amount of coverage on both him and his work from reputable sources. I also disagree that this is a case of WP:NOTINHERITED; as I understand it, it's more about being notable by proxy. Here he is a co-leader of the team actively contributing to its work. Regardless, I appreciate you taking the time out to improve my draft and give me some guidance.--FacultiesIntact (talk) 00:12, 28 December 2018 (UTC)
I didn't say "he doesn't meet WP:GNG"; I said "I'm not seeing how he meets our notability requirements". Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 10:47, 28 December 2018 (UTC)

List of Pro Bowl players

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(sigh) I knew it was coming. As you can tell, the list is still under construction. Is there a recommended file size to aim for when splitting it up?

Thanks, caknuck ° needs to be running more often 16:39, 31 December 2018 (UTC)

@Caknuck: WP:AS has some useful guidance. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 17:15, 31 December 2018 (UTC)

Wife of Harry Mark Petrakis has died

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Hi, Andy,

My name is Lambrini Papangelis, and I am one of the editors of the "Harry Mark Petrakis" page here on Wikipedia.org. Sadly, Diana Petrakis, his wife, died yesterday (Dec. 25, 2018). I would like to edit the Infobox, on the upper right of the "HMP" page, to reflect her death. Right now, the way it reads = "Diana Petrakis." I would like to change that, to read "Diana Petrakis (deceased, 2018)." Can you do that for me? Or do you need me to supply proof of the event first, such as a published obituary?

Lambrini Papangelis (talk) 03:42, 27 December 2018 (UTC)

@Lambrini Papangelis: Per WP:BLP, we require a citation for such statements. This is to prevent malicious false death notices. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 10:48, 27 December 2018 (UTC)

Obituary for Diana Petrakis, wife of Harry Mark Petrakis

[copyvio removed]

Hi, Andy,

Please find above the best I can do in the way of an obituary for Diana Petrakis, the wife of Greek-American author Harry Mark Petrakis. On HMP's Wikipedia page, in the "Infobox," please give an indication that HMP's wife died (in 2018). Thank you very kindly.

Lambrini Papangelis Lambrini Papangelis (talk) 14:55, 1 January 2019 (UTC)

@Lambrini Papangelis: That's not a citation (though it looks like a copyright violaton, so I've rmeoved it). Please see WP:RS for an indication of what we can use. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 17:25, 1 January 2019 (UTC)

COI notice

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Hi Andy,

Why have I received a COI notice and why have my recent amendments to the Isabel Oakeshott Wiki page been removed? With which entries do you disagree specifically and why?

Best, — Preceding unsigned comment added by I7p0h8o0n9e0 (talk • contribs) 13:53, 31 December 2018 (UTC)

@I7p0h8o0n9e0: You have received advice on what to do if you have a conflict of interest. My edit summary when I reverted your edit (the first time) was "Removal of cited information; PoV". The next time, it was "Restored; see talk page." I suggest you now do so; and be sure you find consensus there before removing cited information again. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 17:14, 31 December 2018 (UTC)

Changes

Yet to receive an explanation why ALL my changes are being revised on the Isabel Oakeshott page. I put a lot of research into that.

Thanks, — Preceding unsigned comment added by I7p0h8o0n9e0 (talk • contribs) 20:17, 1 January 2019 (UTC)

See above. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 20:25, 1 January 2019 (UTC)

Thanks. I have - "Removal of cited information" (which? and why? It's cited, so it's adding useful information...or are you disagreeing with the facts?) and "Revised; see talk page" is circular reasoning. Please respond. — Preceding unsigned comment added by I7p0h8o0n9e0 (talk • contribs) 21:36, 1 January 2019 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – January 2019

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

  Guideline and policy news

  1. G14 (new): Disambiguation pages that disambiguate only zero or one existing pages are now covered under the new G14 criterion (discussion). This is {{db-disambig}}; the text is unchanged and candidates may be found in Category:Candidates for speedy deletion as unnecessary disambiguation pages.
  2. R4 (new): Redirects in the file namespace (and no file links) that have the same name as a file or redirect at Commons are now covered under the new R4 criterion (discussion). This is {{db-redircom}}; the text is unchanged.
  3. G13 (expanded): Userspace drafts containing only the default Article Wizard text are now covered under G13 along with other drafts (discussion). Such blank drafts are now eligible after six months rather than one year, and taggers continue to use {{db-blankdraft}}.

  Technical news

  • Starting on December 13, the Wikimedia Foundation security team implemented new password policy and requirements. Privileged accounts (administrators, bureaucrats, checkusers, oversighters, interface administrators, bots, edit filter managers/helpers, template editors, et al.) must have a password at least 10 characters in length. All accounts must have a password:
  1. At least 8 characters in length
  2. Not in the 100,000 most popular passwords (defined by the Password Blacklist library)
  3. Different from their username
User accounts not meeting these requirements will be prompted to update their password accordingly. More information is available on MediaWiki.org.
  • Blocked administrators may now block the administrator that blocked them. This was done to mitigate the possibility that a compromised administrator account would block all other active administrators, complementing the removal of the ability to unblock oneself outside of self-imposed blocks. A request for comment is currently in progress to determine whether the blocking policy should be updated regarding this change.
  • {{Copyvio-revdel}} now has a link to open the history with the RevDel checkboxes already filled in.

  Arbitration

  Miscellaneous

  • Accounts continue to be compromised on a regular basis. Evidence shows this is entirely due to the accounts having the same password that was used on another website that suffered a data breach. If you have ever used your current password on any other website, you should change it immediately.
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