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Administrators' newsletter – January 2018

News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2017).

Administrator changes

Muboshgu

Anetode • Laser brain • Worm That Turned

None

Bureaucrat changes

Worm That Turned

Guideline and policy news

• A request for comment is in progress to determine whether the administrator policy should be amended to require disclosure of paid editing activity at WP:RFA and to prohibit the use of administrative tools as part of paid editing activity, with certain exceptions.

Technical news

• The 2017 Community Wishlist Survey results have been posted. The Community Tech team will investigate and address the top ten results.
• The Anti-Harassment Tools team is inviting comments on new blocking tools and improvements to existing blocking tools for development in early 2018. Feedback can be left on the discussion page or by email.

Arbitration

• Following the results of the 2017 election, the following editors have been (re)appointed to the Arbitration Committee: Alex Shih, BU Rob13, Callanecc, KrakatoaKatie, Opabinia regalis, Premeditated Chaos, RickinBaltimore, Worm That Turned.

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 02:37, 3 January 2018 (UTC)

Dungeon Siege scheduled for TFA

This is to let you know that Dungeon Siege has been scheduled as today's featured article for 19 February 2018. Please check that the article needs no amendments. If you're interested in editing the main page text, you're welcome to do so at Wikipedia:Today's featured article/February 19, 2018. Ealdgyth - Talk 17:13, 19 January 2018 (UTC)

TFL notification

Hi, PresN. I'm just posting to let you know that Hugo Award for Best Graphic Story – a list that you have been heavily involved with – has been chosen to appear on the Main Page as Today's featured list for February 16. The TFL blurb can be seen here. If you have any thoughts on the selection, please post them on my talk page or at TFL talk. Regards, Giants2008 (Talk) 21:18, 19 January 2018 (UTC)

• And List of Square Enix video game franchises is up on February 19. Giants2008 (Talk) 02:19, 23 January 2018 (UTC)

Your feedback would be appreciated

Hi. I've never really written a biography before, so I was wondering whether you'd be able to take a look at Andy Schatz. I can take a look at an article you're working on in return, if you'd like. Anarchyte (work | talk) 12:41, 23 January 2018 (UTC)

@Anarchyte: read through it; it's pretty good overall! Nice work. A few points:

• The article needs a copyedit; saw a few instances of passive voice that didn't need to be there (e.g. "Schatz' first time commercially developing a game happened when he worked for Presto Studios" -> "Schatz first developed a commercial game while working for Presto Studios") and awkward sentence construction ("He began to disregard the plans of business school", "Some issues were the two rejections from Microsoft", "Throughout the development of Monaco, Schatz met other people")
• The problem likely lies in the sources, but the article runs us through his career but doesn't talk much about his personal life or even his game design philosophy. Maybe he doesn't have one?
• I think the flow of the article is just off, though, primarily- it reads as a series of choppy sentences, in chronological order. It could use a going over to make similar concepts flow into each other
• Part of what could help with that is going into a bit more detail on the games' developments - the article tells me that he made Monaco over 4 years, and had some challenges and won an award, but it doesn't tell me the Nguyen worked on the game as well, or about the failed port, or that Wintory talked himself onto the project, or how he found a publisher given that he got turned down by others. It doesn't tell me if the company he founded still has only him as an employee, or if Nguyen + others work for him now too. The guy only has 4 (+1 cancelled) games, and his entire career is 4 paragraphs- it could stand to have a bit more detail.

Indie devs are hard to write about, and you may have hit the bottom of sources, but I think the article could be improved to B+ fairly straightforwardly with just the sources it + the games' articles have. --PresN 17:35, 23 January 2018 (UTC)

Thanks for looking over it! I'll take a look at the flow soon. I've got a few more sources I haven't incorporated yet, too. Anarchyte (work | talk) 01:17, 24 January 2018 (UTC)

Hello again. What do you think of the design philosophy section? I've got a some more work to do on the career section, too. Anarchyte (work | talk) 09:49, 25 January 2018 (UTC)

Free images

As you might know, Flowerpiep and me nominated Sasuke Uchiha to FA. There has been an image review. I decided to delete since it's briefly mentioned, while I changed the "uchiwa" (the fan) image due to apparent copyright issues with wikicommons. I don't understand wikicommons enough so could you check it? Cheers.Tintor2 (talk) 20:58, 27 January 2018 (UTC)

Things seem going smoothly in the review. Is it possible if you could do a source review there one of these days? Cheers.Tintor2 (talk) 18:59, 4 February 2018 (UTC)

Information in User talk:PresN/DoD

Just so that you know. Deltasim (talk) 21:30, 29 January 2018 (UTC)

@Deltasim: I saw, I have it watchlisted. Responded to you there. Thanks for the info! --PresN 22:22, 29 January 2018 (UTC)

Precious five years!

Precious

Five years!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:39, 30 January 2018 (UTC)

Thank you for today's Dungeon Siege, "a bit of an odd duck of a video game, beginning with the title, as the game contains no besieging of dungeons."! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:33, 19 February 2018 (UTC)

Thank you for today's Cloud (video game), "the first successful game that Jenova Chen ever made. Cloud is even more indie and obscure that Flow- a short, free student game that never saw a commercial release of any kind; it still managed to get downloaded by over 600,000 people in its first 9 months. As an artsy student game it got little attention from the mainstream review press"! - I smiled when I saw the daisies on the poster, look! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 05:32, 12 June 2018 (UTC)

My sincere thanks

Wikipedia:Featured topic candidates/Laureus World Sports Awards/archive1 has just been promoted to featured topic. Thanks for your help in getting it there! The Rambling Man (talk) 21:41, 30 January 2018 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – February 2018

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

Administrator changes

None

Blurpeace • Dana boomer • Deltabeignet • Denelson83 • Grandiose • Salvidrim! • Ymblanter

Guideline and policy news

• An RfC has closed with a consensus that candidates at WP:RFA must disclose whether they have ever edited for pay and that administrators may never use administrative tools as part of any paid editing activity, except when they are acting as a Wikipedian-in-Residence or when the payment is made by the Wikimedia Foundation or an affiliate of the WMF.
• Editors responding to threats of harm can now contact the Wikimedia Foundation's emergency address by using Special:EmailUser/Emergency. If you don't have email enabled on Wikipedia, directly contacting the emergency address using your own email client remains an option.

Technical news

• A tag will now be automatically applied to edits that blank a page, turn a page into a redirect, remove/replace almost all content in a page, undo an edit, or rollback an edit. These edits were previously denoted solely by automatic edit summaries.

Arbitration

• The Arbitration Committee has enacted a change to the discretionary sanctions procedure which requires administrators to add a standardized editnotice when placing page restrictions. Editors cannot be sanctioned for violations of page restrictions if this editnotice was not in place at the time of the violation.

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:51, 4 February 2018 (UTC)

Wikipedia:STOPCHANGINGIT listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Wikipedia:STOPCHANGINGIT. Since you had some involvement with the Wikipedia:STOPCHANGINGIT redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so.  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  06:37, 4 February 2018 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2015 TV series) episodes/archive1

Hi PresN. I am wondering if anyone checked the non-free use of any images being used in List of Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2015 TV series) episodes when it promotion to FA status was being discussed. I cannot find anything in the discussion and the logo being used at the top of the article did not meet WP:NFCCP, so I have removed it per WP:NFCCE. Are images checked in FA candidate articles vetted to see whether their use complies with relevant Wikipedia policies? FWIW, it doesn't look as if the file was added after the FA review, so perhaps its use was just assumed to be policy-compliant. Anyway, I'm posting on your talk because you seem to have been the admin who closed the review and upgraded the article to FA. -- Marchjuly (talk) 04:53, 8 February 2018 (UTC)

@Marchjuly: Unlike FAC, FLC does not have an explicit requirement for an "image review" as it's own thing (like it does for "source reviews"); images are vetted ad hoc instead. In this case it appears the reviewers, though they vetted the image itself as being identifying instead of decorative, did not check that the FUR contained the list title in it. At least, I'm assuming that was your concern- you didn't actually say why you felt it failed NFCCP. --PresN 05:47, 8 February 2018 (UTC)

Thanks for clarifying. The main problem was that the use in the article does not satisfy WP:NFCC#10c. I didn't add a rationale myself because using logos such as this in list articles can be tricky per WP:NFLISTS; sometimes they seem to be OK, but most of the time they are not. The question with non-free use in list articles often has to do with WP:NFCC#8 and whether the use of the logo significantly improves the reader's understanding to a degree that not using it would be detrimental to that understanding. Anyway, if anyone disagrees with the removal and wants to provide the separate specific rational (not just a copy-and-pasted one which only changes the article parameter) required for the use (keeping WP:OTHERIMAGE and WP:ITSFA in mind), then they are free to do so. If anyone objects, they can start a discussion at WP:FFD. -- Marchjuly (talk) 05:55, 8 February 2018 (UTC)

Someone has moved the file to Commons as File:Transformers - Robots in Disguise (2015) logo.png and licensed it aa {{PD-textlogo}}. The text part of the logo might be "text logo", but the robot imagery clearly is not and is not something likely to be considered {{PD-logo}} as well. I believe the file will likely be deleted from Commons, but if it's kept then there will be no longer any more non-free use issues. -- Marchjuly (talk) 22:06, 8 February 2018 (UTC)

Marco Nguyen

Hi - I noticed that you removed information from the language section of a couple sources in the article Marco Nguyen. These sources are written in multiple languages, so I thought it best to mention that in the article. Is there any reason not to mention all of the languages? --Jpcase (talk) 22:06, 19 February 2018 (UTC)

@Jpcase: The reason was because it was breaking the template to have multiple languages (I was running through category-worth of articles that had issues with that parameter), but it turns out that there is a way to do multiple languages- e.g. "|language=French, German". I've gone back and fixed it. --PresN 22:36, 19 February 2018 (UTC)

Thanks! --Jpcase (talk) 22:43, 19 February 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Development of Doom

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Development of Doom you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of ProtoDrake -- ProtoDrake (talk) 17:01, 20 February 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Development of Doom

The article Development of Doom you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:Development of Doom for things which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of ProtoDrake -- ProtoDrake (talk) 10:20, 23 February 2018 (UTC)

Adivce needed

Fellow user Flowerpiep and me have been a FAC review here. While it seems everything is going okay, a user said "Are there any sources for the merchandise you can use other than storefronts? If so, that would be preferable." I'm not pretty sure what does he mean by that. I asked Flowerpiep and he says the same. Any idea?Tintor2 (talk) 16:04, 23 February 2018 (UTC)

(talk page watcher) Tintor, I believe the user is asking if the mechanchise has any secondary coverage over than the store pages themselves (A primary source, essentially). I.e. is there any coverage of them, versus simply proving that they exist. For example, did Anime News Network perhaps cover the release of any particular pieces? -- ferret (talk) 16:09, 23 February 2018 (UTC)

@Tintor2: Yep, ferret has the right of it- an Amazon link proves that the item exists, but a) it doesn't show that it's notable, and b) kind of awkwardly promotes one place you can buy the item over all others- in a small way it's an advertisement. As such, even though Amazon links are easier to get than a 3rd party review or mention or something, its preferable to find a non-store RS if you can. --PresN 16:16, 23 February 2018 (UTC)

I see. So this, this, this and this might work.Tintor2 (talk) 16:26, 23 February 2018 (UTC)

Yep. I wouldn't say its required, per say, if you can't find a secondary source, but it's certainly preferable. Secondary source shows someone took notice at least. -- ferret (talk) 16:40, 23 February 2018 (UTC)

Looks like today is final day of FA. Due to a comment of a moderator, Flowerpiep and me tried revamping the reception section to avoid "A says this, B this" and instead focus more on generalizations similar to what I tried doing with Lars Alexandersson. What do you think? A little help is appreciated but I understand if you don't want to. Cheers.Tintor2 (talk) 20:23, 24 February 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Development of Doom

The article Development of Doom you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Development of Doom for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of ProtoDrake -- ProtoDrake (talk) 17:21, 23 February 2018 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – March 2018

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

Administrator changes

Lourdes†

AngelOfSadness • Bhadani • Chris 73 • Coren • Friday • Midom • Mike V

† Lourdes has requested that her admin rights be temporarily removed, pending her return from travel.

Guideline and policy news

• The autoconfirmed article creation trial (ACTRIAL) is scheduled to end on 14 March 2018. The results of the research collected can be read on Meta Wiki.
• Community ban discussions must now stay open for at least 24 hours prior to being closed.
• A change to the administrator inactivity policy has been proposed. Under the proposal, if an administrator has not used their admin tools for a period of five years and is subsequently desysopped for inactivity, the administrator would have to file a new RfA in order to regain the tools.
• A change to the banning policy has been proposed which would specify conditions under which a repeat sockmaster may be considered de facto banned, reducing the need to start a community ban discussion for these users.

Technical news

• CheckUsers are now able to view private data such as IP addresses from the edit filter log, e.g. when the filter prevents a user from creating an account. Previously, this information was unavailable to CheckUsers because access to it could not be logged.
• The edit filter has a new feature contains_all that edit filter managers may use to check if one or more strings are all contained in another given string.

Miscellaneous

• Following the 2018 Steward elections, the following users are our new stewards: -revi, Green Giant, Rxy, There'sNoTime, علاء.

Obituaries

• Bhadani (Gangadhar Bhadani) passed away on 8 February 2018. Bhadani joined Wikipedia in March 2005 and became an administrator in September 2005. While he was active, Bhadani was regarded as one of the most prolific Wikipedians from India.

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WikiCup 2018 March newsletter

And so ends the first round of the competition, with 4 points required to qualify for round 2. With 53 contestants qualifying, the groups for round 2 are slightly smaller than usual, with the two leaders from each group due to qualify for round 3 as well as the top sixteen remaining users.

Our top scorers in round 1 were:

• Aoba47 led the field with a featured article, 8 good articles and 42 GARs, giving a total of 666 points.
• FrB.TG , a WikiCup newcomer, came next with 600 points, gained from a featured article and masses of bonus points.
• Ssven2, another WikiCup newcomer, was in third place with 403 points, garnered from a featured article, a featured list, a good article and twelve GARs.
• Ceranthor, Numerounovedant, Carbrera, Farang Rak Tham and Cartoon network freak all had over 200 points, but like all the other contestants, now have to start again from scratch. A good achievement was the 193 GARs performed by WikiCup contestants, comparing very favourably with the 54 GAs they achieved.

Remember that any content promoted after the end of round 1 but before the start of round 2 can be claimed in round 2. Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. Remember, if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews.

If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to help keep down the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Godot13 (talk), Sturmvogel 66 (talk), Cwmhiraeth (talk) and Vanamonde (talk) 15:27, 2 March 2018 (UTC)

Hugo Awards updates

I have just made a few changes to Hugo Awards - the Retro Hugos section was out of date, and the external link to the "Current WSFS Constitution" was to a version from several years ago. I am sure that I have improved the article factually, and am fairly sure that the sources I have used are reliable (even though one of them is primary). Also, rather than linking directly to the current WSFS Constitution, I have linked to a rather more general index page, whose URL looks rather less likely to change whenever the Constitution is updated. However, I rarely do significant edits to Good articles, and I may not have made my changes in the best possible way - I would therefore welcome your looking over what I have done, and amending it as necessary. PWilkinson (talk) 16:23, 19 March 2018 (UTC)

@PWilkinson: Looks great, thank you very much! --PresN 01:10, 20 March 2018 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – April 2018

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

Administrator changes

331dot • Cordless Larry • ClueBot NG

Gogo Dodo • Pb30 • Sebastiankessel • Seicer • SoLando

Guideline and policy news

• Administrators who have been desysopped due to inactivity are now required to have performed at least one (logged) administrative action in the past 5 years in order to qualify for a resysop without going through a new RfA.
• Editors who have been found to have engaged in sockpuppetry on at least two occasions after an initial indefinite block, for whatever reason, are now automatically considered banned by the community without the need to start a ban discussion.
• The notability guideline for organizations and companies has been substantially rewritten following the closure of this request for comment. Among the changes, the guideline more clearly defines the sourcing requirements needed for organizations and companies to be considered notable.
• The six-month autoconfirmed article creation trial (ACTRIAL) ended on 14 March 2018. The post-trial research report has been published. A request for comment is now underway to determine whether the restrictions from ACTRIAL should be implemented permanently.

Technical news

• There will soon be a calendar widget at Special:Block, making it easier to set expiries for a specific date and time.

Arbitration

• The Arbitration Committee is considering a change to the discretionary sanctions procedures which would require an editor to appeal a sanction to the community at WP:AE or WP:AN prior to appealing directly to the Arbitration Committee at WP:ARCA.

Miscellaneous

• A discussion has closed which concluded that administrators are not required to enable email, though many editors suggested doing so as a matter of best practice.
• The Foundations' Anti-Harassment Tools team has released the Interaction Timeline. This shows a chronologic history for two users on pages where they have both made edits, which may be helpful in identifying sockpuppetry and investigating editing disputes.

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Your GA nomination of Spasim

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Spasim you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Indrian -- Indrian (talk) 00:02, 10 April 2018 (UTC)

WikiCup 2018 May newsletter

The second round of the 2018 WikiCup has now finished. Most contestants who advanced to the next round scored upwards of 100 points, but two with just 10 points managed to scrape through into round 3. Our top scorers in the last round were:

• Cas Liber, our winner in 2016, with three featured articles
• Iazyges, with nine good articles and lots of bonus points
• Yashthepunisher, a first time contestant, with two featured lists
• SounderBruce, a finalist last year, with seventeen good topic articles
• Usernameunique, a first time contestant, with fourteen DYKs
• Muboshgu, a seasoned competitor, with three ITNs and
• Courcelles, another first time contestant, with twenty-seven GARs

So far contestants have achieved twelve featured articles between them and a splendid 124 good articles. Commendably, 326 GARs have been completed during the course of the 2018 WikiCup, so the backlog of articles awaiting GA review has been reduced as a result of contestants' activities. As we enter the third round, remember that any content promoted after the end of round 2 but before the start of round 3 can be claimed in round 3. Remember too that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them. When doing GARs, please make sure that you check that all the GA criteria are fully met; most of the GARs are fine, but a few have been a bit skimpy.

If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article nominations, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed (remember to remove your listing when no longer required). Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Godot13 (talk), Sturmvogel 66 (talk), Vanamonde (talk) and Cwmhiraeth (talk) 06:10, 1 May 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Spasim

The article Spasim you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:Spasim for things which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Indrian -- Indrian (talk) 14:20, 1 May 2018 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – May 2018

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

Administrator changes

None

Chochopk • Coffee • Gryffindor • Jimp • Knowledge Seeker • Lankiveil • Peridon • Rjd0060

Guideline and policy news

• The ability to create articles directly in mainspace is now indefinitely restricted to autoconfirmed users.
• A proposal is being discussed which would create a new "event coordinator" right that would allow users to temporarily add the "confirmed" flag to new user accounts and to create many new user accounts without being hindered by a rate limit.

Technical news

• AbuseFilter has received numerous improvements, including an OOUI overhaul, syntax highlighting, ability to search existing filters, and a few new functions. In particular, the search feature can be used to ensure there aren't existing filters for what you need, and the new equals_to_any function can be used when checking multiple namespaces. One major upcoming change is the ability to see which filters are the slowest. This information is currently only available to those with access to Logstash.
• When blocking anonymous users, a cookie will be applied that reloads the block if the user changes their IP. This means in most cases, you may no longer need to do /64 range blocks on residential IPv6 addresses in order to effectively block the end user. It will also help combat abuse from IP hoppers in general. This currently only occurs when hard-blocking accounts.
• The block notice shown on mobile will soon be more informative and point users to a help page on how to request an unblock, just as it currently does on desktop.
• There will soon be a calendar widget at Special:Block, making it easier to set expiries for a specific date and time.

Arbitration

• The Arbitration Committee is seeking additional clerks to help with the arbitration process.

Obituaries

• Lankiveil (Craig Franklin) passed away in mid-April. Lankiveil joined Wikipedia on 12 August 2004 and became an administrator on 31 August 2008. During his time with the Wikimedia community, Lankiveil served as an oversighter for the English Wikipedia and as president of Wikimedia Australia.

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 07:05, 2 May 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Spasim

The article Spasim you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Spasim for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Indrian -- Indrian (talk) 19:21, 2 May 2018 (UTC)

Wolfenstein 3D

I noticed you removed a review from Wolfenstein 3D. When it comes to sources, I don't think Wikipedia differentiates between things like "minor" or "major." As long as the source is reliable, then it can included. The fact that it uses hand-drawn cover shouldn't matter. 2605:E000:2E54:8F0:8C1D:A32B:F1C3:CB76 (talk) 19:39, 6 May 2018 (UTC)

Cloud (video game) selected as TFA for June 12, 2018

This is to let you know that the Cloud (video game) article has been scheduled as today's featured article for June 12, 2018. Please check the article needs no amendments. If you're interested in editing the main page text, you're welcome to do so at Wikipedia:Today's featured article/June 12, 2018.--Wehwalt (talk) 20:45, 8 May 2018 (UTC)

Free image

I have been working on the article Tsubasa Oozora and I found out there are multiple statues based on the character in Japan thanks to its Japanese article. Is it possible to add them to the English Wikipedia? I tried making a request here but I'm not familiar with how these requests are performed. Cheers.Tintor2 (talk) 02:04, 10 May 2018 (UTC)

@Tintor2: As far as free-use goes? I don't think so: Japan doesn't have freedom of panorama for statues as far as I know, based on little more than that article, so photographing a statue in a public space is considered the same as photographing a painting or something. That said, a statue of a manga character is a rather unique thing, I'd think, so even as fair-use it should be fine. The licenses on the JA article are a mishmash of nonsense, but I think you just copy it over to EN and mention the original location in the attribution boxes? I've no idea, actually, though I don't think Commons:Picture requests is the right place to ask- that's for getting people to take photos of stuff and upload them to Commons, and the statues already have pictures. --PresN 02:59, 10 May 2018 (UTC)

Thanks. I'll treat it similar to those Persona 3 movies marketing images.Tintor2 (talk) 15:55, 10 May 2018 (UTC)

You've got mail!

Hello, PresN. Please check your email; you've got mail!
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Thanks TheSandDoctor ^Talk 06:43, 13 May 2018 (UTC)

@TheSandDoctor: Well, musician bios aren't my strong point, but I can definately give it a pre-FAC review. Give me a few days, and ping me again if I haven't written something up by then. --PresN 01:18, 15 May 2018 (UTC)

Thanks! I messaged you as music and bios were listed alongside your name on Wikipedia:Mentoring for FAC. Take your time, the minor content edit war dispute needs to settle down and be resolved first anyways. --TheSandDoctor ^Talk 02:44, 15 May 2018 (UTC)

Hi there, don't mean to bother you, just checking in as a week has passed. If you need more time, that's not a problem. --TheSandDoctor ^Talk 06:22, 21 May 2018 (UTC)

@TheSandDoctor: Okay, reviewing for issues. I'm not going to do an in-depth grammar/text review, but instead look for larger-scale issues that would derail an FAC. Frankly, the answer to "should I get a copyedit of an article before FAC" is always yes.

• The Stones is the biggest part of Jagger's (professional) life, and a massive part of the article. The second paragraph, however, which gives highlights of his life, mentions that he wrote most of the songs with Richards, and... that's it. Nothing about how long he was in the band, how big a deal it was, how many albums, nothing.
• The whole lead kind of feels like a lot of disconected sentences jammed together, actually. There's no flow, and the lead needs to be the best-written part of the article besides.
• The second paragraph of Early Life is one long quote, and seemingly for no reason. Not to mention: 'Jagger "was always a singer" [...]. "I always sang as a child."'
• "In September 1950, Keith Richards and Jagger were classmates at Wentworth Primary School" - an awkward way to say that he went to Wentworth (when?), and met Richards there in 1950. The interjection about the Mick Jagger Center is also awkward and cuts the flow
• Section ends with a single-sentence paragraph
• "By autumn 1963, Jagger had left the London School of Economics" - wait, that's how the last section ended. Why did we cut back in time to 1962?
• "This core songwriting partnership took some time to develop; one of their early compositions" - well, did it take some time to develop or did they start off early?
• Another multi-sentence quote paragraph. These are very unnecessary- the article should be paraphrasing the relevant bits.
• "Jones drowned under mysterious circumstances in the swimming pool at his home" - what mysterious circumstances? You can't just leave that hanging there. It seems like there weren't any, regardless, just conspiricy theories that the police investigated and dismissed- 'drug addict drowns in pool' is hardly a surprise.
• As the decades go on the prose peters out into shorter sections and shorter paragraphs; ironically, this should be the opposite, since most of the early stuff is more Stones-related but the later decades have Jagger doing more solo stuff that's more just this article.
• Personal Life reads like a list of names with details. Also maybe it's normal, but having children separated from the discussion of their mother's makes the reader go through the same time periods twice in a row
• Okay, I'm not going to go into more detail past this, but jump to give a general impression. I think the article probably has all the content and references it needs (the GA review seems to have sorted out the latter), but the prose is just not holding up. It reads like a long listing of facts about Jagger, grouped into sections and then arranged in temporal order. Which is the worst thing I can tell you, actually, because it means that there's not a set of issues to fix that I can list out. The article just needs to be better written - more flow, more connection between thoughts, less quoting and more narrative of ideas... just, better. And I don't know how to tell you how to do that. But at FAC, especially with an article this long, if you don't have it you're going to get reviewers skipping by, or a string of grammar complaints that don't result in Support votes. The best advice I have is to take the article as-is, and just spend a lot of time rewriting it with the sources you already have to make it sound and feel better (to you). Just take it in chunks and see if you can find better ways to make one section, one paragraph at a time read better. It will take a while; I don't think there's an easy or direct way to improve it. I don't know if you think it'd be worth it, it's a lot of work/time, but you've got the bones of article writing down and most of the WP:FA? criteria, you just need to meet 1.a, and any time you put into that will make you a better writer and help all future articles you write. --PresN 02:25, 23 May 2018 (UTC)

Thank you for the response. I did have a copyedit done last October. I shall work on this one, but just wondering, when compared to The Rolling Stones, which one do you think is closer to satisfying all of the FA criteria? Or are they about the same? --TheSandDoctor ^Talk 02:38, 23 May 2018 (UTC)

@TheSandDoctor: I think Rolling Stones is closer. --PresN 17:59, 23 May 2018 (UTC)

Thanks. Do you mean closer as in close enough to nominate or is more work needed beforehand in your opinion? (If the latter, do you have any suggestions?) --TheSandDoctor ^Talk 18:41, 23 May 2018 (UTC)

Timeline of Scottish Football.

Hi there. Thanks for the review. I've addressed all the points you raised, aside from the issue with "unformatted ISBNs". I don't know what this means, can you advise further? Thanks, ShugSty (talk) 22:02, 14 May 2018 (UTC)

@ShugSty: Yeah, it's a minor point. You have some ISBNs that are 13 digits (like "978-111111111") and some that are 10 digits, and they're not all formatted right (the location of the hyphens matters (and depends on what the numbers are)), and since it's supposed to be a consistent id number it should be in a consistent format. It's quick to fix- go to [1], put in an ISBN, check "Hyphenate ISBNs", and then click "Convert ISBN". "978-0224080217" becomes "978-0-224-08021-7", and "0-7434-2991-5" becomes "978-0-7434-2991-7". --PresN 01:15, 15 May 2018 (UTC)

@PresN: Ah, ok. I've now rejigged the 10 ISBNs to 13 digits (with the hypens as done using the tool you linked to. ShugSty (talk) 01:49, 15 May 2018 (UTC)

New id Software related topic

You may wish to check out and revise the article Monkeystone Games as well the games they developed and published. I'm sure you'll like this one. Deltasim (talk) 19:06, 19 May 2018 (UTC)

Deleted Omnideck 6

Hello @PresN:, the sock user completely stole someone's content like the Witch It article and especially the recently deleted Omnideck 6, it was a huge project created and orgininality came from @Manuhart:, but a sock moved it into main article as what he said to the teahouse and completely destroyed due to block, making massive article to be deleted including Manuhart's draft of Omnideck 6 so you guys should restore Omnideck 6 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 49.145.243.79 (talk • contribs)

Witch It is still present at Draft:Witch It, it got moved. Omnideck 6 appears to only have contirbutions by Personale, not Manuhart? I can restore that as a draft if you'd like, though. --PresN 02:02, 22 May 2018 (UTC)

@PresN: sock copy pasted ,ok ,put it in draft and link it here in Here, I will fix a little bit that one as a IP user, then moved it into article once the problem is done thank you and this is possibly the same problem from Caveblazers. Most of his article created from someone's drafts, he help/stole some of it I suspect him from teahouse and patrol all the drafts of wiki project. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 49.145.243.79 (talk • contribs)

@PresN: I would pick it on the draft. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 49.148.156.116 (talk • contribs)

• PresN, you might like to read User talk:Bbb23#Omnideck 6. I've also gone over it with Sergecross73 to look at the deleted Omnideck 6 revisions and they looked fine as an article. The copypasting by the sock might explain why the refs all have 2015 accessdates? This is gonna sound weird but the only readon I'm interested in this case is because someone (don't know if it's the user behind Personale, Manuhart, the IP here or some third party) contacted me in comments on a random gameplay video on my channel.... god knows why. Ben · Salvidrim! ✉ 07:09, 24 May 2018 (UTC)

Okay, Draft:Omnideck 6 is back, and Draft:Caveblazers was still there. Note that Caveblazers is using poor sources, but a google search says that there are a few good ones out there. --PresN 12:28, 24 May 2018 (UTC)

Huge

You have a massive number of edits. Bleucheeses (talk) 06:06, 27 May 2018 (UTC)

@Bleucheeses: I guess so? --PresN 12:38, 27 May 2018 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – June 2018

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

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• Following a successful request for comment, administrators are now able to add and remove editors to the "event coordinator" group. Users in the event coordinator group have the ability to temporarily add the "confirmed" flag to new user accounts and to create many new user accounts without being hindered by a rate limit. Users will no longer need to be in the "account creator" group if they are in the event coordinator group.
• Following an AN discussion, all pages with content related to blockchain and cryptocurrencies, broadly construed, are now under indefinite general sanctions.

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• IP-based cookie blocks should be deployed to English Wikipedia in June. This will cause the block of a logged-out user to be reloaded if they change IPs. This means in most cases, you may no longer need to do /64 range blocks on residential IPv6 addresses in order to effectively block the end user. It will also help combat abuse from IP hoppers in general. For the time being, it only affects users of the desktop interface.
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Reception of Kazuya Mishima

Some days ago I tried to clean up the reception section of Kazuya Mishima by avoiding quotes and reorganizing the section by different themes like 1. Regular reception 2. Characterization 3. Alter ego 4. Other media

However I have no idea if it's in good shape as a user from the wikiproject video game said it might need more tidy up. What do you think? Cheers.Tintor2 (talk) 23:04, 6 June 2018 (UTC)

@Tintor2: Hmm, from a quick glance there are some general cleanups that can be done ("...based on their popularitooes"), but larger is that almost every sentence is of the structure "[Review outlet] [verb] [rest of the sentence]". Try mixing up the sentence structures, and combining similar sentences together instead of sticking to one reviewer per sentence. It's not bad by any means- you could probably make GA with a grammar pass- but it needs some writing flow fixes if you want to go higher. Oh, unrelated, your reception section has multiple date formats- in 3 lines (refs 92 and 93) I see 2013-11-13, September 19th, 2012, and December 7, 2010, and you have a 14 September 2017 over in ref 8. --PresN 00:28, 7 June 2018 (UTC)

Thanks for the quick response. I already asked for a copyedit some weeks ago but I was afraid it need more tide up. I tried mixing more similar to what I did with Lars Alexandersson reducing the length of the second paragraph significantly. Cheers.Tintor2 (talk) 02:10, 7 June 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Crystal Defenders

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Crystal Defenders you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Courcelles -- Courcelles (talk) 13:01, 11 June 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Crystal Defenders

The article Crystal Defenders you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:Crystal Defenders for things which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Courcelles -- Courcelles (talk) 14:01, 11 June 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Crystal Defenders

The article Crystal Defenders you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Crystal Defenders for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Courcelles -- Courcelles (talk) 20:01, 11 June 2018 (UTC)

Question about your revision on Cloud (video game)

Regarding your revision on Cloud (video game), you’re right about the Puzzle video game article. I thought that the article was titled Puzzle game; my bad.

However, regarding the Single-player video game link, Single-player redirects to the article, so per WP:NOTBROKEN and MOS:NOPIPE, the redirect shouldn’t be avoided by using a piped link to the target article. Interqwark ^{talk contribs} 18:33, 12 June 2018 (UTC)

@Interqwark: NOPIPE says not to do things like [[Video game developer|Video game that is a redirect to the developer]], i.e. don't pipe away redirects that could potentially be articles.[[Single-player video game|Single-player]] is different- it's just a shortened version of the full title, for one, but more importantly "Single-player" isn't a viable article, as it means the same thing as "Single-player video game". It's functionally the same thing as [[Something (video game term)|Something]]. --PresN 01:07, 13 June 2018 (UTC)

WP:NOTBROKEN says that editors should almost never replace [[redirect]] with [[target|redirect]]. Interqwark ^{talk contribs} 03:05, 13 June 2018 (UTC)

List of Premier League winning players

Hi, thanks for promoting this list. However, I would question whether this edit was necessary, as all the links already worked fine. Is there any guideline or policy on whether we should include archives for working links? Thanks, Mattythewhite (talk) 16:28, 14 June 2018 (UTC)

@Mattythewhite: It's not required to archive links that are live (whether or not they are likely to go down at some point in the foreseeable future), but since it doesn't hurt and there's a bot that will do it for you (linked from every article's history page) it's usually done for featured lists/articles as a matter of course. It's not likely that the premier league website will go down or change to lose information you were citing, but it's not impossible, so why not. --PresN 16:33, 14 June 2018 (UTC)

The Premier League site does actually have a history of changing its urls and not redirecting them. Thanks for your response. Mattythewhite (talk) 16:37, 14 June 2018 (UTC)

Maybe another Featured Topic?

How about the “List of Square Enix Media Franchises” Featured Topic? All are featured, all are grouped together like a topic... thoughts? Judgesurreal777 (talk) 17:49, 21 June 2018 (UTC)

@Judgesurreal777: Hmm, you mean List of Square Enix video game franchises as the lead, then the 4 Square/SE game lists? Or 5, with Enix? Or something else? --PresN 02:16, 22 June 2018 (UTC)

Exactly, some combination of those game lists. They are a section together in the article list after all... :) Judgesurreal777 (talk) 03:00, 22 June 2018 (UTC)

Hello and advice

Hello PresN, today, I stumbled across your work on the Hugo Award and Nebula Award after seeing the Google Doodle for Octavia E. Butler. I am very impressed by your success at writing high quality (even GA and featured pages!) on awards. I coincidently started my first draft today on an award/honor Draft:VH1_Trailblazer_Honor. If you had some time, I would greatly appreciate your help to improve the draft (either in edits or advice). Also, ff you also had any suggestions on the name of the honor (i.e., Logo vs VH1), that would be totally awesome! Best, Thsmi002 (talk) 04:03, 23 June 2018 (UTC)

@Thsmi002: Thoughts:

• The plurals in the first sentences are messing me up- it seems like the award (singular) is the "VH1 Trailblazer Honor", but collectively they are the "VH1 Trailblazer Honors". Starting off the article with the singular but without a definate article (the, a) reads oddly. You do it better in the article body.
• Hmm, if the lead is going to be a summary of the article (list?) it needs to summarize the table as well.
• "for their role in the Defense of Marriage Act" - role in overturning DOMA, surely?
• "Jason Collins was presented the honor by Lance Bass" - but for what?
• "the first year that a the honor "Social Trailblazer" was added"
• "Logo fans voted between four nominees" - Logo fans? Surely Logo viewers at most
• The article kind of peters out after 2015, though I suspect you know that
• This is really missing more discussion from 3rd-party sources about it being important or noteworthy; having Clinton and Obama participate lends it something, but it needs more- it looks like it should exist, you have a lot of good sources for the winners, you just need some pull quotes/discussions about the awards themselves as well.
• Oof, that table- I thought there were multiple categories, but I guess not? I don't understand how it's sorted... Putting the year as the first column and rowspanning it across all the winners for that year might help with legibility, see Hugo Award for Best Novel for ex. --PresN 01:57, 25 June 2018 (UTC)

deleted article

Hi @PresN:, I just found you out, I and some user has been working out on the article Trap Adventure 2 and Railway Empire. but it turns out another sock was blocked and a bunch of articles has been deleted (my IP changed every day), would you revive it on mainspace, we would like to work with it, it has been reviewed already. thanks in advance, cheers!.

Restored TA2, though it was immediately taken to AfD; upon further inspection no ip user edited these articles, which makes you Mayamaya. Please do not ask again. --PresN 01:22, 26 June 2018 (UTC)