User talk:Rich Smith/Archive71

Never Have I Ever (TV series) - you deleted my note about product placement

Rich Smith, I feel that the business model(s) used in a film or TV production is important and interesting encyclopedia content. Media literacy curricula (e.g. US Common Core) highlight the importance of understanding the motivations that impel the creators of a text (in this case a TV series). Also, we have a clear precedent for documenting the business dynamics of production when we consider the inclusion of production budgets and revenue figures in Wikipedia articles on film and TV works. In this case, readers may be interested to know many decisions regarding set and prop design were inflected by marketing deals in addition to entertainment and artistic considerations. I would like to ask that you restore the sentence and citation I added, and please LMK if you have editorial suggestions to make this economic dynamic more clear to readers.

Genuinely out of curiosity

Is there a reason why the other participant in the coffee enema edit war was not warned about edit warring? I know "the old editor should know better" but the new editor might not know. Primefac (talk) 23:34, 30 April 2020 (UTC)

@Primefac: No idea, I've bumped in to this while on the IRC. We've given advice on there to the new editor - - Rich^T|C|E-Mail 23:39, 30 April 2020 (UTC)

Fair enough, thanks. Primefac (talk) 23:46, 30 April 2020 (UTC)

How, as a non user of IRC, do I find out what you advised? -Roxy, the PROD. . wooF 05:32, 1 May 2020 (UTC)

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• Everyone can now import photos from Flickr to Commons with the UploadWizard. Before this only autopatrollers on Commons could import photos from Flickr. [4]

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• Commons will be on read-only for a few minutes on 12 May. This will happen around 05:00 UTC. This is for database maintenance. [5]
• Several wikis including Wikidata will be on read-only for a few minutes on 19 May. This will happen around 05:00 UTC. English Wikipedia will be on read-only for a few minutes on 21 May 05:00 UTC. This is for database maintenance. [6][7]

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20:41, 11 May 2020 (UTC)

Speedy deletion declined: Sarwani

Hello Rich Smith. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of Sarwani, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: This is an article about a tribe, not a person. A7 doesn't apply, and neither does the corporation one. Needs to go to AfD. Thank you. GedUK  08:06, 15 May 2020 (UTC)

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• There is a bug that creates problems for iPhone users with iOS 13 and Safari. If you use an iPhone to read or edit Wikipedia and see bugs on the mobile site you can report them. [11]
• Several wikis including Wikidata will be on read-only for a few minutes on 19 May. This will happen around 05:00 UTC. English Wikipedia will be on read-only for a few minutes on 21 May 05:00 UTC. This is for database maintenance. [12][13]

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• The Wikipedia app for Android can let users add depicts on Commons. The beta version used computer-aided tagging. This was removed to get more specific depicts. [14]
• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

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• Graphs will be rendered in the reader's browser. This will use Javascript. Graphs will hopefully work better for everyone who uses Javascript. It will not work for users who don't use Javascript. This will not affect diagrams in image files. [15]
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• The visual editor will now work in the Modern skin. The changes that needed to happen for this to work could cause problems for some scripts or gadgets. [17]
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Would you like to be an administrator?

Thanks, Another Wiki User the 2nd (talk) 15:33, 30 May 2020 (UTC)

Maybe one day, not really that fussed if I am or not - - Rich^T|C|E-Mail 15:41, 30 May 2020 (UTC)

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