Warfieldian

Speedy deletion requests (please forgive my ignorance)

Sorry please forgive my ignorance, could you please explain to me why the images (Patrenco and Shah and Nurse Tait (which has already been deleted)) I uploaded are being nominated for speedy deletion . I uploaded them using all the same labeling which allows this image to stay up on the Oliver Valentine article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Oliver_Valentine.jpg im a little confused. Thanks you--InExcelsis DeoTalk 17:06, 4 August 2011 (UTC)

Fair use of images is intended to allow the use of copyrighted images in a limited set of circumstances when a non-free alternative is not possible. Generally, Wikipedia considers images of living persons replaceable by non-free images as noted in the policy that I linked to -- Images -- Pictures of people still alive, groups still active, and buildings still standing; provided that taking a new free picture as a replacement (which is almost always considered possible) would serve the same encyclopedic purpose as the non-free image. This includes non-free promotional images. WP:NFC#UULP You can sometimes find freely licensed pictures of celebrities on Flickr that are released under Creative Commons. If you find a copyrighted image you would like to use, you can attempt to obtain permission to use the image under a free license by writing to the copyright holder and sending the permission from the copyright holder to the COM:OTRS. Hope that helps. Warfieldian ^(talk) 17:53, 4 August 2011 (UTC) By the way, the other image that you used as a template for your request has an inappropriate fair-use rationale as well and I nominated that one for deletion. Warfieldian ^(talk) 17:57, 4 August 2011 (UTC)

Aareffard

Hi Warfieldian. I wanted to thank you for the editing support for the article. I see that you improved some sentences and introduced wikipedia links for some of the terms/words and names. Thanks for hte help. Best regards Ali Aareffard (talk) 14:33, 16 March 2011 (UTC)

I was pretty much happy with the first photo I uploaded, so I have chosen to wait to get his permission to use that pic. Thanks for the info. =) Best, Ali — Preceding unsigned comment added by Aareffard (talk • contribs) 11:15, 9 March 2011 (UTC)

Aareffard (talk) 11:25, 9 March 2011 (UTC)

Thank you for the response. I will remove the photo and re-upload it after I get the lisence permissions from the source of the photo. Thanks for the help. :) Best, Ali Areffard — Preceding unsigned comment added by Aareffard (talk • contribs) 23:27, 8 March 2011 (UTC)

Aareffard (talk) 11:25, 9 March 2011 (UTC)

Dear Warfieldian. Thank you for a nice welcome message. I am responding to your message I got 2 hrs ago. The picture was required from Professor Gaudernack when I designed our research group's website approx. one year ago. I had saved the original jpeg i received from him with intend to use for his wikipedia article. The thing is that this article is a gift from me to him as his retirement gift which will be presented to him the evening of Thursday 10th of March (in two days). He has no idea about this article until then, thus I have not asked him for to use this picture for this purpose. I will ask him on Thursday when this is presented for him if he gives permission to use this photo in the article. I know him very well as I was his researcher for several years, so I do not believe he would object. I understand that you may have doubts about this issue since this is my first article, so how can I contribute to gain your trust until thursday evening or early friday morning to give you a final answer about lisence agreements from Professor Gaudernack?

Best regards, Ali Areffard — Preceding unsigned comment added by Aareffard (talk • contribs) 22:41, 8 March 2011 (UTC)

Aareffard (talk) 11:26, 9 March 2011 (UTC)

speedy

Speedy A7 is for articles that have no indication of possible notability . Indicating that someone is a orofessoir at a major university is at least some indication of at least possible notability , and prevents speedy deletion. Not all professors are notable , but those who have published multiple major books in their field almost always are , as authorities in their subject. --see WP:PROF. In particular Nicolai J. Foss is pretty sure to pass that criterion. This can be tested at AfD, but it would not in any way be a speedy deletion. The criterion for speedy is much weaker than notable. It's great that you are editing here again, but you might possibly not be quite up to date on current practice, so before doing further patrolling, please read carefully WP:CSD DGG ( talk ) 18:27, 25 February 2011 (UTC)

Daniel M. Ashe

Hi there, Warfieldian! I've rewritten this article and used a more reliable source -- the USFWS itself. That's enough, at least for me, to consider the subject notable. Btw, there was never a problem of copyright violation, because if I'm not confused, the source website was a mirror of the USFWS' information which is likely in the public domain. Thanks for your attempt to clean up what you thought was a copyvio. ceranthor 22:20, 25 February 2011 (UTC)

General sanctions on abortion articles

Just letting you know, in case you didn't already, that abortion-related articles are now subject to general sanctions, including but not limited to 1RR. Going by what's already occurred (two editors blocked at Lila Rose and the sanctions were imposed what, a day ago?), it looks like there's going to be a lot of admin involvement as well as a lot of attempts to game the system. Be careful! (I mean, you probably do know, since you've edited the article that got the first two blocks, but warnings can't hurt, I hope.) Roscelese (talk ⋅ contribs) 16:23, 28 February 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for the warning. I have been trying to edit the article in a responsible way. Since it is a BLP, I have been trying to help provide a balanced, neutral article. I am very willing to be responsive to discussion and resolve issues through consensus.Warfieldian (talk) 17:02, 28 February 2011 (UTC)

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Lancaster High School (Lancaster, South Carolina)

Hello Warfieldian ! I have improved the article with legit information and References ! Do you think that the "cleanup" awareness you have put can be removed now? --Scoobynaiterpaul123 (talk) 06:21, 4 March 2011 (UTC)

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Virginia Good

You recommended the deletion of an entry for Virginia Good. Here's the information I added that was apparently ignored.

Gerard Jones Jr. and I have nothing in common but our name. I don't know what constitutes "notable." A narrative NONFICTION memoir ISBN: 0972635750 about "the first hippie" is reliable source in and of itself. Go read it and see whether it's "authentic" or not.

http://everyonewhosanyone.com/ggcha.html

Ginny Good was the first hippie. Hippies were an important influence on international culture during the last fifty years or so. Here's the evidence. It's a quote from this chapter:

http://everyonewhosanyone.com/ggsyn14.html

"She was the first hippie, for one thing. I've mentioned that. Yeah, well, she was. I have proof. Documentary evidence. You could look it up.

There's a picture of her in the school paper at San Francisco State: The Gater. The picture was taken in the spring of 1963. Ginny's dancing on the lawn across from the library; her hair's kind of in her face, but you can still tell it's her. Jim Moss is in the background, egging her on. And the first time the word "hippie" was used to describe the sort of person who we all know now as a "hippie" was in the caption to that picture. She may even have had some flowers in her hair—which, in my book, makes her the first hippie. Merriam Webster may wish to quibble, but hey, she's got her own damn book. In my book, Ginny Good is the first hippie. Ha!

It wasn't just the picture, either. She was an icon in all kinds of other ways, too. She ironed her hair and put cucumber slices on her eyelids at night. She ate alfalfa sprouts and Northridge Farms Honey Wheatberry Bread and tofu and great vats of zucchini, parsley and green beans, all on the personal recommendation of Dr. Henry Beiler himself. He hung out with Ginny's aunt and the Vedanta Swamis in Laguna Beach and literally wrote the book on hippie food. Check it out. Food is Your Best Medicine, the book was called. While everyone else was still drinking Nehi Grape, Ginny Good was guzzling frothy concoctions of Tiger's Milk, Brewer's Yeast and Blackstrap Molasses. While everyone else was just beginning to catch on to the idea of eating Big Macs and Round Table Pizza, Ginny Good was the first one on her block to cook brown rice to perfection.

Nor did it end there. She was the hippiest little hippie chick who ever lived. She defined the whole idea in about a billion ways. Later on, she carted boxes of her old clothes down to the Digger's store so other chicks could become hippie chicks too, then so did they and so on and so on. It wasn't just a matter of appearances, either. Ginny was all up into astrology, astral projection, past lives, psychic this and New Age that, the I-Ching, Eastern Philosophy, Paul Reps, Alan Watts, Fritz Perls, R. D. Laing, Arthur Koestler, Wilhelm Reich and Sam Lewis—Sufi Sam."

Here's a review that calls it an important book, just as Ginny was an important person.

http://www.januarymagazine.com/biography/ginnygood.html

Here's what Hank Harrison, manager of the Grateful Dead when they were called "The Warlocks" had to say about her at Amazon:

"Ginny Good is a great name for the book because this woman was, although petite in apearence, bigger than life. Anyone who knew her knew she was a big deal on a small planet...she was, without doubt, the quintessential bohemian princess. Get the book and capture the feeling of how things realy were in the Summer of Love. HH"

There are lots of less notable people around and lots of corroboration that's way less "factual," but y'all are welcome to do what you think best, however inaccurate it may be. Thanks. G.

Gerard Jones http://everyonewhosanyone.com —Preceding unsigned comment added by 97.94.225.44 (talk) 00:17, 9 March 2011 (UTC)

National Childminding Association

I removed your speedy tag, because as a large organization, it is probably notable. If you disagree, please take it to WP:AfD to discuss or appeal my move. Bearian (talk) 20:59, 16 March 2011 (UTC)

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Your spam template on the Grandstream Networks article.

Hi Warfieldian, Recently you added a spam template to the Grandstream Networks article. You may have noted that articles about the same company had been previously deleted as spam, and spam is quite probably what they were. The earlier articles appear to have been copied verbatim from promotional company ad text. This company garners over 200,000 hits on Google, and many of the links are from reliable 3rd parties. I've tried to clean up the article from when you placed the template on it, and I was wondering if you might have the time to reread the most recent edition of the article and to consider removing your template. Any comments you may have about how to improve the article would be appreciated on the article's discussion page. Thanks, Scott P. (talk) 16:22, 7 June 2011 (UTC)

Completely new abortion proposal and mediation

In light of the seemingly endless disputes over their respective titles, a neutral mediator has crafted a proposal to rename the two major abortion articles (pro-life/anti-abortion movement, and pro-choice/abortion rights movement) to completely new names. The idea, which is located here, is currently open for opinions. As you have been a contributor in the past to at least one of the articles, your thoughts on the matter would be appreciated.

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CARLTON LEACH

I have edited the carlton leach page with more in depth information surrounding the whole article.

I am very annoyed that the original creator of the article has come out of nowhere since he created it and decided to undo all my good work and put it all in a context of his own but STILL keeping over half of my input!!!!!

Disgraceful — Preceding unsigned comment added by Henryafrica (talk • contribs) 14:51, 15 July 2011 (UTC)

You were adding gibberish to the article. I am not sure how you think that is helpful. Warfieldian ^(talk) 14:57, 15 July 2011 (UTC)

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Batu Secret Zoo

Hi, I'm Acer Indonesia, a Christian. Can you help me in article for spelling, grammar, and added other information in www.jawatimurpark2.com ?? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Acer Indonesia 22 (talk • contribs) 14:47, 6 August 2011 (UTC)

Please wait on deleting the Brian Germain page

Please, Warfieldian, My page: Brian Germain should not simply be deleted 2 seconds after I posted it. The only reason it is nominated now is because a similar page like it was deleted yesterday. Please allow me to explain what happened. I started the page and put CONSIDERABLE work into it but wanted to delete it myself only I couldn't figure out how to do so. I have put a LOT of very good, very verifiable, very legit and totally unbiased work into the current page.

I didn't mean to post it. I've been working on it all day and meant to merely view it but hit save accidentally. Look Brian Germain up yourself. There's no denying that he deserves a Wikipedia page based on his works alone. Please don't waste all this work. I fully intend to appeal to some 5,000 people very soon, many of whom are sure to be Wiki editors, to help me in creating and building upon this page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jagust (talk • contribs) 16:57, 6 August 2011 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:China

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Heello

I recommend you wait a couple of days before you CSD it. It's just launched and needs time to get good quality sources to prove WP:N. The company is founded by one whose previous venture was offered a 10 million US dollars. You could assume good faith and wait or stick with the CSD, it's your call. Arjun^codename024 19:53, 10 August 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for that gesture. I hope more sources come up. If i weren't busy i would have searched. Arjun^codename024 19:59, 10 August 2011 (UTC)

Tom Malar page

Good day,

I have created this page, add references and it still suppose to be deleted. Can you tell me what can be done? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jacobdope (talk • contribs) 10:28, 11 August 2011 (UTC)

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UMich

There are a lot of great photos of eye disease from UMich. Not sure if you have seen this at commons but would be nice to get a batch upload. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Batch_uploading/UMich Else we can do it manually. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 01:46, 16 August 2011 (UTC)

Excellent. Many thanks. I had been meaning to do it as well but just could not find the time. Definitely a great addition and will not hold the water marks too much against them as they did release their images under a creative common license :-) Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 02:53, 16 August 2011 (UTC)

Paquet

Seemed best to go to AfD: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/J.N. Paquet. DGG ( talk ) 20:55, 17 August 2011 (UTC)

my photo of slovenian parliament

you wrote about my digital photo:

Meets threshold for originality, not de minimis, constructed in 1959 so still within copyright. no FoP in Slovenia.

• • • photo is my own! *** — Preceding unsigned comment added by Wexydj (talk • contribs) 14:30, 12 September 2011 (UTC)

Your opinion is wanted

Please provide your input here on the legitimacy and desirability of accepting external links in relevant Wikipedia articles to MedMerits, a new and freely accessible online resource on neurologic disorders. Presto54 (talk) 03:17, 19 September 2011 (UTC)

Opps, my bad regarding dinosaurs

Yep, you're right. Dinosaurs are coming to TMA. I got the confirmation yesterday. Keep up the good work. Sorry. Pommerenke (talk) 22:14, 27 September 2011 (UTC)

The Right Stuff: September 2011

September 2011

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An Historic Milestone

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The Right Stuff: October 2011

October 2011

INTERVIEW

An Interview with Dank

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The Right Stuff caught up with Dank, the recently elected Lead Coordinator of WikiProject Military History. MILHIST is considered by many to be one of the most successful projects in the English Wikipedia.

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The arbitration request submitted by Steven Zhang moved into its second month. The case, which evaluates user conduct, arose from contentious discussions regarding the naming of the Pro-life and Pro-choice articles, and a related issue pertaining to the inclusion of "death" in the lede of Abortion. A number of members are involved. On the Evidence page ArtifexMahem posted a table indicating that DMSBel made the most edits to the Abortion article. DMSBel has announced their semi-retirement. Fact finding regarding individual editor behavior has begun in earnest on theWorkshop page.

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WikiProject Conservatism is expanding. We now have a satellite on Commons. Any help in categorizing images or in getting the fledgling project off the ground is appreciated.

We have a few new members who joined the project in September. Please give a hearty welcome to Conservative Philosopher, Screwball23 and Regushee by showing them some Wikilove. Screwball23 has been on WikiPedia for five years and has made major improvements to Linda McMahon. Regushee is not one for idle chit chat: an amazing 93% of their edits are in article space.

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The Wagner article is in need of some help

We're in a bit of a pickle in the Wagner discussion page. The issues concerns Social class (sociology) and the phrase supposedly common Germanic past and has now been dismissed by some editors as inconsequential. Furthermore, the name Other interpretations in the article dismisses the general review and broader Wagner analysis to a subcategory under Controversies (mainly the topic of anti-Semitism). Please help. Just take fast look and maybe help in the balancing act. Thank you

• In his own era he furthermore provided the newly emerged middle class with a medium to transfer its familial and political conflicts into a myth of supposedly common Germanic past.

(In the introduction, removed as non consequential)

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WikiProject Conservatism faces the ultimate test

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On October 7, WikiProject Conservatism was nominated for deletion by member Binksternet. He based his rationale on what he described as an undefinable scope, stating that the project is "at its root undesirable". Of the 40 participants in the discussion, some agreed that the scope was problematic; however, they felt it did not justify deletion of the project. A number of participants suggested moving the project to "WikiProject American conservatism". The overwhelming sentiment was expressed by Guerillero who wrote: "A project is a group of people. This particular group does great work in their topic area[,] why prevent them from doing this[?]" In the end there was negligible opposition to the project and the result of the discussion was "Keep". The proceedings of the deletion discussion were picked up by The Signpost, calling the unfolding drama "the first MfD of its kind". The Signpost observed that attempting to delete an active project was unprecedented. The story itself became a source of controversy which played out at the Discuss This Story section, and also at the author's talk page.

Two days after the project was nominated, the Conservatism Portal was also nominated for deletion as "too US-biased". There was no support for deletion amongst the 10 participants, with one suggestion to rename the portal.

In other news, a new portal focusing on conservatism has been created at WikiSource. Wikisource is an online library of free content publications with 254,051 accessible texts. One highlight of the portal's content is Reflections on the Revolution in France by Edmund Burke.

October saw a 6.4% increase in new members, bringing the total membership to 58. Seven of the eight new members joined after October 12; the deletion discussions may have played a role in the membership spike. Mwhite148 is a member of the UK Conservative Party. Stating that he is not a conservative, Kleinzach noted his "lifetime interest in British, European and international politics." Let's all make an effort to welcome the new members with an outpouring of Wikilove.

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Timeline of conservatism, a Top-importance list, was nominated for deletion on October 3. The nominator stated that since conservatism in an "ambiguous concept", the timeline suffers from original research. There were a number of "Delete", as well as "Keep" votes. The closing administrator reasoned that consensus dictated that the list be renamed. The current title is Timeline of modern American conservatism.

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Wikipedia's Newest Featured Portal: Conservatism

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On January 21, The Conservatism Portal was promoted to Featured Portal (FP) due largely to the contributions of Lionelt. This is the first Featured content produced by WikiProject Conservatism. The road to Featured class was rocky. An earlier nomination for FP failed, and in October the portal was "Kept" after being nominated for deletion.

Member Eisfbnore significantly contributed to the successful Good Article nomination of Norwegian journalist and newspaper editor Nils Vogt in December. Eisfbnore also created the article. In January another Project article was promoted to Featured Article. Luís Alves de Lima e Silva, Duke of Caxias, a president of Brazil, attained Featured class with significant effort by Lecen. The Article Incubator saw its first graduation in November. A collaboration spearheaded by Mzk1 and Trackerseal successfully developed Star Parker to pass the notability guideline.

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Project Scope Debated

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Another discussion addressing the project scope began in December. Nine alternatives were presented in the contentious, sometimes heated discussion. Support was divided between keeping the exitsing scope, or adopting a scope with more specificity. Some opponents of the specific scope were concerned that it was too limiting and would adversely affect project size. About twenty editors participated in the discussion.

Inclusion of the article Ku Klux Klan (KKK) was debated. Supporters for inclusion cited sources describing the KKK as "conservative." The article was excluded with more than 10 editors participating.

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Why is Everyone Talking About Rick Santorum?

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Articles about the GOP presidential candidate and staunch traditional marriage supporter have seen an explosion of discussion. On January 8 an RFC was opened (here) to determine if Dan Savage's website link should be included in Campaign for "santorum" neologism. The next day the Rick Santorum article itself was the subject of an RFC (here) to determine if including the Savage neologism was a violation of the BLP policy. Soon after a third was opened (here) at Santorum controversy regarding homosexuality. This RFC proposes merging the neologism article into the controversy article.

The Abortion case closed in November after 15 weeks of contentious arbitration. The remedies include semi-protection of all abortion articles (numbering 1,500), sanctions for some editors including members of this Project, and a provision for a discussion to determine the names of what are colloquially known as the pro-life and pro-choice articles. The Committee endorsed the "1 revert rule" for abortion articles.

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I'm contacting you because, as a participant at Wikiproject Medicine, you may be interested in a new non-profit organization we're forming at m:WikiMed. Our purpose is to help improve the range and quality of free online medical content, and we'll be working with like-minded organizations, such as the World Health Organization, professional and scholarly societies, medical schools, governments and NGOs - including Translators Without Borders.

Hope to see you there! Anthonyhcole (talk) 05:27, 20 December 2012 (UTC)

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The Wikipedia Library now offering accounts from Cochrane Collaboration (sign up!)

The Wikipedia Library gets Wikipedia editors free access to reliable sources that are behind paywalls. Because you are signed on as a medical editor, I thought you'd want to know about our most recent donation from Cochrane Collaboration.

• Cochrane Collaboration is an independent medical nonprofit organization that conducts systematic reviews of randomized controlled trials of health-care interventions, which it then publishes in the Cochrane Library.
• Cochrane has generously agreed to give free, full-access accounts to 100 medical editors. Individual access would otherwise cost between $300 and $800 per account.
• If you are still active as a medical editor, come and sign up :)

Cheers, Ocaasi ^{t | c} 20:42, 16 June 2013 (UTC)

The Pulse (WP:MED newsletter) June 2014

The first edition of The Pulse has been released. The Pulse will be a regular newsletter documenting the goings-on at WPMED, including ongoing collaborations, discussions, articles, and each edition will have a special focus. That newsletter is here.

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BMJ offering 25 free accounts to Wikipedia medical editors

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Medical Translation Newsletter

Wikiproject Medicine; Translation Taskforce

Medical Translation Newsletter
Issue 1, June/July 2014
by CFCF, Doc James

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This is the first of a series of newsletters for Wikiproject Medicine's Translation Task Force. Our goal is to make all the medical knowledge on Wikipedia available to the world, in the language of your choice.

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Spotlight - Simplified article translation

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Wikiproject Medicine started translating simplified articles in February 2014. We now have 45 simplified articles ready for translation, of which the first on African trypanosomiasis or sleeping sickness has been translated into 46 out of ~100 languages. This list does not include the 33 additional articles that are available in both full and simple versions.

Our goal is to eventually translate 1,000 simplified articles. This includes:

• WHO's list of Essential Medicines[1]
• Neglected tropical diseases[2]
• Key diseases for medical subspecialties like: oncology, emergency medicine (list), anatomy, internal medicine, surgery, etc.

We are looking for subject area leads to both create articles and recruit further editors. We need people with basic medical knowledge who are willing to help out. This includes to write, translate and especially integrate medical articles.

What's happening?

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IEG grant

CFCF - "IEG beneficiary" and editor of this newsletter.

I've (CFCF) taken on the role of community organizer for this project, and will be working with this until December. The goals and timeline can be found here, and are focused on getting the project on a firm footing and to enable me to work near full-time over the summer, and part-time during the rest of the year. This means I will be available for questions and ideas, and you can best reach me by mail or on my talk page.

Wikimania 2014

For those going to London in a month's time (or those already nearby) there will be at least one event for all medical editors, on Thursday August 7th. See the event page, which also summarizes medicine-related presentations in the main conference. Please pass the word on to your local medical editors.

Integration progress

There has previously been some resistance against translation into certain languages with strong Wikipedia presence, such as Dutch, Polish, and Swedish.
What was found is that thre is hardly any negative opinion about the the project itself; and any such critique has focused on the ways that articles have being integrated. For an article to be usefully translated into a target-Wiki it needs to be properly Wiki-linked, carry proper citations and use the formatting of the chosen target language as well as being properly proof-read. Certain large Wikis such as the Polish and Dutch Wikis have strong traditions of medical content, with their own editorial system, own templates and different ideas about what constitutes a good medical article. For example, there are not MEDRS (Polish,German,Romanian,Persian) guidelines present on other Wikis, and some Wikis have a stronger background of country-specific content.

• Swedish
  Translation into Swedish has been difficult in part because of the amount of free, high quality sources out there already: patient info, for professionals. The same can be said for English, but has really given us all the more reason to try and create an unbiased and free encyclopedia of medical content. We want Wikipedia to act as an alternative to commercial sources, and preferably a really good one at that.
  Through extensive collaborative work and by respecting links and Sweden specific content the last unintegrated Swedish translation went live in May.
• Dutch
  Dutch translation carries with it special difficulties, in part due to the premises in which the Dutch Wikipedia is built upon. There is great respect for what previous editors have created, and deleting or replacing old content can be frowned upon. In spite of this there are success stories: Anafylaxie.
• Polish
  Translation and integration into Polish also comes with its own unique set of challenges. The Polish Wikipedia has long been independent and works very hard to create high quality contentfor Polish audience. Previous translation trouble has lead to use of unique templates with unique formatting, not least among citations. Add to this that the Polish Wikipedia does not allow template redirects and a large body of work is required for each article.
  (This is somewhat alleviated by a commissioned Template bot - to be released). - List of articles for integration
• Arabic
  The Arabic Wikipedia community has been informed of the efforts to integrate content through both the general talk-page as well as through one of the major Arabic Wikipedia facebook-groups: مجتمع ويكيبيديا العربي, something that has been heralded with great enthusiasm.

Integration guides

Integration is the next step after any translation. Despite this it is by no means trivial, and it comes with its own hardships and challenges. Previously each new integrator has needed to dive into the fray with little help from previous integrations. Therefore we are creating guides for specific Wikis that make integration simple and straightforward, with guides for specific languages, and for integrating on small Wikis.

Instructions on how to integrate an article may be found here [3]

News in short

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To come

• Medical editor census - Medical editors on different Wikis have been without proper means of communication. A preliminary list of projects is available here.
• Proofreading drives

Further reading

• Translators Without Borders
• Healthcare information for all by 2015, a global campaign

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James H. Laughlin monument

Just letting you know I responded to your Commons deletion request:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Deletion_requests/File:James_H._Laughlin_Monument,_Allegheny_Cemetery,_Pittsburgh,_2.jpg

You had the wrong James H. Laughlin: this is the grave of the steel magnate who died in 1882. But I’m immensely grateful to (and a little in awe of) people like you who devote their time to making sure that we can all use Commons safely. Thank you for your hard work. Cbaile19 (talk) 22:27, 30 August 2014 (UTC)

I don't actually spend a lot of time doing it. Every once in a while it's fun to do a little detective work and look at some images in more detail to figure out of they are freely licensed. I found one of yours that was a sculpture by a Allen Newman "Sacrifice" that when I looked it up was dedicated only one month before January 1, 1923 when it would have been copyrighted. Warfieldian ^(talk) 01:58, 31 August 2014 (UTC)

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Wikiversity Journal of Medicine, an open access peer reviewed journal with no charges, invites you to participate

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Did you know about Wikiversity Journal of Medicine? It is an open access, peer reviewed medical journal, with no publication charges. You can find more about it by reading the article on The Signpost featuring this journal.

We welcome you to have a look the journal. Like us on Facebook or follow us on Twitter. Feel free to participate in the journal.

You can participate in any one or more of the following ways:

• Publish an article to the journal.
• Sign up as a peer reviewer of potential upcoming articles. If you do not have expertise in these subjects, you can help in finding peer reviewers for current submissions.
• Sign up as an editor, and help out in open tasks.
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• Donate to Wikimedia Foundation.
• Translate journal pages into other languages. Wikiversity currently exists in the following other languages
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The future of this journal as a separate Wikimedia project is under discussion and the name can be changed suitably. Currently a voting for the same is underway. Please cast your vote in the name you find most suitable. We would be glad to receive further suggestions from you. It is also acceptable to mention your votes in the wide-reachwikiversityjournal.org email list. Please note that the voting closes on 16th August, 2016, unless protracted by consensus, due to any reason.

Diptanshu^Talk 14:58, 11 August 2016 (UTC) -on behalf of the Editorial Board, Wikiversity Journal of Medicine.

New deal for page patrollers

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In order to better control the quality of new pages, keep out the spam, and welcome the genuine newbies, the current system we introduced in 2011 is being updated and improved. The documentation and tutorials have also been revised and given a facelift. Most importantly a new user group New Page Reviewer has been created.

Under the new rule, you may find that you are temporarily unable to mark new pages as reviewed. However, this is nothing to worry about - most current experienced patrollers are being accorded the the new right without the need to apply, and if you have significant previous experience of patrolling new pages, we strongly encourage you to apply for the new right as soon as possible - we need all the help we can get, and we are now providing a dynamic, supportive environment for your work.

Find out more about this exiting new user right now at New Page Reviewers and be sure to read the new tutorial before applying. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 04:29, 13 November 2016 (UTC)

ArbCom Elections 2016: Voting now open!

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Your access to AWB may be temporarily removed

Hello Warfieldian! This message is to inform you that due to editing inactivity, your access to AutoWikiBrowser may be temporarily removed. If you do not resume editing within the next week, your username will be removed from the CheckPage. This is purely for routine maintenance and is not indicative of wrongdoing on your part. You may regain access at any time by simply requesting it at WP:PERM/AWB. Thank you! — MusikBot II ^talk 20:33, 23 May 2017 (UTC)

Women in Red World Contest

Hi. We're into the last five days of the Women in Red World Contest. There's a new bonus prize of $200 worth of books of your choice to win for creating the most new women biographies between 0:00 on the 26th and 23:59 on 30th November. If you've been contributing to the contest, thank you for your support, we've produced over 2000 articles. If you haven't contributed yet, we would appreciate you taking the time to add entries to our articles achievements list by the end of the month. Thank you, and if participating, good luck with the finale!

The Right Stuff June 2018

June 2018

FROM THE EDITOR

The Right Stuff Returns

By Lionelt

Fellow members, I'm pleased to announce the return of the newsletter of WikiProject Conservatism. And considering the recent downsizing at The Signpost the timing could not be better. The Right Stuff will help keep you apprised of what's happening in conservatism at Wikipedia and in the world. The Right Stuff welcomes submissions including position pieces, instructional articles, or short essays addressing important conservatism-related issues. Post submissions here.

Add the Project Discussion page to your watchlist for the latest updates at WikiProject Conservatism Watch (Discuss this story)

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ARBITRATION REPORT

Russian Agents Editing at American Politics?

By Lionelt

After a series of unfortunate events largely self-created, bureaucrat and admin Andrevan was the subject of an Arbitration case for conduct unbecoming. Prior to the case getting underway Andrevan resigned as bureaucrat and admin. A widely discussed incident was when he suggested that some editors he described as "pro-Trump" were paid Russian agents. This resulted in a number of editors from varied quarters denouncing the allegations and voicing support for veteran editors including Winkelvi and the notorious MONGO.

Editors who faced Enforcement action include SPECIFICO (no action), Factchecker atyourservice (three month topic ban ARBAPDS), Netoholic (no action) and Anythingyouwant (indef topic ban ARBAPDS). (Discuss this story)

IN THE MEDIA

Breitbart Versus Wikipedia

By Lionelt

Breitbart News, in response to Facebook's decision to use Wikipedia as a source to fight fake news, has declared war on our beloved pedia. The article in Haaretz describes the Facebook arrangement as Wikipedia's "greatest test in years" as well as a "massive threat" to the encyclopedia that anyone can edit. Breitbart's targeting of Wikipedia has resulted in an "epic battle" with respect to editing at the Breitbart article. The article has also recently experienced a dramatic increase in traffic with 50,000 visitors according to Haaretz. There is no love lost between Breitbart and Wikipedia where editors at the Reliable Sources Noticeboard have criticized the news websites unreliability and have compared it to The Daily Mail. (Discuss this story)

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DISCUSSION REPORT

Liberty and Trump and Avi, Oh my!

By Lionelt

President Donald Trump Speaks at Liberty University Commencement Ceremony

There are several open discussions at the Project:

• There is an RFC regarding Liberty University and its relationship to President Trump; see discussion
• Activist and commentator Avi Yemini is listed at AFD; see discussion

Recently closed discussions include Anti-abortion movements which was not renamed, and an RFC at Trump–Russia dossier. (Discuss this story)

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Hi Warfieldian,

I see you were turned down by Kudpung for the NPR user right; I'd suggest heading over to WP:Articles for deletion and over to WP:Requested moves and participating in some discussions to gain experience and learn policies for a while before applying again. — Insertcleverphrasehere ^{(or here)} 22:08, 5 July 2018 (UTC)

The Right Stuff: July 2018

July 2018

DISCUSSION REPORT

WikiProject Conservatism Comes Under Fire

By Lionelt

WikiProject Conservatism was a topic of discussion at the Administrators' Noticeboard/Incident (AN/I). Objective3000 started a thread where he expressed concern regarding the number of RFC notices posted on the Discussion page suggesting that such notices "could result in swaying consensus by selective notification." Several editors participated in the relatively abbreviated six hour discussion. The assertion that the project is a "club for conservatives" was countered by editors listing examples of users who "profess no political persuasion." It was also noted that notification of WikiProjects regarding ongoing discussions is explicitly permitted by the WP:Canvassing guideline.

At one point the discussion segued to feedback about The Right Stuff. Member SPECIFICO wrote: "One thing I enjoy about the Conservatism Project is the handy newsletter that members receive on our talk pages." Atsme praised the newsletter as "first-class entertainment...BIGLY...first-class...nothing even comes close...it's amazing." Some good-natured sarcasm was offered with Objective3000 observing, "Well, they got the color right" and MrX's followup, "Wow. Yellow is the new red."

Admin Oshwah closed the thread with the result "definitely not an issue for ANI" and directing editors to the project Discussion page for any further discussion. Editor's note: originally the design and color of The Right Stuff was chosen to mimic an old, paper newspaper.

Add the Project Discussion page to your watchlist for the "latest RFCs" at WikiProject Conservatism Watch (Discuss this story)

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ARTICLES REPORT

Margaret Thatcher Makes History Again

By Lionelt

Margaret Thatcher is the first article promoted at the new WikiProject Conservatism A-Class review. Congratulations to Neveselbert. A-Class is a quality rating which is ranked higher than GA (Good article) but the criteria are not as rigorous as FA (Featued article). WikiProject Conservatism is one of only two WikiProjects offering A-Class review, the other being WikiProject Military History. Nominate your article here. (Discuss this story)

RECENT RESEARCH

Research About AN/I

By Lionelt

Reprinted in part from the April 26, 2018 issue of The Signpost; written by Zarasophos

Out of over one hundred questioned editors, only twenty-seven (27%) are happy with the way reports of conflicts between editors are handled on the Administrators' Incident Noticeboard (AN/I), according to a recent survey . The survey also found that dissatisfaction has varied reasons including "defensive cliques" and biased administrators as well as fear of a "boomerang effect" due to a lacking rule for scope on AN/I reports. The survey also included an analysis of available quantitative data about AN/I. Some notable takeaways:

• 53% avoided making a report due to fearing it would not be handled appropriately
• "Otherwise 'popular' users often avoid heavy sanctions for issues that would get new editors banned."
• "Discussions need to be clerked to keep them from raising more problems than they solve."

In the wake of Zarasophos' article editors discussed the AN/I survey at The Signpost and also at AN/I. Ironically a portion of the AN/I thread was hatted due to "off-topic sniping." To follow-up the problems identified by the research project the Wikimedia Foundation Anti-Harassment Tools team and Support and Safety team initiated a discussion. You can express your thoughts and ideas here.

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Dear Warfieldian    My name is Ciaran, a junior doctor from the East Midlands (United Kingdom). I am working with a group of colleagues in producing a textbook for medical students / junior doctors in clinical cardiology.

I am contacting you regarding your image on Janeway lesions.   This image would be perfect to use within our clinical examination section for infective endocarditis. Do you have license for this image?   We kindly request use of this image for insertion in the textbook. Once the book is complete, we will be submitting it to appropriate publishers for consideration.   We are happy to reference you within the book if you grant us permission to use this image.   I look forward to hearing from you.   BW   Ciaran Grafton-Clarke

Ciarangc2020 (talk) 20:20, 18 May 2020 (UTC)