User talk:Tagishsimon
Hello sir. I know this boy Onkar and he is doing a lot of good work and can been seen in news media(independent sources) and got rejected. So what needs to be improved? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.173.85.167 (talk) 19:38, 23 December 2020 (UTC)
- I'm sorry? I just received a message about the post being a car crash? Is that how you speak to users? Figo7Costa10 (talk) 02:27, 26 September 2023 (UTC)
- Jorden has also been on TSN radio, Podcasts on Apple & Spotify and has had several interviews in print media. I'm not quite sure what the issue is here? Figo7Costa10 (talk) 02:31, 26 September 2023 (UTC)
Tagishsimon Talk Archives
[edit]
ArbCom 2017 election voter message
[edit]Hello, Tagishsimon. Voting in the 2017 Arbitration Committee elections is now open until 23.59 on Sunday, 10 December. All users who registered an account before Saturday, 28 October 2017, made at least 150 mainspace edits before Wednesday, 1 November 2017 and are not currently blocked are eligible to vote. Users with alternate accounts may only vote once.
The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.
If you wish to participate in the 2017 election, please review the candidates and submit your choices on the voting page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:42, 3 December 2017 (UTC)
Given name in Wikidata
[edit]Hi, Tagishsimon. The Romans did not have a given name but praenomen. Read the documentation before making massive changes to Wikidata. Thank you. --Romulanus (talk) 10:32, 17 December 2017 (UTC)
New Year's resolution: Write more articles for Women in Red!
[edit]![]() ![]() ![]() ![]()
| ||
(To subscribe: Women in Red/English language mailing list and Women in Red/international list. Unsubscribe: Women in Red/Opt-out list) |
--Megalibrarygirl (talk) 18:13, 27 December 2017 (UTC) via MassMessaging
Need attention
[edit]Hello! An old dispute that you were involved in has been brought up again. Your opinion is greatly valued. Thank you! KevinNinja (talk) 00:18, 24 January 2018 (UTC)
Feburary 2018 at Women in Red
[edit]![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() New:
| ||
(To subscribe: Women in Red/English language mailing list and Women in Red/international list. Unsubscribe: Women in Red/Opt-out list) --Rosiestep (talk) 14:32, 28 January 2018 (UTC) via MassMessaging |
Women's History Month 2018 at Women in Red
[edit]![]() ![]() ![]()
| ||
(To subscribe: Women in Red/English language mailing list and Women in Red/international list. Unsubscribe: Women in Red/Opt-out list) --Rosiestep (talk) 16:09, 20 February 2018 (UTC) via MassMessaging |
Der zürnenden Diana
[edit]In Cathinka Buchwieser, we need to translate the caption and the title of the song, which is "Der zürnenden Diana", which means "To the ... Diana". Afaik, the old-fashioned "zürnen" is much more serious than "quarrel". I find "get angry", and also "rage against". "Zorn", from which it is derived, comes as anger, wrath, rage, fury ... - no quarrel. Perhaps "raging" comes closest, as "zürnen" is derived from a verb. "To the raging Diana"? - This has "To Diana in her wrath". - this doesn't translate the title, but describes her as a force of destruction. - All of which still doesn't cover the caption. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:35, 28 March 2018 (UTC)
- I'm not sure, at this distance, Gerda Arendt, where I picked up "quarrelsome" from. Thought it was the image's commons descripton, but no. I'm happy that the caption be improved and profess no competence whatsoever in the questions you're raising. That said, can I throw some questions back at you...
- Based on the commons file name, [1] and the existing caption, are we not looking at an image celebrating Schubert's treatment of Der Fischer (Goethe) and if so, is not the right-most person the mermaid, and is she not trying to pull the fisher-person into the water? If so, the caption might be altered to allude to this?
- If CB is the middle of the three people, the caption should say "Centre:" rather than "Left:" ... Schubert is on the left
- If she is Diana, then yes, wrathful probably much better than quarrelsome.
- hth --Tagishsimon (talk) 14:39, 28 March 2018 (UTC)
- I confess that I'd love to learn more on that painting, which is from a tryptich, to make things worse. I agree with the mermaid as the right person, but don't think she needs to be mentioned on Buchwieser's article. Fischer seems to be the title of the right panel of three, - I wouldn't know where to find the others. The bow in "Diana's" hands points at the first line of the "zürnenden" poem, "Ja, spanne nur den Bogen, mich zu tödten" [2]. Seems more than one scene on that panel, and here's the left. Even if we agree that Diana is a reference to Buchwieser, it doesn't say she posed nude for it, or does it somewhere? I doubt it. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:09, 28 March 2018 (UTC)
- So the right panel is a mash-up of CD as Diana replacing the fisherman in Der Fischer, seems to be the interim conclusion? Agree we do not need to mention the mermaid, but we should mention Der Fischer & Goethe? From where comes the knowledge that the centre person is CB ... I guess I should ask, though I take it on trust. --Tagishsimon (talk) 15:18, 28 March 2018 (UTC)
- Can't follow ;) - I see poor Schubert, in the centre, - killed by Diana and torn to the water by the nymph, - between two dangerous women. I guess I'll word the DYK without the nude. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:23, 28 March 2018 (UTC)
- I see. I'd read it completely differently, and wrongly. I had Schubert on the pedestal, but that's our CB as Diana. I had CB as the person in the middle, but that's Schubert. "CB as Diana adopts a pose, indifferent to Schubert being dragged to his death in a rendering of Goethe's Der Fischer. Perhaps she didn't like his music after all.". There. Fixed it for you. --Tagishsimon (talk) 16:40, 28 March 2018 (UTC)
- Can't follow ;) - I see poor Schubert, in the centre, - killed by Diana and torn to the water by the nymph, - between two dangerous women. I guess I'll word the DYK without the nude. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:23, 28 March 2018 (UTC)
- So the right panel is a mash-up of CD as Diana replacing the fisherman in Der Fischer, seems to be the interim conclusion? Agree we do not need to mention the mermaid, but we should mention Der Fischer & Goethe? From where comes the knowledge that the centre person is CB ... I guess I should ask, though I take it on trust. --Tagishsimon (talk) 15:18, 28 March 2018 (UTC)
- I confess that I'd love to learn more on that painting, which is from a tryptich, to make things worse. I agree with the mermaid as the right person, but don't think she needs to be mentioned on Buchwieser's article. Fischer seems to be the title of the right panel of three, - I wouldn't know where to find the others. The bow in "Diana's" hands points at the first line of the "zürnenden" poem, "Ja, spanne nur den Bogen, mich zu tödten" [2]. Seems more than one scene on that panel, and here's the left. Even if we agree that Diana is a reference to Buchwieser, it doesn't say she posed nude for it, or does it somewhere? I doubt it. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:09, 28 March 2018 (UTC)
April 2018 at Women in Red
[edit]![]()
| ||
To subscribe: Women in Red/English language mailing list or
Women in Red/international list. To unsubscribe: Women in Red/Opt-out list. Follow us on Twitter: |
IP:86.183.83.1
[edit]I'm trying to take a Wikibreak, due to illness in the family. However, I have noticed that 86.183.83.1 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) is making wholesale changes to cats: on War Memorial pages without reference or explanation. I've only had time to revert the Portland Cenotaph page, but thought you should be aware. Regards, David J Johnson (talk) 11:40, 13 April 2018 (UTC)
- Thank David. Sorry about the illness :(
- 83.1 in the example you provide is moving the article from an 'in the UK' category to an 'in England' category ... there is such a category and it has 130ish entries ... is that a problem? --Tagishsimon (talk) 14:37, 13 April 2018 (UTC)
May 2018 at Women in Red
[edit]![]() ![]() ![]() ![]()
| ||
(To subscribe: Women in Red/English language mailing list and Women in Red/international list. Unsubscribe: Women in Red/Opt-out list) --Rosiestep (talk) 23:11, 29 April 2018 (UTC) via MassMessaging |
Wiki Loves Food
[edit]![Curd Rice](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/58/Curd_Rice.jpg/100px-Curd_Rice.jpg)
Hello! After the successful pilot program by Wikimedia India in 2015, Wiki Loves Food (WLF) is happening again in 2018 and this year, it's going International. To make this event a grand success, your direction is key. Please sign up here as a volunteer to bring all the world's food to Wikimedia. Danidamiobi (talk) 02:10, 30 April 2018 (UTC)
Willing to help
[edit]I’m willing to help with the Wikidata task you started at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Women in Red#Inconsistency between redlists. I have a tech-ish background, and I learn fast, but I need some help learning how to edit the code. Would you be willing to teach me enough to get started on this? NotARabbit (talk) 21:07, 9 May 2018 (UTC)
Ahah! Investigating your diff, I can see that the edit you made was not on Wikidata, but on the project list page. That should be easy enough to replicate; I’ll start at the other end of the alphabet for occupations. Please do check in on a couple of my edits and make sure I’m doing them right, though. NotARabbit (talk) 21:22, 9 May 2018 (UTC)
- (ec) That would be great, NotARabbit
, thank you. It's fairly easy: pick a redlist, edit it, check if it has the wrong statements in it, and if so, delete the statements and insert the right statement ... this diff shows it fairly well.
- We remove
?sitelink schema:about ?item .
(but only where it is on its own. It if is in the form OPTIONAL { ?sitelink schema:about ?item . } we leave it alone because it is being used to count sitelinks, - We remove
FILTER NOT EXISTS { ?wfr schema:about ?item . ?wfr schema:inLanguage "en" }
(and note that the variable name may be different - not ?wfr but ?wen or ?somethingelse ... doesn't matter). - we insert
< FILTER NOT EXISTS { ?wen schema:about ?item; schema:isPartOf <https://en.wikipedia.org/> . }
- save, then hit the "Automatically update the list now " link ... Listeria will do its stuff.
- If it doesn't work (i.e. the SPARQL is incorrect), there'll probably be no change in the page; or else the page will have zero rows. You can revert the edit.
- I normally check the history to see that listeria has written a new page, which has more bytes in it, so, this sort of thing
- ping me as you need. I will check your edits (though I have to attack some plaster with steam and menaces ... DIY time :( --Tagishsimon (talk) 21:28, 9 May 2018 (UTC) --Tagishsimon (talk) 21:26, 9 May 2018 (UTC)
- ”Menaces”?! Are you threatening your walls? :-D In about 45 minutes, I’ll be starting my own DIY job—trying to clean out my patio. Good luck on whatever you’re doing, and thanks for your help! NotARabbit (talk) 22:18, 9 May 2018 (UTC)
- Okay, I’m stopping now, because when I ran the bot after editing on the journalists list, the list decreased by 484,179 bytes. I think that was because there was a typo in the original code (
?wwiki
instead of?wiki
). Which brings me to a serious conundrum: is okay to interchange?wiki
,?wfr
, and?wer
? I was copying the text of your edit on mathematicians, and now realize that I’ve been replacing everything willy-nilly as I go. I don’t want to compound the error, if it is an error, so I’ll go do my chores now. Back later. NotARabbit (talk) 22:48, 9 May 2018 (UTC)
- Okay, I’m stopping now, because when I ran the bot after editing on the journalists list, the list decreased by 484,179 bytes. I think that was because there was a typo in the original code (
- @NotARabbit: Checking ... footballers=good. Poets - you left the
?sitelink schema:about ?item .
in ... needs to be removed (I've done). Playrights - ditto, needed to remove?sitelink schema:about ?item .
(done). Novelists - ditto - done. Journalists - yes, you're right, the SPARQL as you found it was wrong. You were correct to make both variable names the same ... doesn't matter what the name is, does matter that it is the same. It's saying "there's a value which is a sitelink, and the same value is a member of en.wiki." If you use different variables names, then it reads 'there is a value which is a site link, and there is a different value which is part of en.wiki.'. So there are two errors we're trying to correct ... footballers you corrected both. The others you corrected one out of the two, which is why the row lengths increased; but I fixed the other, which is why they increased again. And you fixed the Journalists error just for the hell of it. Journalists dropped by a large amount because it has been broken since October 2017, and in that time has had the limit lowered from 5000 to 2000. So. All good; thanks for doing those, and I hope SPARQL is becoming a little clearer. It's great stuff. - In my 1880's Victorian flat, a previous occupant did the equivalent of this, but using some sort of plaster over intricately detailed ceiling mouldings. What were roses, leaves, stems, etc, became blobs. I've done a couple of metres. I think I have about 30 metres to go. Painstaking & filthy ... blast with steam, peel away the paint layer, get the plaster wet, poke with plastic things, and repeat. What's emering is gorgeous. I hope your patio is now a delight :) --Tagishsimon (talk) 23:18, 9 May 2018 (UTC)
- @NotARabbit: Checking ... footballers=good. Poets - you left the
- Oh, those are variables! Now it makes sense that they’re different! I’m sorry about missing the
?sitelink schema:about ?item .
, and thank you for cleaning those up.
- Oh, those are variables! Now it makes sense that they’re different! I’m sorry about missing the
- Your project sounds grueling but immensely rewarding. It reminds me of a time when I was little and my dad bought us an old upright piano. The previous owners had painted it, thickly and badly. He spent months stripping and refinishing it; it turned out to be beautiful rosewood underneath. Unfortunately, my patio will never be anything other than utilitarian, but thank you for your good wishes. I’ll get back to editing now. NotARabbit (talk) 01:58, 10 May 2018 (UTC)
- When you have a chance, could you take a look at the list of scientists? I’m afraid I missed a bracket or something. (I reverted myself.) NotARabbit (talk) 02:55, 10 May 2018 (UTC)
- Turns out that the list of feminists has been broken for a while. I finally got it to run after 3 tries, and it went from 3 entries (none of whom were necessarily feminists, and one that already has an article on en.wiki) to 372! You might want to check to see that the rest of the code is all right. NotARabbit (talk) 04:59, 10 May 2018 (UTC)
- Same for cartoonists. That one hasn’t run for more than a year. NotARabbit (talk) 07:24, 10 May 2018 (UTC)
- The two of you are doing a great job here. I hope you can keep it up and eliminate all the errors. Would it be useful to draw up guidelines for WIR showing how to compile a new red list based for example on an occupation (with just one query) and another based on an occupation comprising two or more variants (i.e. several profession queries)? This would allow other editors to add new lists as needed. In addition (or alternatively), you could provide us with examples of what you consider to be good examples of red link lists of these two types.--Ipigott (talk) 09:03, 10 May 2018 (UTC)
- @NotARabbit: Afternoon. Good job on the Feminists; very satisfying to see broken redlists discovered and fixed. I've had a look at the three above and tweaked where necessary. Scientists, if I remember, had a filter written as FILTER(NOT EXISTS {some stuff})} where normally we expect FILTER NOT EXISTS {some stuff} ... i.e. it used parenthesis, and also included the } which terminates the query rather than having it on the line below. I'll join you later in fixing some more. And yes, there was an Abigail's Party period in the UK where mouldings, fireplaces & wood panel doors were covered up; tiling removed or painted over, and woodwork - your piano - painted in jaunty colours. Unimaginable now, but I guess it made sense then. (Just noticed - good grief, you've finished By Occupation. I feel ashamed of my sloth ... well done; very good work.) --Tagishsimon (talk) 13:12, 10 May 2018 (UTC)
- Nationality - the queries there seem to be missing a
?item wdt:P31 wd:Q5
... i.e. they're not checking the item is a human, but assuming that a female with an occupation is a human. I've not corrected this in the By Nationality - A; might go back and do so later. The most harm the omission will do, is to include some fictional characters in the lists ... and very few of them. Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by nationality/Afghanistan varies from the others - it's looking at several different properties in an item, for country=Afghanistan .. such as 'Country for Sport'. I need some time to convince myself of its approach before I apply it more widely; and right now I've run out of time. this diff shows what I did for Afghanistan ... mainly fixed the normal error; made it neater by inserting line breaks, and added in the P31 doodab. Have fun. --Tagishsimon (talk) 13:43, 10 May 2018 (UTC)
- Nationality - the queries there seem to be missing a
- @NotARabbit: Afternoon. Good job on the Feminists; very satisfying to see broken redlists discovered and fixed. I've had a look at the three above and tweaked where necessary. Scientists, if I remember, had a filter written as FILTER(NOT EXISTS {some stuff})} where normally we expect FILTER NOT EXISTS {some stuff} ... i.e. it used parenthesis, and also included the } which terminates the query rather than having it on the line below. I'll join you later in fixing some more. And yes, there was an Abigail's Party period in the UK where mouldings, fireplaces & wood panel doors were covered up; tiling removed or painted over, and woodwork - your piano - painted in jaunty colours. Unimaginable now, but I guess it made sense then. (Just noticed - good grief, you've finished By Occupation. I feel ashamed of my sloth ... well done; very good work.) --Tagishsimon (talk) 13:12, 10 May 2018 (UTC)
- @Ipigott: I'll write a wee guide and do some commenting of model queries and ping you when that's ready. I kinda defected to wikidata a year or so ago, and have been geeking over SPARQL ever since, although I remain a novice. Talk to me about long lists ... do we split them, e.g. long_list A-M, long_list N-Z? Do we want 15 or so redlist pages for actresses, of whom there are 39k? And if so, split by what? First letter of the name? Time period? Country? What are your thoughts? --Tagishsimon (talk) 13:12, 10 May 2018 (UTC)
- I'm not too keen on further splits. The actresses are a special case and attract huge Wikipedia coverage with or without red lists. Those interested in working specifically on actresses, can find useful listings by simply using the appropriate nationality-based lists. Same applies to models. So I would just leave things as they are.--Ipigott (talk) 13:20, 10 May 2018 (UTC)
That list of occupations
[edit]My SPARQL skills are still extremely rudimentary; I can “read” much better than I can “write” in the language. But I keep lurching along.
Your WQS report is dismaying! Not for the numbers in various occupations, but for the list of occupations themselves. There are 39,911 Q33999 (actor), but that number is incomplete unless you include Q15290732 (Actress), of which there are 5. There are acrobatic gymnasts and acrobatic gymnastics, archaeologists and archaeologists of the Roman provinces, acting and acting coaches, action films and activism, accompaniments and accompanists, agricultural scientists, agriculture, and agronomists. And that’s just dipping into the A’s.
It makes me want to dive in and start merging and correcting all that mess. I guess I shouldn’t be surprised that Wikidata is just as allovertheplace as all the other projects! I think I was misled by the work “structured” in “structured data” — I thought that meant it would be orderly. Instead, it’s just as rambunctious and disordered as other human endeavors!
I’ll stop ranting on your talk page now. NotARabbit (talk) 02:40, 14 May 2018 (UTC)
- @NotARabbit: It is a bit messy around the edges, yes. All the mistakes you could hope to see made, made. But oftimes when you dive into the detail it comes down to language issues and bad labelling ... I looked at a couple of forester occupations, where it looks like one is your average tree-chopper, and the other a more professional role - German, I think - which we might term an aborioculturalist. As to various degrees of archeologists ... it may be that (should be) that we can have families of occupations, where one - archaeologists of the Roman provinces - are a subclass of another - archaeologists.
- All of that is not to say that it's not a great big - but glorious - mess. Dig in :) --Tagishsimon (talk) 02:55, 14 May 2018 (UTC)
FILTER NOT EXIST etc. may not be necessary
[edit]Hi! I discovered that {{Wikidata list}} has a lovely little built-in parameter that we can take advantage of for our redlists: links
. If you set it to links=red_only
, it removes “entries for which there exists a local article”. Very handy, and it works. Simplifies the SPARQL query. Cheers! NotARabbit (talk) 23:31, 20 May 2018 (UTC)
- @NotARabbit: Good spot, NotARabbit. I'm guessing Listeria takes our query, and makes it part of a nested query in which Listeria does things like make the results distinct; gets labels; and with your new parameter, does the FILTER NOT EXISTS trick. I'm probably not going to rush to implement it, though, mainly for the reasons that there are advantages in being able to move the list query into WDS to play with it there; and advantages for anyone who reads the code but is unaware (like me up to 2 mins ago) that the template will do the removal trick. We should give the autolist parameter a spin sometime, see what it does. In the lists I did today (and thank you for your kind words) I'll direct your attention to the Rest of world list, wherein a series of
MINUS {?item wdt:P27 wd:Q183 .}
statements remove items which appear in the other country lists. There is a task to be done of looking through the Rest of World lists for country values that could be added to a country list (and deducted from the Rest of World with an additional MINUS statement). And in the Writers - Russia list we see the handling for multiple countries - another VALUES statement. --Tagishsimon (talk) 00:03, 21 May 2018 (UTC)- I like the MINUS statements, especially where you used
[]
to stand in for an object of “any value”. I’ve been using it to find just how many geologists we’ve been missing because no one specified their gender. (Most of them are difficult to figure out unless you know their native language, but I’ve found a few Georges, Borises, and Neldas.) And while adding some explanatory comments to the list of scientists, I realized that NO earth scientists were included (humph!), so there’s not much overlap with the list I made. :-) NotARabbit (talk) 04:43, 21 May 2018 (UTC)- @NotARabbit: Yup, I think you've wrung out as many females as are identifiable by eye in that list. A few tempting but possible false positives left. Do you fancy looking again at the occupations you've excluded ... some look earth sciency to me, but I know nothing of that discipline: I bunked out of geography classes in school and took metalwork instead. Handy with a lathe or molten aluminium; less useful with a rock hammer. And there might be others that could be folded into the geologists list? We could do with an accessible index of occupations mapped to redlists ... I might have a play with that later. --Tagishsimon (talk) 12:27, 21 May 2018 (UTC)
- I like the MINUS statements, especially where you used
Women in Red June Editathons
[edit]![]()
| ||
(To subscribe: Women in Red/English language mailing list and Women in Red/international list. Unsubscribe: Women in Red/Opt-out list) |
--Megalibrarygirl (talk) 17:15, 29 May 2018 (UTC) via MassMessaging
Just when I thought I’d gotten that glitch...
[edit]...you found it propagating in another spot! Thanks for the fix. NotARabbit (talk) 05:06, 30 May 2018 (UTC)
Wikidata lists on librarians and curators
[edit]I think Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by occupation/Librarians and Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by occupation/Curators may benefit from your helping hand.--Ipigott (talk) 07:26, 30 May 2018 (UTC)
Actresses, painters, politicians, writers
[edit]I appreciate all the work you have been doing on the Wikidata lists and the templates but I've just been trying to access Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by occupation/Actresses from the Redlist index and found it was no longer there, having been replaced by Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women_in_Red/Redlist_index#actresses which points to lists by country. I see the same process has been implemented for painters, politicians and writers. I think it is rather unfortunate that the main lists have disappeared as I frequently make use of them to search, for instance, for actresses who died many years ago (wherever they came from) or for those who were both actresses and singers, etc., etc. I know you have been concerned that these general lists have not been able to display all the potential names but those already listed can be very useful when we are searching for pertinent articles which comply with specific criteria. Would it not be possible to include the longer lists before each item (actresses, painters, politicians, writers) on the "Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women_in_Red/Redlist_index#actresses" listing, possibly with a word of explanation? Rather than simply being bold and reinserting them myself, it would be useful to have reactions from SusunW and Megalibrarygirl.--Ipigott (talk) 10:58, 30 May 2018 (UTC)
- I am just grateful to have lists. For me it makes no difference how many there are, or how they are sorted, because I always sort the list by death date, try to find a dearly departed with sources and if not then look at the BLPs. If I don't find one there, that floats my boat, I look for another list. SusunW (talk) 14:02, 30 May 2018 (UTC)
- @Ipigott: If you are finding the lists useful, odds are you aren't alone and it would be good to have more lists like you specify available. Megalibrarygirl (talk) 17:20, 30 May 2018 (UTC)
- @SusunW and Megalibrarygirl:: Thanks for these comments. I've tried to include them as discreetly as possible for those of us who find them useful. I also see that following my earlier suggestion, Headbomb has gone ahead and created the following categores: Category:Women in Red redlink lists (by dictionary), Category:Women in Red redlink lists (by nationality), Category:Women in Red redlink lists (by occupation) and Category:Women in Red redlink lists (by time period). Not only do these categories provide an alternative method of finding pertinent lists, they help to ensure that any which happen to be missing from other listings can be identified through their categories. I see that appropriate headers, etc., have also been added, even to the most recent ones. Great work, Headbomb!--Ipigott (talk) 06:22, 31 May 2018 (UTC)
- @Ipigott: If you are finding the lists useful, odds are you aren't alone and it would be good to have more lists like you specify available. Megalibrarygirl (talk) 17:20, 30 May 2018 (UTC)
a brownie for you
[edit]Back from holiday in the US and wanted to thank you for your contributions to the Women's Classical Committee discussion page. So, here's a virtual brownie from my hols.
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e9/Brownie_transparent.png/220px-Brownie_transparent.png)
Claire 75 (talk) 11:00, 6 June 2018 (UTC)
- @Claire 75: thank you. Ping me if you want anything vaguely technical doing with with any of the redlist, the talk page banner, the alerts page or the quality assessment stuff. Hope your time across the pond was excellent. --Tagishsimon (talk) 18:30, 6 June 2018 (UTC)
Women in Red tools and technical support
[edit]We are preparing a list of tools and technical support for Women in Red. I have tentatively added your name as you have provided assistance in connection with our redlink listings and on templates. Please let me know whether you agree to be listed. You are of course welcome to make any additions or corrections.--Ipigott (talk) 07:27, 8 June 2018 (UTC)
New Page Patrol?
[edit]Hi Tagishsimon,
I've recently been looking for editors to invite to join New Page Patrol, and from your editing history, I think you would be a good candidate. Reviewing/patrolling a page doesn't take much time but it requires a good understanding of Wikipedia policies and guidelines; we could use some additional help from an experienced user like yourself.
Would you please consider becoming a New Page Reviewer? (After gaining the flag, patrolling is not mandatory. One can do it at their convenience). But kindly read the tutorial before making your decision. If you choose to apply, you can drop an application over at WP:PERM/NPR.
Cheers, and hope to see you around, — Insertcleverphrasehere (or here) 21:20, 23 June 2018 (UTC)
July 2018 at Women in Red
[edit]![]()
| ||
(To subscribe: Women in Red/English language mailing list and Women in Red/international list. Unsubscribe: Women in Red/Opt-out list) --Rosiestep (talk) 14:04, 28 June 2018 (UTC) via MassMessaging |
August 2018 at Women in Red
[edit]![]()
| ||
Latest headlines, news, and views on the Women in Red talkpage (Join the conversation!): (To subscribe: Women in Red/English language mailing list and Women in Red/international list. Unsubscribe: Women in Red/Opt-out list) --Rosiestep (talk) 11:22, 23 July 2018 (UTC) via MassMessaging |
September 2018 at Women in Red
[edit]![]()
| ||
Latest headlines, news, and views on the Women in Red talkpage (Join the conversation!):
(To subscribe: Women in Red/English language mailing list and Women in Red/international list. Unsubscribe: Women in Red/Opt-out list) --Rosiestep (talk) 01:55, 26 August 2018 (UTC) via MassMessaging |
File source problem with File:Angelab vertical mirror.jpg
[edit]![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/cf/Copyright-problem.svg/64px-Copyright-problem.svg.png)
Thank you for uploading File:Angelab vertical mirror.jpg. I noticed that the file's description page currently doesn't specify who created the content, so the copyright status is unclear. If you did not create this file yourself, you will need to specify the owner of the copyright. If you obtained it from a website, please add a link to the page from which it was taken, together with a brief restatement of the website's terms of use of its content. If the original copyright holder is a party unaffiliated with the website, that author should also be credited. Please add this information by editing the image description page.
If the necessary information is not added within the next days, the image will be deleted. If the file is already gone, you can still make a request for undeletion and ask for a chance to fix the problem.
Please refer to the image use policy to learn what images you can or cannot upload on Wikipedia. Please also check any other files you have uploaded to make sure they are correctly tagged. Here is a list of your uploads. If you have any questions or are in need of assistance please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 17:32, 22 September 2018 (UTC)
October 2018 at Women in Red
[edit]![]()
| ||
(To subscribe: Women in Red/English language mailing list and Women in Red/international list. Unsubscribe: Women in Red/Opt-out list) --Rosiestep (talk) 14:46, 28 September 2018 (UTC) via MassMessaging |
Get ready for November with Women in Red!
[edit]![]()
Continuing: | ||
Latest headlines, news, and views on the Women in Red talkpage (Join the conversation!): (To subscribe: Women in Red/English language mailing list and Women in Red/international list. Unsubscribe: Women in Red/Opt-out list) |
--Megalibrarygirl (talk) 18:40, 14 October 2018 (UTC) via MassMessaging
Hi Tagishmon. It looks like you accepted Carol Howe via AfC, but you didn't create the corresponding article talk page. I'm not exactly sure which template AfC reviewers use when they accept drafts, so I was wondering if you could add that to the talk page. Thanks in advance. -- Marchjuly (talk) 05:17, 24 October 2018 (UTC)
- Thanks. I'm not much inclined to get involved in AfC tomfoolery, so, no. --Tagishsimon (talk) 08:50, 24 October 2018 (UTC)
Facto Post – Issue 17 – 29 October 2018
[edit]Facto Post – Issue 17 – 29 October 2018
![]() The Editor is Charles Matthews, for ContentMine. Please leave feedback for him, on his User talk page.
To subscribe to Facto Post go to Wikipedia:Facto Post mailing list. For the ways to unsubscribe, see the footer.
Around 2.7 million Wikidata items have an illustrative image. These files, you might say, are Wikimedia's stock images, and if the number is large, it is still only 5% or so of items that have one. All such images are taken from Wikimedia Commons, which has 50 million media files. One key issue is how to expand the stock. Indeed, there is a tool. WD-FIST exploits the fact that each Wikipedia is differently illustrated, mostly with images from Commons but also with fair use images. An item that has sitelinks but no illustrative image can be tested to see if the linked wikis have a suitable one. This works well for a volunteer who wants to add images at a reasonable scale, and a small amount of SPARQL knowledge goes a long way in producing checklists. It should be noted, though, that there are currently 53 Wikidata properties that link to Commons, of which P18 for the basic image is just one. WD-FIST prompts the user to add signatures, plaques, pictures of graves and so on. There are a couple of hundred monograms, mostly of historical figures, and this query allows you to view all of them. commons:Category:Monograms and its subcategories provide rich scope for adding more. And so it is generally. The list of properties linking to Commons does contain a few that concern video and audio files, and rather more for maps. But it contains gems such as P3451 for "nighttime view". Over 1000 of those on Wikidata, but as for so much else, there could be yet more. Go on. Today is Wikidata's birthday. An illustrative image is always an acceptable gift, so why not add one? You can follow these easy steps: (i) log in at https://tools.wmflabs.org/widar/, (ii) paste the Petscan ID 6263583 into https://tools.wmflabs.org/fist/wdfist/ and click run, and (iii) just add cake. ![]()
If you wish to receive no further issues of Facto Post, please remove your name from our mailing list. Alternatively, to opt out of all massmessage mailings, you may add Category:Wikipedians who opt out of message delivery to your user talk page.
Newsletter delivered by MediaWiki message delivery |
MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 15:01, 29 October 2018 (UTC)
A barnstar for you!
[edit]![]() |
The Original Barnstar |
Thanks for your support! Srsval (talk) 09:59, 1 November 2018 (UTC) |
Stupidity
[edit]If you feel the need to complain about the stupidity of others, then at least make sure that you know the difference between a speedy and a prod. Furthermore, Sebastiana de Jesus Salcedo is unknown as such (no Google books hits at all for that name). You may see some obvious reason why that prod was extremely stupid, bubt the least you could have done was to improve the article to remove the reason for the prod. Otherwise you are just throwing around empty insults, which is not really useful. Fram (talk) 16:37, 3 November 2018 (UTC)
- The obvious reasons why the prod was stupid were a) you argued that the subject was largely forgotten. That's a stupid reason for deleting an article. Most of the subjects of our articles are lagely forgotten. You argued that the references were not independent of the subject; yet there was no obvious connection between the five dead-tree refs, and the iirc C17 subject; nor is there much likelihood that you reviewed the content of the refs, since they were no online. No gbooks ghits != lack of notability. I'm not clear, given the foregoing, what you anticipate I might have done. Take out an full page advert in the WaPo to publicise her? hth --Tagishsimon (talk) 19:57, 3 November 2018 (UTC)
- The sources were not independent, she was (according to the deleted article) a Dominican nun, and we got sources like the "Dominican Provincial Chapter" (a source which is completely unverifiable) or a source from the "Congregation of the Dominican Sisters", two other sources written by Dominicans, and a source by the "Mother Francisca Commission", which again is a Dominican organisation. So all sources in the article were by Dominicans, about a Dominican sister. That's a rather obvious and clear connection. An organisation writing about their own history is not an independent source. So what you might have done, instead of simply removing the prod with an insulting message, was checking whether any independent sources for this person were available, and then either improving the article with them, or endorsing the prod. Fram (talk) 07:36, 5 November 2018 (UTC)
RE: Victims of the White Terror
[edit]I think it's better now. Wen I created the article, I was in a hurry so I didn't modify it, but then I checked it and I corrected some problems. Thanks for the notice. Greetings. Tajotep (talk) 22:33, 14 November 2018 (UTC)
BERRY IIT
[edit]Hello and thank you for the Speedy Delete. Honestly, this user has recreated this page under so many different names (eg. Berry IIT was SALT'd) since October that I have reported them to AIV. They are ignoring our warnings and this is becoming disruptive. They are so clearly WP:NOTHERE. HickoryOughtShirt?4 (talk) 09:12, 16 November 2018 (UTC)
- @HickoryOughtShirt?4: Annoying. Always worth dropping a warning on their talk page - admins tend to block people faster if we can point to them having been properly warned. I've done that. I like your salt template - wasn't aware of that. Good that there are more of us than him/her. Illegitimi non carborundum. --Tagishsimon (talk) 09:19, 16 November 2018 (UTC)
- Ha, you are right. While I did informally warn them just yesterday about this, per their message on Talk:BERRY IIT they still aren't getting it. Also the use of "us" is concerning. Sigh HickoryOughtShirt?4 (talk) 09:23, 16 November 2018 (UTC)
- @HickoryOughtShirt?4: They're now blocked. --Tagishsimon (talk) 12:55, 16 November 2018 (UTC)
- Ha, you are right. While I did informally warn them just yesterday about this, per their message on Talk:BERRY IIT they still aren't getting it. Also the use of "us" is concerning. Sigh HickoryOughtShirt?4 (talk) 09:23, 16 November 2018 (UTC)
ArbCom 2018 election voter message
[edit]Hello, Tagishsimon. Voting in the 2018 Arbitration Committee elections is now open until 23.59 on Sunday, 3 December. All users who registered an account before Sunday, 28 October 2018, made at least 150 mainspace edits before Thursday, 1 November 2018 and are not currently blocked are eligible to vote. Users with alternate accounts may only vote once.
The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.
If you wish to participate in the 2018 election, please review the candidates and submit your choices on the voting page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:42, 19 November 2018 (UTC)
A kitten for you!
[edit]![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cc/Kitten-stare.jpg/150px-Kitten-stare.jpg)
Thanks for creating the Wikidata link for the stub article on Alice Cooper Bailey.
TeriEmbrey (talk) 14:44, 21 November 2018 (UTC)
Remember WP:ATD - Mary marquardt
[edit]Hi there. Just a quick note that you should always consider alternatives to deletion before tagging an article for (speedy) deletion. In this case (Mary marquardt), a redirect to Ford's article was obviously the better alternative to deletion and you could have done so yourself. Regards SoWhy 11:06, 23 November 2018 (UTC)
Can you let me know when you have finished messing with this. I was in the middle of merging the text when you swooped in and started redirecting when I was in mid-edit. Please note Use Australian English, Use DMY dates. Please use Queensland Globe for the geography as that is the authoritative source. Kerry (talk) 01:50, 25 November 2018 (UTC)
- @Kerry Raymond: All done now.
- Tagishsimon, please remember to follow appropriate attribution guidelines when merging content from one page to another page (see Wikipedia:Copying within Wikipedia). I performed a "history merge" to preserve attribution, but in general a page cannot be deleted once content from the page has been merged elsewhere. Let me know if you have any questions about this. Cheers, -- Black Falcon (talk) 03:26, 25 November 2018 (UTC)
Dont delete
[edit]Dont delete this bit liliys wikipedia's post Bmmbb (talk) 02:31, 26 November 2018 (UTC)
db-madeup
[edit]Please have some evidence that the subject was made up by the creator or someone the creator knows; this isn't "db-neo" – that is, it isn't meant to apply to "anything that will obviously fail WP:NEO". Case in point: The_Traveling_"THE" appears to not have been made up by the creator. I have managed to find other problems with it, though... ErikHaugen (talk | contribs) 19:44, 26 November 2018 (UTC)
Speedy deletion aurornisxui
[edit]I am new and unclear on how to add this page so it doesn't get deleted. It is a user page for the WikiProject Paleontology (it's the page that opened when I clicked on the red link). — Preceding unsigned comment added by Aurornisxui (talk • contribs) 21:00, 26 November 2018 (UTC)
Doh
[edit]Anthonyz17 (talk) 23:23, 26 November 2018 (UTC)I'm wondering if you can point out specific sections that made you delete my page?
- @Anthonyz17: If you write an article that looks like an advert, it will be deleted as if it were an advert. If you cannot tell the difference between 'looks like an advert' and 'a wikipedia article', then writing on wikipedia is probably not for you. hth --Tagishsimon (talk) 23:40, 26 November 2018 (UTC)
- MMI have removed all persuasive language before publishing so it is merely a company page. And also have reference pages like Binance, Uber. Simply including historical and neutral language about a company does not constitute has an advertisement — Preceding unsigned comment added by Anthonyz17 (talk • contribs) 23:55, 26 November 2018 (UTC)
- I refer you to my answer above. You tried. It got deleted. Move on. --Tagishsimon (talk) 00:02, 27 November 2018 (UTC)
December 2018 at Women in Red
[edit]![]()
Continuing: | ||
Latest headlines, news, and views on the Women in Red talkpage (Join the conversation!): (To subscribe: Women in Red/English language mailing list and Women in Red/international list. Unsubscribe: Women in Red/Opt-out list) |
A barnstar for you!
[edit]![]() |
The Barnstar of Diligence |
Thanks for fixing the Women in Science prize table! Tarselli (talk) 16:30, 27 November 2018 (UTC) |
- @Tarselli: Thank you; very kind. Sadly the GSA website was down last night, which is why things peter out towards the end of the list ... I wasn't keen on using CVs as a source. I live in hope we can complete the table eventually. --Tagishsimon (talk) 16:35, 27 November 2018 (UTC)
December 2018 at Women in Red
[edit]![]()
Continuing: | ||
Latest headlines, news, and views on the Women in Red talkpage (Join the conversation!): (To subscribe: Women in Red/English language mailing list and Women in Red/international list. Unsubscribe: Women in Red/Opt-out list) |
Lost in America (upcoming film) listed at Redirects for discussion
[edit]![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/2/28/Information.svg/30px-Information.svg.png)
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Lost in America (upcoming film). Since you had some involvement with the Lost in America (upcoming film) redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. Steel1943 (talk) 19:59, 28 November 2018 (UTC)
RE: Tulsa–Wichita State men's basketball rivalry
[edit]Thanks! The numbers in the box refer to the ranking of the winning team at the time in the AP Poll, I could add a footnote or something maybe pointing this out but I wouldn't be exactly sure where in the article to point it out. Best, User talk:RichieNebraska —Preceding undated comment added 22:40, 29 November 2018 (UTC)
Facto Post – Issue 18 – 30 November 2018
[edit]Facto Post – Issue 18 – 30 November 2018
![]() The Editor is Charles Matthews, for ContentMine. Please leave feedback for him, on his User talk page.
To subscribe to Facto Post go to Wikipedia:Facto Post mailing list. For the ways to unsubscribe, see the footer.
GLAM ♥ data — what is a gallery, library, archive or museum without a catalogue? It follows that Wikidata must love librarians. Bibliography supports students and researchers in any topic, but open and machine-readable bibliographic data even more so, outside the silo. Cue the WikiCite initiative, which was meeting in conference this week, in the Bay Area of California. ![]() In fact there is a broad scope: "Open Knowledge Maps via SPARQL" and the "Sum of All Welsh Literature", identification of research outputs, Library.Link Network and Bibframe 2.0, OSCAR and LUCINDA (who they?), OCLC and Scholia, all these co-exist on the agenda. Certainly more library science is coming Wikidata's way. That poses the question about the other direction: is more Wikimedia technology advancing on libraries? Good point. Wikimedians generally are not aware of the tech background that can be assumed, unless they are close to current training for librarians. A baseline definition is useful here: "bash, git and OpenRefine". Compare and contrast with pywikibot, GitHub and mix'n'match. Translation: scripting for automation, version control, data set matching and wrangling in the large, are on the agenda also for contemporary library work. Certainly there is some possible common ground here. Time to understand rather more about the motivations that operate in the library sector.
Account creation is now open on the ScienceSource wiki, where you can see SPARQL visualisations of text mining.
If you wish to receive no further issues of Facto Post, please remove your name from our mailing list. Alternatively, to opt out of all massmessage mailings, you may add Category:Wikipedians who opt out of message delivery to your user talk page.
Newsletter delivered by MediaWiki message delivery |
MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 11:20, 30 November 2018 (UTC)
Chilling
[edit]As is probably painfully obvious, I'm not a Wikipedia user but I appreciate your support against that VintageFeminist lady. I came in with good intentions but I'm finding myself repeatedly attacked by her. I assume it's because I'm "attacking" the arguments put forward by Rachel parent and her anti-GMO pro-organic website and entire narrative. I've confirmed that the website was set up by Wayne Parent of Nutrition House (as others had already noted) but apparently that's not enough either. I sense an air of misandry about this and it's making me uncomfortable. Wikipedia isn't really my thing as should be obvious from my mea culpas. I have nothing against Rachel, but her message isn't just wrong, it's deliberately deceitful. Any simple fact checking on the site shows a typical anti-science bent and a deep connection to a web of the usual suspects like Vandana Shiva and Jeffery Smith. I have other questions I need to ask them but, coming from traditional media as I do, you won't accept my word unless I have citations on "reputable" site. It's a circular problem to a degree. Sorry for moaning but I'm getting discouraged from trying to help. Smidoid (talk) 23:55, 1 December 2018 (UTC)
- @Smidoid: Wikipedia and wikipedians can be a bit of a steamroller, I'm afraid, Smidoid. I'm not entirely sure where VintageFeminist is coming from; and from long experience here, I'm not going to spend any time wondering about that element. It's generally best for all concerned that we assume good faith in our fellow editors - and assume the same good faith in those less familiar with Wikipedia, such as youself. I don't think the response to your intervention was handled well, and I've said my piece on that elsewhere. I'm sorry - and unsurprised - that you find it depressing & discouraging.
- As to the article itself, it is a great problem that we have a plethora of completely uncritical 'reliable sources' charting her ascent to some minor notability, and iirc only the HuffPo article with which to rebut her questionable argument. That said, I think GreenMeansGo has done a very good job in reshaping the article and introducing the Criticism section. The artice has a much better balance; it sets out in neutral terms the basics of her story and press reaction to it; lends no support to her views; and provides a rebuttal of her views in no uncertain terms. The critical reader should come away with an understanding that her platform is found to be questionable. Of course, the uncritical reader will leave the article with whatever view they had when they entered it. Anti-GMO folk will dismiss the criticism; Anti-anti-GMO folk will nod in understanding of the criticism and sigh.
- I'm sorry that - and again, I understand why - the whole reliable sources business is getting you down. Sometimes the best that can be done is the sort of thing that GMG has done. Of course, if you can turn anything else up, that would be great; but it probably won't change the price of bread. Her story will remain the same. Uncritical press coverage of her will remain. Wikipedia will be honour bound to report those things in neutral terms. It's very unlikely that anything we find will alter much the section of the article above the criticism section. We might find more sources for the criticism, but tbh the views reported there are sufficiently unequivocal that adding more of the same will not actually add significantly to readers' understanding. And of course, I accept the nexus of Parent, her parents, and fringe views such as Shiva and Smith which, unfortunatly, have currency in this wretched anti-expert society we find ourselves in.
- There you go. Not sure if any of that helps. But always happy to talk about it, and to lend support to the aim of improving the quality of the article if that can be done. --Tagishsimon (talk) 00:31, 2 December 2018 (UTC)
- Thank you. That's very supportive. My only other experience of any rate, is over the Hedy Lamarr/FHSS invention claim - and has been similarly drowned out. This is an area of my own expertise and I've done a considerable amount of on and off Internet digging to get to the truth. The results were not dissimilar in that case. I found myself attacked over original research because the entire narrative has been captured by those who believe the story promulgated by her fanbase. It all stems from a poorly checked patent and one of Hedy's fans. I've expanded on Dr. Tony Rothman's work and managed to join the dots to discover the ID third person (alluded to by Lamar in a press clipping but never named). This was the man (and there lies a major issue, he's man and Lamar has become a feminist icon) who actually designed the electronics aided by Hedy's friend, George Antheil. He is not named on the patent of course. However, in any case the technology was invented by the Germans in WW1 and before that (in a very crude form) by Nikola Tesla at the back end of the 19th century. Lamarr did some good things for the war effort but a lot of what she says (including a claim of rape - a charge quickly dropped and that resulted in a civil case that she subsequently lost) are fictions. The entire story which spans far more than has ever been covered by Wikipedia (or, to my knowledge, any other writer) spans decades and even connects loosely to the capture of the Enigima machine from the "U571". It's claimed that the FHSS tech was ignored by the US Navy but the reality is, it solved a problem that it didn't have. The torpedoes were "missing" not because US Sub commanders couldn't shoot straight - but rather that explosive charge weight slightly more than the dummy warheads used in testing with the result that the projectile sank well below its target over the 1-2km firing range and failed to detonate. As you might guess, there's a lot more behind this but I tire of fighting on the Internet and I'll have to try and find a publisher brave enough to face off against the likely pushback. Lamarr has been inducted into the American Inventors Hall of Fame for something that, the secret history shows, she had very little do with. Smidoid (talk) 14:25, 2 December 2018 (UTC)
- @Smidoid: Well there's a very remarkable coincidence. I used to correspond with someone - now dead - who knew Hedy Lamarr, holidayed with her, etc, and who scorned the Hedy patent story. We discussed the truth versus received wisdom of that case. Small world. Presuming you have set up email options in your wikipedia preferences, you could use this link to drop me an email, and I'll share some of what I was told. --Tagishsimon (talk) 14:40, 2 December 2018 (UTC)
- that IS interesting. I've dropped you an internal PM with my private email so we can discuss. You might have better luck than I did overturning this story on Wikipedia anyway- a lot of people stand to lose a lot of face over this. There are books dedicated to it and even one that claims FHSS was used to help defuse the Bay of Pigs. A lot of the stuff is still highly classified of course so I can only piece together the stuff that's in the public archives but this is another piece of propaganda that really needs to be overturned. There are far more inspiring women who are frequently overlooked or sidelined: Rosalind Franklin, "Amazing" Grace and so on. Hedy was popular because of that that infernal Halo Effect. Same reason (I expect) that Vani Hari and Rachel Parent also got/get so much unchecked coverage. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Smidoid (talk • contribs) 18:05, 2 December 2018 (UTC)
- @Smidoid: Yup, that worked. You have email. --Tagishsimon (talk) 18:23, 2 December 2018 (UTC)
- that IS interesting. I've dropped you an internal PM with my private email so we can discuss. You might have better luck than I did overturning this story on Wikipedia anyway- a lot of people stand to lose a lot of face over this. There are books dedicated to it and even one that claims FHSS was used to help defuse the Bay of Pigs. A lot of the stuff is still highly classified of course so I can only piece together the stuff that's in the public archives but this is another piece of propaganda that really needs to be overturned. There are far more inspiring women who are frequently overlooked or sidelined: Rosalind Franklin, "Amazing" Grace and so on. Hedy was popular because of that that infernal Halo Effect. Same reason (I expect) that Vani Hari and Rachel Parent also got/get so much unchecked coverage. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Smidoid (talk • contribs) 18:05, 2 December 2018 (UTC)
- @Smidoid: Well there's a very remarkable coincidence. I used to correspond with someone - now dead - who knew Hedy Lamarr, holidayed with her, etc, and who scorned the Hedy patent story. We discussed the truth versus received wisdom of that case. Small world. Presuming you have set up email options in your wikipedia preferences, you could use this link to drop me an email, and I'll share some of what I was told. --Tagishsimon (talk) 14:40, 2 December 2018 (UTC)
- Thank you. That's very supportive. My only other experience of any rate, is over the Hedy Lamarr/FHSS invention claim - and has been similarly drowned out. This is an area of my own expertise and I've done a considerable amount of on and off Internet digging to get to the truth. The results were not dissimilar in that case. I found myself attacked over original research because the entire narrative has been captured by those who believe the story promulgated by her fanbase. It all stems from a poorly checked patent and one of Hedy's fans. I've expanded on Dr. Tony Rothman's work and managed to join the dots to discover the ID third person (alluded to by Lamar in a press clipping but never named). This was the man (and there lies a major issue, he's man and Lamar has become a feminist icon) who actually designed the electronics aided by Hedy's friend, George Antheil. He is not named on the patent of course. However, in any case the technology was invented by the Germans in WW1 and before that (in a very crude form) by Nikola Tesla at the back end of the 19th century. Lamarr did some good things for the war effort but a lot of what she says (including a claim of rape - a charge quickly dropped and that resulted in a civil case that she subsequently lost) are fictions. The entire story which spans far more than has ever been covered by Wikipedia (or, to my knowledge, any other writer) spans decades and even connects loosely to the capture of the Enigima machine from the "U571". It's claimed that the FHSS tech was ignored by the US Navy but the reality is, it solved a problem that it didn't have. The torpedoes were "missing" not because US Sub commanders couldn't shoot straight - but rather that explosive charge weight slightly more than the dummy warheads used in testing with the result that the projectile sank well below its target over the 1-2km firing range and failed to detonate. As you might guess, there's a lot more behind this but I tire of fighting on the Internet and I'll have to try and find a publisher brave enough to face off against the likely pushback. Lamarr has been inducted into the American Inventors Hall of Fame for something that, the secret history shows, she had very little do with. Smidoid (talk) 14:25, 2 December 2018 (UTC)
A barnstar for you!
[edit]![]() |
The Barnstar of Diligence |
Hi tagishsimon,
Thanks for all the input on my article! I'm travelling for work today and tomorrow so I may be a little tardy in following up as I doubt I'll get time to read all the guidelines you've pointed me towards until Wednesday at which point I will be able to get it all done. I trust that's fine with you. Really appreciate you helping me learn the ropes. I'm quite familiar with WordPress and a few other web publishing platforms but Wikipedia very much has a different interface and I can see I have plenty to learn. Speak more on Wednesday. Kind regards, Minxymoggy Minxymoggy (talk) 18:04, 3 December 2018 (UTC) |
- @Minxymoggy: I think the canonical set right now for you is WP:COI, WP:N, WP:V, WP:RS and WP:AfD. Enjoy. --Tagishsimon (talk) 21:43, 3 December 2018 (UTC)
Elizabeth Diller
[edit]thanks for the cleanup. I'm not super well versed in architects but it had been bugging me that she didn't have a page when one was well deserved. Figured if I started, someone would come help. StarM 03:12, 4 December 2018 (UTC)
- @Star Mississippi: No probs, and you're right, long overdue that she had an article; thanks for adding it. Wikipedia doesn't seem to do architects very well, women doubly so. --Tagishsimon (talk) 12:09, 4 December 2018 (UTC)
- We should probably raid w:es:Elizabeth_Diller sometime. Plenty to be stolen. --Tagishsimon (talk) 12:33, 4 December 2018 (UTC)
- ooh thanks for that tip, hadn't found it. I do read Spanish so will see what I can bring over. StarM 19:39, 9 December 2018 (UTC)
- We should probably raid w:es:Elizabeth_Diller sometime. Plenty to be stolen. --Tagishsimon (talk) 12:33, 4 December 2018 (UTC)
thx for connecting Ruth Benedict Prize to its wikidata item
[edit]Thx! I forgot to do that MauraWen (talk) 17:51, 4 December 2018 (UTC)
- @MauraWen: Bit more work to do... - they're people who have an Award value for the RBP. :Tagishsimon (talk) 18:10, 4 December 2018 (UTC)
- @Tagishsimon: Ok, but I am not exactly sure how much I need to do. I am guessing that I need to add the RB prize statement to all the award winners's wikidata pages. What about people who don't have a wikipedia profile? please advise.
- I will put this on my list for tomorrow. thx MauraWen (talk) 18:36, 4 December 2018 (UTC)
- As much or little as you like. It never stops. I had a look just now; add award to those who already have a wikidata item; add wikidata items for those without; find some additional attributes for the added person, and add the award; realise the book or paper doesn't exists so add that; realise there are a bunch of papers which have an 'author name string' rather than an author value, so need changing. Fortunately none of us are under any obligation to complete all of that. I can see myself doing more tonight; I'll let you know how I got on at the end of the evening. --Tagishsimon (talk) 20:56, 4 December 2018 (UTC)
- @MauraWen: As it stands ... I've done them all, including new items for those previously without. We can probably forget all about this now :) --Tagishsimon (talk) 23:23, 4 December 2018 (UTC)
- As much or little as you like. It never stops. I had a look just now; add award to those who already have a wikidata item; add wikidata items for those without; find some additional attributes for the added person, and add the award; realise the book or paper doesn't exists so add that; realise there are a bunch of papers which have an 'author name string' rather than an author value, so need changing. Fortunately none of us are under any obligation to complete all of that. I can see myself doing more tonight; I'll let you know how I got on at the end of the evening. --Tagishsimon (talk) 20:56, 4 December 2018 (UTC)
- @Tagishsimon: Thanks for your help! You've been very busy. I am surprised that the list needs to go in order of oldest award at the top. I have been creating profiles of award winning poets, and I could swear many of the awards were listed with most recent date first. I guess that's wrong. Thx again. MauraWen (talk) 01:18, 5 December 2018 (UTC)
- @MauraWen: Thanks! Yup, I was a bit dismayed by the list order thing. My preference is generally for most recent at the top; and the list is sortable on columns anyway. I more & more find wikipedia to be a bit old-school, having become part of the bright new wikidata borg. --Tagishsimon (talk) 01:25, 5 December 2018 (UTC)
Thank you very much for your advice, Tagishsimon! I've checked the two misleading problems and have corrected both of them. Please check, and thank you again.Mike hangzhou (talk) 14:17, 5 December 2018 (UTC)
Speedy deletion nomination of Amitchell125/Archive5
[edit]![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/15/Ambox_warning_pn.svg/48px-Ambox_warning_pn.svg.png)
A tag has been placed on Amitchell125/Archive5 requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section R2 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a redirect from the article namespace to a different namespace except the Category, Template, Wikipedia, Help, or Portal namespaces.
If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Stefan2 (talk) 16:42, 8 December 2018 (UTC)
A kitten for you!
[edit]![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/75/Cute_grey_kitten.jpg/150px-Cute_grey_kitten.jpg)
Thanks for you help with my article on Christine Allen!
Happy Panda 25 (talk) 18:45, 13 December 2018 (UTC)
Timewasting
[edit] There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Tonyinman (talk) 15:41, 15 December 2018 (UTC)
- Zzz. --Tagishsimon (talk) 17:57, 15 December 2018 (UTC)
BBLD ID
[edit]Could you merge these: [5]? 78.54.28.6 (talk) 16:02, 16 December 2018 (UTC)
- Done 3, Not convinced by http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q25391120 http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q54506661 - different dates of death. Are you sure? --Tagishsimon (talk) 16:24, 16 December 2018 (UTC)
- Thank you, including for being cautious! Someone else was sure. The death date 1833 was probably taken from the old BBLD ID [6], but 1833 not found anymore in the BBLD. So merge seems good. 89.12.179.248 (talk) 02:28, 17 December 2018 (UTC)
6 new duplicates. The export of BBLD IDs to Wikidata is paying off. 77.11.158.98 (talk) 21:06, 17 December 2018 (UTC)
- Good stuff. You've dealt with them. Nothing showing on this report. --Tagishsimon (talk) 21:33, 17 December 2018 (UTC)
- I made a record [7] before asking you. Some user, which also did the 4th above which you left, cleaned 5 of the 6 after I posted. One more thing: 77 males at d:Wikidata:Database reports/Humans with missing claims/P2580 - all females and non-humans removed if I am not mistaken. Could you batch-male-fy them? 77.183.238.223 (talk) 23:40, 19 December 2018 (UTC)
- Done. --Tagishsimon (talk) 00:04, 20 December 2018 (UTC)
- Great! user:Arachn0 is helping adding new IDs reported via a ruwiki-page. But 57 new IDs during the last ~24 hours might be good for batch: ru:Википедия:Форум/Викиданные/BBLD_ID#BBLD_ID_-_new_IDs_-_2018-12-22 I would have done it directly, but Jura1 not only vandalized P2580 - removing valid IDs from 1000+ items, which Magnus Manske than run a batch to fix - insert fake constraints etc. (some of Baltic Historic Commission not happy about that), but also managed to prevent editing via IP of P2580 and the P2580 statements. So, all BBLD fixes that I find, I report somewhere else so that others can apply them ... What is achieved? More work for others, slower progress with Wikimedia projects. He also tried to intimidate other users, several times successful, but not e.g. with this very helpful user.
- BTW, the BBLD has now 1380 IDs based on ISNI [8], but these are not necessarily the current preferred/primary ISNI, as those can change without notice. ISNI-IA is very bad WRT transparency and working error free. 77.191.114.98 (talk) 03:31, 22 December 2018 (UTC)
- 1684 based on ISNI [9]. But SPARQL gives less. Do you know a tool to find 1) in WD but not in https://bbld.de/beacon.isni.txt 2) In https://bbld.de/beacon.isni.txt but not in WD? 78.54.172.225 (talk) 19:43, 14 January 2019 (UTC)
- Done. --Tagishsimon (talk) 00:04, 20 December 2018 (UTC)
- I made a record [7] before asking you. Some user, which also did the 4th above which you left, cleaned 5 of the 6 after I posted. One more thing: 77 males at d:Wikidata:Database reports/Humans with missing claims/P2580 - all females and non-humans removed if I am not mistaken. Could you batch-male-fy them? 77.183.238.223 (talk) 23:40, 19 December 2018 (UTC)
All of the isni's in WD are in isni.txt. The following isni's in isni.txt are not in wikidata (put into edit mode if you want a tabular list) - note that the WD comparison is based on the SPARQL you supplied - so it's the set of items having having BBLDs. --Tagishsimon (talk) 19:54, 14 January 2019 (UTC) 0000000002859311 0000000012427969 0000000013006277 0000000015443796 0000000016250574 OK 0000000017577931 in WD/ISNI (print format) 0000000038238955 0000000038638887 OK 0000000050587728 in WD/ISNI (print format) / vandalised https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q4236585&diff=775806400&oldid=762129059 0000000051802696 0000000051916335 OK 000000005266095X in WD/ISNI (print format) 0000000055430236 OK 000000005646258X in WD/ISNI (print format) 0000000058864769 OK 0000000072931024 OK 0000000108910605 OK 0000000109565313 OK 0000000116359104 in WD/ISNI (print format) 0000000119047325 OK 0000000121482940 in WD/ISNI (print format) 0000000377435427 in WD/ISNI (print format) 0000000385156786 OK 0000000387510451 OK 0000000397172249 0000000397452072 000000041031090X OK 0000000417110521
- Thanks a lot! I will check them later. 89.12.67.41 (talk) 17:05, 15 January 2019 (UTC)
You once helped to add year of birth/death. Maybe you could to it again? SPARQL for birth (P569). P570 would be death. 89.12.67.41 (talk) 17:05, 15 January 2019 (UTC)
- No probs; done. (or, at least, doing as I write this) --Tagishsimon (talk) 18:41, 15 January 2019 (UTC)
- Great! Could you write SPARQL for all P2580 that have reference URL P854 or even better any reference. The value is certainly wrong at https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q323699&oldid=836471999#P2580 . 77.13.102.139 (talk) 20:37, 17 January 2019 (UTC)
- Let's start with this [10] which I think gives you a rundown of all of the references for all of the BBLD items ... in short, most have no reference. --Tagishsimon (talk) 21:26, 17 January 2019 (UTC)
- I'm being a bit slow tonight. The BBLD ID itself can be used to form a P854 style reference, yes? If so I could run a quickstatements job and add P854s to them all. Let me know. I've amended the query to show the ?BBLD ID. --Tagishsimon (talk) 21:48, 17 January 2019 (UTC)
The BBLD made the regex more strict (https://bbld.de/info/2019) and changed some more IDs. 2019-01-19 for the first time a list of all BBLD IDs was published https://bbld.de/beacon.all.txt (4957 items) . That is a chance to check all BBLD IDs in Wikidata. Could you Step 1) remove ALL current references Step 2) add references to all IDs found in .txt [found in BBLD, timestampeXY]? If that is done, WD-editors only need to review all items without reference, and adjust the IDs. 78.55.127.103 (talk) 15:39, 20 January 2019 (UTC)
BBLD ID - ExternalUse
[edit]https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Property_talk:P2580&action=edit could you fix
- remove "lvwiki: " before the lv:-Link, the others don't have that and it is redundant, as lv: stands for lvwiki.
- the small d in BBLd are wrong for uk: and ru:. Correct is BBLD.
77.13.90.170 (talk) 20:33, 18 February 2019 (UTC)
Attitude
[edit]I'll appreciate you take your warrior attitude elsewhere, along with your pissy summaries. I see you are a frequent guest at ANI board. Stay there! Sincerely, Rowan Forest (talk) 21:50, 16 December 2018 (UTC)
- @Rowan Forest: Grow up, Rowan. The facts of the matter are, you reverted an edit because you made a stupid and erroneous assumption. You did not even take the basic step of checking what the edit did, and in reverting it re-introduced a grammatical error to the article. Now you come onto this board and talk crap about me being "frequent guest at ANI board". And I'm the one who's supposed to have an attitude? Mirror, much? --Tagishsimon (talk) 21:56, 16 December 2018 (UTC)
- ZZZzzz Piss off. Rowan Forest (talk) 21:57, 16 December 2018 (UTC)
- @Rowan Forest:Isn't it past your bedtime? You seem to be a bit cranky. Get mummy to make you a hot water bottle, maybe? --Tagishsimon (talk) 21:59, 16 December 2018 (UTC)
- ZZZzzz Piss off. Rowan Forest (talk) 21:57, 16 December 2018 (UTC)
Small detail
[edit]The album is properly titled "Moon And Sand". I don't know why the artist chose to capitalize the "A" in "and," but there it is on the cover [11]. I would add a picture of the cover if I had any facility with that kind of thing. Regards, Hamster Sandwich (talk) 02:53, 17 December 2018 (UTC)
@Hamster Sandwich: The covers that I've seen have the entire title in uppercase - e.g. https://www.allmusic.com/album/moon-and-sand-mw0000611944 and https://www.discogs.com/Kenny-Burrell-Moon-And-Sand/release/3658420 so I'm puzzled as to why you would come to this page and make the above claim, as if a title of AND must always be rendered as And. Are you suggesting now that the wikipedia article should be all uppercase? Or have you merely decided that your title-case And is better than a conventional lower-case and? --Tagishsimon (talk) 03:03, 17 December 2018 (UTC)
- Thanks for the prompt reply! I thought I would answer your various questions in point form:
- 1. I came to this page because you made an edit that I had the question about. I didn't see a point in asking someone else about it.
- 2. I do not understand where I made an inference that anything should always be anything. I did not make any suggestions to any generalizations of WP:MOS
- 3. I have not "merely decided" anything. Not at this point, anyways.
- In closing, I was attempting to discern that perhaps unlike other entries in article space with the same title, this one might be different. Perhaps not. I'm not tied to any of my edits in Wikipedia. None of us should be. Regards, Hamster Sandwich (talk) 03:16, 17 December 2018 (UTC)
- @Hamster Sandwich: You came to this page asserting that the album is properly titled "Moon And Sand". You briefly touched on your inability to say why the artist decided to capitalise the A, reinforcing your assertion that the album is properly titled "Moon And Sand". You vouchsafed as evidence a youtube of the album cover in which the title is all in uppercase. The evidence you provided does not support your assertion. So. I remain puzzled. --Tagishsimon (talk) 03:23, 17 December 2018 (UTC)
- @Hamster Sandwich: In the absence of any consensus on capitalisation of the work - and google searches suggest there is not consensus - I take it you will agree that Wikipedia:Naming conventions (capitalization)#Titles of works should apply? --Tagishsimon (talk) 03:33, 17 December 2018 (UTC)
- I agree with whatever the current standard naming conventions for WP articles are. The YouTube entry displays the title as I described. It is, of course not a good source for a citation. And since each letter of the cover shot is indeed a capitalized letter, it falls to someone like yourself to correct the edit. I did make an assertion of the artists intent based on bad information from a weak source.
- I should repeat, to stress the point: I am not tied to any of my edits in Wikipedia. My hope is to make a baseline shot, and other people come along a shine it up. On the other hand, it's nice to be able to do that for some of the total shit that passes for writing in mainspace as well. But I'm never willing to argue much over other peoples editing. Especially when it concerns a trivial article for lovely album I just happened to listen to today, and there was no article to describe it. Now there is, and my thanks to you for your help. Hamster Sandwich (talk) 03:51, 17 December 2018 (UTC)
Chikakiyo's daughters
[edit]Hey, thanks for connecting Chikakiyo's fifth daughter to a WikiData item. I was aware of the ja.wiki article earlier, but unfortunately I don't agree with what they've done over there, and am planning on creating separate articles on Chikakiyo's fourth daughter, Chikakiyo's daughter and Chikakiyo's daughter's younger sister. User:Hijiri88/Inter-WAM/2019/003 is what I've got done so far, but I'm considering putting the project on hold until we can get community consensus on how to format the names of these and similar articles. (The most famous are Takasue's daughter, Shunzei's daughter and Michitsuna's mother but I've found at least a dozen or so more.)
At the very least the topic merits two separate articles since the fourth and fifth daughters were definitely different people, and once those two articles exist I'm not sure what to do about WikiData short of going to ja.wiki and requesting they follow suit and split the article there. Thoughts?
Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 03:06, 19 December 2018 (UTC)
- @Hijiri88: I'm sorry, but I'm so not the right person to ask about this. I'm mainly concerning myself with ensuring that were we have en.wiki articles on females, that they're minimally represented in Wikidata with a Q5 and female value ... all of that to ensure that Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red statistics are up-to-date.
- That said, now that I've looked in detail at the ja.wiki article, I'm thinking that Chikakiyo's fifth daughter should actually have its own wikidata item ... the ja.wiki linked item is presumably about the set of daughters? I'm reading the ja.wiki article via Google translate; it's not abundently clear. It would be useful if you can confirm my suspicion. (And if we do this, we can link the Chikakiyo's fifth daughter to Q11483547 using part of / has part.)
- I thoroughly support your aim of creating discrete articles, presuming there is enough content. I leave you to decide on whether you need to pause to secure name format consensus; equally article names can be changed later. --Tagishsimon (talk) 03:15, 19 December 2018 (UTC)
I'm thinking that Chikakiyo's fifth daughter should actually have its own wikidata item ... the ja.wiki linked item is presumably about the set of daughters?
That's right. He had at least two poet daughters, one of whom is known to history as the fourth daughter and the other as the fifth. He definitely had at least three other daughters (obviously!), but there is uncertainty as to whether the "Chikakiyo's daughter" and "Chikakiyo's daughter's younger sister" (mentioned in some other official court anthologies) might be the same two people as the fourth and fifth daughters, or one might be the same, or he had four daughters whose poems have come down to us. For this reason it seems ja.wiki just said "Fuck it -- one article on Chikakiyo's daughters".- Thank you for your support on the point about discrete articles. I will need to do a bit more work to determine whether the "daughter" and "daughter's younger sister" need their own articles or if the "fourth" and "fifth" daughters are enough (my preferred source, an encyclopedia of Japanese classical literature, has two articles on the fourth and fifth daughters, which both address the question that there may have been one or two more, and that might be the way to go).
- Honestly the main reason I'm here is because I have no earthly idea how to give the fifth daughter her own WikiData entry. I was gonna hold off on WikiData and interwiki links until the above issues were resolved (normally I put the interwiki links in the article and the WikiData stuff to bots), but since you connected them on WikiData already I kinda feel it needs to be addressed first.
- Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 03:29, 19 December 2018 (UTC)
- @Hijiri88: She has her own item now - Chikakiyo's fifth daughter and the ja.wiki iem is renamed (in English, at least) daughters of Chikakiyo. I'm happy to do any wikidata work you need doing - feel free to drop an article & instructions on me if you want something done. --Tagishsimon (talk) 04:04, 19 December 2018 (UTC)
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/5f/Ambox_warning_orange.svg/48px-Ambox_warning_orange.svg.png)
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Grokline is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.
The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Grokline (2nd nomination) until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.
Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. damiens.rf 10:13, 20 December 2018 (UTC)
January 2019 at Women in Red
[edit]![]()
![]() January events:
|
A token of appreciation
[edit]![]() |
The Geography Barnstar | |
Thank you for your attention to detail in ensuring the absolute accuracy of coordinates on articles about Lutyens' war memorials. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 23:43, 22 December 2018 (UTC) |
My women bios page
[edit]Thank you! I'd completely forgotten that I put that together - now I need to go write a few. The Drover's Wife (talk) 09:53, 24 December 2018 (UTC)
- Not at all. I was vaguely thinking of keeping them around for a Women in Green-style effort on notable women with bad articles, but as you can see I'd long forgotten about it - feel free to go to town on it. The Drover's Wife (talk) 21:12, 24 December 2018 (UTC)
- Also - you're welcome to move this into WIR space or somewhere where other people might feel freer to add to it if you want. The Drover's Wife (talk) 21:15, 24 December 2018 (UTC)
Sorry to see you give up on the Wikidata NSW stuff - I think those last 97 were easily enough explained given time to sort it out. The Drover's Wife (talk) 09:47, 29 December 2018 (UTC)
- FWIW, I've completed the NSW state heritage register in Wikidata. Ironically it appears that Wikidata has detected at least 8 items missing from the source lists used for article generation, and 5 articles not created for other reasons, so I think you can feel pretty vindicated. Thanks for all your help and work on these and happy new year! --Canley (talk) 02:11, 31 December 2018 (UTC)
- @The Drover's Wife and Canley: Thank you both; glad to hear it is complete. There has been some tremedously impressive work done by all concerned, even by my friend Kerry :). Happy upside-down (relatively speaking) new year to you both! --Tagishsimon (talk) 02:32, 31 December 2018 (UTC)
Facto Post – Issue 19 – 27 December 2018
[edit]Facto Post – Issue 19 – 27 December 2018
![]() The Editor is Charles Matthews, for ContentMine. Please leave feedback for him, on his User talk page.
To subscribe to Facto Post go to Wikipedia:Facto Post mailing list. For the ways to unsubscribe, see the footer.
Zotero is free software for reference management by the Center for History and New Media: see Wikipedia:Citing sources with Zotero. It is also an active user community, and has broad-based language support. ![]() Besides the handiness of Zotero's warehousing of personal citation collections, the Zotero translator underlies the citoid service, at work behind the VisualEditor. Metadata from Wikidata can be imported into Zotero; and in the other direction the zotkat tool from the University of Mannheim allows Zotero bibliographies to be exported to Wikidata, by item creation. With an extra feature to add statements, that route could lead to much development of the focus list (P5008) tagging on Wikidata, by WikiProjects. There is also a large-scale encyclopedic dimension here. The construction of Zotero translators is one facet of Web scraping that has a strong community and open source basis. In that it resembles the less formal mix'n'match import community, and growing networks around other approaches that can integrate datasets into Wikidata, such as the use of OpenRefine. Looking ahead, the thirtieth birthday of the World Wide Web falls in 2019, and yet the ambition to make webpages routinely readable by machines can still seem an ever-retreating mirage. Wikidata should not only be helping Wikimedia integrate its projects, an ongoing process represented by Structured Data on Commons and lexemes. It should also be acting as a catalyst to bring scraping in from the cold, with institutional strengths as well as resourceful code.
Diversitech, the latest ContentMine grant application to the Wikimedia Foundation, is in its community review stage until January 2.
If you wish to receive no further issues of Facto Post, please remove your name from our mailing list. Alternatively, to opt out of all massmessage mailings, you may add Category:Wikipedians who opt out of message delivery to your user talk page.
Newsletter delivered by MediaWiki message delivery |
MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 19:08, 27 December 2018 (UTC)
Created a page which got deleted
[edit]Hi, I created a page that got deleted, "Surf2ship.com" Can I know the reason for the delete? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gaztrorio (talk • contribs) 09:58, 31 December 2018 (UTC)
- @Gaztrorio:. Sure. Go read WP:COI and WP:N first. Next, consider that your website is very new and largely not notable. Last, consider that wikipedia does not exist to promote websites. Come back and discuss anything you don't understand. Bottom line is, we who work on wikipedia day-in and day-out *really* don't like people who abuse wikipedia as you have just done. Consider your card well and truly marked. --Tagishsimon (talk) 10:05, 31 December 2018 (UTC)
WoRMS database
[edit]Hi Tagishsimon, I was approved by WoRMS to get access to a monthly data extract of their entire database in darwin core format. I now have a tab-delimited file that has 587,713 taxa. What is the best way to go about importing all of it into Wikidata? — Ganeshk (talk) 03:20, 6 January 2019 (UTC)
- Pinging @Tom.Reding: — Ganeshk (talk) 03:21, 6 January 2019 (UTC)
- Ganeshk Very good news. Not sure. Pywikibot, maybe, if you're a python person. See also this tutorial. I'm not, and I cannot speak for it. Or, although your QS experience was not the best so far, QS batches will happily sit there for days or weeks at a time. OpenRefine, maybe? Big job! Thank goodnesss for Binomial nomenclature, otherwise duplicate detection would be a real pain. Having established that programming & bots are not my thing, if I can give any help, call on me. I'm good with SPARQL, fwiw. --Tagishsimon (talk) 03:42, 6 January 2019 (UTC)
- Looks like that is what I should do. I did find a couple of Python darwin core data reader frameworks, [12] and [13]. I will let you know if I run into any issues. — Ganeshk (talk) 03:57, 6 January 2019 (UTC)
- @Ganeshk: the only bulk WD tool I've used is QS, so I'm afraid I'm not much help here. Succu would be the best to ask for taxon ID imports of this scale if you're looking for advice or someone to hand the data off to. ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf) 05:49, 6 January 2019 (UTC)
- Tom.Reding Thank you, I will check with Succu. Not sure I can hand the data off though per the licensing agreement. Thanks, — Ganeshk (talk) 05:54, 6 January 2019 (UTC)
- I am getting Succu's help with the upload. I shared it with them privately over e-mail. — Ganeshk (talk) 18:32, 6 January 2019 (UTC)
- @Ganeshk: Good; Succu is, I think, very knowledgable in this area - you're in good hands. Meanwhile I look forward to 10% of en.wikipedia articles being about sea snails :) --Tagishsimon (talk) 18:34, 6 January 2019 (UTC)
- lol for the 10% comment. I think there are around 50,000 marine snail taxa, the impact will be miniscule. — Ganeshk (talk) 18:54, 6 January 2019 (UTC)
- @Ganeshk: Good; Succu is, I think, very knowledgable in this area - you're in good hands. Meanwhile I look forward to 10% of en.wikipedia articles being about sea snails :) --Tagishsimon (talk) 18:34, 6 January 2019 (UTC)
- @Ganeshk: Well that's very disappointing. I was so looking forward to the outrage :) --Tagishsimon (talk) 02:52, 7 January 2019 (UTC)
Your help desk question
[edit]Did you find out the answer to this question no one responded to?— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 21:58, 7 January 2019 (UTC)
- Vchimpanzee Nope. It's maybe something that might get answered on Phab; if I summon the energy to ask it there & get an answer, I'll let you know. --Tagishsimon (talk) 22:04, 7 January 2019 (UTC)
Hello Simon
Thank you for your note about this (sorry, I don't know how to link it), but I only created the title as a redirect (years ago!). The article was [written by someone else, so they probably need to know more than me. But thanks anyway... Moonraker12 (talk) 15:57, 17 January 2019 (UTC)
Ajai Vasudev move?
[edit]- Do you want Draft:Ajai vasudev to be moved to Ajai Vasudev? Anthony Appleyard (talk) 05:45, 24 January 2019 (UTC)
- @Anthony Appleyard: Thanks; no. Seems to have been moved to draft after I put in my move request. --Tagishsimon (talk) 08:29, 24 January 2019 (UTC)
Help
[edit]Hi, an admin told me to create FasciaBlaster, I request you to please let him check and then place that deletion, it was still in process and I further expanded it. Please check and help me cover the week areas. Admin was User:StraussInTheHouse — Preceding unsigned comment added by Julia Hudson 1 (talk • contribs) 23:40, 24 January 2019 (UTC)
- @Julia Hudson 1: No. It's a dreadful article and will be deleted. Sorry about that. If you want to get the attention of the admin in question, try @StraussInTheHouse:, but as he or she will tell you, it's a dreadful article and will be deleted. --Tagishsimon (talk) 23:45, 24 January 2019 (UTC)
Thanks, I am adding more to it, and I'll see what he/she have to say. Julia Hudson 1 (talk) 23:52, 24 January 2019 (UTC)
- @Julia Hudson 1: The admin in question will not return until 4th Feb. The tag on the article now means it will be looked at by another admin, who will decide whether to speedy delete it. In the unlikely event it is not speedy deleted, I will take it to articles for deletion. I have to tell you that it is rare indeed that articles I mark for deletion are not deleted. I don't think this one will be an exception. --Tagishsimon (talk) 23:57, 24 January 2019 (UTC)
Oh ok, I am not sure about the process. I'll wait for anyone else to check or that admin to return. It's nothing personal you are the boss, you can do anything. Thanks Julia Hudson 1 (talk) 00:01, 25 January 2019 (UTC)
- Strauss is not an administrator and even if he were, no one person, admin or otherwise has the sole discretion of deciding notability. Praxidicae (talk) 00:06, 25 January 2019 (UTC)
Ok thanks Praxidicae Julia Hudson 1 (talk) 00:11, 25 January 2019 (UTC)
- @Julia Hudson 1: It's now at Draft:FasciaBlaster. --Tagishsimon (talk) 00:13, 25 January 2019 (UTC)
- @Tagishsimon: Thanks, how can I submit it for review as nothing appears there, seems dead. Julia Hudson 1 (talk) 00:16, 25 January 2019 (UTC)
- @Julia Hudson 1: I've added an AfC template to it. But if you're just going to resubmit it through the AfC process, then we'll be back to where we were a few minutes ago. Whoever picks it up at AfC may or may not allow it back into article space. If they do, I'll mark it for deletion again. It remains a fundamentally bad article about a fundamentally bad and non-notable product. The very best thing to do would be to delete it and walk away. --Tagishsimon (talk) 00:27, 25 January 2019 (UTC)
February 2019 at Women in Red
[edit]![]()
![]() February events:
|
test
IP block exemption
[edit]Assuming that was you in IRC before, you should follow the procedure at WP:IPEXEMPTCONDITIONS first, and then nudge an admin if you'd prefer that it be done quickly. TheDragonFire (talk) 08:45, 29 January 2019 (UTC)
- @TheDragonFire: Yes. In this instance, quickness was of the essence. Seems the block on this train's wifi is fairly recent - 18 Nov, iirc. As it is, I lost 70 minutes of editing time. --Tagishsimon (talk) 08:49, 29 January 2019 (UTC)
- Actually looks like it's an open proxy block, therefore WP:IPECPROXY would apply. It seems like you'll need CheckUser assistance, which may take a while unfortunately... TheDragonFire (talk) 08:56, 29 January 2019 (UTC)
- @TheDragonFire: I'm completely unfamiliar with the whole business of blocks &c. I've been given IPBE on en.wiki and wikidata, which is all I really need ... presuming those are not taken away... --Tagishsimon (talk) 08:58, 29 January 2019 (UTC)
- Ah, didn't see Billinghurst's IPBE grant. Happy editing! :) TheDragonFire (talk) 09:01, 29 January 2019 (UTC)
- @TheDragonFire: I'm completely unfamiliar with the whole business of blocks &c. I've been given IPBE on en.wiki and wikidata, which is all I really need ... presuming those are not taken away... --Tagishsimon (talk) 08:58, 29 January 2019 (UTC)
- Actually looks like it's an open proxy block, therefore WP:IPECPROXY would apply. It seems like you'll need CheckUser assistance, which may take a while unfortunately... TheDragonFire (talk) 08:56, 29 January 2019 (UTC)
Facto Post – Issue 20 – 31 January 2019
[edit]Facto Post – Issue 20 – 31 January 2019
![]() The Editor is Charles Matthews, for ContentMine. Please leave feedback for him, on his User talk page.
To subscribe to Facto Post go to Wikipedia:Facto Post mailing list. For the ways to unsubscribe, see the footer.
Recently Jimmy Wales has made the point that computer home assistants take much of their data from Wikipedia, one way or another. So as well as getting Spotify to play Frosty the Snowman for you, they may be able to answer the question "is the Pope Catholic?" Possibly by asking for disambiguation (Coptic?). Headlines about data breaches are now familiar, but the unannounced circulation of information raises other issues. One of those is Gresham's law stated as "bad data drives out good". Wikipedia and now Wikidata have been criticised on related grounds: what if their content, unattributed, is taken to have a higher standing than Wikimedians themselves would grant it? See Wikiquote on a misattribution to Bismarck for the usual quip about "law and sausages", and why one shouldn't watch them in the making. Wikipedia has now turned 18, so should act like as adult, as well as being treated like one. The Web itself turns 30 some time between March and November this year, per Tim Berners-Lee. If the Knowledge Graph by Google exemplifies Heraclitean Web technology gaining authority, contra GIGO, Wikimedians still have a role in its critique. But not just with the teenage skill of detecting phoniness. There is more to beating Gresham than exposing the factoid and urban myth, where WP:V does do a great job. Placeholders must be detected, and working with Wikidata is a good way to understand how having one statement as data can blind us to replacing it by a more accurate one. An example that is important to open access is that, firstly, the term itself needs considerable unpacking, because just being able to read material online is a poor relation of "open"; and secondly, trying to get Creative Commons license information into Wikidata shows up issues with classes of license (such as CC-BY) standing for the actual license in major repositories. Detailed investigation shows that "everything flows" exacerbates the issue. But Wikidata can solve it.
If you wish to receive no further issues of Facto Post, please remove your name from our mailing list. Alternatively, to opt out of all massmessage mailings, you may add Category:Wikipedians who opt out of message delivery to your user talk page.
Newsletter delivered by MediaWiki message delivery |
MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 10:53, 31 January 2019 (UTC)
Speedy deletion declined: Lianren Liu
[edit]Hello Tagishsimon. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of Lianren Liu, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: coverage in reliable source indicates significance. Thank you. SoWhy 13:13, 7 February 2019 (UTC)
DYK for Inter-Allied Women's Conference
[edit]On 10 February 2019, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Inter-Allied Women's Conference, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the Inter-Allied Women's Conference, which opened in Paris 100 years ago today, marked the first time women were granted formal participation in an international treaty negotiation (conference organizer Marguerite de Witt-Schlumberger pictured)? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Inter-Allied Women's Conference. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Inter-Allied Women's Conference), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
— Amakuru (talk) 00:01, 10 February 2019 (UTC)
Talkback
[edit]![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/23/Nuvola_apps_edu_languages.svg/40px-Nuvola_apps_edu_languages.svg.png)
Message added 17:07, 10 February 2019 (UTC). You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.
DBigXrayᗙ 17:07, 10 February 2019 (UTC)
Savior of a Man's honour
[edit]![]() |
A Knight Errant we need |
Thank you for being vigilant and saving a man's honour. Clearly his beard was unable to save him, which is when you appeared and like a Knight errant saved the day. DBigXrayᗙ 09:36, 12 February 2019 (UTC) |
March 2019 at Women in Red
[edit]![]()
![]() ![]() ![]() Please join us for these virtual events:
| ||
|
Facto Post – Issue 21 – 28 February 2019
[edit]Facto Post – Issue 21 – 28 February 2019
![]() The Editor is Charles Matthews, for ContentMine. Please leave feedback for him, on his User talk page.
To subscribe to Facto Post go to Wikipedia:Facto Post mailing list. For the ways to unsubscribe, see the footer.
Systematic reviews are basic building blocks of evidence-based medicine, surveys of existing literature devoted typically to a definite question that aim to bring out scientific conclusions. They are principled in a way Wikipedians can appreciate, taking a critical view of their sources. ![]() Ben Goldacre in 2014 wrote (link below) "[...] : the "information architecture" of evidence based medicine (if you can tolerate such a phrase) is a chaotic, ad hoc, poorly connected ecosystem of legacy projects. In some respects the whole show is still run on paper, like it's the 19th century." Is there a Wikidatan in the house? Wouldn't some machine-readable content that is structured data help? Most likely it would, but the arcana of systematic reviews and how they add value would still need formal handling. The PRISMA standard dates from 2009, with an update started in 2018. The concerns there include the corpus of papers used: how selected and filtered? Now that Wikidata has a 20.9 million item bibliography, one can at least pose questions. Each systematic review is a tagging opportunity for a bibliography. Could that tagging be reproduced by a query, in principle? Can it even be second-guessed by a query (i.e. simulated by a protocol which translates into SPARQL)? Homing in on the arcana, do the inclusion and filtering criteria translate into metadata? At some level they must, but are these metadata explicitly expressed in the articles themselves? The answer to that is surely "no" at this point, but can TDM find them? Again "no", right now. Automatic identification doesn't just happen. Actually these questions lack originality. It should be noted though that WP:MEDRS, the reliable sources guideline used here for health information, hinges on the assumption that the usefully systematic reviews of biomedical literature can be recognised. Its nutshell summary, normally the part of a guideline with the highest density of common sense, allows literature reviews in general validity, but WP:MEDASSESS qualifies that indication heavily. Process wonkery about systematic reviews definitely has merit.
If you wish to receive no further issues of Facto Post, please remove your name from our mailing list. Alternatively, to opt out of all massmessage mailings, you may add Category:Wikipedians who opt out of message delivery to your user talk page.
Newsletter delivered by MediaWiki message delivery |
MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 10:02, 28 February 2019 (UTC)
Ways to improve Solventogenesis
[edit]Hello, Tagishsimon,
Thanks for creating Solventogenesis! I edit here too, under the username Elmidae and it's nice to meet you :-)
I wanted to let you know that I have tagged the page as having some issues to fix, as a part of our page curation process and note that:-
Nice job!
The tags can be removed by you or another editor once the issues they mention are addressed. If you have questions, leave a comment here and prepend it with {{Re|Elmidae}}
. And, don't forget to sign your reply with ~~~~
. For broader editing help, please visit the Teahouse.
Delivered via the Page Curation tool, on behalf of the reviewer.
Elmidae (talk · contribs) 17:34, 3 March 2019 (UTC)
Speedy deletion declined: Victoria Jancke
[edit]Hello Tagishsimon. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of Victoria Jancke, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: please don't remove claims of significance like hosting sporting events for a notable TV network and then tag for A7. Thank you. SoWhy 10:30, 14 March 2019 (UTC)
- @SoWhy: Ah; my bad. I read part of the ref as spam. --Tagishsimon (talk) 10:36, 14 March 2019 (UTC)
WiR focus on Portuguese-speaking countries
[edit]In April, our geofocus is on Portuguese-speaking countries. I see we have no Wikidata lists for Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, or São Tomé and Príncipe. Do you think it would be worthwhile to create them, either separately or together? I'll leave it up to you as I have no idea how many names are likely to come up.--Ipigott (talk) 11:58, 22 March 2019 (UTC)
Buck and Cunnington
[edit]Sent you an email ... PKM (talk) 00:51, 25 March 2019 (UTC)
Wrongly deleted page
[edit]On 18th of February 2019 you wrongly deleted the page I created Betty homer all of the information that I put on there was true. I had only managed to put on what I knew. She was my great great auntie and she did alot during the war and I was and still am trying to find out even more about her heroics Abi25gail05 (talk) 13:22, 25 March 2019 (UTC)
- Well, good luck with that. Thanks for coming here and telling me. --Tagishsimon (talk) 14:05, 25 March 2019 (UTC)
April editathons at Women in Red
[edit]April 2019
[edit]![]()
|
--Megalibrarygirl (talk) 16:02, 25 March 2019 (UTC) via MassMessaging
(Please excuse this post if it is a duplicate!)
Facto Post – Issue 22 – 28 March 2019
[edit]Facto Post – Issue 22 – 28 March 2019
![]() The Editor is Charles Matthews, for ContentMine. Please leave feedback for him, on his User talk page.
To subscribe to Facto Post go to Wikipedia:Facto Post mailing list. For the ways to unsubscribe, see the footer.
Half a century ago, it was the era of the mainframe computer, with its air-conditioned room, twitching tape-drives, and appearance in the title of a spy novel Billion-Dollar Brain then made into a Hollywood film. Now we have the cloud, with server farms and the client–server model as quotidian: this text is being typed on a Chromebook. The term Applications Programming Interface or API is 50 years old, and refers to a type of software library as well as the interface to its use. While a compiler is what you need to get high-level code executed by a mainframe, an API out in the cloud somewhere offers a chance to perform operations on a remote server. For example, the multifarious bots active on Wikipedia have owners who exploit the MediaWiki API. APIs (called RESTful) that allow for the GET HTTP request are fundamental for what could colloquially be called "moving data around the Web"; from which Wikidata benefits 24/7. So the fact that the Wikidata SPARQL endpoint at query.wikidata.org has a RESTful API means that, in lay terms, Wikidata content can be GOT from it. The programming involved, besides the SPARQL language, could be in Python, younger by a few months than the Web. Magic words, such as occur in fantasy stories, are wishful (rather than RESTful) solutions to gaining access. You may need to be a linguist to enter Ali Baba's cave or the western door of Moria (French in the case of "Open Sesame", in fact, and Sindarin being the respective languages). Talking to an API requires a bigger toolkit, which first means you have to recognise the tools in terms of what they can do. On the way to the wikt:impactful or polymathic modern handling of facts, one must perhaps take only tactful notice of tech's endemic problem with documentation, and absorb the insightful point that the code in APIs does articulate the customary procedures now in place on the cloud for getting information. As Owl explained to Winnie-the-Pooh, it tells you The Thing to Do.
If you wish to receive no further issues of Facto Post, please remove your name from our mailing list. Alternatively, to opt out of all massmessage mailings, you may add Category:Wikipedians who opt out of message delivery to your user talk page.
Newsletter delivered by MediaWiki message delivery |
MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 11:46, 28 March 2019 (UTC)
Power tripping is not mature, child.
[edit]This is your final warning. You will not lie about other users again on some power-trip. Cover up information all you want, biased one. But you should grow up. - AgedIntel, the objective autistic edtior. — Preceding unsigned comment added by AgedIntel (talk • contribs) 10:56, 30 March 2019 (UTC)
- Any clues about what the fuck you're on about? --Tagishsimon (talk) 12:10, 30 March 2019 (UTC)
- Ah. The Dawn Foster thing. You know, people who do things you don't like / don't understand are not automaticaly nazis. Go read WP:V and come back when you have a clue. --Tagishsimon (talk) 12:14, 30 March 2019 (UTC)
Afd
[edit]What do you mean Lamarsmith15 (talk) 13:04, 3 April 2019 (UTC)
- @Lamarsmith15: Articles for deletion. The user had marked the article for speedy deletion. I objected to that and specified that if they wanted the article to be deleted they would need to propose the deletion and allow a discussion to take place. See WP:AFD. --Tagishsimon (talk) 13:10, 3 April 2019 (UTC)
Thanks re Quincy Newell. (However...she's a woman.)
[edit]Quincy Newell--Hodgdon's secret garden (talk) 18:57, 5 April 2019 (UTC)
- @Hodgdon's secret garden: Sorry about that. Sadly I sometimes hit the wrong button. I do have some petscan reports I use to find my mistakes later, but they depend on the article being in a women category, which this one is not, so... --Tagishsimon (talk) 19:01, 5 April 2019 (UTC)
Thank you
[edit]Thank you for your ongoing encouragement of my efforts. Thank you for your help with problems on both Wikipedia and Wikidata that I don't know how to fix myself. Thank you for introducing me to some of the intricacies and lesser known areas, particularly of Wikidata. I'm very glad to have your support and am enjoying my editing.Oronsay (talk) 03:19, 7 April 2019 (UTC)
Reply: UK/CDT/GVCAC
[edit]Thank you for your comments, I understand that such titles are confusing to such amateurs, but I believe that in order for anyone to edit a page they must fully understand context and form/appearances of that page/subject. Please correct if I am wrong, but I believe you are not familiar with such, very professional and quality works of, either exhibit Template:Ranks and Insignia of NATO Navies/OF/United Kingdom or more appropriately for the subject exhibit Template:Ranks and Insignia of NZCF/CDT/ALL. I also believe that the page title acts as an address such as the NZCF/CDT/ALL is much similar to my own Template:Insignia of UK/CDT/CCF/RN.
If I have acted at all, it is to create a better and more professional page for my Combined Cadet Force or my Community Cadet Force. The GVCAC, which I am not even apart of, can keep it how it is if they like.
I thank you for rash and rather rude criticism and I shall in future ignore completely the GVCAC and try ad create less professional work.
Many Thanks C. D. Southcott Esq. (talk) 16:35, 15 April 2019 (UTC)
Wiki linking of "Nihlism"?
[edit]This is a bit of a nit-picky question, but during your Six Heretical Teachers expansion, you included the piped wiki link [[Nihilism|nihlism]]
. This seems odd to me because it links directly to the article "nihilism" but displays the misspelling "nihlism" (additionally, nihlism redirects to the common spelling). Why did you pipe the link like this? eπi (talk | contribs) 18:33, 16 April 2019 (UTC)
- @E to the Pi times i: I think that Noahhoward added that. Way above my paygrade ;) --Tagishsimon (talk) 20:25, 16 April 2019 (UTC)
- Whoops, sorry to bother you. It's especially strange I made that mistake, since you only did one edit to that article, while Noahhoward did the bulk of the edits.
- I've copied the question over to their talk page, so you don't have to be bothered by any further discussion. eπi (talk | contribs) 21:02, 16 April 2019 (UTC)
A barnstar for you!
[edit]![]() |
The Original Barnstar |
Thank you 7VM (talk) 08:01, 18 April 2019 (UTC) |
Authority control for Duos
[edit]I'm watching to see how you add the authority control tags to this! I left them out because I figured you would know what to do. ThatMontrealIP (talk) 02:51, 19 April 2019 (UTC)
- @ThatMontrealIP: Sadly, in the normal way. Wikidata now has three records; Rhonda Weppler and Trevor Mahovsky, Trevor Mahovsky and Rhonda Weppler, and the first record is connected to the second & third by reciprocal 'has part' / 'part of' properties. Should there be identifiers for Rhonda Weppler and Trevor Mahovsky as a duo, they'll appear on your article - you have invluded an authority control template in it. However identifiers for the individuals as individuals will not appear on your duo article. Should there ever be articles about each individual, then their identifiers would appear on their individual article.
- Whether {{authority control}} should be able to pull identifiers from wikidata items that are not linked to the article is an interesting question. Certainly at the moment it is unable to do so. From a purist point of view, the duo is a distinct thing from the two individuals, and so authority control is doing the right thing. From a practical point of view, it can be argued that it would be desirable to add identifiers for the individuals to the duo article. It would be possible to do that by adding a couple of authority control templates in which the identifier parameters are specified within the template, rather than being pulled from wikidata. Bit of a cludge, though. --Tagishsimon (talk) 11:56, 19 April 2019 (UTC)
Wholesomeness listed at Redirects for discussion
[edit]![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/2/28/Information.svg/30px-Information.svg.png)
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Wholesomeness. Since you had some involvement with the Wholesomeness redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you wish to do so. Shhhnotsoloud (talk) 18:44, 21 April 2019 (UTC)
--Wyn.junior (talk) 19:50, 23 April 2019 (UTC)
May you join this month's editathons from WiR!
[edit]![]()
|
--Megalibrarygirl (talk) 16:17, 27 April 2019 (UTC) via MassMessaging
CSD criteria
[edit]Please do not nominate pages for speedy deletion unless you can identify a relevant CSD criterion. I recognise the difficulty in dealing with obviously inappropriate content, but the CSD criteria are narrowly defined and should be followed strictly. Thanks — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 08:51, 30 April 2019 (UTC)
Facto Post – Issue 23 – 30 April 2019
[edit]Facto Post – Issue 23 – 30 April 2019
![]() The Editor is Charles Matthews, for ContentMine. Please leave feedback for him, on his User talk page.
To subscribe to Facto Post go to Wikipedia:Facto Post mailing list. For the ways to unsubscribe, see the footer.
![]() Talk of cloud computing draws a veil over hardware, but also, less obviously but more importantly, obscures such intellectual distinction as matters most in its use. Wikidata begins to allow tasks to be undertaken that were out of easy reach. The facility should not be taken as the real point. Coming in from another angle, the "executive decision" is more glamorous; but the "administrative decision" should be admired for its command of facts. Think of the attitudes ad fontes, so prevalent here on Wikipedia as "can you give me a source for that?", and being prepared to deal with complicated analyses into specified subcases. Impatience expressed as a disdain for such pedantry is quite understandable, but neither dirty data nor false dichotomies are at all good to have around. Issue 13 and Issue 21, respectively on WP:MEDRS and systematic reviews, talk about biomedical literature and computing tasks that would be of higher quality if they could be made more "administrative". For example, it is desirable that the decisions involved be consistent, explicable, and reproducible by non-experts from specified inputs. What gets clouded out is not impossibly hard to understand. You do need to put together the insights of functional programming, which is a doctrinaire and purist but clearcut approach, with the practicality of office software. Loopless computation can be conceived of as a seamless forward march of spreadsheet columns, each determined by the content of previous ones. Very well: to do a backward audit, when now we are talking about Wikidata, we rely on integrity of data and its scrupulous sourcing: and clearcut case analyses. The MEDRS example forces attention on purge attempts such as Beall's list.
If you wish to receive no further issues of Facto Post, please remove your name from our mailing list. Alternatively, to opt out of all massmessage mailings, you may add Category:Wikipedians who opt out of message delivery to your user talk page.
Newsletter delivered by MediaWiki message delivery |
MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 11:27, 30 April 2019 (UTC)
Henry Timmins
[edit]Hello. I see you've added a tag (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Lead_rewrite) to Henry Timmins, but without leaving a reason. I didn't reverse it, because I assume that you do have a reason; please share that, and any recommendations, either here or on the Timmins' TALK page. Thank you, Lindenfall (talk) 18:00, 30 April 2019 (UTC)
A barnstar for you!
[edit]![]() |
The Technical Barnstar |
Thank you for your patience with explaining Wikidata issues at Women in Red and handling some of the Wikidata problems we encounter. And always with such kindness. Rosiestep (talk) 14:28, 1 May 2019 (UTC) |
- Thank you @Rosiestep:. WiR gives me great pleasure. Lovely community, great leadership :) --Tagishsimon (talk) 14:33, 1 May 2019 (UTC)
Simple request
[edit]Please stop accusing me of offensive things, suggesting that I'm in a club, and making up issues with my contributions. Natureium (talk) 18:51, 4 May 2019 (UTC)
- If & when you end your Jess Wade campaign. --Tagishsimon (talk) 18:59, 4 May 2019 (UTC)
- No, you don't get to stop harassing me when you feel like it. WP:CIVIL is a policy. Natureium (talk) 19:03, 4 May 2019 (UTC)
- I'm not the person piling on Jess Wade. You are. You should expect and you will get push-back because of your deplorable behaviour. --Tagishsimon (talk) 21:43, 4 May 2019 (UTC)
- No, you don't get to stop harassing me when you feel like it. WP:CIVIL is a policy. Natureium (talk) 19:03, 4 May 2019 (UTC)
Important Notice
[edit]This is a standard message to notify contributors about an administrative ruling in effect. It does not imply that there are any issues with your contributions to date.
You have shown interest in (a) GamerGate, (b) any gender-related dispute or controversy, (c) people associated with (a) or (b), all broadly construed. Due to past disruption in this topic area, a more stringent set of rules called discretionary sanctions is in effect. Any administrator may impose sanctions on editors who do not strictly follow Wikipedia's policies, or the page-specific restrictions, when making edits related to the topic.
For additional information, please see the guidance on discretionary sanctions and the Arbitration Committee's decision here. If you have any questions, or any doubts regarding what edits are appropriate, you are welcome to discuss them with me or any other editor.
TonyBallioni (talk) 19:08, 4 May 2019 (UTC)
AE
[edit]Notifying you of this. Natureium (talk) 23:25, 4 May 2019 (UTC)
Why do you continue to place comments outside your section? That is not permitted on AE. I corrected this for you four times already, but, as mentioned, there will not be a 5th. Your comments are just going to be summarily removed. Again, AE is not AN/I. We try to keep discussion more orderly there. Thanks. El_C 01:43, 5 May 2019 (UTC)
- @El C: Because a thread is the most sensible way to respond. Why are you getting so upset about it? --Tagishsimon (talk) 09:06, 5 May 2019 (UTC)
- I'm not upset about this. Just giving you simple instructions, which are already on the AE board, to begin with. El_C 09:09, 5 May 2019 (UTC)
Talkback
[edit]Hi Tagishsimon, I left a note at Talk:Heather_Wakelee#Issues_with_the_article and hope you could respond there. Best, Kevin (aka L235 · t · c) 16:58, 12 May 2019 (UTC)
- Hello Tagishsimon, hope you're well. This is a long time later and I'm not sure if you've responded in another location but I would appreciate if you could respond to my question at the link above or point me to any other discussion where this was addressed. Thanks! Kevin (aka L235 · t · c) 14:30, 27 June 2019 (UTC)
Facto Post – Issue 24 – 17 May 2019
[edit]Facto Post – Issue 24 – 17 May 2019![]() ![]() The Editor is Charles Matthews, for ContentMine. Please leave feedback for him, on his User talk page.
To subscribe to Facto Post go to Wikipedia:Facto Post mailing list. For the ways to unsubscribe, see the footer.
Two dozen issues, and this may be the last, a valediction at least for a while. It's time for a two-year summation of ContentMine projects involving TDM (text and data mining). Wikidata and now Structured Data on Commons represent the overlap of Wikimedia with the Semantic Web. This common ground is helping to convert an engineering concept into a movement. TDM generally has little enough connection with the Semantic Web, being instead in the orbit of machine learning which is no respecter of the semantic. Don't break a taboo by asking bots "and what do you mean by that?" The ScienceSource project innovates in TDM, by storing its text mining results in a Wikibase site. It strives for compliance of its fact mining, on drug treatments of diseases, with an automated form of the relevant Wikipedia referencing guideline MEDRS. Where WikiFactMine set up an API for reuse of its results, ScienceSource has a SPARQL query service, with look-and-feel exactly that of Wikidata's at query.wikidata.org. It also now has a custom front end, and its content can be federated, in other words used in data mashups: it is one of over 50 sites that can federate with Wikidata. The human factor comes to bear through the front end, which combines a link to the HTML version of a paper, text mining results organised in drug and disease columns, and a SPARQL display of nearby drug and disease terms. Much software to develop and explain, so little time! Rather than telling the tale, Facto Post brings you ScienceSource links, starting from the how-to video, lower right.
The review tool requires a log in on sciencesource.wmflabs.org, and an OAuth permission (bottom of a review page) to operate. It can be used in simple and more advanced workflows. Examples of queries for the latter are at d:Wikidata_talk:ScienceSource project/Queries#SS_disease_list and d:Wikidata_talk:ScienceSource_project/Queries#NDF-RT issue. Please be aware that this is a research project in development, and may have outages for planned maintenance. That will apply for the next few days, at least. The ScienceSource wiki main page carries information on practical matters. Email is not enabled on the wiki: use site mail here to Charles Matthews in case of difficulty, or if you need support. Further explanatory videos will be put into commons:Category:ContentMine videos. If you wish to receive no further issues of Facto Post, please remove your name from our mailing list. Alternatively, to opt out of all massmessage mailings, you may add Category:Wikipedians who opt out of message delivery to your user talk page.
Newsletter delivered by MediaWiki message delivery |
MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:52, 17 May 2019 (UTC)
June events with WIR
[edit]![]()
|
--Megalibrarygirl (talk) 17:43, 22 May 2019 (UTC) via MassMessaging
Redirects question
[edit]I would like to know if any articles are redirected to Chlorophyll. I would like to know this information to share with a Facebook Group for other names for Chlorophyll. How do I do this? Thank you, --Wyn.junior (talk) 17:49, 12 June 2019 (UTC)
You totally rock!
[edit]Know that your work is appreciated. SusunW (talk) 23:09, 24 June 2019 (UTC)
July events from Women in Red!
[edit]![]()
|
--Megalibrarygirl (talk) 16:41, 25 June 2019 (UTC) via MassMessaging
Your GA nomination of Battersea Town Hall
[edit]Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Battersea Town Hall 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 KJP1 -- KJP1 (talk) 17:22, 29 June 2019 (UTC)
Your GA nomination of Battersea Town Hall
[edit]The article Battersea Town Hall 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:Battersea Town Hall for issues which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of KJP1 -- KJP1 (talk) 13:21, 30 June 2019 (UTC)
OpenStreetMap for Zambian Roads
[edit]Thank you very much for importing and putting up OpenStreetMap images on the Wikipedia Pages of the T1, T2, T3, T4 and M9 roads of Zambia. I was hoping that you would do the same on the Wikipedia Pages of the M1, M4, M8 and M10 roads of Zambia. Thank you very much for using the most accurate map! Thank you, Chils Kemptonian (talk) 21:19, 3 July 2019 (UTC)
Raising a concern
[edit]Hi Tagishsimon, I have a concern about the WiR statistics. In the last day or so I've noticed a lot of Wikidata items being created by the bot User:GZWDer_(flood). It seems to create items for all sorts of Wikipedia articles and not just for English Wikipedia. But in many cases it only creates the item, so they won't come up on your list of "Instance of: human". An example is Q65047730, to which I have subsequently added a description, instance (human) and sex or gender (male). Another concern is that I have found and merged a number of Wikidata items created by this bot, which you will see if you look in my user contributions. Happy to provide examples if needed. Not sure how to handle this, hence am raising it with you. Oronsay (talk) 07:51, 6 July 2019 (UTC)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Newest items about women writers from some language Wikipedia
[edit]Hi. Regarding Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Newest items about women writers from some language Wikipedia, I'm trying to "Automatically update the list now", but keep getting the error message "Trying to update Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women_in_Red/Newest_items_about_women_writers_from_some_language_Wikipedia... There was an error running the query []
". Can you check the edit history and see if I screwed something up when I was re-arranging columns? Thanks. --Rosiestep (talk) 20:32, 9 July 2019 (UTC)
- Sorry to butt in here, Rosie, but I find the title "from some language Wikipedia" rather confusing, especially as it is explained that "This is a list of 1000 most recently created human women writer items on Wikidata who have an article in English Wikipedia on Wikidata". I see, nevertheless, that Susan J. Matt is not yet listed on the EN wiki but only on FR. I thought perhaps the italics indicated articles on another language wiki but see that Amelia Minerva Starkweather is only on EN. I can see the items listed could be useful for both EN editors and those from other languages but it looks to me as if it would be useful to add more explanations. Perhaps after you have completed your modifications, the listing will be easier to follow. Maybe Jane023 could also offer clarifications.--Ipigott (talk) 10:03, 10 July 2019 (UTC)
- Well my first thought was that it was timing out, but I rearranged the query and tried cutting it back to 500, rather than 1000, but nothing seems to help. The query runs fine in Wikidata query though here: try it - so maybe a problem with listeria? Jane (talk) 11:10, 10 July 2019 (UTC)
- Thanks, Jane023 for checking out why it's not updating. If the issue is with Listeria, I assume it'll sort out at some point. Ipigott brings up some other points which should be addressed by those who are familiar with the list; I just became aware of it within the last couple of days. --Rosiestep (talk) 18:08, 10 July 2019 (UTC)
- I thought Jane023 could answer my queries as she created the list.--Ipigott (talk) 19:36, 10 July 2019 (UTC)
- The query is simple - it calls up ALL items with gender=female, article on +.wikipedia.org, then sorts the Q number in descending order. So it is the type of query that will timeout at some point because it calls up everything. I changed the text to say "some" instead of "English" because the query will stop at finding the first linked WP article in any language, so it is English+, not just English. Jane (talk) 08:19, 11 July 2019 (UTC)
- Thanks, Jane023. Any idea why many of the names are in italics? If we can get this sorted out, it may be useful to apply the same approach to other important occupations, e.g. artists. Maybe you also have some views on this, Tagishsimon?--Ipigott (talk) 10:28, 12 July 2019 (UTC)
- Ipigott The names in italics are items either associated with a Wikipedia other than en-wp, or the item is affiliated with another project, e.g. Wikisource. --Rosiestep (talk) 12:12, 12 July 2019 (UTC)
- Rosiestep: I've just successfully updated the list now. I see it's only half as long and has additional columns.--Ipigott (talk) 10:32, 12 July 2019 (UTC)
- @Ipigott and Jane023, I am delighted to see that the list has been updated. I like the idea behind it, and I think it should not be too difficult to replicate for other occupations. Has it been added to the Redlist Index? --Rosiestep (talk) 11:26, 12 July 2019 (UTC)
- Thanks, Jane023. Any idea why many of the names are in italics? If we can get this sorted out, it may be useful to apply the same approach to other important occupations, e.g. artists. Maybe you also have some views on this, Tagishsimon?--Ipigott (talk) 10:28, 12 July 2019 (UTC)
- The query is simple - it calls up ALL items with gender=female, article on +.wikipedia.org, then sorts the Q number in descending order. So it is the type of query that will timeout at some point because it calls up everything. I changed the text to say "some" instead of "English" because the query will stop at finding the first linked WP article in any language, so it is English+, not just English. Jane (talk) 08:19, 11 July 2019 (UTC)
- I thought Jane023 could answer my queries as she created the list.--Ipigott (talk) 19:36, 10 July 2019 (UTC)
- Thanks, Jane023 for checking out why it's not updating. If the issue is with Listeria, I assume it'll sort out at some point. Ipigott brings up some other points which should be addressed by those who are familiar with the list; I just became aware of it within the last couple of days. --Rosiestep (talk) 18:08, 10 July 2019 (UTC)
- Well my first thought was that it was timing out, but I rearranged the query and tried cutting it back to 500, rather than 1000, but nothing seems to help. The query runs fine in Wikidata query though here: try it - so maybe a problem with listeria? Jane (talk) 11:10, 10 July 2019 (UTC)
Additions to Wikidata since 8 July
[edit]Thanks a million for all the additions you have been making to Wikidata over the past few days. I see you have been adding all the WiR Listeria redlists as well as a considerable number of new articles, no doubt trying to cover the entries which would normally have been made by a bot. I have never received so many alerts. I did not realize I had started so many redlists. I must say I am now very relieved to have someone with real competence taking care of the Wikidata work. You are really doing a great job.--Ipigott (talk) 09:37, 10 July 2019 (UTC)
- I agree, Tagishsimon; it's wonderful to see that you've been adding the WiR redlists (Listeria-based and crowd-sourced, too) to Wikidata. Thank you!! Is there a way to generate a list of the ones which have been given a Wikidata item, and if so, can that list be in the form of a spreadsheet on en-wp, and can a link to it be placed on the WiR redlist index page? OR, are you keeping track of the ones which have a Wikidata item in some other way? --Rosiestep (talk) 18:46, 10 July 2019 (UTC)
I recommend in the future you give some time for a new article to develop before you recommend for deletion, at least a few hours after initial launch. No need to replay. Semper Fi! FieldMarine (talk) 00:42, 21 July 2019 (UTC)
August 2019 at Women in Red
[edit]![]()
|
--Rosiestep (talk) 06:46, 29 July 2019 (UTC) via MassMessaging
Thanks!
[edit]Just to say thanks for connecting Madalena Boavida to a Wikidata item - I'm sorry, I forgot to do it for her! As that didn't automatically bring up the German version of the article, I just checked, and found it was connected to Maria Boavida in Wikidata, so I've merged that to the item you created (which was newer, but had more information), and added more variant names there too. Thanks again! RebeccaGreen (talk) 20:16, 9 August 2019 (UTC)
Naveen Prasad Journalist Page should not be processed in Deletion
[edit]Hi Everyone. This Page Naveen Prasad Journalist should not be deleted as this Public Figure is a Journalist of an Indian Media.
As we all know Media is the 4th Pillar of Democracy. So we should appreciate his Enthusiasm. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Codefunda (talk • contribs) 16:05, 11 August 2019 (UTC)
Your GA nomination of Battersea Town Hall
[edit]The article Battersea Town Hall you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Battersea Town Hall 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 KJP1 -- KJP1 (talk) 06:22, 24 August 2019 (UTC)
September 2019 at Women in Red
[edit]![]()
|
--Rosiestep (talk) 16:25, 27 August 2019 (UTC) via MassMessaging
"Laurie Heyer" (Q66857295)
[edit]Thanks for making this new data item. But can you please explain why you thought it appropriate to add a statement that her citizenship is American? We have no sources for that claim. The article does not state a birthplace. The article lists her as "American", but all I meant by stating that in the article is that she was educated in and works in the US. For academics, in particular, making the jump from that sort of statement to an inference about citizenship is often a mistake. I think in this case it is more likely than not that she actually is a US citizen, but we should not say such things without much more certainty than that. This sort of dubious statement is a big part of why my trust in the integrity of Wikidata and my willingness to allow any of its data to be imported to Wikipedia is so low. —David Eppstein (talk) 01:44, 31 August 2019 (UTC)
- David Eppstein: I find this rather confusing. I see that you described her as an "American mathematician" in the Wikipedia article and in the List of women in mathematics. This to me means that her citizenship is American, otherwise - if there is a real doubt - I would expect something like "based in the United States". Lack of citizenship on Wikidata, impairs the usefulness of redlists on other language versions of Wikipedia. Unless you have good reason to doubt her American citizenship, I would suggest it should be restored on Wikidata.--Ipigott (talk) 07:12, 9 September 2019 (UTC)
- I think that in leads, conciseness is more important than using very many words to accurately and correctly express precisely the correct meaning. So I will write "American" to mean that someone has largely been based in America throughout whatever they are notable for, regardless of what exactly their citizenship has been documented to be. In this I believe I am far from alone. Also, I believe that many (maybe even most) citizenship claims on Wikidata are inadequately sourced. It is that inadequate sourcing, the willingness of Wikidata enthusiasts to make logical leaps like this without sourcing, and the inability to express nuance like "they were educated and worked in the US and for all I know they are a US citizen but I have no clear documentation of that fact" that makes the data portions of Wikidata as useless as they are (essentially unusable for importing as Wikipedia content). —David Eppstein (talk) 07:18, 9 September 2019 (UTC)
A barnstar for you!
[edit]![]() |
The Minor barnstar |
Hi, bro I've seen you workin' pretty decently on Wikipedia. Nice Contributions!
Regards, SHISHIR DUA SHISHIR DUA (talk) 08:58, 11 September 2019 (UTC) |
October Events from Women in Red
[edit]![]()
|
--Megalibrarygirl (talk) 17:36, 23 September 2019 (UTC) via MassMessaging
November 2019 at Women in Red
[edit]![]()
|
--Rosiestep (talk) 22:59, 29 October 2019 (UTC) via MassMessaging
"Garrett Bradley (Q24708111)" listed at Redirects for discussion
[edit]![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/2/28/Information.svg/30px-Information.svg.png)
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Garrett Bradley (Q24708111). Since you had some involvement with the Garrett Bradley (Q24708111) redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you wish to do so. -- Tavix (talk) 03:28, 5 November 2019 (UTC)
"Li Xiaolin (Q8249017)" listed at Redirects for discussion
[edit]![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/2/28/Information.svg/30px-Information.svg.png)
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Li Xiaolin (Q8249017). Since you had some involvement with the Li Xiaolin (Q8249017) redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you wish to do so. -- Tavix (talk) 03:42, 5 November 2019 (UTC)
"Garrett Bradley (filmmaker )" listed at Redirects for discussion
[edit]![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/2/28/Information.svg/30px-Information.svg.png)
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Garrett Bradley (filmmaker ). Since you had some involvement with the Garrett Bradley (filmmaker ) redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you wish to do so. Reyk YO! 09:08, 5 November 2019 (UTC)
Thanks for adding my new person-article to Wikidata ...
[edit]... and hello from WikiConference North America 2019, where I noticed you've archived part of your user talk page much more recently than I have. If you get a moment either to reply to this message to refresh my memory on how to do that or are feeling generous enough to archive it, I'd appreciate the help, as the last time I archived was over a decade ago! Lawikitejana (talk) 21:19, 9 November 2019 (UTC)
Help keep these notable pages
[edit]Hello Sir, I would like to draw your attention to the mass deletion of articles created by a blocked user User:Tyt0791. I am not here to address the block but the deleted articles are very notable names in the Ghanaian community. Names like the Ghana Education Service, Peace Fm, Kasapa FM, Tema Senior High School amongst others are very known in Ghana. Please, we should come together and help restore these pages, such a work cannot be taken off an encyclopedia like Wikipedia. Refer to https://xtools.wmflabs.org/pages/en.wikipedia.org/Tyt0791 for the deleted contributions. --154.160.6.171 (talk) 19:24, 11 November 2019 (UTC)
Wikidata on Christine von Kohl
[edit]I'm surprised the Wikidata entry on this person is Christine Kohl (Q1083879). In all the other authority files she is Christine von Kohl. If we can have Ludwig van Beethoven then it should be possible to have Christine von Kohl. Can you fix it?--Ipigott (talk) 16:56, 16 November 2019 (UTC)
ArbCom 2019 election voter message
[edit]A cup of coffee for you!
[edit]![]() |
Thanks for your development of the inclusion criteria for academics at Wikipedia:Draft rewrite of Notability (academics). I am also working on this issue at d:Wikidata:Scholia. I think you have the right idea about the direction of the future. I told your collaborators Megalibrarygirl and SusunW the same thing. Blue Rasberry (talk) 19:52, 21 November 2019 (UTC) |
December events with WIR
[edit]![]()
|
--Megalibrarygirl (talk) 18:44, 25 November 2019 (UTC) via MassMessaging
Wikidata request
[edit]Any chance you could create a Wikidata redlist for our focus on "Women who died in 2019"? If there are too many for just one list, then perhaps they could be broken down in lists by geographical area or occupation. I'll leave it up to you.--Ipigott (talk) 12:05, 26 November 2019 (UTC)
Thanks
[edit]![]() |
Thanks |
Thanks for reviewing my page. I shall be grateful if you let me know what is wiki item and how can I link it to my page.
And, I see yet the two issues are not resolved. I need help as I am new t the community. Harmanjit Kaur (talk) 08:21, 5 December 2019 (UTC) |
Wikidata queries from WiR for Wikimujeres
[edit]Hi Tagishsimon! I wanted to create the lists of WiR for the Spanish project Wikimujeres, and then when I started re-creating the queries for listeria I realized some of them were working while some of them weren't. Then I realized that for example this query that you did has some sections of code that include thins like this: filter(str(?sitelink_list)="Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by occupation/Actresses" that seem to be the reason why I'm unable to then recreate the query on Spanish Wikipedia. Any hint on how to solve this issue would be appreciated. I tried to replace that with the link for the same page but on Spanish (like this one for actress) but that didn't work either. Anyways, I'm not super proficient with SPARQL queries but if you give me some hints I can replace the code and make it work for Spanish missing women. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks again! Scann (talk) 01:44, 7 December 2019 (UTC)
Request for route map advice
[edit]Hi there. I found you on the WikiProject Oregon Graphics page. I'm hoping you can point me in the right direction for getting a route map made (or making one myself) for an article on Naito Parkway I created. I went through the instructions on the US Roads WikiProject maps page and wound up sinking several hours into QGIS and inkscape without any usable results. It seems like any blank OSM tiles I've found are cluttered with too much irrelevant detail to be appropriate. I haven't asked at US Roads, as their scope would not include this map. Is there a solution I'm overlooking? Any help or advice you can provide is appreciated.
Thanks! Skeletor3000 (talk) 01:38, 18 December 2019 (UTC)
January 2020 at Women in Red
[edit]![]()
![]()
|
Gender gap dashboard
[edit]Hi Tagishsimon, would you happen to have a WIR/gender gap dashboard for basic Wikidata stats? E.g., to see at a glance, the current gender ratio of enwp biographies, number of enwp biographies without a tagged gender. I was curious about enwp biography gender ratios by various factors such as occupation and other Wikidata attributes. Do you have a dashboard (or set of regular queries) to monitor stuff like this already? If not, no worries, but thought I'd ask. czar 08:40, 29 December 2019 (UTC)
Thanks
[edit]Thanks for bringing my attention to Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Corinna Löckenhoff. Toddy1 (talk) 13:54, 13 January 2020 (UTC)
February with Women in Red
[edit]![]()
![]()
|
--Megalibrarygirl (talk) 19:32, 28 January 2020 (UTC) via MassMessaging
The Great Britain/Ireland Destubathon
[edit]Hi. The Wikipedia:The Great Britain/Ireland Destubathon is planned for March 2020, a contest/editathon to eliminate as many stubs as possible from all 134 counties. Amazon vouchers/book prizes are planned for most articles destubbed from England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland and Northern Ireland and whoever destubs articles from the most counties out of the 134. Sign up on page if interested in participating, hope this will prove to be good fun and productive, we have over 44,000 stubs!
Can you fix the contest page so the parameters conform to the mobile format? I may also need your help with generating some stub lists! Thanks.♦ Dr. Blofeld 12:08, 2 February 2020 (UTC)
Daisy Edgar-Jones
[edit]I strongly disagree with the publication of this draft - I reviewed it yesterday and declined it as there just isn't any evidence of notability. I've placed a "speedy deletion" request on it. MurielMary (talk) 08:42, 9 February 2020 (UTC)
You've got mail
[edit]![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Mail-message-new.svg/40px-Mail-message-new.svg.png)
It may take a few minutes from the time the email is sent for it to show up in your inbox. You can {{You've got mail}} or {{ygm}} template. at any time by removing the Alpha4615 (talk to me) 16:32, 13 February 2020 (UTC)
Gwendolyn Oxenham
[edit]You posted something about my recent article on Gwendolyn Oxenham. I've been away for a while, and I haven't any idea what it means, though it sounds pretty interesting. Could you please clue me in a bit? Lou Sander (talk) 00:17, 14 February 2020 (UTC)
Kennox House
[edit]I note that this house is now an airbnb and that they have made a fewe alterations to my original article such as 'inline links'. Just to make you aware that I am not involved in these changes as per 'Don't do this again.' Rosser Gruffydd 13:01, 22 February 2020 (UTC)
March 2020 at Women in Red
[edit]![]()
![]() ![]() ![]() Online events:
|
--Rosiestep (talk) 19:33, 23 February 2020 (UTC) via MassMessaging
Acacia maps
[edit]Hi @Tagishsimon: Just wanted to say a big thankyou for all your work on the Acacia distribution maps. Absolutely fantastic, leading in many cases to article modifications, where the described distributions did not match the observed distributions (e.g.Acacia nyssophylla), and of course, to better maps, as you spotted "aquatic Acacias". MargaretRDonald (talk) 18:30, 29 February 2020 (UTC)
Wikidata entry on Maria Veronica Reina
[edit]I'm working on the biography of Maria Verónica Reina and see that the Wikidata entry on her name is incorrectly presented without the accent on the O in Verónica. I'm not too sure how this should be corrected. Can you help?--Ipigott (talk) 11:34, 10 March 2020 (UTC)
- Maria Verónica Reina (Q87075153) has the English name as "Maria Verónica Reina". @Ipigott, where do you see it without the accent? czar 02:23, 11 March 2020 (UTC)
- Czar: Thanks for dropping by. It was the basic Wikidata entry that had no accent. It was corrected yesterday.--Ipigott (talk) 06:39, 11 March 2020 (UTC)
April 2020 at Women in Red
[edit]![]()
Online events:
|
--Rosiestep (talk) 15:00, 23 March 2020 (UTC) via MassMessaging
May 2020 at Women in Red
[edit]![]()
Online events:
|
--Rosiestep (talk) 20:59, 29 April 2020 (UTC) via MassMessaging
Duplicity
[edit]I've noticed in the last week or so that the Duplicity tool is not working. At first I wondered if there had been another "flood" of articles into Wikidata. I do not believe this is the case. Are you aware of this? Where should I go to seek its reinstatement as a working tool? Oronsay (talk) 01:08, 19 May 2020 (UTC)
June 2020 at Women in Red
[edit]![]() June 2020, Volume 6, Issue 6, Numbers 150, 151, 167, 168, 169
Online events:
|
--Rosiestep (talk) 17:12, 25 May 2020 (UTC) via MassMessaging
Articles for Creation: List of reviewers by subject notice
[edit]![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/AFC-Logo.svg/100px-AFC-Logo.svg.png)
Hi Tagishsimon, you are receiving this notice because you are listed as an active Articles for Creation reviewer.
Recently a list of reviewers by area of expertise was created. This notice is being sent out to alert you to the existence of that list, and to encourage you to add your name to it. If you or other reviewers come across articles in the queue where an acceptance/decline hinges on specialist knowledge, this list should serve to facilitate contact with a fellow reviewer.
To end on a positive note, the backlog has dropped below 1,500, so thanks for all of the hard work some of you have been putting into the AfC process!
Sent to all Articles for Creation reviewers as a one-time notice. To opt-out of all massmessage mailings, you may add Category:Wikipedians who opt out of message delivery to your user talk page. Regards, Sam-2727 (talk)
MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:35, 27 May 2020 (UTC)
"Life of the Party ( Australian film)" listed at Redirects for discussion
[edit] A discussion is taking place to address the redirect Life of the Party ( Australian film). The discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2020 June 7#Life of the Party ( Australian film) until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. 1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk) 21:11, 7 June 2020 (UTC)
July 2020 at Women in Red
[edit]![]()
|
--Rosiestep (talk) 16:12, 28 June 2020 (UTC) via MassMessaging
Correction of a Link (lower case to upper case)
[edit]Hi there :-), Need some help. Can you help me to make "Mohamed_wisham" to "Mohamed_Wisham" in the url. (letter 'w' to be made "W")
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohamed_wisham
Thanks Existance 23:32, 28 June 2020 (UTC)
At this point I still don't understand what you have done but my guess is that, it is for a good reason and I am grateful. I am slightly more than one month on Wikipedia and I still don't understand its workings but I hope to get there one time. This is the first article I have created and I am overwhelmed by the willingness of editors on here to help. Many thanks. Acwecacommunicationg (talk) 19:40, 12 July 2020 (UTC)
You've got mail
[edit]![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Mail-message-new.svg/40px-Mail-message-new.svg.png)
It may take a few minutes from the time the email is sent for it to show up in your inbox. You can {{You've got mail}} or {{ygm}} template. at any time by removing the Oronsay (talk) 07:55, 24 July 2020 (UTC)
August 2020 at Women in Red
[edit]![]()
|
--Rosiestep (talk) 18:51, 26 July 2020 (UTC) via MassMessaging
Obliged for your important and impacting contributions to the Maddie Phillips and Anjelica Bette Fellini articles. You handled the situation extremely well. Thank you. James Kevin McMahon (talk) 22:17, 28 August 2020 (UTC)
Accepted Style for Biographies
[edit]Hi Tagishsimon, where is the "accepted style for biographies" documented? I was unaware of it. Thanks! T. E. Meeks T. E. Meeks (talk) 11:44, 29 August 2020 (UTC)
September Women in Red edithons
[edit]![]()
|
--Megalibrarygirl (talk) 17:53, 29 August 2020 (UTC) via MassMessaging
wikidata and writer's pseudonyms
[edit]![]() |
Thank you for merging Elinor Denniston and Rae Foley on Wikidata!. WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 17:53, 1 September 2020 (UTC) |
Powel
[edit]When you have a moment, can you revisit the FAC for Powel? I would like to address any further concerns you may have, but I have lost track of what still needs work? --- C&C (Coffeeandcrumbs) 02:06, 3 September 2020 (UTC)
Textile artists
[edit]I have just come across the Wikidata redlist d:User:PKM/Textile_artists and see that they are nearly all women. If you have time, I think it would be useful to adapt it for the WiR redlists. Perhaps you could combine it with Textile designers.--Ipigott (talk) 10:37, 8 September 2020 (UTC)
Laziness here
[edit]For pages like Patrick O'Keeffe (politician) I have been adding the military intelligence files, often when going past I see no person bio template, do we have a pertinent wikidata link bio template available that I don't have to complete? — billinghurst sDrewth 11:49, 11 September 2020 (UTC)
- Hmm, I notice that gaWP has ga:template:WD Bosca Sonraí Duine though I have no idea of its specifics. — billinghurst sDrewth 11:51, 11 September 2020 (UTC)
October editathons from Women in Red
[edit]![]()
|
--Megalibrarygirl (talk) 15:11, 21 September 2020 (UTC) via MassMessaging
Mildred Weston
[edit]Hello TagishSimon, the two Mildred Westons are quite similar - both published authors born 13 years apart - and I had quite a bit of trouble distinguishing between them. I think this issue will arise again and I wanted to save future researchers some time - T. E. Meeks T. E. Meeks (talk) 11:33, 23 September 2020 (UTC)
A beer for you!
[edit]![]() |
Thanks again! Cheers! Quaenuncabibis (talk) 18:32, 22 October 2020 (UTC) |
AfC by User:BatYote.
[edit]Hello Tagishsimon, my colleague BatYote. has several AfCs stuck in the process. Might I dare to ask you to have a look at them, too? Those are the articles: Jacques Fellay, Grégoire Courtine, and Michael Unser. If you think this is inappropriate, please forget about my question. (I have further one hanging in pipeline as well: Draft:Pierre Gönczy :) ) Many thanks! Best, Quaenuncabibis (talk) 08:12, 23 October 2020 (UTC)
November edith-a-thons from Women in Red
[edit]![]()
|
--Megalibrarygirl (talk) 18:50, 28 October 2020 (UTC) via MassMessaging
Hyphen or dash in the page title
[edit]You're invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals) § Replace hyphen with en-dash in Wikipedia browser tab name – MediaWiki:Pagetitle. —andrybak (talk) 01:00, 4 November 2020 (UTC)
A barnstar for you!
[edit]![]() |
The Socratic Barnstar | |
For going against the very strong tide at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Alleged irregularities in the 2020 United States Presidential election and presenting an argument that (while I'm not sure yet whether I agree with it or not) is certainly worthy of consideration. Cheers, {{u|Sdkb}} talk 01:29, 11 November 2020 (UTC) |
Robert Rubin
[edit]Hi Tagishsimon, some years back I recall you were willing to consider proposed COI edits related to a U.S. politics and business BLP that I worked on, and I am wondering if you might be interested to look at another. Since the summer I've been working with advisers of the former U.S. Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin to propose changes to his biographical article. Although the article is well more than a stub, it's also missing quite a bit about his career prior to government service and even some key roles he played in the Clinton administration.
As always, I refrain from making direct edits to articles and seek volunteer help, but over the last seven weeks or so, I've tried reaching out to various wikiprojects and even past editors of the page, and received either crickets or (mostly) polite refusals on the basis that I am working with people close to Mr. Rubin. Remembering that you were open-minded and thoughtful before, I figured I would reach out and see if this interested you at all. If so, you might have a look at my suggestion on the Rubin talk page about the 1993 Deficit Reduction Act. If not, I'll respect that. Thanks, WWB Too (Talk · COI) 13:45, 11 November 2020 (UTC)
- RMcNHouston (talk · contribs)
Ref.: Articles for creation: Tom (Thomas Henry) Marlowe (November 11)
Hi, Tagishsimon, and thank you for your very swift reply - I'm completely new to this, so welcome your / others' inputs. I will review and edit in due course the draft article; I may need some help in finding broken links / uploading pictures?
Thank you again for the swift reply. With best regards,
RMcNHouston
19:40 GMT, 11/11/2020
RMcNHouston (talk) 19:40, 11 November 2020 (UTC)
Saving Brinton
[edit]You recently rejected an article about the oldest continuously operated film theatre in the United States. I was hoping this stub, not really article could spark more edits from other people. A documentary featuring the town/theatre called Saving Brinton was created and has its own wikipedia page. Considering Washington, Iowa is a very old and rural community I highly doubt people from that community are familiar with wikipedia processes and procedures but if the article is already created I am sure they could contribute. It is also of great historical importance. Please reconsider this, thank you. There are articles of comparable size about National Register of Historic Places — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:646:8501:8880:E4E1:F6C4:6B06:8001 (talk) 22:31, 11 November 2020 (UTC)
Makuchowska + Pikulska
[edit]You might want to keep an eye on Mirosława Makuchowska and Katarzyna Pikulska, for notability and/or deletion issues, according to an active Wikipedian. Boud (talk) 19:53, 13 November 2020 (UTC)
You've got mail
[edit]![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Mail-message-new.svg/40px-Mail-message-new.svg.png)
It may take a few minutes from the time the email is sent for it to show up in your inbox. You can {{You've got mail}} or {{ygm}} template. at any time by removing the Maragil (talk) 21:46, 13 November 2020 (UTC)
2020–21 Melbourne Stars season
[edit]Hello @Tagishsimon:,
I am confused as to why my article 2020–21 Melbourne Stars season was declined by you. I understand that yes, outsiders reading the article would have no idea who the Melbourne Stars are going to be confused by it, but at the same time people with no prior knowledge of the team would have no reason to read the article. There was even an embedded link that directs readers to the main article of the club so it's evident that you're not even trying to understand. Are you here to say that the article 2020–21 Liverpool F.C. season says anything of who and what Liverpool F.C is?? Please, if you're going to reject an article aimed at an extremely specific group of cricket viewers, at least think of a indisputable reason and not some fluff pulled out of your rear end.
--115.70.233.235 (talk) 23:03, 19 November 2020 (UTC)
ArbCom 2020 Elections voter message
[edit]Thank you for your editing
[edit]Thank you for considering the Brainphone draft. This article was my first attempt at a Wikipedia contribution. Your critique and concerns are valid -- for now. I'll try again in a year, when the reality is closer to the writing. :=) I sincerely appreciate your time and advice. OldCyberGuy (talk) 19:41, 24 November 2020 (UTC)
November 2020
[edit] Hello, I'm Firestar464. Although everyone is welcome to contribute to Wikipedia, it's important to be mindful of the feelings of your fellow editors, who may be frustrated by certain types of interaction. While you probably didn't intend any offense, please do remember that Wikipedia strives to be an inclusive atmosphere. In light of that, it would be greatly appreciated if you could moderate yourself so as not to offend. (Redacted) Firestar464 (talk) 12:29, 26 November 2020 (UTC)
December with Women in Red
[edit]![]()
|
--Megalibrarygirl (talk) 16:41, 26 November 2020 (UTC) via MassMessaging
wolfTPM and go-tpm libraries
[edit]Hi Tagishsimon,
I want to answer your comment - "Why is this, out of 8 zillion libraries, notable? Tagishsimon (talk) 16:39, 25 November 2020 (UTC)"
A. There are just four TPM libraries in total. If we count Microsoft's own TPM library that's five. But not even one zillion :)
B. wolfTPM is the only TPM library designed for Embedded Systems. It is also the only one without external dependencies, which makes it lightweight and easy to deploy on devices with limited resources. Such systems are IoT Industrial Medical list goes on.
C. go-tpm is created by a team at google and what is notable for it is they used golang. All other TPM libraries are written in C programming language. This library has been deployed on systems with lots of performance, like data centers and google's cloud servers.
Both wolfTPM and go-tpm were created last year (2019). Before that there were just Intel and IBM's TPM libraries.
The field of Trusted Computing and TPM is slowly rising in 2020. One of the reasons for the slow adoption is the difficulty of acquiring information about the technology. I hope that by adding information about wolfTPM and go-tpm in Wikipedia more people will be aware there are two new libraries. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tomovdimi (talk • contribs) 21:53, 26 November 2020 (UTC)
RE: Comment on Handshake
[edit]I dont own Handshake, just found and recently and have done a lot of research on it. I guess I am pretty excited about its future, but I have no stake in it reaally besides like $5 lol I guess I can be proud to know I wrote something good enough that it make it seem like I owend a whole company :D
Do you have any suggestions where I can hunt for better sources for this stuff? Handshake is fairly new I guess, just a year, so I guess there hasnt been much coverage yet
Im wanting to add this dns root to wikipedia so people have a public source to learn about it, and I based the whole article writing style off this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Namecoin
Imagine a decentralized internet! The more you censor the information the less chances people learn about alternatives like Namecoin and Handshake.. people need to be able to learn about these things!
Man Made Sea Plan
[edit]Hey! It's Switherlandio. When I made my Wikipedia account the goal was introducing things not a lot of people around the world knew about that was still notable enough to be on Wikipedia. The first 2 or 3 I made were not very good and didn't cite sources because I didn't know how. After practicing in my sandbox I decided I knew how to add sources and began my creation. I looked up things on Wikipedia and most of them were already on here. Suddenly I looked up "Manmade Sea Plan" and it was not on here. I began adding my article and tried hard to add reliable sources. They were reliable enough but you said my article was "something you made up". I am willing to take any advice but I did not make up that topic. The small YouTuber who came up with the idea, coincidentally just did a live stream a few hours ago. I am one of very few people who give her credit for it. Most people don't know who came up with the idea and just post about it online. I cited really notable websites who talked about it. Y Combinator is the same company that funded Reddit and 2 other notable websites. They talked about it. Please respond soon. I understand you are very busy.
- Jane (Switherlandio) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Switherlandio (talk • contribs) 02:16, 5 December 2020 (UTC)
- Ansgrayson (talk · contribs)
Hi - I really appreciate your feedback, although some of your language did upset me, I'm only trying to bring value to Wikipedia, and not annoy you!
I understand that you're busy, but could if you could spare a couple of minutes, I'd really appreciate some added guidance on the points you raised?
I'm more than happy to remove the term "premium" if you deem that advertorial, but I only used that term because I extracted it from the Harvard Business School and BCG Institute publication referenced below. I did the same with cutting-edge algorithm (hence the quotations).
I have gone back and edited the language as per your request but I would just like some clarity for future pages, because I've been trying to write this article as if I were writing an evidence-supported academic dissertation, extracting details from external sources to guide the core points of information.
I've been researching and editing other platforms in the industry for a guide as to what to write, so if I was to take a look at Catalant (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalant) and the unreferenced mentions of "intelligent recommendations" - would this not be deemed puffery too?
Does the latest version add that crucial layer of neutrality now? It's been an interesting learning curve, so thank you for guiding me towards my first Wikipedia article creation. I have a few more articles about the contingent workforce and shift to digital for freelancers that I can't wait to write next, so I'm really excited to get past this first step as a page creator! Thanks :) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ansgrayson (talk • contribs) 09:56, 7 December 2020 (UTC)
ADDED NOTE: I am a financial consultant, so I certainly do not work for a recruitment company, nor for anybody sadly at this moment?. I am a freelancer who gets connected to work, and the shift to remote work has opened up new opportunities for freelancers across the world to find better opportunities than we were able to before - this is a really important topic right now - independent workers need to be aware of the platforms like Toptal, Catalant, Comatch, Fiverr, Talmix, Beeline that are out there to connect us to work while many of us (myself included)have lost jobs during the pandemic.
Ansgrayson (talk) 10:46, 7 December 2020 (UTC)
Tom Richardson
[edit]Race condition, known in Wikipedia as edit conflict. You tagged it for G11 while I was disambiguating it prior to declining it. Sometimes the race condition is harmless, as in when two reviewers are doing different things that both needed to be done. Robert McClenon (talk) 00:50, 8 December 2020 (UTC)
A barnstar for you!
[edit]![]() |
The Original Barnstar |
Thanks for accepting my article on the Sagbadre War! UncleBourbon (talk) 02:47, 8 December 2020 (UTC) |
Runes of Mystery
[edit]I need help with the runes of mystery what do I have to do to get the first confirmation? Yours truly GMLogar (talk) 06:18, 8 December 2020 (UTC)
??? GMLogar (talk) 21:53, 12 December 2020 (UTC)
- LatinHydro (talk · contribs)
Dear Tagishsimon, I appreciate your comment, however feel that your use of the words "many clever productive people" is rather rude. Wikipedia allows space for people whose only claim to fame are things of dubious nature (e.g. Lewinsky). Dr. Nagel unfortunatly was born in the 1940s and thus belongs to a generation, who is not as marketing savy and self-promoting as we all currently are. He is however hands down a globally reknown in the specific field of Hydropower, but how can that be shown to your satisfaction. What is it you need.
LatinHydro (talk) 19:13, 9 December 2020 (UTC)
Hey Tagishsimon, I saw that you declined my draft because my "submission is about a company or organization not yet shown to meet notability guidelines (AFCH 0.9.1)". Instead of claiming that the company is an organization, I edited that draft to explain that it's an Instagram account. Based on the draft I believe there is sufficient evidence through references that this is an Instagram account, similar to the fuckjerry Wiki page. Would these adjustments allow the article to get approved? If not, how can I position it as an Instagram page to get approval? Thanks RickyRosea69 (talk) 09:06, 10 December 2020 (EST)
Why was Draft:Skylar Covich rejected
[edit]It has an interview from a notable news source (Crux) and all the other necessary sources. Bobloblawattorneyatlaw (talk) 17:51, 10 December 2020 (UTC)
Why was it rejected? By you Bobloblawattorneyatlaw (talk) 20:06, 13 December 2020 (UTC)
I would like to improve my article so it can get approved
JayeChrs (talk) 13:30, 14 December 2020 (UTC)
Apologies if I'm using this page incorrectly. I just wanted to thank you for looking at my article in such a timely manner and providing great feedback. I'm going to do some more research to see if I can find more appropriate references to demonstrate my subject's notability. Thanks, again! HilarityEnsued (talk) 00:02, 15 December 2020 (UTC)HilarityEnsued
HilarityEnsued (talk) 00:02, 15 December 2020 (UTC)
Help for my article
[edit]I had sent an article for review Extraterrestrial and Ufo Research Organisation, International and you rejected. Obviously I had written something wrong thats the reason you rejected my article. Actually I am new to this. I would be happy if you help me with this. About my draft :Actually Extraterrestrial and Ufo Research Organisation, International is also a non profit organization just like the MUFON. If i am not able to do it will you publish my article please? If you want take all the credits or if you don't want to publish my article at least help me please. Arjuna Anchan (talk) 03:02, 15 December 2020 (UTC)
Meet Grup
[edit]![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e7/Iris_cat.jpg/150px-Iris_cat.jpg)
Please talk about my kitten Grup, it was after the character from Mighty Magiswords.
Crafterzz Chan (talk) 07:07, 16 December 2020 (UTC)
I made an article about a globaly known robot that I have read all about in articles and videos and provided these sources but it was declined that the robot team have been consisted of an adult engineer and two students of his which are 15 years old and it was said that I cant claim that so I brang two different sources that proves my claim and added cited them and requested another review is this the write thing to do or I have to add another comment or something?
Ahmed Elshireef (talk) 10:26, 16 December 2020 (UTC)
I don't think it's a hoax. Notable? No more than a garage band. davidwr/(talk)/(contribs) 🎄 22:09, 16 December 2020 (UTC)
Review of Draft:CubbitFrancesco Bianchi 24 (talk) 11:44, 17 December 2020 (UTC)Francesco Bianchi 24
[edit]Thank you for your review, I improved the draft in order to accomplish the Notability requirements of Wikipedia you suggested. Hope the draft is more comprehensive now. Hope you can give me a feedback, thank you
- Just FYI, I have left two notices for this user regarding undisclosed paid editing. --Drm310 🍁 (talk) 21:57, 17 December 2020 (UTC)
On the article SDSS J140821.67+025733.2
[edit]Thank you sir for accepting this article! I just want you to be notified of the previous discussion of this article in the AfD, in Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/SDSS J140821.67+025733.2. There had been changes to this article and I hope you will join in further discussion. Regards! SkyFlubbler (talk) 06:10, 18 December 2020 (UTC)
By the way sir, this has also been in the Deletion review I submitted awhile back, in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Deletion_review/Log/2020_December_18#SDSS_J140821.67+025733.2 . I fear that some of the other members of the Wikiproject might complain on how this quasar got its own article again. I suggest sir to bring this back into the draft stage and just release it when potentially ready. Hope you can provide some inputs there. Regards! SkyFlubbler (talk) 06:27, 18 December 2020 (UTC)
- Ibmbios1911 (talk · contribs)
Hello, can you please share a little more info on why this submission was not accepted and what we can do to ensure we address any issues that will prevent a re-submission from being approved. There is no conflict of interest and facts have strong references. Thanks in advance for your help.
Ibmbios1911 (talk) 04:04, 20 December 2020 (UTC)
I fixed the references section. I found this orphan article and asked for it to be approved as it is quite informative.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Secure_Access_Service_Edge
Ksaraf (talk) 22:39, 20 December 2020 (UTC)
Draft: Cypherium
[edit]Hello Tagishsimon,
Last week you declined my article "Comment: Apart from content and, especially, obnoxious format which renders this indistinguishable from an advert, what we have is an article almosy wholly predicated on routine PR and financial press, which fails the WP:N test per WP:CORPDEPTH. Laying low value refs on with a trowel is not a substitute for proof of notability. Tagishsimon (talk) 16:51, 16 December 2020 (UTC)".
I edited the article, added sources from CNBC news, Forbes, Bloomberg, Reuters, South China Morning post, Bangkok Post, SD Times, Yahoo, Nasdaq and Coinspeaker. I also added a PDF files and PDF file from the Federal Reserve.
In total I more than 120 sources for my article.
please confirm my hard work.
Have a great day,
J. Hens — Preceding unsigned comment added by Johannes234hens (talk • contribs) 08:07, 23 December 2020 (UTC)
Rejection of Pesky Pants
[edit]- Thanks for the fast review. Can you please clarify the bar for 'significance'? This wasn't local coverage. Sources cited in the article are UPI, AP, Chicago Tribune and New York Times. The story was also covered by NBC Nightly news and Incredible Sunday (I'm still trying to find air dates for both of those). Those are all credible sources with broad coverage. Nor are they passing mentions.
The story continues to generate online interest which is what prompted writing the article now. Snopes as added a page on it and it's been covered by numerous blogs (external links provided).Sliptonic (talk) 20:41, 23 December 2020 (UTC)
Hi, the creation of page Scalable Screen Font was declined for uncertain reasons. It was said to be an advertisement, however that simply can't be true as it is a Free and Open Source project, used by several hobby OS developers and other embedded system developers.
It is used just as PC Screen Font (which wasn't declined as an advertisement), but also also supports outline fonts which is a feature that many developers might be interested in.
Bztwiki (talk) 15:23, 24 December 2020 (UTC)
Bus stations in Michigan
[edit]Hello i want to link a draft once approved to a wiki article including citations to a public transit agency. The bus station article being created has no official name only referring as a transfer station and when linking this article to the public transit agency. I want to create coordinates to this bus station and display a picture of it with a address. Does this portion need a info box? Thank you. Bloodredshadow84 Bloodredshadow84 (talk) 14:32, 27 December 2020 (UTC)
Draft talk:Tropical Storm Karen (2019)
[edit]Tagishsimon, I've completed the move you requested at the RMT but I don't know what to do with Draft talk:Tropical Storm Karen (2019). There is a RM discussion over there, and I think copy-pasting it to Talk:Tropical Storm Karen (2019) may be helpful, and changing it to a redirect likewise its base page. Please do whatever you feel best. ─ The Aafī (talk) 07:47, 28 December 2020 (UTC)
- (talk page stalker) @TheAafi:: I made some adjustments to what is now Draft:Tropical Storm Karen (2019) and Draft talk:Tropical Storm Karen (2019). For details, see Talk:Tropical Storm Karen (2019)#Was this a 100% from-scratch rewrite or was some stuff copied from the old version?. davidwr/(talk)/(contribs) 🎄 17:31, 28 December 2020 (UTC)
A New Year With Women in Red!
[edit]![]() ![]()
|
--Megalibrarygirl (talk) 03:02, 29 December 2020 (UTC) via MassMessaging
Draft:Ekaterina Mityaeva
[edit]- Thank you for your comments. I have left only selected most important results in the infobox excluding them from the body of the article. So the results do not repeat now. Resubmitted the article again. Actually I took these 2 articles as an example for my article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emelie_Forsberg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kílian_Jornet_Burgada
Thanks again Bmxrules1 — Preceding undated comment added 07:21, 30 December 2020 (UTC)
Max Stoiber
[edit]Thank you for your feedback.
I have listed a few things regarding the notability of Maximilian Stoiber: I went through the guidelines and figured the following:
1. The person is known for originating a significant new concept, theory, or technique.
Stoiber created and therefore originated a significant concept - two open source projects being: react-boilerplate and styled-components, which are being used by thousands of software engineers worldwide, including those at Google, airbnb, Disney+. He is one of the most sought-after engineers in his professional field despite his young age of 23.
He was awarded by Forbes 30 under 30 internationally for his work at Spectrum.
Also regarding his biography, an addition:
2. The person has made a widely recognized contribution that is part of the enduring historical record in a specific field.
Stoiber is widely-known in the field of software engineering. His contribution in open source is now to be found in 1% of all websites available. She.writes about him (talk) 08:52, 1 January 2021 (UTC)
A barnstar for you!
[edit]![]() |
The Original Barnstar |
P. Longchamps draft = best AfC comments ever! JSFarman (talk) 18:19, 2 January 2021 (UTC) |
Draft: Pieces of a Man (band)
[edit]Hi, thanks for reviewing Draft:Pieces of a Man (band). I've adjusted the article as you suggested, citing a range of notable independent sources. I've also removed external links from the main body of the article as advised elsewhere.
Please would you consider reviewing the re-submission, thanks. Orangelight747 (talk) 21:28, 3 January 2021 (UTC)
Hi again, just bumping this in case it was missed. Please could you have another look? Thanks --Orangelight747 (talk) 12:26, 20 February 2021 (UTC)
A barnstar for you!
[edit]![]() |
The da Vinci Barnstar | |
Thank you again for building the daily-updating table so we may easily learn of women’s recent deaths. I’ve already found a very good ”In the news” candidate this way—Elmira Minita Gordon was the first Governor of Belize after independence and the first credentialed Belizean psychologist. I never would have found her on my own—thank you for bringing her life to light! Innisfree987 (talk) 01:17, 6 January 2021 (UTC) |
Req admin
[edit]Dear reviewer, this page is passing WP:NMUSIC but it is in the draft for a long time, can you please review it? Draft:Shadab_Siddiqui Thank you for being an honest member of Wikipedia. --111.88.105.250 (talk) 13:36, 7 January 2021 (UTC)
Draft:Karl-Heinz Nagel
[edit]Dear Tagishsimon, I appreciate your comment, however feel that your use of the words "many clever productive people" is rather rude. Wikipedia allows space for people whose only claim to fame are things of dubious nature (e.g. Lewinsky). Dr. Nagel unfortunatly was born in the 1940s and thus belongs to a generation, who is not as marketing savy and self-promoting as we all currently are. He is however hands down a globally reknown in the specific field of Hydropower, but how can that be shown to your satisfaction. What is it you need — Preceding unsigned comment added by LatinHydro (talk • contribs) 15:55, 7 January 2021 (UTC)
Absurd and not qualified
[edit]TBH, congratulations. This is the very worst advert article I've seen. Breathtaking.
This is an article is about a free government service. Thus not an advert. User:Tagishsimon is from UK and not familiar with USA government. This is suppression of non-TurboTax tax filing information. User:Tagishsimon claims:
- "This submission is contrary to the purpose of Wikipedia"
- "TBH, congratulations. This is the very worst advert article I've seen. Breathtaking."
- "This is indistinguishable from an advert. Wikipedia tries not to take adverts."
Your speech is obnoxious and abusive. 0mtwb9gd5wx (talk) 00:21, 10 January 2021 (UTC)
Comment at Draft:CalFile
[edit]You rejected Draft:CalFile, and made the comment: "TBH, congratulations. This is the very worst advert article I've seen. Breathtaking." I think that comment was harsh, and amounted to biting a newbie (and I don't like that guideline most of the time). I don't very often think that a comment was biting a newbie. Robert McClenon (talk) 03:28, 10 January 2021 (UTC)
- I'm very sorry, Tagishsimon, but I have to agree. Similarly, on Draft:Versarien PLC you said
[...] simple obvious things like emboldening the title name in the initial sentence like every other article on wikipedia you've ever read.
While the rest of your feedback was very spot-on and helpful (I had been helping this user on IRC, but they unfortunately left before I got to notability), I feel like the ending comment was a bit brusque. While I do have some amount of clue, I personally never really thought about the emboldening of the title in the initial sentence of an article because it's not an area I usually work in. I have to imagine that someone who is even newer to Wikipedia would be even more unaware of that convention as well. Perryprog (talk) 15:41, 11 January 2021 (UTC) - I've brought this up here. Repinging Tagishsimon just in case the first one didn't go through due to being in a header. Perryprog (talk) 21:26, 11 January 2021 (UTC)
Hi. You referred my article to WikiProject Medicine. You indicated that you doubt that this should be promoted. Could you explain why? I have worked to maintain a neutral voice throughout and it is no different from the page describing NMES or other medical treatments. Is there something I am missing/not understanding?24.45.78.58 (talk) 16:02, 11 January 2021 (UTC)
Orphaned non-free image File:Ben Bradley twitter exchange 2020-10-23 at 18.15.12.png
[edit]![⚠](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/34/Ambox_warning_blue.svg/35px-Ambox_warning_blue.svg.png)
Thanks for uploading File:Ben Bradley twitter exchange 2020-10-23 at 18.15.12.png. The image description page currently specifies that the image is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, the image is currently not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the image was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that images for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (see our policy for non-free media).
Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described in section F5 of the criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. --B-bot (talk) 03:31, 20 January 2021 (UTC)
February 2021 at Women in Red
[edit]![]()
|
--Rosiestep (talk) 15:00, 27 January 2021 (UTC) via MassMessaging
March 2021 at Women in Red
[edit]![]()
|
--Rosiestep (talk) 18:49, 26 February 2021 (UTC) via MassMessaging
A beer for you!
[edit]![]() |
Hello friend! Thanks for calling out the Ashley Black FasciaBlaster issues on the Talk page for the article -- funny story, her website literally has a header on it that says "It's not Snake Oil." Anyways, looking into her and reading the Talk page inspired me to get started on helping contribute to Wikipedia again. Thanks! -Jayparkin Jayparkin (talk) 18:37, 18 March 2021 (UTC) |
You've got mail!
[edit]![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Mail-message-new.svg/40px-Mail-message-new.svg.png)
Message added 20:37, 21 March 2021 (UTC). It may take a few minutes from the time the email is sent for it to show up in your inbox. You can {{You've got mail}} or {{ygm}} template. at any time by removing the
KevinL (aka L235 · t · c) 20:37, 21 March 2021 (UTC)
April editathons from Women in Red
[edit]![]()
|
--Megalibrarygirl (talk) 20:17, 22 March 2021 (UTC) via MassMessaging
May 2021 at Women in Red
[edit]![]()
|
--Rosiestep (talk) 21:37, 28 April 2021 (UTC) via MassMessaging
Editor of the Week
[edit]![]() |
Editor of the Week | |
Your ongoing efforts to improve the encyclopedia have not gone unnoticed: You have been selected as Editor of the Week in recognition of your dedication. Thank you for the great contributions! (courtesy of the Wikipedia Editor Retention Project) |
User:Alarichall submitted the following nomination for Editor of the Week:
- I nominate Tagishsimon for their long, diligent, and selfless service to making knowledge free. Editing since 2004, and racking up nearly 72,000 English Wikipedia edits, their principal article creations have concerned the geography of England (with good articles like Battersea Town Hall and major contributions to Alnmouth) Their interests are wide-ranging, taking in complex topics like the Public Interest Disclosure Act 1998 and biographies ranging across time and space like Angelus Silesius. Their most important work, however, is probably behind the scenes, importing open-source or public-domain information to expand and improve Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects. They have racked up nearly 4.5m Wikidata edits, particularly in relation to Women in Red. A survey of their contributions at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Women_in_Red suggests that they are working very hard and effectively on that project and supporting other editors. I've noticed that they are sometimes quite curt in debates with other editors, usually in relation to article deletions (whether supporting or opposing deletions); but I've spot-checked some of the disputes and it seems that Tagishsimon is consistently applying Wikipedia editing policies, and is sometimes dealing with non-compliant or rude editors. I am glad to nominate this user for Wikipedian of the Week
You can copy the following text to your user page to display a user box proclaiming your selection as Editor of the Week:
{{User:UBX/EoTWBox}}
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
Imports images and text from Project Gutenberg |
Tagishsimon |
Editor of the Week for the week beginning May 9, 2021 |
Diligent & selfless service since 2004. 72,000 English Wikipedia edits mostly about the geography of England. Wide-ranging interests like the Public Interest Disclosure Act 1998 and Angelus Silesius. Imports open-source or public-domain information. Nearly 4.5m Wikidata edits, particularly in relation to Women in Red. Consistently applies WP editing policies. |
Recognized for |
dedication |
Notable work(s) |
Battersea Town Hall and major contributions to Alnmouth |
Submit a nomination |
Thanks again for your efforts! ―Buster7 ☎ 12:54, 8 May 2021 (UTC)
Get this: there are two Sarah Schechters
[edit]The article I just wrote (and added to the WIR metrics list) is Sarah Schechter (producer). The article that was added in February was Sarah Schechter, a rabbi. I thought I was adding the article to the Women in Red lists I usually edit, but clearly I was not. (First clue: an edit history that includes only Reports Bot.) What's the proper procedure, and how is the bot activated? Thanks. JSFarman (talk) 02:07, 14 May 2021 (UTC)
Wikidata for Rita Ali
[edit]Hi. I just created an article about Rita Ali, the mayor of Peoria, IL. She doesn't have a Wikidata item yet - could you create one? Thanks! Lennart97 (talk) 19:50, 25 May 2021 (UTC)
June 2021 at Women in Red
[edit]![]()
|
--Rosiestep (talk) 18:51, 28 May 2021 (UTC) via MassMessaging
What was it?
[edit]What is your name?
What you doing here?
https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Wikidata:Project_chat&diff=1437890043&oldid=1437889004 https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Wikidata:Project_chat&diff=1437891585&oldid=1437890378 https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Wikidata:Project_chat&diff=1437893089&oldid=1437892658
95.29.8.106 (talk) 21:35, 8 June 2021 (UTC)
header
[edit]Daniel Kawczynski - Hi. What do you suggest, *neutral* and sentence case header might work I added abuse of power, that is what he was found guilty of, what do you suggest? the content says this - On 14 June 2021 the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards found that Kawczynski had acted in an intimidatory and threatening manner towards House of Commons staff and that he had "abused his power as a Member of Parliament - sentance case , did you want a capital? If it needed a Capital letter why didn't you just edit it yourself? My edit according to the content looks , looked, neutral to me and still looks neutral. Please respond or I will replace my etit, regards - Govindaharihari (talk) 00:43, 15 June 2021 (UTC)
Hi,.I made a new edit, please see - https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Daniel_Kawczynski&diff=1028617044&oldid=1028611518 - regards - Govindaharihari (talk) 01:24, 15 June 2021 (UTC)
July 2021 at Women in Red
[edit]![]()
|
--Rosiestep (talk) 16:06, 22 June 2021 (UTC) via MassMessaging
A kitten for you!
[edit]![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e7/Iris_cat.jpg/150px-Iris_cat.jpg)
Thanks for your kudos for my first article!
Lmqay (talk) 18:32, 30 June 2021 (UTC)
Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky Air Flight 251 (2021)
[edit]Can you sort out the iwls for Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky Air Flight 251 (2021) please. I tried to add es:Accidente de un Antonov An-26 de 2021 using the languages link but got a message that it was already linked. It is linked from es, it and ru-Wikis to en-Wiki, but it won't link back from en-Wiki. Mjroots (talk) 17:06, 6 July 2021 (UTC)
Articles for Creation July 2021 Backlog Elimination Drive
[edit]![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/AFC-Logo.svg/75px-AFC-Logo.svg.png)
Hello Tagishsimon:
WikiProject Articles for creation is holding a month long Backlog Drive!
The goal of this drive is to eliminate the backlog of unreviewed articles. The drive is running until 31 July 2021.
Barnstars will be given out as awards at the end of the drive.
There is currently a backlog of over 2300 articles, so start reviewing articles. We're looking forward to your help!
Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of Wikipedia:WikiProject Articles for Creation at 21:54, 7 July 2021 (UTC). If you do not wish to recieve future notification, please remove your name from the mailing list.
Jaiden Animations draft
[edit]So is this ready to pass notability? Please see Draft talk:Jaiden Animations and chime in on whether this is now ready to pass notability. If enough of the objectors in AFC and AFDs are on board, we can push to remove the salt. AngusW🐶🐶F (bark • sniff) 17:40, 22 July 2021 (UTC)
August Editathons with Women in Red
[edit]![]()
|
--Megalibrarygirl (talk) 22:27, 23 July 2021 (UTC) via MassMessaging
Holly Smith (equestrian)
[edit]Hi, thanks for the heads up about the link. I think I've fixed it now. Cheers Hildreth gazzard (talk) 13:33, 31 July 2021 (UTC)
Speedy deletion nomination of Category:National Railway Museum-related articles
[edit]![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/15/Ambox_warning_pn.svg/48px-Ambox_warning_pn.svg.png)
A tag has been placed on Category:National Railway Museum-related articles indicating that it is currently empty, and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion. If it remains empty for seven days or more, it may be deleted under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion.
If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself. Liz Read! Talk! 16:15, 15 August 2021 (UTC)
Larry Philpot / Wikimedia
[edit]Hi there,
I left this comment on your wikimedia talk page but haven't heard back and you appear to be more active here. So, apologies for crossing platforms. Here's what I wrote: I read the story about Larry Philpot in Bloomberg and was surprised to see his images were still on wikimedia. I saw that you initiated the block and deletion request of his account in 2019. Do you know why his photos are still here? Is there anything that can be done to remove them? I don't know a lot about the inner workings of the commons but it seems dangerous to keep them around, given his history, and I'm happy to help out if I can. Thanks in advance! --Friendship hurricane (talk) 14:50, 23 August 2021 (UTC)
September 2021 at Women in Red
[edit]![]()
|
--Rosiestep (talk) 22:31, 26 August 2021 (UTC) via MassMessaging
"Life of the Party ( Australian film)" listed at Redirects for discussion
[edit]
A discussion is taking place to address the redirect Life of the Party ( Australian film). The discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2021 September 11#Life of the Party ( Australian film) until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. Regards, SONIC678 01:38, 11 September 2021 (UTC)
October 2021 at Women in Red
[edit]![]()
Special event:
|
--Rosiestep (talk) 01:37, 29 September 2021 (UTC) via MassMessaging
November 2021 at Women in Red
[edit]![]()
|
--Innisfree987 (talk) 21:33, 24 October 2021 (UTC) via MassMessaging
Interesting Image
[edit]It is an interesting image. Doesn't seem to be on the solicitors' website, nor findable via tineye or google image search. Exif shows the photographer to be PAUL HAMPTON who is presumably https://paulhampton.co.uk/ ... so ... how comes this admittedly 2013 image to be the own work of ShimsCabot? --Tagishsimon (talk) 01:19, 27 October 2021 (UTC)
ShimsCabot - use of image
[edit]Hi, thank you for pointing out the copyright issue on the image. I am talking to User:Greyjoy about this issue - I was given the image to use by Patrick McGuire and used it without investigating the creator. I will be rectifying this issue very shortly. I hope this is a suitable course of action and will be happy to take your guidance. ShimsCabot (talk) 08:00, 27 October 2021 (UTC)
Thank you for the year columns
[edit]Thanks very much for adding year columns to the list of coal-fired power stations in Turkey. I hope your improvement might be useful to the real world, as now the govt here seems to have finally stopped (in practice if not officially) proposing new coal power I am hoping people who update Wikidata will easily be able to keep the Wikidata up to date, and when the CO2 numbers come out shortly add them too. So making it easier for Turks who don't know about Wikidata to see on Vikipedi what is going on. Chidgk1 (talk) 06:59, 31 October 2021 (UTC)
Hi, Tagishsimon. I wanted to let you know that I've nominated North Bengal Grey cattle for speedy deletion (G12), as you erroneously accepted it in your AfC review. Literally every single word in the main prose of the article is ripped word-for-word from the Cambridge University source. Moneytrees identified the same problem with AshiqJB007's other draft (eventually approved and now at Mirkadim cattle; I haven't personally checked this one for copyvio yet). You can verify for yourself that this is the case. In the future, please check for copyright violations before approving a draft like this. I'll go ahead and notify Ashiq of this issue as well. TheTechnician27 (Talk page) 17:58, 22 November 2021 (UTC)
ArbCom 2021 Elections voter message
[edit]December 2021 at Women in Red
[edit]![]()
|
--Innisfree987 (talk) 00:13, 27 November 2021 (UTC) via MassMessaging
Patrick McGuire - Article for deletion - Objection to proposal
[edit]Hi @Tagishsimon
You have proposed that Patrick McGuire's article be deleted. However, the content which was stripped out recently was the type of content you are now asking for. I have disclosed all my connections to Thompsons Solicitors and respectfully request that the page be left in place until my edit requests are accepted. I will today add content to my Sandbox in respect of Patrick's page, in which there are many news articles and neutral third party sources. The current page is an outdated version which I had nothing to do with and I am aiming to make the page better. Patrick McGuire is a highly regarded lawyer, and campaigner for civil rights and access to justice. ShimsCabot (talk) 08:48, 2 December 2021 (UTC)
Orphaned non-free image File:The Cash Learning Partnership logo.png
[edit]![⚠](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/34/Ambox_warning_blue.svg/35px-Ambox_warning_blue.svg.png)
Thanks for uploading File:The Cash Learning Partnership logo.png. The image description page currently specifies that the image is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, the image is currently not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the image was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that images for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (see our policy for non-free media).
Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described in section F5 of the criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. --B-bot (talk) 18:34, 5 December 2021 (UTC)
Deletion discussion
[edit]Hello, Tagishsimon,
I just wanted to let you know I mentioned you at a discussion I started at Wikipedia talk:Proposed deletion#Contested PROD?. Thanks. Liz Read! Talk! 23:29, 8 December 2021 (UTC)
Adding Images to Zambian road Infoboxes
[edit]In recent years, you added OpenStreetMap Images to articles for Zambian roads like the T2 Road and the T3 Road articles. May you please do the same to the T5 Road, M10 Road, M1 Road and the M3 Road articles. Chils Kemptonian (talk) 10:08, 12 December 2021 (UTC)
Template:WikiProject National Railway Museum/class has been listed at templates for discussion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. Q28 (talk) 05:35, 26 December 2021 (UTC)
January 2022 Women in Red
[edit]![]()
|
--Megalibrarygirl (talk) 16:03, 28 December 2021 (UTC) via MassMessaging
Apologies, my edit summary did't get recorded just now. I absolutely take your point that "multi-service" is more specific than "unique", however the WP article for Isle of Wight NHS Trust does use the word "unique" and explains why it is unique (the only trust in the country to provide all types of health service). I won't revert further changes - but "multi-service" seems to me a worse compromise than "unique". Best wishes Millstream3 (talk) 11:30, 15 January 2022 (UTC)
Hi Tagishsimon - thanks for moving my article on Loch Bì (South Uist) to the anglicised Loch Bee location, originally a redirect page. How are you able to move an article from one location to another - sorry if it's a silly question, but I'm a relative novice when it comes to Wiki editing! Best wishes. Dickonprior (talk) 10:57, 20 January 2022 (UTC)
A bit embarrassing that the one in the nation’s capital is named incorrectly on Wikipedia, according to your reasoning. Seasider53 (talk) 11:29, 25 January 2022 (UTC)
Lochs
[edit]And you'll be changing all these to Lake x, since loch is not English, correct? Seasider53 (talk) 14:55, 25 January 2022 (UTC)
Hounding
[edit]Per your affinity for links to Wikipedia policy articles, please read WP:HOUNDING. Further such occurrences will be reported on the relevant page. Seasider53 (talk) 11:31, 29 January 2022 (UTC)
- Oh dear, oh dear. Seasider53 (talk) 18:42, 30 January 2022 (UTC)
- Examples for admin intervention:
February with Women in Red
[edit]![]()
|
--Megalibrarygirl (talk) 15:11, 31 January 2022 (UTC) via MassMessaging
Hello! I wanted to drop a quick note for all of our AFC participants; nothing huge and fancy like a newsletter, but a few points of interest.
- AFCH will now show live previews of the comment to be left on a decline.
- The template {{db-afc-move}} has been created - this template is similar to {{db-move}} when there is a redirect in the way of an acceptance, but specifically tells the patrolling admin to let you (the draft reviewer) take care of the actual move.
Short and sweet, but there's always more to discuss at WT:AFC. Stop on by, maybe review a draft on the way? Whether you're one of our top reviewers, or haven't reviewed in a while, I want to thank you for helping out in the past and in the future. Cheers, Primefac, via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:00, 16 February 2022 (UTC)
ANI
[edit] There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. Seasider53 (talk) 21:32, 23 February 2022 (UTC)
March editathons
[edit]![]()
|
--Megalibrarygirl (talk) 16:38, 27 February 2022 (UTC) via MassMessaging
Nomination for merger of Wikipedia:WikiProject Geographical coordinates/dim:
[edit]Wikipedia:WikiProject Geographical coordinates/dim: has been nominated for merging with Template:Coord-doc-dim. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Thank you. ZandDev (msg) 13:47, 3 March 2022 (UTC)
April Editathons from Women in Red
[edit]![]()
|
--Megalibrarygirl (talk) 22:46, 22 March 2022 (UTC) via MassMessaging
"Mylar®" listed at Redirects for discussion
[edit]
An editor has identified a potential problem with the redirect Mylar® and has thus listed it for discussion. This discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2022 April 15#Mylar® until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. BD2412 T 04:45, 15 April 2022 (UTC)
DYK for Giulia Cassini Rizzotto
[edit]On 24 April 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Giulia Cassini Rizzotto, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the final silent film directed by Giulia Cassini Rizzotto was partly funded by the Vatican and featured Italian aristocrats? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Giulia Cassini Rizzotto. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Giulia Cassini Rizzotto), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 00:02, 24 April 2022 (UTC)
May 2022 at Women in Red
[edit]![]()
|
--Innisfree987 (talk) 04:57, 2 May 2022 (UTC) via MassMessaging
June events from Women in Red
[edit]![]()
|
--Megalibrarygirl (talk) 09:22, 31 May 2022 (UTC) via MassMessaging
New message from 3PPYB6
[edit] You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Toki Pona § Sonja Lang re-redirected. WT:WikiProject Women in Red/Archive 112#Draft:Sonja Lang for more reference. Should you wish to opt-out, reply with a "no". — 3PPYB6 — TALK — CONTRIBS — 13:45, 6 June 2022 (UTC)
Women in Red in July 2022
[edit]![]()
|
--Lajmmoore (talk) 15:49, 27 June 2022 (UTC) via MassMessaging
An August Member
[edit]![]() |
honorary knight of the comedic order of red women |
Please to recognise you as an August Member and honorary knight of the comedic order of red women for the whole of next month. Your list of comedians is going to be invaluable. Thank you! Victuallers (talk) 09:26, 26 July 2022 (UTC) |
Women in Red August 2022
[edit]![]()
|
--Lajmmoore (talk) 11:00, 29 July 2022 (UTC) via MassMessaging
Hello I sorted out references for the weber article. Could you review it again?
thanksCleshne (talk) 15:15, 9 August 2022 (UTC)
DERAILMENT of new page "Melissa Newman (actress)"
[edit]I created the page Melissa Newman (actress) to DIFFerentiate her from the existing page Melissa Stewart Newman who is Paul Newman's daughter... they are two different people... easily recognizable, comparing photos against each other, not to mention the age difference.
By connecting "Melissa Newman (actress)" to "Wikidata item Q6812826" you are essentially derailing my efforts to show Wikipedia users that there are TWO DIFFERENT Actresses named "Melissa Newman".
The "Melissa Newman" who co-starred with John Wayne in The Undefeated was already 16? years old in 1969, while Paul Newman's daughter, "Melissa Stewart Newman" was only about 8 years old at the time, having been born in 1961...
...and yet, by connecting "Melissa Newman (actress)" to "Wikidata item Q6812826" you have re-asserted the following errant data, concerning the "Melissa Newman" whose Hollywood debut was as a Teen in 1969:
- Also Known As: Melissa Stewart Newman
- date of birth: 17 September 1961
- place of birth: Hollywood
- father: Paul Newman
- mother: Joanne Woodward
- sibling: Scott Newman
- sibling: Nell Newman
- residence: Westport
- IMDb ID: nm1206111
Please Revoke the Wikidata connection you made.
For the actress from "The Undefeated", we have yet to Prove/Verify ANY of those details above, as I have not yet verified her Birth Date, Birth Place, whether or not she has died already, Father's name, and perhaps one sister... the Mother's name is still up-in-the-air... see below.
One thing you can check, is that the Older Melissa Newman's IMDB ID is: nm0628179 (NOT nm1206111)
I've spent quite a number of hours, already, sorting out the Film/TV Credits for the two Newmans, by watching video & finding citations, and I don't want all that work that undone.... only improved. :)
I'm still researching, and verifying her TV/Film credits (visually, by watching the videos), as well as her Parentage/Bio Info... It's possible that the "Melissa Newman (actress)" from "The Undefeated" is the daughter of Ruth Hall (NOT Joanne Woodward), but further research via Reliable News/Book sources is necessary.
Feel free to comment on my Talk page, or on the Talk pages for either of the two, concerned pages:
- Melissa Newman (actress) - co-star of "The Undefeated"
- Melissa Stewart Newman - daughter of Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward
- Note, on "Stewart" Newman's Talk page, I've already added extensive notes about errant data in Filmography (See the section TWO Melissa Newmans). Also on her main page, I added a section explaining the situation under a Controversy heading.
Finally, you can look at recent "History" on both pages to see how I'm trying to improve them for both persons.
Thank You in Advance, GreyElfGT (talk) 02:54, 13 August 2022 (UTC)
Thanks
[edit]Thanks for your comment on Hickey. I offered my response. It's not about my evidence "failing to impress" anyone, it seems more about them failing to accept legitimate Wikipedia policy. But I know that's how it goes with certain editors. Anyway, I think I'm done repeating it. I don't need stress. I appreciate your advice. Thanks. -- James26 (talk) 17:16, 14 August 2022 (UTC)
Hi there! I see that in December 2018 you told User:Оleg Cherkassky not to use WP:GALLERY to promote pictures in the article Aida Hanemayer (Lisenkova). For your interest - the article was deleted in December 2018 after an AfD discussion I wasn't inolved at that time). It appears that Cherkassky unilaterally reinstated the article, without any discussion - completed with gallery which you had deprecated. For your information, I have now nominated it for deletion again. Best, Smerus (talk) 16:55, 27 August 2022 (UTC)
- PS I see that he also re-installed the gallery in Julia Dolgorukova which you had removed.--Smerus (talk) 17:03, 27 August 2022 (UTC)
Women in Red in September 2022
[edit]![]()
|
--Lajmmoore (talk) 15:38, 31 August 2022 (UTC) via MassMessaging
To cover the easy one first. The reason for the comment on User talk:PBS-AWB is because I do not log on to PBS-AWB every day or even every month. So placing a message there means it might be a long time before I see it. If however a message is place there while I am using AWB then AWB stops working which is useful with the automatically triggered bot responses that do not care if I do not read its post. So I think it is desirable to have both in place and the comment on User talk:PBS-AWB. Also as the only comments usually placed on User talk:PBS-AWB are automated ones I delete them and do not archive them. Those on User:PBS are archived.
Now to the second issue. Have you read the section WP:FREECOPYING in plagiarism guideline and the templates in Category:Attribution templates? The attribution to avoid accusations of plagiarism comes before the citation not after. This is because it was decided aeons ago that to avoid accusations of Wikipedia plagiarism that the attribution text ought to be very visible.
You wrote "is accurate for all uses of the reference. Further, your message preceded the reference, which is grossly suboptimal: users want to read the ref, not a (mainly inaccurate) RD incorporation notice." If you read the archives of Wikipedia talk:plagiarism you will see that many editors were and presumably still are against copying text from a PD source into Wikipedia. The only way a consensus on this issue was reached was by agreeing to make the attribution very obvious. BTW what makes you think that the "RD incorporation notice" is "mainly inaccurate"?
I surmise from that statement that the reason you do not use the {{DNB}}
"RD incorporation notice" and tag the {{PD-notice}}
to the end is to hid/minimise the statement. Is that a fair surmise? If it is then you are going against the the consensus reached at Wikipedia talk:plagiarism.
"One or more of the preceding sentences" is correct for an inline citation. " This article incorporates text" is correct for a bullet pointed citation in the references section (underneath Attribution: as per WP:FREECOPYING). This is because the inline citation only covers the sentences since the last inline citation or the start of the paragraph.
As a parting comment you wrote ""Please stop damaging wikipedia for a few extra edit counts" Please assume good-faith (and check my edit count and the date of my first edit and consider if such a comment is justified). -– PBS (talk) 07:30, 24 September 2022 (UTC)
Women in Red October 2022
[edit]![]()
|
--Lajmmoore (talk) 15:02, 29 September 2022 (UTC) via MassMessaging
Women in Red November 2022
[edit]![]()
|
--Lajmmoore (talk) 17:36, 26 October 2022 (UTC) via MassMessaging
Women in Red in December 2022
[edit]![]()
See also:
Tip of the month:
Other ways to participate:
|
--Lajmmoore (talk) 20:57, 26 November 2022 (UTC) via MassMessaging
ArbCom 2022 Elections voter message
[edit]Hello! Voting in the 2022 Arbitration Committee elections is now open until 23:59 (UTC) on Monday, 12 December 2022. All eligible users are allowed to vote. Users with alternate accounts may only vote once.
The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.
If you wish to participate in the 2022 election, please review the candidates and submit your choices on the voting page. If you no longer wish to receive these messages, you may add {{NoACEMM}}
to your user talk page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:25, 29 November 2022 (UTC)
Women in Red January 2023
[edit]![]() ![]()
See also:
Tip of the month:
Other ways to participate:
|
--Lajmmoore (talk) 18:04, 27 December 2022 (UTC) via MassMessaging
Happy New Year, Tagishsimon!
[edit]![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/93/Fuochi_d%27artificio.gif/212px-Fuochi_d%27artificio.gif)
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/85/Happy_new_year_01.svg/177px-Happy_new_year_01.svg.png)
Tagishsimon,
Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia. See this for background context.
— Moops ⋠T⋡ 03:56, 3 January 2023 (UTC)
Send New Year cheer by adding {{subst:Happy New Year fireworks}} to user talk pages.
— Moops ⋠T⋡ 03:56, 3 January 2023 (UTC)
Rejecting of Draft:Wax Melts
[edit]Hey! Would you mind possibly changing your rejection to a decline? While the article in its current state seems mainly like a blog post, I do see some possible potential for at least mentioning it in a section on candles since it isn't simply a single product by 1 company. ― Blaze WolfTalkBlaze Wolf#6545 20:54, 10 January 2023 (UTC)
- @Blaze Wolf the editor who created the draft has spammed that blog across several articles but I agree, the subject itself has potential, although the draft would need to be entirely rewitten. Might be best to start from scratch. S0091 (talk) 16:14, 12 January 2023 (UTC)
- @S0091: Hey! Thanks for clarifying. I do agree that it would need to be completely written, though I'm not sure where to start since finding sources for a general product not made by one specific company is harder than say finding sources for a video game. ― Blaze WolfTalkBlaze Wolf#6545 16:37, 12 January 2023 (UTC)
Rejection of Alicevision
[edit]Hi Tagishsimon,
Would you be able to give more details on why the submission of Draft:AliceVision was rejected? I believe that @BMaujean addressed the concerns raised previously and I have edited out the non-notable references. No one has yet replied to @BMaujean's points and I think that it now meets Wikipedia:Notability. Many thanks Pluke (talk) 09:48, 11 January 2023 (UTC)
- Hi @Tagishsimon , apologies for chasing, would you be able to outline your reasoning so we can try and fix things? Alicevision has now been downgraded from "declined with points to work on" to "rejected". There is more discussion about the editing process that this article has gone through, here. Many thanks Pluke (talk) 11:38, 16 January 2023 (UTC)
- Hi @Tagishsimon, would you be able to look at the above? Pluke (talk) 13:20, 23 January 2023 (UTC)
Women in Red in February 2023
[edit]![]()
Tip of the month:
Other ways to participate:
|
--Lajmmoore (talk) 07:30, 30 January 2023 (UTC) via MassMessaging
Re: Magali Carrasquillo
[edit]Thanks 4 letting me know! God bless! Antonio Retro Super Martin (aha?) 22:01, February 7, 2023 (UTC)
Women in Red March 2023
[edit]![]()
See also:
Tip of the month:
Other ways to participate:
|
--Lajmmoore (talk) 12:55, 26 February 2023 (UTC) via MassMessaging
Women in Red April 2023
[edit]![]()
See also:
Tip of the month:
Other ways to participate:
|
--Lajmmoore (talk) MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 07:53, 27 March 2023 (UTC) via MassMessaging
Women in Red May 2023
[edit]![]()
See also:
Tip of the month:
Other ways to participate:
|
--Lajmmoore (talk) 18:30, 27 April 2023 (UTC) via MassMessaging
Grantala and Figuig
[edit]You have been recommended to me as someone who knows how Wikidata works. Please will you resolve a duplication of Wikidata pages?
Q5630359 is linked to HMAS Grantala, and to corresponding articles on the Farsi and Polish Wikipedias, and to Media related to Grantala (ship, 1903) at Wikimedia Commons. However, the French Wikipedia article fr:Figuig (paquebot de 1916), which is about the same ship, is linked to a different Wikidata page Q109037792. This prevents linking the French article to the English, Farsi and Polish ones, or to the Commons category.
I have tried to understand how Wikidata works, but it has defeated me. Please will you either (a) fix the problem or (b) teach me how to? Thankyou, Motacilla (talk) 10:31, 8 May 2023 (UTC)
- @Motacilla I have merged the two Wikidata items so that all articles are linked Q5630359. Oronsay (talk) 21:57, 25 May 2023 (UTC)
- Thankyou! Motacilla (talk) 06:57, 19 June 2023 (UTC)
A barnstar for you!
[edit]![]() |
The Special Barnstar |
Thank you for editing in solidarity and for equality, having firm boundaries and high standards Srsval (talk) 09:01, 25 May 2023 (UTC) |
Women in Red - June 2023
[edit]![]()
See also:
Tip of the month:
Other ways to participate:
|
--Lajmmoore (talk) 09:17, 28 May 2023 (UTC) via MassMessaging
Women in Red July 2023
[edit]![]()
Tip of the month:
Other ways to participate:
|
--Lajmmoore (talk) 07:44, 27 June 2023 (UTC) via MassMessaging
Women in Red 8th Anniversary
[edit]![]() |
Women in Red 8th Anniversary |
In July 2015 around 15.5% of the English Wikipedia's biographies were about women. As of July 2023, 19.61% of the English Wikipedia's biographies are about women. That's a lot of biographies created in the effort to close the gender gap. Happy 8th Anniversary! Join us for some virtual cake and add comments or memories and please keep on editing to close the gap! |
--Lajmmoore (talk) 11:02, 18 July 2023 (UTC) via MassMessaging
Tristan Tate draft article
[edit]You said Tristan Tate is not notable in his own right - I am certainly no fan of him or his brother, I just wanted to see more about him and found myself unable to, but surely having over 2 million followers makes him more notable than many personalities currently on Wikipedia? User9901873674 (talk) 17:00, 22 July 2023 (UTC)
Women in Red August 2023
[edit]![]()
See also:
Tip of the month:
Other ways to participate:
|
--Lajmmoore (talk) 19:26, 28 July 2023 (UTC) via MassMessaging
September 2023 at Women in Red
[edit]![]()
Tip of the month:
Other ways to participate:
|
--Victuallers (talk) 16:59, 25 August 2023 (UTC) via MassMessaging
draft article
[edit]please draft article this move to the main room. Thank You.Jhonblvk (talk) 10:47, 26 September 2023 (UTC)
Draft Meet the Baron article
[edit]I am not sure where to post this, so I figured I would do it here. I feel, since novels by Creasey of the same importance have got articles, this one has also enough notability; also, what novel that has 49 sequels is not notable? This is my first article on Wikipedia, and if I am getting anything wrong, I would like you, here, to tell me plain and simply, what it is, and I shall try to fix it. Thank you, and do not try to get it deleted. 2603:6081:F05:7700:8C37:6404:3A43:39F7 (talk) 19:05, 27 September 2023 (UTC)
This review of the service by an an American magazine and this one from a French magazine meet NCORP. Both describe the company in detail, are independent, and compare the prices offered to other travel agencies, going above PR for original analysis. Sorry to bother you Mach61 (talk) 22:30, 27 September 2023 (UTC)
AfC review
[edit]Hello, as an fellow AfC reviewer, I noticed one of your reviews seem to be against reviewing instructions. On your decline reason on Draft:Amel Younis, you wrote that wikilinks to Palestine, Racice, Worcester, American and Irish all go to disambiguation pages. You need to change these to point to the pages which represent whatever concept the word represents.
While you are correct, sub-optimal wikilink formatting should never be a sole reason to decline a submission. See Wikipedia:AFCSTANDARDS. Thanks, Ca talk to me! 11:24, 28 September 2023 (UTC)
Women in Red October 2023
[edit]![]()
See also
Tip of the month:
Other ways to participate:
|
--Lajmmoore (talk) 10:54, 29 September 2023 (UTC) via MassMessaging
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/5f/Ambox_warning_orange.svg/48px-Ambox_warning_orange.svg.png)
The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Junlper (2nd nomination) until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.
Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article until the discussion has finished.
Paragon Deku (talk) 16:16, 11 October 2023 (UTC)
ITN recognition for Chuck Feeney
[edit]On 11 October 2023, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Chuck Feeney, which you updated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. Ad Orientem (talk) 22:56, 11 October 2023 (UTC)
Women in Red - November 2023
[edit]![]()
See also Tip of the month:
Other ways to participate:
|
--Lajmmoore (talk) 08:23, 26 October 2023 (UTC) via MassMessaging
Review
[edit]Hello Tagishsimon, Your invaluable contributions to this draft will be highly appreciated. Your insightful reviews, suggestions, and corrections to help us improve the quality and accuracy of this content. Thank you for your time and commitment to enhance the quality of Wikipedia. Best regards. Brogonee (talk) 00:13, 27 October 2023 (UTC) Brogonee (talk) 00:20, 27 October 2023 (UTC)
Speedy deletion nomination of Category:1795 Riots
[edit]![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/15/Ambox_warning_pn.svg/48px-Ambox_warning_pn.svg.png)
A tag has been placed on Category:1795 Riots indicating that it is currently empty, and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion. If it remains empty for seven days or more, it may be deleted under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion.
If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and removing the speedy deletion tag. Liz Read! Talk! 17:04, 28 October 2023 (UTC)
November Articles for creation backlog drive
[edit]![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/AFC-Logo.svg/75px-AFC-Logo.svg.png)
Hello Tagishsimon:
WikiProject Articles for creation is holding a month long Backlog Drive!
The goal of this drive is to reduce the backlog of unreviewed drafts to less than 2 months outstanding reviews from the current 4+ months. Bonus points will be given for reviewing drafts that have been waiting more than 30 days. The drive is running from 1 November 2023 through 30 November 2023.
You may find Category:AfC pending submissions by age or other categories and sorting helpful.
Barnstars will be given out as awards at the end of the drive.
Your reply on paid editing at the Teahouse
[edit]Hi, Simon. I've come here to acknowledge you for what you said to OCathail at the Teahouse. I considered replying there to support you, but I decided that it would only fan the flame more. But I wanted you to know that I agree with you. ColinFine (talk) 16:32, 9 November 2023 (UTC)
Checking to see if you intend to respond
[edit]Hi Tagishsimon,
Please forgive the intrusion, but I’m not sure if you noticed the multiple times I pinged you in my replies, and I wanted to follow up with the discussion you initiated on my talk page, specifically for clarification on what you considered to be “useless”. Thanks! Funtrucker (talk) 23:55, 12 November 2023 (UTC)
- Tagishsimon never responds to this page. I asked him multiple times about a review decision, private messaged him and tagged him into conversations. By never heard a thing. Pluke (talk) 07:43, 13 November 2023 (UTC)
Talk page responses
[edit]Hi, I just want to comment on the lack of responses on inquiries raised on your talk page. Obviously, there are some NOTHERE editors who doesn't need a response, but I see a lot of good faith queries that went unreplied to. Since a duty of a AfC reviewer is to respond in a timely manner to questions about their reviews
, I think a more consistent responses are warranted. Thanks, Ca talk to me! 13:11, 13 November 2023 (UTC)
A brownie for you!
[edit]![]() |
Here, take this brownie for having to deal with that guy's incivility. ~WikiOriginal-9~ (talk) 01:50, 18 November 2023 (UTC) |
I just found the list of the executive committee for WIDF from 1953. Should we add a note? SusunW (talk) 18:37, 23 November 2023 (UTC)
Women in Red December 2023
[edit]![]()
Tip of the month:
Other ways to participate:
|
--Lajmmoore (talk) 20:24, 27 November 2023 (UTC) via MassMessaging
ArbCom 2023 Elections voter message
[edit]Hello! Voting in the 2023 Arbitration Committee elections is now open until 23:59 (UTC) on Monday, 11 December 2023. All eligible users are allowed to vote. Users with alternate accounts may only vote once.
The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.
If you wish to participate in the 2023 election, please review the candidates and submit your choices on the voting page. If you no longer wish to receive these messages, you may add {{NoACEMM}}
to your user talk page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:20, 28 November 2023 (UTC)
Hi need your help
[edit]hi. in a main reference date is mentioned as 1896 to 1938. which is like 42 to 43. but Jeraxmoira is being brutally unkind to me. from day first he's rejecting everything I'm mentioned unfortunately our resources sides can't be same as western one. but he raise objection almost everything. I need your assistance 🥲 SaneFlint (talk) 11:44, 29 November 2023 (UTC)
Teahouse hosting
[edit]Hi Tagishsimon. I noticed your exchange here at the Teahouse. While I think you have a point regarding the removal of those sentences, I have to say that I found your tone incredibly bitey. Newcomers are often quite hesitant to make edits out of fear of doing the wrong thing, and while we do want to gently guide them in the right direction, that needs to come along with encouragement to WP:BEBOLD. Comments like Who died and made you king?
go diametrically against the environment we are trying to foster there. Please take a moment to review the Teahouse host expectations; if you do not feel you can meet them, your efforts may be better directed to other areas of the project. {{u|Sdkb}} talk 05:52, 5 December 2023 (UTC)
Solita (company) page declined again
[edit]Hi! I now got the time to make a whole new article about the Finnish technology company Solita. Also found some interesting research sources etc., and wrote the article based on them. However, now it got declined again, and the editor who declined it, has a note on his/her talk page, that one may not want to post a question there as he/she won't answer. Could you check the page and tell, why it got declined again? Would really appreciate it! 88.112.164.155 (talk) 14:24, 7 December 2023 (UTC)
A hug for you!
[edit]![]() |
A hug for you! |
Thank you for the help in the tea house 50tr5 (talk) 23:33, 12 December 2023 (UTC) |
Nari Shakti Puraskar
[edit]Hi Tagishsimon, if we've had contact before it would prob have been over at Women in Red. I'd like to better categorise pictures on wikicommons of recipients of the Nari Shakti Puraskarby year, so I'm making for example "Category:Recipients of the 2017 Nari Shakti Puraskar". However, having started on that I notice there's already "Category:Nari Shakti Puraskar winners" which seems to be autocreated from the wikidata in the relevant infobox. What I'm thinking is to put the recipients by year category inside the winners category, but because it's autocreated I don't know how to do that. Category:Anita Bharadwaj provides an example of this. Any ideas since you are a wikidata whiz? Thanks! Mujinga (talk) 13:37, 15 December 2023 (UTC)
Shungite article
[edit]Thanks for spending time and energy dealing with that editor, much appreciated. Mikenorton (talk) 13:30, 16 December 2023 (UTC)
Newspaper links
[edit]Apologies for switching the Newspaper links on Ben Rhydding Hydro - I run that as an AWB script and totally missed that those were commented out. Sorry to inconvenience you. PCN02WPS (talk | contribs) 20:21, 16 December 2023 (UTC)
Notice of Fringe Theories Noticeboard discussion
[edit] There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Fringe theories/Noticeboard regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The discussion is about the topic Shungite. Thank you. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 22:25, 17 December 2023 (UTC)
Seasons Greetings!
[edit]![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/06/Santa_with_musical_instruments.jpg/130px-Santa_with_musical_instruments.jpg)
Hello there, thanks for all of your contributions to Wikipedia! Wishing you a Very Merry Christmas and here's to a happy and productive 2024! ♦ Dr. Blofeld 19:59, 18 December 2023 (UTC)
regarding draft
[edit]re: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Merlin_Sheldrake
thank you for explaining/ comments - the entire section has been removed accordingly. Science and such (talk) 16:28, 21 December 2023 (UTC)
Merry Christmas
[edit]![Christmas postcard featuring Santa Claus using a zeppelin to deliver gifts, by Ellen Clapsaddle, 1909](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/40/Zeppelin_Christmas_postcard_1909.jpg/600px-Zeppelin_Christmas_postcard_1909.jpg)
Hello Tagishsimon: Enjoy the holiday season and winter solstice if it's occurring in your area of the world, and thanks for your work to maintain, improve and expand Wikipedia. Cheers, --Dustfreeworld (talk) 13:34, 25 December 2023 (UTC)
Deayoga
[edit]Hey—just wanted to mention from this conversation that I think we need to assume good faith here and not bite the newcomers.
The word "erect" is not only used in inappropriate contexts; it's also defined as to "construct (a building, wall, or other upright structure)" according to Google. I'd argue that, in both this edit and this edit, the user was simply trying to remove repetition of forms of the word "build" and vary the language a bit with a synonym. I will say, though, that the latter edit, while technically correct, is definitely less common and more likely to be interpreted inappropriately.
Overall, I just think a nicer tone is needed here, especially considering this new user hasn't technically done anything too wrong from a linguistical standpoint. Bsoyka (talk) 06:48, 26 December 2023 (UTC)
Just
[edit]Thank you 46.211.98.60 (talk) 18:17, 26 December 2023 (UTC)
Scottish Rivers network diagram
[edit]Hi, I have been playing a bit more with your Scottish Rivers network diagram, mentioned on the Lussa Hydro-Electric Scheme talk page. Positioning the map over Southend, at the bottom of the Kintyre Peninsula, I get the four lines. If I scroll the map to the left, I get the four lines re-drawn where Southend now is, but also a copy where Southend was, before I scrolled. It then seems to remember that position, because a bit more scrolling, and the three sets of four lines are drawn where Southend is, where is was after the first scroll, and where it was originally. It feels like you need a "Clear" somewhere, to erase the previous set of lines, though I have no idea how this all works. Bob1960evens (talk) 12:36, 28 December 2023 (UTC)
AGF and scam victims
[edit]Hi, Tagishsimon. I think you were a little uncharitable to JimmyT1967 at the Teahouse. Unfortunately, there is a very widespread misconception that Wikipedia is a suitable place to publicise oneself or one's activities: if this weren't so, we wouldn't get the hundreds and hundreds of people coming here to do just that every day. Given that - the fact that many many people do not realise that there is anything wrong in using Wikipedia for promotion - I find your hostility towards somebody who was considering paying for this service rather unkind. ColinFine (talk) 14:51, 28 December 2023 (UTC)
- Looking at the several similar messages above, dating from the other day back to 2018, I don't think he's going to reply. :/ sawyer * he/they * talk 21:29, 28 December 2023 (UTC)
Women in Red January 2024
[edit]![]() ![]()
Announcement
Tip of the month:
Other ways to participate:
|
--Lajmmoore (talk) 20:19, 28 December 2023 (UTC) via MassMessaging
ANI thread
[edit]Hi Tagishimon, just letting you know I’ve opened a thread regarding your teahouse conduct at WP:ANI. Thanks. Cynidens (talk) 23:33, 28 December 2023 (UTC)
Draft:Hypra
[edit]Hi Tagishimon,
citations dont reference Hypra directly, but as Hypra is a branch off Ethereum the citations about the technology is still valid, as they are inherited from the underlaying project. It is incorrect to classify it as a "full-on WP:SYNTHspam" and "bullshit-citing"
TagKnife (talk) 13:34, 29 December 2023 (UTC)
Scottish Rivers network diagram 2
[edit]Hi @Tagishsimon: I just came across your network diagram. Its really handy for checking the basin areas for Scottiah lochs. I had a real problem working that out the basin areas for each loch and the map shows it exactly. Id contacted the Scottish water agency dudes last year and they gave me a dataset but it needed work to get into shape and they said they would fix but they never got back. I was planning to give them another try this year sometime, in an effort to catch all those small lochs that don't have the basin categories. Its really hard to identify. I do a couple of loch articles every few weeks to keep the thing moving and thought it would be real hassle to get the right cats sorted. This fixes that. Its a real boon. Great work. scope_creepTalk 20:11, 29 December 2023 (UTC)
ANI
[edit]The discussion about your refusal to communicate with concerns expressed about your contributions at Teahouse has been archived without a response from you. I'm going to ask you not to contribute at Teahouse for now. Valereee (talk) 16:53, 2 January 2024 (UTC)
- @Valereee: Unfortunately, that's already happened with Tagishsimon once again being somewhat confrontational with another editor. As such, I have unarchived the discussion. —Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 01:21, 3 January 2024 (UTC)
Hi Tagishsimon, as an uninvolved administrator, I would ask you to participate in, and reply to, the discussion and concerns raised at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#Tagishsimon - section break. It would be strongly preferred if you action this prior to returning to reply to topics at the Teahouse, considering the subject matter of the discussion at ANI. Thanks, Daniel (talk) 03:48, 3 January 2024 (UTC)
- I'm going to up the ante a bit and suggest you really need to address the concerns at ANI, otherwise you run the risk of getting topic banned from the Teahouse. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 12:23, 3 January 2024 (UTC)
- As another uninvolved administrator, I was waiting to give you a chance to respond to this, now archived, ANI thread about concerns over your interactions with other editors - especially newbies at the Teahouse. You seem to have gone remarkably quite since the thread was opened, and it was specifically left open in the hope that you would respond to it. However, it was archived before my intended plan to close in a couple of days time. But I thought it might help if I were to post here what I had planned to say.
Tagishsimon's failure to WP:ENGAGE over concerns expressed over their incivility or WP:BITEY engagement with new editors has been noted. During the course of this thread they were indefinitely blocked from editing at The Teahouse by Valereee. There seems little point in keeping this thread open, though it may be referred to in any future concerns about unwillingness to communicate or in discussions about behavioural concerns.
- Whilst I don't recollect having any negative interactions with you myself, I do hope you will consider how important it is not to put off new editors by making sarcastic or even arrogant and insulting remarks about their lack of understanding. I support Valereee's partial block from the Teahouse, and encourage you to consider all aspects of how you engage with other editors in the future. Best wishes, Nick Moyes (talk) 13:54, 11 January 2024 (UTC)
January 2024
[edit]![Stop icon](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/42/Stop_x_nuvola.svg/40px-Stop_x_nuvola.svg.png)
{{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}
. Valereee (talk) 12:48, 3 January 2024 (UTC)Can you please...
[edit]...archive your talk page? It's well over 450 kilobytes, and as WP:TALKCOND says: As a rule of thumb, archive closed discussions when a talk page exceeds 75 KB in wikitext or has numerous resolved or stale discussions
. The 🏎 Corvette 🏍 ZR1(The Garage) 22:26, 3 January 2024 (UTC)
- EEng might soon have a competitor... 👀 Ca talk to me! 07:48, 7 January 2024 (UTC)
- if you want to be pedantic, there are 345 threads here as of this revision, while eeng's has 298 as of this revision
- eeng's just has more average things per thread, and eeng makes edits there sometimes cogsan (nag me) (stalk me) 17:09, 8 January 2024 (UTC)
Draft:Convent of Santa Maria del Gesù (Oppido Lucano)
[edit]Hi, I apologize for the intrusion but this draft is in progress: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Convent_of_Santa_Maria_del_Ges%C3%B9_(Oppido_Lucano), it has been ready for almost a month, can you do something about it? speed up the ''revision'' process of the same? Or ask another administrator? Thanks in advance for the reply. GiovAngri (talk) 19:41, 13 January 2024 (UTC)
Women in Red February 2024
[edit]![]()
Announcement
Tip of the month:
Other ways to participate:
|
--Lajmmoore (talk 20:11, 28 January 2024 (UTC) via MassMessaging
Women in Red March 2024
[edit]![]()
Announcements
Tip of the month:
Other ways to participate:
|
--Lajmmoore (talk 20:24, 25 February 2024 (UTC) via MassMessaging
Women in Red April 2024
[edit]![]()
Announcements
Tip of the month:
Other ways to participate:
|
--Lajmmoore (talk 19:43, 30 March 2024 (UTC) via MassMessaging
"Dale Becker" listed at Redirects for discussion
[edit]
The redirect Dale Becker has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Anyone, including you, is welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2024 April 16 § Dale Becker until a consensus is reached. jlwoodwa (talk) 01:49, 16 April 2024 (UTC)
Women in Red May 2024
[edit]![]()
Announcements from other communities
Tip of the month:
Other ways to participate:
|
--Lajmmoore (talk 06:18, 28 April 2024 (UTC) via MassMessaging
please review
[edit]hi @Tagishsimon
please review following page
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ram_Ingole
thank yoy Jfje1 (talk) 04:51, 18 May 2024 (UTC)
Women in Red June 2024
[edit]![]()
Announcements from other communities
Tip of the month:
Other ways to participate:
|
--Lajmmoore (talk 07:06, 23 May 2024 (UTC) via MassMessaging
Women in Red August 2024
[edit]![]()
Announcements from other communities
Tip of the month:
Other ways to participate:
|
--Lajmmoore (talk 14:29, 30 June 2024 (UTC) via MassMessaging
Category:Scottish noblewomen has been nominated for renaming
[edit]![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/5f/Ambox_warning_orange.svg/48px-Ambox_warning_orange.svg.png)
Category:Scottish noblewomen has been nominated for renaming. A discussion is taking place to decide whether it complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. Mason (talk) 16:46, 14 July 2024 (UTC)
Women in Red August 2024
[edit]![]()
Announcements from other communities
Tip of the month:
Other ways to participate:
|
--Lajmmoore (talk 19:59, 25 July 2024 (UTC) via MassMessaging
Concern regarding Draft:Frederick Woodward Blanchard
[edit] Hello, Tagishsimon. This is a bot-delivered message letting you know that Draft:Frederick Woodward Blanchard, a page you created, has not been edited in at least 5 months. Drafts that have not been edited for six months may be deleted, so if you wish to retain the page, please edit it again or request that it be moved to your userspace.
If the page has already been deleted, you can request it be undeleted so you can continue working on it.
Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia. FireflyBot (talk) 22:06, 26 July 2024 (UTC)
Your draft article, Draft:Frederick Woodward Blanchard
[edit]![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/1d/Information_icon4.svg/48px-Information_icon4.svg.png)
Hello, Tagishsimon. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or draft page you started, "Frederick Woodward Blanchard".
In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material, the draft has been deleted. When you plan on working on it further and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.
Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Liz Read! Talk! 21:27, 24 August 2024 (UTC)