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New Page Review Newsletter No.10

Hello 力, thank you for your work reviewing New Pages!
Notability
General notability guideline
Subject-specific guidelines
See also

ACTRIAL:

  • ACTRIAL's six month experiment restricting new page creation to (auto)confirmed users ended on 14 March. As expected, a greatly increased number of unsuitable articles and candidates for deletion are showing up in the feed again, and the backlog has since increased already by ~30%. Please consider reviewing a few extra articles each day.

Paid editing

  • Now that ACTRIAL is inoperative pending discussion, please be sure to look for tell-tale signs of undisclosed paid editing. Contact the creator if appropriate, and submit the issue to WP:COIN if necessary.

Subject-specific notability guidelines

Nominate competent users for Autopatrolled

  • While patrolling articles, if you find an editor that is particularly competent at creating quality new articles, and that user has created more than 25 articles (rather than stubs), consider nominating them for the 'Autopatrolled' user right HERE.

News

  • The next issue Wikipedia's newspaper The Signpost has now been published after a long delay. There are some articles in it, including ACTRIAL wrap-up that will be of special interest to New Page Reviewers. Don't hesitate to contribute to the comments sections. The Signpost is one of the best ways to stay up date with news and new developments - please consider subscribing to it. All editors of Wikipedia and associated projects are welcome to submit articles on any topic for consideration by the The Signpost's editorial team for the next issue.
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Tech News: 2018-14

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

  • Template Wizard script available for testing. It will show up as a puzzle-piece icon in the 2010 WikiEditor. You can click on the icon to insert a template.
  • Advanced item The Wikimedia Communities and Contributors survey is to be sent to participants around the world this week. If you are volunteer developer, and have contributed code to any pieces of MediaWiki, gadgets, or tools, please take 20 to 40 minutes to complete the survey.

Problems

  • MediaWiki deployment train has been rolled back to version 1.31.0-wmf.26 on week 13, due to a multiplication of lost connections during MySQL queries. Some of the recent changes may have not been applied. They will be deployed next week. [1][2][3]
  • The Notifications badge icons were overlapping other links. This has been fixed. [4]

Changes later this week

  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 3 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 4 April. It will be on all wikis from 5 April (calendar).
  • Advanced item User subpages ending in .json will now be protected from other people editing them, like .js and .css pages already are. If you have a tool that stores static configuration, you can now use a subpage like User:Example/mygadget.json to do this without concerns. [5]
  • Advanced item Tidy will be replaced by RemexHtml on the next set of wikis. On April 4, we plan to turn off Tidy on all Wikiquotes (except frwikiquote) and Wikimedia chapters and user groups wikis. 23 wikis will have Tidy replaced this time. [6][7][8]
  • Advanced item AbuseFilter will transition to use OOUI starting April 4, and the rule editor will also be changed to a CodeEditor (ACE) similar to what is found on user JavaScript pages. The move to OOUI will continue over the next few weeks. [9] [10]
  • In Special:Preferences, the preference "Reload the watchlist automatically whenever a filter is changed (JavaScript required)" is now only visible for users who have opt-out the New Filters for the Watchlist. [11]
  • You can see names of individual abuse filters in Special:AbuseLog. Now if the name of an abuse filter contains some wikisyntax like links, it will not change to a link when displayed. [12]
  • You can now search through filter patterns at Special:AbuseFilter. You may specify either a plain string or a regular expression and the matching filters will show a snippet of their pattern with the match highlighted. [13]

Meetings

  • Recurrent item You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 3 April at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
  • Recurrent item Advanced item You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 4 April at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • If you're using, creating or improving Lua modules, you can give your feedback to help harmonizing the modules across wikis and add more useful functions.
  • Advanced item On April 11th, we plan to turn off Tidy on all wikis with less than 50 entries in all high priority linter categories. About 60 wikis will have Tidy replaced. Currently about 600 wikis have had Tidy replaced and we have another 300 wikis to go. We plan to finish this transition from Tidy to RemexHtml by end of June 2018. Please follow T175706 to monitor progress of Tidy replacement. [14][15]

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19:28, 2 April 2018 (UTC)

Psychologists for social change

Why did you delete the article I created? This is an important social policy thinktank in the UK, who have made significant publications to inform government policy, and represent a very large number of qualified clinical psychologists - I'm not a member, but I created the article as a clinical psychologist in the UK who has specialist knowledge of this topic and thought it was a very important omission to wikipedia not to mention them.

To give it some context, the ACP (association of clinical psychologists) is about to split away from the British Psychological Society (on which you have a page) to represent the 10,000 applied clinicians, leaving the BPS as an academic learned society, and psychologists for social change is an important group that spans the two but is there to speak out from the psychological evidence base on policy issues. I suspect wikipedia should eventually have a page on all three, but the vote for clinical psychologists to move en masse from the BPS to the ACP hasn't happened yet. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tegmim (talk • contribs) 21:19, 5 April 2018 (UTC)

I can't check the article myself to know for sure, but I probably did because it was written in a promotional way, with no secondary sources that attested to notability. This appears to be a minor advocacy group, and I'm unsure why the ACP or BPS are at all relevant here. power~enwiki (π, ν) 19:23, 8 April 2018 (UTC)

Another bad close

If you want to talk about the merits of the article, do so at the AfD; though I doubt it will be productive at this time. power~enwiki (π, ν) 00:30, 9 April 2018 (UTC)

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

Power, I know you want to walk the walk and look like an admin, but this is another bad close. You aren't an admin. You cannot declare a WP:SNOW close on something the day it is nominated when two voters supported a merge. Will it be closed any other way? Probably not, but, like I said, it is inappropriate for a non-admin to make that call at such a juncture.TheGracefulSlick (talk) 19:37, 8 April 2018 (UTC)

I disagree with basically everything you say, but the rules are clear about contested and possibly controversial closes, so I'll revert. I expect an admin will re-close it within 24 hours. power~enwiki (π, ν) 19:39, 8 April 2018 (UTC)
You diagree with everything I said, yet reopened the discussion because of reasons I said. Alrighty! I was not trying to sound harsh. You have a much better chance at being an admin than I. Far more people hate me ;) TheGracefulSlick (talk) 19:50, 8 April 2018 (UTC)
How can anyone hate someone named Grace Slick? Well, she did take part in: We built this city. O3000 (talk) 20:12, 8 April 2018 (UTC)
I would "pile on" here to caution Power that they should not have closed this. First, it was not eligible for SNOW treatment as there were six keep !votes, one delete-or-merge (the nominator), and one merge. So it was not true that it had only a "snowball's chance in hell" of any outcome but keep. Second, the discussion had only been open for twelve hours (!) - not even one full round of the global clock, excluding up to half of interested Wikepedians from even seeing it. Third, a discussion as divided as this one should probably not be closed by a non-admin, even if had been open for the regulation amount of time. NACs are for where the outcome is obvious, and this outcome wasn't. Please don't make a habit of this kind of reckless close. --MelanieN (talk) 20:29, 8 April 2018 (UTC)
Every time there's a shooting or vehicle attack in Europe, we get the exact same AfD discussion, and nothing ever happens. It's clear I closed it too early, but I do still expect a snow close within the next 24 hours. power~enwiki (π, ν) 20:34, 8 April 2018 (UTC)
If I may, that’s a problem with AfDs these days. RECENTISM and NOTNEWS need stronger language, IMO. AfDs result in keep far too often, partly because there are those that want additions that they think support some view that they have. It’s not just about inclusionism vs. exclusionism. It’s about filling the site with articles that they like for one reason or another. But, an encyclopedia is not meant to be an all-inclusive source. It’s meant for information that is likely to stand the test of time. O3000 (talk) 00:26, 9 April 2018 (UTC)
That's a bit too philosophical for my taste. There's simply no consensus for any reasonable way to handle these articles as they are created. The discussion results after a few months are generally reasonable and reflect those opinions. power~enwiki (π, ν) 00:30, 9 April 2018 (UTC)

As a final comment: I invoke "just being back from vacation" for forgetting my normal rule of thumb, which is to wait for two SNOW votes before making a SNOW close of an AfD. power~enwiki (π, ν) 00:30, 9 April 2018 (UTC)

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

Tech News: 2018-15

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

  • Some pages have templates that describe problems with that article. There is now more information for mobile readers and what is wrong with the article and how they could help fix it. [16]
  • You can now thank users for many more actions than edits to a page. This was one of the top ten requests in the Wishlist Survey last year. [17]
  • The sort order of categories will have errors for a short time starting Monday 9 April (UTC). We are upgrading versions of an internationalisation library (ICU) and using a script to update the database. This will take between a few hours and a few days depending on wiki size. You can read more details. [18]
  • Tag filter titles will now work better on wikis where the tag filter title is in a language that is written in another direction than the language of that wiki. This could for example be an English title (written from left to right) on a Hebrew or an Arabic wiki (written from right to left). [19]

Problems

  • The bookmark icon for saved filters on the recent changes page disappeared because of new icon changes. This has now been fixed. [20]
  • For a week in March rollbacks got both the rollback and the undo tag on the recent changes page and other pages where you see tags. This has now been fixed. [21]

Changes later this week

  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 10 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 11 April. It will be on all wikis from 12 April (calendar).
  • Patrolled edits now have three states instead of two. Recent changes filters are updated to show unpatrolled, autopatrolled and manually patrolled edits. [22]

Meetings

  • Recurrent item You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 10 April at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
  • Recurrent item Advanced item You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 11 April at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

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18:08, 9 April 2018 (UTC)

A new article about PMO

Thank you for your help on Planned Maintenance Optimization I will move it to a draft and will edit it there, I only recently found out and understand the principles of drafts in wiki.Gina Kano (talk) 04:12, 12 April 2018 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Acharya Indu Prakash

Hi, I'm curious if this AfD closing was appropriate or not. If it were me, I would have requested speedy deletion of the redirect. --Saqib (talk) 15:31, 10 April 2018 (UTC)

The redirect was deleted when I closed it; however, the author has moved it back to article space, and then back to draft a second time. I think re-deleting the redirect is still appropriate for now (and I'll comment on Spiritualbanda's talk page), if it happens again I'll let an admin handle it (to possibly salt the title). power~enwiki (π, ν) 15:34, 10 April 2018 (UTC)
Okay & I believe the result should have been bit more clearer for future reference. Maybe "delete and Draft-ify" ? --Saqib (talk) 16:00, 10 April 2018 (UTC)

Hi please tell me actual reason for removing the page? Notability or Cross name space? if it is cross namespace then please tell me what is it? or else if it is gng then I make you very much clear. He is popular and very influential astrologer.--Spiritualbanda (talk) 05:23, 12 April 2018 (UTC)

Sovereign Money Initiative

For your information, see Swiss sovereign money referendum, 2018 and Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Swiss sovereign money referendum, 2018.
Adèle Fisher (talk) 15:57, 13 April 2018 (UTC).

NPR Bronze Award

The New Page Reviewer's Bronze Award

For over 1000 new page reviews in the last year, thank you very much for your help at New Pages Patrol! — Insertcleverphrasehere (or here) 23:59, 13 April 2018 (UTC)

History of Poland

Why don´t you simply correct the improper English into proper English in my editing of the above article instead to undo it? I guess your English as natove speaker is as good as my German as native speaker. Why hiding such important informations instead to correct the wording? Austrianbird (talk) 09:30, 14 April 2018 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2018-16

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Changes later this week

  • Profiling statistics for an abuse filter tell how often edits match the filter. The statistics for the abuse filters were reset after 10000 actions. Wikis can now decide to reset it more or less often. They can file a phabricator task to do so. [23]
  • Advanced item Abuse filters will now treat integers and floats more precisely. For example, 5/2 was rounded down to 2 but will now be 2.5 and 2*4 will be the integer 8 and not the floating-point number 8.0. Division values are the only ones changed. For the rest only strict comparisons (=== and !==) will be affected leaving the values unchanged. [24][25]
  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 April. It will be on all wikis from 19 April (calendar).

Meetings

  • Recurrent item You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 17 April at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
  • Recurrent item Advanced item You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 18 April at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

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15:21, 16 April 2018 (UTC)

11:58:07, 19 April 2018 review of submission by 204.155.226.109


Thanks for taking the time to review the proposed Hipster Antitrust article. I'd like to follow-up about your comment about a lack of articles about the term. The Wired piece cited (https://www.wired.com/story/orrin-hatch-antitrust-hipster-antitrust/) is specifically about the term itself, and explains its usage and meaning, as opposed to just using it in passing or something. There are also many other sources discussing the term (not just using it). These include:

Bloomberg: ‘Hipster Antitrust’ Comes Under Senate Spotlight

Bloomberg (podcast about the term): ‘Hipsters’ Aim to Turn Back Antitrust Policy 100 Years (Audio)

Competitive Enterprise Institute: Trump the Hipster? AT&T, Time Warner, and Hipster Antitrust

Competition Law Insight: Hipster antitrust - Why the latest buzzword is nothing new

The Hill: ‘Hipster antitrust’ movement is all action, no plan

Slate: No Hipster Antitrust at the FTC

Global Competition Review: EU and US economists differ on innovation and “hipster antitrust”

Additionally, yesterday Competition Policy International published a dedicated issue about Hipster Antitrust, with every article discussing the term, and associated zeitgeist around it.

These are just a small sampling of piece I pulled just now "hipster+antitrust" by searching for "Hipster Antitrust" on Google. There are many other hits of course too, as it has become a very prominent term and discussion point in competition circles.

Given its acceptance both with competition circles, and in the popular press recently, it seems like it should have a Wikipedia page, but I would like to follow Wikipedia standards to make sure there are sufficient citations. Would adding these cites and discussions be sufficient for re-submission?

Thanks. I appreciate your time. -9thermidor (I seem to have forgotten my password).

204.155.226.109 (talk) 11:58, 19 April 2018 (UTC)

FBI raid of Michael Cohen's Office listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect FBI raid of Michael Cohen's Office. Since you had some involvement with the FBI raid of Michael Cohen's Office redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. 198.84.253.202 (talk) 21:49, 19 April 2018 (UTC)

mistake

FYI I just corrected a mistake you made a month ago. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A00:13C8:4000:3:2:212:0:2 (talk) 23:21, 19 April 2018 (UTC)

Signpost help

Hi, thanks for starting the Arbitration Report this month. Will you be able to continue on it? There is a new case request at WP:ARC opened last night or today. ☆ Bri (talk) 16:52, 20 April 2018 (UTC)

@Bri: I won't have time until Sunday, but I plan to update that report (and copy-edit anything not yet copy-edited) then. power~enwiki (π, ν) 17:01, 20 April 2018 (UTC)
That should be fine. Thanks! ☆ Bri (talk) 17:26, 20 April 2018 (UTC)

Invitation to WikiProject Portals

The Portals WikiProject has been rebooted.

You are invited to join, and participate in the effort to revitalize and improve the Portal system and all the portals in it.

There are sections on the WikiProject page dedicated to tasks (including WikiGnome tasks too), and areas on the talk page for discussing the improvement and automation of the various features of portals.

Many complaints have been lodged in the RfC to delete all portals, pointing out their various problems. They say that many portals are not maintained, or have fallen out of date, are useless, etc. Many of the !votes indicate that the editors who posted them simply don't believe in the potential of portals anymore.

It's time to change all that. Let's give them reasons to believe in portals, by revitalizing them.

The best response to a deletion nomination is to fix the page that was nominated. The further underway the effort is to improve portals by the time the RfC has run its course, the more of the reasons against portals will no longer apply. RfCs typically run 30 days. There are 19 days left in this one. Let's see how many portals we can update and improve before the RfC is closed, and beyond.

A healthy WikiProject dedicated to supporting and maintaining portals may be the strongest argument of all not to delete.

We may even surprise ourselves and exceed all expectations. Who knows what we will be able to accomplish in what may become the biggest Wikicollaboration in years.

Let's do this.

See ya at the WikiProject!

Sincerely,    — The Transhumanist   10:24, 21 April 2018 (UTC)

Just a note...

But at the Teahouse, you probably want to dial things back a little bit to...basically just being welcoming and getting them to contributing in a way that gets them past their first few hundred edits. Statistically, that's the biggest hurdle that the vast majority of new users don't ever get past. You don't...necessarily want to jump straight to "write an FA"... because... they don't know what that is and they're not totally sure they care yet. Even if they did, they're at least a year off from even trying, even if they're particularly gifted. And...leading off with "treacherous bureaucracy" isn't necessarily a great way to welcome someone into the community. GMGtalk 02:49, 23 April 2018 (UTC)

I felt it was a reasonable goal compared to "I have 4 edits and am dying of cancer and want to be an admin". If they know enough to know what an admin is, I think starting on an FA is reasonable. power~enwiki (π, ν) 02:52, 23 April 2018 (UTC)
Umm...Yes, but you're looking at it from the perspective of someone who understands Wikipedia, and not someone who doesn't. Most people at the Teahouse are there because Hostbot invited them, because they're new, and they have no idea what they're doing, and often don't really understand the meanings of the words they're using in a technical Wikipedia sense. Someone who knows what an admin is, doesn't show up to the Teahouse in their fourth edit and asks to be an admin. Trust me, this question comes up about once every two or three weeks. Most of them mean well, and are just asking how to get more involved. A good portion of them don't yet understand that we're volunteers and not employees. GMGtalk 03:01, 23 April 2018 (UTC)
I still think that strongly encouraging that type of user to work on improving articles is the correct approach. Beyond that, there's a reason I generally avoid the Teahouse, feel free to ask on IRC if it's somehow unclear why. power~enwiki (π, ν) 03:03, 23 April 2018 (UTC)
It's an exercise in empathy, to the point where sometimes I write the same comment three times before I post it. But it requires being keenly aware of how you were yourself when you were on your fourth edit. GMGtalk 03:13, 23 April 2018 (UTC)

Regarding article Lau Ah Kok

May I know why have you tagged the article Lau Ah Kok as not notable? And how do the references may not meet the criteria for reliable sources?Zulfadli51 (talk) 05:24, 23 April 2018 (UTC)

The references are largely obituaries, and founding a chain of 9 grocery stores isn't sufficiently important to automatically pass the notability guidelines. I do think it would probably survive a deletion discussion, but am not 100% certain. power~enwiki (π, ν) 05:27, 23 April 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-17

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

  • All Wikipedias now have Page Previews.
  • The iOS and Android apps now have synced reading lists. This means you can save articles to a private list that can be seen on your other devices if you use the apps.
  • The icons in the 2010 wikitext editor have changed. [28]
  • The visual editor and the 2017 wikitext ask you to write an edit summary after you press Publish. This button now also shows an ellipsis. This is to show that pressing Publish is not the last step. [29]

Changes later this week

  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 24 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 25 April. It will be on all wikis from 26 April (calendar).

Meetings

  • Recurrent item You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 24 April at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
  • Recurrent item Advanced item You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 25 April at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • <mapframe> will come to most Wikipedias in May. This means that you can put interactive maps in the articles. Nine Wikipedias that use a strict version of flagged revisions will not get this feature in May. [30]
  • The rollback function could change. This was a German community request. All editors with rollback rights can leave feedback on the proposed solution. The last day to leave feedback is 4 May (UTC).

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18:16, 23 April 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-18

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

  • The parameter for unpatrolled edits in recent changes filters changed name. You might need to update saved filters and links. [31]

Problems

  • Advanced item We are migrating wikis from Tidy to Remex. Because of a bug the 250 wikis which do not yet use Remex were switched on 23 April. This is two months early. This meant that pages with broken wikitext showed wrongly to readers. The bug was undone the next day. You can help fix broken wikitext to avoid this problem when your wiki switches. Tidy will be removed on all wikis before July 2018. You can follow the process on Phabricator. [32]

Changes later this week

  • You will be able use CodeMirror in the 2017 wikitext editor on all wikis. CodeMirror helps with syntax highlighting. It has previously been a beta feature and only available on wikis with scripts that are written from left to right. [33]
  • When an administrator blocks someone they will have a calendar they can use to choose when the block ends. This is to make it easier to pick a specific date. [34]
  • Advanced item You can soon turn on the Performance Inspector in the Editing section in your preferences. It shows information about the performance of pages. This could be the size of modules in the page, how many CSS selectors are defined on the page and how many are used, or the size of the images on the page. This tool is intended to help editors fix pages that load slowly. [35]
  • Advanced item There is a new abuse filter function called equals_to_any. You can use it to check if its first argument is equal (===) to any of the following ones. For example you can use it to check if the page's namespace is amongst a given set of values in a more compact way than you could earlier. You can read more on mediawiki.org.
  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 1 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 2 May. It will be on all wikis from 3 May (calendar).

Meetings

  • Recurrent item You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 1 May at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
  • Recurrent item Advanced item You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 2 May at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • The Wikimedia Cloud Services team is working on a new project called Toolhub. The goal is to make it easier for Wikimedians to discover software tools they can use. You can leave feedback on the talk page or email jhare@wikimedia.org to leave private feedback.
  • Advanced item All wikis with fewer than 100 high-priority linter errors in all namespaces will switch to use the Remex parsing library. This is to replace Tidy. It will happen on 2 May. Other wikis will be recommended to switch soon when they have fixed the errors that must be fixed. Wikibooks wikis with fewer than 100 high-priority linter errors in the main namespace will switch on 9 May. Tidy will be removed on all wikis before July 2018. [36][37][38]

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16:18, 30 April 2018 (UTC)

Speedy deletion declined: Manny Ramirez Jr

Hello Power~enwiki. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of Manny Ramirez Jr, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: plays for notable team, son of notable player. Thank you. SoWhy 07:52, 4 May 2018 (UTC)

Son of notable player isn't remotely a credible claim of importance or significance. Playing in the Atlantic League of Professional Baseball I suppose is enough to survive A7; I thought it was a semi-pro league (which wouldn't be), but it appears to be fully professional, though not related to MLB. power~enwiki (π, ν) 17:35, 4 May 2018 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

The Barnstar of Good Humor
I'm not sure why, but this scentence is one of the funniest things I've ever read. I'm not sure if you meant it to be funny, but I found it hilarious. 💵Money💵emoji💵Talk 22:59, 5 May 2018 (UTC)

Another RfC on Net Neutrality

A month ago you participated in an RfC at Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)/Archive 147#Net neutrality. The same proposal has been posted again at Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)#Proposal: A US-only CentralNotice in support of Net Neutrality. (This notice has been sent to all who participated in the prior RfC, regardless of which side they supported). --Guy Macon (talk) 20:50, 6 May 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-19

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

  • The Wikimedia Commons mobile app has a new version. It is now easier to find nearby places that need pictures. It helps you with direct uploads and title and category suggestions. The app only works on Android phones. [39]

Problems

  • Advanced item The abuse filters had a problem with blocks where you had changed how long they last. It used the default length everywhere. This was in late April. Abuse filter users should make sure the right block length is used and change them if needed. This is only for filters where how long blocks last had been changed. [40]

Changes later this week

  • The advanced search function beta feature will be on all Wikimedia wikis. It makes it easier to use some of the special search functions that most editors don't know exist. [41]
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16:28, 7 May 2018 (UTC)

GNG v SNGs

I'm planning to work on expanding User:Power~enwiki/GNG and SNGs this weekend. If I'm forgetting something obvious that should be included on a page of this type (or it already exists somewhere else), please tell me. power~enwiki (π, ν) 06:04, 9 May 2018 (UTC)

AfD

Via IRC, you criticized the fact that I had !voted 20 times in 6 minutes. How exactly is that unusual? Septrillion (talk) 13:14, 9 May 2018 (UTC)

PageRank

From a project I've been working on, here are some top pages on Wikipedia by PageRank (my results haven't stabilized yet). Locations (countries and cities) feel over-represented at the top due to the large number of inbound links (every biography will link to the country the person is from, for example, and country articles tend to link to history and geography articles). power~enwiki (π, ν) 22:27, 11 May 2018 (UTC)

  1. United States
  2. World War II
  3. Roman Empire
  4. Latin
  5. Soviet Union
  6. Ottoman Empire
  7. India
  8. European Union
  9. United Kingdom
  10. France
  11. China
  12. Islam
  13. Europe
  14. Byzantine Empire
  15. World War I
  16. Egypt
  17. Christianity
  18. Greek language
  19. United Nations
  20. Russia
  21. Turkey
  22. Iran
  23. English language
  24. Catholic Church
  25. Italy
  26. Middle Ages
  27. French language
  28. Germany
  29. Spain
  30. Aristotle
  31. Anatolia
  32. Syria
  33. Russian Empire
  34. Ancient Greek
  35. Ancient Greece
  36. Mesopotamia
  37. British Empire
  38. Greece
  39. Buddhism
  40. Mediterranean Sea
  41. Ancient Rome
  42. Israel
  43. Iraq
  44. Oxygen
  45. Renaissance
  46. Constantinople
  47. Australia
  48. Pakistan
  49. Roman Republic
  50. Eastern Orthodox Church
  51. NATO
  52. Alexander the Great
  53. Achaemenid Empire
  54. Holy Roman Empire
  55. Netherlands
  56. Arabic language
  57. German language
  58. Canada
  59. Hydrogen
  60. Cold War
  61. Earth
  62. Spanish language
  63. Black Sea
  64. UNESCO
  65. Muslim
  66. Japan
  67. Nazi Germany
  68. Asia
  69. Central Asia
  70. Ukraine
  71. Ancient Egypt
  72. Levant
  73. Brazil
  74. Afghanistan
  75. Rome

Dhiraz Kumar AfD

I suggested a speedy close because there was the claim that the AfD was about a different subject! I did not suggest a speedy delete, and I did not see any other opinion put forward, either to keep or to delete. So why the non-admin closure with a decision to delete? -The Gnome (talk) 21:45, 13 May 2018 (UTC)

I closed it as "Speedy Delete" because the article had been speedily deleted. It was purely housekeeping. power~enwiki (π, ν) 23:00, 13 May 2018 (UTC)

== Promotional is relative... and none of this Democrat and Republican is promotional? Where do you draw the line?Constance Gadell-Newton got 7% in her election last time she ran for Ohio House 18th District it's on the record. And she's also a candidate for governor so to erase her from anything is a travesty. By the way I keep getting contested on her photo. I talked to her personally and she is fine with me using it. I am tired of fighting sock puppets here. Wikipedia has become a den of thieves.

Dael4 (talk) 18:12, 14 May 2018 (UTC)

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22:23, 14 May 2018 (UTC)

Ohio gubernatorial election, 2018

Apparently fair play is not going to happen on Wikipedia. Constance gadell-newton has specifically give me permission to use her photograph but apparently sock puppets don't like it cause it challenges their agenda. I have the right to publish it and I'm not going to relinquish it Wikipedia is a public accessible news product then any RFC allowing third parties access should be finalized. Dael4 (talk) 23:11, 14 May 2018 (UTC)

(talk page stalker)@Dael4:: Assuming we're talking about commons:File:Img-constanceprofilesml.png. Do you hold the copyright to this work? Not "Did she give you permission to use it?". Did you take this picture? Did you, and only you make all alterations to the version uploaded? Regarding the sockpuppetry - have you made a report to WP:SPI? SQLQuery me! 23:46, 14 May 2018 (UTC)

NO need to have any copyright here other than CC. The owning party would ask for adjudication. You or any others here are not authorized to question it when it is in wikicommons as a CC picture. I am personal friends of the owner. Should I make a report to WP:SPI that is my business. If you would like to help. That would be great. Dael4 (talk) 04:58, 15 May 2018 (UTC)

I've got a lot of issues with this editor, but I'm willing to take them at their word that they have the proper licensing for this photograph. I also trust that they don't know what they're talking about with "sock puppets".
As far as "third-party candidates" in general, there are two things going on. The first is that political candidates are generally not considered notable based on campaign coverage. This is to combat promotion and POV issues. Second, these types of things are determined by consensus. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, not a repository of all campaign information. You should check out Ballotpedia if you want that. power~enwiki (π, ν) 05:04, 15 May 2018 (UTC)

List of chess gambits

Is it ok with you if I withdraw this from Afd? There's no way it will get consensus to delete or redirect. MaxBrowne2 (talk) 10:00, 15 May 2018 (UTC)

German war effort arbitration case opened

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17:34, 21 May 2018 (UTC)

A quick message from DemocraticSocialism

Hello! Just thought you should know that I undid your revision in the Cold War 2 page, and forgot to put down my reasons. My reasoning is that it's always good to have a map of a conflict (or pseudo-conflict, I should say) handy on an article about a conflict. (For example, a map of the world in WW2 in the WW2 article). If you disagree, let me know, and I can take the subject to the talk section of the Cold War 2 article, for other editors to decide on a consensus. — Preceding unsigned comment added by DemocraticSocialism (talk • contribs) 03:29, 22 May 2018 (UTC)

I do disagree, I feel the map is unhelpful, WP:OR, and WP:SYNTH. I intend to comment on a noticeboard as soon as I have time to do so. power~enwiki (π, ν) 03:30, 22 May 2018 (UTC)
I've pinged you to my thread at WP:NOR/N. power~enwiki (π, ν) 04:56, 22 May 2018 (UTC)

Undoing my contribution

What exactly was it that motivated you to undo one of my changes? For the readers of the article it would be very informative to know about the newspaper's scientific skills. 80.71.142.166 (talk) 06:32, 22 May 2018 (UTC)

NPR Newsletter No.11 25 May 2018

Hello 力, thank you for your work reviewing New Pages!
Notability
General notability guideline
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See also

ACTRIAL:

  • WP:ACREQ has been implemented. The flow at the feed has dropped back to the levels during the trial. However, the backlog is on the rise again so please consider reviewing a few extra articles each day; a backlog approaching 5,000 is still far too high. An effort is also needed to ensure that older unsuitable older pages at the back of the queue do not get automatically indexed for Google.

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Backlog drive:

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Editathons

  • There will be a large increase in the number of editathons in June. Please be gentle with new pages that obviously come from good faith participants, especially articles from developing economies and ones about female subjects. Consider using the 'move to draft' tool rather than bluntly tagging articles that may have potential but which cannot yet reside in mainspace.

Paid editing - new policy

  • Now that ACTRIAL is ACREQ, please be sure to look for tell-tale signs of undisclosed paid editing. Contact the creator if appropriate, and submit the issue to WP:COIN if necessary. There is a new global WMF policy that requires paid editors to connect to their adverts.

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  • The box at the right contains each of the subject-specific notability guidelines, please review any that are relevant BEFORE nominating an article for deletion.
  • Reviewers are requested to familiarise themselves with the new version of the notability guidelines for organisations and companies.

Not English

  • A common issue: Pages not in English or poor, unattributed machine translations should not reside in main space even if they are stubs. Please ensure you are familiar with WP:NPPNE. Check in Google for the language and content, tag as required, then move to draft if they do have potential.

News

  • Development is underway by the WMF on upgrades to the New Pages Feed, in particular ORES features that will help to identify COPYVIOs, and more granular options for selecting articles to review.
  • The next issue of The Signpost has been published. The newspaper is one of the best ways to stay up to date with news and new developments. between our newsletters.
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Thank you very much

The RfC discussion to eliminate portals was closed May 12, with the statement "There exists a strong consensus against deleting or even deprecating portals at this time." This was made possible because you and others came to the rescue. Thank you for speaking up.

By the way, the current issue of the Signpost features an article with interviews about the RfC and the Portals WikiProject.

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Our two main goals at this time are to automate portals (in terms of refreshing, rotating, and selecting content), and to develop a one-page model in order to make obsolete and eliminate most of the 150,000 subpages from the portal namespace by migrating their functions to the portal base pages, using technologies such as selective transclusion. Please feel free to join in on any of the many threads of development at the WikiProject's talk page, or just stop by to see how we are doing. If you have any questions about portals or portal development, that is the best place to ask them.

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Vital article counts

Do you think it would be a good idea for a bot to calculate the total number of vital articles per section? It is a pain to update article counts in different section headers whenever adding an article, and I think a bot would do the job quicker and much more accurately. Such a bot can tabulate the article counts daily, or maybe twice daily. feminist (talk) 14:02, 23 May 2018 (UTC)

I've done this for the per-page counts on the main page (semi-automated for now). I'll look at updating the section counts by bot when I have time, probably not for another week or two. (Holiday weekend in the US means less editing time) power~enwiki (π, ν) 18:41, 23 May 2018 (UTC)
Thanks, and take your time. feminist (talk) 03:29, 24 May 2018 (UTC)
I've taken this to WP:BTR, looks like Firefly is doing it. feminist (talk) 06:53, 26 May 2018 (UTC)

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  • You can now use global preferences on most wikis. This means you can set preferences for all wikis at the same time. Before this you had to change them on each individual wiki. Global preferences will come to the Wikipedias later this week. [46][47]
  • It is now easier for blocked mobile users to see why they were blocked. [48]
  • Wikidata now supports lexicographical data. This helps describe words.
  • There is now a checkbox on Special:ListUsers to let you see only users in temporary user groups. [49]
  • Some rare invisible Unicode characters have recently been banned from page titles. This includes soft hyphens (U+00AD) and left-to-right (U+2066) and right-to-left (U+2067) isolate markers. Existing pages with these characters will soon be moved by a script. [50]
  • Advanced item There's a new Wikimedia Foundation team to support the Wikimedia technical communities. It's called the Technical Engagement team. Most of the team members did similar work in other teams before this. [51]

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  • Some translatable pages are showing old translations instead of latest ones. The cause of this issue has been fixed. We will update all pages automatically to show the latest translations. [52]

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  • There will be a new special page named PasswordPolicies. This page gives information about the password rules for each user group on that wiki. [53]
  • A new way to see moved paragraphs in diffs is coming to most wikis. This is to make it easier to find the moved paragraphs and the changes in them. [54]
  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 29 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 30 May. It will be on all wikis from 31 May (calendar).
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  • A survey is collecting information on what users think about how Wikimedia wiki pages are loaded. This information could be used in future development. [57]
  • Advanced item Some wikis will switch to use the Remex parsing library. This is to replace Tidy. It will happen on 30 May and 13 June. Wikis with fewer than 100 linter issues in the main namespace in all high-priority linter categories will switch. This includes Wikidata. Tidy will probably be removed on all wikis in the first week of July. [58][59]

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  • The MonoBook skin has been optimised for mobile devices. It now looks different. [60]
  • Planet Wikimedia collects blogs about Wikimedia. It will now use the Rawdog feed aggregator to do this instead of Planet. [61][62]
  • Redirect links in Special:WhatLinksHere now link to the original page and not the target page. This was done earlier and changed the used messages on some pages. This was a problem for wikis that customized the message. A new change fixed this by using the old messages with one more parameter for customization. Wikis that already changed their customized messages will have to move the customization back again. [63]

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  • MassMessage did not work 24–28 May. This is also why last week's Tech News was late. [64]

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21:54, 4 June 2018 (UTC)

ITN recognition for Kate Spade

On 6 June 2018, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Kate Spade, which you nominated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. Stephen 03:30, 6 June 2018 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Fred Hubbell has been accepted

Fred Hubbell, which you submitted to Articles for creation, has been created.
The article has been assessed as Start-Class, which is recorded on the article's talk page. You may like to take a look at the grading scheme to see how you can improve the article.

You are more than welcome to continue making quality contributions to Wikipedia. If your account is more than four days old and you have made at least 10 edits you can create articles yourself without posting a request. However, you may continue submitting work to Articles for Creation if you prefer.

Thank you for helping improve Wikipedia!

Calliopejen1 (talk) 12:56, 7 June 2018 (UTC)

Power, I'm surprised to see you using the AfC process to create articles. Is this just a preference of yours? You are qualified to create articles directly. In fact you are also qualified for the WP:autopatrolled user right, which would automatically mark your articles as patrolled. Is there some reason why you don't have that user right, some restriction or something, or shall I give it to you? --MelanieN (talk) 15:22, 7 June 2018 (UTC)

I didn't create the Hubbell article; staffers from their campaign did; as notability was disputed the first time and I'd removed a lot of promo before re-submitting, I didn't want to approve the article myself. I simply haven't bothered to ask for autopatrolled yet; I think I crossed the 25 article barrier 2 weeks ago (depending on how you count). power~enwiki (π, ν) 16:54, 7 June 2018 (UTC)
OK, I have given you the Autopatrolled right. The “articles created” utility gives you credit for creating 46 articles. Sure, some are stubs or forks or DABs, but the bottom line is that you clearly know what you are doing when it comes to article creation. BTW this doesn’t really add anything to your own abilities; it mostly just lifts a tiny bit of the load from the New Page Patrollers. --MelanieN (talk) 17:11, 7 June 2018 (UTC)
Also of note is that 12 of the pages were created in 2004, and I wasn't counting them for creations for auto-patrolled purposes. power~enwiki (π, ν) 17:14, 7 June 2018 (UTC)
Doesn't matter. We are allowed some discretion, and you obviously know how to create (and self-patrol) an article. You are a New Page Patroller Reviewer yourself for heaven's sake. --MelanieN (talk) 18:22, 7 June 2018 (UTC)
*nods* I was just explaining why I felt I had only met the official criteria very recently. Thanks for the extra bit. power~enwiki (π, ν) 18:27, 7 June 2018 (UTC)

Arguments to make at AFD

Thanks for posting a warning to my userpage. I'll try not to be overly aggressive, although it can be very frustrating at times in AFD. However I am confused about this one http://en.wiki.x.io/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Miscellany_for_deletion/Draft:Sam_Chui&diff=prev&oldid=844364126 I don't see how it's abusive to give an opinion on AFD policy? Is it the argument (we shouldn't delete drafts so easily) or the tone of what I say that you object to? If it's the former, I have to confess that I don't understand as I see users regularly using abusive language to deride other editors particularly non-english speakers drafters. If it's the latter I apologise and will try to explain myself more clearly. Egaoblai (talk) 21:37, 7 June 2018 (UTC)

BLP issues on British politics articles arbitration case opened

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AFD for state visit pages

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

You promised [67] to destroy the us article. Why is it still alive? List of diplomatic visits to the United States

You destroyed the Russian article. Start destroying the American one. --Norvikk (talk) 18:59, 9 June 2018 (UTC)

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

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Previouly i was posted discussion about stroke . Present i was posted about " Haemorrhogic stroke " NCBI confirms no reletion between haemorrhagic stroke and diabetis after 60 years age

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4437093/


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IP Blocks

I have made proposals to revise the policies pertaining to IP blocks before, and have failed to reach any consensus against or in favor of blocking schools or other shared IP addresses, and raising more proposals would just be WP:HORSEMEAT. Consensus is to give the discretion to the administrators, so my RfA votes and comments are a reflection of that. While the majority may agree or disagree with my decision to support or oppose candidates, RfA is an appropriate place to voice opinions on how aspiring admins intend to use the block function. I think I've thoroughly made my case there at this point, so I won't be commenting further on User:TheSandDoctor's RfA unless I see something pop up where I have something of substance to add to the conversation, per WP:BLUDGEON. PCHS-NJROTC (Messages)Have a blessed day. 17:01, 11 June 2018 (UTC)

If you don't think it's worth discussing further, I won't bother either. power~enwiki (π, ν) 17:16, 11 June 2018 (UTC)

A pie for you!

No hard feelings. Have a wonderful day. PCHS-NJROTC (Messages)Have a blessed day. 17:35, 11 June 2018 (UTC)
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