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22:04, 20 December 2021 (UTC)

Application To Join Your Anti Vandalism Team

Hi Cassiopeia, I hope this meets you well. I am writing this message to inform you of my willingness to be a member of your anti vandalism team and be under your tutelage. Thanks.

Amaekuma (talk) 09:37, 16 December 2021 (UTC)

Amaekuma Good day. Thank you for interested in joining the program. Although you have joined Wikipedia for more than 2.5 years; however, you have hardly edited after 6 months after you had registered. This program is for editors who would like to work on counter vandalism for a long while and fairly active in editing. I suggest you to finish WP:TWA program and make more edits as well as more active in editing prior joining the program. Stay safe and best. Cassiopeia talk 04:27, 18 December 2021 (UTC)
Hi, My life, like everybody else's comes in phases. These phases determines what takes most of your time, at every point. 3 years ago, I had just rounded up my B.Sc and had a lot of time to myself. Some of which I used to delve into Wikipedia, which I love doing. But coming from a third world country, it was no sooner that it was imperative I fashioned out time to go back into the real world and picked up a skill on the side, to add to my degree, and set up a business to enable me fend for myself. And I am grateful to God for its success. Now I am at the point in life where I am a bit more settled, both financially and socially. So I have the ample time and resources to get back doing what I love doing. That is the reason I reached out to you because now I have the time and I am ready. Amaekuma (talk) 22:24, 21 December 2021 (UTC)
Amaekuma Ok. Since you have not been editing Wikipedia for almost 2.5 years, I would suggest you to finish WP:TWA program fist to familiar yourself with some basic Wikipedia guidelines. The program will take about 90mins of your time. Once you have done that, then pop back here and let me know and I will set up the CUVA program for you. Stay safe and best. Cassiopeia talk 01:34, 22 December 2021 (UTC)

Request for NPP Training

Hi Cassiopeia I'm Idoghor Melody. I saw your name listed at the NPP school noticeboard and I’m approaching you to ask if you'd be able to give me some training on New Page Patrolling. I have been working in AFC for over 2 months now and I have found it both interesting and awesome. I'm however now thinking about branching out and finding other ways to support the project. Looking forward to your Favour able response. Kind regards. Comr Melody Idoghor (talk) 23:21, 19 December 2021 (UTC)

Idoghor Melody Good day. Thank you for interested in the program. Pls note that the program do require a lot of your time to read the material/guidelines and working on the assignment. Secondly, although NPP and AfC do share the same guidelines, however, certain processes and how to evaluate the pages (new vs draft) are slight different. Once you have completed the NPPS program and you would like to know the different, we can have a few sessions to discuss about it. I have set up the NPP program for you. Pls read all the guidelines and the communication section at the bottom of the assignment prior answering the questions. Stay safe and best. Cassiopeia talk 01:45, 22 December 2021 (UTC)
@Cassiopeia: Thanks for accepting me as a student. I'll always do my best in reading and working on assignments. Comr Melody Idoghor (talk) 12:13, 22 December 2021 (UTC)

Notes in MMA records

Saw someone added Derrick Lewis breaking the KO record, into the notes of his win over Daukaus. Is there anywhere that specifies what can and can't be included, or is this up to discretion? Nswix (talk) 06:11, 21 December 2021 (UTC)

Nswix Good day. Pls provide hist diff so I may know how to answer you. Cassiopeia talk 19:42, 21 December 2021 (UTC)
This edit Nswix (talk) 20:40, 21 December 2021 (UTC)
Nswix As per WikiProject MMA "The column Notes is meant to be used for information related to the bout, including but not limited to special rules, awards earned, failure to make weight and similar. Do not use it to put irrelevant text such as "MMA Debut", "UFC debut", "Cut from the UFC" or similar text not directly related to the bout." As long as the info fit the guidelines above for as long as the info is "significant and relevant" to "THAT PARTICULAR" fight/bout and an independent, reliable source could be found to support the info added. For this case I would say yes it can be included as source would be found and it is relevant and significant enough which he performed of the bout. - see here source. However, at times, you would see a few long term, active MMA editors would choose to remove some info on the note section even it fit the guidelines above, we could raise a discussion on the article talk page to have a civil and agreement solution. There is a Championship and achievement section on every MMA fighter page, this is where an award/won a title bout/breaking some record can be added and inline citations (sources) to be added to support the claim. Since you are new to the Project (Wikipedia), you might want to observe edits on MMA events and fighters pages to understand some norm or guidelines on editing MMA related pages. I can give you a list of info for you to familiar with the guidelines and norm if you want. Thank you for your contribution and let me know if anything else I could help you. Stay safe and best. Cassiopeia talk 02:14, 22 December 2021 (UTC)
Thanks for the response. Any info or rules you can point me to would be much appreciated. I just figured I'd run it past a more experienced editor, because it was an edit I'd never seen. Thanks. Nswix (talk) 02:19, 22 December 2021 (UTC)
Nswix You might want to archive your talk page instead of blanking the messages as it is not a good idea to remove the messages especially if there are warning messages (not referring to your talk page here) as might raise suspicious when you request for some user rights in the future - see Help:Archiving a talk page for instruction on how to archive your talk page. I will list the info in your talk page, so you dont need to come back here to check the info from my achieve. Let me know if anything else I could help you. Stay safe and best. Cassiopeia talk 02:21, 22 December 2021 (UTC)

Happy Christmas!


The4lines is wishing you a Merry Christmas! This greeting (and season) promotes WikiLove and hopefully this note has made your day a little better. Spread the WikiLove by wishing another user a Merry Christmas, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past, a good friend, or just some random person. Happy New Year!

Spread the cheer by adding {{subst:Xmas2}} to their talk page with a friendly message.

The4lines Good to hear from you and thank you for the greetings. Happy holidays! Cassiopeia talk 09:36, 22 December 2021 (UTC)

Happy Holidays!

Happy Holidays!
Hi, Cassiopeia! Have a happy and safe season, and a blessed new year!!
Holiday cheers, --Discographer (talk) 10:30, 22 December 2021 (UTC)
{{u|Discographer}] Thank you and same to you. Happy Holidays! Cassiopeia talk 22:20, 23 December 2021 (UTC)

Songs of the season

Holiday cheer
Here is a snowman a gift a boar's head and something blue for your listening pleasure. Enjoy and have a wonderful 2022 C. MarnetteD|Talk 12:44, 22 December 2021 (UTC)
MarnetteD Thank you for the beautiful songs and the wishes. Happy Holidays! Cassiopeia talk 22:21, 23 December 2021 (UTC)

Merry Christmas!

~~~ Merry Christmas! ~~~
Joyeux Noël! ~ Buon Natale! ~ Vrolijk Kerstfeest! ~ Frohe Weihnachten!
¡Feliz Navidad! ~ Feliz Natal! ~ Καλά Χριστούγεννα! ~ Hyvää Joulua!
God Jul! ~ Glædelig Jul! ~ Linksmų Kalėdų! ~ Priecīgus Ziemassvētkus!
Häid Jõule! ~ Wesołych Świąt! ~ Boldog Karácsonyt! ~ Veselé Vánoce!
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สุขสันต์วันคริสต์มาส! ~ Selamat Hari Natal! ~ Giáng sinh an lành!
Весела Коледа!

Hello, Cassiopeia! Thank you for your work to maintain and improve Wikipedia! Wishing you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
CAPTAIN RAJU(T) 20:03, 22 December 2021 (UTC)

Spread the WikiLove and leave other users this message by adding {{subst:Multi-language Season's Greetings}}
CAPTAIN RAJU You always remember to send holiday greetings and spend so much time helping up Wikipedia. Thank you and Happy Holidays! Cassiopeia talk 22:22, 23 December 2021 (UTC)

Have a happy Christmas and New Year

Hello Cassiopeia: 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, JW 1961 Talk 11:49, 23 December 2021 (UTC)

Spread the WikiLove; use {{subst:Season's Greetings}} to send this message
Joseywales1961 It is always warm my heart when my former trainees send me holiday greetings. Thank you for remember me and Happy holidays! Cassiopeia talk 22:23, 23 December 2021 (UTC)

Best wishes

Hello Cassiopeia, I wish you and your family a merry christmas and a healthy and happy new year 2022. Regards --Serols (talk) 16:15, 23 December 2021 (UTC)

Serols Hi Serols, You are one of the few work so tirelessly on counter vandalism work on Wikipedia and we are so grateful to have you. Thank you so much of your contribution and Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays Serols! Enjoy! Cassiopeia talk 22:26, 23 December 2021 (UTC)

Season's greetings!

FormalDude is wishing you a Hellish Hexennacht!

This greeting (and season) promotes WikiLove and hopefully this note has made your day a little better. Spread the WikiLove by wishing another user a Hellish Hexennacht, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past, a good friend, or just some random person.

Don't eat the red snow! ––FormalDude talk 21:05, 23 December 2021 (UTC)

FormalDude Thank you for the wishes and here is summer in the "Down Under"- so no snow :) but 26K costlines of sands - we wear Christmas hats to the beach :). Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays FormalDude! Cassiopeia talk 22:30, 23 December 2021 (UTC)
No snow! What a dream! We've got half a foot over here (I live in the rocky mountains). Stay safe! ––FormalDude talk 23:47, 23 December 2021 (UTC)
FormalDude I do miss the snow especially in the mountain. My car stopped on the highway 30mil from Boston in Christmas eve in minus 25 Fahrenheit many years ago and opt to take the chance and hopped up a 18 wheeler where the truck driver offer to give me a ride to Boston when he saw me walking on the road site and my car parked not far behind in a dark night. (no cell phone on those days but hoping a highway patrol police would see me and assist). Having of putting half coolant and half water instead of just coolant (I just moved from the Louisiana to Boston less than 2 weeks during that time) in my car, made me hitchhike and live to tell the story. God bless the track driver for being so kind. However, I still miss the snow even I dont like the cold. :). Enjoy your holidays. Cassiopeia talk 00:16, 24 December 2021 (UTC)
Wow, that's a good story! I will admit the snow is peaceful and beautiful. But I too hate the cold! ––FormalDude talk 00:31, 24 December 2021 (UTC)
@FormalDude How I wish its snowed here in Southern California. I guess I'll have to settle with rain this Christmas. Cool story Cass! I was born and lived 2 years in Chicago, so I have lived through snow, I just don't remember it. Best, Signed,The4lines |||| (Talk) (Contributions) 23:15, 24 December 2021 (UTC)
@The4lines: Haha, the grass is always greener on the other side. Chicago was where I experienced my first blizzard! Lived there for about two years myself as well. ––FormalDude talk 00:28, 25 December 2021 (UTC)

Merry Christmas!

Hey Hey, how time flies but all the best wishes and hope you and your family all have the best holiday season and happy new year. Wikipedia would not be the same without you and thank you for all the help!HeinzMaster (talk) 16:55, 24 December 2021 (UTC)

HeinzMaster Thank you for the wishes and I am only one in millions users here editing Wikipedia. Thank you for your contribution and Happy Holidays! Cassiopeia talk 19:33, 24 December 2021 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #500

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Discussions
    • Open request for adminship: Ameisenigel (RfP scheduled to end after 27 December 2021 15:57 UTC)
  • Tool of the week
    • Articles created by country of citizenship : a javascript notebook which looks at the distribution of articles created by a user by country of citizenship (P27). It uses Wikidata's API through wikibase-sdk library.
  • Development
    • Due to the winter holidays, the development team is taking a break and no deployment is happening for Wikidata at the moment.

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

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Produce Stakes (USA)

Re your removal of massive content from a new article that I created (Produce Stakes (USA)) with your declaration rm unsourced. I reversed your edit with my declaration it is fully sourced and that remains fact but for some reason was overlooked and deleted again. I have no idea what you are talking about and need you to provide specifics to support a declaration that it is unsourced. Thanks for your cooperation. Stretchrunner II (talk) 11:10, 29 December 2021 (UTC)

Stretchrunner II Good day. This is your edit and the info you added back in is unsourced. Pls note that the editor who change/add the info need to provide the source (inline citation) for verification - see WP:PROVEIT and WP:BURDEN. Cassiopeia talk 23:19, 29 December 2021 (UTC)

Cassiopeia, I don't think you understand this particular referencing setup because they vary slightly throughout Wikipedia dictated by article content. And, even within the same subject, i.e. a horse jockey bio. I do realize you may have little or no experience on the subject of horse racing.

First, a Records section was first inserted into Thoroughbred racing articles years ago when someone at W came up with the sortable table. Records never had any references to be found in books, magazines, or internet sites. Any you find in recent years stem from the creation of a condensed Records list at W. (I digress, I'm boasting about W's knowledgeable and innovative contributors). Anyway, Records are taken from the table simply by using sorting. Therefore it is only a properly sourced race table that counts.

Because of the removal of text as "unsourced", I posted the table reference differently for my latest race creation, the Rancho Del Paso Stakes. You will see that the Winners header isn't designed to accommodate a reference and as a result you get a big empty spot with only a tiny reference number. I'm big on article layout for best readability as I regularly wander through Wikipedia without logging in to read articles of interest. There is nothing worse than what I call a "hesitation" spot (aka reading distraction) and you rarely, if ever, find them on professional publications. So, one might suggest that the reference be placed at the end of the Wikipedia article's table. Sounds good, but it only causes disjointed confusion as race tables frequently have numerous notes, i.e. the horse (name) that finished first was disqualified from a win because... etc. etc.

Note, any reader concerned about the horse racing article's table being referenced will already have the answer prior to reaching the table's standardized position. Hence, you will see the race's content and its reference # ("Condensed History of the Produce Stakes") clearly marked for the table as follows:

"One of the more valuable races for two-year-olds in the United States, there was a division for fillies and another for colts and geldings.[1]"

The Belmont Futurity Stakes that encompasses 130+ years in its table is the exact same standardized thing for a race, as is the widely known Kentucky Derby:

"The creation of James G. K. Lawrence, president of the Sheepshead Bay Race Track, the Futurity was originally run with the two-year-old offspring of mares which had been nominated before their birth. This rule remained in effect until 1957, when the race was opened to all two-year-old horses.[2]"

Thank you. If you ever have need of any further info, please do not hesitate to seek input through the a horse racing related article's Talk page that can link you to Wikiproject Horse racing and it's Talk page. Better still, join the project! Stretchrunner II (talk) 01:05, 30 December 2021 (UTC)

References

  1. ^ "Condensed History of the Produce Stakes". Daily Racing Form at University of Kentucky Archives. 1907-09-29. Retrieved 2020-05-16.
  2. ^ "Futurity". NYRA. 2021-12-28. Retrieved 2021-12-28.
Stretchrunner II The POINT here is that info need to be verified and since you are the editor who put in the info then you are responsible to add the source to support the the claim as this is Wikipedia. If you can find the source that you can put back the info either in the table note section (create one if there is non) or put it at the end of the table. Cassiopeia talk 01:11, 30 December 2021 (UTC)

Counter-Vandalism Academy

Hello Cassiopeia! I hope you are having a marvelous day so far. I am contacting you because it appears that you have 2 available positions for students regarding the Counter-Vandalism academy. I would love to be one of your students! Vandalism is something that is necessary to tackle, and with more of us Wikipedians being able to recognize it, we only improve our pursuit of knowledge. :)

Let me know what you think! TIA.

Jmaxx37 (talk) 17:21, 31 December 2021 (UTC)

Jmaxx37 Good day. Thank you for interested in CVUA. Pls note that the program do require a lot of your time to read the material and working on the assignments which most editor abandoned the program because they didnt anticipate the amount of time and work needed even they had been informed the heavy workload prior. Let me know if you are still interest to join the program after the info above. At the meantime, pls complete WP:TWA to familiar yourself with some fundamental Wikipedia guidelines. Stay safe and best. Cassiopeia talk 21:25, 1 January 2022 (UTC)

Happy New Year!

Cassiopeia,
Thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia, and a Happy New Year to you and yours! CAPTAIN RAJU(T) 21:32, 31 December 2021 (UTC)
– Send New Year cheer by adding {{subst:Happy New Year}} to user talk pages.

Happy New Year Cassiopeia!

Happy New Year!
Cassiopeia,
Have a prosperous, productive and wonderful New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia.
Comr Melody Idoghor (talk) 20:07, 1 January 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #501

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Events
    • Upcoming:
      • The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, January 19th 2022 at 17:00 UTC (18:00 Berlin time) in the Wikidata Telegram group.
      • SPARQL queries live on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, January 4 at 19:00 CEST
    • Ongoing:
    • Past:
      • Wikibase live session (December 2021) - log
  • Tool of the week
    • Wikidata's Q item explorer: Show claims where the item is the subject of the statement but doesn't show statements where the item is the target value.
  • Development
    • Due to the winter holidays, no development has happened for Wikidata in the last two weeks.

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

Question about Mercury House (Publishers) wiki page

Hello, I’m the director of the press, and one of the editors who has periodically updated our wiki page. We haven’t looked at the page since we made the last changes, and on looking now see that a lot of cuts were made. One of our authors pointed this out, Lucille Eichengreen, who wondered why her link on the page was deleted.

The current page as edited by you is grammatically incorrect and should be fixed, but we don’t want to incur further cuts so thought we should discuss first.

Most importantly, since 1994 we have been a nonprofit, our DBA name is “Mercury House” and our 501(c)3 name is “Words Given Wings Literary Art Project”. The director of the California Arts Council, on reviewing a grant application, advised that we keep that designation on Wikipedia—it was removed as “unsourced” in your last round of edits.

Our list of authors has been on Wikipedia for over a decade, and is now gone. Other similar presses (Greywolf, to name one) list authors and have nearly identical text to ours, without external references, so we would like to know why this was all deleted and how we can restore it.

Thank you in advance! Best wishes, Jeremy Bigalke 72.35.149.191 (talk) 05:47, 6 January 2022 (UTC)

@72.35.149.191: Hi Jeremy, Thank you for the above message. These were my edits] and the WP:Lead (intro) is "Mercury House is nonprofit publishing company, founded in 1986 by William M. Brinton.". The removal of the content was because the info was not sourced. Info/Content of the any article in Wikipedia needs to be supported by indepdent, reliable sources for verification. The only source in the article at the moment from Legacy. The page at the moment is considered not notable because the article needs significant coverage of the subject where by the the sources talk above the subject in lenght and in depth in independent, reliable sources to pass the notability guidelines. Legacy source is considered not reliable by Wikipedia. Not notable article would subject to be nominated for deletion. Since you or any of your staff or any of your writers are considered to be conflict of interest, it would be recommended none of you to edit the page. However, you can provide the sources and the body text (as long as it is supported by independent, reliable source and written in simple, neutral point of view) for other editor who have no COI to edit the page for you. Let me know if anything else I could help. Cassiopeia talk 08:17, 6 January 2022 (UTC)

NPP school

Hi, I would like to teach me about NPP so I can become a reviewer soon! Yodas henchman (talk) 17:50, 6 January 2022 (UTC)

Yodas henchman Good day. The minimum total main space edits to join the NPPS program is 500 and at the moment you have only over 200. Since you are working on counter vandalism, you might want to join WP:CVUA program to understand counter vandalism in Wikipedia better. Stay safe and best. Cassiopeia talk 07:16, 8 January 2022 (UTC)
Thanks! Yodas henchman (talk) 00:05, 9 January 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #502

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Tool of the week
    • OneZoom "tree of life explorer" is an interactive map of the evolutionary links between all living things known to science using Wikidata.
  • Development
    • Getting the Wikidata:Mismatch Finder ready for release. Focusing on adding statistics.
    • Fixed an issue where statement editing was broken in some older browser (phab:T298001)
    • Made it so that grammatical features on a Form of a Lexeme can be ordered consistently across all Lexemes (phab:T232557)
    • Working on an issue where changes from Wikidata don't get sent to the other wikis for the initial adding of the sitelink to an Item (phab:T233520)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

  • Looking back at 2021
    • Developments rolled out in 2021:
      • New updater for the Wikidata Query Service to help it keep up with the large number of edits on Wikidata
      • Query Builder to make it easier for people to create SPARQL queries without having to know SPARQL
      • Item Quality Evaluator to make it easy to find the highest and lowest quality Items in a topic area
      • Constraints Violations Checker is a small command-line tool that gives constraint violation statistics for a set of Items to make it easier to find the Items that need more work
      • Curious Facts finds anomalies in the data in Wikidata and offers them up for review and amusement
      • Wikidata Map to see the distribution of Wikidata's Items across the world and the connections between them
      • Current Events to make it easy to see what's currently a hot topic in the world and being edited a lot on Wikidata
    • New entities in 2021:

A subject previously asked about I cant find the page tho.

Hello CASSIOPEIA a Happy New Year to you do you remember a little bit ago when I was asking you guys about certain images being uploaded, I am going to need some assistance with one what was the name of that gentleman that you linked to the conversation to help me again? Either way I just need to find out what policies allow us to use the UFC's emblem or something like that it's definitely not free trade but we are allowed to use it on the site somehow I would like to upload the emblem for PFC. Please let me know hope you have a good one.CanadianHistorian(MMA & History) (talk) 00:14, 11 January 2022 (UTC)

Hello just in addition I was reading and we can use the UFC logo for a couple reasons.. Free use is one I believe but there was also this which I believe PFC would categorize under as the emblem is basically the same thing with different letters

"This logo image consists only of simple geometric shapes or text. It does not meet the threshold of originality needed for copyright protection, and is therefore in the public domain. Although it is free of copyright restrictions, this image may still be subject to other restrictions. See WP:PD#Fonts and typefaces or Template talk:PD-textlogo for more information.Touch and hold a clip to pin it. Unpinned clips will be deleted after 1 hour." CanadianHistorian(MMA & History) (talk) 18:37, 11 January 2022 (UTC)

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