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Wikidata weekly summary #354

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Administrators' newsletter – March 2019

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2019).

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

  • A new tool is available to help determine if a given IP is an open proxy/VPN/webhost/compromised host.

Arbitration

  • The Arbitration Committee announced two new OTRS queues. Both are meant solely for cases involving private information; other cases will continue to be handled at the appropriate venues (e.g., WP:COIN or WP:SPI).
    • paid-en-wp@wikipedia.org has been set up to receive private evidence related to abusive paid editing.
    • checkuser-en-wp@wikipedia.org has been set up to receive private requests for CheckUser. For instance, requests for IP block exemption for anonymous proxy editing should now be sent to this address instead of the functionaries-en list.

Miscellaneous


Nomination for deletion of Template:Years and months ago

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Template:Years and months ago has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Zackmann (Talk to me/What I been doing) 00:10, 5 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination for deletion of Template:Wikipedia articles needing cleanup progress

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Template:Wikipedia articles needing cleanup progress has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Zackmann (Talk to me/What I been doing) 00:13, 5 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Your draft article, Draft:Adam Boyko

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Hello, Rich Farmbrough. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "Adam Boyko".

In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been nominated for deletion. If you plan on working on it further, or editing it to address the issues raised if it was declined, simply edit the submission and remove the {{db-afc}}, {{db-draft}}, or {{db-g13}} code.

If your submission has already been deleted by the time you get there, and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion by following the instructions at this link. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.

Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Legacypac (talk) 12:48, 5 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

A tag has been placed on Template:Undated maintenance category count requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section T3 of the criteria for speedy deletion because it is an unused duplicate of another template, or a hard-coded instance of another template. After seven days, if it is still unused and the speedy deletion tag has not been removed, the template will be deleted.

If the template is not actually the same as the other template noted, please consider putting a note on the template's page explaining how this one is different so as to avoid any future mistakes (<noinclude>{{substituted}}</noinclude>).

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. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator, or if you have already done so, you can place a request here. Zackmann (Talk to me/What I been doing) 19:50, 7 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Well that 7 days didn't seem to work. Wha'ts going on? All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 12:38, 10 March 2019 (UTC).[reply]

Nomination for deletion of Template:Don't subst

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Template:Don't subst has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. {{3x|p}}ery (talk) 22:57, 7 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Country Music

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When you changed the target of Country Music from country music to country music (disambiguation), a change which certainly looks correct, you may have overlooked WP:FIXDABLINKS. User:DPL bot reports that the change broke 354 links, which will have to be fixed by hand by someone-or-other. Narky Blert (talk) 09:28, 10 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

It broke a lot more than that. The rest I have already fixed. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 12:37, 10 March 2019 (UTC).[reply]

Please participate to the talk pages consultation

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Hello

Our team at the Wikimedia Foundation is working on a project to improve the ease-of-use and productivity of wiki talk pages. As a Teahouse host, I can imagine you’ve run into challenges explaining talk pages to first-time participants.

We want all contributors to be able to talk to each other on the wikis – to ask questions, to resolve differences, to organize projects and to make decisions. Communication is essential for the depth and quality of our content, and the health of our communities. We're currently leading a global consultation on how to improve talk pages, and we're looking for people that can report on their experiences using (or helping other people to use) wiki talk pages. We'd like to invite you to participate in the consultation, and invite new users to join too.

We thank you in advance for your participation and your help.

Trizek (WMF), 08:37, 11 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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The previous message about the talk pages consultation has a broken link.

The correct link has been misinterpreted by the MassMessage tool. Please use the following link: Wikipedia:Talk pages consultation 2019.

Sorry for the inconvenience, Trizek (WMF), 08:48, 11 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Wikidata weekly summary #355

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Nomination of Illegal abortion for deletion

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A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Illegal abortion 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/Illegal abortion 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. ☣Yutsi Talk/ Edits 02:50, 18 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Wikidata weekly summary #356

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Wikidata weekly summary #357

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April editathons at Women in Red

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April 2019, Volume 5, Issue 4, Numbers 107, 108, 114, 115, 116, 117


Hello and welcome to the April events of Women in Red!

Please join us for these virtual events:


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--Megalibrarygirl (talk) 16:02, 25 March 2019 (UTC) via MassMessaging[reply]

(Please excuse this post if it is a duplicate!)

New Page: Cipher Knowledge 360

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Hi Rich!

I am interested in creating a new page that would fall under the Computing wiki project. It's a competitive intelligence program called Cipher. It's relatively new and has developed by Knowledge 360. I was hoping you would be able to offer me tips to make the page more successful from the start. Any insight you can give is appreciated! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lash975 (talkcontribs) 19:01, 30 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, Lash975. The most important thing to ensure is that the subject meets [[|WP:Notability|Wikipedia's notability criteria]], that is that there are multiple independent sources which have significant coverage - in this case interviews and press releases would not be considered independent for example. Also it should be written from a [WP:NPOV|neutral point of view]]. - not be a puff piece or advertisement for the product. Probably the best thing to do is create it at Draft:Cipher (software), you will get assistance ensuring that it meets basic standards before becoming an article. For more help you can also visit WP:Teahouse which helps newer editors to deal with the wiki-environment. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 19:20, 30 March 2019 (UTC).[reply]

The Signpost: 31 March 2019

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