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Removal of Reference Link
Hi Benison,
Recently I was searching for some information on soil and came through the article Soil. It is a highly detailed article, as someone would expect from a wikipedia article. While reading it I was on the "Contamination" section of it, which has some information about the Biosolids. About Biosolids I earlier read on website claydondrill in of their article related to soil health. So I just added a brief about Biosolids on your article and provided a ref. link to the blog on claydondrill, hoping that users will get to know more about soil health and their aspect.
However you have removed that link stating it as an inappropriate content for the Encyclopedia. It is fine if you don't want to add that ref. to your article. But I am adding it's link Soil Health in this message for you to go through it. If you think that blog can help users to gain some more information regarding the Soil Health then please let me know, I can add the Biosolid's information and ref. link again to your article.
Once more I would like to appreciate your work and expecting some more such articles on Wikipedia in the future.
Thanks 14.194.97.174 (talk) 06:54, 23 January 2025 (UTC)
- Hi, welcome to Wikipedia. Thanks for the contribution, but Wikipedia policies do not allow promotional content or contents and external links from blogs and such. Thank you. — Benison (Beni · talk) 07:36, 23 January 2025 (UTC)
This week's article for improvement (week 5, 2025)
Hello, Benison. The article for improvement of the week is:
Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Medical prescription • Pirn Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:36, 27 January 2025 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • |
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Tech News: 2025-05
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Weekly highlight
- Patrollers and admins - what information or context about edits or users could help you to make patroller or admin decisions more quickly or easily? The Wikimedia Foundation wants to hear from you to help guide its upcoming annual plan. Please consider sharing your thoughts on this and 13 other questions to shape the technical direction for next year.
Updates for editors
- iOS Wikipedia App users worldwide can now access a personalized Year in Review feature, which provides insights based on their reading and editing history on Wikipedia. This project is part of a broader effort to help welcome new readers as they discover and interact with encyclopedic content.
Edit patrollers now have a new feature available that can highlight potentially problematic new pages. When a page is created with the same title as a page which was previously deleted, a tag ('Recreated') will now be added, which users can filter for in Special:RecentChanges and Special:NewPages. [1]- Later this week, there will be a new warning for editors if they attempt to create a redirect that links to another redirect (a double redirect). The feature will recommend that they link directly to the second redirect's target page. Thanks to the user SomeRandomDeveloper for this improvement. [2]
Wikimedia wikis allow WebAuthn-based second factor checks (such as hardware tokens) during login, but the feature is fragile and has very few users. The MediaWiki Platform team is temporarily disabling adding new WebAuthn keys, to avoid interfering with the rollout of SUL3 (single user login version 3). Existing keys are unaffected. [3]
View all 30 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.
Updates for technical contributors
- For developers that use the MediaWiki History dumps: The Data Platform Engineering team has added a couple of new fields to these dumps, to support the Temporary Accounts initiative. If you maintain software that reads those dumps, please review your code and the updated documentation, since the order of the fields in the row will change. There will also be one field rename: in the
mediawiki_user_historydump, theanonymousfield will be renamed tois_anonymous. The changes will take effect with the next release of the dumps in February. [4]
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MediaWiki message delivery 22:12, 27 January 2025 (UTC)
NAC Closure of AfD
Hi Benison, I just became away of Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising and was somewhat surprised by the closing statement based on the discussion that took place. FWIW, I do agree with the ultimate outcome. Several of those keep !votes were from people whom I've had conflicting AfD positions in the past, so I didn't actually find their arguments convincing either. But with the majority of !votes and, more significantly, the vast majority of words on page, I would have expected at least a passing mention. Cheers! TiggerJay (talk) 15:58, 28 January 2025 (UTC)
- Hey, thanks for the message. I don't exactly remember this closing and it's been an year almost. Also, those were the early days of my AfD closures. Liz and other admins have guided me back then about the NACs and I think I have gotten better since. Hence, speaking retrospectively, if I were to close it now, I'll definitely add a note summarizing the discussion. Thanks again for pointing it out and happy editing :) — Benison (Beni · talk) 17:41, 28 January 2025 (UTC)
- Oh wow, somehow I missed that it was that long ago otherwise I wouldn't have even brought it up! Somehow I was under the impression it was this month... It was late when I posted that and ought to have known better. Sorry about that! Happy editing! TiggerJay (talk) 17:55, 28 January 2025 (UTC)
- Tiggerjay, No worries. Always happy with constructive inputs. Happy editing :) — Benison (Beni · talk) 19:29, 28 January 2025 (UTC)
- Oh wow, somehow I missed that it was that long ago otherwise I wouldn't have even brought it up! Somehow I was under the impression it was this month... It was late when I posted that and ought to have known better. Sorry about that! Happy editing! TiggerJay (talk) 17:55, 28 January 2025 (UTC)
Downlink special issues notice
Hello! This is an announcement that The Downlink has been revived. Rather than simply start again, I have chosen to create two special issues recapping the past three years. The first special issue spans November 2021 to December 2023, while the second special issue spans January 2024 to December 2024.
Due to the size of these pages, as well as the fact that they are non-standard issues, I have instead had this notice sent out. The following issues of volume 3 (Jan - Dec 2025) should be significantly smaller.
Please be aware that, for a variety of reasons, the issues that I create may be published late.
Here are the issues:
Ships & Space(Edits) 02:36, 30 January 2025 (UTC)
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Non-admin closes at WP:AFD
Benison, I reverted your close at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/George de Meo as a no consensus close in this context was not appropriate. No participants advocated keeping the article, so the only possible outcomes in this case were either delete or redirect. An AFD admin would have made a choice based on those two closes. Per WP:NACD, Close calls and controversial decisions are better left to admins. Anything involving a choice between deletion and an WP:ATD should not be closed by non-admin. The only types of closes you can do are either withdrawal closes where the nominator has withdrawn their nomination and there are no delete supporters, or non-controversial ones where there is a majority consensus to keep the article or a majority consensus for an WP:ATD such as a merge or redirect. Neither of these was the case at this AFD. Best. 4meter4 (talk) 21:06, 1 February 2025 (UTC)
- Hey, thanks for the message. I closed it as no consensus due to two relists where no discussion was held for 14 days and clearly there was no consensus to delete either. Instead of reverting it as BADNAC, a message here would have sufficed, where I myself would have reverted it and relisted. Anyways, let's see if this relist will make some consensus. Thanks and happy editing :) — Benison (Beni · talk) 08:25, 2 February 2025 (UTC)
This week's article for improvement (week 6, 2025)
.jpg) Ice cream social held in a U.S. community college
Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Gastropub • Medical prescription Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 3 February 2025 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • |
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Tech News: 2025-06
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Updates for editors
- Editors who use the "Special characters" editing-toolbar menu can now see the 32 special characters you have used most recently, across editing sessions on that wiki. This change should help make it easier to find the characters you use most often. The feature is in both the 2010 wikitext editor and VisualEditor. [5]
- Editors using the 2010 wikitext editor can now create sublists with correct indentation by selecting the line(s) you want to indent and then clicking the toolbar buttons.[6] You can now also insert
<code>tags using a new toolbar button.[7] Thanks to user stjn for these improvements. - Help is needed to ensure the citation generator works properly on each wiki.
- (1) Administrators should update the local versions of the page
MediaWiki:Citoid-template-type-map.jsonto include entries forpreprint,standard, anddataset; Here are example diffs to replicate for 'preprint' and for 'standard' and 'dataset'. - (2.1) If the citoid map in the citation template used for these types of references is missing, one will need to be added. (2.2) If the citoid map does exist, the TemplateData will need to be updated to include new field names. Here are example updates for 'preprint' and for 'standard' and 'dataset'. The new fields that may need to be supported are
archiveID,identifier,repository,organization,repositoryLocation,committee, andversionNumber. [8]
- (1) Administrators should update the local versions of the page
- One new wiki has been created: a Wikipedia in Central Kanuri (
w:knc:) [9] - View all 27 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the OCR (optical character recognition) tool used for Wikisource now supports a new language, Church Slavonic. [10]
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MediaWiki message delivery 00:07, 4 February 2025 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – February 2025
News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2025).
Administrator changes
CheckUser changes
Oversighter changes
Technical news
- Administrators can now nuke pages created by a user or IP address from the last 90 days, up from the initial 30 days. T380846
- A '
Recreated' tag will now be added to pages that were created with the same title as a page which was previously deleted and it can be used as a filter in Special:RecentChanges and Special:NewPages. T56145
Arbitration
- The arbitration case Palestine-Israel articles 5 has been closed.