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Books and Bytes - Issue 11

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Issue 11, March-April 2015
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Books and Bytes - Issue 12

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Books & Bytes
Issue 12, May-June 2015
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  • New donations - Taylor & Francis, Science, and three new French-language resources
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Books and Bytes - Issue 13

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Books & Bytes
Issue 13, August-September 2015
by The Interior (talk · contribs), Ocaasi (talk · contribs), Sadads (talk · contribs), Nikkimaria (talk · contribs)

  • New donations - EBSCO, IMF, more newspaper archives, and Arabic resources
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Books and Bytes - Issue 14

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Issue 14, October-November 2015
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  • New donations - Gale, Brill, plus Finnish and Farsi resources
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Wishing you all the best . . .

Merry Christmas, Mediran, and may your holidays be merry and bright . . . . Cheers. Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 06:11, 22 December 2015 (UTC)

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Books & Bytes - Issue 15

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Books & Bytes - Issue 16

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Books & Bytes - Issue 17

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Wikipedia:WikiProject Cricket/Bangladesh cricket task force

Hi, Mediran. I am forming a WP:CRIC task force for cricket in Bangladesh. Would you please to be interested in joining? Thank you. Regards, Naz | talk | contribs 14:48, 8 July 2016 (UTC)

List of Presidents of the Philippines


Hello, Mediran -- Thank you so much for the barnstar! It's much appreciated. I noticed in this edit, you added the "no-break space" template between the year and "Constitution". While it is not wrong, I just wanted to say that I usually use that template to avoid single numbers (such as 1, 2, 3, etc.) or double numbers (such as 12, 15, 24, etc.), especially in dates (such as December 12, 1945) so that the 12 does not become separated from "December", or II, as in "World War II" (and I see you correctly added the "no-break space" template there). I also use it to keep "AD", "BC", "CE", and "BCE" together with the year appearing before it, as in "650 BCE". I do not generally use the template to keep larger numbers together with words. If you see "1945" end up at the end of a line, with "Constitution of the Philippines" at the beginning of the next line, it is not hard to follow and doesn't look too bad (and, of course, this would only occur occasionally). It's your choice, of course, but adding too many of those "no-break space" templates, combined with other templates such as {{ndash}}, {{mdash}}, etc., might make it more difficult for copy-editors and other editors to actually read the text of the article in edit mode (and as a copy-editor, I mainly read articles in edit mode). Just a suggestion. Best regards,  – Corinne (talk) 17:12, 8 July 2016 (UTC)

@Corinne: Hey, thanks for that suggestion (also for monitoring the changes in the list). You're right, and I agree with you. The year and the word "Constitution" don't have to be forced to a single line. I'll work on that. — Mediran [talk] 03:19, 9 July 2016 (UTC)

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Books & Bytes - Issue 18

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Books & Bytes
Issue 18, June–July 2016
by The Interior (talk · contribs), Ocaasi, Samwalton9, UY Scuti, and Sadads

  • New donations - Edinburgh University Press, American Psychological Association, Nomos (a German-language database), and more!
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Just to let you know, the Featured Picture File:C. Everett Koop, 1980s.jpg is scheduled to be Picture of the Day on October 14, 2016. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2016-10-13. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Chris Woodrich (talk) 01:58, 1 October 2016 (UTC)

Asian 10,000 Challenge invite

Hi. The Wikipedia:WikiProject Asia/The 10,000 Challenge has recently started, based on the UK/Ireland Wikipedia:The 10,000 Challenge and Wikipedia:WikiProject Africa/The 10,000 Challenge. The idea is not to record every minor edit, but to create a momentum to motivate editors to produce good content improvements and creations and inspire people to work on more countries than they might otherwise work on. There's also the possibility of establishing smaller country or regional challenges for places like South East Asia, Japan/China or India etc, much like Wikipedia:The 1000 Challenge (Nordic). For this to really work we need diversity and exciting content and editors from a broad range of countries regularly contributing. At some stage we hope to run some contests to benefit Asian content, a destubathon perhaps, aimed at reducing the stub count would be a good place to start, based on the current Wikipedia:WikiProject Africa/The Africa Destubathon which has produced near 200 articles in just three days. If you would like to see this happening for Asia, and see potential in this attracting more interest and editors for the country/countries you work on please sign up and being contributing to the challenge! This is a way we can target every country of Asia, and steadily vastly improve the encyclopedia. We need numbers to make this work so consider signing up as a participant! Thank you. --Ser Amantio di NicolaoChe dicono a Signa?Lo dicono a Signa. 05:23, 20 October 2016 (UTC)

Books and Bytes - Issue 19

The Wikipedia Library

Books & Bytes
Issue 19, September–October 2016
by Nikkimaria, Sadads and UY Scuti

  • New and expanded donations - Foreign Affairs, Open Edition, and many more
  • New Library Card Platform and Conference news
  • Spotlight: Fixing one million broken links

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19:07, 1 November 2016 (UTC)

New deal for page patrollers

Hi Polo,

In order to better control the quality of new pages, keep out the spam, and welcome the genuine newbies, the current system we introduced in 2011 is being updated and improved. The documentation and tutorials have also been revised and given a facelift. Most importantly a new user group New Page Reviewer has been created.

Under the new rule, you may find that you are temporarily unable to mark new pages as reviewed. However, this is nothing to worry about - most current experienced patrollers are being accorded the the new right without the need to apply, and if you have significant previous experience of patrolling new pages, we strongly encourage you to apply for the new right as soon as possible - we need all the help we can get, and we are now providing a dynamic, supportive environment for your work.

Find out more about this exiting new user right now at New Page Reviewers and be sure to read the new tutorial before applying. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 04:29, 13 November 2016 (UTC)

ArbCom Elections 2016: Voting now open!

Hello, Mediran. Voting in the 2016 Arbitration Committee elections is open from Monday, 00:00, 21 November through Sunday, 23:59, 4 December to all unblocked users who have registered an account before Wednesday, 00:00, 28 October 2016 and have made at least 150 mainspace edits before Sunday, 00:00, 1 November 2016.

The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.

If you wish to participate in the 2016 election, please review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 22:08, 21 November 2016 (UTC)

Greetings Recent Changes Patrollers!

This is a one-time-only message to inform you about technical proposals related to Recent Changes Patrol in the 2016 Community Wishlist Survey that I think you may be interested in reviewing and perhaps even voting for:

  1. Adjust number of entries and days at Last unpatrolled
  2. Editor-focused central editing dashboard
  3. "Hide trusted users" checkbox option on watchlists and related/recent changes (RC) pages
  4. Real-Time Recent Changes App for Android
  5. Shortcut for patrollers to last changes list

Further, there are more than 20 proposals related to Watchlists in general that you may be interested in reviewing. (and over 260 proposals in all, across many aspects of wikis)

Thank you for your consideration. Please note that voting for proposals continues through December 12, 2016.

Note: You received this message because you have transcluded {{User wikipedia/RC Patrol}} (user box) on your user page. Since this message is "one-time-only" there is no opt out for future mailings.

Best regards, Stevietheman — Delivered: 01:11, 8 December 2016 (UTC)

Copying within Wikipedia requires proper attribution

Information icon Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. It appears that you copied or moved text from SpongeBob SquarePants into Stephen Hillenburg. While you are welcome to re-use Wikipedia's content, here or elsewhere, Wikipedia's licensing does require that you provide attribution to the original contributor(s). When copying within Wikipedia, this is supplied at minimum in an edit summary at the page into which you've copied content, disclosing the copying and linking to the copied page, e.g., copied content from [[page name]]; see that page's history for attribution. It is good practice, especially if copying is extensive, to also place a properly formatted {{copied}} template on the talk pages of the source and destination. The attribution has been provided for this situation, but if you have copied material between pages before, even if it was a long time ago, please provide attribution for that duplication. You can read more about the procedure and the reasons at Wikipedia:Copying within Wikipedia. Thank you. If you are the sole author of the prose that was moved, attribution is not required. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 21:18, 29 December 2016 (UTC)

Thank you, Dianna. I'm aware of our policy on that, but just forgot to provide attribution. Thanks for letting me know. — Mediran [talk] 03:38, 30 December 2016 (UTC)

Happy New Year, Mediran!

Happy New Year!

Mediran,
Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia.
Donner60 (talk) 09:04, 2 January 2017 (UTC)

   Send New Year cheer by adding {{subst:Happy New Year fireworks}} to user talk pages.

A happy New Year to you too, Donner60! — Mediran [talk] 09:10, 2 January 2017 (UTC)

New Page Reviewer

Hello Mediran. Your account has been added to the "New page reviewers" user group, allowing you to review new pages and mark them as patrolled, tag them for maintenance issues, or in some cases, tag them for deletion. The list of articles awaiting review is located at the New Pages Feed. New page reviewing is a vital function for policing the quality of the encylopedia, if you have not already done so, you must read the new tutorial at New Pages Review, the linked guides and essays, and fully understand the various deletion criteria. If you need more help or wish to discuss the process, please join or start a thread at page reviewer talk.

  • URGENT: Please consider helping get the huge backlog (around 15,000 pages) down to a manageable number of pages as soon as possible.
  • Be nice to new users - they are often not aware of doing anything wrong.
  • You will frequently be asked by users to explain why their page is being deleted - be formal and polite in your approach to them too, even if they are not.
  • Don't review a page if you are not sure what to do. Just leave it for another reviewer.
  • Remember that quality is quintessential to good patrolling. Take your time to patrol each article, there is no rush. Use the message feature and offer basic advice.

The reviewer right does not change your status or how you can edit articles. If you no longer want this user right, you may ask any administrator to remove it for you at any time. In case of abuse or persistent inaccuracy of reviewing, the right can be revoked at any time by an administrator. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 20:11, 12 January 2017 (UTC)

Books and Bytes - Issue 20

The Wikipedia Library

Books & Bytes
Issue 20, November-December 2016
by Nikkimaria (talk · contribs), Ocaasi (talk · contribs), UY Scuti (talk · contribs), Samwalton9 (talk · contribs)

  • Partner resource expansions
  • New search tool for finding TWL resources
  • #1lib1ref 2017
  • Wikidata Visiting Scholar

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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:00, 18 January 2017 (UTC)

Stephen Hillenburg

Hello:

The copy edit that you requested from the Guild of Copy Editors of the article Stephen Hillenburg has been completed.

Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns.

Regards,

Twofingered Typist (talk) 21:57, 19 January 2017 (UTC)

Thank you, Twofingered Typist! — Mediran [talk] 06:42, 21 January 2017 (UTC)
You're very welcome - happy to help. Thanks for the pie! Twofingered Typist (talk) 12:23, 21 January 2017 (UTC)

Tankman Photo Article Jeff Widener

Hello Mediran,

you removed the Tankman Photo from the Jeff Widener article.

http://en.wiki.x.io/wiki/Jeff_Widener

I am in personal contact with the photographer Jeff Widener, who would like to have it in his Wikipedia article because it is one of his most important images. What kind of document or confirmation is needed to keep it permanently in the article? Thanks for the help

Daniel

Hello Daniel! I removed the non-free photo by Widener from his Wikipedia article because the picture's use rationale says that it can be displayed in the "Tank Man" article only. You may want to see Wikipedia's guideline for use of non-free media for more helpful information. Thank you. — Mediran [talk] 11:35, 15 January 2017 (UTC)


Hello, thanks for your reply! I know the picture has this status, the question is how is it possible to change this status and allow usage for the "Jeff Widener" article? In other words what kind of confirmation is necessary and who can we contact to confirm that usage is allowed for this article also? --Analogue islands (talk) 20:02, 16 January 2017 (UTC)

You must not change the status. You may add it to the Widener artcile if there's a purpose of use. If it's valid, as in this non-free image used in several articles, the "Tank Man" picture may be shown in the article. You're not required to submit any confirmation or document. However, if you really are "in personal contact" with him, you can ask him to allow the free use of the image (see Commons:OTRS). — Mediran [talk] 06:41, 21 January 2017 (UTC)

Why do you ask for proof now? I asked you if you need any document or confirmation and you said this is not necessary? So what exactly do you need then? --82.82.197.68 (talk) 12:43, 22 January 2017 (UTC)

I said that you may replace it when there's a purpose of use. But there's none, so I reverted it. I hope that you have read about this discussion, in which it was decided that that image can only be used in the "Tank Man" article. It's non-free status must not be changed. Please see WP:NFC.
I asked you a proof because your claim cannot be verified. Wikipedia won't settle for a simple edit summary like that. Also, it's still non-free and your edit defies Wikipedia's non-free content policy. Now, if your claim is real, please submit a confirmation via Commons:OTRS.
I doubt that that non-free image can be displayed in that article, until its use can be justified as per WP:NFC. I hope I have answered all your questions. — Mediran [talk] 13:14, 22 January 2017 (UTC)

Ok well thats what I wanted to know from the beginning ;) So we will contact OTRS, did not know about that system. Thanks for your help. --Analogue islands (talk) 13:34, 22 January 2017 (UTC)

@Analogue islands: Consider WP:NFC#UUI, particularly Number 8, before contacting OTRS. It states that "A photo from a press agency or photo agency (e.g., AP, Corbis or Getty Images)" cannot be used in an article, "unless the photo itself is the subject of sourced commentary in the article." And that non-free photo is published by AP. I'm not really sure if OTRS will approve even if Widener allowed its free-use. They may need one from AP. Remember, the process involved at OTRS is that changing the status of a non-free image so that it can be used freely. — Mediran [talk] 13:45, 22 January 2017 (UTC)

Happy Birthday!

Thank you, Lepricavark! — Mediran [talk] 13:36, 1 February 2017 (UTC)
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