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September thanks

September songs
my story today

Thank you for ITN work! My story yesterday was The Company of Heaven, - I like your company! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:50, 30 September 2023 (UTC)

Thanks Gerda Arendt! Ed [talk] [OMT] 04:06, 1 October 2023 (UTC)
Thank you for posting Claus Wisser. Can you please give me credit? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 05:44, 6 October 2023 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – September 2023

News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2023).

Guideline and policy news

  • An RfC is open regarding amending the paid-contribution disclosure policy to add the following text: Any administrator soliciting clients for paid Wikipedia-related consulting or advising services not covered by other paid-contribution rules must disclose all clients on their userpage.

Technical news

  • Administrators can now choose to add the user's user page to their watchlist when changing the usergroups for a user. This works both via Special:UserRights and via the API. (T272294)

Arbitration

Miscellaneous

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The Bugle: Issue 210, October 2023

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DYK for Bill Duplissea (baseball)

On 11 October 2023, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Bill Duplissea (baseball), which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Bill Duplissea has been said to have the "best eyes in baseball"? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Bill Duplissea (baseball). You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Bill Duplissea (baseball)), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Aoidh (talk) 00:02, 11 October 2023 (UTC)

Wade

[1] I would say more like tea in a teacup, but potato/potahto, no? VQuakr (talk) 16:53, 11 October 2023 (UTC)

Edit warring violation

You have violated the 1RR in place on Kfar Aza massacre. Please self-revert. Jeppiz (talk) 18:38, 13 October 2023 (UTC)

I'm not seeing that. I made an edit that removed some information that wasn't supported by the citations given. I don't see that action as falling under the definition of reverting (see the paragraph beginning "Any edit to existing text ..."). I also then reverted your edit because its content was still unsupported by the sources given. Please feel free to bring this to WP:AN3, but I would be unpleasantly surprised if I was reversed. Ed [talk] [OMT] 19:07, 13 October 2023 (UTC)

Ok, happy to oblige Jeppiz (talk) 19:27, 13 October 2023 (UTC)

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Triplex locomotive

Hello, The ed17 –

Looking at this article’s history, I believe you were the editor who added the Quadruplex and Quintuplex section, under the heading “Expanding the Concept.” Is this correct? (I added the Quad patent drawing and amended the technical description, and a bit of editing to the Quint.)

I’m currently in a dialogue on the talk page with another editor who has made substantial additions in the last few weeks, which I consider to be seriously over-reaching, and which alter the whole character of the article. Basically, he/she has inserted every locomotive type which has multiple engines, and used some logic which seems pretty dodgy (in my opinion) to justify this. Even the meaning of “concept” has been changed to suit that agenda.

I’d be very obliged if you could look at the article to see what I mean, and I ask for your views. I’d welcome you to join the discussion, as I think it would benefit from some third-party input, or even mediation: At this stage it’s a stalemate verging on the acrimonious and personal.

Many thanks for your consideration. Kokopelli-UK (talk) 13:03, 24 October 2023 (UTC)

@Kokopelli-UK: Thanks for reaching out. I don't have time at the moment to dive into this, but I'd advise you post a neutral request over at WP:Third opinion. Apologies! Ed [talk] [OMT] 05:10, 26 October 2023 (UTC)

DYK for If I Survive You

On 26 October 2023, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article If I Survive You, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that NPR favorably compared a story in Jonathan Escoffery's debut book If I Survive You to Moby-Dick? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/If I Survive You. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, If I Survive You), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Cwmhiraeth (talk) 00:03, 26 October 2023 (UTC)

October songs
my story today
Thank you for your share in this interesting article! The author has an article now, - can you please copy a ref from the book to there? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:17, 26 October 2023 (UTC)
Done. :-) Ed [talk] [OMT] 13:31, 26 October 2023 (UTC)

ITN change needed

Could you update the new ITN for the 2023 Lewiston shootings? There are 18 dead and 13 injured per a news conference. ~ Eejit43 (talk) 14:52, 26 October 2023 (UTC)

@Eejit43:  Done Ed [talk] [OMT] 14:55, 26 October 2023 (UTC)

Nomination of 2-8-8-8-2 for deletion

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(C&P from User talk:マイヤー式機関車 --マイヤー式機関車 (talk) 07:09, 27 October 2023 (UTC))

WikiCup 2023 November newsletter

The WikiCup is a marathon rather than a sprint and all those reaching the final round have been involved in the competition for the last ten months, improving Wikipedia vastly during the process. After all this hard work, Delaware BeanieFan11 has emerged as the 2023 winner and the WikiCup Champion. The finalists this year were:-

Congratulations to everyone who participated in this year's WikiCup, whether they made it to the final round or not, and particular congratulations to the newcomers to the competition, some of whom did very well. Wikipedia has benefitted greatly from the quality creations, expansions and improvements made, and the numerous reviews performed. All those who reached the final round will win awards. The following special awards will be made based on high performance in particular areas of content creation and review. Awards will be handed out in the next few days.

  • Unlimitedlead wins the featured article prize, for 7 FAs in total including 3 in round 2.
  • MyCatIsAChonk wins the featured list prize, for 5 FLs in total.
  • England Lee Vilenski wins the featured topic prize, for a 6-article featured topic in round 4.
  • MyCatIsAChonk wins the featured picture prize, for 6 FPs in total.
  • Delaware BeanieFan11 wins the good article prize, for 75 GAs in total, including 61 in the final round.
  • New York (state) Epicgenius wins the good topic prize, for a 41-article good topic in the final round.
  • Berkelland LunaEatsTuna wins the GA reviewer prize, for 70 GA reviews in round 1.
  • MyCatIsAChonk wins the FA reviewer prize, for 66 FA reviews in the final round.
  • New York (state) Epicgenius wins the DYK prize, for 49 did you know articles in total.
  • Ukraine Muboshgu wins the ITN prize, for 46 in the news articles in total.

The WikiCup has run every year since 2007. With the 2023 contest now concluded, I will be standing down as a judge due to real life commitments, so I hope that another editor will take over running the competition. Please get in touch if you are interested. Next year's competition will hopefully begin on 1 January 2024. You are invited to sign up to participate in the contest; the WikiCup is open to all Wikipedians, both novices and experienced editors. It only remains to congratulate our worthy winners once again and thank all participants for their involvement! (If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send.) Sturmvogel 66 and Cwmhiraeth. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:52, 5 November 2023 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – November 2023

News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2023).

Administrator changes

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readded Tamzin
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Interface administrator changes

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Technical news

Arbitration

  • Eligible editors are invited to self-nominate themselves from 12 November 2023 until 21 November 2023 to stand in the 2023 Arbitration Committee elections.
  • Xaosflux, RoySmith and Cyberpower678 have been appointed to the Electoral Commission for the 2023 Arbitration Committee Elections. BusterD is the reserve commissioner.
  • Following a motion, the contentious topic designation of Prem Rawat has been struck. Actions previously taken using this contentious topic designation are still in force.
  • Following several motions, multiple topic areas are no longer designated as a contentious topic. These contentious topic designations were from the Editor conduct in e-cigs articles, Liancourt Rocks, Longevity, Medicine, September 11 conspiracy theories, and Shakespeare authorship question cases.
  • Following a motion, remedies 3.1 (All related articles under 1RR whenever the dispute over naming is concerned), 6 (Stalemate resolution) and 30 (Administrative supervision) of the Macedonia 2 case have been rescinded.
  • Following a motion, remedy 6 (One-revert rule) of the The Troubles case has been amended.
  • An arbitration case named Industrial agriculture has been opened. Evidence submissions in this case close 8 November.

Miscellaneous

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The Bugle: Issue 211, November 2023

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Books & Bytes – Issue 59

The Wikipedia Library: Books & Bytes
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Administrators' newsletter – December 2023

News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2023).

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  • Following a motion, the Extended Confirmed Restriction has been amended, removing the allowance for non-extended-confirmed editors to post constructive comments on the "Talk:" namespace. Now, non-extended-confirmed editors may use the "Talk:" namespace solely to make edit requests related to articles within the topic area, provided that their actions are not disruptive.
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The Bugle: Issue 212, December 2023

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Guild of Copy Editors December 2023 Newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors December 2023 Newsletter

Hello, and welcome to the December 2023 newsletter, a quarterly digest of Guild activities since September. Don't forget that you can unsubscribe at any time; see below.

Election news: The Guild needs coordinators! If you'd like to help out, you may nominate yourself or any suitable editor—with their permission—for the Election of Coordinators for the first half of 2024. Nominations will close at 23:59 on 15 December (UTC). Voting begins immediately after the close of nominations and closes at 23:59 on 31 December. All editors in good standing (not under current sanctions) are eligible, and self-nominations are welcome. Coordinators normally serve a six-month term that ends at 23:59 on 30 June.

Drive: Of the 69 editors who signed up for the September Backlog Elimination Drive, 40 copy-edited at least one article. Between them, they copy-edited 661,214 words in 290 articles. Barnstars awarded are listed here.

Blitz: Of the 22 editors who signed up for the October Copy Editing Blitz, 13 copy-edited at least one article. Between them, they copy-edited 109,327 words in 52 articles. Barnstars awarded are listed here.

Drive: During the November Backlog Elimination Drive, 38 of the 58 editors who signed up copy-edited at least one article. Between them, they copy-edited 458,620 words in 234 articles. Barnstars awarded are listed here.

Blitz: Our December Copy Editing Blitz will run from 10 to 16 December. Barnstars awarded will be posted here.

Progress report: As of 20:33, 10 December 2023 (UTC), GOCE copyeditors have processed 344 requests since 1 January, and the backlog stands at 2,191 articles.

Other news: Our Annual Report for 2023 is planned for release in the new year.

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Draft:NouveauShamanic

Hello, I greatly respect your opinions and insight. I was hoping if you find the time you could help me build up this draft as i’m again attempting for it to be recognized as my first and actual Wikipedia page. I believe it holds merit to be one, with your knowledge and prowess I am hoping to make it even better. Thank you! Elvisisalive95 (talk) 16:58, 12 December 2023 (UTC)

@Elvisisalive95: I've added two more potential sources. It's pretty likely that this is best covered in the main Nicholas Cage article, but best of luck in getting it over the bars at WP:GNG and WP:PAGEDECIDE ("at times it is better to cover a notable topic as part of a larger page about a broader topic, with more context (and doing so in no way disparages the importance of the topic)"). Ed [talk] [OMT] 18:29, 12 December 2023 (UTC)
Again, I thank you for your insight & help. We’re all lucky to have you & Wikipedia is a better place because of your contributions, fairness & kindness. Elvisisalive95 (talk) 18:55, 12 December 2023 (UTC)

I think Potassium should be not protected.

I mean that all above. 2001:EE0:4BC4:8D40:65D1:E41F:7E97:C466 (talk) 13:12, 15 December 2023 (UTC)

Hello! You should make this request first at User talk:Materialscientist, who originally protected this article, and if they decline you can try WP:RFUP. Good luck! Ed [talk] [OMT] 18:35, 15 December 2023 (UTC)

December greetings

December: story · music · places

Today, I have a special story to tell, of the works of a musician born 300 years ago. - I wish you a good festive season and a peaceful New Year! -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:51, 22 December 2023 (UTC)

@Gerda Arendt: Thanks! I hope you're well! Ed [talk] [OMT] 17:28, 22 December 2023 (UTC)
You can click on story - music - places and check, - I try to update. Perhaps more interesting than a plain yes ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:05, 22 December 2023 (UTC)

Voting for the WikiProject Military History newcomer of the year and military historian of the year awards for 2023 is now open!

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Seasonal greetings!!

Merry Christmas and a Prosperous 2024!

Hello The ed17, may you be surrounded by peace, success and happiness on this seasonal occasion. Spread the WikiLove by wishing another user a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past, a good friend, or just some random person. Sending you heartfelt and warm greetings for Christmas and New Year 2024.
Happy editing,
The Herald (Benison) (talk) 05:02, 25 December 2023 (UTC)

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The Herald (Benison) (talk) 05:02, 25 December 2023 (UTC)

RFA

Hi, I can't say I'm thrilled with spending my own time in the evening writing a well-thought out comment just to have it removed, The RFA was open when I hit edit so felt in that circumstance it should've stayed, But I guess rules are rules, Just a shame @Ingenuity couldn't have closed it 10 minutes later :), Thank you for at least apologising that does mean a lot, Thanks, –Davey2010Talk 22:07, 29 December 2023 (UTC)

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