User talk:Bellagio99
Welcome!
Hello Bellagio99, :
- The five pillars of Wikipedia;
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- What Wikipedia is not; For help, check out Wikipedia:Where to ask a question, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Again, welcome! --Fang Aili talk 13:19, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
You did not gain consensus, please revert your good faith edits. Removal of reliable sources' material is against Wikipedia policies. 84.13.172.187 (talk) 06:40, 15 October 2008 (UTC)
Dear 84..., as I don't know you and you're unregistered, I don't know your editorial history. FWIW, I've done 2500. There are many Wikipedia principles as work. One of them is to avoid Undue Emphasis, which in the opinion of several editors, the article had. In this case, given the racism prevalent in US election discourse (see NY Times, Oct 15, 2008), it is best to adhere WP:BLP and not have an unreliable and bias-provoking statement in. Cheers,Bellagio99 (talk) 16:18, 15 October 2008 (UTC)
- Hi Bellagio99. I understand that you are concerned that the information might be misinterpreted, sorry but there is no place in Wikipedia for such concerns. We do not do the judgements. The material is sourced and there are many news articles on the subject. The subject is also notable to have a stand alone article. However, I might agree to revert my edit due to the sensitivity of the issue, on condition that the material will be re-added after election day, especially if Obama is the next U.S. president. Wolves can talk... and edit 01:08, 16 October 2008 (UTC)
- Wolf, Welcome to Wikipedia. You seem to be a new editor and so far, a single purpose editor. Wikipedia discourages placing undue emphasis on minor or questionable facts, especially in Biographies of Living People WP:BLP. There are a great many more significant aspects of Mr Soetoro's life, such as his education and his professional work that are scarcely discussed. By contrast, hardly any article about an American citizen, who is nominally a Christian, mentions his or her religion. Bellagio99 (talk) 02:25, 16 October 2008 (UTC)
- Thanks, Bellagio. I have been editing Wikipedia since last year. Only yesterday I decided to make an account. If you have failed to notice, Lolo is not a living person. Him being a Muslim is not a minor nor a questionable fact. It has been and is still being mentioned numerous times to-date by very reliable sources. Barack Obama is a Christian American, this fact is mentioned several times in his article, and he is in the American Christian Category and the United Church of Christ members category. Moreover, Barack's half sister Maya Soetoro-Ng is a Buddhist and she is in the American Buddhist category, but there is no edit war in her article. I gave you a very good offer to end the edit dispute, but you don't seem to be impressed. If you like my offer, drop me a note at any time so I can revert my edit. Otherwise, we might be compelled to take a step further.Wolves can talk... and edit 03:34, 16 October 2008 (UTC)
moved to more appropriate location: Talk:Ann Dunham. Bellagio99 (talk) 13:52, 26 October 2008 (UTC)
Missing numbers
[edit]Hello. I must point out that in many of your recent edits long strings of numerals have been deleted, for some reason.
As a result, many web addresses have been broken and become useless. For instance, in this edit (diff), the original (valid) weblink http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/01/AR2008100103169.html became a broken link http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/01/AR.html because the string of numerals in AR2008100103169.html was deleted.
Additionally, in that same edit, the string "accessdate=2008-10-09" was also changed to "accessdate=" (that is, the date was deleted). Access dates are essential information and should be preserved especially when websites are used as sources of reference, because the same website accessed in different dates may yield different information.
Here are some other of your recent edits that truncated strings of numerals: [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] --many of which I have already fixed.
Since I don't think such changes were intentional (since they don't make sense), I'll leave it to you to figure out what kind of (software?) glitch have caused those problems. Until then, I'd suggest you double check your edits after they are done. Thanks for your attention on this matter. --76.202.61.72 (talk) 11:33, 1 November 2008 (UTC)
- Thanks. I had thought the problem was fixed. I may have to get another username/account.Bellagio99 (talk) 14:50, 1 November 2008 (UTC)
- Yours is a very unusual bug, but I don't think that using another account would solve the problem if it originates in your browser setting or add-ons (or even malware?). It has just happened again in one of your latest edits today,[9] which I already fixed again.
- I would suggest you to do some tests to identify where the problems come from by editing this paragraph and see if the following numbers would disappear: like id=1142862090121 or date 2008-11-01 and Pi=3.1415926 etc.
- May I suggest you test with (1) different browsers (Firefox, Safari, Opera, or Google Chrome, to see whether the problem resides in your browser, or (2) logging in and out of your Wikipedia account, to eliminate the possibility that it is the setting of your account, or (3) use some other computer, to see if it is caused by your Operating system. Hope this may help you zero in your problem. --76.202.61.72 (talk) 20:44, 1 November 2008 (UTC)
- Thanks for your help and tips. It's strange because I checked the Giulani edit after I did it, and I didn't see any problem. I've used Firefox with XP for years, now at 3.0, but will try with another browser. It might be the computer. I have run Spybot and Zonealarm for Malwear, but didn't find anything. This has happened once before, and I assumed it was a OTO gremlin. Obviously not. Bellagio99 (talk) 21:09, 1 November 2008 (UTC)
- I am restoring the missing numbers caused by your last edit on this section. In any case, the test was "successful" in that it showed that your edit did truncate all the long numbers three paragraphs above (except for the number "3" before the dot). It also showed that the paragraph is an adequate model to duplicate and test your bug.
- I also wonder if you can write and post long numbers such as those, to create similar tests for yourself. But if not, you can always restore your own edits as you did here -- in which the long numbers came back after you reverted yourself. A sandbox page could be of help if you don't want to clog your history with too many tests, though. Good luck. --76.202.61.72 (talk) 23:09, 1 November 2008 (UTC)
- Perhaps you should put this question to developer User:Brion VIBBER. He knows all there is to know about the wiki code and he may have an idea what causes it. Be sure to mention the test above. - Mgm|(talk) 01:01, 2 November 2008 (UTC)
- You could also try clearing User:Bellagio99/monobook.js and posting to Wikipedia:Village pump (technical). PrimeHunter (talk) 02:48, 2 November 2008 (UTC)
←It apparently affected my talk page too after you edited there - makes no sense. Thanks to the IP for fixing. Tvoz/talk 08:34, 2 November 2008 (UTC)
Happened again on your last two edits to Ann Dunham, Bellagio - I reinstated the stripped dates from the references but can you figure out why this is happening? Something seems very wrong with your settings or software. Thanks Tvoz/talk 18:30, 8 November 2008 (UTC)
As noted on Talk:Family of Barack Obama, that single purpose account has been slicing up any reference to any ethnicity throughout the site. Bearian (talk) 21:42, 5 November 2008 (UTC)
- Hi. I noted your comments in Talk:Family of Barack Obama regarding ethnicity, and I support your argument. However, I think that certain editor keeps reverting it to African-American. Yes, we are not talking about Barack Obama, but we are talking about his family. Maybe you should use this source [10] as the argument that certain editor use is also mentioning certain reference (see the history). I won't do any edits though as I don't want to trigger three revert rule. Greetings from Indonesia/UK. w_tanoto (talk) 23:03, 6 November 2008 (UTC)
- I got to tell you. I am a pacifist and hate revert war. So I won't have anything to do with it. But I will give you a full support if you initiate a vote regarding the ethnicity by participating in that vote. I think that it should be solved by way of polls/voting. w_tanoto (talk) 20:53, 7 November 2008 (UTC)
Technical Help Needed
[edit]{{Helpme}}
I have an unusual bug that is messing up edits on wikipedia. Intermittantly, but recurrently, when I edit, there is an uwanted and unobservable (at the time) stripping away of dates and numbers thoughout a Wikipedia article. As an example is woth 1K words, see what happened on Nov 7 when I edited Ann Dunham (Barakc's mother, fwiw). Fortunately, User:Tvoz was also watching this article and re-inserted the deleted dates. This has happened several times before, over a month+. Please also see two sections above: ==Missing numbers==
You are welcome to go prowling on my Gadgets and Monobook page. I deleted HotCat today -- the only gadget that I have added in a long time. But I don't know if it will help. What else can I -- or you -- do? Bellagio99 (talk) 22:59, 8 November 2008 (UTC)
- Try reporting at WP:BUGS if you haven't already. Ten Pound Hammer and his otters • (Broken clamshells • Otter chirps • HELP) 23:18, 8 November 2008 (UTC)
Happened again, at Ann Dunham. Tvoz/talk 01:24, 23 November 2008 (UTC)
- Darn. I did a preview, and things looked good. I won't edit from my home again, until I sort this out. I did post on Village Pump:Technical, and no one answered. I also, on advice, asked, VIBBER, and didn't get a reply. I had hoped it would have gone away like magic.Bellagio99 (talk) 02:01, 23 November 2008 (UTC)
- I deleted the entire monobook and apparently that did the trick. Bellagio99 (talk) 21:30, 7 December 2008 (UTC)
The legend of Harrison White
[edit]Bellagio99 - thanks for providing a citation for Harrison White's legendary status. Can you also provide a page number please? Social Structures: A Network Approach is a 528 page work. Without a page reference, this is practically unverifiable. Thanks - Crosbiesmith (talk) 21:15, 7 December 2008 (UTC)
- Glad to oblige. Pp. now in the citation, but the citation/reference was already to the specific article and not to the book. Adding another one.Bellagio99 (talk) 23:25, 7 December 2008 (UTC)
Comment by IP user moved to the article, where it belongs. With my response.
homestead
[edit]See Talk: Ann Dunham - it's just wrong as it was written. Tvoz/talk 01:51, 27 January 2009 (UTC)
Thanks!
[edit]Thanks for the barnstar! It really made my morning. You are doing excellent work on the social networks page, too. DarwinPeacock (talk) 23:07, 3 March 2009 (UTC)
my edits to The Bronx
[edit]Hi - I was attempting to clean up the article so that it would be more concise and easier + clearer to read. Much of the content of the article is excessive and repetitive when taking into account the detailed sub-articles for the borough. Perhaps my vision was a little too bold <?> and for that I apologize. --MisterPitt (talk) 14:45, 22 August 2009 (UTC)
University of Toronto alumni listing
[edit]Hi, I'm glad that you're interested in editing the List of University of Toronto people. But I want to make sure you know that the people are listed in order of their graduating years. Wisdompower (talk) 12:54, 9 December 2009 (UTC)
Bronx science
[edit]You disagree about peacock/advert? Really? So you think there is nothing wrong with sentences like "They entered a school equipped with the most modern facilities and state-of-the-art laboratories", "received tremendous reviews and only add to the excellent educational experience.". There is no need for a consensus, and I would appreciate it if you would actually reply to the talk page comments. -Regancy42 (talk) 23:38, 26 December 2009 (UTC)
- Reg, Sorry, I didn't respond sooner. I had work to do today. I think there is some peacocking, but the school IS world-famous, etc. I think the edits have gone too far. Bellagio99 (talk) 02:36, 27 December 2009 (UTC)
- I've replied on the article talk page. Also just realised that you may have a conflict of interest with the article. -Regancy42 (talk) 02:55, 27 December 2009 (UTC)
- What conflict of interest? Reg, I graduated 50+ years ago. I have only visited once since that time. To say this is WP:COI is to say that Aussies like you shouldn't edit Aussie articles. Good night, and please calm down.Bellagio99 (talk) 03:04, 27 December 2009 (UTC)
- COI is not simply defined as "editing an article which you may be involved with". It is, "Where advancing outside interests are more important to an editor than advancing the aims of Wikipedia, that editor stands in a conflict of interest". In this case, it is insisting on including promotional detail to Bx Science when the content is evidently not suitable. -Regancy42 (talk) 03:23, 27 December 2009 (UTC)
- What conflict of interest? Reg, I graduated 50+ years ago. I have only visited once since that time. To say this is WP:COI is to say that Aussies like you shouldn't edit Aussie articles. Good night, and please calm down.Bellagio99 (talk) 03:04, 27 December 2009 (UTC)
- I ask you yet again to calm down, don't assume you know me and remember WP:Civil. I have been advancing the aims of Wikipedia for many years and edits, and I have edited the Bronx Science article when I felt it was out of line. Your comments verge on insults, and so I will wait for others to have a look at the article, and won't respond anymore to your personal remarks. I am so puzzled by your inability to accept that there may be different points of view. Good nite. Bellagio99 (talk) 03:53, 27 December 2009 (UTC)
- I apologize if any of my comments were out of line, I certainly don't mean to attack you personally. With that said, I think that raising COI and POV is a genuine concern. Anyways, hope we can compromise on the issue on the talk page. Thanks. -Regancy42 (talk) 08:20, 28 December 2009 (UTC)
- I ask you yet again to calm down, don't assume you know me and remember WP:Civil. I have been advancing the aims of Wikipedia for many years and edits, and I have edited the Bronx Science article when I felt it was out of line. Your comments verge on insults, and so I will wait for others to have a look at the article, and won't respond anymore to your personal remarks. I am so puzzled by your inability to accept that there may be different points of view. Good nite. Bellagio99 (talk) 03:53, 27 December 2009 (UTC)
Bronx Hub
[edit]Hi, Bellagio, and happy new year! This section of The Bronx#Shopping districts is just a copy and paste from the stub article The Hub, Bronx, as one can see from the glaringly-obvious dead footnotes. If you look at the poster's contribution history, he seems to have a few newcomer's problems that have caused most of his edits to the latter article to be reverted. However, he claims to be a local kid who made a documentary about the Bronx, which is in fact the kind of editor we non-resident old-timers ought to encourage, once he's understood about WP:Conflict of interest, WP:Original research, WP:Verifiability, copy-and-paste, and similar policies that are little-understood by new editors. I certainly don't want to drive away fresh blood by slipping into WP:Ownership. (You're already on my watchlist, so I'll see any comments you make here.) —— Shakescene (talk) 04:22, 10 January 2010 (UTC)
- Shakes -- I suggest we either let the section with my lite edits stand, or else politely point out to the editor that its redundant with The Hub's own section. Third way: for you to tone down the claims a bit. Don't feel strongly either way, so I was a bit conservative. G'nite. Bellagio99 (talk) 06:41, 10 January 2010 (UTC)
- I didn't do my own (possibly more-drastic) edits when I first saw this because I wanted to wait either to think it over or for another editor to act on it. (For one thing, as an outsider, I was unsure about the centrality of the Hub compared to other shopping areas, although apparently it was one of the Bronx's earliest.) So I have no objections to your conservatism. The only thing that I know I'd change right now would be to replace the dummy footnotes ("[1]", etc.) with the real <refs> from the original article. —— Shakescene (talk) 07:23, 10 January 2010 (UTC)
- Shakes, I agree with dummy note changes (of course). Hub was always an important locale, but not THE important locale. On 2nd thought, I'd delete almost all, and just leave the xlink back to the main Hub article. Put the rationale on the edit and on the Bronx talk page. Gotta catch a plane, so I am leaving this up to you. Sorry to bail out. 17:42, 10 January 2010 (UTC)
Response to UOJComm: studying Wikipedia
[edit]Dear UOJComm, Thanks for your email. I would much prefer that we chat on my talk page -- even better, on yours, but I cannot find you as a User in my Wikipedia search. I am so overwhelmed by my own work, that I do not have time to mentor people from other universities. However, you should look at the work of Andrea Foote, Piotr Konieczny, and Phoebe Ayers (book: How Wikipedia Works). Zack Hayat has also studied Israel's Wikipedia, but I think he wrote in Hebrew. Of course, Google Scholar and Web of Science would be great resources. Good luck. Bellagio99 (talk) 14:27, 25 January 2010 (UTC)
Hi Bellagio99, Thank you very much for the response. I've just set up my account, so I will set up my Talk page. I'm not quite looking for a mentor, but rather some people to interview about their experiences on Wikipedia. It would be brief. Please let me know if you would have time to answer a few questions. Thanks again.
UOJComm (talk) 18:04, 25 January 2010 (UTC)
Bishop up to his old tricks
[edit]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Character_theory_%28Media%29
Thought you might like to know... (ColonelBuendia99 (talk) 19:33, 25 January 2010 (UTC))
List of U of T people
[edit]Thanks for contributing new article List of University of Toronto people. However, one of Wikipedia's core policies is that material must be verifiable, by being clearly attributed to reliable sources. Please help by adding more sources to the article you created, and/or by clarifying how the sources already given support the material (see here for how to do inline referencing). Many thanks! PS If you need any help, you can look at Help:Contents/Editing Wikipedia or ask at Wikipedia:New contributors' help page, or just ask me. Me-123567-Me (talk) 19:11, 8 March 2010 (UTC)
Me-124345's irrational actions
[edit]Bellagio99, What should we do about Me-12334's incomprehensible actions? I think I've given enough reasons why the list should be kept as it is. I've said several times. But he/she keeps on vandalizing. It's an article that many people including me put time and effort into. Me-12343 cannot do this without any justification. (which doesn't seem to be any.) --Wisdompower (talk) 16:26, 17 March 2010 (UTC)
Widsompower
[edit]And perhaps he should stop making personal attacks. He needs to show those he is added are notable. --Me-123567-Me (talk) 22:36, 17 March 2010 (UTC)
Me-1234, do you even read what I write in the "Discussion" room? The fact that YOU don't know them or have never heard of them does not establish that they are not notable. If you're thinking and arguing in that way, you're committing ad ignorantiam (fallacy of appealing to ignorance). The organizations that people like Patrick Fung, John Cassaday lead as Presidents and CEOs are famous, and this makes those Presidents and CEOs notable as well. They are even mentioned in their firms' wikipedia articles. Plus, business sections of university alumni lists do tend to include some redlinks, because of the fact that the companies that those redlinks represent as CEOs and Presidents, Chairmen are notable and have wikipedia pages. Most often, the redlinks of other university lists don't have special inline citations attached to them, but in the U of T's list, I added citation to every redlink. I understood Abductive's claim. If there were no citations added to the redlinks, there would be no way of checking that alumnus' notability and affiliation with the university other than by typing up his name on Google. So I included citations for all the redlinks. (So one possible problem solved.) --Wisdompower (talk) 22:55, 17 March 2010 (UTC)
Requesting for protection
[edit]Bellagio99, Is it possible to request for article protection until mid-April? (Admittedly, I don't know much about wikipedia rules.) If that's possible, I think it would be nice to have the university list protected until mid-April, so that I can spend time on the article with much less opportunity cost. Wikipedia articles are so vulnerable. Just anyone can edit it. And by using (or taking them to one's advantage) wikipedia rules, one can do harm to an article then 'justify' one's action. Since not many wikipedia users are well aware of some esoteric wikipedia rules, their 'justification' often seems right on the surface, when in fact, they're wrong. Wikipedia is not yet, the place where all knowledge in the world is stored. Nor is the website in itself complete in terms of its rules and structure. Anyway, that's how I feel.--Wisdompower (talk) 22:44, 17 March 2010 (UTC)
Happy Bellagio99's Day!
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ANI
[edit]I've raised your complaint I saw at BLPN there. Dougweller (talk) 08:29, 20 September 2010 (UTC)
Ann Dunham
[edit]I just reverted your addition. I will present my reasons on your Talk page. Yours in WPedia, Bellagio99 (talk) 18:55, 21 September 2010 (UTC)
- No. If you want to discuss my edit to the Ann Dunham article then you need to place your comments on the Ann Dunham Talk Page, that is the only appropriate place for your comments.--InaMaka (talk) 00:23, 22 September 2010 (UTC)
- Yup, that's where I put it and what I meant to say. I was just giving you a Heads-Up about this. Sorry to be confusing. 12:46, 22 September 2010 (UTC)
barnstar
[edit]Thanks so much for the Barnstar. It's much appreciated, and I'll wear it proudly. mnewmanqc (talk) 23:02, 22 September 2010 (UTC)
- Oh boy. It's hard for me to get too invested in it. However, I think if I was forced to decide I'd go for the Bronx. Prefer da Boogiedown, though!! mnewmanqc (talk) 02:39, 23 September 2010 (UTC)
Froid on "da" Bronx
[edit]Hi Bellagio99. Thanks for the heads-up about the/The Bronx dispute. I agree with Mnewmanqc's comments (above) but am grateful I'm not forced to make the decision. Rather, I'll heed your counsel and adhere to whatever resolution Wikipedia's "powers that be" arrive at. Ciao! Froid 21:12, 25 September 2010 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Froid (talk • contribs)
20 November 2010 (UTC)
WikiProject Sociology membership
[edit]You are listed in the Category:Wikipedians interested in sociology, probably due to the use of "This user is interested in sociology" userbox, but you have not added yourself to our official member list for WikiProject Sociology. This prevent you from, among other things, receiving our sociology newsletter, as that member list acts as our newsletter mailing list (you can find the latest issue of our sociology newsletter here). If you'd like to receive the newsletter and help us figure out how many members we really have, please consider joining our WikiProject and adding yourself to our official member list. Thank you, --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk 12:54, 26 December 2010 (UTC)
Signpost revert
[edit]So what's with this revert? Ravensfire (talk) 15:48, 28 December 2010 (UTC)
- Perhaps it has something to do with this revert, which occured immediately before the revert at Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Templates/Issue. I'm thinking that the user looked at the date of the Signpost issue ("December 27") and thought it was an error, since today is December 28. Guoguo12--Talk-- 16:00, 28 December 2010 (UTC)
- Twas quickly fixed, so no problem. When I saw it, I didn't know if there was a purpose or a goof, so figured it was easier to ask. Thanks for the explanation. Ravensfire (talk) 22:04, 28 December 2010 (UTC)
- Indeed, thanks. Guoguo12--Talk-- 22:08, 28 December 2010 (UTC)
- Twas quickly fixed, so no problem. When I saw it, I didn't know if there was a purpose or a goof, so figured it was easier to ask. Thanks for the explanation. Ravensfire (talk) 22:04, 28 December 2010 (UTC)
Blood libel
[edit]- I took it out and started a new subsection on the talk page so we can discern if consensus really does merit its inclusion (I do not think it does). cheers.--Milowent • talkblp-r 19:42, 13 January 2011 (UTC)
Besides, despite what you stated, the consensus as I understand it is clearly against you. Steelbeard1 (talk) 19:48, 13 January 2011 (UTC)
ANI
[edit]Hello. This message is being sent to inform you that there currently is a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. Phearson (talk) 05:44, 16 January 2011 (UTC)
My username
[edit]Thanks for asking about it. Yeah, it is the tiny little bugs. It was just an alliteration that came to me one day and I've used it ever since, although I'm a bit ambivalent about it since it's sort of like I'm calling myself a pest... Oh well. Ran off for the weekend but was nice seeing your agreement about the blood libel usage notability question. Cheers yourself, monsieur. Agnosticaphid (talk) 23:57, 17 January 2011 (UTC)
List of Lafayette College people - Ori Kalmus
[edit]As a neutral observer to your edit, I understand your concern that Kalmus may not be notable enough for Wikipedia, but even that is disputable and should be up for discussion. I did a Google search for Ori Kalmus, and the results were beyond the level for which one can claim "Mr Kalmus is not yet notable to Wikipedia or Google." I'd suggest leaving the text in for now, and bringing up a discussion between you and Screammaskinskillman. --Deryck C. 00:23, 30 April 2011 (UTC)
Bellagio99: Willing to help with some Wikipedia-related research?
[edit]Hi! I'm a first-year PhD student working on a system to help improve the quality of Wikipedia articles on scientific topics by providing easier access to relevant scientific publications. I was hoping to speak with some editors who work on scientific articles in order to solicit requirements for my system in order to better satisfy the needs of the Wikipedia community. I noticed that you have been a caretaker for a number of pages on topics concerning social network science and online communities, and I would really appreciate your input. If you are interested, please let me know on my talk page (talk). Thanks! —Preceding undated comment added 23:12, 27 May 2011 (UTC).
Rollback
[edit]Hi there, I just saw this edit (which was quickly undone) where it appears you accidentally hit the rollback button from your watchlist. Anyway, I just thought I'd let you know that, if you want, you can hide the rollback link from your watchlist by adding to .page-Special_Watchlist .mw-rollback-link {display:none;}
to Special:Mypage/skin.css, which will hopefully stop this from happening. Your call if you want to use it, but I thought you might like to know. Jenks24 (talk) 10:05, 7 June 2011 (UTC)
- Ah ok then. My new suggestion would be to go to Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Templates/Issue and take it off your watchlist. That should solve your problem. Jenks24 (talk) 13:30, 7 June 2011 (UTC)
- No worries, glad I could help. Jenks24 (talk) 13:36, 7 June 2011 (UTC)
Refactoring other's talk comments
[edit]Please do not refactor other editors' talk comments on articles. If you disagree with them, simply say so. But deleting their comments, as you did [11] and just placing your response to the comment in edit remarks, is not appropriate and reduces the collaboration of editors as other editors will never see the original comment. I would like to assume that was not your intention and it was simply an oversight, but please do think about this a bit more carefully in the future. Thank you. Academic Avenger (talk) 08:05, 20 June 2011 (UTC)
Hello, strange coincidence
[edit]Hi, I was updating my userboxen and having trouble getting the "forgotten hebrew" to display the way I wanted to (figured out it was because I wasn't using free-standing userboxes, but within a Babel template), and I clicked on a random user of the box to see how it was displayed on their page, and that random user was obviously you (otherwise, c'mon, this story wouldn't interest you) and I saw that we had the same "wikipedian for" user box as well, and we've been wikipedians for the exact same amount of time! Bizarre! That is all. You have many userboxes, as you know, so all the other things we have in common (which are many) are somewhat diluted in their effect. Cheers! JesseRafe (talk) 15:21, 17 September 2011 (UTC)
hi,
i see your threatening edit summary on your latest reversal. no, i won't be reverting again; i have better things to do than edit war.
for the record, however, you must note that i had already responded on the article's talk page and my last edit (reversal) indicated "see talk page".
regards.--96.232.126.111 (talk) 20:05, 19 November 2011 (UTC)
- Dear 96. This wasn't a threat. We had an impasse, and I figured we should kick to an Admin for resolution. Good luck in your editing, even if we have disagreed about List of People from the Bronx. Bellagio99 (talk) 20:22, 19 November 2011 (UTC)
Ann Dunham agnostic
[edit]There are multiple sources in the article. Why take it out? --Javaweb (talk) 02:59, 1 February 2012 (UTC)Javaweb
Re: LDS and Dunham
[edit]Regarding this edit, I agree with your reversion. What has me puzzled is that I thought we had discussed this in the past. Is this the second time it's been added? Viriditas (talk) 06:22, 16 February 2012 (UTC)
- Virid, I don't recall it having been discussed since I started watching the page circa 2007. Bellagio99 (talk) 06:34, 16 February 2012 (UTC)
- I found it. It was previously discussed in Talk:Ann_Dunham/Archive_2#posthumous_Mormon_baptism and it appears to be the same user adding the same content once again. Viriditas (talk) 06:42, 16 February 2012 (UTC)
Michael Schwartz reference
[edit]Hi - You suggested on my talk page that I should add a reference for some information I added to the page on Michael Schwartz. The information came from his book Radical Protest and Social Structure: The Southern Farmers' Alliance and Cotton Tenancy, 1880-1890 which is listed as one of his books. Is that sufficient, or should I try to find the particular page numbers where he discusses structural ignorance? (Please respond on my talk page...thank you) Mike Restivo (talk) 17:31, 2 April 2012 (UTC)
NYC Dialect edit war
[edit]Hi, pls comment on the talk page. I started a discussion of the edit war. Otherwise things could get downright silly. I wish the other person(s) would come out from behind their IP address, but we come to an edit war with the opponents we have. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mnewmanqc (talk • contribs) 11:57, 26 September 2012 (UTC)
Blast from the past
[edit]Hello, old friend. I just thought I would nip in here and leave greetings. I do notice and appreciate the odd posting by you on my talkpage, though sometimes they are months old by the time I see them. I fear that the 'good old days' for me, as a committed WP editor, seem long over. There is so much to do on this internet of ours, so many distractions, interests, etc., that it is hard to devote my time and indeed my mind to pure editing for its own sake. What tends to happen is that, while I am creating and adapting other media on other interactive cybersites, I will have need of Wikipedia to find out background info on some subject or other. I will invariably see that someone, somewhere, has (sacrilegious editor comment spoiler!) "got it completely wrong" in some way, and then the old urge to get in there and put it to rights kicks in. For which purpose I have popped up today! So, just a word to say, I remember the old times, and I am glad you seem to have kept burning the fire which went out (or, at least, flickered very very low) for me. Best wishes from Lee. Ref (chew)(do) 18:30, 30 January 2013 (UTC)
requested move to NY dialect
[edit]I wasn't able to do the move because it was blocked. I requested the move using the requested move template. mnewmanqc (talk) 19:51, 28 August 2013 (UTC)
Nothing happened in response to my request to move. Do you know how to follow up? I'm thinking I can see if I can just move it to NYC English, which would be, from my perspective, the idea solution. mnewmanqc (talk) 12:47, 1 September 2013 (UTC)
Richard Alba
[edit]The first reference in your first sentence is a dead link. Would you like to look for an alternative? Deb (talk) 18:11, 14 September 2013 (UTC)
- Thanks for heads-up. I will find another link. May take a while as miles to go today. Bellagio99 (talk) 18:14, 14 September 2013 (UTC)
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Social network analysis
[edit]I don't have time to do a talk page write up at the moment, I think we're almost 12 hours out of synch with each other and I'm about to log for the night. I'll write up the reasoning on the external links and propose some other stuff that I haven't changed yet in the morning for you to consider. --GraemeL (talk) 23:38, 29 October 2013 (UTC)
Social graph synonym
[edit]In regards to this edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Social_graph&diff=560747741&oldid=560614635
Just so you know, the term "social graph" was coined because graph theory emerged as its own field of study long before anybody thought to use graphs to describe social networks. The term "graph" is often used to refer to these sorts of data structures in computer engineering. -- myncknm (talk) 04:19, 2 November 2013 (UTC)
Oh yeah, I completely believe that the term "social network" has been the original term in the social sciences. But redundant jargon is what happens when interdisciplinary work happens, I suppose. -- myncknm (talk) 04:52, 2 November 2013 (UTC)
Felice Picano
[edit]I'm not sure why you reverted the Felice Picano material. As I wrote on the Talk page the material was added by Felice himself and is in clear violation of WP:AB. Would you please explain? Am I missing something here? Thanks. Pjefts (talk) 23:03, 1 December 2013 (UTC)
- You are missing WP:IGNORE. I know Picano for many years and I know these things are all true. So why go to all the fuss for a guy who doesn't know WP practices. In the meantime, I will ask him to supply documentation of the obvious. Bellagio99 (talk) 23:10, 1 December 2013 (UTC)
- Thanks for adding the references and general cleanup. I would like to do something with the section "References and critical works including Felice Picano"...clearly these should be used as citations and not just a bibliographic listing. I would delete the entire section but if you think you can make it useful, go for it. Your close association may be a problem though. Pjefts (talk) 01:11, 9 December 2013 (UTC)
- I'm also returning the banner in regards to additional sources needed especially since there are no secondary sources from peer reviewed materials...newspapers and literary reviews are not peer reviewed and are considered primary sources..I would also point out that there are no tertiary sources for Felice Picano listed. Pjefts (talk) 03:38, 9 December 2013 (UTC)
- Dear Pjefts, Thank you for your work. You're right, the material belongs in citations, and I will put them there. Your own page says you are a new user, so I do want to point out to you that newspapers and literary reviews are widely and legitimately used throughout Wikipedia. We can always discuss the issue with WP:ANI, if there is any doubt. But I do appreciate all of your work. PS: I do not have a close relationship with Felice Picano. We have only met in person once. But my wife has a longstanding relationship with him, dating back to undergraduate days, so I have read a lot of his works and know a good deal about him. Bellagio99 (talk) 14:36, 9 December 2013 (UTC)
Looking for Wiki editor to create an entry for UofT academic journal
[edit]Hi Bellagio99. We are an UofT-affiliated academic journal looking for a wiki editor to create an entry for us. Can provide all references for content (in English and French). Is this something that you'd be willing to do? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.27.6.29 (talk) 00:53, 15 December 2013 (UTC)
- Sorry, no. Overloaded. Bellagio99 (talk) 00:58, 15 December 2013 (UTC)
Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.27.6.29 (talk) 01:00, 15 December 2013 (UTC)
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JFK in the Bronx
[edit]Please see this link JFK in the Bronx, comment here if necessary, thanks:[12]...Modernist (talk) 00:37, 7 April 2014 (UTC)
- My apologies. Thanks for the link to the fascinating artcle. Also commented on your talk page.Bellagio99 (talk) 01:20, 7 April 2014 (UTC)
Bronx reverted edits 5 Aug 2014
[edit]The key to the edits, which I admit were grammatically clunky, is they took out incorrect information about the division between the East and West Bronx and the size of the West Bronx. The West Bronx includes everything west of the Bronx River (the entire Annexed District), not just the area west of Jerome Avenue. Jerome Avenue just divides the street addresses, not the sections. It's confusing, but it is true. This debate was resolved on the West Bronx page years ago. So saying that the West Bronx is 1/8th the size of the East Bronx is incorrect. (5 Aug 2014).
- You're right on that. It would be great, if you could rewrite it smoothly. Bellagio99 (talk) 13:56, 5 August 2014 (UTC)
Okay, I'll give it a shot. Maybe I'll just lift some of the text from the East and West Bronx pages which is pretty clear (5 Aug 2014).
- Sounds good. Recycle, reuse. Bellagio99 (talk) 16:00, 5 August 2014 (UTC)
Alexander Technique revert
[edit]Hello, Mr. Bellagio99! Thanks for your comment on the Alexander Technique talk page. I'm a bit reluctant to revert the edits myself because I'm already in Alexbrn's crosshairs due to some mildly contentious points on several other alt-med topics. I am a proponent of critical thinking, science, and neutral encyclopedic coverage, and I find his extreme Skeptic POV to be a bit off the mark from the moderate Skepticism that pervades (and generally benefits) Wikipedia. Would you be willing to perform the edits? I would back you up. Thanks!--Karinpower (talk) 01:02, 2 September 2014 (UTC)
- Sorry, deadlined on important other stuff the next 2 days. Hopefully, someone else will do it, but if not then I will take a harder look by end of week. Bellagio99 (talk) 12:59, 2 September 2014 (UTC)
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[edit]Hi Bellagio99: Sorry to trouble you, but I could not help but notice your expression of affection for TOS on the Wikipedians who like Star Trek: The Original Series page, and so I would be curious of your thoughts on the notability of a Star Trek author for whom I just created a Wikipedia article -- which may be promptly destined for the trash pile. As a newcomer here at Wikipedia, my first article attempt was indeed recommended for deletion within hours of its creation by a senior user named JzG who seems to me to be overly hostile and dismissive of Star Trek, calling it fancruft (= trivial, obscure, of importance to just a tiny group of fanatics) . Since you are a Trek fan, if it is also your good faith opinion that my subject is in no way deserving of an article on this site; and you could let me know, I would feel much more comfortable with the justice of the pending deletion action. My proposed article may be seen here, assuming you visit the page soon enough ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Gurian Kind Regards. Tosresearcher (talk) 05:12, 7 October 2016 (UTC)
- Sorry, I have no opinion on this subject. Bellagio99 (talk) 13:53, 7 October 2016 (UTC)
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I'm assuming your reverts on The Bronx were a mistake? meamemg (talk) 21:30, 2 December 2016 (UTC)
- I must have been confused by the IP editor. Thanks. Bellagio99 (talk) 22:05, 2 December 2016 (UTC)
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Do you know Stacey Spiegel
[edit]Your edits over the years show a desire to remove the advert tags (e.g. here) from the Stacey Spiegel article, and also to add material that might indicate a connection. So, do you know Stacey Spiegel? I have restored the BLP sources tag ars the article still needs source, so please do not remove it again. Thank you.198.58.172.228 (talk) 20:45, 25 January 2017 (UTC)
- I have met him once. I thought your spate of 43 edits was unbalanced, c'est tout! And as you are an IP-user, I have no idea about what your own track record is. I wondered if you had a personal animus against Spiegel Bellagio99 (talk) 20:51, 25 January 2017 (UTC)
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[edit]Hello, I removed those links because they were added by Albertbenschop, who has a clear conflict of interest as the site creator. Wikiain seems to like the links too, so ... hmmm. Graham87 06:04, 5 February 2017 (UTC)
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Wikipedia:NOT a newspaper does not always exclude news
[edit]Hi! this edit summary I need to make something clear. Wikipedia:What_Wikipedia_is_not#Wikipedia_is_not_a_newspaper is not meant to always exclude current events! It states "As Wikipedia is not a paper source, editors are encouraged to include current and up-to-date information within its coverage[...]"
In terms of internal article content that means considering whether the event will have commentary/lasting coverage. The New York Times article about the disease states that Grand Concourse has had recurring problems with rats, so the disease is a consequence of a longstanding problem, not just a one-off freak occurrence. It also has the unusual factor since that disease does not frequently occur in the West.
Another thing: IMO to always remove news events from articles is detrimental to articles, because what starts as a single news story can snowball into a whole controversy/permanent change for a community. Removing such things can prevent readers from knowing that it happened and doing further research, which means they add additional content to the the original content. Think of an article like a plant: you need to let it grow from an incomplete state. If you chop the sapling it won't grow.
By the way, if you wish to consider Wikipedia:Notability (events) remember that is meant to be a test of whether a topic gets its own article, not a guideline for internal article content. WhisperToMe (talk) 00:47, 18 February 2017 (UTC)
- Dear Whisper, I am in L.A. now. There is a lot of rain, and some flooding. There has been much rain for several months. Yet, this transient event should not be in the L.A. Wikipedia article.
- Similarly, because there are some rat infestations in a limited area of the Bronx should not be notable. I am inclined to let my AGF revision stand. If you disagree, please take this discussion (in full) to the article's Talk page. And thanks for your care in editing Wikipedia
Bellagio99 (talk) 01:15, 18 February 2017 (UTC)
- You are welcome! As I strongly disagree I have started a talk page section and put a notice on WikiProject New York to get further feedback on the issue. Please see the article talk page. WhisperToMe (talk) 03:18, 18 February 2017 (UTC)
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Hello Bellagio99, I partially agree with your revert at this article regarding the included content. However, the used self-published blog has been exclusively spammed by single-usage IPs in the last months and years, with the clear intent to increase the visibility of the author's website and articles. It would be great if we could keep the content, but use another more reliable (and less self-promotional) source. I just wanted to give you some additional background information about the underlying issue, maybe it is possible to replace this reference? GermanJoe (talk) 21:44, 4 April 2017 (UTC)
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[edit]Can you do me one favor? Don't call me Mr. Kayak again. As Kayak is not my last name, it just sounds too awkward.LakeKayak (talk) 20:33, 12 June 2017 (UTC)
- Sure. iwas being respectful. Bellagio99 (talk) 21:22, 12 June 2017 (UTC)
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[edit]You might want to double-check your revert on List of people from the Bronx. You reverted the HTTP -> HTTPS bot, not any meaningful chamge to content. --AntiCompositeNumber (Ring me) 16:39, 11 December 2017 (UTC)
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[edit]I have reverted the page to delete the Jeffrey Arnett quote, which is a very vague and nonspecific criticism that does not give any foundation for its claims. Arnett has never published original research on narcissism or original research on generational differences in personality traits. Other biographies of living psychologists, even those who are better-known and whose work is more hotly debated (e.g., Daniel Gilbert, Anthony Greenwald) do not include criticisms like this.
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[edit]Hey B - actually Henry Laufer is indeed class of 62 and is notable enough for a wiki article - but I don't have a good source for the Science bit. Also suspect that his PhD was later than 65 - that would be 3 years for undergrad and grad and I doubt that. I'll keep looking for sourcing other than personal knowledge. :) All best Tvoz/talk 23:48, 4 February 2019 (UTC)
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[edit]Well please don't give up on editing the article. OWNy behavior can be off-putting for sure but I can also understand an attitude of maintaining article quality. I think that newspaper quotes of experts are reliable for sure, if there is something good to add to the article. Obviously you and I can make some assumption that the ocelot is rare there but these are only sitings and for example the animal could just be really good at hiding from people. —DIYeditor (talk) 04:48, 24 February 2019 (UTC)
- Thanks for the kind note. This was just a drive-by edit, based on my interest while reading an Arizona article. My putting in "rare" in the lede just made it symmetrical with the mention of "rare" later in the article. And it was documented. Nevertheless, as this was just a side interest for me, I decided not to get into an edit war. And thanks to you, I did learn about citation templates, atlho I have never been asked to use in my thousands of edits. Makes sense, though. Miles to go before I sleep. Bye. Bellagio99 (talk) 16:40, 24 February 2019 (UTC)
- I think if the body of the article describes it as rare and is cited, the lede should too. I think that other editor is a little OWNy, sorry about that. —DIYeditor (talk) 06:53, 3 March 2019 (UTC)
- I agree, but I don't have the desire/time to tangle with OWN in an edit war. You gotta know when to fold 'em sometimes. Feel free to put it back in, with the preferred template, with my blessing. Bellagio99 (talk) 16:52, 3 March 2019 (UTC)
- I think if the body of the article describes it as rare and is cited, the lede should too. I think that other editor is a little OWNy, sorry about that. —DIYeditor (talk) 06:53, 3 March 2019 (UTC)
revision to university of toronto alumni list
[edit]Thanks for your professional editing. You will now find a reference for the Wiki page for Karl Svoboda that shows he played for the University of Toronto . Can the original edit to the university of toronto alumni list from March 15 now be posted? Thanks!Bigkfs (talk) 15:05, 20 March 2019 (UTC)
- You're welcome to do it. Just provide a link to the Karl Svoboda Wiki page that has the UofT cite/ref. Thanks for playing this straight. If you haven't done this before, just put two brackets on each side like I have done here. Bellagio99 (talk) 03:58, 21 March 2019 (UTC)
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[edit]I see you also reverted this editor I'm trying to figure out if it's a vandal. Cheers. Magnolia677 22:28, 5 May 2019 (UTC)
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[edit]Bellagio99, regarding the lead of Lafayette College, it's WP:OVERLINK to wikilink to Pennsylvania. The link to Easton, Pennsylvania is sufficient. Jweiss11 (talk) 00:26, 13 June 2019 (UTC)
- (talk I see your point re that guideline. But no one from outside of the US will no where Easton is without some sort of link to PA. I know, becuase it is something I discuss with others. I see a place further down in the para where PA will be less intrusive. Please let it be. Bellagio99 (talk) 00:51, 13 June 2019 (UTC)
- PS: The way the link is, Easton shows up only as Easton in the text. So if you don't like my current (further-down) solution, then why not just de-pipe| it? Bellagio99 (talk) 01:31, 13 June 2019 (UTC)
- Yes, you're correct about "Easton" being ambiguous. The proper move is to write out "Easton, Pennsylvania", as I did in my first edit there. Jweiss11 (talk) 02:09, 13 June 2019 (UTC)
- Check that. I see I made a mistake in my first edit! My second and most recent edit is correct. Jweiss11 (talk) 02:10, 13 June 2019 (UTC)
I'm not against putting something about FVV being part of the Raptor's championship team in the lede. However, the current version was put in by a troll. I don't like where it was put into the lede and it contains inaccurate information (this is his 3rd playoff run with the Raptors). If you feel like re-working it, please do, but don't rollback a clearly disruptive edit. Sasquatch t|c 14:24, 24 June 2019 (UTC)
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[edit]Hi, on Special:Diff/918829097: This isn't a link to a source. The Bronx House will not state on its website that Judith Merril's mother started working there in 1936. The link isn't there to support any statements. How would you go about making it a source? What in the text would it support? /Julle (talk) 14:56, 30 September 2019 (UTC)
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[edit]Hi there. Can you explain this edit that you made reverting my policy edits? The first edit was to remove a 3 year tagged unsourced item, which should be removed per policy. Any tagged and unsourced items can be removed after a reasonable time. 3 years is enough time to source such a statement (which seems like it would be hard to source.) If you reinstate it you need to supply a source.
- Dear CT, You make a good point re the unsourced assertion. Yet, as a former resident of Seaton Village (who did not write that sentence), it is prima facie accurate and would be accepted by all knowledgeable people. Hence, I would urge you to let it stand, but if you insist, I will not oppose your deleting it.Bellagio99 (talk) 00:41, 19 December 2019 (UTC)
Secondly the external links are not specifically about the article subject, in fact one link is in fact about a completely different neighbourhood entirely. The school is not encyclopaedic link and provides no additional details to the reader that helps them understand the article topic. The link to the local Boys and Girls club is most definitely not encyclopaedic. Wikipedia is not a collection of links and is most definitely not a community posting board or listing of local services. Thanks. Canterbury Tail talk 22:22, 18 December 2019 (UTC)
- Dear CT again, the school and the club are definitely in and important parts of Seaton Village. I do not see the problem and would oppose any reversion. Bellagio99 (talk) 00:41, 19 December 2019 (UTC)
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[edit]Dear Bellagio99, Please stop reverting my edits on the Wikipedia page "Social Network Analysis". Similar to the references no. 12,3,13,7 on that page regarding the applications of SNA in several fields of knowledge, I am adding a reference to an article in economics. The article has won Herbert-Simon Prize as the best paper presented at the European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy in 2018. Your current behavior of reverting my first contribution to Wikipedia without even reading the article that I am citing, just by looking at the impact factor of its journal, is sadly neither objective nor respectful. So, please stop reverting my edits, otherwise your behavior will be referred to Wikipedia Administrators. Thank you in advance for your understanding. == Notice of edit warring noticeboard discussion == Hello. This message is being sent to inform you that there is currently a discussion involving you at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Edit warring regarding a possible violation of Wikipedia's policy on edit warring. Thank you. Malina120 (talk) 00:59, 14 June 2020 (UTC)
- Actually, I did read the article. But that is subjective. That is why I referred to the impact factor. See you at the ANI. Bellagio99 (talk) 01:08, 14 June 2020 (UTC)
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- Disinformation report: Paid editing by a former head of state's business enterprise
- In the media: Fernando, governance, and rugby
- Opinion: The (Universal) Code of Conduct
- Op-Ed: A Little Fun Goes A Long Way
- Changing the world: The reach of protest images on Wikipedia
- Recent research: Quality of aquatic and anatomical articles
- Traffic report: The verdict is guilty, guilty, guilty
- News from Wiki Education: Encouraging professional physicists to engage in outreach on Wikipedia
The Signpost: 27 June 2021
[edit]- News and notes: Elections, Wikimania, masking and more
- In the media: Boris and Joe, reliability, love, and money
- Disinformation report: Croatian Wikipedia: capture and release
- Recent research: Feminist critique of Wikipedia's epistemology, Black Americans vastly underrepresented among editors, Wiki Workshop report
- Traffic report: So no one told you life was gonna be this way
- News from the WMF: Searching for Wikipedia
- WikiProject report: WikiProject on open proxies interview
- Forum: Is WMF fundraising abusive?
- Discussion report: Reliability of WikiLeaks discussed
- Obituary: SarahSV
The Signpost: 25 July 2021
[edit]- News and notes: Wikimania and a million other news stories
- Special report: Hardball in Hong Kong
- In the media: Larry is at it again
- Board of Trustees candidates: See the candidates
- Traffic report: Football, tennis and marveling at Loki
- News from the WMF: Uncapping our growth potential – interview with James Baldwin, Finance and Administration Department
- Humour: A little verse
The Signpost: 29 August 2021
[edit]- News and notes: Enough time left to vote! IP ban
- In the media: Vive la différence!
- Wikimedians of the year: Seven Wikimedians of the year
- Gallery: Our community in 20 graphs
- News from Wiki Education: Changing the face of Wikipedia
- Recent research: IP editors, inclusiveness and empathy, cyclones, and world heritage
- WikiProject report: WikiProject Days of the Year Interview
- Traffic report: Olympics, movies, and Afghanistan
- Community view: Making Olympic history on Wikipedia
The Signpost: 26 September 2021
[edit]- News and notes: New CEO, new board members, China bans
- In the media: The future of Wikipedia
- Op-Ed: I've been desysopped
- Disinformation report: Paid promotional paragraphs in German parliamentary pages
- Discussion report: Editors discuss Wikipedia's vetting process for administrators
- Recent research: Wikipedia images for machine learning; Experiment justifies Wikipedia's high search rankings
- Community view: Is writing Wikipedia like making a quilt?
- Traffic report: Kanye, Emma Raducanu and 9/11
- News from Diff: Welcome to the first grantees of the Knowledge Equity Fund
- WikiProject report: The Random and the Beautiful
The Signpost: 31 October 2021
[edit]- From the editor: Different stories, same place
- News and notes: The sockpuppet who ran for adminship and almost succeeded
- Discussion report: Editors brainstorm and propose changes to the Requests for adminship process
- Recent research: Welcome messages fail to improve newbie retention
- Community view: Reflections on the Chinese Wikipedia
- Traffic report: James Bond and the Giant Squid Game
- Technology report: Wikimedia Toolhub, winners of the Coolest Tool Award, and more
- Serendipity: How Wikipedia helped create a Serbian stamp
- Book review: Wikipedia and the Representation of Reality
- WikiProject report: Redirection
- Humour: A very Wiki crossword
ArbCom 2021 Elections voter message
[edit]The Signpost: 29 November 2021
[edit]- In the media: Denial: climate change, mass killings and pornography
- WikiCup report: The WikiCup 2021
- Deletion report: What we lost, what we gained
- From a Wikipedia reader: What's Matt Amodio?
- Arbitration report: ArbCom in 2021
- Discussion report: On the brink of change – RFA reforms appear imminent
- Technology report: What does it take to upload a file?
- WikiProject report: Interview with contributors to WikiProject Actors and Filmmakers
- Recent research: Vandalizing Wikipedia as rational behavior
- Humour: A very new very Wiki crossword
The Signpost: 28 December 2021
[edit]- From the editor: Here is the news
- News and notes: Jimbo's NFT, new arbs, fixing RfA, and financial statements
- Serendipity: Born three months before her brother?
- In the media: The past is not even past
- Arbitration report: A new crew for '22
- By the numbers: Four billion words and a few numbers
- Deletion report: We laughed, we cried, we closed as "no consensus"
- Gallery: Wikicommons presents: 2021
- Traffic report: Spider-Man, football and the departed
- Crossword: Another Wiki crossword for one and all
- Humour: Buying Wikipedia
The Signpost: 30 January 2022
[edit]- Special report: WikiEd course leads to Twitter harassment
- News and notes: Feedback for Board of Trustees election
- Interview: CEO Maryana Iskander "four weeks in"
- Black History Month: What are you doing for Black History Month?
- WikiProject report: The Forgotten Featured
- Arbitration report: New arbitrators look at new case and antediluvian sanctions
- Traffic report: The most viewed articles of 2021
- Obituary: Twofingered Typist
- Essay: The prime directive
- In the media: Fuzzy-headed government editing
- Recent research: Articles with higher quality ratings have fewer "knowledge gaps"
- Crossword: Cross swords with a crossword
The Signpost: 27 February 2022
[edit]- From the team: Selection of a new Signpost Editor-in-Chief
- News and notes: Impacts of Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Special report: A presidential candidate's team takes on Wikipedia
- In the media: Wiki-drama in the UK House of Commons
- Technology report: Community Wishlist Survey results
- WikiProject report: 10 years of tea
- Featured content: Featured Content returns
- Deletion report: The 10 most SHOCKING deletion discussions of February
- Recent research: How editors and readers may be emotionally affected by disasters and terrorist attacks
- Arbitration report: Parties remonstrate, arbs contemplate, skeptics coordinate
- Gallery: The vintage exhibit
- Traffic report: Euphoria, Pamela Anderson, lies and Netflix
- News from Diff: The Wikimania 2022 Core Organizing Team
- Crossword: A Crossword, featuring Featured Articles
- Humour: Notability of mailboxes
The Signpost: 27 March 2022
[edit]- From the Signpost team: How The Signpost is documenting the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
- News and notes: Of safety and anonymity
- Eyewitness Wikimedian, Kharkiv, Ukraine: Countering Russian aggression with a camera
- Eyewitness Wikimedian, Vinnytsia, Ukraine: War diary
- Eyewitness Wikimedian, Western Ukraine: Working with Wikipedia helps
- Disinformation report: The oligarchs' socks
- In the media: Ukraine, Russia, and even some other stuff
- Wikimedian perspective: My heroes from Russia, Ukraine & beyond
- Discussion report: Athletes are less notable now
- Technology report: 2022 Wikimedia Hackathon
- Arbitration report: Skeptics given heavenly judgement, whirlwind of Discord drama begins to spin for tropical cyclone editors
- Traffic report: War, what is it good for?
- Deletion report: Ukraine, werewolves, Ukraine, YouTube pundits, and Ukraine
- From the archives: Burn, baby burn
- Essay: Yes, the sky is blue
- Tips and tricks: Become a keyboard ninja
- On the bright side: The bright side of news
The Signpost: 24 April 2022
[edit]- News and notes: Double trouble
- In the media: The battlegrounds outside and inside Wikipedia
- Special report: Ukrainian Wikimedians during the war
- Eyewitness Wikimedian, Vinnytsia, Ukraine: War diary (Part 2)
- Technology report: 8-year-old attribution issues in Media Viewer
- Featured content: Wikipedia's best content from March
- Interview: On a war and a map
- Serendipity: Wikipedia loves photographs, but hates photographers
- Traffic report: Justice Jackson, the Smiths, and an invasion
- News from the WMF: How Smart is the SMART Copyright Act?
- Humour: Really huge message boxes
- From the archives: Wales resigned WMF board chair in 2006 reorganization
The Signpost: 29 May 2022
[edit]- From the team: A changing of the guard
- News and notes: 2022 Wikimedia Board elections
- Community view: Have your say in the 2022 Wikimedia Foundation Board elections
- In the media: Putin, Jimbo, Musk and more
- Special report: Three stories of Ukrainian Wikimedians during the war
- Discussion report: Portals, April Fools, admin activity requirements and more
- WikiProject report: WikiProject COVID-19 revisited
- Technology report: A new video player for Wikimedia wikis
- Featured content: Featured content of April
- Interview: Wikipedia's pride
- Serendipity: Those thieving image farms
- Recent research: 35 million Twitter links analysed
- Tips and tricks: The reference desks of Wikipedia
- Traffic report: Strange highs and strange lows
- News from Diff: Winners of the Human rights and Environment special nomination by Wiki Loves Earth announced
- News from the WMF: The EU Digital Services Act: What’s the Deal with the Deal?
- From the archives: The Onion and Wikipedia
- Humour: A new crossword
The Signpost: 26 June 2022
[edit]- News and notes: WMF inks new rules on government-ordered takedowns, blasts Russian feds' censor demands, spends big bucks
- In the media: Editor given three-year sentence, big RfA makes news, Guy Standing takes it sitting down
- Special report: "Wikipedia's independence" or "Wikimedia's pile of dosh"?
- Featured content: Articles on Scots' clash, Yank's tux, Austrian's action flick deemed brilliant prose
- Recent research: Wikipedia versus academia (again), tables' "immortality" probed
- Serendipity: Was she really a Swiss lesbian automobile racer?
- News from the WMF: Wikimedia Enterprise signs first deals
- Gallery: Celebration of summer, winter
The Signpost: 1 August 2022
[edit]- From the editors: Rise of the machines, or something
- News and notes: Information considered harmful
- In the media: Censorship, medieval hoaxes, "pathetic supervillains", FB-WMF AI TL bid, dirty duchess deeds done dirt cheap
- Op-Ed: The "recession" affair
- Eyewitness Wikimedian, Vinnytsia, Ukraine: War diary (part 3)
- Community view: Youth culture and notability
- Opinion: Criminals among us
- Arbitration report: Winds of change blow for cyclone editors, deletion dustup draws toward denouement
- Deletion report: This is Gonzo Country
- Discussion report: Notability for train stations, notices for mobile editors, noticeboards for the rest of us
- Featured content: A little list with surprisingly few lists
- Tips and tricks: Cleaning up awful citations with Citation bot
- On the bright side: Ukrainian Wikimedians during the war — three (more) stories
- Essay: How to research an image
- Recent research: A century of rulemaking on Wikipedia analyzed
- Serendipity: Don't cite Wikipedia
- Gallery: A backstage pass
- From the archives: 2012 Russian Wikipedia shutdown as it happened
The Signpost: 31 August 2022
[edit]- News and notes: Admins wanted on English Wikipedia, IP editors not wanted on Farsi Wiki, donations wanted everywhere
- Special report: Wikimania 2022: no show, no show up?
- In the media: Truth or consequences? A tough month for truth
- Discussion report: Boarding the Trustees
- News from Wiki Education: 18 years a Wikipedian: what it means to me
- In focus: Thinking inside the box
- Tips and tricks: The unexpected rabbit hole of typo fixing in citations...
- Technology report: Vector (2022) deployment discussions happening now
- Serendipity: Two photos of every library on earth
- Featured content: Our man drills are safe for work, but our Labia is Fausta.
- Recent research: The dollar value of "official" external links
- Traffic report: What dreams (and heavily trafficked articles) may come
- Essay: Delete the junk!
- Humour: CommonsComix No. 1
- From the archives: 5, 10, and 15 years ago
The Signpost: 30 September 2022
[edit]- News and notes: Board vote results, bot's big GET, crat chat gives new mop, WMF seeks "sound logo" and "organizer lab"
- In the media: A few complaints and mild disagreements
- Special report: Decentralized Fundraising, Centralized Distribution
- Discussion report: Much ado about Fox News
- Traffic report: Kings and queens and VIPs
- Featured content: Farm-fresh content
- CommonsComix: CommonsComix 2: Paulus Moreelse
- From the archives: 5, 10, and 15 Years ago: September 2022
The Signpost: 31 October 2022
[edit]- From the team: A new goose on the roost
- News from the WMF: Governance updates from, and for, the Wikimedia Endowment
- Disinformation report: From Russia with WikiLove
- Featured content: Topics, lists, submarines and Gurl.com
- Serendipity: We all make mistakes – don’t we?
- Traffic report: Mama, they're in love with a criminal
The Signpost: 28 November 2022
[edit]- News and notes: English Wikipedia editors: "We don't need no stinking banners"
- In the media: "The most beautiful story on the Internet"
- Disinformation report: Missed and Dissed
- Book review: Writing the Revolution
- Technology report: Galactic dreams, encyclopedic reality
- Essay: The Six Million FP Man
- Tips and tricks: (Wiki)break stuff
- Recent research: Study deems COVID-19 editors smart and cool, questions of clarity and utility for WMF's proposed "Knowledge Integrity Risk Observatory"
- Featured content: A great month for featured articles
- Obituary: A tribute to Michael Gäbler
- From the archives: Five, ten, and fifteen years ago
- CommonsComix: Joker's trick
The Signpost: 1 January 2023
[edit]- Interview: ComplexRational's RfA debrief
- Technology report: Wikimedia Foundation's Abstract Wikipedia project "at substantial risk of failure"
- Essay: Mobile editing
- Arbitration report: Arbitration Committee Election 2022
- Recent research: Graham's Hierarchy of Disagreement in talk page disputes
- Featured content: Would you like to swing on a star?
- Traffic report: Football, football, football! Wikipedia Football Club!
- CommonsComix: #4: The Course of WikiEmpire
- From the archives: Five, ten, and fifteen years ago
The Signpost: 16 January 2023
[edit]- Special report: Coverage of 2022 bans reveals editors serving long sentences in Saudi Arabia since 2020
- News and notes: Revised Code of Conduct Enforcement Guidelines up for vote, WMF counsel departs, generative models under discussion
- In the media: Court orders user data in libel case, Saudi Wikipedia in the crosshairs, Larry Sanger at it again
- Technology report: View it! A new tool for image discovery
- In focus: Busting into Grand Central
- Serendipity: How I bought part of Wikipedia – for less than $100
- Featured content: Flip your lid
- Traffic report: The most viewed articles of 2022
- From the archives: Five, ten, and fifteen years ago
The Signpost: 4 February 2023
[edit]- From the editor: New for the Signpost: Author pages, tag pages, and a decent article search function
- News and notes: Foundation update on fundraising, new page patrol, Tides, and Wikipedia blocked in Pakistan
- Disinformation report: Wikipedia on Santos
- Op-Ed: Estonian businessman and political donor brings lawsuit against head of national Wikimedia chapter
- Recent research: Wikipedia's "moderate yet systematic" liberal citation bias
- WikiProject report: WikiProject Organized Labour
- Tips and tricks: XTools: Data analytics for your list of created articles
- Featured content: 20,000 Featureds under the Sea
- Traffic report: Films, deaths and ChatGPT
The Signpost: 20 February 2023
[edit]- In the media: Arbitrators open case after article alleges Wikipedia "intentionally distorts" Holocaust coverage
- Disinformation report: The "largest con in corporate history"?
- Tips and tricks: All about writing at DYK
- Featured content: Eden, lost.
- Gallery: Love is in the air
- From the archives: 5, 10, and 15 years ago: Let's (not) delete the Main Page!
- Humour: The RfA Candidate's Song
The Signpost: 9 March 2023
[edit]- News and notes: What's going on with the Wikimedia Endowment?
- Technology report: Second flight of the Soviet space bears: Testing ChatGPT's accuracy
- In the media: What should Wikipedia do? Publish Russian propaganda? Be less woke? Cover the Holocaust in Poland differently?
- Featured content: In which over two-thirds of the featured articles section needs to be copied over to WikiProject Military History's newsletter
- Recent research: "Wikipedia's Intentional Distortion of the Holocaust" in Poland and "self-focus bias" in coverage of global events
- From the archives: Five, ten, and fifteen years ago
The Signpost: 20 March 2023
[edit]- News and notes: Wikimania submissions deadline looms, Russian government after our lucky charms, AI woes nix CNET from RS slate
- Eyewitness: Three more stories from Ukrainian Wikimedians
- In the media: Paid editing, plagiarism payouts, proponents of a ploy, and people peeved at perceived preferences
- Featured content: Way too many featured articles
- Interview: 228/2/1: the inside scoop on Aoidh's RfA
- Traffic report: Who died? Who won? Who lost?
The Signpost: 03 April 2023
[edit]- From the editor: Some long-overdue retractions
- News and notes: Sounding out, a universal code of conduct, and dealing with AI
- Arbitration report: "World War II and the history of Jews in Poland" case is ongoing
- Featured content: Hail, poetry! Thou heav'n-born maid
- Recent research: Language bias: Wikipedia captures at least the "silhouette of the elephant", unlike ChatGPT
- From the archives: April Fools' through the ages
- Disinformation report: Sus socks support suits, seems systemic
Sociological Research Association
[edit]Hi - I noticed you did a lot of the early work on the Sociological_Research_Association page, so I'm mentioning it to you. I don't see any contemporary sources there. This organization seems to be either defunct or very secretive - there are no public documents I can find besides a very generic website that doesn't list any officers, a count of members, or anything besides a single email for contact. In fact, this Wikipedia page is the only place on the internet you can find this member count, and it's not attributed to any source. In short, I'm wondering if this page has a reason for existing, by Wikipedia standards. (I'm not a big Wikipedia editor, but I am a sociologist.) Yyyikes (talk) 22:56, 24 April 2023 (UTC)
The Signpost: 26 April 2023
[edit]- News and notes: Staff departures at Wikimedia Foundation, Jimbo hands in the bits, and graphs' zeppelin burns
- In the media: Contested truth claims in Wikipedia
- Obituary: Remembering David "DGG" Goodman
- Arbitration report: Holocaust in Poland, Jimbo in the hot seat, and a desysopping
- Special report: Signpost statistics between years 2005 and 2022
- News from the WMF: Collective planning with the Wikimedia Foundation
- Featured content: In which we described the featured articles in rhyme again
- From the archives: April Fools' through the ages, part two
- Humour: The law of hats
- Traffic report: Long live machine, the future supreme
The Signpost: 8 May 2023
[edit]- News and notes: New legal "deVLOPments" in the EU
- In the media: Vivek's smelly socks, online safety, and politics
- Recent research: Gender, race and notability in deletion discussions
- Featured content: I wrote a poem for each article, I found rhymes for all the lists; My first featured picture of this year now finally exists!
- Arbitration report: "World War II and the history of Jews in Poland" approaches conclusion
- News from the WMF: Planning together with the Wikimedia Foundation
The Signpost: 22 May 2023
[edit]- In the media: History, propaganda and censorship
- Arbitration report: Final decision in "World War II and the history of Jews in Poland"
- Featured content: A very musical week for featured articles
- Traffic report: Coronation, chatbot, celebs
The Signpost: 5 June 2023
[edit]- News and notes: WMRU director forks new 'pedia, birds flap in top '22 piccy, WMF weighs in on Indian gov's map axe plea
- Featured content: Poetry under pressure
- Traffic report: Celebs, controversies and a chatbot in the public eye
The Signpost: 19 June 2023
[edit]- News and notes: WMF Terms of Use now in force, new Creative Commons licensing
- Featured content: Content, featured
- Recent research: Hoaxers prefer currently-popular topics
The Signpost: 3 July 2023
[edit]- Disinformation report: Imploded submersible outfit foiled trying to sing own praises on Wikipedia
- Featured content: Incensed
- Traffic report: Are you afraid of spiders? Arnold? The Idol? ChatGPT?
The Signpost: 17 July 2023
[edit]- In the media: Tentacles of Emirates plot attempt to ensnare Wikipedia
- Tips and tricks: What automation can do for you (and your WikiProject)
- Featured content: Scrollin', scrollin', scrollin', keep those readers scrollin', got to keep on scrollin', Rawhide!
- Traffic report: The Idol becomes the Master
The Signpost: 1 August 2023
[edit]- News and notes: City officials attempt to doxx Wikipedians, Ruwiki founder banned, WMF launches Mastodon server
- In the media: Truth, AI, bull from politicians, and climate change
- Disinformation report: Hot climate, hot hit, hot money, hot news hot off the presses!
- Tips and tricks: Citation tools for dummies!
- In focus: Journals cited by Wikipedia
- Opinion: Are global bans the last step?
- Featured content: Featured Content, 1 to 15 July
- Traffic report: Come on Oppie, let's go party
The Signpost: 15 August 2023
[edit]- News and notes: Dude, Where's My Donations? Wikimedia Foundation announces another million in grants for non-Wikimedia-related projects
- Tips and tricks: How to find images for your articles, check their copyright, upload them, and restore them
- Cobwebs: Getting serious about writing
- Serendipity: Why I stopped taking photographs almost altogether
- Featured content: Barbenheimer confirmed
- Traffic report: 'Cause today it just goes with the fashion
The Signpost: 31 August 2023
[edit]- From the editor: Beta version of signpost.news now online
- News and notes: You like RecentChanges?
- In the media: Taking it sleazy
- Recent research: The five barriers that impede "stitching" collaboration between Commons and Wikipedia
- Draftspace: Bad Jokes and Other Draftspace Novelties
- Humour: The Dehumourification Plan
- Traffic report: Raise your drinking glass, here's to yesterday
The Signpost: 16 September 2023
[edit]- In the media: "Just flirting", going Dutch and Shapps for the defence?
- Obituary: Nosebagbear
- Featured content: Catching up
- Traffic report: Some of it's magic, some of it's tragic
The Signpost: 3 October 2023
[edit]- News and notes: Wikimedia Endowment financial statement published
- Recent research: Readers prefer ChatGPT over Wikipedia; concerns about limiting "anyone can edit" principle "may be overstated"
- Featured content: By your logic,
- Poetry: "The Sight"
The Signpost: 23 October 2023
[edit]- News and notes: Where have all the administrators gone?
- In the media: Thirst traps, the fastest loading sites on the web, and the original collaborative writing
- Gallery: Before and After: Why you don't need to know how to restore images to make massive improvements
- Featured content: Yo, ho! Blow the man down!
- Traffic report: The calm and the storm
- News from Diff: Sawtpedia: Giving a Voice to Wikipedia Using QR Codes
The Signpost: 6 November 2023
[edit]- Arbitration report: Admin bewilderingly unmasks self as sockpuppet of other admin who was extremely banned in 2015
- In the media: UK shadow chancellor accused of ripping off WP articles for book, Wikipedians accused of being dicks by a rich man
- Opinion: An open letter to Elon Musk
- WikiCup report: The WikiCup 2023
- News from Wiki Ed: Equity lists on Wikipedia
- Recent research: How English Wikipedia drove out fringe editors over two decades
- Featured content: Like putting a golf course in a historic site.
- Traffic report: Cricket jumpscare
The Signpost: 20 November 2023
[edit]- In the media: Propaganda and photos, lunatics and a lunar backup
- News and notes: Update on Wikimedia's financial health
- Traffic report: If it bleeds, it leads
- Recent research: Canceling disputes as the real function of ArbCom
- Wikimania: Wikimania 2024 scholarships
The Signpost: 4 December 2023
[edit]- In the media: Turmoil on Hebrew Wikipedia, grave dancing, Olga's impact and inspiring Bhutanese nuns
- Disinformation report: "Wikipedia and the assault on history"
- Comix: Bold comics for a new age
- Essay: I am going to die
- Featured content: Real gangsters move in silence
- Traffic report: And it's hard to watch some cricket, in the cold November Rain
- Humour: Mandy Rice-Davies Applies
The Signpost: 24 December 2023
[edit]- Special report: Did the Chinese Communist Party send astroturfers to sabotage a hacktivist's Wikipedia article?
- News and notes: The Italian Public Domain wars continue, Wikimedia RU set to dissolve, and a recap of WLM 2023
- In the media: Consider the humble fork
- Discussion report: Arabic Wikipedia blackout; Wikimedians discuss SpongeBob, copyrights, and AI
- In focus: Liquidation of Wikimedia RU
- Technology report: Dark mode is coming
- Recent research: "LLMs Know More, Hallucinate Less" with Wikidata
- Gallery: A feast of holidays and carols
- Comix: Lollus lmaois 200C tincture
- Crossword: when the crossword is sus
- Traffic report: What's the big deal? I'm an animal!
- From the editor: A piccy iz worth OVAR 9000!!!11oneone! wordz ^_^
- Humour: Guess the joke contest
The Signpost: 10 January 2024
[edit]- From the editor: NINETEEN MORE YEARS! NINETEEN MORE YEARS!
- Special report: Public Domain Day 2024
- Technology report: Wikipedia: A Multigenerational Pursuit
- News and notes: In other news ... see ya in court!
- WikiProject report: WikiProjects Israel and Palestine
- Obituary: Anthony Bradbury
- Traffic report: The most viewed articles of 2023
- Comix: Conflict resolution
The Signpost: 31 January 2024
[edit]- News and notes: Wikipedian Osama Khalid celebrated his 30th birthday in jail
- Opinion: Until it happens to you
- Disinformation report: How paid editors squeeze you dry
- Recent research: Croatian takeover was enabled by "lack of bureaucratic openness and rules constraining [admins]"
- Traffic report: DJ, gonna burn this goddamn house right down
The Signpost: 13 February 2024
[edit]- News and notes: Wikimedia Russia director declared "foreign agent" by Russian gov; EU prepares to pile on the papers
- Disinformation report: How low can the scammers go?
- Serendipity: Is this guy the same as the one who was a Nazi?
- Traffic report: Griselda, Nikki, Carl, Jannik and two types of football
- Crossword: Our crossword to bear
- Comix: Strongly
The Signpost: 2 March 2024
[edit]- News and notes: Wikimedia enters US Supreme court hearings as "the dolphin inadvertently caught in the net"
- Recent research: Images on Wikipedia "amplify gender bias"
- In the media: The Scottish Parliament gets involved, a wikirace on live TV, and the Foundation's CTO goes on record
- Obituary: Vami_IV
- Traffic report: Supervalentinefilmbowlday
- WikiCup report: High-scoring WikiCup first round comes to a close
The Signpost: 29 March 2024
[edit]- Technology report: Millions of readers still seeing broken pages as "temporary" disabling of graph extension nears its second year
- Recent research: "Newcomer Homepage" feature mostly fails to boost new editors
- Traffic report: He rules over everything, on the land called planet Dune
- Humour: Letters from the editors
- Comix: Layout issue
The Signpost: 25 April 2024
[edit]- In the media: Censorship and wikiwashing looming over RuWiki, edit wars over San Francisco politics, and another wikirace on live TV
- News and notes: A sigh of relief for open access as Italy makes a slight U-turn on their cultural heritage reproduction law
- WikiConference report: WikiConference North America 2023 in Toronto recap
- WikiProject report: WikiProject Newspapers (Not WP:NOTNEWS)
- Recent research: New survey of over 100,000 Wikipedia users
- Traffic report: O.J., cricket and a three body problem
The Signpost: 16 May 2024
[edit]- News and notes: Democracy in action: multiple elections
- Special report: Will the new RfA reform come to the rescue of administrators?
- Arbitration report: Ruined temples for posterity to ponder over – arbitration from '22 to '24
- Comix: Generations
- Traffic report: Crawl out through the fallout, baby
The Signpost: 8 June 2024
[edit]- Technology report: New Page Patrol receives a much-needed software upgrade
- Deletion report: The lore of Kalloor
- In the media: National cable networks get in on the action arguing about what the first sentence of a Wikipedia article ought to say
- News from the WMF: Progress on the plan — how the Wikimedia Foundation advanced on its Annual Plan goals during the first half of fiscal year 2023-2024
- Recent research: ChatGPT did not kill Wikipedia, but might have reduced its growth
- Featured content: We didn't start the wiki
- Essay: No queerphobia
- Special report: RetractionBot is back to life!
- Traffic report: Chimps, Eurovision, and the return of the Baby Reindeer
- Comix: The Wikipediholic Family
- Concept: Palimpsestuous
The Signpost: 4 July 2024
[edit]- News and notes: WMF board elections and fundraising updates
- Special report: Wikimedia Movement Charter ratification vote underway, new Council may surpass power of Board
- In focus: How the Russian Wikipedia keeps it clean despite having just a couple dozen administrators
- Discussion report: Wikipedians are hung up on the meaning of Madonna
- In the media: War and information in war and politics
- Sister projects: On editing Wikisource
- Opinion: Etika: a Pop Culture Champion
- Gallery: Spokane Willy's photos
- Humour: A joke
- Recent research: Is Wikipedia Politically Biased? Perhaps
- Traffic report: Talking about you and me, and the games people play
The Signpost: 22 July 2024
[edit]- Discussion report: Internet users flock to Wikipedia to debate its image policy over Trump raised-fist photo
- News and notes: Wikimedia community votes to ratify Movement Charter; Wikimedia Foundation opposes ratification
- Obituary: JamesR
- Crossword: Vaguely bird-shaped crossword
The Signpost: 14 August 2024
[edit]- In the media: Portland pol profile paid for from public purse
- In focus: Twitter marks the spot
- News and notes: Another Wikimania has concluded.
- Special report: Nano or just nothing: Will nano go nuclear?
- Opinion: HouseBlaster's RfA debriefing
- Traffic report: Ball games, movies, elections, but nothing really weird
- Humour: I'm proud to be a template
The Signpost: 4 September 2024
[edit]- News and notes: WikiCup enters final round, MCDC wraps up activities, 17-year-old hoax article unmasked
- In the media: AI is not playing games anymore. Is Wikipedia ready?
- News from the WMF: Meet the 12 candidates running in the WMF Board of Trustees election
- Wikimania: A month after Wikimania 2024
- Serendipity: What it's like to be Wikimedian of the Year
- Traffic report: After the gold rush
The Signpost: 26 September 2024
[edit]- In the media: Courts order Wikipedia to give up names of editors, legal strain anticipated from "online safety laws"
- Community view: Indian courts order Wikipedia to take down name of crime victim, editors strive towards consensus
- Serendipity: A Wikipedian at the 2024 Paralympics
- Opinion: asilvering's RfA debriefing
- News and notes: Are you ready for admin elections?
- Recent research: Article-writing AI is less "prone to reasoning errors (or hallucinations)" than human Wikipedia editors
- Traffic report: Jump in the line, rock your body in time
The Signpost: 19 October 2024
[edit]- News and notes: One election's end, another election's beginning
- Recent research: "As many as 5%" of new English Wikipedia articles "contain significant AI-generated content", says paper
- In the media: Off to the races! Wikipedia wins!
- Contest: A WikiCup for the Global South
- Traffic report: A scream breaks the still of the night
- Book review: The Editors
- Humour: The Newspaper Editors
- Crossword: Spilled Coffee Mug
The Signpost: 6 November 2024
[edit]- From the editors: Editing Wikipedia should not be a crime
- In the media: An old scrimmage, politics and purported libel
- Special report: Wikipedia editors face litigation, censorship
- Traffic report: Twisted tricks or tempting treats?