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Hebrew and stuff

Sorry for not pinging you earlier, I'm still learning the ropes here.

If you translate anything else from Hebrew and want me to have a look at it, or have questions about Hebrew in general, please let me know. Also, if you want some help with your Hebrew user page (which looks a bit iffy) I'd help with that as well. Really, I'm mostly just happy I can help an experienced user with anything (especially a fellow math enthusiast). Professor Proof (talk) 15:39, 18 May 2018 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:Vitamin B3

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You've got mail!

Hello, Bellezzasolo. Please check your email; you've got mail! The subject is WP:RX.
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Your GA nomination of Hardware-based encryption

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Please comment on Talk:Exercise

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NPR Newsletter No.11 25 May 2018

Hello Bellezzasolo, thank you for your work reviewing New Pages!

ACTRIAL:

• WP:ACREQ has been implemented. The flow at the feed has dropped back to the levels during the trial. However, the backlog is on the rise again so please consider reviewing a few extra articles each day; a backlog approaching 5,000 is still far too high. An effort is also needed to ensure that older unsuitable older pages at the back of the queue do not get automatically indexed for Google.

Deletion tags

• Do bear in mind that articles in the feed showing the trash can icon may have been tagged by inexperienced or non NPR rights holders. They require your further verification.

Backlog drive:

• A backlog drive will take place from 10 through 20 June. Check out our talk page at WT:NPR for more details. NOTE: It is extremely important that we focus on quality reviewing. Despite our goal of reducing the backlog as much as possible, please do not rush while reviewing.

Editathons

• There will be a large increase in the number of editathons in June. Please be gentle with new pages that obviously come from good faith participants, especially articles from developing economies and ones about female subjects. Consider using the 'move to draft' tool rather than bluntly tagging articles that may have potential but which cannot yet reside in mainspace.

Paid editing - new policy

• Now that ACTRIAL is ACREQ, please be sure to look for tell-tale signs of undisclosed paid editing. Contact the creator if appropriate, and submit the issue to WP:COIN if necessary. There is a new global WMF policy that requires paid editors to connect to their adverts.

Subject-specific notability guidelines

• The box at the right contains each of the subject-specific notability guidelines, please review any that are relevant BEFORE nominating an article for deletion.
• Reviewers are requested to familiarise themselves with the new version of the notability guidelines for organisations and companies.

Not English

• A common issue: Pages not in English or poor, unattributed machine translations should not reside in main space even if they are stubs. Please ensure you are familiar with WP:NPPNE. Check in Google for the language and content, tag as required, then move to draft if they do have potential.

News

• Development is underway by the WMF on upgrades to the New Pages Feed, in particular ORES features that will help to identify COPYVIOs, and more granular options for selecting articles to review.
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Administrators' newsletter – June 2018

News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2018).

Administrator changes

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Al Ameer son • AliveFreeHappy • Cenarium • Lupo • MichaelBillington

Guideline and policy news

• Following a successful request for comment, administrators are now able to add and remove editors to the "event coordinator" group. Users in the event coordinator group have the ability to temporarily add the "confirmed" flag to new user accounts and to create many new user accounts without being hindered by a rate limit. Users will no longer need to be in the "account creator" group if they are in the event coordinator group.
• Following an AN discussion, all pages with content related to blockchain and cryptocurrencies, broadly construed, are now under indefinite general sanctions.

Technical news

• IP-based cookie blocks should be deployed to English Wikipedia in June. This will cause the block of a logged-out user to be reloaded if they change IPs. This means in most cases, you may no longer need to do /64 range blocks on residential IPv6 addresses in order to effectively block the end user. It will also help combat abuse from IP hoppers in general. For the time being, it only affects users of the desktop interface.
• The Wikimedia Foundation's Anti-Harassment Tools team will build granular types of blocks in 2018 (e.g. a block from uploading or editing specific pages, categories, or namespaces, as opposed to a full-site block). Feedback on the concept may be left at the talk page.
• There is now a checkbox on Special:ListUsers to let you see only users in temporary user groups.
• It is now easier for blocked mobile users to see why they were blocked.

Arbitration

• A recent technical issue with the Arbitration Committee's spam filter inadvertently caused all messages sent to the committee through Wikipedia (i.e. Special:EmailUser/Arbitration Committee) to be discarded. If you attempted to send an email to the Arbitration Committee via Wikipedia between May 16 and May 31, your message was not received and you are encouraged to resend it. Messages sent outside of these dates or directly to the Arbitration Committee email address were not affected by this issue.

Miscellaneous

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IP Block Exemption request

Resolved, IPBE granted

This blocked user is asking that his block be reviewed on the Unblock Ticket Request System: Bellezzasolo (block log • active blocks • global blocks • autoblocks • contribs • deleted contribs • abuse filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log)) UTRS appeal #21720 was submitted on Jun 04, 2018 21:45:41. This review is now closed. --UTRSBot (talk) 21:45, 4 June 2018 (UTC)

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Notifier thingy

Primefac and I were actually talking the other day about seeing if a script could be worked up that would notify and then log the diff for Wikipedia:General sanctions/Blockchain and cryptocurrencies. You seem to have made one for the Arb DS, but I was wondering if there was any way it could be adapted for general sanctions logging (which has different requirements.) MER-C might be interested since he's been doing the heavy-lifting on crypto, and NeilN does a fair amount on Syria. TonyBallioni (talk) 22:59, 2 June 2018 (UTC)

@TonyBallioni:, I'm sure it's doable. I'm not so familiar with the GS system, but certainly if there's a list like at Template:Ds/alert, which is what my script pulls the data from, it should be fiarly easy to do. ∰Bellezzasolo✡ Discuss 23:02, 2 June 2018 (UTC)

There is apparently a generic template, but it doesn't seem to have any parameters that actually do anything from what I can tell (see Template:Gs/notification.) Right now I think the ones that are in use are Template:Blockchain notification, Template:Uw-castewarning, Template:GS/SCW&ISIL notification, Template:Gs/UKU notification, and Template:GS/ZG notification. The ZG one also appears like it needs to be added to Category:Wikipedia community-authorised general sanctions templates, but I don't do templatey things unless it is very basic.

Anyway, the real trick here would be getting a script to log the notification after it was made with a diff if that is possible. TonyBallioni (talk) 23:10, 2 June 2018 (UTC)

@TonyBallioni: When an API action is made, it returns a load of stuff. I'll have a play with my rollback script to see if it gives a diff. ∰Bellezzasolo✡ Discuss 23:20, 2 June 2018 (UTC)

Absolutely it is doable. I get the list title,pageid,summary,revid,old_revid,last_revid back. revid must be the revision just committed. ∰Bellezzasolo✡ Discuss 23:24, 2 June 2018 (UTC)

@TonyBallioni: When I ran the code below, I got revision ID 844150719 - [1]. It works, so I'll a GS script will be easily doable.

talkpage.append(function (data) { data.load(function (data) { alert(data.getCurrentID()); }); });

∰Bellezzasolo✡ Discuss 23:39, 2 June 2018 (UTC)

If we're talking about the tag thingy a discretionary sanctions alert emits, I find them something only a developer would think is adequate. Consider how to determine if an editor has been notified of general sanctions:

1. Go to the general sanctions logs page.
2. Search the page via Ctrl-F for the editor's name.
3. Done

To determine if an editor has been notified of discretionary sanctions:

1. Figure out the code for the topic area.
2. Add the template and click Publish.
3. Search through all the tagged edits to see if an alert has been given for that topic area.
4. Done.

Step 3 is a pain as the tag doesn't tell you what topic area the alert was for. --NeilN ^{talk to me} 04:28, 3 June 2018 (UTC)

@NeilN: That procedure should be quite easily automated. I'm expanding the scope of the script, there's no reason it couldn't do all of that. ∰Bellezzasolo✡ Discuss 04:37, 3 June 2018 (UTC)

If you can improve the process, thank you! --NeilN ^{talk to me} 04:42, 3 June 2018 (UTC)

FWIW, I actually prefer the tag thingy and find the GS logs more bothersome because of the manual logging of diffs (which is why I wanted a script for it in the first place ) Either way, neither is a particularly user friendly way of dealing with the paperwork, IMO, and anything would be an improvement to both processes. TonyBallioni (talk) 04:59, 3 June 2018 (UTC)

@TonyBallioni and NeilN: I've got the discretionary sanctions feature working. It's fairly easy to dig through the abuse filter, and the codes were already worked out. ∰Bellezzasolo✡ Discuss 07:57, 3 June 2018 (UTC)

@TonyBallioni and NeilN: Here's the script's output - testcase. I still don't have it looking for previous GS notifications, but other than that, it seems to all be in order. ∰Bellezzasolo✡ Discuss 01:09, 4 June 2018 (UTC)

Thanks. Do you have installation instructions? I tried it in my common.js and it doesn't seem to be working (or I can't find it.) TonyBallioni (talk) 01:35, 4 June 2018 (UTC)

@TonyBallioni: I copied your script environment, it looked like it was working to me. Sometimes, it doesn't show up immediately, but after one or two pages it might. ∰Bellezzasolo✡ Discuss 02:10, 4 June 2018 (UTC)

This is what I see when I go to Twinkle. Does it need to be on the Twinkle preferences or is it part of the common.js. TonyBallioni (talk) 02:17, 4 June 2018 (UTC)

It's just on my common.js, it shouldn't need anything else. All I can think of is a disagreement with another script, although I can't see why. ∰Bellezzasolo✡ Discuss 02:20, 4 June 2018 (UTC)

@TonyBallioni: Just a crazy thought, try the Page and User portlet links. It might be on one of those. ∰Bellezzasolo✡ Discuss 02:22, 4 June 2018 (UTC)

Yeah, removed those and still not working, don't know why. The only "dated" script I use is easyblock, which has never conflicted with Twinkle in the past. I reset my twinkle prefs to defaults, and still doesn't show. Is it just supposed to show up as a link like ARV, Block, Warn, etc. TonyBallioni (talk) 02:38, 4 June 2018 (UTC)

@TonyBallioni: Yeah, there should be an "ARB" in there somewhere. It normally shows at the top, but I've seen it at the bottom too. ∰Bellezzasolo✡ Discuss 02:43, 4 June 2018 (UTC)

I have a lead. I got it to avoid showing, when Twinkle hasn't loaded. I'll make sure it loads with the page. ∰Bellezzasolo✡ Discuss 02:45, 4 June 2018 (UTC)

I removed all my other scripts, then restored them, and now it appears to work. TonyBallioni (talk) 02:50, 4 June 2018 (UTC)

I changed the code to prevent it loading before Twinkle, which might have been it. Anyway, all's well that ends well. ∰Bellezzasolo✡ Discuss 02:52, 4 June 2018 (UTC)

One last thing on this (sorry, you've been so helpful!): is it possible to get WP:GS/Crypto in it? Thanks. TonyBallioni (talk) 20:00, 12 June 2018 (UTC)

@TonyBallioni: Done, e.g. notice with log. The changes required were this edit to Template:Gs/topics, then this edit to Template:Gs/topics/table, to keep the list up to date. ∰Bellezzasolo✡ Discuss 09:02, 13 June 2018 (UTC)

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NPP Backlog Elimination Drive

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We can see the light at the end of the tunnel: there are currently 2900 unreviewed articles, and 4000 unreviewed redirects.

Announcing the Backlog Elimination Drive!

• As a final push, we have decided to run a backlog elimination drive from the 20th to the 30th of June.
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That fishy SPI

Just so you know, the user who filed the SPI as well as the user who first tagged it, and probably the reported users as well (though who knows, as they haven't edited yet) are sockpuppets of the same long-term abuser. Creating a few pairs of socks as a time to do weird good-hand/bad-hand stuff is one of their MOs. I'm removing their post from your talk page as well per WP:DENY, and hope you won't be bothered by them in the future. The sockmaster is Nsmutte. --

Mario Alford (Gridiron Football)

Just touching base about why you restored 'Legal Troubles' section for Mario Alford. These are not accurate and there are no current warrants or arrests for him. It was deleted for this reason, and none of the links that had been listed were accurate in any case. Please let me know how we can ensure that this is not under his page as it is slander in his profession. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 199.212.64.207 (talk) 15:12, 18 June 2018 (UTC)

It looked like vandalism, in as much as the removal of the section was unexplained. On closer inspection, the citations given previously don't satisfy WP:BLPPRIMARY, so the removal of the section is the right course of action. ∰Bellezzasolo✡ Discuss 16:50, 18 June 2018 (UTC)

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June 2018

Hey Bellezzasolo, if it isn't strictly necessary to test this on enwiki, might I suggest using testwiki: or the beta cluster to test these messages? The messages can be alarming to watchers. Best, Kevin (aka L235 · t · c) 18:18, 21 June 2018 (UTC)

@L235: unfortunately, it needs Twinkle to work, so it's hard to get it set up to work on other wikis. It's nearly done, I'm just working on the logging system now, so I can disable the block notice feature. ∰Bellezzasolo✡ Discuss 18:22, 21 June 2018 (UTC)

RevDel request

I'm looking for a revdel on 846954142, this diff. It involves off-wiki evidence being presented publicly in an Arbcom case. Thanks! ∰Bellezzasolo✡ Discuss 23:03, 21 June 2018 (UTC)

@Alexf: You're active, could you take a look please? ∰Bellezzasolo✡ Discuss 23:48, 21 June 2018 (UTC)

@Bellezzasolo: Never worked on this before. You want me to RevDel all of that diff? Unclear and don't want to screw it up. Please confirm. -- Alexf^(talk) 00:19, 22 June 2018 (UTC)

@Alexf: I only removed the off-wiki bits and replaced them with redacted, I probably left more than should have been, but..., as I understand revdel, if you change the visibility for that revision only, it should be OK. ∰Bellezzasolo✡ Discuss 00:22, 22 June 2018 (UTC)

 Done. -- Alexf^(talk) 00:23, 22 June 2018 (UTC)

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USS LIberty

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Administrators' newsletter – July 2018

News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2018).

Administrator changes

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Gogo Dodo

Andrevan • Doug • EVula • KaisaL • Tony Fox • WilyD

Bureaucrat changes

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Guideline and policy news

• An RfC about the deletion of drafts closed with a consensus to change the wording of WP:NMFD. Specifically, a draft that has been repeatedly resubmitted and declined at AfC without any substantial improvement may be deleted at MfD if consensus determines that it is unlikely to ever meet the requirements for mainspace and it otherwise meets one of the reasons for deletion outlined in the deletion policy.
• A request for comment closed with a consensus that the {{promising draft}} template cannot be used to indefinitely prevent a WP:G13 speedy deletion nomination.

Technical news

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Your DYK nomination of Intel 5-level paging has now been marked for closure

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NPR Newsletter No.12 30 July 2018

Chart of the New Pages Patrol backlog for the past 6 months. ()

Hello Bellezzasolo, thank you for your work reviewing New Pages!

June backlog drive

Overall the June backlog drive was a success, reducing the last 3,000 or so to below 500. However, as expected, 90% of the patrolling was done by less than 10% of reviewers.
Since the drive closed, the backlog has begun to rise sharply again and is back up to nearly 1,400 already. Please help reduce this total and keep it from raising further by reviewing some articles each day.

New technology, new rules

• New features are shortly going to be added to the Special:NewPagesFeed which include a list of drafts for review, OTRS flags for COPYVIO, and more granular filter preferences. More details can be found at this page.
• Probationary permissions: Now that PERM has been configured to allow expiry dates to all minor user rights, new NPR flag holders may sometimes be limited in the first instance to 6 months during which their work will be assessed for both quality and quantity of their reviews. This will allow admins to accord the right in borderline cases rather than make a flat out rejection.
• Current reviewers who have had the flag for longer than 6 months but have not used the permissions since they were granted will have the flag removed, but may still request to have it granted again in the future, subject to the same probationary period, if they wish to become an active reviewer.

Editathons

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Administrators' newsletter – August 2018

News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2018).

Administrator changes

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Guideline and policy news

• After a discussion at Meta, a new user group called "interface administrators" (formerly "technical administrator") has been created. Come the end of August, interface admins will be the only users able to edit site-wide JavaScript and CSS pages like MediaWiki:Common.js and MediaWiki:Common.css, or edit other user's personal JavaScript and CSS. The intention is to improve security and privacy by reducing the number of accounts which could be used to compromise the site or another user's account through malicious code. The new user group can be assigned and revoked by bureaucrats. Discussion is ongoing to establish details for implementing the group on the English Wikipedia.
• Following a request for comment, the WP:SISTER style guideline now states that in the mainspace, interwiki links to Wikinews should only be made as per the external links guideline. This generally means that within the body of an article, you should not link to Wikinews about a particular event that is only a part of the larger topic. Wikinews links in "external links" sections can be used where helpful, but not automatically if an equivalent article from a reliable news outlet could be linked in the same manner.

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• The WMF Anti-Harassment Tools team is seeking input on the second set of wireframes for the Special:Block redesign that will introduce partial blocks. The new functionality will allow you to block a user from editing a specific set of pages, pages in a category, a namespace, and for specific actions such as moving pages and uploading files.

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Administrators' newsletter – September 2018

News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2018).

Administrator changes

None

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Optimist on the run → Voice of Clam

Interface administrator changes

Amorymeltzer • Mr. Stradivarius • MusikAnimal • MSGJ • TheDJ • Xaosflux

Guideline and policy news

• Following a "stop-gap" discussion, six users have temporarily been made interface administrators while discussion is ongoing for a more permanent process for assigning the permission. Interface administrators are now the only editors allowed to edit sitewide CSS and JavaScript pages, as well as CSS/JS pages in another user's userspace. Previously, all administrators had this ability. The right can be granted and revoked by bureaucrats.

Technical news

• Because of a data centre test you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for up to an hour on 12 September and 10 October. This will start at 14:00 (UTC). You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. The time when you can't edit might be shorter than an hour.
• Some abuse filter variables have changed. They are now easier to understand for non-experts. The old variables will still work but filter editors are encouraged to replace them with the new ones. You can find the list of changed variables on mediawiki.org. They have a note which says Deprecated. Use ... instead. An example is article_text which is now page_title.
• Abuse filters can now use how old a page is. The variable is page_age.

Arbitration

• The Arbitration Committee has resolved to perform a round of Checkuser and Oversight appointments. The usernames of all applicants will be shared with the Functionaries team, and they will be requested to assist in the vetting process. The deadline to submit an application is 23:59 UTC, 12 September, and the candidates that move forward will be published on-wiki for community comments on 18 September.

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TracklistData

I saw you thanked me for writing that template code, so I just wanted to let you know TracklistData is finished. As of right now, it's very barebones, and includes only the track name and length. It's very possible to add all the other information, I just wanted to write this as a proof of concept to check that it is possible.

To use, try {{TracklistData}} in articles that are albums or {{TracklistData|from=[your item here]}} for articles that are not albums.

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NPR Newsletter No.13 18 September 2018

Hello Bellezzasolo, thank you for your work reviewing New Pages!

The New Page Feed currently has 2700 unreviewed articles, up from just 500 at the start of July. For a while we were falling behind by an average of about 40 articles per day, but we have stabilised more recently. Please review some articles from the back of the queue if you can (Sort by: 'Oldest' at Special:NewPagesFeed), as we are very close to having articles older than one month.

Project news

• The New Page Feed now has a new "Articles for Creation" option which will show drafts instead of articles in the feed, this shouldn't impact NPP activities and is part of the WMF's AfC Improvement Project.

As part of this project, the feed will have some larger updates to functionality next month. Specifically, ORES predictions will be built in, which will automatically flag articles for potential issues such as vandalism or spam. Copyright violation detection will also be added to the new page feed. See the projects's talk page for more info.

• There are a number of coordination tasks for New Page Patrol that could use some help from experienced reviewers. See Wikipedia:New pages patrol/Coordination#Coordinator tasks for more info to see if you can help out.

Other

• A new summary page of reliable sources has been created; Wikipedia:Identifying reliable sources/Perennial sources, which summarizes existing RfCs or RSN discussions about regularly used sources.

Moving to Draft and Page Mover

• Some unsuitable new articles can be best reviewed by moving them to the draft space, but reviewers need to do this carefully and sparingly. It is most useful for topics that look like they might have promise, but where the article as written would be unlikely to survive AfD. If the article can be easily fixed, or if the only issue is a lack of sourcing that is easily accessible, tagging or adding sources yourself is preferable. If sources do not appear to be available and the topic does not appear to be notable, tagging for deletion is preferable (PROD/AfD/CSD as appropriate). See additional guidance at WP:DRAFTIFY.
• If the user moves the draft back to mainspace, or recreates it in mainspace, please do not re-draftify the article (although swapping it to maintain the page history may be advisable in the case of copy-paste moves). AfC is optional except for editors with a clear conflict of interest.
• Articles that have been created in contravention of our paid-editing-requirements or written from a blatant NPOV perspective, or by authors with a clear COI might also be draftified at discretion.
• The best tool for draftification is User:Evad37/MoveToDraft.js^(info). Kindly adapt the text in the dialogue-pop-up as necessary (the default can also be changed like this). Note that if you do not have the Page Mover userright, the redirect from main will be automatically tagged as CSD R2, but in some cases it might be better to make this a redirect to a different page instead.
• The Page Mover userright can be useful for New Page Reviewers; occasionally page swapping is needed during NPR activities, and it helps avoid excessive R2 nominations which must be processed by admins. Note that the Page Mover userright has higher requirements than the NPR userright, and is generally given to users active at Requested Moves. Only reviewers who are very experienced and are also very active reviewers are likely to be granted it solely for NPP activities.

List of other useful scripts for New Page Reviewing

Twinkle provides a lot of the same functionality as the page curation tools, and some reviewers prefer to use the Twinkle tools for some/all tasks. It can be activated simply in the gadgets section of 'preferences'. There are also a lot of options available at the Twinkle preferences panel after you install the gadget. In terms of other gadgets for NPR, HotCat is worth turning on. It allows you to easily add, remove, and change categories on a page, with name suggestions. MoreMenu also adds a bunch of very useful links for diagnosing and fixing page issues. User:Equazcion/ScriptInstaller.js(info): Installing scripts doesn't have to be complicated. Go to your common.js and copy importScript( 'User:Equazcion/ScriptInstaller.js' ); into an empty line, now you can install all other scripts with the click of a button from the script page! (Note you need to be at the ".js" page for the script for the install button to appear, not the information page) User:TheJosh/Scripts/NewPagePatrol.js(info): Creates a scrolling new pages list at the left side of the page. You can change the number of pages shown by adding the following to the next line on your common.js page (immediately after the line importing this script): npp_num_pages=20; (Recommended 20, but you can use any number from 1 to 50). User:Primefac/revdel.js(info): Is requesting revdel complicated and time consuming? This script helps simplify the process. Just have the Copyvio source URL and go to the history page and collect your diff IDs and you can drop them into the script Popups and it will create a revdel request for you. User:Lourdes/PageCuration.js(info): Creates a "Page Curation" link to Special:NewPagesFeed up near your sandbox link. User:Writ Keeper/Scripts/deletionFinder.js: Creates links next to the title of each page which show up if it has been previously deleted or nominated for deletion. User:Evad37/rater.js(info): A fantastic tool for adding WikiProject templates to article talk pages. If you add: rater_autostartNamespaces = 0; to the next line on your common.js, the prompt will pop up automatically if a page has no Wikiproject templates on the talk page (note: this can be a bit annoying if you review redirects or dab pages commonly).

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as to this RX thread will be earnestly appreciated:-)∯WBG^converse 15:22, 23 September 2018 (UTC)

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"Korean-Born Australian"

I see some sort of reference to racist posts by "Korean Sentry," I think on his home page, but when I click-through here I can't seem to find the connection.

FWIW, the one thing of his that I have seen is simply witless, both sneering at gays and at Thais. I answered his post with a contemptuous contradiction on the Thai Culture talk page and a mocking post to him on his home page, and then I saw your post. I want to offer you congratulations, but I know so little about Wikipedia that I don't think I can offer anything more in the way of useful help.

Wikipedia s a huge and important resource and low-level pests of Korean Sentry's type are cumulatively a huge threat to it. I've watched the Internet with interest since before it started. I.e. I visited University of Waterloo, one of the first two packet-switched networks, in 1961, and read the original Carnegie Commission binders on the subject '61~65. I interviewed Vannevar Bush on the subject at his home in, I forget, Lawrence or Brookline or wherever it was in 1965, and when the second Internet, the present one, came into existence in 1970 I was user #300 on ARPAnet . (The first "true" internet, ignored in most of the histories, was Usenet, not the later e-mail app of the same name but a packet-switched network written by Bolt Beranek and Newman for Digital Equipment, to connect all their customers. But I I digress...)

Wikipedia is one of those things that represents the best potential of the Internet -- and as you said someplace, it is maintained by the fact that anybody can edit, revert, and so on and so forth. You are doing valuable work, and I wish you well.

On the clod "Korean Sentry" I don't know what the answer is. Obviously if he feels he has an interest in making war, he can keep changing names forever. If he attacks me in response to my joshing I shall erase my traces of it from Wikipedia and try to answer him with reason.

Good luck in the excellent work you are doing.

Best wishes.

David Lloyd-Jones (talk) 14:57, 25 September 2018 (UTC)

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Administrators' newsletter – October 2018

News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2018).

Administrator changes

Justlettersandnumbers • L235

Bgwhite • HorsePunchKid • J Greb • KillerChihuahua • Rami R • Winhunter

Interface administrator changes

Cyberpower678 • Deryck Chan • Oshwah • Pharos • Ragesoss • Ritchie333

Oversight changes

Guerillero • NativeForeigner • Snowolf • Xeno

Guideline and policy news

• Following a request for comment, the process for appointing interface administrators has been established. Currently only existing admins can request these rights, while a new RfC has begun on whether it should be available to non-admins.
• There is an open request for comment on Meta regarding the creation a new user group for global edit filter management.

Technical news

• Partial blocks should be available for testing in October on the Test Wikipedia and the Beta-Cluster. This new feature allows admins to block users from editing specific pages and in the near-future, namespaces and uploading files. You can expect more updates and an invitation to help with testing once it is available.
• The Foundations' Anti-Harassment Tools team is currently looking for input on how to measure the effectiveness of blocks. This is in particular related to how they will measure the success of the aforementioned partial blocks.
• Because of a data centre test, you will be able to read but not edit the Wikimedia projects for up to an hour on 10 October. This will start at 14:00 (UTC). You might lose edits if you try to save during this time.

Arbitration

• The Arbitration Committee has, by motion, amended the procedure on functionary inactivity.
• The community consultation for 2018 CheckUser and Oversight appointments has concluded. Appointments will be made by October 11.
• Following a request for comment, the size of the Arbitration Committee will be decreased to 13 arbitrators, starting in 2019. Additionally, the minimum support percentage required to be appointed to a two-year term on ArbCom has been increased to 60%. ArbCom candidates who receive between 50% and 60% support will be appointed to one-year terms instead.
• Nominations for the 2018 Arbitration Committee Electoral Commission are being accepted until 12 October. These are the editors who help run the ArbCom election smoothly. If you are interested in volunteering for this role, please consider nominating yourself.

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Request

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Riemann zeta function

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Administrators' newsletter – November 2018

News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2018).

Administrator changes

Sir Sputnik

Kudpung • Liz • Lourdes

Everyking • Jackmcbarn

Interface administrator changes

Dinoguy1000

CheckUser changes

AGK • Ivanvector • Stwalkerster • TonyBallioni

Oversight changes

Amorymeltzer • Oshwah • TonyBallioni • Vanamonde93

Keilana

Guideline and policy news

• A request for comment determined that non-administrators will not be able to request interface admin access.
• A request for comment is in progress to determine whether the Mediation Committee should be closed and marked as historical.
• A village pump discussion has been ongoing about whether the proposed deletion policy (PROD) should be clarified or amended.
• A request for comment is in progress to determine whether pending changes protection should be applied automatically to today's featured article (TFA) in order to mitigate a recent trend of severe image vandalism.

Technical news

• Partial blocks is now available for testing on the Test Wikipedia. The new functionality allows you to block users from editing specific pages. Bugs may exist and can be reported on the local talk page or on Meta. A discussion regarding deployment to English Wikipedia will be started by community liaisons sometime in the near future.
• A user script is now available to quickly review unblock requests.
• The 2019 Community Wishlist Survey is now accepting new proposals until November 11, 2018. The results of this survey will determine what software the Wikimedia Foundation's Community Tech team will work on next year. Voting on the proposals will take place from November 16 to November 30, 2018. Specifically, there is a proposal category for admins and stewards that may be of interest.

Arbitration

• Eligible editors will be invited to nominate themselves as candidates in the 2018 Arbitration Committee Elections starting on November 4 until November 13. Voting will begin on November 19 and last until December 2.
• The Arbitration Committee's email address has changed to arbcom-enwikimedia.org. Other email lists, such as functionaries-en and clerks-l, remain unchanged.

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NCT 127 Article

Please let me know whether the members section in the NCT 127 article is referenced properly. My contribution was previously taken down due to being unsourced, so hope this is now sourced well enough for it to be considered reliable information — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nctzen127 (talk • contribs) 11:57, 7 November 2018 (UTC)

Mentoring

Hi. At [2] I agreed to get some mentoring from you to know more about the interesting technical side of templates. However, I have a quick question. How does the mentoring process work? Pkbwcgs (talk) 19:45, 11 October 2018 (UTC)

@Pkbwcgs:, Wikipedia:Mentorship has some information, although it's not exactly focused on technical mentorships. I would say that the key to it is that I review your template edits, and provide suggestions. Also, if you have a question, don't hesitate to ask me (or, indeed, anybody!). I would say that the first thing to do is look at sandboxing. ∰Bellezzasolo✡ Discuss 20:41, 11 October 2018 (UTC)

I have a question, what is the best way of merging the function of two templates or modules together? I don't want to break any functions or get the merge incorrect. I don't want to merge anything templates or modules right now but it is just useful to know. Pkbwcgs (talk) 19:30, 14 October 2018 (UTC)

@Pkbwcgs: Oh my, template merges. I've never actually done one, but I'll answer in full shortly, since I'm currently on a mobile. ∰Bellezzasolo✡ Discuss 20:42, 14 October 2018 (UTC)

@Pkbwcgs: I've written this rough guide. Wikipedia:Merging Templates. It's rough because the approaches to merging different templates can be very different. @Primefac and MSGJ: you guys are much more familiar with the process than I am, I'd greatly appreciate it if you could take a quick look and tell me what I've got wrong or ommitted. ∰Bellezzasolo✡ Discuss 20:50, 16 October 2018 (UTC)

How is my work in trying to merge Template:Infobox Muslim leader into Template:Infobox religious biography at User:Pkbwcgs/merge sandbox. Pkbwcgs (talk) 19:54, 20 October 2018 (UTC)

Pkbwcgs, here is my process for merging templates:

1. Find which parameters are exactly the same
2. Find which parameters are same function, different name
3. Find which parameters in the "to merge" template need to be added into the target.
4. Add the params from #3, and (if there aren't too many) add the params from #2 as alternate params
5. Redirect or wrap the "to merge" template. I do the former if there are few (if any) params from step #2. I do the latter if there are significant layout/format differences between the two templates.

The hardest step of this process is step #4, as you'll see if you check out my edits for the merger of {{infobox country}} and Template:infobox former country. You need to make sure that every old param is accounted for, and while some layout changes are inevitable, they also need to make sense.

My biggest piece of advice when doing a complex merger (i.e. more than just "add a couple of params and redirect") is to test the heck out of it. Test it with all of the old params, test it with all of the new params, etc. Primefac (talk) 14:37, 21 October 2018 (UTC)

@Primefac: When I was testing merging two templates at my merge sandbox, it took me around two hours and it is still not finished. Does it normally take a long time? Pkbwcgs (talk) 16:25, 21 October 2018 (UTC)

Yes. While I didn't work on it full-time, it took me almost four months to get in enough time and testing to merge the IB country/former country templates. When I merged the various IB cricket templates (there were 5? in total) it took me the better part of two weeks to make sure everything worked out properly. A job well done is not a job done quickly. Primefac (talk) 16:29, 21 October 2018 (UTC)

@Primefac: It is very difficult to merge Template:Infobox Muslim leader to Template:Infobox religious biography and I am having a go at User:Pkbwcgs/merge sandbox. Can you please give some suggestions. Pkbwcgs (talk) 16:54, 21 October 2018 (UTC)

Well, I'm not sure what sort of issues you're experiencing, since I haven't looked at the templates or your merger in much detail, but "tweaks" like this are going to break the infobox every time. The label number must match the data value it is associated with. At this point I think it's best to move this off Bellezzasolo's page (unless they don't mind it being here) and discuss somewhere else, like the template talk or WT:WPT, because we're going to have to discuss how infoboxes work and how to properly implement a merger. Primefac (talk) 17:52, 21 October 2018 (UTC)

@Primefac: I'm sure you will be please with this because my merge at User:Pkbwcgs/merge sandbox works! Pkbwcgs (talk) 19:11, 21 October 2018 (UTC)

@Pkbwcgs and Primefac: It looks good to me: User:Bellezzasolo/sandbox/testcases. ∰Bellezzasolo✡ Discuss 22:33, 21 October 2018 (UTC)

Thanks. Is there any improvements that could be done in terms of where the parameters are located? Pkbwcgs (talk) 07:31, 22 October 2018 (UTC)

Um... other than the fact that you've completely moved around what looks like all of the parameters... ideally the merger target largely stay the same. For example, you've moved the |disciples= into the "Personal" section instead of being in the "religious career" section where it was originally. Primefac (talk) 11:26, 22 October 2018 (UTC)

Yes, some minor tweaking needed. Of course, during mergers you can't get everything as before (maybe you could include a layout parameter, but nobody does that!) But in terms of the technical merger itself, it looks good. ∰Bellezzasolo✡ Discuss 12:20, 22 October 2018 (UTC)

I think it is all done now. It is ready to be actually merged to the real template. I already done some tweaking and removal of duplicate parameters yesterday. Pkbwcgs (talk) 08:22, 24 October 2018 (UTC)

@Pkbwcgs: A few observations. Firstly, the born/died fields, and maybe some similar, probably should be under the "personal" details. Secondly, {{#switch:{{{religion|}}}|[[Hinduism]]|[[Jainism]]|[[Sikhism]]=|#default=Religious career}} is inconsistent with Template:Infobox religious biography's {{#switch:{{{religion|}}}|[[Hinduism]]|[[Jainism]]|[[Sikhism]]=Religious career|#default=Senior posting}}. Finally, I would suggest that the religion/sect fields are moved out of the career section to be above personal details, again in keeping with religious biography. Other than that though, it looks ready to go to me. ∰Bellezzasolo✡ Discuss 12:33, 24 October 2018 (UTC)

I have made the amendments. Pkbwcgs (talk) 14:04, 24 October 2018 (UTC)

@Pkbwcgs: I made a minor fix, as the if statement for the Religious career section still included the religion parameter, which was causing an empty section to be displayed on my testcases. I'm having a good look through for any other minor issues. ∰Bellezzasolo✡ Discuss 14:50, 24 October 2018 (UTC)

Shall I copy User:Pkbwcgs/merge sandbox to Template:Infobox religious biography? Pkbwcgs (talk) 16:14, 26 October 2018 (UTC)

@Pkbwcgs: I wouldn't say to do it quite yet, I'd seek consensus to make the change. It can't hurt. ∰Bellezzasolo✡ Discuss 19:25, 29 October 2018 (UTC)

Sorry for the delay. I have opened up a thread at Template talk:Infobox Muslim leader to see if consensus can be seeked from that thread. Pkbwcgs (talk) 17:36, 5 November 2018 (UTC)

Since opening a thread at Template talk:Infobox Muslim leader, there has been nothing said or anything. Does that mean that I should just go forward with my merge? Pkbwcgs (talk) 09:17, 11 November 2018 (UTC)

I have done another merge today. I have merged Template:Infobox Christian church body with Template:Infobox Christian denomination at User:Pkbwcgs/merge sandbox/2. It looks really good. Pkbwcgs (talk) 10:14, 11 November 2018 (UTC)

User:Pkbwcgs/merge sandbox/3

Something is not right about my merge between Template:Infobox Bishopric and Template:Infobox diocese. Can you please help me out. Pkbwcgs (talk) 18:34, 11 November 2018 (UTC)

@Pkbwcgs: There's a few things there, comes with merging. One that's going to be really fun to sort out is the default behavior in Template:Infobox Bishopric to display bishopric without a parameter. I've made it conditional in the sandbox, which means that any occurrences of {{Infobox Bishopric are going to have to be replaced with {{Infobox diocese|bishopric=|. No big issue, to be honest. More fun is the title, I'm still working on that. ∰Bellezzasolo✡ Discuss 13:42, 12 November 2018 (UTC)

I've ironed out all the obvious issues at User:Bellezzasolo/sandbox/testcases. ∰Bellezzasolo✡ Discuss 14:08, 12 November 2018 (UTC)

Thanks. Pkbwcgs (talk) 15:44, 12 November 2018 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Original Barnstar
	Thanks for your effort in helping me out in my merge in User:Pkbwcgs/merge sandbox/3. Your efforts will be recognised with this barnstar. Thanks for your support as well. Pkbwcgs (talk) 15:46, 12 November 2018 (UTC)

User_talk:yaniv

This seems to be a mistake - removing talk comments from other people, both Yaniv and TonyBallioni, particularly in the middle of an arbitration enforcement discussion. Tarl N. (discuss) 17:14, 12 November 2018 (UTC)

@Tarl N.: I was only ending the <big> tag. I see that Jytdog fixed it hours ago - I must have been following an old diff link and not realizing it. That probably explains why the edit conflict didn't get flagged. ∰Bellezzasolo✡ Discuss 17:20, 12 November 2018 (UTC)

Template:Rail-interchange/sandbox‎‎

Just to warn you that Template:Rail-interchange/sandbox‎‎ contains my change to the alt text for the cable car, which should probably be abandoned rather than released. Discussion: Template talk:Rail-interchange#Template-protected edit request on 9 November 2018. Certes (talk) 20:46, 12 November 2018 (UTC)

A cup of coffee for you!

Thanks for handling that IP... GABgab 15:39, 13 November 2018 (UTC)

@GeneralizationsAreBad: thanks, the coffee was great! ∰Bellezzasolo✡ Discuss 17:54, 13 November 2018 (UTC)

Padlocks

Hi Bellezzasolo, I don't have time tonight - but before we mass update all the padlock images, the files need to be uploaded locally and protected. — xaosflux ^Talk 04:01, 13 November 2018 (UTC)

@Xaosflux: Hi, I realized that this needed doing after I made the module update (I've reverted it for now). Hence I've uploaded local versions and asked at Requests for permissions/File mover for the right to move them over the Commons versions. Of course, there's still protection after that, but I've tried to cut down on the work a bit. ∰Bellezzasolo✡ Discuss 04:07, 13 November 2018 (UTC)

Although it looks like I wrongly assumed that file mover would allow overiding commons. It's one for RM then. ∰Bellezzasolo✡ Discuss 04:11, 13 November 2018 (UTC)

I've protected them at Commons and Mz7 create protected them locally. If that is acceptable with you Xaosflux it is all set. --Majora (talk) 04:13, 13 November 2018 (UTC)

Yeah, I'm not sure what the functional difference is between uploading locally and then protecting, or just create-protecting. For now, I've create-protected, but I'm happy to defer to whatever you all think is best. Mz7 (talk) 04:16, 13 November 2018 (UTC)

@Mz7: From the wording at Template:Keep local high-risk I guess it's that we just don't trust those commons admins. ∰Bellezzasolo✡ Discuss 04:19, 13 November 2018 (UTC)

Not quite sure whether I should be insulted or not...

In any case, whatever you all want to do. The padlocks are set so that you can modify the description page but you cannot move or upload over them on Commons. --Majora (talk) 04:22, 13 November 2018 (UTC)

I can't see any function difference between the local protection and the current situation either, it should be safe to reenable the new icons. ∰Bellezzasolo✡ Discuss 04:27, 13 November 2018 (UTC)

@Bellezzasolo and Majora: yes its mostly to avoid any issues with 'those commons' people that have rarely occurred. The protection I was referring to is just "upload" protection - it could be very embarrassing for image vandalism. — xaosflux ^Talk 12:42, 13 November 2018 (UTC)

​Is there a reason not to add them to the cascade-protected page? Pretty sure the old icons were/are. ~ Amory (u • t • c) 23:24, 14 November 2018 (UTC)

@Amorymeltzer: I don't see that as necessary - it's not a big deal if someone edits the description, and in most cases the "click" is bypassed so they won't just end up on the description page. — xaosflux ^Talk 23:45, 14 November 2018 (UTC)

I'm not sure where better to write this, but thanks to everyone involved in changing the padlock symbols. The new versions are much more intuitive. Certes (talk) 23:48, 14 November 2018 (UTC)

File mover granted

Hello Bellezzasolo. Your account has been granted the "filemover" user right, either following a request for it or due to a clear need for the ability to move files. Please take a moment to review Wikipedia:File mover for more information on this user right and under what circumstances it is okay to move files. When you move a file please remember to update any links to the new name as well! If you do not want the file mover right anymore, just let me know, and I'll remove it. Thank you, and happy editing! TheSandDoctor ^Talk 08:01, 13 November 2018 (UTC)

I'll just note, however, that wouldn't the task you wanted this right for be accomplished faster if the images were simply downloaded and reuploaded (or if we asked XYZtSpace to locally upload them)? I don't remember file movers (or anyone) being able to move files across wikis (without the use of some external tool (that might need this right)). Anarchyte (talk | work) 11:51, 13 November 2018 (UTC)

@Anarchyte: I've already uploaded to different names. I assumed initially that with file mover, I'd be able to move them over the commons versions (I'd already tried directly uploading over with no success). It unfortunately looks like that specific perm is still bundled up in the admin toolset, so I can't do what I wanted. However, I'm sure the perm will come in useful anyway in dealing with new uploads. ∰Bellezzasolo✡ Discuss 11:55, 13 November 2018 (UTC)

If all that is preventing this change from going live is moving "shackle1" to "shackle", I can go ahead and do that and then protect them. I know very little about how the templates/modules work however, so someone else will have to make the final changes. Anarchyte (talk | work) 12:01, 13 November 2018 (UTC)

@Anarchyte: Brilliant, it's only the files that need doing, I can then do the module stuff. There's a list at WP:AN#Implementation of this RfC with handy move buttons. They'll probably need upload/move protection after the move as well. ∰Bellezzasolo✡ Discuss 12:03, 13 November 2018 (UTC)

As the boilerplate automatically posted here states, if at any time you wish for this flag to be removed, just let me or another admin know. --TheSandDoctor ^Talk 16:06, 13 November 2018 (UTC)

@TheSandDoctor: I thought there'd be stuff to do, but it doesn't really look like there is. I don't think I'm likely to use the perm, so please can you remove it. ∰Bellezzasolo✡ Discuss 20:12, 15 November 2018 (UTC)

 Done If you ever want it back, feel free to ping me or re-request at WP:PERM. --TheSandDoctor ^Talk 20:19, 15 November 2018 (UTC)

User:Pkbwcgs/merge sandbox/4

I finished another merge at User:Pkbwcgs/merge sandbox/4. It was Template:Infobox academic division and Template:Infobox university. Can you please have a look at it. Thanks. Pkbwcgs (talk) 16:41, 14 November 2018 (UTC)

User:Pkbwcgs/merge sandbox/4/comparison looks good. ∰Bellezzasolo✡ Discuss 17:21, 14 November 2018 (UTC)

Does it require a lot of waiting time to actually merge the two templates or can I merge them immediately? Pkbwcgs (talk) 18:23, 14 November 2018 (UTC)

@Pkbwcgs: I generally leave 48 hours for template edits to allow for any objections. Given the scale of a merge, 72 hours might be more appropriate. ∰Bellezzasolo✡ Discuss 19:55, 15 November 2018 (UTC)

What about User:Pkbwcgs/merge sandbox which has been lying around for a long time? Pkbwcgs (talk) 20:04, 15 November 2018 (UTC)

@Pkbwcgs: Yeah, I'd say that's OK. ∰Bellezzasolo✡ Discuss 20:08, 15 November 2018 (UTC)

Okay. So, how do I start the actual merge in the template space? Pkbwcgs (talk) 20:09, 15 November 2018 (UTC)

It is not working. When I redirected Template:Infobox Muslim leader to Template:Infobox religious biography, the pages with Template:Infobox Muslim leader were not showing the infobox properly. Do I need to replace the transclusions of Template:Infobox Muslim leader with Template:Infobox religious biography? Pkbwcgs (talk) 20:26, 15 November 2018 (UTC)

NPR Newsletter No.15 16 November 2018

Chart of the New Pages Patrol backlog for the past 6 months.

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It's a VIOLA.

The reliable source is my ear. Find a Viola player and ask them.

Jack Fallon played the Viola on this Beatles' recording. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Beatle Curator (talk • contribs) 05:11, 18 November 2018 (UTC)

@Beatle Curator: please see Wikipedia:Verifiability, not truth. ∰Bellezzasolo✡ Discuss 05:17, 18 November 2018 (UTC)

Whatever. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Beatle Curator (talk • contribs) 05:20, 18 November 2018 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:Revdel-rd3

Template:Revdel-rd3 has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Enterprisey (talk!) 05:51, 19 November 2018 (UTC)

double standard

Please explain how JzG can revert my edits without explanation on the Gary Null article but if i do so it is considered disruptive. When i made the edits initially i explained the reason for them. He did not extend the same courtesy. if anything, he should be the one warned for disruptive editing. Or is he allowed to break the rules because he is an admin? Nonononocat (talk) 18:02, 19 November 2018 (UTC)

@Nonononocat: You've removed cited content, and the statement in question is attributed, rather than in Wikipedia's voice. When you're reverted, you should discuss the issue more, not less. ∰Bellezzasolo✡ Discuss 18:17, 19 November 2018 (UTC)

Palace of Westminister

Oops, we reverted the vandal at the same time :) GoodDay (talk) 19:03, 19 November 2018 (UTC)

@GoodDay: No problem, edit conflicts are funny things. ∰Bellezzasolo✡ Discuss 19:06, 19 November 2018 (UTC)

Yep. GoodDay (talk) 19:07, 19 November 2018 (UTC)

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This needs a review by the administrators

It is about an anti-Semitic user who denies the existence of the Hebrew people at Talk:Hebrew language. This user is reported[3] for 3RR violations and saved his ass unblocked. The result of the report is "page protected". So I please ask you for intervention. Because I saw you are the only one who noted that this user did an Obvious 3RR violation. The user denied any responsibility and claimed to have "misunderstood" the three revert rule. It is interesting that a year ago the user was reported again for a 3RR violation at the same article and pretended AGAIN to have misunderstood the rule, and in the report[4] from Iyyar, 5777 the 3RR was explained to the linguist: "Actually, the 3RR states: An editor must not perform more than three reverts on a single page-whether involving the same or different material." It is even more interesting what this "misunderstanding" linguist said after being asked why couldn't learn the rule for so much time. This user then acknowledged understanding and held another lie switching from "misunderstanding" to "forgetting" the 3RR. Very arrogant and obvious lies. The violation of reverts plus the contradicting lying to the admins and personal attacks justify a long or idefenite block. Could you please ask the admins to review the result of the report "Page protected"? I am just curious what the review of these lies would be. Good week! 77.138.178.112 (talk) 05:55, 25 November 2018 (UTC)

Help with map!

Hello Belezzasolo! I saw your fine work on the AIEA locations map. I am trying to modify this page here which was clearly below acceptable levels https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Federation_of_United_Nations_Associations The thing is this organisation is membership-based. They got 100 or so members. I wanted to use your map to add all of them. The problems I am facing are: 1) I would like to use it outside of the sidebar 2) I would like to add a zoom effect on Asia/Oceania, South America and Africa too 3) it is quite "fragile" as it is because of the mutliple lines. Regarding "3" I found this map here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippine_Airlines the code of which is more condensed. But it doesnt have the "zoom". Any help on any of the above would be very very much appreciated. Needles to say i'm not a pro.:)--APG1984 (talk) 20:36, 22 November 2018 (UTC)

@APG1984: Regarding the zoom function, you were missing that there's an outer {{Location map+}} that needs to know what the maps to be displayed are too! I've made an edit for now which should give you some ideas - [5].

You can use the template outside of the infobox - like so:

New York

Geneva

Brussels

Seoul

class=notpageimage|

Offices of the WFUNA Secretariat

New York

Geneva

Brussels

Seoul

class=notpageimage|

Offices of the WFUNA Secretariat in Europe

New York

Geneva

Brussels

Seoul

class=notpageimage|

Offices of the WFUNA Secretariat in north America

Notice that it's a bit yucky, because it's centered and the buttons go to the left. That's easily sorted.

Wrapped in an infobox

New York Geneva Brussels Seoul class=notpageimage| Offices of the WFUNA Secretariat New York Geneva Brussels Seoul class=notpageimage| Offices of the WFUNA Secretariat in Europe New York Geneva Brussels Seoul class=notpageimage| Offices of the WFUNA Secretariat in north America

Using a table
New York Geneva Brussels Seoul class=notpageimage| Offices of the WFUNA Secretariat New York Geneva Brussels Seoul class=notpageimage| Offices of the WFUNA Secretariat in Europe New York Geneva Brussels Seoul class=notpageimage| Offices of the WFUNA Secretariat in north America

if you want to see a large template I did like this, there's {{University of Oxford Map}}. That takes it out of the article and lets you reuse the map.

Hope this helps! ∰Bellezzasolo✡ Discuss 21:42, 22 November 2018 (UTC)

Thank you and apologies in advance for flooding you page with my maps!

I've made an attempt below and got the following problems :))) How can I:

- chose the color of the pins and size ? (there is no line in the code that allows that or that mentions the svg file of the button)

- avoid the problems that seem to appear with some locations which are correct (coordinates-wise) but wrong on the general map (everything is a bit lower). like cape town. see here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:APG1984

- Also, on some other maps, pins apear correctly placed but outside of map

Thanks a million. no rush, I imagine you got much more to do:) --APG1984 (talk) 17:42, 24 November 2018 (UTC)

@APG1984: with the world map thing, it looks like an issue in the underlying template, so nothing to do with your code. That's a good spot. Regarding color of pins, you can change the image like so:

| mark = St-Anne's College Oxford Coat Of Arms.svg

Generates , and you can change the size with |marksize=, like at {{University of Oxford Map}}. ∰Bellezzasolo✡ Discuss 14:22, 25 November 2018 (UTC)

@APG1984: I sorted out the issue with the map. It turns out, that was happening becuase of spaces between the locations. Newlines are fine, spaces aren't. Frankly, that sort of sensitivity is ridiculous! ∰Bellezzasolo✡ Discuss 14:54, 25 November 2018 (UTC)

hehehe thanks a million!!!--APG1984 (talk) 15:05, 25 November 2018 (UTC)

Map of the 92 current United Nations Associations

New York Geneva Brussels Seoul class=notpageimage| Offices of the WFUNA Secretariat New York Geneva Brussels Seoul class=notpageimage| Map of the 92 current United Nations Associations in Europe New York Geneva Brussels Seoul class=notpageimage| Map of the 92 current United Nations Associations in North America New York Geneva Brussels Seoul class=notpageimage| Map of the 92 current United Nations Associations in South America New York Geneva Brussels Seoul class=notpageimage| Map of the 92 current United Nations Associations in Asia New York Geneva Brussels Seoul class=notpageimage| Map of the 92 current United Nations Associations in Oceania

94.193.245.74

Thanks for your efforts, I have reported the IP at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Edit warring#User:94.193.245.74 reported by User:Pkbwcgs (Result: ). Pkbwcgs (talk) 22:13, 28 November 2018 (UTC)

@Pkbwcgs: Hardly my efforts, User:Bellezzasolo/Scripts/meganuke. Very handy for that sort of thing. ∰Bellezzasolo✡ Discuss 22:15, 28 November 2018 (UTC)

^That's a legendary tool, thanks so much for creating it. Flooded with them hundreds 16:50, 29 November 2018 (UTC)

I have enabled it for myself. It looks very good. Pkbwcgs (talk) 13:04, 1 December 2018 (UTC)

I don't understand how to use your "meganuke" tool. Pkbwcgs (talk) 14:27, 1 December 2018 (UTC)

@Pkbwcgs: Once started from the "more" dropdown, you need to leave it running in a browser tab. If you open a new tab and start editing from that, it should run along happily. ∰Bellezzasolo✡ Discuss<

Reverted edit in the article about Copenhagen metropolitan area

Hi Bellezzasolo!

I think you reverted my edit (i.e erasing a section in the article) by mistake. The article was about several definitions of the metropolitan area of Copenhagen. The definition presented in the section I was about to erase was a complete speculation by a wikipedian. The population and areal figures were indeed correctly sourced (as you pointed out). However, the areal division/definition (i.e which municipalities to be included in the definition) has never been mentioned elsewhere and were arbitrarily chosen by the wikipedian (since it lacked any source what so ever).

Regards --NiccoUrban (talk) 00:40, 1 December 2018 (UTC)

Hi again!

I erased the section giving a more comprehensive explanation. Since I am quite new att wikipedia I would like to know if I did this correctly. Or should I have left the wrong section in order to discuss it?

Regards --NiccoUrban (talk) 08:12, 1 December 2018 (UTC)

@NiccoUrban: My mistake, closer inspection quite clearly shows that only statistics are cited. The relavant policy to mention is SYNTH, sometimes looking at just a diff and edit summary can lead to wrong conclusions! ∰Bellezzasolo✡ Discuss 09:02, 1 December 2018 (UTC)

User:Pkbwcgs/merge sandbox/5

It is merge number 5! I can't believe I am on my fifth merge. I have merged Template:Infobox bus accident into Template:Infobox rail accident per TfD and Template:Infobox rail accident will be renamed soon after per TfD consensus. It seems to work. Can you please do the testcases and then tell me if it is ready to be implemented. Thanks. Pkbwcgs (talk) 20:48, 28 November 2018 (UTC)

Can you please do your comparison or testcases to see if it works. Thanks. Pkbwcgs (talk) 09:45, 2 December 2018 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – December 2018

News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2018).

Administrator changes

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Interface administrator changes

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• Following a request for comment, the Mediation Committee is now closed and will no longer be accepting case requests.
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• A proposal has been made to temporarily restrict editing of the Main Page to interface administrators in order to mitigate the impact of compromised accounts.

Technical news

• Administrators and bureaucrats can no longer unblock themselves unless they placed the block initially. This change has been implemented globally. See also this ongoing village pump discussion (permalink).
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Arbitration

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Miscellaneous

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NPR Newsletter No.14 21 October 2018

Chart of the New Pages Patrol backlog for the past 6 months.

Hello Bellezzasolo, thank you for your work reviewing New Pages!

Backlog

As of 21 October 2018, there are 3650 unreviewed articles and the backlog now stretches back 51 days.

Community Wishlist Proposal

• There is currently an ongoing discussion regarding the drafting of a Community Wishlist Proposal for the purpose of requesting bug fixes and missing/useful features to be added to the New Page Feed and Curation Toolbar.
• Please join the conversation as we only have until 29 October to draft this proposal!

Project updates

• ORES predictions are now built-in to the feed. These automatically predict the class of an article as well as whether it may be spam, vandalism, or an attack page, and can be filtered by these criteria now allowing reviewers to better target articles that they prefer to review.
• There are now tools being tested to automatically detect copyright violations in the feed. This detector may not be accurate all the time, though, so it shouldn't be relied on 100% and will only start working on new revisions to pages, not older pages in the backlog.

New scripts

• User:Enterprisey/cv-revdel.js^(info) — A new script created for quickly placing {{copyvio-revdel}} on a page.

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Problem

I have a bit of a problem. The "canton" parameter in Template:Infobox university will not show up properly in articles and I have currently halted my bot from changing Infobox academic subdivision to Infobox university as this needs fixing. I have tried a range of things but it still won't show up and is causing problems. The article that this is a problem to is Mandarin Training Center. Can you please help out. Thanks. Pkbwcgs (talk) 20:21, 4 December 2018 (UTC)

Believer's Eastern Church

Hello Bellezzasolo - I'm not sure why you said I didn't quote a reliable source when I edited the Believer's Eastern Church page. The source I cited (and I cite a source) is the church's own website. Can you please explain to me how that is not a reliable source? Thank you!--Elfgirl13 (talk) 23:13, 4 December 2018 (UTC)

@Elfgirl13: I believe that I was looking at this change. A lot of vandalism can look like that, which is why I reverted, although further research shows several sources supporting this. Also worth consideration is WP:BLP, which means that ideally sources would be independent (the church website most certainly is not an independent source), but it seems to indeed be the case. ∰Bellezzasolo✡ Discuss 23:20, 4 December 2018 (UTC)

References