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Congrats

Hi Fang. Congratulations on hitting 400 in the drive! It's been quite a slog. I hope there's not overtime if we tie, as I'm looking forward to focusing on something besides wikifying for a while. Cheers, Gobonobo ^{T C} 22:15, 29 April 2011 (UTC)

Hey Gobonobo, worthy competitor! I'm also looking forward to doing something other than wikifying. Or, at least, just being more casual about it. Cheers, Fang Aili ^talk 22:19, 29 April 2011 (UTC)

South Phoenix Leadership Academy

Nice catch! Though it's definitely in the Arizona State Board of Charter Schools record, its listed location in FB (33rd Ave and Thomas) has no First Institutional Baptist Church, and the ASBCS record disappears into the mist. It's not in the ADE record either. Raymie (t • c) 19:34, 30 April 2011 (UTC)

Thanks! Thanks for the backup research, too. --Fang Aili ^talk 19:37, 30 April 2011 (UTC)

Arizona high school research is what I specialize in, though that article was not of my creation. It's been about six months of this being my main WP specialty. Arizona now has the highest completion rate for high schools in the US based off of the WP:MEA lists (and I have lists with more future school articles to keep building). Raymie (t • c) 00:19, 1 May 2011 (UTC)

Good for you re: completion rate! By the way, I've wikified a lot of school articles lately, so if you notice that I'm doing anything wrong (like formatting, templates, or whatever) please do let me know. --Fang Aili ^talk 02:28, 1 May 2011 (UTC)

Broken Glass (band)

What 'cleanup' do you think is needed exactly? It's a well-sourced stub with everything properly formatted as far as I can see.--Michig (talk) 08:34, 1 May 2011 (UTC)

It wasn't readable unless you were already familiar with what the hyperlinks where. I've improved the article--have a look. --Fang Aili ^talk 21:31, 1 May 2011 (UTC)

Calm down

I hit the wrong button while demonstrating something and you were quicker than I was at figuring out how to speedily delete it. Remember to assume good faith. No reason to start off by scolding me ;) --CumbiaDude (talk) 20:05, 3 May 2011 (UTC)

I was calm about it. By the way, if you want to delete a page, you will need an admin's help. --Fang Aili ^talk 20:08, 3 May 2011 (UTC)

I had the "Criteria for speedy deletion" and "Candidates for speedy deletion" pages open, so I was working on it. Like I said, you were just faster ;) --CumbiaDude (talk) 20:11, 3 May 2011 (UTC)

That's cool. Cheers, Fang Aili ^talk 20:12, 3 May 2011 (UTC)

WikiProject Wikify's April 2011 Backlog Elimination Drive awards!

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Bashir Harb article

I just want to know why my article has been deleted. He is the owner of one of the most influential trade printers in Canada according to PrintAction Magazine. He also installed the first web press at in Toronto. I can edit it if it sounded like an advertisement. Thanks Emmyray123 (talk) 15:38, 7 May 2011 (UTC)

Hi Emmyray123, it was deleted under criteria A7, "No indication of importance". Being a small business owner doesn't equal importance, unfortunately. See also Wikipedia:Notability (people). Please let me know if you have further questions. --Fang Aili ^talk 20:24, 7 May 2011 (UTC)

Lucía Andrea Morett Álvarez

Do you mind taking a look at the above article and telling me what is warranted? mauchoeagle _(c) 02:58, 12 May 2011 (UTC)

Hmm... almost looks like it was copy/pasted from.. Wikipedia(?). She's most likely a notable person, so no summary deletion. Requires a pile of cleanup tags, that's for sure. What do you think? --Fang Aili ^talk 20:33, 12 May 2011 (UTC)

I have tagged it appropriately but do you mind taking another look to ensure that none of the tags were unnecessary. Also can you take a look at Tracy gaffney. mauchoeagle _(c) 20:43, 12 May 2011 (UTC)

The tags look fine. Tracy gaffney looks like vandalism to me. Speedy deleted appropriately. --Fang Aili ^talk 20:49, 12 May 2011 (UTC)

Great!

Love this! Just had to steal it... :) Dreadstar ☥ 05:15, 13 May 2011 (UTC)

Awesome! =) --Fang Aili ^talk 06:53, 13 May 2011 (UTC)

Guru Studio

Seriously? None of the "references" evidence any shred of notability. The article just says the company exists - a clear A7. – ukexpat (talk) 13:36, 13 May 2011 (UTC)

I generally don't speedy delete articles that aren't quite new, and in this case at least 3 editors in good standing edited the article in the past. That was enough of an indicator to me that the article may be worth saving. There's nothing lost in waiting 7 days for a prod to go through. --Fang Aili ^talk 20:09, 13 May 2011 (UTC)

I don't mean to pick a fight with you, but I think this company is actually notable. I'm editing the article now. --Fang Aili ^talk 21:03, 13 May 2011 (UTC)

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May 2011 Wikification Newsletter

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Yehoshua Ya'akov entry posted on May 13th 2011

Sunday, May 21szt, 2011

Hello dear Fang Aili: Maybe it would be possible for you to provide me with a copy of the deleted entry (Yehoshua Ya'akov) - which you removed on May 17th, as it deed not meet the criteria to a verifiable outside published source/reference? Unfortunately I did not save a copy of my post and did my editing on the screen directly. In the meantime I would like to add the references. If you have a copy of the deleted page then please send it to my e-mail which is hannah.porat@gmail.com. Thank you very much. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Hannah770 (talk • contribs) 08:30, 22 May 2011 (UTC)

Alexander Merkurjev page

Hi, On 4 July 2007 you deleted the page Alexander Merkurjev, which is a pity because he is probably one of the top 10 mathematicians of the 20th (and 21st) century and certainely notable. (E.g. he won the Alexander-Humboldt award, was an invited speaker at the International congress of math. etc., also he does have a wiki-entry in the German wikipedia) Probably the entry was poorly written (I haven't seen it), but I would like to recreate it. Do you still have the deleted article?

Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lsk126 (talk • contribs) 20:48, 24 May 2011 (UTC)

June 2011 Wikification Drive

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Technology/starships of Babylon 5

I recall you saying you were working on a "List of starships of Babylon 5" article—or something to that effect—and wondered if I might take a look and help out. I actually have already slapped together a few things in my userspace, but there's a lot of contradictory or unclear information in some of these articles, and not being a Babylon 5 geek, I'm at a loss sometimes to tell what to keep and what to throw out. If you give me a shout, maybe we can throw a few things together and come up with something that would combine the unref'ed stubs and make Wikipedia proud. — Chromancer ^talk/_cont 06:06, 31 May 2011 (UTC)

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Greetings! Figure Skating and other ramblings

Erica, I understand you are a figure skating enthusiast. Are you still active in those types of articles? Jcflnj (talk) 13:39, 9 July 2011 (UTC)

Hey! Well, yes, but my general WP activity has been very low lately. What did you have in mind? --Fang Aili ^talk 22:53, 14 July 2011 (UTC)

You originally gave the U.S. Figure Skating article a quality rating of "Start". I have been working on the article recently and was wondering if you might revisit the article and reevaluate the rating, possibly to C or B. I know I could do this myself, but I understand it is usually considered bad form to rate an article that one is working on. Thank you. Jcflnj (talk) 23:02, 17 July 2011 (UTC)

MfD nomination of User:Peter lowe/Graphic display systems

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MSU Interview

Dear Fang Aili,

My name is Jonathan Obar user:Jaobar, I'm a professor in the College of Communication Arts and Sciences at Michigan State University and a Teaching Fellow with the Wikimedia Foundation's Education Program. This semester I've been running a little experiment at MSU, a class where we teach students about becoming Wikipedia administrators. Not a lot is known about your community, and our students (who are fascinated by wiki-culture by the way!) want to learn how you do what you do, and why you do it. A while back I proposed this idea (the class) to the community HERE, were it was met mainly with positive feedback. Anyhow, I'd like my students to speak with a few administrators to get a sense of admin experiences, training, motivations, likes, dislikes, etc. We were wondering if you'd be interested in speaking with one of our students.

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Bottom line is that we really need your help, and would really appreciate the opportunity to speak with you. If interested, please send me an email at obar@msu.edu (to maintain anonymity) and I will add your name to my offline contact list. If you feel comfortable doing so, you can post your name HERE instead.

If you have questions or concerns at any time, feel free to email me at obar@msu.edu. I will be more than happy to speak with you.

Thanks in advance for your help. We have a lot to learn from you.

Sincerely,

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February 2012 wikification barnstars!

		The Working Wikifier's Barnstar
		For 9th place appearance on the Febraury Drive leaderboard, i hereby award you the Working Wikifier's Barnstar!

		The Bronze Wikification Barnstar
		For wikifying 21 articles during the February Drive, i also award you the Bronze Wikification Barnstar ~ Keep it up! benzband (talk) 20:05, 6 March 2012 (UTC)

One more award...

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		This Working Wikifier's Barnstar is given to Fang Aili in recognition of the work done on WNBA records. Each article is equal for these drives, but some are more equal than others :) Nolelover Talk·Contribs 21:46, 6 March 2012 (UTC)

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Talk:Constitution of May 3, 1791 (painting)/GA1

Thanks for the review. I'll reply to issues shortly. As you mention it is your first, I think you did a pretty good job, but you forgot about one minor yet important issue: notifying the nominator (me). If I haven't check WP:POLAND Article Alerts, I could've missed the fact that the review was started, hold or not. Note that even if a page is watchlisted, there is no guarantee it will be noticed (I for example have over 3k items on my watchlist); further, transclusion is done by a bot, and I have the "ignore bot edits" option checked for my checklist. What I am getting at here, simply, is "for your future reviews, notify the nominators on their talk page". Just a learning tip. Take care, --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk to me} 17:38, 15 March 2012 (UTC)

Ah, I assumed you'd be watching it closely, having nominated it for GA, but your point is well taken. I'll remember to notify the nominator next time. Cheers, Fang Aili ^talk 17:44, 15 March 2012 (UTC)

You have replies waiting at Talk:Constitution of May 3, 1791 (painting)/GA1. --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk to me} 17:05, 26 March 2012 (UTC)

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		The Silver Wikification Barnstar is given to Fang Aili for wikifying a full 30 articles during March Mini Drive. Good work! benzband (talk) 13:15, 25 March 2012 (UTC)

Peer Review

Hello! I submitted the Irish Stepdance article for a Peer Review here. Could you please take a look and comment? Thanks! ReelAngelGirl Talk to me! Tea? 20:46, 6 April 2012 (UTC)

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co-wrote the UK #62 hit The Sun Machine with others; please restore it to User:Launchballer/Naomi Thompson. Thank you.--Launchballer 21:41, 30 May 2013 (UTC)

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Silent Force- Walk the Earth

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WikiProject Wikify: November Newsletter and December Drive

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hello i need yor help

hello, my name is lazaro terrero i need your help, iḿ a new user and i want to help with the information i have about dance iḿ cuban and i'm 19 years old. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lázaro Terrero (talk • contribs) 16:46, 4 December 2013 (UTC)

The Wikipedia Library Survey

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Request for comment

Hello there, a proposal regarding pre-adminship review has been raised at Village pump by Anna Frodesiak. Your comments here is very much appreciated. Many thanks. Jim Carter through MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 06:47, 28 May 2014 (UTC)

WikiProject Dance

Hello, I’m contacting you because you are a participant in WikiProject Dance. Myself and another editor, User:Mwacha are interested in developing some notability guidelines on WikiProject Dance for dancers, dance critics, performers, and other genre articles as there is no such thing at the moment comparable to what I have heard other editors use for Visual Arts, IE “if they are collected in a major museum, then they are considered notable.” There are of course exceptions to this standard but it is nice to have a rule of thumb to help with AfD, and other moderated discussions. We hope to start this discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Dance under Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Dance#Notability Guidelines.OR drohowa (talk) 18:45, 11 June 2014 (UTC)

October 2014 Wikification Drive

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February 2015 Wikification drive

Greetings! Just spreading a message to the members of WikiProject Wikify that the February drive has been started. Better late than never! Come on, sign up! :) Grinding, grinding, grinding... what are we finding, finding, finding... (talk) 23:07, 8 February 2015 (UTC)

Happy Valentine's Day!!!

Happy Valentine's Day, to you and yours! Cheers, Grinding, grinding, grinding... what are we finding, finding, finding... (talk) 23:12, 14 February 2015 (UTC)

April 2015 Wikification drive.

Greetings! Just spreading a message to the members of WikiProject Wikify that the April drive has been started. Come on, sign up! :) One hand on the mouse, one hand on the keyboard... and the feet can do the rest! Hee-hee! (talk) 03:25, 2 April 2015 (UTC)

Happy Easter!

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All the best! "Carry me down, carry me down; carry me down into the wiki!" (talk) 22:14, 5 April 2015 (UTC)

June 2015 Wikification drive.

Greetings! Just spreading a message to the members of WikiProject Wikify that the June drive has been started. Come on, sign up! :) "A wiki of beauty is a joy forever." Seriously. That's how long it'd take to read! (talk) 04:25, 2 June 2015 (UTC)

ArbCom elections are now open!

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ArbCom elections are now open!

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You appear to be eligible to vote in the current Arbitration Committee election. The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to enact binding solutions for disputes between editors, primarily related to serious behavioural issues that the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the ability to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail. If you wish to participate, you are welcome to review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. For the Election committee, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:33, 23 November 2015 (UTC)

Notification of pending suspension of administrative permissions due to inactivity

Following a community discussion in June 2011, consensus was reached to provisionally suspend the administrative permissions of users who have been inactive for one year (i.e. administrators who have not made any edits or logged actions in more than one year). As a result of this discussion, your administrative permissions will be removed pending your return if you do not return to activity within the next month. If you wish to have these permissions reinstated should this occur, please post to the Wikipedia:Bureaucrats' noticeboard and the userright will be restored per the re-sysopping process (i.e. as long as the attending bureaucrats are reasonably satisfied that your account has not been compromised, that your inactivity did not have the effect of evading scrutiny of any actions which might have led to sanctions, and that you have not been inactive for a three-year period of time). If you remain inactive for a three-year period of time, including the present year you have been inactive, you will need to request reinstatement at WP:RFA. This removal of access is procedural only, and not intended to reflect negatively upon you in any way. We wish you the best in future endeavors, and thank you for your past administrative efforts. MadmanBot (talk) 00:30, 1 June 2016 (UTC)

Extended confirmed protection

Hello, Fang Aili. This message is intended to notify administrators of important changes to the protection policy.

Extended confirmed protection (also known as "30/500 protection") is a new level of page protection that only allows edits from accounts at least 30 days old and with 500 edits. The automatically assigned "extended confirmed" user right was created for this purpose. The protection level was created following this community discussion with the primary intention of enforcing various arbitration remedies that prohibited editors under the "30 days/500 edits" threshold to edit certain topic areas.

In July and August 2016, a request for comment established consensus for community use of the new protection level. Administrators are authorized to apply extended confirmed protection to combat any form of disruption (e.g. vandalism, sock puppetry, edit warring, etc.) on any topic, subject to the following conditions:

• Extended confirmed protection may only be used in cases where semi-protection has proven ineffective. It should not be used as a first resort.
• A bot will post a notification at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard of each use. MusikBot currently does this by updating a report, which is transcluded onto the noticeboard.

Please review the protection policy carefully before using this new level of protection on pages. Thank you.
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Two-Factor Authentication now available for admins

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Please note that TOTP based two-factor authentication is now available for all administrators. In light of the recent compromised accounts, you are encouraged to add this additional layer of security to your account. It may be enabled on your preferences page in the "User profile" tab under the "Basic information" section. For basic instructions on how to enable two-factor authentication, please see the developing help page for additional information. Important: Be sure to record the two-factor authentication key and the single use keys. If you lose your two factor authentication and do not have the keys, it's possible that your account will not be recoverable. Furthermore, you are encouraged to utilize a unique password and two-factor authentication for the email account associated with your Wikimedia account. This measure will assist in safeguarding your account from malicious password resets. Comments, questions, and concerns may be directed to the thread on the administrators' noticeboard. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 20:32, 12 November 2016 (UTC)

A new user right for New Page Patrollers

Hi Fang Aili.

A new user group, New Page Reviewer, has been created in a move to greatly improve the standard of new page patrolling. The user right can be granted by any admin at PERM. It is highly recommended that admins look beyond the simple numerical threshold and satisfy themselves that the candidates have the required skills of communication and an advanced knowledge of notability and deletion. Admins are automatically included in this user right.

It is anticipated that this user right will significantly reduce the work load of admins who patrol the performance of the patrollers. However,due to the complexity of the rollout, some rights may have been accorded that may later need to be withdrawn, so some help will still be needed to some extent when discovering wrongly applied deletion tags or inappropriate pages that escape the attention of less experienced reviewers, and above all, hasty and bitey tagging for maintenance. User warnings are available here but very often a friendly custom message works best.

If you have any questions about this user right, don't hesitate to join us at WT:NPR. (Sent to all admins).MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:47, 15 November 2016 (UTC)

ArbCom Elections 2016: Voting now open!

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

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

Administrators' newsletter - February 2017

News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2017). This first issue is being sent out to all administrators, if you wish to keep receiving it please subscribe. Your feedback is welcomed.

Administrator changes

NinjaRobotPirate • Schwede66 • K6ka • Ealdgyth • Ferret • Cyberpower678 • Mz7 • Primefac • Dodger67

Briangotts • JeremyA • BU Rob13

Guideline and policy news

• A discussion to workshop proposals to amend the administrator inactivity policy at Wikipedia talk:Administrators has been in process since late December 2016.
• Wikipedia:Pending changes/Request for Comment 2016 closed with no consensus for implementing Pending changes level 2 with new criteria for use.
• Following an RfC, an activity requirement is now in place for bots and bot operators.

Technical news

• When performing some administrative actions the reason field briefly gave suggestions as text was typed. This change has since been reverted so that issues with the implementation can be addressed. (T34950)
• Following the latest RfC concluding that Pending Changes 2 should not be used on the English Wikipedia, an RfC closed with consensus to remove the options for using it from the page protection interface, a change which has now been made. (T156448)
• The Foundation has announced a new community health initiative to combat harassment. This should bring numerous improvements to tools for admins and CheckUsers in 2017.

Arbitration

• The Arbitration Committee released a response to the Wikimedia Foundation's statement on paid editing and outing.

Obituaries

• JohnCD (John Cameron Deas) passed away on 30 December 2016. John began editing Wikipedia seriously during 2007 and became an administrator in November 2009.

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WikiProject Wikify: Current Backlog Reduction Plan

Hey, I noticed you marked yourself as a member of WikiProject Wikify and you are currently listed as active. I was wondering if you would be able to assist with our current backlog reduction plan. While traditional drives are more structured month-long sprints by WikiProject Wikify members, there is currently lacking activity within the project and in order to significantly reduce the incredible backlog, members are encouraged to review all articles marked with the Underlinked Template Message - {{underlinked}} - a list of which can be found here - to analyze the worthiness of the template message on the given article. Articles that have nothing to link or are have had wikilinks sufficiently added should have the template removed to clear the backlog and make it easier for editors to find articles in genuine need of wikification. This can be done by any editor; however, all editors should consider joining if they haven't done so already. Thank you!

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Notification of pending suspension of administrative permissions due to inactivity

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ArbCom 2019 special circular

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This message was sent to all administrators following a recent motion. Thank you for your attention. For the Arbitration Committee, Cameron11598 02:56, 4 May 2019 (UTC)

Administrator account security (Correction to Arbcom 2019 special circular)

ArbCom would like to apologise and correct our previous mass message in light of the response from the community.

Since November 2018, six administrator accounts have been compromised and temporarily desysopped. In an effort to help improve account security, our intention was to remind administrators of existing policies on account security — that they are required to "have strong passwords and follow appropriate personal security practices." We have updated our procedures to ensure that we enforce these policies more strictly in the future. The policies themselves have not changed. In particular, two-factor authentication remains an optional means of adding extra security to your account. The choice not to enable 2FA will not be considered when deciding to restore sysop privileges to administrator accounts that were compromised.

We are sorry for the wording of our previous message, which did not accurately convey this, and deeply regret the tone in which it was delivered.

For the Arbitration Committee, -Cameron11598 21:03, 4 May 2019 (UTC)

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Mark LeBlanc

Hi,

The article is NOT about the Canadian politician but about the first American winning the Soling North American Championship in a time the Soling was an Olympic class. Please do not judge him on politics campains that are not his.

Dragon Genoa (talk) 20:47, 4 November 2019 (UTC)

Nomination of List of starships in Babylon 5 for deletion

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Nomination of Aycha Sawa for deletion

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