User talk:JocularJellyfish/Archives/2018/July

This is an archive of User talk:JocularJellyfish. Please do not change it in any way. – JocularJellyfish ^Talk _Contribs 02:50, 2 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

The Right Stuff: July 2018

July 2018

DISCUSSION REPORT

WikiProject Conservatism Comes Under Fire

By Lionelt

WikiProject Conservatism was a topic of discussion at the Administrators' Noticeboard/Incident (AN/I). Objective3000 started a thread where he expressed concern regarding the number of RFC notices posted on the Discussion page suggesting that such notices "could result in swaying consensus by selective notification." Several editors participated in the relatively abbreviated six hour discussion. The assertion that the project is a "club for conservatives" was countered by editors listing examples of users who "profess no political persuasion." It was also noted that notification of WikiProjects regarding ongoing discussions is explicitly permitted by the WP:Canvassing guideline.

At one point the discussion segued to feedback about The Right Stuff. Member SPECIFICO wrote: "One thing I enjoy about the Conservatism Project is the handy newsletter that members receive on our talk pages." Atsme praised the newsletter as "first-class entertainment...BIGLY...first-class...nothing even comes close...it's amazing." Some good-natured sarcasm was offered with Objective3000 observing, "Well, they got the color right" and MrX's followup, "Wow. Yellow is the new red."

Admin Oshwah closed the thread with the result "definitely not an issue for ANI" and directing editors to the project Discussion page for any further discussion. Editor's note: originally the design and color of The Right Stuff was chosen to mimic an old, paper newspaper.

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ARTICLES REPORT

Margaret Thatcher Makes History Again

By Lionelt

Margaret Thatcher is the first article promoted at the new WikiProject Conservatism A-Class review. Congratulations to Neveselbert. A-Class is a quality rating which is ranked higher than GA (Good article) but the criteria are not as rigorous as FA (Featued article). WikiProject Conservatism is one of only two WikiProjects offering A-Class review, the other being WikiProject Military History. Nominate your article here. (Discuss this story)

RECENT RESEARCH

Research About AN/I

By Lionelt

Reprinted in part from the April 26, 2018 issue of The Signpost; written by Zarasophos

Out of over one hundred questioned editors, only twenty-seven (27%) are happy with the way reports of conflicts between editors are handled on the Administrators' Incident Noticeboard (AN/I), according to a recent survey . The survey also found that dissatisfaction has varied reasons including "defensive cliques" and biased administrators as well as fear of a "boomerang effect" due to a lacking rule for scope on AN/I reports. The survey also included an analysis of available quantitative data about AN/I. Some notable takeaways:

53% avoided making a report due to fearing it would not be handled appropriately
"Otherwise 'popular' users often avoid heavy sanctions for issues that would get new editors banned."
"Discussions need to be clerked to keep them from raising more problems than they solve."

In the wake of Zarasophos' article editors discussed the AN/I survey at The Signpost and also at AN/I. Ironically a portion of the AN/I thread was hatted due to "off-topic sniping." To follow-up the problems identified by the research project the Wikimedia Foundation Anti-Harassment Tools team and Support and Safety team initiated a discussion. You can express your thoughts and ideas here.

Your draft article, Draft:Template:US Courts sidebar

Hello, JocularJellyfish. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "Template:US Courts sidebar".

In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been nominated for deletion. If you plan on working on it further, or editing it to address the issues raised if it was declined, simply edit the submission and remove the {{db-afc}}, {{db-draft}}, or {{db-g13}} code.

If your submission has already been deleted by the time you get there, and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion by following the instructions at this link. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.

Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. JMHamo (talk) 19:51, 15 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject U.S. Congress#Chronological order of polls

You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject U.S. Congress#Chronological order of polls. —GoldRingChip 12:40, 19 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

POV on Ryan Bounds

Hey JJ! I see you added the POV tag to Bounds' nomination. What is it you think needs fixing? I looked at the talk page and didn't see anything there, so I thought I'd ask. Just curious. Snickers2686 (talk) 18:09, 24 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Snickers2686: I have just added and removed some content to the article that I thought would make it more neutral. The lack of an explanation on the talk page was pure laziness on my part, and I decided to clean up the issue (to make it acceptable, in my opinion, of course) to avoid leaving the tag there. If you think there are any issues with my new edits to the page, please tell me, and we'll figure it out. – JocularJellyfish ^Talk _Contribs 00:33, 26 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Pennsylvania special elections

Hi, there are special elections to the old districts of PA-7 and PA-15, I was wondering why there aren't separate pages for these races, as special elections typically get a full page devoted to its own election, instead of being redirected to the normal 2018 PA house elections using the new maps. VietPride10 (talk) 19:10, 29 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@VietPride10: I left the special election links as redirects, because 1) the special elections are being held concurrently with the general election, and 2) there would only be 2 months left in the newly elected Representatives' terms. If you want to expand the redirects into full articles, be my guest. – JocularJellyfish ^Talk _Contribs 19:15, 29 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the reply, the only problem I see with the redirects is it won't be held under the same district lines, which would make it confusing if they're not separate. If someone more experienced than I could start the articles, that would be of great help. Thanks againVietPride10 (talk) 21:05, 29 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]