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19:25, 16 August 2021 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 33, 2021)

Crème brûlée a dessert consisting of a rich custard base topped with a layer of hardened caramelized sugar.
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This week's article for improvement (week 32, 2021)

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Act (drama)

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This week's article for improvement (week 33, 2021)

Crème brûlée a dessert consisting of a rich custard base topped with a layer of hardened caramelized sugar.
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Crème brûlée

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Questions about sourcing

Ages ago you added a "primary sources" tag to Paul Blainey in this edit. Two sources, the first is MIT saying "Blainey works for us", a primary source--MIT is both the source of the fact and the reporter. The second is the Broad Institute at Harvard saying "Blainey did this at Washington, that at Harvard, and other at Stanford." Is this

  1. a secondary source for all three claims because Broad can be presumed to exercise editorial control by vetting claims made by one primary source (Blainey) against facts known to other primary sources (UW/Harvard/Stanford), or
  2. a primary source for the second claim because Broad is an affiliate of/hosted by Harvard, so in a sense also a primary source of the fact, or
  3. a primary source for all three claims because Blainey is a Broad affiliate and therefore claims made by Blainey are effectively claims made by Broad?

Thank you. Yappy2bhere (talk) 20:08, 24 July 2021 (UTC)

  • @Yappy2bhere: At the time I added the tag (diff), there were only two sources in the article, both of which I considered to be primary. The article presently has six sources. If you feel that the tag is no longer applicable, feel free to remove it from the article. North America1000 23:52, 1 August 2021 (UTC)

21:57, 23 August 2021 (UTC)

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20:33, 24 August 2021 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 34, 2021)

An employee and customer at a grocery store in The Netherlands, April 1, 1955
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Grocery store

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15:59, 30 August 2021 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 35, 2021)

Mona Sahlin is a Swedish politician who was leader of the opposition and leader of the Swedish Social Democratic Party from 2007 to 2011. Pictured is Sahlin in 2010.
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Mona Sahlin

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The Signpost: 29 August 2021

Administrators' newsletter – September 2021

News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2021).

Administrator changes

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  • The Score extension has been re-enabled on public wikis. It has been updated, but has been placed in safe mode to address unresolved security issues. Further information on the security issues can be found on the mediawiki page.

Arbitration

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This week's article for improvement (week 36, 2021)

The past is the set of all events that occurred before a given point in time. Pictured is the oil on canvas painting Everything is in the past, painted by Vassily Maximov in 1889.
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Past

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Barnstar

WikiProject Wisconsin Barnstar.png The WikiProject Wisconsin Barnstar
Thank you so much for your help with the Wisconsin portal! Dolotta (talk) 20:42, 22 August 2021 (UTC)
@Dolotta: Thanks very much, and feel free to further expand the portal. North America1000 04:46, 23 August 2021 (UTC)

State portals

The Portal Barnstar
The Portal Barnstar is awarded to Wikipedians who have made significant contributions to topic portals.
Thank you for all your diligent work in bringing the revived U.S. state portals up to standard. That job really shouldn't have been left to you.

If you can face one more task, Portal:Nevada could still benefit from your touch. Certes (talk) 22:18, 24 August 2021 (UTC)

Certes Thanks for the tip. The portal is more fleshed out now. North America1000 10:45, 25 August 2021 (UTC)

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New Page Review queue September 2021

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This week's article for improvement (week 38, 2021)

Hello, Northamerica1000. The article for improvement of the week is:

Student exchange program

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Previous selections: History of art • Past


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15:32, 13 September 2021 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 37, 2021)

The history of art focuses on objects made by humans in visual form for aesthetic purposes. Pictured ia a dun horse from the Lascaux cave paintings.
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History of art

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18:30, 20 September 2021 (UTC)

How to add categories to AFD

Hi. I saw how you added more categories for Vicky Badshah deletion. Can you please help me and tell how I can do it? I am new at AFD and learning. How many max or min categories should be present? Aloolkaparatha (talk) 11:46, 31 August 2021 (UTC)

Hello Aloolkaparatha: Actually, I performed deletion sorting for the entry, which lists the discussion on various deletion sorting pages to make it easier for users to find articles they may be personally interested in. Shellwood added the Biography AfD debates category (diff). The easiest way to add categories is to use the codes listed atop on the Category:AfD debates page, replacing the question mark in the {{REMOVE THIS TEMPLATE WHEN CLOSING THIS AfD}} template with the appropriate code. For example, for a biographical entry, change the question mark in {{REMOVE THIS TEMPLATE WHEN CLOSING THIS AfD|?}} to "B", so it then reads as "{{REMOVE THIS TEMPLATE WHEN CLOSING THIS AfD|B}}". which then lists the discussion in the Category:AfD debates (Biographical) category. North America1000 01:21, 1 September 2021 (UTC)

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This week's article for improvement (week 39, 2021)

Hello, Northamerica1000. The article for improvement of the week is:

No such thing as a stupid question

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This week's article for improvement (week 40, 2021)

A geographer is a physical scientist, social scientist or humanist whose area of study is geography, the study of Earth's natural environment and human society, including how society and nature interacts. Pictured is The Geographer (1668-69), by Johannes Vermeer.
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Geographer

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15:29, 11 October 2021 (UTC)

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2021).

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Hi Northamerica1000, I'm cleaning up portal Vietnam and saw that the DYKs section seems to be automatically generated. Thus is there a way to manually remove articles that are not directly related to Vietnam topics? (e.g. Ted Sampley is an American Vietnam War soldier)  Băng Tỏa  10:25, 15 September 2021 (UTC)

@Băng Tỏa: Thanks for your work on the portal! Template:Transclude selected recent additions/doc has some useful hints. You could try |not1=Vietnam War to exclude that subtopic, or |not1=Sampley to get rid of just this one entry. (|not2= etc. are also available.) Certes (talk) 10:48, 15 September 2021 (UTC)
@Băng Tỏa: Thanks to Certes for provision of the above information. If this does not work out, DYK entries can always be manually curated, by entering them in manually. This can be done on a single subpage that lists multiple entries, from where by using transclusion, randomly selected entries can be displayed on the main portal page. North America1000 03:54, 20 September 2021 (UTC)

Donavon Warren

Hello Northamerica1000, I came across this name after watching the movie, Wheels as he was the producer of the movie. I would like to know if he is notable for having a page now because the one that was created back in 2017 or 2018 was deleted by you. I can provide you with some reliable, independent sources at your request which proves the subject passes both WP:NACTOR, and WP:GNG. Thanks, I look forward to hearing from you. Ugochukwu75 (talk) 06:41, 12 September 2021 (UTC)

@Ugochukwu75: I hesitate to simply restore the article, because after it was deleted per the deletion discussion, it was then deleted two more times per WP:G4 (see deletion log for the page). So, yes, at this point, feel free to provide the sources here, and we can discuss them. North America1000 03:59, 20 September 2021 (UTC)

Portal lint errors

@Anomalocaris: Upon consideration, I have moved this discussion to Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Portals. Your detailed synopsis is certainly worthy of reading and consideration by others! North America1000 12:36, 20 September 2021 (UTC)

September 2021 Guild of Copy Editors newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors September 2021 Newsletter

Hello and welcome to the September GOCE newsletter, a brief update of Guild activities since June 2021.

                 Current and upcoming events

September Drive: Our current backlog-elimination drive is open until 23:59 on 30 September (UTC) and is open to all copy editors. Sign up today!

Drive and Blitz reports

June Blitz: From 20 to 26 June, 6 participating editors claimed 16 copy edits, focusing on requests and articles tagged in March and April. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here.

July Drive: Almost 575,000 words of articles were copy edited for this event. Of the 24 people who signed up, 18 copyedited at least one article. Final results and awards are listed here.

August Blitz: From 15 to 21 August, we copy edited articles tagged in April and May 2021 and requests. 9 participating editors completed 17 copy edits on the blitz. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here.

Other news

June election: Jonesey95 was chosen to continue as lead coordinator, assisted by Dhtwiki, Tenryuu, and Miniapolis.

New maintenance template added to our project scope: After a short discussion in June, we added {{cleanup tense}} to the list of maintenance templates that adds articles to the Guild's copy editing backlog categories. This change added 198 articles, spread over 97 months of backlog, to our queue. We processed all of those articles except for those from the three or four most recent months during the July backlog elimination drive (Here's a link to a "tense" discussion during the drive).

Progress report: As of 18:26, 24 September 2021 (UTC), GOCE copyeditors have processed 468 requests since 1 January and there were 60 requests awaiting completion on the Requests page. The backlog of articles tagged for copy-editing stood at 433 (see monthly progress graph above).

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This week's article for improvement (week 41, 2021)

Fish sauce is a liquid condiment made from fish or krill that have been coated in salt and fermented for up to two years. Pictured is Cambodian sweet fish sauce mixed with chopped chili peppers and slices of garlic.
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Fish sauce

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This week's article for improvement (week 42, 2021)

The Big Five personality traits is a suggested taxonomy, or grouping, for personality traits.
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Personality

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