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DYK for Salumeria

On 11 March 2017, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Salumeria, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the salumeria originated in Italy and dates to the Middle Ages? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Salumeria. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Salumeria), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Mifter (talk) 00:02, 11 March 2017 (UTC)

DYK for Sautéed mushrooms

On 13 March 2017, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Sautéed mushrooms, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the use of sautéed mushrooms in recipes dates to at least 1856? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Sautéed mushrooms. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Sautéed mushrooms), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Mifter (talk) 00:03, 13 March 2017 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 12, 2017)

The long-legged buzzard is an example of a bird of prey.

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This week's article for improvement (week 13, 2017)

The Czech philosopher Radovan Richta (1924–1983) originated the theory of technological evolution.

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Technological evolution

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Tech News: 2017-13

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

When you edit with the visual editor, you can see a visual diff as well as a wikitext diff when you review your changes. [1]

Problems

Special:AllPages was disabled for two days due to some performance issues. It is back, but the filter for redirects is gone as the cause of the performance problem. It still needs to be fixed. [2][3]

Changes this week

New filters for Recent changes will be released on Portuguese and Polish Wikipedias and MediaWikiwiki on March 28. Other wikis will get it progressively. The new filters include filtering, highlighting and, on certain wikis, user intent prediction.
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14:46, 27 March 2017 (UTC)

Template:Did you know nominations/Vaginal steaming

Northamerica1000, I was wondering whether you'd be willing, even on your semi-wiki break, to return to your review here and check over the recent ALT hook proposals, given that April Fools' Day is almost here and the sets need to be made up within the next 24 hours. Many thanks. BlueMoonset (talk) 14:57, 30 March 2017 (UTC)

@BlueMoonset: I think I'm going to pass. I'm not interested in the direction the discussion is going there with the "sorcery for your vagina" bit. What if readers have a penis? Use of the word "your" in the hooks is a bit patronizing/assumptive toward the reader. The word "your" should be replaced for the word "the" at the very least. While I understand that it's for April Fools day, I just don't think it's that funny. So, I provided a review for the initial hook, and I think I'm going to leave it at that. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 16:19, 30 March 2017 (UTC)

Thanks for letting me know. I've put a "review again" icon on it. BlueMoonset (talk) 23:07, 30 March 2017 (UTC)

Help

Dear friend, a while ago you helped to improve a search template for me called {{Friendly search suggestions}} I use it for new articles written by new editors and has been very valuable - I use it myself all the time. I have found other reference search templates that I would like added to the {{Friendly search suggestions}} I can edit simple templates, but I can't seem to be able to handle this. Here are the other search templates I would like to add to {{Friendly..... :

{{Find sources multi/gbooks}}}
{{Find sources multi/gfreeimages}}
{{Find sources multi/archive}}
{{ Find sources multi/bing}}
{{ Find sources multi/gnewsrecent}}
{{Find sources multi/ddg}}
{{ Find sources 4 }}

p.s. DMOZ Bfpage _{let's talk...} 11:45, 20 February 2017 (UTC)

If you would do this for me, I would be sorely tempted to shower your talk page with awards (but I promise to control myself).

The Very Best of Regards, Barbara (WVS) ✐ ✉ 13:03, 19 February 2017 (UTC)

Hi Barbara (WVS): I looked into this a bit, and an awesome {{Friendly search suggestions}} template with a multitude of options is a great idea to me. There are several ways this can be accomplished. It will take some time for me to go over matters, (I'm taking a semi-Wikibreak, but have been around lately) and I'll try to respond here later with more information. In the meantime, check out the {{Search for}} template (example at right), which provides options not found on other find sources templates. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 16:30, 19 February 2017 (UTC)

Thank you so much! There is no hurry at all. I have been amazed to find the template so widely used - at least a couple of thousand articles so far!! You remember working on it with me, right? If not, that is fine. It wouldn't be such a fine template if it weren't for you...perhaps you remember working on Chips and Dip with me a while ago, you didn't go for the postulated theory of deaths related to superbowl parties where people were double-dipping into the guacamole...it was the funnest editing collaboration I have ever gotten to do. Thanks for all that you do. The Very Best of Regards,

Barbara (WVS) ✐ ✉ 17:28, 19 February 2017 (UTC)

Update

Hello Barbara (WVS): I have updated the {{Friendly search suggestions}} template manually (diff). Check it out now. Below is a summary.

{{Find sources multi/gbooks}} – Already in the template
{{Find sources multi/gfreeimages}} – Already in the template
{{Find sources multi/archive}} – Y Added
{{Find sources multi/bing}} – Y Added
{{Find sources multi/gnewsrecent}} – Already in the template
{{Find sources multi/ddg}} – Y Added

Template:Find sources 4 is flagged to be merged into Template:Find sources per this discussion from 2015 August 30. When this is done, then some of the additions I made to the Friendly search suggestions will need to be removed, because the template will then have duplicate content. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 15:31, 27 March 2017 (UTC)

I usually don't do this but.....thank you, thank you, thank you, THANK YOU!

The Very Best of Regards,

Barbara (WVS) ✐ ✉ 18:05, 27 March 2017 (UTC)

Update2

I have also added searches for Questia, Microsoft Academic and WorldCat to the {{Friendly search suggestions}} template. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 15:58, 27 March 2017 (UTC)

Why, oh why?

When ever I read one of your food articles, I get pretty hungry.

Best Regardsm

Bfpage _{let's talk...} 21:40, 22 March 2017 (UTC)

Hi Bfpage: Perhaps you were already hungry, and the article served as a food cue, further triggering hunger. Well, at least "pretty hungry" is not the same as being famished. Regardless, all editors should write food articles once in a while. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 00:14, 23 March 2017 (UTC)

December 1982

You have been blocked temporarily from editing for being a great wikipedian. Once the block has expired, you are welcome to make useful contributions. If you think there are good reasons why you should be unblocked, you may appeal this block by first reading the guide to appealing blocks, then adding the following text to the bottom of your talk page: {{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}.

(April fools). –Davey2010^Talk 12:53, 1 April 2016 (UTC)

@Davey2010: No way! North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 16:55, 1 April 2017 (UTC)

DYK for Banana pasta

On 23 March 2017, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Banana pasta, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that banana pasta is lower in calories and fat, higher in protein, and less expensive to produce than whole wheat pasta? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Banana pasta. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Banana pasta), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Mifter (talk) 00:03, 23 March 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-14

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

The Save page button now says Publish page or Publish changes on most Wikipedias. The point is to make it more clear that the edit will change the page immediately. Publish page is when you save a new page and Publish changes when you edit an existing page. [4]
The tracking category Category:Pages with template loops is now added when a template loop is found. A template loop is for example when a template tries to use a second template that uses the first template. [5]
English Wikipedia now has cookie blocks. It will come to more wikis in the future. This is an extension to the autoblock system so when a user is blocked, the next time they visit the wiki a cookie will be set. This means that even if the user switches accounts and to a new IP address the cookie will block them again. [6]

Problems

Wikidata descriptions, aliases and labels that used some characters could not be saved. This has now been fixed. [7]

Changes this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 4 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 April. It will be on all wikis from 6 April (calendar).

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17:53, 3 April 2017 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 14, 2017)

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Synchrony and diachrony

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Draft move from userspace to draft space

Hello,

I'm just curious why you moved one of my draft articles from User:AHeneen/sandbox/Gulf carriers to Draft:Gulf carriers. Is there some policy change recently? Wikipedia:Drafts nor Help:Userspace draft says anything about when an article should be in the draft space and when it may be in the userspace. The former mentions that "[e]ditors may ... choose to create draft pages in their userspace". My only concern about the different article spaces is that drafts are usually deleted after a period of inactivity. That can be problematic. You can leave the Gulf carriers article in the draft space as I intend to finish it to move to the mainspace soon. AHeneen (talk) 04:16, 24 March 2017 (UTC)

Hello AHeneen: I typically move content from user space into draft space for inactive users whose drafts have not been edited for at least one year. In my checks, I noticed that your draft had not been edited in over a year, but overlooked somehow that you're actually an active user. Sorry for that. Please let me know if you have any further questions or if I can be of any assistance. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 23:58, 24 March 2017 (UTC)

Deletion of "Keith Johnson (author)"

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Hello Northamerica1000,

(First; my apologies if I am contacting you in the wrong way, or am contacting the wrong person ... I tried another way to send my message, but that didn't seem to work. But assuming you are the right person to talk to about this, then ...).

I, like many people, am sad and disappointed to find that the “Keith Johnson (author)” page was recently deleted, and hope that it can be reinstated.

To explain why, I would start by saying that I think there may have been a number of misconceptions or assumptions made by the people who deleted it, including these important ones:

1) The article was not written by Keith Johnson himself. It was written by several other people, of which I am one.

2) The website www.timetabler.com referred to in the article is not Keith Johnson’s personal website – it is the website of a company of which he is not a director nor a shareholder nor an employee.

3) The work Keith Johnson did on school textbooks, and on the teaching of Physics in the United Kingdom especially, but also around the world … was revolutionary, and changed the way science textbooks have been written ever since. Many of the articles referred to in the Wikipedia entry, demonstrate this.

4) Any author who has been read by several million children across the globe must surely be ‘notable’ by definition, and worthy of recognition on Wikipedia ?

What I can understand, however, is that the Wikipedia entry was not kept up-to-date, and several of its references have since stopped to function – for example, some that were on Friends Reunited. That is my fault (amongst others), as I should have checked the entry regularly in case this happened.

Therefore … what I would like to do now, if you agree, is:

1) create a more focused page

2) remove any links that no longer work

3) find and add new external links (to established sources, for example: Amazon’s “Author Central”)

4) emphasise the novel aspects of Keith’s contributions to education and the teaching of Physics around the world.

Would that be acceptable ? If so, what is the best way for me to start doing this ?

Thank you for your time and consideration … if you have any questions, please let me know. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Caltheon (talk • contribs) 10:27, 27 March 2017 (UTC)

Hello Caltheon: Keith Johnson (author) was deleted per the consensus that formed to do so at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Keith Johnson (author). I have reviewed the (now deleted) article, and recommend starting a new article from scratch, but only if you feel that the subject meets notability guidelines such as WP:BASIC, WP:GNG and/or WP:AUTHOR. The deleted article was based mostly upon primary sources, and several users at the deletion discussion did not feel that the subject meets notability guidelines. For more information about what constitutes reliable sources on Wikipedia, which a new article would need to be based upon, see WP:RS. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 10:58, 27 March 2017 (UTC)

Deletion of Aricle "Keith Johnson (Author)"

Dear Northamerica1000,

I was hoping to weigh in on the topic mentioned by Caltheon in the above section. I actually sent you an email about this same issue some weeks ago, but couldn't work out how to use the 'You've got mail' Wikipedia template to let you know - so I fully understand that you may not have received it.

Either way, this is the transcript, which I hope will add weight to that which Caltheon has put above:

"Dear Northamerica1000,

I'm very new to Wikipedia, so I hope I've done the right thing in emailing you with my problem. Please advise me if I should have done something different ! I appreciate you must be very busy, but I was hoping to convince you of the merits of a recently deleted page (or if this is not the appropriate way to do it, glean some idea of how I should go about this !).

On Monday 23rd January 2017, I believe you resolved a discussion over the deletion of a page for Keith Johnson (Author), here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Keith_Johnson_(author).

I had better state from the offset that I am the grandson of the author, but I'm acting under my own steam and was not directly involved in the initial creation of the page.

From the offset the page was problematic, because of the lack of online source material to support assertions in the article. This, unfortunately, is a product of the times, and much of Keith Johnson's work was done in the days before reviews etc were digitized. I am sure this cannot be the first page to suffer from this fact, so I wonder what has been done in other cases to circumvent this ?

Those who initially set up the page tried to digitize the sources themselves - hosting them on Keith Johnson's personal webpage. This, then, is the reason for such links. I admit, there is room there for abuse - but these reviews are all reputable (only in hard form).

Regardless of my affiliation to the author, I would also seriously challenge the suggestion that none 'of the teaching tools or textbooks he has written are at all notable' (E.M. Gregory at 11:22, 17 January 2017). I know that personal anecdotes count for very little on a site so keen to ensure integrity as Wikipedia, but it is absolutely true that Physics For You was the first textbook in Britain to cater for the level of student it was designed for. That meant pictures next to the text to which it related, colour, and a big emphasis on readability. Aside from reviews, I wonder how else this could be proved ? If it were possible to substantiate these facts, I feel absolutely sure that you would wish to reconsider the page's deletion since these concepts are - undeniably - revolutionary. Textbooks throughout the world have since adopted the same style. Even now, if I mention 'Physics for You' to people of my age (for example, to other students at my university) they unfailingly say how much it changed their appreciation of physics. If you are able to offer any potential solutions as to how this could be legitimately conveyed through referencing, I would be extremely grateful.

I have, incidentally, found a few more online references to the book (or Keith Johnson) in academic works:

-- The work is referenced in two JSTOR articles by Marc Rosner (surprising given that it is designed as a teaching aid at secondary level):

Rosner, Marc, 'COLOR CONSTRUCTION: Teach color composition with a computer', The Science Teacher, 62(3) (1995), pp. 23-26.

Rosner, Marc, 'Change in the Classroom: Coins and currency provide for a wealth of numismatic experiments', The Science Teacher, 64(4) (1997), pp. 26-28.

--- It is also reviewed by Christine Stone in 'Reviews', Physics Education, 32(3) (1997). She describes it as 'a wonderful input', 'a treasury', 'a winner for teachers', a 'book focused on the pupils' involvement and enjoyment of each topic'. She also recognises that 'a lot of thought has gone into the layout... different fonts and colour boxes have been used to highlight... vocabulary, formulae, experiments and summaries'. This wouldn't need mentioning if it was the norm in textbooks of the time.

Again slightly anecdotal, but I believe indicative of its prevalence in academic circles, 'Physics for You' and 'Advanced Physics for You' are both available in the university libraries of UK Russell Group establishments, such as Durham University. In total, Durham University has 8 copies of Johnson's books in its various libraries.

Any author who has sold two million copies of his books has had a considerable impact on the education of many, many millions of children (since textbooks get reused) on a global scale. This is surely worthy of recognition on Wikipedia.

I hope you agree.

Thank you very much for your time, and feel free to redirect me elsewhere if this isn't the appropriate way to appeal the decision.

Kind Regards, CJ"

Anything you can do to help would be greatly appreciated. — Preceding unsigned comment added by CJ Dur HistFr (talk • contribs) 11:11, 27 March 2017 (UTC)

Hi CJ Dur HistFr As I stated above, I recommend creating a new article from scratch, based only upon what reliable sources state about the subject. The previous article was based mostly upon primary sources. Perhaps you and Caltheon, who messaged me above, could collaborate to create a new article. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 11:16, 27 March 2017 (UTC)

Hello Northamerica1000,

Thanks for your reply ... I/we'll have a go at a new article, and research some new sources for it. Thanks for your advice! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Caltheon (talk • contribs) 17:04, 27 March 2017 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – April 2017

News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2017).

Administrator changes

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Guideline and policy news

Following a discussion on the backlog of unpatrolled files, consensus was found to create a new user right for autopatrolling file uploads. Implementation progress can be tracked on Phabricator.
The BLPPROD grandfather clause, which stated that unreferenced biographies of living persons were only eligible for proposed deletion if they were created after March 18, 2010, has been removed following an RfC.
An RfC has closed with consensus to allow proposed deletion of files. The implementation process is ongoing.
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After a recent RfC, moved pages will soon be featured in a queue similar to Special:NewPagesFeed and require patrolling. Moves by administrators, page movers, and autopatrolled editors will be automatically marked as patrolled.
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Entheogen

I admire that you made so articles receiving good status. I've been working endless of hours with Entheogen but I don't know how to make it a good article. Can you please help me? --Gstree (talk) 17:02, 3 April 2017 (UTC)

Hello Gstree: Check out WP:GA for a general rundown of what constitutes Wikipedia good articles and in the box on the right side of the page check out the Good article tools links, particularly the Good article criteria. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 11:10, 4 April 2017 (UTC)

Thanks. --Gstree (talk) 18:18, 4 April 2017 (UTC)

DYK for Mr. Trash Wheel

On 26 March 2017, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Mr. Trash Wheel, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Mr. Trash Wheel removed 19 tons of garbage from Baltimore's Inner Harbor in one day? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Mr. Trash Wheel. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Mr. Trash Wheel), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Mifter (talk) 00:03, 26 March 2017 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 15, 2017)

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Corruption in the United States

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Banana pasta

Thanks for creating this. Could you please take a picture?Zigzig20s (talk) 20:06, 23 March 2017 (UTC)

My thanks to you as well N. It is always fun to learn something new. Now I'm hungry but dinner is hours away :-) Cheers. MarnetteD|Talk 20:12, 23 March 2017 (UTC)

Just eat now and skip dinner. No picture then?Zigzig20s (talk) 22:09, 23 March 2017 (UTC)

@Zigzig20s and MarnetteD: No image yet; after some searches when I was working on the article, nothing was found under Creative Commons or public domain licensing yet. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 00:08, 25 March 2017 (UTC)

I could check my local Whole Foods, but they don't even sell kamut.Zigzig20s (talk) 00:17, 25 March 2017 (UTC)

@Zigzig20s: It's possible "whole paycheck" may have it, or perhaps a health food store. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 00:19, 25 March 2017 (UTC)

Haha. I still get my organic lentils and red quinoa from Whole Foods, but they have a limited selection. I can't find your banana pasta on Amazon either.Zigzig20s (talk) 00:29, 25 March 2017 (UTC)

@Zigzig20s: As a relatively newer product, it likely isn't available on a broad scale. After more searches, not even having any luck finding a usable image for banana flour. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 00:45, 25 March 2017 (UTC)

Amazon does sell banana flour. I could ask my cleaning-lady to cook something with it--but is it worth it?Zigzig20s (talk) 00:55, 25 March 2017 (UTC)

@Zigzig20s: I haven't tried it yet, so don't know. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 01:10, 25 March 2017 (UTC)

You have inspired me to create more articles about "real food." Years ago I used to do that a bit, for example sprouting has a picture I uploaded.Zigzig20s (talk) 01:12, 25 March 2017 (UTC)

@Zigzig20s: Nice to know. In addition to creating food articles, I have uploaded a fair amount of food-related content at Commons. Check out my uploads page there. These are largely Commons-usable images from Flickr. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 01:15, 25 March 2017 (UTC)

Everyone should write new food articles once in a while on Wikipedia, or expand existing ones about foods they like. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 01:26, 25 March 2017 (UTC)

Just seen that the culinary section of Kale is a horror show!Zigzig20s (talk) 12:47, 30 March 2017 (UTC)

Kale

Zigzig20s: I have added several references to the Kale article's "Culinary uses" section. It would benefit from more. It's a start. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 04:01, 2 April 2017 (UTC)

DYK for Corn chowder

On 30 March 2017, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Corn chowder, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that myriad recipes for corn chowder began circulating in U.S. cookbooks after a recipe for the dish was published in the Boston Cook Book in 1884? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Corn chowder. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Corn chowder), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Mifter (talk) 00:03, 30 March 2017 (UTC)

Deletion of Victor Ike

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Deletion of Victor Ike

Hello Northamerica1000, I've trying to send you message but when i click on "Talk" on your page, it directs me to a different page. I wrote to John of Reading & Κσυπ Cyp for the delection of the article i'm still working on and told me that was you that delected it. Please can you explain your deletion of that article "Victor Ike" It was a soft redirect and was created using the appropriate template for such. I'm still working on it and It did not qualify for a speedy or any other deletion since we having pages like that is very normal. I would appreciate if you can restore it.

Regards Tracy Tracy Williams (talk) 22:43, 22 March 2017 (UTC)

Hi Tracy Williams: I haven't found any problems with my talk page links. I deleted the Victor Ike article per the strong consensus for deletion that occurred at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Victor Ike, whereby the community determined that the subject does not presently meet Wikipedia's notability standards. Per the overall arguments and consensus at the deletion discussion, I'm not allowed to just restore the deleted article to the main article namespace under these circumstances. Also, upon viewing the deleted content, the most recent version you were working on was an actual article, rather than a redirect. The redirect that you created on 20 February 2017 redirected to User:Tracy Williams, but this is not allowed per point #6 of WP:R#DELETE, so User:CactusWriter appropriately deleted it. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 00:06, 23 March 2017 (UTC)

Deletion of Victor Ike

Hello Northamerica1000 , Thanks for the reply. sorry i could'nt reply back earlier cos i did'nt wanna make the same mistake by writing you back through the appreciation section but big thanks to John of Reading, who told me to write you here, when i complained about not been able to reach your 'talk page' I'm sorry, and i disagree with the community determining that the subject does not presently meet Wikipedia's notability standards. and no disrespect, - But some of those i have been reading here on English wikipedia do not have good music profile like this subject and they have never worked with hollywood stars on their projects, if it's that easy but the subject they claimed does not meet the wikipedia's notability standards, has featured hollywood stars on his album project. you can listen to it here on itunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/im-on-fire/id1178350332 - He has performed on stage with Hollywood, European and African stars, Atleast he met DMX and the ruff ryders, he featured on his album project doing a concert he was invited to play with them, when he was on european tour. you can check his updates on facebook page:https://www.facebook.com/VictorIkeOfficial/, Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/victorikeofficial/, Twitter: https://twitter.com/victorikemusic, Myspace: https://myspace.com/victorikemusic, Youtube:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCerZ45_2EVOxf0nduoGRHYw, http://www.artisttrove.com/artist/146677702056741/Victor+Ike - He co-produced a track in his album 'Can't live without U' Featuring Ruff ryders female rapper "KASH" with a famous hippop producer 'Dame Grease', who producers for DMX,L.O.X.,MASE,50 CENT,JAY-Z,T.I.,MAX B,FRENCH MONTANA,MARY J.BLIGE,KELIS,RICK ROSS.CURRENSY,LIL WAYNE,NORE,NAS,WAVE GANG,WU you can check him here on wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dame_Grease_production_discography - His Album "I'm on fire" is released in America by CD BABY(USA), presently released by Sony(Sony Dadc) in Asia pacific and coming out soon in Europe. I believe the subject meets wikipedia's notability standard and it will be unfair to remove the subject wikipedia.

I google the subject yesterday and i noticed some people are using his photo image to promote other Nigerian artist music, using the same name and confusing the subject followers with their illegal acts, which is unfair. I guess they were the ones that hacked his website, which i read was hacked on his updates. i had to write some of the sites and blogs using his photos to remove his photos from their blog. i also sent a message to the subject management yesterday of the illegal act cos i'm a fan of his job. you can check one of the subject photos on google, where he was carrying a guitar on his shoulder, when you click the photo link below, you see that they are using his photo to promote a different artist on many blogs, confussing this subject fans, which is not proper and illegal. https://www.ngospelmedia.com/2014/10/okaka-lyrics-by-frank-edwards-ft-victor.html

Please could you kindly verrify if the wikipedia users from Nigeria, that nominated the subject deletion from wikipedia on the history i read, are not playing an unfair game to block this subject from wikipedia, so that they could still continue to confuse the subject fans,like they almost confused me, promoting the other artist, giving people impression that he sang those songs, which was'nt him. logical, if the subject, who is an English Soul R&B singer, meets the French Wikipedia's notability standards, then i think there must be a problem somewhere with some of the community that gave decision. this is the subject french wikipedia link: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Ike For User:CactusWriter, I'm still working to get better here on wikipedia and i'm so sorry if i got it wrong then, that's why i was a little careful not to reply your message fast, so that i would'nt break some of the many rules i'm seeing here on wikipedia. lol! thanks to John of Reading, who assisted. please i will appreciate it if you could undelete and restore the article, so that i could continue working on it and since you are a 'Pro' on wikipedia, lol! i will be glad if you and John of Reading also could help out in this article edit. this are some of the sources below of the article, i found on google.

Best regards - Tracy

http://www.glamtush.com/emeka-ikes-brother-victor-ike-releases-im-on-fire-ft-dmx-kash/ [archive]

http://www.rehabmusik.com/victor-ike-ft-dmx-baby/ [archive]

https://www.dorftv.at/video/22481 [archive]

https://www.behance.net/gallery/33741666/Music-Video-Making-of-Baby-Victor-Ike-featDMX [archive]

http://www.osheytv.tv/2016/12/download-music-victor-ike-ft-dmx-baby/ [archive]

http://futaextra.net/2016/12/victor-ike-ft-dmx-baby/ [archive]

http://rehabmusik.tumblr.com/post/154347961262/victor-ike-ft-dmx-baby [archive]

http://afrigroove.com/music-victor-ike-ft-dmx-baby/ [archive]

http://www.henryaniagorsblog.com/2016/12/victor-ike-baby-ft-dmx-music.html [archive]

http://organisednoiseempire.com/2016/12/12/victor-ike-ft-dmx-baby/ [archive]

http://www.royaltygist.com/new-music-video-by-victor-ike-titled-beauty-of-love/ [archive]

https://www.eventnews.tv/entertainment/victor-ike/ [archive]

http://encomium.ng/i-will-reconcile-emeka-ike-and-his-wife-says-victor-ike/ [archive]

http://www.yorubamoviegist.com/wonderful-nollywood-actor-emeka-ikes-france-based-brother-victor-returns-to-nigeria-to-reconcile-emekas-unsettled-marriage-to-emma/ [archive]

http://soul-addict.com/news/beauty-of-love-par-victor-ike-372 [archive]

http://www.markmaxwellsblog.com/2016/12/mp3-victor-ike-ft-dmx-baby.html [archive]

http://naijagists.com/emeka-ikes-younger-brother-victor-ike-returns-to-nigeria-to-settle-actors-marriage-problem/ [archive]

http://omonaijablog.blogspot.fr/2016/12/emeka-ike-s-brother-victor-ike-stormed.html [archive]

http://gennypearl.blogspot.fr/2015/10/emeka-ikes-younger-brother-victor-ike.html [archive]

http://www.theinfong.com/2015/10/emeka-ikes-brother-victor-ike-returns-to-nigeria-to-solve-emekas-marriage-problems-pics/ [archive]

http://www.tatafonaija.com/2015/02/emeka-ikes-brother-victor-ike-drops-new.html [archive]

http://www.qualityrumor.co.uk/2015/02/video-watch-emeka-ikes-younger-brothers.htm — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tracy Williams (talk • contribs) 22:33, 23 March 2017 (UTC)

Hello Tracy Williams: Most of the sources you posted above don't really meet WP:RS, in that blogs, personal websites, YouTube, etc. are not considered reliable sources for Wikipedia's purposes. I initially thought that the eventnews.tv source may pass muster, but I'm not so sure after reading the website's "about us" page, because in part, that page states that it is "an online news platform that create event and entertainment experiences by promoting and marketing events and showbiz. We are a fast growing event and entertainment news brand." It's possible that this site simply functions as a churnalism site.

If you'd like, I can userfy the deleted article to your user space. However, it you work on it and want it republished, I strongly recommend that you submit a revised article to Articles for creation, where your submission can be reviewed by an uninvolved, third party reviewer. An easy way to do this is to place {{Userspace draft}} atop the draft page and then select the "Submit your draft for review" link. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 00:05, 25 March 2017 (UTC)

Deletion of Victor Ike

Thanks Northamerica1000, That sounds good! please userfy the deleted article to my user space, so that i could work on it and add some useful sources i just discovered. i will do the following process you stated, to republish the article and also send you a copy, if you don't mind, to have a look before republishing it. Thank you again & Best regards, -Tracy

Hello Tracy Williams: Per our discussion herein, I have userfied the article to User:Tracy Williams/Victor Ike. Please do not simply republish the article in the state it was in, as it will simply be deleted again per WP:G4 as a recreation of a deleted article that occurred per a deletion discussion. Rather, I encourage you to start a new article from scratch, using sources that demonstrate the subject's notability, comply with Wikipedia guidelines regarding verification, and comply with the use of reliable sources. Note that Wikipedia articles should not be based upon primary sources, which the userfied article mostly relies upon, although some primary sources can be used to verify information for significant content, preferably only when secondary and tertiary sources are not available. Additionally, some of the sources in the article do not appear to be reliable per Wikipedia's standards.

I cannot guarantee that I will contribute to reviewing a new article draft, and I still strongly recommend submitting a revised version of the article to Articles for creation. Again, this can be easily performed when you are ready by simply adding {{Userspace draft}} atop the draft page and then selecting the "Submit your draft for review" link. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 02:17, 30 March 2017 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Admin's Barnstar
	For your continuing good work when others (like me) have given up. Bearian (talk) 16:37, 1 April 2017 (UTC)

Hi Bearian Thanks. Hopefully this isn't an April Fools joke. I can understand giving up "the tools", particularly when one is a busy person, as per your user page. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 16:55, 1 April 2017 (UTC)

No, really, thank you for closing some difficult discussions! Bearian (talk) 16:56, 1 April 2017 (UTC)

@Bearian: Thanks. Lately I've been on-wiki less, but still pitching in here and there when there's time. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 16:58, 1 April 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-15

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Tidy is going to be replaced with an HTML5 parsing algorithm. Bad HTML in wikitext would cause problems on a number of wikis. There is now a ParserMigration extension on all wikis that you can use to help clean this up. You can read more about how you can use it. [9]

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Some older web browsers will not be able to use JavaScript on Wikimedia wikis from this week. If you have an old web browser on your computer you can upgrade to a newer version. [10]
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The list of special characters in the wikitext editor and the visual editor will now have a group of Canadian Aboriginal characters. [12]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 11 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 April. It will be on all wikis from 13 April (calendar).

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18:35, 10 April 2017 (UTC)

Procedural close of rxfd libertarian socialist parties

Hi thank you for your help with this article. would you point me to the Procedural close guideline, a quick search failed in wp. Darkstar1st (talk) 12:19, 4 April 2017 (UTC)

Hi Darkstar1st: As you noticed, I procedurally closed your two category nominations at Articles for deletion because categories are discussed at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion. I'll leave it to you if you want to renominate the pages there. If you choose to do so, I recommend reading WP:NOTDUP first, which denotes how overlapping categories, lists and navigation templates are not considered duplicative. Regarding procedural closures, see WP:PROCEDURALCLOSE for more information. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 12:46, 4 April 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-16

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You can add ?safemode=1 to the end of the URL on Wikimedia wikis to disable your personal CSS and JavaScript. Example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literature?safemode=1. This means you can test if a problem is because of your user scripts or gadgets without uninstalling them. [13]
You can now see a list of all autoblocks on Special:AutoblockList. [14]
The Wikiversity and Wikinews logos are now shown directly from the configuration and not from [[File:Wiki.png]]. If you want to change logo or have an anniversary logo, see how to request a configuration change. This is how it already works for other projects. They can request logo changes the same way. [15]

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There is no new Mediawiki version this week. This is because of the data centre test.

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stats.wikimedia.org will be replaced. You can see the new prototype. You can leave feedback on this change.
Page Previews will be turned on for logged-out users on a large number of wikis in May. It could be postponed and happen later. Page Previews shows readers a short part of a linked article when they rest their mouse pointer on the link. This is to help them understand what it is about without leaving the article they are reading. Page Previews used to be called Hovercards. Users who have tested the feature can give feedback. [16]
From next week, user scripts using very old deprecated wikibits functions will show errors. These functions have not worked since 2013. You should fix or disable broken scripts. You can see examples of how to upgrade scripts. [17][18]

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19:32, 17 April 2017 (UTC)

FYI

Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)#RfC about marking the Featured portals process as "historical"...--Moxy (talk) 06:49, 8 April 2017 (UTC)

@Moxy: Thank you for the notification. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 06:51, 8 April 2017 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 16, 2017)

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Page footer

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Tech News: 2017-17

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New filters for recent changes are now available as a beta feature on most wikis. You can turn it on in your preferences. Remaining wikis will have the new filters on 9 May. [19]
When administrators, bureaucrats and stewards make a user a member of a user group they can now set an expiry date. A user group is for example "administrators" or "bots". This means that they can give someone user rights for a limited time. This is similar to how blocks and page protections can be limited in time. Special:UserRights will have new options for this. You can read more about user groups. [20]

Problems

Since the data centre test last week the content translation tool has been disabled. This is because of a database problem. It will be back as soon as the problem has been solved. [21]

Changes this week

The GuidedTour extension will be enabled on all wikis. This is a tool to explain to new users how to edit. [22]
Wiktionary will handle interlanguage links in a new way. The Cognate extension will automatically link pages with the same title between Wiktionaries. For this to work all old interlanguage links have to be removed. You can read more about this. [23]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 April. It will be on all wikis from 27 April (calendar).

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16:40, 24 April 2017 (UTC)

User talk:96.48.219.70

Needs talk page revoked. Home Lander (talk) 04:09, 20 April 2017 (UTC)

Done by somebody else, never mind. Home Lander (talk) 04:11, 20 April 2017 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 17, 2017)

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