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Please comment

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Please comment on my proposal here. Debresser (talk) 18:32, 1 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 2 May 2016

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Wikidata weekly summary #207

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
Wikidata's coverage as of April 2016
Difference of Wikidata's coverage between April 2016 and 6 month before

Wikidata weekly summary #208

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

Participate in the Ibero-American Culture Challenge!

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Hi Rich Farmbrough!

Iberocoop has launched a translating contest to improve the content in other Wikipedia related to Ibero-American Culture.

We would love to have you on board :)

Please find the contest here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Translating_Ibero_-_America/Participants_2016

Hugs!--Anna Torres (WMAR) (talk) 15:06, 9 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

==Xo-Ho listed at Redirects for discussion==

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Xo-Ho. Since you had some involvement with the Xo-Ho redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. The Traditionalist (talk) 01:31, 10 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

April metrics

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Hi Rich, do you have time to clean up these two: Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Metrics#April 2016 and Wikipedia:WikiProject Women writers/Articles created‎#April 2016? Thank you, --Rosiestep (talk) 01:58, 10 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

 Done --Rosiestep (talk) 01:35, 16 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination for deletion of Template:And list

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Template:And list has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. JohnBlackburnewordsdeeds 14:48, 10 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

==I should just like to say thank you==I know you and I have had plenty of run-ins over the years trying to make the encylopaedia better. I know you are in good faith and so am I, sometimes I am right sometimes you are right. I do appreciate your thousands of contributions to make the encylopaedia better. I am just not very good at saying so. No need to reply. Si Trew (talk) 02:57, 11 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Greetings, Happy Spring 2016

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Warm Greetings! Long time, et. al...

I'm going to be rude and impose on you though for Province of Maryland in combo with inadequate template behaviors, IMHO. So need a back check with your two cents on the appearance, and a fix if you agree. (Also edit protected, but I don't get involved with Ambox templates, so haven't analyzed to see what (WIDTH!) is going goofy or why.)

backstory
... Was up to my old tricks fixing up historical matters, and hung a Template:Expand section(edit talk links history) by way of {{sect-stub}} which appears to be going bad on formats. The exact add was:
{{sect-stub|This section needs filled out with SPECIFIC colonial data, the five W's, not weasel wording!|date=May 2016|posted=2016-05-11}} (Yeah, I was being a bit tough. SECTION is a summation that would be great if written by a 14 y.o. in a class paper... Not adequate as History synopsis for an encyclopedia. I fix so many of these sorts of niggles.)

Answer here, I'll check back. Happy Hello again! // FrankB 18:54, 11 May 2016 (UTC) Manifests here in This Section <g> FrankB 18:57, 11 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Perhaps you want {{sect-stub|small=no|This section needs filled out with SPECIFIC colonial data, the five W's, not weasel wording!|date=May 2016|posted=2016-05-11}}
All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 21:58, 11 May 2016 (UTC).[reply]

Question

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You referred someone to the FT article in the Brumby AfD. I'm drawing a complete blank today and acronyms have never been my friend anyway - what is the FT article? Atsme📞📧 00:18, 12 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

FT is the Financial Times. Since the article is deleted I can say no more about it at the moment with any certainty. It may well be www.ft.com/cms/s/0/b100be10-d0d2-11da-b160-0000779e2340.html (which is behind a paywall). All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 00:40, 12 May 2016 (UTC).[reply]

Re: Brumby

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Moved to draft space at Draft:Janet Brumby. The only talk page content worth salvaging was this ref you added so I didn't bother resurrecting it. Der Wohltemperierte Fuchs(talk) 17:01, 13 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 21:20, 13 May 2016 (UTC).[reply]

Harford

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The community of Harford is an article-worthy topic, and people going to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harford,_Pennsylvania are expecting a community, not a township. If you don't want Harford to be a redlink, go ahead and write an article about it, but don't create it as an inappropriate redirect. Nyttend (talk) 22:13, 15 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

OK, so it's not an implausible redirect then. Why not use accurate edit summaries when deleting? All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 22:16, 15 May 2016 (UTC).[reply]

Edit filter 721

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Last August you set up this edit filter to help deal with disruptive socking from KunoxTxa (talk · contribs), but the filter seems to still disabled. With KunoxTxa having returned to active editing recently, I'm wondering why and what would it take to get it enabled? Thanks in advance. Sir Sputnik (talk) 00:32, 16 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Re-enabled. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 00:57, 16 May 2016 (UTC).[reply]

Postal maps of London

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Thank you for the gift of eight sheets of "Kelly's Post Office Directory Map of London". Redrose64 gave them to me at the Oxford meetup yesterday.

At the meetup we discussed the legality of scanning and uploading them. The consensus was that while they are based on Crown copyright maps more than 50 years old, the red lines showing the postal districts are still the copyright of Kelly's Directories Ltd. I could scan them and electronically remove the red, but that was thought to be of doubtful legality. Maproom (talk) 08:34, 16 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

If you remove the copyright component I don't see that there is a difficulty. Of course for US copyright the sweat of the brow doctrine does not apply If you are concerned it would be worth asking on Commons. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 10:54, 16 May 2016 (UTC).[reply]

Wikidata weekly summary #209

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Nomination of Frolic (cheese) for deletion

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A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Frolic (cheese) is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Frolic (cheese) until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Dweller (talk) Become old fashioned! 19:56, 16 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

NB happy to close this myself if there are more sources I didn't spot. --Dweller (talk) Become old fashioned! 19:58, 16 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Moved to User:Rich Farmbrough/Frolic (cheese). -- Ricky81682 (talk) 20:06, 22 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 17 May 2016

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Amanda

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Hi Rich. I don't understand this edit. What does "which see" mean in that context? 28bytes (talk) 03:02, 18 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@28bytes: It's a literal English translation of the Latin "quod vide", normally abbreviated to q.v. --Redrose64 (talk) 10:02, 18 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

API change will break your bot

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Hello,

I noticed that Femto Bot has been using http:// to access the API, rather than https:// This is going to break soon, because of changes to the API. You can find more information in this e-mail message. I'm suggesting that people who need help updating their code check in at w:en:Wikipedia:Bot owners' noticeboard or on the mailing list. Good luck, Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 23:17, 19 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I hate this compulsory movement to https: it seems a political agenda pushed by the WMF. However I thank you for the notice. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 23:40, 19 May 2016 (UTC).[reply]
I think this is fixed. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 23:51, 19 May 2016 (UTC).[reply]

Your advice on updating/editing...

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Dear Sir

I decided to contact you having noticed your contribution to this article.

We wish to update this page with more details and information, specifically: project related activities. Our new 'membership' details (the current is inaccurate).

My concern is that whatever I write might appear as advertising rather than qualified information.

Would it be possible for me to draft a version and then ask the community to review in order to ensure suitability?

Kindest — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cardiff11 (talk • contribs) 22:46, 21 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

User:Cardiff11 that is a very good way to go. You can paste a proposed draft, or simply the proposed changes, on the talk page of the article.
Feel free to ping me when you have done so.
All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 23:34, 22 May 2016 (UTC).[reply]

Speedy deletion nomination of Septem

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Hello Rich Farmbrough,

I wanted to let you know that I just tagged Septem for deletion, because it's not written in English. To request a translation, please visit the translation page. If you'd like to contribute to another Wikipedia, take a look at our full list of language projects.

If you feel that I made a mistake, you can contest this deletion, but please don't remove the speedy deletion tag from the top.

You can leave a note on my talk page if you have questions. ~~ ∫uℂρЭℝ0υĜe (ㅜαλ2𐤊) 22:50, 21 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

  • Sept[e|u]m (or in Arabic Sebta) is the ancient name for Ceuta. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 22:16, 22 May 2016 (UTC).[reply]
    • And... restored to the disambiguation page I created. And sources added to the destination article for both spellings.

Wikidata weekly summary #210

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Dark traffic

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Hi there,

You recently started a thread or two about Wikipedia's referrer policy/dark traffic. I lost the thread somewhere and then cleared my watchlist. Wondering if you could point me to where things wound up? Thanks. — Rhododendrites talk \\ 15:30, 23 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Good question!
VP thread (archived)
Meta thread arising therefrom
All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 19:03, 23 May 2016 (UTC).[reply]

Reference errors on 23 May

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Hello, I'm ReferenceBot. I have automatically detected that an edit performed by you may have introduced errors in referencing. It is as follows:

Please check this page and fix the errors highlighted. If you think this is a false positive, you can report it to my operator. Thanks, ReferenceBot (talk) 00:16, 24 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Spotlight on women entertainers!

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You are invited...

Women in Entertainment worldwide online edit-a-thon

--Rosiestep (talk) 02:14, 24 May 2016 (UTC) via MassMessage (To subscribe, Women in Red/Invite list. Unsubscribe, Women in Red/Opt-out list)[reply]

Need some urgent help with tracking category

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I added a tracking category to {{Top icon}} to track use of two deprecated parameters. I used both parameters on my userpage. However, the tracking category doesn't show up. Why? How to fix this? Debresser (talk) 09:41, 24 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

{{Rollback topicon}} doesn't pass {{{number}}} to {{Top icon}}. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 10:36, 24 May 2016 (UTC).[reply]
I guessed so. Is there any easy , centralized way to track parameters used in templates that use {{Top icon}}? Debresser (talk) 10:38, 24 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Not really. You would need to change them all (the templates) in some way. And of course you are not guaranteed that these templates do not use those parameter names for something else. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 11:08, 24 May 2016 (UTC).[reply]

Draft article framework, for review.

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Hi Rich

Thanks for your willingness to help. Really appreciated.

Before I embark on the details, I wanted to pass what I consider to be basic (and non-formatted, sorry) framework.

There are questions directed specifically towards contributors, some notes on minor improvements.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Cardiff11#Draft_framework_27.05.2016

Would you advise that we use this framework and the basic rationale underpinning it, to begin re-writing?

Kindest — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cardiff11 (talk • contribs) 16:46, 27 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 28 May 2016

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Wikidata weekly summary #211

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Wiki Loves Pride 2016

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As a past contributor, you are invited to participate in the third annual Wiki Loves Pride campaign, which runs through the month of June. The purpose of the campaign is to create and improve content related to LGBT culture and history. How can you help?

  1. Create or improve LGBT-related Wikipedia pages and showcase the results of your work here
  2. Document local LGBT culture and history by taking pictures at pride events and uploading your images to Wikimedia Commons
  3. Contribute to an LGBT-related task force at another Wikimedia project (Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons, Wikivoyage, etc.)

Looking for topics? The Tasks page, which you are welcome to update, offers some ideas and wanted articles.

This campaign is supported by the Wikimedia LGBT+ User Group, an officially recognized affiliate of the Wikimedia Foundation. The group's mission is to develop LGBT-related content across all Wikimedia projects, in all languages. Visit the affiliate's page at Meta-Wiki for more information, or follow Wikimedia LGBT+ on Facebook. Remember, Wiki Loves Pride is about creating and improving LGBT-related content at Wikimedia projects, and content should have a neutral point of view. One does not need to identify as LGBT or any other gender or sexual minority to participate. This campaign is about adding accurate, reliable information to Wikipedia, plain and simple, and all are welcome! If you have any questions, please leave a message on the campaign's talk page.

Thanks, and happy editing! ---Another Believer (Talk) 21:53, 30 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hello!

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--Rich_Farmbrough On the backlog page and elsewhere, there is "Accuracy disputes" and "Neutrality disputed". Why isn't it "Accuracy disputed"? Is this an error that needs to be changed?

Thanks! Icememen (talk) 08:33, 31 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Neutrality and accuracy are different. For example "Fred Bloggs was arrested for the murder." might be accurate, but it is not neutral if he was later released, and John Doe was convicted of the murder.
Neutrality requires us to consider wording, order, and undue weight, as well as accuracy.
The following examples are intended to be in increasing order of goodness:
  • "Eva is the greatest[peacock prose] contralto of all time."
  • "Eva is considered to be[by whom?] the greatest contralto of all time."
  • "Eva is considered by Rich Farmbrough[undue weight? – discuss] to be the greatest contralto of all time."
  • "Eva has a strong fanbasereliable source 1 and Mr. Well Known Critic described her as 'one of the top contraltos of her day'.reliable source 2 "

But even the last may not be neutral: if there are Well Known Critics that consider Eva a caterwauling banshee, that should be included too.

All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 10:14, 31 May 2016 (UTC).[reply]
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