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Question from Possiblegermany (17:38, 21 August 2024)

Hello there! I am curious which tools you use that are available within Wiki settings. I don't want to select every option and have my interface confused. Which gadgets are the most helpful for you? Thanks! --Possiblegermany (talk) 17:38, 21 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome to Wikipedia, Possiblegermany! This is a fairly difficult question to answer, as there are a lot of gadgets, and a lot of it has to do with what part of Wikipedia to edit interests you. Going down my gadgets list...

Navigation popups: - Hovering over an article link, such as Emma Watson, gives a blurb without having to click the link itself.
Open external links in a new tab or window - Links that lead outside of Wikipedia automatically open in a new browser tab.
Twinkle - A very powerful script that makes it easy to do things such as warn vandals, submit articles to the venue for editors to discuss deletion, mark articles as needing some sort of attention by editors, and a lot more. I highly recommend this script if not already enabled. See Wikipedia:Twinkle for more information.
Reference Tooltips - Hovering your cursor over a citation will give you a blurb of the citation, rather than being forced to click it and going to the bottom of the page.
Display watchlist notices - Many on-wiki activities, such as when editors request administrator privileges, are advertised on your watchlist at the very top, since for many people it's a page that's visited often. I'd advise turning this on if it isn't by default.
HotCat - Easily add categories to articles.
Add a clock to the personal toolbar - Aside from the clock being somewhat useful (considering it's in UTC), if you click it, it will reset the cache for Wikipedia, which is useful in circumstances where clearing the cache is necessary for some thing you are working on or looking at to update in your browser window when refreshing isn't cutting it.
MoreMenu - A handy script that lets you have a dropdown which displays a lot more useful information about a page. For users, it'll let you quickly see their blocks, their statistics, and for articles lets you easily navigate to things like their protection log and such.

I could go on, but here are a couple that I find help me a lot. Cheers! —Sirdog (talk) 20:58, 21 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

New pages patrol September 2024 Backlog drive

New pages patrol \| September 2024 Backlog Drive
On 1 September 2024, a one-month backlog drive for new pages patrol will begin. Barnstars will be awarded based on the number of articles and redirects patrolled. Barnstars will also be granted for re-reviewing articles previously reviewed by other patrollers during the drive. Each article review will earn 1 point, and each redirect review will earn 0.2 points. Interested in taking part? Sign up here.
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Question from Yor Briar (08:35, 30 August 2024)

How can I edit an Wikipedia Article? --Yor Briar (talk) 08:35, 30 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome to Wikipedia, Yor Briar! To edit an article you can click the button labeled Edit near the top right of the page. It's directly underneath the Add languages button. You may sometimes instead see View source, which indicates the article is protected from editing by an administrator. See Help:Editing for more information. Feel free to ask me any further questions you may have. Cheers! —Sirdog (talk) 22:07, 1 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Your GA nomination of Murder of Alayna Ertl

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Murder of Alayna Ertl you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Alexeyevitch -- Alexeyevitch (talk) 07:04, 2 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – September 2024

News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2024).

Administrator changes

Pppery

Interface administrator changes

Pppery

Oversighter changes

Wugapodes

CheckUser changes

Guideline and policy news

Following an RfC, there is a new criterion for speedy deletion: C4, which applies to unused maintenance categories, such as empty dated maintenance categories for dates in the past.
A request for comment is open to discuss whether Notability (species) should be adopted as a subject-specific notability guideline.

Arbitration

Following a motion, remedies 5.1 and 5.2 of World War II and the history of Jews in Poland (the topic and interaction bans on My very best wishes, respectively) were repealed.
Remedy 3C of the German war effort case ("Cinderella157 German history topic ban") was suspended for a period of six months.
The arbitration case Historical Elections is currently open. Proposed decision is expected by 3 September 2024 for this case.

Miscellaneous

Editors can now enter into good article review circles, an alternative for informal quid pro quo arrangements, to have a GAN reviewed in return for reviewing a different editor's nomination.
A New Pages Patrol backlog drive is happening in September 2024 to reduce the number of unreviewed articles and redirects in the new pages feed. Currently, there is a backlog of over 13,900 articles and 26,200 redirects awaiting review. Sign up here to participate!

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Question from Md Fahim Chowdhury on File talk:Telegram logo.svg (06:25, 3 September 2024)

Say hello and aks your question. E.g.How do l create a citation --Md Fahim Chowdhury (talk) 06:25, 3 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome to Wikipedia, Md Fahim Chowdhury! There is a fantastic page about how to add citations located at Help:Referencing for beginners. If you have any specific questions that the page does not seem to address, feel free to follow up with me. Cheers! —Sirdog (talk) 23:08, 3 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Question from Mzansiknightsa (20:52, 6 September 2024)

Hi there. I've got a question regarding editors who constantly engage content that I've edited to change it somehow. It is either to omitt referenced facts or to subtly focus soely on negative aspects of the person in question.

Do I keep re-editing the article until they relent, or is there a way to protect the content from being changed in this way?

Best regards --Mzansiknightsa (talk) 20:52, 6 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome to Wikipedia, Mzansiknightsa. It is never acceptable to repeatedly edit an article to restore (or remove) content edited by others unless it is blatant vandalism (which has a very specific definition and scope on Wikipedia) or the removal of restored content is to uphold our policy on the content which may be in biographies of living persons. Short of that, you should have a discussion on the talk page of the article to reach a consensus. Continually editing to restore (or remove) content may constitute editing warring and result in sanctions from administrators. If talk page discussion does not seem to work you can review additional options at Wikipedia:Dispute resolution. —Sirdog (talk) 08:18, 7 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Administrator Elections: Updates & Schedule

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Guild of Copy Editors September Newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors September Newsletter

Hello and welcome to the September newsletter, a quarterly digest of Guild activities since June. Don't forget you can unsubscribe at any time; see below.

Election news: Project coordinators play an important role in our WikiProject. Following the mid-year Election of Coordinators, we welcomed Mox Eden to the coordinator team. Dhtwiki remains as Lead Coordinator, and Miniapolis and Wracking returned as assistant coordinators. If you'd like to help out behind the scenes, please consider taking part in our December election – watchlist our ombox for updates. Information about the role of coordinators can be found here.

Blitz: 13 of the 24 editors who signed up for the June 2024 Copy Editing Blitz copy edited at least one article. Between them, they copy edited 169,404 words comprising 41 articles. Barnstars awarded are here.

Drive: 38 of the 59 editors who signed up for the July 2024 Backlog Elimination Drive copy edited at least one article. Between them, they copy edited 482,133 words comprising 293 articles. Barnstars awarded are here.

Blitz: 10 of the 15 editors who signed up for the August 2024 Copy Editing Blitz copy edited at least one article. Between them, they copy edited 71,294 words comprising 31 articles. Barnstars awarded are here.

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Progress report: As of 05:14, 11 September 2024 (UTC), GOCE copyeditors have processed 233 requests since 1 January, and the backlog of tagged articles stands at 2,824 articles.

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Saying hello!

Hi Sirdog! I'm new here and just wanted to contact you as my new mentor, do you have any tips to start collaborating with Wikipedia? Thanks! Monicagoy (talk) 09:56, 13 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome back to Wikipedia, Monicagoy. I don't think I'm your mentor, as my dashboard doesn't list you as a mentee, but that's not really important. Some tips include...

Read up on the fundamental pillars that Wikipedia uses to direct how it runs alongside what Wikipedia is not. This will save you a lot of heartache down the road. Many an editor has been blocked or dealt with considerable negative attention due to not understanding these things.
Wikipedia has a lot of rules, conventions, policies, and guidelines. If you decide to dig deep, you can get overwhelmed very easily. However, one of our guidelines is to be bold. In other words, just do what you believe makes the most since to improve something, and generally you will be fine. Just make sure if you are corrected, directly or indirectly, to take the criticism with stride and learn from it. That's how 99% of the memberbase gets up to speed.
There is a Discord server for Wikipedia editors, if you are so inclined. Can be an more intuitive way to ask questions and connect with others if the style of talk page discussion is not clicking yet.
A very well respected and easy task to begin your editing career is to fight vandalism. Make sure you read the definition of vandalism (click the blue word), as it's very specific You can also check out the Wikipedia:Counter-Vandalism Unit, a "task force" so to speak of editors that maintain high quality resources on how to fight vandalism.
Once you qualify, enable Wikipedia:Twinkle. It's so popular and well used that even official pages describing how to do something will simply assume you have it and tell you to use it. I spent a long time doing things manually that Twinkle will let you do in clicks.
The Wikipedia:Task Center is a good place to get ideas on what to do if you aren't sure on what you want to do. You can also peruse our many Wikipedia:Backlogs and decide to whittle away at one.
If you ever want to ask a quick question on-wiki, you can't ever really go wrong with doing so at the Wikipedia:Teahouse, a venue designed specifically for newer editors to ask random questions about how the site works.

I could go on, but I think the above should give you a very nice head start. I hope they help, and feel free to drop by whenever if you have more questions.

—Sirdog (talk) 10:39, 13 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Your GA nomination of Murder of Alayna Ertl

The article Murder of Alayna Ertl you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Murder of Alayna Ertl for comments about the article, and Talk:Murder of Alayna Ertl/GA1 for the nomination. Well done! If the article is eligible to appear in the "Did you know" section of the Main Page, you can nominate it within the next seven days. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Alexeyevitch -- Alexeyevitch (talk) 03:44, 15 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Responding to opposes at rfa

I noticed your comment at Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Significa liberdade. It's not entirely without precedent to respond directly to opposes (see my RfA). I will say that you're right that it does go against conventional wisdom even if I've never really understood why. If you're curious, I go into this further in my debrief. Clovermoss🍀 (talk) 11:48, 18 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Clovermoss: Good to hear from you

. Yeah, it wasn't my intention to imply that it is unprecedented but against conventional wisdom. The "wisdom" probably stems from the idea that, if justifying an action in response to an oppose vote, the justification may not be good enough for some voters and thus potentially prompt more opposes than may have been cast otherwise. But I'm not a big fan of that rationale. A lot of the conventional wisdom surrounding RfA seems to revolve around minimizing opposes, both as a pragmatic "how to not lose" guide but probably also a "how to make the process as painless as possible" guide, which is fair considering how grueling it can be, but I think in some cases it does more harm than good.

I'm also familiar with your debrief, as I've tried to read most any debrief I become aware of, but I appreciate you reaching out with more information. Cheers! —Sirdog (talk) 13:02, 18 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Question from Zavolzhye on Tupperware (20:50, 18 September 2024)

Hi, I’m not sure how to flag a sentence but the entry “Women at parties were exhorted at parties to sell more via the slogan ‘No Sex, No Sup, Just Tup-Tup-Tup!’” and the citation provided are wholly inaccurate. The article cited even states that this was made up by the man who was being interviewed. I didn’t want to just remove the sentence. --Zavolzhye (talk) 20:50, 18 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome to Wikipedia, Zavolzhye! Thank you for taking the time to find the error and bring it to the attention of an editor. I've gone ahead and removed the sentence entirely. While I understand the hesitation to do something like that yourself, one of Wikipedia's tenets is to make changes that feel like they are helpful even if unsure of our rules so long as you do so in good faith. You may be reverted in the event you are wrong, but that isn't necessarily a bad thing, but more of a learning experience. Many newer editors tend to learn that way. In this case, removing the sentence is helpful since it was providing misinformation, and there isn't really a way to re-word it where it is relevant or useful to the article. Feel free to point out any future things you see, but feel unsure of handling yourself, and I'll be more than happy to advise you. Happy editing!

—Sirdog (talk) 22:47, 19 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Question from Kevinfarnan (03:48, 20 September 2024)

Hello the person in this article died from Medical assistance in death not assisted suicide there is a difference iny country how can this be changed --Kevinfarnan (talk) 03:48, 20 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome to Wikipedia, Kevinfarnan. I apologize for my tardy reply. I would advise you to read the messages left on your talk page by R0paire-wiki as I assume your question relates to this reverted edit. Wikipedia requires reliable sources for the information that it presents, and your relationship to Mike Farnan would not qualify. If you have more specific questions, do not hesitate to reach out to me again or the Teahouse, a venue designed specifically for newer editors. If you choose the former, I'll endeavor to respond more promptly.

—Sirdog (talk) 04:41, 28 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Question from Lunaboost on Help:Introduction to editing with VisualEditor/6 (12:01, 26 September 2024)

How we create our company profile? --Lunaboost (talk) 12:01, 26 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome to Wikipedia, Lunaboost. Wikipedia is an online encyclopedia with the intent of writing articles in a balanced manner that are neutral and reliably sourced. Wikipedia may not be used as a means of advertising any person, place, or thing. Whether an article on an entity may exist is based on our notability criteria and, for companies, we have even more stringent standards due to attempts by such entities to undermine the principles I've highlighted just now.

If you are writing on behalf of any such entity, and are financially compensated for doing so, you are legally required to disclose this relationship immediately - or affirmatively decline the existence of such relationship - before you continue editing. —Sirdog (talk) 13:52, 26 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Question from Myntrashopper (19:52, 29 September 2024)

How can earn money with you on editing --Myntrashopper (talk) 19:52, 29 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Already asked and answered at Wikipedia:Teahouse#How_can_earn_money_in_Wikipedia. -- Hoary (talk) 02:49, 30 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – October 2024

News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2024).

Administrator changes

CheckUser changes

Guideline and policy news

Administrator elections are a proposed new process for selecting administrators, offering an alternative to requests for adminship (RfA). The first trial election will take place in October 2024, with candidate sign-up from October 8 to 14, a discussion phase from October 22 to 24, and SecurePoll voting from October 25 to 31. For questions or to help out, please visit the talk page at Wikipedia talk:Administrator elections.
Following a discussion, the speedy deletion reason "File pages without a corresponding file" has been moved from criterion G8 to F2. This does not change what can be speedily deleted.
A request for comment is open to discuss whether there is a consensus to have an administrator recall process.

Arbitration

The arbitration case Historical elections has been closed.
An arbitration case regarding Backlash to diversity and inclusion has been opened.
Editors are invited to nominate themselves to serve on the 2024 Arbitration Committee Electoral Commission until 23:59 October 8, 2024 (UTC).

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Administrator Elections: Call for Candidates

Administrator Elections | Call for Candidates

The administrator elections process has officially started! Interested editors are encouraged to self-nominate or arrange to be nominated by reviewing the instructions at Wikipedia:Administrator elections/October 2024/Call for candidates.

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Prospective candidates are advised to become familar with the community's expectations of adminstrators, which are much higher than the minimum requirement of having extended confirmed status. This includes reviewing successful and unsuccessful RFAs, reading the essay Wikipedia:Advice for RfA candidates, and possibly requesting an optional poll on their chances of passing.
The process will have a one week call for candidates phase, a one week pause to set up SecurePoll, a three-day period of public discussion, followed by 7 days of no public discussion and a private vote using SecurePoll.
The outcomes of this process are identical to making requests for adminship. There is no official difference between an administrator appointed through RFA or administrator elections.
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Administrator Elections: Discussion phase

Administrator Elections | Discussion phase

The discussion phase of the October 2024 administrator elections is officially open. As a reminder, the schedule of the election is:

October 22–24 - Discussion phase
October 25–31 - SecurePoll voting phase
November 1–? - Scrutineering phase

During October 22–24, we will be in the discussion phase. The candidate subpages will open to questions and comments from everyone, in the same style as a request for adminship. You may discuss the candidates at Wikipedia:Administrator elections/October 2024/Discussion phase.

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Question from ADPettorossi (13:29, 23 October 2024)

I would like to have this personal page in Wikipedia. What should I do? Thanks, Alberto --ADPettorossi (talk) 13:29, 23 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed content

Alberto Pettorossi is a "Docens Turris Virgatae" of Theoretical Computer Science at the University of Rome "Tor Vergata", Rome, Italy.

Career He obtained a Laurea degree "cum laude" in Electronic Engineering in 1971 from the University of Rome "La Sapienza". From that same university, he also obtained in 1973 a Postgraduate Diploma in Engineering of Control Systems and Automatic Computing. In 1978 he received a Master degree in Computer Science from the School of Computer and Information Science at Syracuse University, N.Y., USA. In 1984 he obtained a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Edinburgh, UK. From 1975 to 1988 he was a researcher at the Institute of Systems Analysis and Informatics (IASI) of the Italian National Research Council (CNR) in Rome. From 1988 until 2017 he was professor of Computer Science at the University of Rome "Tor Vergata". In 2017 he retired with the honorary title of "Docens Turris Virgatae".

Awards In 1988 he was awarded together Professor Andrzej Skowron a prize for achievements in the field of Programming Theory by the Polish Mathematical Society. In 2023 he was awarded the title of "Docente d’onore" (teacher of honor) of the University of Rome "Tor Vergata".

Research Areas Throughout his career he worked in various areas of Theoretical Computer Science including: lambda calculus, rewriting systems, concurrent programming, functional programming, categorical semantics, program transformation, verification, and synthesis of constraint logic programs. Link to my personal page: https://www.iasi.cnr.it/~apettorossi/

Nationality: Italian Alma mater: University of Rome "La Sapienza" Known for logic program transformation

Scientific career Institutions: Computer Science Department, Edinburgh, UK. Thesis: Methodologies for Transformation and Memoing in Applicative Languages (1994) Doctoral Advisor: Rod (Rodney Martineau) Burstall

ADPettorossi, Wikipedia is an online encyclopedia. Wikipedia does not allow pages to be created for the sole purpose of promotion for any person, place, or thing. If you believe you qualify for a neutrally written article, please read our notability policy and, if you believe to qualify, read WP:SELFPROMO and Help:Your first article. Feel free to stop by with any more questions. You can also ask such questions at Wikipedia:Teahouse. —Sirdog (talk) 02:07, 9 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Administrator Elections: Voting phase

Administrator Elections | Voting phase

The voting phase of the October 2024 administrator elections has started and continues until 23:59 31st October 2024 UTC. You can participate in the voting phase at Wikipedia:Administrator elections/October 2024/Voting phase.

As a reminder, the schedule of the election is:

October 25–31 - SecurePoll voting phase
November 1–? - Scrutineering phase

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Once voting concludes, we will begin the scrutineering phase, which will last for an indeterminate amount of time, perhaps a week or two. Once everything is certified, the results will be posted on the main election page. In order to be granted adminship, a candidate must have received at least 70.0% support, calculated as Support / (Support + Oppose). As this is a vote and not a consensus, there are no bureaucrat discussions ("crat chats").

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Administrators' newsletter – November 2024

News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2024).

Administrator changes

Crisco 1492

CheckUser changes

Maxim

Oversighter changes

Maxim

Guideline and policy news

Following a discussion, the discussion-only period proposal that went for a trial to refine the requests for adminship (RfA) process has been discontinued.
Following a request for comment, Administrator recall is adopted as a policy.

Technical news

Mass deletions done with the Nuke tool now have the 'Nuke' tag. This change will make reviewing and analyzing deletions performed with the tool easier. T366068

Arbitration

RoySmith, Barkeep49 and Cyberpower678 have been appointed to the Electoral Commission for the 2024 Arbitration Committee Elections. ThadeusOfNazereth and Dr vulpes are reserve commissioners.
Eligible editors are invited to self-nominate from 3 November 2024 until 12 November 2024 to stand in the 2024 Arbitration Committee elections.
The Arbitration Committee is seeking volunteers for roles such as clerks, access to the COI queue, checkuser, and oversight.

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My welfare

help me understand why these people aren't paying me Godaddysitestudio (talk) 22:52, 6 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Godaddysitestudio, Wikipedia is an informational site maintained by volunteers. You will need to contact the relevant corporation, business, or other authority for an answer to this question. —Sirdog (talk) 02:01, 9 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Question from Bisong19 (08:28, 28 November 2024)

Good day Sirdog I was assigned to you by Wikipedia for mentorship, I tried adding an article to the Wiki, but I can't find it on the internet. I need some briefing. --Bisong Jude Akan (talk) 08:28, 28 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome to Wikipedia, Bisong19. I assume you refer to the content at User:Bisong19/sandbox. The content is not visible to the internet as it has not been moved to what we refer to as "mainspace" which is where articles live. I've added some code to the page where you can click a blue button and submit the article for review in our articles for creation process. If accepted, it'll be moved to mainspace.

Note that the article is in absolutely no state to be submitted at this time. At a quick glance I fear this film fails our notability policy for books, neutral point of view policy, and you do not cite any sources aside from the Amazon link which does not establish notability. I'd suggest reading Help:Your first article for further assistance.

Note that if you are the author of this book, that constitutes a conflict of interest which must be declared. Review the blue link for more information. Feel free to come back to this page or stop by the Teahouse with further questions. —Sirdog (talk) 14:07, 28 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – December 2024

News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2024).

Administrator changes

Interface administrator changes

Pppery

CheckUser changes

Guideline and policy news

Following an RFC, the policy on restoration of adminship has been updated. All former administrators may now only regain the tools following a request at the Wikipedia:Bureaucrats' noticeboard within 5 years of their most recent admin action. Previously this applied only to administrators deysopped for inactivity.
Following a request for comment, a new speedy deletion criterion, T5, has been enacted. This applies to template subpages that are no longer used.

Technical news

Technical volunteers can now register for the 2025 Wikimedia Hackathon, which will take place in Istanbul, Turkey. Application for travel and accommodation scholarships is open from November 12 to December 10, 2024.

Arbitration

The arbitration case Yasuke (formerly titled Backlash to diversity and inclusion) has been closed.
An arbitration case titled Palestine-Israel articles 5 has been opened. Evidence submissions in this case will close on 14 December.

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Guild of Copy Editors December 2024 Newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors December 2024 Newsletter

Hello, and welcome to the December newsletter, a quarterly digest of Guild activities since September. If you no longer want this newsletter, you can unsubscribe at any time; see below. If you'd like to be notified of upcoming drives and blitzes, and other GOCE activities, the best method is to add our announcements box to your watchlist.

Election news: The Guild's coordinators play an important role in the WikiProject, making sure ~~nearly~~ everything runs smoothly and on time. Editors in good standing (unblocked and without sanctions) are invited to nominate themselves or another editor to be a Guild coordinator (with their permission, of course) until 23:59 on 15 December (UTC). The voting phase begins at 00:01 on 16 December and runs until 23:59 on 31 December. Questions may be asked of candidates at any stage in the process. Elected coordinators will serve a six-month term from 1 January through 30 June.

Drive: In our September Backlog Elimination Drive, 67 editors signed up, 39 completed at least one copy edit, and between them they edited 682,696 words comprising 507 articles. Barnstars awarded are here.

Blitz: The October Copy Editing Blitz saw 16 editors sign-up, 15 of whom completed at least one copy edit. They edited 76,776 words comprising 35 articles. Barnstars awarded are here.

Drive: In our November Backlog Elimination Drive, 432,320 words in 151 articles were copy edited. Of the 54 users who signed up, 33 copy edited at least one article. Barnstars awarded are posted here.

Blitz: The December Blitz will begin at 00:00 on 15 December (UTC) and will end on 21 December at 23:59. Sign up here. Barnstars awarded will be posted here.

Progress report: As of 22:12, 7 December 2024 (UTC), GOCE copy editors have completed 333 requests since 1 January, and the backlog of tagged articles stands at 2,401 articles.

Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators, Dhtwiki, Miniapolis, Mox Eden and Wracking.

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Question from Fortnitefan2009 (02:21, 8 December 2024)

Hello! I'm not sure if you can see my edits, but I made a minor addition to the "List of Capitol Records artists" page. However, I'm not sure if my formatting was correct for either my edit or the summary of my edit. --Fortnitefan2009 (talk) 02:21, 8 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome to Wikipedia, Fortnitefan2009. I'm sorry for taking so long to get back to you. Looking at the relevant edit I believe your formatting and edit summary are just fine

. Note that this has exposed your IP address to the public. If you would like to keep you IP address private now that you have an account, you can email our oversight team and politely request the deletion of your IP address from the public record. Happy editing! —Sirdog (talk) 23:54, 12 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Question from Calicrowcooper (18:09, 12 December 2024)

Hello. Someone created a wiki page for me, and used just about the worse photo possible. I created this account just to change it. Could you help me? lol. A friend of mine tried before and it was only changed for 24 hours before going back to the bad pic. How can I change it? Especially if it’s ME. Haha. Thanks for the help. --Calicrowcooper (talk) 18:09, 12 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome to Wikipedia, Calicrowcooper. I can understand how it would be frustrating to have a Wikipedia article with a sucky photograph. A big reason Wikipedia articles seemingly use unprofessional/unflattering photographs is because of copyright. Wikipedia releases all edits under a free license. In order to use any form of media it must either meet very stringent standards when it is not under a free license so Wikipedia can argue fair use or the media must be released under a free license that is compatible with Wikipedia's own free license.

Another thing that affects which photograph an article uses is that Wikipedia operates on a consensus model, meaning any time a change is contested all involved editors must reach a compromise of some kind. No individual has final say over the content of any article. The subject of an article does not possess ownership or custodionship over any aspect of their own article. Even if a "better" photograph is currently available and with a free license, if an editor does not feel it is appropriate, there would need to be a discussion about that with that editor and anyone else that chooses to become involved.

Sorry for the lengthy explanation, but Wikipedia backroom stuff can get complicated. A tangible step you can take is to email a photograph of yourself that you own the full copyright ownership of (be aware that if the photograph was taken by a professional photographer that simply providing payment is not a transfer of copyright; ensure there is a paper trail that you got copyright ownership of it) to photosubmission@wikimedia.org, state clearly you possess copyright ownership and state clearly you wish to release it under a free license (Wikipedia's reccomendation is CC-BY-SA 4.0). A volunteer will then upload the photograph in your stead and mark it in such a way so that it is not deleted accidentally by a volunteer as a copyright violation. You can then change the photo on the article yourself. If it is reverted again, you'll need to go to the talk page and hammer out a compromise with the editors reverting you.

Check out Wikipedia:FAQ/Article subjects for other common questions and answers for those with an article about themselves.

Cheers! —Sirdog (talk) 23:47, 12 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

New pages patrol January 2025 Backlog drive

January 2025 Backlog Drive \| New pages patrol
On 1 January 2025, a one-month backlog drive for new pages patrol will begin in hopes of addressing the growing backlog. Barnstars will be awarded based on the number of articles and redirects patrolled. Each article review will earn 1 point, while each redirect review will earn 0.2 points. Streak awards will be given out based on consistently hitting point thresholds for each week of the drive. Barnstars will also be granted for re-reviewing articles previously reviewed by other patrollers during the drive. Interested in taking part? Sign up here.
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