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if you have a moment I wanted to ask a question....--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 12:23, 22 October 2016 (UTC)

@Ozzie10aaaa: Sure -- please ask away. -- The Anome (talk) 15:23, 23 October 2016 (UTC)
I'm nominating West African Ebola virus epidemic for GA, will you review it?--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 15:51, 23 October 2016 (UTC)
Sure. But it may take me a day or two to do so: I will need to familiarize myself with the reviewing criteria first. -- The Anome (talk) 22:29, 23 October 2016 (UTC)
thank you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 23:11, 23 October 2016 (UTC)
The Anome you indicated one or two days(per above) I have therefore posted the nomination today[1]...I should add the article was recently GOCE[2], additionally I am willing to make any adjustments you may suggest, thank you again--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 16:28, 26 October 2016 (UTC)
@Ozzie10aaaa: Hi. Please accept my apologies for not being able to do the checking in a timely way: I got ditracted, and then off-wiki issues took priority. Now I'm back. I see the article has already been accepted as a GA, but just in case, I took a look at it just now, and couldn't fault it. -- The Anome (talk) 11:54, 8 November 2016 (UTC)

Two-Factor Authentication now available for admins

Hello,

Please note that TOTP based two-factor authentication is now available for all administrators. In light of the recent compromised accounts, you are encouraged to add this additional layer of security to your account. It may be enabled on your preferences page in the "User profile" tab under the "Basic information" section. For basic instructions on how to enable two-factor authentication, please see the developing help page for additional information. Important: Be sure to record the two-factor authentication key and the single use keys. If you lose your two factor authentication and do not have the keys, it's possible that your account will not be recoverable. Furthermore, you are encouraged to utilize a unique password and two-factor authentication for the email account associated with your Wikimedia account. This measure will assist in safeguarding your account from malicious password resets. Comments, questions, and concerns may be directed to the thread on the administrators' noticeboard. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 20:34, 12 November 2016 (UTC)

19:18, 14 November 2016 (UTC)

Intended purpose of DNS Certification Authority Authorization

Hi The Anome,

I'm uncertain about something you wrote in DNS Certification Authority Authorization last year about what entities are supposed to check CAA records (after looking at the RFC, I believe it's only certificate authorities, not user-agents/TLS endpoints). Could you please take a look in Talk:DNS Certification Authority Authorization and let me know what you think?

Thanks! Schoen (talk) 20:15, 14 November 2016 (UTC)

A new user right for New Page Patrollers

Hi The Anome.

A new user group, New Page Reviewer, has been created in a move to greatly improve the standard of new page patrolling. The user right can be granted by any admin at PERM. It is highly recommended that admins look beyond the simple numerical threshold and satisfy themselves that the candidates have the required skills of communication and an advanced knowledge of notability and deletion. Admins are automatically included in this user right.

It is anticipated that this user right will significantly reduce the work load of admins who patrol the performance of the patrollers. However,due to the complexity of the rollout, some rights may have been accorded that may later need to be withdrawn, so some help will still be needed to some extent when discovering wrongly applied deletion tags or inappropriate pages that escape the attention of less experienced reviewers, and above all, hasty and bitey tagging for maintenance. User warnings are available here but very often a friendly custom message works best.

If you have any questions about this user right, don't hesitate to join us at WT:NPR. (Sent to all admins).MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:48, 15 November 2016 (UTC)

15:33, 21 November 2016 (UTC)

ArbCom Elections 2016: Voting now open!

Hello, The Anome. Voting in the 2016 Arbitration Committee elections is open from Monday, 00:00, 21 November through Sunday, 23:59, 4 December to all unblocked users who have registered an account before Wednesday, 00:00, 28 October 2016 and have made at least 150 mainspace edits before Sunday, 00:00, 1 November 2016.

The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.

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An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect SS0. Since you had some involvement with the SS0 redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. — JFG talk 17:14, 24 November 2016 (UTC)

21:17, 28 November 2016 (UTC)

18:07, 5 December 2016 (UTC)

Editing Eco-Sensitive Zone

This is with reference to your edit at the page 'Eco-Sensitive Zone'. You added a category saying coordinates missing. Since there are various eco-sensitive zones in India, there is clearly no logic in specifying geo-coordinates of the place. -Jn045 (talk) 16:22, 8 December 2016 (UTC)

Thank you. Although it has a large number of heuristics designed to catch errors like these, the bot got this one wrong. Thanks for correcting the error. -- The Anome (talk) 11:06, 10 December 2016 (UTC)

19:30, 12 December 2016 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of 4over6

The article 4over6 has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

The coverage (references, external links, etc.) does not seem sufficient to justify this article passing Wikipedia:General notability guideline and the more detailed Wikipedia:Notability (software) requirement. If you disagree and deprod this, please explain how it meets them on the talk page here in the form of "This article meets criteria A and B because..." and ping me back through WP:ECHO or by leaving a note at User talk:Piotrus. Thank you.

While all constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, content or articles may be deleted for any of several reasons.

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Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 10:44, 13 December 2016 (UTC)

Regne d'Espanha listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Regne d'Espanha. Since you had some involvement with the Regne d'Espanha redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. - CHAMPION (talk) (contributions) (logs) 01:46, 19 December 2016 (UTC)

20:33, 19 December 2016 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Demolition belt

The article Demolition belt has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

fails Verifiability, this term is not found in the source and not found through searches

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You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{proposed deletion/dated}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. Gab4gab (talk) 15:18, 23 December 2016 (UTC)

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article List of celebrities who were shot and lived 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/List of celebrities who were shot and lived 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. The Traditionalist (talk) 14:16, 25 December 2016 (UTC)

Channelsea Island.

I have put a note on the talk page: where is the Channelsea Island? There seem to be two distinct areas of land. I will research this further. LoopZilla (talk) 12:51, 2 January 2017 (UTC)

@LoopZilla: The island is just the island itself, situated in the middle of the Channelsea River. The land neighboring is unrelated (except possibly by ownership, but we don't have a WP:RS for that). -- The Anome (talk) 18:14, 2 January 2017 (UTC)
Thanks. I was there today, and took a photograph! LoopZilla (talk) 21:36, 2 January 2017 (UTC)

I could not find any consensus to move 9½ Weeks to create a disambiguation page. Since this is required to disambiguate an existing page with incoming links, can you point me to the discussion? I have reverted the move in the meantime. Cheers! bd2412 T 13:17, 3 January 2017 (UTC)

Are you sure about this? While "pwn" is often in the names of abusive accounts it is not in and of itself a violation of the username policy, at least I sure don't think it is. Beeblebrox (talk) 00:09, 4 January 2017 (UTC)

@Beeblebrox: I regard "pwner" as pretty much equivalent to "troll", with both being effectively a declaration of intent to disrupt. One "trolls", the other "pwns", pretty much the same activity. -- The Anome (talk) 13:03, 4 January 2017 (UTC)

19:12, 9 January 2017 (UTC)

A username block

There's an unblock request at User talk:Smellyfeet182, concerning a username hard block that you placed. I can't see anything about the name which is either offensive or in any way contrary to the user name policy, so I think we should unblock. However, even if you disagree, and think the username is unacceptable, I don't see anything other than the user name which is unacceptable, and neither in what you said in the block log nor in the block notice on the talk page have you indicated anything other than the user name that you think is unacceptable. If the username is the only thing which is unacceptable, then I can't see any possible reason for not letting the editor move to a new user name, so I can only see the fact that this is a hard block as a mistake. I have therefore reduced the block to a soft block, but please tell me if there is some reason for the hard block which I have missed, and if so I will consider reverting my change. Also, do you have any opinion on my suggestion of unblocking completely? The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 20:22, 9 January 2017 (UTC)

My long experience is that names containing words like "smelly" and "stinky" suggest that the user is not here to contribute positively. However, I think you're right here, and that a soft block would be more appropriate in this case. I'll also take that on board for future blocks.

I don't think a complete unblock would be appropriate: I'm firmly convinced that deliberately unpleasant usernames are corrosive to Wikipedia's atmosphere of civility: see Reddit for the usernames you get when you relax this. -- The Anome (talk) 20:27, 9 January 2017 (UTC)

I actually tried to post a change to my above message, but you edit-conflicted it. The essential substance of my change was that since the only reason you gave for the block was the user name, and the editor had agreed to change that, there was no longer any reason for the block, so I was going to lift the block. With hindsight I think it would have been a better thing to have said in the first place. Any way, an unblock conditional on a change of user name has the same effect as a soft block, except that the editor has the option of keeping the editing history of the two user names together, so it doesn't make a lot of difference.
On your comment about user names which suggest that the user is not here to contribute positively, I agree about that, but I differ from you on one or two points. While I would certainly block if the user name were something like "Fuck face", for such a mild example as in this case I think it is wrong to assume that the editor will edit disruptively on the basis of a user name: we should assume good faith. At the most I would warn the editor about the name and suggest that he or she switch to another user name, and then keep an eye on his or her editing for a while, with a view to blocking if and when the suspicion of disruptive editing is confirmed. However, it is, of course, a matter for judgement how offensive a particular user name is, and you evidently put this one in a higher category than I do. The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 20:46, 9 January 2017 (UTC)
@JamesBWatson: I mostly agree with you regarding borderline-offensive usernames and WP:AGF, but you are right that I take a stronger view on this than you do. In particular, I regard usernames including infantile offensive terms such as "smelly" or "stinky" as being deliberate attempts to offend the reader, in the same way as usernames containing words like "crap" and "poop", and therefore both (a) intrinsically disruptive, and (b) usually a clear indication that the user is unlikely to be here to contribute positively to the encyclopedia. -- The Anome (talk) 10:55, 10 January 2017 (UTC)
Yes, I fully understand what you say. It seems to me that the only difference between us is that you see "smelly" and "stinky" as on the same level as "crap" and "poop", and I don't. The latter pair are clearly, as you say, deliberate attempts to offend the reader, but to me the former pair read like just someone making up slightly joky names. It seems to me that while such a user name may be intended to be offensive, it equally may be no more intended to offend than joky names such as Department of Redundancy Department or Boing! said Zebedee. Oh well, you and I will no doubt continue to view such names differently. The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 11:22, 10 January 2017 (UTC)

23:24, 16 January 2017 (UTC)

Coordinate question

Hello, and please pass on my thanks to Anomebot2 for its useful work in identifying articles lacking geographical coordinates. What's the best way to handle articles like Bombay Sapphire that was tagged recently? Do you think we should add coordinates for the main production facility or the owning group's head office? If neither and it's a false positive, do I simply remove {{coord missing}} (i.e. does the bot know not to tag the same article twice) or can I replace the tag with something that means "I don't want coordinates; don't ask me again"?

I suspect the cause may be using Category:Distilleries in England, when Bombay Sapphire comes from a distillery rather than is a distillery. Thanks again, Certes (talk) 15:29, 20 January 2017 (UTC)

I'd remove the {{coord missing}} tag. "Bombay Sapphire" is a brand, and as such doesn't really have a valid concept of physical location. On the other hand, an article about Laverstoke Mill, where it's currently distilled, would be eligible for coordinates. And yes, the bot remembers the titles of articles it's edited, and won't re-add a tag that's been removed. -- The Anome (talk) 16:18, 20 January 2017 (UTC)
Thanks, I'll untag it. Certes (talk) 17:42, 20 January 2017 (UTC)

Filter question

Please give a thumbs up/thumbs down on disabling filter 767. No hits since inception. ~ Rob13Talk 21:39, 20 January 2017 (UTC)

I've disabled it. There's not much activity on this front, and seem to be catching new accounts related to this at account creation time, so they don't get round to making any edits. -- The Anome (talk) 14:12, 21 January 2017 (UTC)

20:15, 23 January 2017 (UTC)

Nomination of Ponce in the Park for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Ponce in the Park 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/Ponce in the Park 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.

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18:45, 30 January 2017 (UTC)

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13:38, 1 February 2017 (UTC)

Pico Jano

Hi, I noticed that you added the template Occor missing to Pico Jano article. Is it necessary? Coordinates are directly taken from wikidata by the infobox mountain, as far as I know.--Pampuco (talk) 17:38, 4 February 2017 (UTC)

It's working as designed. Although the template pulls data from Wikidata, it does not add visible coordinates. The bot has correctly labeled the article as currently missing visible coordinates. A later bot pass will eventually pull the coordinates from Wikidata, add them to the article, and remove the label. If the template were to add visible coordinates to the infobox, this wouldn't happen. Either way, the bot is doing the right thing. Similarly, if someone added the coordinates here, they would eventually get transferred to Wikidata.
But thanks for making me aware of this. I will look at some more of the possible edge cases that might occur, and see if I can tighten Wikidata integration behavior further. -- The Anome (talk) 17:47, 4 February 2017 (UTC)
Thenks for your explanation, --Pampuco (talk) 14:42, 5 February 2017 (UTC)

19:46, 6 February 2017 (UTC)

Waterloo railway station listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Waterloo railway station. Since you had some involvement with the Waterloo railway station redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. Useddenim (talk) 00:20, 7 February 2017 (UTC)

AGF for TraitorMania

I honestly don't see anything offensive about the username TraitorMania. The one contribution he made prior to the block seemed constructive enough. Mind if I unblock? ~Anachronist (talk) 07:22, 13 February 2017 (UTC)

@Anachronist: What I found dubious was the word "traitor", which is a very loaded term currently being thrown around liberally in arguments about politics. But, yes, please feel free to unblock if you wish. -- The Anome (talk) 11:55, 13 February 2017 (UTC)
Unblocked (with a recommendation that they change their username anyway). Thanks, Anome. Yunshui  13:15, 13 February 2017 (UTC)

18:06, 13 February 2017 (UTC)

19:25, 20 February 2017 (UTC)

Alternative accounts

Thank you for blocking one of the 'Mike Hunt' accounts. 76.168.37.169 (talk · contribs) appears to be another. Cheers, 2601:188:1:AEA0:65F5:930C:B0B2:CD63 (talk) 00:36, 22 February 2017 (UTC)

Nomination of Max Spiers for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Max Spiers 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/Max Spiers 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.

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19:56, 27 February 2017 (UTC)

23:23, 6 March 2017 (UTC)

15:25, 13 March 2017 (UTC)

22:03, 20 March 2017 (UTC)

Coordinates from Wikidata

Hello. Your bot made this edit to add coordinates from Wikidata to an article. There are two big things wrong with this edit. First, the coordinates should be added to the infobox where possible, rather than in the body of the article. Second, since the data is from Wikidata, you don't need to copy the data over to Wikipedia, you can just transclude it directly. Something like this edit would have been much better. Would you be willing to update your bot's code accordingly, please? Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 23:43, 19 March 2017 (UTC)

Thanks for letting me know. Wikidata/infobox integration for coordinates has been a long time coming, but I think it's sufficiently advanced now that it's time I addressed the issue. -- The Anome (talk) 17:08, 21 March 2017 (UTC)
That's great, thanks. :-) Wikidata integration is something I've been working on, particularly in infoboxes, e.g. South Pole Telescope. I'm happy to help / give iterative feedback here if it would be useful. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 19:20, 21 March 2017 (UTC)
Thank you. -- The Anome (talk) 17:55, 22 March 2017 (UTC)
What is the plan with the bot in the meantime? eg. (a) Disable the rule, or (b) fix the rule, or (c) carry on making more work for others to clean up? —Sladen (talk) 18:38, 22 March 2017 (UTC)
(a), then (b). I will stop copying coordinates from Wikidata for the time being, until I've worked out a strategy which will play nicely with other users, including bots, and with Wikidata-aware template., This can also include cleaning up other existing conflicts/interdependencies from past data. I will run this past the geocoding project when I have it in place: it may need help from other bot owners or template maintainers to make it all work. This is a big job, and it's been a long time coming: it's not at all trivial to implement. Note that the bot already will not add coordinates to any article which currently autogenerates coordinates from Wikidata. -- The Anome (talk) 18:48, 22 March 2017 (UTC)
Thank you for the clarification—both about not clashing, and about disabling the rule until the extensive improvements that can be made. It is also excellent to hear about the intention to check with the Geo side. This is the type of response that it is rare to read so quickly from a bot-operator. Thank you! —Sladen (talk) 18:58, 22 March 2017 (UTC)

14:46, 27 March 2017 (UTC)

GAR

SpaceX reusable launch system development program, an article that you or your project may be interested in, has been nominated for a community good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Kees08 (talk) 18:04, 1 April 2017 (UTC)

17:53, 3 April 2017 (UTC)

Nomination of Recuperation (politics) for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Recuperation (politics) 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/Recuperation (politics) 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.

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Re User:Selfempowerment

Hi,

I saw that you had posted a block notice on User:Selfempowerment's talk page, but the user didn't get blocked. I've blocked them now. Stephen! Coming... 11:30, 7 April 2017 (UTC)

Proposed article rename

I've proposed to rename Mind control to Brainwashing. I'm letting you know since you contributed to the article. Redddogg (talk) 23:20, 8 April 2017 (UTC)

18:35, 10 April 2017 (UTC)

Edit to ODL

Did you make a typo in this edit? The link is red with no supporting blue link. ~ GB fan a "frantic, furious ball of anger" 21:30, 14 April 2017 (UTC)

19:32, 17 April 2017 (UTC)

Queen(')s Road Peckham

I have started a discussion about redirects to Queens Road Peckham railway station and the road it is named for at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject London Transport#Queen(')s Road Peckham. As you have had involvement with one or more of the existing redirects, your comments are invited there. Thryduulf (talk) 21:46, 21 April 2017 (UTC)

How do I add coordinates?

Fulton–Mock–Blackmer HouseVchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 21:01, 20 April 2017 (UTC)

I followed someone's advice. I found a photo and used the URL to come up with degrees longitude and latitude. I found a conversion method. I put everything in the infobox. Still nothing.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 17:01, 21 April 2017 (UTC)
Okay, the obvious solution is to look for an NRHP structure and see how it was done. It worked.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 15:42, 22 April 2017 (UTC)
Fantastic. Apologies for not having got round to responding to you earlier. -- The Anome (talk) 09:11, 23 April 2017 (UTC)

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19:50, 1 May 2017 (UTC)

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02:25, 9 May 2017 (UTC)

Overly precise coordinates

I'm still finding and fixing overly precise coordinates by hand. About five years ago I requested a bot to make me a list. But I don't want to ask at bot requests again because it is my hope that a working group, a list, a script or a bot already exists that is handling this issue. Do you know what is going on these days regarding coordinates? Abductive (reasoning) 19:39, 7 May 2017 (UTC)

I'll see what I can do. -- The Anome (talk) 17:51, 9 May 2017 (UTC)

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Future changes

  • The VisualEditor team is working with the Community Tech team on a syntax highlighting tool. It will highlight matching pairs of <ref> tags and other types of wikitext syntax. You will be able to turn it on and off. It will first become available in VisualEditor's built-in wikitext mode, maybe late in 2017. [131]
  • The kind of button used to Show preview, Show changes, and finish an edit will change in all WMF-supported wikitext editors. The new buttons will use OOjs UI. The buttons will be larger, brighter, and easier to read. The labels will remain the same. You can test the new button by editing a page and adding &ooui=1 to the end of the URL, like this: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:Sandbox?action=edit&ooui=1 The old appearance will no longer be possible, even with local CSS changes. [132]
  • The outdated 2006 wikitext editor will be removed later this year. It is used by approximately 0.03% of active editors. See a list of editing tools on mediawiki.org if you are uncertain which one you use. [133]

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