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November Articles for creation backlog drive

Hello Theleekycauldron:

WikiProject Articles for creation is holding a month long Backlog Drive!
The goal of this drive is to reduce the backlog of unreviewed drafts to less than 2 months outstanding reviews from the current 4+ months. Bonus points will be given for reviewing drafts that have been waiting more than 30 days. The drive is running from 1 November 2023 through 30 November 2023.

You may find Category:AfC pending submissions by age or other categories and sorting helpful.

Barnstars will be given out as awards at the end of the drive.

There is a backlog of over 1200 pages, so start reviewing drafts. We're looking forward to your help! MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:25, 31 October 2023 (UTC)


Notice of noticeboard discussion

Information icon There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. You are mentioned here so I am notifying you Lightburst (talk) 15:31, 2 November 2023 (UTC)

Bob and Dave Barney are twins

Your edit is incorrect. Please see the footnotes in the article which clarify that Bob and Dave are twins. Flibirigit (talk) 23:32, 3 November 2023 (UTC)

Responded at WP:ERRORS, thanks :) theleekycauldron (talk • she/her) 23:54, 3 November 2023 (UTC)
The error is not resolved. Please fix. Flibirigit (talk) 23:59, 3 November 2023 (UTC)
Please pull the hook. It is incorrect and will elaborate later. Flibirigit (talk) 00:18, 4 November 2023 (UTC)

Do you have any objection to reopening the nomination page and discussing the hook and article there? Flibirigit (talk) 18:00, 4 November 2023 (UTC)

Done :) theleekycauldron (talk • she/her) 18:10, 4 November 2023 (UTC)

Hanscotte centre-rail system

Thanks for your help on Template talk:Did you know nominations/Hanscotte centre-rail system. As the nominator, I actually prefer your new alt over my own!--AntientNestor (talk) 08:31, 4 November 2023 (UTC)

@AntientNestor: Glad to hear it! :) theleekycauldron (talk • she/her) 18:19, 4 November 2023 (UTC)
@AntientNestor: Any chance you could cite the fact that the tramway that used it was for tourists? theleekycauldron (talk • she/her) 18:26, 4 November 2023 (UTC)
Done. AntientNestor (talk) 22:10, 4 November 2023 (UTC)
'preciate it :) theleekycauldron (talk • she/her) 22:22, 4 November 2023 (UTC)

November thanks

November songs
my story today

Thank you for promoting Hevenu shalom aleichem, - my story today. -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:43, 2 November 2023 (UTC)

I proudly remember having sung in an oratorio premiere seven years ago OTD. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:49, 6 November 2023 (UTC)

More, if you like: today I have three items on the Main page, almost too much of a good thing! Bach's amazing cantata with the unusual scale, first performed 300 years ago OTD, the nun for the prostitutes, and Schumann's wedding gift for Clara. Also first day of vacation pics uploaded. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:31, 7 November 2023 (UTC)

WikiCup 2023 November newsletter

The WikiCup is a marathon rather than a sprint and all those reaching the final round have been involved in the competition for the last ten months, improving Wikipedia vastly during the process. After all this hard work, Delaware BeanieFan11 has emerged as the 2023 winner and the WikiCup Champion. The finalists this year were:-

Congratulations to everyone who participated in this year's WikiCup, whether they made it to the final round or not, and particular congratulations to the newcomers to the competition, some of whom did very well. Wikipedia has benefitted greatly from the quality creations, expansions and improvements made, and the numerous reviews performed. All those who reached the final round will win awards. The following special awards will be made based on high performance in particular areas of content creation and review. Awards will be handed out in the next few days.

  • Unlimitedlead wins the featured article prize, for 7 FAs in total including 3 in round 2.
  • MyCatIsAChonk wins the featured list prize, for 5 FLs in total.
  • England Lee Vilenski wins the featured topic prize, for a 6-article featured topic in round 4.
  • MyCatIsAChonk wins the featured picture prize, for 6 FPs in total.
  • Delaware BeanieFan11 wins the good article prize, for 75 GAs in total, including 61 in the final round.
  • New York (state) Epicgenius wins the good topic prize, for a 41-article good topic in the final round.
  • Berkelland LunaEatsTuna wins the GA reviewer prize, for 70 GA reviews in round 1.
  • MyCatIsAChonk wins the FA reviewer prize, for 66 FA reviews in the final round.
  • New York (state) Epicgenius wins the DYK prize, for 49 did you know articles in total.
  • Ukraine Muboshgu wins the ITN prize, for 46 in the news articles in total.

The WikiCup has run every year since 2007. With the 2023 contest now concluded, I will be standing down as a judge due to real life commitments, so I hope that another editor will take over running the competition. Please get in touch if you are interested. Next year's competition will hopefully begin on 1 January 2024. You are invited to sign up to participate in the contest; the WikiCup is open to all Wikipedians, both novices and experienced editors. It only remains to congratulate our worthy winners once again and thank all participants for their involvement! (If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send.) Sturmvogel 66 and Cwmhiraeth. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:52, 5 November 2023 (UTC)

Gilabrand unblock appeal

Hi Theleekycauldron, FYI Gilabrand has asked that a block appeal be filed at WP:AN for the block you placed on her. Notifying you that I have copied that over to WP:AN#User:Gilabrand_unblock_request. nableezy - 22:21, 5 November 2023 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Biromantic Wikipedians

A tag has been placed on Category:Biromantic Wikipedians indicating that it is currently empty, and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion. If it remains empty for seven days or more, it may be deleted under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and removing the speedy deletion tag. ✗plicit 13:30, 6 November 2023 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – November 2023

News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2023).

Administrator changes

added 0xDeadbeef
readded Tamzin
removed Dennis Brown

Interface administrator changes

added Pppery
removed

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

Arbitration

  • Eligible editors are invited to self-nominate themselves from 12 November 2023 until 21 November 2023 to stand in the 2023 Arbitration Committee elections.
  • Xaosflux, RoySmith and Cyberpower678 have been appointed to the Electoral Commission for the 2023 Arbitration Committee Elections. BusterD is the reserve commissioner.
  • Following a motion, the contentious topic designation of Prem Rawat has been struck. Actions previously taken using this contentious topic designation are still in force.
  • Following several motions, multiple topic areas are no longer designated as a contentious topic. These contentious topic designations were from the Editor conduct in e-cigs articles, Liancourt Rocks, Longevity, Medicine, September 11 conspiracy theories, and Shakespeare authorship question cases.
  • Following a motion, remedies 3.1 (All related articles under 1RR whenever the dispute over naming is concerned), 6 (Stalemate resolution) and 30 (Administrative supervision) of the Macedonia 2 case have been rescinded.
  • Following a motion, remedy 6 (One-revert rule) of the The Troubles case has been amended.
  • An arbitration case named Industrial agriculture has been opened. Evidence submissions in this case close 8 November.

Miscellaneous

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:23, 7 November 2023 (UTC)

Sarah Jane Baker publishers and ISBNs?

Hi, Leeky. You seem to have removed the publishers and ISBNs of the books written by Sarah Jane Baker. Can you explain? I always thought that those were useful information about books. --GRuban (talk) 14:02, 8 November 2023 (UTC)

Hey, GRuban! If I had more time, I probably would've moved those down to a Biblography section. I tend to feel that ISBNs and publishers in prose are more clunky and academic than is really needed by readers to understand Sarah Jane Baker. I'm not gonna push too hard either way, that was just my thought in making the cut :) theleekycauldron (talk • she/her) 19:43, 8 November 2023 (UTC)
Sarah Jane Baker#Bibliography: better? --GRuban (talk) 23:08, 8 November 2023 (UTC)
works for me, although i haven't looked into the MOS:GID implications of the article yet :) theleekycauldron (talk • she/her) 23:09, 8 November 2023 (UTC)

First Edit Day

Happy First Edit Day!

Have a very happy first edit anniversary!

From the Birthday Committee, Ezra Cricket (talk) 03:22, 15 November 2023 (UTC)

Thanks, Ezra Cricket! UTC time, that day is actually tomorrow (my mistake!) I ran a little python search (will put the code below for anyone who wants to use it), and I didn't find anyone I know too well who I share a registration day with. Bummer! theleekycauldron (talk • she/her) 19:07, 15 November 2023 (UTC)
import pywikibot as pwb
site = pwb.Site('en','wikipedia')
def editors_on_date(date, groups=["extendedconfirmed","sysop"]): #date is "%m-%d"
  res = []
  for group in groups:
    editors = site.allusers(group=group)
    for editor in editors:
      if editor["registration"][5:10] == date:
        res.append(editor)
        print(editor["name"])

editors_on_date("11-16")

New editor continues to edit Israel/Palestine content after being made aware of arbitration restrictions

This message concerns Dianagurman (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log). I already alerted her to arbitration restrictions on her talk page, but I'm not sure she even knows what a talk page is since she has never edited one. AE seems like overkill at this point, what would you do? (t · c) buidhe 17:21, 17 November 2023 (UTC)

@buidhe: I've put in a 36-hour block; just something to make sure they're looking at their talk page instead of barrelling full steam ahead. theleekycauldron (talk • she/her) 22:59, 17 November 2023 (UTC)
(talk page watcher) That's AndresHerutJaim / Yaniv Horon, as is Zeevkafif (talk+ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki) in the article history. Indeffed × 2 & ECP'd. ✨ -- Tamzin[cetacean needed] (they|xe|she) 23:14, 17 November 2023 (UTC)
@Tamzin: I was hoping you'd say that :P theleekycauldron (talk • she/her) 23:14, 17 November 2023 (UTC)

DYK for NYT first said

On 18 November 2023, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article NYT first said, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/NYT first said. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, NYT first said), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. 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.

—Kusma (talk) 00:03, 18 November 2023 (UTC)

The underscores probably prevented DYKUpdateBot from finding the hook, hehehe theleekycauldron (talk • she/her) 00:03, 18 November 2023 (UTC)

So, I was looking at some DYK statistics, and noticed that the link to the current month's stat page in the rows generated by GalliumBot at Wikipedia:Did you know/Statistics/Monthly DYK pageview leaders/Summary is broken due to an extra backslash at the end (list of redlinks). I think it's coming from vandyke defining monthyeartarget = "/" when monthyearlist throws an IndexError.

While looking at the list of redlinks, I also noticed that Wikipedia:Did you know/Statistics/Monthly summary statistics/2022 (a) is showing data for 2023; (b) is actually identical in output to Wikipedia:Did you know/Statistics/Monthly summary statistics/2023/Total; and (c) doesn't match the page name format of the other statistics pages, and thought that might be something you'd like to to know about as well.

Hope that's helpful! 129.170.197.110 (talk) 05:04, 19 November 2023 (UTC)

Thanks for finding the bug I'd been too lazy to fix forever! I deleted that page and fixed the fallback :) theleekycauldron (talk • she/her) 08:10, 21 November 2023 (UTC)

DYK nomination

Hi! I added a source to the hook at Template:Did you know nominations/Quách Thị Trang Square, which I think should address the problem that you pointed out, but never got a response from you. If there's anything else that doesn't work, please let me know. Đại Việt quốc (talk) 22:50, 20 November 2023 (UTC)

@Đại Việt quốc: Hi, just responded, thanks! In the future, pings don't go through if you don't add your signature in the same edit as the pinged's username. theleekycauldron (talk • she/her) 08:06, 21 November 2023 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

The Civility Barnstar
What an entirely pleasant interaction on Talk:National Stupid Day! Always nice to disagree and yet not leave the discussion with a bad taste in my mouth (and as an added benefit, have *increased* respect for the person you don't completely agree with). Thanks for all your work around the wiki, and for approaching discussions with a level head, and kindness. Eddie891 Talk Work 21:54, 21 November 2023 (UTC)
I was thinking the same of you, Eddie! Doesn't get to happen often enough – thanks as always for a push to consider other viewpoints and a good conversation :) theleekycauldron (talk • she/her) 22:35, 21 November 2023 (UTC)

Just stumbled upon your reverts on the Arbcom candidates page. That's some serious problematic editing you spotted. I'd encourage you to consider semi-protecting such pages when seeing such blatant and severe issues; at this point, there's no reason for *anyone* to be editing that page, and certainly nobody who isn't autoconfirmed.

Thanks for your diligence. Someday, you might want to consider putting your name on that candidate list. Risker (talk) 02:18, 25 November 2023 (UTC)

I would very much encourage that in a few years. -- Guerillero Parlez Moi 14:05, 25 November 2023 (UTC)
Thanks for the note, Risker! Was short on time, so it didn't occur to me (and I wasn't sure whether to revoke TPA/email, so I'm glad Ingenuity took care of that), but I'll definitely take that under advisement for next time. And, that's awfully nice of both of you to say :) theleekycauldron (talk • she/her) 20:05, 25 November 2023 (UTC)

DYK for List of variations on Pachelbel's Canon

On 26 November 2023, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article List of variations on Pachelbel's Canon, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Pachelbel's Canon is notorious for being widespread in pop music, but it actually isn't? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/List of variations on Pachelbel's Canon. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, List of variations on Pachelbel's Canon), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. 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.

Aoidh (talk) 00:03, 26 November 2023 (UTC)

Hook update
Your hook reached 16,180 views (674.2 per hour), making it one of the most viewed hooks of November 2023 – nice work!

GalliumBot (talk • contribs) (he/it) 03:28, 27 November 2023 (UTC)

Thank you for a cute one! - It's also featured on Portal:Germany. - I'd decorate with November flowers but they already in your archive ;) - I'm not sure if "variations" is really the best name, - it seems not to be in the sense of Variation (music), but I also have nothing better to offer, - "arrangements" doesn't feel right either. - Thank you also for the civility mentioned above! - Happy on a concert day, - the second this year. We sing the Mozart, and listen to da pacem Domine played by the strings. The video of our last concert is on yt, - see my talk if you are curious, or look for Misatango and Idstein ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:16, 26 November 2023 (UTC)

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Bob and Dave Barney

I updated the footnotes at Bob Barney and Dave Barney. I hope it clarifies errors in the sources. Flibirigit (talk) 18:51, 28 November 2023 (UTC)

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