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This Month in GLAM: April 2015

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File:Socialist-cover-72.jpeg listed for deletion

A file that you uploaded or altered, File:Socialist-cover-72.jpeg, has been listed at Wikipedia:Files for deletion. Please see the discussion to see why it has been listed (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry). Feel free to add your opinion on the matter below the nomination. Thank you. (ESkog)^(Talk) 16:17, 14 May 2015 (UTC)

Razak Al-Hassan

Razak Al-Hassan article that you deleted is now notable, can u get it back? Master Sun Tzu (talk) 21:17, 16 May 2015 (UTC)

Scott Dixon pic

Just advising that I have restored the image of Scott dixon you replaced on his page. The new image may be updated (although it hardly obvious) but it is clearly not as nice a photo as the one you removed. Moriori (talk) 03:51, 26 May 2015 (UTC)

Wiki Loves Pride!

You are invited to participate in Wiki Loves Pride!

• What? Wiki Loves Pride, a campaign to document and photograph LGBT culture and history, including pride events
• When? June 2015
• How can you help?

  1.) Create or improve LGBT-related articles and showcase the results of your work here

  2.) Upload photographs or other media related to LGBT culture and history, including pride events, and add images to relevant Wikipedia articles; feel free to create a subpage with a gallery of your images (see examples from last year)

  3.) Contribute to an LGBT-related task force at another Wikimedia project (Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons, Wikivoyage, etc.)

Or, view or update the current list of Tasks. This campaign is supported by the Wikimedia LGBT+ User Group, an officially recognized affiliate of the Wikimedia Foundation. Visit the group'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 main talk page.

Thanks, and happy editing!

User:Another Believer and User:OR drohowa

Thanks for helping out last year (especially with Wikidata)! I know you are super busy, but we'd appreciate any contribution you might be able to make again this year. ---Another Believer _(Talk) 05:13, 31 May 2015 (UTC)

Wikipedians in Residence

You might want to add your user page to Category:Wikipedians in Residence. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 19:40, 1 June 2015 (UTC)

But, I haven't been one in a few years? Does it matter? Does anyone actively use this category for anything outside of Wikipedians? Missvain (talk) 19:50, 1 June 2015 (UTC)

Richard Nixon is still in Category:Presidents of the United States ;-) Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 13:51, 2 June 2015 (UTC)

Red notifications

Can you semi-protect your talk page for three weeks. Last two days I almost got 20-30 useless notifications from socks posting on other user's talk pages. They are mentioning my username. And remove this username from my talk page history.--Cosmic  Emperor  04:47, 5 June 2015 (UTC)

There is a user named Babitaarora; that's why i asked you to delete the username from this edit on my talkpage.--Cosmic  Emperor  06:25, 5 June 2015 (UTC)

Hi, I was very busy last night and was only able to do a quick page protection on my own page before continuing with what I was doing last night. There are also other admins who were probably more available than me last night, so no need to rely on little old me :) It looks like User:Panyd already took care of it? I appreciate her being available to take care of the issue. Hope things calm down for you. Cheers -- Missvain (talk) 16:01, 5 June 2015 (UTC)

You say that but I woke up to two new accounts leaving messages on my talk page. Apparently men are evil and 'we women' should ban together...or something. I'm knocking them down when they pop up if I'm not beaten to it but this is very odd. Panyd^{The muffin is not subtle} 18:59, 5 June 2015 (UTC)

I've had about 4 of those posts on my page too, User:Panyd. I went to go block the socks but you seem to beat me to it each time :) Thanks for being on top of it - sadly my time has been a bit lacking on Wikipedia this week to do some admin duties related to this (oh, and a deep desire to avoid the drama llama :) ) Missvain (talk) 19:05, 5 June 2015 (UTC)

Please , I am asking something else. Delete the username from my talk page edit history. I saw the same thing happen in Smalljim's talk page edit history(offensive username was removed from edit history). I don't want this offensive username to appear in my talk page edit history. As my username is CosmicEmperor and there is another user named Babitaarora.

Take a look at the latest edits:

https://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=User_talk:CosmicEmperor&action=history Cosmic  Emperor  19:48, 5 June 2015 (UTC)

Done! Missvain (talk) 22:00, 5 June 2015 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: May 2015

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AVS Video Editor

Dear Missvain, You have closed the deletion discussion of the article AVS Video Editor 17 Feb. 2015. After that I have created a new article with another content that meets the wikipedia guidelines of notability and has good references to reliable sources. You recommended to submit the article through Drafts or sandbox using Articles for Creation page. I have done that and the draft was approved and moved to the articles space. Please see Portal:Poland/New article announcements AVS Video Editor started on 2015-06-15, score: 20. However the new article was deleted again on 23 June 2015 by GB Fan. I've talked to him and he suggested I discuss the issue with you en:User talk:GB fan. Please recommend what I need to do to improve the article so it can be recovered, if possible.NeviRom 14:00, 29 June 2015 (UTC)

Hi. If GB fan deleted the article then usually you would talk to them. I suggest you take it to deletion review: Wikipedia:Deletion review where Wikipedians review the article of concern and either return it to the article space (undelete) or keep it deleted for various reasons they explain. Honestly, I don't think the subject is notable enough to have its own article. The previous deletion discussions state it, for example, here. I think you should just move onto another subject and not waste your time anymore with that one thing unless something happens and it becomes notable enough to merit its own article. Sorry for the bad news! Missvain (talk) 16:40, 29 June 2015 (UTC)

Louise Nevelson

Hello Missvain! I'm sure you didn't intend it, but I wanted to let you know that you set the article Louise Nevelson to WP:PC2 protection rather than WP:PC1. I thought I'd let you know because you will probably want to correct that. Thanks! --IJBall (contribs • talk) 05:58, 4 July 2015 (UTC)

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This Month in GLAM: June 2015

This Month in GLAM – Volume V, Issue VI, June 2015 Headlines Argentina report: Wikimedia Argentina Czech Republic report: Memorandum of Cooperation between the National Heritage Institute and the Wikimedia Czech Republic Finland report: Capturing public art with drones France report: Surfing on GLAMs' agenda Germany report: Open GLAM - How to create true participation Italy report: From Italian Parliament to libraries and Company Museums. And a Training Day too! Macedonia report: Wikipedian in residence Netherlands report: Historical images of Dutch water works Sweden report: Maritime Sweden UK report: Royal Society of Chemistry; Thinktank; Oxford USA report: Wikidata for Mappers Special story: Europeana 1914-1918 Open Access report: Wikipedia is an amplifier of open access; 20,000 media files uploaded from PubMed Central Wikidata report: Wikidata this month Wikimania report: GLAM presentations at Wikimania Calendar: July's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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Undeletion of article on My Thousand Sons

Dear Editor, A protest is lodged against three times deletion of article on “My Thousand Sons” which is on a very popular book written by Rajesh Bhola who is an acknowledged inspirational and spiritual writer. I am a regular contributor to Wikipedia and have made certain quality contributions in growth of Wikipedia by submitting articles / modification from time to time. There have been three deletions of this article of mine. The said arbitrary and erratic deletion is unfair. As desired, the necessary amendments, as advised from time to time, have been carried out by me. The book is indeed a masterpiece and notable and, hence, deserves a place in Wikipedia. References and links have been attached which are highly praise-full of the book which has been wrongly termed by TOKYOGIRL79 as “This is incredibly promotional even after the editing. You also have a lot of sources that are written by people involved with the book to some degree. Other sources are more about the author than the book itself, which doesn't really show notability for the book”. In fact, the book is reviewed by none other than Dr. Ramesh Goyal, Immediate Former President, Indian Medical Association. The argument given in rejection is false and misleading. The book and the writer are notable as per your rules. The notability of Rajesh Bhola is already established and there are adequate references attached to the article on My Thousand Sons which is written by the same person by the same person Rajesh Bhola. The notability is duly established by way of attachment of number of references which are authentic sources for making the subject notable. The notability of the subject is duly established by way of his contributions to the most esteemed newspapers and periodicals of India. He has made more than 320 contributions to such reputed national papers and periodicals apart from being founder of Spastic Society of Gurgaon where more than thousands of children afflicted with autism, cerebral palsy, mental retardation and multiple disabilities are being taken care of and a page is duly published by you on the same after due acknowledgement of the notability of that subject. The book is autobiographical and provides glimpses of how these thousand children afflicted with severely debilitating cerebral palsy lead their lives so courageously. The book is indeed awe inspiring. Kindly help publish the article in larger interest of the readers. The book is already launched by Amazon and others at their worldwide network. Warm regards — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sombir9555 (talk • contribs) 08:42, 13 July 2015 (UTC)

Hi User:Sombir9555 in order to request an article being undeleted, you have to request that on this page: Wikipedia:Deletion review. Not on my personal page. Sorry! Missvain (talk) 18:06, 13 July 2015 (UTC)

Your expert editing skills solicited...

Hiya ! In doing Commons picture work, I received a note on my Commons talk page from the editor creating Draft:Krov_Menuhin. It's an interesting story with some references. I'm writing because I'm going to shephard the uploader through the picture process - I do not know what the consensus will be but she is certainly in total good faith; see her note on my talk page over there. I am writing to ask if you could use your marvelous editing skills and give this new editor whatever assistance she could use to finish this? He seems notable (BBC filmmaking, etc.) to my Wikicommons eyes and you did a marvelous job with Ben Proudfoot's films last year, so I thought I would ask for your help on this one. And bonus, the editor to help is female! Cheers! Ellin Beltz (talk) 14:00, 10 July 2015 (UTC)

Hi. I'm actually on a a breaking from writing Wikipedia articles right now due to workloads with my professional life. While I am adding some images to Commons, this is tied into my professional work as a photographer. I suggest perhaps reaching out to folks at WP:Biography or WP:Film. The one time I worked on that Proudfoot film (just one article) was a mere fluke - I have a degree in Native American studies and it interested me. So please forgive me slow response and lack of inability to help right now. Thanks for all you do! Missvain (talk) 18:10, 13 July 2015 (UTC)

Some stroopwafels for you!

hope you're not too stressed. arrived https://wikimania2015.wikimedia.org/wiki/Programme and wish you were here. Duckduckstop (talk) 22:16, 13 July 2015 (UTC)

Wish I was there too :( Missvain (talk) 15:39, 14 July 2015 (UTC)

Another AfD closure

Also, in closing the Prison Products Gallery AfD, you added a link to WP:Requests for undeletion, should that be to deletion review instead? I'm just a bit confused since one is for requesting userfication, the other is for challenging an AfD closure. Thanks, Altamel (talk) 18:18, 18 July 2015 (UTC)

Premature close of AfD?

Hello, Missvain. I note you recently closed Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Online Abuse Prevention Initiative after less than six days of discussion. My understanding of our deletion process is that discussions normally run for a full seven days before being closed. The discussion in question does not appear to meet the usual requirements for early closure. Have I misinterpreted or overlooked something, or is it possible you unintentionally closed the debate prematurely? If the latter, I'd ask that you reopen the discussion and allow it to run for the remainder of the customary seven-day period. —Psychonaut (talk) 16:20, 18 July 2015 (UTC)

It was an accident. I certainly know policies on AfD. I'll reopen it, sorry about that. That's what I get for closing things without coffee. Missvain (talk) 16:38, 18 July 2015 (UTC)

You forgot to restore the talk page Bosstopher (talk) 18:11, 18 July 2015 (UTC)

Thanks; I had just run across a full-length article about an OAPI campaign in The Guardian, which led me to the organization's Wikipedia article and to the AfD. I was just preparing my contribution to both when the article was unexpectedly deleted. Thanks to your expedient restoration I was able to make my edits – we'll see now whether the sources I found are judged in-depth enough to change the outcome of the discussion. —Psychonaut (talk) 19:50, 18 July 2015 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Focal Point (band)

I was evaluating the Focal Point (band) article because I saw its listing at AfD as an open case. You removed the AfD tag on the article and said in the edit summary that the discussion had closed as No consensus but there was not closure of this AfD. I guess this is a formality but as long as it is open, editors will continue to offer their opinions on this article. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 22:52, 18 July 2015 (UTC)

There is the same situation for Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Stash Up, where you removed the AfD notice from the article saying no consensus but the discussion is not closed. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 23:37, 18 July 2015 (UTC)

I came here to ask about this as well having nominated Stash Up. I agree with the closing result, I'm just confused as to whether its technically open or closed still since the banners were taken down. @Missvain:, you also marked the edit where you removed the closed discussion box as minor which may have been an accident but probably shouldn't be marked as minor. Wugapodes (talk) 01:14, 19 July 2015 (UTC)

thanks

Hi Missvain, thankyou for recently closing the afd on A Fada Oriana. All the best

Coolabahapple (talk) 07:53, 20 July 2015 (UTC)

Block of User:Kim at NetNumber

Hi Sarah. Not that it makes much difference, since I doubt he/she will produce anything but adverts for NetNumber, but you blocked User:Kim at NetNumber per the user name policy. A name like that is compliant with policy. They used to be called User:NetNumber, but apparently had their name changed to this one. See here, although I can't find any local logs except for that diff by User:K6ka. Best, Voceditenore (talk) 14:14, 22 July 2015 (UTC)

@Voceditenore: I assume the log you're looking for is here. Comparing the two timestamps though, the block was indeed set after the user had been renamed, in which I would strongly advise Missvain to lift the block ASAP. (Or another mop-holder can do it) --I am k6ka ^{Talk to me!} _{See what I have done} 14:41, 22 July 2015 (UTC)

 Done Sorry about that. Missvain (talk) 20:00, 22 July 2015 (UTC)

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