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October lichen task force newsletter

<--- Previous issue | Next issue ---> | Tip Line SYMBIOSIS: The lichen task force newsletter — October 2022 A look at what we've accomplished, working together
As a subset of WP:FUNGI, the lichen task force is working to improve coverage of the world's lichens – unique organisms composed of one or more fungal partners with one or more photosynthetic partners. A growing body of evidence suggests that some of the roughly 1000 secondary metabolites produced by various lichens may prove instrumental in our ongoing battle against harmful pathogens. Want to learn more? Join us!	Articles of note Esculenta has nominated two articles for GA: Solorina crocea Verrucariaceae – a family of mostly lichenized fungi found primarily on rocks and soil in the Northern Hemisphere Solorina crocea – also known as "orange chocolate chip lichen", this was one of the first lichen species to be formally scientifically described
Project news It's been another busy month for the task force. Among the accomplishments: We've tagged another 700 articles, categories and templates as being under the purview of the task force. Importance levels have now been set for nearly all of the task force's articles. Thousands of articles have been tagged with lichen class/order/genus/species categories as appropriate. Work has continued on converting those articles which still using old "taxobox" templates to the newer automatic taxobox and speciesbox templates. There are now fewer than 95 left to modify. MerielGJones has created articles for a number of important lichenologists, including James D. Lawrey, Thomas George Allan Green, Pier Luigi Nimis, Hannes Hertel, Ludger Kappen, and Christian Leuckert. Esculenta added one for Georges Clauzade. Dozens of articles have been created for genera and species of lichen and lichenicolous fungi. The outline of lichens is now almost completely referenced. Work has continued on the Draft:Glossary of lichen terms, which will hopefully be ready to move into main space within the month.
Lichen news A recent study strongly suggests that industrial forestry, along with the introduction of nitrogen, is the main cause of lichen declines in Norway spruce forests. This decline has resulted in "cascading effects on biodiversity and function of boreal forest canopies", according to the study's authors.
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New Page Patrol newsletter October 2022

Hello Dr vulpes,

Much has happened since the last newsletter over two months ago. The open letter finished with 444 signatures. The letter was sent to several dozen people at the WMF, and we have heard that it is being discussed but there has been no official reply. A related article appears in the current issue of The Signpost. If you haven't seen it, you should, including the readers' comment section.

Awards: Barnstars were given for the past several years (thanks to MPGuy2824), and we are now all caught up. The 2021 cup went to John B123 for leading with 26,525 article reviews during 2021. To encourage moderate activity, a new "Iron" level barnstar is awarded annually for reviewing 360 articles ("one-a-day"), and 100 reviews earns the "Standard" NPP barnstar. About 90 reviewers received barnstars for each of the years 2018 to 2021 (including the new awards that were given retroactively). All awards issued for every year are listed on the Awards page. Check out the new Hall of Fame also.

Software news: Novem Linguae and MPGuy2824 have connected with WMF developers who can review and approve patches, so they have been able to fix some bugs, and make other improvements to the Page Curation software. You can see everything that has been fixed recently here. The reviewer report has also been improved.

NPP backlog May – October 15, 2022

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Saving the best for last: From a July low of 8,500, the backlog climbed back to 11,000 in August and then reversed in September dropping to below 6,000 and continued falling with the October backlog drive to under 1,000, a level not seen in over four years. Keep in mind that there are 2,000 new articles every week, so the number of reviews is far higher than the backlog reduction. To keep the backlog under a thousand, we have to keep reviewing at about half the recent rate!

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New Pages Patrol newsletter January 2023

Hello Dr vulpes,

New Page Review queue December 2022

Backlog

The October drive reduced the backlog from 9,700 to an amazing 0! Congratulations to WaddlesJP13 who led with 2084 points. See this page for further details. The queue is steadily rising again and is approaching 2,000. It would be great if <2,000 were the “new normal”. Please continue to help out even if it's only for a few or even one patrol a day.

2022 Awards

Onel5969 won the 2022 cup for 28,302 article reviews last year - that's an average of nearly 80/day. There was one Gold Award (5000+ reviews), 11 Silver (2000+), 28 Iron (360+) and 39 more for the 100+ barnstar. Rosguill led again for the 4th year by clearing 49,294 redirects. For the full details see the Awards page and the Hall of Fame. Congratulations everyone!

Minimum deletion time: The previous WP:NPP guideline was to wait 15 minutes before tagging for deletion (including draftification and WP:BLAR). Due to complaints, a consensus decided to raise the time to 1 hour. To illustrate this, very new pages in the feed are now highlighted in red. (As always, this is not applicable to attack pages, copyvios, vandalism, etc.)

New draftify script: In response to feedback from AFC, the The Move to Draft script now provides a choice of set messages that also link the creator to a new, friendly explanation page. The script also warns reviewers if the creator is probably still developing the article. The former script is no longer maintained. Please edit your edit your common.js or vector.js file from User:Evad37/MoveToDraft.js to User:MPGuy2824/MoveToDraft.js

Redirects: Some of our redirect reviewers have reduced their activity and the backlog is up to 9,000+ (two months deep). If you are interested in this distinctly different task and need any help, see this guide, this checklist, and spend some time at WP:RFD.

Discussions with the WMF The PageTriage open letter signed by 444 users is bearing fruit. The Growth Team has assigned some software engineers to work on PageTriage, the software that powers the NewPagesFeed and the Page Curation toolbar. WMF has submitted dozens of patches in the last few weeks to modernize PageTriage's code, which will make it easier to write patches in the future. This work is helpful but is not very visible to the end user. For patches visible to the end user, volunteers such as Novem Linguae and MPGuy2824 have been writing patches for bug reports and feature requests. The Growth Team also had a video conference with the NPP coordinators to discuss revamping the landing pages that new users see.

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Question from Lucian Westenra (11:49, 17 February 2023)

Good day. I have my domain and Google sites. What I need to create personal Wikipedia page for individual use. I need Google knowledge panel not without Wikipedia of course. Thank you. --Lucian Westenra (talk) 11:49, 17 February 2023 (UTC)

@Lucian Westenra: Wikipedia is not a place to host your own website, blog, résumé, etc. Advertising, promotion, or recruitment of any kind: commercial, political, scientific, religious, national, sports-related, or otherwise, is strictly prohibited. ––FormalDude (talk) 09:10, 12 March 2023 (UTC) (talk page watcher)

Question from Kanna Aniketh on Bubba Raceway Park (09:05, 12 March 2023)

How to publish my wikipedia matter --Kanna Aniketh (talk) 09:05, 12 March 2023 (UTC)

Tips

Hi, thanks for your contributions. Please remember not to jam together ISO symbols and values (15 m, not 15m). And we don't capitalise headings (Number of operators, not Operators). Tony (talk) 03:44, 26 March 2023 (UTC)

Thanks for the heads up, just coming back from a wikibreak so I'm a bit rusty. Dr vulpes ^{(💬 • 📝)} 05:57, 26 March 2023 (UTC)

language=, lang=

Thank you for your edit to Sergei Ivanovich Zarudny. Just so you know, spelling out "language=" in full is optional for the "lang=" parm in {{cite book}}: "Examples: |language=ru; |lang=fr, pt-br; |lang=Russian; |language=French, Portuguese". – _•Raven  ^.talk 03:53, 27 March 2023 (UTC)

Hey @.Raven, thanks for mentioning that. The real edit was correcting for a minor syntax error with the interwiki link being placed before the last category. The other minor changes are just style changes that AWB suggested and I agreed with. Since those kind of edits are really minor and are cosmetic in nature they are only done when there are other substantive edits being made as per WP:COSMETICBOT. But thank you for reaching out and letting me know :-) Dr vulpes ^{(💬 • 📝)} 04:04, 27 March 2023 (UTC)

Rollback

Please ignore the notification you likely got about me rolling back your edit on National symbols of Somalia! ~ Eejit43 (talk) 11:56, 28 March 2023 (UTC)

Disambiguation link notification for April 2

An automated process has detected that when you recently edited Clipperton Island, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page Whitetip shark.

(Opt-out instructions.) --DPL bot (talk) 06:10, 2 April 2023 (UTC)

Question from Mousaea on Wikipedia:About (20:45, 2 April 2023)

Can I earn money on Wikipedia? If, how is that? --Mousaea (talk) 20:45, 2 April 2023 (UTC)

Category:Articles with short description added manually on Lydia York

I'm not sure if my ping reached you through, so I'd let you know that you this one of your edits added Category:Articles with short description manually on Lydia York, which is undesirable as this category should be auto-populated by the shortdesc template and auto-removed if the template is removed. Since it is tagged as AWB, I'm assuming this issue has happened on a number of other pages, so can you please look into it? Thanks! —CX Zoom[he/him] ^{(let's talk • {C•X})} 19:22, 3 April 2023 (UTC)

ooof thank you @CX Zoom for letting me know I'll go back and fix it. I'm coming back after a wikibreak plus having covid (not once but twice!) so I've bubbled around a bit. Dr vulpes ^{(💬 • 📝)} 19:47, 3 April 2023 (UTC)

Lycodon mackinnoni

Hello Dr vulpes, I came across the Lycodon mackinnoni article while editing misspelled words. Problem is, copy edits are needed in the introduction section. First, all words in those sentences should not be italicized. Secondly, one of the sentences in the introduction seems redundant by restating the previous sentence. I bring this to your attention because you were the last editor listed in the history section, following several additions by an anonymous user. If I were to copy edit, I would most likely revert back to the last clean copy made by Citation bot on February 26, 2023‎. However, I thought you might like to take another look at the article. Regards. Woodlot (talk) 19:51, 8 April 2023 (UTC)

Hey @Woodlot, I was just doing some cleaning and wasn't really making serious edits to that article. I just went ahead and reverted everything. Dr vulpes ^{(💬 • 📝)} 21:10, 8 April 2023 (UTC)

Rollback granted

Hi Dr vulpes. After reviewing your request, I have enabled rollback on your account. Please keep the following things in mind while using rollback:

• Getting rollback is no more momentous than installing Twinkle or RedWarn.
• Rollback should be used to revert clear cases of vandalism only, and not good faith edits.
• Rollback should never be used to edit war.
• If abused, rollback rights can be revoked.
• Use common sense.

If you no longer want rollback, contact me and I'll remove it. Also, for some more information on how to use rollback, see Wikipedia:Administrators' guide/Rollback (even though you're not an admin). I'm sure you'll do great with rollback, but feel free to leave me a message on my talk page if you run into trouble or have any questions about appropriate/inappropriate use of rollback. Thank you for helping to reduce vandalism. Happy editing! Salvio ^giuliano 23:33, 9 April 2023 (UTC)

Question from Lanreluv2caress on User:Lanreluv2caress (00:11, 11 April 2023)

Am trying to Add pic to my Edit Can u help me with that sir --Lanreluv2caress (talk) 00:11, 11 April 2023 (UTC)

Associated Students of the University of California, Los Angeles

Are you the main author of Associated Students of the University of California, Los Angeles? Want to try for a DYK? --evrik ^(talk) 17:14, 12 April 2023 (UTC)

Hey @Evrik, I'm not the main author that owuld be @ROADKILL: but I'm more then willing to help or do it if ROADKILL doesn't. Dr vulpes ^{(💬 • 📝)} 18:04, 12 April 2023 (UTC)

@ROADKILL:, thoughts? the tags need to be addressed. --evrik ^(talk) 16:48, 13 April 2023 (UTC)

@Evrik The article passes WP:GNG easily, but it does lean on primary sources a bit much. I can try and go though the newspaper archives again and see what I can pull up. There's a lot of older material but finding articles after 1990 that aren't from the student newspaper is a little harder. But if you have any ideas for sources just let me know I'm more than willing to go hunting! Dr vulpes ^{(💬 • 📝)} 21:13, 13 April 2023 (UTC)

@ROADKILL: I think it can go as it is. --evrik ^(talk) 17:19, 14 April 2023 (UTC)

Regarding the reputability of media sources

Hey, I has noticed you made a revision to the Bud Light page and cited some unreliable sources (NY Post, Fox News) and I was wondering as to what the criteria are that you use to decide if a source is reliable. Is there an organization(s) you can list that have marked these sources as unreputable? I eagerly await your response. <IP redacted> 23:02, 14 April 2023 (UTC)

For sure <IP redacted>, here on Wikipedia we don't have an outside organization that lists which sources are reputable and unreputable. Almost everything is based on community Wikipedia:Consensus, including if sources are reliable, and independent. So if you read the edit summary I left you'll notice two links WP:NYPOST and WP:FOXNEWSPOLITICS. They're shortcuts to another page WP:RSP which is a list of common sources that people have questions about if they are WP:RELIABLE. There should be links next to each entry that will take you to discussions about the suitability of each source, you can also search in the archive. For the NY Post article I based my decision off of this request for comment (RFC: New York Post (nypost.com)) on its suitability as a news source. For the FOX News article the guidance is a little less clear as the community has not reached concessess on its use in topics such as this, but there is some general guidelines which you can find here. Hope that answered your question if you have any other questions feel free to leave a comment here on my talk page. Dr vulpes ^{(💬 • 📝)} 01:32, 15 April 2023 (UTC)

Using TNCStatus

I noticed you using {{TNCStatus}} on some plant pages. Is there a trick to using it? I tried it on Bouteloua dactyloides and it does not seem to have worked correctly. MtBotany (talk) 22:00, 18 April 2023 (UTC)

Hey @MtBotany sorry for not updating the documents, I'll go do that right now. This was my first template so I'm still getting the hang of things. The template pulls the conservation status data from Wikidata, a lot of plants don't have it so I've been adding it in batches. Check out the entry on wikidata now, I added the conservation status so it should work. [1]https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q143816

Are you working on a batch of articles now? I can upload the conservation status for them tonight if you want. Dr vulpes ^{(💬 • 📝)} 22:10, 18 April 2023 (UTC)

@Dr vulpes I think I understand better how it works. So I should check over on wikidata before using it. I was trying that out as something new and interesting rather than doing a batch of anything. Happy to help out if you need/want it.

Mostly what I do is look for the most common plants in my region and either add them if the article does not yet exist or get them up to what I consider acceptable in completeness. So at some point I'll probably add about a dozen paragraphs on ecology of B. dactyloides, its taxonomic history, cultivation, etc. MtBotany (talk) 23:25, 18 April 2023 (UTC)

Ha that's funny @MtBotany we're doing pretty similar projects. I started by adding the conservation status for plants in California and figured I would go back over them and add more content as time allows. I enjoy going through papers and records finding things so it's also a treat when you can find something with a few papers on it. Any help is appreciated, my goal was to move as much data about plants onto Wikidata so I could update them in bulk in case something changes, like conservation status. The next sort of big step for me is to add the reference to Wikidata and then bring that over to Wikipedia. I wrote some R code to help me gather the conservation statuses off of the NatureServ API and then I do some light data wrangling before loading it into Wikidata. A minor problem I've run into is that I'm only allowed to download 100 entries at a time from NatureServ so I have it now set up to pull 10 batches of 100 and then combined them. Once the large import is complete I can rerun the script every couple of months or so to gather any updated entries and then repeat the process of updating everything. If you see any sort of area that you think needs addressing or could use something similar to what I've set up for updating conservation statuses let me know and I'll see what I can do.Dr vulpes ^{(💬 • 📝)} 23:38, 18 April 2023 (UTC)

Review my article

Hi Dear Dr. Vulpe Sir, Please review my article Chandan Madan. Hiyicam (talk) 11:15, 20 April 2023 (UTC)

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Violence Against Men Edit

Pardon I wasnt logged in, I'll look for a good source for the thing I posted, didnt realize it was a blog post haha.

Yeah it is a topic I care very deeply about. I'll try and get a good citation for ya. And pardon if I seemed impolite in my edit history post haha. RadioHobbyist (talk) 05:37, 22 April 2023 (UTC)

It's all good, I know that on that article that topic goes back and forth and back and forth. I just try to keep the sources solid and stay out of it.

Off topic question @RadioHobbyist but do you do any ham radio stuff? I've been trying to get the ham radio wikiproject back up but it's been a little more uphill than I expected. If you check out my work I've been uploading screen captures from my SDRPlay of some HF communications and making some ham radio content. If I'm way off base here that's ok, your username is a dead giveaway for this kind of nerd stuff. Dr vulpes ^{(💬 • 📝)} 05:43, 22 April 2023 (UTC)

I think I found a much better source, what say you? It was from a medical journal. I dunno what the citation generator thingy did with the last part of it but otherwise it seems pretty solid since the guide you sent said "Journals are the BEST source you can get" to jokingly paraphrase it. And yeeeah, that and along with me being passionate about it, that last editor struck a nerve with me reacting as he did, but thats neither here nor there. Pardon my impoliteness.

Also oooooo, that sounds rad, I know OF ham radio stuff but am mainly a listener as I dont have the money or gear for broadcasting, a lotta my stuff also ends up focusing on public and local broadcasting, a LOT of the edits on the page for WXPR were me haha. Though I do love shortwave listening too, I just have a hard time with some techier things since I am mainly a listener. RadioHobbyist (talk) 05:51, 22 April 2023 (UTC)

You should check it out, it's a lot easier than you might think. I got my technician license (entry level) when I was 13. I promise that is not some flex, I didn't pass the first time and I only passed the second time by one question. When I went to upgrade to get HF privileges I only passed by one question. I'm a (non-clinical) psychologist not an engineer and I still was able to do it. My father is really big into SWL so I got him an SDRPlay for Christmas. It's an amazing unit and if you can spare ~$150 I highly recommend their products I've really enjoyed mine. During COVID it was at least something to look forward to every night.

If you ever wanna work on an article together or just need a second set of eyes to look something over feel free to hit me up.Dr vulpes ^{(💬 • 📝)} 06:02, 22 April 2023 (UTC)

Hmmmm I should, I think i'm gonna wait till I have money to though cause I think it costs money yeah? And nah lol I know you aint flexing no worries. Also lol passing by one question sounds like something that'd happen to me. :p And ohh its interesting that you're a psychologist! And niiiice, my father didnt actively SWL but he put the idea into my already broadcasting obsessed mine when I was a kid and it stuck in there lol. One Day I will get an SDR, that and or I'd love an extension card thingy to put in a computer so that I can put a TV antenna in that thing.

Thanks thanks I appreciate it! I hope that citation I found was satisfactory/up to snuff, thanks for being polite to me too if that aint silly sounding of me to say; as I said before I can be real passionate about the topic I wrote about, and you being polite after the other editor's comments made me a lot calmer about the topic at hand lol. Once again 'scuse me if I was rude. ^^' RadioHobbyist (talk) 06:09, 22 April 2023 (UTC)

For sure, I try my best to be civil and polite. I think a lot gets lost when talking with people online so I always try to be polite and kind. Hit me up if you ever need anything and check out some of this WebSDRs KFS Dr vulpes ^{(💬 • 📝)} 06:39, 22 April 2023 (UTC)

Thanks! RadioHobbyist (talk) 07:13, 22 April 2023 (UTC)

Hmm, I am unsure how to go about this exactly, and would like to go about it in a classy way, but I have never been in a situation like this before. May I take up your offer of help in an editing related situation that seems to be esculating? On the page you asked me to get a better citation for, the guy who originally reverted my edit proceeded to once again revert my edit and threatened to bring me to the admins before leaving this message on my talk page.

"Edit warring against consensus:

Your recent editing history shows that you are currently engaged in an edit war; that means that you are repeatedly changing content back to how you think it should be, when you have seen that other editors disagree. To resolve the content dispute, please do not revert or change the edits of others when you are reverted. Instead of reverting, please use the talk page to work toward making a version that represents consensus among editors. The best practice at this stage is to discuss, not edit-war; read about how this is done. If discussions reach an impasse, you can then post a request for help at a relevant noticeboard or seek dispute resolution. In some cases, you may wish to request temporary page protection.

Being involved in an edit war can result in you being blocked from editing

—especially if you violate the

three-revert rule

, which states that an editor must not perform more than three

reverts

on a single page within a 24-hour period. Undoing another editor's work—whether in whole or in part, whether involving the same or different material each time—counts as a revert. Also keep in mind that while violating the three-revert rule often leads to a block, you can still be blocked for edit warring—

even if you do not violate the three-revert rule

—should your behavior indicate that you intend to continue reverting repeatedly."

RadioHobbyist (talk) 07:23, 22 April 2023 (UTC)

Pardon the formatting got messed up, yeah though this guy seems to be the only person taking an issue with my contribution since you encouraged me to add what I added as long as I had a proper source. I figured I'd ask you since something I read mentioned asking a third party for guidance about it or something like that, i have too many tabs open so pardon my brain is spaghetti lol. RadioHobbyist (talk) 07:28, 22 April 2023 (UTC)