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James Goodnight

Hi John. I've pinged a good 4-5 people to try to get someone to fulfill the request edit with no dice. Since you have already evaluated the article's sourcing, would you be comfortable doing the merge? SlimVirgin said she would try to take a look (but no promises) and a couple others who had edited the article in the past didn't respond. The Request Edit is about one-month old now. CorporateM (Talk) 20:19, 17 January 2013 (UTC)

Hi John. You mentioned I could ping you for Request Edits that are over a week old. I would actually be happy to wait a month per WP:NORUSH, but I have one case where the non-free image in draft space is going to get deleted Wednesday and I think I might get in trouble if I keep uploading it for a third or fourth time. I wonder if you could take a look if no one responds tomorrow. We actually trimmed the promotionalism substantially here and there is nothing controversial where our COI is compelling except that it is always hard to write neutral product articles, but I did point out some of the sourcing for its version history is not exactly mainstream. It could use some editorial smoothing, but a GA reviewer might help with that. CorporateM (Talk) 14:16, 21 January 2013 (UTC)

Hi John. Appreciate you following me around with B and C class tags. Sort of gives me a score to chase after, so I can work up to GA incrementally. I got my first two GAs, but on a volunteer basis (which is much easier).

It hasn't been a month yet (2 weeks), but all the relevant editors have been notified of my JMP (statistical software) article without response. My proposed edits are pretty non-controversial considering they are mostly based on the feedback of other editors. I was wondering if you were comfortable doing the merge and/or providing feedback on what it still needs to hit the GA mark. CorporateM (Talk) 22:59, 30 January 2013 (UTC)

Hi John. Just wanted to see if you were going to get a chance to take a look. No big deal if I need to wait another week or two ;-) CorporateM (Talk) 01:16, 4 February 2013 (UTC)

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I have initiated a discussion at Village Pump Proposals regarding applying Template:COI editnotice more broadly, in order to provide advice from WP:COI directly onto the article Talk page. Your comment, support or opposition is invited. Cheers. CorporateM (Talk) 19:49, 12 March 2013 (UTC)

Facebook

I was waltzing by some archives and found this. I chuckled on how you told me you weren't familiar with Facebook. Have you heard about it by now? LOL Feedback ^☎ 02:52, 19 March 2013 (UTC)

Assistance with COI request

Hi John, I have a couple of small requests I wonder if you would be able to help with, creating a couple of redirects and adding a logo for a new article I wrote for Rally.org. As I wrote this on behalf of the company, I have a COI so I'd prefer not to make these edits myself. I hope you don't mind me asking, as I noticed that you're a member of WikiProject Cooperation. For background: the article passed through AfC, and an editor at there reviewed it, as did an editor from WikiProject Cooperation. Both these editors are now busy, so I'm looking for an editor to wrap up some loose ends on the article. The full details are in my request at Paid Editor Help. Can you help? Thanks, 16912 Rhiannon (Talk · COI) 19:42, 12 April 2013 (UTC)

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Input request

Hello John Broughton,

I am requesting input from all participants in the discussion from the recent Signpost article on sexism in Wikipedia for a proposal at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Football/National teams#Proposed change: consistency in article title gendering. Thank you in advance for any contributions to the discussion. Dkreisst (talk) 21:25, 9 May 2013 (UTC)

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NIH

I am going to be meeting with the NIH next week. I remember that you and Tim organized an event there a few years ago [1]. Wondering how it went and if there was interest to build upon things when you were there? Doc James (talk · contribs · email) (if I write on your page reply on mine) 12:06, 17 May 2013 (UTC)

Josh Urbiztondo

Thanks for helping to replace the stuff his daddy was putting in. --Orange Mike | Talk 12:42, 22 May 2013 (UTC)

WP:General sanctions

Hello John. Regarding this change. The two header items you removed are presumably intended to explain the entries in the 'Type' column of the table below. Both general restrictions and revert restrictions are currently mentioned in the Type column. Those are the two things you removed. So the rationale for your change is unclear. Do you really want to insert in GS a pointer to WP:RESTRICT so people can see the full enumeration of sanction types? Even so, that would not cover the complete set of sanction types that are currently in use in in GS. I have always found the GS page rather confusing, so improvements are surely possible. Thanks, EdJohnston (talk) 04:21, 28 May 2013 (UTC)

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Wikipedia: The Missing Manual

Hi John.

I thought I'd let you know that I created the article infobox and used your book Wikipedia – The Missing Manual as one of the sources. Mindmatrix 23:21, 2 June 2013 (UTC)

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Thanks re: Reverse T3

Dear John;

Thanks so much for your note! I appreciate your concerns about the appropriateness of the content.

I will, as you have suggested (thanks, didn't know that!), create a sandbox and get my article into it as quickly as my learning curve permits.

Your offer was wonderful: I'd really appreciate your taking a read-through and sharing your opinions with me.

Oh, my wife Natalie and I left Santa Rosa just a year ago - small world!

Thanks again! Alan McDaniel. Njmcdaniel (talk) 19:39, 9 June 2013 (UTC)

Hello again!

John, I hate to bother you. I've run into a snag, it seems and I wonder if you might know the solution.

In following the suggestions you sent, I've tried to download the file given at Help:WordToWiki but it isn't working.

My computer-savvy nephew wrote: "I'm having a Word 2007 issue. I've corrected the "normal.dot" to "normal.dotm" but it still won't debug to upload. Also tried the normal1.dotm and that didn't work, either."

Have you any suggestions? Thanks again! Alan. Njmcdaniel (talk) 17:47, 12 June 2013 (UTC)

Dear John; Thanks for your speedy response. As it happens, I just started to muddle away and have made decent progress in my own sandbox, as you'd suggested. I will treasure away your suggestions and with my nephew's benign oversight, will try to apply them later on. For now, slow and steady! I'll drop you a line when I've gotten the job done to a degree of satisfaction and I'm very anxious to find out how suitable it seems for Wiki! Thanks again - Alan. Njmcdaniel (talk) 18:30, 13 June 2013 (UTC)

don't judge a wikiproject by edits to the project page

Re WP:ENLANG: You neglect to consider the possibility that people are working on the actual articles. Which is what everyone should be doing. • Serviceable†Villain 02:43, 11 June 2013 (UTC)

@ServiceableVillain: If you have any data that suggests that WP:ENLANG is an active project - one that somehow coordinates its work and has lots of interested editors who connect with each other without many posts on the project and project talk pages - then I highly recommend that you post that information at Wikipedia talk:Wikipedia Signpost/2013-06-05/News and notes. That page is where some other editors actually offered data that you appear to believe misrepresents the situation.

You're entitled to your opinion, but without any data, I do question how informed it actually is. In any case, posting here and User talk:Chris troutman doesn't seem as effective use of your time as working on articles. -- John Broughton (♫♫) 04:52, 11 June 2013 (UTC)

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Help on IRC

I saw you helping at the Help Desk and wondered if you helped in #wikipedia-en-help ^connect. We get lots of questions relating to both images and AfC drafts there, so if either of those are your forte then we'd appreciate the help :) Charmlet (talk) 01:05, 16 June 2013 (UTC)

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• The Narayam and WebFonts extensions were successfully replaced by Universal Language Selector on June 11. [3]
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• The new Disambiguator extension, which was previously part of MediaWiki itself, was enabled on test wikis. It adds the magic word __DISAMBIG__ to mark disambiguation pages. [6]
• The newly enabled Campaigns extension allows Wikimedia Foundation data analysts to track account creations that result from a specific outreach campaign.

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• Universal Language Selector will be added to the Catalan (ca), Cebuano (ceb), Persian (fa), Finnish (fi), Norwegian Bokmål (no), Portuguese (pt), Ukrainian (uk), Vietnamese (vi), Waray-Waray (war) and Chinese (zh) Wikipedias on June 18. [7]
• Starting on June 18, VisualEditor will be randomly enabled by default for half of newly created accounts on the English Wikipedia to test stability, performance and features. [8]
• Two new webfonts (UnifrakturMaguntia and Linux Libertine) will be added to wikis that use Universal Language Selector. [9] [10]
• It will now be possible to hide the sidebar while using the Translate extension to reduce distractions (bug #45836). [11]
• A patrolling link will now be visible for un-patrolled pages, even if users don't visit it from Special:NewPages or Special:RecentChanges (bug #49123). [12]
• A request for comments on enabling a new search engine for MediaWiki was started.

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My Reverse T3 article is ready for you in my sandbox.

Dear John;

I am so happy to be finished downloading my article. I am sure you know this already, but it is up at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Njmcdaniel/sandbox. I think the content justifies, actually requires the length - and I'm looking forward to your opinion.

As another thought, should I post a note like this somewhere on the existing rT3 "stub" site and solicit other advice - or shall your and Maproom's opinions suffice? I'm in your hands.

Thanks again, ever so much! Alan. Njmcdaniel (talk) 20:21, 17 June 2013 (UTC)

Dear John;

Thank you so very much! I compliment you on your editor's eye - I'll admit to feeling a wee pang or two on first seeing your advice and own that you've been spot-on. No, I'm not finished applying your good - and generous advice (what a lot of work you did!) - and please, in no way take that as lack of appreciation, just lack of time. I had to be absolutely sure my references were in line and indeed, I found a few rough spots... and so-doing ran myself past my bedtime.

I'll be off on a road trip for 2 days, then will get back to work on your recommendations. Thanks again for your kind words and all the time you spent helping me get this out! I'll keep in touch.

Alan. Njmcdaniel (talk) 01:46, 19 June 2013 (UTC)

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Lyle Goodhue

John:

Re: Lyle Goodhue article: Thanks for your comment. I am 78 years old, and new to all of this. I was not sure that my name (rather than "writer") would show up unless I mentioned it in my comment. I am a professioal writer with more that 230 articles published during the last 20 years, and am used to speaking in the editorial "we" in my monthly magazine columns. By the way, it was no secret when the biography was accepted by Wikipedia that I am a relative. I did read the Wikipedia "conflict of interest" policy carefully, and have been guided by it. There should be no problems there; everything in the article can be substantiated. Later edits (links, spelling, spacing, punctuation corrections, clarifications, etc.) were to finalize and polish the initial submission. I am through with them now. Maybe I've been too much of a perfectionist. Writer (talk) 16:05, 23 June 2013 (UTC)

The above was also posted at Talk:Lyle Goodhue; I'm going to respond there. -- John Broughton (♫♫) 17:32, 23 June 2013 (UTC)

Tech news: 2013-26

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• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.22wmf8) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on June 20. It will be enabled on non–Wikipedia sites on June 24, and on all Wikipedias on June 27. [13]
• Universal Language Selector was successfully enabled on the Catalan (ca), Cebuano (ceb), Persian (fa), Finnish (fi), Norwegian Bokmål (no), Portuguese (pt), Ukrainian (uk), Vietnamese (vi), Waray-Waray (war) and Chinese (zh) Wikipedias. [14]
• The new interface for account creation and log–in is now the default on all Wikimedia wikis. The old look is no longer available (bug #46333). [15]
• The TimedMediaHandler extension now supports native FLAC files. A discussion to allow this file type is taking place on Commons (bug #49505). [16]
• After a test period, the Disambiguator extension was enabled on the English Wikipedia on June 18. [17]
• VisualEditor news:
  • A VisualEditor bug temporarily made all new accounts unusable. The issue is now fixed and account creation works as before (bug #49727).
  • A high importance file insertion bug has been fixed, but the feature does not work perfectly yet. [18]
• It is now possible to synchronise local CSS and JavaScript files with the beta cluster. This should make it easier to test software features before they are enabled on live wikis. [19]

Future software changes

• The default link to a help page on editing, visible below the editing window, will change on almost 600 Wikimedia wikis and will now link to MediaWiki.org (bug #45977). [20]
• Universal Language Selector will be enabled on wikis without language versions (such as Wikisource and Wikispecies) on June 25. [21]
• The AbuseFilter extension will allow filtering links and HTML code for page creations. [22]
• The related changes special page will now include upload log entries. [23]
• It will soon be possible to choose the language of SVG files that contain translations. [24]
• MediaWiki will now allow converting audio files from one format to another. [25]
• The Wikidata technical team has started a discussion about how Wikidata can support Wiktionary. [26]
• The search feature on Wikimedia sites is planned to be modified to use Solr on all wikis by the end of 2013. [27]

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18:04, 23 June 2013 (UTC)

Thanks

Dear Mr. Broughton,

    Thanks for your prompt and helpful advice, which I will follow. Best wishes,
                               Frank Popper

Rutgers and Princeton Universities