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{{wikibreak|I've become inundated with an increase in responsibilities in other areas and have seen my efforts here reduced to the occasional revert of good faith edits to pages on my watch list. As I'd rather be known for having contributed more productively, my efforts in the near foreseeable future will be confined to occasional [[WP:NPP|new page patrol reviews]] and I will be neither creating new article content nor contributing to discussions. I'd like to retain my NPP user rights during this period. EDAHAM}}

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== Your submission at [[Wikipedia:Articles for creation|Articles for creation]]: [[Draft:Juan Montoya (Interior Designer)|Juan Montoya (Interior Designer)]] (February 14) ==
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{{unblock reviewed | 1=Caught by a web host block but this host or IP is not a web host. This is the specific piece of code generated by the web-host block (Editing from 139.162.0.0/16 has been blocked (disabled) by Elockid for the following reason(s)...etc). [[User:Edaham|Edaham]] ([[User talk:Edaham#top|talk]]) 02:45, 25 April 2017 (UTC) | decline = This IP address range belongs to linode and is indeed a webhost. [[User:Yamla|Yamla]] ([[User talk:Yamla|talk]]) 12:42, 25 April 2017 (UTC)}}

{{unblock reviewed | 1=Requesting an IP address block exemption, because my location in China requires that I view numerous sources while using a VPN. It is becoming too tedious to gather info then make edits while switching on and off the VPN accordingly to circumvent China's firewall (P.S. I've also written to Beijing with a similar request - they were not sympathetic to my issue). [[User:Edaham|Edaham]] ([[User talk:Edaham#top|talk]]) 02:42, 25 April 2017 (UTC) | accept = [[WP:IPBE]] granted as you meet the requirements listed at [[WP:IPEC]]. [[User:Ponyo|<font color="Navy">Jezebel's '''Ponyo'''</font>]]<sup>[[User_talk:Ponyo|<font color="Navy">''bons mots''</font>]]</sup> 19:25, 27 April 2017 (UTC)}}

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== Working outside your area of expertise? ==

E - I did not revert your revert to my changes to Dietary Supplement. However, I do want to point out that I have more experience and expertise on this topic than you. My education included a BS in Biology, MS in Nutritional Biochemistry, PhD in Nutritional Biochemistry with a minor in Human Nutrition, post-doc at Memorial Sloan-Kettering, teaching nutrition at Cornell Medical College, and an ongoing 30+ year career in medical nutrition, functional foods, dietary supplements, sports nutrition, etc. [[User:David notMD|David notMD]] ([[User talk:David notMD|talk]]) 16:17, 29 June 2017 (UTC)
:Which clearly did not leave you a lot of time to become sensitive to stylistic choices in the opening passages of encyclopedias. That's why I applaude your knowing when to visit me for advice on my talk page. It's a wise man who despite his years of learning, knows when it's time to tap the resources of one outside his sphere of knowledge. I'll try to live up to your confidence in me and continue to offer all I can by way of editing tips. [[User:Edaham|Edaham]] ([[User talk:Edaham#top|talk]]) 20:20, 29 June 2017 (UTC)

== [[Talk:Acupuncture]] ==
"Another user called Hob was the person who was making comments on the person rather than commenting on the arguments (ill conceived though they were)."

No, it is you who is confused. There is no such "another user called Hob". And they were not "comments on the person". Please don't misrepresent other users' comments. --[[User:Hob Gadling|Hob Gadling]] ([[User talk:Hob Gadling|talk]]) 07:02, 30 June 2017 (UTC)

{{reply to|Hob Gadling}}
:oh right, my mistake, yes it ''was'' actually you who was making notforum and personal comments about people's brain issues i.e. '''"Talking about things that exist only in your brain,". you can just cut the boring polemics.'''" Etc - you and roxy the dog or what ever. I didn't really notice the user's names, I just saw the kind of useless, insulting and non-article related talk that was coming out and closed/reset the thread. It's actually OK according to WP for users like this Arthur long chap to suggest poor quality changes, just as it's our place to reject them. Being not nice to people is definitely unwikipedian, though. Please be nice and [[wp:civility|'''tactfully''']] help educated misguided users even when they are being a bit annoying. Thanks [[User:Edaham|Edaham]] ([[User talk:Edaham#top|talk]])
::You have never even tried to understand that this was not about "personal comments" and not about "brain issues" but a refutation of the fallacies in Arthur's argumentation. But I see there is no point in trying to argue with you: you are worse than Arthur if you think "being nice" is more important than being coherent, logical, understanding, and honest. Also, you are not even being nice yourself. --[[User:Hob Gadling|Hob Gadling]] ([[User talk:Hob Gadling|talk]]) 08:34, 30 June 2017 (UTC)
:::{{reply to|Hob Gadling}}I have tried to understand, and I'm suggesting to you that there's a good chance that the editor took what you said personally. You don't need to argue with me or "''refute''" people by telling them they have things wrong with their brain, you just need to make sure that main space content stays up to Wikipedia standards. It's not particularly difficult to snipe POV pushers on fringe theory articles, but it does little to further the encyclopedia. There is actually an ongoing discussion at that article's talk page, which is '''solely''' focused on article improvement. The article ''we'' are currently editing is full of rubbish POV references about the imaginary benefits of a species of magical thinking. If we work together we can improve it. If we spend thread after thread being clever and semantically picking apart the people who are trying to insert POV into the article, it will slow the rate of improvement compared to if we remain focused. Based on your comments, I would guess that you share my opinion regarding the changes that need to be made, so let's work out how to make them. [[User:Edaham|Edaham]] ([[User talk:Edaham#top|talk]]) 09:44, 30 June 2017 (UTC)

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==[[Talk:Hijab]] reversion==

i dont understand why did you Undid my edit and claimed its sourced but actually there no source proving that covering the women head is a must in any law in Saudi Arabia please check the source and see my point in [[Talk:Hijab]] .thank you --[[User:Mojackjutaily|Mojackjutaily]] ([[User talk:Mojackjutaily|talk]]) 10:00, 4 August 2017 (UTC)
: {{reply_to|Mojackjutaily}} - I have joined your discussion on [[Talk:Hijab]]. Thanks for replying and following [[wp:BRD|BRD]]. [[User:Edaham|Edaham]] ([[User talk:Edaham#top|talk]]) 10:20, 4 August 2017 (UTC)

== [[Baked Alaska]] ==

Are you trying to imply that I'm the one that added Nazi in the first place? [[User:Ktm4391|Ktm4391]] ([[User talk:Ktm4391|talk]]) 06:06, 14 August 2017 (UTC)
:{{reply to|Ktm4391}} Dude - I have absolutely no idea. Keeping track of that article's revision history and trying to keep it from being ''good faith edited'' is confusing as hell. There's a team of people having a POV go at it and none of them are using the talk page or citing sources. Many apologies if I got something wrong. If you were on the article also trying to do similar maintenance, many thanks for your contributions and patience. [[User:Edaham|Edaham]] ([[User talk:Edaham#top|talk]]) 06:15, 14 August 2017 (UTC)
::I went back and checked the history. The bare text after the last revert when a talk page thread was started read as follows.
''Anthime "Tim" Gionet (born November 16, 1987), more commonly known as Baked Alaska and Tim "Treadstone," is an American alt-right conservative political activist, entrepreneur, writer and internet celebrity.''
::Ideally any alteration to that text, especially concerning political alignment and terminology should be brought to the talk page. Putting aside how it might have occasionally been messed up, let's follow BRD and encourage others to do the same as there's a bit of a political flutter going on at the moment on this and related pages. [[User:Edaham|Edaham]] ([[User talk:Edaham#top|talk]]) 06:45, 14 August 2017 (UTC)

== Lauren Southern ==

In response to your questions [https://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Lauren_Southern&diff=796061107&oldid=796056684 in the edit summary], the [https://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Lauren_Southern&oldid=796171278 current text is fine], the one reverted added a "fascism" category and did not conform to the source regarding the added information on intercepted ships (see [https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/global-opinions/wp/2017/07/28/europes-far-right-pirates-of-the-mediterranean-are-targeting-refugee-rescue-missions/ The WPo article]). [[User:Saturnalia0|Saturnalia0]] ([[User talk:Saturnalia0|talk]]) 01:48, 19 August 2017 (UTC)
:{{u|saturnalia}} I removed the fascism category manually while reverting and opened a discussion thread on the talk page. There have been literally hundreds of poor edits to this and similar edits and it's completely possible that I've made some injuditious reverts. I do usually open a talk page thread and follow BRD though, which means that the editors who aren't just doing drive by edits will Coke and sort things out if what they are trying to do is well sourced. I'm going to have another look at the article now. Thanks for cooperating and getting in touch to notify me of the issue. [[User:Edaham|Edaham]] ([[User talk:Edaham#top|talk]]) 02:53, 19 August 2017 (UTC)

== altleft ==
https://robertlindsay.wordpress.com/2015/08/18/proposal-for-an-alternative-left/
https://altleft.com/
https://www.reddit.com/r/AlternativeLeft/ <!-- Template:Unsigned IP --><small class="autosigned">—&nbsp;Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[Special:Contributions/2001:8003:117E:6D00:A0C4:8FED:ECAD:1157|2001:8003:117E:6D00:A0C4:8FED:ECAD:1157]] ([[User talk:2001:8003:117E:6D00:A0C4:8FED:ECAD:1157#top|talk]]) 21:37, 21 August 2017 (UTC)</small> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->
:I cannot access those sites in china without a vpn [[User:Edaham|Edaham]] ([[User talk:Edaham#top|talk]]) 23:50, 21 August 2017 (UTC)

== Harmful Obsessions ==
create page for jason innocent <!-- Template:Unsigned --><small class="autosigned">—&nbsp;Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[User:Tice89|Tice89]] ([[User talk:Tice89#top|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Tice89|contribs]]) 19:33, 23 August 2017 (UTC)</small> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->
: {{ping|Tice89}} retraction of humorous comment as actually your article does deserve some attention, but there's some things you need to consider before removing the notability tag. [[User:Edaham|Edaham]] ([[User talk:Edaham#top|talk]]) 03:04, 24 August 2017 (UTC)
: {{ping|Tice89}} First and foremost I have to ask you, are you the artist or do you have a close connection with the subject of the article i.e. you are a friend, gallery owner, family member, curator or agent. You do not have to specify which but you are [[Wikipedia:Conflict of interest|expected to disclose]] conflicts of interest which may affect Wikipedia's goal of building an impartial encyclopedia. [[User:Edaham|Edaham]] ([[User talk:Edaham#top|talk]]) 06:25, 24 August 2017 (UTC)

im a curator, it will never happen again. just wanted to add infomation but didnt know how to. thank you <!-- Template:Unsigned IP --><small class="autosigned">—&nbsp;Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[Special:Contributions/2604:2000:8119:A9F0:7962:E0FB:6832:CBB0|2604:2000:8119:A9F0:7962:E0FB:6832:CBB0]] ([[User talk:2604:2000:8119:A9F0:7962:E0FB:6832:CBB0#top|talk]]) 05:13, 25 August 2017 (UTC)</small> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->

== Ways to improve John Saladino ==

Hi, I'm Elliot321. Edaham, thanks for creating [[John Saladino]]!

I've just tagged the page, using our [[Wikipedia:Page Curation/Help|page curation]] tools, as having some issues to fix. Please make sure to clearly explain how [[John Saladino]] is notable.

The tags can be removed by you or another editor once the issues they mention are addressed. If you have questions, you can leave a comment on [[User talk:Elliot321|my talk page]]. Or, for more editing help, talk to the volunteers at [[WP:TEAHOUSE|the Teahouse]].

[[User:Elliot321|Elliot321]] ([[User_talk:Elliot321|talk]] &#124; [[Special:Contributions/Elliot321|contribs]]) 15:12, 28 August 2017 (UTC)

== discussions ==

Thank you for your summary of the discussions. Common sense should prevail most times and people shouldn't quote Wikipedia guidelines just to reinforce or win arguments. To me these things do happen when you are not expecting it, but we should just take things with a pinch of salt.[[User:F2Milk|F2Milk]] ([[User talk:F2Milk|talk]]) 08:56, 2 October 2017 (UTC)

== Noting the quality of an article is not the same as advocating for a position ==

Yesterday You deleted my post on the discussion on Functional Medicine.[Actually you did it twice as I was in the process of deleting the first one when I realized I did not properly sign it and was going to repost it.]

My comments did not advocate for a position. Rather, I noted the article was very ill-informed on the subject and I simply supplied the names and short bio for several research scientist that would be critical for the discussion of the article.

Like you, I know a little bit about research, having completed 2 master's degrees and am half way through a PhD. No matter what position one takes, they must deal with relevant voices on both sides of an argument. To blindly say that there are no reputable scientists advocating a position when, as I barely scratched the surface pointing out, there are world-renowned scientists at schools like Yale, USC, and others, is shoddy research and would merit an "F" in any master's level course.

I said nothing to argue for a particular kind of treatment, supplement, outcome of Functional Medicine research, clinic studies, anecdotal evidence, etc that might argue that Functional Medicine was useful. That would have been debating the content of the article. But to bring up the ill-informed nature of the research presented is simply an academic comment on procedure.

Please note the difference between advocating a position and noting errors in research methodology and fully reinstate my post.

Secondly, I note that you may feel that the comment on the Wikipedia Medical Editors may well be directed at you. it is incumbent upon yourself and others to employ meaningful self-reflection. The allowing of the comment "gobbledegook" was useless in the article. It served no academic purpose and was a juvenal attempt to merely castigate the opposition with names rather than present actual objective research to the discussion. Wikipedia editors are better than this. I am disappointed to see that this was allowed to get past the Wikipedia Editors for so many years as this article has been mulled over time and again by those editors as evidenced in the discussions.

Thank you for you consideration of these comments.[[User:7quiver|7quiver]] ([[User talk:7quiver|talk]]) 17:14, 3 October 2017 (UTC)Patrick D

:{{ping|7quiver}}
*I didn't delete the comment. I closed the thread. I deleted the second one when you reinstated it beneath exactly as before.
*I also didn't accuse you of advocacy, I asked you not to use the talk page as a discussion forum for your opinions about positional advocacy. The resumes you posted are redundant without [[wp:medrs|proper secondary sourcing]]. You didn't clearly suggest a specific edit which makes your comments secondary to the purpose of Wikipedia talk pages, which is to improve articles.
*I did address the comment you made regarding the literary and unencyclopediac language and am now discussing it with some of the other editors.
*I don't have a medical degree or any PhDs. Nor is that a prerequisite for contributing to our project. I have carefully read our project guidelines on sourcing information though. Our practices may differ from those you have encountered in academia, so I suggest you do the same. I've listed some relevant policy pages below.
**[[wp:medrs|Policy on sources for medical articles]]
**[[wp:v|Policy on verification of information]]
**[[wp:npov|Core policy on neutrality]]
**[[wp:primary|Explanation of why we tend to avoid primary sourcing]]
[[User:Edaham|Edaham]] ([[User talk:Edaham#top|talk]]) 17:28, 3 October 2017 (UTC)

== Did you neglect ==

to sign a posting, perhaps aimed at me, at [[Talk:List of Confederate monuments and memorials]]? Einar aka [[User:Carptrash|Carptrash]] ([[User talk:Carptrash|talk]]) 05:36, 12 October 2017 (UTC)
:Yes. Sorry. And don't quit! [[User:Edaham|Edaham]] ([[User talk:Edaham#top|talk]]) 05:46, 12 October 2017 (UTC)
::From my perspective mine was not a [[Wikipedia:Rage quit]] but rather giving in to repeated bullying. But I came back after a week or so and am continuing to fight the good fight, as I see it. I notice that you commented earlier in the discussion. Well I started editing in this article about 5 years ago and suddenly the SPLC chart shows up and all hell breaks loose. Some of it loosened by me. Biut it is nice to read you say that i should not quit. So I won't. [[User:Carptrash|Carptrash]] ([[User talk:Carptrash|talk]]) 05:52, 12 October 2017 (UTC)
:::Some people see the SPLC as a political adversary and are therefore inclined to heatedly dispute its suitability and veracity for use as a source. It's moot. Wikipedia doesn't care if its a political advocacy organization or a guide on how to correctly dispose of toe nail clippings. Context matters as does verifiable sourcing and NPOV. There's been lots of discussions about it. If you transclude <nowiki>{{User:Edaham/SPLC}}</nowiki> you get this:
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{{User:Edaham/SPLC}}
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:::I keep meaning to put title contents on each of the linked discussions so that people can see what they are all about.

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:Hi, this is just an unfortunately formal way of letting you know that we have special rules regarding living people, and that they are subject to special considerations. It doesn't imply wrong doing of any sort, but it is letting you know that we have to be especially careful in this area. I'll discuss more about the specific issue with you on the article talk page, but I wanted to leave a note here as well in addition to the formal template. [[User:TonyBallioni|TonyBallioni]] ([[User talk:TonyBallioni|talk]]) 01:28, 19 October 2017 (UTC)
::Many thanks. Check the archive. Might also want to brush up on BLPCRIME And PERP while you are at it. [[User:Edaham|Edaham]] ([[User talk:Edaham#top|talk]]) 01:31, 19 October 2017 (UTC)
:::Just a brief note to explain to anyone who might be curious, that my reversion of your edit was upheld comfortably by yet another unambiguous consensus on the matter and that, in the interests of AGF, I refrained from plastering your talk page with similar sanctions notifications or veiled threatening messages regarding your blanking of well sourced content without first establishing consensus on the talk page. [[User:Edaham|Edaham]] ([[User talk:Edaham#top|talk]]) 13:33, 29 October 2017 (UTC)

==[[Streisand effect]]==
For your consideration. <span style="text-shadow:#396 0.2em 0.2em 0.5em; class=texhtml">[[User:7&amp;6=thirteen|<b style="color:#060">7&amp;6=thirteen</b>]] ([[User talk:7&amp;6=thirteen|<b style="color:#000">☎</b>]])</span> 15:24, 30 October 2017 (UTC)
:Email friendly Admins. Works way better and faster than sending an e-mail to the wikipedia foundation. [[WP:REVDEL]] on an expedited and confidential basis. Cheers. <span style="text-shadow:#396 0.2em 0.2em 0.5em; class=texhtml">[[User:7&amp;6=thirteen|<b style="color:#060">7&amp;6=thirteen</b>]] ([[User talk:7&amp;6=thirteen|<b style="color:#000">☎</b>]])</span> 16:30, 30 October 2017 (UTC)
::Thanks very much :D [[User:Edaham|Edaham]] ([[User talk:Edaham#top|talk]]) 17:10, 30 October 2017 (UTC)
:::Sorry for the double posting. Just wanted to make sure you got this. I am not trying to be overbearing or snarky. I totally share your concerns, and it took me a long time to figure this out on my own.
:::Among other places, we get all sorts of defamation and craven crap in [[WP:Sandbox]] and the draft sandbox. <span style="text-shadow:#396 0.2em 0.2em 0.5em; class=texhtml">[[User:7&amp;6=thirteen|<b style="color:#060">7&amp;6=thirteen</b>]] ([[User talk:7&amp;6=thirteen|<b style="color:#000">☎</b>]])</span> 17:17, 30 October 2017 (UTC)
::::I wasn't annoyed at all. I don't think you were overbearing. I normally attempt tongue in cheek humor when I get in trouble, but I'm not a trained comedian so I also apologize if I came off as snarky. Do bots search for info of the kind you are talking about? See reply to admin below. [[User:Edaham|Edaham]] ([[User talk:Edaham#top|talk]]) 23:54, 30 October 2017 (UTC)

== A [[Dobos torte]] for you! ==

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To give a Dobos torte and spread the [[Wikipedia:WikiLove|WikiLove]], just place {{tls|Dobos Torte}} on someone else's talkpage, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend.
|} <span style="text-shadow:#396 0.2em 0.2em 0.5em; class=texhtml">[[User:7&amp;6=thirteen|<b style="color:#060">7&amp;6=thirteen</b>]] ([[User talk:7&amp;6=thirteen|<b style="color:#000">☎</b>]])</span> 16:17, 30 October 2017 (UTC)

== I'm frustrated, but '''not''' at you ==

I can't emphasize strongly enough that my exasperation, which bubbled over at ANI is '''not''' directed at you. I don't recognize your name as a regular participant at ANI, which is hardly surprising; most editors are not regular participants there. I can easily imagine that if someone stumbles across some highly inappropriate edits, one would naturally think that it would make sense to bring it to the attention of an administrator which sounds exactly what ANI for. It turns out not to be the case, but I am totally understanding that some people would think so. My frustration is that this happens every few days. Someone posts a request for Revdel or oversight, someone responds that they should not have posted it here but elsewhere, and we now have the situation that material we like to have as few eyes on as possible has been pointed out om one of the most highly trafficked pages in Wikipedia (again this sounds like I'm railing it you but I'm not). My frustration is that there is a relatively simple solution, which I have proposed before, but my proposal has been ignored or rejected.

My current plan, which may also fail abysmally, is to post the request for a solution each and every time that this happens, and maybe sometime it'll sink in that solving the problem in a sensible way rather than making the red font in the edit notice a little bit larger would be better.--[[User:Sphilbrick|<span style="color:#000E2F;padding:0 4px;font-family: Copperplate Gothic Light">S Philbrick</span>]][[User talk:Sphilbrick|<span style=";padding:0 4px;color:# 000;font-family: Copperplate Gothic Light">(Talk)</span>]] 20:05, 30 October 2017 (UTC)

:Private info is quite discreet from random chatter: a name, which isn't an article name accompanied by numerical info or street name info such as a proper noun followed by Rd. St. Etc. All of this could be detectable. You could probably get a bot working on detecting unwanted posting of private info. Maybe talk to the developer of clue bot regarding the possibility of picking it up automatically? Below are the names of the super heroes you'd want to summon to this task.
*{{U|Cobi}} - [[User talk:Cobi]]
*{{U|Crispy1989}} - [[User talk:Crispy1989]]
*{{U|Rich Smith}} - [[User talk:Rich Smith]]
:let them know that you are a disgruntled admin who had to deal with yet another flapping newb (me) who walked into your glass office door and inquire about the possibility of writing a re-gruntling script, which detects undesirable user actions such as the posting of private info, which usually requires the attention of REVDEL. [[User:Edaham|Edaham]] ([[User talk:Edaham#top|talk]]) 23:50, 30 October 2017 (UTC)

==White race==

All of my change were cited and factually accurate. Please review my changes more carefully. I left a more detailed note for you on the talk page.

Why would you reinsert the uncited claim that Middle Eastern/North African people regard themselves as white today? There is no citation for it and--leaving aside individual exceptions--it isn't true as a general rule. [[User:Steeletrap|Steeletrap]] ([[User talk:Steeletrap|talk]]) 23:36, 31 October 2017 (UTC)

:Talk page please [[User:Edaham|Edaham]] ([[User talk:Edaham#top|talk]]) 23:37, 31 October 2017 (UTC)

== Confused ==

Are you mad at me, too? <sup><font style="text-shadow:#F8F8FF 0.2em 0.2em 0.4em,#F4BBFF -0.2em -0.3em 0.6em,#BFFF00 0.8em 0.8em 0.6em;color:#A2006D">[[User:Atsme|Atsme]]</font>[[User talk:Atsme |📞]][[Special:EmailUser/Atsme|📧]]</sup> 00:43, 1 November 2017 (UTC)
:Of course not {{u|atsme}}, but I watchlisted your page a while back and saw the comment made by the editor about facebook/twitter and it reminded me of the off-wiki harassment policy so I just left a note as a joke to say, ''"If you do go off wiki to complain about subjects of articles, make sure you don't get collared for off-wiki bullying of our subjects"''. That seems funny to me because almost everyone in the whole editorship could probably be admonished for that if we extended the policy about OWH to include the subjects of BLPs :))))) [[User:Edaham|Edaham]] ([[User talk:Edaham#top|talk]]) 00:53, 1 November 2017 (UTC)
::OMG I just heard about [[http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-41825577 this]]. I really pray the eleven injured people will be OK. [[User:Edaham|Edaham]] ([[User talk:Edaham#top|talk]]) 00:55, 1 November 2017 (UTC)
:::No words to express the senseless loss of innocent lives - it's a way of life I refuse to accept. <sup><font style="text-shadow:#F8F8FF 0.2em 0.2em 0.4em,#F4BBFF -0.2em -0.3em 0.6em,#BFFF00 0.8em 0.8em 0.6em;color:#A2006D">[[User:Atsme|Atsme]]</font>[[User talk:Atsme |📞]][[Special:EmailUser/Atsme|📧]]</sup> 01:06, 1 November 2017 (UTC)

== Thank you ==

Thanks for the message. Yes my ban has been uplifted, obviously, which you can see. I edited the Kellyanne Conway page (personal life) about her grandfathers association with the Mob. I saw your edit on Lauren Southern, I was a member of Generation Identity briefly which she is also a part of. I mean in general the Five Families pages Gambino, Genovese, Lucchese, Colombo and Bonanno are incredibly outdated. There were people listed as members even though some were dead, in prison, demoted/promoted etc , currently working on those pages and some Mafia stubs / new articles. Also while I'm here, do you know the situation in regard to photos? I can list FBI and dead photographer photos correct? [[User:ThePlane11|ThePlane11]] ([[User talk:ThePlane11|talk]]) 23:56, 2 November 2017 (UTC)
:You're welcome. I can see you're making an effort to add positive contributions, and you're finding and listing reliable sources too, which is the real distinguishing difference between an editor and someone who just comes to add their opinions. I'll ping you on the Donnie page when I'm done writing. I've got some ideas of my own which might help us decide how to use the information you're proposing to add. [[User:Edaham|Edaham]] ([[User talk:Edaham#top|talk]]) 00:02, 3 November 2017 (UTC)
*{{u|ThePlane11}} Update - I've now added to the talk page. Hopefully that addition should get parties on both sides of the debate moving in a similar direction to arrive at a consensus. Usually if I feel a piece of info belongs in an article and editors aren't letting it through, I find it's often because of how and where I'm trying to put it in, so my post focuses on discussing some other sections and possible section titles for including material throughout the article rather than in a single isolated section. [[User:Edaham|Edaham]] ([[User talk:Edaham#top|talk]]) 00:24, 3 November 2017 (UTC)
*
*{{u|ThePlane11}} Update two - I'm not an expert in Wikipedia's [[WP:COPYRIGHT|copyright policy]] so I'm going to refer you to the related policy pages and hope that helps
*'''[[Wikipedia:Uploading_images]]''' - This has a very simple summary of what you should consider regarding copyright. It's a short version, where the remainder of the article focuses on the technical aspects of uploading images.
*'''[[Wikipedia:Image_use_policy]]''' - This goes into a lot of detail about what is and is not allowed and why.
:The above links and policies contained therein are a bit of hard reading, but you should really get to know about them if you plan to upload images. Both of those policy pages have talk pages. Editors on those talk pages will most likely be able to answer any questions you have about policy and suitability of images you wish to use. [[User:Edaham|Edaham]] ([[User talk:Edaham#top|talk]]) 00:30, 3 November 2017 (UTC)

Great! Not many around here who are courteous and helpful. Thank you for the hospitality [[User:ThePlane11|ThePlane11]] ([[User talk:ThePlane11|talk]]) 02:18, 3 November 2017 (UTC)
:You'll find over time, that there are a '''huge number''' of people who are very helpful and courteous. There's also a very large number of people who are helpful most of the time, but can be a bit irksome or disagreeable in certain situations. There's also some people here who aren't very helpful at all, but these are generally vandals and trouble makers. Everywhere has them. I try to never openly pass judgement on any of them, but privately decide to:
*Make friends with the ones who seem nice ''and'' helpful
*work as dispassionately as I can with the ones who seem a bit grumpy but are also helpful
*try to follow policy guidelines to the letter and send completely dispassionate and appropriate template messages to people who are disruptive
*I also make stupid comments some times, which I think are humorous. I should probably stop doing that so much.
:People change from day to day and you can't really see when someone got out of the wrong side of bed when you're on the internet and can't see their expressions.
:Happy editing!
:[[User:Edaham|Edaham]] ([[User talk:Edaham#top|talk]]) 02:34, 3 November 2017 (UTC)

== Organizing off wiki workshops related to wiki-project feminism. ==

Regarding this:
[[Wikipedia:Consensus#Pitfalls_and_errors]]
And any other related policies, Can you see any problems or pitfalls with my plan [[Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Feminism#Off_wiki_workshops_in_existing_Feminist_forums_in_Shanghai|listed here]] and [https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Gender_gap#Off_wiki_workshops_in_existing_Feminist_forums_in_Shanghai at meta-wiki (gender gap)] (in progress), to introduce and coach new users at Wikipedia-themed workshops aimed at bringing new Chinese users to the English and Chinese projects via locally-based feminist discussion forums and symposiums? [[User:Edaham|Edaham]] ([[User talk:Edaham|talk]]) 04:51, 5 November 2017 (UTC)
:{{ping|Edaham}} Wow! That is ambitious and you will need a lot of help and advice. I am not the person who can give it to you. You will need to talk to people who have organized such events (there is probably a Wikiproject that coordinates them but I don't know what it is). You will need to recruit some local partners, and possibly coordinate with the Wikimedia Foundation. About local collaborators, I had a look at [[:Category:Wikipedians in Shanghai]], and nobody grabbed me as the kind of high-powered help you will need. But there might be others who have simply not put that tag on their userpage. I suggest you ask [[User:Rosiestep]] for advice. She is very well connected and experienced in this kind of thing, and she can tell you if this is a reasonable proposal, who would need to help you with it, and what is needed to make it happen. --[[User:MelanieN|MelanieN]] ([[User talk:MelanieN#top|talk]]) 15:14, 5 November 2017 (UTC)
:P.S. Any [[WP:TPS|stalkers]] care to chime in or advise here? --[[User:MelanieN|MelanieN]] ([[User talk:MelanieN#top|talk]]) 15:27, 5 November 2017 (UTC)
::<small>reply to you and/or stalkers</small>: At the moment the only local partners I have are not regular editors, but people who organize feminism related events and forums as well as theater and exhibitions etc. Those events are preexisting and I don't need to arrange spaces and so on or handle tickets or set up. I simply pitched the idea to these contacts and found that they would be willing to allocate time to the workshop. At present I just have to work out content and make sure insofar as possible that myself and attendees do not infringe policy in some fashion.
::*I'm addressing this by limiting the explanatory talk to:
::**'''A brief summary of the gender gap page''' followed by a short discussion including:
::***A quick explanation of the source and visual editors
::***5p
::***Account creation
::***Chinese Wikipedia
::**'''keeping things technical/instructional and not intentionally pointing people to contentious or controversial stuff'''
::***providing some source material on (non-politicized/uncontraversial) Chinese culture or person, requiring an article
::***writing up the article in a sandbox as a draft
::***moving it to the mainspace.
::I'll run through this process, get some screen shots ready etc. If anything like that's been made before, that would be awesome. Would plan to create something a bit like the Wikipedia adventure, but add points concerning both gender gap and local Chinese site use issues.
::[[User:Edaham|Edaham]] ([[User talk:Edaham|talk]]) 16:29, 5 November 2017 (UTC)
:::{{u|Megalibrarygirl}} also might have thoughts on this. [[User:TonyBallioni|TonyBallioni]] ([[User talk:TonyBallioni|talk]]) 17:10, 5 November 2017 (UTC)
::::{{u|Edaham}} my sister lives in Beijing. I can see if she has any suggestions. Thanks for pinging me in, {{u|TonyBallioni}}. :) [[User:Megalibrarygirl|Megalibrarygirl]] ([[User talk:Megalibrarygirl|talk]]) 17:14, 5 November 2017 (UTC)
::Thanks for the input, Tony and Megalibrarygirl. Edaham, I suspect there is already a lot of material available on this kind of project. We just have to find it so you don't have to re-invent the wheel. I'll snoop around and see what I can find about similar projects. --[[User:MelanieN|MelanieN]] ([[User talk:MelanieN#top|talk]]) 17:55, 5 November 2017 (UTC)
::{{ping|Edaham}} OK, here's a site that could be very useful: [[Wikipedia:How to run an edit-a-thon]]. The talk page of that article could also be a resource for you to find people. Here's something I found on that talk page: [[Wikipedia talk:How to run an edit-a-thon#Edit-a-thon Training on the Programs and Events Dashboard]]. That is from a WikiMedia Foundation person, [[User:Astinson (WMF)]], who has created training material and could be very helpful to you in other ways. --[[User:MelanieN|MelanieN]] ([[User talk:MelanieN#top|talk]]) 18:09, 5 November 2017 (UTC)
:::Hi {{u|Edaham}}. In addition to the helpful links which {{u|MelanieN}} pointed you, too, you might be interested in [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Essays/Primer for creating women’s biographies|Primer for creating women’s biographies]] and [[Wikipedia:Writing about women|Writing about women]]. I know some Chinese Wikipedians but not in Shanghai so I'm going to ask on our social media pages and get back to you on that. When are you thinking of facilitating your workshops? --[[User:Rosiestep|Rosiestep]] ([[User talk:Rosiestep|talk]]) 19:43, 5 November 2017 (UTC)
::::{{u|Rosiestep}} not for at least a month as some of the organizers are either traveling or have other commitments. I have a favor to ask, during these planning stages, it would be great to demonstrate that this idea has gained some traction within Wikipedia, and this thread seems to have done just that. If I direct my friends to view the info here however they may turn up with questions, I'm a bit concerned about the number of alerts the long-suffering MelanieN is going to receive from new users. If she doesn't mind, then that's great. If it would be more appropriate however, could we move/copy this thread to an appropriate project talk page and continue the discussion there? [[User:Edaham|Edaham]] ([[User talk:Edaham|talk]]) 23:31, 5 November 2017 (UTC)
:::: Thanks all for the contacts and info provided above. A list of info I've been given has been placed on [[User:Edaham#Off_wiki_project_feminism_work|my user page]] I'm going to contact those people and notice boards and go over the info today! Looks great and very informative. [[User:Edaham|Edaham]] ([[User talk:Edaham|talk]]) 23:35, 5 November 2017 (UTC)
::::: (edit conflict, that's more or less what I was going to suggest!) {{ping|Edaham}} I have no problem with people using my talk page for this. But it's not a logical place for it, and it's likely to get lost amid the clutter and be unfindable in the future. It might be better for the historical record, and for continuity, if you moved discussion to your own talk page, and let future planning go on there. That would give your project a central location and would keep all the information in your own records where you and others can easily access it. (Of course, the beauty of using my page is that like most admins I have knowledgeable, helpful stalkers. They are welcome to chime in either here or elsewhere.) How about this: why don't you COPY this whole discussion to your talk page, while leaving it here as well - and we can refer future commenters to your place. ("Your place or mine" - did I just say that?) --[[User:MelanieN|MelanieN]] ([[User talk:MelanieN#top|talk]]) 23:49, 5 November 2017 (UTC)
*<small>Above text copied from [[User_talk:MelanieN#Organizing_off_wiki_workshops_related_to_wiki-project_feminism.|Melanie's page]] Please continue discussion below.</small>
This talk page thread has been linked at the discussion pages at [https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Gender_gap#Off_wiki_workshops_in_existing_Feminist_forums_in_Shanghai Gender Gap] and at [[Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Feminism#Off_wiki_workshops_in_existing_Feminist_forums_in_Shanghai|Wiki project feminism]].

:One resource that might be useful is [[User:Dreamyshade]]'s "[https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1VaEwUjlzugLQF7uu5_1FPxxjnQcgeRRjlKOlU3jVnis/edit secret rules of Wikipedia editing]" presentation, which I think is really good for conveying the essential information new editors need without getting bogged down in details. —[[User:Mx. Granger|Granger]]&nbsp;([[User talk:Mx. Granger|talk]] '''·''' [[Special:Contributions/Mx. Granger|contribs]]) 01:07, 6 November 2017 (UTC)
::Hi {{u|Mx. Granger}}, Thanks so much for sharing that. Unfortunately its a google doc and I'm without VPN in Shanghai at this time. Is there any way you could either copy the text of the document (if it is appropriately licenced) to [[User:Edaham/secret rules of Wikipedia editing|here]], which is a draft page I made for this purpose? or email it to me at 2267836870 at qq dot com Thank you so much in advance [[User:Edaham|Edaham]] ([[User talk:Edaham#top|talk]]) 01:16, 6 November 2017 (UTC)
:::Since it's a slideshow and it is CC BY-SA, I went ahead and uploaded it as [[:File:Wikipedia in 15 min.pdf]], with the notes in the description. —[[User:Mx. Granger|Granger]]&nbsp;([[User talk:Mx. Granger|talk]] '''·''' [[Special:Contributions/Mx. Granger|contribs]]) 19:21, 6 November 2017 (UTC)
::::Thank you {{u|Mx. Granger}}! I'll link that version from my userpage and from Google Slides. {{u|Edaham}}, I hope your workshops turn out great! I think my best bit of advice from experience is that it's normal and ok for workshop outcomes to be incremental, such as each participant adding one or two edits and having a nice afternoon talking about Wikipedia, rather than becoming long-term regular editors - but even those smaller outcomes are good for Wikipedia. [[User:Dreamyshade|Dreamyshade]] ([[User talk:Dreamyshade|talk]]) 05:37, 7 November 2017 (UTC)
I only wish we lived in the same general vicinity. I would be more than happy to help. If there's anything you think I can contribute, let me know. <sup><font style="text-shadow:#F8F8FF 0.2em 0.2em 0.4em,#F4BBFF -0.2em -0.3em 0.6em,#BFFF00 0.8em 0.8em 0.6em;color:#A2006D">[[User:Atsme|Atsme]]</font>[[User talk:Atsme |📞]][[Special:EmailUser/Atsme|📧]]</sup> 22:15, 6 November 2017 (UTC)
:I probably will need lots of help with this soon. Thank you! I noticed in one of your recent talk page threads that you can use photoshop :)))) [[User:Edaham|Edaham]] ([[User talk:Edaham#top|talk]]) 05:01, 7 November 2017 (UTC)

*Update: I have joined, and will tie this in with the [[Wikipedia_talk:Wikipedia_Asian_Month#Edit-a-thon_in_Shanghai|Wikiproject: Asia month]], edit-a-thon activities, and have accordingly linked to this thread and a couple of others there. Thanks anyone who might be watching this discussion and cares to chime in. [[User:Edaham|Edaham]] ([[User talk:Edaham#top|talk]]) 06:16, 10 November 2017 (UTC)

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== Alfred Kramer ==

Concerning the deletion of [[Alfred Kramer]], I created that page as a redirect to [[Alfred Krammer]]. Concerning the Kramer article itself, I have no issue with it. Thanks for letting me know. - [[User:Miller17CU94|Chris]] ([[User talk:Miller17CU94|Talk]]). [[Special:Contributions/96.91.152.57|96.91.152.57]] ([[User talk:96.91.152.57|talk]]) 13:02, 30 November 2017 (UTC)
*{{u|Miller17CU94}} cheers for the feedback. I've dealt with a couple of articles which were redirects turned into poorly sourced articles recently. Little bit confusing. We could revert it back to the redirect but if someone keeps turning it into a non notable musician page it will probably pop back up. Might be best to let the sourcing/deletion process run its course and consider adding it back as a redirect to an article or a DAB page later? [[User:Edaham|Edaham]] ([[User talk:Edaham#top|talk]]) 13:10, 30 November 2017 (UTC)
**My advice is to put talks on the Kramer article who converted the redirect into the jazz drummer article. They would have better sourcing on this than I would given I do not follow jazz music like some people do. [[User:Miller17CU94|Chris]] ([[User talk:Miller17CU94|talk]]) 00:19, 1 December 2017 (UTC)
***Same here, and I don't have time to follow it and do the house keeping. Cheers! [[User:Edaham|Edaham]] ([[User talk:Edaham#top|talk]]) 00:21, 1 December 2017 (UTC)

Same with M. Aoyama. [[User:Geschichte|Geschichte]] ([[User talk:Geschichte|talk]]) 09:30, 1 December 2017 (UTC)

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== Kate Williams ==

Years active 1958 – present ??? [[User:Xx236|Xx236]] ([[User talk:Xx236|talk]]) 13:00, 12 December 2017 (UTC)
:Copy and pasted info box - still under construction, well spotted and thanks. Sorry, World's worst editor. [[User:Edaham|Edaham]] ([[User talk:Edaham#top|talk]]) 13:02, 12 December 2017 (UTC)
:12:41 - my move
:12:42 - your creation of the Talk page [[User:Xx236|Xx236]] ([[User talk:Xx236|talk]]) 13:24, 12 December 2017 (UTC)
::That would be the reason - I had no idea you could create a talk page which didn't match the article's name. It was confusing as the talk page was directing to your newly corrected title, but the article did not link over to the talk page. Anyway it's fixed now. Apologies for the confusion and thanks for your time! [[User:Edaham|Edaham]] ([[User talk:Edaham#top|talk]]) 13:30, 12 December 2017 (UTC)

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Hello Edaham. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of [[:BIMB Holdings]], a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: '''being the parent company to notable companies indicates significance.''' Thank you. '''[[User:SoWhy|<span style="color: #7A2F2F; font-variant:small-caps">So</span>]][[User talk:SoWhy|<span style="color: #474F84; font-variant:small-caps">Why</span>]]''' 07:58, 14 December 2017 (UTC)

== ''Facto Post'' – Issue 7 – 15 December 2017 ==

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===A new bibliographical landscape===
At the beginning of December, Wikidata items on individual scientific articles passed the 10 million mark. This figure contrasts with the state of play in early summer, when there were around half a million. In the big picture, Wikidata is now documenting the scientific literature at a rate that is about eight times as fast as papers are published. As 2017 ends, progress is quite evident.

Behind this achievement are a technical advance ([[d:Wikidata:WikiProject Source MetaData/fatameh|fatameh]]), and bots that do the lifting. Much more than dry migration of metadata is potentially involved, however. If paper A cites paper B, both papers having an item, a link can be created on Wikidata, and the information presented to both human readers, and machines. This cross-linking is one of the most significant aspects of the scientific literature, and now a long-sought open version is rapidly being built up.
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The effort for the lifting of copyright restrictions on citation data of this kind has had real momentum behind it during 2017. [[m:WikiCite|WikiCite]] and the [[I4OC]] have been pushing hard, with the result that on [[CrossRef]] over 50% of the citation data is open. Now the holdout publishers are [https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/open-citations-movement-targets-big-publishers#survey-answer being lobbied] to release rights on citations.

But all that is just the beginning. Topics of papers are identified, authors disambiguated, with [http://magnusmanske.de/wordpress/?p=483 significant progress] on the use of the four million [[ORCID ID]]s for researchers, and proposals formulated to identify methodology in a machine-readable way. [[d:Property:P4510|P4510]] on Wikidata has been introduced so that methodology can sit comfortably on items about papers.

More is on the way. [[Wikipedia:OABOT|OABot]] applies the [http://unpaywall.org/ unpaywall] principle to [https://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/inula/article/view/24180/29824 Wikipedia referencing]. It has been proposed that Wikidata [http://dcpapers.dublincore.org/pubs/article/view/3866 could assist WorldCat] in compiling the global history of book translation. Watch this space.

And make promoting [[m:The Wikipedia Library/1Lib1Ref|#1lib1ref]] one of your New Year's resolutions. Happy holidays, all!

[[File:Wikidata Map November 2017 Normal.png|thumb|November 2017 map of geolocated Wikidata items, made by {{noping|Addshore}}]]

===Links===
*[https://science20.wordpress.com/2017/12/11/wikidatacon-giving-more-people-more-access-to-more-knowledge/ ''WikidataCon: Giving more people more access to more knowledge''], report by Peter Kraker of [https://openknowledgemaps.org/ Open Knowledge Maps]
*[https://siobhanleachman.tumblr.com/post/168445789476/moths-and-me ''This is a story of my knowledge adventure in New Zealand moths via Wikicommons, Wikipedia and Wikidata''], @SiobhanLeachman
*[https://www.researchgate.net/publication/321039195_Using_WikiData_as_a_multi-lingual_multi-dialectal_dictionary_for_Arabic_dialects Wikidata and Arabic dialects], research paper, DOI: 10.1109/AICCSA.2017.115
*[[c:Commons:British Library/Mechanical Curator collection/georeferencing status]], Mechanical Curator project on Commons hits 50K maps milestone
*[https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/11/29/research-newsletter-august-2017/ Historical dataset on the provenance of Wikipedia text: ''Who wrote this?''], by Tilman Bayer, WMF blogpost
*[http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/68675/1/Wajcman_Anyone%20can%20edit_Final_2017.pdf ''"Anyone can edit", not everyone does: Wikipedia and the gender gap'' (PDF)], journal paper, Heather Ford and Judy Wajcman
*[https://www.technologyreview.com/s/609736/alpha-zeros-alien-chess-shows-the-power-and-the-peculiarity-of-ai/ ''Alpha Zero’s "Alien" Chess Shows the Power, and the Peculiarity, of AI''], MIT Technology Review, by Will Knight, December 8, 2017
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== It's a festive time of year! ==

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== Happy Holidays ==

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== Is still' Men of Goodwill' the longest novel ==

Actually the novel Venmurasu has already became the world's longest novel ever written. As you can see in the list it is in the 4th place with 11 volumes in August 2016. Now it has come to 16 Volumes. [[User:Kirranashwin007|Kirranashwin007]] ([[User talk:Kirranashwin007|talk]]) 01:39, 29 December 2017 (UTC)
:{{u|Kirranashwin007}} there's no need to place predictions regarding its length in an encyclopedia. You can read the link at the end of this post for our policy regarding future events and expected results. If you want to write a forecast on something you still need to provide a verifiable and reliable source, however in this case the information isn't helpful to our readers as the title is about longest novels, not long novels in progress. [[wp:crystal]]

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We have done amazing work so far in December to reduce the '''[[Special:NewPagesFeed|New Pages Feed backlog]]''' by over 3000 articles! Now is the time to capitalise on our momentum and help eliminate the backlog!

The backlog drive will begin on January 1<sup>st</sup> and run until January 29<sup>th</sup>. Prize tiers and other info can be found [[WT:NPR#New Year Backlog Drive|HERE]].

Awards will be given in tiers in two categories:

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== ''Facto Post'' – Issue 8 – 15 January 2018 ==

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===Metadata on the March===
From the days of hard-copy [[liner notes]] on music albums, metadata have stood outside a piece or file, while adding to understanding of where it comes from, and some of what needs to be appreciated about its content. In the [[GLAM (industry sector)|GLAM sector]], the accumulation of accurate metadata for objects is key to the mission of an institution, and its presentation in cataloguing.

Today Wikipedia turns 17, with worlds still to conquer. Zooming out from the individual GLAM object to the ontology in which it is set, one such world becomes apparent: GLAMs use custom ontologies, and those introduce massive incompatibilities. From a [https://medium.com/@alexstinson/wikidata-in-collections-building-a-universal-language-for-connecting-glam-catalogs-59b14aa3214c recent article] by {{noping|sadads}}, we quote the observation that "vocabularies needed for many collections, topics and intellectual spaces defy the expectations of the larger professional communities." A job for the encyclopedist, certainly. But the data-minded Wikimedian has the advantages of Wikidata, starting with its multilingual data, and facility with aliases. The [[controlled vocabulary]] — sometimes referred to as a "thesaurus" as term of art — simplifies search: if a "spade" must be called that, rather than "shovel", it is easier to find all spade references. That control comes at a cost.
[[File:Pictograms-nps-misc-pedestrian crossing-2.svg|thumb|left|SVG pedestrian crosses road]] [[File:Zebra crossing 2.jpg|thumb|Zebra crossing/crosswalk, Singapore]]
Case studies in that article show what can lie ahead. The [[schema crosswalk]], in jargon, is a potential answer to the GLAM Babel of proliferating and expanding vocabularies. Even if you have no interest in Wikidata as such, simply vocabularies V and W, if both V and W are matched to Wikidata, then a "crosswalk" arises from term v in V to w in W, whenever v and w both match to the same item d in Wikidata.

For metadata mobility, match to Wikidata. It's apparently that simple: infrastructure requirements have turned out, so far, to be challenges that can be met.

===Links===
*<div style="color: #936c29; font-family: Copperplate, 'Copperplate Gothic Light', serif">1lib1ref campaign starts today, see [[m:The Wikipedia Library/1Lib1Ref]]: also [https://videos.mysimpleshow.com/CMygtDdRaE #1lib1ref introductory video] by {{noping|Felix Nartey}}</div>
*[https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-00104-7 ''Funders should mandate open citations''], article 9 January 2018 in ''Nature'' by David Shotton
*[https://hackmd.io/s/B1fhoKWMz# From snowflake to avalanche: Possibilities of using free citation data in libraries], translation from the [https://www.o-bib.de/article/view/2017H4S127-136 German original] of Annette Klein, Mannheim University Library
*[[outreach:GLAM/Newsletter/December 2017/Contents/WMF GLAM report]]
*[https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/01/hollywood-says-its-not-planning-another-copyright-extension-push/ ''Why Mickey Mouse’s 1998 copyright extension probably won't happen again: Copyrights from the 1920s will start expiring next year if Congress doesn't act''], Timothy B. Lee, 8 January 2018, Arstechnica
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== Edit to "Alternative for Germany". ==

Dear Edaham

I want to appeal about your reversion of my edit that I made on "Alternative for Germany".
Firstly, I did not blank the article. I removed content claiming anti-semitism and links to neo-nazi movements, the reason being the sources for this information are heavily biased news outlets and not academic sources.

Also, I removed the term "extremist" from the description of Pegida, since while that organisation has caused great controversy, the use of the term "extremist" should only be used for violent movements and Pegida has never engaged in violence. Using the term extremist compares organisations like Pegida with organisations such as Islamic State, which is misinformation and will mislead readers.

That is all.

[[Special:Contributions/138.38.94.166|138.38.94.166]] ([[User talk:138.38.94.166|talk]]) 18:08, 22 January 2018 (UTC)
:The talk page is the place to discuss article related topics. Thanks. [[User:Edaham|Edaham]] ([[User talk:Edaham#top|talk]]) 00:26, 23 January 2018 (UTC)

== Inserted a link to new Wikipedia site for Alfred Edward Rodewald ==

Thank you for reviewing my article on Alfred Edward Rodewald (AER). This is my first article for Wikipedia, although I am working on two others. I must apologise therefore that I am not familiar with Wikipedia rules and procedures.

The only photograph of AER in the Rodewald Concert Society (RCS) archives is the one on the RCS web site, which is rather dark and austere. I assume that this is no longer copyright as it must have been taken before AER's death in 1903 and the photographer's business has long since closed down. Unfortunately the original has been mislaid in the Liverpool Record Office and was never catalogued. (So much for professional archivists!) However, I do have a digital copy which was made for the Society. A rather more attractive one was used for the Blue Plaque and by John Kelly for the front of his book. I am unsure of the origin of this one but it is taken from a photograph in poor condition in the 'Liverpool Worthies' collection in the Liverpool Record Office, which is mainly newspaper cuttings. I have a cleaned up digital copy of this too. There are other photographs in Kelly's book from the Elgar Museum, the most interesting of these is one of AER and Elgar in AER's steam motor car the 'Shover'. This has been the subject of various magazine articles, so I am sure that a copy could be obtained. Whilst all these photographs must be out of copyright, I am not sure if owners permission is still required to use them.

I do not know what is meant by and 'Info box'. Please explain this.

Can you tell me how long it takes for a Wikipedia article to be found by search engines, such as Google? Are there further checks by Wikipedia before it goes public?

alan.jones.ski
[[User:Alan.jones.ski|Alan.jones.ski]] ([[User talk:Alan.jones.ski|talk]]) 23:47, 22 January 2018 (UTC)
:{{u|Alan.jones.ski}} Hi there Alan. I see you haven't been welcomed to Wikipedia yet, so I will do that now. Usually when a user joins a wikipedian will place a welcome message on the talk page of a new user which contains a lot of useful information and pointers to areas where users can find help. Regarding your post above, I'm not a great person to ask about image copyright issues and would like to refer you to [[Wikipedia:Copyrights#Guidelines_for_images_and_other_media_files|this page]], which contains detailed info. You can also go to the talk page of an admin who will be well read on this subject and help you with things. [[User talk:TonyBallioni|Tony Ballioni]] is a very patient and helpful admin with whom I'm acquainted.<br><br>Regarding [[Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Infoboxes|info boxes]], If you look at some other articles you will see a box on the right hand side of many articles containing some bare and basic facts about the subject of the article. Info boxes help people know that they've arrived at the right article by quickly giving a summary of info. For a musician this might include name/birth date/birth place/principal instrument/notable work. The article on [[Mozart]] just has a picture of him, with his signature under it. The article on [[Alessandro Scarlatti]] is a little more detailed with info on "years active" and "notable works". The info boxes require a little coding and if you find that a pain there are users who can help. A good resource to get help on articles is their project pages. If you go to the talk page of the article you created you can see that it's been added to some wikiprojects. I just added it to [[Wikipedia:WikiProject_Classical_music|classical music]]. You can visit that page and also the [[Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Classical_music|talk page for the project]], where you will find users interested in related subjects, who may be willing to visit your newly created page and help out. There are also a number of users who just seem to turn up and fix stuff on a wide variety of subjects. Almost all of the articles I create get visited by a user named [[user:Derek R Bullamore|Derek Bullamore]], who is very interested in music articles. You could alert your article to the attention of such a user and it would probably be further reviewed. Hope that helps! Have a great week. [[User:Edaham|Edaham]] ([[User talk:Edaham#top|talk]]) 00:53, 23 January 2018 (UTC)

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{{u|Insertcleverphrasehere}} My apologies for contributing so little. At first I found it a bit difficult then once I got the hang of it I became very busy in real life. Will try to be more active this year. Many thanks for the opportunity to participate. [[User:Edaham|Edaham]] ([[User talk:Edaham#top|talk]]) 09:01, 31 January 2018 (UTC)
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== ''Facto Post'' – Issue 9 – 5 February 2018 ==

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===Wikidata as Hub===
One way of looking at Wikidata relates it to the [[semantic web]] concept, around for about as long as Wikipedia, and realised in dozens of distributed Web institutions. It sees Wikidata as supplying central, encyclopedic coverage of [[linked structured data]], and looks ahead to greater support for "federated queries" that draw together information from all parts of the emerging network of websites.
[[File:Mandel zoom 07 satellite.jpg|left|250px]]
Another perspective might be likened to a photographic negative of that one: Wikidata as an already-functioning Web hub. Over half of its properties are identifiers on other websites. These are Wikidata's "external links", to use Wikipedia terminology: one type for the DOI of a publication, another for the VIAF page of an author, with thousands more such. Wikidata links out to sites that are not nominally part of the semantic web, effectively drawing them into a larger system. The crosswalk possibilities of the systematic construction of these links was covered in Issue 8.

[[Wikipedia:External links]] speaks of them as kept "minimal, meritable, and directly relevant to the article." Here Wikidata finds more of a function. On viaf.org one can type a VIAF author identifier into the search box, and find the author page. The [https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/resolver.php Wikidata Resolver tool], these days including Open Street Map, Scholia etc., allows this kind of lookup. The [https://tools.wmflabs.org/hub/ hub tool] by {{noping|maxlath}} takes a major step further, allowing both lookup and crosswalk to be encoded in a single URL.

===Links===
*[https://blog.wikimedia.org/2018/01/29/glam-multimedia-metadata-commons/ ''What galleries, libraries, archives, and museums can teach us about multimedia metadata on Wikimedia Commons''], Wikimedia Foundation blogpost, 29 January 2018, by Jonathan Morgan and Sandra Fauconnier
*[[m:The Wikipedia Library/1Lib1Ref/Connect]], 2018 institutional participation in the #1lib1ref campaign
*[[d:Wikidata:London workshop February 2018|Newspeak House queries]], created at 3 February 2018 event in London led by {{noping|Magnus Manske}}
*[[Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2018-02-05/Special report|Cochrane–Wikipedia Initiative]], Wikipedia Signpost special report 5 February 2018, by {{noping|JenOttowa}}
*[https://www.edge.org/the-last-question-1?t=1&cn=ZmxleGlibGVfcmVjc18y&refsrc=email&iid=c127a5fa4fc34ed4b37a2c5ab39331d0&uid=520433517&nid=244+272699400 ''What is the Last Question?''], 5 February 2018
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*The new page backlog is currently at <big>[[Special:NewPagesFeed|3819]]</big> unreviewed articles, with a further 6660 unreviewed redirects.
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'''New Year Backlog Drive results''':
*We made ''massive'' progress during the recent four weeks of the NPP Backlog Drive, during which the backlog reduced by nearly six thousand articles and the length of the backlog by almost 3 months!

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== ''Facto Post'' – Issue 10 – 12 March 2018 ==

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===Milestone for mix'n'match===
Around the time in February when Wikidata clicked past item Q50000000, another milestone was reached: the [https://tools.wmflabs.org/mix-n-match mix'n'match] tool uploaded its 1000th dataset. Concisely defined by its author, {{noping|Magnus Manske}}, it works "to match entries in external catalogs to Wikidata". The total number of entries is now well into eight figures, and more are constantly being added: a couple of new catalogs each day is normal.

Since the [http://magnusmanske.de/wordpress/?p=114 end of 2013], mix'n'match has gradually come to play a significant part in adding statements to Wikidata. Particularly in areas with the flavour of [[digital humanities]], but datasets can of course be about practically anything. There is a catalog on skyscrapers, and two on spiders.

These days mix'n'match can be used in numerous modes, from the relaxed gamified click through a catalog looking for matches, with prompts, to the fantastically useful and often demanding search across all catalogs. I'll type that again: you can search 1000+ datasets from the simple box at the top right. The drop-down menu top left offers "creation candidates", Magnus's personal favourite. [[m:Mix'n'match/Manual]] for more.

For the Wikidatan, a key point is that these matches, however carried out, add statements to Wikidata if, and naturally only if, there is a Wikidata property associated with the catalog. For everyone, however, the hands-on experience of deciding of what is a good match is an education, in a scholarly area, biographical catalogs being particularly fraught. Underpinning recent rapid progress is an open infrastructure for scraping and uploading.

Congratulations to Magnus, our data [[Stakhanovite]]!

===Links===
[[File:3D Printing Zamenhof's Head.jpg|thumb|left|3D printing]]
*[https://3dprintingindustry.com/news/wikipedia-goes-3d-allowing-users-upload-stls-digital-reference-129340/ ''Wikipedia goes 3D allowing users to upload .STLs for digital reference''], Beau Jackson for 3dprintingindustry.com, February 22 2018
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRK_MltUezA&feature=youtu.be&t=236 WikiCite report (video)]
*[https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T185065 Formal publication and announcement of ISBN citation dataset], see [https://twitter.com/i/web/status/967064062616981504 Twitter post], February 23 2018
*[http://dataviz-literacy.wmflabs.org/#section-introduction ''Plotting the Course Through Charted Waters''], workshop on data visualization literacy from Mikhail Popov, Wikimedia Foundation
*[https://blog.ehri-project.eu/2018/02/12/using-wikidata/ ''Using Wikidata to build an authority list of Holocaust-era ghettos''], Nancy Cooey, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, February 12 2018
*[https://longair.net/blog/2017/11/29/sparql-wikidata/ ''Why Should You Learn SPARQL? Wikidata!''] Mark Longair, blogpost November 29 2017
*[http://www.zdnet.com/article/back-to-the-future-does-graph-database-success-hang-on-query-language/ ''Back to the future: Does graph database success hang on query language?''], George Anadiotis for Big on Data, March 5 2018
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==label references==
Can you pleaze label references #13 and #35 on this page [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rizwan_Ahmed_(bureaucrat)] like title of references and time and date and all, Rgards in advance ([[Special:Contributions/119.153.53.198|119.153.53.198]] ([[User talk:119.153.53.198|talk]]) 20:08, 20 March 2018 (UTC))
:I’m not acquainted with the material you are talking about. Are you sure you’ve got the right person? [[User:Edaham|Edaham]] ([[User talk:Edaham#top|talk]]) 23:20, 20 March 2018 (UTC)

== New Page Review Newsletter No.10 ==

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'''ACTRIAL''':
*[[WP:ACTRIAL|ACTRIAL]]'s six month experiment restricting new page creation to [[WP:AUTOCONFIRM|(auto)confirmed]] users ended on 14 March. As expected, a greatly increased number of unsuitable articles and candidates for deletion are showing up in the [[Special:NewPagesFeed|feed]] again, and the backlog has since increased already by '''~30%'''. Please consider reviewing a few extra articles each day.

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== ''Facto Post'' – Issue 11 – 9 April 2018 ==

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===The 100 Skins of the Onion===
[https://i4oc.org/news.html#April2018 Open Citations Month], with its eminently guessable hashtag, is upon us. We should be utterly grateful that in the past 12 months, so much data on which papers cite which other papers has been made open, and that Wikidata is playing its part in hosting it as "cites" statements. At the time of writing, there are 15.3M Wikidata items that can do that.

Pulling back to look at [[open access]] papers in the large, though, there is is less reason for celebration. Access in theory does not yet equate to practical access. A [http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2018/03/22/releasing-1-8-million-open-access-publications-from-publisher-systems-for-text-and-data-mining/ recent LSE IMPACT blogpost] puts that issue down to "heterogeneity". A useful euphemism to save us from thinking that the whole concept doesn't fall into the realm of the [[oxymoron]].

Some home truths: aggregation is not content management, if it falls short on reusability. The PDF file format is wedded to how humans read documents, not how machines ingest them. The salami-slicer is our friend in the current downloading of open access papers, but for a better metaphor, think about skinning an onion, laboriously, 100 times with diminishing returns. There are of the order of 100 major publisher sites hosting open access papers, and the predominant offer there is still a PDF.
[[File:Red onion cross section 03.jpg|thumb|left|Red onion cross section]]
From the discoverability angle, Wikidata's bibliographic resources combined with the [[SPARQL]] query are superior in principle, by far, to existing keyword searches run over papers. Open access content should be managed into consistent HTML, something that is currently strenuous. The good news, such as it is, would be that much of it is already in [[XML]]. The organisational problem of removing further skins from the onion, with sensible prioritisation, is certainly not insuperable. The CORE group (the bloggers in the LSE posting) has some answers, but actually not all that is needed for the [[text and data mining]] purposes they highlight. The [[long tail]], or in other words the onion heart when it has become fiddly beyond patience to skin, does call for a ''[[wikt:pis aller|pis aller]]''. But the real knack is to do more between the XML and the heart.

===Links===
*[https://www.cwts.nl/blog?article=n-r2s234 ''Crossref as a new source of citation data: A comparison with Web of Science and Scopus''], CWTS blogpost 17 January 2018, Nees Jan van Eck, Ludo Waltman, Vincent Larivière, Cassidy Sugimoto
*[https://figshare.com/articles/Wikipedia_Scholarly_Article_Citations/1299540 Citations with identifiers in Wikipedia, figshare dataset]
*[https://blog.wikimedia.org/2018/03/29/increasing-visibility-women-with-wikidata/ ''Making women more visible online—with Wikidata tools!''], Wikimedia blogpost 29 March 2018 by [[User:Spinster|Sandra Fauconnier]]
*[[Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)#Turn_on_mapframe?_We%E2%80%99re_ready_if_you_are|Village pump discussion, ''Turn on mapframe? We’re ready if you are'']] reaches conclusions
*[https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelbernick/2018/03/28/the-power-of-the-wikimedia-movement-beyond-wikimedia/#1aa669e75a75 ''The Power of the Wikimedia Movement beyond Wikimedia''], Forbes 28 March 2018, Michael Bernick
*[https://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/2018/03/26/tracing-stolen-bitcoin/ ''Tracing stolen bitcoin''], blogpost 26 March 2018 by [[Ross J. Anderson]]
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I got your review, thank you btw, but can you help me? I have the speedy deletion idk why, but can you help me take it off. Thank you in advance.

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:{{ping|Lazer Gaming}} The short answer here is no, I can’t help you take it off. The reason for this is that you haven’t written a properly formed article with adequate sources. Jumping onto Wikipedia and starting your first article is quite hard. I think you are going to need to learn about sourcing before you read an article. On your [[User talk:Lazer Gaming|talk page]] at the top is a welcome link which contains a link to a help sheet called “creating your first page” in this and other links is info which is very important for creating pages. Before I offer specific advice I’d really like you to read it. You will not get anywhere if you keep trying to create a page which has already been deleted. Thanks [[User:Edaham|Edaham]] ([[User talk:Edaham#top|talk]]) 02:36, 20 April 2018 (UTC)

== NPR Newsletter No.11 25 May 2018 ==

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*[[WP:ACREQ]] has been implemented. The flow at [[Special:NewPagesFeed|the feed]] has dropped back to the levels during the trial. However, the backlog is on the rise again so please consider reviewing a few extra articles each day; a backlog approaching 5,000 is still far too high. An effort is also needed to ensure that older unsuitable older pages at the back of the queue do not get automatically indexed for Google.

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*There will be a large increase in the number of editathons in June. Please be gentle with new pages that obviously come from good faith participants, especially articles from developing economies and ones about female subjects. Consider using the '[[User:Evad37/MoveToDraft|move to draft]]' tool rather than bluntly tagging articles that may have potential but which cannot yet reside in mainspace.

'''Paid editing - new policy'''
*Now that ACTRIAL is ACREQ, please be sure to look for tell-tale signs of undisclosed paid editing. Contact the creator <u>if appropriate</u>, and submit the issue to [[WP:COIN]] if necessary. There is a new global WMF policy that requires paid editors to connect to their adverts.

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== ''Facto Post'' – Issue 12 – 28 May 2018 ==

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===ScienceSource funded===
The Wikimedia Foundation announced full funding of the [[m:Grants:Project/ScienceSource|ScienceSource grant proposal]] from [http://contentmine.org/ ContentMine] on May 18. See the [https://twitter.com/TheContentMine/status/997574058727354370 ScienceSource Twitter announcement and 60 second video].

;A medical canon?
The proposal includes downloading 30,000 open access papers, aiming (roughly speaking) to create a baseline for medical referencing on Wikipedia. It leaves open the question of how these are to be chosen.

The basic criteria of [[WP:MEDRS]] include a concentration on secondary literature. Attention has to be given to the [[long tail]] of diseases that receive less current research. The MEDRS guideline supposes that [[edge case]]s will have to be handled, and the premature exclusion of publications that would be in those marginal positions would reduce the value of the collection. [[Prophylaxis]] misses the point that gate-keeping will be done by an algorithm.

Two well-known but rather different areas where such considerations apply are [[tropical disease]]s and [[alternative medicine]]. There are also a number of potential downloading troubles, and these were mentioned in [[User:Charles Matthews/Facto Post/Issue 11 – 9 April 2018|Issue 11]]. There is likely to be a gap, even with the guideline, between conditions taken to be necessary but not sufficient, and conditions sufficient but not necessary, for candidate papers to be included. With around 10,000 recognised medical conditions in standard lists, being comprehensive is demanding. With all of these aspects of the task, ScienceSource will seek community help.

===Links===
[[File:Google-refine-logo.svg|thumb|OpenRefine logo, courtesy of Google]]
*[[d:Wikidata:Lexicographical data]], Wikidata's multi-lingual dictionary project gets going
*[https://tools.wmflabs.org/ordia/search?q=hus Ordia tool], a basic search interface for Wikidata lexemes and forms
*[[d:Wikidata:Tools/OpenRefine|OpenRefine tool 3.0]], May update allows wrangling of tabular information into Wikidata
*[[d:Wikidata:WikiProject British Politicians]] pushes ahead with data modelling and imports
*[https://www.ifla.org/node/47354 #1Lib1Ref ''Returns for a Second Time in 2018''], [[International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions|IFLA]] blogpost 25 May 2018, second chance this year to participate in referencing Wikipedia
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If you have a question about the blocked editor's user page, it's probably better to either ask it on my talk page or comment about it at the AN/I thread; it's easier to keep track and keeps unwanted notification for the blocked editor. Anyway, I will ask a meta admin to delete their user page on meta. Thanks. [[User:Alex Shih|Alex Shih]] ([[User talk:Alex Shih|talk]]) 10:52, 28 May 2018 (UTC)
:It's OK I've worked out the issue - the only reason I asked you there is because I was trying to contact the user there during several edit conflicts - which were possibly created by you blocking him. In any case I've created a blank page for the user's user page with the effect that it displays nothing rather than the promotional material which is redirected from the meta page. Sorry to disturb you and cheers. [[User:Edaham|Edaham]] ([[User talk:Edaham#top|talk]]) 10:54, 28 May 2018 (UTC)




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== Speedy deletion nomination of Daryl Aiden Yao ==

Hello Edaham,

I wanted to let you know that I just tagged [[Daryl Aiden Yao]] for deletion, because the article doesn't clearly say why the subject is important enough to be included in an encyclopedia.

If you feel that the article shouldn't be deleted and want more time to work on it, you can <span class="plainlinks">'''[//en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title={{urlencode:Talk:Daryl Aiden Yao}}&action=edit&section=new&preload=Template:Hangon_preload&preloadtitle=This+page+should+not+be+speedy+deleted+because...+ contest this deletion]'''</span>, but please don't remove the speedy deletion tag from the top.

You can leave a note on [[User_talk:Earthh|my talk page]] if you have questions.

[[User:Earthh|Earthh]] ([[User talk:Earthh|talk]]) 21:50, 22 June 2018 (UTC)


== ''Facto Post'' – Issue 13 – 29 May 2018 ==

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;Respecting MEDRS
''Facto Post'' enters its second year, with a Cambridge Blue (OK, Aquamarine) background, a new logo, but no Cambridge blues. On-topic for the [[m:Grants:Project/ScienceSource/Profile|ScienceSource project]] is a [[Wikipedia:WikiProjectMedicine/Referencing case studies for MEDRS|project page here]]. It contains some case studies on how the [[WP:MEDRS]] guideline, for the referencing of articles at all related to human health, is applied in typical discussions.

Close to home also, a template, called {{tl|medrs}} for short, is used to express dissatisfaction with particular references. Technology can help with patrolling, and this [http://petscan.wmflabs.org/?psid=4902034 Petscan query] finds over 450 articles where there is at least one use of the template. Of course the template is merely suggesting there is a possible issue with the reliability of a reference. Deciding the truth of the allegation is another matter.

This maintenance issue is one example of where ScienceSource aims to help. Where the reference is to a scientific paper, its type of algorithm could give a pass/fail opinion on such references. It could assist patrollers of medical articles, therefore, with the templated references and more generally. There may be more to proper referencing than that, indeed: context, quite what the statement supported by the reference expresses, prominence and weight. For that kind of consideration, case studies can help. But an algorithm might help to clear the backlog.

[[File:Research design and evidence.svg|thumb|left|Evidence pyramid leading up to [[clinical guideline]]s, from [[WP:MEDRS]]]]

;Links
*[https://query.wikidata.org/embed.html#%23defaultView%3ABubbleChart%0ASELECT%20%3FleagueLabel%20%28COUNT%28%3Fleague%29%20AS%20%3Fcount%29%20%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Fmatch%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ16466010.%20%23%20a%20football%20match%0A%20%20%3Fmatch%20wdt%3AP361%2a%20wd%3AQ170645.%20%23%20that%27s%20part%20of%20the%202018%20World%20Cup%0A%20%20%3Fmatch%20p%3AP1363%20%3Fstmt.%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20we%20want%20the%20details%20of%20goals%0A%20%20%3Fstmt%20ps%3AP1363%20%3Fscorer.%20%20%20%20%23%20who%20scored%0A%20%20%3Fscorer%20p%3AP54%20%3Fstmt1.%0A%20%20%3Fstmt1%20ps%3AP54%20%3Fteam.%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20what%20teams%20have%20they%20played%20for%0A%20%20MINUS%20%7B%3Fstmt1%20pq%3AP582%20%5B%5D%7D%20%23%20no%20end%20time%20%3D%3E%20player%20is%20still%20playing%20for%20team%0A%20%20%3Fteam%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ476028.%20%23%20we%20only%20want%20domestic%20teams%0A%20%20%3Fteam%20wdt%3AP118%20%3Fleague.%20%20%20%20%23%20what%20league%20do%20they%20play%20in%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%20%7D%0A%7D%20GROUP%20BY%20%3FleagueLabel%20%3Fleague%0A World Cup scorers bubble chart, by the league in which they play], query run on Wikidata
*[https://query.wikidata.org/embed.html#%23defaultView%3ATimeline%0ASELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fauthor%20%3FauthorLabel%20%3Fimage%20%3Fdate%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Fauthor%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ2537%20.%0A%20%20%3Fauthor%20wdt%3AP575%20%3Fdate%20.%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%3Fauthor%20wdt%3AP18%20%3Fimage%20.%7D%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%2C%20de%2C%20fr%2C%20es%2C%20it%2C%20cz%22%20%7D%0A%7D%20 Timeline of discoveries of natural satellites in the solar system], query run on Wikidata
*[https://blog.library.wales/?p=17811 ''4800 Welsh portraits added to Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata''], National Library of Wales blogpost 27 June 2018, by {{noping|Jason.nlw}}
*[https://www.haykranen.nl/2018/06/15/the-deaditors-of-wikipedia/ ''The "deaditors" of Wikipedia], Hay Kranen blogpost, 15 June 2018
*[https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1008295163616165888 Six dimensions of open access, polemical tweet], 17 June 2018
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== Talk:Southern Poverty Law Center ==

Dervorguilla [https://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Talk:Southern_Poverty_Law_Center&diff=850027126&oldid=850026794 tried] but she got [https://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Talk:Southern_Poverty_Law_Center&diff=850027443&oldid=850027126 reverted] by [[User:PeterTheFourth|PeterTheFourth]] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Talk:Southern_Poverty_Law_Center&diff=850029481&oldid=850029186 reverted again] by [[User:Malik Shabazz|Malik Shabazz]] (who then advised her at [[User talk:Dervorguilla#Talk:Southern Poverty Law Center|User talk]] to knock off her edit warring).

Note that the section as a whole shouldn't get hidden (because [https://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Talk:Southern_Poverty_Law_Center&diff=849867755&oldid=849867407 RSN]). --[[User:Dervorguilla|Dervorguilla]] ([[User talk:Dervorguilla|talk]]) 04:46, 13 July 2018 (UTC)

:That diff doesn't show someone collapsing the thread, it shows someone partially collapsing specific comments from the thread. I've never seen this done before. It's akin to striking out, or removing another user's text. It seems unconventional and rude. If you found another user's comments to be improper, don't collapse or remove them - you can either continue discussion or take it to ANI. If the thread isn't going anywhere, close the whole thing and start a new one. While doing so, consider why the thread didn't get anywhere the first time and try to address the issue accordingly. Given the nature of the discussion thus far, this seems like a tall order, but those are WP recommendations. [[User:Edaham|Edaham]] ([[User talk:Edaham#top|talk]]) 04:53, 13 July 2018 (UTC)


== ''Facto Post'' – Issue 14 – 21 July 2018 ==

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;Plugging the gaps – Wikimania report
Officially it is "bridging the gaps in knowledge", with Wikimania 2018 in [[Cape Town]] paying tribute to the southern African concept of ''[[Ubuntu philosophy|ubuntu]]'' to implement it. Besides face-to-face interactions, Wikimedians do need their power sources.
[[File:Wikimania 2018 hackathon mentoring table plugbar.jpg|thumb|left|Hackathon mentoring table wiring]]
''Facto Post'' interviewed {{noping|Jdforrester}}, who has attended every Wikimania, and now works as Senior Product Manager for the Wikimedia Foundation. His take on tackling the gaps in the Wikimedia movement is that "if we were an army, we could march in a column and close up all the gaps". In his view though, that is a faulty metaphor, and it leads to a completely false misunderstanding of the movement, its diversity and different aspirations, and the nature of the work as "fighting" to be done in the open sector. There are many fronts, and as an [[m:Eventualism|eventualist]] he feels the gaps experienced both by editors and by users of Wikimedia content are inevitable. He would like to see a greater emphasis on reuse of content, not simply its volume.

If that may not sound like radicalism, the ''Decolonizing the Internet'' conference here organized jointly with [https://whoseknowledge.org/decolonizing-the-internet-conference/ Whose Knowledge?] can redress the picture. It comes with the claim to be "the first ever conference about centering marginalized knowledge online".
[[File:Wikimania 2018 plugbar Tetris.jpg|thumb|Plugbar buildup at the Hackathon]]
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*[[d:Wikidata:ScienceSource focus list|ScienceSource focus list]] (shortcut WD:SSFL on Wikidata), project to tag a first-pass open access medical bibliography on Wikidata, and also overcome the systematic biases in the medical literature by curation.
*[https://blog.wikimedia.org/2018/07/18/wikimedia-foundation-and-kiwix-partner-to-grow-offline-access-to-wikipedia/ ''Wikimedia Foundation and Kiwix partner to grow offline access to Wikipedia''], Wikimedia Foundation blogpost 18 July 2018.
*[http://www.designindaba.com/articles/creative-work/wikipedias-upcoming-cape-town-conference-will-tackle-issue-diversity ''Wikipedia's upcoming Cape Town conference will tackle the issue of diversity''], Jamie Matroos, 2 July 2018.
*[https://www.videowiki.org/ VideoWiki], a video version of Wikipedia.
*[http://blog.openlibrary.org/2018/07/14/search-full-text-within-4m-books/ ''Search Full-Text within 4M+ Books''], by MEK, The Open Library Blog, 14 July 2018
*[https://www.ndr.de/der_ndr/presse/More-than-5000-German-scientists-have-published-papers-in-pseudo-scientific-journals,fakescience178.html ''More than 5,000 German scientists have published papers in pseudo-scientific journals''], NDR, 19 July 2018.
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== NPR Newsletter No.12 30 July 2018 ==

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;June backlog drive
Overall the June backlog drive was a success, reducing the last 3,000 or so to below 500. However, as expected, 90% of the patrolling was done by less than 10% of reviewers. <br>Since the drive closed, the backlog has begun to rise sharply again and is back up to nearly '''1,400''' already. Please help reduce this total and keep it from raising further by reviewing some articles each day.

;New technology, new rules
*New features are shortly going to be added to the [[Special:NewPagesFeed]] which include a list of drafts for review, OTRS flags for COPYVIO, and more granular filter preferences. More details can be found at [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Articles for creation/AfC Process Improvement May 2018#Execution plan and status|this page]].
*Probationary permissions: Now that PERM has been configured to allow expiry dates to all minor user rights, new NPR flag holders may sometimes be limited in the first instance to 6 months during which their work will be assessed for both quality and quantity of their reviews. This will allow admins to accord the right in borderline cases rather than make a flat out rejection.
*Current reviewers who have had the flag for longer than 6 months but have not used the permissions since they were granted will have the flag removed, but may still request to have it granted again in the future, subject to the same probationary period, if they wish to become an active reviewer.

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*Editathons will continue through August. Please be gentle with new pages that obviously come from good faith participants, especially articles from developing economies and ones about female subjects. Consider using the '[[User:Evad37/MoveToDraft|move to draft]]' tool rather than bluntly tagging articles that may have potential but which cannot yet reside in mainspace.

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== ''Facto Post'' – Issue 15 – 21 August 2018 ==

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;Neglected diseases
[[File:On the Road to Eliminating Neglected Tropical Diseases in Cote d'Ivoire (29464931444).jpg|thumb|left|Anti-parasitic drugs being distributed in [[Côte d'Ivoire ]]]]
[[File:SS Whats a Neglected Disease.webm|thumb|left|''What's a Neglected Disease?'', ScienceSource video]]

To grasp the nettle, there are [[rare disease]]s, there are [[tropical disease]]s and then there are "neglected diseases". Evidently a rare enough disease is likely to be neglected, but [[neglected disease]] these days means a disease not rare, but tropical, and most often infectious or parasitic. Rare diseases as a group are dominated, in contrast, by [[genetic disease]]s.

A major aspect of neglect is found in tracking [[drug discovery]]. [[Orphan drug]]s are those developed to treat rare diseases (rare enough not to have market-driven research), but there is some overlap in practice with the [[WHO]]'s [http://www.who.int/neglected_diseases/diseases/en/ neglected diseases], where [[snakebite]], a "neglected public health issue", is on the list.

From an encyclopedic point of view, lack of research also may mean lack of high-quality references: the core medical literature differs from primary research, since it operates by aggregating trials. This bibliographic deficit clearly hinders Wikipedia's mission. The ScienceSource project is currently addressing this issue, on Wikidata. Its [[d:Wikidata:ScienceSource focus list|Wikidata focus list]] at WD:SSFL is trying to ensure that neglect does not turn into bias in its selection of science papers.

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*[http://magnusmanske.de/wordpress/?p=559 ''Wikipedia, Wikidata, and citations''], a census, August 2 2018, blogpost by {{noping|Magnus Manske}}
*[http://hangingtogether.org/?p=6775 ''The rise of Wikidata as a linked data source''] August 6, 2018, by Karen Smith-Yoshimura on OCLC Research blog
*[https://janakiev.com/blog/wikidata-mayors/ ''Where do Mayors Come From: Querying Wikidata with Python and SPARQL''], August 1 2018, Parametric Thoughts blog
*[https://hapgood.us/2018/08/09/newspapers-on-wikipedia-update-initial-wikidata-pass/ ''Newspapers On Wikipedia Update: Initial Wikidata Pass''] 9 August 2018, Mike Caulfield
*[https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.05053 ''Google Scholar, Web of Science, and Scopus: a systematic comparison of citations in 252 subject categories''] Alberto Martín-Martín, Enrique Orduna-Malea, Mike Thelwall, Emilio Delgado López-Cózar, arxiv.org, submitted on 15 August 2018
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== Thanks for possibly undeserved thanks ==

Of course, I always greatly enjoy thanks for [https://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Mathematics&oldid=prev&diff=856338544 edits of mine], but, to be honest, in my intentions I related the "overlapping" with "tasks" and not with "mathematics", which, maybe, is not fully congruent with your intentions. Personally, I consider the mathematical branch of applied math as belonging to math, but the "application of methods from applied math" does not, this task forms the addressed overlap. It may well be that my opinion is not fit for any possible consensus, but I still cling to it. I do not care that much for the lead, or even the whole article as to fight for any specific content, but I try to help the side nearer to my convictions and hope to keep out incompetent zealots, fighting for "their simplicity". It was very nice to read your notice. Thanks, [[User:Purgy Purgatorio|Purgy]] ([[User talk:Purgy Purgatorio|talk]]) 10:21, 26 August 2018 (UTC)
:I make it a habit to thank people who build upon or alter rather than revert my edits. I don’t really know anything about math, but I do read an awful lot of lead sections. I’m trying to look at the article from the perspective of a reader who is broad minded enough to simply type “Math” into the search bar. Such a reader is probably not looking to find the definitive results of a furious talk page debate, but rather, just hazily touching on a subject they might have had stuffed behind a few slabs of grey matter for some time. I wrote the new opening sentence with this in mind and I think the result looks reasonable, both before and after your edit. Thanks again. [[User:Edaham|Edaham]] ([[User talk:Edaham#top|talk]]) 14:21, 26 August 2018 (UTC)


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== [[Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/StreetDrone (2nd nomination)]] ==

Please see the new nomination for [[StreetDrone]] at [[Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/StreetDrone (2nd nomination)]], instead of [[Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/StreetDrone]]. --[[User:Metropolitan90|Metropolitan90]] [[User talk:Metropolitan90|(talk)]] 05:09, 8 September 2018 (UTC)



== Dusser ==

Hi

1. Why do you want to delete the article even though the article is in many languages?
2- Dussur company is global and its capital is huge and you can improve it

--[[User:Bander7799|Bander7799]] ([[User talk:Bander7799|talk]]) 06:56, 11 September 2018 (UTC)
:Because you've copy pasted it from the company website. It's blatantly promotional and even if it wasn't it would be a copyright violation. Stop removing deletion tags without improving the article. If you have any objection to its deletion you can voice them on the talk page. The fact that it exists on other Wikimedia sites does nothing to transfer notability to this article. They all have their own guidelines regarding notability and promotional material. [[User:Edaham|Edaham]] ([[User talk:Edaham#top|talk]]) 07:01, 11 September 2018 (UTC)


== Flint Water Crisis ==

My position is that Tomcat4680 has been obviously trying to "bury" history of discussion of the Talk page for the Flint Water Crisis, apparently by setting the Archive time down to as low as 30 days, and more recently he "tolerated" a 90-day archive. It doesn't take very long before the Talk page turns to "zero" length. If you look at the article, it is clear that Tomcat4680 has heavily edited the article; alone that isn't bad, but it suggests that he might think he "owns" the article. The Wikipedia article on archiving, as I recall, refers to a 75Kbyte typical length of a file before archiving. I'm not sure how to determine the length of an article/Talk-page, but I am virtually certain that the reason that the Talk page has been so empty is that the archiving has swept away almost everything about prior discussions. It's conceivable this guy is not merely controlling but is also OCD, and he wants a 'nice, clean Talk page'. In other words, the smaller the number of comments, the better. Zero comments would be nice, I suspect he believes. And he gets this by setting the archive to a low value. [[Special:Contributions/2601:1C2:4E02:3020:D425:5619:7EC6:41D1|2601:1C2:4E02:3020:D425:5619:7EC6:41D1]] ([[User talk:2601:1C2:4E02:3020:D425:5619:7EC6:41D1|talk]]) 02:49, 17 September 2018 (UTC)

:No personal attacks please. A compromise has been suggested. I think you should attempt to work in tandem in a more sociable and affable way. Disagreements are common. You can talk it out constructively. Saying he has OCD is talking about the user’s personality. There’s simply no need to do that and it is against policy. Really it’s actually against policy - as in you can lose your editing privileges for doing it. [[User:Edaham|Edaham]] ([[User talk:Edaham#top|talk]]) 05:17, 17 September 2018 (UTC)


== NPR Newsletter No.13 18 September 2018 ==

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Hello {{BASEPAGENAME}}, thank you for your work reviewing New Pages!

The New Page Feed currently has 2700 unreviewed articles, up from just 500 at the start of July. For a while we were falling behind by an average of about 40 articles per day, but we have stabilised more recently. Please review some articles from the back of the queue if you can (Sort by: 'Oldest' at [[Special:NewPagesFeed]]), as we are very close to having articles older than one month.

;Project news
* The [[Special:NewPagesFeed|New Page Feed]] now has a new "Articles for Creation" option which will show drafts instead of articles in the feed, this shouldn't impact NPP activities and is part of the '''[[Wikipedia:WikiProject_Articles_for_creation/AfC_Process_Improvement_May_2018|WMF's AfC Improvement Project]]'''.
:As part of this project, the feed will have some larger updates to functionality next month. Specifically, [[WP:ORES|ORES]] predictions will be built in, which will automatically flag articles for potential issues such as vandalism or spam. Copyright violation detection will also be added to the new page feed. See the projects's [[Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Articles_for_creation/AfC_Process_Improvement_May_2018|talk page]] for more info.
*There are a number of coordination tasks for New Page Patrol that could use some help from experienced reviewers. See [[Wikipedia:New pages patrol/Coordination#Coordinator tasks]] for more info to see if you can help out.

;Other
*A new summary page of reliable sources has been created; [[Wikipedia:Identifying reliable sources/Perennial sources]], which summarizes existing RfCs or RSN discussions about regularly used sources.

;Moving to Draft and Page Mover
*Some unsuitable new articles can be best reviewed by moving them to the draft space, but reviewers need to do this carefully and sparingly. It is most useful for topics that look like they ''might'' have promise, but where the article as written would be unlikely to survive AfD. If the article can be easily fixed, or if the only issue is a lack of sourcing that is easily accessible, tagging or adding sources yourself is preferable. If sources do not appear to be available and the topic does not appear to be notable, tagging for deletion is preferable (PROD/AfD/CSD as appropriate). See additional guidance at [[WP:DRAFTIFY]].
*If the user moves the draft back to mainspace, or recreates it in mainspace, please do not re-draftify the article (although swapping it to maintain the page history may be advisable in the case of copy-paste moves). AfC is optional except for editors with a clear [[WP:COIEDIT|conflict of interest]].
*Articles that have been created in contravention of our [[WP:UPE|paid-editing-requirements]] or written from a blatant NPOV perspective, or by authors with a clear [[WP:COIEDIT|COI]] might also be draftified at discretion.
*The best tool for draftification is [[User:Evad37/MoveToDraft.js]]<sup>([[User:Evad37/MoveToDraft|info]])</sup>. Kindly adapt the text in the dialogue-pop-up as necessary (the default can also be changed [[Special:Diff/855103575|like this]]). Note that if you do not have the [[WP:PAGEMOVER|Page Mover]] userright, the redirect from main will be automatically tagged as [[WP:R2|CSD R2]], but in some cases it might be better to make this a redirect to a different page instead.
*The [[WP:PAGEMOVER|Page Mover]] userright can be useful for New Page Reviewers; occasionally [[Wikipedia:Page mover#Page swapping|page swapping]] is needed during NPR activities, and it helps avoid excessive R2 nominations which must be processed by admins. Note that the Page Mover userright has higher requirements than the NPR userright, and is generally given to users active at [[WP:RM|Requested Moves]]. Only reviewers who are very experienced and are also very active reviewers are likely to be granted it solely for NPP activities.

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*[[WP:Twinkle|Twinkle]] provides a lot of the same functionality as the page curation tools, and some reviewers prefer to use the Twinkle tools for some/all tasks. It can be activated simply in the [[Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-gadgets|gadgets section of 'preferences']]. There are also a lot of options available at [[Wikipedia:Twinkle/Preferences|the Twinkle preferences panel]] after you install the gadget.
*In terms of other gadgets for NPR, [[WP:HotCat|HotCat]] is worth turning on. It allows you to easily add, remove, and change categories on a page, with name suggestions.
*[[meta:MoreMenu|MoreMenu]] also adds a bunch of very useful links for diagnosing and fixing page issues.
*[[User:Equazcion/ScriptInstaller.js]]<sup>([[User:Equazcion/ScriptInstaller|info]])</sup>: Installing scripts doesn't have to be complicated. Go to [[Special:MyPage/common.js|your common.js]] and copy <code><nowiki>importScript( 'User:Equazcion/ScriptInstaller.js' );</nowiki></code> into an empty line, now you can install all other scripts with the click of a button from the script page! (Note you need to be at the ".js" page for the script for the install button to appear, not the information page)
*[[User:TheJosh/Scripts/NewPagePatrol.js]]<sup>([[User:TheJosh/Scripts/NewPagePatrol|info]])</sup>: Creates a scrolling new pages list at the left side of the page. You can change the number of pages shown by adding the following to the next line on your common.js page (immediately after the line importing this script): <code><nowiki>npp_num_pages=20;</nowiki></code> (Recommended 20, but you can use any number from 1 to 50).
*[[User:Primefac/revdel.js]]<sup>([[User:Primefac/revdel|info]])</sup>: Is requesting revdel complicated and time consuming? This script helps simplify the process. Just have the Copyvio source URL and go to the history page and collect your diff IDs and you can drop them into the script Popups and it will create a revdel request for you.
*[[User:Lourdes/PageCuration.js]]<sup>([[User:Lourdes/PageCuration|info]])</sup>: Creates a "Page Curation" link to [[Special:NewPagesFeed]] up near your sandbox link.
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*[[User:Evad37/rater.js]]<sup>([[User:Evad37/rater|info]])</sup>: A fantastic tool for adding WikiProject templates to article talk pages. If you add: <code><nowiki>rater_autostartNamespaces = 0;</nowiki></code> to the next line on your common.js, the prompt will pop up automatically if a page has no Wikiproject templates on the talk page (note: this can be a bit annoying if you review redirects or dab pages commonly).
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{{ping|Mr. Guye}} I have not been involved in the area of discussion mentioned above, nor do I frequently contribute material on this subject so your notice has been issued in error. Thank you for your contributions but do take due care when issuing standard templates, particularly discretionary sanctions notices, as these can serve to alert viewers of a talk page to a user’s involvement in a controversial topic. [[User:Edaham|Edaham]] ([[User talk:Edaham#top|talk]]) 10:18, 29 September 2018 (UTC)
*Yes you are. You are involved in [[Israel and Islamophobia]].'''&thinsp;&mdash;'''&nbsp;[[User:Mr. Guye|Mr. Guye]]&nbsp;([[User talk:Mr. Guye|talk]])&nbsp;([[Special:Contributions/Mr. Guye|contribs]])&thinsp; 20:28, 29 September 2018 (UTC)
**[[user:Mr. Guye|Guye]] I can see where you might have drawn that conclusion. I reviewed that page as a [[wp:NPP|new page patroller]]. I used an RfC to draw attention to what I thought were some grey area issues, which needed attention on the page. Had I been actively involved in disputing material on that article or had I intended to be involved in ongoing discussions on that subject, I would not have reviewed it. This was a slightly questionable use of the RfC template but I decided to forgoe typical form as thought it would ultimately benefit the article. I do not intend to be involved in and will never contribute to articles concerning this subject except in the (very occasional) capacity of an uninvolved NPP reviewer. I’ve commented briefly on the talk page of the article you mentioned to further clarify this. [[User:Edaham|Edaham]] ([[User talk:Edaham#top|talk]]) 21:14, 29 September 2018 (UTC)

== ''Facto Post'' – Issue 16 – 30 September 2018 ==

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;The science publishing landscape

[[File:So much to read, so less time.jpg|left|150px]]
In an ideal world ... no, bear with your editor for just a minute ... there would be a format for scientific publishing online that was as much a standard as [[SI units]] are for the content. Likewise cataloguing publications would not be onerous, because part of the process would be to generate uniform [[metadata]]. Without claiming it could be the mythical [[free lunch]], it might be reasonably be argued that sandwiches can be packaged much alike and have barcodes, whatever the fillings.

The best on offer, to stretch the metaphor, is the [[meal kit]] option, in the form of [[XML]]. Where scientific papers are delivered as XML downloads, you get all the ingredients ready to cook. But have to prepare the actual meal of [[slow food]] yourself. See [https://w3c.github.io/scholarly-html/ Scholarly HTML] for a recent pass at heading off XML with HTML, in other words in the native language of the Web.

The argument from [[real life]] is a traditional mixture of frictional forces, vested interests, and the classic irony of the [https://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/people/staff/iau/cornford/cornford7.html principle of unripe time]. On the other hand, [[discoverability]] actually diminishes with the prolific progress of science publishing. No, it really doesn't scale. Wikimedia as movement can do something in such cases. We know from [[open access]], we grok the Web, we have [[VisualEditor#Technical|our own horse]] in the HTML race, we have Wikidata and [[WikiJournal]], and we have the chops to act.
[[File:Научные издания.jpg|right|200px]]

;Links
*[https://query.wikidata.org/#%23defaultView%3AImageGrid%0ASELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3Fpic%0A%20%20%20WHERE%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP5008%20wd%3AQ24909800%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP18%20%3Fpic%20%7D%20%20%20%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%20%7D%20%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%0A ImageGrid SPARQL query] for the [[Art+Feminism]] focus list on Wikidata. Run and then scroll ...
*The [https://tools.wmflabs.org/tabernacle/?#/ TABernacle tool] for Wikidata editing, by {{noping|Magnus Manske}}, has been upgraded. [https://tools.wmflabs.org/tabernacle/?#/tab/sparql/SELECT%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%0A%20%20%20WHERE%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP5008%20wd%3AQ55439927%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%20%7D%20%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%7D/P921 Demo] with the [[d:WD:SSFL| ScienceSource focus list]] and main subjects: with a [https://tools.wmflabs.org/widar/ WiDar login] you can edit directly in the table cells.
*[http://enslaved.org/ ''Enslaved: People of the Historic Slave Trade''], Michigan State University project for a [[linked open data]] platform. Quote: "Disambiguating and merging individuals across multiple datasets is nearly impossible given their current, siloed nature."
*As the Linked Data for Production (LD4P) project [https://wiki.duraspace.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=74515029 finishes its initial two-year cycle] and moves into LD4P2, a [https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/LD4P/Registry+of+Tools list] of its [[BIBFRAME]] and other [[Resource Description Framework|RDF]] tools.
*[https://www.slideshare.net/heikopaulheim/machine-learning-with-and-for-semantic-web-knowledge-graphs ''Machine Learning with and for Semantic Web Knowledge Graphs''], detailed slide pack by Heiko Paulheim, University of Mannheim.
*[https://futurism.com/open-access-science-europe/ ''In Europe, Scientists Need to Share Their Research for Free if They Want Government Funding''], Futurism, by Kristin House, 5 September 2018.
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== NPR Newsletter No.14 21 October 2018 ==

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;Backlog
{{As of|21 October 2018}}, there are 3650 unreviewed articles and the backlog now stretches back 51 days.

;Community Wishlist Proposal
* There is currently an ongoing discussion regarding the [[Wikipedia_talk:New_pages_patrol/Reviewers#Community_Wishlist_Proposal|drafting of a Community Wishlist Proposal]] for the purpose of requesting bug fixes and missing/useful features to be added to the New Page Feed and Curation Toolbar.
* Please '''[[Wikipedia_talk:New_pages_patrol/Reviewers#Community_Wishlist_Proposal|join the conversation]]''' as we only have until 29 October to draft this proposal!

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* [[mw:ORES|ORES predictions]] are now built-in to the feed. These automatically predict the class of an article as well as whether it may be spam, vandalism, or an attack page, and can be filtered by these criteria now allowing reviewers to better target articles that they prefer to review.
* There are now tools [[Wikipedia_talk:New_pages_patrol/Reviewers#New_bot_trial_for_copyvios|being tested]] to automatically detect copyright violations in the feed. This detector may not be accurate all the time, though, so it shouldn't be relied on 100% and will only start working on new revisions to pages, not older pages in the backlog.

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== ''Facto Post'' – Issue 17 – 29 October 2018 ==

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;Wikidata imaged

Around 2.7 million Wikidata items have an illustrative image. These files, you might say, are Wikimedia's [[stock photography|stock images]], and if the number is large, it is still only 5% or so of items that have one. All such images are taken from Wikimedia Commons, which has 50 million media files. One key issue is how to expand the stock.

Indeed, there is a tool. [[m:WDFIST|WD-FIST]] exploits the fact that each Wikipedia is differently illustrated, mostly with images from Commons but also with [[Wikipedia:Non-free content criteria#Policy|fair use]] images. An item that has sitelinks but no illustrative image can be tested to see if the linked wikis have a suitable one. This works well for a volunteer who wants to add images at a reasonable scale, and a small amount of SPARQL knowledge goes a long way in producing checklists.
[[File:Gran Teatro Cáceres.JPG|thumb|Gran Teatro, Cáceres, Spain, at night]]
It should be noted, though, that there are currently 53 Wikidata properties that link to Commons, of which P18 for the basic image is just one. WD-FIST prompts the user to add signatures, plaques, pictures of graves and so on. There are a couple of hundred [[monogram]]s, mostly of historical figures, and [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23defaultView%3AImageGrid%0ASELECT%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3Fpic%0A%20%20WHERE%20%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP1543%20%3Fpic.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%20%7D%7D this query] allows you to view all of them. [[commons:Category:Monograms]] and its subcategories provide rich scope for adding more.

And so it is generally. [https://query.wikidata.org/#SELECT%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%0A%20%20WHERE%20%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ18610173.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%7D The list] of properties linking to Commons does contain a few that concern video and audio files, and rather more for maps. But it contains gems such as P3451 for "nighttime view". Over 1000 of those on Wikidata, but as for so much else, there could be yet more.

Go on. Today is Wikidata's birthday. An illustrative image is always an acceptable gift, so why not add one? You can follow these easy steps: (i) log in at https://tools.wmflabs.org/widar/, (ii) paste the Petscan ID 6263583 into https://tools.wmflabs.org/fist/wdfist/ and click run, and (iii) just add cake.
[[File:Logo sixth Wikidata Birthday.png|thumb|left|Birthday logo]]
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* [[Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2018-10-28/Special report 2|''Now Wikidata is six'']], Signpost Special Report
* [https://twitter.com/wikimediauk/status/1053274139757342720 ''Find out how @TheContentMine are attempting to mine scientific and medical literature to improve the accuracy of Wikipedia.''], Wikimedia UK tweet and video ''ScienceSource and the Semantic Web''
* [https://github.com/tmtmtmtm/sciencesource-pmc-licenses sciencesource-pmc-licenses tool] by {{noping|Oravrattas}} to extract Creative Commons license information from PubMed Central pages, created at the [[d:Wikidata:ContentMine/Cambridge Wikidata Workshop|Cambridge Wikidata Workshop]]
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{{ping|Shashi Sushila Murray}} That is actually the first barn star I've received. Thank you. [[User:Edaham|Edaham]] ([[User talk:Edaham#top|talk]]) 08:16, 22 November 2018 (UTC)

== concerning John Ferrar ==

Thank you for your response on the Teahouse, I can work the articles I have created a Sandbox3 with an article on John Ferrar, Deputy Treasurer. He is notable, However the article is one paragraph, there is a dearth of information on him other than the important role he played in the Virginia Company.

I created an article for John Ferrar the Elder, Esquire. There is a lot of information on him but I can find nothing notable other than he was the father of William Farrar (the settler)
I notice that I now have two user talk pages, the one that I can access easily and the one that you created (user talk:Alvanhholmes/sandbox. How can I readily access the page you created if I shut down my browser or close the page? As it stands I am leaving my browser open all the time, but put my computer into hibernation by closing the lid. That's unhandy.

I fear that the John Ferrar the Elder article will not meet the standards for notability. save that a case can be made that because he was wealthy, he was able to endow his son, and thus finance the venture of William Farrar (the settler).

[[User:Alvanhholmes|Alvanhholmes]] ([[User talk:Alvanhholmes|talk]]) 11:53, 21 November 2018 (UTC)

:{{ping|Alvanhholmes}}
:You’ve actually made a handy link to your main sandbox on your user page. Once you navigate there, you just click the talk link at the top right. Most pages on Wikipedia have talk pages, even sandboxes. At this point it’s best to think of your sandbox page as a draft article.

:if you have info on the financial status of this John Ferrar chap, presumably you know it via a source. What’s that source please? If it mentions him and his lineage, that may well be enough to confer notability. [[User:Edaham|Edaham]] ([[User talk:Edaham#top|talk]]) 16:15, 21 November 2018 (UTC)
Thank you.
I am baffled and confused by wiki. but I thank you for creating those links on my user page. I tried to create hat links on my sandbox3 and 4 but evidently failed. Could you check them out and tell me the correct syntax, or correct the syntax and I will check it in source edit, that way I know how to do it in the future, or maybe I did it write, but the link doesn't show because the articles haven't yet been published. The hat notes are in Sandbox3 and Sandbox4

As regards the financial status of John Ferrar the elder, he and his status etc are all sourced in the reflist. Is that adequate?
Thank you very much[[User:Alvanhholmes|Alvanhholmes]] ([[User talk:Alvanhholmes|talk]]) 17:31, 21 November 2018 (UTC)
:I will have a look at your ref list and check it out. I’ll also write you a hat link later. [[User:Edaham|Edaham]] ([[User talk:Edaham#top|talk]]) 23:40, 21 November 2018 (UTC)

Hi, Edaham. I just provided Alvanhholmes with some feedback on my talk page [[User talk:Shashi Sushila Murray#Revision related to "Archaic" Language|here]]. It looks like you've provided feedback on these articles already and, in anticipation of us both continuing to help Alvan, I wanted to notify you of this as I think it'll improve our feedback. Sincerely, [[User:Shashi Sushila Murray|Shashi Sushila Murray]], ([[User talk:Shashi Sushila Murray|message me]]) 02:43, 25 November 2018 (UTC)

== ''Facto Post'' – Issue 18 – 30 November 2018 ==

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GLAM ♥ data — what is a gallery, library, archive or museum without a catalogue? It follows that Wikidata must love librarians. Bibliography supports students and researchers in any topic, but open and machine-readable bibliographic data even more so, outside the silo. Cue the WikiCite initiative, which was meeting in conference this week, in the Bay Area of California.
[[File:Wikidata education for librarians group at WikiCite 2018.jpg|thumb|left|Wikidata training for librarians at WikiCite 2018]]

In fact there is a broad scope: "Open Knowledge Maps via SPARQL" and the "Sum of All Welsh Literature", identification of research outputs, Library.Link Network and Bibframe 2.0, OSCAR and LUCINDA (who they?), OCLC and Scholia, all these co-exist on the agenda. Certainly more [[library science]] is coming Wikidata's way. That poses the question about the other direction: is more Wikimedia technology advancing on libraries? Good point.

Wikimedians generally are not aware of the tech background that can be assumed, unless they are close to current training for librarians. A baseline definition is useful here: "[[bash (Unix shell)|bash]], [[git]] and [[OpenRefine]]". Compare and contrast with [[mw:Manual:Pywikibot|pywikibot]], [[GitHub]] and [[m:Mix'n'match/Manual|mix'n'match]]. Translation: scripting for automation, version control, data set matching and wrangling in the large, are on the agenda also for contemporary library work. Certainly there is some possible common ground here. Time to understand rather more about the motivations that operate in the library sector.

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*[https://scholarworks.iupui.edu/bitstream/handle/1805/16690/Lemus-Rojas_Pintscher_Wikidata_2017-07-03.pdf?sequence=1 ''Wikidata and Libraries: Facilitating Open Knowledge''], book chapter by Mairelys Lemus-Rojas, metadata librarian and Lydia Pintscher, Wikidata Product Manager, from ''Leveraging Wikipedia: Connecting Communities of Knowledge'' (2018)
*[[m:WikiCite 2018/Program/Futornick-Eslao|''LD4P and WikiCite: Opportunities for collaboration'']], WikiCite 2018 program abstract, Christine Fernsebner Eslao of Harvard Library Information and Technical Services and Michelle Futornick, Linked Data for Production Program Manager at Stanford University
*[https://scriptotek.github.io/library-shell/ ''Shell Lessons for Librarians''], Library Carpentry lesson
*[http://www.generalist.org.uk/blog/2018/at-risk-content-on-flickr/ ''At-risk content on Flickr''], blogpost 3 November 2018, {{noping|Andrew Gray}}
*[http://simia.net/download/abstractwikipedia_whitepaper.pdf ''Toward an Abstract Wikipedia''], recent [[white paper]] by Wikidata founder Denny Vrandečić (Google)
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Hi, fixed your signature [https://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Talk:Acupuncture&diff=873346355&oldid=873319825] ... it's all about the squigglies. Happy editing --[[User:Middle 8|Middle 8]] <small>([[User talk:Middle 8|t]] • [[Special:Contributions/Middle_8|c]] &#124; [[User:Middle_8/Privacy|privacy]] • [[User:Middle_8/COI|acupuncture COI?]])</small> 19:04, 12 December 2018 (UTC)
{{U|Middle 8}} thanks - I have Chinese text input on my devices and sometimes the Chinese versions of the punctuation characters are used, which come from a different character set than the ones found omg a standard keyboard. Cheers again. [[User:Edaham|Edaham]] ([[User talk:Edaham#top|talk]]) 02:12, 13 December 2018 (UTC)

== NPR Newsletter No.16 15 December 2018 ==

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:Thanks are also extended for their work to {{noping|JTtheOG}} (15,059 reviews), {{noping|Boleyn}} (12,760{{nbsp}}reviews), {{noping|Cwmhiraeth}} (9,001{{nbsp}}reviews), {{noping|Semmendinger}} (8,440{{nbsp}}reviews), {{noping|PRehse}} (8,092{{nbsp}}reviews), {{noping|Arthistorian1977}} (5,306{{nbsp}}reviews), {{noping|Abishe}} (4,153 reviews), {{noping|Barkeep49}} (4,016{{nbsp}}reviews), and {{noping|Elmidae}} (3,615{{nbsp}}reviews). <br> {{noping|Cwmhiraeth}}, {{noping|Semmendinger}}, {{noping|Barkeep49}}, and {{noping|Elmidae}} have been New Page Reviewers for less than a year — Barkeep49 for only seven{{nbsp}}months, while {{noping|Boleyn}}, with an edit count of 250,000 since she joined Wikipedia in 2008, has been a bastion of New Page Patrol for many years.<br>
See also the [[Wikipedia:Database_reports/Top_new_article_reviewers#Last_365_days|list of top{{nbsp}}100 reviewers]].
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;Really good news - NPR wins the Community Wishlist Survey 2019
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== Rachel Dolezal ==

Hello! Why not use the word actually used ("travails") instead of "own experiences"? Agreed, the word comes from French "travail"(=labour) but it isn't an unknown word either. And I think that this substitution changes the meaning: comparing ones "travails" to slavery means that the bad sides were comparable to it, but comparing ones "experiences" to it means all/most aspects were comparable to it and that is much broader assertion. And a change of a quote for the sake of better reading must no do this! --[[User:Insektenrueckgang|Insektenrueckgang]] ([[User talk:Insektenrueckgang|talk]]) 13:18, 27 December 2018 (UTC)
:it’s both obscure and POV. The word belongs in a prosaic narrative about the plight of a solder beset on both flanks by... etc etc. It’s not suitable. [[User:Edaham|Edaham]] ([[User talk:Edaham#top|talk]]) 17:29, 27 December 2018 (UTC)
:also keep article text related discussion on the article page. Extending the discussion into my talk page makes it harder for other editors to follow what is going on. [[User:Edaham|Edaham]] ([[User talk:Edaham#top|talk]]) 17:30, 27 December 2018 (UTC)
::I did it here because it's only a specific issue and I'm not a native English speaker and learned French as 2nd foreign language so "travails" sounds quite familiar to me since it's the common French word for "work" (in plural form). So I'm referring to the "standard" dictionaries of English language: The [https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/travail Oxford dictionary] states that "travails" means "painful or laborious effort" (and lists as synonyms: "hard work, menial work, donkey work, toil, toiling, labour, hard labour, sweated labour, chores, plodding" and "ordeal, trial, tribulation") and the second meaning "pains of childbirth". And the [https://dictionary.cambridge.org/de/worterbuch/englisch/travails Cambridge dictionary] states that it means "difficult situations and unpleasant experiences". So why is it wrong to quote (!) that (old-fashioned) word? --[[User:Insektenrueckgang|Insektenrueckgang]] ([[User talk:Insektenrueckgang|talk]]) 15:43, 30 December 2018 (UTC)
::[https://en-fr.dict.cc/?s=work dict.cc EN->FR] --[[User:Insektenrueckgang|Insektenrueckgang]] ([[User talk:Insektenrueckgang|talk]]) 09:11, 31 December 2018 (UTC)
:::You both asked and answered that question. [[User:Edaham|Edaham]] ([[User talk:Edaham#top|talk]]) 09:26, 31 December 2018 (UTC)
::::Isn't sticking to the source much more important than the possible drawback of "old-fashioned-ness"? And Wikipedia is an encyclopedia: as the source (it's the [[New York Post]] not some high-brow philosophical magazine!) can use that word, why is it not quotable in Wikipedia? --[[User:Insektenrueckgang|Insektenrueckgang]] ([[User talk:Insektenrueckgang|talk]]) 11:34, 31 December 2018 (UTC)
::::Another reason why I'm posting here is that you can delete my posts and I don't want to expand the talk page of the article too much. Since you engaged quite a bit in the topic, I've a question: In the news articles and in the Wikipedia text itself one of her adoptive brothers is featured as a witness against her about what she said of her childhood – without further elaboration (e.g. [https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2015/06/rachel-dolezal-claims-to-be-the-target-of-hate-crimes-the-former-naacp-officials-most-disturbing-statements-are-about-her-victimization.html slate.com]). But he's 15 years younger than she is, isn't that strange? --[[User:Insektenrueckgang|Insektenrueckgang]] ([[User talk:Insektenrueckgang|talk]]) 16:57, 31 December 2018 (UTC)
:::::my break time. Please leave a message after the audible tone. [[User:Edaham|Edaham]] ([[User talk:Edaham#top|talk]]) 17:07, 31 December 2018 (UTC)
::::: Got it. As I've said, feel free to delete. Bye! --[[User:Insektenrueckgang|Insektenrueckgang]] ([[User talk:Insektenrueckgang|talk]]) 17:16, 31 December 2018 (UTC)

== ''Facto Post'' – Issue 19 – 27 December 2018 ==

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;Learning from Zotero
[[Zotero]] is free software for reference management by the [[Center for History and New Media]]: see [[Wikipedia:Citing sources with Zotero]]. It is also an active user community, and has broad-based [https://www.zotero.org/support/supported_languages language support].
[[File:Zotero logo.png|thumb|Zotero logo]]
Besides the handiness of Zotero's warehousing of personal citation collections, the ''Zotero translator'' underlies the [[mw:citoid|citoid service]], at work behind the VisualEditor. Metadata from Wikidata [[d:Wikidata:Zotero|can be imported]] into Zotero; and in the other direction the [https://github.com/UB-Mannheim/zotkat ''zotkat'' tool] from the University of Mannheim allows Zotero bibliographies to be exported to Wikidata, by item creation. With an extra feature to add statements, that route could lead to much development of the focus list (P5008) tagging on Wikidata, by WikiProjects.
[[File:Zotero-demo-wikipedia.webm|thumb|left|Zotero demo video]]
There is also a large-scale encyclopedic dimension here. The construction of Zotero translators is one facet of [[Web scraping]] that has a strong community and open source basis. In that it resembles the less formal [https://tools.wmflabs.org/mix-n-match/import.php mix'n'match import] community, and growing networks around other approaches that can integrate datasets into Wikidata, such as the use of [[OpenRefine]].

Looking ahead, the thirtieth birthday of the World Wide Web falls in 2019, and yet the ambition to make webpages routinely readable by machines can still seem an ever-retreating mirage. Wikidata should not only be helping Wikimedia integrate its projects, an ongoing process represented by Structured Data on Commons and [[d:Wikidata:Lexicographical data|lexemes]]. It should also be acting as a catalyst to bring scraping in from the cold, with institutional strengths as well as resourceful code.

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*[https://www.zotero.org/blog/2018/10/ ''Zotero Comes to Google Docs''], Zotero blogpost by Dan Stillman, 19 October 2018.
*[[:Category:Wikipedians who use Zotero]]
*{{phab|T115158}} ''Write a Zotero translator and document process for creating new Zotero translator and getting it live in production'', long Phabricator thread 2015–17.
*[https://www.zotero.org/support/dev/translators ''Zotero Translators''], documentation from zotero.org.
*[https://github.com/zotero/translators Home page on GitHub for Zotero translator Javascript]
*[https://github.com/zotero/translators/blob/master/Wikisource.js Example translator], for Wikisource.
*[[m:Structured Data on Commons/Newsletter/2018-12-07]]
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== Nice olive branch.... ==

...but given Architecttype's approach to this, you will be lucky to get all your fingers back. As a longtime editor in my areas of interest and a more recent dabbler at Teahouse, what I see at the latter are many people asking for help and a few looking to pick a fight. When poked, Teahouse editors will push back. And we get what we got here. My slim hope here is that this imbroglio will fade over time (I certainly are going to stop fanning the flames), and AT can either go home or go back to creating articles. Which will then be edited by other editors, and Whoops - there we go again. [[User:David notMD|David notMD]] ([[User talk:David notMD|talk]]) 16:31, 1 January 2019 (UTC)
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== ''Facto Post'' – Issue 20 – 31 January 2019 ==

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Recently Jimmy Wales has made the point that [[virtual assistant|computer home assistants]] take much of their data from Wikipedia, one way or another. So as well as getting Spotify to play ''[[Frosty the Snowman]]'' for you, they may be able to answer the question "is the Pope Catholic?" Possibly by asking for disambiguation ([[Pope of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria|Coptic]]?).
[[File:Voice Search Amazon Echo vs Google.webm|thumb|left|[[Amazon Echo]] device using the [[Amazon Alexa]] service in voice search showdown with the Google rival on an [[Android phone]]]]
Headlines about [[data breach]]es are now familiar, but the unannounced circulation of information raises other issues. One of those is [[Gresham's law]] stated as "bad data drives out good". Wikipedia and now Wikidata have been criticised on related grounds: what if their content, unattributed, is taken to have a higher standing than Wikimedians themselves would grant it? See [[q:Otto_von_Bismarck#Misattributed|Wikiquote on a misattribution to Bismarck]] for the usual quip about "law and sausages", and why one shouldn't watch them in the making.

Wikipedia has now turned 18, so should act like as adult, as well as being treated like one. The Web itself turns 30 some time between March and November this year, per [[Tim Berners-Lee]]. If the [[Knowledge Graph]] by Google exemplifies [[Heraclitus#Panta_rhei,_"everything_flows"|Heraclitean]] Web technology gaining authority, contra [[GIGO]], Wikimedians still have a role in its critique. But not just with the teenage skill of [[The Catcher in the Rye|detecting phoniness]].

There is more to beating Gresham than exposing the [[factoid]] and [[urban myth]], where [[WP:V]] does do a great job. Placeholders must be detected, and working with Wikidata is a good way to understand how having one statement as data can blind us to replacing it by a more accurate one. An example that is important to [[open access]] is that, firstly, the term itself needs considerable unpacking, because just being able to read material online is a poor relation of "open"; and secondly, trying to get Creative Commons license information into Wikidata shows up issues with classes of license (such as [[CC-BY]]) standing for the actual license in major repositories. Detailed investigation shows that "everything flows" exacerbates the issue. But Wikidata can solve it.
;Links
* [[Wikipedia:Wikipedia Day]] for 18th birthday celebrations
* [https://www.youtube.com/user/WikimediaUK WMUK video page], with "fake news", Jimmy Wales, Wikidata and more (health warning for those with tune allergy)
* [https://slate.com/technology/2019/01/wikipedia-doctors-medical-knowledge-study.html ''Why Wikipedia’s Medical Content Is Superior''], Stephen Harrison, 28 January 2019, ''Slate''
* [https://www.harpersbazaar.com/uk/celebrities/news/a26057928/olivia-colman-reveals-struggle-wikipedia-age/ ''Olivia Colman reveals struggle with Wikipedia over age''], Naomi Gordon, 28 January 2019, harpersbazaar.com
* [http://blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/digital/2019/01/23/making-wikidata-visible/ ''Making Wikidata visible''], Martin Poulter blogpost, 24 January 2019, Bodleian Digital Library
* [http://magnusmanske.de/wordpress/?p=604 ''Inventory''], Magnus Manske blogpost, 24 January 2019, on Wikidata tech support for an image donation by [[Cleveland Museum of Art]]
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;What is a systematic review?

[[Systematic review]]s are basic building blocks of [[evidence-based medicine]], surveys of existing literature devoted typically to a definite question that aim to bring out scientific conclusions. They are principled in a way Wikipedians can appreciate, taking a critical view of their sources.
[[File:PRISMA flow diagram.jpg|thumb|PRISMA flow diagram for a systematic review]]
[[Ben Goldacre]] in 2014 wrote (link below) "[...] : the "information architecture" of evidence based medicine (if you can tolerate such a phrase) is a chaotic, ad hoc, poorly connected ecosystem of legacy projects. In some respects the whole show is still run on paper, like it's the 19th century." Is there a Wikidatan in the house? Wouldn't some machine-readable content that is [[structured data]] help?
[[File:Schittny, Facing East, 2011, Legacy Projects.jpg|thumb|left|2011 photograph by Bernard Schittny of the "Legacy Projects" group]]
Most likely it would, but the arcana of systematic reviews and how they add value would still need formal handling. The [[PRISMA standard]] dates from 2009, with an update started in 2018. The concerns there include the corpus of papers used: how selected and filtered? Now that Wikidata has a 20.9 million item bibliography, one can at least pose questions. Each systematic review is a tagging opportunity for a bibliography. Could that tagging be reproduced by a query, in principle? Can it even be second-guessed by a query (i.e. simulated by a protocol which translates into SPARQL)? Homing in on the arcana, do the inclusion and filtering criteria translate into metadata? At some level they must, but are these metadata explicitly expressed in the articles themselves? The answer to that is surely "no" at this point, but can [[text and data mining|TDM]] find them? Again "no", right now. [[Automatic identification]] doesn't just happen.

Actually these questions lack originality. It should be noted though that [[WP:MEDRS]], the reliable sources guideline used here for health information, hinges on the assumption that the usefully systematic reviews of biomedical literature can be recognised. Its nutshell summary, normally the part of a guideline with the highest density of common sense, allows [[literature review]]s in general validity, but [[WP:MEDASSESS]] qualifies that indication heavily. Process wonkery about systematic reviews definitely has merit.

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*[https://guides.mclibrary.duke.edu/ebm/appraise ''Evidence-Based Practice: Appraise''], resources page from Duke University Medical Library & Archives.
*[https://www.badscience.net/2014/11/what-should-cochrane-do-next/#more-3288 ''What should Cochrane do next?''], ''Bad Science'' blogpost 5 November 2014, [[Ben Goldacre]].
*[https://www.sciencefestival.cam.ac.uk/events/sciencesource-workshop-how-do-scientific-discoveries-become-clinical-medicine Cambridge (UK) Science Festival event, ''How do scientific discoveries become clinical medicine?''], [http://sciencesource.wmflabs.org ScienceSource] workshop for ContentMine 23 March 2019, with systematic review process diagram. Also [https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/how-do-scientific-discoveries-become-clinical-medicine-festival-workshop-tickets-56499051183 on Eventbrite] for tickets, taking place in Makespace, 16 Mill Lane.
*[http://www.prisma-statement.org/Protocols/Registration PROSPERO database] of PRISMA, for registration of systematic review protocols.
*[https://marc.info/?t=115902699800001&r=3&w=2 Process wonkery thread], wikien-l mailing list, September 2006.
*[https://xkcd.com/1447/ ''Meta-Analysis''], xkcd cartoon.
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:Hi. {{ping|Trizek (WMF)}}. No inconvenience. The [https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants_talk:IdeaLab/Health_rating_radio_button_template_on_talk_pages last time] I replied to a call from WMF in answer to a banner on English Wikipedia notifying me of [https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:IdeaLab/Ideas/Inspire/Measuring_community_health this initiative], I took the simple attitude that if you want to know what people think of something you can always just ask them. I therefore suggested a feedback function. I spent a minimal amount of time thinking about it, made some screenshots and then, after a discussion at meta, decided along with a user named "I JethroBT (WMF)" to get feedback at the village pump. It wasn't much time out of my day, and probably wasn't a very sophisticated idea or the best approach at proposing it, but it seemed like a reasonable cause, so I threw it out there.

:Responses at the village pump included terms such as [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)/Archive_156#Discussion_(Health_rating) bat shit crazy; “grossly” or “wildly” inaccurate] and other responses, which if they'd been delivered over the table in real life, I'd have considered to be [[Online_disinhibition_effect|violently provocative]]. The suggestion I offered was not taken as a idea but as an overbearing imposition and the attitude toward it was apparently related to friction between the WMF and English Wikipedia, of which I was previously unaware.

:I then approached an involved editor on their talk page concerning the reaction, who [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Iridescent#Regarding_your_appraisals_of_proposals_at_the_village_pump called into question] my motivation for being here at English Wikipeida, further lumped on "sneering" and "obnoxious" to the list of personal attacks, deemed my suggestion (and my replies to the torrent of abuse) to be an unwarranted imposition of my ideas on Wikipedia - and lastly, scoured fm-labs, making the judgement that my [https://xtools.wmflabs.org/ec/en.wikipedia.org/Edaham#top-edited-pages list of contributions] were a "red flag". (I'm relatively inactive at present, but by and large, I have definitely been reverting some white washing on fringe articles, made by proponents of alt-med scams and racist viewpoints).

:The quote I received to the proposal of my idea, which sums up the attitude I encountered is: ''"you come to us effectively saying "Hey, I know I have less experience with Wikipedia than any one of you, but I'm here to tell you that you've been doing it wrong for eighteen years!"''. For the record, I was throwing an idea out and regard nobody's experience to be any more or less valid, for the simple reason that I have no idea who is experienced and who isn't.

:The experience was actually shaking. I'm not exaggerating. I experienced mild palpitations, dizziness, embarrassment, shame and a general sense of not being wanted (which might possibly be the case). All I've done here since I signed up is get to grips with some of the tools, check out the UI, revert a bit of vandalism and snoop about a bit, perhaps as a way of checking out something to do if I ever retire or discover a field of interest I like. I've also done some off-wiki work to get female Chinese students interested in building the English Encyclopedia. I think I've been a net gain for the project, but that's not for me to decide. I'm not generally an overly dramatic person, but my experience in this last case was fucking horrible. Since then I've taken a step back and also questioned the positive values I was beginning to form about the project.

:I'm sure its a phase and I will get back into things eventually, but you'll forgive me if I'm a little reluctant to answer further calls for suggestions from WMF. I think (I'm not sure) that the fact that I received such a harsh reaction is because there is unresolved friction between English Wikipedia and the WMF. I have no idea from where this stems. I simply saw people make mention of it while conversing on the above subject. Perhaps resolution of these difficulties is a necessary first step before attempting to solicit ideas from new users, with a view to preventing situations such as the one I encountered.

:Many thanks.

:Elliott. [[User:Edaham|Edaham]] ([[User talk:Edaham#top|talk]]) 11:38, 11 March 2019 (UTC)

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[[File:Cloud computing icon.svg|thumb|left|Cloud computing logo]]
Talk of [[cloud computing]] draws a veil over hardware, but also, less obviously but more importantly, obscures such intellectual distinction as matters most in its use. Wikidata begins to allow tasks to be undertaken that were out of easy reach. The facility should not be taken as the real point.

Coming in from another angle, the "executive decision" is more glamorous; but the "administrative decision" should be admired for its command of facts. Think of the attitudes ''[[ad fontes]]'', so prevalent here on Wikipedia as "can you give me a source for that?", and being prepared to deal with complicated analyses into specified subcases. Impatience expressed as a disdain for such [[pedantry]] is quite understandable, but neither [[dirty data]] nor [[false dichotomies]] are at all good to have around.

[[User:Charles Matthews/Facto Post/Issue 13 – 29 June 2018|Issue 13]] and [[User:Charles Matthews/Facto Post/Issue 21 – 28 February 2019|Issue 21]], respectively on [[WP:MEDRS]] and [[systematic review]]s, talk about biomedical literature and computing tasks that would be of higher quality if they could be made more "administrative". For example, it is desirable that the decisions involved be consistent, explicable, and reproducible by non-experts from specified inputs.

What gets clouded out is not impossibly hard to understand. You do need to put together the insights of [[functional programming]], which is a doctrinaire and purist but clearcut approach, with the practicality of [[office software]]. Loopless computation can be conceived of as a seamless forward march of spreadsheet columns, each determined by the content of previous ones. Very well: to do a backward audit, when now we are talking about Wikidata, we rely on integrity of data and its scrupulous sourcing: and clearcut case analyses. The MEDRS example forces attention on purge attempts such as [[Beall's list]].

;Links
*[[Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2019-03-31/In focus#The_Wikipedia_SourceWatch]] by {{noping|Headbomb}}.
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Academic Journals/Journals cited by Wikipedia/Questionable1]]
*[[d:Wikidata:ScienceSource project/Beall's list]]: [[Beall's list]], final version, matched into Wikidata.
*[https://query.wikidata.org/#%23Quackwatch%20filter%3A%20finds%20focus%20list%20items%20that%20are%20published%20in%20journals%20in%20the%20%22Journals%20%28Fundamentally%20Flawed%29%22%0A%23section%20of%20https%3A%2F%2Fwww.quackwatch.org%2F04ConsumerEducation%2Fnonrecperiodicals.html.%0A%23Matching%20to%20Wikidata%20carried%20out%20on%202019-04-09%0ASELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3Fjournal%20%3FjournalLabel%0A%0A%20%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP5008%20wd%3AQ55439927%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP1433%20%3Fjournal.%0A%20%20%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20VALUES%20%3Fjournal%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%7Bwd%3AQ15754497%20wd%3AQ15279374%20wd%3AQ27720778%20wd%3AQ15756796%20wd%3AQ6294757%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wd%3AQ15752906%20wd%3AQ27711374%20wd%3AQ10310914%20wd%3AQ15760198%20wd%3AQ10310916%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%7D%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%7D%20%20%20%20%20%0A%20%0ASERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%7D SPARQL query for ''Quackwatch'']: query to find items on Wikidata for articles subject to the [https://www.quackwatch.org/04ConsumerEducation/nonrecperiodicals.html Quackwatch blacklist of "Nonrecommended Periodicals"], under "Journals (Fundamentally Flawed)".
*[https://query.wikidata.org/#SELECT%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3FjournalLabel%0A%20%20WHERE%20%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ45182324%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP1433%20%3Fjournal.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%7D SPARQL query to find retracted articles on Wikidata].
*[[d:Wikidata:ScienceSource project/NCBI2wikidata dashboard]], metadata for biomedical articles being built up, sourced from [[PubMed]] and [[PubMed Central]].
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== ''Facto Post'' – Issue 24 – 17 May 2019 ==

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;Semantic Web and TDM – a ContentMine view

Two dozen issues, and this may be the last, a [[valediction]] at least for a while.

It's time for a two-year summation of ContentMine projects involving TDM ([[text and data mining]]).

Wikidata and now [[commons:Structured data|Structured Data on Commons]] represent the overlap of Wikimedia with the [[Semantic Web]]. This common ground is helping to convert an engineering concept into a movement. TDM generally has little enough connection with the Semantic Web, being instead in the orbit of [[machine learning]] which is no respecter of the semantic. Don't break a taboo by asking bots "and what do you mean by that?"

The [[d:WD:SS|ScienceSource project]] innovates in TDM, by storing its text mining results in a [[Wikibase]] site. It strives for compliance of its fact mining, on drug treatments of diseases, with an automated form of the relevant [[WP:MEDRS|Wikipedia referencing guideline MEDRS]]. Where [[d:WD:WFM|WikiFactMine]] set up an [[User:Charles Matthews/Facto Post/Issue 22 – 28 March 2019|API]] for reuse of its results, ScienceSource has a SPARQL query service, with look-and-feel exactly that of Wikidata's at query.wikidata.org. It also now has a custom front end, and its content can be [[federated search#Challenges|federated]], in other words used in data mashups: it is one of [[mw:Wikidata Query Service/User Manual/SPARQL Federation endpoints|over 50 sites]] that can federate with Wikidata.

The human factor comes to bear through the front end, which combines a link to the HTML version of a paper, text mining results organised in drug and disease columns, and a SPARQL display of nearby drug and disease terms. Much software to develop and explain, so little time! Rather than telling the tale, ''Facto Post'' brings you ScienceSource links, starting from the how-to video, lower right.
[[File:ScienceSourceReview1.webm|thumb|ScienceSourceReview, introductory video: but you need run it from the [https:/upwiki/wikipedia/commons/a/a5/ScienceSourceReview1.webm original upload file on Commons]]]

;Links for participation
*http://sciencesource-review.wmflabs.org/, review tool link in the left-hand sidebar at http://sciencesource.wmflabs.org/wiki/Main_Page

The review tool requires a log in on sciencesource.wmflabs.org, and an OAuth permission (bottom of a review page) to operate. It can be used in simple and more advanced workflows. Examples of queries for the latter are at [[d:Wikidata_talk:ScienceSource project/Queries#SS_disease_list]] and [[d:Wikidata_talk:ScienceSource_project/Queries#NDF-RT issue]].

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== NPR Newsletter No.18 ==

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;WMF at work on NPP Improvements
{{noping|NKohli (WMF)|label1=Niharika Kohli}}, a product manager for the growth team, [[Special:Diff/895079113|announced]] that work is underway in implementing improvements to New Page Patrol as part of the 2019 Community Wishlist and suggests all who are interested watch the [[meta:Community Tech/Page Curation and New Pages Feed improvements|project page]] on meta. Two requested improvements have already been completed. These are:
*Allow filtering by no citations in page curation
*Not having CSD and PRODs automatically marked as reviewed, reflecting current consensus among reviewers and current Twinkle functionality.

;Reliable Sources for NPP
{{noping|Rosguill}} has been [[User:Rosguill/NPPRS|compiling a list of reliable sources]] across countries and industries that can be used by new page patrollers to help judge whether an article topic is notable or not. At this point further discussion is needed about if and how this list should be used. Please consider joining the [[Wikipedia talk:New pages patrol/Reviewers#Progress report March 24 and some thoughts|discussion]] about how this potentially valuable resource should be developed and used.

;Backlog drive coming soon
Look for information on the an upcoming backlog drive in our next newsletter. If you'd like to help plan this drive, join in the discussion on the [[WT:NPP/R|New Page Patrol talk page]].

;News
* Following a [[Special:Permalink/895275726#Request for comment regarding PORNBIO|request for comment]], the [[Wikipedia:Glossary#SNG|subject-specific notability guideline]] for pornographic actors and models ([[WP:PORNBIO]]) was [[Special:Diff/889294706|removed]]; in its place, editors should consult [[WP:ENT]] and [[WP:GNG]].

;Discussions of interest
* A [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/DannyS712 bot 38|request for bot approval]] for a bot to patrol two kinds of redirects
* There has been a lot discussion about [[Wikipedia talk:Notability (academics)|Notability of Academics]]
* What, if anything, would a SNG for [[Wikipedia talk:Notability (sports)#Softball?|Softball]] look like

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== New Page Review newsletter July-August 2019 ==

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Hello {{BASEPAGENAME}},

;WMF at work on NPP Improvements
More new features are being added to the feed, including the important red alert for previously deleted pages. This will only work if it is selected in your filters. Best is to 'select all'. Do take a moment to check out all the new features if you have not already done so. If anything is not working as it should, please let us know at [[WT:NPR|NPR]]. There is now also a live queue of [[WP:AfC|AfC]] submissions in the New Pages Feed. Feel free to review AfCs, but bear in mind that NPP is an official process and policy and is more important.
;QUALITY of REVIEWING
Articles are still not always being checked thoroughly enough. If you are not sure what to do, leave the article for a more experienced reviewer. Please [[quis custodiet ipsos custodes|be on the alert]] for any incongruities in patrolling and help your colleagues where possible; report patrollers and autopatrolled article creators who are ostensibly undeclared paid editors.
The displayed ORES alerts offer a greater 'at-a-glance' overview, but the new challenges in detecting unwanted new content and sub-standard reviewing do not necessarily make patrolling any easier, nevertheless the work may have a renewed interest factor of a different kind. A vibrant community of reviewers is always ready to help at [[WT:NPR|NPR]].
;Backlog
The backlog is still far too high at between 7,000 and 8,000. Of around 700 user rights holders, 80% of the reviewing is being done by just TWO users. In the light of more and more subtle advertising and undeclared paid editing, New Page Reviewing is becoming more critical than ever.
;Move to draft
NPR is [[triage]], it is not a clean up clinic. This move feature is not limited to bios so you may have to slightly re-edit the text in the template before you save the move. Anything that is not fit for mainspace but which ''might'' have some promise can be draftified - particularly very poor English and machine and other low quality translations.
;Notifying users
Remember to use the message feature if you are just tagging an article for maintenance rather than deletion. Otherwise articles are likely to remain perma-tagged. Many creators are [[WP:SPA|SPA]] and have no intention of returning to Wikipedia. Use the feature too for leaving a friendly note note for the author of a first article you found well made or interesting. Many have told us they find such comments particularly welcoming and encouraging.
;PERM
Admins are now taking advantage of the new time-limited user rights feature. If you have recently been accorded NPR, do check your user rights to see if this affects you. Depending on your user account preferences, you may receive automated notifications of your rights changes. Requests for permissions are not mini-RfAs. Helpful comments are welcome ''if <u>absolutely</u> necessary'', but the bot does a lot of the work and the final decision is reserved for admins who do thorough research anyway.
;Other news
School and academic holidays will begin soon in various places around the Western world. Be on the lookout for the usual increase in hoax, attack, and other junk pages.

Our next newsletter might be announcing details of a possible election for co-ordinators of NPR. If you think you have what it takes to micro manage NPR, take a look at [[Wikipedia:New_pages_patrol/Coordination#New_Page_Review_Coordinators|New Page Review Coordinators]] - it's a job that requires a lot of time and dedication.
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== New Page Review newsletter September-October 2019 ==

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Hello {{BASEPAGENAME}},

;Backlog
Instead of reaching a magic '''300''' as it once did last year, the backlog approaching 6,000 is still far too high. An effort is also needed to ensure that older unsuitable older pages at the back of the queue do not get automatically indexed for Google.

;Coordinator
A proposal is taking place [[Wikipedia_talk:New_pages_patrol/Reviewers#Coordinator|'''here''']] to confirm a nominated user as Coordinator of NPR.

;This month's refresher course
''[[Wikipedia:Why I Hate Speedy Deleters|Why I Hate Speedy Deleters]]'', a 2008 essay by long since retired {{U|Ballonman}}, is still as valid today. Those of us who patrol large numbers of new pages can be forgiven for making the occasional mistake while others can learn from their 'beginner' errors. Worth reading.

;Deletion tags
Do bear in mind that articles in the feed showing the trash can icon (you will need to have 'Nominated for deletion' enabled for this in your filters) may have been tagged by inexperienced or non NPR rights holders using Twinkle. They require your further verification.

;Paid editing
Please be sure to look for the tell-tale signs of undisclosed paid editing. Contact the creator <u>if appropriate</u>, and submit the issue to [[WP:COIN]] if necessary. WMF policy requires paid editors to connect to their adverts.

;Subject-specific notability guidelines' (SNG). Alternatives to deletion
*Reviewers are requested to familiarise themselves once more with notability guidelines for [[WP:ORG|organisations and companies]].
*''Blank-and-Redirect'' is a solution anchored in policy. Please consider this alternative before PRODing or CSD. Note however, that users will often revert or usurp redirects to re-create deleted articles. Do regularly patrol the redirects in the feed.

;Not English
*A common issue: Pages not in English or poor, unattributed machine translations should not reside in main space even if they are stubs. Please ensure you are familiar with [[WP:NPPNE]]. Check in Google for the language and content, and if they do have potential, tag as required, then move to draft. Modify the text of the template as appropriate before sending it.
;Tools
Regular reviewers will appreciate the most recent enhancements to the New Pages Feed and features in the Curation tool, and there are still more to come. Due to the wealth of information now displayed by ORES, reviewers are strongly encouraged to use the system now rather than Twinkle; it will also correctly populate the logs.

Stub sorting, by SD0001: A new script is available for adding/removing stub tags. See [[User:SD0001/StubSorter.js]], It features a simple HotCat-style dynamic search field. Many of the reviewers who are using it are finding it an improvement upon other available tools.

Assessment: The script at [[User:Evad37/rater]] makes the addition of Wikiproject templates extremely easy. New page creators rarely do this. Reviewers are not obliged to make these edits but they only take a few seconds. They can use the Curation message system to let the creator know what they have done.

{{noping|DannyS712 bot III}} is now patrolling certain categories of uncontroversial redirects. Curious? Check out its [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Log?type=patrol&user=DannyS712+bot+III&page=&wpdate=&tagfilter=&subtype= patrol log].

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The article will be discussed at [[Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Cheloniology]] until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, 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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== New Page Review newsletter November 2019 ==

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Hello {{BASEPAGENAME}},

This newsletter comes a little earlier than usual because the backlog is rising again and the holidays are coming very soon.
;Getting the queue to 0
There are now {{NUMBERINGROUP:patroller}} holders of the New Page Reviewer flag! Most of you requested the user right to be able to do something about the huge backlog but it's still roughly less than 10% doing 90% of the work. Now it's time for action.<br>
Exactly one year ago there were 'only' 3,650 unreviewed articles, now we will soon be approaching 7,000 despite the growing number of requests for the NPR user right. If ''each'' reviewer soon does '''only 2 reviews a day''' over five days, the backlog will be down to zero and the daily input can then be processed by ''every'' reviewer doing '''only 1 review every 2 days''' - that's only a few minutes work on the bus on the way to the office or to class! Let's get this over and done with in time to relax for the holidays.<br>
Want to join? Consider adding the [[Template:User NPP Pledge|'''NPP Pledge userbox''']].<br>
Our next newsletter will announce the winners of some [[Wikipedia:New pages patrol/Coordination#Awards|'''really cool awards''']].
; Coordinator
Admin {{U|Barkeep49}} has been officially invested as [[Wikipedia:New_pages_patrol/Coordination#New_Page_Review_Coordinators|NPP/NPR coordinator]] by a unanimous consensus of the community. This is a complex role and he will need all the help he can get from other experienced reviewers.
;This month's refresher course
Paid editing is still causing headaches for even our most experienced reviewers: [[WP:LTA/OM|This official Wikipedia article]] will be an eye-opener to anyone who joined Wikipedia or obtained the NPR right since 2015. See [[Wikipedia:New_pages_patrol#Conflict_of_Interest_(COI),_paid_editing|The Hallmarks]] to know exactly what to look for and take time to examine all the sources.
;Tools
*It is now possible to select new pages by date range. This was requested by reviewers who want to patrol from the middle of the list.
*It is now also possible for accredited reviewers to put any article back into the New Pages Feed for re-review. The link is under 'Tools' in the side bar.
;Reviewer Feedback
Would you like feedback on your reviews? Are you an experienced reviewer who can give feedback to other reviewers? If so there are two new feedback pilot programs. [[Wikipedia:New_pages_patrol/School#New Reviewer Mentorship|New Reviewer mentorship]] will match newer reviewers with an experienced reviewer with a new reviewer. The other program will be an occasional [[Wikipedia:New_pages_patrol/School#Peer review cohort|peer review cohort]] for moderate or experienced reviewers to give feedback to each other. The first cohort will launch ''November 13''.
;Second set of eyes
*Not only are ''New Page Reviewers'' the guardians of quality of new articles, they are also in a position to ensure that pages are being correctly tagged for deletion and maintenance and that new authors are not being bitten. This is an important feature of your work, especially while some routine tagging for deletion can still be carried out by non NPR holders and inexperienced users. Read about it at the [[WP:NPP#Monitoring the system|'''Monitoring the system''']] section in the tutorial. If you come across such editors doing ''good'' work, don't hesitate to encourage them to apply for NPR.
*Do be sure to have [[WT:NPR|'''our talk page ''']] on your watchlist. There are often items that require reviewers' special attention, such as to watch out for pages by known socks or disruptive editors, technical issues and new developments, and of course to provide advice for other reviewers.
;Arbitration Committee
The annual ArbCom election will be coming up soon. All eligible users will be invited to vote. While not directly concerned with NPR, Arbcom cases often lead back to notability and deletion issues and/or actions by holders of advanced user rights.
;Community Wish list
There is to be no [[:meta:wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2020|wish list]] for WMF encyclopedias this year. We thank Community Tech for their hard work addressing our long list of requirements which somewhat overwhelmed them last year, and we look forward to a successful completion.
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== New Page Review newsletter December 2019 ==

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;Reviewer of the Year
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This year's Reviewer of the Year is {{noping|Rosguill}}. Having gotten the reviewer PERM in August 2018, they have been a regular reviewer of articles and redirects, been an active participant in the NPP community, and has been the driving force for the emerging NPP Source Guide that will help reviewers better evaluate sourcing and notability in many countries for which it has historically been difficult.

Special commendation again goes to {{noping|Onel5969}} who ends the year as one of our most prolific reviewers for the second consecutive year. Thanks also to {{noping| Boleyn}} and {{noping|JTtheOG}} who have been in the top 5 for the last two years as well.

Several newer editors have done a lot of work with [[User:CAPTAIN MEDUSA|CAPTAIN MEDUSA]] and [[User:DannyS712|DannyS712]] (who has also written bots which have patrolled thousands of redirects) being new reviewers since this time last year.

Thanks to them and to everyone reading this who has participated in New Page Patrol this year.

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+Top 10 Reviewers over the last 365 days
!Rank
!Username
!Num reviews
!Log
|-
|1
|[[User:Rosguill|Rosguill]] ([[User talk:Rosguill|talk]])
| data-sort-value="Onel5969" |47,395
|Patrol Page Curation
|-
|2
|[[User:Onel5969|Onel5969]] ([[User talk:Onel5969|talk]])
| data-sort-value="Rosguill" |41,883
|Patrol Page Curation
|-
|3
|[[User:JTtheOG|JTtheOG]] ([[User talk:JTtheOG|talk]])
| data-sort-value="JTtheOG" |11,493
|Patrol Page Curation
|-
|4
|[[User:Arthistorian1977|Arthistorian1977]] ([[User talk:Arthistorian1977|talk]])
| data-sort-value="Arthistorian1977" |5,562
|Patrol Page Curation
|-
|5
|[[User:DannyS712|DannyS712]] ([[User talk:DannyS712|talk]])
| data-sort-value="Boleyn" |4,866
|Patrol Page Curation
|-
|6
|[[User:CAPTAIN MEDUSA|CAPTAIN MEDUSA]] ([[User talk:CAPTAIN MEDUSA|talk]])
| data-sort-value="DannyS712" |3,995
|Patrol Page Curation
|-
|7
|[[User:DragonflySixtyseven|DragonflySixtyseven]] ([[User talk:DragonflySixtyseven|talk]])
| data-sort-value="Cwmhiraeth" |3,812
|Patrol Page Curation
|-
|8
|[[User:Boleyn|Boleyn]] ([[User talk:Boleyn|talk]])
| data-sort-value="Ymblanter" |3,655
|Patrol Page Curation
|-
|9
|[[User:Ymblanter|Ymblanter]] ([[User talk:Ymblanter|talk]])
| data-sort-value="CAPTAIN" |3,553
|Patrol Page Curation
|-
|10
|[[User:Cwmhiraeth|Cwmhiraeth]] ([[User talk:Cwmhiraeth|talk]])
|3,522
|Patrol Page Curation
|}
(''The top 100 reviewers of the year can be found '''[[wikipedia:Database_reports/Top_new_article_reviewers#Last_365_days|here]]''''')

;Redirect autopatrol
A recent [[Wikipedia_talk:New_pages_patrol/Reviewers/Redirect_autopatrol#RfC_on_autopatrolling_redirects|Request for Comment]] on creating a new redirect autopatrol pseduo-permission was [[WP:SNOW|closed early]]. New Page Reviewers are now able to [[Wikipedia talk:New pages patrol/Redirect whitelist|nominate editors]] who have an established track record creating uncontroversial redirects. At the individual discretion of any administrator or after 24 hours and a consensus of at least 3 New Page Reviewers an editor may be added to a [[Wikipedia:New_pages_patrol/Redirect_whitelist#Editors_whose_redirects_are_whitelisted|list of users]] whose redirects will be patrolled automatically by {{noping|DannyS712 bot III}}.

;Source Guide Discussion
Set to launch early in the new year is our first [[WP:NPPSG|New Page Patrol Source Guide]] discussion. These discussions are designed to solicit input on sources in places and topic areas that might otherwise be harder for reviewers to evaluate. The hope is that this will allow us to improve the accuracy of our patrols for articles using these sources (and/or give us places to perform a [[WP:BEFORE]] prior to nominating for deletion). Please watch the [[WT:NPR|New Page Patrol talk page]] for more information.

;This month's refresher course
While New Page Reviewers are an experienced set of editors, we all benefit from an occasional review. This month consider refreshing yourself on [[Wikipedia:Notability (geographic features)]]. Also consider how we can take the time for quality in this area. For instance, sources to verify human settlements, which are presumed notable, can often be found in seconds. This lets us avoid the (ugly) 'Needs more refs' tag.
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== A Joyous Yuletide to you! ==

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'''Hello Edaham, may you be surrounded by peace, success and happiness on this [[Christmas and holiday season|seasonal occasion]]. Spread the [[Wikipedia:WikiLove|WikiLove]] by wishing another user a [[Christmas|Merry Christmas]] and a [[New Year|Happy New Year]], whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past, a good friend, or just some random person. Sending you heartfelt and warm greetings for Christmas and New Year 2020. <br />Happy editing,'''<br />
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== New Page Reviewer newsletter February 2020 ==

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Hello {{BASEPAGENAME}},

;Source Guide Discussion
The first [[Wikipedia:New pages patrol/Source guide discussions/Ghana|NPP source guide]] discussion is now underway. It covers a wide range of sources in Ghana with the goal of providing more guidance to reviewers about sources they might see when reviewing pages. Hopefully, new page reviewers will join others interested in reliable sources and those with expertise in these sources to make the discussion a success.

;Redirects
New to NPP? Looking to try something a little different? Consider patrolling some redirects. Redirects are relatively easy to review, can be found easily through the [[Special:NewPagesFeed|New Pages Feed]]. You can find more information about how to patrol redirects at [[WP:RPATROL]].

;Discussions and Resources
*There is an [[Wikipedia:Village_pump_(idea_lab)#Improving_new_article_edit_notice|ongoing discussion]] around changing notifications for new editors who attempt to write articles.
*A recent discussion of whether [[Michelin star|Michelin starred]] restraunts are notable was [[Wikipedia:Reliable_sources/Noticeboard/Archive_284#RFC_on_Michelin_stars_as_a_reliable_source_for_notability_of_restaurants|archived without closure]].
*A [[Wikipedia:New_pages_patrol/Resources|resource page]] with links pertinent for reviewers was created this month.
*A [[Wikipedia:Village_pump_(policy)#Increasing_the_scope_of_WP%3AG5_vis-a-vis_socking.|proposal]] to increase the scope of G5 was withdrawn.

;Refresher
[[WP:GEOLAND|Geographic regions, areas and places]] generally do not need [[WP:GNG|general notability guideline]] type sourcing. When evaluating whether an article meets this notability guideline please also consider whether it might actually be a form of [[WP:SPAM]] for a development project (e.g. PR for a large luxury residential development) and not actually covered by the guideline.

Six Month Queue Data: Today – 7095 Low – 4991 High – 7095

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== New Page Reviewer newsletter June 2020 ==

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Hello {{BASEPAGENAME}},

;Your help can make a difference
[[User:SDZeroBot/NPP sorting|NPP Sorting]] can be a great way to find pages needing new page patrolling that match your strengths and interests. Using ORES, it divides articles into topics such as Literature or Chemistry and on Geography. Take a look and see if you can find time to patrol a couple pages a day. With over 10,000 pages in the queue, the highest it's been since [[WP:ACPERM|ACPERM]], your help could really make a difference.
;Google Adds New Languages to Google Translate
In late February, Google added 5 new languages to Google Translate: Kinyarwanda, Odia (Oriya), Tatar, Turkmen and Uyghur. This expands our ability to find and evaluate sources in those languages.
;Discussions and Resources
*A [[Wikipedia:Village_pump_(policy)#Paid_editing|discussion]] on handling new article creation by paid editors is ongoing at the Village Pump.
*Also at the Village Pump is a [[Wikipedia:Village_pump_(policy)#Is_it_time_to_place_greater_restrictions_on_AfD?|discussion]] about limiting participation at Articles for Deletion discussion.
*A proposed new [[Wikipedia_talk:Criteria_for_speedy_deletion/Archive_77#Proposed_new_CSD_criterion:_R5,_for_redirects_with_malformed_or_misspelled_(disambiguation)_qualifiers|speedy deletion criteria]] for certain kinds of redirects ended with no consensus.
*Also ending with no change was a [[Wikipedia_talk:Non-free_content/Archive_70#RfC_on_converting_fair-use_raster_graphics_to_vector_graphics_as_it_relates_to_criterion_3b|proposal]] to change how we handle certain kinds of vector images.

Six Month Queue Data: Today – 10271 Low – 4991 High – 10271

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