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Administrators' newsletter – January 2019

News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2018).

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  1. G14 (new): Disambiguation pages that disambiguate only zero or one existing pages are now covered under the new G14 criterion (discussion). This is {{db-disambig}}; the text is unchanged and candidates may be found in Category:Candidates for speedy deletion as unnecessary disambiguation pages.
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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 21:38, 1 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Long Island

Where did you get those coordinates? I was going to finish up when I had time to ask someone. Now that they're there, I suppose they need a source.

As of the formatting, I've used that format since I created my first populated place stub, and don't know precisely where I got that formatting. Maybe I need to change it.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 18:30, 14 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Vchimpanzee: I got the coordinates from the GNIS entry that I cited in the article. The ref at the end of the "Geography" section of the article should cover it. As far as the rest goes, I was basically using what I've seen in other articles about U.S. unincorporated settlements ("unincorporated community" seems a bit more informative than "populated place"), and getting rid of the extra spacing cluttering up the infobox code. Deor (talk) 20:03, 14 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
The source I used calls it "populated place", but I suppose either works. I didn't know about the GNIS web site when I did my first one (but I seem to have figured out how to at least put the GNIS information in the infobox), but I'm still using my first one for the format.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 20:25, 14 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
I see something else I've been doing wrong. I wish I knew where I got the incorrect format from, but that was years ago. Maybe I will remember to go to Long Island from now on when I see the need to create a populated place stub.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 21:12, 14 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Request for Move Article Pages

Dear, Sir/Wikipedian

I want your help for moving two article pages by you.I hope you can help and move pages.The first article page is Sattari to 'Satari' and secondly is Sattari, Malda to 'Sattari'.I hope you check and moved there pages.Will you do it I will feeling helpful by you. Thanking You

Yours Faithfully JMM000 (talk) 13:06, 24 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@JMM000: Most of the sources in the Sattari article spell the place name in the way the article is titled, and I don't know enough about the place to go against that. If you think that the articles should be moved, I suggest that you post a move request on the Sattari talk page, following the directions at WP:RM and explaining your reasons for wanting the pages to be retitled. Deor (talk) 19:13, 26 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

English Bazar Municipality & Sattari Sarbojanin Primary School

Dear, Sir

I have a request to change two article pages title with move by you.The first is English Bazar Municipality (E.B.M) to 'English Bazar Municipality'.And secondly Sattari Sarbojanin Primary School, Sattari to 'Sattari Sarbojanin Primary School'.There are correct information.I hope you will do it anyway.Thanking you

Yours faithfully JMM000 (talk) 05:10, 27 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Reply Me Sir JMM000 (talk) 13:00, 27 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Given Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Jiam Momin, where you are being invesigated as a possible sockpuppet (and where it is pointed out that you have been asking others to perform various article moves for you), I'll decline for now. Sattari Sarbojanin Primary School, Sattari has been redirected by another editor as a nonnotable primary school (see WP:SCHOOLOUTCOMES), and there was previously an article English Bazar Municipality that has also been changed to a redirect and which your article seems to duplicate. (I'm also not sure how English Bazar (community development block) is related to the topic.) Some things clearly need to be sorted out with regard to these articles, but let's let the sockpuppet investigation run its course first. Deor (talk) 16:47, 27 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Draft:Hodl Hodl

Hi, can you please clarify for which reason have you deleted this draft Draft:Hodl_Hodl and what should I do so it would be posted on Wikipedia? Artur970 (talk) 10:26, 29 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Artur970: Someone tagged the draft for speedy deletion as a copyright violation of this Web site; and after looking into the matter, I agreed that it was a copyright violation and deleted it. Wikipedia does not allow copyright violations to appear anywhere on our site, even in draft space. If you want to re-create the draft, it will have to be in your own words, not with material copied from somewhere else. (As you probably know, a previous version of the draft was deleted for the same reason on 12 December last year.) Deor (talk) 14:42, 29 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Talk:Bruton Abbey

Could you provide coordinates for Talk:Bruton Abbey, where you commented in 2012?--Dthomsen8 (talk) 03:51, 2 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Dthomsen8: The coordinates in the article are correct, according to old OS maps. What do you mean by "provide coordinates for" the talk page? Deor (talk) 07:57, 2 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – February 2019

News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2019).

Administrator changes

added Enterprisey • JJMC89
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Guideline and policy news

  • A request for comment is currently open to reevaluate the activity requirements for administrators.
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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 02:15, 4 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thought you should be aware

of this. John from Idegon (talk) 23:49, 6 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]


Thanks for the edit of Bayuex Tapestry

I was unaware that Facebook pages wouldn't work on the "about" page if you didn't have an account. I don't edit much anymore, so I've lost track of the finer points of Wiki editing. But I thot this current replica project was worthy of an addition. Many thanks for the clean up! Mactographer (talk) 06:22, 7 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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