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@WhisperToMe: Can you comment on the New Mexico State University talk page regarding "It is standard for New Mexico to provide dual language names" comment added by Alamo NM
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Haven't archived my talk page in about a decade and always in the middle of something else when I think about it. If you either have a moment to leave me a note on that page to tell me how or (better yet!) to do it for me, I'd appreciate it. Lawikitejana (talk) 07:42, 22 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
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I get why you made that change to Template:Ethnic Boston sidebar, but I don't get why you only changed the one item. Don't you think there are cultural differences between people in Ireland and Americans whose ancestors emigrated from Ireland in 1840? It seems odd to me to single out African ancestry in this way. --MopTop (talk) 04:31, 3 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
I'm wondering if edits like this ("home of the...") are something you've seen before. I reverted a number of similar edits to Houston area school articles about a week ago, but whoever it is is back again on a different IP address. Thanks, and Happy New Year! —DoRD (talk) 01:26, 8 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, you're right about the Yes Prep edit. As a very long ago graduate of an SBISD school, I recognized the mascots, but since you're a lot more active in this area, I was just wondering if you had noticed a long-term pattern. Thanks —DoRD (talk) 02:18, 8 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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Hi, dearest WhisperToMe, how are you? Happy New Year again!!!
I've opened this little new page, and I ask, please, some minute of your time to read it and correct my mistakes. Thanks a lot for your precious help and see you soon.
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Hello, and nice meeting you today! Could you look into this cross-wiki stalking problem I had experienced? I had been constantly reverted across projects since 2016, which I presumed was done by the same user since the IPs they used are either from the same range or location (like 36.234.0.0/16 and 101.8.0.0/13). Example: [1], [2], [3], [4], [5]. Also I believe there are other users from mainland China who were stalked. Thanks :)--Jsjsjs1111 (talk) 08:59, 24 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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Semi-protection: High level of IP vandalism and New Account with false information. Do do doggy 18:01, 20 February 2018 (UTC)
Request Semi lock for Ruamrudee International School too! Many wrong information that is leading the school in the bad way from many users.
P.s. Sorry I am not so sure how to request semi lock in the correct way. Thank you
(Do do doggy 18:16, 20 February 2018 (UTC))
Holy crap this talk page is long dude. Anyway, if you see a Phonoscope truck around Houston, a pic would be awesome for the Phonoscope article. Or, maybe a picture of one of those orange WARNING UNDERGROUND CABLE signs. (Kind of hard to think of any other relevant pictures unless you actually happen to capture a Phonoscope crew burying cable).
@Mike Richardson: Hey! I'm currently living in Shenzhen, China (there are a few Wikipedia events that happen in nearby Hong Kong) but I'll be back in H-town by late July 2018. Thanks for giving me that request! I'll see if I can get a picture of that wherever I am in the world :) WhisperToMe (talk) 18:33, 9 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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@Titodutta: Hey Tito! Greetings from Shenzhen! I'm doing fine right now. I am helping out the Hong Kong Wikipedia community with some stuff. How are things going in India? WhisperToMe (talk) 21:54, 25 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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A favor for Holy Easter or an aid to improve Lori Jo Hendrix
Good evening from Calabria,
I write to greet you and know how you are, I'm enough for now, waiting for the holy easter, I'll write to ask you a favor if you can and want to expand and improve the biography that I have reported to you, eventually enough that remains here on Wikipedia, of course if I can do something to improve it and look for other necessary sources I will do my best. I thank you for the patience, esteem and friendship you have in my regard. a greeting from Calabria and I hope I can soon do something for you.--Luigi Salvatore Vadacchino (talk) 20:17, 31 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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Please hold off on adding more comments to the portals RFC for a few minutes, so I can fix some problems that were introduced into that page with one of your edits. More information shortly. Hang on... - dcljr (talk) 23:21, 25 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
OK, I think I got all of them. this edit contained a bunch of random changes, which I have reverted. Were you trying to edit the entire page? It's best to edit just one small subsection at a time, since the page has gotten so large. - dcljr (talk) 23:28, 25 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
@Dcljr: Yeah, I was trying to add comments to multiple sections at once. Anyway thanks for the heads up! (it may be good to put a bolded notice or notice in red instructing people to edit one section at a time) WhisperToMe (talk) 23:31, 25 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
@Dcljr: Thank you! It might help to put an attention grabber before the table of contents on Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)/RfC: Ending the system of portals (something like "Before contributing, please read the instructions below."). What happened in my case is I didn't see instructions before the TOC and figured "I've been around since 2003 and have been through many discussions, so I have a handle on how it works." WhisperToMe (talk) 23:48, 25 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Makes sense. I just added a very similar box above the TOC, to "force" people to see it (too risky to just link to the instructions, as many users won't bother to follow the link). It's now all a bit redundant, but there's no telling how users come to that page, so I think having slightly redundant instructions in multiple places is better than trying to have one centralized set of instructions... - dcljr (talk) 00:14, 26 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
good morning from Coreca,
I'm writing to greet you and know how you are, I'm pretty good for now, I saw this article and I thought I'd give it a hand. I was wondering if you could possibly refresh the article, maybe updating it a bit. Then if I can do something for you, ask quietly, I will help you in Italian and its dialects. a greeting from Calabria and see you soon!--Luigi Salvatore Vadacchino (talk) 06:19, 26 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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I decided not to place this speedy; I thought at first they were another batch of promotional articles for dentists, but I see that is not the case. I need to think further about the articles on the various chains you have been writing. O'm a little concerned about over-detailed negative information. ( DGG ( talk ) 09:33, 15 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
@DGG: It's a tough situation; ordinarily an article shouldn't be overly negative, but the media reliable source coverage for the likes of All Smiles Dental Centers and Small Smiles Dental Centers (both defunct) were almost universally negative, just like coverage of Bernie Madoff. If the vast majority of RS'es are about accused fraud/etc that's not an attack article.
In the case of South Texas Dental I didn't see as much negative coverage on them; they're just the guys who took over all the All Smiles places when that chain closed.
might it be better to merge? Usually we merge into the later company, but if the earlier one is the most notable, perhaps that's better? I saw these because I am trying to s=do something about promotional and other dubious entries for dentists, dermatologists, etc. Are you interested in this field, of just accidentallly found these? DGG ( talk ) 05:52, 16 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
@DGG:, it could be possible to do a merge; I think a discussion outlining the two options would be best since the situation is complicated. All Smiles Dental Centers is certainly notable; it was the small company and no longer exists. South Texas Dental existed before All Smiles (there was no rename) and they took over the remaining practices, but they got little press coverage.
There was a wave of large dental companies (national and statewide) which had Medicaid families as customer bases forming circa the mid-2000s, and after then some of the practices were accused of Medicaid fraud by news media and/or by customers; the US government intervened in some of these cases. I read newspaper articles about some of these practices (Small Smiles and All Smiles were the two that generated the most media coverage) and used the articles as the bases of the Wikipedia articles. In fact there's a Congressional report (Alternate link) that talks about how Small Smiles (CSHM) was accused of fraud, and it also discusses ReachOut Healthcare America
One important thing is that I made sure Spanish versions of some articles were started; this is because many of the Medicaid families affected were low income immigrants from Latin America who had poor English comprehension. The boy who was documented in Roberta Baskin's report was a Hispanic boy from Langley Park, Maryland.
I felt good as I learnt something from a experienced ADMINISTRATOR. I feel good to learn something and thanks for putting that on my talk page. Can I contact you when I need some help? Souvik Nova (talk) 19:45, 21 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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@Boleyn: Thanks for the notice! I went ahead and sourced the HQ to the official website. Usually lists of schools are understood to be "sourced" from the official websites of schools, though specific details (particularly facts and figures, and if the actual location of a school differs from the "city name" in its postal address) should be given specific sources. WhisperToMe (talk) 15:42, 30 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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Hello, I am the one who have briefly talked with you after the meetup today. It is really nice meeting you and I thought it would be great to drop you a line to say hi. :) Lakokat13:32, 30 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]
IIRC, a few years ago you had sent a message asking about contributions to Wiki: ES. (My attempt to archive my talk page is a big fail: the bot removed the old content, but there is no archive.) Lately I have been reading SP and FR wikis, and my competency for those languages is picking up, though much of it really depends on the subject. I have been able to read some of the Spanish-language sources enough to edit the EN articles, and I have even made a few light edits of a few SP articles related to Mexico. One of the main challenges is finding reliable and stable sources of Mexican-related content over the Internet, which hinders the development of those articles.
You are listed at WikiProject Houston. Do you know if this project is active? Most of the editors listed there are no longer active on Wikipedia, and I cannot see that there any project-functions being executed since about 3-4 years ago, for example, page assessment, coordination of page improvement, and articles requested. I have made attempts to engage the group, and these have been roundly ignored. OTOH, some of the editors listed at the project page are very strong. Do you have any insight?
1. As for WikiProject Houston I and User:RJN may be the only active editors left. As Wikipedia matured there are fewer long term editors...
* One thing that IMO would really help are Spanish-language articles on the METRORail stops.
2. I wonder how many Mexican libraries or newspapers have their microfilms open. Getting access to microfilm content could be a way of getting around this issue...
Many of the editors with the oldest identities at WikiProject Houston never made many edits, unless they were maintaining multiple accounts. I think much of the activity there prior to 2008 involved engagement of the local experts writing unsourced material (even if it was often true). Do you know who organized it and if they are still on WP?
I have made one sad little edit on the Monterrey transit system. Here is the diff: [6]. All I did is find a new source and instantiate a new number for buses in their fleet. By reading these SP wiki articles, I am acquiring the vocabulary for writing about transit. Metrorrey, the Spanish name for the system in Monterrey, is amidst scrutiny from the local press about where the money has gone and for what. Local officials had announced that a third fixed-guideway line, a mostly elevated line would be operational. This article [7] explains that 600 million pesos have been appropriated this year for Linea 3 for building stations and elevated track. Metrorrey has not even taken bids for the new railcars [8], which are not interchangeable with the other two lines. There is still a Nuevo Leon web page up [9] claiming a completion date of August 2015. Such is the problem with researching some of these article.
One of the questions I have about writing articles for rail stations is about citation standards. I could raise the same question about descriptions of highways. See Houston#Roadways, second paragraph. I see unsourced write-ups describing freeways, but I don't see that content being tagged. The unsourced articles describing transit stations are all tagged. For example, see Northline Transit Center. Cheers, Oldsanfelipe (talk) 11:30, 1 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
2. Yeah, much of the issues often have to deal with conflicting sources. That's why I use {{Asof|}} to show that facts and figures were stated as of that date, and or using the wording "... is/was scheduled to..."
3. I haven't worked on rail projects that much, but for general subjects the main question is "is it likely to be challenged?" - If you think someone may dispute the figure or may really want a source for the info, it's better to cite it. In reality I believe about 90% of what I contribute has a citation.
@WhisperToMe: 1. I had listed my name at WikiProject Houston about three or four years ago, when the group still seemed to be active. I removed my identity from the list after not being contacted for an extended period of time. I made a few other postings to the project page with no response. Now I realize that other WikiProjects are the same way: they do not contact the newbies. This is something I should bring up to the WikiProjects. It's not a project without collaboration, and people who are not able to collaborate with other in the group are not effectively a part of the project. That's a problem because these are missed opportunities: collaboration can create synergies.
2. Yes, I agree.
3. You have been around much longer, but I am just now starting to appreciate various interpretations of verifiability and citing sources. I edit mostly historical articles, so, aside from the lede, I only write when I provide or re-purpose a citation. Every statement is backed up with a source, though I do not provide a unique citation for every statement. For a paragraph with statements a,b,c,d,e and inline citation C1, I will typically write a,b,c,d,eC1, where C1 supports all five statements, sometimes expressed as a small page range from a book. If I add to a paragraph, I might click through a citation in a paragraph with a,b,d,eC1, find support for new material, then I add c resulting in paragraph a,b,c,d,eC1. If I write statement c, which fits the middle of the narrative of the paragraph, but not supported by C1, I amend the paragraph to a,bC1,cC2,d,eC1. Often I have seen editors (and too often at Houston in the past) amend a paragraph a,b,d,eC1 without a new citation and without support from the existing citation to a,b,c,d,eC1. This creates a deception, even if unintentional, that c is supported by C1. I now revert edits like this if I cannot find support from the source referred to by the citation. None of this addresses the interpretation of you and many other experienced editors who cite verifiability in principle rather than verifiability in fact. I fall hard on the verifiability in fact because it's required for the content I typically write. Anything historical can be challenged. I am experiencing cognitive dissonance based on transportation articles, where perhaps some descriptions of the infrastructure are obvious. Cheers, Oldsanfelipe (talk) 13:31, 1 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Yep, 3. is one of the greatest issues with Wikipedia. A lot of people don't understand that they need a new ref, and the editing system doesn't tell them this! In my experience that stuff is unintentional. "Anything historical can be challenged." is definitely true; when I write history articles I cite just about everything.
WhisperToMe: Do you agree that WikiProjects Houston is inactive or semi-active? Do you agree that Houston-related articles would benefit if WikiProjects Houston were more active? Is that something you are willing to organize? If not, do you think PostOak would come back, or is there another experienced editor who would do a good job? I would like to learn a bit more about the history before I approach the WikiProject Council. Cheers, Oldsanfelipe (talk) 16:03, 7 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
@Oldsanfelipe: I would say between "inactive" and "semi-active". The collaboration part is inactive, but the principals are still editing Houston-related articles on Wikipedia. I'd have to talk to Postoak and see what kinds of goals we'd have. I think a lot of the efforts were on building the content of Houston-related articles. I suppose doing post-Harvey updates could be a new collaboration idea. WhisperToMe (talk) 16:10, 7 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for the quick response. Post-Harvey is a great idea. You and some other editors are capable of writing a good article even without help. I am thinking about building editing capacity. There are many Houston-related articles which could use improvement. Are there less experienced editors who can be a part of that process by improving their skills? I include myself in this later category, though I am moving toward competence. The assessment system could be a tool for improving Houston-related articles and the skills of people who are interested in Houston-related content. Just collaborating on proofreading and copy editing would be helpful to many editors. Again, I am one who would benefit from the help. But I also think I could help with assessments. Certainly people find ways to collaborate in a more organic way: that's generally how Wikipedia works. But making the project active might multiply the number of collaborations on Houston-related content. Oldsanfelipe (talk) 16:48, 7 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
@Oldsanfelipe: Good question! I'd have to check recent changes in Houston-related articles to see if there are new editors who are interested in improving content. Holding some in-person edit-a-thons could be a useful tool to recruit editors; I am currently in Shenzhen, China, and I help Wikimedia Hong Kong User Group with their new editor tutorials. I'll be in Houston in August of this year and if it's something feasible I could help with one in Houston (until August 26, when I fly back to China). WhisperToMe (talk) 16:59, 7 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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Hi, dearest WhisperToMe, how are you? Here it's too hot.
I opened this short page about this ex-showgirl. Please, do you have 3-4 minutes to read it and correct my mistakes? I'll be pleased to help you in Italian and Portuguese. Thanks a lot and see you very soon.
Good morning Justin,
I write to greet you and know how are you, I'm pretty good for now, working for my cultural tourism association. I am writing to ask you a favor, that is to dedicate a little of your precious time to reassume the history of my little village. I ask you to give a shot and refreshed article that is about to improve hour by hour, day after day. Thank you once again for what you did, do and do for me. a greeting from Calabria and see you soon!--Luigi Salvatore Vadacchino (talk) 05:42, 12 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
@Luigi Salvatore Vadacchino: Hi! I went ahead and did some fixes of the English! Having said that it will be important that you find sources that confirm the information in the article. Since you know Italian it may be easier for you to do that than me. If you are citing a source in Italian it may help to quote a portion of what you are citing within the citation. Thanks! WhisperToMe (talk) 17:19, 12 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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Hi, dearest WhisperToMe, how are you? Here there's tooooo hot!
I put a new reference in this page, and I ask only to read it, please, because I want it is put in correct form, and not to seem racist, because I'm not!!!!
@Rei Momo: Thanks for the tip! In this case it's fine to call him black as the Brazilian and Spanish newspapers do so. In the United States "colored" comes across as being a very old-fashioned way of referring to black people (although "people of color" is still used to collectively refer to all people who are not non-Hispanic/Latino White people). The word "colored" still appears in the names of some older organizations such as the NAACP. In South Africa "Coloured" refers to people from mixed racial backgrounds, a different racial category from pure black. WhisperToMe (talk) 12:36, 31 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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I am active on Romanian Wikipedia and on Commons, but I don't know well the particular guidelines of English Wikipedia. Romanian Wikipedia has started a project to translate some articles into English, a project addressed to university students. They have chosen one of our proposed topics, which we know how an article should be on Wikipedia. Although I explained how to post the translated article, in both cases that have been posted so far, these articles have reached the draft namespace, like this. Is it a common fact for a new user first article? What should be done to prevent this from happening?
Another question is if I have the right to move this article to the articles namespace, with the title Siege of Temeşvar (1716). I read the Wikipedia:Drafts guideline, but there is talk about moving articles to the "Draft"" namespace, or I want the other way around. You can tell me what to do? Thanks. --Turbojet (talk) 05:10, 3 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
@Turbojet: Hi! It's just fine for them to use the draft space! When the article's ready it can be moved to the mainspace. As for moving articles, you have the right to move an article from the draft space to the mainspace if/when it's finished/has all of the notability issues worked out. My understanding is that some people choose to move an article from the main space to the draft space if they realize it's not finished and want to work on it some more, but that should only be done if the person moving it/working on it was the only person to have edited the article. WhisperToMe (talk) 05:16, 3 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
I will move the article, it is finished and the person who posted it still does not know how to use Wikipedia. I understand that the article arrived in the Draft namespace without his will, that's the problem. Thank you very much. --Turbojet (talk) 05:24, 3 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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hello from Italy, I am writing to greet you and know how you are today. I am well enough for now, I am writing to ask you for the usual help to the articles I created, just and no more than 10 minutes of your precious time. a greeting from Calabria and I hope to be able to return the courtesy soon.--Luigi Salvatore Vadacchino (talk) 13:15, 8 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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Look, I opened this new page, and I ask an important help to you, because I'm not able to change it. On Giro dell'Appennino page, at 1938, there's Luigi Ferrando link, but is of an Italian bishop (I opened some years ago). I tried to change as Luigi Ferrando (cyclist), but when I published I was not able to see the good modification.
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I can see it is taking some time, so, how about this: I will use Google Translate (and correct any grammar/syntax errors) and submit it with my expansions, while you will help me with approval, uploading the DVD cover, and linking to foreign-language Wiki articles on the left?--87.70.97.132 (talk) 15:08, 30 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for the reply over there. As far as I am aware, Nord is still alive. So, what does this mean in our case? Thanks. To be fair, it is all in Russian, so, not being able to speak the language, I have no clue regarding the copyrights status. The Hebrew sources do not mention anything related to copyrights and such.--87.70.97.132 (talk) 08:59, 17 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks again for the further reply over there, though, considering what you just said, I think I will leave it as it is for the moment. BTW, current IP is--87.71.85.205 (talk) 18:58, 19 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
@87.70.90.152: Sorry I've been busy! Got the film poster uploaded and interwikied it! As for The Kingdom 2, I'll have to see if there are sources about it. Ordinarily feature films get articles... WhisperToMe (talk) 18:33, 10 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
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In this case I don't find the map selection helpful. It would be marginally less disruptive if the Greater London Map was the default. The map is over prominent- and barely relates to the article. Olaves has limited contact with LBB- but sees itself as a London institution, the UK map is superfluous for London. The amount of map selection text is huge in comparison with the essential items in the Infobox. Maybe the insert map template could be rewritten within hide brackets or the mapsize reduced to 40%. --ClemRutter (talk) 09:26, 1 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Re this edit Saw your message earlier. I saw from your user page that you lived in Shenzhen and were active in the WPHK before I reversed the edit. My argument is that, since Simp is not used in HK, there really is no reason to add it to pages that are purely HK-specific pages, just like I would argue there was no reason for adding Trad to pages that were about China-specific topics (it's a bit different for things that predate the invention of Simp, for obvious reasons). I feel it's misleading by adding it to the page since it's not an accepted usage, or one that people can expect to encounter, in that context. Wikipedia not being a dictionary, it doesn't seem to me to be relevant. I checked the Chinese Naming Conventions page and discussion, and it seems that there isn't any clear guideline on this as yet, so I'd be keen to hear if you have a different take on it. --Kdm852 (talk) 07:51, 3 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
@Kdm852: Thanks for the response! I agree it would be a good idea to open a line of inquiry about it. One concern of mine is that many non-Chinese confuse the Trad and Simp characters, so even though Wikipedia isn't a dictionary, I still think it's good for clarification purposes. Secondly, while HK locals dont use Traditional characters (the only times I've seen them on the MTR was on the East Rail Line to the border) Mainlanders do sometimes use Trad characters to make a location or place seem fancy (like using cursive in English). Anyhow I'm happy to open a discussion on this issue! WhisperToMe (talk) 10:47, 3 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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Hi, dearest WhisperToMe, how are you? Me fine, here Autumn is arrived.
Please, I just opened this little stub, and I ask you 4 minutes of your time, please, to read an put in correct English the plot. Thanks a lot and hope to hear from you soon.
Hi, I saw your note at User:RJN's talk page about possibly re-starting a Houston WikiProject, and mentioning User:Oldsanfelipe (pinging by this note). By the way IMHO from watching city-level wikiprojects elsewhere, I would hope you might try to enliven WikiProject Texas instead, and discuss Houston stuff all you like there. But good luck either way.
Thanks for the notice! I went and left comments. As per the Houston WikiProject, at this stage I wouldn't mind if it was integrated into WP Texas as a task force of some kind. Nowadays there's a lot less traffic in regards to these regional projects. @Doncram:WhisperToMe (talk) 23:22, 19 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
@Doncram: Thanks for the note. User:WhisperToMe has said that he wants to do meetups, but I have no plans to participate in those. I personally would not find those helpful, though I am sure many other editors would. Independent of the merits of meetups, where I see the possibility of generating interest in the WikiProjects and for improving the work is through the assessment process. Doncram and WhisperToMe, what do y'all think of that idea? Oldsanfelipe (talk) 09:40, 20 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
@Oldsanfelipe: While assessment is important I think it's something to be done after people are engaged in a WikiProject. Most people reading Wikipedia don't read the talk pages, and therefore don't read the assessments. IMO the best way to grow a WikiProject is to make WikiProjects more visible to newbies. Sadly I feel our hands are tied with that as Wikipedia-referencing is limited in the article spaces themselves. WhisperToMe (talk) 17:29, 20 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
User:WhisperToMe, Thanks for engaging me in this discussion. I am sure that you know much about the workings of the WikiProjects that I cannot imagine. However, I think you are overweighting the goal of recruiting new editors. Sometimes the answer is both and all of the above. I have two analogies that are somewhat dissimilar to the WikiProject situation, but similar enough in certain aspects to be helpful as explanations. One is voter registration versus get out the vote. Obviously, you can only vote if you are registered, so voter registration drives are necessary. Yet you cannot ignore registered voters just because they have voted in the past, therefore, there are get out the vote campaigns. You need to register voters, but you need to serve people who have already voted. The second analogy is a poorly frequented restaurant. Advertising for new business is probably necessary, but ultimately fruitless without giving good service. You cannot wait for new business to provide good service. You must serve current customers. WikiProject Houston has some active editors who have signed up for the project, but not (as far as I can tell) receiving any support from the project. There are other editors, who like me, are creating and editing articles under the scope of the project, but without project support. You cannot assume that because people have voted before that they will vote in the next election. A few customers in a restaurant cannot sustain you, but you still need to take their orders. They could also turn out to be people who will refer new clientele. Finding new editors will not help if the project page is three years out of date and nobody is monitoring the project's talk page, for example. I signed up for the project three or four years ago and requested assessments. After never receiving a response from the project, I removed my name from the list. Am I the only editor to give up on the project after being ignored? Oldsanfelipe (talk) 09:06, 21 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
@Oldsanfelipe: Despite being here for a long time I've never done assessments. I've focused solely on article creation.
I think much of what's happened is that a lot of the previous WikiProject Houston posters have gotten busy, grown up, and gotten new jobs/marriages to worry about. There just aren't a ton of people watching the talk page. If you're referring to this Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Houston#Assessing_articles - I don't think there is/was one. You just find one of the contacts and ask him/her to help you. I probably should have paid more attention to the project page, but I got busy with other stuff. If you want, show me some articles you want me to assess and I can have a stab at it.
WhisperToMe My point is not: I cannot get my pages assessed, therefore I will be satisfied if my pages are assessed. My point is that page assessment is one of several important WikiProject functions, and one I was offering to help with. I also imagined, based on the number of requests for assessments across all projects, that there is demand for such an initiative. On another note, it would be difficult to reactivate the project without some kind of cooperation and counsel from the previous administrators of the project. This does not appear to be forthcoming. I just tagged the page as inactive. It's overdue. Oldsanfelipe (talk) 10:50, 21 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
WhisperToMe, I wouldn't need to consult with the previous page assessors. I can assess pages stub through b-class. That's the easy part. I would expect that anyone reviving the project would take advice from the editors who created and edited the templates. Also, they would want to pick their brains about general matters. It's smart to try to access institutional memory. But it appears that nobody wants to step into those roles. It sounds like you want to make it into a task force of WikiProject Texas. I guess that will happen. Oldsanfelipe (talk) 11:46, 21 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
@Oldsanfelipe: I'd like to get the institutional memory and advice of the old timers too, but a lot just seem to have moved on. User:Postoak (who seems to be the guy who started this project) blanked his userpage last February. If you'd like I could try e-mailing some of them just in a last-ditch attempt to see if they're up for reviving it as a standalone project. Remember though that making this a task force means it's still going on, just with less administrative load. Wikipedia:WikiProject_Council/Guide/Task_forces#Converting_existing_projects_to_task_forces talks about the process of converting a project into a task force. BTW I found User:Brianreading is still active so I reached out to him. WhisperToMe (talk) 13:24, 21 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
I responded on my talk page. I think we should reactivate the project. We still have many long-term editors that can help, including yourself. Postoak (talk) 16:52, 21 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
@Zerabat: It looks good! I don't know what Korean sources have said about the school, but so far I don't think there's any major expansion on the horizon. Please start the translation. Thanks! WhisperToMe (talk) 03:55, 24 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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Hello, WhisperToMe! I've been working with Choice Hotels to propose improvements for the company's Wikipedia article. I've saved a draft article here and, as always, disclosed my conflict of interest on the article's talk page (Talk:Choice Hotels). You helped me with the Hilton Worldwide article before, and since no one has responded to my first edit request or note at WikiProject Hotels, I thought I'd reach out to you directly to see if you'd be willing to assist.
Hi again! Regardless of whether or not you're interested in reviewing the proposed content for the next section, would you mind revisiting Talk:Choice_Hotels#"Growth_and_expansion" when you have a moment? I'd appreciate your feedback on the "where?" tag (hopefully you received my email with article text) and adding the "Grant18" citation to the live article. Thank you! Inkian Jason (talk) 17:55, 5 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
I updated my comment above. I found another editor to assist with the "Grant18" citation. The "where?" tag remains, and I've posted another request here for the "Recent history" section. Thanks! Inkian Jason (talk) 19:11, 13 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Sorry, striking out part of a comment left while you were updating the article. I've outlined the remaining requests at the bottom of the talk page (addition of "Recent history" / removal of "Headquarters relocation", replacing "Loyalty program" with the proposed "See also" section", and a suggested category change and image addition). Thanks again for all your help! Inkian Jason (talk) 20:11, 4 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
@Fauvirt: Thank you for showing me the image! I was not aware it existed! The address of WizzAir does say it's "Building B" in the complex, so I'm trying to figure out if this is Building B or not WhisperToMe (talk) 18:23, 28 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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I opened this little stub now, and I ask you some minutes of your time, please, to read it and correct my mistakes, please. Thanks a lot and have a nice week end.
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I am writing to greet you and know how you are. I'm pretty good for now. I'm writing to ask for help to improve and settle the article, as you know my English is bad, but I tried to give a tip lately. Here is the biography on my sandbox, it has not yet been accepted by the Italian community. I ask you the courtesy of dedicating us right and no more than 10 minutes of your precious time. If I can do something for you, ask. Sure of your answer and help I thank you in advance and I hope to hear from you soon.--Luigi Salvatore Vadacchino (talk) 18:46, 27 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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Hi WhisperToMe, hope you're well and not sure if you remember me, but I'm sure you'll remember me from the TfD Infobox UK school merger discussion that we had a while back. The merger was a success which I'm sure you'll have noticed. During the merge discussion process, we produced an "after-merge ideas" section (now renamed to "Infobox cleanup" after revamping the entire section) on the Infobox school talk page with improvements to the infobox, such as merging and removing parameters. This is basically a full cleanup of the infobox and I was wondering if you'd be interested in joining in the discussion? There's already parameters listed which you'll just need to comment on if you agree or not to help build consensus and if there's anything you have you can just add to the relevant subsection. There will be a bot run once the discussion has finished that will go through all the transclusions. If you don't want to, that's ok and please let me know, thank you Steven (Editor) (talk) 20:52, 15 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
@Shirt58: Thanks for the heads up! While there are many Preston's and many public schools, I dont know of any others with the specific name "Preston Public School" (usually in the US the name is such and such "Elementary School"). Also I created the article at "Preston Public School" and created he later as s redirect. Anyhow I will check with the Oklahoma Department of Education to see if that's truly the official site. WhisperToMe (talk) 15:38, 19 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for creating Preston Public School! I edit here too, under the username Boleyn and it's nice to meet you :-)
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Hi, dearest WhisperToMe, how are you?
Me fine, here is still too cold!!!
I've opened this little page about a nice river. Please, I ask 2 minutes of your time to read it and correct my mistakes. Thanks a lot and have a nice week end!!!
...and now it is displaying correctly. Was missing the next five after the earliest, but the separators were showing. Might be a Firefox glitch. Mjroots (talk) 14:55, 12 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Hi WhisperToMe, when you are working with groups of people, you may want to have them place a note about the event on their userpage or that they are working with you to help avoid confusion concerning sockpuppetry. I had to separate one of these events from some UPE activity while checking. You may want to tell them about WP:VALIDALT as well so that they clearly mark any alternate accounts as the one below has not.
Hi, dearest WhisperToMe, how are you? Me fine, here we are wayting Spring.
I've opened this short stub about the famous Brazilian singer Agepê. I like his musich toooooo much!!! Please, I ask you 4 minutes to read it and correct my mistakes. Thanks you very much for your precious help!!!
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Hi, in light of [[Winfield High School (Kansas) and my nominating it for deletion I think you should probably consider drawing up a draft with refs before you publish to avoid this happening again. Thanks SSSB (talk) 18:49, 20 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
@SSSB:. Thank you for the suggestion! For many other subjects (especially one where I am not certain whether notability is possible - for-profit companies come to mind) I would. However in other cases, in which I feel notability is all but certain, I feel it is not necessary to do this. In my years of editing I have understood American comprehensive high schools are always notable and proof of existence is all that is needed for an article, regardless of de jure policies/guidelines (because the existence of the actual secondary sources to back them up is implied). It is best to only nominate for deletion if one feels the topic is not salvegeable at all. (for very small rural school districts it may be possible to consolidate the article, not because the school is not notable, but because the school and the school district are effectively the same thing)
One of the risks of unnecessarily nominating for deletion (though preferable to speedy deletions) is putting a user through doing more work than he/she could tolerate. As an experienced editor it's not as difficult for me, but for a 58-year old blue collar worker in Middle America this could make him quit Wikipedia in disgust. It is true that a lot of people are not educated on Wikimedia matters and what's acceptable, but when they see other comprehensive high schools in other parts of the US they understand that theirs should be there too.
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Hello, I noticed a number of your edits in Hong Kong-related articles, and most of them involve adding the Mandarin pinyin and the Simplified Chinese name to the templates. It has come to my question if whether such is really necessary; not all subjects are expressed in simplified Chinese and Mandarin in Hong Kong, such as Wah Yan College, Kowloon and HKDSE. I wonder if there are any reasons why you have been adding it to various HK-related articles? Cheers. –Wefk423 (talk) 17:17, 29 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
In regards to Mandarin, it is becoming increasingly commonplace in Hong Kong since 1997 and the HK government is pursuing the "trilingual" aspect (meaning Hong Kongers are to learn Mandarin as a second language) of its education program. In addition foreign students of Chinese varieties tend to know Mandarin rather than Cantonese, especially nowadays. Based on this detail, Hong Kong-related articles, especially those related to post-1997 HK and the handover, should display Mandarin in the Chinese infobox, while making it clear Cantonese is the main variety.
In any event it is important to also show Cantonese for places in Shenzhen, Guangzhou, Zhuhai, etc. on the Mainland side.
Thanks for the quick reply and the explanation. Well, as a local, I can say Mandarin is indeed getting its popularity in Hong Kong, but not simplified Chinese. If I had noticed the discussion, I have to say I would be opposing to such idea. But anyways, the consensus is what matters. Good luck with the editings. Cheers. –Wefk423 (talk) 17:38, 29 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
You're welcome! On that note I make sure articles about the Mainland also have Traditional Chinese versions noted down (as well as Malaysia/Singapore articles). The only place in HK that I see Simplified Chinese is on signage in and on the East Rail Line (because that line carries people from Shenzhen, where I live, into Hong Kong). WhisperToMe (talk) 17:41, 29 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
I've opened this short page, and I ask you please, 4 minutes to read it and correct my mistakes, just some minutes. Thanks a lot for your precious help and see you soon
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I'm not sure about the new navboxes. I think they could be useful, but there are a few issues:
There are probably too many articles for the navboxes to be manageable. I notice {{Tuen Mun District}} omits 39 of the 43 Light Rail stops – does the navbox have inclusion criteria other than "in the district"?
The district boundaries can and do change between District Council elections – for example, Victoria Park and most of Tin Hau were transferred from Eastern District to Wan Chai District for the 2015 election.
The district boundaries do not necessarily reflect geographical or social reality, and it might be better to create navboxes focused on localities instead. Jc86035 (talk) 11:52, 6 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
1. The main criteria for the New Territories templates is "in the district". However my idea is that for much of Hong Kong Island and/or Kowloon the "district navboxes" should only include localities and possibly a list of secondary schools in the region, as many areas are so "dense" with Wikipedia-notable sites that they would be too big if you tried to include everything. I am aware that not all the light rail stops in Yuen Long District are there yet, but I didn't have a chance to add them yet.
2. Oh... I wasn't aware of district boundaries changes like that. I saw that the last new district formed was circa 1994 so I assumed the last change was at that point.
3. For reasons above I am very much interested in making navboxes on denser localities - like Central, Wan Chai, (especially those two!) I wished to use district-based navboxes mainly in less dense areas such as in the New Territories.
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Hello! Thanks for adding geography navigation templates to various articles. However, navigation templates should only be added when the article appears within, so for example, Rich's Houston should be mentioned in the Midtown template, and ideally the article's prose would confirm the venue is located in Midtown. Does this make sense? ---Another Believer(Talk)17:02, 10 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
@Another Believer: Thanks for the feedback! In Midtown, Houston I'll add the venue to a section in the article, and in the venue article I'll cite the street address and a map of Midtown. Anyway some nav boxes are comprehensive, so sometimes items may be listed in a particular daughter article and not necessarily the main article (this doesn't apply to Rich's and Midtown, though). WhisperToMe (talk) 18:09, 10 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
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Hi, when translating from another wiki, don't forget to put a {{Translated page}} template on the talk page. I've done that here. Happy editing! --Randykitty (talk) 15:27, 17 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Hi, dearest WhisperToMe, how are you? Here it's too cold, we have rains from 8 days and it seem October.
I have opened this little page, do you have some minute to read it and correct my mistakes? Please.... Just 3 minutes. Thanks a lot and have a nice day.
Thanks for your feedback on Houston neighborhoods and boundaries. I was just trying to organize some of the Houston sites I've seen by neighborhood, but I've abandoned my effort since the neighborhoods are not strictly defined... too confusing around Montrose, Museum District, etc. Oh well! In other news, I consider Hermann Park one of the city's jewels, and I'm hoping to make some improvements to the Wikipedia article. I also want to create some new stubs for features, such as the Japanese Garden, railroad, etc. If you're interested to help out, you're more than welcome! Happy editing, ---Another Believer(Talk)16:09, 21 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
@Another Believer: The good news is that I already made navigation templates for the Museum District and Montrose (as Neartown). If you want to write categories, just add everything I've put in the navigation templates. When there is no single set of boundaries at all, I check which sites the Houston Chronicle consistently says are in the "Museum District" and categorize those as in the Museum District (after all a reliable source is defining something as being in the Museum District). When there are multiple agencies with different boundaries, include stuff in both and/or explain what is in what boundary. WhisperToMe (talk) 16:18, 21 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
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@Certes: Hi! I added "Transclude random excerpt" because I was told to use that for transcribing the lead regardless of size, and because I was previously unaware of that template and felt it would be good for casual readers of Template:Transclude lead excerpt/doc to be aware of its existence. If they both use the same code anyway I agree that should be clarified in the documentation. WhisperToMe (talk) 00:29, 24 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Done, thanks. "Transclude random excerpt" will also do the job but it might confuse someone who notices that it doesn't behave randomly in this case and wonders why you might have wanted it to. Certes (talk) 00:51, 24 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Ways to improve Chinook School Division
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An article you recently created, Summersville School District 79, does not have enough sources and citations as written to remain published. It needs more citations from reliable, independent sources. (?) Information that can't be referenced should be removed (verifiability is of central importance on Wikipedia). I've moved your draft to draftspace (with a prefix of "Draft:" before the article title) where you can incubate the article with minimal disruption. When you feel the article meets Wikipedia's general notability guideline and thus is ready for mainspace, please click on the "Submit your draft for review!" button at the top of the page. The Duke21:44, 27 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
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Page Mikhael (film) - Critical reception section was poorly cited and written
I was reading that article and thought of removing ref flag and copyedit flag.
The page Critical reception section is negatively written and poorly cited, earlier one content is cited by facebook report that can be seen in History logs. Per my knowledge, adding social media reports is grave violation of wiki policies. I added reference to Director, Producer, Song Composer and Movie duration etc. Also rewritten the Critical reception section. Also added the dates in references which was not added earlier. All my changes been undo by Arjayay. Saying it's not constructive. Here - User talk:Mahamagadh Request your fair review. Thank you
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{{cite web|author=Blanchard, Sarah|url=http://www.chron.com/neighborhood/spring/news/article/Rezoning-plans-continue-for-Klein-ISD-6700334.php|title=Rezoning plans continue for Klein ISD|publisher=''[[The Spring Observer]]'' at the ''[[Houston Chronicle]]''|date=2015-12-15|accessdate=2017-04-18}}
{{cite web|author=Yip, Hilton<!--Not identified in the SCMP re-post but in the original at the Asian Review of Books-->|url=https://www.scmp.com/culture/books/article/2151231/how-ming-dynasty-pirate-took-taiwan-dutch-joyce-bergvelts-novel-lord|title=How Ming dynasty pirate took Taiwan from the Dutch in Joyce Bergvelt’s novel Lord of Formosa: review|publisher=''[[Asian Review of Books]]'' at the ''[[South China Morning Post]]''|date=2018-06-18|accessdate=2018-11-24}}
{{cite web|url=https://eu.clarionledger.com/story/news/2017/11/19/state-appointed-leader-mississippis-worst-rated-school-district-resigns/879077001/|title=State-appointed leader of Mississippi’s worst-rated school district resigns |publisher=''[[Associated Press]]'' at the ''[[Clarion Ledger]]''|date=2017-11-19|accessdate=2018-09-17}}
In the first example, it isn't clear to me what The Spring Observer is but it appears to be a division of, or a department of , or perhaps a subsumed competitor of Houston Chronicle. In the second, there is a website with the name 'Asian Review of Books' but that string of text does not appear in the review at the South China Morning Post. In the last example, as a news agency, 'Associated Press' belongs in |agency=.
A few more points:
all of the example citations are news sources so {{cite news}} is to be preferred over {{cite web}}
all cs1|2 templates produce metadata. The documentation for all of these templates has this:
Do not include Wiki markup '' (italic font) or ''' (bold font) because these markup characters will contaminate the metadata. (see for example documentation at {{cite web}})
similarly, |publisher= in all of the examples includes the extraneous text ' at the '
Houston Chronicle, South China Morning Post, and Clarion Ledger are all newspapers so |newspaper= is appropriate whereas |publisher= – as an apparent stand-in – is not (metadata standard does not support the concept of 'publisher' in periodical-type metadata even though cs1|2 will display it)
I have learned that you are not the only editor to use this improper formatting but you do appear to be the editor who is the most prolific.
At the next update to the Module:Citation/CS1 suite, citations like the above will produce error messages like this:
{{cite news|url=https://eu.clarionledger.com/story/news/2017/11/19/state-appointed-leader-mississippis-worst-rated-school-district-resigns/879077001/|title=State-appointed leader of Mississippi’s worst-rated school district resigns |agency=[[Associated Press]] |newspaper=[[Clarion Ledger]]|date=2017-11-19|accessdate=2018-09-17}}
A lot of editors write |publisher=''<periodical name>'' and |publisher=<periodical name> in periodical templates so I am running a bot task to fix as many of those kinds of problems as possible before the module-suite update. The bot will not fix the misused |publisher= issues described in this post.
This simple insource: cirrus regex search may be helpful if you wish to fix these types of citations before the update. This search also finds untemplated instances of the string ]]'' at the ''[[ which are not of concern until those plain-text citations are converted to templates.
@Trappist the monk: Thanks for the notification! I'll start using the work field instead for the newspaper names if that's Ok. Anyway a few things: Re: Asian Review of Books, the reviews were initially published on that website but the South China Morning Post also published the same reviews on its page. From "How Ming dynasty pirate took Taiwan from the Dutch in Joyce Bergvelt’s novel Lord of Formosa: review." the bottom states "Asian Review of Books Comments" which indicates that is the true source of the review. (I'm wondering if the SCMP's website architecture obstructs text searches of that string). As for Spring Observer et al, they used to be independent newspapers under the Houston Community Newspapers umbrella but the Chronicle acquired them all at a later time. As for Associated Press I learned that should not be italicized, so I will remove that. Again, thanks for the heads up!WhisperToMe (talk) 15:35, 23 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Perhaps I fumbled on the 'Asian Review of Books' search; I can find it now. I wonder if it should be treated as an 'agency' because in our article South China Morning Post is cited as the source (the editor read it there?) but |agency=Asian Review of Books because Asian Review of Books apparently has/had editorial control of that review? (in this rather like AP has primary editorial control over articles it produces but that are 'distributed' by local newspapers) Can't say for sure, can't find that review on Asian Review of Books.
I've had some trouble locating Asian Review of Books pages on Google. I honestly don't know why but I've made queries into Google and they didn't show up :-(. Anyhow I believe http://asianreviewofbooks.com/content/lord-of-formosa-by-joyce-bergvelt/ is the original page of the book review. In regards to that I'm fine with using Asian Review of Books as the "agency" and the SCMP as the "work". I wonder, by the way, if the citation template could give a warning if italic or quotation mark characters are detected in the publisher field to discourage people from adding those characters. I think that would be great in encouraging people to use the template properly. WhisperToMe (talk) 16:40, 23 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Are you not seeing the error messages with this citation (copied from above)?
That Asian Review of Books link looks right (at a glance). If it is the same as is used at South China Morning Post, wouldn't it be better to simply cite the review directly and leave out South China Morning Post bibliographic stuff?
Trappist, I'm seeing the error message now. Thanks! As for the ARB stuff, I wanted to emphasize that it got published in the SCMP (as the SCMP historically was the newspaper of record in Hong Kong) to show that it's an important review/in an important publication, but I could also link primarily to the original ARB review and shunt the SCMP link as an alternate one. WhisperToMe (talk) 17:46, 23 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Good. I'm glad that I haven't buggered up the code so that only some see the error messages that all are supposed to see. It's anyone's guess about when those error message will go live (there are a couple of rfcs in the way that must be closed first). I'm not trying to talk you out of citing South China Morning Post; all I care about is that citations render correctly and produce good metadata.
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Hi WhisperToMe, are you adding Infobox mapframe to each school now? I'm not too sure if that is a good idea, the Infobox school template still requires cleanup and once this is done, I'm looking to get mapframe implemented into the template - like what was done to Infobox building for example. When this is added, we would have to go through all the schools and remove this. Please let me know, thanks Steven (Editor) (talk) 02:17, 5 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
@Steven (Editor): Thanks for the greet! I started adding the mapframe because I saw it in another article (about a Hong Kong school), did a preview with Lamar High School (Houston), liked what I saw, and thought I'd spread it around. If there are plans to actively integrate it in the template, I am happy to wait. I'm wondering if a bot, after integration, could be used to clean up old instances of mapframe. WhisperToMe (talk) 07:49, 5 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
In general this is brilliant news. I have reservations though about the capability of mapframe as against OSM map. It lacks the ability to add multisite campuses, it lacks the ability to offset- often it is more useful to display the map centred on the town centre, and pin the site to edge of the map. In a series of articles on schools in the same town, it is better to use the same map centre for all articles. The rendering of the pin is too loud and obliterates local detail. I expect this functions will be added in the future, but I would be loathe to lose existing detail in the search for a global solution, only to have to re-research it later. --ClemRutter (talk) 08:14, 5 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
@ClemRutter: Thanks for the update! Yeah, because of the lack of multicampus functions I only added this mapframe to single-campus schools. In fact some schools may have four or five campuses in the same metropolitan area or so (note even two or more campuses in the same municipality can be geographically distant, or different municipalities may be geographically close, so it depends on the particular school) WhisperToMe (talk) 08:49, 5 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Hi WhisperToMe and ClemRutter, thanks for replying - yeah the Infobox mapframe is better suited to single-campus schools and I was thinking for those with multiple campuses, the OSM one should be used instead via the module parameter? If you look at the Infobox school talkpage there's a section titled "Infobox cleanup" - there are already parameters listed for merging, renaming and deleting, delete completely and other. This is pretty much a full cleanup and the only problem that is holding this is consensus and no one has commented on it since last year. I'm not sure if this can go ahead due to no objection and comment but I dunno. Would you be interested in providing your comments of whether you support or disagree to each of the sections. If for example you support all of the parameters listed for complete removal, you can simply right at the bottom "I support the removal of all these parameters" or something. When the cleanup is done and dusted, we can initiate the mapframe discussion and whether pushpin map should be removed entirely in favour of it or kept alongside. Please let me know, thank you Steven (Editor) (talk) 18:57, 5 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
@Steven (Editor): Sure! I'll take a look at some of the discussions. In the meantime, I wonder if a button selection for each campus would be good for multi-campus schools: you click a button to see the location of a particular campus. LILA in the Los Angeles area, for example, has five or so distant campuses, and Darul Arqam in the Houston area is similar. I think having the coords of the school system's administrative offices would be good too. WhisperToMe (talk) 19:37, 5 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Hi, thank you, there's no rush anyway, perhaps you could start with the merge subsection and then work your way down? Do you mean like a interchangeable map for the different campus - buttons that would look like what you get under a pushpin map? I can see you're adding mapframe to module again, would you be able to hold for now? I'm not sure if a bot can remove those after, I know it can remove parameters but not sure about specific text next to a parameter Steven (Editor) (talk) 20:10, 5 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
@Steven (Editor): I'll go ahead and do that. As for the module, in that case I'll hold for now unless/until I get confirmation that a bot would be able to do a mass remove. How's that? (in some cases using the module has helped me identify/fix coordinate errors on Wikidata - the wikidata coordinates are different from Enwiki and the module draws from wikidata) WhisperToMe (talk) 20:13, 5 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you so much, you forgot to sign after your text by the way haha. The Rename and delete section is for consolidating the proliferation of aliases/synonyms which are unnecessary, will help maintain consistency and reduce the clutter in the code. You can just write support or disagree at the bottom, but there are three bullet points which have comments underneath like deleting the years taught sub-parameters. The Delete completely section is for parameters to be deleted completely so can just comment at bottom for this too. That's perfect and it's good that you were able to identify/fix coordinate errors. Pinging Primefac for comment regarding the module situation and if a bot can do this Steven (Editor) (talk) 21:08, 5 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
If there are a significant number of pages/parameters that need removing, a bot run could be used to remove them. If it's on, say, less than 200 pages, it will just be easier to go through and remove them manually or with AWB. Primefac (talk) 15:44, 7 July 2019 (UTC) (please ping on reply)[reply]
Hi Primefac, thanks for replying, but can a bot remove certain text after a parameter? In this case, the module parameter for Infobox school is used in different ways such as different infoboxes embedded. Would a bot be able to go through only the articles with Infobox mapframe next to the module parameter? Steven (Editor) (talk) 19:11, 7 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
@Spaceboy900: One thing I'd try when editing is archiving copies of articles you use as sources. That way even if the original location is deleted, you still have additional copies people can read. There are four archival sites to choose from: Wayback Machine (web.archive.org), Webcitation.org, Archive.is (also .li, .ph, etc), and Megalodon.jp. I like to archive each page on at least two or so. WhisperToMe (talk) 18:35, 8 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Hello WhisperToMe, I just wanted to thank you for your work for the WikiProject Notre Dame. I am currently making an effort to revamp it and improve all articles. I was wondering if you could help out, since any and all help is needed. If you want, you can check out the To Do list for the top priority, or take your own initiative and work on what's needed the most. The top priority articles in bad condition, like the colleges or the grotto, need a lot of help too. Additionally, photos or translation in other languages are also great.
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Hi, I made some edits on Humans (Phillips book), including its apparent earlier publication date of 2018. That being said... I'm not so sure that the 2018 Wildfire edition [10] might not be ebook only, and maybe just barely this side of self-published. Do you have any familiarity with this publisher? Perhaps the 2019 Hanover Square Press edition should be considered the first "real" publication of the book. TJRC (talk) 20:37, 26 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
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You think it might be possible to create another Yugioh character article ala Yugi Muto. I considered Kaiba or Katsuya/Joey but then I thought Jaden/Judai Yuki might have more 3rd party sources since he is a protagonist. Then again, researching creation information about him might be difficult.Tintor2 (talk) 23:02, 20 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
@Tintor2: It might help to ask people at the JAWiki Chatsubo to see if any Japanese magazines have articles about them. Interestingly the Joey character is usually known by his family name, Jonouchi, in the English manga (and most other language mangas, except Brazilian Portuguese), as well as the original Japanese. I think in the English version only his sister calls him by his given name, Katsuya (in Japanese she calls him "big brother"). WhisperToMe (talk) 15:10, 24 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
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Thanks for your many recent edits that have greatly improved a group of articles I have worked on in the past, particularly those relating to education in Oktibbeha County Mississippi. You've greatly improved the articles, and fixed a lot of problems I introduced. Your efforts are greatly appreciated! Jacona (talk) 16:34, 20 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
I just deleted a lot of broken redirects to this recently deleted article. It looks like you were not notified of its deletion and as you had created it, I thought you should know in case you objected to its deletion. LizRead!Talk!01:04, 23 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
@Liz: Thanks for the notice! I strongly object to the deletion; I started the article quite a while back. If someone else replaced it with advertising it should be restored to the last clean revision, not deleted. @Jimfbleak:WhisperToMe (talk) 01:42, 23 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
I reviewed the revisions and I do not see an instance of a third party adding promotional language. The article existed since 2010 so I had no expectations of such an event happening. I do not understand how it could be taken as promotion. WhisperToMe (talk) 01:46, 23 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
I haven't evaluated the article yet but I object to pages being deleted without notices to the page creator. If the article is restored, I'll restore all of the now deleted redirects. There were quite a lot. LizRead!Talk!02:44, 23 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for ping, I've commented at the review and accepted that this was a bad call on my part. It's clear how the review is going, but I have no objection if you want to close the review as a snow and restore now Jimfbleak - talk to me?05:33, 24 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
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Would you believe, I had you on my mind just last week - went to WikiConference North America for the first time, and one of my roommates at the hostel was talking about regional and local editor groups. Was telling her you were one of the only other people I knew who edited Dallas or Houston, and I was pretty sure you'd moved somewhere else at some point. Good to see you're still editing - hope you're doing well. Lawikitejana (talk) 07:37, 22 November 2019 (UTC) ETA this is in response to your message on my user talk page about having started an article on a Dallas elementary school. BTW, if it's a DISD elementary school, I believe at some point I was advised either to make articles only about the elementary schools that are notable in their own right OR to create a combined article about all the Dallas public elementary schools, with a section for each. Lawikitejana (talk) 07:40, 22 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
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Private school districts do not get an automatic pass on notability. They have no set boundries, meaning it fails WP:GEOPLACE, it lacks the taxing powers (and the interest that goes along with that) and has no legal powers beyond what any other private company would have. Oh, and it fails GNG, and NORG.
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@Steven (Editor): Hi! I'll check and see if additional coverage on the distructs is readily available. The common outcomes for districts is based on geo outcomes. On one hand much of rural America's school districts still don't have articles and since relatively few people with little editing experience have the time or resources to create articles that pass AFC, I feel it would help for me personally to start these articles. I feel this will help rural Americans become more interested in Wikipedia and feel more of a stake in the project. On the other hand I agree a substantial article us better than a stub. WhisperToMe (talk) 03:38, 26 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Well, I speak French, but I'm not so able to translate from English to French with technical words, sorry. I think you can ask to someone French native speaker. Thanks to have considered to me. See you soon. Rei Momo (talk) 07:44, 9 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
@Djmaschek: Much appreciated! In the US school buildings can be quite unique! I've heard in Japan there's only a few approved designs for schools, so the buildings don't vary as much. WhisperToMe (talk) 07:31, 15 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
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Hi WhisperToMe, hope you had a good Christmas and Happy New Year. I came across these two US schools; Bibb County High School and West Blocton High School — both of these were created as redirects to their locality, but you removed them and didn't really make any improvement except make them into single-sentence unsourced stubs back in April 2018. The edit summary you had provided for one of them was: "That was a bad redirect!". By any chance have you done the same for other high schools? Stubs are to be avoided per the school article guidelines and redirects should be tagged with the R from school template so they can be categorised, and have the potential to be converted into an article if someone is willing to work on it. Please let me know, thank you Steven (Editor) (talk) 00:02, 2 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
@Steven (Editor): Hi! Thanks for letting me know! I'll get to these articles within this week. It's possible I've studied others, but I'd have to check my edit summaries. Anyhow:
1. Public high schools in recently populated areas almost always have the potential of being decently developed, and the main roadblocks are paywalls and lack of digitization of old newspaper articles. It of course is preferable to not have a stub, but the district in question operated more than one comprehensive high school, so there should be differentiation between the high schools, and that means content that can flesh out the articles. I'd like to beef up the articles sometime, so I should get to them sometime this week.
2. Re the edit summary comment, any US/Canadian schools that do redirect should be going to the respective school districts, not the municipalities; the municipal governments (usually) dont operate them, and the schools often draw from multiple communities. It is important that redirecting to school districts, and not municipalities, is emphasized. Because ordinary people who don't know hiw Wikipedia operates won't catch on to the redirects not going to the right place, they may not realize there is an issue. Also if the article doesnt mention the schools, people will be confused by the redirect. I'd have to check diffs but it's possible the target articles didnt mention the schools.
3. One issue today with wikipedia is the relative difficulty and lack of timeliness of the AFC process. I feel that it would be easier on the community to create a stub that is likely to survive any notability challenges and then let the locals add more content.
No problem and as you'll be getting to them, I'll add the infoboxes, NCES etc. Absolutely they have the potential to be developed, what I mean is that by being a redirect they can be converted to an article at any time when someone comes along and is interested in developing an article for the school. No no, I know about the redirect targets, because that edit summary was used in the edit that removed the redirect and created the article, I've interpreted the comment as being that the article shouldn't have been redirected, my bad haha. I guess you're right about the AfC problem, although I have noticed recent AfC's being reviewed pretty quickly, including the schools that I moved to draftspace. Regarding stubs, I see what you mean, but I guess that depends on what is being created. For schools, ok high schools are deemed notable, but if we take a look at the already existing 25,000+ school stubs, most have remained stagnant for a long time, some for years and some where additions have been made but had to be removed as it had not sufficiently improved the article. I think the text in the guidelines regarding stub avoiding makes perfect sense.
Steven, the principle behind school district notability is that they are inherently notable due to being geographical places, so strictly speaking I believe that all a school district needs is proof of existence. The real impetus from my end is that rural areas in many states are not being represented on Wikipedia like urban areas. Many school districts still dont have articles and many ordinary people cant or wont take the time to write them ( lack of familiarity with WP and/or lack of time are factors). Also the WMF is trying to increase participation on Wikipedia when the edit count had been in decline. The way to increase that is to make it easier to submit articles that we know are treated as notable. I feel it's 2020 and I would like to see more coverage of rural areas.
It is true that many users aren't sure what should be added or don't have the time. Also the school guidelines don't automatically display when people edit the article, so they may be confused about why they're reverted. These things may explain why many HS articles are stagnant. However trying to create a new article via AFC is much, much harder than just making a new addition to something that already exists. Anyway I try to improve/add to HS articles when I can so people see what an article can include, but from the standpoint of an inexperienced user, it's much easier to edit something already there than to get around the AFC process. The difficulty of AFC is why I prefer having a stub in many case.
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@TSventon: Hi! I wanted to garner attention for the project to get eyeballs on it. I did personally focus on UK overseas territory education in regards to article writing itself, but didn't have particular plans to do infrastructure improvements on the project itself. Another user suggested that things would be better handled on WikiProject Schools and Universities after the fact as he stated "Education in the UK" was never that active of a project. I wonder if "Education in the United Kingdom" could be turned into a task force of the existing UK Wikiproject; this might help focus matters on existing WikiProjects. WhisperToMe (talk) 17:12, 19 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Hi, I mostly edit "University of Oxford" articles (which was why I saw your edit to the Oxford talk page), but haven't actually signed up to the Oxford wikiproject. I would agree with the other wikieditor that WikiProjects Schools and Universities already provide a forum for improving educational articles. Converting to a task force seems harder than reviving the existing project as a proposal would be need to be submitted and agreed (in addition to recruiting a group of enthusiastic editors and rewriting the project page). TSventon (talk) 12:56, 20 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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Dear WhisperToMe, thank you very much for your advice. I have tried to expand the article and added several sources. I would be grateful if you can assess the compliance of the current version with the WP rules - maybe, some problem tags can be removed now. --VLu (talk) 06:47, 26 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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This is ParaguaneroSwag. I am responding to your inquiry of the boundaries of Chinatown, Houston. The source you listed is a visitors bureau. This isn't an official definition of neighborhoods, it is rather a government-ran marketing agency. The official neighborhood boundaries of Chinatown are defined by the Southwest Management District. It is the same management district who set the boundaries of Mahatma Gandhi District, Houston. Because of this, I have reverted your edit back to the adjusting of the official Chinatown boundaries, since wikipedia guidelines call for official boundaries. Thanks for your inquiry, I hope you understand the difference.
Chinatown edit
This is ParaguaneroSwag. I am responding to your inquiry of the boundaries of Chinatown, Houston. The source you listed is a visitors bureau. This isn't an official definition of neighborhoods, it is rather a government-ran marketing agency. The official neighborhood boundaries of Chinatown are defined by the Southwest Management District. It is the same management district who set the boundaries of Mahatma Gandhi District, Houston. Because of this, I have reverted your edit back to the adjusting of the official Chinatown boundaries, since wikipedia guidelines call for official boundaries. Thanks for your inquiry, I hope you understand the difference. — Preceding unsigned comment added by ParaguaneroSwag (talk • contribs) 03:33, 14 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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WhisperToMe, I understand your points about the Southwest Management District being designated by the Texas Legislature instead of the city (even though the city has a large degree in say of their districts), and I understand the district only being able to designate a neighborhood within their own boundaries. Regardless of this, it's still the official boundaries of the neighborhood, designated by an official government body, unlike the GHCVB. And the visitor's bureau is still only a marketing agency that doesn't officially designate neighborhoods like the Southwest Management District does. Also, Chinatown isn't the only neighborhood that the GHCVB extends or changed in definition.
Additionally, while Little Saigon, Houston doesn't have official boundaries like Chinatown, that neighborhood is popularly established with Vietnamese street signs and so forth. You can visit that article and view the sources for further information. — Preceding unsigned comment added by ParaguaneroSwag (talk • contribs) 23:20, 14 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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Hi WhisperToMe, hope you're well and safe. I can see you are now mass creating school districts, most of them are in the same format, stub length which is against the school article guidelines, and with three references: Two to the Department of Education and one to the school's website. I don't think this is helpful to the project and they look a bit like directory listings which is not what Wikipedia is. You work is very useful to the project but it's the mass creation.. Steven (Editor) (talk) 21:34, 27 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
@Steven (Editor): Steven, while Wikipedia is not a directory per se, it's an almanacgazetteer (as per Wikipedia:Notability_(geographic_features)). Practice from the early days establishes that there are some topics that frankly should be mass created: User:Rambot did that with U.S. municipalities back in 2003. It is my position that every single established U.S. school district needs an article. It's 2020, and near notability for these topics has been secured as per Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Common_outcomes#School_districts for ""Populated, legally-recognized places" include school districts, which conveys near-inherent notability to school districts per Wikipedia:Notability (geography)." (essentially they are treated like municipalities). Also, unlike some previous mass-creations of mine, I have taken care to add sufficient information: consolidation history, municipalities served, and schools so the articles are substantial enough off the bat.WhisperToMe (talk)
I'm aware that mass creation can be looked at as unfavorably in the wrong circumstances but the addition of information should make this mass creation OK, and the "Notability_(geographic_features)" should be justification. WhisperToMe (talk) 16:48, 28 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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Me, mummy and my love are well, but everyone is sad for the Covid-19, sigh... Here in my little village, we arrived at 21 positives, and (perhaps) 12 gone unto the Heaven.
Me I'm acting telework, but I WANT to coming back to my quotidian habituations.
I opened also this short page about a great salesian bishop. I ask some minute of your time to correct my poor mistakes, please. Thanks a lot for your very important hel, take care of you, see you soon.
Hi! Hacı Halil Efendi article exits in trwiki as tr:Çerkes Halil Efendi. I've linked them now. But i want to note that according to the source referenced on enwiki as well as other sources i've found, he was died in Afyonkarahisar, not in İstanbul. There is no mention to about he has been tortured, either. His story is being told like this: When he was removed from his position he was first sent to Bursa with his wife, and then to Afyonkarahisar all alone. But his wife in Bursa was accoused with witchcraft and executed. He had a stroke when he heard the news and then died. --Basak (talk) 09:43, 5 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
I think he was known as "Cerkes"; the title of "Hacı" (pilgrim) was added probably after he has been to Mecca around 1803. I saw one source which calls him "Çerkes Şeyhülislâm El-hac Halil Efendi" using the title "Sheikh ul-Islam" together with Çerkes (Circassian) and Hacı(pilgrim).--Basak (talk) 10:16, 5 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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Can you help me to revised my page of Angela Tee to main page i trust to main articles because the article is real fact on Indonesian figures with Indonesian language (Translated to English), but the "Hackers" say the articles is Hijacking
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Done, I tried to put the most important news as Italian Wikipedia. I saw that many reference aren't found or not accessible. See you soon! Rei Momo (talk) 21:35, 16 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
I converted and completely reformatted the Doraemon episodes table. I wrote up a perl script to do most of the work after trying to manually copy stuff over. Please take a look and feel free to clean any stuff up from there. I'm pondering whether the summaries are copied from zap2it. If they are then they need to be nuked. Also the credits can either be removed or moved over to the appropriate real JP episodes. AngusWOOF (bark • sniff) 04:16, 22 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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Yes, I agree with you. For a moment there, I though my account was compromised, because I obviously don't recall that edit from a decade ago. After seeing the revert email, I had to rush online to be sure my account wasn't making malicious edits! Happy editing! Rehman08:32, 30 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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@Yiğitcank: Hi! I went and made a few edits. Would it be OK if you added full citations, including page numbers, ISBN numbers, etc? That way I can more easily review the relevant pages in An Inventor In Bursa, Kamil Tolon's Life Story. Thanks WhisperToMe (talk) 15:46, 22 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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Done, as you requested, see you soon :-)
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Hello, WhisperToMe. You have a response to your question at Ntmamgtw's talk page. –Ntmamgtw (talk) 23:04, 16 February 2019 (UTC)
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