Summary table for Renaming Climate change articleeditHi, in my own userspace I have started a table in which I am trying to super-succinctly summarize the Not-Votes and perspectives that have been raised. This is a work in progress, but I have at least finished my initial data-entry for what you've said. If you would like to me change anything, please use the talk page attached to the table. Thanks! NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 09:48, 25 October 2019 (UTC)
Will this work? NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 12:13, 30 October 2019 (UTC)
WP DAB tagseditHi, there's no need to create talk pages solely with {{WP Disambiguation}} (and it's actually preferable not to). You can see the discussions linked in that template's documentation. Thanks! – Uanfala (talk) 11:00, 30 October 2019 (UTC)
College class on WikipediaeditDo Founders get an F? DuncanHill (talk) 11:38, 31 October 2019 (UTC)
Speedy deletion nomination of Mariners (disambiguation)edit
A tag has been placed on Mariners (disambiguation) requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G14 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is an orphaned disambiguation page which either
Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such pages may be deleted at any time. Please see the disambiguation page guidelines for more information. If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator. Pkbwcgs (talk) 21:59, 31 October 2019 (UTC)
Law new DYKeditpls see Portal talk:Law/Did you know.--Moxy 🍁 14:33, 1 November 2019 (UTC)
There is also ...{{Transclude selected current events|Law|days=60|dates=mdy| max=5}}
Draft:Ali Rahbari concerneditHi there, I'm HasteurBot. I just wanted to let you know that Draft:Ali Rahbari, a page you created, has not been edited in 5 months. The Articles for Creation space is not an indefinite storage location for content that is not appropriate for articlespace. If your submission is not edited soon, it could be nominated for deletion. If you would like to attempt to save it, you will need to improve it. You may request Userfication of the content if it meets requirements. If the deletion has already occured, instructions on how you may be able to retrieve it are available at WP:REFUND/G13. Thank you for your attention. HasteurBot (talk) 01:33, 2 November 2019 (UTC)
New Page Review newsletter November 2019edit Hello BD2412, This newsletter comes a little earlier than usual because the backlog is rising again and the holidays are coming very soon.
There are now 812 holders of the New Page Reviewer flag! Most of you requested the user right to be able to do something about the huge backlog but it's still roughly less than 10% doing 90% of the work. Now it's time for action.
Admin Barkeep49 has been officially invested as NPP/NPR coordinator by a unanimous consensus of the community. This is a complex role and he will need all the help he can get from other experienced reviewers.
Paid editing is still causing headaches for even our most experienced reviewers: This official Wikipedia article will be an eye-opener to anyone who joined Wikipedia or obtained the NPR right since 2015. See The Hallmarks to know exactly what to look for and take time to examine all the sources.
Would you like feedback on your reviews? Are you an experienced reviewer who can give feedback to other reviewers? If so there are two new feedback pilot programs. New Reviewer mentorship will match newer reviewers with an experienced reviewer with a new reviewer. The other program will be an occasional peer review cohort for moderate or experienced reviewers to give feedback to each other. The first cohort will launch November 13.
The annual ArbCom election will be coming up soon. All eligible users will be invited to vote. While not directly concerned with NPR, Arbcom cases often lead back to notability and deletion issues and/or actions by holders of advanced user rights.
There is to be no wish list for WMF encyclopedias this year. We thank Community Tech for their hard work addressing our long list of requirements which somewhat overwhelmed them last year, and we look forward to a successful completion. To opt-out of future mailings, you can remove yourself here Precious anniversaryedit
--Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:11, 5 November 2019 (UTC) Johnny Rizer DrafteditHello, I was looking at why this article was denied. I see that it was denied on notability but was also confused as other people on this team have their own page despite being "less notable." Is there any way you could clarify this distinction? Thanks :) GreenLightDiode (talk) 17:32, 8 November 2019 (UTC)
favoreditCan I have a favor? If you can improve this article, please do so. There is multiple comic book character articles being deleted. I personally think this should be saved either by merge or keep entirely. If you are a good enough source provider that I was thinking you are, help if you want to! BTW I need to point (sadly) out that I am trying to not force you to vote per WP:Canvass OBVIOUSLY. I don’t want to get in trouble with that. Jhenderson 777 18:48, 8 November 2019 (UTC)
VPTeditI think you put your comment in the wrong section. I'd fix it but I'm on mobile and would probably just make things worse. Wug·a·po·des 00:57, 11 November 2019 (UTC) Redlinked categorieseditHi BD2412, Replying here because you forgot to sign your comment on my talk page... I noticed on JzG's talk page, that the cat had been repeatedly deleted and salted, and looking at the CfD discussion, it looks like it was added erroneously, or in a manner that was unwanted, by editors. Thus, I thought I'd do some wiki cleanup. We shouldn't leave pages tagged with deleted cats, I'd think, no? Cheers,
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New Page Reviewer?editI feel so awkward about having to ask this, but I was granted this user right temporarily by Kudpung. I used it quite a bit, but then I took a wikibreak when it was set to expire. Could you re-grant it to me? I'm incredibly bored rn and want to review some pages while patrolling for vandalism. –MJL ‐Talk‐☖ 03:49, 21 November 2019 (UTC) Edit summarieseditThe last word is the key. Regards, ∯WBGconverse 21:09, 23 November 2019 (UTC) Google Code-In 2019 is coming - please mentor some documentation tasks!editHello, Google Code-In, Google-organized contest in which the Wikimedia Foundation participates, starts in a few weeks. This contest is about taking high school students into the world of opensource. I'm sending you this message because you recently edited a documentation page at the English Wikipedia. I would like to ask you to take part in Google Code-In as a mentor. That would mean to prepare at least one task (it can be documentation related, or something else - the other categories are Code, Design, Quality Assurance and Outreach) for the participants, and help the student to complete it. Please sign up at the contest page and send us your Google account address to [email protected], so we can invite you in! From my own experience, Google Code-In can be fun, you can make several new friends, attract new people to your wiki and make them part of your community. If you have any questions, please let us know at [email protected]. Thank you! --User:Martin Urbanec (talk) 21:58, 23 November 2019 (UTC) Thank youeditI think your comments at ANI (here and here, for example) were well said, thanks. Paul August ☎ 14:49, 24 November 2019 (UTC) Arbitration Case OpenededitYou recently offered a statement in a request for arbitration. The Arbitration Committee has accepted that request for arbitration and an arbitration case has been opened at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Portals. Evidence that you wish the arbitrators to consider should be added to the evidence subpage, at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Portals/Evidence. Please add your evidence by December 20, 2019, which is when the evidence phase closes. You can also contribute to the case workshop subpage, Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Portals/Workshop. For a guide to the arbitration process, see Wikipedia:Arbitration/Guide to arbitration. For the Arbitration Committee, SQLQuery me! 20:36, 26 November 2019 (UTC)
Continued disruptive editingeditYou had stated, after the discussion here about Science of Identity Foundation that "if disruption persists, the article may be edit-protected". Can you revert and edit protect or point me to the appropriate path? The edits in question: Samp4ngeles has made a number of edits that inappropriately 1) reintroduce 'alternate names' for the founder, an issue that had previously been settled; 2) add inflammatory material from a new tabloid reference; 3) misrepresent material from that reference in an apparent attempt to further harm the founder's reputation; and 4) include a section in the article titled 'Political activities', citing candidates who ran for office in 1976 prior to the formation of the Foundation in 1977. The implication is that the Foundation is itself involved in political activity, which would be a criminal violation of the Foundation's tax-exempt status. (The link Samp4ngeles provided for the new tabloid reference was incorrect; the proper link is https://evols.library.manoa.hawaii.edu/handle/10524/55521.) Humanengr (talk) 03:39, 27 November 2019 (UTC)
"List of Google Doodles" listed at Redirects for discussionedit An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect List of Google Doodles. Since you had some involvement with the List of Google Doodles redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you wish to do so. Steel1943 (talk) 18:52, 27 November 2019 (UTC) Your draft article, Draft:Ali Rahbariedit Hello, BD2412. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "Ali Rahbari". In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been nominated for deletion. If you plan on working on it further, or editing it to address the issues raised if it was declined, simply and remove the If your submission has already been deleted by the time you get there, and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion by following the instructions at this link. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it. Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia! HasteurBot (talk) 06:00, 2 December 2019 (UTC)
Old fashioned closeeditHey, I noticed you closed the RM at Talk:Old_fashioned_(cocktail)#Requested_move_8_November_2019 with the outcome "moved as proposed", but you only moved the cocktail article, and not Old Fashioned glass which was also included in the nom. Was that intentional, or just an oversight? Colin M (talk) 02:41, 4 December 2019 (UTC)
Articles for deletion/Philipp OffenthalereditCould you please expand upon your close comment at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Philipp Offenthaler to discuss where you believe the cross section of "Fails GNG" vs "Meets NFOOTY" meet each other? — Insertcleverphrasehere (or here)(click me!) 18:49, 5 December 2019 (UTC)
Thankyou for taking up the administrative role in the AfD Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/P. B. Buckshey. Please explain your reasoning logic in determining the deletion of P. B. Buckshey. Thankyou. Djm-leighpark (talk) 17:57, 6 December 2019 (UTC)
Deletion review for P. B. BucksheyeditAn editor has asked for a deletion review of P. B. Buckshey. Because you closed the deletion discussion for this page, speedily deleted it, or otherwise were interested in the page, you might want to participate in the deletion review. Djm-leighpark (talk) 20:19, 6 December 2019 (UTC) It’s that time of year!edit
John McHugh Sr.editHi, will you please consider unclosing and relisting this AfD? A no consensus close with zero relists seems to be throwing away the investment of time made by AfD participants, while relisting costs nothing and may result in consensus being established, thus making the aforementioned investment of editor time pay dividends. Thanks. – Levivich 17:31, 15 December 2019 (UTC)
New Page Review newsletter December 2019edit
 This year's Reviewer of the Year is Rosguill. Having gotten the reviewer PERM in August 2018, they have been a regular reviewer of articles and redirects, been an active participant in the NPP community, and has been the driving force for the emerging NPP Source Guide that will help reviewers better evaluate sourcing and notability in many countries for which it has historically been difficult. Special commendation again goes to Onel5969 who ends the year as one of our most prolific reviewers for the second consecutive year. Thanks also to Boleyn and JTtheOG who have been in the top 5 for the last two years as well. Several newer editors have done a lot of work with CAPTAIN MEDUSA and DannyS712 (who has also written bots which have patrolled thousands of redirects) being new reviewers since this time last year. Thanks to them and to everyone reading this who has participated in New Page Patrol this year.
(The top 100 reviewers of the year can be found here)
A recent Request for Comment on creating a new redirect autopatrol pseduo-permission was closed early. New Page Reviewers are now able to nominate editors who have an established track record creating uncontroversial redirects. At the individual discretion of any administrator or after 24 hours and a consensus of at least 3 New Page Reviewers an editor may be added to a list of users whose redirects will be patrolled automatically by DannyS712 bot III.
Set to launch early in the new year is our first New Page Patrol Source Guide discussion. These discussions are designed to solicit input on sources in places and topic areas that might otherwise be harder for reviewers to evaluate. The hope is that this will allow us to improve the accuracy of our patrols for articles using these sources (and/or give us places to perform a WP:BEFORE prior to nominating for deletion). Please watch the New Page Patrol talk page for more information.
While New Page Reviewers are an experienced set of editors, we all benefit from an occasional review. This month consider refreshing yourself on Wikipedia:Notability (geographic features). Also consider how we can take the time for quality in this area. For instance, sources to verify human settlements, which are presumed notable, can often be found in seconds. This lets us avoid the (ugly) 'Needs more refs' tag. Just wanted to tell you that moving the short description is against MOS:ORDER. Is this part of the standard fixes or something you added? ‑‑Trialpears (talk) 03:04, 21 December 2019 (UTC)
Holiday noticeseditMerry Merry!edit
Merry Christmas!edit
Happy Holidaysedit
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Happy holidaysedit
Spread the cheer by adding {{subst:Happy holidays}} to their talk page with a friendly message. Season's Greetingsedit  Hello there! Shearonink (talk) wishes you & yours the very best of the season!
Whether you celebrate Christmas, Diwali, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Festivus (for the rest of us!) or even the Saturnalia, here's to hoping your holiday time is wonderful and that the New Year will be an improvement upon the old. CHEERS! Share these holiday wishes by adding {{subst:User:Shearonink/Holiday}} ~~~~ to your friends' talk pages.
Good luckedit Miraclepine wishes you a Merry Christmas, a Happy New Year, and a prosperous decade of change and fortune. A Rumtopf for you!edit @Narky Blert, Miraclepine, Shearonink, Interstellarity, and DBigXray:: Now that the holiday madness is more-or-less over, a Happy New Year to all of you. Cheers! BD2412 T 14:11, 28 December 2019 (UTC)
History mergeeditHi, I've been scratching my head over this diff, which makes it look like I deleted a whole lot of unrelated stuff on the Senator Smith page and placed a redirect there instead. Is this the result of a histmerge you performed? I'm not sure how those work. Airbornemihir (talk) 02:28, 26 December 2019 (UTC)
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RE Deleted ArticleeditHi, I see that you deleted the article that I wrote, Garrett Coffey. Though sad to see the article go, I understand your decision and believe it was perfectly correct based on the votes. If I am able to develop the article such that it meets the standards of the other editors and their objections (at some point in the future, of course), am I precluded from creating the article again? And if not, would you have any advice in that regard? Thanks. Dflaw4 (talk) 03:04, 29 December 2019 (UTC)
Speedy deletion nomination of Călineasa River (disambiguation)edit
A tag has been placed on Călineasa River (disambiguation) requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G14 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is an orphaned disambiguation page which either
Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such pages may be deleted at any time. Please see the disambiguation page guidelines for more information. If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator. Pkbwcgs (talk) 20:17, 29 December 2019 (UTC)
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