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Hi, when you (nac) closed Talk:People's Liberation Army Navy#Requested move 7 September 2018, you simply stated: "The result of the move request was: not moved.
" Could you please add some additional comments explaining the rationale for your decision? While there were more opposers than supporters, I believe the strength of the 'support' arguments, bolstered by WP policy, outweighed the 'oppose' comments. If you could provide some reasoning to help us better understand your decision, it would help with the decision on whether or not to request a review to contest the close. Thank you - wolf 05:48, 16 September 2018 (UTC)
- @Thewolfchild: Hi, replied. KCVelaga (talk) 13:07, 17 September 2018 (UTC)
No one voted. I've put it on AFD again because I think a third relist was appropiate, but this way is fine. » Shadowowl | talk 14:19, 17 September 2018 (UTC)
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Would you consider re-opening the discussion? I don't think that a non-admin close of "no consensus" here is reasonable; an admin might have closed it as soft-delete. At this point, a relist is the best option. power~enwiki (π, ν) 01:25, 20 September 2018 (UTC)
- @Power~enwiki: Thanks for the message, I plain forgot about soft-delete, please accept my apologies. I've reopened and relisted the discussion. KCVelaga (talk) 14:39, 20 September 2018 (UTC)
Hi KCVelaga. I noticed that you've been closing some AfDs as "no consensus" for the reason "Relisted twice, but no participation." (e.g. Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Rerum Novarum Centre, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Hembree (band)). In each of these closures, did you factor in the possibility of "soft delete" as an outcome, in accordance with the WP:NOQUORUM guideline?
In general, I think non-administrators should defer these kinds of closures to administrators so that the soft delete option can be adequately considered. It's hard for non-administrators to close these without being accused of bias, simply because the ability to delete just isn't available to them. A few years ago we had a pretty long discussion about what to do with these kinds of AfDs that don't have that much participation, and the general feeling was that "soft delete" should be used more: see Wikipedia talk:Deletion process/Archive 11. Mz7 (talk) 01:31, 20 September 2018 (UTC)
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- @Gerda Arendt: Thank You! KCVelaga (talk) 11:56, 22 September 2018 (UTC)
Hello:
The copy edit you requested from the Guild of Copy Editors of the article René Ghil has been completed. I took the liberty of adding a bibliography of his works from the French Wikipedia article about him, which I thought would be useful to readers.
Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns.
Regards,
Twofingered Typist (talk) 19:37, 22 September 2018 (UTC)
- @Twofingered Typist: Thanks for the copy-edit. It looks nice to see works. Thanks You! KCVelaga (talk) 03:36, 23 September 2018 (UTC)
Welcome to Wikipedia. Thank you for your contributions! Although everyone is welcome to contribute to Wikipedia, at least one of your recent edits, such as the one you made to Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Flashblock, goes against [[:Unless my calculations are wrong, and if they are I apologies, per WP:NotEarly I believe you closed this discussion before the 168 hour limit. Can you please re-open the discussion. Thankyou.]], a Wikipedia guideline. You may find it helpful to look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Unless my calculations are wrong, and if they are I apologies, per WP:NotEarly I believe you closed this discussion before the 168 hour limit. Can you please re-open the discussion. Thankyou. Djm-leighpark (talk) 09:24, 24 September 2018 (UTC)
- I have just observed you may have made several controversial AfD closures recently and perhaps may need to review your actions. (This is all assuming I have calculated 168 hours correctly). Thankyou. Djm-leighpark (talk) 09:29, 24 September 2018 (UTC)
- @Djm-leighpark: Thanks for the message. Ah! It was my mistake. While closing it seemed OK for me, but the problem was caused due to miscalculation of duration between time zones. Technically, I closed the discussion after 6 days, 18 hours, 33 minutes, and I live in UTC+5.5, so while I was closing I had assumed it as 7 days, 0 hours, 3 minutes, and went ahead. I'll be more careful for my future actions. Many thanks for pointing out this, else I could not have identified this fault. KCVelaga (talk) 14:20, 24 September 2018 (UTC)
- Thankyou for your response. Can you please re-open the discussion. thankyou, Djm-leighpark (talk) 15:26, 24 September 2018 (UTC)
- @Djm-leighpark: Since the seven day period is over anyways, do you think should we repoen the discussion? If you think that would be the right action, please go ahead. I'm travelling currently, if it is fine to wait till tomorrow evening, I'll do it then. Else, please go ahead and reopen the discussion. I've no issues. KCVelaga (talk) 15:33, 24 September 2018 (UTC)
- OK .. suggest we leave it. I think I have become reasonably minded on balance not to re-open it as cannot be done in a timely fashion. I am reasonably minded a keep would be the ultimate result and the article has demonstrated improvement and improved references since the nomination. There are no obvious issues with the article being overtly promotional or anything so leaving it is of little harm in all events unless anyone else asks. Thankyou. Djm-leighpark (talk) 18:58, 24 September 2018 (UTC)
- @Djm-leighpark: Thanks You, and thanks agan for bringing this to my notice. KCVelaga (talk) 01:31, 25 September 2018 (UTC)
- @Djm-leighpark: Thanks for the message. Ah! It was my mistake. While closing it seemed OK for me, but the problem was caused due to miscalculation of duration between time zones. Technically, I closed the discussion after 6 days, 18 hours, 33 minutes, and I live in UTC+5.5, so while I was closing I had assumed it as 7 days, 0 hours, 3 minutes, and went ahead. I'll be more careful for my future actions. Many thanks for pointing out this, else I could not have identified this fault. KCVelaga (talk) 14:20, 24 September 2018 (UTC)
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G'day KC, could you take the Milhist coordinator category off your user page please? Wikimedia won't let me edit it. That way you won't get pinged by the user group messages. Thanks for your efforts over the last year. Regards, Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 02:12, 29 September 2018 (UTC)
- @Peacemaker67: Hi PM, done. That was categorized on Meta-Wiki, removed that. It was great working with you. All the best to the new coord fold. Regards, KCVelaga (talk) 12:04, 29 September 2018 (UTC)
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Hello folks, my friend is interested to create articles about food items. Before I suggest something, I would like to know if there any notability guideline for food, and also manual of style. KCVelaga (talk) 16:28, 30 September 2018 (UTC)
- There is no specific notability guideline for food items beyond the general otability guideline. I also rather don't think the manual of style has anything specifically about food items. I'd say the main thing to remember is that Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, not a cookbook: Recipes are not helpful; background information about the food item such as its history (if based on reliable sources) is. Huon (talk) 16:45, 30 September 2018 (UTC)
- @Huon: Thanks for the clarification. KCVelaga (talk) 15:13, 1 October 2018 (UTC)
- @Wikilover90: Kindly go through Huon's response, it might be of help. KCVelaga (talk) 15:13, 1 October 2018 (UTC)
- Thank You @KCVelaga: and@Huon:. These are helpful! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Wikilover90 (talk • contribs) 13:20, 2 October 2018 (UTC)
- Apologies for missing the signature with my comment. --Wikilover90 (talk) 17:12, 2 October 2018 (UTC)
- @Huon: Thanks for the clarification. KCVelaga (talk) 15:13, 1 October 2018 (UTC)
- @Satdeep Gill: Hey man! You might want to have a look at this discussion. KCVelaga (talk) 14:13, 3 October 2018 (UTC)
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Hello KCVelaga, I noticed that your incubator project now has over 50 members on its list, which in my opinion means it should become an actual task force. What do you see as the future for the Indian military history project, and would you be fine with converting it into a task force? Kges1901 (talk) 10:53, 5 October 2018 (UTC)
- @Kges1901: Hi Kges, thanks for this message. I really appreciate your watch on the project's departments. I am happy to convert it into a task force. Apart from the fact that it has more than 50 members, many of them are active, and there are many GA, A, and FA-class articles within the project's scope. Having a taskforce can be quite helpful for further collaborations between the members. Let me know if you need anything else. I'll be happy to help you with the setup of task force. KCVelaga (talk) 12:26, 5 October 2018 (UTC)
- Thanks. Do you have any opinions on what the logo should be? Keep in mind that the scope of the TF should probably be expanded beyond the modern Indian Armed Forces, as Indian military history could go back to ancient warfare. Kges1901 (talk) 20:31, 5 October 2018 (UTC)
- @Kges1901: You're right, the scope definitely should be beyond history. I'll add some lines to the "Purpose & scope". We can use this image as the logo for now File:Armed forces logo.png. KCVelaga (talk) 06:33, 6 October 2018 (UTC)
- Thanks. Do you have any opinions on what the logo should be? Keep in mind that the scope of the TF should probably be expanded beyond the modern Indian Armed Forces, as Indian military history could go back to ancient warfare. Kges1901 (talk) 20:31, 5 October 2018 (UTC)
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You had added some valuable information to the page Telkupi.
I was trying to develop a page on the Panchkot Raj. Now an editor has deleted much of what was there and demands "scholarly" sources. I don't have any such sources about Panchkot Raj. Since you are having an interest in the regional history of the region, please have a look at the page and do the needful.
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G'day KCV, just a heads up that there is going to be a need for a re-tagging spree to replace South-Asian tagged articles with the new Indian tag. They will automatically remain in the Asian TF of course. I suggest you get together with a group of like-minded editors (perhaps the crew from the incubator page) and organise a tagging drive if you haven't thought of it already. If you had 12 and they all tagged 100 you'd be done in no time. Cheers, Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 07:03, 22 October 2018 (UTC)
- @Peacemaker67: Hey PM! Thanks for the message. I like the idea. But I fear that I don't have the time organise one at this point, but I'll defeinitely do one during late November or early December. KCVelaga (talk) 15:42, 23 October 2018 (UTC)
Hello KCVelaga, I have created the task force here. Feel free to add your name to the participants list. Kges1901 (talk) 19:39, 20 October 2018 (UTC)
- @Kges1901: Many thanks for initiating and doing this. I am very grateful for that. If these is post-creation work such as categorisation and stuff, please let me know, I'll be happy to help. Thanks again, KCVelaga (talk) 12:23, 21 October 2018 (UTC)
- You may want to tag pages for the task force, although currently I am trying to get an edit into the MILHIST template so that the parameter is supported as going to the new task force. Currently, if you add indian=y to talk page templates, it will add it to South Asian instead. Kges1901 (talk) 12:27, 21 October 2018 (UTC)
- I have now changed the template to support the TF; adding Indian=y now will add articles to the TF. Kges1901 (talk) 15:16, 21 October 2018 (UTC)
- @Kges1901: That's so cool. Thanks for all your efforts. So now I have to just go through all the South Asian task force articles and check which of them belong to Indian and tag them with
|indian=y. Isn't that all?- Yes, that would be all. Kges1901 (talk) 18:34, 21 October 2018 (UTC)
- @Kges1901: Hello Kges, I need a quick clarification from you, actually on a couple of things. On the task force page, you've mentioned it to be "Indian-task-force=yes". I would like know to whether it should be that or "Indian=y", as said my previous comment, or will either of them work. Also I was wondering whether we should replace the "Asian" and "south-Asian" tags with the Indian one or add in addition to them. KCVelaga (talk) 15:48, 23 October 2018 (UTC)
- Yes, that would be all. Kges1901 (talk) 18:34, 21 October 2018 (UTC)
- @Kges1901: That's so cool. Thanks for all your efforts. So now I have to just go through all the South Asian task force articles and check which of them belong to Indian and tag them with
- I have now changed the template to support the TF; adding Indian=y now will add articles to the TF. Kges1901 (talk) 15:16, 21 October 2018 (UTC)
- You may want to tag pages for the task force, although currently I am trying to get an edit into the MILHIST template so that the parameter is supported as going to the new task force. Currently, if you add indian=y to talk page templates, it will add it to South Asian instead. Kges1901 (talk) 12:27, 21 October 2018 (UTC)
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Hi Krishna, Greetings,
Indian Military History, .. wanna add/expand on Op Cactus Operation_Cactus-Lilly & such.
To start with, is adding indian military history category to such pages a good start ?
Looking for inputs. Mallikarjunasj (talk) 13:53, 26 October 2018 (UTC)
- @Mallikarjunasj: Thanks for the message, and sorry for the delay in replying. I fear that I am not able to clearly understand your concern, kindly elaborate. KCVelaga (talk) 11:00, 31 October 2018 (UTC)
2 Questions:
- Few key events (Dhola Pass invasion, Operation Cactus Lilly, muktivahini Training & etc) have very limited info. I want to add to them. Can I list them & then start adding articles?
- We don't have adequate categories for Indian Military Hostory. Pak linked Issues, China based, Indian Ocean based, ... Can we start adding them? like I list, we discuss on a page & finalize the categories. People can start adding articles in each Category.
Thanks in advance, .. 14:45, 1 November 2018 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mallikarjunasj (talk • contribs)
- @Mallikarjunasj: I'm still unclear about your questions. Firstly, yes, the articles have less information—most of them are stubs. You can go ahead and start improving, that doesn't require my consent in anyway. Also, where do you want to list them? Secondly, I don't see any shortfall in the categories—what do you mean by Pak-related or China-related? FYI, the main categories can be seen on the main page and the project's maintenance categories can be seen on the article's talk page. Lastly, please sign your messages and use indentation. KCVelaga (talk) 11:01, 9 November 2018 (UTC)
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The Structured Data on Commons team has begun beta testing of the first feature, multilingual file captions, and all community members are invited to test it out. Captions is based on designs discussed with the community and the team is looking forward to hearing about testing. If all goes well during testing, captions will be turned on for Commons around the second week of January, 2019.
Multilingual captions are plain text fields that provide brief, easily translatable details of a file in a way that is easy to create, edit, and curate. Captions are added during the upload process using the UploadWizard, or they can be added directly on any file page on Commons. Adding captions in multiple languages is a simple process that requires only a few steps.
The details:
- There is a help page available on how to use multilingual file captions.
- Testing will take place on Beta Commons. If you don’t yet have an account set up there, you’ll need one.
- Beta Commons is a testbed, and not configured exactly like the real Commons site, so expect to see some discrepancies with user interface (UI) elements like search.
- Structured Data introduces the potential for many important page changes to happen at once, which could flood the recent changes list. Because of this, Enhanced Recent Changes is enabled as it currently is at Commons, but with some UI changes.
- Feedback and commentary on the file caption functionality are welcome and encouraged on the discussion page for this post.
- Some testing has already taken place and the team are aware of some issues. A list of known issues can be seen below.
- If you discover a bug/issue that is not covered in the known issues, please file a ticket on Phabricator and tag it with the “Multimedia” tag. Use this link to file a new task already tagged with "Multimedia."
Known issues:
- Search is not currently working on Beta Commons. Search is not needed for testing captions, but service should be restored soon.
- Language name display inconsistencies in multilingual file captions
- Language names for multilingual File captions can run into the caption value in the mobile view
- Deleting a caption field that has text that exceeds the limit does not re-enable the "publish" button
- "Edit" tab for past revisions should be "restore"
- When using the back button, recently added captions sometimes don't display in Chrome
- File Captions can't be edited on mobile browsers
- Wrong font weight for some language labels on SDC captions box
Thanks!
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Hi all, following up on last month's announcement...
Multilingual file captions will be released this week, on either Wednesday, 9 November or Thursday, 10 November 2019. Captions are a feature to add short, translatable descriptions to files. Here's some links you might want to look follow before the release, if you haven't already:
- Read over the help page for using captions - I wrote the page on mediawiki.org because captions are available for any MediaWiki user, feel free to host/modify a copy of the page here on Commons.
- Test out using captions on Beta Commons.
- Leave feedback about the test on the captions test talk page, if you have anything you'd like to say prior to release.
Additionally, there will be an IRC office hour on Thursday, 10 January with the Structured Data team to talk about file captions, as well as anything else the community may be interested in. Date/time conversion, as well as a link to join, are on Meta.
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Is ABC videogame notable? KCVelaga (talk) 09:50, 1 March 2019 (UTC)
- Please review the notability guidelines for video games to determine what makes a video game notable(as defined by Wikipedia). 331dot (talk) 12:40, 1 March 2019 (UTC)
Good news: the (lengthy!) script draft 1 is complete!
Hello, I am happy to share that script draft 1 is complete and ready for public comment.
The script (link to the Google doc) is much longer than I anticipated, at almost 21 pages!
Although I think that the 21 page script would be a very good introduction to referencing policies and workflows, I am considering dividing it into two or more smaller scripts that would be produced as separate videos. For example, one script could focus on policies and a different script could focus on how to use the citation tool. I am considering this for three reasons:
- People may be more willing to watch shorter videos that have more specific focus.
- Shorter videos may be easier to search for an answer for a single specific question.
- There is a possibility that if I attempt to produce a single video from almost 21 pages of script that I might exceed the budget for this mini-project. I would like for both WMF and the community to be satisfied with the results from this mini-project, and I think that dividing the script into smaller scripts which could be produced separately would be a good way to ensure that the budget for the current grant is not exceeded. While there is a reasonable possibility that I could finish production of the entire 21 pages of script within the current grant, I think that dividing the script would be prudent. After one of the smaller scripts is fully produced within the currently available funding, remaining script could be considered for production within the current grant if there seems to be adequate remaining funds, or could be saved for possible production with a future grant.
Request for constructive criticism and comments
I would very much appreciate constructive criticism and comments regarding the script, preferably by March 10 at 11:59 PM UTC. This is a shorter time window than I would like to provide, but the planned end date for this project is March 14 and I would like to finish video production by the end of March 13 so that I have 24 hours for communications before the grant period ends. If you would like to review the script or make other comments but the end of March 10 is too soon for you, please let me know that you need more time, and I will take that into consideration as I plan for final production and consider whether to request a date extension from WMF. (Extending the finish date for the project would not involve requesting additional funding for the current grant.) I would prefer that the video be done perfectly a few days late than that the video be done on March 14 but have an important error that was not caught during a rush to the finish.
I have three specific requests for feedback:
1. Please find errors in the script. This is a great time to find problems with my work, before the script goes into production and problems become more expensive to fix. Please go to this link in Google Docs and use the Comment feature in the Google Doc.
2. Do you have comments regarding whether the script should be divided, and if so, how it should be divided? Please let me know on the project talk page.
3. How do you feel about the name for the video? Do you prefer "Referencing with VisualEditor" or "Citing sources with VisualEditor", or a third option? Again, please comment on the project talk page. However, if I divide the script then I will create new names for the smaller videos.
Closing comments
Thank you for your interest in this mini-project. I am grateful to be working on a project which I hope will help Wikipedia contributors to be more efficient and effective, and indirectly help to improve Wikipedia's quality by teaching contributors how to identify and to cite reliable sources. I believe that the finished video will be good, and I hope that the community and novice contributors will find the video to be very useful.
Yours in service,
Dear KCVelaga, I noticed your name was under the participants' list of WikiProject United Nations. I wanted to invite you to contribute to the advancement of this project. Here's how you can do so: 1. Select the latest CC BY SA publications for which no articles have been created yet available here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_United_Nations/Open_Access_text/Education_publications 2. Follow the instructions available here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Adding_open_license_text_to_Wikipedia 3. Add the text to Wikipedia (either by creating new articles or adding content to existing ones). Since these are available under CC BY SA, you can copy/paste content and/or edit if need be. 4. Attribute the text using the 'Free-content attribution' template in the 'Sources' section. 5. Add your contribution in the table here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_United_Nations/Open_Access_text/Education_publications Don't hesitate to reach out if you have any questions! Looking forward to working with you on enriching Wikipedia, one article at a time:)! C.recalde — Preceding unsigned comment added by C.recalde (talk • contribs) 11:23, 7 March 2019 (UTC)
Dear KCVelaga, I made well-sourced edits to the Jesselyn Radack page, which were completely erased by one editor. Can you help me to understand how to send this to dispute resolution? The template isn't clear to me. Thanks. ScotWhaHai (talk) 03:06, 8 March 2019 (UTC)
- @ScotWhaHai: Hi Scot, thanks for reaching out. I sense there is a disagreement, and I really appreciate you've initiated a discussion on the talk page, instead of engaging in an edit war. I'll not comment about the content or the sources now. I hope the talk page will resolve the issue, if not, as the next step, you can start a thread at the dispute resolution noticeboard (WP:DRN). But before going DRN, I strongly recommend you to discuss on the talk page itself. KCVelaga (talk) 06:11, 8 March 2019 (UTC)
- Thanks a lot. I wasn't sure how to do this, so if I have any other questions. I'll come back! ScotWhaHai (talk) 07:21, 8 March 2019 (UTC)
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Please tend to Operation Python, in light of my recent edits or otherwise, I have to proceed for a reassessment. If you have any issues with any of my edits; feel free to ask for detailed explanations. Thanks, ∯WBGconverse 13:37, 10 March 2019 (UTC)
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This text is also posted on the Structured Data hub talk page. You can reply there with questions, comments, or concerns.
A development update for the current work by the Structured Data on Commons team:
After the release of multilingual file captions, work began on getting depicts and other statements ready for release. These were originally scheduled for release in February and into March, however there are currently two major blockers to finishing this work (T215642, T217157). We will know more next week about when depicts and statements can likely be ready for testing and then release; until then I've tentatively updated the release schedule.
Once the depicts feature is ready for testing, it will take place in two stages on TestCommons. The first is checking the very basics; is the design comfortable, how does the simple workflow of adding/editing/removing statements work, and building up help and process pages from there. The second part is a more detailed test of depicts and other statements, checking the edge-case examples of using the features, bugs that did not come up during simple testing, etc. Additionally we'll be looking with the community for bugs in interaction with bots, gadgets, and other scripts once the features are live on Commons. Please let me know if you're interesting in helping test and fix these bugs if they show up upon release, it is really hard to find them in a test environment or, in some cases, bugs won't show up in a testing environment at all.
One new thing is definitely coming within the next few weeks, pending testing: the ability to search for captions. This is done using the inlabel keyword in search strings, and will be the first step in helping users find content that is specifically structured data. I'll post a notice when that feature is live and ready for use.
Thanks, let me know if you have questions about these plans. Keegan (WMF) (talk) 21:34, 12 March 2019 (UTC)
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- News
- The WMF has announced that Google Translate is now available for translating articles through the content translation tool. This may result in an increase in machine translated articles in the New Pages Feed. Feel free to use the {{rough translation}} tag and gently remind (or inform) editors that translations from other language Wikipedia pages still require attribution per WP:TFOLWP.
- Discussions of interest
- Two elements of CSD G6 have been split into their own criteria: R4 for redirects in the "File:" namespace with the same name as a file or redirect at Wikimedia Commons (Discussion), and G14 for disambiguation pages which disambiguate zero pages, or have "(disambiguation)" in the title but disambiguate a single page (Discussion).
- {{db-blankdraft}} was merged into G13 (Discussion)
- A discussion recently closed with no consensus on whether to create a subject-specific notability guideline for theatrical plays.
- There is an ongoing discussion on a proposal to create subject-specific notability guidelines for chemicals and organism taxa.
- Reminders
- NPR is not a binary keep / delete process. In many cases a redirect may be appropriate. The deletion policy and its associated guideline clearly emphasise that not all unsuitable articles must be deleted. Redirects are not contentious. See a classic example of the templates to use. More templates are listed at the R template index. Reviewers who are not aware, do please take this into consideration before PROD, CSD, and especially AfD because not even all admins are aware of such policies, and many NAC do not have a full knowledge of them.
- NPP Tools Report
- Superlinks – allows you to check an article's history, logs, talk page, NPP flowchart (on unpatrolled pages) and more without navigating away from the article itself.
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- The NPP flowchart now has clickable hyperlinks.
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The Structured Data on Commons development team has the very basic version of depicts statements available for early testing on Test-Commons. You can add very basic depicts statements to the file page by going into the new “Structured Data” tab located below the "Open in Media Viewer button." You can use the Latest Files link in the left side nav bar to select existing images, or use the UploadWizard to upload new ones to test with (although those images won’t actually show up on the site). The test site is not a fully functional replica of Commons, so there may be some overall problems in using the site, but you should be able to get a general idea of what using the feature is like.
Early next week I will call for broad, community-wide testing of the feature similar to what we did for Captions, with instructions for testing, known bugs, and a dedicated space to discuss the feature as well as a simple help page for using statements. Until then, you're welcome to post on the SDC talk page with what you might find while testing depicts.
Thanks in advance for trying it out, you'll be hearing more from me next week. -- Keegan (WMF) (talk) 22:00, 21 March 2019 (UTC)
Hi! The full version of this newsletter issue has a lot of information. I am sending a short version to talk pages.
The most important information to know is that draft 2 is finished, that the single long script has been divided into many smaller scripts, and that portions of the script have been prioritized for production.
Due to budget constraints, not all scripts can be produced within the scope of the current pilot grant, but the other scripts will remain available for potential future production. (This project feels somewhat like doing a vehicle repair when the mechanic starts to work on the engine, and once the mechanic gets under the engine and starts to work, they discover that accomplishing their objective requires twice as much time as they first had estimated.) However, nothing is lost, so do not fear. Overall, my assessment (me being User:Pine) is that this project is producing a lot of good output and is generally a valuable pilot project.
For more information, including my requests for your feedback, please see the full version of the newsletter.
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Hi KCVelaga
Why have you moved Strong Arms of the Ma? As I said in the RM in January, many sources don't include "The" and the proposed title contravenes WP:THE. This RM should never have been reopened, no new arguments were made, and the same people from the failed proposal in January were there again. Please move it back, this is out of line with guidelines. Thanks — Amakuru (talk) 09:17, 1 April 2019 (UTC)
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On 13 April 2019, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article D. S. Kapoor, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/D. S. Kapoor. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, D. S. Kapoor), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
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- @Materialscientist: Just wondering why wasn't this updated here. KCVelaga (talk) 04:25, 13 April 2019 (UTC)
- Perhaps because that page is updated by a bot. The DYK Update bot stopped working for a few days, so I performed this update manually, only on en.wiki. Materialscientist (talk) 09:47, 20 April 2019 (UTC)
- @Materialscientist: OK, thanks for clarifying. KCVelaga (talk) 10:32, 20 April 2019 (UTC)
- Perhaps because that page is updated by a bot. The DYK Update bot stopped working for a few days, so I performed this update manually, only on en.wiki. Materialscientist (talk) 09:47, 20 April 2019 (UTC)
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Niharika Kohli, a product manager for the growth team, announced that work is underway in implementing improvements to New Page Patrol as part of the 2019 Community Wishlist and suggests all who are interested watch the project page on meta. Two requested improvements have already been completed. These are:
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currently has access to EPW accounts? Can I have a list? Regards, ∯WBGconverse 08:30, 22 May 2019 (UTC)
- @Winged Blades of Godric: Can you please let me know for which purpose do you need that list? KCVelaga (talk) 09:56, 22 May 2019 (UTC)
- Checking intersection between JSTOR and EPW subscribers. ∯WBGconverse 09:58, 22 May 2019 (UTC)
- @Winged Blades of Godric: I checked with the TWL team at WMF about this. You may contact wikipedialibrary
wikimedia.org regarding this request. But before you head for that, I would like you to give you a couple of clarifications. We have user categories for people having access to various partners, but they are entirely populated with the usage of respective userboxes. These are the categories for JSTOR and EPW. Unfortunately, the latter is empty because no user has used the userbox. However, it isn't mandatory for users to display userboxes. Secondly, exclusive EPW account gives access to content that is not available through JSTOR's EPW access. So both are not the same. KCVelaga (talk) 17:12, 22 May 2019 (UTC)
- @Winged Blades of Godric: I checked with the TWL team at WMF about this. You may contact wikipedialibrary
- Checking intersection between JSTOR and EPW subscribers. ∯WBGconverse 09:58, 22 May 2019 (UTC)
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As you might have seen, testing is underway for adding qualifiers to depicts statements. If you have not left feedback already, the Structured Data on Commons development team is very interested in hearing about your experience using qualifiers on the file page and in the UploadWizard. To get started you can visit Test-Commons and chose a random file to test out, or upload your own file to try out the UploadWizard. Questions, comments, and concerns can be left on the Structured data talk page and the team will address them as best as they can. Thank you for your time. -- Keegan (WMF) (talk) 19:08, 11 June 2019 (UTC)
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Hello KCVelaga,
- WMF at work on NPP Improvements
More new features are being added to the feed, including the important red alert for previously deleted pages. This will only work if it is selected in your filters. Best is to 'select all'. Do take a moment to check out all the new features if you have not already done so. If anything is not working as it should, please let us know at NPR. There is now also a live queue of AfC submissions in the New Pages Feed. Feel free to review AfCs, but bear in mind that NPP is an official process and policy and is more important.
- QUALITY of REVIEWING
Articles are still not always being checked thoroughly enough. If you are not sure what to do, leave the article for a more experienced reviewer. Please be on the alert for any incongruities in patrolling and help your colleagues where possible; report patrollers and autopatrolled article creators who are ostensibly undeclared paid editors. The displayed ORES alerts offer a greater 'at-a-glance' overview, but the new challenges in detecting unwanted new content and sub-standard reviewing do not necessarily make patrolling any easier, nevertheless the work may have a renewed interest factor of a different kind. A vibrant community of reviewers is always ready to help at NPR.
- Backlog
The backlog is still far too high at between 7,000 and 8,000. Of around 700 user rights holders, 80% of the reviewing is being done by just TWO users. In the light of more and more subtle advertising and undeclared paid editing, New Page Reviewing is becoming more critical than ever.
- Move to draft
NPR is triage, it is not a clean up clinic. This move feature is not limited to bios so you may have to slightly re-edit the text in the template before you save the move. Anything that is not fit for mainspace but which might have some promise can be draftified - particularly very poor English and machine and other low quality translations.
- Notifying users
Remember to use the message feature if you are just tagging an article for maintenance rather than deletion. Otherwise articles are likely to remain perma-tagged. Many creators are SPA and have no intention of returning to Wikipedia. Use the feature too for leaving a friendly note note for the author of a first article you found well made or interesting. Many have told us they find such comments particularly welcoming and encouraging.
- PERM
Admins are now taking advantage of the new time-limited user rights feature. If you have recently been accorded NPR, do check your user rights to see if this affects you. Depending on your user account preferences, you may receive automated notifications of your rights changes. Requests for permissions are not mini-RfAs. Helpful comments are welcome if absolutely necessary, but the bot does a lot of the work and the final decision is reserved for admins who do thorough research anyway.
- Other news
School and academic holidays will begin soon in various places around the Western world. Be on the lookout for the usual increase in hoax, attack, and other junk pages.
Our next newsletter might be announcing details of a possible election for co-ordinators of NPR. If you think you have what it takes to micro manage NPR, take a look at New Page Review Coordinators - it's a job that requires a lot of time and dedication.
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