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Question from SIRavecavec on Wikipedia:WikiProject Articles for creation/Help desk (03:31, 1 September 2021)

Greetings! Would appreciate some guidance when you will have time. --Viorel Cosmin Miron 03:31, 1 September 2021 (UTC)

Hi SIRavecavec, what questions do you have? I'm happy to help answering them. — Berrely • ^Talk∕_Contribs 21:40, 1 September 2021 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of 1993 Finchley Road bombings

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article 1993 Finchley Road bombings you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of The Rambling Man -- The Rambling Man (talk) 21:01, 2 September 2021 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of 1993 Finchley Road bombings

The article 1993 Finchley Road bombings you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:1993 Finchley Road bombings for issues which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of The Rambling Man -- The Rambling Man (talk) 10:01, 3 September 2021 (UTC)

Question from Vitaium (15:14, 3 September 2021)

Hello Berrely! If the user is not registered on Wikipedia, should the user page be created? --Vitaium (talk) 15:14, 3 September 2021 (UTC)

Hi @Vitaium, no it shouldn't. Please note you shouldn't create userpages for other users, unless they have specifically requested it. See WP:User pages for more information. — Berrely • ^Talk∕_Contribs 17:33, 3 September 2021 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – September 2021

News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2021).

Administrator changes

Jake Wartenberg

Emperor • Viridian Bovary

Ashleyyoursmile → Viridian Bovary

Guideline and policy news

Feedback is requested on the Universal Code of Conduct enforcement draft by the Universal Code of Conduct Phase 2 drafting committee.
A RfC is open on whether to allow administrators to use extended confirmed protection on high-risk templates.
A discussion is open to decide when, if ever, should discord logs be eligible for removal when posted onwiki (including whether to oversight them)
A RfC on the next steps after the trial of pending changes on TFAs has resulted in a 30 day trial of automatic semi protection for TFAs.

Technical news

The Score extension has been re-enabled on public wikis. It has been updated, but has been placed in safe mode to address unresolved security issues. Further information on the security issues can be found on the mediawiki page.

Arbitration

A request for comment is in progress to provide an opportunity to amend the structure, rules, and procedures of the Arbitration Committee election and resolve any issues not covered by existing rules. Comments and new proposals are welcome.

Miscellaneous

The 2021 RfA review is now open for comments.

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 20:44, 3 September 2021 (UTC)

Question from Abass Yusuf Adigun (08:58, 4 September 2021)

Are you graphics designer --Abass Yusuf Adigun (talk) 08:58, 4 September 2021 (UTC)

Abass Yusuf Adigun not professionally, no, however I am learning it and am relatively okay at graphic design. — Berrely • ^Talk∕_Contribs 09:47, 4 September 2021 (UTC)

Question from Md Rabby Khan100 (12:13, 4 September 2021)

Hello ! My name Md Rabby Khan. I am a small blogger and small gamer. any one response me and support --Md Rabby Khan100 (talk) 12:13, 4 September 2021 (UTC)

Md Rabby Khan100 what questions do you have? — Berrely • ^Talk∕_Contribs 12:30, 4 September 2021 (UTC)

Congratulations from WikiProject Articles for Creation!

		The Brownie
		Congratulations! You have earned The Brownie for reviewing 19 drafts during the WikiProject Articles for creation July 2021 Backlog Drive. Thank you for your work to improve Wikipedia! On behalf of WikiProject Articles for Creation, Enterprisey (talk!) 00:19, 5 September 2021 (UTC)

Question from Nubeno2828 (11:33, 5 September 2021)

Hello , May I know what happens when the article is made as draft . --Nubeno2828 (talk) 11:33, 5 September 2021 (UTC)

@Nubeno2828 when an article is made as a draft, you can incubate it in your own time and then "submit" it for review. An experienced editor will look over and either accept or decline the draft, and provide feedback. See Wikipedia:Drafts for more information. — Berrely • ^Talk∕_Contribs 11:35, 5 September 2021 (UTC)

How can I give the draft for review? Nubeno2828 (talk) 11:39, 5 September 2021 (UTC)

@Nubeno2828 add {{subst:submit}} to the top of the page. If you want I can do it for you? — Berrely • ^Talk∕_Contribs 11:41, 5 September 2021 (UTC)

Yes please , would you do it for me .

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Draft:Abilash_Chicku&oldid=1042515665 Nubeno2828 (talk) 11:47, 5 September 2021 (UTC)

Done — Berrely • ^Talk∕_Contribs 11:55, 5 September 2021 (UTC)

Reply-link officially superseded by DiscussionTools

Hi! Reply-link has officially been superseded by mw:DiscussionTools, which you can install using the "Discussion tools" checkbox under Preferences → Beta features. DiscussionTools, developed by the WMF's Editing Team, is faster and has more features than reply-link, and it wouldn't make sense for me to keep developing reply-link. I think the Editing Team is doing amazing work, and look forward to what they can do in the future. Thank you for using reply-link over the years! Enterprisey (talk!) 06:11, 6 September 2021 (UTC)

File:Bangor University.svg

Thank you for uploading File:Bangor University.svg. There is a problem with how Wikipedia renders this file in the Bangor University article: the final letter 'L' of the word 'PRIFYSGOL' is not displayed. This letter is shown in the original file link,[1] but it is omitted in the PNG previews on the file page. I am unfamiliar with the details of SVG syntax, but this might be a problem with the Wikipedia rendering software. Should we ask about this at Wikipedia:SVG help? Verbcatcher (talk) 21:11, 8 September 2021 (UTC)

Verbcatcher thanks for spotting that. Alas, lnother LibrSVG (MediaWiki's SVG to PNG rendering library) bug it seems. It's probably something to do with masks; I'll try to check it later. If not the SVG Help for is appropriate 😁 — Berrely • ^Talk∕_Contribs 05:50, 9 September 2021 (UTC)

@Verbcatcher after some manual code tweaking it turns out the for some reason the singular letter “L” was trying to call a URL mask...? I tweaked the code a bit, removing said mask and now the file is fixed. It appears our rendering library doesn't like SVG masks :P. Feel free to ask anything else. Cheers — Berrely • ^Talk∕_Contribs 18:10, 9 September 2021 (UTC)

Thank you. It now looks correct, although I had to purge my browser cache. Verbcatcher (talk) 18:29, 9 September 2021 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free image File:Badoo.com screenshot.png

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Thanks for uploading File:Badoo.com screenshot.png. The image description page currently specifies that the image is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, the image is currently not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the image was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that images for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (see our policy for non-free media).

Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described in section F5 of the criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. --B-bot (talk) 02:19, 11 September 2021 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	Barnstar of ping
	@Berrely: ~~~~ User:1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk) 18:47, 15 September 2021 (UTC)

New Page Patrol newsletter September 2021

Hello Isochrone/Archives/2021,

Please join this discussion - there is increase in the abuse of Wikipedia and its processes by POV pushers, Paid Editors, and by holders of various user rights including Autopatrolled. Even our review systems themselves at AfC and NPR have been infiltrated. The good news is that detection is improving, but the downside is that it creates the need for a huge clean up - which of course adds to backlogs.

Copyright violations are also a serious issue. Most non-regular contributors do not understand why, and most of our Reviewers are not experts on copyright law - and can't be expected to be, but there is excellent, easy-to-follow advice on COPYVIO detection here.

At the time of the last newsletter (#25, December 2020) the backlog was only just over 2,000 articles. New Page Review is an official system. It's the only firewall against the inclusion of new, improper pages.

There are currently 706 New Page Reviewers plus a further 1,080 admins, but as much as nearly 90% of the patrolling is still being done by around only the 20 or so most regular patrollers.

If you are no longer very active on Wikipedia or you no longer wish to be part of the New Page Reviewer user group, please consider asking any admin to remove you from the list. This will enable NPP to have a better overview of its performance and what improvements need to be made to the process or its software.

Various awards are due to be allocated by the end of the year and barnstars are overdue. If you would like to manage this, please let us know. Indeed, if you are interested in coordinating NPR, it does not involve much time and the tasks are described here.

To opt-out of future mailings, please remove yourself here. Sent to 827 users. 04:30, 16 September 2021 (UTC)

File mover granted

Hello Berrely. Your account has been granted the "filemover" user right, either following a request for it or due to a clear need for the ability to move files. Please take a moment to review Wikipedia:File mover for more information on this user right and under what circumstances it is okay to move files. When you move a file please remember to update any links to the new name as well! If you do not want the file mover right anymore, just let me know, and I'll remove it. Thank you, and happy editing! GeneralNotability (talk) 15:24, 18 September 2021 (UTC)

Question from (Станислав Савченко (talk) 12:33, 31 August 2021 (UTC))

Hello, Berrely! I wanna ask you. Could you made stub (an article)? With use Google Transletor zh:中华人民共和国反外国制裁法. (the Chinese lang.). Thank you.--Станислав Савченко (talk) 17:09, 24 August 2021 (UTC)

Станислав Савченко do you want me to translate it or are you asking if you're allowed to translate it? — Berrely • ^Talk∕_Contribs 12:37, 31 August 2021 (UTC)

Berrely yes, I want you to translate it . Thank you in advance!--Станислав Савченко (talk) 12:47, 31 August 2021 (UTC)

Please, create this article on English. I really need it (this ariticle).--Станислав Савченко (talk) 21:02, 1 September 2021 (UTC)

Станислав Савченко I'm sorry, but I'm quite busy for a few days. You can try doing it yourself with the instructions at Wikipedia:Translation and the WP:Content translation tool. Apologies, and hope this helps. — Berrely • ^Talk∕_Contribs 21:39, 1 September 2021 (UTC)

Berrely, thank you for your help.--Станислав Савченко (talk) 19:17, 8 September 2021 (UTC)

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Question from Vitaium on User talk:161.139.100.98 (04:15, 21 September 2021)

Hello Berrely, i have 2 questions! I found there is an IP user talk page with userboxes and babels, should an IP user talk page have userboxes and babels? Should it be speedily deleted? --Vitaium (talk) 04:15, 21 September 2021 (UTC)

Hi Vitaium,

whilst it's generally unconventional, there's no specific rule against users having userboxes/other decorative templates on their talk page, I'm not aware of any exceptions to this for IP addresses, so it's likely fine. — Berrely • ^Talk∕_Contribs 05:51, 21 September 2021 (UTC)

Books & Bytes – Issue 46

The Wikipedia Library

Books & Bytes
Issue 46, July – August 2021

Library design improvements deployed
New collections available in English and German
Wikimania presentation

Read the full newsletter

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How To Send Message Instead Of Editing This Page - and - Feedback About Berrely's Talk Page

(1) On your page User_talk:Berrely inside the table/banner which shows "User|Talk|Contribs|...|.js", the item "Talk" is probably suppose to be a link, and it it not. It cannot be clicked. (I know we are already on that page, and perhaps the wikimedia engine is intercepting the link, but maybe not.) That's FYI in case you want to change it, but it has led to me these questions ...

(2) Question (from a new wikipedian): Intuitively I looked around to send you a message, a notification, an alert, a something rather than editing a page to tell you about (#1) because it is just FYI-feedback about trivial structural content. Two questions for my assigned mentor. (2a) How would I do that: send a message without editing? Can I? Is it (technically) possible? (2b) What's the social protocol -- the normal usual way -- within this wiki community to inform you about something like (#1)? (2c) I will learn something by observing how you or the engine let me know you saw this and responded.

Thank you for being a mentoring guinea pig, Phc-NUL (talk) 14:39, 22 September 2021 (UTC)

(talk page watcher) - Phc-NUL, if you link to any page from that page, the link will always appear as bold. Templates such as this are generally designed to do this. If you wanted to contact someone on wikipedia, generally commenting on their talk is the correct response... You can however email a user instead. Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 14:55, 22 September 2021 (UTC)

For future readers looking for answers: How do I email? On a user's pages, along the leftmost edge/column, under "Tools", a link "Email this user" appears. Click on it. Further helpful documentation is on the email page. (I was only looking at very top or bottom of a user's pages for info or tools specific to a user. "Tools" is a third dynamic contextual list.) Thanks to Lee, Phc-NUL (talk) 16:55, 22 September 2021 (UTC)

DYK for 1993 Finchley Road bombings

On 24 September 2021, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article 1993 Finchley Road bombings, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the 1993 Finchley Road bombings were the first London bombings by the Provisional Irish Republican Army in six months? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/1993 Finchley Road bombings. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, 1993 Finchley Road bombings), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. 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.