User:L293D/Archives/2019-3
Draft Help
[edit]Hello, I need help regarding the userspace draft which I created User:AR.Dmg/Sanjivani (2019 TV series). Could you assist me regarding the draft. AR.Dmg (talk) 13:03, 1 March 2019 (UTC)
WikiCup 2019 March newsletter
[edit]And so ends the first round of the competition. Everyone with a positive score moves on to Round 2. With 56 contestants qualifying, each group in Round 2 contains seven contestants, with the two leaders from each group due to qualify for Round 3 as well as the top sixteen remaining contestants.
Our top scorers in Round 1 were:
L293D, a WikiCup newcomer, led the field with ten good articles on submarines for a total of 357 points.
Adam Cuerden, a WikiCup veteran, came next with 274 points, mostly from eight featured pictures, restorations of artwork.
MPJ-DK, a wrestling enthusiast, was in third place with 263 points, garnered from a featured list, five good articles, two DYKs and four GARs.
Usernameunique came next at 243, with a featured article and a good article, both on ancient helmets.
Squeamish Ossifrage was in joint fifth place with 224 points, mostly garnered from bringing the 1937 Fox vault fire to featured article status.
Ed! was also on 224, with an amazing number of good article reviews (56 actually).
These contestants, like all the others, now have to start scoring points again from scratch. Between them, contestants completed reviews on 143 good articles, one hundred more than the number of good articles they claimed for, thus making a substantial dent in the review backlog. Well done all!
Remember that any content promoted after the end of Round 1 but before the start of Round 2 can be claimed in Round 2. Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. Remember, if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews.
If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to keep down the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Godot13 (talk), Sturmvogel 66 (talk), Vanamonde (talk) and Cwmhiraeth (talk).
DYK for HMS Saracen (P247)
[edit]On 2 March 2019, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article HMS Saracen (P247), which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that HMS Saracen was sunk during her 13th patrol shortly after midnight of a Friday the 13th? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/HMS Saracen (P247). You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, HMS Saracen (P247)), 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.
Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 12:02, 2 March 2019 (UTC)
Article Help
[edit]2 articles of same name and different contents. One article would be Wikipedia notable . The other articles is not for Wikipedia. My created article Commando 3 (2019). The other article is Commando 3 which has been created by deleting a redirect — Preceding unsigned comment added by AR.Dmg (talk • contribs) 16:05, 4 March 2019 (UTC)
Please check the article Commando 3 (film) that is it suitable for Wikipedia or not. I know it's not notable yet. AR.Dmg (talk) 23:39, 4 March 2019 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – March 2019
[edit]News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2019).
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- The RfC on administrator activity requirements failed to reach consensus for any proposal.
- Following discussions at the Bureaucrats' noticeboard and Wikipedia talk:Administrators, an earlier change to the restoration of adminship policy was reverted. If requested, bureaucrats will not restore administrator permissions removed due to inactivity if there have been five years without a logged administrator action; this "five year rule" does not apply to permissions removed voluntarily.
- A new tool is available to help determine if a given IP is an open proxy/VPN/webhost/compromised host.
- The Arbitration Committee announced two new OTRS queues. Both are meant solely for cases involving private information; other cases will continue to be handled at the appropriate venues (e.g., WP:COIN or WP:SPI).
- paid-en-wp
wikipedia.org has been set up to receive private evidence related to abusive paid editing.
- checkuser-en-wp
wikipedia.org has been set up to receive private requests for CheckUser. For instance, requests for IP block exemption for anonymous proxy editing should now be sent to this address instead of the functionaries-en list.
- paid-en-wp
- The Arbitration Committee announced two new OTRS queues. Both are meant solely for cases involving private information; other cases will continue to be handled at the appropriate venues (e.g., WP:COIN or WP:SPI).
- Following the 2019 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: Base, Einsbor, Jon Kolbert, Schniggendiller, and Wim b.
February 2019 Military History Writers' Contest
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On behalf of the Wikiproject Military History coordinators, I hereby award you the Writer's Barnstar for placing second in the February 2019 Military History Article Writing Contest with 91 points from 10 articles. Congratulations, Kges1901 (talk) 11:42, 5 March 2019 (UTC) |
DYK nomination of HMS Simoom (P225) 2
[edit] Hello! Your submission of HMS Simoom (P225) 2 at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! – Teratix ₵ 09:52, 8 March 2019 (UTC)
DYK for HMS Syrtis
[edit]On 9 March 2019, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article HMS Syrtis, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the British submarine HMS Syrtis twice towed X-class midget submarines, and on both occasions the submarines sank while under tow? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/HMS Syrtis. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, HMS Syrtis), 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.
— Amakuru (talk) 12:02, 9 March 2019 (UTC)
Bollywood Movie Article
[edit]Hello Sir, Please could you assist in my new movie article Bhangra Paa Le (film). AR.Dmg (talk) 14:00, 10 March 2019 (UTC)
- As I have said earlier, I have doubts whether an uncoming film is really notable, and I prefer not to implicate myself in long discussions about notability. Notability really isn't my area, so I prefer to stick to improving obviously-notable articles instead. In time, your article will be reviewed by someone else with more experience. L293D (☎ • ✎) 14:11, 10 March 2019 (UTC)
Please participate to the talk pages consultation
[edit]Hello
Our team at the Wikimedia Foundation is working on a project to improve the ease-of-use and productivity of wiki talk pages. As a Teahouse host, I can imagine you’ve run into challenges explaining talk pages to first-time participants.
We want all contributors to be able to talk to each other on the wikis – to ask questions, to resolve differences, to organize projects and to make decisions. Communication is essential for the depth and quality of our content, and the health of our communities. We're currently leading a global consultation on how to improve talk pages, and we're looking for people that can report on their experiences using (or helping other people to use) wiki talk pages. We'd like to invite you to participate in the consultation, and invite new users to join too.
We thank you in advance for your participation and your help.
Trizek (WMF), 08:37, 11 March 2019 (UTC)
Please participate to the talk pages consultation - link update
[edit]The previous message about the talk pages consultation has a broken link.
The correct link has been misinterpreted by the MassMessage tool. Please use the following link: Wikipedia:Talk pages consultation 2019.
Sorry for the inconvenience, Trizek (WMF), 08:48, 11 March 2019 (UTC)
DYK for HMS Simoom (P225)
[edit]On 13 March 2019, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article HMS Simoom (P225), which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that all 15 torpedoes fired by HMS Simoom (pictured) during her career missed their targets, but 3 hit and sank a destroyer instead? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/HMS Simoom (P225). You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, HMS Simoom (P225)), 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.
— Amakuru (talk) 00:01, 13 March 2019 (UTC)
DYK for HMS Stonehenge (P232)
[edit]On 14 March 2019, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article HMS Stonehenge (P232), which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that HMS Stonehenge disappeared with all hands in the Indian Ocean in 1944 but her exact location is still unknown? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/HMS Stonehenge (P232). You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, HMS Stonehenge (P232)), 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.
— Amakuru (talk) 12:01, 14 March 2019 (UTC)
NPR Newsletter No.17
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Hello L293D/Archives,
- 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.
- copyvio-check – automatically checks the copyvio percentage of new pages in the background and displays this info with a link to the report in the 'info' panel of the Page curation toolbar.
- The NPP flowchart now has clickable hyperlinks.
Six Month Queue Data: Today – Low – 2393 High – 4828
Looking for inspiration? There are approximately 1000 female biographies to review.
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--MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 23:18, 15 March 2019 (UTC)
DYK for HMS Stratagem
[edit]On 17 March 2019, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article HMS Stratagem, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the British submarine HMS Stratagem sank only one ship in its 13-month-long career—only three days before it was itself sunk? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/HMS Stratagem. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, HMS Stratagem), 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.
— Amakuru (talk) 01:51, 17 March 2019 (UTC)
Created Article Assessment
[edit]Hello sir, I'm AR.Dmg (talk · contribs) please could you do an article assessment on my created articles. AR.Dmg (talk) 08:39, 20 March 2019 (UTC)
DYK nomination of HMS Splendid (P228)
[edit] Hello! Your submission of HMS Splendid (P228) at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Yoninah (talk) 22:16, 20 March 2019 (UTC)
- L293D, this nomination not be able to run on April 21, as you have requested, unless you address the issues raised on the nomination page right away. Please respond as quickly as possible. Thank you very much. BlueMoonset (talk) 15:13, 14 April 2019 (UTC)
Turtle (submersible)
[edit]Hi. Are you able to close Talk:Turtle (submersible)/GA1. Could you at least make clear on the page whether you are failing it or not so I can close it. AIRcorn (talk) 23:21, 20 March 2019 (UTC)