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Nomination for merging of Template:Rewrite section

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Template:Rewrite section has been nominated for merging with Template:Cleanup rewrite. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Thank you. Oiyarbepsy (talk) 07:26, 1 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Wikidata weekly summary #453

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Tool of the week
    • Labelcleaner is a script by Andrew Gray used to clean up Wikidata labels/aliases/descriptions for a given language on a set of items.
  • Development
    • Continuing development on the first version of the Query Builder. It's starting to be able to do the first really meaningful queries now. Latest addition was the ability to negate conditions. Up next is the ability to connect conditions with OR instead of only AND as well as querying for quantities and ranges. You can follow along on the test system.
    • Exploring possible solutions for how to compare Wikidata's data against other databases to find and highlight mismatches automatically.
    • Added lexicographical data codes for a few languages: rkt, ctg (phab:T271589), and az-cyrl (phab:T265906)
    • Finished working on the issue of TypeError on a diff of a Wikidata talk page phab:T271402
    • Updated Wikidata unit conversion configuration (phab:T267644)
    • Fixed two last places where links in the the Query Service UI were not using Special:MyLanguage yet to redirect to the documentation page in the user's language (phab:T267656)
    • Pushing JSON dumps for Lexemes over the finish line (phab:T264883)
    • Working on showing an error when trying to save lemmas with invalid language codes (phab:T265783)
    • Wikibase Release Strategy
      • Investigated the release of Wikibase suite components not maintained by Wikimedia (phab:T271193)
      • Continued process of adding additional components to the Wikibase release, including OAuth (phab:T272580)


You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

Administrators' newsletter – February 2021

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

Arbitration

  • The standard discretionary sanctions authorized for American Politics were amended by motion to cover post-1992 politics of United States and closely related people, replacing the 1932 cutoff.

Miscellaneous

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 19:10, 1 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

John Eversley

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Dear sir, I respect your work, but this must be the lightest stub I've ever seen. It really needs work. May I assist, or do you want to delete this? Bearian (talk) 23:21, 2 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

By all means assist! It's a wiki. All the best: Rich Farmbrough 21:18, 3 February 2021 (UTC).[reply]
https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Award+recognises+John%27s+contribution%3B+in+association+with+RBS.-a0178074996
https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-photo/the-princess-royal-shakes-hands-with-mr-john-eversley-news-photo/834710966

Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Taxi Girl albums

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A tag has been placed on Category:Taxi Girl albums requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the category has been empty for seven days or more and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion.

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. Liz Read! Talk! 14:46, 6 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Wikidata weekly summary #454

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Tool of the week
    • Item documentation has two new features. First, it now includes two predefined SPARQL queries. The first one give the number of statements about the item by property and the second the list of statement about the properties. Second, for items of class award, it includes predefined SPARQL queries from TP award. See Q1624297 for an example.
    • Ranker lets you edit the ranks of several statements at once.
  • Development
    • Made it possible to connect query conditions with OR (instead of only AND) in the Query Builder (phab:T272694)
    • Making it possible to query only for statements with or without a reference in the Query Builder (phab:T272699)
    • Continuing to work on adding a rate limit for creating Item IDs to prevent people from allocating a large number of unassigned Item IDs that are then lost (phab:T272032)
    • Working on the problem of Lexeme merging failing if the source Lexeme has links to its own Senses (phab:T273830)
    • Working on showing an error when trying to save a Lemma with invalid language code on a Lexeme (phab:T265783)
    • Fixing an issue in the Property selector fallback where it is not falling back from language variant to major language (phab:T272712)
    • Making it possible to add Interwiki links to/from Multilingual Wikisource (phab:T138332)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

Speedy deletion nomination of Captain Tom (disambiguation)

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If this is the first article that you have created, you may want to read the guide to writing your first article.

You may want to consider using the Article Wizard to help you create articles.

A tag has been placed on Captain Tom (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 a disambiguation page which either

  • disambiguates only one extant Wikipedia page and whose title ends in "(disambiguation)" (i.e., there is a primary topic);
  • disambiguates zero extant Wikipedia pages, regardless of its title; or
  • is an orphaned redirect with a title ending in "(disambiguation)" that does not target a disambiguation page or page that has a disambiguation-like function.

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. ‑‑Neveselbert (mobile) (talk · contribs · email) 04:10, 12 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

"Template:Redirect from UK spelling" listed at Redirects for discussion

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A discussion is taking place to address the redirect Template:Redirect from UK spelling. The discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2021 February 12#Template:Redirect from UK spelling until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. 𝟙𝟤𝟯𝟺𝐪𝑤𝒆𝓇𝟷𝟮𝟥𝟜𝓺𝔴𝕖𝖗𝟰 (𝗍𝗮𝘭𝙠) 16:54, 12 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

"Template:Redirect from maiden name" listed at Redirects for discussion

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A discussion is taking place to address the redirect Template:Redirect from maiden name. The discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2021 February 12#Template:Redirect from maiden name until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. 𝟙𝟤𝟯𝟺𝐪𝑤𝒆𝓇𝟷𝟮𝟥𝟜𝓺𝔴𝕖𝖗𝟰 (𝗍𝗮𝘭𝙠) 16:59, 12 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Wikidata weekly summary #455

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Tool of the week
  • Development
    • Work on the Simple Query Builder continues. We finished connecting query conditions via OR (phab:T272694). Next we will work on adding the UI for sharing the visual query via a link (phab:T272887)
    • Improved the deployment process for the Query Service UI to make it easier to deploy
    • Fixed language code "dag" for Dagbani not working for Lemmas for Lexemes (phab:T272242)
    • Fixing the bug where the Property selector is not falling back from language variant to major language for Property labels (phab:T272712)
    • Adding a rate limit for creating Item IDs to avoid skipping so many due to misbehaving bots (phab:T272032)
    • Fixed the case where no error was shown when trying to save a lemma with an invalid language code (phab:T265783)
    • Fixed a but where merging two Lexemes fails if the source Lexeme has links to its own Senses (phab:T273830)
    • Increasing the rate of edits that trigger a check by the constraint checker to 50%. This will increase the number of constraints violations that you can query in the Query Service. (phab:T204031)
    • Making it possible to add interwiki links to/from Multilingual Wikisource (phab:T138332)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.


Category:Women in the The Troubles (Northern Ireland) has been nominated for discussion

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Category:Women in the The Troubles (Northern Ireland) has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. Regards, SONIC678 21:10, 15 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Decades in the the Transcaucasian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic has been nominated for discussion

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Category:Decades in the the Transcaucasian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. Regards, SONIC678 21:11, 15 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Andrew Brooks

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Hi, Rich Farmbrough. You created the article Andrew Brooks (scientist) on 8 February; it seems that we already have a rather detailed article on the same person under the title Andrew Brooks, created just a few days earlier. Content-wise your two sentences should be covered by that longer article but maybe the source you stated in your article might be added in that parallel article and Andrew Brooks (scientist) might be kept as a Wikipedia:Redirect. We also have Andrew Brooks (disambiguation) where you added a link to your article, so maybe the other article should be listed there instead and also "What links here" might have to be checked but as far as I can see, apart from that disambig page there is not much that links to your new article. So this looks like a relatively simple case of Wikipedia:Merging. --Proofreader (talk) 19:07, 16 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

This is odd, I definitely looked for an existing article. Thanks for letting me know, I have made it into a redirect, I would have been fine with you doing the same. All the best: Rich Farmbrough 19:18, 16 February 2021 (UTC).[reply]
Thanks for the quick reaction. Just stumbled across that one while checking the entries in the categories, so I am more into maintenance and only notify authors accordingly. Sometimes you actually even have cases where people with the same name die on the same day, which is why I rather not interfere too much with the articles themselves. So thanks again for fixing that one. --Proofreader (talk) 19:53, 16 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Template editor request

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Hi and sorry for the intrusion, I was looking for an active editor I had noticed around who holds the template editor flag. I am looking to re-boot Wikipedia:WikiProject Country Music and need someone to remove "Inactive" from the {{WikiProject Country Music}} template banner. I would appreciate your help if possible. Have a great day JW 1961 Talk 22:49, 16 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

 Done Good luck! All the best: Rich Farmbrough 22:56, 16 February 2021 (UTC).[reply]
Thank you JW 1961 Talk 22:52, 17 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

More Sauce

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I saw you helped yourself to some of my sauce here so I added some more here. 79.70.188.241 (talk) 22:20, 19 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Wikidata weekly summary #456

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • Fixed wrongly encoded HTML in some messages in the Wikidata Bridge (phab:T272350)
    • Working on showing all languages in the language suggester for monolingual text Properties (phab:T124758)
    • Fixed an issue with spaces in external identifier URLs being replaced by "+" (phab:T271126)
    • Added a rate limit for creating Item IDs, which should help with decreasing the number of skipped Q-IDs (phab:T272032)
    • Fixed an issue where whitespace was stripped while typing when editing Lexemes (phab:T250550)
    • Fixing the case where you cannot easily edit negative quantities after saving (phab:T274129)
    • Working on making it possible to query for quantity values in the Query Builder (phab:T268942)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.


March 2021 at Women in Red

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Women in Red | March 2021, Volume 7, Issue 3, Numbers 184, 186, 188, 192, 193


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Troubles(?)

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This change feels almost "microcosmic" of the article subject. Is there a reason to remove the more generic template and replace with a label discussed (as a point of contention) within the article itself? Guliolopez (talk) 03:11, 28 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Guliolopez Both {{EngvarB}} and {{Use British English}} are very generic, if you feel the need you could fork the {{Use British English}} to {{Use Irish English}}. I doubt if there are a significant number of places where this would make a difference. I am not aware of any words that are spelled differently in formal writing in Irish English compared with other European varieties of English, which is the stated purpose of {{EngvarB}}. All the best: Rich Farmbrough 03:25, 28 February 2021 (UTC).[reply]
Seems I had a hand in this template many years ago. I'll try to use it on Irish articles. All the best: Rich Farmbrough 03:29, 28 February 2021 (UTC).[reply]
Thanks for the follow-up.
For Ireland-related articles (including those on Irish coins, Irish diaspora, Irish institutions and others where the ENGVAR is relatively well-established) it may, as you suggest, be best to use the "Irish English" template.
For Northern Ireland-related articles (including those on The Troubles, County Londonderry, Ulster and others where real-world and project-based contention is relatively well-documented) it may be worth considering whether to swap the generic template for the "British English" template.
While, as you say, there are limited linguistic or spelling differences, the terms "British" and "Irish" sometimes come with cultural and political baggage. Unrelated to spelling. Anyway, I'll get out of your way. Just a heads-up/thought-to-consider I guess... Guliolopez (talk) 03:57, 28 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Pages translated from Võro Wikipedia

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A tag has been placed on Category:Pages translated from Võro Wikipedia requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the category has been empty for seven days or more and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion.

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. Liz Read! Talk! 15:09, 28 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 28 February 2021

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