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Wikidata weekly summary #99
- Discussions
- Discussion about defining lists
- Open RfAs: לערי ריינהארט, Pamputt
- Closed RfAs: Epìdosis (Successful)
- Events/Press/Blogs
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: unemployment rate, manner of death, file extension, received signal, prevalence, connecting service, first performance, Universal Decimal Classification, Chinese Library Classification, Dharma Drum Buddhist College place ID, Dharma Drum Buddhist College person ID, MEP directory identifier, Rodovid ID, handle, Gewässerkennzahl, LIBRIS editions, numeric value, visitors per year, Geokod, approximation algorithm, transmitted signal
- Showcase item: Why not improve Kleinmachnow (Q104192) to showcase standard?
- Wikidata's presence: vici.org are using Wikidata identifiers in their data storage
- Development
- Made loading items a lot faster
- Enabled access to the data on Wikidata for Wikisource
- Fixed the diff view sometimes showing the wrong revision
- Attended ConFoo and learned all of the things
- Released Wikibase DataModel Serialization 0.1
- Continue work on caching javascript config variables in parser cache
- Started to make Wikidata even faster by removing StaticExpert and BifidExpert
- Started reviewing interface animations. You should be able to disable them all by setting $.fx.off = true; in your Special:MyPage/common.js.
- Fixed Wikidata looking a bit odd when enabling the Typography refresh Beta feature.
- Monthly Tasks
- Fix a format or content violation for the MedlinePlus ID (P604) property
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
Wikidata weekly summary #100
- Discussions
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikiquote will get language links via Wikidata on April 8th. Coordination is happening at d:Wikidata:Wikiquote
- Did you know?
- Development
- Added more details to the diffs of time and geocoordinate values (will show which globe the coordinate is on and so on now as well)
- More work on badges by Bene* - most work left is now in the GUI part of it
- Removed unneeded and unused permissions/rights
- Fixed a bug concerning spaces in quantities (bugzilla:61911)
- Started work on taking ranks into account for queries, the property parser function and Lua. (By default only preferred values should be used if available. If not available then it should use values with rank normal.)
- test2.wikipedia.org and test.wikipedia.org now use test.wikidata.org as their data repository, instead of wikidata.org
- Started work on WikibaseInternalSerialization component
- Released Wikibase DataModel 0.7 - https://github.com/wmde/WikibaseDataModel/blob/master/RELEASE-NOTES.md
- Added indexes to Wikibase QueryEngine
- Improved SQLite support in Wikibase Database
- Started moving virtual machine instances of various test systems to the new Wikimedia Datacenter
- Monthly Tasks
- Fix a format or content violation for the sport (P641) property
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
This Month in GLAM: February 2014
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This Month in GLAM: February 2014
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Hello, you were involved in an AfD discussion back in 2011. I was patrolling new pages and noticed the page has been recreated, I'm not sure how to compare the two to see if they're significantly different. Would you mind helping out? Chris Moore (talk) 19:25, 9 March 2014 (UTC)
(test) The Signpost: 05 March 2014
- Traffic report: Brinksmen on the brink
- Discussion report: Four paragraph lead, indefinitely blocked IPs, editor reviews broken?
- Featured content: Full speed ahead for the WikiCup
- WikiProject report: Article Rescue Squadron
Nomination of INVEA-TECH for deletion
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Wikidata weekly summary #101
- Discussions
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Media Hack Days, Berlin March 22nd-23rd
- Ateliers Wikidata, Bordeaux, France March 22nd-23rd
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: NLC authorities, Atlas ID, fuel system, supercharger, ID (General Administration of Press and Publication), ISMN, NUKAT authorities
- Development
- Changed the {{property}} parser function and Lua’s mw.wikibase.entity.formatPropertyValues to only return the statements ranked as preferred or if none are available the ones ranked as normal (This will probably go live on April 25th.)
- Worked on improving page load time further by reducing the number of reloads during page loading
- Made diffs for time and geocoordinates more complete and prettier
- Continued research for user interface redesign
- Tpt worked on optionally showing links to other sister projects in the client’s sidebar (bugzilla:54374)
- Wrote a fix for Wikidata changes not showing up in the client’s watchlist (bugzilla:62149)
- Updated a major chunk of our inline code documentation
- Continued discussing technical details about how coordinates should be stored in Wikibase
- Monthly Tasks
- Fix a format or content violation for the Léonore ID (P640) property
- Hack on one of these.
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The Signpost: 12 March 2014
- Traffic report: War and awards
- Featured content: Ukraine burns
- WikiProject report: Russian WikiProject Entomology
URLs broken
Hello Stuart, have you noticed that Te Ara has changed their URLs, and what the DNZB template produces results in broken links? It's a real mess, and even Te Ara links internal are broken. Given that you have your finger on the pulse in Wellington, would you know who to talk to? Schwede66 19:58, 14 March 2014 (UTC)
- @Schwede66: Thanks for that. Looks like they upgraded their Drupal and an over-zealous upgrade script removed their old remap.php. They send their thanks. All the links I've tested now work. I'm happy to pass on any that are still broken. Stuartyeates (talk) 06:21, 17 March 2014 (UTC)
- Thanks for following up on this. I've tested a variety of things and everything appears to be all go again. Schwede66 17:13, 17 March 2014 (UTC)
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Wikidata weekly summary #102
- Discussions
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Cambridge revisited II documents how you can query Wikidata and put the results on a map.
- Cambridge revisited V shows that maps have popups with texts generated on Wikidata statements and labels.
- The architecture of the Wikimedia storage of the meta data of media files discusses that integration of Commons is a subset of what we can achieve when we consider the whole of media files.
- Spaghetti Open Data, Bologna. March 28th - 30th
- GLAM Treffen, Bremen. March 29th - 30th
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: Riksdagen person-id
- Development
- Continued making the UI faster
- Fixed Wikidata changes not showing up in the watchlist on the client (Wikipedia, etc.) (bugzilla:62149)
- Decided to turn off the inoperable wikidata.org language subdomains for now to reduce confusion
- Created initial version of Wikibase Internal Serialization component
- wbEntity and wbUsedEntities JavaScript variables are now cached in the parser cache
- Ongoing refactoring to get rid of the previously used numeric ID numbers in favor of prefixed IDs
- Made wbsearchentities aware of previously unquoted percent characters
- Put some time into fixing longstanding oddities that made the developers cry from time to time
- Worked on reducing internal usage of EntityContent, in preparation for redirect support
- Worked on performance issues with JSON dump generation (hopefully we can start generating dumps soon)
- Monthly Tasks
- Fix a format or content violation for the original language (P364) property
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
The Signpost: 19 March 2014
- WikiProject report: We have history
- Featured content: Spot the bulldozer
- News and notes: Foundation-supported Wikipedian in residence faces scrutiny
- Traffic report: Into thin air
- Technology report: Wikimedia engineering report
Allan Hubbard article
The article on Allan Hubbard contains extensive references to South Canterbury Finance and the charges that five now three people were facing, hence I see nothing wrong in a para saying the trial has now started (if you don’t want anything on the course of the trial I will leave out the part about the application to remove the judge). The article gives the impression that nothing has happened since 2012. And I do not intend to include a running commentary on the trial. Hugo999 (talk) 05:39, 26 March 2014 (UTC)
- @Hugo999: It's a question of WP:BALANCE. Even with the material removed too much of the article is about his downfall and events after his death. If you want coverage of this, I suggest you move most of the content to the South Canterbury Finance article and use Template:main to link the Allan_Hubbard_(businessman)#South_Canterbury_Finance to South Canterbury Finance. We have rules about the coverage of on-going court cases, see WP:BLPCRIME. Stuartyeates (talk) 06:13, 26 March 2014 (UTC)
- Just wondering how relevant BLPCRIME is, given that the "L" no longer applies? Schwede66 07:34, 26 March 2014 (UTC)
- All the content guidelines in BLP are good encyclopedia-writing and stuff we should be doing in all articles anyway. There's a whole new level of enforcement (behavioural guidelines) that kicks in for living people because of potential legal issues. Stuartyeates (talk) 07:41, 26 March 2014 (UTC)
- Just wondering how relevant BLPCRIME is, given that the "L" no longer applies? Schwede66 07:34, 26 March 2014 (UTC)
Internet Party (New Zealand)
Hi, I made some changes to Internet Party (New Zealand). I think I have cited all the things that needs to be cited. Can you please take a look and see if anything else needs to be done? thanks F (talk) 00:48, 27 March 2014 (UTC)
Deletion ZaapTV
Dear Stuartyeates,
You have claimed that the page ZaapTV is " Nothing obvious in google" and "Not notable appliance brand". If you type in google ZaapTv, you can see this product goes back more than 5 years ago and is sold in amazon, ebay and many independent sales websites globally. Before you saw this page today, it was there for a while and has great information of the history of the company.
There is even a commercial that was broadcast through television that on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBGkUfwGdu8
If you type just zaaptv on google you will pages and pages of the product itself and all its different version and modifications through the years.
You will be deleting a page for a product that is over 5 years old and has had over 100,000 active consumers all over the world.
I ask to please not delete the page, in return I will try to source it better.
Regards,
- I have halted the PROD and moved it to AfD at Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/ZaapTV. I strongly suggest that you contribute to the discussion there if you feel the article should be kept. Stuartyeates (talk) 00:37, 29 March 2014 (UTC)
The Signpost: 26 March 2014
- Comment: A foolish request
- Traffic report: Down to a simmer
- News and notes: Commons Picture of the Year—winners announced
- Featured content: Winter hath a beauty that is all his own
- Technology report: Why will Wikipedia look like the Signpost?
- WikiProject report: From the peak
Wikidata weekly summary #103
- Discussions
- Wikiquote notability
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Summary: The summaries will now be sent out on Saturday as opposed to Friday.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: astronomical filter, National Archives specific records type ID, National Archives topical subject ID, National Archives geographic ID, National Archives organization ID, National Archives person ID, compressor type, Internet Broadway Database person ID, Internet Broadway Database show ID, Internet Broadway Database production ID, Internet Broadway Database venue ID, English Heritage list number, apparent magnitude
- Newest task forces: Heraldry task force
- Development
- Reduced page load time significantly once again. Page load time was cut to roughly 2/3. For now we’re happy with the resulting page load times. We’ll start concentrating on other areas of the user interface now.
- Fixed faulty selection handling when adding a property using the keyboard (bugzilla:62868)
- Worked on fixing issues with handling of spaces in quantities (bugzilla:62567)
- Fixed miscount of Wikidata changes on the client watchlist (bugzilla:45812)
- Wrote new browser tests for special pages using the Cucumber and Selenium frameworks
- Improved error formatting, localisation and handling. We will work on error message wording next to make them more understandable.
- Worked on the code which propagates page moves from the clients into Wikidata as a preparation for allowing page deletions to appear on Wikidata
- Made the Wikibase extension work with the new “Compact language links” Beta feature and a bit more independent from the UniversalLanguageSelector in general
- The student team working on the entity suggester has finished the first version of it. The code is being reviewed now and is hopefully ready for deployment soon. Once it is deployed it will show you what new properties you could add to an item.
- Monthly Tasks
- Fix a format or content violation for the original language (P364) property
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
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Back from the dead....Sara shahmohammadi
Someone pinged me on my talk page about this article being recreated Sara shahmohammadi after the deletion here Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sara Shahmohammadi. Trying not to tick the box in my admin tools....trying to be...sympathetic. Thoughts? Speedy delete, PROD.....blahblahblahblah? :) You even say in the deletion request to ping you if improved. Doesn't seem that way...but...... your opinion is welcome. :) SarahStierch (talk) 23:28, 2 April 2014 (UTC)
- If I can't think of anything better in the next 30 minutes, I'll move it to the Draft: namespace and give the editor(s) some guidance. Stuartyeates (talk) 23:35, 2 April 2014 (UTC)
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Wikidata weekly summary #104
- Discussions
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikidata Toolkit 0.1.0 released!
- Wikidata development has been going on for two years!
- Wikiquote gets Phase I on Tuesdays (April 8th)
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: JSTOR journal code, Openpolis ID, Philippine Standard Geographic Code ID
- Development
- Property of an existing claim can no longer be changed through API with wbeditentity (bugzilla:62425)
- UI for simple query SpecialPage (bugzilla:55593)
- minor fixes in the UI
- UI for claims on property pages
- worked on review of property suggester (review)
- still looking for a working student/intern
- Monthly Tasks
- Fix a format or content violation for the original language (P364) property
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
The Signpost: 02 April 2014
- WikiProject report: Deutschland in English
- Special report: On the cusp of the Wikimedia Conference
- Featured content: April Fools
- Traffic report: Regressing to the mean
This Month in GLAM: March 2014
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Wikidata weekly summary #105
- Discussions
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Announcing ToolScript. With ToolScript can be used to get the output of all Magnus' tools
- Feline mayors of the world or why Wikidata is awesome
- A Rijksmuseum representative indicated what kind of information she hopes Wikidata will deliver
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikiquote now gets its sitelinks via Wikidata. Welcome, Wikiquote! Access to the other data will follow.
- Do you want automatic sidebar links to other Wikimedia projects powered by Wikidata? Here you go: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2014-April/003690.html Thanks Tpt!
- Use Wikidata for internationalization on any website! How awesome is this? Very!
- Vote for some Wikidata talks for Wikimania
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: KulturNav-id, compression ratio, patent number, OmegaWiki Defined Meaning, phone number, International Standard Recording Code, Theatricalia play ID, Swiss Football Association Club Number, Danish Bibliometric Research Indicator level, ISFDB publisher ID, Swedish Football Association ID, Box Office Mojo film ID, Parsons code, ISFDB series ID, ISFDB publication ID, ISFDB author ID, Linguist list code, NARA online catalogue
- Development
- Still looking for an awesome intern. Do you know someone who'd fit?
- Bene* continued working hard on making “badges” (the “featured” and “good article” stars) in Wikidata a reality
- Finishing touches for Statements on properties
- Worked on better error messages when parsing failed
- Updated the translations to use much easier to manage JSON files for each language
- Made a list of hard to understand messages that should be reworded
- Implemented a usable interface for Special:SimpleQuery
- Closed a backdoor that let you change the property of a snak via the API, sorry guys
- Continuous refactoring and improving of the code base that defines what Wikidata and the Wikibase extensions are
- Kept Wikidata up to date with the typography update
- Started to redesign the Wikibase page on mediawiki.org
- Investigated if standard spam prevention features of MediaWiki work as they should on Wikidata (Result: mostly yes but some fixes/tweaks are needed.)
- Released version 1.0 of the Diff extension.
- Monthly Tasks
- Fix a format or content violation for the movement (P135) property
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
The Signpost: 09 April 2014
- News and notes: Round 2 of FDC funding open to public comments
- WikiProject report: WikiProject Law
- Special report: Community mourns passing of Adrianne Wadewitz
- Traffic report: Conquest of the Couch Potatoes
- Featured content: Snow heater and Ash sweep
Sockpuppet Investigation
Dear Stuartyeates,
May I ask how long before I found out the results of the sockpuppet investigation? And before anything is assumed - I am not interested in a "slagging" match, but if all the time I have I spent editing is of naught (and my intention is to provide input on a number of different subjects - Mahfouz and Burke's are merely to help me get to grips with Wikipedia), I would rather know sooner than later.
(In the hope of a response:) Thank you.
(And despite being somewhat ... disheartened, yet nonetheless to be polite:) Kind regards,
Craig.
Ctfn (talk) 12:04, 12 April 2014 (UTC)
- I have no idea when the results of Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/Ctfn will be in; how the process runs is pretty opaque to me to he honest. Stuartyeates (talk) 20:15, 12 April 2014 (UTC)
- Dear Stuartyeates, Thank you for your reply. Kind regards, Ctfn (talk) 17:35, 13 April 2014 (UTC)
Media Idee
Hello. YOu deleted an article on Media Idee due to lack of notability. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Media_Idee
The company has since organized the biggest show in Pakistan spanning 5 countries. Please see www.dolphinshow.org.
It has been endorsed by PAS, the official body of all advertisers in Pakistan. www.pas.org.pk.
It has also been in the news for its digital agency http://www.midigital.co.
Can the article be brought back. — Preceding unsigned comment added by JagDeCat (talk • contribs) 00:47, 5 April 2014 (UTC)
Hi Stuart,
Please do let me know if I start a Media Idee Page, it will not be deleted by Admins in Wikipedia. The company is now notable. The latest project success of of https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=air.com.migaming.yogi which is as of today the No. 2 app in the category is gaining it good publicity within the Pakistani community. It also has opened an office in New Hampshire in US.
- If you want Media Idee undeleted, you should post a request at WP:REFUND. I suggest that your request includes links to in depth coverage of the topic. Stuartyeates (talk) 22:17, 16 April 2014 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #106
- Discussions
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- List of items without images but possibly free images available
- Any interested in another Wikidata office hour? (Say yes)
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: Danish Bibliometric Research Indicator (BFI) SNO/CNO, earliest written record
- Development
- Lots of small little cleanups.
- Sprintbreak as most people are taking a few days off.
- Happy Q21196! Say Hi to the Q108636 ;-)
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The Signpost: 23 April 2014
- Special report: 2014 Wikimedia Conference—what is the impact?
- News and notes: Wikimedian passes away
- WikiProject_report: To the altar—Catholicism
- Wikimania: Winning bid announced for 2015
- Traffic report: Reflecting in Gethsemane
- Featured content: There was I, waiting at the church
Wikidata weekly summary #107
- Discussions
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Lydia will give an update on Wikidata at the WMF Metrics and Activities meeting
- Indian Parliamentarians' Label-a-thon is taking place to add labels for all members of the Lok Sabha.
- In May, edit-a-thons hounouring Adrianne Wadewitz are taking place to add more gender related information to Wikidata.
- Wikidata office hour on May 19th at 17:00 UTC.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Time and geocoordinates have been reworked and need some testing at test.wikidata.org. Found issues? Let Lydia know.
- Did you know?
- Development
- Worked on making it possible to use languages not supported by MediaWiki in Wikidata
- We now also display statements with "no value" or "unknown value" on the client (when using the parser function or Lua)
- Created another maintenance script to fix data integrity issues
- Finishing touches on the first version of the new entity suggester
- Simple queries are starting to work (If you want to see a demo attend the WMF Metrics and Activities meeting)
- Worked more on making error messages localizable
- Released Wikibase DataModel 0.7.4
- Monthly Tasks
- Fix a format or content violation for the academic degree (P512) property
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
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Speedy deletion nomination of Mary Cecilia Maher
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Speedy deletion nomination of William Yate
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A request to revisit the discussion. NorthAmerica1000 11:37, 2 May 2014 (UTC)
Hi Stuart - would you mind taking a quick look through the entry now I have expanded it and let me know if there are any further bits of information I should take a look at - also feel free to correct any errors. I am heading to the library to see if there is any information on the officers and nco's involved with him in France. So far all the names have drawn a blank. I am particularly interest in the provo Booth. NealeFamily (talk) 00:20, 2 May 2014 (UTC)
- I've made some changes. The only way I can think of to find Booth is go through all the 76 Booths in cenotaph and whittle them down. That would be WP:OR, alas, which is prohibited. Stuartyeates (talk) 03:34, 3 May 2014 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #108
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About the redirection of the article Rajshahi City Corporation into the civil administration section at Rajshahi article at Wikipedia
I just want to know as a new contributor of Wikipedia that why the article Rajshahi City Corporation is merged to the article Rajshahi? Do you have any knowledge about that organization? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.188.169.80 (talk) 13:02, 3 May 2014 (UTC)
- Because there wasn't the sourcing for two separate articles. Stuartyeates (talk) 20:49, 3 May 2014 (UTC)
I closed this as a WP:SOFTDELETE due to lack of quorum and the author requested I restore it, which I just did. Just wanted to let you know in case you feel it's appropriate to re-nominate. §FreeRangeFrogcroak 15:50, 8 May 2014 (UTC)
- Thanks for the heads up. I'll give the author some time to work on it before I jump in. Stuartyeates (talk) 19:38, 8 May 2014 (UTC)
Your revert
Can you kindly point to a guideline where it says "that it is not allowed to use interviews as references"? Thanks.--Mishae (talk) 00:56, 9 May 2014 (UTC)
- You're welcome to use interviews as references (and indeed they're pretty much the idea source for info in orientation and identity), but they don't count towards WP:GNG. Stuartyeates (talk) 00:59, 9 May 2014 (UTC)
- O.K. Here is what I did. I removed the primary and third party statement, and I left primary source intact. Would you agree that this will be a better tag? Like honestly, magazines, newspapers are all RS, why confuse the other editors into believing that they are primary?--Mishae (talk) 01:11, 9 May 2014 (UTC)
- Update: I added another ref to Vanessa Kerry so I hope it will satisfy WP:GNG now?--Mishae (talk) 01:29, 9 May 2014 (UTC)
- Still confused though. What's the point of using interviews if they don't count toward GNG? Like, you sound double sided. On one hand you say: "You are welcome to use them" and that "they are ideal source", and at the same time you say that "they don't count towards GNG"? Can you elaborate on that one, please?--Mishae (talk) 01:36, 9 May 2014 (UTC)
- Update: I added another ref to Vanessa Kerry so I hope it will satisfy WP:GNG now?--Mishae (talk) 01:29, 9 May 2014 (UTC)
- O.K. Here is what I did. I removed the primary and third party statement, and I left primary source intact. Would you agree that this will be a better tag? Like honestly, magazines, newspapers are all RS, why confuse the other editors into believing that they are primary?--Mishae (talk) 01:11, 9 May 2014 (UTC)
- You're welcome to use interviews as references (and indeed they're pretty much the idea source for info in orientation and identity), but they don't count towards WP:GNG. Stuartyeates (talk) 00:59, 9 May 2014 (UTC)
- I've taken this to Wikipedia:Biographies_of_living_persons/Noticeboard#Vanessa_Kerry, where there will be people who understand more of the context of this. Stuartyeates (talk) 07:37, 9 May 2014 (UTC)
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Blatant solicitation
I noticed that that you commented on Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ainda Existe Uma Cruz. The same band has released several other albums and the same editor created the articles. I have investigated and discovered that several do not appear to meet WP:NALBUMS. If you get a chance, could you please look at some of them?
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Águas Purificadoras
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Preciso de Ti
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Nos Braços do Pai
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Esperança (album)
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ainda Existe Uma Cruz
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Tua Visão
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Exaltado
They were all previously deleted via a PROD and the editor requested that they be restored, but gave no reason for restoring them and has not made any effort to improve them since they were undeleted. Walter Görlitz (talk) 23:11, 9 May 2014 (UTC)
- The thing that's stopping me from !vote redirect on all of those is that fact that they have interwiki links. I'm aware it's not policy, but part of my attempt to encourage non-english wikis is to go easy on articles with interwiki links. However, I may get come across them when I work through the backlog at AfD. Stuartyeates (talk) 02:14, 10 May 2014 (UTC)
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Wikidata weekly summary #109
- Discussions
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- There will be a German handbook on Wikidata and authority control. Feedback and proofreading is very welcome until next week at https://hshdb.github.io/normdaten-in-wikidata/2014-05-06.html
- Development
- Attending the MediaWiki hackathon in Zurich
- Work on finalizing the JSON dumps
- More work on simple queries to get them ready for performance and security review and a first release
- Legoktm created an API module to retrieve the current dispatch stats status
- Fixed an issue with iferror when using the property parser function (bugzilla:55347)
- Show correct data in the in other languages box for older revisions (bugzilla:63309)
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This Month in GLAM: April 2014
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Water safety listed at Redirects for discussion
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Water safety. Since you had some involvement with the Water safety redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. Brycehughes (talk) 18:42, 11 May 2014 (UTC)
Do you think the group Allen Ross was involved with was "The Samaritan Foundation" or "Samaritan Foundation"? --TheCockroach (talk) — Preceding undated comment added 03:38, 11 May 2014 (UTC)
- To be honest I've got no idea. My only contact this this has been at AfD. Stuartyeates (talk) 19:47, 11 May 2014 (UTC)
Suggestions for tone on Nabil Sabio Azadi
Hi there!
Thank you for your message on my Talk Page. I was not sure if I am meant to reply there or on yours. I do not have an official affiliation with the individual in Nabil Sabio Azadi but I have spoken to those affiliated with the artist on social media channels. Can I ask if you had any constructive criticism regarding the tone of the page or if you felt there was superfluous information or a self-promotional slant (NPOV problems)? I spent some free time writing this article and tried to avoid everything mentioned on the NPOV page. I would really appreciate your help. Thanks! Eadyth (talk) 21:50, 11 May 2014 (UTC)
- The main issue I see is with the use of primary sources, including the birth certificate and the subjects' tweets. Stuartyeates (talk) 22:22, 11 May 2014 (UTC)
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- Huh? Do they now require you to go through AfC? A senior editor like you? What's going on? Schwede66 21:04, 13 May 2014 (UTC)
- I'm going through the process to try and get a handle on what it's like to go though the process. Hopefully it will make be better at reviewing other people's submissions. Stuartyeates (talk) 21:23, 13 May 2014 (UTC)
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