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Discussion

A barnstar for you!

	The Minor barnstar
	I was looking through the RC log and noticed your comments. Nice job! ✔ JLDWtalk 03:28, 10 May 2014 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
	For your tireless contributions on animanga-related articles! Gabriel Yuji (talk) 01:29, 31 July 2014 (UTC)

Precious anniversary

Final Fantasy
Thank you for sharing your knowledge on music and games in quality articles, with a sense for team work, and for your goal to make Beethoven a featured article, - Greg, you are an awesome Wikipedian!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:00, 19 September 2012 (UTC)

A year ago, you were the 250th recipient of my PumpkinSky Prize, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:31, 19 September 2014 (UTC)

Four years ago, you were recipient no. 250 of Precious, a prize of QAI! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:01, 21 September 2016 (UTC)

Thank you for today's Final Fantasy XIII! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:00, 17 December 2016 (UTC)

Seven years now! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:30, 19 September 2019 (UTC)

Look, you are editor No. 4 for Penderecki, - thank you, and see also --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:59, 30 March 2020 (UTC)

Sakura Music

Hi. I've been working on my own draft of the Music article for the Sakura Wars series, but I'm seriously burnt out. I'll pursue the Sakura wars article FA through to its conclusion, but otherwise I really can't push on. Since you've also got a draft going, would you like me to bring over my work? I've managed to end up with enough to create a separate article for the first game's music, and I've had it up to here trying to handle all the albums and singles released for each game. So, thoughts? --ProtoDrake (talk) 18:08, 22 May 2019 (UTC)

Yes, you may bring over your work to my page. Anyway, we may get to bring the main Sakura Wars article up to GA or FA status. Lord Sjones23 (talk - contributions) 18:17, 22 May 2019 (UTC)

Thank you. I've put it in a subsection. It can easily be incorporated into the main text. Sorry if it looks a little overwhelming. Wishing you luck, and after some time off Sakura Wars I might well be willing to come back and help. But for now, I need a rest until I stop seeing LIPS interactions when I close my eyes. --ProtoDrake (talk) 18:33, 22 May 2019 (UTC)

Sakura FAC

Thought you should know. The FAC's being archived due to lack of activity. --ProtoDrake (talk) 17:21, 24 May 2019 (UTC)

Thanks. That means we have to wait at least two weeks before we can nominate this again. Lord Sjones23 (talk - contributions) 17:25, 24 May 2019 (UTC)

Re: Thousand Arms

I did a search. The biggest thing I found was Wayback Archive's scans of the original PlayStation manual. It includes actual interviews and production comments on the game, from page 32 onward. There's also this scan of the Japanese game book. This scan shows that the game was featured at E3 1999. The Wikipedia reference library shows that the book PlayStation Anthology has an interview with Yokoyama Hideyuki, an Atlus staffer involved in the game. This is the English official website, and both IGN and The Gaming Intelligence Agency have several news stories. This press link from Atlus reveals the game's dev time. The Red Company website link also has useful stuff there, including staff list. Hope these help. --ProtoDrake (talk) 08:28, 6 February 2020 (UTC)

WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors 2019 Annual Report

Guild of Copy Editors 2019 Annual Report Our 2019 Annual Report is now ready for review. Highlights: Overview of Backlog-reduction progress (a record low backlog!); Summary of Drives, Blitzes, and the Requests page; Automated archiving of requests; Membership news and results of elections; Annual leaderboard; Plans for 2020. – Your Guild coordinators: Jonesey95, Baffle gab1978, Reidgreg, Tdslk and Twofingered Typist. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 23:10, 7 February 2020 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 7, 2020)

The Pyramid Texts are the oldest known corpus of ancient Egyptian religious texts dating to the Old Kingdom. Hello, Sjones23. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Religious text Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Barbershop quartet • Serengeti Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 10 February 2020 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

New Page Reviewer newsletter February 2020

Hello Sjones23,

Source Guide Discussion

The first NPP source guide discussion is now underway. It covers a wide range of sources in Ghana with the goal of providing more guidance to reviewers about sources they might see when reviewing pages. Hopefully, new page reviewers will join others interested in reliable sources and those with expertise in these sources to make the discussion a success.

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This week's article for improvement (week 8, 2020)

The metric length of one kilometre is equivalent to the imperial measurement of 0.62137 miles. Hello, Sjones23. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Length Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Religious text • Barbershop quartet Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 17 February 2020 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

Re Sakura Wars

Hi there. I need to tell you something. I know I agreed to help with the Sakura Wars series, but I'm finding that it's having a deleterious effect on me, my work life, and my Wikipedia life. Plus, I really have too many Wiki projects ongoing at the moment. I'll carry through the GA Nom for the main franchise article, but after that I feel I should back off for my own wellbeing and the wellbeing of others on Wikipedia (I don't want to start becoming uncivil or unreasonable in my edits and conversations).

You should have all the sources you need for media and other articles on the talk pages of Sakura Wars-related stuff, and if you need it I can help get you sources such as interviews. Otherwise I really feel that I must leave this series alone. I apologise for this, and hope you don't feel let down. If you can get in someone else to help you with this, that would be great. I'm sure others would be more than willing to help. I realise now that I was precipitate in accepting your offer. --ProtoDrake (talk) 10:35, 20 February 2020 (UTC)

@ProtoDrake: No problem. You can always come back to it later if you feel like it. Thanks for your efforts, as usual. Meanwhile, I'll ask around at WT:VG and WT:SEGA and see what can be done. Lord Sjones23 (talk - contributions) 13:48, 20 February 2020 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 9, 2020)

The Tarvasjõgi river at the Põhja-Kõrvemaa nature reserve in Estonia Hello, Sjones23. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Nature reserve Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Length • Religious text Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:06, 24 February 2020 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

Yakuza

I gave some touches to the article after reading your comment. I guess the gameplay and marketing are the ones needing most of references. Meanwhile, the critical reception might need some further depth to the critics or areas about just like I did with Judgment. After that I think a copyedit might be needed and then nonimate it to GA. What do you think?Tintor2 (talk) 17:04, 26 February 2020 (UTC)

Of course be bold. Sadly I still haven't played 3 onwards so I only have knowledge about 0, 1, 2 and Judgment. That's why I was more into making Yagami a GA.Tintor2 (talk) 19:58, 26 February 2020 (UTC)

I just created the List of Yakuza characters to avoid blanking issues to Akiyama. I tried adding real world information but it lack in-universe so it's quite incomplete. If you can add more important information I'd appreciate it.Tintor2 (talk) 21:47, 4 March 2020 (UTC)

Monster Truck Madness

Hi Sjones23, I'm Aya Syameimaru! I would like you to look at my GAN Monster Truck Madness, I recently improved it significantly this month so check out this article's current revision and contrast it with before I edited it. JimmyBlackwing gave me the PC Gamer (US) and PC Games references which implemented into the article. I think it's possible for you to learn from my experience editing it. Hope it helps in your Sakura Wars (1996 video game) FAC! _{Aya Syameimaru 文々。新聞} 11:01, 27 February 2020 (UTC)

Thanks. I'll see what I can do. Best wishes, Lord Sjones23 (talk - contributions) 16:16, 27 February 2020 (UTC)

March Madness 2020

G'day all, March Madness 2020 is about to get underway, and there is bling aplenty for those who want to get stuck into the backlog by way of tagging, assessing, updating, adding or improving resources and creating articles. If you haven't already signed up to participate, why not? The more the merrier! Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 08:19, 29 February 2020 (UTC) for the coord team

WikiCup 2020 March newsletter

And so ends the first round of the competition. Everyone with a positive score moves on to Round 2, with 57 contestants qualifying. We have abolished the groups this year, so to qualify for Round 3 you will need to finish Round 2 among the top thirty-two contestants.

Our top scorers in Round 1 were:

• Epicgenius, a WikiCup newcomer, led the field with a featured article, five good articles and an assortment of other submissions, specialising on buildings and locations in New York, for a total of 895 points.
• Gog the Mild came next with 464 points, from a featured article, two good articles and a number of reviews, the main theme being naval warfare.
• Raymie was in third place with 419 points, garnered from one good article and an impressive 34 DYKs on radio and TV stations in the United States.
• Harrias came next at 414, with a featured article and three good articles, an English civil war battle specialist.
• CaptainEek was in fifth place with 405 points, mostly garnered from bringing Cactus wren to featured article status.
• The top ten contestants at the end of Round 1 all scored over 200 points; they also included L293D, Kingsif, Enwebb, Lee Vilenski and CAPTAIN MEDUSA. Seven of the top ten contestants in Round 1 are new to the WikiCup.

These contestants, like all the others, now have to start scoring points again from scratch. In Round 1 there were four featured articles, one featured list and two featured pictures, as well as around two hundred DYKs and twenty-seven ITNs. Between them, contestants completed 127 good article reviews, nearly a hundred more than the 43 good articles they claimed for, thus making a substantial dent in the review backlog. Contestants also claimed for 40 featured article / featured list reviews, and most even remembered to mention their WikiCup participation in their reviews (a requirement).

Remember that any content promoted after the end of Round 1 but before the start of Round 2 can be claimed in Round 2. Some contestants made claims before the new submissions pages were set up, and they will need to resubmit them. 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.

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This week's article for improvement (week 10, 2020)

A company is a legal entity made up of an association of people, be they natural, legal, or a mixture of both, for carrying on a commercial or industrial enterprise. Hello, Sjones23. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Company Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Nature reserve • Length Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 2 March 2020 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

WikiCup newsletter correction

There was an error in the WikiCup 2020 March newsletter; L293D should not have been included in the list of top ten scorers in Round 1 (they led the list last year), instead, Dunkleosteus77 should have been included, having garnered 334 points from five good articles on animals, living or extinct, and various reviews. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 09:30, 2 March 2020 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – March 2020

News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2020).

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This week's article for improvement (week 11, 2020)

Hello, Sjones23. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Transglobe Expedition Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Company • Nature reserve Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 9 March 2020 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

Your thoughts on Lumines II

I'm planning on nominating Lumines II for GA. Before I do, I thought I would ask for your opinion on the current quality of the article. Is it close to GA quality?Blue Pumpkin Pie ^{Chat Contribs} 14:33, 10 March 2020 (UTC)

Fairy Tail anime names

It turns out the example I've been following for name differences, List of Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood episodes, no longer adheres to using manga names for articles related specifically to English anime media. Do you suppose you could help apply Funimation spellings and terminology to the anime season and movie pages (e.g., Juvia Lockser to Juvia Loxar, Saber Tooth to Sabertooth, Sirius Island to Tenrou Island, etc.)? Articles relating specifically to the manga would keep Kodansha names. User:SubZeroSilver (talk) 16:26, 13 March 2020 (UTC)

Closing comment

Hi, please amend your closing comments. Farrow already came out and that is already in the section. This RfC was about how to contextualize that coming out which one editor successfully wikilawyered against.

I think you could fairly state no concensus to add all the proposed content, but a future RfC might bring more light to what changes are possible. Gleeanon409 (talk) 23:08, 15 March 2020 (UTC)

With all due respect, I believe your original closing comments were accurate. WP:OR and WP:NPOV are cited multiple times throughout the discussion, therefore, including them in the close is more than appropriate. I think you could fairly state no concensus to add all the proposed content . . . Most of the proposed content that's not already in the article has been called an unambiguous BLP violation and cannot be included regardless of consensus here, so a potential future RfC does not seem likely. Furthermore, seeing how the number of users that supported in comparison to those that opposed is almost 1:2, I believe that characterizing the discussion as there being no consensus at this time is putting it lightly. All of that aside, thank you, Gleeanon409, for the productive discussion; and thank you, Sjones23, for the close! KyleJoan^talk 05:28, 16 March 2020 (UTC)

No problem, everyone! I actually came here because I wanted to help clean out the backlog at WP:ANRFC. Lord Sjones23 (talk - contributions) 06:21, 16 March 2020 (UTC)

One more thing, Sjones23; since there is a disagreement on the closing of the RfC, do you mind if I went ahead and requested an admin closure? KyleJoan^talk 08:58, 16 March 2020 (UTC)

No objections from me. Lord Sjones23 (talk - contributions) 09:45, 16 March 2020 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 12, 2020)

Darts Hello, Sjones23. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Darts Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Transglobe Expedition • Company Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:06, 16 March 2020 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

GOCE March newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors March 2020 Newsletter Hello and welcome to the March newsletter, a brief update of Guild activities since December 2019. All being well, we're planning to issue these quarterly in 2020, balancing the need to communicate widely with the avoidance of filling up talk pages. Don't forget you can unsubscribe at any time; see below. Election results: There was little changeover in the roster of Guild Coordinators, with Miniapolis stepping down with distinction as a coordinator emeritus while Jonesey95 returned as lead coordinator. The next election is scheduled for June 2020 and all Wikipedians in good standing may participate. January Drive: Thanks to everyone for the splendid work, completing 215 copy edits including 56 articles from the Requests page and 116 backlog articles from the target months of June to August 2019. At the conclusion of the drive there was a record low of 323 articles in the copy editing backlog. Of the 27 editors who signed up for the drive, 21 copyedited at least one article. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. February Blitz: Of the 15 editors who signed up for this one-week blitz, 13 completed at least one copy edit. A total of 32 articles were copy edited, evenly split between the twin goals of requests and the oldest articles from the copy-editing backlog. Full results are here. March Drive: Currently underway, this event is targeting requests and backlog articles from September to November 2019. As of 18 March, the backlog stands at a record low of 253 articles and is expected to drop further as the drive progresses. Awards will be given to everyone who copyedits at least one article from the backlog. Help set a new record and sign up now! Progress report: As of 18 March, GOCE copyeditors have completed 161 requests in 2020 and there was a net reduction of 385 articles from the copy-editing backlog – a 60% decrease from the beginning of the year. Well done and thank you everyone! Election reminder: It may only be March but don't forget our mid-year Election of Coordinators opens for nominations on 1 June. Coordinators normally serve a six-month term and are elected on an approval basis. Self-nominations are welcome. If you've thought of helping out at the Guild, or know of another editor who would make a good coordinator, please consider standing for election or nominating them here. Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators Jonesey95, Baffle gab1978, Reidgreg, Tdslk and Twofingered Typist To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

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This week's article for improvement (week 13, 2020)

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WikiProject Video games Newsletter Q1 2020

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This week's article for improvement (week 15, 2020)

Hello, Sjones23. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: The Sims (video game) Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Meatloaf • Ignorance Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 6 April 2020 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

FAC comments

Hi Sjones23 - I already pinged you and I'm sure you've seen it, but I have finished your FAC review for Sakura Wars (1996 video game). I'm pretty sure it may keep you busy for a bit, but if you do have some available time, I would like to invite you to the FAC for Sega at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Sega/archive3. This FAC may be of interest to you as you were the GA reviewer for the article, and your feedback would be much appreciated. Thank you. Red Phoenix ^talk 13:10, 11 April 2020 (UTC)

SPECTRE or Spectre?

Before I initiate a discussion on the Talk page for Spectre (2015 film) as you suggest, please could you explain your reasons for reverting the revision of my edit, since as far as I can tell there aren't any!!

{Edwin of Northumbria (talk) 04:41, 12 April 2020 (UTC)}

I reverted it as per WP:MOSCAP. Also, I don’t want you to edit war (which is forbidden; reverting it more three times will be a violation of WP:3RR) so as per WP:BRD, the appropriate way is to discuss it on the talk page, which I mentioned in my edit summary. Hope this helps. Lord Sjones23 (talk - contributions) 07:33, 12 April 2020 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 16, 2020)

Hello, Sjones23. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Anna Lindh Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: The Sims (video game) • Meatloaf Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 13 April 2020 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

Reciprocater and IGBA

I thought the incoherent and rambling citation of "WP:THIS and WP:THAT" (as AngusWOOF put it) shown here, and mirrored 13 minutes later was strange enough, and in observance of WP:NPA was reluctant to directly accuse them of pushing a Taiwan nationalist POV, which was rebuffed here: [1] [2]. But of course, not being familiar with the IGBA sock-master, I had no inkling this was a DUCK. Thank you for the report. CaradhrasAiguo (leave language) 16:12, 14 April 2020 (UTC)

Complete re-write of article out of nowhere

Hello, the Shinji Ikari article has been recently re-written almost entirely from scratch. As I mention in the talk page, there are several problems with the edit and I think the editor is displaying strange amounts of preference and bias and inserting lots of synthesis. Some of the analysis parts are good though they were covered before in the article well enough, as well as in the other Evangelion pages that deal with these subjects more directly. A lot of important material on multiple materials has been inexplicably cut in favor of a secondary continuity as well as fairly irrelevant spin-offs that, coincidentally, is more suspect to the bias displayed in the article. I reverted the article to its previous edit and kept some of the analysis portions in, and would like to request your opinion and if needed some sort of action there. FelipeFritschF (talk) 05:29, 19 April 2020 (UTC)

Alita: Battle Angel

Hello, I saw your edit on the Alita: Battle Angel article and thought I'd reply here as the article talkpage is all but dead and has been commented on one time in over a year so I fear that will be rather pointless. And furthermore, there is nothing really to discuss on it. The prior editor's concerns were unfounded as his assertion that the relevant information was OR is not the case since the exact information in question can be found in this source https://deadline.com/2019/11/terminator-dark-fate-linda-hamilton-harriet-motherless-brooklyn-weekend-box-office-1202774477/. I didnt link to it in the intro simply because it already exists within the body so I didnt feel the need to reference to it twice, but it can be brought up as well. There's nothing else really to discuss. Every film's box office results are discussed in their articles, especially when there's something notable to say about them like one potentially not reaching their break even point as is the case here. To ignore such points and just talk about the gross as if it was a purely positive outcome when there's more to it and another side to it that is otherwise ignored would be against project rules as per WP:UNDUE. Davefelmer (talk) 19:41, 21 April 2020 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 18, 2020)

Elements of the human body by mass. Trace elements are less than 1% combined (and each less than 0.1%). Hello, Sjones23. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Human body Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Russian Academy of Natural Sciences • Anna Lindh Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 27 April 2020 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

WikiCup 2020 May newsletter

The second round of the 2020 WikiCup has now finished. It was a high-scoring round and contestants needed 75 points to advance to round 3. There were some very impressive efforts in round 2, with the top ten contestants all scoring more than 500 points. A large number of the points came from the 12 featured articles and the 186 good articles achieved in total by contestants, and the 355 good article reviews they performed; the GAN backlog drive and the stay-at-home imperative during the COVID-19 pandemic may have been partially responsible for these impressive figures.

Our top scorers in round 2 were:

• Epicgenius, with 2333 points from one featured article, forty-five good articles, fourteen DYKs and plenty of bonus points
• Gog the Mild, with 1784 points from three featured articles, eight good articles, a substantial number of featured article and good article reviews and lots of bonus points
• The Rambling Man, with 1262 points from two featured articles, eight good articles and a hundred good article reviews
• Harrias, with 1141 points from two featured articles, three featured lists, ten good articles, nine DYKs and a substantial number of featured article and good article reviews
• Lee Vilenski with 869 points, Hog Farm with 801, Kingsif with 719, SounderBruce with 710, Dunkleosteus77 with 608 and MX with 515.

The rules for featured article reviews have been adjusted; reviews may cover three aspects of the article, content, images and sources, and contestants may receive points for each of these three types of review. Please also remember the requirement to mention the WikiCup when undertaking an FAR for which you intend to claim points. Remember also that DYKs cannot be claimed until they have appeared on the main page. As we enter the third round, any content promoted after the end of round 2 but before the start of round 3 can be claimed now, and anything you forgot to claim in round 2 cannot! Remember too, that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them. When doing GARs, please make sure that you check that all the GA criteria are fully met.

If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article nominations, a featured process, or anything else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed (remember to remove your listing when no longer required). 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 your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Godot13 (talk), Sturmvogel 66 (talk), Vanamonde (talk) and Cwmhiraeth. - MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:44, 1 May 2020 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – May 2020

News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2020).

Administrator changes

Gnangarra • Kaisershatner • Malcolmxl5

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Oversight changes

HJ Mitchell

Guideline and policy news

• Discretionary sanctions have been authorized for all pages and edits related to COVID-19, to be logged at WP:GS/COVID19.
• Following a recent discussion on Meta-Wiki, the edit filter maintainer global group has been created.
• A request for comment has been proposed to create a new main page editor usergroup.
• A request for comment has been proposed to make the bureaucrat activity requirements more strict.

Technical news

• The Editing team has been working on the talk pages project. You can review the proposed design and share your thoughts on the talk page.
• Enterprisey created a script that will show a link to the proper Special:Undelete page when viewing a since-deleted revision, see User:Enterprisey/link-deleted-revs.

Miscellaneous

• A request for comment closed with consensus to create a Village Pump-style page for communication with the Wikimedia Foundation.

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Yakuza articles

So Takayuki Yagami became the first Yakuza article to reach GA status. I worked on it since it wasn't that big and there was a lot of real world info. I remember that you were interested in improving some articles from the franchise. The one I tried improving the most in the past months was Judgement (video game). Still, I think its prose needs rework. In case you are interested in a nomination to GA, feel free to do it. I did also work in Yakuza (video game) some time ago but I think it lacks citations for some parts of the gameplay. Feel free to nominate any if you think they are reaching their potential. I also expand Kiryu and created Majima but I haven't played all their games to understand their role in the games well.Tintor2 (talk) 17:27, 2 May 2020 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 19, 2020)

The beach promenade in Kühlungsborn, Germany runs along the coast of the Baltic Sea. Hello, Sjones23. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Coast Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Human body • Russian Academy of Natural Sciences Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 4 May 2020 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

This week's article for improvement (week 20, 2020)

The original map by John Snow showing the clusters of cholera cases in the London epidemic of 1854, which is a classical case of using human geography. Hello, Sjones23. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Human geography Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Coast • Human body Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 11 May 2020 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

This week's article for improvement (week 21, 2020)

Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden in 2018 Hello, Sjones23. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Human geography • Coast Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 18 May 2020 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

Preparing GAs

In case you are interested, a user and me have been preparing two new articles to bring them to GA.

• Final Fantasy VII G-Bike
• Rinoa Heartilly

We left them in the guild for copyedits but you are also welcome to edit or add anything. Cheers.Tintor2 (talk) 02:27, 20 May 2020 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 22, 2020)

Abu Nuwas drawn by Khalil Gibran in 1916 Hello, Sjones23. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Abu Nuwas Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden • Human geography Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 25 May 2020 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

This week's article for improvement (week 23, 2020)

An invention is a unique or novel device, method, composition or process, and the invention process is a process within an overall engineering and product development process. Hello, Sjones23. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Invention Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Abu Nuwas • Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 1 June 2020 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

Administrators' newsletter – June 2020

News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2020).

Administrator changes

CaptainEek • Creffett • Cwmhiraeth

Anna Frodesiak • Buckshot06 • Ronhjones • SQL

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SQL

Guideline and policy news

• A request for comment asks whether the Unblock Ticket Request System (UTRS) should allowed any unblock request or just private appeals.
• The Wikimedia Foundation announced that they will develop a universal code of conduct for all WMF projects. There is an open local discussion regarding the same.

Arbitration

• A motion was passed to enact a 500/30 restriction on articles related to the history of Jews and antisemitism in Poland during World War II (1933–45), including the Holocaust in Poland. Article talk pages where disruption occurs may also be managed with the stated restriction.

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GOCE June newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors June 2020 Newsletter Hello and welcome to the June newsletter, a brief update of Guild activities since March 2020. You can unsubscribe from our mailings at any time; see below. All times and dates stated are in UTC. Current events Election time: Nomination of candidates in our mid-year Election of Coordinators opened on 1 June, and voting will take place from 00:01 on 16 June. GOCE coordinators normally serve a six-month term and are elected on an approval basis. Self-nominations are welcome. If you've thought about helping out at the Guild, or you know of another editor who would make a good coordinator, please consider standing for election or nominating them here. June Blitz: This blitz begins at 00:01 on 14 June and ends at 23:59 on 20 June, with themes of articles tagged for copyedit in May 2020 and requests. Drive and blitz reports March Drive: Self-isolation from coronavirus may have played a hand in making this one of our most successful backlog elimination drives. The copy-editing backlog was reduced from 477 to a record low of 118 articles, a 75% reduction. The last four months of 2019 were cleared, reducing the backlog to three months. Fifty requests were also completed, and the total word count of copy-edited articles was 759,945. Of the 29 editors who signed up, 22 completed at least one copy edit. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. April Blitz: This blitz ran from 12 to 18 April with a theme of Indian military history. Of the 18 people who signed up, 14 copyedited at least one article. Participants claimed a total of 60 copyedits. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. May Drive: This event marked the 10th anniversary of the GOCE's copy-editing drives, and set a goal of diminishing the backlog to just one month of articles, as close to zero articles as possible. We achieved the goal of eliminating all articles that had been tagged prior to the start of the drive, for the first time in our history! Of the 51 editors who signed up, 43 copyedited at least one article. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. Other news Progress report: as of 2 June, GOCE participants had processed 328 requests since 1 January, which puts us on pace to exceed any previous year's number of requests. As of the end of the May drive, the backlog stood at just 156 articles, all tagged in May 2020. Outreach: To mark the 10th anniversary of our first Backlog Elimination Drive, The Signpost contributor and GOCE participant Puddleglum2.0 interviewed project coordinators and copy-editors for the journal's April WikiProject Report. The Drive and the current Election of Coordinators have also been covered in The Signpost's May News and Notes page. Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators Jonesey95, Baffle gab1978, Reidgreg, Tdslk and Twofingered Typist. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) at 15:46, 5 June 2020 (UTC).

About an user

Greetings, I've just seen that you have managed to get an user blocked for violating the 3RR and sockpuppeting and I'm impressed; this user used to edit a lot of animation-related articles and they get really personal in their edit summaries (I lose it every time they use an emoticon in their summaries). I'm surprised one of their IPs they used didn't get blocked sooner because of the otherwise hostile language they used.

The last activity I saw from this user prior their break was back in January 2020 and thought they left for good, but it seem instead they went back and focused on editing another page which landed them on a one-week block.

I have nothing else to say but congrats. -Gouleg (Talk • Contribs) 20:06, 5 June 2020 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 24, 2020)

Anna Holmlund in 2015 at the FIS Ski Cross World Cup 2015 Finals Hello, Sjones23. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Anna Holmlund Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Invention • Abu Nuwas Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 8 June 2020 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

This week's article for improvement (week 25, 2020)

The Panama Canal is an example of a ship canal. Hello, Sjones23. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Ship canal Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Anna Holmlund • Invention Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 15 June 2020 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

New Page Reviewer newsletter June 2020

Hello Sjones23,

Your help can make a difference

NPP Sorting can be a great way to find pages needing new page patrolling that match your strengths and interests. Using ORES, it divides articles into topics such as Literature or Chemistry and on Geography. Take a look and see if you can find time to patrol a couple pages a day. With over 10,000 pages in the queue, the highest it's been since ACPERM, your help could really make a difference.

Google Adds New Languages to Google Translate

In late February, Google added 5 new languages to Google Translate: Kinyarwanda, Odia (Oriya), Tatar, Turkmen and Uyghur. This expands our ability to find and evaluate sources in those languages.

Discussions and Resources

• A discussion on handling new article creation by paid editors is ongoing at the Village Pump.
• Also at the Village Pump is a discussion about limiting participation at Articles for Deletion discussion.
• A proposed new speedy deletion criteria for certain kinds of redirects ended with no consensus.
• Also ending with no change was a proposal to change how we handle certain kinds of vector images.

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This week's article for improvement (week 26, 2020)

William Mariner was an Englishman who lived in Tonga from 29 November 1806 to (probably) 8 November 1810. He later published Tonga Islands, an account of his experiences that is now one of the major sources of information on Tonga before it was significantly influenced by European culture and Christianity. Pictured is Mariner in Tongan attire. Hello, Sjones23. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: William Mariner (writer) Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Ship canal • Anna Holmlund Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 22 June 2020 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

Category:Fairy Tail episode lists has been nominated for deletion

Category:Fairy Tail episode lists has been nominated for deletion. 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. Fuddle (talk) 12:57, 22 June 2020 (UTC)

Re: WikiProject Anime category scheme

Hello Sjones23, I am a WP:ANIME contributor and I recently ran into some category issues you seemed to be involved with. It started when I was investigating why the template in this section on the WP main page shows zero articles in the "Template" category. I discovered this was because the animanga templates are not at Category:Template-Class anime and manga articles, but instead at Category:WikiProject Anime and manga templates. Then, I found some discussions you started back in 2017, which seem to raise this very issue (and larger, related problems):

• Template talk:WikiProject Anime and manga § Why doesn't this template use WPBannerMeta? — started by User:Kaldari, but I think it applies?
• Template talk:WikiProject Anime and manga § Class mask and categorization discussion — you linked to this, which addresses the issue directly
• Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Anime and manga/Archive 68 § Update the schemes for assessment? — your proposal was rejected with input from a few editors

I am afraid I don't know much about categories, but I support category consistency and wanted to see my display issue fixed, and was wondering if you could help. — Goszei (talk) 07:47, 28 June 2020 (UTC) NOTE: I found another place where this causes an issue: Wikipedia:WikiProject Anime and manga/Popular pages. Seems like the bot can't access the importance assessments, which was an issue raised by Kaldari in the WPBannerMeta discussion. Pinging User:MusikAnimal and User:Redrose64 and User:Knowledgekid87 and User:TheFarix, who all commented on the discussions linked above back in 2017, and seem fairly knowledgeable on template-related matters. — Goszei (talk) 07:56, 28 June 2020 (UTC)

Hey, there. I'll see what I can do to help out. Thanks, Lord Sjones23 (talk - contributions) 08:44, 28 June 2020 (UTC)