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Your GA nomination of 1842 Atlantic hurricane season

The article 1842 Atlantic hurricane season you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:1842 Atlantic hurricane season for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of TropicalAnalystwx13 -- TropicalAnalystwx13 (talk) 02:21, 4 January 2017 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Diana Sweeney (2nd nomination)‎

Please reopen this discussion.  Unscintillating (talk) 03:20, 5 January 2017 (UTC)

Why? – Juliancolton | ^Talk 03:22, 5 January 2017 (UTC)

Did you look at the AfD?  Unscintillating (talk) 05:21, 5 January 2017 (UTC)

That's not very helpful. You posted, "WP:DEL8 is not an argument for deletion", but failure to meet notability requirements is always a valid argument for deletion of BLPs. What new evidence do you have that would necessitate a relist? – Juliancolton | ^Talk 15:29, 5 January 2017 (UTC)

What you are saying is, "I decline to allow your !vote to be posted."  "It was posted more than seven days after the start of the discussion, so you shouldn't be surprised that your !vote edit-conflicted with my close."  Unscintillating (talk) 16:44, 5 January 2017 (UTC)

The AfD was open for 11 days, and you first commented nearly a week ago... – Juliancolton | ^Talk 17:05, 5 January 2017 (UTC)

Denying RFF requests

Thanks for the message! I asked for the edits because we have an indefinitely-banned editor, Dung247, who has come back under IP addresses & continues to add what information he would add before he was blocked: he violates WP:NOTRADIOGUIDE & WP:NOTTVGUIDE by adding program schedules, mainly for all-news radio & T.V. stations. We have pointed this out many times before, & he continues to persist. He's not listening, but I figures if the pages were blocked from IP editors, then he couldn't continue his violations. The block isn't working, sadly. Anyway, thank you for taking the time to write me & good editing to you!Stereorock (talk) 20:15, 5 January 2017 (UTC)

Ahh, I see, thanks for the info. It still looks manageable from where I'm sitting, but if there's more activity in the near future, send me a message and I'll be happy to take another look. – Juliancolton | ^Talk 21:30, 5 January 2017 (UTC)

Thank you very much! We will continue to follow the normal procedures of posting to said user's IP userpage that such edits are in violation, so everything will be on the up-and-up. Thank you again; you've been a pleasure to converse with!Stereorock (talk)

The Bugle: Issue CXXIX, January 2017

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Recently deleted article

Hello Juliancolton. I don't believe I've communicated with you on Wikipedia before, so it's nice to 'meet' you :). Anyway, I'm curious as to why a certain article was deleted by you, when the discussion warranted four deletes, three keeps, and one neutral. I was hoping we could have perhaps gotten a clearer consensus before deleting the page, but the decision isn't mine. Thoughts? Thank you. Regards, Carbrera (talk) 04:46, 10 January 2017 (UTC).

Hi Carbrera, nice to "meet" you as well! I hope the new year has treated you well so far. Regarding the AfD, I thought consensus was fairly well established, actually. As you know, deletion discussions aren't a straight vote (and even if they were, the nominator's statement would count as an additional 'delete'), and most participants agreed that the album was lacking in significant RS coverage. One 'delete' vote was struck on the condition that more sources be added (which never came to fruition), and I'd gotten the impression that your "speedy keep" was effectively withdrawn when you indicated that coverage was nowhere near as extensive as you initially believed. Combine all that with the fact that no efforts had been made in a couple weeks to address the concerns presented, and you have reasonably clear consensus to delete. Hope this helps, and if you have any further questions, feel free to ask. – Juliancolton | ^Talk 15:45, 10 January 2017 (UTC)

GA review mentorship

Hi, saw your username in the list of GA review mentorship volunteers. I'm going to do my first GA review in Talk:Al-Muktafi/GA1, would you mind watching the review to make sure I'm doing what I'm supposed to do? HaEr48 (talk) 23:35, 11 January 2017 (UTC)

Hi HaEr48, your review looks good so far - I don't think you need my help at all. :) Nonetheless, I've added the review page to my watchlist and will be ready to offer guidance or a second opinion as needed. Best of luck! – Juliancolton | ^Talk 16:33, 12 January 2017 (UTC)

Recent block on IP

This IP [[1]] that you blocked for vandalism is back as this IP [[2]] effectively evading their block. I've left them a warning, but I'm not sure if the protocol is just to block to new IP as well. I'll defer to your judgement, thanks. Valeince (talk) 20:11, 12 January 2017 (UTC)

School IP blocked for disruption. Thanks for the note. – Juliancolton | ^Talk 20:22, 12 January 2017 (UTC)

Re:Your file mover request

Dear User:Juliancolton, thanks for noticing and alerting me! I will correct that right away! With regards, Anupam^Talk 23:50, 15 January 2017 (UTC)

Question about usernames

I just wanted to clarify my understanding of UAA policy. You've "declined" some of my UAA reports since the editors in question haven't edited, but I was under the impression that misleading/offensive usernames don't need to have been used in order to be blocked. If the editors I'm reporting just don't fall under UAA-worthy criteria, then I must be in the wrong here. Zupotachyon _{Ping me} (talk ⋅ contribs) 22:29, 15 January 2017 (UTC)

Hi Zupotachyon. Per the instructions at the top of UAA, "Wait until the user edits. Do not report a user that hasn't edited unless they are clearly a vandal." There are some obvious exceptions, but in most cases, it's better to just ignore misleading, promotional, or inappropriate usernames until the accounts actually become active. Instead of simply appearing once in the user creation log, never to be seen again, the problematic usernames get plastered across multiple logs, noticeboards, edit summaries, and edit and contribution histories—thereby exponentially increasing the number of users who could be offended or mislead by them. See the Streisand effect for something similar. – Juliancolton | ^Talk 22:42, 15 January 2017 (UTC)

Alright, I think I understand now – only blatantly UAA-worthy usernames without edits should be reported. However, and I hate to do this, since it tends to get overly case-specific, but the ones I reported seem to me pretty obvious – "BOTEDIT" and "JuggaloKiller999" are pretty self-explanatory. I understand that cases like "Mahboobe3537" aren't blatantly obvious, though, so I'm just trying to clear up my understanding. Zupotachyon _{Ping me} (talk ⋅ contribs) 22:48, 15 January 2017 (UTC)

As a rule, usernames shouldn't be reported until the accounts become active. The exception is obviously defamatory or vulgar usernames. There's simply no need to block "BOTEDIT" and "JuggaloKiller999" before they edit. – Juliancolton | ^Talk 23:20, 15 January 2017 (UTC)

Ah, I see that the reported usernames weren't blatant – I just had to look at them in a different way. My apologies. Zupotachyon _{Ping me} (talk ⋅ contribs) 00:09, 16 January 2017 (UTC)

Your username-related block of Worldinc.

I'm not objecting, but I want to make sure you are aware that Worldinc was renamed less than three hours before your "username implies shared use" block pursuant to an approved global rename request. I'm not suggesting that a global renamer's imprimatur overrides local policy, but it seems harsh to me to have one's username request accepted only to be blocked a short while later on account of that new name. Thank you. Rebbing 02:21, 16 January 2017 (UTC)

Hi Rebbing, thanks for the note. I wasn't aware of the rename, and I agree that it's unfortunate, but I'm afraid there's not much I can do at this point. The user began promoting their organization with the same name as their account. That said, I did note their previous good-faith edits, and applied a soft block so they can create a new local account. – Juliancolton | ^Talk 02:44, 16 January 2017 (UTC)

Ah! I wasn't aware of his (deleted) promotional edits; given that, I don't see anything jarring about the block. Thanks for clarifying. Rebbing 03:01, 16 January 2017 (UTC)

Re:Question

Thanks! There are still two left from Kazakhstan here [3]. Sportsfan 1234 (talk) 18:02, 17 January 2017 (UTC)

Think I got the last of 'em. – Juliancolton | ^Talk 18:05, 17 January 2017 (UTC)

Ping

Thanks for the ping regarding your close of the cycling event-by nation-by year AfD - i'll begin to merge the articles now, leaving those by year pages as redirects. Thanks, XyZAn (talk) 18:45, 17 January 2017 (UTC)

Sounds great! Thanks for volunteering to make this happen. Best, – Juliancolton | ^Talk 18:47, 17 January 2017 (UTC)

The Right Stuff (blog)

Hi, I was surprised to be warned on this [4]? I understand if this is merely a content dispute, or if I was mistakenly restoring something that failed NPOV; my concern was that someone was whitewashing the text. Vandalism was clearly not my intent. Thank you, 2601:188:1:AEA0:65F5:930C:B0B2:CD63 (talk) 02:12, 18 January 2017 (UTC)

European Athletics Championships

You deleted the European Athletics Championships, which I believe is a master page for a major championships. That appears to be the now missing page that links to the championship organization. This major article has nothing to do with the Country's at Speed Skating RFC you quote. Please restore that page, or at the least take it to my sandbox so I can see what you deleted and restore the proper information. Trackinfo (talk) 17:58, 17 January 2017 (UTC)

My mistake, restored now. Thanks for the note Trackinfo. – Juliancolton | ^Talk 18:00, 17 January 2017 (UTC)

What about the deleted redirects for the restored article ? Best regards Migrant (talk) 23:26, 18 January 2017 (UTC)

European Speed Skating Championship for Men

Hi, Juliancolton!

Why you deleted this page https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=European_Speed_Skating_Championships_for_Men&action=edit&redlink=1. This is major page for European speed skating men's results, there are no any analogs of it at English version. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hyperion1982 (talk • contribs) 14:49, 18 January 2017 (UTC)

Related article

Hi, Juliancolton!

...And why the deletion of the main-article (2015 World Single Distance Speed Skating Championships) for this category Category:2015 World Single Distance Speed Skating Championships ? I really don't think that was part of the Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Belarus at the 2016 World Speed Skating Championships as it was not mentioned there ? Restore please ? Best regards Migrant (talk) 23:36, 18 January 2017 (UTC)

Thank you for catching that, Migrant. Unfortunately, it seems I wasn't careful enough with my Twinkle batch deletion from that AfD. I believe I've cleaned up all errors (including the redirects you mentioned above) but I'll take a closer look this evening to make sure I didn't miss anything else. Thanks again, – Juliancolton | ^Talk 23:44, 18 January 2017 (UTC)

Thanks for restoring !! Best regards Migrant (talk) 00:06, 19 January 2017 (UTC)

Deletion review for Jeet Gian

An editor has asked for a deletion review of Jeet Gian. Because you closed the deletion discussion for this page, speedily deleted it, or otherwise were interested in the page, you might want to participate in the deletion review. GeoffreyT2000 (talk, contribs) 05:48, 20 January 2017 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Barnstar of Diplomacy
	For you working on closing WP:AfD debates. Bearian (talk) 13:30, 20 January 2017 (UTC)

Thank you Bearian! It's very much appreciated. – Juliancolton | ^Talk 14:42, 20 January 2017 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of 1837 Racer's hurricane

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article 1837 Racer's hurricane you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Hurricanehink mobile -- Hurricanehink mobile (talk) 17:40, 22 January 2017 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of 1837 Racer's hurricane

The article 1837 Racer's hurricane you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:1837 Racer's hurricane for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Hurricanehink mobile -- Hurricanehink mobile (talk) 21:21, 22 January 2017 (UTC)

PERM

Thanks for stepping in at PERM, Julian, but when according rights for New Page Reviewer, could you please consider using the helper script - it automates three other essential functions connected with this right that are tedious to do manually, and at the moment, each day I have to go through the day's new accorded rights and carry out those functions manually. Thanks. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 01:18, 23 January 2017 (UTC)

Hi Kudpung, will do. Thanks for the suggestion and apologies for any inconvenience I've caused. – Juliancolton | ^Talk 02:11, 23 January 2017 (UTC)

RPP

Requested for unprotection of Template:Citation needed/doc. --219.76.15.12 (talk) 05:24, 23 January 2017 (UTC)

Question, regarding rollback/CVU training

Hello!

A few days ago, I applied for the Rollback right, and you told me that I should reapply in a few weeks since most of my edits were only over the space of a few days. I am not questioning your decision here, I think you were right. My question is this. If I receive training from the Counter-Vandalism Unit (and pass), does that count for anything? Would I still have to have several weeks more of experience?

I know by saying this, it may seem that I'm trying to make acquiring rights my goal (WP:TROPHY is the closest thing I can link). That isn't my intention, though I may be doing it unconsciously. I do want to use programs like Huggle, though, which is why I'm asking.

Thank you for reading, and have a good night/day/afternoon/whatever time it is where you are!

MereTechnicality (talk) 00:47, 26 January 2017 (UTC)

Hi MereTechnicality. I've gone ahead and given you the rollback right, since it looks like you know what you're doing and you seem to have the right attitude. I usually like to see at least a month of consistent editing before I grant rollback, but I'm pretty confident in your ability to use the tool with appropriate caution. Have fun and don't hesitate to ask for help if you get hung up anywhere. Happy editing, – Juliancolton | ^Talk 01:32, 26 January 2017 (UTC)

Alright, if you think that I'm ready, then I'll get right to it! Thank you, and have a great day/evening/whatever! MereTechnicality (talk) 01:35, 26 January 2017 (UTC)

List of inline hockey leagues

You deleted List of inline hockey leagues. Please restore to my sandbox. Trackinfo (talk) 01:01, 26 January 2017 (UTC)

I just found out you have deleted all the articles I created related to the 2016 Sukma Games and 2016 Malaysia Para Games? I wish to gather them together in my sandbox to see what can be done with them, so can you help restore and move them? Thanks.

@Trackinfo: I've restored it to User:Trackinfo/List of inline hockey competitions.

@Hongqilim: Both topics were discussed at AfD with a consensus that the competitions were not notable enough for results pages on each event. I'd rather not restore ~30 AfD-deleted articles to your userspace unless you have a clear and immediate plan of action more specific than simply "seeing what can be done." I see that you were not notified of the discussions, which is concerning, so I'd be willing to restore a couple articles of your choice so you can demonstrate how you intend to address the notability and WP:NOTSTATS concerns. – Juliancolton | ^Talk 15:53, 26 January 2017 (UTC)

What can I do now?--Hongqilim (talk) 17:06, 26 January 2017 (UTC)

As I suggested, pick two or three articles from the batch of Sukma Games and Malaysia Para Games pages for me to restore to your userspace. – Juliancolton | ^Talk 18:50, 26 January 2017 (UTC)

Deletion review for Uroš Pinterič

Colcody2000 has asked for a deletion review of Uroš Pinterič. Because you closed the deletion discussion for this page, speedily deleted it, or otherwise were interested in the page, you might want to participate in the deletion review. —Cryptic 19:28, 26 January 2017 (UTC)

May I have Rollback permissions?

Hello Juliancolton, A few weeks ago I applied for Rollback permissions WP:RFP/R, and you said to come back after a few more weeks of anti-vandalism work, and you would grant it. I have expanded my experience with vandal fighting, and learning about how Wikipedia works, so was wondering if you would please grant me that privilege? Thanks for your time, L3X1 Complaints Desk 20:35, 27 January 2017 (UTC)

Request for merge

Hi Julian. Please can you share the content deleted at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Basketball at the 2011 GCC Games? I requested a merge of the detail and this was not contested. Thanks. SFB 20:38, 27 January 2017 (UTC)

@Sillyfolkboy:  Done – Juliancolton | ^Talk 00:23, 28 January 2017 (UTC)

Deletion review for ForRent.com

I created the ForRent.com article that was deleted 26 January, 2017. Recently the article was paired down significantly to make sure that it was short and concise. It was then flagged again and quickly deleted. Why was this article deleted and not others similar articles like Rent.com? Adam2k (talk) 23:22, 28 January 2017 (UTC)

You can see the reasons for deletion here. If you feel that another article fails to meet notability requirements, you're free to nominate it for deletion, but you must provide a policy-based reason for doing so. Wikipedia is run by volunteers who address problematic articles as we come across them, and who have positively no interest in the advertising success of one American apartment searching website over another. Please keep in mind our conflict of interest editing policy. – Juliancolton | ^Talk 23:35, 28 January 2017 (UTC)

Why did you delete Championship_Rally_(Atari_Lynx) page?

Hi Julian,

We just went through review of this page last September. See below history. Now 3 months later it's deleted again. If I knew that one day ign.com is notable, then next day arbitrarily it isn't, then I would have added even more links. E.g. several magazines reviewed this game in 2000/2001 (including EGM I believe). Also it's the 1st hit on google.com when you search for championship rally Atari lynx (which is now a defunct link) and there are more than 50 other articles. Last it's sold by telegames.co.uk which isn't homebrew company.

History: 21:24, 25 January 2017 Juliancolton (talk | contribs) deleted page Championship Rally (Atari Lynx) (Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Championship Rally (Atari Lynx) closed as delete) 14:45, 21 September 2016 Nyttend (talk | contribs) restored page Championship Rally (Atari Lynx) (17 revisions restored: LucienK objects to the PROD) 19:57, 19 September 2016 Nyttend (talk | contribs) deleted page Championship Rally (Atari Lynx) (Expired PROD, concern was: Fails to meet WP: Notability (video games). Homebrew video game with no claim to notability. Only two sources cited, one of which is the publisher's website

Thanks, Lucien — Preceding unsigned comment added by LucienK (talk • contribs) 00:25, 29 January 2017 (UTC)

I've restored the article, as required by WP:SOFTDELETE. If an uncontested deletion discussion remains open for several weeks with few or no comments, admins are permitted to delete the page at their discretion, but must restore it upon request. Keep in mind that the article may be re-nominated at any time, so you may wish to keep a close eye on it if you'd like the chance to address other editors' concerns next time around. – Juliancolton | ^Talk 03:21, 29 January 2017 (UTC)

re: ENFOS Inc

Hi Juliancolton, thank you for getting back to me about the deletion of the ENFOS Inc. article. Is there any way I could get a copy of the deleted article to have it edited to better represent the Wiki guidelines in line with your suggestions? The company itself should fall within notability rules - it's a significant ERP software company with some of the largest companies in North America as clients (BP, Sunoco, CN Rail, Department of Defense). Looking at the ERP vendor list List_of_ERP_software_packages, it falls alongside the size and scale of other accepted ERP vendors. I'll have to re-write the article from an objective, non-promotional view, as you pointed out - but that's a reasonable change to make. I'll also implement what you pointed out about the references to independent, reliable sources too. Thanks a lot for your time, it's appreciated. - CWade593 —Preceding undated comment added 15:43, 31 January 2017 (UTC)

Rollback question

Hi Julian,

I saw that you denied my request for rollback, due to a lack of experience. How much experience should I have before submitting another request? XboxGamer22408^{talk to me} 04:23, 1 February 2017 (UTC)

@XboxGamer22408: Hey, thanks for dropping by. There's no set limit but I'd give it a couple more weeks of consistent anti-vandalism work before reapplying. At that point we should have a solid record by which to judge your competence and trustworthiness. Of course, standards vary widely from one person to another, and if you happen to be friends with a couple admins, you may get lucky by asking around. Keep up the good work! – Juliancolton | ^Talk 04:28, 1 February 2017 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter - February 2017

News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2017). This first issue is being sent out to all administrators, if you wish to keep receiving it please subscribe. Your feedback is welcomed.

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• A discussion to workshop proposals to amend the administrator inactivity policy at Wikipedia talk:Administrators has been in process since late December 2016.
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Arbitration

• The Arbitration Committee released a response to the Wikimedia Foundation's statement on paid editing and outing.

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4th GA Cup - Round 3

WikiProject Good Articles's 2016 GA Cup - Round 3 Hello, GA Cup competitors! Sunday saw the end of Round 2. Shearonink took out Round 2 with an amazing score of 499. In second place, Krishna Chaitanya Velaga earned an astounding 236 points, and in third place, Cartoon network freak received 136 points. Originally, we had plans for one wild card for 9th place, however it appears that both Chris troutman and J Milburn were tied for 9th place. Therefore, we have decided to have both advance to Round 3. In Round 2, 91 reviews were completed! At the beginning of this GA Cup, the longest wait was over 7 months; at the end of Round 2, the longest wait had decreased to a little over 6 months. It's clear that we continue to make a difference at GAN and throughout Wikipedia, something we should all be proud of. Thanks to all our competitors for helping to make the GA Cup a continued success, and for your part in helping other editors improve articles. We hope to see all remaining users fighting it out in Round 3 so we can keep decreasing the backlog. To qualify for the third round, contestants had to earn the two highest scores in each of the four pools in Round 2; plus, one wildcard. For Round 3, users were placed in 3 random pools of 3. To qualify for the Final of the 3rd Annual GA Cup, the top user in each pool will progress, and there will also be one wildcard. This means that the participant who comes in 4th place (all pools combined) will also move on. Round 3 has already started and will end on February 26 at 23:59:59 UTC. Information about Round 3 and the pools can be found here. Also, we'd like to announce the departure of judge Zwerg Nase. We thank him for all his hardwork and hope to see him back in the future. Good luck and have fun! Cheers from Figureskatingfan, 3family6, Jaguar, and MrWooHoo. To subscribe or unsubscribe to future GA Cup newsletter, please add or remove your name to our mailing list. If you are a participant still competing, you will be on the mailing list no matter what as this is the easiest way to communicate between all participants.

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GA review mentorship

Hi, I asked for your guidance for my first GA review, but that one went well without your input because I think the article quality was already good, so reviewing it wasn't difficult. I am taking "Abaza Hasan Pasha" as next review. I feel this article has lower quality than the previous one, so the review is more challenging. Would you mind watching my review there? HaEr48 (talk) 06:48, 4 February 2017 (UTC)

Hey HaEr48, sure thing. I'm slightly pressed for time at the moment, but I'll read through the article and your comments later this evening, and post comments or suggestions as necessary. I think it's great that you're trying to improve your skill as a reviewer by seeking guidance and taking on more challenging reviews – unfortunately, GAN is plagued by superficial, low-quality reviews. Until later, – Juliancolton | ^Talk 15:22, 4 February 2017 (UTC)

New Page Review - newsletter No.2

Hello Juliancolton,

A HUGE backlog

We now have 810 New Page Reviewers!
Most of us requested the user right at PERM, expressing a wish to be able to do something about the huge backlog, but the chart on the right does not demonstrate any changes to the pre-user-right levels of October.

Hitting 17,000 soon

The backlog is still steadily growing at a rate of 150 a day or 4,650 a month. Only 20 reviews a day by each reviewer over the next few days would bring the backlog down to a managable level and the daily input can then be processed by each reviewer doing only 2 or 3 reviews a day - that's about 5 minutes work!
It didn't work in time to relax for the Xmas/New Year holidays. Let's see if we can achieve our goal before Easter, otherwise by Thanksgiving it will be closer to 70,000.

Second set of eyes

Remember that we are the only guardians of quality of new articles, we alone have to ensure that pages are being correctly tagged by non-Reviewer patrollers and that new authors are not being bitten.

Abuse

This is even more important and extra vigilance is required considering Orangemoody, and

1. this very recent case of paid advertising by a Reviewer resulting in a community ban.
2. this case in January of paid advertising by a Reviewer, also resulting in a community ban.
3. This Reviewer is indefinitely blocked for sockpuppetry.

Coordinator election

Kudpung is stepping down after 6 years as unofficial coordinator of New Page Patrolling/Reviewing. There is enough work for two people and two coords are now required. Details are at NPR Coordinators; nominate someone or nominate yourself. Date for the actual suffrage will be published later.

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Deleted articles

I would like to have the following articles kept in my Sandbox:

• Athletics at the 2016 Sukma Games
• Archery at the 2016 Sukma Games
• Badminton at the 2016 Sukma Games
• Athletics at the 2016 Malaysia Para Games
• Swimming at the 2016 Malaysia Para Games

--Hongqilim (talk) 13:29, 4 February 2017 (UTC)

 Done:

User:Hongqilim/Athletics at the 2016 Sukma Games

User:Hongqilim/Archery at the 2016 Sukma Games

User:Hongqilim/Badminton at the 2016 Sukma Games

User:Hongqilim/Athletics at the 2016 Malaysia Para Games

User:Hongqilim/Swimming at the 2016 Malaysia Para Games

– Juliancolton | ^Talk 15:16, 4 February 2017 (UTC)

Thank you.

--Hongqilim (talk) 09:12, 6 February 2017 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CXXX, February 2017

Your Military History Newsletter Project news: From the editors; awards and honours; contest results Articles: Last month's new featured and A-class content Book review: Recent external reviews Op-ed: TomStar81 looks at submarine warfare in World War I Timeline: This month in World War I

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If you are a project member who does not want delivery, please remove your name from this page. Your editors, Ian Rose (talk) and Nick-D (talk) 04:45, 7 February 2017 (UTC)

DYK for Constitution Marsh

On 9 February 2017, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Constitution Marsh, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that New York's Constitution Marsh, an Important Bird Area, is adjacent to what was once "the most cadmium polluted site in the world"? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Constitution Marsh. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Constitution Marsh), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 00:03, 9 February 2017 (UTC)

ENFOS Inc.

Hey Juliancolton, I posted a reply to your comment on my talk page (talk) about the deletion of the ENFOS Inc. page but it seems to have gotten deleted without being moved to the archives.

May I get a copy of the deleted article in order to edit it as to better represent the Wiki guidelines in line with your suggestions? The company itself should fall within notability rules - it's a significant ERP software company with some of the largest companies in North America as clients (BP, Sunoco, CN Rail, Department of Defense). Looking at the ERP vendor list List_of_ERP_software_packages, it falls alongside the size and scale of other accepted ERP vendors. I'll re-write the article from a more objective, non-promotional tone, as per your suggestions. I'll also implement what you pointed out about the references to independent, reliable sources too.

Thanks a lot for your time, it's appreciated. - CWade593 —Preceding undated comment added 15:02, 13 February 2017 (UTC)

request / question / favor

Hi, I randomly picked your name from the mentor list at Wikipedia:Good article help, so I hope this isn't forward, however, in reference to my message there, I've had a GA review that appears to have been abandoned mid-process by the reviewer. I was wondering if I could impose on you to take-over the review just long enough to fail it? That way I can renominate it. As it is, it's kind-of stuck in limbo and I'm not sure if the reviewer will be returning to Wikipedia. DarjeelingTea (talk) 05:49, 17 February 2017 (UTC)

Hey DarjeelingTea, taking a look now... – Juliancolton | ^Talk 16:21, 17 February 2017 (UTC)

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New Page Review-Patrolling: Coordinator elections

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Guild of Copy Editors February 2017 News

Guild of Copy Editors February 2017 News Hello everyone, and welcome to the February 2017 GOCE newsletter. The Guild has been busy since the last time your coordinators sent out a newsletter! >>> Sign up for the March Drive! <<< December blitz: This one-week copy-editing blitz ran from 11 through 17 December; the themes were Requests and eliminating the November 2015 backlog. Of the 14 editors who signed up, nine editors completed 29 articles. Barnstars and rollover totals are located here. Thanks to all who took part. January drive: The January drive was a great success. We set out to remove December 2015 and January and February 2016 from our backlog (195 articles), and by 22 January we had cleared those and had to add a third month (March 2016). At the end of the month we had almost cleared out that last month as well, for a total of 180 old articles removed from the backlog! We reduced our overall backlog by 337 articles, to a low of 1,465 articles, our second-lowest month-end total ever. We also handled all of the remaining requests from December 2016. Officially, 19 editors recorded 337 copy edits (over 679,000 words). February blitz: The one-week February blitz, focusing on the remaining March 2016 backlog and January 2017 requests, ran from 12 to 18 February. Seven editors reduced the total in those two backlog segments from 32 to 10 articles, leaving us in good shape going in to the March drive. Coordinator elections for the first half of 2017: In December, coordinators for the first half of 2017 were elected. Jonesey95 stepped aside as lead coordinator, remaining as coordinator and allowing Miniapolis to be the lead, and Tdslk and Corinne returned as coordinators. Thanks to all who participated! Speaking of coordinators, congratulations to Jonesey95 on their well-deserved induction into the Guild of Copy Editors Hall of Fame. The plaque reads: "For dedicated service as lead coordinator (2014, 1 July – 31 December 2015 and all of 2016) and coordinator (1 January – 30 June 2015 and 1 January – 30 June 2017); exceptional template-creation work (considerably streamlining project administration), and their emphasis on keeping the GOCE a drama-free zone." Housekeeping note: We do not send a newsletter before every drive or blitz. To have a better chance of knowing when the next event will start, add the GOCE's message box to your watchlist. Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators: Miniapolis, Jonesey95, Corinne and Tdslk. >>> Sign up for the March Drive! <<< To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

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Question

Could you please clarify your closure of Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Fuck It Tho (Keshia Chante song)? You seem to have decided that the title should be redirected to itself? --R'n'B (call me Russ) 14:21, 20 February 2017 (UTC)

Simple copy and paste error on my part. Thanks for bringing this to my attention. – Juliancolton | ^Talk 18:07, 20 February 2017 (UTC)

Request for mentoring

Dear Julian, having put an article I've worked on up for GA Review, I thought I should return the favour. I'm therefore proposing to review Grič Tunnel (Zagreb). However, this will be my first GA review and I'm not wanting to make a mess or let the main author down. Would you be willing to have a look at my attempt, before I finalise it, and let me know if I've broadly got it right? It would be much appreciated. Regards. KJP1 (talk) 17:36, 18 February 2017 (UTC)

Hi KJP1, I'd be happy to check your work and offer any guidance as needed. At a glance, the article looks to be in fairly good shape, so hopefully it'll be a relatively smooth first review. As long as you adhere to the GA criteria and have a firm understanding of Wikipedia's core content policies, it's actually rather difficult to mess things up too badly. If the substance of the review is thorough, then the process isn't very important. Best of luck! – Juliancolton | ^Talk 20:52, 18 February 2017 (UTC)

Much appreciated. Shall start tomorrow. KJP1 (talk) 21:18, 18 February 2017 (UTC)

I wonder if you'd be kind enough to have a look at this [5]. I'm not sure if this is something I've done, (entirely possible), or whether it's linked to the Legobot issue raised on the Good Article nominations Discussion Page on 17 February? I've left a message on the author's Talkpage. Many thanks. KJP1 (talk) 09:10, 19 February 2017 (UTC)

@KJP1: Sorry for the delay in getting back to you. I suspect the bot was thrown for a loop by the non-standard character "č" in the article's title. It doesn't appear to be the result of any bungling on your part. :) – Juliancolton | ^Talk 03:48, 20 February 2017 (UTC)

Julian, no apology necessary at all, I don't expect instant responses! I think I'm about done with my draft, which you will find here, [6]. My view is that it should Pass, subject to the relatively minor modifications I've suggested. I'd therefore plan to put it On Hold, and give the nominator 7 days to respond. Could you have a look and give me your thoughts? Have I missed anything significant? Is there an obvious reason not to Pass which I've overlooked? How do I put it On Hold? Many thanks. KJP1 (talk) 07:18, 20 February 2017 (UTC)

@KJP1: Your review is very thorough, but not to the point of pedantry as with some GA reviews I've seen, and eminently fair. As far as I can tell, you've hit the mark perfectly. I'm very much in agreement that the article could use a photo from inside the tunnel, for what it's worth. It might be worth mentioning to the nominator that flickr has numerous such images with compatible licenses. (As an aside, when I saw those images, I was a little shocked at how tall the tunnel is. I think the article should probably list the height of the tunnel along with the other dimensions, if that info is available.) My one suggestion would be to check either "yes", "no", or "hold" on the {{GAList/check}} templates for each criteria, so the reviewer can quickly prioritize their improvements. It isn't strictly necessary, though. To place the article on hold, all you have to do is change |status=onreview| to |status=onhold in the {{GA nominee}} template at the top of the article's talk page. The bot will take care of everything else. I've added the review page to my watchlist so I can keep an eye on things and add a second opinion in the unlikely event of any disagreements, but I think you've got this thing well under control. Nice work! – Juliancolton | ^Talk 18:49, 20 February 2017 (UTC)

Julian - I really appreciate your input, and am very pleased the review seems up to snuff. I shall amend as per your suggestions, place On Hold, and let the nominator know. Thanks for keeping an eye on it. Best regards. KJP1 (talk) 20:57, 20 February 2017 (UTC)

New Page Review - newsletter No.3

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Your GA nomination of 1896 Cedar Keys hurricane

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article 1896 Cedar Keys hurricane you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of TropicalAnalystwx13 -- TropicalAnalystwx13 (talk) 07:02, 23 February 2017 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of 1896 Cedar Keys hurricane

The article 1896 Cedar Keys hurricane you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:1896 Cedar Keys hurricane for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of TropicalAnalystwx13 -- TropicalAnalystwx13 (talk) 23:41, 23 February 2017 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of 1896 Atlantic hurricane season

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article 1896 Atlantic hurricane season you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Hurricanehink -- Hurricanehink (talk) 19:41, 25 February 2017 (UTC)

Precious four years!

Precious

Four years!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:06, 25 February 2017 (UTC)

Always a pleasure Gerda Arendt! :) – Juliancolton | ^Talk 00:43, 26 February 2017 (UTC)

thanks

Thanks very much for all your assistance at America's 60 Families! DarjeelingTea (talk) 19:03, 25 February 2017 (UTC)

@DarjeelingTea: Happy to help. If you ever need any more assistance, with the GA process or otherwise, please feel free to ask. Best, – Juliancolton | ^Talk 00:44, 26 February 2017 (UTC)

March Madness 2017

G'day all, please be advised that throughout March 2017 the Military history Wikiproject is running its March Madness drive. This is a backlog drive that is focused on several key areas:

• tagging and assessing articles that fall within the project's scope
• updating the project's currently listed A-class articles to ensure their ongoing compliance with the listed criteria
• creating articles that are listed as "requested" on the project's various task force pages or other lists of missing articles.

As with past Milhist drives, there are points awarded for working on articles in the targeted areas, with barnstars being awarded at the end for different levels of achievement.

The drive is open to all Wikipedians, not just members of the Military history project, although only work on articles that fall (broadly) within the military history scope will be considered eligible. More information can be found here for those that are interested, and members can sign up as participants at that page also.

The drive starts at 00:01 UTC on 1 March and runs until 23:59 UTC on 31 March 2017, so please sign up now.

For the Milhist co-ordinators. Regards, AustralianRupert (talk) & MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 07:24, 26 February 2017 (UTC)

The Tropical Cyclone Barnstar

		The Tropical Cyclone Barnstar
		For your excellent contributions to Tropical cyclone-related articles. I was passing through and (unsurprisingly) noticed that the parade of tropical cyclone related work you do still continues (I mean seriously, how many articles do we have on this stuff? :P) Anyways, after doing some digging I realized that it appears that you haven't gotten this barnstar in a while (around mid 2011) and we simply can't have that. It is my honor and pleasure to present to you yet another Tropical Cyclone Barnstar. Your work on tropical cyclone articles is how I first ran into you years ago and it is great to see that you continue to chip away at improving our coverage of the topic. Thank you for everything you have done and continue to do! Best, Mifter (talk) 07:00, 26 February 2017 (UTC)

Thank you so much, Mifter! :) What a neat surprise. I shall display this barnstar with pride. BTW, it's nice to see that folks still appreciate my work despite recently hearing that some editors would prefer poorly written FAs on any other subject than have to go on living with the knowledge that I've written one more of my "formulaic" hurricane articles... – Juliancolton | ^Talk 14:56, 26 February 2017 (UTC)

Could you be my review mentor please?

Hi, I'm beginning my first GA review and would appreciate some feedback. Are you able to assist? I had an article approved for GA status recently and found it a really useful process so am now putting my toe in the reviewing process. I have begun a review of the page for Bobbi Campbell at Talk:Bobbi_Campbell and am not sure if I'm being too detailed. thanks, JulieMay54 (talk) 02:51, 27 February 2017 (UTC)

Grič Tunnel (Zagreb)

Julian - first, many thanks for your help and advice. Greatly appreciated. One more question; how do I now Pass the article? I've changed the status to Pass, but that doesn't seem to do the trick. Or is it just a time lag? KJP1 (talk) 10:43, 26 February 2017 (UTC)

Happy to help KJP1! To pass the article, replace the {{GA nominee}} template with {{GA|topic=|~~~~|page=}}, where the topic is the same as the GAN subtopic, and the page is the number of the successful review page (in this case, 1), and reassess it as GA-class in any WikiProject banners. Then simply list the article as a GA in the relevant topic section, in this case Wikipedia:Good articles/Art and architecture#Architecture, being sure to update the tally at the bottom of each section. A bot will come along and take care of everything else, like adding the |oldid= field to the talk page, giving the article its GA icon, notifying the user, removing the listing from GAN, etc. For convenience, I've gone ahead and taken care of the necessary tasks. Excellent job with your first review, and if you need any more help in the future, please don't hesitate to ask. – Juliancolton | ^Talk 14:36, 26 February 2017 (UTC)

Julian - That's very kind and I really appreciate your help. Best regards. KJP1 (talk) 16:02, 26 February 2017 (UTC)

Sorry to bother you again, but I'm a bit puzzled that no notification on the article's passing has gone to the main author, nor has the green bullet appeared on the article. Is there something more I need to do? KJP1 (talk) 16:52, 27 February 2017 (UTC)

Hmm, my guess is that the bot was still having trouble with the article title (see it arguing with itself here). I added the icon and finalized the review template, and it seems like you've already notified the nominator of the promotion. Back in the old days, we had to do all this stuff manually anyway... :) – Juliancolton | ^Talk 20:33, 28 February 2017 (UTC)

ENFOS Inc.

Hey Juliancolton,

May I get a copy of the deleted ENFOS Inc. article in order to edit it to better represent the Wiki guidelines as per your suggestions? The company itself should fall within notability rules - it's a significant ERP software company with some of the largest companies in North America as clients (BP, Sunoco, CN Rail, Department of Defense). Looking at the ERP vendor list List_of_ERP_software_packages, it falls alongside the size and scale of other accepted ERP vendors. I'll re-write the article from a more objective, non-promotional tone, as per your suggestions. I'll also implement what you pointed out about the references to independent, reliable sources too.

Thanks a lot for your time, it's appreciated. - CWade593

Here it is: User:CWade593/ENFOS, Inc.. Please note that if and when you decide to publish the article, it may still be summarily deleted if its content is too similar to the previously deleted version. Also, as always, please be sure to declare any conflicts of interest that you may have with the article's subject. Happy editing, – Juliancolton | ^Talk 20:37, 28 February 2017 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Cyclone Tessi

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Your GA nomination of Cyclone Tessi

The article Cyclone Tessi you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Cyclone Tessi for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of TropicalAnalystwx13 -- TropicalAnalystwx13 (talk) 23:21, 28 February 2017 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of 1896 Atlantic hurricane season

The article 1896 Atlantic hurricane season you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:1896 Atlantic hurricane season for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Hurricanehink -- Hurricanehink (talk) 03:41, 1 March 2017 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – March 2017

News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2017).

Administrator changes

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• AfDs that receive little participation should now be closed like an expired proposed deletion, following a deletion process RfC.
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• The 2017 appointees for the Ombudsman commission are Góngora, Krd, Lankiveil, Richwales and Vogone. They will serve for approximately 1 year.

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March 2017 WikiCup newsletter

And so ends the first round of the competition, with 4 points required to qualify for round 2. It would have been 5 points, but when a late entrant was permitted to join the contest in February, a promise was made that his inclusion would not result in the exclusion of any other competitor. To achieve this, the six entrants that had the lowest positive score of 4 points have been added to the 64 people who otherwise would have qualified. As a result, some of the groups have nine contestants rather than eight. Our top four scorers in round 1 were:

• Cas Liber, last year's winner, led the field with two featured articles on birds and a total score of 674.
• Iry-Hor, a WikiCup newcomer, came next with a featured article, a good article and a tally of 282 bonus points for a score of 517. All these points came from the article Nyuserre Ini, an Ancient Egyptian pharaoh,
• 1989, another WikiCup newcomer, was in joint third place at 240. 1989 has claimed points for two featured lists and one good article relating to anime and comedy series, all of which were awarded bonus points.
• Peacemaker67 shared third place with five good articles and thirteen good article reviews, mostly on naval vessels. He is also new to the competition.

The largest number of DYKs have been submitted by Vivvt and The C of E, who each claimed for seven, and MBlaze Lightning achieved eight articles at ITN. Carbrera and Peacemaker67 each claimed for five GAs and Krishna Chaitanya Velaga was well out in front for GARs, having reviewed 32. No featured pictures, featured topics or good topics yet, but we have achieved three featured articles and a splendid total of fifty good articles.

So, on to the second round. Remember that any content promoted after the end of round 1 but before the start of round 2 can be claimed in round 2. Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. Remember, if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points equally.

If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is a good article candidate, a featured process, or anything else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to help keep down the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Godot13, Sturmvogel 66 and Cwmhiraeth 13:51, 1 March 2017 (UTC)

GA review review?

Hi! I just did (or am doing? :) my first GA review, here, after submitting my own first GA request today. Any thoughts/suggestions on the review are welcome. In particular I'm not sure if I'm inserting too much of my own opinion into 1(a) and 4, and how to proceed if "?" really is the right assessment for those planks of the assessment. Thanks! —Luis (talk) 02:56, 3 March 2017 (UTC)

Hey LuisVilla, congrats on getting your first tastes of the GA process! First, like with all recognized content criteria, the standards for GA are inherently subjective, so you'll always need to use your best judgement. Unless you're being truly pedantic or willfully going against established consensus, it's hard to be too opinionated... if you express your concerns and it turns out they're misguided, the "worst" that can happen is the nominator explains why things are the way they are, and you continue with the review. GAN is the last place that most articles will receive anything that resembles "formal" vetting, so if something doesn't look quite right, now's the time to point it out. With regard to your review specifically, I think you've raised some very reasonable concerns that definitely warrant at least a second look from the author(s). The "Teaching and activism" section does look rather disorganized, so I'm in agreement with your 1a assessment. You've also asked a very fair NPOV question... the article seems to paint its subject in a thoroughly favorable light, but if there are numerous reliable sources that have criticized the effectiveness of her activism, some more balance may be required. If you believe these are issues worth addressing (and I see no reason to dispute that), you can go ahead and put the nomination on hold for a while (ostensibly for one week, though in practice most articles remain on-hold for as long as it takes to improve them). That will give involved editors a chance to either fix the issues you've identified, or yell at us for being so far off the mark. :) Best of luck, and if you have any further questions, don't hesitate to ask! I've added the GA review page to my watchlist so I can keep an eye on things and add any secondary opinions if needed. – Juliancolton | ^Talk 15:34, 3 March 2017 (UTC)

Thanks so much for the prompt response and feedback! I'll update appropriately. —Luis (talk) 17:27, 3 March 2017 (UTC)

GA process for Arab Agricultural Revolution

Hi, I see you have kindly offered your services as a GA mentor. I've had over a hundred GAs and never felt the need to ask for help before, but it's happened today. An editor has quick-failed Arab Agricultural Revolution on what appear to me to be wholly mistaken grounds, and I do mean completely. Rather than try to persuade them, I'd like to know how best to proceed. I could resubmit to GAN and wait some months, probably; or ask for a review of the decision, something I never attempted; and either of those things could be after editing the article, if any changes are needed (I guess I could ask for a peer review to determine whether that would be so, but that too can be a slow process). What would you suggest? Many thanks for your time. Chiswick Chap (talk) 09:42, 5 March 2017 (UTC)

4th GA Cup - The Final

WikiProject Good Articles's 2016 GA Cup - Final Hello, GA Cup competitors! Sunday, February 26 saw the end of Round 3. Shearonink finished in first with 616 points, which is more than the point totals for all the other competitors combined! In second place, Krishna Chaitanya Velaga earned an impressive 152 points, followed by Sturmvogel_66 in third with 111 points. Chris troutman and Kees08 each received a wild-card and were able to advance to the Final Round. There was a major error on the part of the judges, and initially, 8 users were advanced instead of 5. This has been corrected, and we sincerely apologize for this confusion. In Round 3, 71 reviews were completed! At the beginning of this GA Cup, the longest wait was over 7 months; at the end of Round 3, the longest wait is still holding steady at a little over 6 months, the same as for the previous round. By the end of all three Rounds, the total number of nominations increased slightly - this suggests that users are more willing to nominate, knowing that their articles will be reviewed. We hope to see all remaining users fighting it out in the Final so we can keep tackling the backlog. In the Final Round, the user with the highest score will be the winner. The Final has already started and will end on March 31st at 23:59:59 UTC. Information about Finals and the pools can be found here. Good luck and have fun! Cheers from Figureskatingfan, 3family6, Jaguar, and MrWooHoo. To subscribe or unsubscribe to future GA Cup newsletters, please add or remove your name to our mailing list. If you are a participant still competing, you will be on the mailing list no matter what as this is the easiest way to communicate between all participants.

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DYK for Cyclone Tessi

On 9 March 2017, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Cyclone Tessi, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that tree debris from Cyclone Tessi in Townsville, Queensland, was processed into 25,000 m³ (880,000 cu ft) of mulch and used in local botanical gardens? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Cyclone Tessi. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Cyclone Tessi), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

— Maile (talk) 00:03, 9 March 2017 (UTC)

DYK

Hello! Your submission of Cyclone Althea at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 07:05, 9 March 2017 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CXXXI, March 2017

Your Military History Newsletter Project news: From the editors; awards and honours; contest results Articles: Last month's new featured and A-class content Book review: Hawkeye7 and Nick-D look at works on two facets of US military power Op-ed: TomStar81 on the Russian Revolution Timeline: This month in World War I

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DYK for Cyclone Althea

On 13 March 2017, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Cyclone Althea, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the unroofing of hundreds of homes by Cyclone Althea in December 1971 prompted Queensland to overhaul its state-wide building codes? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Cyclone Althea. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Cyclone Althea), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Mifter (talk) 12:02, 13 March 2017 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Today's featured article/March 26, 2017

This doesn't sound right to me ... "had to be rebuilt following Tropical Storm Kathleen". What would you call the storm? - Dank (push to talk) 01:51, 10 March 2017 (UTC)

@Dank: If we wanted to be precise, we would say "the remnants of Hurricane Kathleen". Sometimes for general purposes, I think it's okay to just say "Hurricane Kathleen" (that is, the storm's COMMONNAME/actual classification) even if the events in question happened post-hurricane stage. Kathleen wasn't a TS at peak or in the United States, though, so good catch on that. – Juliancolton | ^Talk 01:57, 10 March 2017 (UTC)

Okay, we're currently at 1125 characters, so I can add "remnants of". I hadn't thought of that. Thanks. - Dank (push to talk) 02:12, 10 March 2017 (UTC)

Cool, glad to help. Doesn't get much better than roads and hurricanes in one blurb. :) – Juliancolton | ^Talk 02:19, 10 March 2017 (UTC)

Hello Juliancolton, this is the second time the article "Herzeleid tour" is deleted, still do not understand why, I asked Iridescent to restore the page explaining my reasons and has restored it, now I ask you to kindly restore the article. Thank you.

No Herzeleid tour page appears to have existed. Could you please provide the correct link to the article in question? – Juliancolton | ^Talk 19:22, 17 March 2017 (UTC)

TFAs

Hi, Mike Christie said via email: "Dan, I think you said Julian was going to keep Brian's TFA notepad page up to date, but as far as I can tell he hasn't edited it yet -- is he waiting for something from us?" - Dank (push to talk) 03:53, 21 March 2017 (UTC)

Defiance, Ohio

January 31 you deleted the page Defiance, Ohio (band) I feel this is an error since it meets the criteria in 'Wikipedia:Notability (music) Criteria for musicians and ensembles' numbers match up with numbers in notability guide.

1. Defiance, Ohio has three full length albums and an EP released on No Idea Records, an EP on Plan-It-X Records, and Anti-Creative Records and several other releases on less notable lables. Their only self release was their fist album and demo.

4. They've had several international tours of the USA, Canada, Australia, Europe and Iceland. Here's a few announcements I found on google. https://www.punknews.org/article/48584/tours-defiance-ohio-spoonboy-east-coast

https://www.punknews.org/article/42909/tours-defiance-ohio-nana-grizol-your-heart-breaks-toby-foster https://www.punknews.org/article/32477/defiance-ohio-new-relese-tour-dates http://thepunksite.com/news/defiance-ohio-announces-tour-in-support-of-new-full-length/

7. Defiance, Ohio was one of the largest bands in the wave of folk punk in the mid/late 00's and had a large influence in the Bloomington punk scene. I'm wondering if there's a process to reinstate the page, or if I can just grab the text from archive.org.

EDIT: Created request in Wikipedia:Requests_for_undeletion

--Evanw (talk) 21:53, 24 March 2017 (UTC)

Reason for deletion of Mikkel Vestergaard Frandsen page

Hello.

Can you please let me know why you deleted the page I put up about Mikkel Vestergaard Frandsen?

Can you also let me know what can be done to get a page about him on Wikipedia? I believe you'll find that he is quite newsworthy?

Finally, in the notes it says that there was a decision to redirect his page to the company page. Unfortunately, it was redirected to a page called "Vestergaard" which is not the company page. The company page is called: Vestergaard Frandsen. Can you possibly redirect it to this page?

Thanks for any suggestions you have for me to reinstate some content about Mikkel Vestergaard Frandsen. I am not a frequent user of Wikipedia so am most likely unfamiliar with some of the rules.

Thanks, --MerylNanRader (talk) 14:26, 27 March 2017 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Cyclone Althea

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Administrators' newsletter – April 2017

News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2017).

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ANI - April 2017

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ANI notice

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A kitten for you!

For your comment here, you deserve a kitten.

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The Bugle: Issue CXXXII, April 2017

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Relisting of Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Tom Kenyon (musician)

Your relisting of Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Tom Kenyon (musician) caused it to no longer be transcluded on any AfD log page, as it was already relisted by Ks0stm. It has now been manually relisted at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2017 April 7. GeoffreyT2000 (talk, contribs) 01:02, 7 April 2017 (UTC)

Thanks for taking care of that, GeoffreyT2000. I suspect that I opened the tab, got distracted for several minutes, and didn't refresh to see if anybody else took action in the interim. – Juliancolton | ^Talk 02:54, 9 April 2017 (UTC)

smoke-to-fire ratio

Regarding this edit: did you mean the ratio is higher than usual? isaacl (talk) 03:51, 10 April 2017 (UTC)

Thanks Isaacl. I thought it one way and typed it the other. :) – Juliancolton | ^Talk 03:52, 10 April 2017 (UTC)

WP:FADC

Julian, were you still interested in maintaining WP:FADC and WP:FANDC? We're not interested in continuing Brian's notepad page any more, if that helps. - Dank (push to talk) 02:53, 14 April 2017 (UTC)

Hi Dank, my apologies... I took a short wikibreak last month and those pages completely slipped my mind. I'll get them back up to date by tomorrow morning. As for the TFA notepad, I hope you haven't decided to retire it because of the delay on my part. I'm still willing to update it when I find a decent block of time to sit down and figure out the most efficient way of going about it. – Juliancolton | ^Talk 02:05, 15 April 2017 (UTC)

@TFA coordinators No problem at all, Julian. Jim, Mike and I changed our minds on Brian's notepad ... we'll be deleting the TFAs that run from it, and not adding to it. There's nothing for you to do there. Take your time on FADC and FANDC, and thanks for offering. - Dank (push to talk) 02:21, 15 April 2017 (UTC)

Regarding AutoWikiBrowser permission

Hey Julian, sorry for disturbing you here. You had asked for details on why I wanted AWB usage rights here and I provided it a few days back. It would be kind if you can review the request and approve/reject it.
Sorry, if I disturbed you here, I normally don't take these things to the user talk pages and wait for an admin to comment but here I thought you might have been busy and overlooked my reply. Thanks, Yashovardhan (talk) 10:36, 15 April 2017 (UTC)

@Yashovardhan Dhanania: Thank you for the reminder, I've added you to the checklist. Sorry about the delay. – Juliancolton | ^Talk 20:32, 15 April 2017 (UTC)

No issues. Thanks a lot! Yashovardhan (talk) 03:11, 16 April 2017 (UTC)

page mover

Hello. I would like to ask you something. I was thinking of requesting page mover permission because I participate actively in closing RMs and generally moving pages, but there are many cases that a round-robin move is needed, and some others(generally not through RM) that redirects should be suppressed, but without having this permission, I cannot do either of them. But wonder whether this might be regarded by some as hat collecting since it will be my 3rd request for permission(the other 2 were done) in 16 days. What do you think? --Kostas20142 (talk) 15:51, 16 April 2017 (UTC)

@Kostas20142: Well, firstly, I wouldn't let the hat collecting essay ever dissuade you from volunteering to help out in additional roles. I think the whole premise is silly and only serves to extinguish the enthusiasm with which newer contributors try to become integrated into the community. Even if you were hat collecting, where's the harm if the jobs are all being done well? Assuming you can demonstrate a need for any given right and have the necessary experience to meet its granting guideline, there should be no issues. That said, you do fall somewhat short of the edit count guideline for page mover, having only about 2,400 contributions instead of the suggested 3,000. The page mover right is not handed out as liberally as most of the other WP:PERM flags, since it effectively gives you the ability to delete pages, which can obviously result in some real damage if misused. I would personally prefer that you wait a while before seeking the page mover right, but who knows – other admins may feel comfortable granting now. There's no harm in trying. Best of luck either way, – Juliancolton | ^Talk 16:09, 16 April 2017 (UTC)

Ok, thank you for your time! --Kostas20142 (talk) 16:12, 16 April 2017 (UTC)

RE: Rollback Granted

Thank you for accepting my request! I have used this tool before on a Wikia, so I'm pretty used to it anyway. I'll message you if I have any questions. Have a nice day!8Dodo8 (talk · contribs) 11:05, 17 April 2017 (UTC)

Black British communities

Hi,

You deleted Black British communities and i would like to make another page like this.

Why was this page deleted? I do not want to make the same mistakes — Preceding unsigned comment added by Paulcli1 (talk • contribs)

Hi Paulcli1. Black British communities was simply a redirect to a section in Lists of UK locations with large ethnic minority populations. Were you aware of this? – Juliancolton | ^Talk 00:37, 20 April 2017 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/2098

Slightly confused by your close at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/2098. Just one participant advanced keeping the page. I think the overwhelming consensus was that it should be merged to 2090s. You said "I would have to guess that there are probably plenty of noteworthy predicted or fictional events during 2098 that simply haven't been added yet" but I'm struggling to see how this justifies ignoring the consensus. AusLondonder (talk) 12:33, 20 April 2017 (UTC)

Hi AusLondonder, thanks for the message. You've identified the entire problem – there was no consensus, in my judgement, and a "no consensus" result at AfD defaults to no action. One person suggested merging contingent on the rest of the years from the same decade also being merged, which obviously falls outside the scope of this particular discussion, and another person echoed that vote. A conventional headcount yields two "deletes", two "delete and/or merge", one "merge", one "keep", and one "keep and merge". Since the numbers reveal no clear consensus, it's necessary to assess the strength of the presented arguments, and try to determine if one camp made a much stronger case than the others. That wasn't particularly fruitful, either; most of the comments simply cited either WP:CRYSTAL or WP:TOOSOON (the latter of which is merely an essay) without explaining how they apply. The nutshell version of TOOSOON states, "Sometimes it's simply just too soon for some topics to have an article", but with years on either side of 2098 having fully developed and uncontested articles, it would have been necessary to state why this one is exceptional in violating our standards on distant-future events. Finally, the debate had been open for nearly a month, and it's been my experience that third relists are not very likely to produce any additional clarity. The nice thing about a "no consensus" close is that it's totally non-binding; you're free to re-nominate the article as you see fit, start an independent merge discussion on the talk page, or simply be bold, merge it yourself, and see if it sticks. I hope this clears things up a little, but if not, I'll be happy to try to explain myself further. – Juliancolton | ^Talk 15:00, 20 April 2017 (UTC)

Jerusalem Arts Network (talk · contribs)

I noticed that you left a uw-softerblock on this user's talk page, apparently using Twinkle, but didn't actually block them. Any idea what happened? Is there any value in taking this up with the Twinkle developers? GoldenRing (talk) 16:48, 20 April 2017 (UTC)

Hmm, that's sort of bizarre. I think it's far more likely that I simply misclicked something than for Twinkle to be malfunctioning, but I'll keep an eye on it the rest of the day and see if something similar happens again. Thanks for taking taking care of that and notifying me. – Juliancolton | ^Talk 16:51, 20 April 2017 (UTC)

Speedy Deletion

Hello Juliancolton,

You recently speedy deleted a wiki that I wrote about Blake George. I believe that this deletion was made in error. He is a notable and influential member of the Chaldean community and is a notable businessman who has appeared on prime-time television. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sherbzz (talk • contribs) 16:44, 20 April 2017 (UTC)

@Sherbzz: On Wikipedia, articles – particularly those about living people – need to clearly establish the notability of their subjects with credible claims of significance and references to secondary, reliable sources. The Blake George article was written like a resume and failed to establish notability, so it met multiple criteria for speedy deletion. – Juliancolton | ^Talk 16:56, 20 April 2017 (UTC)

Nothing like racist editors. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sherbzz (talk • contribs) 16:58, 20 April 2017 (UTC)

If that's what you'd like to think... – Juliancolton | ^Talk 17:01, 20 April 2017 (UTC)

Overturning a speedy?

Hi, I have a process question. I noticed that the page for UniSoft Infotech Corporation was recently speedied, due to lack of notability.

UniSoft is definitely notable in the history of Unix. Looking at the article in Google cache, I can see the article needs work on its citations, but that shouldn't be hard to do.

What's the process for reverting this (and associated redirects)? If I'd been following the page, I'd definitely have contested the speedy, but I only saw it was gone when someone started pulling it out of articles that had previously linked to it via redirects. Thanks, NapoliRoma (talk) 18:29, 20 April 2017 (UTC)

@NapoliRoma: I've gone ahead and restored it. If you believe you're able to improve the article, that's certainly preferable to deletion. – Juliancolton | ^Talk 18:31, 20 April 2017 (UTC)

Fantastic. Thanks for the fast reply!--NapoliRoma (talk) 18:33, 20 April 2017 (UTC)

No problem! It's good to know there are folks working to make sure nothing important slips through the cracks. – Juliancolton | ^Talk 18:57, 20 April 2017 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) I think A7 speedy deletion of articles that have existed for 13 years should not happen at all, even if they technically meet the criterion. An article that existed for such a long time, another week of discussion usually won't hurt. Also, in this case I'm sorry to say you were mistaken to delete the article in the first place. Some revisions contain clear claims of significance, such as UniSoft's ports being used on the first Sun workstations. Regards SoWhy 19:25, 20 April 2017 (UTC)

(ec) Hey SoWhy, I don't disagree... I was clearing CAT:CSD this morning and definitely went a little too hastily in this particular case, which is why I had no qualms about restoring it. I always check page histories before deleting anything and for some reason I got the impression this article was much newer than in reality. My mistake/oversight. Thanks for the honest feedback, and welcome back to my talk page - it's been a while. :) – Juliancolton | ^Talk 19:33, 20 April 2017 (UTC)

Another question: it looks like some of the confusion here is the article got renamed a couple of years ago from UniSoft. It also looks like this was a bogus move, since per naming guidelines, corporate suffixes should only be added if disambiguation is necessary.

I'd just move it to UniSoft, but since that was a previously-existing redirect prior to the speedy, I wanted to check first to see if it's more appropriate to restore the various redirects rather than recreate them to preserve their history.

I've identified UniSoft and Uniplus+ as two redirs that should be restored; not sure if there's an easy way to determine what others might have gone away as well.--NapoliRoma (talk) 19:30, 20 April 2017 (UTC)

Talk:UniSoft Infotech Corporation probably should be restored and moved back as well. -- ferret (talk) 20:19, 20 April 2017 (UTC)

 Done, I think we should be close to having this cleaned up... – Juliancolton | ^Talk 20:22, 20 April 2017 (UTC)

"Closer", at least... I keep finding stuff. Thanks again.--NapoliRoma (talk) 21:39, 20 April 2017 (UTC)

@NapoliRoma: Anything I can help with? – Juliancolton | ^Talk 22:28, 20 April 2017 (UTC)

Ransome Hoffmann Pollard Ltd

Could you reinstate this article as a draft so that I can try and rescue it please?Rathfelder (talk) 16:11, 21 April 2017 (UTC)

@Rathfelder: Most of the text starting from the very first revision was directly copied from http://www.hoffmannbearings.co.uk/history-of-hoffmann-bearings.html, which does not, as far as I can tell, release its content under a free license, and I can't restore copyright violations. I'm afraid the best I can do is retrieve the citations to allow for a fresh start using the same material. – Juliancolton | ^Talk 16:21, 21 April 2017 (UTC)

Was that my work? I don't remember it at all.Rathfelder (talk) 16:59, 21 April 2017 (UTC)

You created it in November 2016 with the edit summary "Imported content from article Chelmsford", so the plagiarism likely wasn't your fault. At some point in the next couple days, I'll look through the Chelmsford page to see if any other copyvios need to be removed. – Juliancolton | ^Talk 17:04, 21 April 2017 (UTC)

Word of thanks

Hello! Thank you for instating a protection on the page List of predicted dates for apocalyptic events. It really does help. I was having trouble with a IP user who was undoing edits which they deemed "not notable" but certainly were. I would just like to give you my personal thanks for helping out in this situation. Best wishes!

Jeermud (talk) 17:52, 21 April 2017 (UTC)

Very happy to help. I know all too well how frustrating it can be trying to keep up with a seemingly endless stream of misguided or malicious edits! Regards, – Juliancolton | ^Talk 20:45, 21 April 2017 (UTC)

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Mia Hodgens wiki

Why did you delete Mia Hodgens' wikipedia page it is not a 'blatant hoax' You don't know anything about squash

Wangtang1234 (talk) 16:41, 22 April 2017 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for the AWB auth. I'm sure you have lots of other things on your plate. Ahwiv (talk) 21:31, 22 April 2017 (UTC)

Page protection

Would you be averse to me removing the protection on the Playboi Carti article? I've just declined a speedy deletion (repost) request on it. I gave it the benefit of the doubt as it is not substantially identical to the one that got deleted, particularly with some more sources. I felt it was on the edge of whether to be redirected again. Either way, now it is an article again do you see any requirement for the protection? I didn't want to remove it without asking you first. Woody (talk) 19:35, 22 April 2017 (UTC)

Hey Woody, that's fine, thanks for the heads-up. You're right in that this version is much different from the one folks had been trying to restore up to now. At a glance, it looks like it might even stand a chance at surviving AfD now. – Juliancolton | ^Talk 21:52, 22 April 2017 (UTC)

No worries. Thanks for that. Woody (talk) 22:03, 22 April 2017 (UTC)

MS Sea Wind

I've bashed the article into shape. Are you able to expand it from the sources you mention at the AfD discussion? Mjroots (talk) 16:33, 24 April 2017 (UTC)

@Mjroots: Wow, really nice work! I was already planning on chipping in this evening, so I'll certainly do what I can to help continue your expansion. This is the kind of result I love to see at AfD. – Juliancolton | ^Talk 16:50, 24 April 2017 (UTC)

Great, I'll turn my attention to MS Regal Star then. Mjroots (talk) 17:01, 24 April 2017 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/B. P. C. M. Babyland English Medium High School, Kokrajhar

I take issue with your closing of Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/B. P. C. M. Babyland English Medium High School, Kokrajhar. I don't see how you can claim "most editors agree that there's no reason to deviate from longstanding practice in this case" when WP:SCHOOLOUTCOMES is no longer a valid AfD rationale. Chris Troutman (talk) 21:04, 25 April 2017 (UTC)

@Chris troutman: Directly citing WP:SCHOOLOUTCOMES is now considered an "argument to avoid", but per the RfC summary, it remains "an accurate statement of the results"; consequently, it's still perfectly acceptable looking to standard practice for guidance. If you can explain why school AfDs typically result in "keep", then it's no longer circular logic and there's no issue. Even after the secondary school RfC, it is, as far as I'm aware, almost unprecedented for high school articles to be deleted (if I'm wrong about this, please let me know). Most editors—both at the aforementioned AfD and in general—agree that high schools and equivalents will typically be able to fulfill GNG, even if the sources are difficult to find. Since a few valid sources were identified concerning the institution, apparently without anyone having embarked on "a deeper search than normal", there was no consensus to abandon common practice surrounding school AfDs. Happy to explain further if I'm being unclear. – Juliancolton | ^Talk 21:25, 25 April 2017 (UTC)

I'd like to clear up this logical impasse. Over the past several years a cohort of editors felt that Wikipedia should keep articles about secondary schools that didn't otherwise prove to be notable. Someone then wrote SCHOOLOUTCOMES, opining that because of this cohort, AfD often results in a "keep" outcome so it's fruitless to nominate. The RfC rejected this logic. Secondary schools are now required to pass some other measure of notability. The arguments provided in that AfD reinforced a belief (with no basis in fact or policy) that we should keep articles about secondary schools. One editor advanced the idea that even though there is no evidence that school is generally notable, we could presume that there must be offline, non-English reportage which would prove the school notable. What we have here is institutional momentum and a few stubborn editors proclaiming their opinions as a rationale. Your decision was wrong, in my mind, because it goes against the consensus of the RfC. The keep arguments were invalid and the correct decision was delete since the school fails NCORP and GNG. Chris Troutman (talk) 22:01, 25 April 2017 (UTC)

Well, for better or worse, admins aren't given much latitude to determine the "correct" decision. I suspect you know as well as I do that a delete result there would have been labeled a supervote and rapidly overturned at DRV. It's not as if those arguing in favor of deletion made a vastly stronger case than those for retention; two of the votes were "per nom", even though the nomination statement didn't really advance a policy-based reason for deletion, as outlined by AusLondonder. Only one "delete" vote even bothered to address the sources that had been introduced, potentially to the satisfaction of GNG. I'm sorry you disagree with my reasoning and the result of that AfD, but I really don't think there was any other viable way to close that discussion. – Juliancolton | ^Talk 23:09, 25 April 2017 (UTC)

@Chris troutman: seems to have quite some difficulty treating other editors with civility along with failing to grasp that Wikipedia works on WP:CONSENSUS. They have completely misrepresented the WP:SCHOOLOUTCOMES RfC outcome. In this case reliable sources have been provided which caused one delete !voter to strike their comments. When Chris troutman could not think of any debating points they resorted to personally attacking numerous editors of very long standing and high regard, accusing them of incompetence. !Votes centred solely on personal attacks, such as Chris troutman's should be ignored anyway. The deletion argument put forward by the nom was not credible and no other close option existed. AusLondonder (talk) 23:49, 25 April 2017 (UTC)

Grand_River_Transit#iXpress

Hello, all sourced information from iXpress is already at Grand_River_Transit#iXpress. Can the content of iXpress be replaced by a redirect? --Rogerx2 (talk) 16:03, 27 April 2017 (UTC)

Hi Rogerx2, yes, that's fine. Thanks for the message. – Juliancolton | ^Talk 16:46, 27 April 2017 (UTC)

Thank you. It's done. --Rogerx2 (talk) 21:12, 27 April 2017 (UTC)

Rahul_Verma_(social_activist)

You are requested to please reconsider your decision to delete above page. Although there are not so many article written about the subject directly but there are references available about the subject’s contribution to the society. This is not an emotional appeal but a request as this social worker keeps his foundation first before promoting himself, and work significantly towards the betterment and welfare of the society. If you go through their official website or other press coverage, you will find that all the work is done by him only and everywhere his name is mentioned along with his foundation. You are here on wiki for so long and have better wisdom than me. Please reconsider this page, i will improve the same in days to come with more direct articles and references . Regards Shibanihk (talk) 08:59, 26 April 2017 (UTC)

Hello Shibanihk. I don't doubt that Mr. Verma does excellent work, but you'll note that we already have an article on his foundation: Uday Foundation. You admit that Rahul Verma has not been discussed in many sources, so you already understand why he fails to meet our inclusion criteria. Notability is not inherited, so just because someone's business or charity is notable doesn't mean that they themselves are so. It's an unfortunate fact of life that one can spend a lifetime helping others and not receive much recognition, and Wikipedia only covers subjects that are already noteworthy. Thank you for understanding. – Juliancolton | ^Talk 15:08, 26 April 2017 (UTC)

Agree with whatever you said. We'll make his page again, the day i feel he is notable . Regards Shibanihk (talk) 07:23, 28 April 2017 (UTC)

TFL notification

Hi, Juliancolton. I'm just posting to let you know that List of Bermuda hurricanes – a list that you have been heavily involved with – has been chosen to appear on the Main Page as Today's featured list for May 12. The TFL blurb can be seen here. If you have any thoughts on the selection, please post them on my talk page or at TFL talk. Regards, Giants2008 (Talk) 22:28, 28 April 2017 (UTC)

Yes, please restore J.J. Hurtak article to a draft

I understand the notability concern and will be researching further. The more solid references that exist about J.J. Hurtak's non-fringe work are global (non-English) so this may take some time. --Nel4316 (talk) 22:06, 27 April 2017 (UTC)

@Neil4316: Here you go: Draft:James Joachim Hurtak. Let me know if you'd like me to take another look at some point down the line. Regards, – Juliancolton | ^Talk 22:58, 28 April 2017 (UTC)

Contesting the deletion of Adrian Țofei

Hello! Here are the details of the deletion: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Adrian Țofei. Looks like the reason was notability, but the page had a lot of references in support of notability. Adrian Țofei is the director, producer, writer and star of Romania's first found footage feature film and second horror feature film ever - Be My Cat: A Film for Anne. The movie is the first 100% indie/guerrilla Romanian production to receive international recognition. Tofei won Best Actor at Nashville Film Festival and Hamilton Film Festival and Best Film at A Night of Horror International Film Festival in Sydney and On Vous Ment! Mockumentary Film Festival in France. The movie has also been included by Dread Central in Top 5 Best Horror Movies of 2016, by Blumhouse in Top 5 New Intelligent Found Footage Films, by Audiences Everywhere in Top 50 Best Horror Movies of the 2000's and has been named "the most revolutionary found footage film since The Blair Witch Project" by ANOH and "terrifying - a modern Peeping Tom" by Austin Chronicle. And all this is not only proof to the movie's notability, it is also proof to Adrian Tofei's notability, because he did almost everything related to the movie: directing, producing, writing, acting, cinematography, film editing, casting, production design, production management, sound recording, sound editing, special effects, set decoration etc. Most of the critics mentioned all this in their reviews as a very special characteristic. Can you please consider undeleting the page? I know it had very little info, but it was on my list of pages to contribute to and improve. Thank you! 86.120.253.128 (talk) 19:17, 28 April 2017 (UTC)

 Done as the page is eligible for speedy restoration under the WP:SOFTDELETE process. – Juliancolton | ^Talk 23:02, 28 April 2017 (UTC)

ANI followup

As you were involved in the discussion on ANI, I am bringing this to your attention: Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case#Request_to_de-sysop_Jondel. Toddst1 (talk) 00:03, 1 May 2017 (UTC)

May 2017 WikiCup newsletter

The second round of the competition has now closed, with just under 100 points being required to qualify for round 3. YellowEvan just scraped into the next round with 98 points but we have to say goodbye to the thirty or so competitors who didn't achieve this threshold; thank you for the useful contributions you have made to the Cup and Wikipedia. Our top scorers in round 2 were:

• Cas Liber, led the field with five featured articles, four on birds and one on astronomy, and a total score of 2049, half of which came from bonus points.
• 1989 was in second place with 826 points, 466 of which were bonus points. 1989 has claimed points mostly relating to anime and Japanese-related articles.
• Peacemaker67 took third place with two FAs, one GA and seven GARs, mostly on naval vessels or military personnel, scoring 543 points.
• Other contestants who scored over 400 points were Freikorp, Carbrera, and Czar. Of course all these points are now wiped out and the 32 remaining contestants start again from zero in round 3.

Vivvt submitted the largest number of DYKs (30), and MBlaze Lightning achieved 13 articles at ITN. Carbrera claimed for 11 GAs and Argento Surfer performed the most GARs, having reviewed 11. So far we have achieved 38 featured articles and a splendid 132 good articles. Commendably, 279 GARs have been achieved so far, more than double the number of GAs.

So, on to the third round. Remember that any content promoted after the end of round 2 but before the start of round 3 can be claimed in round 3. Remember too that you must claim your points within 10 days of "earning" 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 equally.

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Adrian Țofei

Hi Julian, I was wondering why this article is back, after having been deleted [7] --- it still doesn't pass WP:N. -- Somedifferentstuff (talk) 18:09, 1 May 2017 (UTC)

Hey Somedifferentstuff, thanks for the message. Under the newish WP:SOFTDELETE protocol, AfDs that receive no comments are treated as expired PRODs. That is, we delete them, but since the deletion was not mandated by community consensus, anybody can request restoration for just about any reason, and we have to oblige. (You can see this particular request just a few threads up, at #Contesting the deletion of Adrian Țofei). Your best option for seeing the article deleted again is simply to submit another AfD at your leisure and hope for more participation to engender a more concrete result. Sometimes it helps to ping relevant WikiProjects. Hope this helps, – Juliancolton | ^Talk 18:29, 1 May 2017 (UTC)

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Please restore Brian Cain article to a draft

Brian Cain previously had an attempted Wikipedia page deleted per notability. There are several notable references that were not included in that attempt. Could you please restore to draft so that I can attempt to submit this? Thank you.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Cain

--MattMorse (talk) 19:36, 2 May 2017 (UTC)

@MattMorse: Unfortunately, consensus at the deletion discussion was clear, so I'm not at liberty to simply overturn the community's decision. You may use deletion review if you believe "significant new information has come to light" since the article was deleted, per criterion 3 of WP:DRVPURPOSE. – Juliancolton | ^Talk 20:29, 2 May 2017 (UTC)

I wouldn't say that "significant new information has come to light" but I do know that the previous article was inaccurate.

--MattMorse (talk) 23:33, 2 May 2017 (UTC)

Appreciate you

Hey - thank you so much for extending the deletion debate over an article I very inncocently started about a Romanian filmmaker named Delia Antal. I'd seen her first film on youtube and thought she was very brave then looked her up and saw a lot of coverage of her - and she appears to be a celebrity in her country; and someone organizatiosn like BAFTA supports. BUT - the user who started the deletion process/debate appears to really want her article down, and I'm just not fully understanding why - although I was inline with him on some initial articles I used - but not all of them (including her listing and mentions on a page on WIKI about BAFTA). Anyway, I've not been in this situation before and I don't really know what to do from here. Can you offer a little insight? I'm not mad or frustrated - just want to learn! :-) Akrumoftruth (talk) 01:17, 3 May 2017 (UTC)

FYI

Have sent you a private email, hope to hear from you soon. Zurose (talk) 14:27, 4 May 2017 (UTC)

Strangeness at AIV

Have you noticed that some of the IP listed at AIV have weird filter log reports? They seem to be reporting all kinds of disruptive behavior by other IPs and registered users. Is this something I missed at new admin school? -Ad Orientem (talk) 03:52, 5 May 2017 (UTC)

Yeah... there's been a string of IPs lately who seem to edit only for the purpose of reporting lots of other IPs to AIV. I think there was a thread about it at one of the noticeboards recently, but I glossed over it. The only thing I've known to do is just treat them like 'normal' reports, but AIV has gotten so convoluted over the years that I just avoid it most of the time. Mass reports, abuse filter logs, content disputes... it's all too much for an admin who cut his teeth on vandals with four clean insertions of naughty words and a tidy final warning. – Juliancolton | ^Talk 04:02, 5 May 2017 (UTC)

my recent report

Hello! I see you declined my recent UAA report. But doesn't this username imply that the user is this notable person? --Kostas20142 (talk) 13:42, 5 May 2017 (UTC)

Hi Kostas20142. The user is trying to promote themselves by writing an autobiography, but they're by no means notable. – Juliancolton | ^Talk 13:48, 5 May 2017 (UTC)

Yes , I see. Thank you! --Kostas20142 (talk) 13:49, 5 May 2017 (UTC)

FYI

See this diff. As I said in the edit summary, I've done this a few times also. I only caught it before deleting because the date the G13 tag was added was so long ago, which made me do a double take and look further.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 03:59, 6 May 2017 (UTC)

Heh, whoops... if it makes me look any less foolish, I think that's the first time I've done that! Thanks for the heads-up. – Juliancolton | ^Talk 19:10, 6 May 2017 (UTC)

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Deletion review for SMX-25

User:Vyacheslav84 has asked for a deletion review of SMX-25. Because you closed the deletion discussion for this page, speedily deleted it, or otherwise were interested in the page, you might want to participate in the deletion review. —Cryptic 18:08, 7 May 2017 (UTC)

titanic

Why would u remove my link? It seemed inappropriate for an encyclopedia??? OK so my link isn't good enough to be put there with other links to titanic sites?? Yeah I think that's pretty lame arrons titanic page is the best titanic site on the internet. I'll put my site up against ANY titanic site. Wikipedia is ridiculous anytime I try to correct something or add something some person with a little bit too much time on there hands changes it right away. Whatever. Cliffdimerandy (talk) 01:40, 10 May 2017 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) Hi Cliffdimerandy. I'm sorry you feel a bit put out about your recent edit being reverted. However we have specific guidelines that cover external links, including some specific ones about what we don't allow in articles. You can check out WP:NOEL to get an idea for what those limits are and why we have them. Your contributions to the project are appreciated. Please don't get miffed because some of your edits get reverted. It happens to all of us. I just had one reverted by another admin! It's part of building an encyclopedia where everybody gets to contribute, everybody has their own opinions, and where we are all occasionally mistaken. Thank you again for your work on Wikipedia! -Ad Orientem (talk) 02:07, 10 May 2017 (UTC)

Well thanks for the reply but u say that everyone can contribute anything I have contributed was always reverted back. I corrected errors in articles that were quite obvious. I still dont know why my titanic site link cannot be added but other ones can be. Doesn't make sense Cliffdimerandy (talk) 02:13, 10 May 2017 (UTC)

I suspect your site runs afoul of criteria 1 & 11 at WP:NOEL. Best regards... -Ad Orientem (talk) 02:24, 10 May 2017 (UTC)

Tom Kenyon (musician) delletion

Dear Julian,

Before I take this subject further I am folowing Wikipedia guidelines and will try to resolve it with you first. I was very surprised that the article was deleted, esspecialy based on 2 comments in deletion process, both off the cuff comments without merit.

I am an university professor with no connection whatsoever to Mr. Kenyon. I got briefly interested in the subject, collected the information in good faith and wrote a balanced article about a prolific musician and a medical professional. I don't have particular interest in that subject (actually I am not a fan of new age) but I referenced it quite well, (and if you checked the references you would see that too) and I can not understand why did it bother you that this article, without any disputable facts, and one that took effort and time to write would be removed. I believe that Wikipedia is opened to all as long as content is truthful, balanced and not biased, which this was, and that the person is of public interest. As you mentioned erroneously, I didn't quote Youtube as a reliable source, but number of views on youtube IS A PUBLIC INFORMATION AND IT IS A VERIFIABLE SIGN IF SOMETHING IS OF PUBLIC INTEREST. (please contest me on that) Also, if someone makes a biographical documentary about a person, and that documentary gets reviewed in Seattle times, then that person is also reviewed in the article (which anyone who reads it will notice). I would kindly ask you to look in the subject once more and restore the article before I take it to further review. I respect Wikipedia too much to let it be vandalised by people who are too flaky to fully review problems and who let their bias guide their decisions and consider two "off the cuff" comments a proper discussion. How could you make decision on those two comments?

Thank you for your time,

Sincerely,

milan_studio

Hi there, Milan studio. I'll start by saying that I don't particularly care whether Mr. Kenyon receives his own article here on Wikipedia. My job as an administrator involves closing dozens of deletion debates each week with complete impartiality (else I recuse myself from acting). The article in question did not "bother" me in any way, and while I'm sorry to have removed your hard work, we do have inclusion criteria here on Wikipedia. The deletion discussion, while not particularly well-attended, was unanimous (note that several different editors participated in the discussion; I made no comments aside from finalizing the result). Unfortunately, it appears that Tom Kenyon has not been discussed at depth in enough reliable sources to establish notability. Frankly, it surprises me that a college professor would find webpages like "All One Now" and "Luminosity Love" to be credible academic sources. As you've accused me of vandalism and called me "flaky", I'm totally disinclined to consider restoring the article which very clearly fails our notability standards. If you wish to contest the deletion, you may request a proper deletion review – though I expect you won't be very pleased with the result there, either. Finally, please sign your posts using four tildes, like so: ~~~~. This instruction is displayed quite prominently throughout the editing interface. Best of luck in your efforts to reinstate this article, and please consider a less hostile attitude the next time you disagree with another user. – Juliancolton | ^Talk 23:29, 11 May 2017 (UTC)

Xpressdocs Deletion

Hi there — Trying to gather some more insight into why the Xpressdocs page cannot seem to get published. Anything that would read like advertising/pure marketing was removed on the most recent draft, and the remaining information was tracked by independent sources. In terms of notability, the Xpressdocs’ page contained content similar to the earlier versions of comparable organizations (such as QuantumDigital and Vistaprint). Could you provide additional information as to why this page is constantly marked for deletion? Thank you.

Hello, Missashmarie7. Have you seen the deletion discussion for the article in question? If not, the comments there may answer some of your questions. Aside from the promotional content, it seems that editors also believe the subject fails our notability guidelines. Unfortunately, this is not something that can be "fixed" with any amount of editing; notability can only be established through extensive commentary in secondary, reliable sources. Wikipedia operates on a purely volunteer basis, so there's no guarantee other articles will have been properly vetted; your examples of comparable groups may be equally unsuited for inclusion here. If your questions remain unanswered, please let me know and I'll try to help add some clarity. Regards, – Juliancolton | ^Talk 23:34, 11 May 2017 (UTC)

OnStream Networks debate

The result of the debate about the deletion of the article for OnStream Networks was definitely not a consensus. The article had been worked on since the posting giving it formatting and references resolving the first delete vote. The company was clearly historically notable in its moment. The NYT article and the massive price of its purchase by themselves makes it notable. Please restore the article. --User:Brholden (talk)5 May 2017

Hi Brholden. I've restored the article to a draft, which can now be found here: Draft:OnStream Networks. This will allow you to continue adding reliable references in your own time to hopefully address the issues identified at the deletion discussion. When you're confident that the article meets our notability and verifiability requirements, you may request a review or simply move the article back to the article space. If you need help with that process, please feel free to contact me directly. Hope this is satisfactory for now. – Juliancolton | ^Talk 23:40, 11 May 2017 (UTC)

Your AFD close at Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Black_&_Lane's_Ident_Tones_for_Surround

Hi Juliancolton.

I saw in my list that you have closed the Black & Lane's Ident Tones for Surround AFD as a delete, noting that the sources I provided don't work. This is my fault. The sources do work, but I had misformatted the links, and as a result, they have a pipe mark and a number at the end, which is being treated as part of the URL - it is this which is breaking them. The correct links should be:

1. https://ips.org.uk/knowledge-base/blits-black-lanes-ident-tones-for-surround/
2. https://tech.ebu.ch/docs/tech/tech3304.pdf
3. http://www.tcelectronic.com/blits-a-new-optional-tool-for-touchmonitor/

I have purposely not formatted these as external links in markup, as I broke them last time and I'm not doing it again!

Could you please review these links and let me know if the decision can be amended please?

Many Thanks

Sunil The Mongoose (talk) 11:31, 12 May 2017 (UTC)

Hi Sunil The Mongoose, thanks for the message (and sorry I missed you on IRC this morning!). I've reopened and relisted the AfD, and fixed the external link formatting, to allow for review of these sources. Hopefully we can get some more eyes on the discussion in the coming week. Best regards, – Juliancolton | ^Talk 14:09, 12 May 2017 (UTC)

Blocking of UMCS2006

You posted a note on their user talk page stating they had been blocked, but you never actually blocked them. I have taken care of that for you. Have a wonderful day! ···日本穣 · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe · Join WP Japan! 06:21, 13 May 2017 (UTC)

Ugh, that's the second time I've done that recently... I'll have to try and figure out what I'm misclicking on Twinkle. Thanks for the note and for fixing my error. – Juliancolton | ^Talk 13:02, 13 May 2017 (UTC)

Ashfield Mall deletion and undeletion

Greetings. As part of my routine of behind-the-scenes gnoming, I've watchlisted WP:BADAFD and periodically look there for things that I can try and fix. The article on Ashfield Mall popped up briefly here, as it has just been undeleted by DavidLevinson following your deletion last month per Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ashfield Mall. He has made no edits to the article itself other than to remove the AfD template. This does not appear to be in response to any request--based on his user page, he himself seems to have an interest in shopping mall articles in general.

Anyway, the action appears to be good-faith, but to restore the article with no changes in light of the consensus to delete seems to me to be outside of policy. Not wanting to accidentally start any disputes, I wanted to let you know of this action and seek your opinion as to what the best (or, failing that, the least-worst) actions to take from here. Thank you for your time. --Finngall ^talk 00:10, 15 May 2017 (UTC)

Thank you very much for the notification and keen eye, Finngall. I agree that this out-of-process undeletion is problematic, to say the least. I've deleted the article once again and will shortly be engaging David in discussion. Hopefully we can get this sorted without any sort of wheel war breaking out. Regards, – Juliancolton | ^Talk 00:18, 15 May 2017 (UTC)

DYK for Cyclone Ada

On 15 May 2017, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Cyclone Ada, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that hundreds of tourists became stranded when Cyclone Ada ravaged Whitsunday Island resorts in January 1970? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Cyclone Ada. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Cyclone Ada), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Gatoclass (talk) 03:38, 15 May 2017 (UTC)

Creators of deleted pages, categories, etc.

Hi, How can i find the creator of a deleted page on commons or wikipedia? I'd be useful for this case. Thanks, 176.126.68.77 (talk) 12:43, 13 May 2017 (UTC)

No feedback? 176.126.68.77 (talk) 14:18, 18 May 2017 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
	Thanks for deleting so many vandalism articles! Elliot321 (talk) 18:02, 18 May 2017 (UTC)

Lehigh Blue Mountain & Northern RR

Hi Juliancolton. I just wanted to let you know that I have modified a soft block you placed on the Lehigh Blue Mountain & Northern RR (talk · contribs) account due to the evidence of sock puppetry/hoaxing at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Lehigh Blue Mountain & Northern RR. I've turned the autoblock on and changed the block reason to include the SPI. Thanks, Mz7 (talk) 18:53, 20 May 2017 (UTC)

New Page Review - Newsletter No.4

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The request: Wikipedia:Requests for permissions/New page reviewer

Please look the review - click here. - Prinsipe Ybarro (Talk to me | Contributions) 14:36, 30 May 2017 (UTC)

@Prinsipe Ybarro: Your request was declined by Kudpung (talk · contribs); what's to review? Also, please consider changing the bright colors in your signature, which is very difficult to read against a white background. – Juliancolton | ^Talk 14:38, 30 May 2017 (UTC)

Page you deleted

Yo JC if you could just do a quick compare and contrast exercise on [8]? Many thanks. Take care! — O Fortuna ^{semper crescis, aut decrescis} 18:18, 30 May 2017 (UTC)

Guess I missed the username connection the first time around. The new draft is actually quite a bit different and less spammy than the one from last month but given that the user is now {{uw-spamublock}}'d I'm not entirely sure what to do with it... think there's any chance someone else will adopt it? – Juliancolton | ^Talk 18:29, 30 May 2017 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – June 2017

News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2017).

Administrator changes

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ThaddeusB • Yandman • Bjarki S • OldakQuill • Shyam • Jondel • Worm That Turned

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• An RfC proposing an off-wiki LTA database has been closed. The proposal was broadly supported, with further discussion required regarding what to do with the existing LTA database and defining access requirements. Such a tool/database formed part of the Community health initiative's successful grant proposal.
• Some clarifications have been made to the community banning and unblocking policies that effectively sync them with current practice. Specifically, the community has reached a consensus that when blocking a user at WP:AN or WP:ANI, it is considered a "community sanction", and administrators cannot unblock unilaterally if the user has not successfully appealed the sanction to the community.
• An RfC regarding the bot policy has closed with changes to the section describing restrictions on cosmetic changes.

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Deleted twice, and now recreated

Hi. This article was deleted twice. Last by you earlier this year at AfD. The first time by User:Cuchullain.

But it is now recreated (by a new editor, whose only sizable edit was to create this article) - with the exact same problems. The only difference is that the new editor wrote out the subject's middle name. So it now appears as Robert Michael Bernstein.

What to do? Thanks. 2604:2000:E016:A700:E065:25B8:9FA5:3B6A (talk) 18:06, 2 June 2017 (UTC)

The content was substantially the same as the old deleted version, so it easily qualified for a G4 speedy deletion –  Done. Thanks for the note. – Juliancolton | ^Talk 18:20, 2 June 2017 (UTC)

Thank you very much.

The editor trying to make this into an article seems to be very persistent! This related article has also been created and deleted (not a problem now). Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bernstein Medical.

I will try to figure out how to nominate this related article for deletion ... Michael Wolfeld. It was proded, but a new editor deproded it. 2604:2000:E016:A700:E065:25B8:9FA5:3B6A (talk) 18:52, 2 June 2017 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CXXXIV, June 2017

Your Military History Newsletter Project news: From the editors; awards and honours; contest results Articles: Last month's new featured and A-class content Book review: Hawkeye7 looks at the Battle of Kokoda and US defence acquisition in the 1960s Op-ed: Hawkeye7 on the Battle of Messines Timeline: This month in World War I

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Hurricane Hazel

Julian, does Hazel look like it's in good shape to you? People were still talking about this hurricane when I was young, and I'd like to get it on the Main Page. - Dank (push to talk) 13:39, 11 June 2017 (UTC)

@Dank: We had this pulled from being a TFA a year or two ago, but the necessary improvements have yet to be made. ~ Cyclonebiskit (chat) 15:45, 11 June 2017 (UTC)

Oops. Thanks CB. - Dank (push to talk) 15:47, 11 June 2017 (UTC)

How about 1983 Atlantic hurricane season? It's one of the rare WP:TROP articles available for TFA that has a date connection in July, according to WP:FADC. - Dank (push to talk) 18:20, 11 June 2017 (UTC)

Pinging Mitchazenia on this one since he was the nom. - Dank (push to talk) 19:35, 11 June 2017 (UTC)

Need help with one thing: I've skimmed the article and the sources, and I still can't tell whether the first storm formed on the 23rd or the 29th. - Dank (push to talk) 19:41, 11 June 2017 (UTC)

@Dank: Yeah, at a glance, it looks like 1983 AHS has not aged particularly well and needs to be updated in several areas. The first depression officially formed on July 23, so if the article gets scheduled for that date, that gives me (and anyone else who wants to help) plenty of time to make it presentable. – Juliancolton | ^Talk 17:21, 12 June 2017 (UTC)

Great, thanks. - Dank (push to talk) 17:42, 12 June 2017 (UTC)

GA review in progress

Hi, I spotted your name at Wikipedia:Good_Article_help/mentor. I'm doing my first GA review and I would appreciate if you could look it over: Talk:Dezinformatsia (book)/GA1. That would be very much appreciated. K.e.coffman (talk) 04:56, 12 June 2017 (UTC)

Hi K.e.coffman, sure, I'd be happy to help. I'm a little pressed for time at the moment but I should be able to take a closer look this evening and provide any feedback or guidance as needed. Just from a cursory glance, your procedure seems fine, and I can't imagine that you've made any grave errors. I'll be in touch soon. – Juliancolton | ^Talk 17:25, 12 June 2017 (UTC)

No worries. My main question is whether it's important for the article to have a better developed reception section. My concern was that it was a bit slim, especially in comparison to the "Content summary section. K.e.coffman (talk) 03:29, 14 June 2017 (UTC)

I feel it's enough for good article for right now. I don't have access myself to the other sources. I followed the advice of K.e.coffman and put them in the further reading section. I will do more research once I have more resources available. Sagecandor (talk) 14:21, 14 June 2017 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:NPWgranted

Template:NPWgranted has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Ten Pound Hammer • ^{(What did I screw up now?)} 00:07, 18 June 2017 (UTC)

Incidents from Special:Contributions/DeadPi

Hello. I had been reported this form: DeadPi (talk · contribs)
Article related vandalism caused by attacking users, please check here below:

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Please remove these revisions, it's is a vandalism. Thanks. - Prinsipe Ybarro ^{(Talk to me)} 08:22, 18 June 2017 (UTC)

Thai FPC

Since you showed a prior interest...Now that I've learned Lightroom to some degree, I've processed the Thai ruins photo and put it back up at FPC. PumpkinSky talk 20:43, 24 June 2017 (UTC)

Editnotice

Hi Julian. I noticed a small grammatical error (tense, specifically) in the editnotice you created for the 2017 Pacific hurricane season article. In the part where it says "usually after it has impacted or began to threaten populated areas", began should be begun. The word is connected to the auxiliary verb has earlier in the sentence, so you have to use the past participle begun instead of the past tense began. I was going to fix it, but I found out that only administrators and template editors can edit editnotices. As I am neither, I thought I'd let you know about it. Thanks :) ChocolateTrain (talk) 14:00, 28 June 2017 (UTC)

Upon further inspection, I found that the editnotice for the 2017 Atlantic hurricane season article also bears this problem. If you could fix that as well, that would be great! Thanks again. ChocolateTrain (talk) 14:03, 28 June 2017 (UTC)

Done.Jason Rees (talk) 15:36, 28 June 2017 (UTC)

WikiCup 2017 July newsletter

The third round of the competition has finished in a flurry of last minute activity, with 288 points being required to qualify for round 4. It was a hotly competitive round with all but four of the contestants exceeding the 106 points that was necessary to proceed to round 4 last year. Coemgenus and Freikorp tied on 288, and both have been allowed to proceed, so round 4 now has one pool of eight competitors and one of nine.

Round 3 saw the achievement of a 26-topic Featured topic by MPJ-DK as well as 5 featured lists and 13 featured articles. PanagiotisZois and SounderBruce achieved their first ever featured articles. Carbrera led the GA score with 10, Tachs achieved 17 DYKs and MBlaze Lightning 10 In the news items. There were 167 DYKs, 93 GARs and 82 GAs overall, this last figure being higher than the number of GAs in round 2, when twice as many people were taking part. Even though contestants performed more GARs than they achieved GAs, there was still some frustration at the length of time taken to get articles reviewed.

As we start round 4, we say goodbye to the fifteen or so competitors who didn't quite make it; thank you for the useful contributions you have made to the Cup and Wikipedia. Remember that any content promoted after the end of round 3 but before the start of round 4 can be claimed in round 4. Remember too that you must claim your points within 10 days of "earning" them (some people have fallen foul of this rule and the points have been removed).

If you are concerned that your nomination, whether it be for a good article, a featured process, or anything else, will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. It would be helpful if this list could be cleared of any items no longer relevant. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to keep down the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Godot13, Sturmvogel 66 and Cwmhiraeth 05:38, 30 June 2017 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CXXXV, July 2017

Your Military History Newsletter Project news: From the editors; awards and honours; contest results Articles: Last month's new featured and A-class content Book review: Nick-D looks at planning for the unthinkable Op-ed: TomStar81 on Russia's Provisional Government in World War I Timeline: This month in World War I

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Administrators' newsletter – July 2017

News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2017).

Administrator changes

Happyme22 • Dragons flight

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Guideline and policy news

• The RFC discussion regarding WP:OUTING and WMF essay about paid editing and outing (see more at the ArbCom noticeboard archives) is now archived. Milieus #3 and #4 received support; so did concrete proposal #1.

Technical news

• Fuzzy search will soon be added to Special:Undelete, allowing administrators to search for deleted page titles with results similar to the search query. You can test this by adding ?fuzzy=1 to the URL, as with Special:Undelete?fuzzy=1. Currently the search only finds pages that exactly match the search term.
• A new bot will automatically revision delete unused file versions from files in Category:Non-free files with orphaned versions more than 7 days old.

Miscellaneous

• A newly revamped database report can help identify users who may be eligible to be autopatrolled.
• A potentially compromised account from 2001–2002 attempted to request resysop. Please practice appropriate account security by using a unique password for Wikipedia, and consider enabling two-factor authentication. Currently around 17% of admins have enabled 2FA, up from 16% in February 2017.
• Did you know: On 29 June 2017, there were 1,261 administrators on the English Wikipedia – the exact number of administrators as there were ten years ago on 29 June 2007. Since that time, the English Wikipedia has grown from 1.85 million articles to over 5.43 million.

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July 23 TFA

Link is here. I've struggled with the word "officially", applied to June 1, for a while. I think I want to replace it in the TFA text. "officially" doesn't mean anything unless the reader knows who's making the call. But I think if we mention NOAA directly, that waters down the reality: regardless of who said it first, June 1 is now the consensus pick for the start of the season. I'd be happy with "generally accepted" or "by convention", or something similar, unless you think that misrepresents things. - Dank (push to talk) 00:55, 11 July 2017 (UTC)

New Page Reviewer Newsletter

Hello Juliancolton, thank you for your efforts reviewing new pages!

Backlog update:

• The new page backlog is currently at 18,511 pages. We have worked hard to decrease from over 22,000, but more hard work is needed! Please consider reviewing even just a few pages a a day.
• Some editors are committing to work specifically on patrolling new pages on 15 July. If you have not reviewed new pages in a while, this might be a good time to be involved. Please remember that quality of patrolling is more important than quantity, that the speedy deletion criteria should be followed strictly, and that ovetagging for minor issues should be avoided.

Technology update:

• Several requests have been put into Phabractor to increase usability of the New Pages Feed and the Page Curation toolbar. For more details or to suggest improvements go to Wikipedia:Page Curation/Suggested improvements
• The tutorial has been updated to include links to the following useful userscripts. If you were not aware of them, they could be useful in your efforts reviewing new pages:
  • User:Lourdes/PageCuration.js adds a link to the new pages feed and page curation toolbar to your top toolbar on Wikipedia
  • User:The Earwig/copyvios.js adds a link in your side toolbox that will run the current page through

General project update:

• Following discussion at Wikipedia talk:New pages patrol/Reviewers, Wikipedia:New pages patrol/Noticeboard has been marked as historical. Wikipedia talk:New pages patrol/Reviewers is currently the most active central discussion forum for the New Page Patrol project. To keep up to date on the most recent discussions you can add it to your watchlist or visit it periodically.

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Administrators' newsletter – August 2017

News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2017).

Administrator changes

Anarchyte • GeneralizationsAreBad • Cullen328 ^{(first RfA to reach WP:300)}

Cprompt • Rockpocket • Rambo's Revenge • Animum • TexasAndroid • Chuck SMITH • MikeLynch • Crazytales • Ad Orientem

Guideline and policy news

• Following a series of discussions around new pages patrol, the WMF is helping implement a controlled autoconfirmed article creation trial as a research experiment, similar to the one proposed in 2011. You can learn more about the research plan at meta:Research:Autoconfirmed article creation trial. The exact start date of the experiment has yet to be determined.
• A new speedy deletion criterion, regarding articles created as a result undisclosed paid editing, is currently being discussed (permalink).
• An RfC (permalink) is currently open that proposes expanding WP:G13 to include all drafts, even if they weren't submitted through Articles for Creation.

Technical news

• LoginNotify should soon be deployed to the English Wikipedia. This will notify users when there are suspicious login attempts on their account.
• The new version of XTools is nearing an official release. This suite of tools includes administrator statistics, an improved edit counter, among other tools that may benefit administrators. You can report issues on Phabricator and provide general feedback at mw:Talk:XTools.

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The Bugle: Issue CXXXVI, August 2017

Your Military History Newsletter Project news: From the editors; awards and honours; contest results Articles: Last month's new featured and A-class content Book review: Hawkeye7 on the Battle of Messines and recent Australian Army leadership; Nick-D on South African armour Op-ed: Nick-D talks photography Timeline: This month in World War I

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WikiProject Investment

I'd like to invite you to join the Investment WikiProject. There are a lot of Investment related articles on Wikipedia that could use a little attention, and I hope this project can help organize an effort to improve them. So please, take a look and if you like what you see, help get this project off the ground and a few Investment pages into the front ranks of Wikipedia articles. Thanks!

Cheers! WikiEditCrunch (talk) 08:34, 24 August 2017 (UTC)

New Page Reviewer Newsletter

Hello Juliancolton, thank you for your efforts reviewing new pages!

Backlog update:

• The new page backlog is currently at 16,991 pages. We have worked hard to decrease from over 22,000, but more hard work is needed! Please consider reviewing even just a few pages a a day.

Technology update:

• Rentier has created a NPP browser in WMF Labs that allows you to search new unreviewed pages using keywords and categories.

General project update:

• The Wikimedia Foundation Community Tech team is working with the community to implement the autoconfirmed article creation trial. The trial is currently set to start on 7 September 2017, pending final approval of the technical features.
• Please remember to focus on the quality of review: correct tagging of articles and not tagbombing are important. Searching for potential copyright violations is also important, and it can be aided by Earwig's Copyvio Detector, which can be added to your toolbar for ease of use with this user script.
• To keep up with the latest conversation on New Pages Patrol or to ask questions, you can go to Wikipedia talk:New pages patrol/Reviewers and add it to your watchlist.

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WikiCup 2017 September newsletter

Round 4 of the WikiCup has ended and we move forward into the final round. In round 4, a total of 12 FAs, 3 FLs, 44 GAs, 3 FLs, 79 DYKs, 1 ITN and 42 GARs was achieved, with no FPs or FTs this time. Congratulations to Peacemaker67 on the Royal Yugoslav Navy Good Topic of 36 items, and the 12 featured articles achieved by Cas Liber (5), Vanamonde93 (3), Peacemaker67 (2), Adityavagarwal (1) and 12george1 (1). With a FA scoring 200 points, and bonus points available on top of this, FAs are likely to feature heavily in the final round. Meanwhile Yellow Evan, a typhoon specialist, was contributing 12 DYKs and 10 GAs, while Adityavagarwal and Freikorp topped the GAR list with 8 reviews each. As we enter the final round, we are down to eight contestants, and we would like to thank those of you who have been eliminated for the useful contributions you have made to the Cup and Wikipedia. The lowest score needed to reach round 5 was 305, and I think we can expect a highly competitive final round.

Remember that any content promoted after the end of round 4 but before the start of round 5 can be claimed in round 5. Remember too that you must claim your points within 10 days of "earning" them. If you are concerned that your nomination will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed. It would be helpful if this list could be cleared of any items no longer relevant. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to reduce the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck, and let the best man (or woman) win! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Godot13, Sturmvogel 66 and Cwmhiraeth 06:26, 1 September 2017 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – September 2017

News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2017).

Administrator changes

Nakon • Scott

Sverdrup • Thespian • Elockid • James086 • Ffirehorse • Celestianpower • Boing! said Zebedee

Guideline and policy news

• ACTRIAL, a research experiment that restricts article creation to autoconfirmed users, will begin on September 7. It will run for six months. You can learn more about the research specifics at meta:Research:Autoconfirmed article creation trial, while Wikipedia talk:Autoconfirmed article creation trial is probably the best venue for general discussion.
• Following an RfC, WP:G13 speedy deletion criterion now applies to any page in the draftspace that has not been edited in six months. There is a bot-generated report, updated daily, to help identify potentially qualifying drafts that have not been submitted through articles for creation.

Technical news

• You will now get a notification when someone tries to log in to your account and fails. If they try from a device that has logged into your account before, you will be notified after five failed attempts. You can also set in your preferences to get an email when someone logs in to your account from a new device or IP address, which may be encouraged for admins and accounts with sensitive permissions.
• Syntax highlighting is now available as a beta feature (more info). This may assist administrators and template editors when dealing with intricate syntax of high-risk templates and system messages.
• In your notification preferences, you can now block specific users from pinging you. This functionality will soon be available for Special:EmailUser as well.

Arbitration

• Applications for CheckUser and Oversight are being accepted by the Arbitration Committee until September 12. Community discussion of the candidates will begin on September 18.

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Sockpuppet Alert

The Love Pony has return as TheNPepole. I hate block evasion. — FilmandTVFan28 (talk) 05:01, 2 September 2017 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CXXXVII, September 2017

Your Military History Newsletter Project news: From the editors; awards and honours; contest results Articles: Last month's new featured and A-class content Book review: Nick-D and Hawkeye7 look at two recent releases Op-ed: Hawkeye7 on ANZACs in the Third Ypres Offensive Timeline: This month in World War I

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Invitation to Admin confidence survey

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New Page Reviewer Newsletter

Hello Juliancolton, thank you for your efforts reviewing new pages!

Backlog update:

• The new page backlog is currently at 14304 pages. We have worked hard to decrease from over 22,000, but more hard work is needed! Please consider reviewing even just a few pages a day.
• Currently there are 532 pages in the backlog that were created by non-autoconfirmed users before WP:ACTRIAL. The NPP project is undertaking a drive to clear these pages from the backlog before they hit the 90 day Google index point. Please consider reviewing a few today!

Technology update:

• The Wikimedia Foundation is currently working on creating a new filter for page curation that will allow new page patrollers to filter by extended confirmed status. For more information see: T175225

General project update:

• On 14 September 2017 the English Wikipedia began the autoconfirmed article creation trial. For a six month period, creation of articles in the mainspace of the English Wikipedia will be restricted to users with autoconfirmed status. New users who attempt article creation will now be redirected to a newly designed landing page.
• Before clicking on a reference or external link while reviewing a page, please be careful that the site looks trustworthy. If you have a question about the safety of clicking on a link, it is better not to click on it.
• To keep up with the latest conversation on New Pages Patrol or to ask questions, you can go to Wikipedia talk:New pages patrol/Reviewers and add it to your watchlist.

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Hurricane Irma article issues

Hi, I'm LightandDark2000. Can you plese semi-protect the Hurricane Irma article for another month? After the recent semi-protection expired (new editor reviewing is still in place), at least 90% of all the edits coming in from IPs or new editors have either been pure vandalism or just unsourced in general. Given the high viewership/popularity of the article and the recent vandalism rates at the article, I doubt that the problem is going to go away for a while. I believe that the article should be semi-protected again at least until the commotion dies down, similar to other major current hurricane articles. Thank you. LightandDark2000 (talk) 20:34, 19 September 2017 (UTC)

2017 Military history WikiProject Coordinator election

Greetings from the Military history WikiProject! Elections for the Military history WikiProject Coordinators are currently underway. As a member of the WikiProject you are cordially invited to take part by casting your vote(s) for the candidates on the election page. This year's election will conclude at 23:59 UTC 29 September. Thank you for your time. For the current tranche of Coordinators, AustralianRupert (talk) 10:39, 21 September 2017 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – October 2017

News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2017).

Administrator changes

Boing! said Zebedee • Ansh666 • Ad Orientem

Tonywalton • AmiDaniel • Silence • BanyanTree • Magioladitis • Vanamonde93 • Mr.Z-man • Jdavidb • Jakec • Ram-Man • Yelyos • Kurt Shaped Box

Guideline and policy news

• Following a successful proposal to create it, a new user right called "edit filter helper" is now assignable and revocable by administrators. The right allows non-administrators to view the details of private edit filters, but not to edit them.
• Following a discussion about mass-application of ECP and how the need for logging and other details of an evolving consensus may have been missed by some administrators, a rough guide to extended confirmed protection has been written. This information page describes how the extended-confirmed aspects of the protection policy are currently being applied by administrators.

Technical news

• You can now search for IP ranges at Special:Contributions. Some log pages and Special:DeletedContributions are not yet supported. Wildcards (e.g. 192.168.0.*) are also not supported, but the popular contribsrange gadget will continue to work.

Arbitration

• Community consultation on the 2017 candidates for CheckUser and Oversight has concluded. The Arbitration Committee will appoint successful candidates by October 11.
• A request for comment is open regarding the structure, rules, and procedures of the December 2017 Arbitration Committee election, and how to resolve any issues not covered by existing rules.

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The Bugle: Issue CXXXVIII, October 2017

Your Military History Newsletter Project news: From the editors; awards and honours; contest results Articles: Last month's new featured and A-class content Book review: Nick-D and Hawkeye7 look at Australian involvement on the Western Front in 1918 and in post-war New Guinea Op-ed: TomStar81 on the October Revolution Timeline: This month in World War I

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Invitation on a review as an experienced reviewer!

Dear Juliancolton, I invite you on my review of article - Air stripline for a general assessment. Any comments and guidance are much appreciated. I also request you to fix minor errors encountered.

Thank you -- Navinsingh133 (talk) 09:33, 18 October 2017 (UTC)

New Page Reviewer Newsletter

Hello Juliancolton, thank you for your efforts reviewing new pages!

Backlog update:

• The new page backlog is currently at 12,878 pages. We have worked hard to decrease from over 22,000, but more hard work is needed! Please consider reviewing even just a few pages a day.
• We have successfully cleared the backlog of pages created by non-confirmed accounts before ACTRIAL. Thank you to everyone who participated in that drive.

Technology update:

• Primefac has created a script that will assist in requesting revision deletion for copyright violations that are often found in new pages. For more information see User:Primefac/revdel.

General project update:

• The Article Wizard has been updated and simplified to match the layout style of the new user landing page. If you have not yet seen it, take a look.
• To keep up with the latest conversation on New Pages Patrol or to ask questions, you can go to Wikipedia talk:New pages patrol/Reviewers and add it to your watchlist.

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Administrators' newsletter – November 2017

News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2017).

Administrator changes

Longhair • Megalibrarygirl • TonyBallioni • Vanamonde93

Allen3 • Eluchil404 • Arthur Rubin • Bencherlite

Technical news

• The Wikimedia Foundation's Anti-Harassment Tools team is creating an "Interaction Timeline" tool that intends to assist administrators in resolving user conduct disputes. Feedback on the concept may be posted on the talk page.
• A new function is now available to edit filter managers that will make it easier to look for multiple strings containing spoofed text.

Arbitration

• Eligible editors will be invited to submit candidate statements for the 2017 Arbitration Committee Elections starting on November 12 until November 21. Voting will begin on November 27 and last until December 10.
• Following a request for comment, Ritchie333, Yunshui and Ymblanter will serve as the Electoral Commission for the 2017 ArbCom Elections.

Obituaries

• The Wikipedia community has recently learned that Allen3 (William Allen Peckham) passed away on December 30, 2016, the same day as JohnCD. Allen began editing in 2005 and became an administrator that same year.

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WikiCup 2017 November newsletter: Final results

The final round of the 2017 WikiCup is over. Congratulations to the 2017 WikiCup top three finalists:

• First Place - Adityavagarwal (submissions)
• Second Place - Vanamonde (submissions)
• Third Place - Cas Liber (submissions)

In addition to recognizing the achievements of the top finishers and everyone who worked hard to make it to the final round, we also want to recognize those participants who were most productive in each of the WikiCup scoring categories:

• Featured Article – Cas Liber (actually a two-way tie with themselves for an astonishing five FAs in R2 and R4).
• Good Article – Adityavagarwal had 14 GAs promoted in R5.
• Featured List – Bloom6132 (submissions) and 1989 (submissions) both produced 2 FLs in R2
• Featured Pictures – SounderBruce (submissions) improved an image to FP status in R5, the only FP this year.
• Featured Topic – MPJ-DK (submissions) has the only FT of the Cup in R3.
• Good Topic – Four different editors created a GT in R2, R3 and R4.
• Did You Know – Adityavagarwal had 22 DYKs on the main page in R5.
• In The News – MBlaze Lightning (submissions) had 14 ITN on the main page in R2.
• Good Article Review – Krishna Chaitanya Velaga (submissions) completed 31 GARs in R1.

Over the course of the 2017 WikiCup the following content was added or improved on Wikipedia: 51 Featured Articles, 292 Good Articles, 18 Featured Lists, 1 Featured Picture, 1 Featured Topics, 4 Good Topics, around 400 Did You Knows, 75 In The News, and 442 Good Article Reviews. Thank you to all the competitors for your hard work and what you have done to improve Wikipedia.

Regarding the prize vouchers - @Adityavagarwal, Vanamonde93, Casliber, Bloom6132, 1989, and SounderBruce: please send Godot13 (talk · contribs · email) an email from the email address to which you would like your Amazon voucher sent. Please include your preference of global Amazon marketplace as well. We hope to have the electronic gift cards processed and sent within a week.

We will open up a discussion for comments on process and scoring in a few days. The 2018 WikiCup is just around the corner! Many thanks from all the judges. If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Sturmvogel 66 (talk · contribs · email), Cwmhiraeth (talk · contribs · email), and Godot13 (talk · contribs · email) MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 11:42, 2 November 2017 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CXXXIX, November 2017

Your Military History Newsletter Project news: From the editors; awards and honours; contest results Articles: Last month's new featured and A-class content Book review: Recent external reviews Op-ed: TomStar81 on late 1917 naval warfare Timeline: This month in World War I

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WikiCup 2018

So the 2017 WikiCup has come to an end. Congratulations to the winner, to the other finalists and to all those who took part. 177 contestants signed up, more than usual, but not all of them submitted entries in the first round. Were editors attracted by the cash prizes offered for the first time this year, or were these irrelevant? Do the rules and scoring need changing for the 2018 WikiCup? If you have a view on these or other matters, why not join in the WikiCup discussion about next year's contest? Sturmvogel 66 (talk · contribs · email), Godot13 (talk · contribs · email) and Cwmhiraeth (talk · contribs · email). MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:59, 17 November 2017 (UTC)

Request for edit and improvement of List of awards and nominations received by Regine Velasquez

Hi Julian,

Hope all is well. From my understanding, the aforementioned Wikipedia List of Regine Velasquez's awards and nominations has been merged/redirected with the article back in 2013 after a consensus was made following its nomination for deletion. Having gone through the page myself, it does indeed fall short on verifiable sources and was poorly formatted and presented. I'd like to work on improving the list, after spending time improving Regine Velasquez's entry last October and November to meet with Wikipedia MOS guidelines, which I will initiate for a peer review soon.

Reading through the talk page I noted that individual admins don't have the authority to override the results of deletion discussions and that since you initiated redirecting it, upon advise, we should reach out to you. I'm also unsure where to discuss this, so I decided to contact you through your talk page. Hope you could get back on the best course of action to address my request.

Pseud 14 (talk) 12:28, 26 November 2017 (UTC)

ANI Experiences survey

The Wikimedia Foundation Community health initiative (led by the Safety and Support and Anti-Harassment Tools team) is conducting a survey for en.wikipedia contributors on their experience and satisfaction level with the Administrator’s Noticeboard/Incidents. This survey will be integral to gathering information about how this noticeboard works - which problems it deals with well, and which problems it struggles with.

The survey should take 10-20 minutes to answer, and your individual responses will not be made public. The survey is delivered through Google Forms. The privacy policy for the survey describes how and when Wikimedia collects, uses, and shares the information we receive from survey participants and can be found here:

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ArbCom 2017 election voter message

Hello, Juliancolton. Voting in the 2017 Arbitration Committee elections is now open until 23.59 on Sunday, 10 December. All users who registered an account before Saturday, 28 October 2017, made at least 150 mainspace edits before Wednesday, 1 November 2017 and are not currently blocked are eligible to vote. Users with alternate accounts may only vote once.

The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.

If you wish to participate in the 2017 election, please review the candidates and submit your choices on the voting page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:42, 3 December 2017 (UTC)

On the possibility of restoring deleted article: DucKon

Among my interests are the history of science fiction and the history of science fiction fans. When looking for information about DucKon recently, I was surprised to learn that its article had been deleted in November 2015.

I'm writing to ask whether you might reconsider this deletion. I hope for two favors.

First, would you be willing to provide me with the source of the most recent version, so that I might work to address the article's perceived weaknesses? (I have no experience with this process, but I do understand that an administrator has a way to retrieve a defunct article.)

Second, would you entertain the possibility of restoring it? I offer a few arguments:

• An annual convention that endured for 23 years, drawing attendees from across its region, is significant enough to the history of its fan community that it ought not be omitted from Wikipedia.
• Two books on fan history, and a physics magazine article, refer to DucKon in a nontrivial way.
• Three online reference sources, covering fandom broadly, have substantial entries on DucKon.
• Deleting DucKon's article severed links from at least thirteen other Wikipedia articles. (I also found several mentions that were not links.)
• I found 25 Youtube videos of musical performances at DucKon, some with millions of hits, all of which mention the con, before I stopped counting.
• I found 5 images on Wikimedia Commons of people or events at DucKon.

These considerations incline me to favor the convention's inclusion in Wikipedia, and I would like to hear your thoughts. I'd be happy to provide links if you are curious to see the evidence behind my assertions.

I believe I could edit the deleted article to strengthen its claim to notability, and improve it in other ways. Please give me a chance.

Beamjockey (talk) 23:48, 15 November 2017 (UTC)

I'm also distressed by the lack of an article on DucKon. Is it possible to get a copy of the deletion discussion?Sam Paris (talk) 15:38, 5 December 2017 (UTC)

2017 Military Historian of the Year and Newcomer of the Year nominations and voting

As we approach the end of the year, the Military History project is looking to recognise editors who have made a real difference. Each year we do this by bestowing two awards: the Military Historian of the Year and the Military History Newcomer of the Year. The co-ordinators invite all project members to get involved by nominating any editor they feel merits recognition for their contributions to the project. Nominations for both awards are open between 00:01 on 2 December 2017 and 23:59 on 15 December 2017. After this, a 14-day voting period will follow commencing at 00:01 on 16 December 2017. Nominations and voting will take place on the main project talkpage: here and here. Thank you for your time. For the co-ordinators, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 08:35, 8 December 2017 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CXL, December 2017

Your Military History Newsletter Project news: From the editors; awards and honours; contest results Articles: Last month's new featured and A-class content Book review: Recent external reviews Op-ed: TomStar81 on the Halifax Explosion of 1917 Timeline: This month in World War I

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Administrators' newsletter – December 2017

News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2017).

Administrator changes

Joe Roe

JzG

Ericorbit • Perceval • Thingg • Tristanb • Violetriga

Guideline and policy news

• Following a request for comment, a new section has been added to the username policy which disallows usernames containing emoji, emoticons or otherwise "decorative" usernames, and usernames that use any non-language symbols. Administrators should discuss issues related to these types of usernames before blocking.

Technical news

• Wikimedians are now invited to vote on the proposals in the 2017 Community Wishlist Survey on Meta Wiki until 10 December 2017. In particular, there is a section of the survey regarding new tools for administrators and for anti-harassment.
• A new function is available to edit filter managers which can be used to store matches from regular expressions.

Arbitration

• Voting in the 2017 Arbitration Committee elections is open until Sunday 23:59, 10 December 2017 (UTC). There are 12 candidates running for 8 vacant seats.

Miscellaneous

• Over the last few months, several users have reported backlogs that require administrator attention at WP:ANI, with the most common backlogs showing up on WP:SPI, WP:AIV and WP:RFPP. It is requested that all administrators take some time during this month to help clear backlogs wherever possible. It should be noted that AIV reports are not always valid; however, they still need to be cleared, which may include needing to remind users on what qualifies as vandalism.
• The Wikimedia Foundation Community health initiative is conducting a survey for English Wikipedia contributors on their experience and satisfaction level with Administrator’s Noticeboard/Incidents. This survey will be integral to gathering information about how this noticeboard works (i.e. which problems it deals with well and which problems it struggles with). If you would like to take this survey, please sign up on this page, and a link for the survey will be emailed to you via Special:EmailUser.

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New Page Reviewer Newsletter

Hello Juliancolton, thank you for your efforts reviewing new pages!

Backlog update:

• The new page backlog is currently at 12713 pages. Please consider reviewing even just a few pages each day! If everyone helps out, it will really put a dent in the backlog.
• Currently the backlog stretches back to March and some pages in the backlog have passed the 90 day Google index point. Please consider reviewing some of them!

Outreach and Invitations:

• If you know other editors with a good understanding of Wikipedia policy, invite them to join NPP by dropping the invitation template on their talk page with: {{subst:NPR invite}}. Adding more qualified reviewers will help with keeping the backlog manageable.

New Year New Page Review Drive

• A backlog drive is planned for the start of the year, beginning on January 1st and running until the end of the month. Unique prizes will be given in tiers for both the total number of reviews made, as well as the longest 'streak' maintained.
• Note: quality reviewing is extremely important, please do not sacrifice quality for quantity.

General project update:

• ACTRIAL has resulted in a significant increase in the quality of new submissions, with noticeably fewer CSD, PROD, and BLPPROD candidates in the new page feed. However, the majority of the backlog still dates back to before ACTRIAL started, so consider reviewing articles from the middle or back of the backlog.
• The NPP Browser can help you quickly find articles with topics that you prefer to review from within the backlog.
• To keep up with the latest conversation on New Pages Patrol or to ask questions, you can go to Wikipedia talk:New pages patrol/Reviewers and add it to your watchlist.

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FYI

Just a heads up that I unsalted the redirect at List of awards and nominations received by Regine Velasquez per this request. Just an FYI since you closed the original discussion. If you have any objections, feel free to resalt. TonyBallioni (talk) 07:08, 19 December 2017 (UTC)

User group for Military Historians

Greetings,

"Military history" is one of the most important subjects when speak of sum of all human knowledge. To support contributors interested in the area over various language Wikipedias, we intend to form a user group. It also provides a platform to share the best practices between military historians, and various military related projects on Wikipedias. An initial discussion was has been done between the coordinators and members of WikiProject Military History on English Wikipedia. Now this discussion has been taken to Meta-Wiki. Contributors intrested in the area of military history are requested to share their feedback and give suggestions at Talk:Discussion to incubate a user group for Wikipedia Military Historians.

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Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

	Wishing you and yours a Merry Christmas and a happy, healthy and prosperous New Year 2018!
	Thank you for all the hard work and effort you put into Wikipedia. God bless! Onel5969 TT me 02:50, 22 December 2017 (UTC)

Guild of Copy Editors December 2017 News

Guild of Copy Editors December 2017 News Hello copy editors! Welcome to the December 2017 GOCE newsletter, which contains nine months(!) of updates. The Guild has been busy and successful; your diligent efforts in 2017 has brought the backlog of articles requiring copy edit to below 1,000 articles for the first time. Thanks to all editors who have contributed their time and energy to help make this happen. >>> Sign up for the January Drive! <<< >>> Participate in the Coordinator Elections! <<< Our copy-editing drives (month-long backlog-reduction drives held in odd-numbered months) and blitzes (week-long themed editing in even-numbered months) have been very successful this year. March drive: We set out to remove April, May, and June 2016 from our backlog and all February 2017 Requests (a total of 304 articles). By the end of the month, all but 22 of these articles were cleared. Officially, of the 28 who signed up, 22 editors recorded 257 copy edits (439,952 words). (These numbers do not always make sense when you compare them to the overall reduction in the backlog, because not all editors record every copy edit on the drive page.) April blitz: This one-week copy-editing blitz ran from 16 through 22 April; the theme was Requests. Of the 15 who signed up, 9 editors completed 43 articles (81,822 words). May drive: The goals were to remove July, August, and September 2016 from the backlog and to complete all March 2017 Requests (a total of 300 articles). By the end of the month, we had reduced our overall backlog to an all-time low of 1,388 articles. Of the 28 who signed up, 17 editors completed 187 articles (321,810 words). June blitz: This one-week copy-editing blitz ran from 18 through 24 June; the theme was Requests. Of the 16 who signed up, 9 editors completed 28 copy edits (117,089 words). 2017 Coordinator elections: In June, coordinators for the second half of 2017 were elected. Jonesey95 moved back into the lead coordinator position, with Miniapolis stepping down to remain as coordinator; Tdslk and Corinne returned as coordinators, and Keira1996 rejoined after an extended absence. Thanks to all who participated! July drive: We set out to remove August, September, October, and November 2016 from the backlog and to complete all May and June 2017 Requests (a total of 242 articles). The drive was an enormous success, and the target was nearly achieved within three weeks, so that December 2016 was added to the "old articles" list used as a goal for the drive. By the end of the month, only three articles from 2016 remained, and for the second drive in a row, the backlog was reduced to a new all-time low, this time to 1,363 articles. Of the 33 who signed up, 21 editors completed 337 articles (556,482 words). August blitz: This one-week copy-editing blitz ran from 20 through 26 August; the theme was biographical articles tagged for copy editing for more than six months (47 articles). Of the 13 who signed up, 11 editors completed 38 copy edits (42,589 words). September drive: The goals were to remove January, February, and March 2017 from the backlog and to complete all August 2017 Requests (a total of 338 articles). Of the 19 who signed up, 14 editors completed 121 copy edits (267,227 words). October blitz: This one-week copy-editing blitz ran from 22 through 28 October; the theme was Requests. Of the 14 who signed up, 8 editors completed 20 articles (55,642 words). November drive: We set out again to remove January, February, and March 2017 from the backlog and to complete all October 2017 Requests (a total of 207 articles). By the end of the month, these goals were reached and the backlog shrank to its lowest total ever, 997 articles, the first time it had fallen under one thousand (click on the graph above to see this amazing feat in graphical form). It was also the first time that the oldest copy-edit tag was less than eight months old. Of the 25 who signed up, 16 editors completed 159 articles (285,929 words). 2018 Coordinator elections: Voting is open for the election of coordinators for the first half of 2018. Please visit the election page to vote between now and December 31 at 23:59 (UTC). Thanks for participating! Housekeeping note: We do not send a newsletter before (or after) every drive or blitz. To have a better chance of knowing when the next event will start, add the GOCE's message box to your watchlist. 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, Miniapolis, Corinne, Tdslk, and Keira1996. >>> Sign up for the January Drive! <<< >>> Participate in the Coordinator Elections! <<< To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

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Nomination of National Weather Service Caribou, Maine for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article National Weather Service Caribou, Maine is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/National Weather Service North Little Rock, Arkansas until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article.--Rusf10 (talk) 18:08, 29 December 2017 (UTC)

New Years new page backlog drive

Hello Juliancolton, thank you for your efforts reviewing new pages!

Announcing the NPP New Year Backlog Drive!

We have done amazing work so far in December to reduce the New Pages Feed backlog by over 3000 articles! Now is the time to capitalise on our momentum and help eliminate the backlog!

The backlog drive will begin on January 1^st and run until January 29^th. Prize tiers and other info can be found HERE.

Awards will be given in tiers in two categories:

• The total number of reviews completed for the month.
• The minimum weekly total maintained for all four weeks of the backlog drive.

NOTE: It is extremely important that we focus on quality reviewing. Despite our goal of reducing the backlog as much as possible, please do not rush while reviewing.

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Administrators' newsletter – January 2018

News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2017).

Administrator changes

Muboshgu

Anetode • Laser brain • Worm That Turned

None

Bureaucrat changes

Worm That Turned

Guideline and policy news

• A request for comment is in progress to determine whether the administrator policy should be amended to require disclosure of paid editing activity at WP:RFA and to prohibit the use of administrative tools as part of paid editing activity, with certain exceptions.

Technical news

• The 2017 Community Wishlist Survey results have been posted. The Community Tech team will investigate and address the top ten results.
• The Anti-Harassment Tools team is inviting comments on new blocking tools and improvements to existing blocking tools for development in early 2018. Feedback can be left on the discussion page or by email.

Arbitration

• Following the results of the 2017 election, the following editors have been (re)appointed to the Arbitration Committee: Alex Shih, BU Rob13, Callanecc, KrakatoaKatie, Opabinia regalis, Premeditated Chaos, RickinBaltimore, Worm That Turned.

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The Bugle: Issue CXLI, January 2018

Your Military History Newsletter Project news: From the editors; awards and honours; contest results Articles: Last month's new featured and A-class content Book review: Hawkeye7 looks at tropical medicine and Operation Market Garden Op-ed: Hawkeye7 on US Army doctrine in World War I Timeline: This month in World War I

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Reg Rahul_Verma_(social_activist)

Hi, Is it possible to restore https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Rahul_Verma_(social_activist)

New York times recently did a front page story on him, in this article it is clearly visible that he remain media shy for so many years.

http://www.nytimes.com/images/2017/12/29/nytfrontpage/INYT_frontpage_global.20171229.pdf

One Man’s Stand Against Junk Food as Diabetes Climbs Across India ( online addition)

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/26/health/india-diabetes-junk-food.html

Here is video featured about his work by CNBC TV 18

Arjunuday, The Force Behind Uday Foundation

Thanks HelloDolly89 (talk) 11:14, 11 January 2018 (UTC)

Article Chris Andrews (wrestler) deletion

Hi Juliancolton, I was recently looking to create Chris Andrews (wrestler), and I understand that there was a previous version of the article that was deleted on PROD by yourself, due to not meeting WP:GNG. Is there a way I can see the previous version of the article, and see if there is a starting of an article, as I believe there are new sources made for him, see below:

Ringside World Basingstoke Gazette Wrestling Fever (German) Octagon Theatre (Yeovil) Kayfabe today Devon Live Magazine Total Wrestling Magazine

Additional info sources: British Wrestling revival Interview Wrestling Blog with information Cagematch Profile

If I could see the original, I would be able to assess if an article is feasable.

Thank you for your time. Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 11:51, 22 January 2018 (UTC)

Hi Lee Vilenski, I've restored the article per the contested PROD protocol (I know you didn't technically context the deletion, but this seems easier all-around). Best of luck in your efforts to improve the article, and feel free to contact me with any questions/issues. – Juliancolton | ^Talk 16:16, 24 January 2018 (UTC)

Many thanks, the article really was in a state! I'll leave an "under creation" tag on the article and I'll update it soon. Have a great day Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 16:29, 24 January 2018 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – February 2018

News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2018).

Administrator changes

None

Blurpeace • Dana boomer • Deltabeignet • Denelson83 • Grandiose • Salvidrim! • Ymblanter

Guideline and policy news

• An RfC has closed with a consensus that candidates at WP:RFA must disclose whether they have ever edited for pay and that administrators may never use administrative tools as part of any paid editing activity, except when they are acting as a Wikipedian-in-Residence or when the payment is made by the Wikimedia Foundation or an affiliate of the WMF.
• Editors responding to threats of harm can now contact the Wikimedia Foundation's emergency address by using Special:EmailUser/Emergency. If you don't have email enabled on Wikipedia, directly contacting the emergency address using your own email client remains an option.

Technical news

• A tag will now be automatically applied to edits that blank a page, turn a page into a redirect, remove/replace almost all content in a page, undo an edit, or rollback an edit. These edits were previously denoted solely by automatic edit summaries.

Arbitration

• The Arbitration Committee has enacted a change to the discretionary sanctions procedure which requires administrators to add a standardized editnotice when placing page restrictions. Editors cannot be sanctioned for violations of page restrictions if this editnotice was not in place at the time of the violation.

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New Page Reviewer Newsletter

Hello Juliancolton, thank you for your efforts in reviewing new pages!

The NPP backlog at the end of the drive with the number of unreviewed articles by creation date. Red is older than 90 days, orange is between 90 and 30 days old, and green is younger than 30 days.

Backlog update:

• The new page backlog is currently at 3819 unreviewed articles, with a further 6660 unreviewed redirects.
• We are very close to eliminating the backlog completely; please help by reviewing a few extra articles each day!

New Year Backlog Drive results:

• We made massive progress during the recent four weeks of the NPP Backlog Drive, during which the backlog reduced by nearly six thousand articles and the length of the backlog by almost 3 months!

General project update:

• ACTRIAL will end it's initial phase on the 14th of March. Our goal is to reduce the backlog significantly below the 90 day index point by the 14th of March. Please consider helping with this goal by reviewing a few additional pages a day.
• Reviewing redirects is an important and necessary part of New Page Patrol. Please read the guideline on appropriate redirects for advice on reviewing redirects. Inappropriate redirects can be re-targeted or nominated for deletion at RfD.

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Rahul_Verma_(social_activist)

Hi, Is it possible to restore https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Rahul_Verma_(social_activist) New York times recently did a front page story on him, in this article it is clearly visible that he remain media shy for so many years. http://www.nytimes.com/images/2017/12/29/nytfrontpage/INYT_frontpage_global.20171229.pdf

One Man’s Stand Against Junk Food as Diabetes Climbs Across India ( online addition) https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/26/health/india-diabetes-junk-food.html Same article was featured as a two page article in printed addition of Gulf times http://gulfnews.com/culture/people/a-father-sues-to-curb-junk-food-as-diabetes-spreads-1.2150937 Here is video featured about his work by CNBC TV 18 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZYVav8_r2o HelloDolly89 (talk) 09:42, 9 February 2018 (UTC)

Now at Wikipedia:Deletion review/Log/2018 February 9. —Cryptic 12:01, 9 February 2018 (UTC)

Tropical Depression Ten (2005) scheduled for TFA

This is to let you know that Tropical Depression Ten (2005) has been scheduled as today's featured article for 10 February 2018. Please check that the article needs no amendments. If you're interested in editing the main page text, you're welcome to do so at Wikipedia:Today's featured article/February 10, 2018. Ealdgyth - Talk 16:25, 19 January 2018 (UTC)

Thank you, not for depression but Depression ;) ----Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:52, 10 February 2018 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CXLII, February 2018

Your Military History Newsletter Project news: From the editors; awards and honours; contest results Articles: Last month's new featured and A-class content Book review: Nick-D on the Napoleonic Wars and Hawkeye7 on World War II Op-ed: Hawkeye7 on generalship in 1918 Timeline: This month in World War I

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Rahul Verma (social activist)

Hi, I have created Rahul Verma (social activist) after Allow creation decision in deletion review/Log/2018 February 9 [9]). Please have a look. Sorry if I troubled you too much Regards Shibanihk (talk) 07:17, 17 February 2018 (UTC)

Hi Shibanihk, thank you for the notification. It looks like the new article is off to a good start. I've added the page to my watchlist and will be happy to offer any guidance as needed. Regards, – Juliancolton | ^Talk 18:42, 18 February 2018 (UTC)

That means a lot. Again thank a ton. Regards Shibanihk (talk) 03:09, 19 February 2018 (UTC)

GOCE February 2018 news

Guild of Copy Editors February 2018 News Welcome to the February 2018 GOCE newsletter in which you will find Guild updates since the December edition. We got to a great start for the year, holding the backlog at nine months. 100 requests were submitted in the first 6 weeks of the year and were swiftly handled with an average completion time of 9 days. >>> Sign up for the March Drive! <<< Coordinator elections: In December, coordinators for the first half of 2018 were elected. Jonesey95 remained as lead coordinator and Corrine, Miniapolis and Tdslk as assistant coordinators. Keira1996 stepped down as assistant coordinator and was replaced by Reidgreg. Thanks to all who participated! End of year reports were prepared for 2016 and 2017, providing a detailed look at the Guild's long-term progress. January drive: We set out to remove April, May, and June 2017 from our backlog and all December 2017 Requests (a total of 275 articles). As with previous years, the January drive was an outstanding success and by the end of the month all but 57 of these articles were cleared. Officially, of the 38 who signed up, 21 editors recorded 259 copy edits (490,256 words). February blitz: This one-week copy-editing blitz ran from 11 through 17 February, focusing on Requests and the last articles tagged in May 2017. At the end of the week there were only 14 pending requests, with none older than 20 days. Of the 11 who signed up, 10 editors completed 35 copy edits (98,538 words). 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, Miniapolis, Corinne, Tdslk, and Reidgreg. >>> Sign up for the March Drive! <<< To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

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Precious five years!

Precious

Five years!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:09, 25 February 2018 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – March 2018

News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2018).

Administrator changes

Lourdes†

AngelOfSadness • Bhadani • Chris 73 • Coren • Friday • Midom • Mike V

† Lourdes has requested that her admin rights be temporarily removed, pending her return from travel.

Guideline and policy news

• The autoconfirmed article creation trial (ACTRIAL) is scheduled to end on 14 March 2018. The results of the research collected can be read on Meta Wiki.
• Community ban discussions must now stay open for at least 24 hours prior to being closed.
• A change to the administrator inactivity policy has been proposed. Under the proposal, if an administrator has not used their admin tools for a period of five years and is subsequently desysopped for inactivity, the administrator would have to file a new RfA in order to regain the tools.
• A change to the banning policy has been proposed which would specify conditions under which a repeat sockmaster may be considered de facto banned, reducing the need to start a community ban discussion for these users.

Technical news

• CheckUsers are now able to view private data such as IP addresses from the edit filter log, e.g. when the filter prevents a user from creating an account. Previously, this information was unavailable to CheckUsers because access to it could not be logged.
• The edit filter has a new feature contains_all that edit filter managers may use to check if one or more strings are all contained in another given string.

Miscellaneous

• Following the 2018 Steward elections, the following users are our new stewards: -revi, Green Giant, Rxy, There'sNoTime, علاء.

Obituaries

• Bhadani (Gangadhar Bhadani) passed away on 8 February 2018. Bhadani joined Wikipedia in March 2005 and became an administrator in September 2005. While he was active, Bhadani was regarded as one of the most prolific Wikipedians from India.

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WikiCup 2018 March newsletter

And so ends the first round of the competition, with 4 points required to qualify for round 2. With 53 contestants qualifying, the groups for round 2 are slightly smaller than usual, with the two leaders from each group due to qualify for round 3 as well as the top sixteen remaining users.

Our top scorers in round 1 were:

• Aoba47 led the field with a featured article, 8 good articles and 42 GARs, giving a total of 666 points.
• FrB.TG , a WikiCup newcomer, came next with 600 points, gained from a featured article and masses of bonus points.
• Ssven2, another WikiCup newcomer, was in third place with 403 points, garnered from a featured article, a featured list, a good article and twelve GARs.
• Ceranthor, Numerounovedant, Carbrera, Farang Rak Tham and Cartoon network freak all had over 200 points, but like all the other contestants, now have to start again from scratch. A good achievement was the 193 GARs performed by WikiCup contestants, comparing very favourably with the 54 GAs they achieved.

Remember that any content promoted after the end of round 1 but before the start of round 2 can be claimed in round 2. Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. Remember, if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews.

If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to help keep down the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Godot13 (talk), Sturmvogel 66 (talk), Cwmhiraeth (talk) and Vanamonde (talk) 15:27, 2 March 2018 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CXLIII, March 2018

Your Military History Newsletter Project news: From the editors; awards and honours; contest results Articles: Last month's new featured and A-class content Book review: Hawkeye7 looks at a work by Daniel Ellsberg Op-ed: TomStar81 on the 1918 flu pandemic Timeline: This month in World War I

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Proposed merger of Mesoscale convective vortex into Mesovortices

Please go to Talk:Mesovortices if you have an opinion on the subject. Pierre cb (talk) 12:45, 22 March 2018 (UTC)

April 2018 Milhist Backlog Drive

G'day all, please be advised that throughout April 2018 the Military history Wikiproject is running its annual backlog elimination drive. This will focus on several key areas:

• tagging and assessing articles that fall within the project's scope
• adding or improving listed resources on Milhist's task force pages
• updating the open tasks template on Milhist's task force pages
• creating articles that are listed as "requested" on the project's various lists of missing articles.

As with past Milhist drives, there are points awarded for working on articles in the targeted areas, with barnstars being awarded at the end for different levels of achievement.

The drive is open to all Wikipedians, not just members of the Military history project, although only work on articles that fall (broadly) within the scope of military history will be considered eligible. This year, the Military history project would like to extend a specific welcome to members of Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red, and we would like to encourage all participants to consider working on helping to improve our coverage of women in the military. This is not the sole focus of the edit-a-thon, though, and there are aspects that hopefully will appeal to pretty much everyone.

The drive starts at 00:01 UTC on 1 April and runs until 23:59 UTC on 30 April 2018. Those interested in participating can sign up here.

For the Milhist co-ordinators, AustralianRupert and MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 10:53, 27 March 2018 (UTC)

New Page Review Newsletter No.10

Hello Juliancolton, thank you for your work reviewing New Pages!

ACTRIAL:

• ACTRIAL's six month experiment restricting new page creation to (auto)confirmed users ended on 14 March. As expected, a greatly increased number of unsuitable articles and candidates for deletion are showing up in the feed again, and the backlog has since increased already by ~30%. Please consider reviewing a few extra articles each day.

Paid editing

• Now that ACTRIAL is inoperative pending discussion, please be sure to look for tell-tale signs of undisclosed paid editing. Contact the creator if appropriate, and submit the issue to WP:COIN if necessary.

Subject-specific notability guidelines

• The box at the right contains each of the subject-specific notability guidelines, please review any that are relevant BEFORE nominating an article for deletion.
• Reviewers are requested to familiarise themselves with the new version of the notability guidelines for organisations and companies. A further discussion is currently taking place at: Can a subject specific guideline invalidate the General Notability Guideline?

Nominate competent users for Autopatrolled

• While patrolling articles, if you find an editor that is particularly competent at creating quality new articles, and that user has created more than 25 articles (rather than stubs), consider nominating them for the 'Autopatrolled' user right HERE.

News

• The next issue Wikipedia's newspaper The Signpost has now been published after a long delay. There are some articles in it, including ACTRIAL wrap-up that will be of special interest to New Page Reviewers. Don't hesitate to contribute to the comments sections. The Signpost is one of the best ways to stay up date with news and new developments - please consider subscribing to it. All editors of Wikipedia and associated projects are welcome to submit articles on any topic for consideration by the The Signpost's editorial team for the next issue.

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Administrators' newsletter – April 2018

News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2018).

Administrator changes

331dot • Cordless Larry • ClueBot NG

Gogo Dodo • Pb30 • Sebastiankessel • Seicer • SoLando

Guideline and policy news

• Administrators who have been desysopped due to inactivity are now required to have performed at least one (logged) administrative action in the past 5 years in order to qualify for a resysop without going through a new RfA.
• Editors who have been found to have engaged in sockpuppetry on at least two occasions after an initial indefinite block, for whatever reason, are now automatically considered banned by the community without the need to start a ban discussion.
• The notability guideline for organizations and companies has been substantially rewritten following the closure of this request for comment. Among the changes, the guideline more clearly defines the sourcing requirements needed for organizations and companies to be considered notable.
• The six-month autoconfirmed article creation trial (ACTRIAL) ended on 14 March 2018. The post-trial research report has been published. A request for comment is now underway to determine whether the restrictions from ACTRIAL should be implemented permanently.

Technical news

• There will soon be a calendar widget at Special:Block, making it easier to set expiries for a specific date and time.

Arbitration

• The Arbitration Committee is considering a change to the discretionary sanctions procedures which would require an editor to appeal a sanction to the community at WP:AE or WP:AN prior to appealing directly to the Arbitration Committee at WP:ARCA.

Miscellaneous

• A discussion has closed which concluded that administrators are not required to enable email, though many editors suggested doing so as a matter of best practice.
• The Foundations' Anti-Harassment Tools team has released the Interaction Timeline. This shows a chronologic history for two users on pages where they have both made edits, which may be helpful in identifying sockpuppetry and investigating editing disputes.

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The Bugle: Issue CXLIIV, April 2018

Your Military History Newsletter Project news: From the editors; awards and honours; contest results Articles: Last month's new featured and A-class content Book review: Nick-D looks at the bombing of Darwin; recent books by female military historians Review essay: K.e.coffman on Wikipedia's representations of the Nazi German military Op-ed: TomStar81 on the Red Baron Timeline: This month in World War I

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Nomination of Portal:New York Roads for deletion

A proposal has been made to delete Portal:New York Roads, which you have made significant contributions to, as well as all other portals on English Wikipedia. You are welcome to contribute to the discussion if you'd like, which is located at Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)#RfC: Ending the system of portals. Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 11:27, 12 April 2018 (UTC)

Merged Minor characters of Xanth into List of Xanth characters

Dear Juliancolton:

I have just completed the merging of Minor characters of Xanth into List of Xanth characters. Your name was on the top of the Talk Page of the former article as per the discussion about such a merge/deletion. It seems this merge had been sitting on the shelf since 2009.

Since it was your decision per the discussion to merge said articles, I wanted to let you know that this is the very first article merger I have performed, and I was wondering if I could bother you to check things over to make sure I did it right.

I had initially intended to use a {{Merge}} request, but then I realized how bold and easy it should be to perform. I've made note on the two Talk pages, as suggested by the Wikipedia:Merging#Full-content paste merger page/section. How did I do for my first time? There is another pair of articles I've previously suggested merging, but I haven't completed because I was unsure about the process. I want to make sure I did everything right here before attempting a Selective Paste Merger there.
Christopher, Sheridan, OR (talk) 06:00, 13 April 2018 (UTC)

Please comment on Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Shehzad_Poonawalla

Hello, Can you please takeout few minutes to comment on this. Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Shehzad_Poonawalla Regards Sonia89f (talk) 12:10, 20 April 2018 (UTC)

WikiCup 2018 May newsletter

The second round of the 2018 WikiCup has now finished. Most contestants who advanced to the next round scored upwards of 100 points, but two with just 10 points managed to scrape through into round 3. Our top scorers in the last round were:

• Cas Liber, our winner in 2016, with three featured articles
• Iazyges, with nine good articles and lots of bonus points
• Yashthepunisher, a first time contestant, with two featured lists
• SounderBruce, a finalist last year, with seventeen good topic articles
• Usernameunique, a first time contestant, with fourteen DYKs
• Muboshgu, a seasoned competitor, with three ITNs and
• Courcelles, another first time contestant, with twenty-seven GARs

So far contestants have achieved twelve featured articles between them and a splendid 124 good articles. Commendably, 326 GARs have been completed during the course of the 2018 WikiCup, so the backlog of articles awaiting GA review has been reduced as a result of contestants' activities. As we enter the third round, remember that any content promoted after the end of round 2 but before the start of round 3 can be claimed in round 3. 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; most of the GARs are fine, but a few have been a bit skimpy.

If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article nominations, a featured process, or anywhere 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 (talk) 06:10, 1 May 2018 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – May 2018

News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2018).

Administrator changes

None

Chochopk • Coffee • Gryffindor • Jimp • Knowledge Seeker • Lankiveil • Peridon • Rjd0060

Guideline and policy news

• The ability to create articles directly in mainspace is now indefinitely restricted to autoconfirmed users.
• A proposal is being discussed which would create a new "event coordinator" right that would allow users to temporarily add the "confirmed" flag to new user accounts and to create many new user accounts without being hindered by a rate limit.

Technical news

• AbuseFilter has received numerous improvements, including an OOUI overhaul, syntax highlighting, ability to search existing filters, and a few new functions. In particular, the search feature can be used to ensure there aren't existing filters for what you need, and the new equals_to_any function can be used when checking multiple namespaces. One major upcoming change is the ability to see which filters are the slowest. This information is currently only available to those with access to Logstash.
• When blocking anonymous users, a cookie will be applied that reloads the block if the user changes their IP. This means in most cases, you may no longer need to do /64 range blocks on residential IPv6 addresses in order to effectively block the end user. It will also help combat abuse from IP hoppers in general. This currently only occurs when hard-blocking accounts.
• The block notice shown on mobile will soon be more informative and point users to a help page on how to request an unblock, just as it currently does on desktop.
• There will soon be a calendar widget at Special:Block, making it easier to set expiries for a specific date and time.

Arbitration

• The Arbitration Committee is seeking additional clerks to help with the arbitration process.

Obituaries

• Lankiveil (Craig Franklin) passed away in mid-April. Lankiveil joined Wikipedia on 12 August 2004 and became an administrator on 31 August 2008. During his time with the Wikimedia community, Lankiveil served as an oversighter for the English Wikipedia and as president of Wikimedia Australia.

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Hurricane Carmen scheduled for TFA

This is to let you know that Hurricane Carmen has been scheduled as today's featured article for 3 May 2018. Please check that the article needs no polishing or corrections. If you're interested in editing the main page text, you're welcome to do so at Wikipedia:Today's featured article/May 3, 2018. Ealdgyth - Talk 14:52, 23 April 2018 (UTC)

Thank you, and all who helped, for the "relatively destructive 1970s tropical cyclone whose most significant effect was the destruction of sugar crops in the United States. Despite sparing two major population centers and causing less damage than initially feared, the hurricane's severity justified the retirement of its name the following year"! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:39, 3 May 2018 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CXLIV, May 2018

Your Military History Newsletter Project news: From the editors; awards and honours; contest results Articles: Last month's new featured and A-class content Book review: Hawkeye7 looks at coalitions and logistics in World War II, and Nick-D at Australia's frontier wars Timeline: This month in World War I

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Webkul

Hi Julian, I sent you links for the article that has been deleted i.e Webkul. Please check and let me know if those link can work as reliable sources and the page can be recovered.

Saurav.webkul (talk) 05:44, 14 May 2018 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Webkul

Hello,

As the Webkul article has been deleted, and as per reason there is no reliable resource to prove that. Now I have with me reliable sources to satisfy the company information. Can you restore that article so I can make suggested changes? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Saurav.webkul (talk • contribs) 08:02, 2 May 2018 (UTC)

Hello Saurav.webkul,

Even if you can verify the information about the company, that still doesn't necessarily mean the business is notable. To establish notability for Wikipedia standards, you need many independent, reliable sources that discuss the company in great detail. Is this the case? If so, could you please provide a sample of the sources you've found? Thank you, – Juliancolton | ^Talk 14:52, 2 May 2018 (UTC)

Hello, I am sending you the link to reliable sources, please find below

• Magento Technology Partner: https://marketplace.magento.com/partner/webkul
• 2018 Magento Technology Partners Award: https://magento.com/blog/events/2018-partner-award-winners-magento-technology-partners
• CrunchBase: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/webkul
• Webkul Software Pvt Ltd.: https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/webkul-software-private-limited/articleshow/55326922.cms
• BWdisrupt: http://bwdisrupt.businessworld.in/article/FarEye-Ranks-Among-One-of-India-s-50-Fastest-Growing-Tech-Companies/21-11-2016-108577/
• National Skills Registry: https://nationalskillsregistry.com/companies-listing.htm
• DataQuest: http://www.dqindia.com/the-inspiring-story-of-how-startup-webkul-created-a-40000-customer-base-using-open-source/
• PlanBmatters: http://planbmatters.com/one-simple-idea-led-to-a-1mn-company
• Mixergy: http://mixergy.com/interviews/vipin-sahu-webkul-interview
• Deloitte Technology Fast 50 2015: https://www2.deloitte.com/content/dam/Deloitte/in/Documents/technology-media-telecommunications/in-tmt-tech-fast-50-2015-noexp.pdf
• Deloitte Technology Fast 50 2016: https://www2.deloitte.com/content/dam/Deloitte/in/Documents/technology-media-telecommunications/in-tmt-techfast50-2016-winners-noexp.pdf
• Deloitte Tech Fast 50 APAC: https://www2.deloitte.com/content/dam/Deloitte/global/Documents/Technology-Media-Telecommunications/gx-tech-fast-500-apac-ranking-report-2016.pdf
• Deloitte Technology Fast 50 2017: https://www2.deloitte.com/content/dam/Deloitte/in/Documents/technology-media-telecommunications/in-tmt-tech-fast-50-winners-report-17-noexp.pdf
• Deccan Hearald: https://www.deccanherald.com/content/581354/8-delhi-ncr-cos-find.html
• SalesForce Partner: https://appexchange.salesforce.com/appxSearchKeywordResults?keywords=webkul
• Odoo Partners: https://www.odoo.com/partners/webkul-software-pvt-ltd-13619
• Iyzico Partner: https://www.iyzico.com/hazir-altyapi
• Opencart Partner: https://www.opencart.com/index.php?route=support/partner/info&partner_id=106785&filter_country_id=99&filter_type_id=1&page=2
• Asian Entrepreneur: http://www.asianentrepreneur.org/vipin-sahu-co-founder-of-webkul-2/
• Digifire: https://www.digifire.in/2016/02/25/interview-with-vinay-yadav-co-founder-at-webkul/

Saurav.webkul (talk) 05:45, 14 May 2018 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Webkul

Hello,

I am sending you the link to reliable sources for Webkul, please find below

• Magento Technology Partner: https://marketplace.magento.com/partner/webkul
• 2018 Magento Technology Partners Award: https://magento.com/blog/events/2018-partner-award-winners-magento-technology-partners
• CrunchBase: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/webkul
• Webkul Software Pvt Ltd.: https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/webkul-software-private-limited/articleshow/55326922.cms
• BWdisrupt: http://bwdisrupt.businessworld.in/article/FarEye-Ranks-Among-One-of-India-s-50-Fastest-Growing-Tech-Companies/21-11-2016-108577/
• National Skills Registry: https://nationalskillsregistry.com/companies-listing.htm
• DataQuest: http://www.dqindia.com/the-inspiring-story-of-how-startup-webkul-created-a-40000-customer-base-using-open-source/
• PlanBmatters: http://planbmatters.com/one-simple-idea-led-to-a-1mn-company
• Mixergy: http://mixergy.com/interviews/vipin-sahu-webkul-interview
• Deloitte Technology Fast 50 2015: https://www2.deloitte.com/content/dam/Deloitte/in/Documents/technology-media-telecommunications/in-tmt-tech-fast-50-2015-noexp.pdf
• Deloitte Technology Fast 50 2016: https://www2.deloitte.com/content/dam/Deloitte/in/Documents/technology-media-telecommunications/in-tmt-techfast50-2016-winners-noexp.pdf
• Deloitte Tech Fast 50 APAC: https://www2.deloitte.com/content/dam/Deloitte/global/Documents/Technology-Media-Telecommunications/gx-tech-fast-500-apac-ranking-report-2016.pdf
• Deloitte Technology Fast 50 2017: https://www2.deloitte.com/content/dam/Deloitte/in/Documents/technology-media-telecommunications/in-tmt-tech-fast-50-winners-report-17-noexp.pdf
• Deccan Hearald: https://www.deccanherald.com/content/581354/8-delhi-ncr-cos-find.html
• SalesForce Partner: https://appexchange.salesforce.com/appxSearchKeywordResults?keywords=webkul
• Odoo Partners: https://www.odoo.com/partners/webkul-software-pvt-ltd-13619
• Iyzico Partner: https://www.iyzico.com/hazir-altyapi
• Opencart Partner: https://www.opencart.com/index.php?route=support/partner/info&partner_id=106785&filter_country_id=99&filter_type_id=1&page=2
• Asian Entrepreneur: http://www.asianentrepreneur.org/vipin-sahu-co-founder-of-webkul-2/
• Digifire: https://www.digifire.in/2016/02/25/interview-with-vinay-yadav-co-founder-at-webkul/

Saurav.webkul (talk) 05:45, 14 May 2018 (UTC)

NPR Newsletter No.11 25 May 2018

Hello Juliancolton, thank you for your work reviewing New Pages!

ACTRIAL:

• WP:ACREQ has been implemented. The flow at the feed has dropped back to the levels during the trial. However, the backlog is on the rise again so please consider reviewing a few extra articles each day; a backlog approaching 5,000 is still far too high. An effort is also needed to ensure that older unsuitable older pages at the back of the queue do not get automatically indexed for Google.

Deletion tags

• Do bear in mind that articles in the feed showing the trash can icon may have been tagged by inexperienced or non NPR rights holders. They require your further verification.

Backlog drive:

• A backlog drive will take place from 10 through 20 June. Check out our talk page at WT:NPR for more details. NOTE: It is extremely important that we focus on quality reviewing. Despite our goal of reducing the backlog as much as possible, please do not rush while reviewing.

Editathons

• There will be a large increase in the number of editathons in June. Please be gentle with new pages that obviously come from good faith participants, especially articles from developing economies and ones about female subjects. Consider using the 'move to draft' tool rather than bluntly tagging articles that may have potential but which cannot yet reside in mainspace.

Paid editing - new policy

• Now that ACTRIAL is ACREQ, please be sure to look for tell-tale signs of undisclosed paid editing. Contact the creator if appropriate, and submit the issue to WP:COIN if necessary. There is a new global WMF policy that requires paid editors to connect to their adverts.

Subject-specific notability guidelines

• The box at the right contains each of the subject-specific notability guidelines, please review any that are relevant BEFORE nominating an article for deletion.
• Reviewers are requested to familiarise themselves with the new version of the notability guidelines for organisations and companies.

Not English

• A common issue: Pages not in English or poor, unattributed machine translations should not reside in main space even if they are stubs. Please ensure you are familiar with WP:NPPNE. Check in Google for the language and content, tag as required, then move to draft if they do have potential.

News

• Development is underway by the WMF on upgrades to the New Pages Feed, in particular ORES features that will help to identify COPYVIOs, and more granular options for selecting articles to review.
• The next issue of The Signpost has been published. The newspaper is one of the best ways to stay up to date with news and new developments. between our newsletters.

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Request for removing semi on Jodie Sweetin

• Jodie Sweetin (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Hello! I was browsing around and found that Jodi Sweetin has been indef semi'd since 2009. Perhaps it's time to give it a shot at unprotection? That said, I have no experience with the article other than coming across it today and recognize the BLP concerns. Reaching out only based on the long period of protection and per last bullet point on the rough guide. Thanks for your time.--Policy Reformer(c) 04:00, 19 May 2018 (UTC)

Oops. Helps if I get the right links.--Policy Reformer(c) 04:13, 19 May 2018 (UTC)

Based on your recent contribs, it seems like you might be a bit less active these days. I'm going to post this over at RPP. If you have any thoughts, I welcome them. Thanks for your time.--Policy Reformer(c) 23:36, 24 May 2018 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – June 2018

News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2018).

Administrator changes

None

Al Ameer son • AliveFreeHappy • Cenarium • Lupo • MichaelBillington

Guideline and policy news

• Following a successful request for comment, administrators are now able to add and remove editors to the "event coordinator" group. Users in the event coordinator group have the ability to temporarily add the "confirmed" flag to new user accounts and to create many new user accounts without being hindered by a rate limit. Users will no longer need to be in the "account creator" group if they are in the event coordinator group.
• Following an AN discussion, all pages with content related to blockchain and cryptocurrencies, broadly construed, are now under indefinite general sanctions.

Technical news

• IP-based cookie blocks should be deployed to English Wikipedia in June. This will cause the block of a logged-out user to be reloaded if they change IPs. This means in most cases, you may no longer need to do /64 range blocks on residential IPv6 addresses in order to effectively block the end user. It will also help combat abuse from IP hoppers in general. For the time being, it only affects users of the desktop interface.
• The Wikimedia Foundation's Anti-Harassment Tools team will build granular types of blocks in 2018 (e.g. a block from uploading or editing specific pages, categories, or namespaces, as opposed to a full-site block). Feedback on the concept may be left at the talk page.
• There is now a checkbox on Special:ListUsers to let you see only users in temporary user groups.
• It is now easier for blocked mobile users to see why they were blocked.

Arbitration

• A recent technical issue with the Arbitration Committee's spam filter inadvertently caused all messages sent to the committee through Wikipedia (i.e. Special:EmailUser/Arbitration Committee) to be discarded. If you attempted to send an email to the Arbitration Committee via Wikipedia between May 16 and May 31, your message was not received and you are encouraged to resend it. Messages sent outside of these dates or directly to the Arbitration Committee email address were not affected by this issue.

Miscellaneous

• In early May, an unusually high level of failed login attempts was observed. The WMF has stated that this was an "external effort to gain unauthorized access to random accounts". Under Wikipedia policy, administrators are required to have strong passwords. To further reinforce security, administrators should also consider enabling two-factor authentication. A committed identity can be used to verify that you are the true account owner in the event that your account is compromised and/or you are unable to log in.

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June 2018 GOCE newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors June 2018 News Welcome to the June 2018 GOCE newsletter, in which you will find Guild updates since the February edition. Progress continues to be made on the copyediting backlog, which has been reduced to 7 months and reached a new all-time low. Requests continue to be handled efficiently this year, with 272 completed by the end of May (an average completion time of 10.5 days). Fewer than 10% of these waited longer than 20 days, and the longest wait time was 29 days. Wikipedia in general, and the Guild in particular, experienced a deep loss with the death on 20 March of Corinne. Corinne (a GOCE coordinator since 1 July 2016) was a tireless aide on the requests page, and her peerless copyediting is a part of innumerable GAs and FAs. Her good cheer, courtesy and tact are very much missed. March drive: The goal was to remove June, July and August 2017 from our backlog and all February 2018 Requests (a total of 219 articles). This drive was an outstanding success, and by the end of the month all but eight of these articles were cleared. Of the 33 editors who signed up, 19 recorded 277 copy edits (425,758 words). April blitz: This one-week copy-editing blitz ran from 15 through 21 April, focusing on Requests and the last eight articles tagged in August 2017. At the end of the week there were only 17 pending requests, with none older than 17 days. Of the nine editors who signed up, eight editors completed 22 copy edits (62,412 words). May drive: We set out to remove September, October and November 2017 from our backlog and all April 2018 Requests (a total of 298 articles). There was great success this month with the backlog more than halved from 1,449 articles at the beginning of the month to a record low of 716 articles. Officially, of the 20 who signed up, 15 editors recorded 151 copy edits (248,813 words). Coordinator elections: It's election time again. Nominations for Guild coordinators (who will serve a six-month term for the second half of 2018) have begun, and will close at 23:59 UTC on 15 June. All Wikipedia editors in good standing are eligible, and self-nominations are encouraged. Voting will take place between 00:01 UTC on 16 June and 23:59 UTC on 30 June. June blitz: Stay tuned for this one-week copy-editing blitz, which will take place in mid-June. Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators: Corinne, Jonesey95, Miniapolis, Reidgreg and Tdslk. >>> Participate in the June elections! <<< To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

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The Bugle: Issue CXLVI, June 2018

Your Military History Newsletter Project news: From the editors; awards and honours; contest results Articles: Last month's new featured and A-class content Book review: Recent external reviews Op-ed: TomStar81 on a supergun of World War I Timeline: This month in World War I

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Hurricane Daniel (2006) scheduled for TFA

This is to let you know that the Hurricane Daniel (2006) article has been scheduled as today's featured article for July 16, 2018. Please check the article needs no amendments. If you're interested in editing the main page text, you're welcome to do so at Wikipedia:Today's featured article/July 16, 2018, but note that a coordinator will trim the lead to around 1100 characters anyway, so you aren't obliged to do so. Thanks! Jimfbleak - talk to me? 10:14, 15 June 2018 (UTC)

NPP Backlog Elimination Drive

Hello Juliancolton, thank you for your work reviewing New Pages!

We can see the light at the end of the tunnel: there are currently 2900 unreviewed articles, and 4000 unreviewed redirects.

Announcing the Backlog Elimination Drive!

• As a final push, we have decided to run a backlog elimination drive from the 20th to the 30th of June.
• Reviewers who review at least 50 articles or redirects will receive a Special Edition NPP Barnstar: . Those who review 100, 250, 500, or 1000 pages will also receive tiered awards: , , , .
• Please do not be hasty, take your time and fully review each page. It is extremely important that we focus on quality reviewing.

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Thank you

I appreciate the time you spent looking things over at the North Cascades National Park FAC. [10] It definitely helped me make the article much better.--MONGO 21:15, 20 June 2018 (UTC)

GA nomination for Diddle Diddle Dumpling (Inside No. 9)

Hi! I saw your name on the list of GA mentors, and I would be very grateful if you were willing to have a check over my first GA review at Talk:Diddle Diddle Dumpling (Inside No. 9)/GA1 before I close the review. My opinion is that the nomination needs to be put on hold. Many thanks, --Jonie148 (talk) 14:59, 22 June 2018 (UTC)

WikiCup 2018 July newsletter

The third round of the 2018 WikiCup has now come to an end. The 16 users who made it to the fourth round had at least 227 points. Our top scorers in round 3 were:

• Courcelles, a first time contestant, with 1756 points, a tally built largely on 27 GAs related to the Olympics
• Cas Liber, our winner in 2016, with two featured articles and three GAs on natural history and astronomy topics
• SounderBruce, a finalist last year, with a variety of submissions related to transport in the state of Washington

Contestants managed 7 featured articles, 4 featured lists, 120 good articles, 1 good topic, 124 DYK entries, 15 ITN entries, and 132 good article reviews. Over the course of the competition, contestants have completed 458 GA reviews, in comparison to 244 good articles submitted for review and promoted. As we enter the fourth round, remember that any content promoted after the end of round 3 but before the start of round 4 can be claimed in round 4. Please also remember 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. Please also remember that all submissions must meet core Wikipedia policies, regardless of the review process; several submissions, particularly in abstruse or technical areas, have needed additional work to make them completely verifiable.

If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article nominations, a featured process, or anywhere 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), Cwmhiraeth (talk), Vanamonde (talk) 04:55, 2 July 2018 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – July 2018

News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2018).

Administrator changes

Pbsouthwood • TheSandDoctor

Gogo Dodo

Andrevan • Doug • EVula • KaisaL • Tony Fox • WilyD

Bureaucrat changes

Andrevan • EVula

Guideline and policy news

• An RfC about the deletion of drafts closed with a consensus to change the wording of WP:NMFD. Specifically, a draft that has been repeatedly resubmitted and declined at AfC without any substantial improvement may be deleted at MfD if consensus determines that it is unlikely to ever meet the requirements for mainspace and it otherwise meets one of the reasons for deletion outlined in the deletion policy.
• A request for comment closed with a consensus that the {{promising draft}} template cannot be used to indefinitely prevent a WP:G13 speedy deletion nomination.

Technical news

• Starting on July 9, the WMF Security team, Trust & Safety, and the broader technical community will be seeking input on an upcoming change that will restrict editing of site-wide JavaScript and CSS to a new technical administrators user group. Bureaucrats and stewards will be able to grant this right per a community-defined process. The intention is to reduce the number of accounts who can edit frontend code to those who actually need to, which in turn lessens the risk of malicious code being added that compromises the security and privacy of everyone who accesses Wikipedia. For more information, please review the FAQ.
• Syntax highlighting has been graduated from a Beta feature on the English Wikipedia. To enable this feature, click the highlighter icon () in your editing toolbar (or under the hamburger menu in the 2017 wikitext editor). This feature can help prevent you from making mistakes when editing complex templates.
• IP-based cookie blocks should be deployed to English Wikipedia in July (previously scheduled for June). This will cause the block of a logged-out user to be reloaded if they change IPs. This means in most cases, you may no longer need to do /64 range blocks on residential IPv6 addresses in order to effectively block the end user. It will also help combat abuse from IP hoppers in general. For the time being, it only affects users of the desktop interface.

Miscellaneous

• Currently around 20% of admins have enabled two-factor authentication, up from 17% a year ago. If you haven't already enabled it, please consider doing so. Regardless if you use 2FA, please practice appropriate account security by ensuring your password is secure and unique to Wikimedia.

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Thank you

Thanks to editors like you who are willing to review articles such as North Cascades National Park and offer excellent suggestions, it is now a Featured Article!--MONGO (talk) 16:22, 9 July 2018 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CXLVII, July 2018

Your Military History Newsletter Project news: From the editors; awards and honours; contest results Articles: Last month's new featured and A-class content Book review: This month's external reviews Op-ed: TomStar81 on the murder of the Romanovs Timeline: This month in World War I

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NPR Newsletter No.12 30 July 2018

Chart of the New Pages Patrol backlog for the past 6 months. ()

Hello Juliancolton, thank you for your work reviewing New Pages!

June backlog drive

Overall the June backlog drive was a success, reducing the last 3,000 or so to below 500. However, as expected, 90% of the patrolling was done by less than 10% of reviewers.
Since the drive closed, the backlog has begun to rise sharply again and is back up to nearly 1,400 already. Please help reduce this total and keep it from raising further by reviewing some articles each day.

New technology, new rules

• New features are shortly going to be added to the Special:NewPagesFeed which include a list of drafts for review, OTRS flags for COPYVIO, and more granular filter preferences. More details can be found at this page.
• Probationary permissions: Now that PERM has been configured to allow expiry dates to all minor user rights, new NPR flag holders may sometimes be limited in the first instance to 6 months during which their work will be assessed for both quality and quantity of their reviews. This will allow admins to accord the right in borderline cases rather than make a flat out rejection.
• Current reviewers who have had the flag for longer than 6 months but have not used the permissions since they were granted will have the flag removed, but may still request to have it granted again in the future, subject to the same probationary period, if they wish to become an active reviewer.

Editathons

• Editathons will continue through August. Please be gentle with new pages that obviously come from good faith participants, especially articles from developing economies and ones about female subjects. Consider using the 'move to draft' tool rather than bluntly tagging articles that may have potential but which cannot yet reside in mainspace.

The Signpost

• The next issue of the monthly magazine will be out soon. The newspaper is an excellent way to stay up to date with news and new developments between our newsletters. If you have special messages to be published, or if you would like to submit an article (one about NPR perhaps?), don't hesitate to contact the editorial team here.

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Administrators' newsletter – August 2018

News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2018).

Administrator changes

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KaisaL • Ymblanter

Guideline and policy news

• After a discussion at Meta, a new user group called "interface administrators" (formerly "technical administrator") has been created. Come the end of August, interface admins will be the only users able to edit site-wide JavaScript and CSS pages like MediaWiki:Common.js and MediaWiki:Common.css, or edit other user's personal JavaScript and CSS. The intention is to improve security and privacy by reducing the number of accounts which could be used to compromise the site or another user's account through malicious code. The new user group can be assigned and revoked by bureaucrats. Discussion is ongoing to establish details for implementing the group on the English Wikipedia.
• Following a request for comment, the WP:SISTER style guideline now states that in the mainspace, interwiki links to Wikinews should only be made as per the external links guideline. This generally means that within the body of an article, you should not link to Wikinews about a particular event that is only a part of the larger topic. Wikinews links in "external links" sections can be used where helpful, but not automatically if an equivalent article from a reliable news outlet could be linked in the same manner.

Technical news

• The WMF Anti-Harassment Tools team is seeking input on the second set of wireframes for the Special:Block redesign that will introduce partial blocks. The new functionality will allow you to block a user from editing a specific set of pages, pages in a category, a namespace, and for specific actions such as moving pages and uploading files.

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The Bugle: Issue CXLVIII, August 2018

Your Military History Newsletter Project news: From the editors; awards and honours; contest results Articles: Last month's new featured and A-class content Book review: Nick-D looks at a classic US official history Op-ed: TomStar81 on belated declarations of war in 1916–18 Timeline: This month in World War I

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