This award is given in recognition to 94rain for collecting at least 25 points during the January 2024 NPP backlog drive. Your contributions played a part in the 16,070 reviews completed during the drive. Thank you so much for taking part and contributing to help reduce the backlog! Hey man im josh (talk) 22:38, 8 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Hello, I am an artist that was advised to make a Wikipedia page. I see there is a pop up that says it is "unconstructive." Most of the Bio is informational to be optimized online so that my identity corresponds with me as an artist. May I know where is the template or link to copy and paste https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Ta_0003/sandbox
Hi!
I tried adding the following info to this chart using the formatting of the ones above and now the references are IN the chart. Can you help me figure out what I did wrong?
Thanks!
Elle
Hello, you’re apparently my mentor, so I have a quick question. First some background, I found a source about a seemingly notable beach patrol, Long Beach Township Beach Patrol, and I expanded the article on it, but it got reverted. If the patrol was noted as, “one of the biggest and oldest beach patrols in America” by the Philadelphia Inquirer, should the article be added back? --Wranlo (talk) 23:29, 28 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Hi @Wranlo. Claims like “one of the biggest and oldest beach patrols in America” do not directly imply notability. Please take a look at WP:N and find sources to support notability. Feel free to ask me any questions again using your original account once it gets unblocked. 94rainTalk03:41, 29 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 24
Hello everyone, and welcome to the 24th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter, covering all our favorite new and updated user scripts since 24 December 2021. Uh-huh, we're finally covering the good ones among the rest! Aren't you excited? Remember to include a link in double brackets to the script's .js page when you install the script, so that we can see who uses the script in WhatLinksHere! The ScriptInstaller gadget automatically does this. Aaron Liu (talk) 01:00, 1 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Got anything good? Tell us about your new, improved, old, or messed-up script here!
Featured script
Making user scripts load faster by SD0001 is this month's featured script, which caches userscripts every day to eliminate the overhead caused by force-downloading the newest version of scripts every time you open a Wikipedia page. Despite being released in April 2021, our best script scouters have failed to locate it due to its omission from the US of L. For security reasons, the script only supports loading JavaScript pages.
Newly maintained scripts
After earthly attempts at improving the original have failed...
Ahecht has created a fork of SiBr4/TemplateSearch, which adds the "TP:" shortcut for "Template:" in the search box, and updated it to be compatible with Vector 2022.
AquilaFasciata/goToTopFast is a much faster fork of the classic goToTop script that also adds compatibility for Minerva and Vector 2022.
Without caching. Each script takes 400–500ms. A particularly large script takes 1.11 s! Internet download speed is 50 Mbps.With caching enabled. Each script takes just 1-2 ms to load.
Improve a script
Unfortunately, this section has remained nearly identical. Help us out here!
To a lesser extent, the same goes for PrimeHunter/Search sort. I wish someone would integrate the sorts into the sort menu instead of adding 11 portlet links.
Dragoniez/SuppressEnterInForm stops you from accidentally submitting anything due to pressing enter while in the smaller box, and works on almost anything... except the InputBox element itself, used in subscription lists and the Signpost Crossword! Oh, the humanity!
Doǵu/Adiutor(pictured) provides a nice, integrated interface to do some twinkley tasks such as copyvio detection, CSD tagging, and viewing the most recent diff.
Eejit43 has quite the aesthetically pleasing scripts, all made in TypeScript.
/afcrc-helper is a replacement for the unmaintained Enterprisey/AFCRHS and processes Redirects for Creation and Categories for Creation requests.
/ajax-undo stops the "undo" button from taking you to another page while providing a text box to provide a reason for the revert.
/redirect-helper(pictured) adds a much better interface for editing and redirects, including categorization, for which valid categories are dictated by /redirect-helper.json.
/rmtr-helper helps process technical requested moves without being able to actually move them.
Guycn2/UserInfoPopup(pictured) adds a flyout after the watchlist star on userspace pages that displays the common information you might use about a user.
Jeeputer/editCounter, under userspace, adds a portlet link to count your edits by namespace, put them in a table, and put that table in a hardcoded subpage, all in the background.
Hilst/Scripts/sectionLinks converts all section links to use the § sign, which are known to be preferred over the ugly # by 99% of the devils I've met.
PrimeHunter/Category source.js adds portlet links to tell you where a category for an article comes from and supports those from template transclusions.
Sophivorus's MiniEdit adds some nice, li'l buttons next to paragraphs to edit their wikitext with a minimal interface.
Edit-listings
Dragoniez/ToollinkTweaks adds more and customizable links next to users in page history, logs, watchlist, recent changes, etc.
Firefly/more-block-info optimizes the display of rangeblocks in contribution pages. Doesn't work outside the English locale of any wiki, unfortunately.
NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh/AjaxLoader makes paging links (e.g. older 50, 500, newest) load without refreshing and makes you realize how slow your internet actually is.
Appearance-ricing
Ahecht/RedirectID adds the redirect target to all redirects. For all the WP:NAVPOPS haters. (Do these exist?)
Dragoniez/MarkBLockedGlobal: Remember the "strike blocked usernames" gadget? Now you can use a red, dotted line to highlight rangeblocks and global locks!
Jonesey/common(pictured) has some styles to overhaul your Vector 2022 experience. It reduces padding everywhere, and makes the top bar animation faster.
Aaron Liu/V22 is a fork that narrows the sidebars instead of upheaving them, reverts the January 2024 dropdown changes, and restores the old page-link color for links that don't go outside the current wiki.
Nardog: SmartDiff is a spiritual successor to Enterprisey/fancy-diffs. It makes the page title part of links in diffs clickable, along with template and parser function calls. Unnamed parameters can be configured per template to also be linked. All links are styled based on the normal CSS classes of rendered links.
For the paranoid: Rublov/anonymize replaces your username at the top of the screen with the generic "User page" text. Remember, it is your duty to persuade everyone that editing is an honor.
/AjaxBlock provides a dialog box for easy input of reasons while blocking users.
/Selective Rollback(pictured) provides a dialog box to customize rollback edit summaries and does them without reloading the page. Seriously, why doesn't MediaWiki already do this?
/flickrsearch adds a portlet link to search for uploadable flickr images about the subject.
/randomincategory adds a portlet link when on Category pages to go to a random page in the current category.
Vghfr/EasyTemplates adds a portlet link to automatically insert some of the most common inline {{fix}} templates.
Yes, we're just doing 'em as we go now. Thanks for reading through this looong issue, if you did! I'm sure this'll send a record for the longest issue ev-ah. You may need to wait even longer for the last issue, as our reserve of old-y and goodie scripts have ran out... We encourage you to try and do some of the requests or improvement tasks. See you in Summer, hopefully!
Wondering why Nathia Kelley is not credited with her lone female appearance in the Robert Plant video "If I Were A Carpenter" from his Fate Of Nations album which came out in 1993? --DWC252525 (talk) 21:54, 7 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
February 2024 WikiProject Unreferenced articles backlog drive – award
Citation Barnstar
This award is given in recognition to 94rain for collecting more than 1 point during the WikiProject Unreferenced articles's FEB24 backlog drive. Your contributions played a crucial role in sourcing 14,300 unsourced articles during the drive. Thank you so much for participating and helping to reduce the backlog! – – DreamRimmer (talk) 17:41, 8 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Hi 94Rain(interesting coincide to have been assigned a mentor with a similar name!) My question is- why can I not edit some pages- they have no 'edit' button? --Kentucky Rain24 (talk) 13:05, 11 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks. It looks like the page I wanted to edit but could not (Likud) requires something called 'Extended confirmed protection" which needs more edits. So it will take soem time, but I will get there :) Kentucky Rain24 (talk) 03:39, 13 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Hello.
I am wondering if Wikipedia supports bullet points or numeric lists for a more easy-to-read layout concerning anything using a list or three or more descriptions, objects, subjects or 'things'? --Duncan McKellar (talk) 20:42, 12 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Hello, Hope you well today!
I want to ask you that there is no option available for moving a page for me. Can you help me out to solve this problem? --Jidon34 (talk) 18:50, 14 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Have you installed any gadgets or switched a different skin? Maybe try [[Special:MovePage/<Replace this with the page you want to move>]]? --94rainTalk05:06, 18 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I recently received a notification and i was tagged in a Sockpuppet investigation Page. But I'm not a Sockpuppet user or I do not have any other account except this (User:Jidon34). Do you think I'm a sock user? Jidon34 (talk) 06:55, 18 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Hello,
I'm facing a problem. There is no option available for me of MOVE for Moving a Page. Can you guide me how to get this Option? --Jidon34 (talk) 05:46, 15 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Hi @Wonderbosss. If others had sockpuppets and you wanted to recreate that page, yes it's possible. But if you have abused socketpuppets, please be aware that you need to appeal your block from your original account. 94rainTalk20:32, 28 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
If you have good reasons, you can request at WP:REFUND. If you are unsure whether your reasons can be possibly accepted or not, I can help you take a look. Let me know the article name and your reasons. 94rainTalk04:57, 1 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
The article name is Kourage Beatz NSI and was first created by Tochi Clement and deleted and created too many times and protected. When I first tried to create the page, it was protected, so I contacted the admin on there talk page and explain everything, I was allowed to create the draft. While I summited the page for review, my account was banned for sockpuppet. I tried requesting for unban but I was asked to request from my original account for the standard offer. The reason I'm still trying to recreate the page is because he is a popular producer in Nigeria and has awards to his name and I believe it will be ok to add his article to Wikipedia. Here's the sandbox I've been working on User:Wonderbosss/sandbox and if it can be approved. W 0 N D E R B O $ $ $ (talk) 08:11, 1 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
"While I summited the page for review, my account was banned for sockpuppet" What's that account? For whatever reasons that you have been blocked, even unfair blocks, you still need to appeal from the original account. Otherwise, it'd be considered as WP:Block evasion. 94rainTalk06:10, 2 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I did, I appealed from the original account, which was the account I used to summit my draft for review and I was replied to "request appeal from the original account" but the account I used to summit the draft was my original account. W 0 N D E R B O $ $ $ (talk) 07:45, 2 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Hi, I understand that you are my mentor.
I've made a first attempt at my user page and then I saw yours.
Your page looks very different. I'm wondering if I've got the wrong idea of what the user page is supposed to be. Could you take a quick look and let me know if it is ok. It is only short so shouldn't take very long. Thanks. --CaptainTavish (talk) 14:40, 30 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Backlog update: The October drive reduced the article backlog from 11,626 to 7,609 and the redirect backlog from 16,985 to 6,431! Congratulations to Schminnte, who led with over 2,300 points.
Following that, New Page Patrol organized another backlog drive for articles in January 2024. The January drive started with 13,650 articles and reduced the backlog to 7,430 articles. Congratulations to JTtheOG, who achieved first place with 1,340 points in this drive.
Looking at the graph, it seems like backlog drives are one of the only things keeping the backlog under control. Another backlog drive is being planned for May. Feel free to participate in the May backlog drive planning discussion.
It's worth noting that both queues are gradually increasing again and are nearing 14,034 articles and 22,540 redirects. We encourage you to keep contributing, even if it's just a single patrol per day. Your support is greatly appreciated!
2023 Awards
Onel5969 won the 2023 cup with 17,761 article reviews last year - that's an average of nearly 50/day. There was one Platinum Award (10,000+ reviews), 2 Gold Awards (5000+ reviews), 6 Silver (2000+), 8 Bronze (1000+), 30 Iron (360+) and 70 more for the 100+ barnstar. Hey man im josh led on redirect reviews by clearing 36,175 of them. For the full details, see the Awards page and the Hall of Fame. Congratulations everyone for their efforts in reviewing!
Recruitment: A couple of the coordinators have been inviting editors to become reviewers, via mass-messages to their talk pages. If you know someone who you'd think would make a good reviewer, then a personal invitation to them would be great. Additionally, if there are Wikiprojects that you are active on, then you can add a post there asking participants to join NPP. Please be careful not to double invite folks that have already been invited.
Reviewing tip: Reviewers who prefer to patrol new pages within their most familiar subjects can use the regularly updated NPP Browser tool.
Hi, I got a question regarding adding a language. I added the English version of a German article about a company called Nanoscribe. I work with their devices in my research and think it's worth to mention them in English wikipedia too. But I don't know how to connect these two articles with each other. Could you help me? --3DmicroPrintExpert (talk) 11:22, 4 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
When creating an article in the user sandbox and then going to submit it as a draft via the link in the user sandbox infobox, the draft title is listed as "User:Edittlealittle/sandbox"
Should I keep this as is or should I be using a different page instead to submit a draft so that the page title matches the content of the article?
Hi @Edittlealittle. Welcome to Wikipedia! Yes, it's fine to just keep it under the sandbox title for now. When the draft gets accepted, it will be moved to the correct title. If you have questions about writing the draft, feel free to let me know! 94rainTalk09:03, 6 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Hello and welcome to the April 2024 newsletter, a quarterly digest of Guild activities since December. Don't forget you can unsubscribe at any time; see below. We extend a warm welcome to all of our new members. We wish you all happy copy-editing.
Election results: In our December 2023 coordinator election, Zippybonzo stepped down as coordinator; we thank them for their service. Incumbents Dhtwiki and Miniapolis were reelected coordinators, and Wracking was newly elected coordinator, to serve through 30 June. Nominations for our mid-year Election of Coordinators will open on 1 June (UTC).
Drive: 46 editors signed up for our January Backlog Elimination Drive, 32 of whom claimed at least one copy-edit. Between them, they copy-edited 289 articles totaling 626,729 words. Barnstars awarded are here.
Blitz: 23 editors signed up for our February Copy Editing Blitz. 18 claimed at least one copy-edit and between them, they copy-edited 100,293 words in 32 articles. Barnstars awarded are here.
Drive: 53 editors signed up for our March Backlog Elimination Drive, 34 of whom claimed at least one copy-edit. Between them, they copy-edited 300 articles totaling 587,828 words. Barnstars awarded are here.
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Progress report: As of 23:17, 11 April 2024 (UTC), GOCE copyeditors have processed 109 requests since 1 January 2024, and the backlog stands at 2,480 articles.
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Hi @Hot92texoma. Generally speaking, drafts and user space pages are not indexed. You'll need to get the draft published to the article space in order to get the page indexed. Please see WP:SEO for more info. 94rainTalk07:04, 24 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I need to add a citation, pointing to the birth record of Vesta Tilley showing the birth address, which has been given incorrectly as Commandery Street. This is a national Record Office document, available only upon payment. Should I quote the route to it thus: (BIRTHS: POWLES, Matilda Alice, Worcester, JUN 1864, Vol 6c, P323). It would not be a hyperlink. --RuffledParrot (talk) 18:55, 23 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
What are some effective strategies for navigating disputes and reaching consensus on contentious topics within Wikipedia's editing community, especially when dealing with conflicting viewpoints or interpretations of reliable sources? --Stylojohn (talk) 08:02, 24 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Based on Drafting a Wikipedia article, once I'm done can I move it to the main space without submitting it for review if my account is older than 4 days --Realcontribution (talk) 15:14, 26 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Hi, I'm an Ayurveda doctor, so my expertise lies primarily in Ayurveda-related topics. Could you guide me on where to find such articles for reference and editing? Also, I have some photographs of herbs commonly used in Ayurveda. How can I incorporate them into the articles? Appreciate any advice or assistance. --Avshai911 (talk) 13:51, 27 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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