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The Signpost: 07 May 2014

  • News and notes: New system of discretionary sanctions; Buchenwald; is Pirelli 'Cracking Wikipedia'?
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Modified MediaWiki.pm

Hello, Ryan.

My name is Jack and I'm looking to get another HBC AIV Helperbot going as I've noticed yours is the only active one currently. Although I've run in to a small issue of not being able to find the modified MediaWiki.pm file. Would it be possible to send me the file? Thank you! TheEpTic (talk) 22:00, 10 May 2014 (UTC)

Sure, BERJAYA mail me so I have your address and I'll reply with an attachment. BERJAYA —Darkwind (talk) 08:43, 11 May 2014 (UTC)
Done! :) TheEpTic (talk) 18:42, 11 May 2014 (UTC)

Could you help out re the Dustin Lance Black article?

This needs urgent attention (protection and/or blocking an IP - though I suspect the IP will hop), due to ongoing attempts to post material violating WP:BLP policy. I'd rather not draw attention to it by posting on WP:ANI. AndyTheGrump (talk) 05:19, 13 May 2014 (UTC)

I'll take a look. —Darkwind (talk) 05:20, 13 May 2014 (UTC)
  • 22:22, 12 May 2014 Darkwind (talk | contribs | block) changed block settings for 2602:306:cc6b:6b90::/64 (talk) (anon. only, account creation blocked) with an expiry time of 1 month ({{anonblock}}: <!-- extending block due to history of blocks on this range -->) (unblock | change block)
  • 22:21, 12 May 2014 Darkwind (talk | contribs | block) blocked 2602:306:cc6b:6b90::/64 (talk) (anon. only, account creation blocked) with an expiry time of 24 hours ({{anonblock}}: <!-- Violations of WP:BLP policy -->) (unblock | change block)
—Darkwind (talk) 05:25, 13 May 2014 (UTC)
Thanks. AndyTheGrump (talk) 05:27, 13 May 2014 (UTC)

Bot request

Hey, sorry to bug you but do you have any idea how long it'll take for somebody to look at the bot request for my helperbot12 bot? It's been ages now and nobody has looked at it.

Thanks :) TheEpTic (talk) 10:46, 13 May 2014 (UTC)

It was 6 days from when I posted at BAG until mine was approved. —Darkwind (talk) 18:14, 13 May 2014 (UTC)

Thanks/request

Thanks for the Defacto sockpuppet blocks. Would it be possible to do a mass-rollback of the socks' edits?

Best,

Lesser Cartographies (talk) 08:28, 13 May 2014 (UTC)

Already done, for any pages where they were still the latest edits. —Darkwind (talk) 09:50, 13 May 2014 (UTC)
Much appreciated, and let me offer particular thanks for helping with the backlog at SPI. Lesser Cartographies (talk) 18:19, 13 May 2014 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Liallis

Hello. Maybe other virtuals of Liallis (Buzova, Alanish) must also be indefblocked? See also 109.106.136.0/21. OneLittleMouse (talk) 13:23, 14 May 2014 (UTC)

BERJAYA Done —Darkwind (talk) 13:41, 14 May 2014 (UTC)
Regarding the IP range you mentioned, I found some Voronezh-related contribs from 109.106.138.0/24. However, since that range was not mentioned in the SPI, if you believe it is active and disruptive, you'll need to add a new section to the SPI. —Darkwind (talk) 13:49, 14 May 2014 (UTC)
OK, thanks. OneLittleMouse (talk) 13:52, 14 May 2014 (UTC)

Sock puppetry proceeding

Thank you for your help here[1], but I am not sure how to continue proceeding. The sockpuppet has been used to created illusion of consensus and RFC comments in the talk page, how should I edit that or should I leave it as it is? Best Regards --Biglobster (talk) 11:01, 14 May 2014 (UTC)

If "checkuser" had been used to confirm the relationship between the two accounts, there's a tag you could add to the puppet account's comments ({{csp}}). However, there's no specific protocol on how to handle this type of case where "checkuser" wasn't used and the account was blocked based on behavior only. My suggestion is that, as the discussions continue about editing the page, you can mention and link to the SPI investigation confirming that Jeanlepetit was not a legitimate account/editor. —Darkwind (talk) 14:00, 14 May 2014 (UTC)

Liallis

Hi Darkwind. Thank you for your work on the SPI and for finding and blocking the additional socks. I just wanted to mention that perhaps Liallis should have his/her block extended, because although blocked for a week by Ponyo on the 12th, s/he still socked with Buzova on the 14th. Best regards. Δρ.Κ. λόγοςπράξις 15:59, 14 May 2014 (UTC)

New sockpuppets

Hello. See, new sockpuppet (detected by two users) to this case. Please o quick block for this account. Subtropical-man talk
(en-2) 16:56, 15 May 2014 (UTC)


I'm taking a short break for Wikipedia for everyone's best interests

I think a break for about a week or 2 would be in Wikipedia's best interest. Plus I have alot of sports I'm doing lately. Venustar84 (talk) 20:46, 15 May 2014 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Rosed889

Hi. For Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Rosed889, another account has popped up. See User:Rosed500/sandbox. Can you have a look? Thanks. -- Whpq (talk) 15:42, 16 May 2014 (UTC)

Checkuser

Where do you come from all of a sudden and request a checkuser? Who are you and why don't you state an opinion before you do something like that? What is a checkuser needed for in this case? Bandy boy (talk) 17:15, 16 May 2014 (UTC)

@Bandy boy: I am an administrator on Wikipedia who regularly patrols and investigates WP:SPI cases. The fact that I requested a checkuser on a case someone else filed means that I agree there may be merit the case -- to the point where I feel it is necessary to verify the allegations one way or another, but that further evidence is necessary before I take any action like blocking accounts. That is implied by what I did, and the clerks at SPI will know what I meant by that action without me needing to spell it out. —Darkwind (talk) 17:47, 16 May 2014 (UTC)
Your answer does not clarify anything. You just make it more confusing. Also, why is a ckeckuser needed when I have already pledged never to use any other acvounts and promissed to answer any questions (just not for anybody to see )? The willingness to cooperate does not matter at all, in spite of what has been said? The need to know is more important than to be civil and to see what the accused person has to say before anything is done? Bandy boy (talk) 22:41, 16 May 2014 (UTC)
Okay. Let's put it this way. Someone filed a report about you. One would assume that someone, somewhere, gets that report and investigates it, right? Well, I'm one of those people. I got the report, I read it, and determined that there was a situation we refer to in America as a "hot mess". The only way to clear it up is further investigation, which I requested. At any rate, anything further can be said on the investigation page. —Darkwind (talk) 04:11, 17 May 2014 (UTC)

You might want to look at

the edit history of Baklava (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) and Uishaki's edits there. Dougweller (talk) 14:17, 17 May 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 14 May 2014

  • WikiProject report: Relaxing in Puerto Rico
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Special:Contributions/Zistebá

Sorry for interrupt, an account named Zistebá, he/she always added unsourced genres as did on Both Sides. Can you block him/her indefinitely? 183.171.178.82 (talk) 13:03, 18 May 2014 (UTC)

Notification of a June AfC BackLog Drive

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Hello Darkwind:

WikiProject Articles for creation is holding a month long Backlog Elimination Drive!
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Behavioural investigation

Your comment would be greatly appreciated. According to this[2] investigation, it has been done by CheckUser and Risker marked them as unrelated at all, not even a pair of user. However, I thought I had this case very obvious even than previously closed case -- timing, same tone, same topic and same behaviour. I am not sure is CheckUser is only technical, and not behavioural at all? Can I bring this up for behavioural investigation? --Biglobster (talk) 04:25, 20 May 2014 (UTC)

Similar articles approved

Dear Darkwind,

We have been trying to offer some information about Federation of Finnish Financial Services to Wikipedia because we got feedback that there is no article about the organization. We have written our article in the same way than similar organization have done, for example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confederation_of_Finnish_Industries and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Banking_Federation and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insurance_Europe. We got feedback from you that our article lacks notability but cannot see how these articles have it more than ours. Can you please give us hints how to get the notability if our association is formed by our members but no governmental institution is involved as we are independent? The FFI has about 400 member companies and organizations, which employ about 42,000 people in total and FFI is only and therefore biggest association representing financial industry in Finland.

Br, Mamannis (talk) 12:37, 20 May 2014 (UTC)MamannisMamannis (talk) 12:37, 20 May 2014 (UTC) and Mamannis (talk) 12:37, 20 May 2014 (UTC)amlamMamannis (talk) 12:37, 20 May 2014 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Rtuftrbsee

Darkwind, I'm sorry if it seems like I'm picking on you, but I don't understand your actions with respect to the merge of the two SPI reports. First, this is not the kind of task normally undertaken by a non-clerk. Second, you chose the wrong master. As I stated in one of the two reports, the correct master is Mtrerfowp as they created their account about an hour before Rtuftrbsee. Finally, merges are very difficult in these things, and I was hoping that King of Hearts would take it on as he appeared to be clerking the case (and that way I wouldn't have to do it <smile>). These things are very hard and often require manual editing in addition to anything else. I'm fairly certain that the entire history of the two reports is not there now, and I'm reluctant to undo it and redo it properly. I sometimes punt these things to the very capable DoRD. He's far better at it than I am, although I'm getting better.--Bbb23 (talk) 22:57, 19 May 2014 (UTC)

@Bbb23: I must have misunderstood you then. Since you pinged me in your statement, I thought you meant for me to do it -- since I figured you'd know I'm not a clerk, and would have done it yourself if you felt it was a clerking task. Why'd you ping me and tell me it needed to be done if you didn't mean for me to do it?
As for what I did, I followed exactly, step-by-step, the instructions at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/SPI/Clerk and checkuser procedures#Cases filed under the name of the sock under "No case is currently active for the account that we wish to file the case as, but a prior case has been filed", which is the closest I could find for instructions on how to fix the problem. Plus one step that wasn't listed (copying the text from the last revision of the original /Rtuftrbsee page and inserting it into the merged version). Stated another way, I performed a standard WP:HISTMERGE as outlined in the "an easy case" example. The page revisions from both pages are there in the history exactly as they should be, but diffs are going to look strange if you diff between old revisions that were originally on different pages.
Also, does it really matter which account edited first? It's not like there's any truly constructive history going on there, nor are any of the accounts likely to be allowed to resume editing given how extensive this is. It's not like we're talking about an experienced Wikipedian with an extensive editing history we might need to reference. If it matters all that much, since the histories are merged, just move /Rtuftrbsee to /Mtrerfowp, deleting the soft redirect presently at /Mtrerfowp in the process. Then, re-tag all the socks to point to the right page. —Darkwind (talk) 00:54, 20 May 2014 (UTC)
I pinged you because of your comment. It wasn't intended to inspire you to fix anything. Part of the problem is there is no precise procedure in the clerk procedures for doing this kind of merge. I have a cheat sheet on it in my user space, which I believe would work, but that would first require undoing everything you did. As far as the oldest account being the master (it's not who edits first, it's who creates an account first), it's not the end of the world considering how close in time the two creations are, but I figured as long as we were going to straighten things out, we might as well fix the master at the same time. I'm too tired to undertake anything now, so it'll have to wait.--Bbb23 (talk) 01:01, 20 May 2014 (UTC)

He back [3]. Please block this sockpuppet. Subtropical-man talk
(en-2) 16:49, 20 May 2014 (UTC)

Duration

Hi ... you imposed a block to coincide with the duration of the related AfD, but the AfD has been extended now. Perhaps the block should be extended accordingly. Tx. --Epeefleche (talk) 19:18, 21 May 2014 (UTC)

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The Signpost: 21 May 2014

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Wiki-star/Dragonron

This has been at SPI and ANI but no one blocked the range that this guy is currently (as in within the past hour) editing from.—Ryūlóng (琉竜) 14:25, 27 May 2014 (UTC)

Doesn't matter, it's still not appropriate for AIV. AIV is intended to help put a stop to severe disruption in cases where the reviewing admin can make a snap judgement about the situation. If the report requires investigation or verification beyond looking at contribs and saying "yep, that's vandalism", then it needs to go to a forum/page that allows community discussion and a chance for the accused to rebut the accusation. —Darkwind (talk) 14:30, 27 May 2014 (UTC)
Doesn't blindly reverting the same editor over and over in a common pattern equate to severe disruption?—Ryūlóng (琉竜) 14:36, 27 May 2014 (UTC)
You're missing my point. It's not the "severe disruption" part you got wrong, it's the "can make a snap judgement" part. If all I have to go by is ONE edit in the IP's contribs, that is not enough information for me to say the IP is a sock or disruptive. If I further have to click through and read the history of the article and compare the contribs of the logged-in and IP editors and yadda yadda, then we've already gone well past the "snap decision" part into "performing an SPI investigation" territory. Id est, not appropriate for AIV. —Darkwind (talk) 14:47, 27 May 2014 (UTC)

Request for comment

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"Venustar84"

As per the topic ban at User talk:Venustar84#Use of multiple accounts. Looks like she adhered to it for 2 weeks, but is now back to creating categories. I have a feeling things only stick for so long with the user, perhaps due to the self-admitted mental health problems at the sockpuppet investigation. Nymf (talk) 06:39, 30 May 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 28 May 2014

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Talkback

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GOCE June 2014 newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors May 2014 backlog elimination drive wrap-up
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Progress report: We reduced our article backlog from 2,987 articles to 2,236 articles in May, the lowest backlog total since we began keeping records in 2009! Since at least 300 new articles were tagged during May, that means we copy edited over 1,000 articles in a single month. Amazing work, everyone!

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HannahBxxx

Hi Darkwind. This user has agreed to stop adding the links for which she was blocked; would you be happy for me to unblock her on the understanding that she will no longer spam? Cheers, Yunshui 雲水 11:50, 5 June 2014 (UTC)

@Yunshui: Sure, I'm always willing to give someone a second chance. —Darkwind (talk) 18:00, 5 June 2014 (UTC)
Cheers, I'll go do it now. Yunshui 雲水 08:12, 6 June 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 04 June 2014

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Typo lists

@Faizan, Carriearchdale, Vanisaac, and Mogism: (pinging you all here rather than leaving a separate message on each of your talk pages) You all marked at least one of my typo lists with {{done}}, but you didn't update the actual list page to remove the articles you completed. Did you finish all 1000 articles from each of the pages marked done? I'd like to update the count of how many are left. Thanks! —Darkwind (talk) 06:00, 10 June 2014 (UTC)

I only marked a list as done if I had processed every page on that list. I cut the list down to the remaining items only when I had not completely processed the whole thing. VanIsaacWScont 06:13, 10 June 2014 (UTC)

I also did as Vanisaac posted above, I completely processed each list I chose. When finished I went back and marked the list as done. I did not need to stop partway thru any of the lists I did. TY for posting the lists Darkwind. Carriearchdale (talk) 06:23, 10 June 2014 (UTC)

@Carriearchdale: Thanks! You still have page 17 marked as {{doing}}, did you finish that one as well? —Darkwind (talk) 06:56, 10 June 2014 (UTC)

Yes, sorry 17 is all done. I will mark it ty. Carriearchdale (talk) 06:58, 10 June 2014 (UTC)

Same here, I only marked them as done once complete. Mogism (talk) 12:10, 10 June 2014 (UTC)

Input on image decision

Hi you are invited to vote for the image to be used on the LG G2 infobox page at Talk:LG G2. Thanks! GadgetsGuy (talk) 06:28, 11 June 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 11 June 2014

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ANI

I've mentioned you in this thread on User:Earl_King_Jr. [4] - you may wish to comment. AndyTheGrump (talk) 02:05, 15 June 2014 (UTC)

I think it is wrong of you Andy to solicit this involved Admin. from a previous Ani. Earl King Jr. (talk) 02:18, 15 June 2014 (UTC)
Please read WP:INVOLVED again. Just because I have closed a noticeboard discussion involving you, and taken (or not taken) administrative action, does not make me "involved". Being involved means I have an opinion of some sort about the article in question or the edits you are making, e.g. if I think your edits are "right" or "wrong" then I would be "involved". As it is, I will probably let some other admin(s) make a decision here, but it is certainly well within my rights as a member of the community to comment on the discussion if I so choose. —Darkwind (talk) 03:56, 15 June 2014 (UTC)

Alright. I am sorry. Feel free then. Earl King Jr. (talk) 04:22, 15 June 2014 (UTC)

I'm sorry if I sounded snappish; my post was not intended to express any kind of anger or upset. I just wanted to make sure you were aware that "involved" has a specific meaning according to Wikipedia policy and custom. —Darkwind (talk) 06:49, 15 June 2014 (UTC)

User:Farhan112233

They're back on the same article again. — LeoFrank  Talk 12:38, 12 June 2014 (UTC)

Repeated reverts from the past one month only on one issue i.e., the official language by changing it to urdu, telugu. Nothing more is happening in that page which is tagged for inline citations, no improvement but only a an edit war. This is the latest reversal. Kindly intervene.--Vin09 (talk) 18:06, 12 June 2014 (UTC)

I have blocked the editor in question indefinitely, as per the reasoning posted on their talk page. —Darkwind (talk) 20:17, 12 June 2014 (UTC)

Thanks. I realised today that I had forgotten to login while reverting this user. Is it possible to remove the username from the history? — LeoFrank  Talk 10:41, 14 June 2014 (UTC)
BERJAYA Done —Darkwind (talk) 06:38, 15 June 2014 (UTC)
Thanks for the revdel. I have some concerns on Raju198. Looks like a sock. Please see [5] — LeoFrank  Talk 12:31, 17 June 2014 (UTC)
I have filed an SPI case here. — LeoFrank  Talk 15:47, 17 June 2014 (UTC)
Additionally, please remove this edit summary. — LeoFrank  Talk 15:49, 17 June 2014 (UTC)

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I think the bot may be malfunctioning or not running, quite a backlog of blocked vandals not being cleaned off the page. ♥ Solarra ♥ ♪ 話 ♪ ߷ ♀ 投稿 ♀ 09:01, 19 June 2014 (UTC)

The bot is working correctly. None of the editors currently listed on WP:AIV are blocked. —Darkwind (talk) 09:06, 19 June 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 18 June 2014

  • Featured content: Worming our way to featured picture
    Five articles, five lists, 22 pictures, and one portal were promoted to 'featured' status on the English Wikipedia last week.
  • Special report: Wikimedia Bangladesh: a chapter's five-year journey
    The Bangladesh chapter of the Wikimedia movement was formed in 2009. They received official local registration from the national authorities on 10 June 2014. The long road in between was subject to much persistence, patience, and luck—along with a good deal of worry.
  • Traffic report: You can't dethrone Thrones
    To the surprise of absolutely no one, the 2014 FIFA World Cup was the main draw this week, taking four slots. People appeared desperate to bone up on their trivia; checking not only this year's World Cup, but the last one. Even so, they still couldn't push Game of Thrones from the top ten. It will be interesting to see what happens come next week's season finale.
  • WikiProject report: Visiting the city
    This week, the Signpost came in from the hinterland to interview members of the Cities WikiProject.

L. L. Clover deletion from 2013

At the same time the Powers article was deleted; so was the one on L. L. Clover, which I also covered in an article I wrote in 2010 for North Louisiana History. Being in a historical journal would meet the notability requirement for Wikipedia.

The deletion decision says Mr. Clover was the founder of a "defunct" seminary. This is false. The seminary moved into a new building some ten years ago and is still functioning. It graduates about thirty pastors per year, which is a larger number than it might seem.

The decision says one or more of Mr. Clover's books are "not in a library anywhere in the world." False, I got the books from Interlibrary Loan. They are rare but can be located.

Mr. Clover founded his seminary with two or three students in his residence, and it has expanded over the past half century, long after his death. He is not part of a church hierarchy; the ABA is a series of local churches with a loose association. It has some 250,000 members, the last count I saw. It is stronger in AR and LA than most other places.

Both Clover and Powers died in 1975; so there is limited Internet material on them.

The photo mentioned is from a seminary yearbook (1966) that I found in the seminary library when I visited there several years ago. Photos from yearbooks before 1978 are public domain and hence allowed on Wikipedia.

I am requesting that this article too be undeleted pending further editing, review, and consideration. It seems to me that the people pushing for deletion of both articles have a vendetta against me. Of course, I have no idea who these people are or their motivation. The vitriol though is beyond scholarly dissent. Billy Hathorn (talk) 15:07, 22 June 2014 (UTC)

A. T. Powers deletion from 2013

I was not informed that the A. T. Powers article which I created c. 2010 was deleted in 2013. There are three incorrect matters in the deletion decision:

(1) "local pastor who served as the American Baptist Association leader for two years in the 1950s" belittles his service. He was PRESIDENT of the ABA for two years, which is the normal tenure in such positions.

(2) The book(s) cited was obtained from Inter-Library Loan; so it is in a library. I got a copy of his presidential addresses from Interlibrary Loan. The book is available on Amazon. Austin T. Powers As I Knew Him, 83 pages Publisher: Bogard Press (1989) Language: English ISBN-10: 0892112905 ISBN-13: 978-0892112906

(3) I wrote Mr. Powers' biography in an historical journal, North Louisiana History. Some even tried to kill the Wikipedia article on this journal to retaliate against me, but thankfully saner heads prevailed.

I am requesting that this article be undeleted and brought back to the board for review and further consideration. Billy Hathorn (talk) 14:50, 22 June 2014 (UTC)

I have no earthly idea what you are talking about. I interact with thousands of pages on Wikipedia every year, so I need context to understand what you're after. At the moment, I have no idea what role I played in the deletion in question. Please link to the article in question (even if it is a red link) or the AfD discussion so I can review what happened and respond to your concerns. Same goes for the section below. —Darkwind (talk) 09:51, 23 June 2014 (UTC)

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The Signpost: 25 June 2014

  • News and notes: US National Archives enshrines Wikipedia in Open Government Plan
    The US National Archives and Record Administration (NARA) have committed to engaging with Wikimedia projects in their newest Open Government Plan. The biannual effort is a roadmap for how the agency will accomplish its goals in the digital age.
  • Traffic report: Fake war, or real sport?
    Despite the interest generated by its season finale, Game of Thrones still couldn't top the World Cup, which still dominated interest, as evidenced by the fact that this top 10 is virtually identical to last week's, just with a different dead celebrity.
  • Featured content: Showing our Wörth
    Ten articles and eleven pictures were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia this week.
  • WikiProject report: The world where dreams come true
    This week, the Signpost visited the land of Disney, blockbusters, explosions, dream sequences, and cultural masterpieces: film.
  • Recent research: Power users and diversity in WikiProjects
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Similar articles

Dear Darkwind! I haven't seen your reply for my question. It's now on your archive page 11 with subject "Similar articles approved". --Mamannis (talk) 13:19, 3 July 2014 (UTC)Mamannis 03/07/2014

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The Signpost: 02 July 2014

  • In the media: Wiki Education; medical content; PR firms
    The Los Angeles Times highlighted a recent Wiki Education Foundation (WEF) course at Pomona College in their article "Wikipedia pops up in bibliographies, and even college curricula". We interviewed Char Booth, the campus ambassador for the course, for additional details.
  • Traffic report: The Cup runneth over... and over.
    With Game of Thrones over for another year, the World Cup dominated yet again. And that is pretty much that. This list isn't likely to be particularly eventful until the Cup is won.
  • News and notes: Wikimedia Israel receives Roaring Lion award
    Wikimedia Israel (WMIL) has won a Roaring Lion in the category of Internet and cellular for its public outreach during the tenth anniversary of the Hebrew Wikipedia in July 2013.
  • Featured content: Ship-shape
    Six articles, five lists, seventeen pictures, and one topic were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia this week.
  • Technology report: In memoriam: the Toolserver (2005–14)
    In the early hours of Tuesday morning, Wikimedia Deutschland's Toolserver project was switched off, marking the end of one of the Wikimedia movement's longest running Chapter-led projects. The Toolserver, which was in fact a collection of servers, first came online in 2005, hosting hundreds of webpages and scripts ("tools") made available for use by Wikimedia readers, editors and administrators.

UAA/Bot

Hey Darkwind. I've been able to get DeltaQuadBot UAA back up and stable. Could you readd the helperbot that removes the blocked users please? -- DQ (ʞlɐʇ) 21:35, 6 July 2014 (UTC)

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The Signpost: 09 July 2014

  • Special report: Wikimania 2014—what will it cost?
    Last May, James Forrester announced to the world that London had been awarded the 2014 Wikimania conference. Functioning as the Wikimedia movement's annual conference, it is separate from the chapter-focused Wikimedia Conference. The first, located in Frankfurt, took place in 2005 and had 380 attendees. London, the tenth, is now expected to attract 1500. With Wikimania ambition, attention, and attendance rising significantly over the last nine years, how have this year's monetary costs come to be?
  • Wikimedia in education: Exploring the United States and Canada with LiAnna Davis
    The Wikimedia Education Program currently spans 60 programs around the world; students and instructors participate at almost every level of education. The Education program Signpost series presents a snapshot of the Wikimedia Global Education Program as it exists in 2014.
  • Traffic report: World Cup, Tim Howard rule the week
    Unsurprisingly, the World Cup continued to dominate the English Wikipedia's viewing statistics. In particular, the record-breaking performance of US goalkeeper Tim Howard and the tournament-ending injury to Brazil's Neymar drove large amount of views to their articles.

Deletion tag

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The Signpost: 16 July 2014

  • Special report: $10 million lawsuit against Wikipedia editors withdrawn, but plaintiff intends to refile
    On the same day the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) announced it would offer assistance to English Wikipedia editors embroiled in a legal dispute with Yank Barry, the lawsuit has been withdrawn without prejudice at the request of Barry's legal team—but this action is being described as "strategic" so that they can refile the lawsuit with a "new, more comprehensive complaint."
  • Featured content: The Island with the Golden Gun
    Eight articles, three lists, and 28 pictures were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia last week.
  • News and notes: Bot-created Wikipedia articles covered in the Wall Street Journal, push Cebuano over one million articles
    The Swedish Wikipedia's prolific Lsjbot, which has created a significant proportion of the site's 1.7 million articles and has nearly single-handedly pushed it to being the fourth-largest Wikipedia, was covered in the Wall Street Journal this week. The newspaper reported that the bot has created 2.7 million articles, which is apparently a reference to the Waray-Waray and Cebuano Wikipedias, where Lsjbot is also active, and that "on a good day", it creates 10,000 articles.

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The Signpost: 23 July 2014

  • Traffic report: The World Cup hangs on, though tragedies seek to replace it
    Last week I predicted that the World Cup dominance on the report would be over—but I was wrong. The World Cup Final fell on the 13th of July, which was actually the first day of the week covered by this report, not the last day of the last report. Hence, five of the Top 10 this week are again World Cup related-topics.
  • News and notes: Institutional media uploads to Commons get a bit easier
    Galleries, libraries, archives, and museums (GLAMs) today are facing fewer barriers to uploading their content onto Wikimedia projects now that the new GLAM-Wiki Toolset Project has been launched. The tool, which is the fruit of a collaboration between Europeana and several Wikimedia chapters, relieves GLAMs from having to write their own automated scripts and gives them a standardized method of uploading large amounts of their digitized holdings.
  • Forum: Did you know?—good idea, needs reform
    The English Wikipedia's did you know (DYK) section has been a feature of the site's main page since February 2004. From the beginning, the section has served as a place to highlight Wikipedia's newest articles. But over the last few years, the did you know section has gotten steadily larger and more complex, and non-notable or plagiarized articles have occasionally slipped through the reviewing process, leading numerous editors to call for reforms to the system. We asked two editors to share their views.
  • Featured content: Why, they're plum identical!
    Ten articles, five lists, and 25 pictures were promoted to featured status on the English Wikipedia last week.

New huggle 3.1 is going to be released soon

Hi Darkwind, we are to release a new major version of huggle, but we did receive almost no feedback from our beta testing team, which you are a part of (see https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Huggle/Members). It would be of a great help if you could download it (if you have windows, all you need to do is getting http://tools.wmflabs.org/huggle/files/huggle3.1.0beta.exe and putting it to a folder where you have installed huggle) and test it. You can always get a help with making it @ #huggle connect!

Major changes:

  • Multisite support - you can now log in to unlimited number of wikis in 1 huggle session and get a huge queue of all edits made to these wikis. This is good for smaller projects which gets overlooked often.
  • Ranged diffs - you can select multiple revisions and get a huge diff that display all changes done to them.
  • Fixes of most of bug reports we had so far

In case you found a bug, please report it to bugzilla: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?product=Huggle&list_id=147663 thank you! Petrb (talk) 10:08, 30 July 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 30 July 2014

  • Book review: Knowledge or unreality?
    In Common Knowledge: An Ethnography of Wikipedia, Dariusz Jemielniak discusses Wikipedia from the standpoint of an experienced editor and administrator who is also a university professor specializing in management and organizations. In Virtual Reality: Just Because the Internet Told You, How Do You Know It's True?, Charles Seife presents a more broadly themed work reminding us to question the reliability of information found throughout the Internet.
  • Recent research: Shifting values in the paid content debate
    Kim Osman has performed a fascinating study on the three 2013 failed proposals to ban paid advocacy editing in the English language Wikipedia. Using a Constructivist Grounded Theory approach, Osman analyzed 573 posts from the three main votes on paid editing conducted in the community in November 2013.
  • News and notes: How many more hoaxes will Wikipedia find?
    Another hoax on the English Wikipedia was uncovered this week—not by any thorough investigation, but through the self-disclosure of an anonymous change made when the editors were in their sophomore year of college. The deliberate misinformation had been in the article for over five years with plenty of individuals noticing, but not one suspected its authenticity. This leads to one obvious question: how many more are there?
  • Traffic report: Doom and gloom vs. the power of Reddit
    We indeed moved far away from football this week, and further into much more serious issues of war and death. The Israel-Palestinian conflict continues to dominate the news, and the top 10, with Gaza Strip, Israel, and Hamas. The top 25 also includes Palestine and the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. Death also lies behind the popularity of James Garner, the American actor who died on July 19th, Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, and deaths in 2014.
  • Featured content: Skeletons and Skeltons
    Two articles, four lists, and seven pictures attained featured status on the English Wikipedia last week.

The Signpost: 06 August 2014

  • Technology report: A technologist's Wikimania preview
    As the start of Wikimania proper on 8 August approaches, the Signpost looks ahead to what its dozens of presentations might offer the technologically-inclined, whether attending in person or taking advantage of what promises to be a strong digital offering.
  • Traffic report: Ebola
    Serious news continues to dominate the most popular articles chart on Wikipedia this week, with the Ebola virus disease far and away in the top spot. In the top 25, we see the related articles Ebola virus, which talks about biological aspects, at #18 and 2014 West Africa Ebola outbreak at #19.

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The Signpost: 13 August 2014

  • Special report: Twitter bots catalogue government edits to Wikipedia
    Slate reports that Tom Scott, co-creator of the emoji social network Emojli, created a Twitter bot called Parliament WikiEdits to automatically tweet a link to any Wikipedia edits made from an IP address belonging to the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Scott's bot initially did not tweet any links to edits made from Parliament and, according to Scott, an "insider" reports that their IP addresses changed. Despite this, Scott's Twitter bot has inspired similar creations in numerous other countries.
  • Traffic report: Disease, decimation and distraction
    It's been a grim few weeks. It says something that formerly arresting crises like the war in Ukraine, Boko Haram and the 2014 Israel–Gaza conflict, despite still being ongoing, have fallen out of the top 10 to make way for the 2014 West Africa Ebola outbreak and the equally if not more intense conflict against the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant.
  • Wikimania: Promised the moon, settled for the stars
    Wikimania 2014 was held last week in the Barbican Centre in London. Below, the Signpost's former "Technology report" writer Harry Burt (User:Jarry1250) shares his thoughts on a bustling conference.
  • News and notes: Media Viewer controversy spreads to German Wikipedia
    Wikimedia Foundation staff members have now been granted superpowers that would allow them to override community consensus. The new protection level came as a response to attempts of German Wikipedia administrators to implement a community consensus on the new Media Viewer. "Superprotect" is a level above full protection, and prevents edits by administrators.
  • Op-ed: Red links, blue links, and erythrophobia
    Erythrophobia is the fear of, or sensitivity to, the colour red. Recently, I have seen more and more erythrophobic Wikipedians; specifically, Wikipedians who are scared of red links. In Wikipedia's early days, red links were encouraged and well-loved, and when I started editing in 2006, this was still mostly the case. Jump forward to 2014, and many editors now have an aversion to red links.
  • In the media: Monkey selfie, net neutrality, and hoaxes
    The Observer reported (August 2) that Google would "restrict search terms to a link to a Wikipedia article, in the first request under Europe's controversial new 'right to be forgotten' legislation to affect the 110m-page encyclopaedia."

GOCE July drive and August blitz

Guild of Copy Editors July 2014 backlog elimination drive wrap-up
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Socking

Greetings. About 4 months ago you closed this SPI, in which an editor admitted to editing logged out, stating that it was unintentional. When you closed the SPI, you left a warning that further editing while logged out may result in a block. As a side note, Stumink has been blocked before for socking.

Today, I cam across this edit by this IP that seemed very similar, in tone and content, to Stumink's edits. The contributions also show similar edit summaries, on similar topics. Finally, the range looks identical to all those IPs that were reported in the SPI, all beginning "88.104.2..."

I am not particular on what action should be taken; but I do know that it is rather annoying dealing with an experienced editor, who often tends to slightly POV edits (not very blatant, but detectable) who refuses to log in and take responsibility for their edits. If you require any more evidence, I'd be happy to look further. Regards, Vanamonde93 (talk) 04:54, 22 August 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 20 August 2014

  • Op-ed: A new metric for Wikimedia
    Denny Vrandečić argues that "We should focus on measuring how much knowledge we allow every human to share in, instead of number of articles or active editors."

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The Signpost: 27 August 2014

  • Traffic report: Viral
    "This was a week when an actual virus, Ebola, competed for attention with several viral social phenomena; most notably the Ice Bucket Challenge..."

The Signpost: 03 September 2014

  • Arbitration report: Media viewer case is suspended
    "On 1 September, the Arbitrators voted to suspend the Media Viewer case for 60 days. After the suspension period is up, the case is to be closed unless the committee votes otherwise. The case suspension comes in response to several new initiatives and policies announced by the Wikimedia Foundation that may make the case moot. In the same motion, the committee declared that Eloquence's resignation of the administrator right was "under the cloud" and that he can only regain the right through another RfA."
  • Traffic report: Holding Pattern
    "This week we saw three of the top ten articles remain in place, with the Ice Bucket Challenge at #1, Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis at #2, and Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant at #5, all for a second straight week..."
  • WikiProject report: Gray's Anatomy (v. 2)
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The Signpost: 10 September 2014

  • Op-ed: Media Viewer software is not ready
    Last month, I wrote an open letter to the Wikimedia Foundation, inviting others to join me in a simple but important request: roll back the recent actions—both technical and social—by which the Wikimedia Foundation has overruled legitimate decisions of several Wikimedia projects.
  • Traffic report: Refuge in celebrity
    Even though it's not quite 3/4 over, it's safe to say that 2014 will go down as a year of war, mass murder, plane crashes and terrible diseases. While certainly paying it some heed, it's not surprising that Wikipedia viewers tried this week to find any alternative to that litany of tragedy and pain, and their chosen method of escape was, as usual, celebrity.
  • Featured content: The louse and the fish's tongue
    The amazing and strange tongue-eating louse replacing a fish's tongue! Because isopods, the subject of a new featured article, are both awesome and really damn weird!
  • WikiProject report: Checking that everything's all right
    This week, the Signpost decided to have a look around with WikiProject Check Wikipedia a maintenance project not concerned so much with articles' content, but in all the tiny errors that are to be found scattered within them. Their front page gives a list of things they mainly focus on ...

The Signpost: 17 September 2014

  • WikiProject report: A trip up north to Scotland
    As Scotland is deciding its future this week, we thought it might be a good idea to get to know the editors of WikiProject Scotland and talk to them about the project.
  • Featured content: Which is not like the others?
    Four articles, two lists, and 51 pictures were promoted to "featured" status this week on the English Wikipedia.

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The Signpost: 24 September 2014

  • Featured content: Oil paintings galore
    Six articles, four lists, one topic, and 17 pictures were promoted to "featured" status this week on the English Wikipedia.
  • In the media: Indian political editing, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Congressional chelonii
    The Hindustan Times speculates (September 18) that politicians and their supporters are "sanitizing" their articles in advance of the 2014 Maharashtra State Assembly election. The Times notes the absence of significant controversies in the articles of particular politicians and the presence of heavily promotional language.
  • Traffic report: Wikipedia watches the referendum in Scotland
    This could be the beginning of a new era for this list. Until now, decisions to remove suspicious content have been largely educated guesswork. This week though, we have a new collaborator who can shine a light on the origins and patterns, sorting once and for all the webwheat from the cyberchaff.
  • WikiProject report: GAN reviewers take note: competition time
    A year and a week later, we're with some of the members of WikiProject Good Articles, who wanted to share the news of their upcoming contest within the project, the GA Cup. The aim of this friendly competition, which is held in the same light friendly manner of the WikiCup and the Core Contest, is to reduce the backlog of unreviewed articles at Good article nominations which has been a constant problem for quite a few years for those running the GA process.
  • Arbitration report: Banning Policy, Gender Gap, and Waldorf education
    Banning Policy finishes the workshop phase on 23 September. Parties have proposed findings of fact on the topics of the 3RR, the role of Jimbo Wales, and proxying for banned users. A request for arbitration was posted on 20 September about Landmark Worldwide.

DeFacto socks

If you have time and inclination, could you take a look at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/DeFacto?

Thanks,

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The Signpost: 01 October 2014

  • Dispatches: Let's get serious about plagiarism
    This article was first published in the Signpost in 2009. Written by several long-standing editors, including the late Adrianne Wadewitz, the article was subjected to extensive commentary and ultimately influenced the English Wikipedia's plagiarism guideline. With recent debates about close paraphrasing vis-à-vis plagiarism, we feel that this dispatch retains its relevance and deserves a second airing.
  • WikiProject report: Animals, farms, forests, USDA? It must be WikiProject Agriculture
    This week, the Signpost went down to the farm to have a look at the work of WikiProject Agriculture, which has been in existence since 2007 and has a scope covering crop production, livestock management, aquaculture, dairy farming and forest management.
  • Traffic report: Shanah Tovah
    Jews wished each other Shanah Tovah ("Good year") this week as Rosh Hashanah was our most popular article. It was also a week not dominated by heavy news and tragedies, so aside from Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (#2, sixth week in the Top 10), our popular article list runs the gamut of current events including new television series Gotham (#3), the 2014 Asian Games (#4), and Reddit-fueled popularity for German director Uwe Boll (#7).
  • Featured content: Brothers at War
    As the hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the American Civil War draws to a close, the race to improve content continues. The Battle of Franklin, fought on November 30, 1864, will, quite appropriately, be Picture of the Day for November 30, 2014, its 150th anniversary. If you want to help commemorate the American Civil War, why not help out at the Military History WikiProject's Operation Brothers at War. Or help out with the World War I centennial, just starting up, Operation Great War Centennial.

The Signpost: 08 October 2014

  • Traffic report: Panic and denial
    The first case of the Ebola virus on US shores sent people into a tizzy, rushing to their keyboards to try and learn what they could.

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The Signpost: 15 October 2014

  • Arbitration report: One case closed and two opened
    The Banning Policy case was closed on 12 October. Arbcom affirmed that users have "considerable leeway" in terms of how their talk pages are managed.
  • Traffic report: Now introducing ... mobile data
    We are pleased to report that the WP:5000 has now been updated to include mobile views, including a column reflecting the percentage of views coming from mobile devices.
  • WikiProject report: Signpost reaches the Midwest
    Today, it's the turn of WikiProject Ohio to give us an interview probing deep into of how they manage to run a project covering one fiftieth of the United States, and the workings of how they manufacture their successes and other articles.

The Signpost: 22 October 2014

Hey Darkwind I know im late.

hey I hope you get administrator or some other higher rank than moderator you a cool guy. Shadowvault (talk) 13:07, 29 October 2014 (UTC) Shadowvault

The Signpost: 29 October 2014

  • Featured content: Go West, young man
    By the way, there is a monster at the end of this article
  • Maps tagathon: Find 10,000 digitised maps this weekend
    Rather than the usual WikiProject Report, this week our guest author Jheald is telling us about a campaign to identify thousands of old maps which have been digitised, to make them available for georeferencing and upload
  • Traffic report: Ebola, Ultron, and Creepy Articles
    Ebola virus disease leads the Report for the fourth straight week. The rest of the list is primarily a mix of pop culture topics, including movie Avengers: Age of Ultron (#4) whose trailer was leaked early, and the death of Oscar de la Renta (#7). A BuzzFeed article on creepy Wikipedia articles, no doubt well-timed with Halloween (#9) around the corner, was responsible for three articles in the Top 25, including June and Jennifer Gibbons (#10), Taman Shud Case (#17), Joyce Vincent (#25). And the internet-run-amok controversy of Gamergate cracked the Top 25 for the first time at #19.
  • Recent research: Informed consent and privacy; newsmaking on Wikipedia; Wikipedia and organizational theories
    In new research conducted in light of proposed changes to data protection legislation in the European Union (EU), authors Bart Custers, Simone van der Hof, and Bart Schermer conducted a comparative analysis of social media and user-generated content websites’ privacy policies along with a user survey (N=8,621 in 26 countries) and interviews in 13 different EU countries on awareness, values, and attitudes toward privacy online.

The Signpost: 05 November 2014

  • In the media: Predicting the flu, MH17 conspiracy theories
    "Rachel Feltman, in The Washington Post (November 4), examined research in which a team, mostly from Los Alamos National Laboratory, headed by Kyle Hickman developed a model that enabled them "to successfully predict the 2013-2014 flu season in real time" by employing "an algorithm to link flu-related Wikipedia searches with CDC data from the same time." Apparently when individuals search for information about the flu and its symptoms in Wikipedia when they feel ill, this generates data useful in forecasting the the flu season."
  • Traffic report: Sweet dreams on Halloween
    "It is, perhaps, ironic that humanity chose the week of Halloween to finally put its fears to bed. Let's face it: 2014 has been a year of tragedies, conflicts, plagues and pain, and eventually something had to break... Whether we at last came to terms with our limited ability to affect events, shoved those events under the carpet, or just decided to let go and move on, we turned our eye to more positive things, such as sports heroes, hotly anticipated movies, and lifelong learning; two Google doodles appeared in the top 25 for the first time since the beginning of August."

waLib.js

As a note, I made a small change to User:Darkwind/waLib.js to make it be compatible with the new personal bar. Jackmcbarn (talk) 16:43, 7 November 2014 (UTC)

Re:DeletespagesthatfailGNG

I'd left the name at WP:UAA because my block was only for 24 hours on a 3RR violation and I was looking for input from others about whether the block should be extended. If you have removed the name from the list may I assume I was correct in my assumption that this account should be indef blocked on username violation grounds? TomStar81 (Talk) 08:10, 10 November 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 12 November 2014

  • In the media: Amazon Echo; EU freedom of panorama; Bluebeard's Castle
    "Technology media outlets are abuzz after the November 6 unveiling of the Amazon Echo, an Internet-connected voice command device"; "The EUobserver talks (November 4) with Dimitar Dimitrov (User:Dimi z) about the lack of freedom of panorama in some European Union countries and its implications for Wikimedia projects"; "Scott Cantrell, classical music critic for the Dallas Morning News, recounts efforts to verify an uncited claim in the Wikipedia article for the Béla Bartók opera Bluebeard's Castle."
  • Traffic report: Holidays, anyone?
    This was very much a week dominated by holidays and pop culture over current events, with new film Interstellar taking the top spot followed by holidays Day of the Dead (#2), Guy Fawkes and his Night (#4 and #5), and Halloween (#8, and its third week on the list). And a foursome of television shows, all return visitors, appear to setting up residence on the greater Top 25: The Walking Dead (#11), American Horror Story: Freak Show (#14), Gotham (#16), and The Flash (#18).
  • WikiProject report: Talking hospitals
    We return to our interview format this week, speaking with the participants of WikiProject Hospitals. This project, formed in 2010, has no Featured content and only three Good articles, yet aided by around 30 hard-working Wikipedians covers a topic that is essential to life.

Hello Darkwind. This message is part of a mass mailing to people who appear active in reviewing articles for creation submissions. First of all, thank you for taking part in this important work! I'm sorry this message is a form letter – it really was the only way I could think of to covey the issue economically. Of course, this also means that I have not looked to see whether the matter is applicable to you in particular.

The issue is in rather large numbers of copyright violations ("copyvios") making their way through AfC reviews without being detected (even when easy to check, and even when hallmarks of copyvios in the text that should have invited a check, were glaring). A second issue is the correct method of dealing with them when discovered.

If you don't do so already, I'd like to ask for your to help with this problem by taking on the practice of performing a copyvio check as the first step in any AfC review. The most basic method is to simply copy a unique but small portion of text from the draft body and run it through a search engine in quotation marks. Trying this from two different paragraphs is recommended. (If you have any question about whether the text was copied from the draft, rather than the other way around (a "backwards copyvio"), the Wayback Machine is very useful for sussing that out.)

If you do find a copyright violation, please do not decline the draft on that basis. Copyright violations need to be dealt with immediately as they may harm those whose content is being used and expose Wikipedia to potential legal liability. If the draft is substantially a copyvio, and there's no non-infringing version to revert to, please mark the page for speedy deletion right away using {{db-g12|url=URL of source}}. If there is an assertion of permission, please replace the draft article's content with {{subst:copyvio|url=URL of source}}.

Some of the more obvious indicia of a copyvio are use of the first person ("we/our/us..."), phrases like "this site", or apparent artifacts of content written for somewhere else ("top", "go to top", "next page", "click here", use of smartquotes, etc.); inappropriate tone of voice, such as an overly informal tone or a very slanted marketing voice with weasel words; including intellectual property symbols (™,®); and blocks of text being added all at once in a finished form with no misspellings or other errors.

I hope this message finds you well and thanks again you for your efforts in this area. Best regards--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 02:20, 18 November 2014 (UTC).

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Rename account for Venustar84?

Hi, I am a mentor for Venustar84, who prefers to be called by Kristine rather than her username. I saw your posting on User_talk:Venustar84#Use of multiple accounts and understand that she can just have one account due to sockpuppet accounts.

Is it possible / allowed, though in this circumstance, for her to rename her account to User:KristineVenustar, assuming Venustar is not part of her surname, or something else that might have "Kristine" in it?--CaroleHenson (talk) 19:10, 16 November 2014 (UTC)

@CaroleHenson: Sorry for taking so long to get back to you; I haven't been very active on the project lately. I don't see a problem with going through the standard rename process, following the guidelines at WP:CHU. —Darkwind (talk) 05:21, 27 November 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 26 November 2014

  • In the media: A Russian alternative Wikipedia; Who's your grandfather?; ArtAndFeminism
    Numerous media outlets are reporting on a November 14 statement on the website of the Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library announcing the formation of a Russian "alternative" to Wikipedia, a "regional electronic encyclopedia" dedicated to "Russian regions and the life of the country".
  • WikiProject report: Back with the military historians
    It's time for this year's edition of the Report looking at possibly our largest wikiproject: Military history. Since our last interview in June 2013, the project has had no break in its huge quest to document everything in their scope, that is, militaries and conflicts of the past. As usual, its participants were eager to answer the questions posed by The Signpost and update us on how they are doing.
  • Traffic report: Big in Japan
    Often times in popular culture, a subject will be quite popular among a distinct niche of people or region of the world, but little-known elsewhere -- like a musical artist that is boasted to be "big in Japan". The Traffic Report provides a bevy of examples this week.

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Hi Darkwind, either this bot or User:HBC AIV helperbot5 is currently logged out and editing from 10.68.17.184 (talk · contribs). I've left a notice at the bot owner's noticeboard. Thanks, Sam Walton (talk) 10:40, 5 December 2014 (UTC)

Vesuvianite

Hi I cleaned up the Vesuvianite gemstone article a bit. Can you wikify or edit it more? Thank you. Venustar84 (talk) 18:17, 6 December 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 03 December 2014

GOCE coordinator elections

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Candidate nominations for Guild coordinators to serve from January 1 to June 30, 2015, are currently underway. The nomination period will close at 23:59 on December 15 (UTC), after which voting will commence until 23:59 on December 31, 2014. Self-nominations are welcomed. Please consider getting involved; it's your Guild and it won't coordinate itself, so if you'd like to help coordinate Guild activities we'd love to hear from you.

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The Signpost: 10 December 2014

December 2014 GOCE newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors December 2014 Newsletter
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Drive: Thanks to everyone who participated in November's Backlog Elimination Drive. Of the 43 people who signed up for this drive, 26 copy edited at least one article. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here.

Progress report: The November Drive removed 26 requests from the Requests page and 509 articles from the {{copy edit}} backlog. We copy edited 83 articles tagged in the target months; July, August, and September 2013. Together with tag removals from articles unsuitable for copy editing, we eliminated July 2013 from the backlog and reduced August and September's tags to 61 and 70 respectively. As of 01:01, 1 December 2014 (UTC), the backlog stood at 1,974 articles, dipping below 2,000 for the first time in the Guild's history (see graph at right). Well done everyone!

Blitz: The December Blitz will run from December 14–20 and will focus on articles related to Religion, in recognition of this month's religious holidays in much of the English-speaking world. Awards will be given out to everyone who copy edits at least one of the target articles. Sign up here!

Election time again: The election of coordinators to serve from 1 January to 30 June 2015 is now underway. Candidates can nominate themselves or others from December 01, 00:01 (UTC), until December 15, 23:59. The voting period will run from December 16, 00:01 (UTC), until December 31, 23:59. You can read about coordinators' duties here. Please consider getting involved and remember to cast you vote—it's your Guild and it doesn't organize itself!

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The Signpost: 17 December 2014

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GOCE holiday 2014 newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors Late December 2014 Newsletter
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Blitz: Thanks to everyone who participated in the December Blitz. Of the 14 editors who signed up for the blitz, 11 copyedited at least one article. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here.

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The Signpost: 24 December 2014

The Signpost: 31 December 2014

  • News and notes: The next big step for Wikidata—forming a hub for researchers
    Wikidata, Wikimedia's free linked database that supplies Wikipedia and its sister projects, is gearing up to submit a grant application to the EU that would expand Wikidata's scope by developing it as a science hub. The proposal, supported by more than 25 volunteers and half a dozen European institutions as project partners, aims to create a virtual research environment (VRE) that will enhance the project's capacity for freely sharing scientific data.
  • In the media: Study tour controversy; class tackles the gender gap
    A "study tour" by the Chandigarh Municipal Corporation for the purpose of researching development projects has been the subject of much controversy and criticism in the Indian press... The Indian Express described a government report about the trip as having copied extensively from the Wikipedia articles for Port Blair and the Kolkata Municipal Corporation.
  • Traffic report: Surfin' the Yuletide
    Unlike last year, Wikipedia viewers seem to have embraced the Christmas spirit, with three topics in the top 10 (and eight in the top 25) focused on the holiday season.
  • Op-ed: My issues with the Wiki Education Foundation
    Chris Troutman has been a campus ambassador for six classes in the Los Angeles area over the past four consecutive semesters. He is currently a Wikipedia Visiting Scholar at University of California, Riverside.
  • Featured content: A bit fruity
    Three articles, three lists, fifteen pictures, and one topic were promoted.

GOCE 2014 report

Guild of Copy Editors 2014 Annual Report
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  • Summary of Drives, Blitzes, and the Requests page;
  • Review the election results;
  • Membership news;
  • Changes around the Guild's pages;
  • Plans for 2015.
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