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The Signpost: 31 July 2013

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Wikidata weekly summary #69

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Welcome to The Wikipedia Adventure!

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Hi! We're so happy you wanted to play to learn, as a friendly and fun way to get into our community and mission. I think these links might be helpful to you as you get started.
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Proposed deletion of 574.7

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The article 574.7 has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

coincidence of no scientific or historical notability

While all constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, content or articles may be deleted for any of several reasons.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{proposed deletion/dated}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. BHBrunt (talk) 10:10, 4 August 2013 (UTC)Reply

You can G7 this. Rich Farmbrough, 20:52, 8 August 2013 (UTC).Reply
Done. Dpmuk (talk) 21:23, 8 August 2013 (UTC)Reply

Bat-signal

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Your thoughts on the problem represented by, for example, (5796) 1978 VK5 ? Chrisrus (talk) 18:10, 28 July 2013 (UTC)Reply

Hi Chrisus, I remain willing to complete this work once I am permitted to do so again.
It does not really constitute a "problem" as such, asteroids are not like people where there are some billions we actively don't want articles on, for legal reasons not least. Asteroid stubs are harmless and verifiable.
My main concern is that, given consensus to replace the stubs with redirects (rightly or wrongly) we do a good clean job, without loosing information, and without prejudicing re-creation of individual articles as circumstances change.
Rich Farmbrough, 00:51, 3 August 2013 (UTC).Reply
I understand. Please, if you would, put Wikipedia:Minor planet articles that might fail NASTRO on your watchlist and comment or act as you may/would. Chrisrus (talk) 05:28, 3 August 2013 (UTC) Actually, you might want to see this first: Wikipedia:BOTREQ#Bot_needed_to_make_a_list Chrisrus (talk) 05:46, 3 August 2013 (UTC)Reply
I thought I created an on-wikilist, of course that might be outdated now. The job could be substantially finished reasonably quickly, were I permitted to do it.   Rich Farmbrough, 22:59, 8 August 2013 (UTC).Reply

Correction required - Barbie

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Barbie includes the sentence "At 5'9" tall and weighing 110 lbs, Barbie would have a BMI of 16.24 and fit the weight criteria for anorexia." Firstly the wiki-link to anorexia is to the wrong article, and the correct article is linked earlier in the paragraph. Secondly BMI is not a "criteria" for anorexia nervosa unless relatd to other symptoms as I understand it, though unsurprisingly correlations exist. I would suggest the whole sentence is removed. Rich Farmbrough, 00:37, 9 August 2013 (UTC).Reply

Note that the figure of 17.5 is described (in our BMI article as well as other places) as having a relationship (we say "informal criterion", without a cite), other places say "People with anorexia generally have a BMI below 17.5. " to a plain wrong " Adults with anorexia have a BMI below 17.5." Rich Farmbrough, 00:46, 9 August 2013 (UTC).Reply
We should possibly have an article on SEED.Rich Farmbrough, 01:00, 9 August 2013 (UTC).Reply

Wikidata weekly summary #70

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The Signpost: 07 August 2013

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Iraqi Swiss dinar

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s/envoys/convoys/

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massive movements of currency around the country went off well, although two

currency convoys were unsuccessfully attacked in an intense firefight near Samarra in late November 2003

Rich Farmbrough, 23:09, 15 August 2013 (UTC).Reply

No editing by proxy, please. Huon (talk) 23:34, 15 August 2013 (UTC)Reply
Thank you. Rich Farmbrough, 00:26, 16 August 2013 (UTC).Reply

The Signpost: 14 August 2013

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Wikidata weekly summary #71

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New user feedback

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User:AnnFran Morris has uploaded a lot of PD pictures by the artist Bill Lewis and got OTRS approval for them. Her talk page, however, consists mostly of huge warning templates from before the OTRS was obtained, and a block warning. It would be nice if someone were to leave her a personal thank-you note for getting the OTRS permission, and for uploading the images. Rich Farmbrough, 21:12, 17 August 2013 (UTC).Reply

  Done - see User talk:AnnFran Morris#Thank You!, and thank you for the heads up! Joys! – Paine Ellsworth CLIMAX! 21:48, 17 August 2013 (UTC)Reply


Your article submission Hoërskool Voortrekker

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Hello Rich Farmbrough. It has now been over six months since you last edited your article submission, entitled Hoërskool Voortrekker.

The page will shortly be deleted. If you plan on editing the page to address the issues raised when it was declined and resubmit it, simply edit the submission and remove the {{db-afc}} or {{db-g13}} code. Please note, however, that Articles for Creation is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace.

If your submission has already been deleted by the time you get there, and you want to retrieve it, copy this code: {{subst:Refund/G13|Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Hoërskool Voortrekker}}, paste it in the edit box at this link, click "Save", and an administrator will in most cases undelete the submission.

Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. —Anne Delong (talk) 01:04, 19 August 2013 (UTC)Reply

Fortunately, or otherwise, this article, for which I can claim less than 0.1% of the credit, has been live in mainspace for over a year. Rich Farmbrough, 17:08, 19 August 2013 (UTC).Reply
I am curious as to how long a notice we consider appropriate for the type of user who would have submitted an article and not touched it for six months. I can see no reason to rush, AFC responses themselves, when I last looked, took a good few weeks. Rich Farmbrough, 17:11, 19 August 2013 (UTC).Reply
It was discussed to death at WT:CSD, over many threads; it got so tedious that I unwatched the page. See Wikipedia talk:Criteria for speedy deletion/Archive 48#Proposed new criterion: abandoned article drafts et seq. --Redrose64 (talk) 20:41, 19 August 2013 (UTC)Reply
Thanks. It seems the general idea is promulgated by the fuss-budgets of the community, rather than those concerned with specific and somewhat relevant concerns. The matter would be simply resolved by dealing with AFC properly, but there seems to be a lack of resource for that - it was on my list of things to do. Rich Farmbrough, 22:00, 19 August 2013 (UTC).Reply

Wikidata weekly summary #72

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The Signpost: 21 August 2013

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Drum magazine

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s/without making it too big to be impractical to carry./without making it so large it is impractical to carry./

Inadvertent double negative. Could also wiki-link AK-47.

Thanks Rich Farmbrough, 02:20, 27 August 2013 (UTC).Reply

What an awkwardly worded sentence that was. Fixed it and added the wikilink. Howicus (talk) 03:27, 27 August 2013 (UTC)Reply
Many thanks! Rich Farmbrough, 03:28, 27 August 2013 (UTC).Reply

Wikidata weekly summary #73

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The Signpost: 28 August 2013

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