User talk:Billinghurst/Archives/2013/March

The Signpost: 04 March 2013

• Op-ed: We must do more to turn readers into editors

• News and notes: Outing of editor causes firestorm

• Featured content: Slow week for featured content

• WikiProject report: WikiProject Television Stations

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• EdwardsBot (talk) 22:40, 7 March 2013 (UTC)

TinyURL

The real reference is army guide website which is on wiki blacklist. So, wiki doesn't accept that. So I used URL shortener..What else can be done??

--Theoccupiedkashmir (talk) 16:06, 8 March 2013 (UTC)

Which is exactly why we don't use shorteners, and circumventing the blacklist is a very bad idea. If you think that an item is wrongly on the blacklist then appeal its addition at Mediawiki talk:Spam-blacklist. If it is a non-authoritative cite, then find an authoritative source. — billinghurst sDrewth 23:34, 8 March 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 11 March 2013

• From the editor: Signpost–Wikizine merger

• News and notes: Finance committee updates

• Featured content: Batman, three birds and a Mercedes

• Arbitration report: Doncram case closes; arbitrator resigns

• WikiProject report: Setting a precedent

• Technology report: Article Feedback reversal

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• EdwardsBot (talk) 09:35, 13 March 2013 (UTC)

Blacklisting of alpao.com

Dear Billinghurst, I am quite new in editing Wikipedia. It seems that you blacklisted alpao.com on external links (from Miroir déformable and Adaptive optics). Could you please explain me why ? Thank you in adavance.

Best, — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hardoche (talk • contribs) 15:53, 20 March 2013 (UTC)

The domain was added as commercial linking across at least 10 sites, has been and had previously been removed. The wikipedias are encyclopaedias, not directory listings (please review Wikipedia:External links). — billinghurst sDrewth 10:26, 21 March 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 18 March 2013

• News and notes: Resigning arbitrator slams Committee

• WikiProject report: Making music

• Interview: Meeting in the middle: Wikipedia and libraries

• Featured content: Wikipedia stays warm

• Arbitration report: Richard case closes

• Technology report: Visual Editor "on schedule"

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• EdwardsBot (talk) 09:18, 22 March 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 25 March 2013

• WikiProject report: The 'Burgh: WikiProject Pittsburgh

• Featured content: One and a half soursops

• Arbitration report: Two open cases

• News and notes: Sue Gardner to leave WMF; German Wikipedians spearhead another effort to close Wikinews

• Technology report: The Visual Editor: Where are we now, and where are we headed?

• Recent research: "Ignore all rules" in deletions; anonymity and groupthink; how readers react when shown talk pages

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• EdwardsBot (talk) 01:06, 29 March 2013 (UTC)