User talk:Captain Assassin!/Archive 14

WikiCup 2014 March newsletter

A quick update as we are half way through round two of this year's competition. WikiCup newcomer Godot13 (submissions) (Pool E) leads, having produced a massive set of featured pictures for Silver certificate (United States), an article also brought to featured list status. Former finalist Adam Cuerden (submissions) (Pool G) is in second, which he owes mostly to his work with historical images, including a number of images from Urania's Mirror, an article also brought to good status. 2010 champion (Pool C) is third overall, thanks to contributions relating to naval history, including the newly featured Japanese battleship Nagato. Cliftonian (submissions), who currently leads Pool A and is sixth overall, takes the title for the highest scoring individual article of the competition so far, with the top importance featured article Ian Smith.

With 26 people having already scored over 100 points, it is likely that well over 100 points will be needed to secure a place in round 3. Recent years have required 123 (2013), 65 (2012), 41 (2011) and 100 (2010). Remember that only 64 will progress to round 3 at the end of April. Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page; if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points equally. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to help keep down the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn (talk • email), The ed17 (talk • email) and Miyagawa (talk • email) 22:55, 31 March 2014 (UTC)

Wikification drive notification.

Greetings! Just letting you know, the April 2014 backlog drive has commenced! It's the 1st! May Day! May Day - ain't for another month. (talk) 02:46, 1 April 2014 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 14, 2014)

An April Fools' Day hoax marking the construction of the Copenhagen Metro in 2001. Hello, Captain Assassin!. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: April Fools' Day Previous selections: Injury • Assassination of Anwar Sadat Get involved with the TAFI project! You can... Nominate an article Review nominations Have your say in future selections Posted by: MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of EuroCarGT (talk) 03:45, 1 April 2014 (UTC) •

GOCE March drive wrapup

Guild of Copy Editors March 2014 backlog elimination drive wrap-up newsletter The March 2014 drive wrap-up is now ready for review. Sign up for the April blitz! – Your project coordinators: Jonesey95, Baffle gab1978 and Miniapolis. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list. Newsletter delivered by

Guild of Copy Editors March 2014 backlog elimination drive wrap-up Participation: Thanks to all who participated in the drive and helped out behind the scenes. 42 people signed up for this drive and 28 of these completed at least one article. Final results are available here. Progress report: Articles tagged during the target months of December 2012 and January 2013 were reduced from 177 to 33, and the overall backlog was reduced by 13 articles. The total backlog was 2,902 articles at the end of March. On the Requests page during March, 26 copy edit requests were completed, all requests from January 2014 were completed, and the length of the queue was reduced by 11 articles. Blitz!: The April blitz will run from April 13–19, with a focus on the Requests list. Sign up now! – Your drive coordinators: Jonesey95, Baffle gab1978 and Miniapolis To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:57, 2 April 2014 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Pixels (2016 film)

The article Pixels (2016 film) has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Fails WP:NFILM: Independent reliable sources do not confirm that principle photography has begun.

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. SummerPhD (talk) 03:51, 5 April 2014 (UTC)

"Films that have not been confirmed by reliable sources to have commenced principal photography should not have their own articles...Sources must be used to confirm the start of principal photography after shooting has begun."

Is there some part of that that you do not understand? - SummerPhD (talk) 03:55, 5 April 2014 (UTC)

What did I do now? You have something against me always, it's an animated film, and for your information an animated film can have its own article when it's in or just out of pre-production. And it has a confirmed start date of May 28 and viewers want to get information about the film and will contribute eventually. Koala15 will confirm this. --Captain Assassin! ^{«T ♦ C ♦ G»} 10:16, 5 April 2014 (UTC)

Again, contrary to what you are saying, "Films that have not been confirmed by reliable sources to have commenced principal photography should not have their own articles...Sources must be used to confirm the start of principal photography after shooting has begun." "In the case of animated films, reliable sources must confirm that the film is clearly out of the pre-production process..." Is there some part of this that is not clear to you? Again,after numerous discussions and blocks, you seem to not understand the basic notability guideline for films. How is this possible? As you seem to be quite interested in starting articles about films, you really need to be very familiar with WP:NFF. You clearly are not. - SummerPhD (talk) 15:17, 5 April 2014 (UTC)

I clearly understand all of it, but see I think you've something personally with me. Last time you didn't proposed only film articles, you did with even biographies which were kept after nominations. And now you again with an animated film. I've many examples of animation films which are/were made even sources do/did not existed to confirm "out of the pre-production process". The other option is to redirect it to its adapting article until sources say something about its pre-production. By the way I'm not creating articles until filming begins anymore. Ask Bgwhite, I always ask him for review and creation for an article. Do these articles Peanuts (film) and Kung Fu Panda 3 have a source which says it's filming or out of pre-production? You better take this to AFD or redirect it to Pixels (film). --Captain Assassin! ^{«T ♦ C ♦ G»} 17:37, 5 April 2014 (UTC)

Clearly, you did not "understand all of it". You stated "...an animated film can have its own article when it's in or just out of pre-production....", which is directly contradicted by WP:NFF.

"...biographies which were kept after nominations..." Like Joel Johnstone or Ed Oxenbould? Or like S. Craig Zahler where the prod was removed by someone who "forgot" to sign in? Or maybe Courtney Eaton, who still has zero notable roles (prod removed with no discussion, I apparently forgot to take that one to AfD)? Perhaps Kennedi Clements, with one role (prod removed with no discussion)? I'm not seeing any that were kept after discussion of any kind.

The "other option" would be a great way to make sure you keep "credit" for another bad article.

How many times do you need to be warned to follow the basic guidelines? Would another trip to AN/I fix it? - SummerPhD (talk) 18:32, 5 April 2014 (UTC)

Well the film is live-action with animation that will be added in post-production, so i think we should just redirect the article until it begins filming. Since it would be a shame to delete a nice article like this. Koala15 (talk) 19:13, 5 April 2014 (UTC)

I'm sorry SummerPhD, no offence but Koala15 knows the respect of articles, you should just put it to redirect when it is a notable article. Now it is settled. --Captain Assassin! ^{«T ♦ C ♦ G»} 02:37, 6 April 2014 (UTC)

Before lecturing me on "the respect of articles", learn the guidelines. That will preempt the need to discuss what to do with your projects that shouldn't have been started. - SummerPhD (talk) 03:33, 6 April 2014 (UTC)

I've read those and I'm following them. Now please don't stretch this topic, it was an animated film which got me confused (like "out of pre-production") with others. Now let it go and relax, I'll not create anymore. I always ask Bgwhite, whenever I've a project. --Captain Assassin! ^{«T ♦ C ♦ G»} 03:40, 6 April 2014 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 17, 2024)

Lobamba is the traditional and legislative capital of Swaziland. Hello, Captain Assassin!. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Lobamba Previous selections: April Fools' Day • Injury Get involved with the TAFI project! You can... Nominate an article Review nominations Have your say in future selections Posted by: MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 08:22, 7 April 2014 (UTC) •

This week's article for improvement (week 16, 2014)

Entertainers at a festival Hello, Captain Assassin!. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Festival Previous selections: Lobamba • April Fools' Day Get involved with the TAFI project! You can... Nominate an article Review nominations Have your say in future selections Posted by: MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of Evad37 (talk) 00:11, 14 April 2014 (UTC) •

April 2014

Before adding a category to an article, as you did to Takehiro Hira, please make sure that the subject of the article really belongs in the category that you specified according to Wikipedia's categorization guidelines. Categories must also be supported by the article's verifiable content. Categories may be removed if they are deemed incorrect for the subject matter. Thank you. Michitaro (talk) 23:23, 17 April 2014 (UTC)

Michitaro, with editors that have been around here for awhile, it is best not to leave a standard Twinkle message. Many find this offensive. Bgwhite (talk) 01:13, 18 April 2014 (UTC)

@Michitaro: Actually it happened mistakenly to some articles in Japanese category, it wasn't not the only article with which it happened. Look HERE and HERE, I reverted all those edits but this article, I didn't see it. --Captain Assassin! ^{«T ♦ C ♦ G»} 03:03, 18 April 2014 (UTC)

Sorry about that. I'm traveling and just had to quickly do something on what seemed like a curious set of edits. I must confess I have not seen your name before. Michitaro (talk) 08:53, 18 April 2014 (UTC)

Well Michitaro, now you've seen, so don't forget it :). --Captain Assassin! ^{«T ♦ C ♦ G»} 10:22, 18 April 2014 (UTC)

DYK for Midnight Rider (film)

The DYK project (nominate) 16:48, 19 April 2014 (UTC)

DYK nomination of 2014 Mount Everest avalanche

Hello! Your submission of 2014 Mount Everest avalanche at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Hawkeye7 (talk) 05:47, 20 April 2014 (UTC)

Sorry about that. Hawkeye7 (talk) 11:03, 21 April 2014 (UTC)

No problem Hawkeye7, see you there soon. --Captain Assassin! ^{«T ♦ C ♦ G»} 11:14, 21 April 2014 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 17, 2014)

Kazimierz Nowak on exploration through the Rwenzori Mountains in Africa Hello, Captain Assassin!. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Exploration Previous selections: Festival • Lobamba Get involved with the TAFI project! You can... Nominate an article Review nominations Have your say in future selections Posted by: MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of Evad37 (talk) 02:50, 21 April 2014 (UTC) •

Proposed deletion of Ghazala Rafi

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

The subject does not establishes the WP:Notability and cited sources are not WP:Reliable sources.

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. Justice007 (talk) 13:25, 21 April 2014 (UTC)

Hands in the Sky listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Hands in the Sky. Since you had some involvement with the Hands in the Sky redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. JDDJS (talk) 17:11, 21 April 2014 (UTC)

April blitz wrap-up and May copyediting drive invitation

Guild of Copy Editors April 2014 Blitz wrap-up Participation: Out of 17 people who signed up for this blitz, eight copy-edited at least one article. Thanks to all who participated! Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. Progress report: During the seven-day blitz, we removed 28 articles from the requests queue. Hope to see you at the May drive! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators Jonesey95, Miniapolis and Baffle gab1978. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list. Newsletter delivered by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:18, 22 April 2014 (UTC)

VisualEditor newsletter—April 2014

Since the last newsletter, the VisualEditor team has mostly worked on performance improvements, image settings, and preparation for a simplified citation template tool in its own menu.

• In an oft-requested improvement, VisualEditor now displays red links (links to non-existent pages) in the proper color. Links to sister projects and external URLs are still the same blue as local links.
• You can now open templates by double-clicking them or by selecting them and pressing  Return.  This also works for references, images, galleries, mathematical equations, and other "nodes".
• VisualEditor has been disabled for pages that were created as translations of other pages using the Translate extension (common at Meta and MediaWiki.org). If a page has been marked for translation, you will see a warning if you try to edit it using VisualEditor.
• When you try to edit protected pages with VisualEditor, the full protection notice and most recent log entry are displayed. Blocked users see the standard message for blocked users.
• The developers fixed a bug that caused links on sub-pages to point to the wrong location.
• The size-changing controls in the advanced settings section of the media or image dialog were simplified further. VisualEditor's media dialog supports more image display styles, like borderless images.
• If there is not enough space on your screen to display all of the tabs (for instance, if your browser window is too narrow), the second edit tab will now fold into the drop-down menu (where the "Move" item is currently housed). On the English Wikipedia, this moves the "Edit beta" tab into the menu; on most projects, it moves the "Edit source" tab. This is only enabled in the default Vector skin, not for Monobook users. See this image for an example showing the "Edit source" and "View history" tabs after they moved into the drop-down menu.
• After community requests, VisualEditor has been deployed as an opt-in feature at Meta and on the French Wikinews.

The drop-down menu is on the right, next to the search box.

Looking ahead:  A new, locally controlled menu of citation templates will put citations immediately in front of users. You will soon be able to see the Table of Contents while editing. Support for upright image sizes (preferred for accessibility) is being developed. In-line language setting (dir="rtl") will be offered as a Beta Feature soon. Looking further out, the developers are also working on support for viewing and editing hidden HTML comments. It will be possible to upload images to Commons from inside VisualEditor.

If you have questions or suggestions for future improvements, or if you encounter problems, please let everyone know by posting a note at Wikipedia:VisualEditor/Feedback or by joining the office hours on Monday, 19 May 2014 at 18:00 UTC. If you'd like to get this on your own page, subscribe at Wikipedia:VisualEditor#Newsletter for English Wikipedia only or at meta:VisualEditor/Newsletter for any project. Thank you! Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 20:23, 23 April 2014 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 18, 2014)

Fresh produce in a grocery store Hello, Captain Assassin!. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Grocery store Previous selections: Exploration • Festival Get involved with the TAFI project! You can... Nominate an article Review nominations Have your say in future selections Posted by: MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of Evad37 (talk) 11:40, 28 April 2014 (UTC) •

DYK nomination of Pakistani Telecom Spectrum Auction

Hello! Your submission of Pakistani Telecom Spectrum Auction at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! BlueMoonset (talk) 04:42, 30 April 2014 (UTC)

• It's coming up on two weeks since you replied, and there have been no edits on this article despite a great deal of editing activity elsewhere on Wikipedia. You need to give this your attention in the next couple of days if you wish the nomination to stay open. Thanks. BlueMoonset (talk) 00:13, 20 May 2014 (UTC)

April 2014 drive awards.

		The Working Wikifier's Barnstar
		For scoring 7th place on the leaderboard during the April 2014 wikification drive, Captain Assassin!, you are hereby presented with the Working Wikifier's Barnstar. Congratulations!

		The Iron Wikification Barnstar
		For wikifying 22 pages, you are also awarded the Iron Wikification Barnstar. Keep up the good work! :)

Cheers! Spring in Wikipedia is lovely! Just avoid the articles on flowers... (talk) 03:07, 3 May 2014 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Editor's Barnstar
	Thanks for your participation in April 2014 Wikiproject Wikify drive. All of your efforts are appreciated. Skr15081997 (talk) 15:35, 3 May 2014 (UTC)

WikiCup 2014 April newsletter

Round 3 of the 2014 WikiCup has just begun; 32 competitors remain. Pool G's Adam Cuerden (submissions) was Round 2's highest scorer, with a large number of featured picture credits. In March/April, he restored star charts from Urania's Mirror, lithographs of various warships (such as SMS Gefion) and assorted other historical media. Second overall was Pool E's Godot13 (submissions), whose featured list Silver certificate (United States) contains dozens of scans of banknotes recently promoted to featured picture status. Third was Pool G's ChrisGualtieri (submissions) who has produced a large number of good articles, many, including Falkner Island, on Connecticut-related topics. Other successful participants included Cliftonian (submissions), who saw three articles (including the top-importance Ian Smith) through featured article candidacies, and Caponer (submissions), who saw three lists (including the beautifully-illustrated list of plantations in West Virginia) through featured list candidacies. High-importance good articles promoted this round include narwhal from Reid,iain james (submissions), tiger from Cwmhiraeth (submissions) and The Lion King from Igordebraga (submissions). We also saw our first featured topic points of the competition, awarded to Czar (submissions) and Red Phoenix (submissions) for their work on the Sega Genesis topic. No points have been claimed so far for good topics or featured portals.

192 was our lowest qualifying score, again showing that this WikiCup is the most competitive ever. In previous years, 123 (2013), 65 (2012), 41 (2011) or 100 (2010) secured a place in Round 3. Pool H was the strongest performer, with all but one of its members advancing, while only the two highest scorers in Pools G and F advanced. At the end of June, 16 users will advance into the semi-finals. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to help keep down the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn (talk • email), The ed17 (talk • email) and Miyagawa (talk • email) 17:56, 4 May 2014 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 19, 2014)

Filming of a travel documentary Hello, Captain Assassin!. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Travel documentary Previous selections: Grocery store • Exploration Get involved with the TAFI project! You can... Nominate an article Review nominations Have your say in future selections Posted by: MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of EuroCarGT (talk) 01:25, 5 May 2014 (UTC) •

DYK for Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2

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This week's article for improvement (week 20, 2014)

Hopetoun Falls in Beech Forest, a forest in Australia Hello, Captain Assassin!. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Forests of Australia Previous selections: Travel documentary • Grocery store Get involved with the TAFI project! You can... Nominate an article Review nominations Have your say in future selections Posted by: MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of EuroCarGT (talk) 00:06, 12 May 2014 (UTC) •

Category:Millennium Entertainment films

Category:Millennium Entertainment films, which you created, has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 00:15, 13 May 2014 (UTC)

Zong

You're invited here.  SAMI  ^talk 17:13, 13 May 2014 (UTC)

Category:Films by studio

Hi. I noticed that you've just renamed Category:Films by studio to Category:Films by studio or distributor. I'd like to ask you that have you discussed it in advance with the community before renaming it? I need your confirmation because I'm about to perform mass edits to transfer all its subpages and subcategories to the new name. Thanks! ALittleQuenhi (talk to me) 12:02, 17 May 2014 (UTC)

No no no....don't Quenhitran, don't do it yet, discussion is still udergoing, so wait until it approved. --Captain Assassin! ^{«T ♦ C ♦ G»} 18:25, 17 May 2014 (UTC)

Ok. I asked because I saw you'd already left {{Category redirect}} there. ALittleQuenhi (talk to me) 12:51, 18 May 2014 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 21, 2014)

The Battle of Varoux, part of the French Revolutionary Wars Hello, Captain Assassin!. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: French Revolutionary Wars Previous selections: Forests of Australia • Travel documentary Get involved with the TAFI project! You can... Nominate an article Review nominations Have your say in future selections Posted by: MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of EuroCarGT (talk) 00:37, 19 May 2014 (UTC) •

Notification of a June AfC BackLog Drive

Hello Captain Assassin!:

WikiProject Articles for creation is holding a month long Backlog Elimination Drive!
The goal of this drive is to eliminate the backlog of unreviewed articles. The drive is running from June 1, 2014 to June 30, 2014.

Awards will be given out for all reviewers participating in the drive in the form of barnstars at the end of the drive.
There is a backlog of over 2400 articles, so start reviewing articles! Visit the drive's page and help out!

The AfC helper script can assist you in tallying your edits automatically. To view a full list of changes, visit the changelog. Please report bugs and feature requests there, too! Thanks. Sent on behalf of (t) Josve05a (c) by {{U|Technical 13}} ^{(t • e • c)} using the MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 15:45, 19 May 2014 (UTC)

Category:Films by studio or distributor

Category:Films by studio or distributor, which you created, has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 00:30, 20 May 2014 (UTC)

VisualEditor newsletter—May 2014

Did you know?

The cite menu offers quick access to up to five citation templates.  If your wiki has enabled the "⧼visualeditor-toolbar-cite-label⧽" menu, press "⧼visualeditor-toolbar-cite-label⧽" and select the appropriate template from the menu.

Existing citations that use these templates can be edited either using the "⧼visualeditor-toolbar-cite-label⧽" tool or by selecting the reference and choosing the "⧼visualeditor-dialogbutton-reference-tooltip⧽" item in the "Insert" menu.

Read the user guide for more information.

Since the last newsletter, the VisualEditor team has mostly worked on the new citation tool, improving performance, reducing technical debt, and other infrastructure needs.

The biggest change in the last few weeks is the new citation template menu, labeled "⧼visualeditor-toolbar-cite-label⧽". The new citation menu offers a locally configurable list of citation templates on the main toolbar. It adds or opens references using the simplified template dialog that was deployed last month. This tool is in addition to the "⧼visualeditor-dialogbutton-reference-tooltip⧽" item in the "Insert" menu, and it is not displayed unless it has been configured for that wiki. To enable this tool on your wiki, see the instructions at VisualEditor/Citation tool.

Eventually, the VisualEditor team plans to add autofill features for these citations. When this long-awaited feature is created, you could add an ISBN, URL, DOI or other identifier to the citation tool, and VisualEditor would automatically fill in as much information for that source as possible. The concept drawings can be seen at mw:VisualEditor/Design/Reference Dialog, and your ideas about making referencing quick and easy are still wanted.

• There is a new Beta Feature for setting content language and direction.  This allows editors who have opted in to use the "Language" tool in the "Insert" menu to add HTML span tags that label text with the language and as being left-to-right (LTR) or right-to-left (RTL), like this:  <span lang="en" dir="ltr">English</span>. This tool is most useful for pages whose text combines multiple languages with different directions, common on Right-to-Left wikis.
• The tool for editing mathematics formulae in VisualEditor has been slightly updated and is now available to all users, as the "⧼math-visualeditor-mwmathinspector-title⧽" item in the "Insert" menu. It uses LaTeX like in the wikitext editor.
• The layout of template dialogs has been changed, putting the label above the field.  Parameters are now called "fields", to avoid a technical term that many editors are unfamiliar with.
• TemplateData has been expanded:  You can now add "suggested" parameters in TemplateData, and VisualEditor will display them in the template dialogs like required ones.  "Suggested" is recommended for parameters that are commonly used, but not actually required to make the template work.  There is also a new type for TemplateData parameters: wiki-file-name, for file names.  The template tool can now tell you if a parameter is marked as being obsolete.
• Some templates that previously displayed strangely due to absolute CSS positioning hacks should now display correctly.
• Several messages have changed: The notices shown when you save a page have been merged into those used in the wikitext editor, for consistency.  The message shown when you "⧼visualeditor-toolbar-cancel⧽" out of an edit is clearer. The beta dialog notice, which is shown the first time you open VisualEditor, will be hidden for logged-in users via a user preference rather than a cookie.  As a result of this change, the beta notice will show up one last time for all logged-in users on their next VisualEditor use after Thursday's upgrade.
• Adding a category that is a redirect to another category prompts you to add the target category instead of the redirect.
• In the "Images and media" dialog, it is no longer possible to set a redundant border for thumbnail and framed images.
• There is a new Template Documentation Editor for TemplateData.  You can test it by editing a documentation subpage (not a template page) at Mediawiki.org: edit mw:Template:Sandbox/doc, and then click "Manage template documentation" above the wikitext edit box.  If your community would like to use this TemplateData editor at your project, please contact product manager James Forrester or file an enhancement request in Bugzilla.
• There have been multiple small changes to the appearance:  External links are shown in the same light blue color as in MediaWiki.  This is a lighter shade of blue than the internal links.  The styling of the "Style text" (character formatting) drop-down menu has been synchronized with the recent font changes to the Vector skin.  VisualEditor dialogs, such as the "⧼visualeditor-toolbar-savedialog⧽" dialog, now use a "loading" animation of moving lines, rather than animated GIF images.  Other changes were made to the appearance upon opening a page in VisualEditor which should make the transition between reading and editing be smoother.
• The developers merged in many minor fixes and improvements to MediaWiki interface integration (e.g., edit notices), and made VisualEditor handle Education Program pages better.
• At the request of the community, VisualEditor has been deployed to Commons as an opt-in. It is currently available by default for 161 Wikipedia language editions and by opt-in through Beta Features at all others, as well as on several non-Wikipedia sites.

Looking ahead:  The toolbar from the PageTriage extension will no longer be visible inside VisualEditor. More buttons and icons will be accessible from the keyboard.  The "Keyboard shortcuts" link will be moved out of the "Page options" menu, into the "Help" menu. Support for upright image sizes (preferred for accessibility) and inline images is being developed. You will be able to see the Table of Contents while editing. Looking further out, the developers are also working on support for viewing and editing hidden HTML comments. VisualEditor will be available to all users on mobile devices and tablet computers. It will be possible to upload images to Commons from inside VisualEditor.

If you have questions or suggestions for future improvements, or if you encounter problems, please let everyone know by posting a note at mw:VisualEditor/Feedback or by joining the office hours on Thursday, 19 June 2014 at 10:00 UTC. If you'd like to get this newsletter on your own page (about once a month), please subscribe at w:en:Wikipedia:VisualEditor/Newsletter for English Wikipedia only or at meta:VisualEditor/Newsletter for any project. Thank you! Whatamidoing (WMF) 22:16, 21 May 2014 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 22, 2014)

Roger Ebert, well known for his contributions to film criticism. Hello, Captain Assassin!. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Film criticism Previous selections: French Revolutionary Wars • Forests of Australia Get involved with the TAFI project! You can... Nominate an article Review nominations Have your say in future selections Posted by: MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of EuroCarGT (talk) 00:04, 26 May 2014 (UTC) •

This week's article for improvement (week 23, 2014)

The Amazon Basin, pictured in yellow, holds the largest rainforest in the world. Hello, Captain Assassin!. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Amazon Basin Previous selections: Film criticism • French Revolutionary Wars Get involved with the TAFI project! You can... Nominate an article Review nominations Have your say in future selections Posted by: MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of EuroCarGT (talk) 00:03, 2 June 2014 (UTC) •

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Selma movie

Hi, and I hope I did the ---- right. I've added more data to the 'Selma' movie page, in the lead, about Bevel, Jimmie Lee Jackson, etc. Hopefully this will be an accurate film, and portray the events and personalities as they happened. Good to meet you, I know this will be an important movie, and I look forward to assisting you on the page if I can offer my help. In all, Randy Kryn 19:57 4 June 2014 (UTC)

@Randy Kryn: Sure, and I'll be glad to get help in the expansion of the article. It'll be a great film as I hope so our goal should be to keep it to the Good Article status, for that we should be getting ready now even it's too early. There is also a DYK nomination Template:Did you know nominations/Selma (film), I hope you would suggest a better hook there. And thanks for your help again, cheers. --Captain Assassin! ^{«T ♦ C ♦ G»} 02:19, 5 June 2014 (UTC)

Hi, thanks, and if the film is done right it should be up for some awards - although they are rushing it a bit now because other "Selma" projects were planned (I don't know their filming status or even if they are going ahead). The cast looks to be very good, and the producers, Pitt and Winfrey, probably want to make sure to get this one right. And yes, thanks, I did suggest an alternate hook on the DYK nomination page, opening up the "official" title of the marches and removing Dr. King from the DYK (he didn't attend the first march which turned into "Bloody Sunday", although he did lead the ceremonial second and third marches by walking at the front of them as they stepped off). I attended the 40th anniversary events in Selma, quite the occasion (but that should be dwarfed by the 50th next year!), and was lucky to be near John Lewis as he stopped the faux march on the top of the Pettus bridge and talked about what he and the marchers saw when they came to that spot in 1965. As this gets a bit long I'll sign off, but again, you are creating a really good page. Randy Kryn 11:14 5 June 2014 (UTC)

@Randy Kryn: I'm just trying to do better, thanks and nice to talking you. Please get some images from the production if you are able to reach there. --Captain Assassin! ^{«T ♦ C ♦ G»} 17:48, 5 June 2014 (UTC)

• Captain: I've enjoyed working on this article with you; I've learned a lot in just a few days. However, I think I've taken a wrong turn in my contributions. I think the 'earlier film portrayal' section I added ought to go in this other article instead. Perhaps you could work there also. It would be good to have your perspective on events in the African American Civil Rights movement, events that have perhaps become too familiar to Randy and me. I have scant knowledge of turning points in your society and country. The closest I've come is six months in Jordan and a few weeks in Iran. And, I guess, in a way, even more closely, neighbors when I lived in south Florida - Neonorange (talk) 06:24, 8 June 2014 (UTC)

Hey Neon, thanks and I think 'earlier film portrayal' section you added to the article will work perfect, just added to the "Selma to Montgomery marches" article too. --Captain Assassin! ^{«T ♦ C ♦ G»} 16:39, 8 June 2014 (UTC)

@Captain Assassin!:

Sorry, I saw your ping, and went right to work. I gave it my best shot. Now it's up to you. (see my talk page for more) - Neonorange (talk) 23:01, 8 June 2014 (UTC)

So Oprah herself is coming in to play Annie Lee Cooper, what an interesting role. Cooper does not have a page on Wikipedia but should. And who is Martin Sheen playing? On the film page Cedric the Entertainer is still mentioned as playing Ralph Abernathy. He signed on in 2010, is he still playing the role? And congrats on getting the DYK mention, that's a fun one and you worded it perfectly. Randy Kryn 19:25 11 June 2014 (UTC)

Thanks Randy Kryn, and I knew we would take the article to the DYK together, and Martin Sheen is not in the cast while Cedric was attached to star but in the latest news his role's not confirmed which means he left the project. Now about Annie Lee Cooper, yes it should have her own article, so I will suggest to start article in your sandbox, we'll help you and we'll move it to the namespace when it's ready, OK? --Captain Assassin! ^{«T ♦ C ♦ G»} 02:27, 12 June 2014 (UTC)

Hi Captain, if I can be on an informal basis. Yes, let's do the Annie Lee Cooper page if no one else is working on it. I don't know if I can be a huge help, but if you have some of the books then it should be easy. Cooper was best known for getting arrested and beaten after beating up Sheriff Jim Clark during the Selma Movement. She was just standing in line, waiting to register to vote. She should also be known for being the first person Bevel told about his idea of a Selma to Montgomery march. Please start it off or off, my sandbox is fine (I just cleared it out after writing a semi-stub National Voting Rights Museum page which you are very welcome to add to. Maybe Neoorange and Malik will want to join in on a Cooper page. Thanks. Randy Kryn 15:52 16 June 2014 (UTC)

Hi. I built up the Cooper article into a stub and have mainspaced it, so please have a go at adding more. I'll let Neoorange know as well. I wonder how many people tried to find the page after the announcement that Oprah was playing Cooper! I hope all goes well, and keep up the great work. Randy Kryn 12:47 20 June 2014 (UTC)

Nice, an infobox on the Cooper page. Maybe some joker will put a picture of Oprah in there. Did you see an editor left a release data for 'Selma' of January 9, 2015. The editor looks like he works on film pages, so probably has it right. That would give two months of theater time as a run up to the 50th anniversary, and lots of popcorn served in the meantime! Randy Kryn 19:45 20 June 2014 (UTC)

GOCE June 2014 newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors May 2014 backlog elimination drive wrap-up Participation: Thanks to all who participated! Out of 51 people who signed up this drive, 33 copy edited at least one article. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. 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! Blitz: The June blitz will run from June 15–21. This blitz's theme is Politics. Sign up here. Election: You can nominate yourself or others for the role of Coordinator for the second half of 2014 here. Nominations will be accepted until June 14. Voting will begin on June 15 and will conclude on June 28. Cheers from your GOCE coordinators Jonesey95, Baffle gab1978, and Miniapolis. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list. Newsletter delivered by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 12:27, 5 June 2014 (UTC)

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This week's article for improvement (week 24, 2014)

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DYK for Selma (film)

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This week's article for improvement (week 25, 2014)

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This week's article for improvement (week 26, 2014)

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Selma (film)

If you don't like the formatting, take it up on the talk page, and discuss your reasons. I did not 'mess it all up'. You reverted changes by User:MichaelQSchmidt also that I restored after an IP edit. The excessively long single column cast list gives a very unbalanced layout and the new section headers are more properly descriptive. The single release date is per film infobox; multiple dates in text. - Neonorange (talk) 16:09, 23 June 2014 (UTC)

@Neonorange: No, you don't understand, I did revert because it was out of the original layout, CHECK HERE. I've never seen a film article in that layout before, if you want a different layout, please discuss it at the Film Project's talk page. By the way, don't take 'mess it all up' words seriously, sorry for that. --Captain Assassin! ^{«T ♦ C ♦ G»} 16:35, 23 June 2014 (UTC)

VisualEditor global newsletter—June 2014

Did you know?

The character formatting menu, or "Style text" menu lets you set bold, italic, and other text styles. "Clear formatting" removes all text styles and removes links to other pages.

Do you think that clear formatting should remove links? Are there changes you would like to see for this menu? Share your opinion at MediaWiki.org.

The user guide has information about how to use VisualEditor.

The VisualEditor team is mostly working to fix bugs, improve performance, reduce technical debt, and other infrastructure needs. You can find on Mediawiki.org weekly updates detailing recent work.

• They have moved the "Keyboard shortcuts" link out of the "Page options" menu, into the "Help" menu. Within dialog boxes, buttons are now more accessible (via the Tab key) from the keyboard.
• You can now see the target of the link when you click on it, without having to open the inspector.
• The team also expanded TemplateData: You can now add a parameter type  "date" for dates and times in the ISO 8601 format, and  "boolean" for values which are true or false. Also, templates that redirect to other templates (like {{citeweb}} → {{cite web}}) now get the TemplateData of their target (bug 50964). You can test TemplateData by editing mw:Template:Sandbox/doc.
• Category: and File: pages now display their contents correctly after saving an edit (bug 65349, bug 64239)
• They have also improved reference editing: You should no longer be able to add empty citations with VisualEditor (bug 64715), as with references. When you edit a reference, you can now empty it and click the "use an existing reference" button to replace it with another reference instead. 
• It is now possible to edit inline images with VisualEditor. Remember that inline images cannot display captions, so existing captions get removed. Many other bugs related to images were also fixed.
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The VisualEditor team has posted a draft of their goals for the next fiscal year. You can read them and suggest changes on MediaWiki.org.

The team posts details about planned work on VisualEditor's roadmap. You will soon be able to drag-and-drop text as well as images. If you drag an image to a new place, it won't let you place it in the middle of a paragraph. All dialog boxes and windows will be simplified based on user testing and feedback. The VisualEditor team plans to add autofill features for citations. Your ideas about making referencing quick and easy are still wanted. Support for upright image sizes is being developed. The designers are also working on support for viewing and editing hidden HTML comments and adding rows and columns to tables.

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DYK for Frozen (2013 film)

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A barnstar for you!

	North Korean Fashion Watch Barnstar
	Gerald Shields, founder of the North Korean Fashion Watch, awards you the North Korean Fashion Watch Barnstar for your continuing efforts to add reliable and poignant discussions about North Korean topics, such as the 2014 comedy movie The Interview. Geraldshields11 (talk) 14:09, 26 June 2014 (UTC)

Thanks Geraldshields11 for the barnstar. --Captain Assassin! ^{«T ♦ C ♦ G»} 19:33, 26 June 2014 (UTC)

Dear Captain Assassin! , You are welcome and please keep adding content to Wikipedia. Geraldshields11 (talk) 19:42, 26 June 2014 (UTC)

GOCE July 2014 newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors July 2014 newsletter is now ready for review. Highlights: Sign up for the July 2014 Backlog elimination drive Review the Coordinators election results – Your project coordinators: Jonesey95, Baffle gab1978 and Miniapolis. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list. Newsletter delivered by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:27, 29 June 2014 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 27, 2014)

Reconstruction of the head of Java Man Hello, Captain Assassin!. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Java Man Previous selections: Anubis • National Library of China Get involved with the TAFI project! You can... Nominate an article Review nominations Have your say in future selections Posted by: MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of EuroCarGT (talk) 01:45, 30 June 2014 (UTC) •

WikiCup 2014 June newsletter

After an extremely close race, Round 3 is over. 244 points secured a place in Round 4, which is comparable to previous years- 321 was required in 2013, while 243 points were needed in 2012. Pool C's Godot13 (submissions) was the round's highest scorer, mostly due to a 32 featured pictures, including both scans and photographs. Also from Pool C, Casliber (submissions) finished second overall, claiming three featured articles, including the high-importance Grus (constellation). Third place was Pool B's , whose contributions included featured articles Russian battleship Poltava (1894) and Russian battleship Peresvet. Pool C saw the highest number of participants advance, with six out of eight making it to the next round.

The round saw this year's first featured portal, with Sven Manguard (submissions) taking Portal:Literature to featured status. The round also saw the first good topic points, thanks to 12george1 (submissions) and the 2013 Atlantic hurricane season. This means that all content types have been claimed this year. Other contributions of note this round include a featured topic on Maya Angelou's autobiographies from Figureskatingfan (submissions), a good article on the noted Czech footballer Tomáš Rosický from Cloudz679 (submissions) and a now-featured video game screenshot, freely released due to the efforts of Sven Manguard (submissions).

The judges would like to remind participants to update submission pages promptly. This means that content can be checked, and allows those following the competition (including those participating) to keep track of scores effectively. This round has seen discussion about various aspects of the WikiCup's rules and procedures. Those interested in the competition can be assured that formal discussions about how next year's competition will work will be opened shortly, and all are welcome to voice their views then. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to help keep down the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn (talk · contribs) The ed17 (talk · contribs) and Miyagawa (talk · contribs) 18:48, 30 June 2014 (UTC)