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A kitten for you!

For protecting Thomas Lennon (actor) and releasing us from our watch over the page. My F5 key thanks you as well.

EvergreenFir (talk) Please {{re}} 04:40, 26 March 2015 (UTC)

But Mr. Lennon and his associate, Chris Hardwick both requested that these edits be made. This statement was made on @Midnight, a show which Mr. Lennon produces, obviously he would not allow this request to be aired if he did not wish it to be. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kimjongillin69 (talk • contribs) 04:46, 26 March 2015 (UTC)

Wikipdia is not a spokespiece for subjects to promote their own memes to get the internet buzz going, let alone have any control over their entries. That's why WP:RS requires independent sourcing to attest to encyclopediac value rather than WP:UNDUE trivia. DMacks (talk) 04:49, 26 March 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-14

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• You can now hide site banners even if you don't have an account. [1]
• You can now add citations more easily with VisualEditor on the French and Italian Wikipedia. The tool adds the information when you add some types of links. In the future you will be able to add this tool to your wiki. [2] [3] [4]
• All sites should now be faster if you have a recent browser. [5]
• You could see a serious bug when editing some templates with VisualEditor. It was fixed quickly. [6]
• VisualEditor could break when you edited an image. The issue was fixed quickly. [7]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since March 25. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from March 31. It will be on all Wikipedias from April 1 (calendar).
• VisualEditor is now the main editing tool on 53 more Wikipedias. [8]
• You can now edit the mobile site of all wikis without an account. [9]
• You can test a new tool on the beta mobile site on the English Wikipedia. With the new tool, you can create lists of articles. [10]
• You can now see that VisualEditor is opening even if you're not looking at the top of the page. [11]
• VisualEditor doesn't leave empty titles with just nowiki tags any more. [12] [13] [14] [15]

Meetings

• You can join a meeting with the Wikidata team. The meeting will be on IRC on March 31 at 16:00 (UTC). [16]
• You can read the notes from the last meeting with the VisualEditor team.
• You can join the next weekly meeting with the Editing team. During the meetings you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on April 1 at 18:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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15:18, 30 March 2015 (UTC)

Sydney

DMacks, I have no idea how you could possibly regard a grammatical correction as less than neutral. Frankly, it's absurd. You have studied grammar? Then go back and restore my edit to the Sydney entry. The part I've corrected makes no sense in the original, but my edit fixes that problem.

High-handed conduct on the part of Wikipedia minders could discourage people from contributing. The Sydney entry is deficient in a few ways. If I can't get a grammatical correction through, what's the point of attempting others? You are the judge of neutrality? God help us. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rocco891 (talk • contribs) 09:33, 31 March 2015 (UTC)

Sydney doesn't do anything, it's just a city. But people go there. And events happen there. And people do things there. Therefore it's not an improvement (grammar or otherwise) to say that the city welcomes people rather than people doing something there. And it makes the city have a motive for its action, but cities are not moral beings. DMacks (talk) 13:23, 31 March 2015 (UTC)

That is, we need to be objective (per WP:TONE and the prime goal of being an encyclopedia rather than sounding at all like a tourism brochure) rather than using anthropomorphism. DMacks (talk) 13:34, 31 March 2015 (UTC)

Rocco891, DMacks is correct. The tone of the change that you keep making is promotional and fails to comply with our requirements to maintain a neutral point of view. It is certainly not a grammatical correction. --AussieLegend (✉) 16:15, 31 March 2015 (UTC)

Sort key for {{val}}

A sort key has been added to {{val}}. Feel free to give me a heads up if it's not working as desired. Jimp 06:50, 3 April 2015 (UTC)

Adeptzare3

Hello, I see you rightly blocked Adeptzare3 (talk · contribs) for disruptive editing. I know of another sock of theirs that hasn't been blocked yet - PurpleHexane (talk · contribs). Could you please deal with this account too. Thanks, JMHamo (talk) 13:54, 2 April 2015 (UTC)

I went ahead and opened Sockpuppet investigations/Adeptzaire as I think they may have sleeper accounts too. JMHamo (talk) 14:24, 2 April 2015 (UTC)

Thanks! I added another one. DMacks (talk) 14:57, 2 April 2015 (UTC)

Finally, could you please remove the Talk page access of Adeptzare3 (talk · contribs) for using it not as it's meant to be used. Thanks, JMHamo (talk) 03:00, 4 April 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-15

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Recent changes

• You can join a new email list for important news about Wikimedia Labs. [17]
• You can read the last monthly report. In the future you can read team reports every three months. You can see current work on the roadmap. [18] [19]
• The number of articles in Special:Statistics is now updated once a month. [20]
• You can use a new version of the Wikipedia app for Android. Using the app, you can now share a fact with your friends. [21]

Problems

• The import tool was broken for a few days. Imports didn't add log entries. You can delete and import pages again if necessary. [22]
• Labs was broken several times this week. [23] [24] [25] [26]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since April 1. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from April 7. It will be on all Wikipedias from April 8 (calendar).
• You can now add the same special characters with VisualEditor as with the wikitext editor. [27]
• Many bugs around copy-paste in VisualEditor are now fixed. [28] [29]
• You can now use basic tools of VisualEditor in the new talk tool. You can add links, bold and italics. You can also mention people. [30]

Meetings

• You can join the next weekly meeting with the Editing team. During the meetings you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on April 8 at 18:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• You can again comment on how you want to see Wikidata edits in your watchlist on other wikis. [31]

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15:41, 6 April 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-16

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• You can read the latest news about VisualEditor.
• You can now use the new translation tool on 22 Wikipedias. You now see the tool the first time you create a new page. [32]
• The list of bad user names on your wiki no longer works. The global list replaces it. You can ask to add rules for bad user names on Meta. [33] [34]

Problems

• Some wikis had issues on Wednesday. [35] [36]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since April 8. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from April 14. It will be on all Wikipedias from April 15 (calendar).
• Developers will start to rename 1.5 million accounts on Wednesday. After that all accounts will be unique and will work on all wikis. [37] [38]
• All users can now test link previews ("Hovercards") on several Wikipedias. [39]

Meetings

• You can join the next weekly meeting with the Editing team. During the meetings you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on April 15 at 18:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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16:40, 13 April 2015 (UTC)

Upcoming attractions in DC

Hello!

Here are some upcoming DC meetups in April and May:

• Tuesday, April 14: National Archives Hackathon on Wikipedia Space with American University – 2:30-5pm

  See the latest work on the Wikipedia Space exhibit in the new NARA Innovation Hub and brainstorm on new ideas for a public exhibit about Wikipedia

• Friday, April 17: Women in Tech Edit-a-thon with Tech LadyMafia – 5-9pm

  Team up with Tech LadyMafia to improve Wikipedia content on women in the history of technology.

• Saturday, April 25: April Dinner Meetup – 6 PM

  Dinner and drinks with your fellow Wikipedians!

• Friday, May 1: International Labour Day Edit-a-Thon – 1:30 PM to 4:30 PM

  An edit-a-thon at the University of Maryland

Hope to see you at these events! If you have any questions or require any special accommodations, please let me know.

Cheers,

James Hare

To remove yourself from this mailing list, remove your name from this list. 22:16, 13 April 2015 (UTC)

Response

I'll personal attack you! BusterBaxter15 (talk) 18:59, 14 April 2015 (UTC)

You do what you feel is best. I would hope that would be helping us write an encyclopedia, but if not, you're welcome to leave. DMacks (talk) 19:08, 14 April 2015 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Barnstar of Good Humor
	Barnstar Giveaway! Just giving you it to show some thanks! Ryguyrocky (talk) 13:47, 15 April 2015 (UTC)

Removal of Kent Hovind article edit error

I noticed that in the Kent Hovind article, on the revision history page, you removed my revision of the intro paragraph. I corrected false information, removed a personal bias, and corrected terminology. Please re-post my edit because I only improved the article and did not vandalize it in any way. I cited my sources and used verified information, while staying within the rules of the WP:RS. Thank you! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jacob A. Henderson (talk • contribs)

@Jacob A. Henderson: There was no "false information" and your text was unmitigated fringe theory backed by unreliable sources. --NeilN ^{talk to me} 15:35, 15 April 2015 (UTC)

WP:NPOV is important too. I think you are misunderstanding "bias" as it applies to wikipeda articles...we are required to state that his views are universally disputed by many mainstream because that's what sources say (the majority of WP:RS are responses to his position, not take him at his word that his evidence is at all valid). DMacks (talk) 16:13, 15 April 2015 (UTC)

@DMacks: I simply corrected the statement "Hovind has spoken on creation science, aiming to convince listeners to reject scientific theories of evolution, geophysics, and cosmology in favor of his interpretation of the Genesis creation narrative from the Bible. Hovind's views are contradicted by scientific evidence and some of his ideas have also been criticized by fellow Young Earth creationist organizations such as Answers in Genesis". I corrected this because his goal is to correct error. He simply uses science to show that the earth is not billions of years old, that life could not have evolved, only micro-evolved, and that the biblical accounts of creation are true (cites are in deleted edit). I also did not use unreliable cites because I had used cites that contain quotes directly from Kent Hovind, and I used secondary sources that criticize Mr. Hovind to show that people highly criticize him. The current article was also lacking cites. Never have I seen any evidence that has contradicted what Kent Hovind has said. Please explain to me what was wrong with what I had previously posted with evidence.

Kent Hovind also requests that either the information about him is corrected or that the article is removed in this video <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8a8yknuc3I>

As I said in my edit-summary, take it to the article talk-page. While you're there (actually before you post) read the dozens of previous discussions about exactly these same topics that all essentially fail to go anywhere at all. There was also apparent consensus (in keeping with Wikipedia policies and guidelines) that nobody should give any weight to how the subject feels he is portrayed here. There was clear consensus that the article is not to be removed, neither because he wishes it (for whatever reason) nor because it meets and wikipedia policy/guideline basis for deletion (i.e., Hovind raises zero valid points for removal). DMacks (talk) 19:53, 15 April 2015 (UTC)

added external links

I had added one reference link to page Бесхвостые , tutorvista had added its 4 links, then why not i can add one more reference link from other website. Its not promotion, but the page which i have, also tells about fron digestive system. So is that bad to put a reference link on that page. Please guide me.

— Preceding unsigned comment added by Samtutor (talk • contribs) 07:45, 16 April 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for hiding doxxing edits - here's another one

See Special:Contributions/Oddjobbondfan999. --Nicknack009 (talk) 22:10, 16 April 2015 (UTC)

Thanks again! --Nicknack009 (talk) 09:02, 17 April 2015 (UTC)

You're welcome! DMacks (talk) 15:42, 17 April 2015 (UTC)

Adamson University

Extend PC time? --George Ho (talk) 19:23, 18 April 2015 (UTC)

 Done DMacks (talk) 20:28, 18 April 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-17

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• There was sometimes a problem when saving a page in VisualEditor. It is now fixed on all wikis. [40]
• VisualEditor sometimes showed empty warnings for wikis using Flagged Revisions. This is now fixed on all wikis. [41]
• You can get the new version of the Wikipedia app for iOS. With it you can share facts with your friends. [42]
• If you write JavaScript, you should stop using importScript and importStylesheet. [43]

Problems

• There was a problem with Labs on Monday. [44]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since April 15. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from April 21. It will be on all Wikipedias from April 22 (calendar).
• Developers are renaming 1.5 million accounts. After that all accounts will be unique and will work on all wikis. [45] [46] [47]
• If your wiki has the auto-fill tool for citations, you can now use it when you edit a reference. [48]
• You can now give examples for template options in TemplateData. [49]

Meetings

• You can join the next weekly meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on April 22 at 18:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• You will soon be able to add and remove tags on edits. [50] [51]

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15:30, 20 April 2015 (UTC)

Nitroimidazole

Hi, DMacks

As you're a chemist I thought I'd ask you if this page should be renamed 4-nitroimidazole and occurrences of 5-nitroimidazole be replaced with 4-nitroimidazole. The reason why is that the skeletal structure shown in the Chembox is 4-nitroimidazole and the PubChem CID is for 4-nitroimidazole. The ChemSpider ID is for 1-nitroimidazole, as are the SMILES and InChIs. If this page is renamed 4-nitroimidazole then I guess that articles for other stereoisomers of this molecule (e.g., 1-nitroimidazole, 2-nitroimidazole, 5-nitroimidazole) will need to be created. Brenton (contribs · email · talk · uploads) 09:08, 21 April 2015 (UTC)

We definitely need to disentangle the different isomers (1- vs 2- vs 4-/5-; these are actually structural isomers not stereoisomers), as they are obviously different chemicals. For 4- vs 5-, being tautomers, I'm not sure which is the "best" canonical name to use for it, and I doubt there is enough about each individually to merit individual articles. You're right that the PMID 18208 entry is titled "4-Nitroimidazole", but then the IUPAC name on that page is "5-nitro-1H-imidazole" (annotated as being generated from the structure). The skeletal structure File:4-Nitroimidazole.png would seem to be technically 5-, since the formal name is 1H- (which seems correct from a systematic perspective), which means that the nitro is on position 5 around the ring from it (per File:Imidazole 2D numbered.svg in our article on the imidazole parent structure). I'll check SciFinder later today and see whether it has alternate entries or more strongly supports one or the other as the canonical structural form. DMacks (talk) 13:51, 22 April 2015 (UTC)

2-Nitroimidazole would also deserve an article. It was originally known as "azomycin", and appears to be the first of the nitroimidazole antibiotic natural products to be identified.

References

DMacks (talk) 18:02, 22 April 2015 (UTC)

Interesting ref:

• Diagnostic agent for infectious diseases

It's a patent, so not a WP:RS itself, but some cited refs might be useful for the idea of radioisotopic labeling/imaging to locate cancer cells (the chemicals localize there). Haven't traced (ha!) yet to see which specific ones, and whether it's mentioned in their specific articles. And also:

• Wiebe, Leonard I. (1999). "Radiohalogenated Nitroimidazoles for Single-Photon Scintigraphic Imaging of Hypoxic Tissues". In Machulla, Hans-Jürgen (ed.). Imaging of Hypoxia: Tracer Developments. Developments in Nuclear Medicine. Vol. Volume 33. Springer. pp. 155–?. ISBN 9780792355298. {{cite book}}: |volume= has extra text (help)

of that same idea and also use as a sensitizer for radiotherapy. DMacks (talk) 18:36, 22 April 2015 (UTC)

The 1- isomer does not appear to be known experimentally (only studied computationally for substituent effects, etc.). DMacks (talk) 22:13, 22 April 2015 (UTC)

All individual structures and the tautomerization equilibrium reaction with matching style/layout are now in Category:Nitroimidazoles. DMacks (talk) 23:04, 22 April 2015 (UTC)

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Zathura document viewer notability

Hi DMacks,

Thanks for your feedback on Zathura (document viewer). I think I've addressed your notability concerns. Would you mind having another look now and let me know on the talk page if you think more needs to be done?

Cryptarch (talk) 06:20, 24 April 2015 (UTC)

Still fails WP:GNG. No independent in-depth reporting. DMacks (talk) 16:24, 24 April 2015 (UTC)

RfC: New helper policy

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Tech News: 2015-18

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• All accounts are now unique and work on all wikis. [52] [53]
• You can read a report from experts who tested the security of MediaWiki. [54]
• There was a problem between VisualEditor and an antivirus software. It is now fixed. [55]
• You can help test VisualEditor to see if it works in your language. [56]

Problems

• Some Labs tools had problems due to a software bug. [57]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since April 22. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from April 28. It will be on all Wikipedias from April 29 (calendar).
• It is now clearer that you can delete several rows and columns when you edit tables in VisualEditor. [58]
• You now see more information when you search for a template in VisualEditor. [59]
• You can now cancel when you add citations on desktop, or edit links on mobile, in VisualEditor. [60]
• You can now see the list of other formats for videos only after they're ready. [61]

Meetings

• You can join the next weekly meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on April 29 at 18:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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15:10, 27 April 2015 (UTC)

Support request with team editing experiment project

Dear tech ambassadors, instead of spamming the Village Pump of each Wikipedia about my tiny project proposal for researching team editing (see here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Research_team_editing), I have decided to leave to your own discretion if the matter is relevant enough to inform a wider audience already. I would appreciate if you could appraise if the Wikipedia community you are more familiar with could have interest in testing group editing "on their own grounds" and with their own guidance. In a nutshell: it consists in editing pages as a group instead of as an individual. This social experiment might involve redefining some aspects of the workflow we are all used to, with the hope of creating a more friendly and collaborative environment since editing under a group umbrella creates less social exposure than traditional "individual editing". I send you this message also as a proof that the Inspire Campaign is already gearing up. As said I would appreciate of *you* just a comment on the talk page/endorsement of my project noting your general perception about the idea. Nothing else. Your contribution helps to shape the future! (which I hope it will be very bright, with colors, and Wikipedia everywhere) Regards from User:Micru on meta. 09:32, 30 April 2015 (UTC)

Student block

Hi there,

I noticed this block from yesterday. I'm a little unclear as to the details but it doesn't look like you left a message on the user's talk page. I'm not asking for justification or questioning the specifics of why it happened; it just seems like it would be helpful to leave a message there with specifics about why the block happened (in addition to the mention on the article talk page) along with the usual links to information about being blocked.

Also, if you run into trouble with student edits, you can always bring them up at WP:ENB or WP:ENI or even ping anyone signed up as an "online volunteer" for the class (Ian (Wiki Ed) and myself in this case). I've emailed the instructor to let her know about the block and explained that while I don't know the details, it was likely not the result of one particularly problematic edit but rather the common scenario whereby a new user makes mistakes (which is ok), but continues to make mistakes without communicating with editors who try to address those mistakes. Is that about right? --Ryan (Wiki Ed) (talk) 15:20, 1 May 2015 (UTC)

Hmm, thought I left a message on the student's talkpage in addition to the one I left on the relevant article-talk (Talk:DL-Phosphinothricin). Added now (with timestamp detail). Thanks for catching it. Indeed it's a bad situation with that editor and article on which she is working. Multiple editors have left her user-talk and article-talk messages. The edits progressed to become worse (or "differently as bad" from policy perspective). Tons of details in my edit-summaries and article-talkpage. Let me know if someone wants more clarification. DMacks (talk) 16:12, 1 May 2015 (UTC)

Afro-Russians edit

Hi

Could you clarify why you went to this page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afro-Russian and removed a huge chunk from the list of notable Afro-Russians? Did you feel they were not notable enough or was it something else? You didn't leave an explanation in the talk pages. ThanksDanJazzy (talk) 09:15, 1 May 2015 (UTC)

I had previously noted "WP:WTAF" in the edit-summary, but will certainly leave a talkpage note to make it clearer. DMacks (talk) 16:18, 1 May 2015 (UTC)

Please see the talk page for the article. ThanksDanJazzy (talk) 22:55, 1 May 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-19

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• You can now chat with other users in Phabricator. [62]
• There was a rare problem with VisualEditor. The text of another wiki could be added to your edit. The issue is now fixed. [63] [64]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since April 29. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from May 5. It will be on all Wikipedias from May 6 (calendar).
• It is now easier to add a link in VisualEditor. You can see an image and a description about the page. [65]

Meetings

• You can join a meeting with the Language team. The meeting will be on May 5 at 14:30 (UTC). [66]
• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on May 6 at 18:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join an event in France on May 22−25. You need to sign up before May 8. [67]

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15:10, 4 May 2015 (UTC)

In this edit [68]

You changed 0.7 to 0.8,

This ref says 0.7 [69] Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 21:27, 9 May 2015 (UTC)

Page 2 says that nearly all used 0.8 as the minimum, with "fewer than 1%...at 0.7". That whole paragraph seemed like it's getting skewed a bit to make it seem like F is lately realized to be a problem rather than than added to water is in excess due to modern changes in other sources. DMacks (talk) 02:44, 10 May 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-20

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• You can now make charts and maps on your wiki with the new "graph" tool. If you have an old browser, you will see images instead. It uses a tool called Vega; you can learn how to use it and write help pages for your wiki. You can use the Vega edit tool to make charts and copy the code to your wiki. Charts and maps use complex code and you should put them into templates. In the future, you will be able to create charts with VisualEditor. [70] [71] [72]
• You can apply for technical jobs to develop tools for the community. [73]
• The logos of all wikis are now in a new place. It will make pages load faster. You can still ask to change the logo. You can also use local CSS for brief changes. [74] [75]

Problems

• There was a problem that caused slow editing. [76]
• Pages were sometimes removed from your watchlist in VisualEditor. This problem is now fixed. [77]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since May 6. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from May 12. It will be on all Wikipedias from May 13 (calendar).
• You can now use data from Wikidata on more pages. The page doesn't need to be linked to the Wikidata item. It works on a few wikis and more wikis will be added soon. [78] [79]
• You should get fewer errors when you add files to Commons. [80]
• When you use an external link to link to a wiki page, VisualEditor now converts it to a wiki link. [81]
• When you add a link in VisualEditor, you see pages that match what you type. It is now easier to see where they match. [82]

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on May 13 at 18:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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15:41, 11 May 2015 (UTC)

Alliance to Protect Nantucket Sound

Hello, I am trying - albeit unsuccessfully - to update my company's Wiki page. Under Alliance to Protect Nantucket Sound "History," the existing text makes reference to events from 2002 to 2012. I simply want to add what has occurred in 2015. "Cape Wind has had a series of setbacks in 2015: NStar and National Grid terminated their contracts with Cape Wind; Cape Wind’s leases with Quonset Development Corporation (for a port facility), Falmouth Harbor Marina (for headquarters), and New Bedford Marine Commerce Terminal (for staging and construction) have been terminated. Additionally, Cape Wind was suspended by Independent System Operator/New England from participating in New England’s wholesale electricity markets. [83]" Thank you, EdithJaquith (talk) 17:35, 13 May 2015 (UTC)

You keep saying Cape Wind, Cape Wind, Cape Wind. Sounds like it's about Cape Wind. Before you make any other edit to any article remotely related to these subjects, please read WP:COI. DMacks (talk) 04:08, 14 May 2015 (UTC)

Reply To Filmymantra Media Wikipedia Page

Hi DMacks,

I have updated the article and within a months time more content will be added filmymantra media manages more than 60+ Bollywood Celebrities Which we can Link back to this Wikipedia page, For any further query feel free to contact us at - twitter.com/ifilmymantra, facebook.com/filmymantradotcom Thank You,

Kind Regards,

Abhijit (Editor) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Abhijitwgh94 (talk • contribs) 11:36, 12 May 2015 (UTC)

On wiki is how I communicate about wiki. I've said what I have to say (several times) regarding the suitability of this article based on Wikipedia policies/guidelines. DMacks (talk) 04:09, 14 May 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-21

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Recent changes

• You can watch a video about the new graph tool.

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since May 13. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from May 19. It will be on all Wikipedias from May 20 (calendar).
• References are now always in the right order. Also, the reference list now only shows references used on the page. [84]
• You can no longer create an account with a colon ':' in it. If you already have one, it still works. [85]
• The toolbar in VisualEditor now looks different. It is easier to see the icons. [86]
• You won't be able to use e-mail lists for a few hours on Tuesday. [87] [88]
• UploadWizard now shows better matches when you add a category to your file. [89]
• A test about VisualEditor will start on the English Wikipedia on Thursday. [90]

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on May 21 at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join a technical meeting in France this week.

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15:19, 18 May 2015 (UTC)

Request for a Move Protection

Hello Sir I am S.C Williams Please Move Protect by User Page (S.C.Williams 02:22, 19 May 2015 (UTC))

This would be a good time for you to demonstrate your ability to make constructive edits towards building our encyclopedia instead of consuming everyone's time with your userspace. DMacks (talk) 06:27, 19 May 2015 (UTC)

My Edit to the "Adam" page

The Biblical account of "Adam" is not a myth; it is an account. You may not believe it, but that does not make it a myth anymore than Evolution is not a myth to those who believe it. Deshonj (talk) 20:29, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

Please read the actual definition of creation myth rather than mis-understanding what that term really means. Conversely, just because you do believe it doesn't make it any better than anything that someone else believes but you don't. Feel free to read the miles of talkpage discussion on that and related articles to see that nobody has yet found WP:CONSENSUS for a better term than what academics and cited reliable-sources call it. DMacks (talk) 20:41, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-22

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Problems

• VisualEditor was broken for 30 minutes on Tuesday. The problem was due to a tool it uses. [91]
• Some Labs tools had issues last week. [92] [93]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since May 20. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from May 26. It will be on all Wikipedias from May 27 (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on May 28 at 18:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• You can add your ideas of new tools to help active users like you. [94]

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16:12, 25 May 2015 (UTC)

Masses of loss

Hi. I saw your recent edits and behaviour in the topic, and I find them duplicit (and repulsive, really, by my first reaction). Please think again. Are we loosing cooperation? -DePiep (talk) 20:23, 26 May 2015 (UTC)

I'm sorry you did not find this pre-existing work that takes a different approach before you working for a while on the other idea we had discussed a few weeks ago. I refuse to feel sorry for finding it myself—less than a day ago—or making you and others aware of it. I'm sorry you feel poor for now learning that yet a different editor's work has existed for several years. DMacks (talk) 20:28, 26 May 2015 (UTC)

"this pre-existing work" - you could have told me, not? In your May 9, 2015 request [95]! There since 2013! And please stop telling me "I'm sorry you ...". It is you who makes this mistakes. Also, I don't believe your cheap I'm-stupid "huh?" responses. btw, you did not answer my question. -DePiep (talk) 21:12, 26 May 2015 (UTC)

Try asking again without the vitriol...it's clouding my ability to understand what you are asking. As I said, I didn't find this thing until a day ago. I didn't look because I at the time I was only brainstorming. Then you were working on it, so I did not even look further until now that I had a few minutes to think about it at all. Feel free to keep digging that WP:CIVIL hole for yourself...I won't be responding further until you climb out of it. DMacks (talk) 16:48, 27 May 2015 (UTC)

Understand that I fell off my chair when, after a load of hard work in this, I discovered it was to be surpassed this way. This surprise I experienced can be read in every early response I wrote. Now after some good nights rests I am sitting back on my chair and I'm looking forward. In short, given the status of both our developments, I think we can deploy my proposal these days (being tested &tc), and later when your module is stable it can be deployed as an improvement. This is the wiki way. -DePiep (talk) 13:23, 28 May 2015 (UTC)

I completely understand your initial reaction. Sounds like a good way forward. BTW, it's true what I said earlier...this isn't (or originally wasn't) actually my module at all and it's not yet to a state that it's ready for general use. DMacks (talk) 15:44, 29 May 2015 (UTC)

Thanks, I really took some energy from you. The module's ambitions look like an improvement indeed, once stable. -DePiep (talk) 18:23, 29 May 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-23

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Problems

• Many wikis were slow for a few hours on Wednesday due to a code error. Sometimes the pages did not load at all and showed an error. [96]
• Some tools in Labs were broken on Wednesday and Thursday. [97]
• Edit tags added by the software were broken on all wikis from May 23 to May 28. [98] [99]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since May 27. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from June 2. It will be on all Wikipedias from June 3 (calendar).
• You won't be able to use e-mail lists for a few hours on Tuesday. [100]

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on June 3 at 18:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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15:36, 1 June 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-24

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Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from June 9. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from June 10. It will be on all Wikipedias from June 11 (calendar). [101] [102]
• If you use the Monobook skin, the buttons and other controls now look more the same in VisualEditor and other tools. [103]
• When you edit links and other items in VisualEditor, you now need to apply your change before closing the tool. [104]
• The title of dialogs is now easier to see when it is near long buttons. [105]

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on June 9 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join a meeting with the Language team. The meeting will be on June 10 at 14:30 (UTC). [106]

Future changes

• If you have a bot, you may need to fix it. The default continuation mode of the API for action=query will change at the end of June. [107]

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15:21, 8 June 2015 (UTC)

New sock of Saqraat

Hello. User Shehzad Uddin is a new sock of the banned user Saqraat that you banned recently. He is active vandalizing some of the same articles as he did before with his previous socks. Yesterday his dynamic IP range that includes 42.83.85.167 (talk · contribs · 42.83.85.167 WHOIS) and other IPs was blocked for vandalizing Kashkar but today he is able to vandalize again using a registered name. His copy-paste moves at Kashkar and Kohwari etc are especially disruptive. Khestwol (talk) 15:29, 7 June 2015 (UTC)

Indef'ed, and I see another admin has protected some more of the specific pages where ohe has been a problem. DMacks (talk) 19:47, 7 June 2015 (UTC)

Malik Mubashir Awan is also a new sock of him I just noticed. Same behavior as before, like nominating whole articles for deletions as he did at WP:Articles for deletion/Saraiki diaspora, and requesting to edit articles (Hindki, Chitral, Hindkowans) which have been semi-protected because of himself. Khestwol (talk) 04:26, 8 June 2015 (UTC)

I created Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Najaf ali bhayo —Мандичка^YO 😜 22:42, 8 June 2015 (UTC)

Thanks Wikimandia. Khestwol (talk) 09:40, 9 June 2015 (UTC)

Block evasion

Hello. I noticed you blocked Shehzad Uddin (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) for block evasion, so I thought you might be interested in Fahaam Uddin (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) and Faham Uddin (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) too. Thomas.W ^talk 17:59, 9 June 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-25

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Recent changes

• Users have created more than 5000 articles with the new translation tool. [108]
• Editing a page is now faster. This is because some statistics about edit filters were removed. [109]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from 17 June. It will be on all Wikipedias from 18 June (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on June 16 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join a meeting with the Wikidata team. It will be on June 19 at 16:00 (UTC). [110]

Future changes

• Developers are working on a new tool to get and send newsletters. If you read or write a newsletter, share your ideas about it. [111]
• If you use Pywikibot, soon you won't be able to use compat anymore. [112] [113] [114]

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15:04, 15 June 2015 (UTC)

Chicago White Stockings

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best_Major_League_Baseball_season_won-loss_records#Season_records

The link to the 1886 Chicago White Stockings season is incorrect on this page.

In 1886 there was only one Baseball team in Chicago: The Chicago White Stockings. This team later became the Colts, the Orphans and finally the Chicago Cubs. The Chicago White Sox were not established until 1894.

I corrected the link, but you reverted my edit. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.60.210.153 (talk) 06:02, 17 June 2015 (UTC)

Re-fixed. Thanks for letting me know! I only knew the later Chicago White Stockings (which became the Sox) but not its time-frame or that there had been an earlier one. DMacks (talk) 06:06, 17 June 2015 (UTC)

Oxygen Tower Manchester

Hi,

www.oxygenmanchesterpiccadilly.com is my webpage for Oxygen Tower. I am a direct developer representative for the development, Oxygen Tower Manchester.I thought it will be nice if I could provide first hand information on the development. If the content sounds too promotional, please advise and I will edit accordingly. — Preceding unsigned comment added by OxygenManchester (talk • contribs) 06:21, 17 June 2015 (UTC)

The content was highly promotional in addition to being a copyright violation. You might want to read WP:COI before you edit any further, to avoid having future edits be problematic. DMacks (talk) 06:23, 17 June 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-26

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Recent changes

• Some wikis can now be used only with HTTPS. This includes the English, Russian and Chinese Wikipedias, among others. Soon all wikis will use only HTTPS for all users. [115] [116]
• You can't use HTTPS wikis with Internet Explorer 6 on Windows XP. You need to use another browser. [117]

Problems

• On June 15, search was broken on all wikis for several hours. [118] [119] [120]
• On June 16, images were broken for several hours on wikis that use InstantCommons. [121] [122] [123]
• Many Labs tools were broken for several days. Almost all of them are back now. They may be missing some data for the last 10 days. [124] [125] [126]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from June 23. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from June 24. It will be on all Wikipedias from June 25 (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on June 23 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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15:23, 22 June 2015 (UTC)

On Urban Dictionary as a citable source

I'd like to cite the New York times, in article which cites the Wisconsin State Court of Appeals, for citing Urban Dictionary in an appeals court decision.

Maybe it's not a Wikipedia approved source, but there is precedent in the US Court System, so I stand by its validity.

"Last month, Urban Dictionary was cited in a financial restitution case in Wisconsin, where an appeals court was reviewing the term “jack” because a convicted robber and his companion had referred to themselves as the “jack boys.”

References

~Derek Linz - 6/26/15 Aidanlinz (talk • contribs) 05:16, 26 June 2015‎ (UTC)

You can state that the court accepted its purposes (whatever they were) in some situation, as cited to the NYT, but that is the court for its purposes and in some situation. As far as it being generally accepted by WP for direct use, Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 37#Urban Dictionary is.2Fis not a Reliable Source. is unambiguous that it's not viable and contains clear evidence why not. And Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 181#Spurious claim from Urban Dictionary makes its through Wikipedia into The Guardian is an even stronger example of the mockery that can come from it. There are multiple comments about UD on WP:RSN discussions, feel free to start a new one if you like. DMacks (talk) 15:49, 26 June 2015 (UTC)

Why you remove my edits?

May I know why you reverts my edits? All the data provided are genuine. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tanmoy705 (talk • contribs) 07:22, 28 June 2015 (UTC)

Copyright violation (copy'n'paste/close-paraphrase), "instruction manual" type of writing inappropriate for an encyclopedia, and there actually were unsupported factual details included. Finally, it was a bunch of edits all relying on a single source, one for which you seem to have a several-year-long unusual affinity for using (borderline refspam). DMacks (talk) 07:29, 28 June 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-27

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• Long lines in code blocks now look better. [127]
• You can now see graphs in VisualEditor. [128]
• When you read a page on the mobile site, you can now see a link to go to its talk page. [129]
• The code coloring tool has changed. You can now use many more languages. It now also works on mobile. [130] [131] [132]
• You can look at a new site to learn how to reuse data from Wikimedia sites. [133]

Problems

• JavaScript was broken on some wikis due to a code error. VisualEditor and other tools that use JavaScript were broken. [134]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from June 30. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from July 1. It will be on all Wikipedias from July 2 (calendar).
• You can now use a tool in VisualEditor to add and edit code in color. [135]
• When you edit a sentence in the Translate tool, it can show you older translations. They help you save time if they look alike. The older translations should now work better. If you see problems, you should report them. [136]
• If you are an admin or have other special rights, you now need a strong password. [137]
• Bot and JavaScript coders: The old continuation mode of the API for action=query doesn't work any more. [138]

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on June 30 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future

• When you create a new account, it will also create one on Meta-Wiki and mediawiki.org. [139]

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15:56, 29 June 2015 (UTC)

Gassman indole synthesis

Hallo. about Gassman indole synthesis; It sounds like the reaction is used to synthesize "a ketone that has a thioether substituent", but the text says its added in the second step. Christian75 (talk) 10:53, 2 July 2015 (UTC)

I just adjusted the wording, let me know if it is better. DMacks (talk) 13:56, 2 July 2015 (UTC)

Its much better :-) Christian75 (talk) 15:05, 2 July 2015 (UTC)