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Welcome!

Hello, Dolotta, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few links to pages you might find helpful:

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Administrative divisions of Wisconsin

Hi-You should read the article about the Administrative divisions of Wisconsin. The article has detailed information about the local governments in Wisconsin. Many thanks-RFD (talk) 12:12, 26 July 2016 (UTC)

Cascade Mountain (ski area)

You PRODded this, and it was deleted. Undeletion has been requested at WP:REFUND, so per WP:DEL#Proposed deletion I have restored it, and now notify you in case you wish to consider AfD. I gutted the spammy bits, and the detail about opening hours, and if the requester can find some independent references I think it may be OK. Regards, JohnCD (talk) 09:22, 29 August 2016 (UTC)

• Thank you, my friend, for letting me know. It is much improve from the version I PRODed. I'm not sure why I didn't think about paring it down rather than the route I took. Thanks again! Dolotta (talk) 03:22, 30 August 2016 (UTC)

Re: Christiaansen

You're welcome. Packerfansam (talk) 04:08, 7 September 2016 (UTC)

WikiProject Wisconsin Barnstar

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		Mmm - Milk!
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-- Dolotta (talk) 16:14, 20 November 2016 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: List of the tallest buildings in the Fox Valley (December 9)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Bradv was: Please check the submission for any additional comments left by the reviewer. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit when they have been resolved.

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Bradv 19:21, 9 December 2016 (UTC)

Hello! Dolotta, I noticed your article was declined at Articles for Creation, and that can be disappointing. If you are wondering why your article submission was declined, please post a question at the Articles for creation help desk. If you have any other questions about your editing experience, we'd love to help you at the Teahouse, a friendly space on Wikipedia where experienced editors lend a hand to help new editors like yourself! See you there! Bradv 19:21, 9 December 2016 (UTC)

Steve Hilgenberg

When someone dies, please replace template:birth date and age with template:birthdate. Use template:death date and age for their date of death. Cheers Jim1138 (talk) 05:35, 24 December 2016 (UTC)

Thank you so much. I love learning something new! Thanks for letting me know. Dolotta (talk) 14:14, 24 December 2016 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Great Lakes

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Great Lakes you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of HeyJude70 -- HeyJude70 (talk) 15:20, 11 January 2017 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Great Lakes

The article Great Lakes you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:Great Lakes for things which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of HeyJude70 -- HeyJude70 (talk) 14:20, 12 January 2017 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Great Lakes

The article Great Lakes you nominated as a good article has failed ; see Talk:Great Lakes for reasons why the nomination failed. If or when these points have been taken care of, you may apply for a new nomination of the article. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of HeyJude70 -- HeyJude70 (talk) 03:02, 18 January 2017 (UTC)

Restore Lists of taxa described from....

Could you restore those Lists of taxa described from... pages? It will take time to fill up, but as far as I know taxa have been described from every state so deleting them before I can even start them is unnecessary. Abyssal (talk) 14:06, 31 January 2017 (UTC)

It looks like all of the articles have been moved to your user space. Dolotta (talk) 16:46, 31 January 2017 (UTC)

Emil H. Steiger

Many thanks for the comment about the Emil H. Steiger article; I added the years he served in the Wisconsin Assembly. This should had been in the article. Many thanks-RFD (talk) 11:48, 14 March 2017 (UTC)

Angell Park Speedway

Hi there. Could you add your merger proposal to Talk:Angell Park Speedway? Thanks. Magnolia677 (talk) 21:10, 18 March 2017 (UTC)

@Magnolia677: -- Consider it done. I appreciate the reminder! -- Dolotta (talk) 21:34, 18 March 2017 (UTC)

Charles L. Valentine

Hi-originally there were 3 citations in the Charles L. Valentine article; however, the citations were removed and a tag put up that the article needed citations. The editor who removed the original citations probably felt the citations were not appropriate for use in Wikipedia. There was no problems finding other citations but I wish the editor should had made a comment in the article's talk page why the original citations were removed. Many thanks-RFD (talk) 19:08, 30 March 2017 (UTC)

Thank You

Thank You! RFD (talk) 18:08, 10 April 2017 (UTC)

Your draft article, Draft:List of the tallest buildings in the Fox Valley

Hello, Dolotta. It has been over six months since you last edited your Articles for Creation draft article submission, "List of the tallest buildings in the Fox Valley".

In accordance with our policy that Articles for Creation is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been nominated for deletion. If you plan on working on it further, or editing it to address the issues raised if it was declined, simply and remove the {{db-afc}} or {{db-g13}} code.

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Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Legacypac (talk) 23:02, 16 June 2017 (UTC)

Pending changes reviewer

Hi Dolotta! I approved your request for pending changes reviewer. Here is the templated mumbo jumbo; let me know if you have questions or need anything! Cheers :-)

Hello. Your account has been granted the "pending changes reviewer" userright, allowing you to review other users' edits on pages protected by pending changes. The list of articles awaiting review is located at Special:PendingChanges, while the list of articles that have pending changes protection turned on is located at Special:StablePages.

Being granted reviewer rights neither grants you status nor changes how you can edit articles. If you do not want this user right, you may ask any administrator to remove it for you at any time.

See also:

• Wikipedia:Reviewing pending changes, the guideline on reviewing
• Wikipedia:Pending changes, the summary of the use of pending changes
• Wikipedia:Protection policy#Pending changes protection, the policy determining which pages can be given pending changes protection by administrators. ~Oshwah~^{(talk) (contribs)} 11:07, 8 July 2017 (UTC)

@Oshwah: I appreciate it. Thank you! Dolotta (talk) 13:00, 8 July 2017 (UTC)

You bet. Rock on ;-) ~Oshwah~^{(talk) (contribs)} 13:14, 8 July 2017 (UTC)

Re: Cashton High School

Hello, I created a page about Cashton High School in Cashton, Wisconsin and you appropriately marked it as a redirect. I just wanted to let you know that I am going to add to it and if you would like to, can review it again when I am done adding information. I'm sorry that I hadn't had the chance to yet. Thanks!

Potatornado (talk) 21:06, 3 August 2017 (UTC)

@Potatornado: I look forward to seeing what you have! Many of the school articles tend to need work so I am glad you are willing to take on the task. Thanks! Dolotta (talk) 01:33, 4 August 2017 (UTC)

@Dolotta: What I'm trying to do is to create various school pages and then add the information for principal and enrolment and then gradually encourage people to build on them, and I will build on them as well. Thank you for your invitation to the Wisconsin portal! I really appreciate it! Potatornado (talk) 04:42, 5 August 2017 (UTC)

Rollback granted

Hi Dolotta. After reviewing your request for "rollbacker", I have enabled rollback on your account. Keep in mind these things when going to use rollback:

• Getting rollback is no more momentous than installing Twinkle.
• Rollback should be used to revert clear cases of vandalism only, and not good faith edits.
• Rollback should never be used to edit war.
• If abused, rollback rights can be revoked.
• Use common sense.

If you no longer want rollback, contact me and I'll remove it. Also, for some more information on how to use rollback, see Wikipedia:Administrators' guide/Rollback (even though you're not an admin). I'm sure you'll do great with rollback, but feel free to leave me a message on my talk page if you run into troubles or have any questions about appropriate/inappropriate use of rollback. Thank you for helping to reduce vandalism. Happy editing! Alex Shih^Talk 04:33, 14 August 2017 (UTC)

WTF?

You may think that "Community" is an "unnecessary word", but that's the official name of the school district. Now, please correct the name of the article by moving it back to School District of Cadott Community. 32.218.152.40 (talk) 13:49, 30 August 2017 (UTC)

• @32.218.152.40: I moved the article to make it more consistent with other school district names and to be more concise. See WP:TITLE. The previous title including "community" is a redirect so people can still find the page. -- Dolotta (talk) 10:29, 5 September 2017 (UTC)

Thanks

Hi Dolotta, Thanks for welcoming me to Wikipedia! Have a fun day! :) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A00:23C4:C877:D500:9925:94ED:A1E0:7023 (talk) 02:59, 10 September 2017 (UTC)

Clarification regarding the Neutral Point of View Policy

Accussed of violating NPVP by PaleoNeoNate, with a threat of blocking. Would like to get clarification on how I am violating the policy.

Thanks!

Thanks!

Hi Dolotta, thank you for your comments at my RfA. Your support is much appreciated! Cheers, ansh666 19:21, 22 September 2017 (UTC)

Dalton McGuinty

Thank you for confirming that my edit on the Dalton McGuinty WP is constructive. I tried to remove material that was never sourced, and has a citation needed tag since way back in 2009. Unfortunately, Paul Erik seems to think that everyone who is trying to clean up this page is a sockpuppet. I'm Canadian, and there was an American editor who tried to remove this stuff too, but the edit was undone by Paul Erik too. Perhaps this admin is abusing admin priveledges in order to win an edit war? You seem to have a longstanding account. Can you redo the edit I made if you agree with it. I doubt Paul Erik will try to undo your edit, but who knows...2607:F2C0:94CB:C600:347B:DDC7:D466:C652 (talk) 01:30, 4 November 2017 (UTC)

Women in Red World Contest

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Thanks

Many thanks for the message. On November 1, 2017, I was hospitalized for some blood clots and was in a rehabilition center until todat. I doing better but am still week. I hope you are well. RFD (talk) 17:29, 5 December 2017 (UTC)

@RFD: -- Glad to have you back! I wish you the best of luck in your road to recovery. -- Dolotta (talk) 02:08, 6 December 2017 (UTC)

Kuwait Airways

Can you please explain why you accepted [1] an unexplained removal of content from an article that is pending changes protected? It has been PC-protected to avoid disruptive edits and you just validated one of them.--Jetstreamer ^Talk 19:42, 9 December 2017 (UTC)

@Jetstreamer: Hmmmm.... Taking a look at four in the afternoon rather than two in the morning, I think my insomnia got the best of me on this one. I will have to agree with you. Thanks for catching it! -- Dolotta (talk) 22:00, 9 December 2017 (UTC)

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Administrators' newsletter – March 2018

News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2018).

Administrator changes

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AngelOfSadness • Bhadani • Chris 73 • Coren • Friday • Midom • Mike V

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• The autoconfirmed article creation trial (ACTRIAL) is scheduled to end on 14 March 2018. The results of the research collected can be read on Meta Wiki.
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• Following the 2018 Steward elections, the following users are our new stewards: -revi, Green Giant, Rxy, There'sNoTime, علاء.

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• Bhadani (Gangadhar Bhadani) passed away on 8 February 2018. Bhadani joined Wikipedia in March 2005 and became an administrator in September 2005. While he was active, Bhadani was regarded as one of the most prolific Wikipedians from India.

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You're an idiot

You know nothing about rugby or the person, so stop being dumb Factman67 (talk) 17:53, 3 March 2018 (UTC)

Midway Contemporary Art - importance designation

Hello, I'm reaching out in regards to the "low importance" designation you assigned to the article on Midway Contemporary Art. I'd like to point out that this charitable arts organization has been programming for 15+ years in Minnesota, and has remained a mainstay in the state arts community. The organization receives substantial financial support from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts in NYC. Additionally, numerous artists exhibited at the organization have gone on to launch major careers (Guyton/Walker), numerous shows have traveled on from the organization, even at the Whitney Biennial. The organization is very unique for the country, let alone the local area, as it's modeled after a kunsthalle, is quite small but possesses a large library collection. Finally, the organization has a very respectable reputation outside the state and country. I cannot disagree more with the "low" designation. After reviewing the WikiProject MN assessment guidelines, the lowest appropriate designation is "Mid." Please consider correcting the designation. Thank you.MidwayKaty (talk) 04:30, 10 March 2018 (UTC)

• @MidwayKaty: Thank you for standing up for your employer, but I have to stand by my low assessment for the Minnesota Project. In my opinion, contemporary art in general does not play a large enough role in Minnesota to warrant a mid importance. The more topic specific Wikipedia:WikiProject Visual arts may very well have a higher importance rating than a geographic project like Minnesota. -- Dolotta (talk) 05:48, 10 March 2018 (UTC)
• Dear Dolotta, I have no need to make any further case for the article on my employer, but I will have to counter regarding your opinion about the presence of contemporary art in Minnesota as it applies to Minnesota geographically. The arts community in general here is distinguished from most areas in the Midwest, including Chicago, contemporary art included. Between the Walker Art Center, the Sculpture Garden, the Soap Factory, the contemporary wing at Mia, Franconia Sculpture Park, Northern Spark Festival, the numerous graduate and undergraduate programs in the area, and more, it would seem as though you don’t possess the knowledge to be making the assessments you are? I instead ask that you reconsider where your expertise lies in future contributions to Wikipedia. Thanks! MidwayKaty (talk) 22:32, 10 March 2018 (UTC)

We will have to agree to disagree. I am just fine with that. -- Dolotta (talk) 23:50, 10 March 2018 (UTC)

Based on page views, your assessment is certainly correct, Dolotta. Schwede66 17:26, 11 April 2018 (UTC)

Thanks for your support, Schwede. -- Dolotta (talk) 18:01, 11 April 2018 (UTC)

Trouted

Whack! You've been whacked with a wet trout. Don't take this too seriously. Someone just wants to let you know that you did something silly.

You have been trouted for: Accepting an IP edit on Ivan Bandalovski. Erroneously added non-league appearances. Pelotas^{talk|contribs} 16:41, 16 March 2018 (UTC)

Trouted

Whack! You've been whacked with a wet trout. Don't take this too seriously. Someone just wants to let you know that you did something silly.

You have been trouted for: you recently deleted my edit. Noah Kahn is a famous musician and Patrick Caldwell is a famous nordic skier CeasarTableGroup (talk) 13:36, 6 April 2018 (UTC)

@CeasarTableGroup: I don't know either of them, since music is a big industry and I'm not a big follower of Nordic skiing, but in order to put a person's name on "notable people" lists in articles, an editor has to show that the person in question is notable. The easiest way is to link to the person's article. I did not see any indication in the edits that either person is notable. Hope you enjoy editing! -- Dolotta (talk) 14:53, 6 April 2018 (UTC)

Calvert, Wisconsin

Hi-it would be easier to insert Calvert, Wisconsin within the city of La Crosse, Wisconsin article instead of having a separate article since it is within the city limits-many thanks-RFD (talk) 08:57, 11 April 2018 (UTC)

Douglass Residential College

Explaining why I did what I did to the Douglass article: Thank you for trying to fix what appeared to be a strange mistake that I made a little while ago, i.e., deleting the paragraph I'd written, thus leaving the article content entirely blank. I really did intend to leave it blank, because I've been unsuccessfully trying to get help re-doing a totally unsatisfactory article. Meanwhile, I replaced the existing paragraph with a brief paragraph of my own that might be somewhat better at describing the current nature of Douglass Residential College. However, I never intended it to be the whole article, and I've been trying to get others involved in helping to construct a more complete and accurate article. So far I haven't succeeded, but I know that some people will be available to help in the summer. Therefore I decided it might be easier for all of us if I left it blank for now. Is that not allowed? If it's absolutely not allowed to leave it entirely blank, I suppose it would be better to re-insert what I wrote, instead of reverting to what it had been intended to replace. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.61.187.171 (talk) 14:54, 12 April 2018 (UTC)

• My view is that it is better to have an article that is 50% complete rather than 25% complete. This is especially true if the planned rewrite is several months away as you say. -- Dolotta (talk) 16:24, 12 April 2018 (UTC)

OK, I'll try to come ip with a quick history of the college, which will be further fleshed out by the people who will work on it this summer.173.61.187.171 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 17:58, 12 April 2018 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – May 2018

News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2018).

Administrator changes

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Chochopk • Coffee • Gryffindor • Jimp • Knowledge Seeker • Lankiveil • Peridon • Rjd0060

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• The ability to create articles directly in mainspace is now indefinitely restricted to autoconfirmed users.
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Arbitration

• The Arbitration Committee is seeking additional clerks to help with the arbitration process.

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• Lankiveil (Craig Franklin) passed away in mid-April. Lankiveil joined Wikipedia on 12 August 2004 and became an administrator on 31 August 2008. During his time with the Wikimedia community, Lankiveil served as an oversighter for the English Wikipedia and as president of Wikimedia Australia.

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Administrators' newsletter – June 2018

{{User:ClueBot III/ArchiveNow}} News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2018).

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Al Ameer son • AliveFreeHappy • Cenarium • Lupo • MichaelBillington

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• Following a successful request for comment, administrators are now able to add and remove editors to the "event coordinator" group. Users in the event coordinator group have the ability to temporarily add the "confirmed" flag to new user accounts and to create many new user accounts without being hindered by a rate limit. Users will no longer need to be in the "account creator" group if they are in the event coordinator group.
• Following an AN discussion, all pages with content related to blockchain and cryptocurrencies, broadly construed, are now under indefinite general sanctions.

Technical news

• IP-based cookie blocks should be deployed to English Wikipedia in June. This will cause the block of a logged-out user to be reloaded if they change IPs. This means in most cases, you may no longer need to do /64 range blocks on residential IPv6 addresses in order to effectively block the end user. It will also help combat abuse from IP hoppers in general. For the time being, it only affects users of the desktop interface.
• The Wikimedia Foundation's Anti-Harassment Tools team will build granular types of blocks in 2018 (e.g. a block from uploading or editing specific pages, categories, or namespaces, as opposed to a full-site block). Feedback on the concept may be left at the talk page.
• There is now a checkbox on Special:ListUsers to let you see only users in temporary user groups.
• It is now easier for blocked mobile users to see why they were blocked.

Arbitration

• A recent technical issue with the Arbitration Committee's spam filter inadvertently caused all messages sent to the committee through Wikipedia (i.e. Special:EmailUser/Arbitration Committee) to be discarded. If you attempted to send an email to the Arbitration Committee via Wikipedia between May 16 and May 31, your message was not received and you are encouraged to resend it. Messages sent outside of these dates or directly to the Arbitration Committee email address were not affected by this issue.

Miscellaneous

• In early May, an unusually high level of failed login attempts was observed. The WMF has stated that this was an "external effort to gain unauthorized access to random accounts". Under Wikipedia policy, administrators are required to have strong passwords. To further reinforce security, administrators should also consider enabling two-factor authentication. A committed identity can be used to verify that you are the true account owner in the event that your account is compromised and/or you are unable to log in.

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The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

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Wikipedia:New pages patrol/Reviewers

Hi Dolotta, for any changes or confusing wording on the above page, pls raise issue on the talk page and seek consensus decision prior changes is made. Thank you. CASSIOPEIA^(talk)

• You are preaching to the choir, Cassiopeia. I totally agree w/ the consensus seeking.... I let dozens of newbies know of the exact issue when I work on recent changes patrol. When I edited it, I was of the mind that it was in the realm of a reasonably minor copy edit, without enough importance to warrant a significant discussion. -- Dolotta (talk) 02:08, 14 June 2018 (UTC)

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

Gustav of Saxe-Lauenburg

I can send you a copy of my family tree to prove it. There is a bloke in Sweden who will give out a book about Gustaf Eriksson Vasa liniage. I have a Swedish page about it if that would help http://slekt.se/stamtavla.htm Lonsan — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lonsan (talk • contribs) 19:38, 14 June 2018 (UTC)

• I would think that would be helpful for the article. Feel free to add it as a reference. If you would like help adding anything, let me know and I will lend a hand. -- Dolotta (talk) 19:44, 14 June 2018 (UTC)

I will wait till book comes out, so I don't disturb/steal his work. /Lonsan p.s: If you scroll down the list on the link, check iA You will see the two sons there. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lonsan (talk • contribs) 19:57, 14 June 2018 (UTC)

Barnstar

Hi Dolotta. You mentioned I had a photo published in a book. Can you tell me what photo and/or what book? Thanks! -Freekee (talk) 04:22, 22 June 2018 (UTC)

• Sorry about that, Freekee. You can find all the information here. -- Dolotta (talk) 04:27, 22 June 2018 (UTC)

I just found that page, and came here to tell you so. :-) Thanks again! -Freekee (talk) 04:33, 22 June 2018 (UTC)

• Your welcome! -- Dolotta (talk) 06:26, 22 June 2018 (UTC)

List of Kappa Alpha Order chapters

The AFD is closed, the *talk* page was deleted but the article is not. If you want to discuss how to improve, you should have withdrawn the AFD. I have *no* idea what you want done with the article at this point.Naraht (talk) 18:55, 28 June 2018 (UTC)

• It was too late to withdraw it by my understanding -- by the time the discussion started, there was already three deletes and a keep. -- Dolotta (talk) 22:23, 28 June 2018 (UTC)

  • One of those deletes was yours. If you had commented that you no longer wanted it deleted, including changing your own vote there, it probably would have been enough to cause "No Consensus".Naraht (talk) 16:49, 29 June 2018 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Alpha Phi Omega chapters (geographical)

Could you please respond to my comment there. It appears that you saw that things were duplicated between List of Alpha Phi Omega chapters (geographical) and List of Alpha Phi Omega chapters and they are *because* List of Alpha Phi Omega chapters (geographical) is transcluded into List of Alpha Phi Omega chapters. This is for WP:PAGESIZE reasons.Naraht (talk) 16:50, 29 June 2018 (UTC)

Article Keke Palmer

Hi, Dolotta. I found that, In the Article Of Keke Palmer the reference url number 7 is dead url. and i replced it with "https://slaylebrity.com/videos/keke-palmer-didnt-know-how-to-deal-with-childhood-molestation/" url. but you undo this. what is the meaning of this mistake?. please undo your changes.

• I think you know the answer to that one. -- Dolotta (talk) 14:30, 30 June 2018 (UTC)

Making Edits

Hi

I made some edits for our clients Julien's Auctions but after editing received a message referring to a conflict of interest, which I guess is because of my username name conflicting.

Could you please advise on the process in order for us to be able to update the content on their behalf.

(Plusart123 (talk) 10:10, 2 July 2018 (UTC))

Administrators' newsletter – July 2018

News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2018).

Administrator changes

Pbsouthwood • TheSandDoctor

Gogo Dodo

Andrevan • Doug • EVula • KaisaL • Tony Fox • WilyD

Bureaucrat changes

Andrevan • EVula

Guideline and policy news

• An RfC about the deletion of drafts closed with a consensus to change the wording of WP:NMFD. Specifically, a draft that has been repeatedly resubmitted and declined at AfC without any substantial improvement may be deleted at MfD if consensus determines that it is unlikely to ever meet the requirements for mainspace and it otherwise meets one of the reasons for deletion outlined in the deletion policy.
• A request for comment closed with a consensus that the {{promising draft}} template cannot be used to indefinitely prevent a WP:G13 speedy deletion nomination.

Technical news

• Starting on July 9, the WMF Security team, Trust & Safety, and the broader technical community will be seeking input on an upcoming change that will restrict editing of site-wide JavaScript and CSS to a new technical administrators user group. Bureaucrats and stewards will be able to grant this right per a community-defined process. The intention is to reduce the number of accounts who can edit frontend code to those who actually need to, which in turn lessens the risk of malicious code being added that compromises the security and privacy of everyone who accesses Wikipedia. For more information, please review the FAQ.
• Syntax highlighting has been graduated from a Beta feature on the English Wikipedia. To enable this feature, click the highlighter icon () in your editing toolbar (or under the hamburger menu in the 2017 wikitext editor). This feature can help prevent you from making mistakes when editing complex templates.
• IP-based cookie blocks should be deployed to English Wikipedia in July (previously scheduled for June). This will cause the block of a logged-out user to be reloaded if they change IPs. This means in most cases, you may no longer need to do /64 range blocks on residential IPv6 addresses in order to effectively block the end user. It will also help combat abuse from IP hoppers in general. For the time being, it only affects users of the desktop interface.

Miscellaneous

• Currently around 20% of admins have enabled two-factor authentication, up from 17% a year ago. If you haven't already enabled it, please consider doing so. Regardless if you use 2FA, please practice appropriate account security by ensuring your password is secure and unique to Wikimedia.

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 19:22, 3 July 2018 (UTC)

Sorry

Sorry, I'm new at this. I just thought the first picture was kinda hard to understand as far as who was talking to who or what was going on. But I guess ducks don't really apply to that kind of thing. Senator Begs-Ducks-For-Bread (talk) 07:06, 31 July 2018 (UTC)

SBDFB joined Wikipedia 31 July and has already been blocked for vandalism. David notMD (talk) 18:31, 31 July 2018 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – August 2018

News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2018).

Administrator changes

Sro23

KaisaL • Ymblanter

Guideline and policy news

• After a discussion at Meta, a new user group called "interface administrators" (formerly "technical administrator") has been created. Come the end of August, interface admins will be the only users able to edit site-wide JavaScript and CSS pages like MediaWiki:Common.js and MediaWiki:Common.css, or edit other user's personal JavaScript and CSS. The intention is to improve security and privacy by reducing the number of accounts which could be used to compromise the site or another user's account through malicious code. The new user group can be assigned and revoked by bureaucrats. Discussion is ongoing to establish details for implementing the group on the English Wikipedia.
• Following a request for comment, the WP:SISTER style guideline now states that in the mainspace, interwiki links to Wikinews should only be made as per the external links guideline. This generally means that within the body of an article, you should not link to Wikinews about a particular event that is only a part of the larger topic. Wikinews links in "external links" sections can be used where helpful, but not automatically if an equivalent article from a reliable news outlet could be linked in the same manner.

Technical news

• The WMF Anti-Harassment Tools team is seeking input on the second set of wireframes for the Special:Block redesign that will introduce partial blocks. The new functionality will allow you to block a user from editing a specific set of pages, pages in a category, a namespace, and for specific actions such as moving pages and uploading files.

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 01:31, 5 August 2018 (UTC)

Many thanks

Many thanks for your concern; I am doing okay. I had problems with my computer of which has been taken care of. Again many thanks-RFD (talk) 11:32, 9 August 2018 (UTC)

Article Geography

Hi, Dolotta. Recently, I posted about Tobler's First Law of Geography on the Geography wikipedia page and saw your comments. I am new to Wikipedia editing, so I am not sure how else to reach you. I thought it was helpful that another user suggested I make a new paragraph/section for the law, since it doesn't seem to fit in the overview. I would be happy to do that, but I think it's important to include the law on the Geography page because it's the very FIRST thing we learn as Geography majors (I was a Geo major in college). I think it helps people understand that Geography is not limited to the physical sciences, but also extends to cultural, political, and health studies. Any thoughts about how I should move forward? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ed sanfrancisco (talk • contribs) 01:22, 14 August 2018 (UTC)

• @Ed sanfrancisco: Users are notified whenever their talk page is edited or the {{:ping}} is used on any talk page. With one more edit, you will be able to add the information yourself. However, it seems to me that Tobler's first law of geography is written in a relatively technical language geared towards a geography major like yourself. I would think that the Geography, being more of a "gateway" article, should be geared closer to the middle/high school level. From this accounting major's viewpoint, it seems like the Branches section does an okay job at differentiating between the various areas of geography. If you would like a sounding board after coming up with your wording, you can certainly post a comment here, on the article's talk page or at WT:WikiProject Geography-- Dolotta (talk) 03:45, 14 August 2018 (UTC)

No problem

Thanks for the compliment; Wikipedia should be a fun thing to edit, not a slog where you try to throw multiple WP:s and tags and warnings at a user to discourage them from editing, as they have done. Nate • (chatter) 20:36, 17 August 2018 (UTC)

Thanks!

Many thanks for fixing all 100 of those talk pages... I sure could use any help where needed, so please feel free to fix anything of mine that you might see is wrong, as you already have! Very much appreciate it. Thanks! --Southern Iowan (talk) 20:20, 19 August 2018 (UTC)

• @Southern Iowan: I don't think for a minute that anything you did on the talk pages were "mistakes." I should thank you for remembering to tag the talk pages of the 100 articles you created. Quite a bit of work on your end! -- Dolotta (talk) 20:25, 19 August 2018 (UTC)

Thanks, that was a lot of work! I did (just) learn from you how to correctly label these talk pages, so I really appreciate that! What I didn't know, I know now! Thanks again, and hope to see you around! --Southern Iowan (talk) 20:37, 19 August 2018 (UTC)

Thank you so much for that Barnstar! My first one! Thanks! --Southern Iowan (talk) 20:38, 19 August 2018 (UTC)

• Your welcome! -- Dolotta (talk) 20:56, 19 August 2018 (UTC)

Seffty

Thanked you can you help me through Wikipedia Jamaica Queen (talk) 19:00, 29 August 2018 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – September 2018

News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2018).

Administrator changes

None

Asterion • Crisco 1492 • KF • Kudpung • Liz • Randykitty • Spartaz

Optimist on the run → Voice of Clam

Interface administrator changes

Amorymeltzer • Mr. Stradivarius • MusikAnimal • MSGJ • TheDJ • Xaosflux

Guideline and policy news

• Following a "stop-gap" discussion, six users have temporarily been made interface administrators while discussion is ongoing for a more permanent process for assigning the permission. Interface administrators are now the only editors allowed to edit sitewide CSS and JavaScript pages, as well as CSS/JS pages in another user's userspace. Previously, all administrators had this ability. The right can be granted and revoked by bureaucrats.

Technical news

• Because of a data centre test you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for up to an hour on 12 September and 10 October. This will start at 14:00 (UTC). You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. The time when you can't edit might be shorter than an hour.
• Some abuse filter variables have changed. They are now easier to understand for non-experts. The old variables will still work but filter editors are encouraged to replace them with the new ones. You can find the list of changed variables on mediawiki.org. They have a note which says Deprecated. Use ... instead. An example is article_text which is now page_title.
• Abuse filters can now use how old a page is. The variable is page_age.

Arbitration

• The Arbitration Committee has resolved to perform a round of Checkuser and Oversight appointments. The usernames of all applicants will be shared with the Functionaries team, and they will be requested to assist in the vetting process. The deadline to submit an application is 23:59 UTC, 12 September, and the candidates that move forward will be published on-wiki for community comments on 18 September.

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 23:23, 2 September 2018 (UTC)