User talk:Rhododendrites/2020b
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New exercise regimen while staying indoors during the pandemic
I'll just leave this here... — Rhododendrites talk \\ 15:37, 23 March 2020 (UTC)
Douglas Mastriano
What did you do to the page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_V._Mastriano that made it impossible to correct the word business to be businesses?
174.55.102.53 (talk) 15:34, 31 March 2020 (UTC)
- I've only made one edit to the page. You changed "businesses" (plural) to "businesseses" (plural of the plural?) and I changed it back here. That doesn't affect any subsequent edits, but if you change something to be a non-word again, someone will probably undo it. :) — Rhododendrites talk \\ 15:49, 31 March 2020 (UTC)
- I believe there must be some kind of error because it isn't showing up correctly and it's not able to be edited back. I've attempted to correct several times. Under the edit it shows up correctly but after it's been saved it does not.
- 174.55.102.53 (talk) 19:13, 31 March 2020 (UTC)
- I think I see the issue. Here you're changing the text in the citation (the title of that reference), but not changing the text before it. If it's inside <ref></ref> tags, it's part of the citation. Look just before that tag. — Rhododendrites talk \\ 19:22, 31 March 2020 (UTC)
- I went ahead and fixed it. — Rhododendrites talk \\ 03:41, 1 April 2020 (UTC)
- I am hopeless. Thanks for the help 174.55.102.53 (talk) 03:49, 1 April 2020 (UTC)
- 174.55.102.53 (talk) 19:13, 31 March 2020 (UTC)
- I believe there must be some kind of error because it isn't showing up correctly and it's not able to be edited back. I've attempted to correct several times. Under the edit it shows up correctly but after it's been saved it does not.
This Month in GLAM: March 2020
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Your GA nomination of Mandarin Patinkin
Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Mandarin Patinkin 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 Kingsif -- Kingsif (talk) 21:01, 11 April 2020 (UTC)
Your GA nomination of Mandarin Patinkin
The article Mandarin Patinkin you nominated as a good article has passed 
; see Talk:Mandarin Patinkin for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Kingsif -- Kingsif (talk) 17:41, 12 April 2020 (UTC)
Editing news 2020 #1 – Discussion tools
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The team is building a new tool for replying to comments now. This early version can sign and indent comments automatically. Please test the new Reply tool.
- On 31 March 2020, the new reply tool was offered as a Beta Feature editors at four Wikipedias: Arabic, Dutch, French, and Hungarian. If your community also wants early access to the new tool, contact User:Whatamidoing (WMF).
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Your GA nomination of Alice Gray
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Your GA nomination of Alice Gray
The article Alice Gray 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:Alice Gray for issues which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of The Rambling Man -- The Rambling Man (talk) 17:00, 17 April 2020 (UTC)
Your GA nomination of Alice Gray
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Your GA nomination of Gowanus Batcave
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Nami Rai Parekh Deletion
Here are some more references to make you consider keeping her page. Thanks!
^ https://mshealthandfitness.com/2019/nami-rai-parekh
^ https://www.instagram.com/nami_rai/?hl=en
^ https://m.rediff.com/amp/getahead/report/health-athlete-nami-rais-fitness-journey-will-baffle-you/20190325.htm
^ https://telugu.news18.com/photogallery/life-style/namitha-rai-former-athlete-become-bodybuilder-inspiration-for-women-mk-182170.html
^ https://agora-file-storage-prod.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/workplace/attachment/1612980492976722521?response-content-disposition=inline%3B%20filename%3D%222DECBE33-085B-4564-8904-F845CADAF5C7.jpeg%22%3B%20filename%2A%3Dutf-8%27%272DECBE33-085B-4564-8904-F845CADAF5C7.jpeg&X-Amz-Security-Token=IQoJb3JpZ2luX2VjEB8aCXVzLXdlc3QtMSJGMEQCIG3ZqsZ1MpjlhfL0nNGTfXxOkydFf2tdpSAykAhLBU9yAiAebbALMOTgBy2kJUnx1QbtOf0fGNcG%2B5JPjENVu5R7WSqQBAhIEAAaDDczOTkzOTE3MzgxOSIMphQLIZzYbk6fDIXmKu0D18iSPlom6RGpoahgC0Y86VO6U93E7jzXVNpAawfbgD69ZVbEgiDGJC79gqZxPPRhOWIGUkYdqOS8y0Z87Kv2CVykdyH8l%2FfslbOTJ%2B%2FOdWvP2r%2FqPh2v24qu%2FZ%2F0NsffniMfS%2FjquPImSFJX96BIzBqLDtsOdltAjDn0PRGS8SpBdC40YcVEEkHQVBui%2BjH4UgKbp%2B8Bv3wYpEjZhr4%2Fm%2F38E7tKwAwTWiIwXKeybovRLy%2BZYM4vD0blHCm0igdr%2BUdjWGw0uuedAqk4TrgzkZslFgPPYeVauQ3OROo2U4cKxRxr57DoYBdsl9kHrDBhWvXONykkGIX4TTwMLOe2Vvgq326FAzYmlCYj1tPLesxH8UzY1OascKID4qcyNbbU1RyaiPvrYkwx9QVjpwLUpFm39170jjn1vPCz%2FeS8NHyX2La2mQghP%2FFmY%2FUQrsJgmPfCTHA%2BZTd%2B5US4IMO6p%2FUY2kgG2fSTA5lK8mX4Mfc72%2FOOzT7jVMmgFrl5pSzcEJiX1Af54LXFP7O4fSHmN0GM%2BcHzpoEp5nhQfwdEMPipdKAHqIFf2yIC78mYzw3mBamgogbByLPNAKieYithGR8BQogw9%2B9WuyW8fKW9KET8BcwmqPbFt4ag4mp%2FAnwaDCXefHGGWlomQLZgQjD6uoH1BTrwAUJytYSoC9m9rdRhtvJyAQn3LTJrCUTKnAYZ0Z3mAND%2BtFFlsQsuObQ4X1sG6N1MYbv3QCbkuPbY0EVj4dxCHa1XyZLoMmVKncuinIcOcDomH3E96vZOHykQEBJ91sPqWn62BQ4AYBBXWmj371NRNAlWRPin%2Beeh4QcARbD9j6MQQcZzlpCN0G8EkmcgB8g6W1UtM%2Fl%2BIDz2x6blGxlW7uBAbTZst0gouJzwKr0EgepAjGrib5WRQr7W5NXPLS0doEgqlXGWB8fLjh1l4csmU%2FqU4lXWMzBCVGpDFpWI40%2BjwElvqVud4RsxQx33NSpnUg%3D%3D&X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Date=20200422T183352Z&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&X-Amz-Expires=599&X-Amz-Credential=ASIA2YR6PYW56XQLYN75%2F20200422%2Fus-west-1%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Signature=4ed89db053d59f0f34abc0955ed313e264678b530ec3bf078b7d5b4ed99800a5
^ https://agora-file-storage-prod.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/workplace/attachment/3973131825976722521?response-content-disposition=inline%3B%20filename%3D%2268636889-84C3-4BF4-B295-7B56C3F07778.jpeg%22%3B%20filename%2A%3Dutf-8%27%2768636889-84C3-4BF4-B295-7B56C3F07778.jpeg&X-Amz-Security-Token=IQoJb3JpZ2luX2VjECAaCXVzLXdlc3QtMSJHMEUCIQCUprT%2Bst0UdiM1s5ZeYM88i5nURVBlyS5vP22%2B6ytsjgIgfPH4bG9XdYgvjUF3WB5xb2bgJVmu8Dv1XoK4bFsdfDAqkAQISRAAGgw3Mzk5MzkxNzM4MTkiDPIGe0cEoFJXHn6y5yrtA1AlKxieZADjUthJJ6WXDy1lOk9sflYXjb2l5ajVEwj8jZsC2vVZH1IHPWCvuY0vgKj5nbYc2BS2MA0eexXOvwxLfOLYK7p6WReYfDTRt5hXjFjZbufqD25H84XOYSpGWgMOYCSapv2%2Bt7BFXsHqVxdvMHBl9NMOMTOvVHThjyP1wfLxff7WRTGcGJMLbLN4aLY7n6tR6%2BIH7Kp6Wli0sp%2Fib3lZEI4YBP8XLYt%2FryfD%2FowoE8mB6xHZaJzmfy%2FIRRgLNm6kHGTmyH61KhMLxdnrTTaO5MGRxhbkhp2Mlupq4JWx1vmBguVrrrEBeAd0PfYyqWhXYER%2FL53WUkhzXhV72JLcKpwxs%2FLlNB%2FNITHmez5KthCbD21lxZ%2FeX1oeE7kKgXrfVguNaDmpqkESieFTFxAF6wsopKgnUgsTsfpp1xLoG9PquQYM3fYMAs%2FrUaB4YMkX%2FyTRIhXGj5vav0bcjYIFagbc%2B4JAfR2q2AxEZ%2F0szvbficzL%2B2R6bqRLihqxziW273LmuopPVvnJiPdsOVx9s%2FeC0zJDV3SdcKVVJmnRCcIH2pT2Qy5xv3V%2FAd5To9EJfpTxOwDQu3lNmtZrHDBWAACpG3Bszm0nsyN%2F11zG6bjyOuzyRlzWGapKXVAn5okEQ08tI9rjJzkwrNiB9QU67wEvdDHEYzXsbMmeGksiDYVz2WYxQriX1hZdVg0A3lGH0kZyP3fEVDttkWAxc7S91uT9GRqpYf51q2bcb016K4q3IoIibDItZLkrIb0U8eN9CtbqlDMU3wnVloo7iRTMBoJJzl0gzMKBrEqvB5tPNltPFxFNR%2BhGIGc%2B7Aw6q4NDZQOKaPWT%2B2pbtLnT%2BMJh4y4O3P7rDFC%2BLXEts4x7979vic0J0%2B%2B%2BBQtTO6gTWIhmiLhVvA8rfxPcLbrtC0BCMq8B5zJrlLG4OfMAdPJd9U9sCMmxEvZibxtSPnviGdGpz2EIYi5s%2BrnrWfAzGUk7EA%3D%3D&X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Date=20200422T183451Z&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&X-Amz-Expires=599&X-Amz-Credential=ASIA2YR6PYW5Y42UQQ6E%2F20200422%2Fus-west-1%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Signature=e6ecd37431adba51b37e0b800a12844f99d7b0fcf51387f9a99a92eb5d70b14d
^ https://www.khabargali.com/portal/index.php/tags/nami-rai-parekh
^ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJzCFuLUvUk
^ https://bangaloremirror.indiatimes.com/sports/praneeta-pans/articleshow/22096465.cms
https://www.facebook.com/205834099532799/posts/2732941180155399/
https://www.facebook.com/pg/Namirai01/community/?mt_nav=0&msite_tab_async=0
https://ne-np.facebook.com/TheAlphapreneurs/posts/national-level-athlete-nami-rai-parekh-didnt-let-marriage-or-lack-of-sporting-fa/2251040535190065/ — Preceding unsigned comment added by Anthonytownley333 (talk • contribs) 15:09, 24 April 2020 (UTC)
- @Anthonytownley333: Thanks. It would be better to provide these in the deletion discussion, but you'll want to remove several of them as they are clearly not reliable sources. Here is where Wikipedia defines reliable sources: WP:RS. Things like social media (instagram, facebook, youtube) are not reliable. Most blogs are not reliable. Also, even reliable sources if they say very little about the person do not contribute to determining notability. Best thing to do is to select the small number of best sources, without these long links. — Rhododendrites talk \\ 00:39, 25 April 2020 (UTC)
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WikiCup 2020 May newsletter
The second round of the 2020 WikiCup has now finished. It was a high-scoring round and contestants needed 75 points to advance to round 3. There were some very impressive efforts in round 2, with the top ten contestants all scoring more than 500 points. A large number of the points came from the 12 featured articles and the 186 good articles achieved in total by contestants, and the 355 good article reviews they performed; the GAN backlog drive and the stay-at-home imperative during the COVID-19 pandemic may have been partially responsible for these impressive figures.
Our top scorers in round 2 were:
Epicgenius, with 2333 points from one featured article, forty-five good articles, fourteen DYKs and plenty of bonus points
Gog the Mild, with 1784 points from three featured articles, eight good articles, a substantial number of featured article and good article reviews and lots of bonus points
The Rambling Man, with 1262 points from two featured articles, eight good articles and a hundred good article reviews
Harrias, with 1141 points from two featured articles, three featured lists, ten good articles, nine DYKs and a substantial number of featured article and good article reviews
Lee Vilenski with 869 points, 
Hog Farm with 801, 
Kingsif with 719, 
SounderBruce with 710, 
Dunkleosteus77 with 608 and 
MX with 515.
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Thanks for your message and for the reminder about non-diffusing categories. I appreciate it. Happy editing. --FeanorStar7 (talk) 13:44, 5 May 2020 (UTC)
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This Month in GLAM: April 2020
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DYK nomination of Gillian Genser
Hello! Your submission of Gillian Genser 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! Yoninah (talk) 23:07, 13 May 2020 (UTC)
Your GA nomination of Gowanus Batcave
The article Gowanus Batcave you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Gowanus Batcave for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Mujinga -- Mujinga (talk) 11:21, 16 May 2020 (UTC)
- Great work on the page! You definitely deserve this. epicgenius (talk) 16:17, 18 May 2020 (UTC)
Nomination of Gillian Genser for deletion
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DYK for Orlando Julius
On 31 May 2020, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Orlando Julius, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Robin Denselow of The Guardian called Orlando Julius (pictured) "one of the heroes of Nigerian music"? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Orlando Julius. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Orlando Julius), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
Cwmhiraeth (talk) 00:01, 31 May 2020 (UTC)
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date formats and visual editor
@Epicgenius and GiantSnowman: Now sure where to put this, so just putting it here. Before this year, I always started new articles using the source editor. Pleased with how easy adding refs is with VE, I started using that a few articles ago. I've noticed that, for those articles, people (including the two of you, at George Floyd protests in New York City and Orlando Julius, respectively) have changed the date format. Why? For Julius, I assumed it was because of the preferred date format for Nigeria, but maybe not? I am not someone who cares much about date format, but it seems strange to me that the default format used by visual editor (and thus the default format for references added to Wikipedia) would be problematic across both of these articles. Could someone explain? Thanks. — Rhododendrites talk \\ 18:45, 3 June 2020 (UTC)
- Rhododendrites, basically VE defaults to YYYY-MM-DD, and as far as I am aware, there isn't really an easy way to change this unless you fix the dates manually. The date format script I use (which is the same as what GiantSnowman uses) tends to change all dates, even those in citations. epicgenius (talk) 18:50, 3 June 2020 (UTC)
- As for standardising dates, it's WP:DATEVAR you want. GiantSnowman 19:09, 3 June 2020 (UTC)
Ok, so basically for the protests article, EG saw that I had used e.g. "May 31" or "May 31, 2020" and standardized the dates based on that? And for the Orlando Julius article, GS changed the only dates that existed (the ones in the refs--I don't think there were any others to factor in in the article) based on the "strong national ties [to Nigeria]"? That makes sufficient sense. Thanks. :) — Rhododendrites talk \\ 11:38, 4 June 2020 (UTC)
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Editing news 2020 #2 – Quick updates
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This edition of the Editing newsletter includes information the Wikipedia:Talk pages project, an effort to help contributors communicate on wiki more easily. The central project page is on MediaWiki.org.
- Reply tool: This is available as a Beta Feature at the four partner wikis (Arabic, Dutch, French, and Hungarian Wikipedias). The Beta Feature will get new features soon. The new features include writing comments in a new visual editing mode and pinging other users by typing
@. You can test the new features on the Beta Cluster. Some other wikis will have a chance to try the Beta Feature in the coming months. - New requirements for user signatures: Soon, users will not be able to save invalid custom signatures in Special:Preferences. This will reduce signature spoofing, prevent page corruption, and make new talk page tools more reliable. Most editors will not be affected.
- New discussion tool: The Editing team is beginning work on a simpler process for starting new discussions. You can see the initial design on the project page.
- Research on the use of talk pages: The Editing team worked with the Wikimedia research team to study how talk pages help editors improve articles. We learned that new editors who use talk pages make more edits to the main namespace than new editors who don't use talk pages.
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three-check chess
Hi! You said in chess variants you can help me recreate the three-check chess article. I looked at the original and I think we can use part of that but I want to add more. I think I can enlist a few three-check players to come and help. That's all, thanks! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Geekpotato24 (talk • contribs) 00:56, 18 June 2020 (UTC)
- @Geekpotato24: It was LukeSurl who said that, actually. I did a pretty exhaustive search for sources when it existed before and didn't find anything beyond what was surfaced then, but it's possible there's more now? — Rhododendrites talk \\ 01:00, 18 June 2020 (UTC)
Oh, sorry. I thought it was you. Thanks though. Geekpotato24 (talk) 01:16, 18 June 2020 (UTC)
The Signpost: 28 June 2020
- News and notes: Progress at Wikipedia Library and Wikijournal of Medicine
- Community view: Community open letter on renaming
- Gallery: After the killing of George Floyd
- In the media: Part collaboration and part combat
- Discussion report: Community reacts to WMF rebranding proposals
- Featured content: Sports are returning, with a rainbow
- Arbitration report: Anti-harassment RfC and a checkuser revocation
- Traffic report: The pandemic, alleged murder, a massacre, and other deaths
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- Recent research: Wikipedia and COVID-19; automated Wikipedia-based fact-checking
- Humour: Cherchez une femme
- On the bright side: For what are you grateful this month?
- WikiProject report: WikiProject Black Lives Matter
Issue with DYK nomination
Hello! Your submission of George Floyd protests in New York City 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) at your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Alanna the Brave (talk) 00:50, 30 June 2020 (UTC)
WikiLoop Battlefield new name vote
Dear Rhododendrites,
Thank you for your interest and contributions to WikiLoop Battlefield. We are holding a voting for proposed new name. We would like to invite you to this voting. The voting is held at m:WikiProject_WikiLoop/New_name_vote and ends on July 13th 00:00 UTC.
xinbenlv Talk, Remember to "ping" me 05:16, 30 June 2020 (UTC)