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I have corrected all the mistakes and removed external links from the body of the article. 4 News articles of ActorSahnil Bhatnagar can be found on the reference list
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Hi! I have changed all the things guided by you. Please review the page again. Thank you! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sam9619 (talk • contribs) 16:59, 9 October 2020 (UTC)
Draft:Gifted Education International
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Hi. I added 4 independent secondary references as you suggested to Draft:Gifted Education International. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sak ugur (talk • contribs) 12:29, 11 October 2020 (UTC)
@Sak ugur: Someone else will review it in time - RichT|C|E-Mail 12:31, 11 October 2020 (UTC)
The Bots Edit
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Recently your bot (don't recall it's name) edited a page on Naruto Uzumaki this edit reverted my content that in no way was vandilism. So I please ask could you do some validity check on my and the Bots part. Akiba2 (talk) 07:54, 12 October 2020 (UTC)
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Problems
Because of the problems with the MediaWiki version two weeks ago last week's updates are also late. [1][2][3]
Changes later this week
Live previews didn't show the templates used in the preview if you just edited a section. This has now been fixed. You can also test CSS and JavaScript pages even if you have the live preview enabled. Previously this didn't work well. [4][5]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 October. It will be on all wikis from 15 October (calendar).
Future changes
A new stable version of Pywikibot is coming soon. [6]
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How to Create a Bot
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Hi Rich. I'm investigating why my copyvios tool is exhausting its daily quota for Google searches. According to the logs, a substantial number of API queries (over 7,000 from Thursday to Saturday) are coming from someone identifying themselves as you. You are welcome to use this tool for checking articles, but could you reduce the frequency? Our daily quota of Google searches (shared by all users of the tool) allows only about 2,000 article checks per day. I think a safe upper limit for you is 500 checks per day, working out to about one check every 3 minutes, assuming continuous usage. Can you do this? — Earwigtalk 03:18, 19 October 2020 (UTC)
@The Earwig: Yep, sorry... there was an initial burst, from now on it will be max of 200 per run, which is done every 12 hours - RichT|C|E-Mail 18:19, 19 October 2020 (UTC)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 20 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 October. It will be on all wikis from 22 October (calendar).
Future changes
You will be able to read but not to edit the wikis for up to an hour on 27 October around 14:00 (UTC). It will probably be shorter than an hour. [7]
In the AbuseFilter extension, the rmspecials() function will be updated soon so that it does not remove the "space" character. Wikis are advised to wrap all the uses of rmspecials() with rmwhitespace() wherever necessary to keep filters' behavior unchanged. You can use the search function on Special:AbuseFilter to locate its usage. [8]
Some gadgets and user-scripts use the HTML div with the ID #jump-to-nav. This div will be removed soon. Maintainers should replace these uses with either #siteSub or #mw-content-text. A list of affected scripts is at the top of phab:T265373.
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Hi @Rich Smith: I have reviewed your references and changed the article to avoid any COI. Please review and let me know if it is good to publish further. Thank you in advance! Appreciate your assistance on this.
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Hi Rich, Thanks for your view of the Togni draft. Can you clarify where there is still a copyright question? I place a rewrite of the article in the Temp section here, which I believe resolved the concern. Thank you for your help! (Dzanueh (talk) 19:02, 25 October 2020 (UTC))
Pinging @Justlettersandnumbers: as they added the copyvio template, they can determine if the temp article solved the copyvio issue - RichT|C|E-Mail 19:09, 25 October 2020 (UTC)
Thanks for the ping, Rich_Smith! The rewrite is not useable, it still contains substantial taking from the same websites – please see, for example, this. @Dzanueh:, everything you write in Wikipedia must (with a few very rare exceptions) be entirely in your own words. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 20:17, 25 October 2020 (UTC)
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Problems
You will be able to read but not to edit the wikis for up to an hour on October 27 around 14:00 (UTC). It will probably be shorter than an hour. [9]
Last week, links to "diffs" from mobile watchlists and recentchanges were linking to page-revisions instead of diffs. This has now been fixed. [10]
Changes later this week
There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
Future changes
Since the introduction of the interface administrators user group in 2018, administrators couldn’t view the deleted history of CSS/JS pages. Now they can. [11]
There was a problem with the Change Tags. The software would apply the "Reverted" tag to any page actions such as page-protection changes if they came directly after a reverted edit. This has now been fixed for new edits. [12]
The Reply tool will be offered as an opt-in Beta Feature on most Wikipedias in November. Another announcement will be made once the date is finalized. [13]
I didn't know about the fact that Уnglish version of the article about Lyudmila Pavlichenko exists. The problem is that I really don't understand fully how Wikipedia works, because I am not an English speaker and I just have a special task to write an article dedicated to the 75th anniversary of the Great Victory. I was trying my best to translate it from Russian to English and now I really don't know what to do, because it seems to me that I just cannot write something original. There are a lot of topics, but all of them are already exist on Wikipedia. My article has another topic, not just "Lyudmila Pavlichenko", so can I have an opportunity to be published? :(
Nickname of town
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I am Rcawhick. I grew up in Walled Lake and the town IS nicknamed Waltucky. Why is this vandalism? That makes no sense. A brief discussion on the I grew up in Walled Lake Facebook page will confirm this. I am proud MY family moved from Kentucky to Walled Lake. It has been nicknamed this for decades. I even have a license plate with it. I noticed Taylor Michigan has the nickname TaylorTucky on the Wikipedia. Why is that allowed? I do not understand the hostility. I just wanted to contribute and celebrate my towns heritage. This makes no sense.
I would appreciate a reply. have a good day — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rcawhick (talk • contribs) 18:53, 1 November 2020 (UTC)
@Rcawhick: Original research is not allowed without a source to back it up, per WP:NOR. Also your edit broke a reference. Also, ClueBot is a robot that acts on its own, it did not revert you because I told it to... coming to moan at me will not help - RichT|C|E-Mail 19:04, 1 November 2020 (UTC)
The Signpost: 1 November 2020
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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 no longer read Wikimedia wikis if your browser uses very old TLS. This is because it is a security problem for everyone. It could lead to downgrade attacks. Since October 29, 2020, users who use old TLS versions will not be able to connect to Wikimedia projects. A list of browser recommendations is available. All modern operating systems and browsers are always able to reach Wikimedia projects. [14]
There is a new automatic tracking category available: Pages with non-numeric formatnum arguments. It collects pages which use the {{formatnum}} parser function with invalid (non-numeric) input, e.g.{{formatnum:TECHNEWS}}. Note that {{formatnum:123,456}} is also invalid input: as described in the documentation, the argument should be unformatted so that it can be reliably and correctly localised. The tracking category will help identify problematic usage and double-formatting. The new tracking category's name can be translated at translatewiki. [15]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from November 3. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from November 4. It will be on all wikis from November 5 (calendar).
Administrators and stewards will be able to use a special page (Special:CreateLocalAccount) to force local account creation for a global account. This is useful when account creation is blocked for that user (by a block or a filter). [16]
The Reply tool will be offered as an opt-in Beta Feature on most Wikipedias on November 4. This change excludes the English, Russian, and German-language Wikipedias, plus a few smaller Wikipedias with special circumstances. You can read the help page and the troubleshooting guide for more information. [17]
Future changes
A discussion has been restarted about using a Unicode minus sign (− U+2212) in the output of {{formatnum}} when it is given a negative argument. [18]
In the future IP addresses of unregistered users will not be shown for everyone. They will get an alias instead. There will be a new user right or an opt-in function for more vandal fighters to see the IPs of unregistered users. There would be some criteria for who gets the user right or opt-in. There will also be other new tools to help handle vandalism. This is early in the process and the developers are still collecting information from the communities before they suggest solutions.
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 October. It will be on all wikis from 15 October (calendar).
In the AbuseFilter extension, the 
