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Women in Red April 2023
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Templates for Discussion: Women's college basketball coach templates
Hi there! I have nominated a series of women's college basketball coach templates that you created for substitution and deletion. The discussion is going on right here. Thanks! fuzzy510 (talk) 08:26, 29 March 2023 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – April 2023
News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2023).
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Guideline and policy news
- A community RfC is open to discuss whether reports primarily involving gender-related disputes or controversies should be referred to the Arbitration enforcement noticeboard.
Technical news
- Some older web browsers will not be able to use JavaScript on Wikimedia wikis starting this week. This mainly affects users of Internet Explorer 11. (T178356)
- The rollback of Vector 2022 RfC has found no consensus to rollback to Vector legacy, but has found rough consensus to disable "limited width" mode by default.
- A link to the user's Special:CentralAuth page will now appear in the subtitle links shown on Special:Contributions. This was voted #17 in the Community Wishlist Survey 2023.
Arbitration
- The Armenia-Azerbaijan 3 case has been closed.
- A case about World War II and the history of Jews in Poland has been opened, with the first evidence phase closing 6 April 2023.
About Wilbarger County, Texas article
Hey, while you were away, user Im4justice made a lot of changes recently. I'm not sure if this vandalism or just normal edits. If you have time, please check. Sincere, SeanTVT (talk) 15:15, 9 April 2023 (UTC)
- Addressed S Philbrick(Talk) 15:43, 9 April 2023 (UTC)
- Stop saying it's vandalism. It is accurate changes to reflect our county. There are many past cities that must be added. There was no history either. . Im4justice (talk) 16:47, 9 April 2023 (UTC)
Stop reversing my edits
Wilbarger County Texas is being updated accurately by me so stop switching it back. Historians have suggested these changes who know a lot more than you. Im4justice (talk) 16:43, 9 April 2023 (UTC)
- "Accuracy" is not the standard. It's a fine goal, but copyright violations are a non-starter. S Philbrick(Talk) 18:08, 9 April 2023 (UTC)
Women in Red May 2023
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Administrators' newsletter – May 2023
News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2023).
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Guideline and policy news
- A request for comment about removing administrative privileges in specified situations is open for feedback.
Technical news
- Progress has started on the Page Triage improvement project. This is to address the concerns raised by the community in their 2022 WMF letter that requested improvements be made to the tool.
Arbitration
- The proposed decision in the World War II and the history of Jews in Poland case is expected 11 May 2023.
Miscellaneous
- The Wikimedia Foundation annual plan 2023-2024 draft is open for comment and input through May 19. The final plan will be published in July 2023.
Share your thoughts regarding the album if you wish to. 2001:D08:2900:657:1075:C376:3717:505D (talk) 06:38, 7 May 2023 (UTC)
Books & Bytes – Issue 56
The Wikipedia Library: Books & Bytes
Issue 56, March – April 2023
- New partner:
- Perlego
- Library access tips and tricks
- Spotlight: EveryBookItsReader
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Women in Red - June 2023
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ReferenceExpander
Just a friendly heads-up in case you weren't already aware, since it's installed on your common.js: Careless use of ReferenceExpander has caused serious problems. It's currently at MFD, and a large cleanup project is underway to repair the citations damaged by the script. I and several other users have !voted that the script be deleted or disabled, and I wouldn't recommend using it at all unless you thoroughly check every reference it modifies against the previous revision. If you're interested in a more detailed explanation of the script's issues, Folly Mox has provided an excellent summary at the MFD. — SamX [talk · contribs] 04:58, 1 June 2023 (UTC)
Joey (1985) edits
With respect, the information I placed in Joey (1985 film) regarding its production does not belong to http://centropoholics.com/films/Joey/index.html, it is information from the book Roland Emmerich: The Official Biography by Jo Muller which both I and the website you refer to cited it. I also cited the same book they did. Please restore the production section for the movie. Thank you and have a good day. User:BrianRothJr.
- I don't have access to that book, but freely licensed books are extremely rare. Do you have evidence that this book is freely licensed so that its text can be used? S Philbrick(Talk) 16:19, 3 June 2023 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – June 2023
News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2023).
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Guideline and policy news
- Following an RfC, editors indefinitely site-banned by community consensus will now have all rights, including sysop, removed.
- As a part of the Wikimedia Foundation's IP Masking project, a new policy has been created that governs the access to temporary account IP addresses. An associated FAQ has been created and individual communities can increase the requirements to view temporary account IP addresses.
Technical news
- Bot operators and tool maintainers should schedule time in the coming months to test and update their tools for the effects of IP masking. IP masking will not be deployed to any content wiki until at least October 2023 and is unlikely to be deployed to the English Wikipedia until some time in 2024.
Arbitration
- The arbitration case World War II and the history of Jews in Poland has been closed. The topic area of Polish history during World War II (1933-1945) and the history of Jews in Poland is subject to a "reliable source consensus-required" contentious topic restriction.
Miscellaneous
- Following a community referendum, the arbitration policy has been modified to remove the ability for users to appeal remedies to Jimbo Wales.
Women in Red July 2023
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Administrators' newsletter – July 2023
News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2023).
Administrator changes
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Guideline and policy news
- Contributions to the English Wikipedia are now released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0) license instead of CC BY-SA 3.0. Contributions are still also released under the GFDL license.
Technical news
- Discussion is open regarding a proposed global policy regarding third-party resources. Third-party resources are computer resources that reside outside of Wikimedia production websites.
Arbitration
- Two arbitration cases are currently open. Proposed decisions are expected 5 July 2023 for the Scottywong case and 9 July 2023 for the AlisonW case.
I've rewritten the section to address your concerns (20 April 2023 Sphilbrick talk contribs 7,185 bytes −1,371 Reverted good faith edits by GreyStar456 (talk): Copyright issue re https://www.globalbankingandfinance.com/digital-banking-trends-of-2020/). Best wishes, GreyStar456 (talk) 11:18, 4 July 2023 (UTC)
- Thanks S Philbrick(Talk) 19:16, 4 July 2023 (UTC)
Ways to improve The Imaginarium Studios
Hello, Sphilbrick,
Thank you for creating The Imaginarium Studios.
I have tagged the page as having some issues to fix, as a part of our page curation process and note that:
Please add sources in order to prove the notability of this company.
The tags can be removed by you or another editor once the issues they mention are addressed. If you have questions, leave a comment here and begin it with {{Re|Wikieditor019}}. Remember to sign your reply with ~~~~. For broader editing help, please visit the Teahouse.
Delivered via the Page Curation tool, on behalf of the reviewer.
Thanks, Wikieditor019 (Talk to me) 19:32, 16 July 2023 (UTC)
- PLEASE IGNORE THIS - The reviewer tool marked you as creator. Sorry. Thanks, Wikieditor019 (Talk to me) 19:33, 16 July 2023 (UTC)
- I guess technically I was, but as you have realized, not really. S Philbrick(Talk) 19:35, 16 July 2023 (UTC)
Women in Red 8th Anniversary
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Women in Red 8th Anniversary |
| In July 2015 around 15.5% of the English Wikipedia's biographies were about women. As of July 2023, 19.61% of the English Wikipedia's biographies are about women. That's a lot of biographies created in the effort to close the gender gap. Happy 8th Anniversary! Join us for some virtual cake and add comments or memories and please keep on editing to close the gap! |
--Lajmmoore (talk) 11:02, 18 July 2023 (UTC) via MassMessaging
Books & Bytes – Issue 57
The Wikipedia Library: Books & Bytes
Issue 57, May – June 2023
- Suggestion improvements
- Favorite collections tips
- Spotlight: Promoting Nigerian Books and Authors
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Women in Red August 2023
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Administrators' newsletter – August 2023
News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2023).
Administrator changes
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Technical news
- The tag filter on Special:NewPages and revision history pages can now be inverted. This allows hiding edits made by automated tools. (T334338)
- Special:BlockedExternalDomains is a new tool that allows easier blocking of plain domains (and their subdomains). This is more easily searchable and is faster for the software to use than the existing MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. It does not support regex (for complex cases), URL path-matching, or the MediaWiki:Spam-whitelist. (T337431)
Arbitration
- The arbitration cases named Scottywong and AlisonW closed 10 July and 16 July respectively.
- The SmallCat dispute arbitration case is in the workshop phase.
September 2023 at Women in Red
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Administrators' newsletter – September 2023
News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2023).
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Guideline and policy news
- Following an RfC, TFAs will be automatically semi-protected the day before it is on the main page and through the day after.
- A discussion at WP:VPP about revision deletion and oversight for dead names found that
[s]ysops can choose to use revdel if, in their view, it's the right tool for this situation, and they need not default to oversight. But oversight could well be right where there's a particularly high risk to the person. Use your judgment
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Technical news
- Special:Contributions now shows the user's local edit count and the account's creation date. (T324166)
Arbitration
- The SmallCat dispute case has closed. As part of the final decision, editors participating in XfD have been reminded to be careful about forming
local consensus which may or may not reflect the broader community consensus
. Regular closers of XfD forums were also encouraged tonote when broader community discussion, or changes to policies and guidelines, would be helpful
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Miscellaneous
- Tech tip: The "Browse history interactively" banner shown at the top of Special:Diff can be used to easily look through a history, assemble composite diffs, or find out what archive something wound up in.
will solv
thanks
for the reminder - always good to see the response - appreciated. JarrahTree 13:13, 4 September 2023 (UTC)
thanks also for the truck stop issue - wow getting a head around the fit/misfit issues -
I think I will sign off for the night... JarrahTree 13:40, 4 September 2023 (UTC)
Copyright Notice
I was working on the article Melody (2023 film) to add details as it has been selected to be in 2024 Oscars, I have added Screen Daily as a source to try to use credible sources. However my edits just gone puff! I cannot even see them even if there was a copyright violation (which was/is not my intention) please let me understand it better and create an edit that just point to the source and not use the wording used in the article. Just want to somehow see my edits that I have spent around 30mins to finalize and improve them or remove the parts that might infringe any respected copyrights.
Please help me learn how can I use the news material in Wikipedia? Farshad (talk) 15:07, 11 September 2023 (UTC)
- Some reports are close calls but not this one. Your added text comprised:
- 98.68% of edit https://www.screendaily.com/news/tajikistan-enters-melody-as-third-ever-submission-in-international-oscar-race/5184811.article S Philbrick(Talk) 16:18, 11 September 2023 (UTC)
- Sorry to be blunt but an overlap percentage in the 50s or above is pretty clear-cut. Get down around 20 to 30% and there might be an argument for cleaning it up and doing a paraphrase but 98.7% is a slamdunk S Philbrick(Talk) 16:20, 11 September 2023 (UTC)
Books & Bytes – Issue 58
The Wikipedia Library: Books & Bytes
Issue 58, July – August 2023
- New partners - De Standaard and Duncker & Humblot
- Tech tip: Filters
- Wikimania presentation
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