User talk:TheresNoTime/old/Archive 5

A kitten for you!

Best intro Mr Sys Admin (impressive!). Thank you for the message on my talk page. Hope all your cats are successful and you get lots of great Wikipedia info from them.

MonyBosworth (talk) 20:13, 7 May 2016 (UTC)

Why thank you @MonyBosworth:! You seem to be getting on well with Wikipedia, but let me know if I can do anything to help -- samtar ^{talk or stalk} 20:17, 7 May 2016 (UTC)

HESFES

Pamelajefferson (talk) 14:16, 8 May 2016 (UTC) 08/0516

HESFES

Hello, I recently read your comments to the above topic. I had recently edited it somewhat as I have actually been involved with the festival for a very long time.May have come across slightly emotional because it was very close to me being a home educator myself and being part of it for many years, and for this year to be cancelled I thought I would add something to the piece, as it was much more than just a festival for home educators it was the original festival. Not really knowing the ins and outs of wikipedia I had taken your criticisms aboard and edited where appropriate., my editing was just recent , it was the largest home ed festival in families attending but that can only be compared to the numbers from all the other festivals which one would only know if they were involved in the home ed community . The website is down atm and would have all that info on it, not entirely sure when it will be running again though, kind regards Pamelajefferson (talk) 14:14, 8 May 2016 (UTC).

Rossan Rottle

Gurmit Singh: Let's play Rossan Rottle! 119.74.222.92 (talk) 08:28, 8 May 2016 (UTC)

(buzzer) No, it is not. You lose all your winnings and you play Rossan Rottle with one drop zone. 119.74.222.92 (talk) 08:29, 8 May 2016 (UTC)

Perhaps it would be better served to create a draft called (for example) Draft:Rossan Rottle? Instead of editing Russian Roulette (game show) -- samtar ^{talk or stalk} 08:30, 8 May 2016 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #208

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Past: OpenTechSummit

    

    slides for SPARQL intro at OpenTechSummit

  • Past: CSVConf
  • Past: Subscribe7 (slides)
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Our Main Page now has a section for popular items to show you what is trending on Wikidata based on several people editing an item over the last few days
  • More constraint templates now generate SPARQL links
  • Europeana Art History Challenge is still going on until the end of the month
  • Freebase has been shut down
  • Wikiversity now has access to the data on Wikidata as well
  • The 24,000,000th item was created: Q24000000
  • The ArticlePlaceholder will go live on the first Wikipedias on Wednesday (Esperanto, Haitian Creole, Neapolitan Wikipedia)
  • Quora: Why isn't Wikimedia Commons using structured data via Wikidata?
  • Newest trend on Twitter: annotating books with Wikidata statements ;-)
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: flower color, Megogo ID, via, Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature ID, Belgian Football ID, by-product of, by-product, cardinality of this set, Yandex.Music album ID, Sherdog ID, appears in the heritage monument list, HowLongToBeat identifier, ESR station code, P-number, mouthpiece, MathWorld identifier, PGA Tour ID, LPGA Tour ID, Australasian Pollen and Spore Atlas Code, wavelength, molar volume, vibration, goratings ID, International Sailing Federation ID, Wikidata time precision, fleet or registration number, FIVB beach volleyball player ID, Beach Volleyball Database ID, BVMC person ID
  • Query examples: most frequent occupations without a label in a given language, map of places of birth of economists (source), map of all the paintings for which we know a location with the count per location (source), scientists who have worked together but whose Erdős numbers don’t reflect that (source), members of the French National Assembly born out of France (source), mathematical proofs (source), items that depict most things (source)
• Development
  • Finished remaining blockers for deploying the ArticlePlaceholder on the first Wikipedias
  • More work on initial Commons prototype
  • Further work on textual representation of SPARQL queries to allow you to read/edit more of an existing query without having to touch SPARQL
  • Show label instead of URI for globes in coordinate diffs - thanks Ricordisamoa! (phabricator:T110193)
  • Improve recent changes entries formatting on Wikipedia and co (phabricator:T52893)
  • No longer showing a restore link for inaccessible revdel'ed entity revisions - thanks Matěj! (phabricator:T55496)
  • Investigated and worked around issues with the suggestions for new statements - needs more work (phabricator:T132839)
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

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Please comment on Talk:MMR vaccine controversy

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Adding references to Trout Brook, Holden, MA

Thanks for pointers. I have four references and one photo to add. I'm just reading/learning about how to add for any reference to "LaVeyan". A simple search comes up with no matches.

Will the Church of Scientology be required to start qualifying its name as Hubbardian Scientology when another version of it appears? Wikipedia loses credibility when new religions are allowed to change the names of existing ones to differentiate themselves.

Gene Lavergne (talk) 18:01, 28 May 2016 (UTC)OperaQ

Hi Operaq, thanks for your message - the Church of Satan was founded by Anton Szandor LaVey, and bases it's belief system on that of the The Satanic Bible. On Wikipedia, and I dare say elsewhere, a follower of Satanism which adheres to LaVey's teachings would be known as an LaVeyan Satanist. The term is recognized by the Church, as they believe those which follow any other name of Satanism are merely "psudo-satanists" -- samtar ^{talk or stalk} 18:13, 28 May 2016 (UTC)

You state the term "LaVeyan Satanist" is recognized by the Church, but you do not cite where The Church of Satan recognizes the term "LaVeyan Satanist"? Gene Lavergne (talk) 18:17, 28 May 2016 (UTC)OperaQ

Tech News: 2016-22

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 is now a standard way to get the target of a redirect page from a Lua module. [1]

Problems

• A new way to handle rollback was introduced. It broke some tools and scripts and was reverted. This will be re-planned after review. [2][3]
• CentralNotice didn't work in some older browsers. This has now been fixed. [4]

Changes this week

• When you edit a file or category page with the visual editor the rest of the page will be shown in its normal place. [5]
• The Translate extension will get an edit summary field. [6]
• A change to the <charinsert> feature could break some user scripts. Contact Bawolff if the "click to insert special characters" links in the edit window break on your wiki. [7][8]
• Elasticsearch will be upgraded on Wikimedia wikis this week. This should not affect you, but if you have problems with the search function this is probably the reason. [9]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 31 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 June. It will be on all wikis from 2 June (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 31 May at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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2016 Wikimedia Foundation Executive Director Search Community Survey

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• Survey, (hosted by Qualtrics)

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The Signpost: 05 June 2016

• News and notes: WMF cuts budget for 2016-17 as scope tightens

• In the media: Jimmy Wales on net neutrality—"It's complicated"—and his $100m fundraising challenge

• Featured content: Overwhelmed ... by pictures

• Traffic report: Pop goes the culture, again.

• Arbitration report: ArbCom case "Gamaliel and others" concludes

• WikiProject report: WikiProject Video Games

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Wikidata weekly summary #212

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Upcoming: OpenData.ch
  • Upcoming: HackHPI
  • Upcoming: ELAG
  • Documentation of the outcomes of WikiCite
  • Wikidata showing chemical properties with references
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • SQID now also shows references for statements and received a whole bunch of other nice features
  • wikidata-cli now has a wdsparql command to work with SPARQL from the command line
  • It seems we already have almost 0.4% of the current population of Finland on Wikidata.
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: exact match, reserve number (Canada), Shakeosphere person ID, mains voltage, HKMDb film ID, relegated, promoted, NIOSHTIC-2 ID
  • Query examples: body of water with the most watercourses ending in it (source), French communes with names ending in ac (source), birthplaces of Europeana280 artists (source), popular eye colors (source)
• Development
  • Fixed the bug where the language selector in Special:NewItem doesn't recognize certain languages (phabricator:T115792)
  • Fixed issues that prevented editing in Internet Explorer (phabricator:T136543)
  • Added new visualization to the query service to visualize graphs like family trees. It is now deployed yet but will come soon.
  • Worked on new visualization for the query service to visualize results with data on different dimensions
  • Improved build and deploy process for the query service. The site should load faster now.
  • Improved the formatting of dates and more in the query service.
  • More fixes to get ArticlePlaceholder ready for the second round of wikis
  • Worked on a fix for the issue where sometimes an old label is shown in the main header of an item (phabricator:T135714)
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
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User talk:Unnat jha

I have already informed in June section. Xx236 (talk) 08:15, 7 June 2016 (UTC)

@Xx236: That you have! My apologies - I didn't see it at all -- samtar ^{talk or stalk} 08:17, 7 June 2016 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2016-23

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

• MathML/SVG is now the default <math> rendering mode on Wikimedia projects. [10][11]

Changes this week

• The history page can tell you if a page on your watchlist was updated since you last visited it. This now works the same way in Vector as in other skins. The change broke local designs on some wikis. This will be fixed this week. [12]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 June. It will be on all wikis from 9 June (calendar).

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Category:Artistic Presentation has been nominated for discussion

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Please comment on Talk:Isaac Barrow

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02:16:16, 11 June 2016 review of submission by 67.9.151.198

• 67.9.151.198 (talk · contribs)
  • Draft:Chris Fuller (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Hi Samtar,

I respectfully disagree with your decision to decline this article and request a re-review. It has been built up by several authors independent of the subject over a long period of time. It meets the Golden Rule guidelines and the Guidelines for the Notability of Creative Professionals (filmmakers, etc.)

The Golden Rule: The subject indeed has significant coverage (multi-page editorials, not Q&A interviews) in reliable sources (NY Times, LA Times, LA Weekly, Hollywood Reporter, Variety, Filmmaker Magazine, IndieWire, the Museum of Modern Art, etc.) that are independent of the topic (of course, the periodicals previously mentioned aren't related to the subject of the article in any way).

Guidelines for the Notability of Creative Professionals:

1) The person is regarded as an important figure or is widely cited by peers or successors.

The subject has been covered as one of the top 100 new filmmakers in a book published by Phaidon Press that was curated by major film festival programmers from around the world. The subject has also been nominated for an IFP Gotham Award. Also, included in the sources are interviews with other filmmakers who cite the work of the subject as an influence and something wholly original.

2) The person is known for originating a significant new concept, theory, or technique.

See the above respond to #1. The filmmaker is known for the originality of his work.

3) The person has created or played a major role in co-creating a significant or well-known work or collective body of work. In addition, such work must have been the subject of an independent book or feature-length film or of multiple independent periodical articles or reviews.

The subject created a work that was deemed significant by the NY Times, the Museum of Modern Art and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. The work, "Loren Cass", has also been the one of the subjects of a book ("Take 100" published by Phaidon Press) and of multiple independent periodical articles and reviews. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.9.151.198 (talk) 02:27, 11 June 2016 (UTC)

4) The person's work (or works) either (a) has become a significant monument, (b) has been a substantial part of a significant exhibition, (c) has won significant critical attention, or (d) is represented within the permanent collections of several notable galleries or museums.

The subject's feature film, "Loren Cass", is known for its originality (a), was featured in an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in NYC (b), has been named a NY Times Critic's Pick and received strong reviews in numerous mainstream publications (c), was nominated for an IFP Gotham Award (c), and is represented at the Museum of Modern Art along with the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (d), linked below for verification.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences: http://catalog.oscars.org/vwebv/search?searchType=7&searchId=224&maxResultsPerPage=50&recCount=50&recPointer=0&resultPointer=0

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Concerned about X-men Xtreme's name

I'm concerned, as there was a comic called Xtreme X-men.ThePlatypusofDoom (Talk) 14:44, 10 June 2016 (UTC)

@ThePlatypusofDoom: Hmmm, what do you have concerns about exactly? :) -- samtar ^{talk or stalk} 14:51, 10 June 2016 (UTC)

My previous name was similar to X-Men Forever. Finnusertop asked me to change my name on my talk page which is still there. I requested a username change. X-Men XtremE 15:17, 10 June 2016 (UTC)

I don't see any major issues with your current username X-Men Xtreme - it could become a slight issue if you began editing X-Men-related articles -- samtar ^{talk or stalk} 16:32, 10 June 2016 (UTC)

@X-Men Xtreme: Look at X-Treme X-Men. ThePlatypusofDoom (Talk) 15:30, 10 June 2016 (UTC)

I can definitely understand your concern ThePlatypusofDoom, but I don't think it would be an issue unless the editor begins editing related articles -- samtar ^{talk or stalk} 16:32, 10 June 2016 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #213

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Discussions
  • New request for comments: Semi-automatic Addition of References to Wikidata Statements - feedback on the Primary Sources Tool
  • Others: Discussion about currency conversion rates, P2893_-_wrong_datatype
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Upcoming: Wikimania - find all the Wikidata things happening here
  • Upcoming: Repo-Fringe 2016
  • Past: HackHPI
  • Past: ELAG (slides)
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Passionate about Wikidata and a great communicator? We are looking to hire a community communications person.
  • Gujarati, Latvian and Nynorsk Wikipedia now have the ArticlePlaceholder as well.
  • Catalan and Polish Wikipedia will show Wikidata descriptions on the mobile website starting soon. More Wikipedias will follow. (phabricator:T135429)
  • Into football/soccer? WikiProject Association football/Euro 2016 could use your help.
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: RateBeer brewery ID, Beer Advocate brewery ID, Molendatabase verdwenen molens ID, fax number, minimum age, Swedish county letter, Eldoblaje Movie ID, publication interval, maximum sustained winds, day of week, Skype, UMLS CUI, FamilySearch ID
  • Query examples: Eiffel Tower in art (source), popular surnames among humans (source), popular surnames among fictional characters (source), average lifespan by occupation (source), German breweries (source), years with 3 popes (source), people who died by burning - on a timeline (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: Lighthouses, Roller Coasters
• Development
  • Worked on creating mediainfo entities on demand when a file is viewed that doesn't have an associated mediainfo entity yet. This is needed for structured data support for Commons.
  • Worked on making it possible to embed query results in other websites. You can get a preview at https://jonaskress.github.io
  • Added timeline as a possible visualization for the query service.
  • Investigated issues with downloading query result sets in Safari.
  • Got ArticlePlaceholder ready for the second round of Wikipedias.
  • Fixed bug where map wasn't enabled as a possible visualization for queries with cooridnates.
• You can soon specify the color of the bubbles in a bubble chart visualization. (phabricator:T137061)
  • Fixed a bug with terms sometimes not showing up, language fallback not working correctly in Lua modules and connection to master database
  • Fixed a bug with URL encoding in the query service.
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
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  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
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Tech News: 2016-24

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

• Wikimedia wikis now use AuthManager. If you have new problems related to logging in or being logged in, report them. [13]
• Visiting Special:Notifications doesn't automatically mark notifications as read anymore. You can go between read, unread or all notifications on Special:Notifications. Notifications on Special:Notifications are grouped by day. You can mark every daily group as read individually. Notifications are displayed by groups of 50 on Special:Notifications and you can find former notifications by using navigation arrows. [14][15][16][17]

Changes this week

• You can filter user contributions to hide minor edits. [18]
• It will be easier to edit galleries with the visual editor. [19]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 June. It will be on all wikis from 16 June (calendar).

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The Signpost: 15 June 2016

• News and notes: Clarifications on status and compensation of outgoing executive directors Sue Gardner and Lila Tretikov

• Special report: Wikiversity Journal—A new user group

• Featured content: From the crème de la crème

• In the media: Biography disputes; Craig Newmark donation; PR editing

• Op-ed: Commons Picture of the Year; Wikidata licensing

• Traffic report: Another one with sports; Knockout, brief candle

• Blog: Why I proofread poetry at Wikisource

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Hi, Sam

1. Do u receive spam from wikipedians on mail
2. If u see my talk in the welcome box I have a yellow box "page archives" The space between the bottom of this yellow box and bottom of the blue box (inside which it is) is a lot. Can u reduce it somehow. (The bottom of yellow box and bottom of blue box have a lot of space in between that needs to be reduced
3. Can u pls add that Interwiki map also to my talk page or here
4. If i want to make something on my talk collapsible how do i do it
5. How do I make a message appear on editing my talk page as ur appaers (the Kitten message in ur case)

VarunFEB2003 (talk • contribs) 09:37, 15 June 2016 (UTC)

@VarunFEB2003:

1. Nope, never :)
2. Done - how does that look?
3. Give me a sec to find all of it again :)
4. {{collapse top}} and {{collapse bottom}}
5. Next to "view history" on a user's talk page, do you see a little heart? If you click on that it'll walk you through it

-- samtar ^{talk or stalk} 09:48, 15 June 2016 (UTC)

No no I am asking sthing diff when I click Edit source on ur talk page and the edit window opens there is a box above the edit window saying a message about Working together blah..blah with a pic of kittens. How do I get such a message on my talk page --VarunFEB2003 (talk • contribs) 11:06, 15 June 2016 (UTC)

Thnx for all other help but could u add that Interwiki map from ur user page to my talk page pls thanks--VarunFEB2003 (talk • contribs) 11:06, 15 June 2016 (UTC)

Ah right! You're looking at my edit notice - see this on how to create one. I'll grab that interwiki map in a moment -- samtar ^{talk or stalk} 11:08, 15 June 2016 (UTC)

Yeah righto and thnx but how do I view a list of all subpages I have VarunFEB2003 (talk • contribs) 11:11, 15 June 2016 (UTC)

You can use Special:PrefixIndex - example: Special:PrefixIndex/User_talk:VarunFEB2003/ -- samtar ^{talk or stalk} 11:12, 15 June 2016 (UTC)

Thanks VarunFEB2003 (talk • contribs) 11:28, 15 June 2016 (UTC)

Interwiki map pls Samtar help me pls VarunFEB2003 (talk • contribs) 11:32, 15 June 2016 (UTC)

@VarunFEB2003: I have other things to do as well, both on-wiki and elsewhere - see if you can work it out yourself and I'll check by later if you still need help with it -- samtar ^{talk or stalk} 11:36, 15 June 2016 (UTC)

Oh sorry if i troubled u much thnx a lot I got sthing VarunFEB2003 (talk • contribs) 11:41, 15 June 2016 (UTC)

Not a problem just remember not to rush as there's no deadline! -- samtar ^{talk or stalk} 11:42, 15 June 2016 (UTC)

Help needed!

Hi Sam sorry to diturb u again,

1. My interwiki map is auto placed on top of page how can I place it somewhere else in my page.
2. I wanted to suggest something for the main page's talk where do I do it.
3. How can I see who has created an article
4. I had 2 more queries but they just slipped from myy mind I'll ask them later perhaps.

Thanks and Sorry again VarunFEB2003 (talk • contribs) 07:50, 16 June 2016 (UTC)

@VarunFEB2003:

1. I'm not sure I'm afraid, I believe it was originally coded by another editor and I only copied it. It is likely that the code places it there.
2. Depending on the suggestion, you could leave a message at Talk:Main Page?
3. If you open the "page info" of an article (the button is on the left hand side under Interaction) you'll see a page like this - under Edit history you will see "Page creator"

-- samtar ^{talk or stalk} 08:07, 16 June 2016 (UTC)

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hello samtar

A ol' fashioned sock n' block

I want to help for vandalism.ottomans are persianized according to "List of iranian dynasties and countries" article.can you help. HistoryofTurks (talk) 17:15, 15 June 2016 (UTC) @HistoryofTurks: Sure What article are you referring to exactly? -- samtar talk or stalk 17:16, 15 June 2016 (UTC) This List of Iranian dynasties and countries :) HistoryofTurks (talk) 17:17, 15 June 2016 (UTC) Gotcha - I've just edited the link to make it into a wikilink. So, I've just had a look through the history - what seems to be the issue? :) -- samtar talk or stalk 17:20, 15 June 2016 (UTC) Perhaps? GABgab 17:21, 15 June 2016 (UTC) Yep. The fact that HistoryofTurks was until reently edit-warring as an IP and then created this account when it got semi-protected brilliant. Muffled Pocketed 17:22, 15 June 2016 (UTC) Ah! Too late. Muffled Pocketed 17:23, 15 June 2016 (UTC)  Self-trout turns out I'm a little too trusting then.. -- samtar talk or stalk 17:26, 15 June 2016 (UTC) Samtar why you blocked me.i want to only help you.if you dont want to help me you can say it !  :○( TurşuBidonu (talk) 17:37, 15 June 2016 (UTC) And please dont ban me TurşuBidonu (talk) 17:38, 15 June 2016 (UTC) I may have missed out the first time, but now you're being a little too obvious - @Widr: could you mop up if you have a mo? -- samtar talk or stalk 17:43, 15 June 2016 (UTC) This time I wasn't too late, luckily. ;-) Widr (talk) 17:46, 15 June 2016 (UTC) Thank you Widr -- samtar talk or stalk 17:56, 15 June 2016 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:Smartbond

The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Talk:Smartbond. Legobot (talk) 04:24, 19 June 2016 (UTC)

Help needed on 5 queries

1. How do I change my status present on my userpage.
2. What and who is a talk page stalker
3. How do I create my own userbox
4. How do I create my own topicon
5. How can I create a Unified login for all wikimedia projects so that i use this accnt only for all
6. I am beginning to create my first article could u help me. ( its not in sandbox or a subpage of mine. Ill tell u in a hurry now)
7. What is Dev and scripts (Its in ur navig. tab)

There was one more I forgot :) Ill ask later Thanks and regards --VarunFEB2003 (talk • contribs) 15:17, 17 June 2016 (UTC)

(talk page watcher) This is what the WP:TEAHOUSE is for. Why not try that? It's made for your very purpose. _Muffled ^Pocketed 15:22, 17 June 2016 (UTC)

I know that but I wanted to ask him as help desk and teahouse dont produce satisfactory respnses--VarunFEB2003 (talk • contribs) 15:35, 17 June 2016 (UTC)

@VarunFEB2003:

1. Set up at User:VarunFEB2003/status

2. Fortuna has kind of demonstrated that quite well - a talk page stalker/watcher is an editor who has your talk page on their watchlist, and will often reply to messages/remove vandalism from your talk page.

3 & 4. {{userbox}} and {{topicon}}

5. Wikipedia:Unified login

6. I would read Your first article and then use the article wizard

7. As I'm a programmer/sysadmin in real life, I develop user scripts (among other things, such as the Wikipedia Adventure)

-- samtar ^{talk or stalk} 16:51, 17 June 2016 (UTC)

Thanks a lot VarunFEB2003 (talk • contribs) 14:47, 18 June 2016 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Windows Push Notification Service

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Hey Sam

Thanks for all the help u gave me till date. I have done the talk thing of mine so you can leave it. For Vandalism I shall seek DatGuy. But I didnt understand much about adoption. Are trainers at CVU and adopters different. If a user is trained by someone else can he be adopted by someone else. If yes could u adopt me I want a mentor who can help me here at Wikipedia. --VarunFEB2003 (talk • contribs) 07:54, 17 June 2016 (UTC)

@VarunFEB2003: Technically CVU and adoption are different things, however it would be best for DatGuy to mentor you whilst you're taking part in CVU, as I imagine a lot of the content is the same. You're always more than welcome to drop by here with any questions though, and I tend to reply pretty quick when online -- samtar ^{talk or stalk} 07:56, 17 June 2016 (UTC)

Ok thanks a lot--VarunFEB2003 (talk • contribs) 08:05, 17 June 2016 (UTC)

Sorry Sam I just remembered

1. File:My Talk.png is how I want my talk page section to look can u pls make it like that. I'd be very grateful if u help me Thanks and regards. I added the search box a bit later after the image was created so dont remove that but if u can pls reduce the space between both the yellow boxes(archive and search box)
2. How can I create my own userbox. VarunFEB2003 (talk • contribs) 08:36, 16 June 2016 (UTC)
3. I created 2 extra subpages how do I delete them

I just made a slight edit to the page navigator on ur subpage useful tools. the tab of useful tools wasnt white when active due to a coding mistake so I corrected that

VarunFEB2003 (talk • contribs) 08:39, 16 June 2016 (UTC)

Hi again VarunFEB2003:

1. I'll take a look and see what I can do :)
2. The {{userbox}} template should help you get started
3. You can mark them with the G7 CSD tag or just ask an admin

Ciao -- samtar ^{talk or stalk} 17:38, 16 June 2016 (UTC)

!header

Hello. I saw you had reverted my edits on User talk:Bbb23. I was only asking for help. I did not blank the page did I?! In any case will you help me? Please. I wouldn't ask unless I was desperate. 89.243.33.153 (talk) 17:34, 17 June 2016 (UTC)

IP, genuinely, if I could help I would, but currently you're evading a block. Now, I don't know the history behind said block (nor do I have time to look into it I'm afraid) but I can imagine it was for a good reason. -- samtar ^{talk or stalk} 17:37, 17 June 2016 (UTC)

That being said, the only help I can offer you is a link to Wikipedia:Guide to appealing blocks -- samtar ^{talk or stalk} 17:39, 17 June 2016 (UTC)

Takes a bit more than that. The person in question has been community banned. Favonian (talk) 17:41, 17 June 2016 (UTC)

Thanks for the backstory Favonian, it's a real but justified shame -- samtar ^{talk or stalk} 17:47, 17 June 2016 (UTC)

See their talk page for an unblock request from a few months ago where they were pointed to UTRS for the unblock. Their talk page overall was an interesting read - seems nice but very determined to do things their way, consensus otherwise be damned. Hard to see how that's changed. Ravensfire (talk) 18:09, 17 June 2016 (UTC)

(edit conflict) I'll consider it for my next bout of light bedtime reading.. I had no doubts that the admins here have listened, considered unblock requests and provided further appeal methods - it's just always a shame when you read what at least sounds like a sincere request from one of these banned editors. Perhaps I'm just soft? -- samtar ^{talk or stalk} 18:15, 17 June 2016 (UTC)

It hasn't. He tries to evade his block (using IPs) several times a week, screaming at people who revert him. Favonian (talk) 18:12, 17 June 2016 (UTC)

In that case, perhaps not so sincere -- samtar ^{talk or stalk} 18:16, 17 June 2016 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Windows Push Notification Service

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(talk page stalker) Gratz! Dat Guy^Talk_Contribs 06:04, 14 June 2016 (UTC)

Adoption Request

I am interested in mentors hip. Even though I have several hundred edits now, I'm still not quite perfect and have been blocked before. Could you please adopt me to try and improve myself and my skills. Reply soon and thanks. Pablothepenguin (talk) 17:13, 16 June 2016 (UTC)

Hi Pablothepenguin - how're you? I'd be more than happy to mentor you Give me 10 minutes or so to look into your contributions and I'll ping you here. In the meantime, could you answer the following questions?

Answered questions

What is your favorite "thing" to do on Wikipedia? (eg. content editing, anti-vandalism etc) What is your least favorite "thing" to do? In your own words, why were you blocked previously? In which country do you live (optional)? Hopefully they don't take too long to answer! Speak to you in a moment -- samtar talk or stalk 17:36, 16 June 2016 (UTC) @Pablothepenguin: Okay, checked your contribs - could you answer the above, along with 'Do you understand what you did wrong to cause your blocks?' -- samtar talk or stalk 18:00, 16 June 2016 (UTC) Here are my answers: My favourite hing is updating articles which are local to me, and also removing vandalism sometimes My least favourite is probably those unblock requests, it it humiliating I was blocked for violating the three revert rule and undoing people's edits. It was mainly to do with Scottish articles Scotland I do understand what is wrong with what I did, I broke the three revert rule and was quite rude Pablothepenguin (talk) 18:47, 16 June 2016 (UTC)

Awesome if you head over to User:Samtar/adopt/Pablothepenguin I have one last question -- samtar ^{talk or stalk} 19:04, 16 June 2016 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #214

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Upcoming: Wikimania
  • Upcoming: WikiConvention francophone
  • Past: GLAM Wiki Boot Camp
  • Past: Silicon Mountain Conf
  • Past: OpenData.ch
  • Past: Semantic Web + Wikidata
  • Wikidata beim Hackathon HackHPI in Potsdam
  • Data Ex Machina
  • Op-ed in the Wikipedia Signpost regarding Wikidata licensing
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • ORES is not available as a beta feature to make it easier to find bad edits
  • New user script to show the main image of an item is ready for testing
  • Into football/soccer? WikiProject Association football/Euro 2016 could use your help.
  • Want to see Wikidata changes in the history of a Wikipedia article? There is a user script that needs your feedback.
  • We are looking for people who work on list articles.
  • You can test a gadget that lets you easily run a query for more items with the same statement.
  • Language fallback is now happening on Wikipedia and co
  • Maps are now enabled on Wikidata
  • First beta release of StrepHit
• Did you know?
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  • Query examples: colors of chemical compounds (source), map of braodway venues (source), sculptures by Max Bill (source), works of art where the name might be a rhyme (source), works of art where the title is an alliteration (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: Professional Wrestling
  • ORDER BY RAND() LIMIT 100 can avoid timeouts on Wikidata Query Service (source)
• Development
  • Worked on making it easier to add new query examples right from the query service by just clicking a button. There are some technical issues with it still though. Will take a while to sort through.
  • More work on creating new Media-Info entities (the equivalent of item for media file data) on the fly (phabricator:T134259)
  • Fixed a but with suggestions not showing up (phabricator:T138059)
  • Improved display of query examples (phabricator:T137589) and cleaned them up
  • Improved database access (phabricator:T137539)
  • Fixed a but with the rank selector (phabricator:T109583)
  • Started concept work for automated list generation
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