User talk:Disavian/Archive 21
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The Signpost: 02 April 2014
- WikiProject report: Deutschland in English
- Special report: On the cusp of the Wikimedia Conference
- Featured content: April Fools
- Traffic report: Regressing to the mean
The Signpost: 09 April 2014
- News and notes: Round 2 of FDC funding open to public comments
- WikiProject report: WikiProject Law
- Special report: Community mourns passing of Adrianne Wadewitz
- Traffic report: Conquest of the Couch Potatoes
- Featured content: Snow heater and Ash sweep
The Signpost: 23 April 2014
- Special report: 2014 Wikimedia Conference—what is the impact?
- News and notes: Wikimedian passes away
- WikiProject_report: To the altar—Catholicism
- Wikimania: Winning bid announced for 2015
- Traffic report: Reflecting in Gethsemane
- Featured content: There was I, waiting at the church
The Signpost: 30 April 2014
- News and notes: WMF's draft annual plan turns indigestible as an FDC proposal
- Traffic report: Going to the Doggs
- Breaking: The Foundation's new executive director
- WikiProject report: Genetics
- Interview: Wikipedia in the Peabody Essex Museum
- Featured content: Browsing behaviours
- Recent research: Wikipedia predicts flu more accurately than Google
The Signpost: 07 May 2014
- Traffic report: TMZedia
- WikiCup: 2014 WikiCup enters round three
- In the media: Google and the flu; Adrianne
- WikiProject report: Singing with Eurovision
- Featured content: Wikipedia at the Rijksmuseum
Possibly unfree File:George Griffin Statue Georgia Tech.jpg
A file that you uploaded or altered, File:George Griffin Statue Georgia Tech.jpg, has been listed at Wikipedia:Possibly unfree files because its copyright status is unclear or disputed. If the file's copyright status cannot be verified, it may be deleted. You may find more information on the file description page. You are welcome to add comments to its entry at the discussion if you object to the listing for any reason. Thank you. Sfan00 IMG (talk) 23:21, 12 May 2014 (UTC)
The Signpost: 14 May 2014
- Investigative report: Hong Kong's Wikimania 2013—failure to produce financial statement raises questions of probity
- WikiProject report: Relaxing in Puerto Rico
- Featured content: On the rocks
- Traffic report: Eurovision, Google Doodles, Mothers, and 5 May
- Technology report: Technology report needs editor, Media Viewer offers a new look
I wanted to let you know that I've deleted File:George Griffin Statue Georgia Tech.jpg due to the deletion discussion at WP:PUF. On En.WP we do have to be concerned with Freedom of Panorama (FoP) because quite simply, the statue is copyright owned by the owner. If we have photos of it, they are technically copyright violations. We cannot host copyright violations. This being the case, there are situations where we can keep images of copyright statues. The image can be tagged as free, but it would still require a non-free rationale for the statue. (See File:King of Kings Statue.jpg for a free photo, but not-free statue). Being that we would treat the file as non-free, it must meet all of the requirements of WP:NFCC. In its current use, the statue photo was used for identification, which is not acceptable per WP:NFCC (although a non-free photo would be, as a historical photo). If there were critical commentary (WP:NFCC#8) about the statue itself (which was only mentioned in the caption) probably in the legacy section that required the need for the average reader to see the statue to understand that part of the article, we could have the image. I know this is confusing and it is a lot of information. If you understand and can get the sourced commentary added, let me know (on my talk page or ping me) and I will restore the image myself. If you have questions, please don't hesitate to reach out to me. Copyright is a messy thing. I dealt with the same issue you are going through over a year ago with the King of Kings Statue image. Cheers, TLSuda (talk) 01:26, 21 May 2014 (UTC)
The Signpost: 21 May 2014
- News and notes: "Crisis" over Wikimedia Germany's palace revolution
- Featured content: Staggering number of featured articles
- Traffic report: Doodles' dawn
Survey for editors who mentor newcomer
Dear Wikipedia Ambassador,
I am seeking input on your experience as a mentor to new Wikipedians. This survey is designed to provide insight for the development of a new mentorship support tool on Wikipedia. If you have a moment, please take this survey, it should not take more than 10 minutes of your time to complete.
https://syracuseuniversity.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_4V2SSrhU2NFOVAV
Also, if you are able to, I would greatly appreciate it if you would send the following survey to the mentee you worked with:
https://syracuseuniversity.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_4V1quUdMZ1By3Ah
Thank you in advance for your participation, Gabriel Mugar 13:33, 25 May 2014 (UTC)
The Signpost: 28 May 2014
- News and notes: The English Wikipedia's second featured-article centurion; wiki inventor interviewed on video
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- Traffic report: Get fitted for flipflops and floppy hats
- Recent research: Predicting which article you will edit next
The Signpost: 04 June 2014
- News and notes: Two new affiliate-selected trustees
- Featured content: Ye stately homes of England
- In the media: Reliable or not, doctors use Wikipedia
- Traffic report: Autumn in summer
The Signpost: 11 June 2014
- News and notes: PR agencies commit to ethical interactions with Wikipedia
- Traffic report: The week the wired went weird
- Paid editing: Does Wikipedia Pay? The Moderator: William Beutler
- Special report: Questions raised over secret voting for WMF trustees
- Featured content: Politics, ships, art, and cyclones
The Signpost: 18 June 2014
- News and notes: With paid advocacy in its sights, the Wikimedia Foundation amends their terms of use
- Featured content: Worming our way to featured picture
- Special report: Wikimedia Bangladesh: a chapter's five-year journey
- Traffic report: You can't dethrone Thrones
- WikiProject report: Visiting the city
Template:GT deletion has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Ricky81682 (talk) 21:49, 28 June 2014 (UTC)
The Signpost: 25 June 2014
- News and notes: US National Archives enshrines Wikipedia in Open Government Plan
- Traffic report: Fake war, or real sport?
- Exclusive: "We need to be true to who we are": Foundation's new executive director speaks to the Signpost
- Discussion report: Media Viewer, old HTML tags
- Featured content: Showing our Wörth
- WikiProject report: The world where dreams come true
- Recent research: Power users and diversity in WikiProjects
The Signpost: 02 July 2014
- In the media: Wiki Education; medical content; PR firms
- Traffic report: The Cup runneth over... and over.
- News and notes: Wikimedia Israel receives Roaring Lion award
- Featured content: Ship-shape
- WikiProject report: Indigenous Peoples of North America
- Technology report: In memoriam: the Toolserver (2005–14)
The Signpost: 09 July 2014
- Special report: Wikimania 2014—what will it cost?
- Wikimedia in education: Exploring the United States and Canada with LiAnna Davis
- Featured content: Three cheers for featured pictures!
- News and notes: Echoes of the past haunt new conflict over tech initiative
- Traffic report: World Cup, Tim Howard rule the week
The Signpost: 16 July 2014
- Special report: $10 million lawsuit against Wikipedia editors withdrawn, but plaintiff intends to refile
- Traffic report: World Cup dominates for another week
- Wikimedia in education: Serbia takes the stage with Filip Maljkovic
- Featured content: The Island with the Golden Gun
The Signpost: 23 July 2014
- Wikimedia in education: Education program gaining momentum in Israel
- Traffic report: The World Cup hangs on, though tragedies seek to replace it
- News and notes: Institutional media uploads to Commons get a bit easier
- Featured content: Why, they're plum identical!
Template:Film-fiction has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. George Ho (talk) 05:53, 29 July 2014 (UTC)
The Signpost: 30 July 2014
- Book review: Knowledge or unreality?
- Recent research: Shifting values in the paid content debate
- News and notes: How many more hoaxes will Wikipedia find?
- Wikimedia in education: Success in Egypt and the Arab World
- Traffic report: Doom and gloom vs. the power of Reddit
- Featured content: Skeletons and Skeltons
The Signpost: 06 August 2014
- Technology report: A technologist's Wikimania preview
- Traffic report: Ebola
- Featured content: Bottoms, asses, and the fairies that love them
- Wikimedia in education: Leading universities educate with Wikipedia in Mexico
The Signpost: 13 August 2014
- Special report: Twitter bots catalogue government edits to Wikipedia
- Traffic report: Disease, decimation and distraction
- Wikimedia in education: Global Education: WMF's Perspective
- Wikimania: Promised the moon, settled for the stars
- News and notes: Media Viewer controversy spreads to German Wikipedia
- In the media: Monkey selfie, net neutrality, and hoaxes
- Featured content: Cambridge got a lot of attention this week
The Signpost: 20 August 2014
- Traffic report: Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero
- WikiProject report: Bats and gloves
- Op-ed: A new metric for Wikimedia
- Featured content: English Wikipedia departs for Japan
P. J. Daniels photo
You uploaded File:PJ Daniels.jpg seven years ago or so. Do you still have contact with the photographer? I'm not sure the rationale given is enough these days. There should be an OTRS ticket made I believe that will formally track the permission. Also, the author requested attribution in the caption whenever the image is used, and that's not typically how images are attributed, so I don't know if that changes the author's thoughts on releasing the copyright. Thanks. — X96lee15 (talk) 12:32, 25 August 2014 (UTC)
- Don't worry about the caption bit. Looks like his website moved, I updated that on the photo. His email is info@jamiehowell.net. Disavian (talk) 02:34, 26 August 2014 (UTC)
- Still think an OTRS ticket is needed. — X96lee15 (talk) 03:32, 26 August 2014 (UTC)
Four "missing" GT All-Americans
Hey, Andrew. As part of a clean-up project for WikiProject College football, I recently created articles for four of your former Georgia Tech football players -- Ashel Day, Phil Tinsley, Jim Breland and Rock Perdoni. All four were consensus All-Americans, which is a Big Deal in college football, as I'm sure you know. I discovered your GT to-do list when I was double-checking the links for the new articles, and thought I would give you a head's up. BTW, there's an interesting story about Ashel "Bum" Day, if you can help piece it together: he was a consensus All-American under John Heisman in 1918, but finished his football career at UGA in 1920 and 1921, where he was All-Southern. Day was the first Southern player ever selected to Walter Camp's first team, which was a Very Big Deal at the time. Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 17:20, 28 August 2014 (UTC)
- Thanks for working on that! I haven't had much free time to devote to Wikipedia as of late, but I'm around every now and then. :) Disavian (talk) 23:07, 15 September 2014 (UTC)
- Let me know if you ever want to upgrade the GT All-Americans in a tag-team effort some weekend. It's easier when you have the GT media guide and the NCAA records book open, and you can find a lot of commonality among players from the same university. I'm a Gator alumnus, but I live in Atlanta now and I enjoy working on the old-timey GT and UGA players because it's an education in the lore of local Atlanta football. Regards, Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 00:24, 16 September 2014 (UTC)
The Signpost: 27 August 2014
- In the media: Plagiarism and vandalism dominate Wikipedia news
- News and notes: Media Viewer—Wikimedia's emotional roller-coaster
- Traffic report: Viral
- Featured content: Cheats at Featured Pictures!
The Signpost: 03 September 2014
- Arbitration report: Media viewer case is suspended
- Featured content: 1882 × 5 in gold, and thruppence more
- Traffic report: Holding Pattern
- WikiProject report: Gray's Anatomy (v. 2)
The Signpost: 10 September 2014
- Traffic report: Refuge in celebrity
- Featured content: The louse and the fish's tongue
- WikiProject report: Checking that everything's all right
The Signpost: 17 September 2014
- WikiProject report: A trip up north to Scotland
- News and notes: Wikipedia's traffic statistics are off by nearly one-third
- Traffic report: Tolstoy leads a varied pack
- Featured content: Which is not like the others?
Geographic locations
Hello — I noticed that you removed the tag asking for geographic coordinates from the article Georgia Institute of Technology College of Engineering because the College of Engineering is not all in one building. Please excuse me if you already know all of this, but Wikipedia coordinates aren't limited to single points, they can also indicate areas; an entire campus can have valid and legitimate coordinates. Notice that, moving up in scale from the College of Engineering, all of the wider-scope articles do have coordinates:
Ideally, each of those should also include a scale or radius, a general indication of how large an area is meant to be indicated. So far, the article for Georgia does include an explicit scale, the article for Atlanta uses an implicit scale, and the article for the South-east US lacks a correct scale. The article for the College of Engineering would, ideally, use a scale appropriate to show the entire Engineering section of the campus, including its various buildings. Given that perspective, do you think it's appropriate to keep the (hidden) category for Atlanta articles without coordinates?
Unician ∇ 22:14, 21 September 2014 (UTC)
- My mistake. I don't know how to provide that in the template, though. For example, you can go to map.gtalumni.org and click the blue checkbox for academic buildings - that's more or less what we're looking at here. Disavian (talk) 22:38, 21 September 2014 (UTC)
The Signpost: 24 September 2014
- Featured content: Oil paintings galore
- Recent research: 99.25% of Wikipedia birthdates accurate; focused Wikipedians live longer; merging WordNet, Wikipedia and Wiktionary
- Traffic report: Wikipedia watches the referendum in Scotland
- WikiProject report: GAN reviewers take note: competition time
- Arbitration report: Banning Policy, Gender Gap, and Waldorf education
Nomination of Laurent Clerc Award for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Laurent Clerc Award is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.
The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Laurent Clerc Award until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.
Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Clarityfiend (talk) 04:59, 2 October 2014 (UTC)
The Signpost: 01 October 2014
- From the editor: The Signpost needs your help
- Dispatches: Let's get serious about plagiarism
- WikiProject report: Animals, farms, forests, USDA? It must be WikiProject Agriculture
- Traffic report: Shanah Tovah
- Featured content: Brothers at War
The Signpost: 08 October 2014
- In the media: Opposition research firm blocked; Australian bushfires
- Featured content: From a wordless novel to a coat of arms via New York City
- Traffic report: Panic and denial
- Technology report: HHVM is the greatest thing since sliced bread
The Signpost: 15 October 2014
- Op-ed: Ships—sexist or sexy?
- Arbitration report: One case closed and two opened
- Featured content: Bells ring out at the Temple of the Dragon at Peace
- Technology report: Attempting to parse wikitext
- Traffic report: Now introducing ... mobile data
- WikiProject report: Signpost reaches the Midwest
The Signpost: 22 October 2014
- Featured content: Admiral on deck: a modern Ada Lovelace
- Traffic report: Death, War, Pestilence... Movies and TV
- WikiProject report: De-orphanning articles—a huge task but with a huge team of volunteers to help
The Signpost: 29 October 2014
- Featured content: Go West, young man
- In the media: Wikipedia a trusted source on Ebola; Wikipedia study labeled government waste; football biography goes viral
- Maps tagathon: Find 10,000 digitised maps this weekend
- Traffic report: Ebola, Ultron, and Creepy Articles