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Happy New Year, Rich Farmbrough!

Happy New Year!

Rich Farmbrough,
Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia.
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Some issues with current Wiki Quran articles

https://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Islam#Some_issues_with_the_current_Wikipedia_Quran_articles Koreangauteng (talk) 03:47, 1 January 2020 (UTC)

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Rich Farmbrough,
Have a great 2020 and thanks for your continued contributions to Wikipedia.

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Administrators' newsletter – January 2020

News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2019).

Administrator changes

Dreamy Jazz • Newslinger • Rosguill

Deor • Spartaz • Xeno

Angusmclellan • clpo13 • Edgar181 • Matthewedwards • NCurse

CheckUser changes

Bradv • Casliber • David Fuchs • Maxim • Newyorkbrad • SoWhy • Xeno

Oversight changes

Bradv • Casliber • DGG • David Fuchs • Maxim • Newyorkbrad • SoWhy • Xeno

Someguy1221

Guideline and policy news

• A request for comment asks whether partial blocks should be enabled on the English Wikipedia. If enabled, this functionality would allow administrators to block users from editing specific pages or namespaces, rather than the entire site.
• A proposal asks whether admins who don't use their tools for a significant period of time (e.g. five years) should have the toolset procedurally removed.
• Following a successful RfC, a whitelist is now available for users whose redirects will be autopatrolled by a bot, removing them from the new pages patrol queue. Admins can add such users to Wikipedia:New pages patrol/Redirect whitelist after a discussion following the guidelines at Wikipedia talk:New pages patrol/Redirect whitelist.

Arbitration

• The fourth case on Palestine-Israel articles was closed. The case consolidated all previous remedies under one heading, which should make them easier to understand, apply, and enforce. In particular, the distinction between "primary articles" and "related content" has been clarified, with the former being the entire set of articles whose topic relates to the Arab-Israeli conflict, broadly interpreted rather than reasonably construed.
• Following the 2019 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been appointed to the Arbitration Committee: Beeblebrox, Bradv, Casliber, David Fuchs, DGG, KrakatoaKatie, Maxim, Newyorkbrad, SoWhy, Worm That Turned, Xeno.

Miscellaneous

• This issue marks three full years of the Admin newsletter. Thanks for reading!

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ANI

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Beeblebrox (talk) 19:56, 5 January 2020 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #397

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

• Events
  • New: you can Wikidata-related events in the calendar of Wikimedia Space
  • Upcoming: next Wikidata office hour, January 22nd, 18:00 (UTC+1), on the Wikidata Telegram channel
  • Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in Grenoble, France, January 16th

• Tool of the week
  • Resolver allows you to quickly find an item based on a property+value string pair. It is especially useful for checking whether an external identifier such as a VIAF ID (P214) or Getty AAT ID (P1014) is already in use in Wikidata.

• Did you know?
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    • General datatypes: copyright status as a creator, serving temperature, egg incubation period, member of military unit
    • External identifiers: ZX81 Collection publisher ID, ZX81 Collection ID, DAF ID, Computer Emuzone game ID, console music history ID, Czech cohesion region ID, Czech territorial region ID, deviantArt person ID, EEPS ID, garaph.info game ID, garaph.info group ID, IDFA film ID, Lithuanian Football Encyclopedia player ID, Microworld ID, Mille Anni di Scienza in Italia ID, Movie Walker person ID, Natural Product Atlas ID, NES Cart Database ID, NIPS Proceedings author ID, Nomenclature for Museum Cataloging, Nonfiction ID, portable music history ID, Prague territorial district ID, Projekt Gutenberg-DE ID, PS photographer ID, ScreenScraper company ID, ScreenScraper game ID, ScreenScraper platform ID, SPIE profile ID, The Video Games Museum system ID, Tubi movie ID, Tubi series ID, VBProfiles person ID, Archives Portal Europe ID, DES ID, Bob ID, Australian National Maritime Museum object ID, Australian National Maritime Museum person ID, PersonalData.IO ID, Atlas Obscura identifier, The Digital Local Culture Encyclopedia of Korea ID, The Good Old Days ID, RationalWiki ID, SSNE person ID, AdoroCinema film ID, Museum of Modern Art exhibition ID
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    • General datatypes: literary form, HASC, Stairway To Hell ID, number of reviews or ratings, armament used, equipment used
    • External identifiers: bauhaus.community, LaunchBox Games Database game ID, OpenBibArt ID, LaunchBox Games Database developer ID, Saregama artist ID, openSUSE package, LaunchBox Games Database publisher ID, Orthodox Wiki ID, Wien Geschichte Wiki ID, What is the Apple IIGS? ID, BookBrainz work ID, NMVW id, David Wojnarowicz Knowledge Base ID, FandangoNow ID, CPCWiki ID, Sarvavijnanakosam ID, Punjabipedia ID, Open Churches ID, Apple IIGS France ID
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    • 100 random paintings related to Haarlem (source)
    • Timeline of adaptations of Little Women and actresses who played Jo's character (source)
    • Indian people whose work is entering public domain in 2020 (source)

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
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  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 16:30, 6 January 2020 (UTC)

Porpius Aurelianus

Came across him while stub-sorting. Even with "In use" it's not really fit for mainspace: please either add a source or move it to Draft or your sandbox until you can upgrade it. I can't find a useful online source in a quick Google or I'd have improved it myself. You've edited other stuff since creating this one-liner, so seem to have abandoned it for now. PamD 10:23, 8 January 2020 (UTC)

Thanks for our note, and for stub-sporting, as always. I'm at work, and only making minor edits en passent on other stuff. Saved this because I had to reboot. Doesn't mean it's abandoned. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 12:30, 8 January 2020 (UTC).

I hope you don't mind but I draftified it for now - just move it back when you've had time to add a reference or two. From a less established editor I'd have PRODded it but I thought you'd be upgrading it eventually. Just not yet encyclopedia-worthy. All the best. PamD 14:06, 8 January 2020 (UTC)

Yep, no problem at all. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 16:48, 8 January 2020 (UTC).

Proposed deletion of The Nix

The article The Nix has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

extremely stubby article, no assertion of notability, only one reference.

While all constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, pages may be deleted for any of several reasons.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{proposed deletion/dated}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the page to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. RJFJR (talk) 16:43, 9 January 2020 (UTC)

Renamed

Hi Rich. Can you rename Sukaynah Khan to Draft:Sukynah Khan. Thank You.(39.43.63.221 (talk) 12:31, 10 January 2020 (UTC))

This page does not exist. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 18:09, 11 January 2020 (UTC).

Signature changing

Hi, I noticed you changing some of my signatures without explanation. Please stop or explain. Thanks. ―Mandruss ☎ 01:08, 12 January 2020 (UTC)

Hi, just the "&#8213" to "―", this unicodification is fairly normal, it makes wikisource more readable. I'll stop, per your request unless you tell me you don't really care. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 01:14, 12 January 2020 (UTC).

I'll consider whether it in fact makes the code more readable to code the ambiguous character than to code the unambiguous HTML code for the character. Note that I applied the same reasoning for the telephone symbol (9742), which you didn't change. In the meantime I'd prefer you left my sigs alone as a matter of principle. I appreciate it. ―Mandruss ☎ 01:22, 12 January 2020 (UTC)

You are, of course, welcome. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 01:24, 12 January 2020 (UTC).

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Peter Wang (cadet)

Why are you editing this AfD that was closed almost two years ago? How is this behavior productive? Cullen³²⁸ Let's discuss it 01:45, 12 January 2020 (UTC)

As per this discussion. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 01:55, 12 January 2020 (UTC).

You did not ask "should I do this?" but instead proclaimed "I am doing this". It is clear that the community does not want you doing things like mass editing of two year old closed AfDs. Get consensus for your mass edits first.Cullen³²⁸ Let's discuss it 02:25, 12 January 2020 (UTC)

New Edit Restriction

Rich you are not permitted to make any mass changes to articles, broadly construed, and regardless of editing method, cosmetic or not, without a demonstrable consensus from the community that he is explicitly permitted to do so. Further, you are entirely prohibited from using Auto Wiki Browser or directly making any edits to Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Template redirects or any other page related to the governance and use of automated or semi-automated tools. Any such changes desired must be proposed on the appropriate talk page, and may only be enacted by other parties. This sanction does not replace or nullify other pre-existing sanctions on you, and may be appealed no sooner than one year from the date it was approved by the community. This sanction imposed per this ANI discussion. Please note that you might need to change your monobook.js to ensure you do not violate this restriction. Barkeep49 (talk) 01:49, 12 January 2020 (UTC)

With colleagues like these... All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 01:56, 12 January 2020 (UTC).

I haven't read IH's talk page discussion recently enough to know if there's consensus to make the changes you are but note in this new restriction there must be community consensus for you to perform the change. As there is not that consensus please stop. Barkeep49 (talk) 02:01, 12 January 2020 (UTC)

Oh it seems the restriction is even more stupid than I thought. There is of course no consensus for me, explicitly to do anything. Do we now need a new noticeboard? And how do I get explicit community consensus to post to that noticeboard? All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 02:04, 12 January 2020 (UTC).

You're of course welcome to make changes that don't happen on a scale of 20-30 edits per minute, changing hundreds of pages over short periods. Primefac (talk) 02:06, 12 January 2020 (UTC)

I doubt it. I certainly don't feel very welcome. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 02:09, 12 January 2020 (UTC).

You would definitely be welcome to help out at WP:AFC or WP:NPP; they can always use more help! Primefac (talk) 17:02, 12 January 2020 (UTC)

To be a little more analytic, since editing one draft was considered to be automation, it's likely that "mass changes to articles, broadly construed" means at best two articles with similar changes. Of course the fact that a sufficient number of people don't understand what the restrictions say (never have and never will) it's likely that anything I do will be interpreted as either violating the restriction, or gaming the system, and either the restriction will be expanded or I will be wrongly blocked. In either case there's one more thing for arseholes to list when they want their own way, to demonstrate that I must be in the wrong, without anyone actually considering the encyclopedia.

All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 02:14, 12 January 2020 (UTC).

Rich Farmbrough, well first let me walk something back. This new restriction says articles so you seem to be OK to do your work on IH's signature though I note that at least in one instance you've now recieved pushback from both Cullen (in the question above) and Praxidicae (who reverted the change to that article) so proceed with caution. As for your question you can gain consensus short of going to a noticeboard. I understand how disappointing this kind of restriction must be to someone of your tenure and so I am guessing you actually understand that but if you need further explanation feel free to ping me with your question. Barkeep49 (talk) 02:33, 12 January 2020 (UTC)

Thanks, Barkeep49. It is also annoying, because it is exactly what Beeblebrox wanted, another nail in the coffin, just because his watchlist got messed up, as far as I can see. He wasn't even unhappy with the edits, per se. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 02:45, 12 January 2020 (UTC).

When the community demonstrated hatred of my style, it inherently blessed whomever would destroy it. At least in my view. You go, Rich! InedibleHulk (talk) 02:38, 12 January 2020 (UTC)

I have had a modest amount of fun reading several years of InedibleHulk talk page comments. My favourite was your reply to someone who chastised a third party thus "..please don't PUT STUFF IN ALL CAPS..." to which you replied along the lines of "You can't defeat caps with more caps..." All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 02:45, 12 January 2020 (UTC).

Doesn't ring a bell, but it sounds like something I'd think. YOU JUST CAN'T! Thanks for keeping me honest. InedibleHulk (talk) 02:54, 12 January 2020 (UTC)

Barkeep, can I ask you to clarify or confirm your "can" in "you can gain"? InedibleHulk (talk) 03:02, 12 January 2020 (UTC)

I'm not sure what you're looking for IH. This was a community leveled restriction so while I closed the thread I am hesitant to issue advice to Rich (especially when he's not the one asking for it) that would not be binding on other sysops. So speaking for myself, if Rich had gotten agreement, rather than just jumping into "doing" mode that this change should happen I would consider that OK (if this change had been covered under the restriction). But I can see other sysops having issue with that. So if Rich wishes to do mass changes to articles he should do so cautiously and after having made sought consensus at a reasonable venue (preferably a central venue) for him to do those changes. Best, Barkeep49 (talk) 03:15, 12 January 2020 (UTC)

Just wondering if you meant "can't" and typed "can" above. It's not important, though. I'm missing a lot of backstory, probably in over my head. Anyway, nice to meet you. May we all find our ideal venues! InedibleHulk (talk) 06:46, 12 January 2020 (UTC)

I should note that "approved by the community" is a stretch here. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 04:37, 12 January 2020 (UTC).

Rich I note that there are several users (including me and User:Yngvadottir) at InedibleHulk's talk page asking for the links in old timestamp to be removed. User:Ritchie333 even wrote a script for it. InedibleHulk explicitly allowed you to do it. And I see no one asking you not to do it. To me this looks like a clear consensus to fix those link. May I know if you are looking for something more specific like a contract or License of sorts ? If so, may be sysop User:Ritchie333 can sign it for you. --DBigXrayᗙ 20:06, 13 January 2020 (UTC)

Sounds reasonable to me. I'll try to get this done over the next few days. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 15:01, 15 January 2020 (UTC).

Request Review for Katie Bishop

Rich thanks for your comment on the Draft:Katie Bishop page. I've revised the article to keep it simple until we have additional 3rd party sources which will be appended as soon as they become available. Many thanks -- nysky1 (talk) Nysky1 (talk) 02:31, 13 January 2020 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #398

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

• Events
  • Registration for the Wikimedia Hackathon in Tirana (May 9-11) opened
  • Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: getting started in Wikidata, labels, and aliases, 14 January. Agenda

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Report of Wiki Techstorm 2019 by Jsamwrites
  • Aberdeen Plaques – Part Two: Visualisations, calculations, and analysis using wikidata by Ian Watt
  • Overview of Wikidata gadgets and user scripts - slides from LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Meetings
  • Wikipedia Rolls Out Our Research on Providing Semantic Information for Mathematical Formulae - this feature uses Wikidata

• Tool of the week
  • Tabernacle creates a tabular view of a set of data items from a SPARQL query, PagePile list, or manual list of items. You can select which languages and properties to display. The tool lets you drag-and-drop statements from one item to another, and manually add or edit statements without leaving the page. Tabernacle is great for harmonizing a set of related items or identifying items that need their labels and descriptions translated.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • You can test a new feature highlighting mismatched references
  • The next Weekly Summary (January 20) will be the issue #400. Please help us collecting interesting Wikidata-related facts around the number 400!

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: exonerated of, Commons category for ship name, heading, filename in archive
    • External identifiers: Russian PFL player ID, J-GLOBAL ID, LaunchBox Games Database developer ID, LaunchBox Games Database game ID, Époques ID, openSUSE package, Ten-Bruggencatenummer, DLE RAE ID, NTIS accession number, PubAg ID, Games Database developer ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Beta Masaheft ID, ordered by, university of the third age, period of lactation, position, grape variety, merged into, distribution map of taxon
    • External identifiers: Ogólnopolska Baza Kolejowa - stacja ID, Livelib.ru person ID, ScummVM wiki ID, Instituto Moreira Salles ID, Arcade PCB database game ID, Cambridge Encyclopedia of Anthropology ID, eu-football team ID, Museen in OÖ ID, Voetbal International player ID, Museums in Salzburg (AT) ID, C64.COM ID, Museen in Burgenland (AT) ID, FlashScore.com team ID, Soccerdonna team ID, c64games.de ID, Museums in Austria Code, Canmore thesaurus ID, The Cutting Room Floor ID, NPDRIM record ID, EFIS person ID, coinop.org game ID, EFIS film ID, EFIS filmmaker ID, EFIS film festival ID, WeChangEd ID, marterl.at ID
  • Query examples:
    • Locations depicted on album covers
    • Forts and heritage-scheduled sections of the Antonine Wall in Scotland (source)
    • Number of Lexemes including recordings from Lingua Libre by language (source)

• Development
  • More work on finishing the migration of wb_terms table
  • Don’t check constraints on “Wikidata property example for media” statements (phab:T227865)
  • Warn users that they're not nogged-in before performing restore or undo (phab:T234430, thanks to Matěj Suchánek)
  • Remove edit link from Special:NewPages if page is not directly editable (phab:T240561, thanks to Matěj Suchánek)
  • Introduce MwEraParser and improve i18n of dates BCE (phab:T140541, thanks to Matěj Suchánek)
  • Bridge: show error dialog if the user isn't allowed to edit Wikidata (phab:T235154)
  • Bridge: ask the user if the change is a fix or an update (phab:T237333)
  • Enabled tainted references on test.wikidata.org

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 15:43, 13 January 2020 (UTC)

Please stop imposing your own preferences

While you no longer can do it on many pages at once, you seem to continue making edits which impose your own preferences over other acceptable styles when you make you "copyedits" or the like. Whether you do these manually or as part of a script it would be better if you stopped making such changes.

• Changing ordinals: [1][2][3]. See MOS:CENTURY.
• Changing "REDIRECT" to "Redirect", an utterly pointless edit which goes against the syntax given at Help:Redirect. Your style works equally well, but changes the commonly accepted and proscribed version to one of your liking.
• Changing links from the form [[city, state]] to [[city, state|city]], state. While this is an improvement in some instances, you seem to do it consistently and blindly, leading to things like [[Montreal|Montreal]], Quebec, [[Canada]][4], which has a completely unnecessary piped link for Montreal, and then unlinks the province but keeps the better known country linked... The same type of unlinking happened here (which I already gave in the ANI discussion), where you changed [[Santa Clara, California]], [[United States]] to [[Santa Clara, California|Santa Clara]], California, [[United States]].

You can use your personal preferencs and quirks when you add text or write new articles, but please don't change the styles used by others (as long as they are MOS compliant). Fram (talk) 15:12, 17 January 2020 (UTC)

Rich Farmbrough, have you considered writing new articles? There are plenty of red links to go around. If you pick a subject area that interests you, pick clearly notable people, and find a couple of sources that show the notability of redlinked people in that subject area, you may find that your contributions do not encounter as much pushback as the edits of dubious value linked above.

As an example, I created Pat Hawkins (athlete) when I saw that she was clearly notable (a US National Championship winner in the women's 400-meter hurdles) and did not have an article. It was easy to find basic sources to establish the claims in the article. There are a number of red-linked names in the navboxes at the foot of that article; it should be straightforward to find sources verifying the accomplishments of most of those women. – Jonesey95 (talk) 17:23, 17 January 2020 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #399

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

• Events
  • Past: Wikidata OpenRefine Workshop in Prague (Q1085)
  • Upcoming: next Wikidata office hour, January 22nd, at 17:00 UTC (18:00 UTC+1), on the Wikidata Telegram channel. Topics: presenting the roadmap for 2020 and some news from the development team

• Tool of the week
  • The Wikidata Card Game Generator generates printable cards based on a topic (eg chemical elements) and some statements of the item.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • New gadget added to Preferences, "Show UnpatrolledEdits" (see discussion): it shows if the last edit to the item has not been patrolled
  • Pywikibot deprecates Python 2 support. Any scripts running via Python 2 should be migrated soon, see more at [5]
  • The next Weekly Summary (January 27) will be the issue #400. Please help us collecting interesting Wikidata-related facts around the number 400!

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: none
    • External identifiers: National September 11 Memorial ID, BeWeb person ID, BeWeb entity ID, BeWeb family ID, Apple IIGS France ID, bauhaus.community ID, CEEB K-12 school code, D-MSX ID, Decine21 person ID, dovidka.com.ua person ID, Games Database publisher ID, Games Database system ID, ICD-11 (foundation), kino-teatr.ru person ID, LaunchBox Games Database platform ID, LaunchBox Games Database publisher ID, Macintosh Garden game ID, Macintosh Repository ID, Open Churches ID, OpenBibArt ID, textove.com artist ID, textove.com song ID, Electronic library Ukrainica ID, article in French Vikidia, OrthodoxWiki ID (English), Punjabipedia ID, Sarvavijnanakosam ID, article in Italian Vikidia, BookBrainz work ID, CPCWiki ID, UCUM code, VGMPF ID, article in Spanish Vikidia, What is the Apple IIGS? ID, article in English Vikidia, LiverTox ID, NMVW id, article in Basque Vikidia, Authenticus ID, Instituto Moreira Salles ID, Livelib.ru person ID, Nederlands Fotomuseum photographer ID, Polish Nationwide Railway Database - station ID, Saregama artist ID, ScummVM wiki ID, article in Armenian Vikidia, Vienna History Wiki ID, article in German Vikidia, Joconde object type ID, MarketScreener business leaders ID, Beta maṣāḥǝft ID, DigitaltMuseum ID, Frick Art Reference Library artist file ID, Panoptikum podcast episode ID, Joconde location ID, Identifier for a resource held by the Smithsonian Institution
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: local to a language context, category for files created with program, Used with verb, Commons postcards category, Indonesian intangible cultural heritage, IP address or range, Commons map category V2, necessary property for class, 8-bits ID
    • External identifiers: CoBiS author ID, The Cover Project game ID, Analysis & Policy Observatory node ID, Analysis & Policy Observatory term ID, Swedish School Registry ID, Eurogamer ID, VR GameCritic ID, GameStar ID, Media Art Database ID, IGCD game ID, GameTDB game ID, identifier HAL for article, Diccionari del cinema a Catalunya ID, VGMRips composer ID, Historical Marker Database ID
  • Query examples:
    • Contributors to Jacob Heyblocqs vriendenboek and their occupations (source)
    • Number of Co-Authors by Country using ORCID to identify the "searched author" (source)

• Development
  • More work on wb_terms table migration: information about property terms is no longer updated and removed from wb_terms table.
  • Add "wikibase-statementsection-identifiers i18n message key to Wikibase (phab:T240356)
  • Stop using $wgUser in Wikibase (phab:T241947)
  • Document possible configuration options for Wikibase Repository and Wikibase Client installations (phab:T165973)
  • Document Wikibase Usage Aspects (phab:T236772)
  • Document Wikibase tables (phab:T124603)
  • Wikidata Bridge: add the RadioButton to the component library (phab:T239799)
  • Showing error dialogs if users can’t edit on the repo wiki (phab:T235154)
  • Tainted references: work on keeping the warning visible when users cancel an edit

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 16:21, 20 January 2020 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Hezekiah Walker albums

A tag has been placed on Category:Hezekiah Walker albums requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the category has been empty for seven days or more and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. UnitedStatesian (talk) 01:59, 21 January 2020 (UTC)

The category is no longer empty, so I removed the {{db-catempty}} template. DH85868993 (talk) 02:10, 21 January 2020 (UTC)

False impression of accuracy

I also notice these bizarrely specific conversions, and couldn't agree with you more: I also find it ludicrous to see them giving false impressions of accuracy, such as the one that was formerly in this section at Bushmeat, which you corrected in this edit. May I suggest, rather than removing the conversion entirely, just use it with the rounding parameters, and that should get you what you want, without the downside of a hard-coded value in line. Cheers, Mathglot (talk) 04:01, 23 January 2020 (UTC)

Mathglot: in general I agree. However with tons/tonnes/long tonnes (or whatever it was) and an accuracy of 1m-5m the choice of unit is irrelevant. There's also an issue with one of the refs on the fishing sections which ascribes something as accurate as 7,245,547 tonnes of fish to Nigeria in 2010 and exactly the same in 2011. This may be a conversion artefact, or a question of mixing years. In either case it makes me worry about the reliability of the source. All the best: Rich Farmbrough (the apparently calm and reasonable) 15:30, 23 January 2020 (UTC).

Category:Draughtsmen has been nominated for discussion

Category:Draughtsmen, which you created, has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 09:47, 23 January 2020 (UTC)

A new missing topics list

Hi Mr. Farmbrough,

I posted a new missing topics list on WP:MISSING's talk page. A second page might need to be created since the United States section is so large. 173.162.220.17 (talk) 18:07, 23 January 2020 (UTC)

That's cool, well done! All the best: Rich Farmbrough (the apparently calm and reasonable) 13:41, 26 January 2020 (UTC).

Check this draft

Hi Rich. Can you check these Draft:Choi Hyo Eun and Draft:Kwon Eun Soo.(39.43.28.237 (talk) 10:42, 26 January 2020 (UTC))

Rich. Can you published those drafts i also added sources. Here it is.

• Draft:Choi Hyo Eun
• Draft:Kwon Eun Soo
• Draft:Lee Jin-Kwon (TV actor)
• Draft:Park Doo Shik
• Draft:Park Sung Woo
• Draft:Moon Ji Hoo
• Draft:Lee Jung Shik
• Draft:Jang In Sub
• Draft:Kim Min Young
• Draft:Han Sung Yun
• Draft:Jung In Seo
• Draft:Choi Soo Rin
• Draft:Yoo Se Hyung
• Draft:Kim Sun-woong
• Draft:Gu Won

Rich. These are the all draft i made can you check and published these all. Thank you.(39.43.14.73 (talk) 14:05, 2 February 2020 (UTC))

{{use dmy dates}}

Rich: I just finished editing a page and putting the above template on the article. You came along three minutes later and changed the dates in citations from mdy to dmy. Are you aware that if you use the template above they will be formatted properly, automatically. Saves us a lot of work. FYI. Seligne (talk) 13:39, 26 January 2020 (UTC)

Thanks! All the best: Rich Farmbrough (the apparently calm and reasonable) 13:41, 26 January 2020 (UTC).

Your edit changed one hidden category (Use dmy dates) to a slightly different hidden category (Use dmy dates from January 2020) and otherwise made zero changes to the rendered article. A bot performs that template date tagging automatically, so there is no need for you to do it manually. A reasonable person might view that edit as a cosmetic edit in violation of your editing restriction. You have been advised multiple times to stay away from this gray area and stick to clearly substantive edits, but it looks like you are having trouble doing so. Please think carefully before continuing edits like this. You are making a clear choice to make these useless edits; this is not a case of anyone hounding you or misinterpreting your edits. You have other choices. – Jonesey95 (talk) 14:31, 26 January 2020 (UTC)

Apparent cosmetic edit, in violation of your editing restrictions

This edit, while possibly helpful, appears to be a violation of your editing restrictions. It produced no change in the rendered article. – Jonesey95 (talk) 15:22, 26 January 2020 (UTC)

A beer for you!

Thanks for the good work in removing linked timestamps. While there is criticism for some of your automated edits there are also appreciation for the others. I hope you will keep a good balance, the beer won't help with the balancing though. cheers. DBigXrayᗙ 16:33, 26 January 2020 (UTC)

Thanks, there are about 127 pages I didn't fix, mostly in the user talk namespace. A small but vociferous minority would probably take exception. All the best: Rich Farmbrough (the apparently calm and reasonable) 16:56, 26 January 2020 (UTC).

I understand. Asking 127 users, individually on their talk pages is a huge task. --DBigXrayᗙ 17:11, 26 January 2020 (UTC)

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Re: Help in moving a page

Good day User:Rich Farmbrough!

I dropped your talk page to seek your help in moving a page back to it's proper name. I have to admit I flubbed moving it back because it was moved by another editor without discussing the matter in the page's talk page. I flubbed moving the page back to it's original name, then we discussed what should be the name of the page based on the actual movie title, and I decided to acquiese to his suggestion - from the name Magnum Muslim .357, the actual name of the film is Muslim .357. But I couldn't move it back sadly, because it appears you can't move a page back to its original name if you don't have a page mover priveledge. As it stands, the page bears the very embarassing name Manum Muslim .357, we just need to take the pretty bad "Manum" spelling so that it can revert to its proper name "Muslim .357".

Hey, even if you haven't moved the page back just yet, I'd like to thank you in advance. You've helped me before when I flubbed the citations on Ang Probinsyano and its related pages, that's why I know I can count on you.

Warmest regards.

Gardo Versace (talk) 07:49, 31 January 2020 (UTC)

You can generally move it back, if the redirect hasn't been edited. However this redirect points somewhere else. And the intermediate redirect has two edits for some reason so it can't be "un-wound".

Magnum Muslim .357 2014

City Hunter: .357 Magnum 1989

.357 Magnum 1977

Muslim .357 1987

These are the films I am aware of, let me just review them.

All the best: Rich Farmbrough (the apparently calm and reasonable) 08:59, 31 January 2020 (UTC).

I have requested this at Wikipedia:Requested moves/Technical requests#Uncontroversial technical requests. All the best: Rich Farmbrough (the apparently calm and reasonable) 09:37, 31 January 2020 (UTC).

@Rich Farmbrough: Hey, I just found out the good news! Thanks again Rich! You're a lifesave, always know that I can always count on you. Warmest regards Gardo Versace (talk) 11:06, 31 January 2020 (UTC)