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Books & Bytes – Issue 62

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This week's article for improvement (week 18, 2024)

A crewed submersible used for underwater exploration
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Exploration

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  • Partial action blocks are now in effect on the English Wikipedia. This means that administrators have the ability to restrict users from certain actions, including uploading files, moving pages and files, creating new pages, and sending thanks. T280531

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Edit conflict

Your usage of Citation bot on Joko Pinurbo resulted in an edit conflict while I was making a major edit. WC gudang inspirasi (Read! Talk!) 12:32, 3 May 2024 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 19, 2024)

Papyriform columns in the Luxor Temple
Hello, Susmuffin. The article for improvement of the week is:

Ancient Egyptian architecture

Please be bold and help improve it!


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This week's article for improvement (week 20, 2024)

Hello, Susmuffin. The article for improvement of the week is:

Tax return

Please be bold and help improve it!


Previous selections: Ancient Egyptian architecture • Exploration


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george macdonald

why did "that long list" need to be removed? this is from your december edits 50.126.71.214 (talk) 23:13, 16 May 2024 (UTC)

It was a massive list of names that added little information about George MacDonald to his article's lead. Furthermore, a list of that length encourages editors to indiscriminately add more random people and much of it was uncited. ―Susmuffin Talk 16:30, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 21, 2024)

Hello, Susmuffin. The article for improvement of the week is:

News program

Please be bold and help improve it!


Previous selections: Tax return • Ancient Egyptian architecture


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Apologies for the talk page message, but is this article is ready for FAC? — 🌙Eclipse (talk) (contribs) 14:21, 22 May 2024 (UTC)

Is there anything that needs to be added to the article? Has anything changed since the incident was heavily in the news? ―Susmuffin Talk 06:05, 23 May 2024 (UTC)
There's some info about Cenat not getting any charges that's not in the article. 🌙Eclipse (talk) (contribs) 09:15, 23 May 2024 (UTC)
You should probably put that in there, assuming that it has been discussed by reliable sources. ―Susmuffin Talk 11:12, 23 May 2024 (UTC)
 Done ― Anything else? — 🌙Eclipse (talk) (contribs) 11:49, 23 May 2024 (UTC)
The article largely looks fine. I would be careful about citing the National Review in an article on a riot. ―Susmuffin Talk 14:48, 23 May 2024 (UTC)

Your use of Citation Bot

I notice you’ve been using Citation Bot on the 2024 in archosaur paleontology page for three days straight, always to make very minor changes to the citations. Is there any particular reason why don’t wait for the bot to come across the page on its own and update multiple citations at once? 49.144.197.22 (talk) 00:33, 25 May 2024 (UTC)

I am trying to clear a category of known citation issues. The bot seems to be doing things in parts. Of course, that might have to do with its sources periodically being updated. ―Susmuffin Talk 09:12, 25 May 2024 (UTC)
Is there any reason why it has to be done every day instead of like, every week? The issues will be fixed either way. 49.144.193.183 (talk) 02:42, 26 May 2024 (UTC)
My perspective is that it is fine as long as it is adding something useful to the templates. Edits that add volume information and bibcodes are valid. ―Susmuffin Talk 14:43, 26 May 2024 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 22, 2024)

Logo used from the 1990s until acquisition by Oracle
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Sun Management Center

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This week's article for improvement (week 23, 2024)

Hello, Susmuffin. The article for improvement of the week is:

State of emergency

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Administrators' newsletter – June 2024

News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2024).

Administrator changes

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Bureaucrat changes

removed

Oversight changes

removed Dreamy Jazz

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Technical news

  • The Nuke feature, which enables administrators to mass delete pages, will now correctly delete pages which were moved to another title. T43351

Arbitration

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The Signpost: 8 June 2024

This week's article for improvement (week 24, 2024)

Turkish lira banknote
Hello, Susmuffin. The article for improvement of the week is:

National economy (Turkey)

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Previous selections: State of emergency • Sun Management Center


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This week's article for improvement (week 25, 2024)

Field hockey stick and ball
Hello, Susmuffin. The article for improvement of the week is:

Sports equipment

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Previous selections: National economy (Turkey) • State of emergency


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This week's article for improvement (week 26, 2024)

Breaking wave
Hello, Susmuffin. The article for improvement of the week is:

Breaking wave

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Previous selections: Sports equipment • National economy (Turkey)


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This week's article for improvement (week 27, 2024)

Theo Jansen's Strandbeest, a group of planar walking mechanisms
Hello, Susmuffin. The article for improvement of the week is:

Mechanism (engineering)

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This week's article for improvement (week 28, 2024)

Hello, Susmuffin. The article for improvement of the week is:

Applied science

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Previous selections: Mechanism (engineering) • Breaking wave


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This week's article for improvement (week 29, 2024)

Ambush of Polish partisans against Russian forces during the January Uprising, 1863
Hello, Susmuffin. The article for improvement of the week is:

Ambush

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Previous selections: Applied science • Mechanism (engineering)


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Edit conflict no thank you

Edit conflict no thank you!!! Alexysun (talk) 19:42, 16 July 2024 (UTC)

Books & Bytes – Issue 63

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Issue 63, May – June 2024

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This week's article for improvement (week 30, 2024)

Cape of Good Hope (left) and Cape Hangklip (right) in South Africa
Hello, Susmuffin. The article for improvement of the week is:

Cape (geography)

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Previous selections: Ambush • Applied science


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I noticed you’ve been using Citation Bot on the 2024 in archosaur paleontology page almost every day since mid-May. I honestly believe your use of it is excessive, since the changes you make with it (adding missing parameters to citations few at a time) have been done faithfully by human editors before that or, when via the bot, done in bulk. I honestly think you should reduce your use of it, since the constant use of the bot clogs up the page history. Please consider my request. 2001:4453:5E9:900:617A:C3D0:939F:3116 (talk) 08:33, 22 July 2024 (UTC)

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This week's article for improvement (week 31, 2024)

Calder's Flamingo in Chicago
Hello, Susmuffin. The article for improvement of the week is:

List of public art in Chicago

Please be bold and help improve it!


Previous selections: Cape (geography) • Ambush


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This week's article for improvement (week 32, 2024)

Smiling woman
Hello, Susmuffin. The article for improvement of the week is:

Happiness

Please be bold and help improve it!


Previous selections: List of public art in Chicago • Cape (geography)


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Archive request

Hello! Could I ask for your help in archiving 2024 Manila Bay oil spill? Thanks! Borgenland (talk) 10:02, 6 August 2024 (UTC)

It is done. ―Susmuffin Talk 15:42, 6 August 2024 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – August 2024

News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2024).

Administrator changes

readded Isabelle Belato
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Interface administrator changes

readded Izno

CheckUser changes

removed Barkeep49

Technical news

  • Global blocks may now target accounts as well as IP's. Administrators may locally unblock when appropriate.
  • Users wishing to permanently leave may now request "vanishing" via Special:GlobalVanishRequest. Processed requests will result in the user being renamed, their recovery email being removed, and their account being globally locked.

Arbitration


This week's article for improvement (week 33, 2024)

A fictional social network diagram
Hello, Susmuffin. The article for improvement of the week is:

Social experiment

Please be bold and help improve it!


Previous selections: Happiness • List of public art in Chicago


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The Signpost: 14 August 2024

This week's article for improvement (week 34, 2024)

Hello, Susmuffin. The article for improvement of the week is:

Keygen

Please be bold and help improve it!


Previous selections: Social experiment • Happiness


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Precious anniversary

Precious
One year!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:17, 21 August 2024 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 35, 2024)

Director Sergio Leone (right) and actor Enzo Santaniello on the set of the film
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Once Upon a Time in the West

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GDMG page

I work for [[GoDigital Media Group]], a digital rights management company. I disclosed a COI and requested a corrected/updated list of subsidiaries a few weeks ago and haven't gotten a response. I saw that you have an interest in digital rights management and was hoping you might be willing to take a look. You can find my edit request '''[https://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/Talk:GoDigital_Media_Group# here]'''.

Let me know if you are willing to take a look. Matthewjmt (talk) 20:48, 28 August 2024 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 36, 2024)

Hello, Susmuffin. The article for improvement of the week is:

Cancel culture

Please be bold and help improve it!


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Administrators' newsletter – September 2024

News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2024).

Administrator changes

removed Pppery

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removed Pppery

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removed Wugapodes

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removed

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  • Following an RfC, there is a new criterion for speedy deletion: C4, which applies to unused maintenance categories, such as empty dated maintenance categories for dates in the past.
  • A request for comment is open to discuss whether Notability (species) should be adopted as a subject-specific notability guideline.

Arbitration

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Tech News: 2024-36

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The Signpost: 4 September 2024

Edits such as special:diff/1244486085 to Radha Charan Gupta are unhelpful. The Internet Archive is a wonderful resource, and it's great to ask them to spider and archive pages linked from Wikipedia articles and use archive backups in articles when links rot or become otherwise inaccessible. However, preemptively adding a wayback link to every single external link on the site has no good justification, is distracting to readers, wastes a lot of space, and feels spammy. Please don't make such edits to Wikipedia articles. –jacobolus (t) 16:12, 7 September 2024 (UTC)

I am aware that there is a disagreement on the subject of whether to archive functioning URLs in articles. That can depend on the editor consensus regarding a particular article. I am willing to recognise the consensus that has been established in the linked article. However, one of the edits that you reverted was a different one that added an article's issue number, a DOI and a few ISBNs. ―Susmuffin Talk 20:40, 7 September 2024 (UTC)
No, it's not about "editor consensus regarding a particular article". Indiscriminately adding Wayback machine archive links for still-living pages that are still available and accessible on the open internet is straight-up spam which is abusive of Wikipedia and Wikipedia readers, especially since many of the Wayback links do not actually display the content relevant to the citation. Littering these links sitewide is harmful to the project and wasteful of Wikipedia editors' and readers' time. As wonderful as the Internet Archive is, and however much you personally like it, it is not appropriate to turn Wikipedia into an advertising platform for the Wayback Machine.
(The Citation Bot edit is off topic here, but I partly kept its changes. The parts I reverted weren't actively harmful but also weren't necessary: In combination with a book title, author, year, and publisher, a DOI is an entirely sufficient piece of metadata for finding a book.) –jacobolus (t) 22:48, 7 September 2024 (UTC)
Adding archived links through a community-approved bot is not spam or advertising. If you regard it as such, start a discussion on either this project or Meta-Wiki. If you think that the bot is engaging in advertising or has an undue relationship with the Internet Archive itself, you can bring that up in one of the usual locations. In terms of article consensus, each article's citations are formatted in a way that reflects the presumed consensus of its editors. For example, Donald Trump's article has a talk page notice stating that archived links should not be added to it. That has to do with its sheer length and number of references. Meanwhile, I have been thanked by editors for adding archived links when editing different articles. Indeed, I have been asked to do it on a few occasions. ―Susmuffin Talk 05:02, 8 September 2024 (UTC)
Archive backups for still-living pages do not serve any valuable purpose. (Except in rare cases where they are intentionally and specifically added because the site has substantially changed in some way since being cited, or in rare cases because a specific external site is notorious for routinely breaking links.) All they do is cause confusion and add clutter. I'm sure the IA loves to have WP:MEATBOTS spamming these all over the site, but it's not helpful to readers or other editors. Please don't waste your time and other people's on this net-harmful activity. The bot User:InternetArchiveBot doesn't directly add archive backups for living pages anymore, but only "rescues" dead links, something I have no problem with. (Indeed, I think rescuing dead links is extremely valuable!) –jacobolus (t) 06:07, 8 September 2024 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 37, 2024)

Map of the Caroline Islands Archipelago
Hello, Susmuffin. The article for improvement of the week is:

Caroline Islands

Please be bold and help improve it!


Previous selections: Cancel culture • Once Upon a Time in the West


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Books & Bytes – Issue 64

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Booker T. Washington High School

I Have restored the link "Booker T. Washington High School (disambiguation)" in Template:Booker T. Washington. The reason is that the strange looking link is there deliberately. The link "Template:Booker T. Washington" will be seen correctly as a link to a disambiguation page and maintenance bot will flag it as a link that has to be fixed. But by using the link "Booker T. Washington High School (disambiguation)" the maintenance bot are fooled into believing that this is NOT a link to a disambiguation page (don't ask my why as I don't know) and will therefore not flag it as a link-to-be-fixed. It is a pure technical trick. The Banner talk 11:48, 12 September 2024 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 38, 2024)

Hello, Susmuffin. The article for improvement of the week is:

Polling station

Please be bold and help improve it!


Previous selections: Caroline Islands • Cancel culture


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This week's article for improvement (week 39, 2024)

Hello, Susmuffin. The article for improvement of the week is:

Human geography

Please be bold and help improve it!


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This week's article for improvement (week 40, 2024)

Eight gold Spanish escudo (1687), issued during the reign of Carlos II of Spain
Hello, Susmuffin. The article for improvement of the week is:

Currency of Spain

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This week's article for improvement (week 41, 2024)

Hello, Susmuffin. The article for improvement of the week is:

Navy

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This week's article for improvement (week 42, 2024)

Hello, Susmuffin. The article for improvement of the week is:

Longshore drift

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