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Hi, when you (nac) closed Talk:People's Liberation Army Navy#Requested move 7 September 2018, you simply stated: "The result of the move request was: not moved.
" Could you please add some additional comments explaining the rationale for your decision? While there were more opposers than supporters, I believe the strength of the 'support' arguments, bolstered by WP policy, outweighed the 'oppose' comments. If you could provide some reasoning to help us better understand your decision, it would help with the decision on whether or not to request a review to contest the close. Thank you - wolf 05:48, 16 September 2018 (UTC)
No one voted. I've put it on AFD again because I think a third relist was appropiate, but this way is fine. » Shadowowl | talk 14:19, 17 September 2018 (UTC)
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Would you consider re-opening the discussion? I don't think that a non-admin close of "no consensus" here is reasonable; an admin might have closed it as soft-delete. At this point, a relist is the best option. power~enwiki (π, ν) 01:25, 20 September 2018 (UTC)
Hi KCVelaga. I noticed that you've been closing some AfDs as "no consensus" for the reason "Relisted twice, but no participation." (e.g. Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Rerum Novarum Centre, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Hembree (band)). In each of these closures, did you factor in the possibility of "soft delete" as an outcome, in accordance with the WP:NOQUORUM guideline?
In general, I think non-administrators should defer these kinds of closures to administrators so that the soft delete option can be adequately considered. It's hard for non-administrators to close these without being accused of bias, simply because the ability to delete just isn't available to them. A few years ago we had a pretty long discussion about what to do with these kinds of AfDs that don't have that much participation, and the general feeling was that "soft delete" should be used more: see Wikipedia talk:Deletion process/Archive 11. Mz7 (talk) 01:31, 20 September 2018 (UTC)
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The copy edit you requested from the Guild of Copy Editors of the article René Ghil has been completed. I took the liberty of adding a bibliography of his works from the French Wikipedia article about him, which I thought would be useful to readers.
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Welcome to Wikipedia. Thank you for your contributions! Although everyone is welcome to contribute to Wikipedia, at least one of your recent edits, such as the one you made to Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Flashblock, goes against [[:Unless my calculations are wrong, and if they are I apologies, per WP:NotEarly I believe you closed this discussion before the 168 hour limit. Can you please re-open the discussion. Thankyou.]], a Wikipedia guideline. You may find it helpful to look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Unless my calculations are wrong, and if they are I apologies, per WP:NotEarly I believe you closed this discussion before the 168 hour limit. Can you please re-open the discussion. Thankyou. Djm-leighpark (talk) 09:24, 24 September 2018 (UTC)
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Hello folks, my friend is interested to create articles about food items. Before I suggest something, I would like to know if there any notability guideline for food, and also manual of style. KCVelaga (talk) 16:28, 30 September 2018 (UTC)
On 4 October 2018, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article René Ghil, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that French poet René Ghil worked towards developing an ideal poetic language that would "subsume and supersede all the other arts" by establishing his own system of verbal instrumentation? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/René Ghil. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, ), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
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Hello KCVelaga, I noticed that your incubator project now has over 50 members on its list, which in my opinion means it should become an actual task force. What do you see as the future for the Indian military history project, and would you be fine with converting it into a task force? Kges1901 (talk) 10:53, 5 October 2018 (UTC)
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You had added some valuable information to the page Telkupi.
I was trying to develop a page on the Panchkot Raj. Now an editor has deleted much of what was there and demands "scholarly" sources. I don't have any such sources about Panchkot Raj. Since you are having an interest in the regional history of the region, please have a look at the page and do the needful.
Cheers. - Chandan Guha (talk) 07:56, 21 October 2018 (UTC)
Dear all, I am happy to inform you that the Indian military history working group which was started in June 2016, as a part of the Military History WikiProject's incubator, now graduated into a full-fledged task force. You're receiving this message because you've shown you support previously to the working group, if you wish to be a part of present task force, kindly sign-up on the members page. Regards, KCVelaga (talk) 16:24, 21 October 2018 (UTC)
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G'day KCV, just a heads up that there is going to be a need for a re-tagging spree to replace South-Asian tagged articles with the new Indian tag. They will automatically remain in the Asian TF of course. I suggest you get together with a group of like-minded editors (perhaps the crew from the incubator page) and organise a tagging drive if you haven't thought of it already. If you had 12 and they all tagged 100 you'd be done in no time. Cheers, Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 07:03, 22 October 2018 (UTC)
Hello KCVelaga, I have created the task force here. Feel free to add your name to the participants list. Kges1901 (talk) 19:39, 20 October 2018 (UTC)
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Indian Military History, .. wanna add/expand on Op Cactus Operation_Cactus-Lilly & such.
To start with, is adding indian military history category to such pages a good start ?
Looking for inputs. Mallikarjunasj (talk) 13:53, 26 October 2018 (UTC)
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The Structured Data on Commons team has begun beta testing of the first feature, multilingual file captions, and all community members are invited to test it out. Captions is based on designs discussed with the community[1][2] and the team is looking forward to hearing about testing. If all goes well during testing, captions will be turned on for Commons around the second week of January, 2019.
Multilingual captions are plain text fields that provide brief, easily translatable details of a file in a way that is easy to create, edit, and curate. Captions are added during the upload process using the UploadWizard, or they can be added directly on any file page on Commons. Adding captions in multiple languages is a simple process that requires only a few steps.
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Hi all, following up on last month's announcement...
Multilingual file captions will be released this week, on either Wednesday, 9 November or Thursday, 10 November 2019. Captions are a feature to add short, translatable descriptions to files. Here's some links you might want to look follow before the release, if you haven't already:
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I replied on Talk:R. Hari Kumar. Tag me whenever you start a discussion on MOS. Or better, tag all the people on Indian military history task force. Thanks. —Sarvatra (talk, contribs) 07:15, 1 February 2019 (UTC)
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Is ABC videogame notable? KCVelaga (talk) 09:50, 1 March 2019 (UTC)
Hello, I am happy to share that script draft 1 is complete and ready for public comment.
The script (link to the Google doc) is much longer than I anticipated, at almost 21 pages!
Although I think that the 21 page script would be a very good introduction to referencing policies and workflows, I am considering dividing it into two or more smaller scripts that would be produced as separate videos. For example, one script could focus on policies and a different script could focus on how to use the citation tool. I am considering this for three reasons:
I would very much appreciate constructive criticism and comments regarding the script, preferably by March 10 at 11:59 PM UTC. This is a shorter time window than I would like to provide, but the planned end date for this project is March 14 and I would like to finish video production by the end of March 13 so that I have 24 hours for communications before the grant period ends. If you would like to review the script or make other comments but the end of March 10 is too soon for you, please let me know that you need more time, and I will take that into consideration as I plan for final production and consider whether to request a date extension from WMF. (Extending the finish date for the project would not involve requesting additional funding for the current grant.) I would prefer that the video be done perfectly a few days late than that the video be done on March 14 but have an important error that was not caught during a rush to the finish.
I have three specific requests for feedback:
1. Please find errors in the script. This is a great time to find problems with my work, before the script goes into production and problems become more expensive to fix. Please go to this link in Google Docs and use the Comment feature in the Google Doc.
2. Do you have comments regarding whether the script should be divided, and if so, how it should be divided? Please let me know on the project talk page.
3. How do you feel about the name for the video? Do you prefer "Referencing with VisualEditor" or "Citing sources with VisualEditor", or a third option? Again, please comment on the project talk page. However, if I divide the script then I will create new names for the smaller videos.
Thank you for your interest in this mini-project. I am grateful to be working on a project which I hope will help Wikipedia contributors to be more efficient and effective, and indirectly help to improve Wikipedia's quality by teaching contributors how to identify and to cite reliable sources. I believe that the finished video will be good, and I hope that the community and novice contributors will find the video to be very useful.
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Dear KCVelaga, I made well-sourced edits to the Jesselyn Radack page, which were completely erased by one editor. Can you help me to understand how to send this to dispute resolution? The template isn't clear to me. Thanks. ScotWhaHai (talk) 03:06, 8 March 2019 (UTC)
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Please tend to Operation Python, in light of my recent edits or otherwise, I have to proceed for a reassessment. If you have any issues with any of my edits; feel free to ask for detailed explanations. Thanks, ∯WBGconverse 13:37, 10 March 2019 (UTC)
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A development update for the current work by the Structured Data on Commons team:
After the release of multilingual file captions, work began on getting depicts and other statements ready for release. These were originally scheduled for release in February and into March, however there are currently two major blockers to finishing this work (T215642, T217157). We will know more next week about when depicts and statements can likely be ready for testing and then release; until then I've tentatively updated the release schedule.
Once the depicts feature is ready for testing, it will take place in two stages on TestCommons. The first is checking the very basics; is the design comfortable, how does the simple workflow of adding/editing/removing statements work, and building up help and process pages from there. The second part is a more detailed test of depicts and other statements, checking the edge-case examples of using the features, bugs that did not come up during simple testing, etc. Additionally we'll be looking with the community for bugs in interaction with bots, gadgets, and other scripts once the features are live on Commons. Please let me know if you're interesting in helping test and fix these bugs if they show up upon release, it is really hard to find them in a test environment or, in some cases, bugs won't show up in a testing environment at all.
One new thing is definitely coming within the next few weeks, pending testing: the ability to search for captions. This is done using the inlabel
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Thanks, let me know if you have questions about these plans. Keegan (WMF) (talk) 21:34, 12 March 2019 (UTC)
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The Structured Data on Commons development team has the very basic version of depicts statements available for early testing on Test-Commons. You can add very basic depicts statements to the file page by going into the new “Structured Data” tab located below the "Open in Media Viewer button." You can use the Latest Files link in the left side nav bar to select existing images, or use the UploadWizard to upload new ones to test with (although those images won’t actually show up on the site). The test site is not a fully functional replica of Commons, so there may be some overall problems in using the site, but you should be able to get a general idea of what using the feature is like.
Early next week I will call for broad, community-wide testing of the feature similar to what we did for Captions, with instructions for testing, known bugs, and a dedicated space to discuss the feature as well as a simple help page for using statements. Until then, you're welcome to post on the SDC talk page with what you might find while testing depicts.
Thanks in advance for trying it out, you'll be hearing more from me next week. -- Keegan (WMF) (talk) 22:00, 21 March 2019 (UTC)
Hi! The full version of this newsletter issue has a lot of information. I am sending a short version to talk pages.
The most important information to know is that draft 2 is finished, that the single long script has been divided into many smaller scripts, and that portions of the script have been prioritized for production.
Due to budget constraints, not all scripts can be produced within the scope of the current pilot grant, but the other scripts will remain available for potential future production. (This project feels somewhat like doing a vehicle repair when the mechanic starts to work on the engine, and once the mechanic gets under the engine and starts to work, they discover that accomplishing their objective requires twice as much time as they first had estimated.) However, nothing is lost, so do not fear. Overall, my assessment (me being User:Pine) is that this project is producing a lot of good output and is generally a valuable pilot project.
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Hi KCVelaga
Why have you moved Strong Arms of the Ma? As I said in the RM in January, many sources don't include "The" and the proposed title contravenes WP:THE. This RM should never have been reopened, no new arguments were made, and the same people from the failed proposal in January were there again. Please move it back, this is out of line with guidelines. Thanks — Amakuru (talk) 09:17, 1 April 2019 (UTC)
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Books & Bytes
Issue 33, March – April 2019
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currently has access to EPW accounts? Can I have a list? Regards, ∯WBGconverse 08:30, 22 May 2019 (UTC)
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As you might have seen, testing is underway for adding qualifiers to depicts statements. If you have not left feedback already, the Structured Data on Commons development team is very interested in hearing about your experience using qualifiers on the file page and in the UploadWizard. To get started you can visit Test-Commons and chose a random file to test out, or upload your own file to try out the UploadWizard. Questions, comments, and concerns can be left on the Structured data talk page and the team will address them as best as they can. Thank you for your time. -- Keegan (WMF) (talk) 19:08, 11 June 2019 (UTC)
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Hello KCVelaga,
More new features are being added to the feed, including the important red alert for previously deleted pages. This will only work if it is selected in your filters. Best is to 'select all'. Do take a moment to check out all the new features if you have not already done so. If anything is not working as it should, please let us know at NPR. There is now also a live queue of AfC submissions in the New Pages Feed. Feel free to review AfCs, but bear in mind that NPP is an official process and policy and is more important.
Articles are still not always being checked thoroughly enough. If you are not sure what to do, leave the article for a more experienced reviewer. Please be on the alert for any incongruities in patrolling and help your colleagues where possible; report patrollers and autopatrolled article creators who are ostensibly undeclared paid editors. The displayed ORES alerts offer a greater 'at-a-glance' overview, but the new challenges in detecting unwanted new content and sub-standard reviewing do not necessarily make patrolling any easier, nevertheless the work may have a renewed interest factor of a different kind. A vibrant community of reviewers is always ready to help at NPR.
The backlog is still far too high at between 7,000 and 8,000. Of around 700 user rights holders, 80% of the reviewing is being done by just TWO users. In the light of more and more subtle advertising and undeclared paid editing, New Page Reviewing is becoming more critical than ever.
NPR is triage, it is not a clean up clinic. This move feature is not limited to bios so you may have to slightly re-edit the text in the template before you save the move. Anything that is not fit for mainspace but which might have some promise can be draftified - particularly very poor English and machine and other low quality translations.
Remember to use the message feature if you are just tagging an article for maintenance rather than deletion. Otherwise articles are likely to remain perma-tagged. Many creators are SPA and have no intention of returning to Wikipedia. Use the feature too for leaving a friendly note note for the author of a first article you found well made or interesting. Many have told us they find such comments particularly welcoming and encouraging.
Admins are now taking advantage of the new time-limited user rights feature. If you have recently been accorded NPR, do check your user rights to see if this affects you. Depending on your user account preferences, you may receive automated notifications of your rights changes. Requests for permissions are not mini-RfAs. Helpful comments are welcome if absolutely necessary, but the bot does a lot of the work and the final decision is reserved for admins who do thorough research anyway.
School and academic holidays will begin soon in various places around the Western world. Be on the lookout for the usual increase in hoax, attack, and other junk pages.
Our next newsletter might be announcing details of a possible election for co-ordinators of NPR. If you think you have what it takes to micro manage NPR, take a look at New Page Review Coordinators - it's a job that requires a lot of time and dedication.
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Books & Bytes
Issue 34, May – June 2019
French version of Books & Bytes is now available on meta!
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