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Lets keep up the good work! --DannyS712 (talk) 03:09, 28 January 2019 (UTC)
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18:15, 28 January 2019 (UTC)
Facto Post – Issue 20 – 31 January 2019
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Recently Jimmy Wales has made the point that computer home assistants take much of their data from Wikipedia, one way or another. So as well as getting Spotify to play Frosty the Snowman for you, they may be able to answer the question "is the Pope Catholic?" Possibly by asking for disambiguation (Coptic?). Headlines about data breaches are now familiar, but the unannounced circulation of information raises other issues. One of those is Gresham's law stated as "bad data drives out good". Wikipedia and now Wikidata have been criticised on related grounds: what if their content, unattributed, is taken to have a higher standing than Wikimedians themselves would grant it? See Wikiquote on a misattribution to Bismarck for the usual quip about "law and sausages", and why one shouldn't watch them in the making. Wikipedia has now turned 18, so should act like as adult, as well as being treated like one. The Web itself turns 30 some time between March and November this year, per Tim Berners-Lee. If the Knowledge Graph by Google exemplifies Heraclitean Web technology gaining authority, contra GIGO, Wikimedians still have a role in its critique. But not just with the teenage skill of detecting phoniness. There is more to beating Gresham than exposing the factoid and urban myth, where WP:V does do a great job. Placeholders must be detected, and working with Wikidata is a good way to understand how having one statement as data can blind us to replacing it by a more accurate one. An example that is important to open access is that, firstly, the term itself needs considerable unpacking, because just being able to read material online is a poor relation of "open"; and secondly, trying to get Creative Commons license information into Wikidata shows up issues with classes of license (such as CC-BY) standing for the actual license in major repositories. Detailed investigation shows that "everything flows" exacerbates the issue. But Wikidata can solve it.
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... for the nice message on my talk. I replied there, but this is for you! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:54, 31 January 2019 (UTC)
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17:12, 4 February 2019 (UTC)
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An image created by you has been promoted to featured picture status Your image, File:Portrait of Commander C. R. Perry Rodgers, officer of the Federal Navy LOC cwpb.05822- Restored2.jpg, was nominated on Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate an image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Thank you for your contribution! Armbrust The Homunculus 22:39, 4 February 2019 (UTC)
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That was a very nice message you left on my talk page. I'm glad to see some people appreciate the work that was put into this project.--Mike - Μολὼν λαβέ 19:04, 5 February 2019 (UTC)
Hello, just a note to say that User:Lingzhi2/reviewsourcecheck has been update to add the option to toggle it on or off.
The installed script will add a tab to the drop-down tab at the top, located between the 'watchlist star' and the search box (using the vector.js skin). The tab toggles between "Hide ref check" and "Show ref check" with displaying the errors as the default option. You may need to edit Special:MyPage/common.js and change User:Lingzhi/reviewsourcecheck to User:Lingzhi2/reviewsourcecheck (add the "2" after User:Lingzhi). Please do drop me a line if you have any problems or suggestions. Tks. ♦ Lingzhi2 (talk) 15:53, 2 February 2019 (UTC)
Thanks for creating Mary Margaret Francis.
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Hi Eddie891, Thank you for supporting the Sustainability Initiative with your signature! Maybe you know another Wikipedian who'd like to sign as well? :-) --Gnom (talk) 09:11, 9 February 2019 (UTC)
Hi. I'm DannyS712 (talk), and I just wanted to remind you that you have signed up to compete in this year's WikiCup! There are about 2 weeks left before the first round ends – if you haven't yet made your first submission, there is still time to start; if you have already started, keep up the good work. See your submissions page: here. Good luck!
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18:45, 11 February 2019 (UTC)
An article you recently created, List of named storms (A), does not have enough sources and citations as written to remain published. It needs more citations from reliable, independent sources. (?) Information that can't be referenced should be removed (verifiability is of central importance on Wikipedia). I've moved your draft to draftspace (with a prefix of "Draft:
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An article you recently created, List of named storms, does not have enough sources and citations as written to remain published. It needs more citations from reliable, independent sources. (?) Information that can't be referenced should be removed (verifiability is of central importance on Wikipedia). I've moved your draft to draftspace (with a prefix of "Draft:
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23:13, 18 February 2019 (UTC)
The Wikimedia Foundation is planning a global consultation about communication. The goal is to bring Wikimedians and wiki-minded people together to improve tools for communication.
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Facto Post – Issue 21 – 28 February 2019
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Systematic reviews are basic building blocks of evidence-based medicine, surveys of existing literature devoted typically to a definite question that aim to bring out scientific conclusions. They are principled in a way Wikipedians can appreciate, taking a critical view of their sources. ![]() Ben Goldacre in 2014 wrote (link below) "[...] : the "information architecture" of evidence based medicine (if you can tolerate such a phrase) is a chaotic, ad hoc, poorly connected ecosystem of legacy projects. In some respects the whole show is still run on paper, like it's the 19th century." Is there a Wikidatan in the house? Wouldn't some machine-readable content that is structured data help? Most likely it would, but the arcana of systematic reviews and how they add value would still need formal handling. The PRISMA standard dates from 2009, with an update started in 2018. The concerns there include the corpus of papers used: how selected and filtered? Now that Wikidata has a 20.9 million item bibliography, one can at least pose questions. Each systematic review is a tagging opportunity for a bibliography. Could that tagging be reproduced by a query, in principle? Can it even be second-guessed by a query (i.e. simulated by a protocol which translates into SPARQL)? Homing in on the arcana, do the inclusion and filtering criteria translate into metadata? At some level they must, but are these metadata explicitly expressed in the articles themselves? The answer to that is surely "no" at this point, but can TDM find them? Again "no", right now. Automatic identification doesn't just happen. Actually these questions lack originality. It should be noted though that WP:MEDRS, the reliable sources guideline used here for health information, hinges on the assumption that the usefully systematic reviews of biomedical literature can be recognised. Its nutshell summary, normally the part of a guideline with the highest density of common sense, allows literature reviews in general validity, but WP:MEDASSESS qualifies that indication heavily. Process wonkery about systematic reviews definitely has merit.
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News and updates associated with user scripts from the past month (February 2019).
Hello everyone and welcome to the third issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter:
We are three months in to this newsletter and everything is going great–keep on creating amazing new scripts!
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Thank you for article improvements in February, and passing Precious! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:34, 28 February 2019 (UTC)
Hello! Your submission of Mary Margaret Francis at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Yoninah (talk) 21:41, 3 March 2019 (UTC)
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16:38, 4 March 2019 (UTC)
Hello Eddie891, This is an automated notification to remind you about unanswered peer review requests at WP:PR (Don't want these notifications? Click to unsubscribe or change your subscription).
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You can see a list of all categories at WP:PRWAITING. We hope to see you soon Wikipedia:Peer Review. Happy Reviewing! KadaneBot (talk) 01:05, 6 March 2019 (UTC)
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On 11 March 2019, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Mary Margaret Francis, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Mary Margaret Francis told Graham Lord that her husband, Dick Francis, "would like me to have all the credit" for his novels? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Mary Margaret Francis. 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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19:29, 11 March 2019 (UTC)
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Hi Eddie,
The Administrative Noticeboard quickly opened a thread on this and two admins did a deep dive into the allegations. [12] Rather than respond at length myself, I'll let the admin, User: Swarm, who did most of the investigation respond for me (the highlight is: "This article seems to be little more than an unfortunate piece of trumped-up clickbaity garbage."):
"BC1278 is alleged to be a serial POV-pusher and professional whitewasher, who games the system to get his edits through with a combination of relentless bludgeoning and canvassing. That's extremely alarming and I was ready to crucify this guy. I was even pissed to see the lighthearted reactions above. But, when you actually examine the article, I'm not seeing any violations. In fact, I'm not really seeing anything of major concern. The article itself seems to quietly concede that he doesn't actually violate any policies. In fact, it comes across as extremely misleading and obviously written by someone who doesn't understand Wikipedia at all. He "spent over a year lobbying" for the creation of Caryn Marooney? Come on, he created it as a draft and got it approved through the AfC process, not because he's some relentless lobbyist. Relentless bludgeoning, based on this? Really? He's literally just discussing something in the discussion section, because he was refraining from !voting. Obviously the writer has never witnessed true bludgeoning. Canvassing? The supposed incidents of "canvassing" are usually explained as simply being notifications to relevant users who are involved in some way, such as WikiProject members. I have not seen any refutations of that point. I mean, one of the warnings cited was literally for notifying the only other contributor to an article about a deletion discussion.[30] There's nothing even particularly unreasonable about that. Most of the supposed "whitewashing" seems to be mundane matters that don't harm articles at all, if not actual improvements, like making articles better comply with BLP. "It almost always works"? Uh, yeah, if you're in compliance with policies and are making reasonable requests that are being vetted by established editors who decide to approve them, then good for you, you're not terrible at what you do. It certainly isn't because the community has no problem with paid COI editors, on the contrary, they're among the most stigmatized editors within the community. This article seems to be little more than an unfortunate piece of trumped-up clickbaity garbage, and I actually feel bad for the paid editor here. I hope both the editor and the Foundation will push back in some way. If COIN wants to do an in-depth investigation of this editor, that's perhaps a reasonable reaction, but based solely on the allegations and supporting evidence presented in the article, which, I assume was the worst they could find, there's nothing actionable there."
The other investigating admin concurs, though he wishes I were more concise. I think the entire admin thread is very informative. The thread also has an extended reply as to my practices in my own words. Feel free to use it. I'll say that as I go through the HuffPo article example-by-example for my extended letter of response to them, I am more perturbed than ever by the level of intentional deception, sensationalism, ignorance of Wikipedia, and very disturbingly to me, failure to practice the basic practices of investigative journalism (such as letting the subject of accusations respond to them specifically - before you run your article; or using and quoting actual experts to analyze difficult and controversial material.) The reporter, Ashley Feinberg, did her formative training at Gawker, famous for smearing people without allowing them to respond. Ms. Feinberg did not ask or email me about any specific proposed edit I ever made on Wikipedia. When she contacted me, I asked her if she had any seen any problems with anything I had done. She lied and said “no.” Had she asked me, I would have taken the time to talk her through her allegations one at a time.
It took me five years to build confidence with some of the world's leading companies to trust me that it was in their best interest to always disclose a COI and always to make proposals only on a Talk page (whether they hired me or not.) I hope the Wikimedia Foundation will do as User:Swarm suggests and take some action of support here to stand up for the policy of COI disclosures, or this bit of digital yellow journalism will force many thousands of organizations and individuals back into the "black hat" undisclosed-paid-editor or undisclosed-COI-editing closet.BC1278 (talk) 03:04, 18 March 2019 (UTC)
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19:44, 18 March 2019 (UTC)
Dear all. Recently, FR30799386 (talk) was blocked for sock puppetry. Among their projects were a number of user scripts that they left behind. I (DannyS712) have copied the scripts, and have taken over maintaining them. You currently import one or more of FR30799386's scripts, and I thought that you might want to import a maintained version. Links to each script are provided below.
If you have any questions, please reach out and talk to me. --DannyS712 (talk) 03:57, 21 March 2019 (UTC)
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... for improving article quality in March and passing Precious - click on "March" for travel pics --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:34, 24 March 2019 (UTC)
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18:05, 25 March 2019 (UTC)
Hello Eddie891. I have requested a peer review of New Albion which you may find HERE. I found your name on the volunteer list of reviewers and also saw that you have inspected this article in the past. So, I request, if you are so able, to review the article again. I have made many changes in the article, particularly with the citations. I have also altered images and some text. I am uncertain regarding the introduction and believe it may be too detailed, perhaps an insufficient summary. I also question my inclusion of the 1658 map by Nicolaes Visscher I. I included it at the expense of another image, one which depicts the careening of a ship. That version may be view HERE. I am believing that the Visscher map is unnecessary the the careening image valuable. However, I would like advice regarding their inclusion. I also read on your talk page that you have experience with featured articles, so I even more so look forward to your advice and thoughts. As the Military Project also is listed for peer review assistance, I also asked them for help. Kind regards, Hu Nhu (talk) 02:44, 27 March 2019 (UTC)