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Speedy deletion declined: Pass of Brander
Hello The Herald. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of Pass of Brander, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: A7 does not apply to geographical features or populated places. Thank you. §FreeRangeFrogcroak 07:00, 8 November 2014 (UTC)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent software changes
- You may see a new tool on the mobile site of the English Wikipedia. It asks simple questions to make the article better. In the future, your answers will go to Wikidata. [1] [2]
- The MediaWiki API now shows information in a nice format. You can translate it in translatewiki.net. [3]
- Reminder: You can help fix file information on your wiki. It will help robots understand the information. After that, it will be easier for you to search files and re-use them.
- You can join two IRC chats this week to learn more about the file cleanup project. One will be on Wednesday at 18:00 (UTC) and the other on Thursday at 04:00 (UTC). You can ask questions during the chat if you need help to fix files on your wiki.
- You can see a list of files to fix on the Labs tool. You can report bugs and ask questions on the talk page.
Problems
- Wikimedia Labs was broken for a few hours on Thursday. It was due to a hardware problem. [4]
Software changes this week
- The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf7) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since November 5. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from November 11, and on all Wikipedias from November 12 (calendar).
- You can now use more editing tools for tables in VisualEditor. You can add rows and columns, merge cells, and edit table captions. [5] [6]
- The style and insert menus in the toolbar of VisualEditor now show fewer tools. This helps you see the most common tasks. You can see all items by clicking "More". [7]
- The way windows inside VisualEditor work has changed. VisualEditor should be faster and have fewer bugs. [8]
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Mandali Mendrilla
Hi Herald, or should I say The Herald? I hope I am posting this in the right place. Please excuse me if I am not, I have not so much experience yet with Wiki. Could you give me some help how to improve the article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Mandali_Mendrilla I thought she was notable, she translated the Ramayana for the first time ever in Croatian, and won many prices for her designs, in other words, she is a notable translator and designer. I also thought I gave enough references. Which things you would like to see referenced as well? Or perhaps I should delete some stuff that I cannot reference. Thank you for helping me, improve my article, sincerely Madhu Gopal (talk) 13:45, 12 November 2014 (UTC)
- Hi there and welcome. Myself, Benison (Herald is OK). The reason I have rejected your article is due to the lack of cites (say, trusted) and due to the lack of proper placement of citations which you have now. once done, ping me/submit to review and the sit back .Thank you..The herald 13:58, 12 November 2014 (UTC)
- @The Herald:Hi Benison, thank you so much for taking the time to help me. I tried to make the article a little better, but it still is a little flimsy. Just have a look and tell me what you think Draft:Mandali_Mendrilla#Career On another note when I write on this page the Wiki contents are all over the page, and not on the left, no idea why that is, sincerely Madhu Gopal (talk) 13:27, 13 November 2014 (UTC)
- @Madhu Gopal:Yeh sure. I'll run a look. This page is like that due to my tab header. Never mind. It happens. Plus, have a look at Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Linking, specially Help:Link#Wikilinks so that you may not provide a url for a wikilink. You don't have to ping me while writing on my talk page. The notification is already sent to me--The herald 13:38, 13 November 2014 (UTC)
- @The Herald:Hi Benison, thank you so much for taking the time to help me. I tried to make the article a little better, but it still is a little flimsy. Just have a look and tell me what you think Draft:Mandali_Mendrilla#Career On another note when I write on this page the Wiki contents are all over the page, and not on the left, no idea why that is, sincerely Madhu Gopal (talk) 13:27, 13 November 2014 (UTC)
- Thank you. Let me know if I need to upgrade it etc. Madhu Gopal (talk) 16:26, 13 November 2014 (UTC)
- Dear Benison, by now you must have understood, I am somewhat of a beginner at Wikipedia and really need some help. Please tell me if the article is all right now, and what I need to do to make it better. I did added a lot of references,but I am also not super happy with it yet, still I would publish it. Please let me know what I need to do so it can be published? Sincerely yours Madhu Gopal (talk) 12:03, 15 November 2014 (UTC)
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Your Featured picture candidate has been promoted Your nomination for featured picture status, File:Great tit side-on.jpg, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Armbrust The Homunculus 13:36, 13 November 2014 (UTC)
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Hi The Herald, I don't know whether this is the right place to write this as I am new to Wikipedia. I had submitted an AFC : Nigel Akkara which was rejected by you stating suitable references were not given. Would you please ellaborate ?
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Planet Under Attack
Hello, Herald.
I got a message from you on Friday.
"Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did at Planets Under Attack. Your edits appear to be disruptive and have been reverted or removed.
If you are engaged in an article content dispute with another editor then please discuss the matter with the editor at their talk page, or the article's talk page. Alternatively you can read Wikipedia's dispute resolution page, and ask for independent help at one of the relevant notice boards. If you are engaged in any other form of dispute that is not covered on the dispute resolution page, please seek assistance at Wikipedia's Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents. Please ensure you are familiar with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines, and please do not continue to make edits that appear disruptive, until the dispute is resolved through consensus. Continuing to edit disruptively could result in loss of editing privileges. Thank you. The Herald 12:24, 14 November 2014 (UTC)"
Could you please explain me what exactly did I wrong? I represent Targem Games company which is a developer of this game and we own our pictures (as I understood right, the pics you deleted were a problem). So what should I do to add our pictures to our games?
Thank you in advance
Best regards
Tatiana Sinenkaia community manager tatyana_s@office.targem.ru http://www.targem.ru/en/
- Hello and Welcome to Wikipedia!!! Thank you for your contributions. You have done some edits, good but, sadly it disrupted the article. You must follow some rules to edit in Wikipedia and some of them are Wikipedia:List of policies and Wikipedia:Disruptive editing. Please see and ping me if any doubt remains. Thank you .--The herald 13:36, 17 November 2014 (UTC)
A tag has been placed on File:Late Night Tales Presents After Dark audio cover.jpg requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section F2 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is an image page for a missing or corrupt image or an empty image description page for a Commons-hosted image.
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Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Software changes this week
- The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf8) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since November 12. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from November 18, and on all Wikipedias from November 19 (calendar).
- The new search tool ("CirrusSearch") will be on the English Wikipedia from November 19. [9]
Move from Bugzilla to Phabricator
- The tool to track bugs will change on November 21.
- You won't be able to add or edit bugs between November 21 and November 24.
- You can make the change easier for you by creating your account.
- Bugzilla will be frozen after the change. You will see, edit and report bugs in Phabricator.
- You can join two IRC chats to learn more about the change. The chats will be on Tuesday, November 18 at 16:00 (UTC) and 23:00 UTC. [10]
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Copyright checks when performing AfC reviews
Hello The Herald. This message is part of a mass mailing to people who appear active in reviewing articles for creation submissions. First of all, thank you for taking part in this important work! I'm sorry this message is a form letter – it really was the only way I could think of to covey the issue economically. Of course, this also means that I have not looked to see whether the matter is applicable to you in particular.
The issue is in rather large numbers of copyright violations ("copyvios") making their way through AfC reviews without being detected (even when easy to check, and even when hallmarks of copyvios in the text that should have invited a check, were glaring). A second issue is the correct method of dealing with them when discovered.
If you don't do so already, I'd like to ask for your to help with this problem by taking on the practice of performing a copyvio check as the first step in any AfC review. The most basic method is to simply copy a unique but small portion of text from the draft body and run it through a search engine in quotation marks. Trying this from two different paragraphs is recommended. (If you have any question about whether the text was copied from the draft, rather than the other way around (a "backwards copyvio"), the Wayback Machine is very useful for sussing that out.)
If you do find a copyright violation, please do not decline the draft on that basis. Copyright violations need to be dealt with immediately as they may harm those whose content is being used and expose Wikipedia to potential legal liability. If the draft is substantially a copyvio, and there's no non-infringing version to revert to, please mark the page for speedy deletion right away using {{db-g12|url=URL of source}}. If there is an assertion of permission, please replace the draft article's content with {{subst:copyvio|url=URL of source}}.
Some of the more obvious indicia of a copyvio are use of the first person ("we/our/us..."), phrases like "this site", or apparent artifacts of content written for somewhere else ("top", "go to top", "next page", "click here", use of smartquotes, etc.); inappropriate tone of voice, such as an overly informal tone or a very slanted marketing voice with weasel words; including intellectual property symbols (™,®); and blocks of text being added all at once in a finished form with no misspellings or other errors.
I hope this message finds you well and thanks again you for your efforts in this area. Best regards--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 02:20, 18 November 2014 (UTC).
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Signpost
I've removed the lead image, not because it's not a great lead image, but because that'll be in next week's FC, not the one in prep. We pushed FC back a week so that we, at least in theory, have a whole week to work on it. =) Adam Cuerden (talk) 17:39, 18 November 2014 (UTC)
Well, it looks like I'm not quite ready to be turned loose with templates.
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| Thank you for guiding me along the way, and for the little fixes you do to make things better. Atsme☯Consult 15:49, 19 November 2014 (UTC) |
- @Atsme: Thanks a lot. Are you using Twinkle?--The herald 15:51, 19 November 2014 (UTC)
- The parts I know how to use. I need mentoring for that, too. ;-) Atsme☯Consult 16:52, 19 November 2014 (UTC)
- Sure..--The herald 15:29, 20 November 2014 (UTC)
- The parts I know how to use. I need mentoring for that, too. ;-) Atsme☯Consult 16:52, 19 November 2014 (UTC)
Please comment on Talk:Electronic cigarette
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FC
Heh. Just noticed: You've done all of next week's FAs by accident as well as this week's. We shifted FC because having the lists complete on Sunday, then having to get the FC ready for Wednesday was getting to be a pain. It didn't solve ALL the problems, but... =)
- Ok..We can do it next week....The herald 12:13, 22 November 2014 (UTC)
- Next week's almost done! Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2014-11-26/Featured_content - by the way, we definitely don't want to catch up a week.I need that extra lead-in time to get these out mostly on time, trying to do every one in three days was a nightmare. =) Adam Cuerden (talk) 00:19, 23 November 2014 (UTC)
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