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New administrator activity requirement

The administrator policy has been updated with new activity requirements following a successful Request for Comment.

Beginning January 1, 2023, administrators who meet one or both of the following criteria may be desysopped for inactivity if they have:

1. Made neither edits nor administrative actions for at least a 12-month period OR
2. Made fewer than 100 edits over a 60-month period

Administrators at risk for being desysopped under these criteria will continue to be notified ahead of time. Thank you for your continued work.

22:52, 15 April 2022 (UTC)

Disambiguation link notification for April 21

An automated process has detected that when you recently edited Muckle Hart of Benmore, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page Heather.

(Opt-out instructions.) --DPL bot (talk) 06:04, 21 April 2022 (UTC)

Concern regarding Draft:Basilica Minor under the invocation of the Blessed Lady Mary in Inowrocław

Hello, Calliopejen1. This is a bot-delivered message letting you know that Draft:Basilica Minor under the invocation of the Blessed Lady Mary in Inowrocław, a page you created, has not been edited in at least 5 months. Drafts that have not been edited for six months may be deleted, so if you wish to retain the page, please edit it again or request that it be moved to your userspace.

If the page has already been deleted, you can request it be undeleted so you can continue working on it.

Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia. FireflyBot (talk) 16:02, 21 April 2022 (UTC)

Petroleum industry in Iran

Petroleum industry in Iran has been nominated for an individual good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Chidgk1 (talk) 19:11, 27 April 2022 (UTC)

"Chick slaughtering" listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has identified a potential problem with the redirect Chick slaughtering and has thus listed it for discussion. This discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2022 April 29#Chick slaughtering until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. Steel1943 (talk) 10:13, 29 April 2022 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – May 2022

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• Following an RfC, a change has been made to the administrators inactivity policy. Under the new policy, if an administrator has not made at least 100 edits over a period of 5 years they may be desysopped for inactivity.
• Following a discussion on the bureaucrat's noticeboard, a change has been made to the bureaucrats inactivity policy.

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• The ability to undelete the associated talk page when undeleting a page has been added. This was the 11th wish of the 2021 Community Wishlist Survey.
• A public status system for WMF wikis has been created. It is located at https://www.wikimediastatus.net/ and is hosted separately to WMF wikis so in the case of an outage it will remain viewable.

Arbitration

• Remedy 2 of the St Christopher case has been rescinded following a motion. The remedy previously authorised administrators to place a ban on single-purpose accounts who were disruptively editing on the article St Christopher Iba Mar Diop College of Medicine or related pages from those pages.

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Question from JamTravelTips on Wikipedia:External links (19:54, 17 May 2022)

We have a travel blog and one blog is dedicated to Watkins Glen. Is this an appropriate link to include. This is our first attempt to add to an existing article.

Thanks --JamTravelTips (talk) 19:54, 17 May 2022 (UTC)

JamTravelTips-- Almost certainly not -- sorry. Calliopejen1 (talk) 19:59, 17 May 2022 (UTC)

Your draft article, Draft:Basilica Minor under the invocation of the Blessed Lady Mary in Inowrocław

Hello, Calliopejen1. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "Basilica Minor under the invocation of the Blessed Lady Mary in Inowrocław".

In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been deleted. If you plan on working on it further and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.

Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 22:34, 19 May 2022 (UTC)

Hello, Calliopejen1,

It looks like you moved this draft article, creating a redirect and then another editor built an article on it, replacing the redirect with content. But when Twinkle looks to notify the page creator of a page deletion, it looks for the first edit made to the page and so it saw you as the page creator. Sorry for this unnecessary notice. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 22:37, 19 May 2022 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – June 2022

News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2022).

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• Several areas of improvement collated from community member votes have been identified in the Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement guidelines. The areas of improvement have been sent back for review and you are invited to provide input on these areas.

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• Administrators using the mobile web interface can now access Special:Block directly from user pages. (T307341)
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• Remedy 2 of the Rachel Marsden case has been rescinded following a motion. The remedy previously authorised administrators to delete or reduce to a stub, together with their talk pages, articles related to Rachel Marsden when they violate Wikipedia's biographies of living persons policy.
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Question from Phrankdatank (03:39, 25 May 2022)

Hi Mentor. I just made my first edit a minor one and I guess I'm trying to understand how hyperlink (references) work and when to use them. Do you have suggestions for a beginner? --Phrankdatank (talk) 03:39, 25 May 2022 (UTC)

Hi Phrankdatank and sorry for the delay in responding! I assume this question is in reference to your edits on The Return of Godzilla. There are a couple of issues here. First, a fandom site is not an appropriate reference because it is user-generated content. An appropriate reference would be a book, newspaper article, academic journal article, or similar. (See WP:RS.) In general, however, any substantive edit you make (including the one you made to The Return of Godzilla) should be supported by a reliable-source reference. Help:VisualEditor has information on how to add references using the Visual Editor. Let me know if you have any further questions! Calliopejen1 (talk) 17:31, 30 May 2022 (UTC)

Thank you for the tips. Much appreciated Phrankdatank (talk) 06:26, 15 June 2022 (UTC)

Question from Mekash Shiferaw Kifelew (08:09, 30 June 2022)

How to organise my bibliography on Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia? --Mekash Shiferaw Kifelew (talk) 08:09, 30 June 2022 (UTC)

What article is this for? Please don't write an article about yourself, which it looks like you are starting to do at User:Mekash Shiferaw Kifelew. Calliopejen1 (talk) 16:04, 30 June 2022 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – July 2022

News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2022).

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• An arbitration case regarding conduct in deletion-related editing has been opened.

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• The New Pages Patrol queue has around 10,000 articles to be reviewed. As all administrators have the patrol right, please consider helping out. The queue is here. For further information on the state of the project, see the latest NPP newsletter.

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Speedy deletion nomination of Sudanese society

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A tag has been placed on Sudanese society requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G12 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page appears to be an unambiguous copyright infringement. This page appears to be a direct copy from http://countrystudies.us/sudan/45.htm. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images taken from other web sites or printed material, and as a consequence, your addition will most likely be deleted. You may use external websites or other printed material as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. This part is crucial: say it in your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing.

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Ploni - the source document is PD, as noted in the references (and now on the talk page as well). Calliopejen1 (talk) 23:26, 14 July 2022 (UTC)

Question from Morningmagichour (01:43, 15 July 2022)

Hi! I don't know if I have a specific question, but I've never created an article before. I did one and submitted it. Would you be willing to look at it? I'd love any advice or input.

https://en.wiki.x.io/wiki/Draft:Do_Revenge_(film) --Morningmagichour (talk) 01:43, 15 July 2022 (UTC)

Morningmagichour (talk · contribs) -- hi and welcome to wikipedia! My main concern is that this may not qualify for an article before it is released and reviewed. See WP:NFILM for the relevant rules. I'd recommend asking at WT:FILM for their input. Good luck! Calliopejen1 (talk) 20:33, 20 July 2022 (UTC)

Sudanese society moved to draftspace

An article you recently created, Sudanese society, is not suitable 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:" before the article title) where you can incubate the article with minimal disruption. When you feel the article meets Wikipedia's general notability guideline and thus is ready for mainspace, please click on the "Submit your draft for review!" button at the top of the page. scope_creep^Talk 15:01, 21 July 2022 (UTC)

Sudanese society

Hi @Calliopejen1: I see you wrote this article. I thought it was Wiki-ed student or something like that, that wrote it? Why did you only use a single reference. Do you not care about policies like WP:NPOV, balance and historical accuracy? I see its popped back up WP:NPP and reviewing it The thing has a single ref which means it completly breaks WP:NPOV, doesn't provide a balanced view of the subject and is mostly subjective, as its seems one persons view.It may be a long standing but is because of covid and nobody was reviewing during that period, otherwise it would be sent to draft in a New York second. What am I supposed to do with it? Do you plan to add more academic sourcing? scope_creep^Talk 14:17, 22 July 2022 (UTC)

Do you have a reason to believe that it is unbalanced, non-neutral, or inaccurate? I don't. I'm not sure what you mean by "one person's view"--it is from a published reliable source. You can see the bibliography for the chapter in which the discussion of Sudanese society appears here and the author's discussion of the sources he relied on here-- Bechtold isn't just making this content up. I think this article is an adequate start that other editors may improve on. If you disagree with me, feel free to nominate for deletion. Calliopejen1 (talk) 23:24, 26 July 2022 (UTC)

By the way, I wholly agree that it needs additional sources, which is why I tagged it with the one-source tag when I created it. But in the meantime, having the article is a net positive. Calliopejen1 (talk) 23:37, 26 July 2022 (UTC)

Happy Fifteenth Adminship Anniversary!

Wishing Calliopejen1 a very happy adminship anniversary on behalf of the Wikipedia Birthday Committee! Chris Troutman (talk) 20:11, 31 July 2022 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – August 2022

News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2022).

Administrator changes

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Guideline and policy news

• An RfC has been closed with consensus to add javascript that will show edit notices for editors editing via a mobile device. This only works for users using a mobile browser, so iOS app editors will still not be able to see edit notices.
• An RfC has been closed with the consensus that train stations are not inherently notable.

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• The Wikimania 2022 Hackathon will take place virtually from 11 August to 14 August.
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Arbitration

• The arbitration case request Geschichte has been automatically closed after a 3 month suspension of the case.

Miscellaneous

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Daphne Guinness article

Hi, I noticed that you are a member of the Fashion WikiProject, so I was wondering if you might be willing to take a look at some suggestions I made to update the Daphne Guinness page, which is really out of date. I’m not able to propose these changes directly since I have a personal connection to the subject, which I’m given to understand means I have a COI. Thanks in advance. YhSA99b3tTnCnLdr (talk) 19:01, 8 August 2022 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:Population pyramid cambodia

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Administrators' newsletter – September 2022

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• The impact report on the effects of disabling IP editing on the Persian (Farsi) Wikipedia has been released.
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Arbitration

• An arbitration case regarding Conduct in deletion-related editing has been closed. The Arbitration Committee passed a remedy as part of the final decision to create a request for comment (RfC) on how to handle mass nominations at Articles for Deletion (AfD).
• The arbitration case request Jonathunder has been automatically closed after a 6 month suspension of the case.

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Question from Marcus L Broadbent (12:18, 5 September 2022)

Hallo, it would appear that you are my Wikipedia mentor.

Firstly let me thank you for offering to mentor.

I would very much like to create a Wikipedia page about my great-aunt Margaret M. Green who was a pioneering anthropologist who lived for years in Nigeria before the 2nd War and then went on to teach Ibo (Igbo) in the London School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS).

I have absolutely no idea how to go about creating a page about her but I feel strongly she deserves to be better known.

Many thanks for your help

Marcus Broadbent --Marcus L Broadbent (talk) 12:18, 5 September 2022 (UTC)

Hi Marcus L Broadbent and welcome to Wikipedia! The first question will be whether your great aunt qualifies for a Wikipedia page based on WP:NBIO and/or WP:NPROF. Looking at the citations to her works on Google Scholar, I somewhat doubt she qualifies through WP:NPROF, but I could be wrong. (That is, I don't think she is widely cited enough to qualify.) For WP:NBIO, I am not seeing a lot of reliable-source coverage of her. What are the three most in-depth sources about her? I'm thinking things like obituaries published in academic journals, passages/chapters in books about her (i.e. books written by others including info about her life), obituaries by journalists (not family) about her in significant newspapers. If you can provide the three best sources you can find, I can give you my thoughts about whether she qualifies. You can also ask for additional help at WT:WIR which is where a lot of editors interested in writing biographies about women hang out. Finally, I caution you that it can be difficult to write about subjects that you're connected to -- see WP:COI for more guidance. Calliopejen1 (talk) 23:21, 5 September 2022 (UTC)

Question from Iamlielac on User talk:Nythar (06:53, 12 September 2022)

Hi com working on my page and am new to it. It just got deleted. I'm not sure how to fix it, really would have appreciated someone talking to me first about it. I would just like some guidance. --Iamlielac (talk) 06:53, 12 September 2022 (UTC)

Sorry, Lie*lac does not qualify for a Wikipedia article. See WP:NBIO and WP:NMUSIC. Once she has become much more successful, you may be able to try again. Also please read WP:PSCOI. Thanks! Calliopejen1 (talk) 04:01, 13 September 2022 (UTC)

"Tarn Vikings (Heroscape)" listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has identified a potential problem with the redirect Tarn Vikings (Heroscape) and has thus listed it for discussion. This discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2022 September 14#Tarn Vikings (Heroscape) until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. TNstingray (talk) 12:41, 14 September 2022 (UTC)

Question from MICKENOI (07:48, 17 September 2022)

MOHD REMBAU --MICKENOI (talk) 07:48, 17 September 2022 (UTC)

Question from Worthy-dreamer (12:24, 30 September 2022)

hello describe atmosphericpressure --Worthy-dreamer (talk) 12:24, 30 September 2022 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – October 2022

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• Following an RfC, consensus was found that if the rationale for a block depends on information that is not available to all administrators, that information should be sent to the Arbitration Committee, a checkuser or an oversighter for action (as applicable, per ArbCom's recent updated guidance) instead of the administrator making the block.
• Following an RfC, consensus has been found that, in the context of politics and science, the reliability of FoxNews.com is unclear and that additional considerations apply to its use.
• Community comment on the revised Universal Code of Conduct enforcement guidelines is requested until 8 October.

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• The Articles for creation helper script now automatically recognises administrator accounts which means your name does not need to be listed at WP:AFCP to help out. If you wish to help out at AFC, enable AFCH by navigating to Preferences → Gadgets and checking the "Yet Another AfC Helper Script" box.

Arbitration

• Remedy 8.1 of the Muhammad images case will be rescinded 1 November following a motion.
• A modification to the deletion RfC remedy in the Conduct in deletion-related editing case has been made to reaffirm the independence of the RfC and allow the moderators to split the RfC in two.
• The second phase of the 2021-22 Discretionary Sanctions Review closes 3 October.

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• You are invited to comment on candidates in the 2022 CUOS appointments process.
• An RfC is open to discuss whether to make Vector 2022 the default skin on desktop.
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Question from Archerabc (04:53, 11 October 2022)

hi can you make a f1 championship 2022 page? --Archerabc (talk) 04:53, 11 October 2022 (UTC)

Question from Archerabc (04:53, 11 October 2022) (2)

thanks! --Archerabc (talk) 04:53, 11 October 2022 (UTC)

Hi Archerabc and welcome to Wikipedia! I would recommend beginning with editing pages instead of creating them, because that's a better way to learn the ropes. But if you want to start a new article, check out WP:YFA for advice. And either way I recommend heading to WT:F1 and asking any questions you have there! That's where editors interested in F1 can connect with each other. Calliopejen1 (talk) 06:04, 11 October 2022 (UTC)

thanks i'll try something of the sort Archerabc (talk) 23:06, 11 October 2022 (UTC)

A pie for you!

hi Archerabc (talk) 04:45, 12 October 2022 (UTC)

Question from Archerabc (04:46, 12 October 2022)

how do i edit a page? --Archerabc (talk) 04:46, 12 October 2022 (UTC)

Archerabc - See Help:Introduction. Calliopejen1 (talk) 17:44, 12 October 2022 (UTC)

ok thank so much!

i'll try it Archerabc (talk) 04:15, 13 October 2022 (UTC)

Question from Baboon65 (16:51, 16 October 2022)

hi --Baboon65 (talk) 16:51, 16 October 2022 (UTC)

Draft inquiry

hi,

can I please know when is my article is going to publish? Thestoryteller94 (talk) 12:40, 25 October 2022 (UTC)

Hi Thestoryteller94, you had not submitted your draft for review. I just did that for you. Drafts are not reviewed in any particular order, so it could be reviewed in hours, or it may take weeks. Good luck! Calliopejen1 (talk) 18:53, 27 October 2022 (UTC)

Question from Pvenkata0711 (23:12, 31 October 2022)

I have added some new sources and links to the page [T S Nandakumar] , Please let me know your thoughts on this. Also i have many newspaper cuttings. Would you help me on this as i can send them to you or would you be able to help me as how to add that newspaper articles online. --Pvenkata0711 (talk) 23:12, 31 October 2022 (UTC)

Question from Pvenkata0711 (23:14, 31 October 2022)

I have many newspaper article of T S Nandakumar, Can i upload it ? Also can you put this deletion on hold until i upload these articles in google books ? Also can you let me know how much time will i get to upload this or can this deletion be put on hold - Thank You --Pvenkata0711 (talk) 23:14, 31 October 2022 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – November 2022

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• The article creation at scale RfC opened on 3 October and will be open until at least 2 November.
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Arbitration

• Eligible editors are invited to self-nominate themselves from 13 November 2022 until 22 November 2022 to stand in the 2022 Arbitration Committee elections.
• The arbitration case request titled Athaenara has been resolved by motion.
• The arbitration case Reversal and reinstatement of Athaenara's block has entered the proposed decision stage.
• AmandaNP, Mz7 and Cyberpower678 have been appointed to the Electoral Commission for the 2022 Arbitration Committee Elections. Xaosflux and Dr vulpes are reserve commissioners.

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• The 2022 CheckUser and Oversight appointments process has concluded with the appointment of two new CheckUsers.
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Question from Pvenkata0711 (23:15, 31 October 2022)

Hi , Could you please help me in improving https://en.wiki.x.io/wiki/T._S._Nandakumar page , I have added additional resources and sources. I have many newspaper cuttings, Not sure how to upload them in google news. Could you please help me in doing that. I tried uploading it but i didn't see an option for PDF to publish a newspaper article or something specific is required. --Pvenkata0711 (talk) 23:15, 31 October 2022 (UTC)

Pvenkata0711-- Hi. If you have newspaper cuttings, those are presumably copyrighted and therefore cannot be added to Wikipedia or any of its sister sites (e.g. Wikimedia Commons, where images go). You can cite a newspaper article even if it is not available online by providing the relevant bibliographic (article title, author if there is a byline, publication, date, page). You could consider uploading the cuttings to another site (e.g. Flickr) if you want others to be able to see them in the deletion discussion. Calliopejen1 (talk) 13:14, 1 November 2022 (UTC)

Pvenkata0711 - I've looked at the article and think it definitely has issues. There are a ton of references but none are high-quality in depth articles. I'd recommending reading WP:THREE and offering to identify the three top references at the deletion discussion. Calliopejen1 (talk) 17:31, 1 November 2022 (UTC)

Question from JJGreenwell on 2 Chainz (18:18, 20 November 2022)

Hi. I noticed that in 2 Chainz, “College Basketball Career” section. There is a supposed quote from 2 Chainz, disparaging Wikipedia. I don't know if that is either allowed, or appropriate. Here is the quote in question which doesn't even mention Basketball... “ ‘Truuu’ or False: You graduated from Alabama State in four years with a 4.0 GPA, which is what Wikipedia says. Don't believe anything on Wack-ipedia. There's a lot of false stuff on there, to the point that every time I try to fix one thing, something else comes out. ” --Joshua J Greenwell JJGreenwell ( talk) 18:18, 20 November 2022 (UTC)

This seems fine and appropriate to me. Calliopejen1 (talk) 19:07, 21 November 2022 (UTC)

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Administrators' newsletter – December 2022

News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2022).

Administrator changes

• Eddie891
• Euryalus
• TheresNoTime

• Alex.muller
• Excirial
• RedWordSmith
• Ron Ritzman
• TheresNoTime
• Stephen

Interface administrator changes

TheresNoTime

TheresNoTime

CheckUser changes

TheresNoTime

Oversight changes

TheresNoTime

Guideline and policy news

• Consensus has been found in an RfC to automatically place RfAs on hold after one week.
• The article creation at scale RfC has been closed.
• An RfC on the banners for the December 2022 fundraising campaign has been closed.

Technical news

• A new preference named "Enable limited width mode" has been added to the Vector 2022 skin. The preference is also shown as a toggle on every page if your monitor is 1600 pixels or wider. When disabled it removes the whitespace added by Vector 2022 on the left and right of the page content. Disabling this preference has the same effect as enabling the wide-vector-2022 gadget. (T319449)

Arbitration

• Eligible users are invited to vote on candidates for the Arbitration Committee until 23:59 December 12, 2022 (UTC). Candidate statements can be seen here.
• The proposed decision for the 2021-22 review of the discretionary sanctions system is open.
• The arbitration case Reversal and reinstatement of Athaenara's block has been closed.
• The arbitration case Stephen has been opened and the proposed decision is expected 1 December 2022.
• A motion has modified the procedures for contacting an admin facing Level 2 desysop.

Miscellaneous

• Tech tip: A single IPv6 connection usually has access to a "subnet" of 18 quintillion IPs. Add /64 to the end of an IP in Special:Contributions to see all of a subnet's edits, and consider blocking the whole subnet rather than an IP that may change within a minute.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mariano Montealegre Fernández

Hello, Calliopejen1,

It looks like you were not notified of this AFD discussion on an article you created so I'm notifying you now. Hope you are doing well this busy time of year. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 21:07, 6 December 2022 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Mariano Montealegre Bustamante

The article Mariano Montealegre Bustamante has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

No effective sources. Tag has been placed since 2009. The Spanish WP article is also unsourced.

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. scope_creep^Talk 11:35, 10 December 2022 (UTC)

Question from Fadrees20 on Grammarly (09:35, 27 December 2022)

The Secrets to Better Digestive and Guts Health"

Understanding Steps on How to Improve Gut Health for Better Overall Well-Being plus Restoring a Good Digestive Health"

Lucy Densmore

Copyright© 2022 by [Lucy Densmore]

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, including photocopying, recording, or other electronic or mechanical methods, without the prior written permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical reviews and certain other noncommercial uses permitted by copyright law.

Book contents

CHAPTER ONE

Mary made the decision to follow the steps that are listed below since she was having issues with her digestive system and gut. Analyzing her nutrition and way of life was the first step. Mary discovered that she was consuming an excessive amount of processed foods and was not consuming enough fiber. She started consuming more healthful whole foods including fruits, veggies, nuts, and seeds.

In addition, Mary adopted a particular supplement regimen that was intended to support her digestion, aid in gut healing, and give her body the nutrition it required to feel better. She supplemented this with a regular exercise routine and the use of stress-reduction methods. The modifications started to take effect gradually but steadily. Her digestive and intestinal difficulties soon began to get better. She was happy with her development and eventually made a full recovery over the following few months.

Mary is currently making careful to keep up the improvements she made and feels better than ever! She not only was able to fix her stomach and digestion difficulties, but she has also noticed an increase in her energy level and a general improvement in her general outlook on life.

The digestive tract and other organs that aid in the body's digestion and absorption of food make up the digestive system. It is a protracted, twisted --Fadrees20 (talk) 09:35, 27 December 2022 (UTC)

Question from Jmcquirter (22:57, 29 December 2022)

Hello, Please help me to learn how to include my family, friends and associates information for Wikipedia searches. --Jmcquirter (talk) 22:57, 29 December 2022 (UTC)

Hi, and welcome to Wikipedia. We discourage people from writing about subjects for which they have a conflict of interest. See WP:COI. Calliopejen1 (talk) 09:39, 30 December 2022 (UTC)

Happy New Year, Calliopejen1!

Happy New Year!

Calliopejen1,
Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia.
— Moops ^⋠T⋡ 02:53, 2 January 2023 (UTC)

   Send New Year cheer by adding {{subst:Happy New Year fireworks}} to user talk pages.

— Moops ^⋠T⋡ 02:53, 2 January 2023 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – January 2023

News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2022).

Administrator changes

• ComplexRational
• Extraordinary Writ

Stephen

• Andrew Yong
• Dbenbenn
• DESiegel
• GlassCobra
• Joe Decker
• Nancy
• Pathoschild
• StuffOfInterest
• William Pietri
• Wwwwolf
• Xdamr

Interface administrator changes

Nihiltres

CheckUser changes

Moneytrees

• Ivanvector
• SilkTork

Oversighter changes

• GeneralNotability
• Moneytrees

• Guerillero
• SilkTork

Guideline and policy news

• Speedy deletion criterion A5 (transwikied articles) has been repealed following an unopposed proposal.

Arbitration

• Following the 2022 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been appointed to the Arbitration Committee: Barkeep49, CaptainEek, GeneralNotability, Guerillero, L235, Moneytrees, Primefac, SilkTork.
• The 2021-22 Discretionary Sanctions Review has concluded with many changes to the discretionary sanctions procedure including a change of the name to "contentious topics". The changes are being implemented over the coming month.
• The arbitration case Stephen has been closed.

Miscellaneous

• Voting for the Sound Logo has closed and the winner is expected to be announced February to April 2023.
• Tech tip: You can view information about IP addresses in a centralised location using bullseye which won the Newcomer award in the recent Coolest Tool Awards.

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Question from Howaydaa (10:29, 13 January 2023)

Hello Sir, how are you? I have created my first page on WikiPedia https://en.wiki.x.io/wiki/Draft:Masdar_Green_Hydrogen, I have created for a reference from my friend. Its only based on information of Masdar's unit. Masdar is a UAE-government owned renewable energy company. Spam free content :) --Howayda Alame (talk) 10:29, 13 January 2023 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – February 2023

News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2023).

Administrator changes

Gimmetrow

• Bjelleklang
• Bob the Wikipedian
• Leithp
• WhisperToMe
• 100 inactive admins

CheckUser changes

• BDD
• Bradv
• Donald Albury
• Maxim
• MusikAnimal

Oversighter changes

• BDD
• Bradv
• Donald Albury
• Maxim

Guideline and policy news

• Following an RfC, the administrator policy now requires that prior written consent be gained from the Arbitration Committee to mark a block as only appealable to the committee.
• Following a community discussion, consensus has been found to impose the extended-confirmed restriction over the topic areas of Armenia and Azerbaijan and Kurds and Kurdistan.

Technical news

• The Vector 2022 skin has become the default for desktop users of the English Wikipedia.

Arbitration

• The arbitration case Armenia-Azerbaijan 3 has been opened and the proposed decision is expected 24 February 2023.
• In December, the contentious topics procedure was adopted which replaces the former discretionary sanctions system. The contentious topics procedure is now in effect following an initial implementation period. There is a detailed summary of the changes and administrator instructions for the new procedure. The arbitration clerk team are taking suggestions, concerns, and unresolved questions about this new system at their noticeboard.

Miscellaneous

• Voting in the 2023 Steward elections will begin on 05 February 2023, 21:00 (UTC) and end on 26 February 2023, 21:00 (UTC). The confirmation process of current stewards is being held in parallel. You can automatically check your eligibility to vote.
• Voting in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey will begin on 10 February 2023 and end on 24 February 2023. You can submit, discuss and revise proposals until 6 February 2023.
• Tech tip: Syntax highlighting is available in both the 2011 and 2017 Wikitext editors. It can help make editing paragraphs with many references or complicated templates easier.

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Question from HaveYouHeardAboutTheBird (21:26, 2 February 2023)

Hi there. I was just wonder if, when I make a edit and I have to describe it, do I have to describe in a particular way? Like, do I have to use encyclopedic prose and stuff? Get back to me when you can. --HaveYouHeardAboutTheBird (talk) 21:26, 2 February 2023 (UTC)

HaveYouHeardAboutTheBird, you mean like if there is anything special you need to say in the edit summary? No, just describe what you did in plain English! Good luck! Calliopejen1 (talk) 19:09, 3 February 2023 (UTC)

Thanks. HaveYouHeardAboutTheBird (talk) 21:11, 3 February 2023 (UTC)

Question from John Halbleib (12:32, 4 February 2023)

Hi Jen. I was attempting to update the band Cold Blood’s current members to include myself and move a deceased member, Rich Armstrong to “former members.”

People I’m trying to add: John Halbleib - Trumpet, Harmonica Dana Moret - Vocals Fred Ross - Vocals

A source for the passing of Rich Armstrong is here. https://www.jazzmafia.com/richarmstrong

Could you perhaps help me make these changes and enter the link I posted above as a reference? Please let me know,

Thanks John --John Halbleib (talk) 12:32, 4 February 2023 (UTC)

John Halbleib Do you have a reference showing that you, Dana, and Fred are in the band now? Right now you haven't done it quite right because the source you cited for you being in the band doesn't mention you. Calliopejen1 (talk) 21:46, 4 February 2023 (UTC)

Right now my “references” would be mostly emails telling us when gigs are, videos and photos of me playing with the band. I’ll get the bandleader to change the Official Website.

Right this moment I’m busy getting ready for our Cold Blood gig tonight in Redwood City at Club Fox where myself, Dana and Fred are all performing and we’re taking new band photos. Thanks for the message. John Halbleib (talk) 23:52, 4 February 2023 (UTC)

Yes, please have them change the official website so that can be cited! Calliopejen1 (talk) 05:59, 5 February 2023 (UTC)

Question from HaveYouHeardAboutTheBird (02:09, 4 February 2023)

Hey, sometimes a citation is needed for a statement and I try looking for a source. What's the best way of going about that? I try to just highlight the statement, right click it, and search it up, but but I've gotten mixed results when I try this. --HaveYouHeardAboutTheBird (talk) 02:09, 4 February 2023 (UTC)

HaveYouHeardAboutTheBird it depends on what you're trying to find sources for. Google Books, jstor/Google Scholar, and searching news articles generally works best. What subject area are you working in? Calliopejen1 (talk) 21:42, 4 February 2023 (UTC)

I remeber recently trying and failing to find sources relating to media, with less then quality results. For instance, the other day I editing the page for The Cleveland Show and I was looking for a source for one of the quoted reviews. I tried copy and pasting the quote and doing keywords searches for the article and it's author, but I couldn't find it. Maybe I should've tried limiting my search to a certain year or something? HaveYouHeardAboutTheBird (talk) 20:05, 5 February 2023 (UTC)

If you know what publication it's from, you could do a search like "this is the quote i'm looking for" site:nytimes.com which will only pull from the specified website. If you don't, that's harder. Once you're a more established editor, you can sign up for The Wikipedia Library which would give you access to various databases, including databases of news articles, which would make searching for quotations like this somewhat easier. Often things disappear from the public internet but are still available via these databases. Calliopejen1 (talk) 16:48, 6 February 2023 (UTC)

Question from Stucher (17:14, 21 February 2023)

HELLO,How are you going to assist me? --Stucher (talk) 17:14, 21 February 2023 (UTC)

Stucher I can answer questions you have about editing Wikipedia. Do you have any questions? Calliopejen1 (talk) 19:43, 21 February 2023 (UTC)

Question from Nithyasarvesh (13:17, 19 February 2023)

Hello! I have a doubt on editing. How can I create a new heading in an article? --Nithyasarvesh (talk) 13:17, 19 February 2023 (UTC)

Nithyasarvesh I recommend using the Visual Editor, which I believe is the default for new users. To create a heading, write a line of text and then change the "Paragraph" drop-down (see File:VisualEditor Toolbar Headings-en.png) to say "Heading" or "Sub-heading". More info is available at Help:VisualEditor. Calliopejen1 (talk) 19:46, 21 February 2023 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – March 2023

News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2023).

Administrator changes

The Wordsmith

• Fuhghettaboutit
• Spinningspark (deceased)

CheckUser changes

Callanecc

Oversighter changes

Callanecc

Guideline and policy news

• Following a request for comment, F10 (useless non-media files) has been deprecated.
• Following a request for comment, the Portal CSD criteria (P1 (portal subject to CSD as an article) and P2 (underpopulated portal)) have been deprecated.
• A request for comment is open to discuss making the closing instructions for the requested moves process a guideline.

Technical news

• The results of the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey have been posted.

Arbitration

• Remedy 11 ("Request for Comment") of the Conduct in deletion-related editing case has been rescinded.
• The proposed decision for the Armenia-Azerbaijan 3 case is expected 7 March 2023.
• A case related to the Holocaust in Poland is expected to be opened soon.

Miscellaneous

• The 2023 appointees for the Ombuds commission are AGK, Ameisenigel, Bennylin, Daniuu, Emufarmers, Faendalimas, JJMC89, MdsShakil, Minorax and Renvoy as regular members and Zabe as advisory members.
• Following the 2023 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: Mykola7, Superpes15, and Xaosflux.
• The Terms of Use update cycle has started, which includes a [p]roposal for better addressing undisclosed paid editing. Feedback is being accepted until 24 April 2023.

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Question from Twofeatherstkl (10:49, 2 March 2023)

I want to make a contribution for music albums and artist --Twofeatherstkl (talk) 10:49, 2 March 2023 (UTC)

Question from Twofeatherstkl (02:08, 3 March 2023)

Wayne Ray Chavis has six albums and one million followers how do I list it on Wikipedia and wikidata --Twofeatherstkl (talk) 02:08, 3 March 2023 (UTC)

Question from Twofeatherstkl (00:13, 8 March 2023)

Hello --Twofeatherstkl (talk) 00:13, 8 March 2023 (UTC)

Question from Twofeatherstkl (02:32, 1 March 2023)

How do I list an album of music --Twofeatherstkl (talk) 02:32, 1 March 2023 (UTC)

I dont understand your question. Like create a new article about an album? If so, what is the album and who is it by? Calliopejen1 (talk) 03:44, 1 March 2023 (UTC)

Wayne Ray Chavis has six albums and 40singles released over one million followers, fans around the world and is not on Wikipedia, how do I make a page for this incredible solo recording artist Twofeatherstkl (talk) 00:19, 8 March 2023 (UTC)

Question from HaveYouHeardAboutTheBird (17:56, 3 March 2023)

Hey, I'm having some confusion over something. When inserting a template into an article, how do I make sure it displays properly? I ask because I recently put a citation needed template for the page for Mad (TV Series) and it displays as [[Category:Articles with unsourced statements from March {{subst:2013}}]][citation needed] rather then simply [citation needed.] Please Help! --HaveYouHeardAboutTheBird (talk) 17:56, 3 March 2023 (UTC)

HaveYouHeardAboutTheBird I have had this happen to me occasionally in what I think is a bug with the Visual Editor. If you switch to source mode and just replace whatever the mess is with {{citation needed}} (or {{fact}} which redirects to the same thing) that should fix it, if someone else hasn't fixed it already. Calliopejen1 (talk) 00:43, 8 March 2023 (UTC)

Question from Twofeatherstkl (00:15, 8 March 2023)

I'm asking how do I get a page published for an individual and Songwriter Recording artist and his solo albums --Twofeatherstkl (talk) 00:15, 8 March 2023 (UTC)

Twofeatherstkl, what is his name and how does he satisfy WP:NMUSIC? What are the three best sources (most in-depth, highest-quality publications) that demonstrate his notability? Calliopejen1 (talk) 00:37, 8 March 2023 (UTC)

I see you mentioned Wayne Ray Chavis above. FWIW based on an initial Google search I don't think he qualifies for an article. But go ahead and answer my questions, in case I'm missing something. Calliopejen1 (talk) 00:40, 8 March 2023 (UTC)

I'm not sure what you are looking for exactly Twofeatherstkl (talk) 12:12, 8 March 2023 (UTC)

Twofeatherstkl What are the three best sources (most in-depth, highest-quality publications) that demonstrate Chavis's notability under WP:NMUSIC? Calliopejen1 (talk) 16:27, 8 March 2023 (UTC)

Question from The Elev (09:37, 12 March 2023)

I would love to learn from you. I was editing a wiki page for myself. But, Vinegarymass911 has deleted that one under G11. Will you help me to write that page perfectly, that can be a permanent and good publicly published article? --The Elev (talk) 09:37, 12 March 2023 (UTC)

The Elev Sorry, but he doesn’t qualify for an article. See WP:NBIO. Calliopejen1 (talk) 00:51, 13 March 2023 (UTC)

Question from HaveYouHeardAboutTheBird (23:48, 18 March 2023)

Hi there. I noticed some citations for dead links are replaced with citations leading to The Wayback Machine's snapshots. I want to know how I put the thing that says "Citation. Archived from the original. Retrieved from blah, blah, blah." You know what I'm talking about? --HaveYouHeardAboutTheBird (talk) 23:48, 18 March 2023 (UTC)

Nomination of Ògbójú Ọdẹ nínú Igbó Irúnmọlẹ̀ for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Ògbójú Ọdẹ nínú Igbó Irúnmọlẹ̀ is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ògbójú Ọdẹ nínú Igbó Irúnmọlẹ̀ until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article until the discussion has finished.

––– GMH MELBOURNE TALK 14:56, 4 April 2023 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – April 2023

News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2023).

Administrator changes

Aoidh

KillerChihuahua

CheckUser changes

Ferret

Guideline and policy news

• A community RfC is open to discuss whether reports primarily involving gender-related disputes or controversies should be referred to the Arbitration enforcement noticeboard.

Technical news

• Some older web browsers will not be able to use JavaScript on Wikimedia wikis starting this week. This mainly affects users of Internet Explorer 11. (T178356)
• The rollback of Vector 2022 RfC has found no consensus to rollback to Vector legacy, but has found rough consensus to disable "limited width" mode by default.
• A link to the user's Special:CentralAuth page will now appear in the subtitle links shown on Special:Contributions. This was voted #17 in the Community Wishlist Survey 2023.

Arbitration

• The Armenia-Azerbaijan 3 case has been closed.
• A case about World War II and the history of Jews in Poland has been opened, with the first evidence phase closing 6 April 2023.

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Nomination of Spring 2008 New York Fashion Week for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Spring 2008 New York Fashion Week is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Spring 2008 New York Fashion Week until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article until the discussion has finished.

Natg 19 (talk) 21:25, 5 April 2023 (UTC)

Question from Douweziel (12:04, 19 April 2023)

Hello Jen!

I want to expand Cannabis (drug)'s rather small section of "Fatality". For instance, the 2nd part says "A 16-month survey of Oregon and Alaska emergency departments found a report of the death of an adult who had been admitted for acute cannabis toxicity.[60]" - nothing more.

That source is a review, and that section of the review (about the Oregon and Alaska EDs) links to a primary (or somewhat secondary) source "Acute cannabis toxicity", published in Clinical Toxicology. It provides a more detailed account of this death, mentioning his age (70) and relating it to pre-existing cardiovascular problems - which seems quite important in this context on the wiki. (and this section, itself, links to another primary source published in Clin.Tox., further detailing the same).

Because these two sources are primary, I was wondering what info I can and cannot add to this sentence regarding this death. I was thinking of changing it to the following:

A 16-month survey of Oregon and Alaska emergency departments found a report of the death of a 70-year-old man who had been admitted for acute cannabis toxicity. Later autopsy revealed several pre-existing cardiovascular diseases, such as acute myocardial infarction and multiple coronary artery disease. Additionally, a week before his hospitalization and subsequent death he was diagnosed with anemia due to a bleeding duodenal ulcer attributed to non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) use.

What do you think? --Douweziel (talk) 12:04, 19 April 2023 (UTC)

Posted this here because a discussion of this question on the talk page was prematurely ended ("I shall not respond further"), leaving me no wiser, and I felt stuck. However, I hadn't seen additional info later edited in that did leave me wiser! Douweziel (talk) 23:36, 19 April 2023 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – May 2023

News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2023).

Administrator changes

Spicy

• Ale jrb
• Dbachmann
• DGG (deceased)
• Jimbo Wales

CheckUser changes

Jimbo Wales

Oversighter changes

Jimbo Wales

Guideline and policy news

• A request for comment about removing administrative privileges in specified situations is open for feedback.

Technical news

• Progress has started on the Page Triage improvement project. This is to address the concerns raised by the community in their 2022 WMF letter that requested improvements be made to the tool.

Arbitration

• The proposed decision in the World War II and the history of Jews in Poland case is expected 11 May 2023.

Miscellaneous

• The Wikimedia Foundation annual plan 2023-2024 draft is open for comment and input through May 19. The final plan will be published in July 2023.

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Question from Renavid (07:05, 4 May 2023)

Hey there. How's it going? --Renavid (talk) 07:05, 4 May 2023 (UTC)

Question from HaveYouHeardAboutTheBird (17:56, 10 May 2023)

Hello. I know this is probably a extremely plebeian question, but how do I easily change how text is shown on screen? What I mean by that is how do I write Italicized and then go back to writing in the normal looking text? --HaveYouHeardAboutTheBird (talk) 17:56, 10 May 2023 (UTC)

Question from Bucc Stone (04:48, 25 May 2023)

I was recently recognized as Rochester NY's Small Business Person of the Year, and I will be launching my website very soon. I was looking to create a Wikipedia page for myself and would appreciate any advice you could offer about doing so. Thanks! --Bucc Stone (talk) 04:48, 25 May 2023 (UTC)

Bucc Stone I strongly recommend against creating an autobiography. Calliopejen1 (talk) 15:53, 25 May 2023 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – June 2023

News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2023).

Administrator changes

Ingenuity

• Ddstretch
• Prodego
• Resolute

CheckUser changes

Courcelles

Guideline and policy news

• Following an RfC, editors indefinitely site-banned by community consensus will now have all rights, including sysop, removed.
• As a part of the Wikimedia Foundation's IP Masking project, a new policy has been created that governs the access to temporary account IP addresses. An associated FAQ has been created and individual communities can increase the requirements to view temporary account IP addresses.

Technical news

• Bot operators and tool maintainers should schedule time in the coming months to test and update their tools for the effects of IP masking. IP masking will not be deployed to any content wiki until at least October 2023 and is unlikely to be deployed to the English Wikipedia until some time in 2024.

Arbitration

• The arbitration case World War II and the history of Jews in Poland has been closed. The topic area of Polish history during World War II (1933-1945) and the history of Jews in Poland is subject to a "reliable source consensus-required" contentious topic restriction.

Miscellaneous

• Following a community referendum, the arbitration policy has been modified to remove the ability for users to appeal remedies to Jimbo Wales.

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Nomination of Anett Griffel for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Anett Griffel is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Anett Griffel until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article until the discussion has finished.

UtherSRG (talk) 16:07, 6 June 2023 (UTC)

Nomination of Polina Kuklina for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Polina Kuklina is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Polina Kuklina (2nd nomination) until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article until the discussion has finished.

UtherSRG (talk) 15:09, 7 June 2023 (UTC)

Nomination of Ana Mihajlović for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Ana Mihajlović is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ana Mihajlović until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article until the discussion has finished.

UtherSRG (talk) 12:16, 8 June 2023 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – July 2023

News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2023).

Administrator changes

Novem Linguae

• Deckiller
• Electionworld
• MBisanz
• Penwhale
• Raul654
• Roadrunner
• Viridae
• Yannismarou

Bureaucrat changes

MBisanz

Guideline and policy news

• Contributions to the English Wikipedia are now released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0) license instead of CC BY-SA 3.0. Contributions are still also released under the GFDL license.

Technical news

• Discussion is open regarding a proposed global policy regarding third-party resources. Third-party resources are computer resources that reside outside of Wikimedia production websites.

Arbitration

• Two arbitration cases are currently open. Proposed decisions are expected 5 July 2023 for the Scottywong case and 9 July 2023 for the AlisonW case.

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Question from Connorj2341 (14:24, 26 July 2023)

Hi, you are my mentor. I would like to know what it means when it says "this page is in a nutshell". Thanks!! --Connorj2341 (talk) 14:24, 26 July 2023 (UTC)

Connorj2341 That just means it is giving a summary of the full page. Happy editing, Calliopejen1 (talk) 20:44, 26 July 2023 (UTC)

Thanks! Connorj2341 (talk) 21:14, 26 July 2023 (UTC)

Draft:Sandy Liang

Hi there! I saw you were active in the Fashion wikiproject and was wondering if you could take a look at a draft I've written about the designer Draft:Sandy Liang. I was very surprised to find that she did not have an article because of her notability and wide coverage in various publications. As a novice contributor I would love your feedback and review. Thanks! Luiysia (talk) 20:46, 27 July 2023 (UTC)

Luiysia It looks like this has already been approved! Good work! Calliopejen1 (talk) 02:59, 2 August 2023 (UTC)

Question from Denimkii (17:26, 31 July 2023)

How can I make an article --Denimkii (talk) 17:26, 31 July 2023 (UTC)

Denimkii it looks like you figured out the drafts system. However, it does not appear that the subject of your article qualifies for a biography here. See WP:BIO. In addition, there were WP:BLP policy violations in your draft that I removed. Calliopejen1 (talk) 03:04, 2 August 2023 (UTC)

Question from V GIGA V V V V (04:02, 31 July 2023)

G why are my non vandalism edits being removed for vandalizim like the one on Indila's page --V GIGA V V V V (talk) 04:02, 31 July 2023 (UTC)

V GIGA V V V V your edits were not supported by a reliable source. In addition, it's possible that the sentence (even if sourced) would be undue weight in an article about Indila generally. It would probably depend on whether that is something she is known for, or just minor trivia. Calliopejen1 (talk) 03:01, 2 August 2023 (UTC)

thank you G V GIGA V V V V (talk) 08:47, 2 August 2023 (UTC)

Question from Tatcross (16:51, 5 August 2023)

Hi, there, I'm a university English professor and would like to offer my English majors the opportunity to create or contribute to wikipedia pages about authors (esp. forgotten or ignored women) and texts from the British Romantic and Victorian Periods.

I understand that this is possible. Will you help? --Tatcross (talk) 16:51, 5 August 2023 (UTC)

Question from DE-INFINIX (11:58, 5 August 2023)

Please am finding it hard to upload my product online, how do I go about it --DE-INFINIX (talk) 11:58, 5 August 2023 (UTC)

(by talk reader) @DE-INFINIX: I imagine that is because Wikipedia is not advertising. In fact, our community of volunteer editors dislike efforts to manipulate articles for SEO. That you have a conflict of interest indicates that you should not be posting about it on this website. Were your product notable, it is likely our editors would write about it on their own time. Chris Troutman (talk) 19:23, 5 August 2023 (UTC)

@Chris troutman then what and what can I post and how DE-INFINIX PAINT (talk) 20:22, 5 August 2023 (UTC)

@DE-INFINIX PAINT: Please read WP:FIRST. Again, you have a CoI and we can doubt the subject would be notable, so I please ask that you don't waste our time and yours. Instead, find an existing article to improve. WP:GOCE and Wikipedia:Cleanup are great places to start. Chris Troutman (talk) 21:09, 5 August 2023 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – August 2023

News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2023).

Administrator changes

Firefangledfeathers

• AlisonW
• Amberrock
• Closedmouth
• Scottywong

Interface administrator changes

Novem Linguae

Technical news

• The tag filter on Special:NewPages and revision history pages can now be inverted. This allows hiding edits made by automated tools. (T334338)
• Special:BlockedExternalDomains is a new tool that allows easier blocking of plain domains (and their subdomains). This is more easily searchable and is faster for the software to use than the existing MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. It does not support regex (for complex cases), URL path-matching, or the MediaWiki:Spam-whitelist. (T337431)

Arbitration

• The arbitration cases named Scottywong and AlisonW closed 10 July and 16 July respectively.
• The SmallCat dispute arbitration case is in the workshop phase.

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Question from Researcherphd (13:59, 21 August 2023)

"This article has not yet been rated on Wikipedia's content assessment scale," says https://en.wiki.x.io/wiki/Talk:Grey_relational_analysis

Dear Mentor, Can you teach me how to perform content assessment? --Researcherphd (talk) 13:59, 21 August 2023 (UTC)

Question from Jayantdmann (09:48, 22 August 2023)

can i write aboute me on wikipedia --Jayantdmann (talk) 09:48, 22 August 2023 (UTC)

Jayantdmann I would strongly discourage it. Calliopejen1 (talk) 23:15, 22 August 2023 (UTC)

Question from Connorj2341 (02:36, 20 August 2023)

Hi, it has Been a while but I have a question, How do you create a page on wiki? It's ok to say you are not able to. Thanks! --Connorj2341 (talk) 02:36, 20 August 2023 (UTC)

(by talk reader) @Connorj2341: Please read WP:FIRST for instructions. I generally try to dissuade new editors from trying to create a new article for many reasons. You might find more enjoyment joining our Guide of Copy Editors or possible another WikiProject as those groups can guide your editing development. Chris Troutman (talk) 02:54, 20 August 2023 (UTC)

Ok thank you. (I wont create a page then😉) Connorj2341 (talk) 22:03, 27 August 2023 (UTC)

Question from Legendbird (11:38, 22 August 2023)

Hi! I'm wondering what the requirements for becoming a reviewer is? I am aware about the ones listed on the reviewing pending changes page, but are there any de facto requirements, eg. being extended-confirmed? Thank you in advance for the answer and for replying. -Legendbird --Legendbird (talk) 11:38, 22 August 2023 (UTC)

Legendbird Sorry, I don't know anything beyond what is listed on the pending changes page! Calliopejen1 (talk) 19:33, 28 August 2023 (UTC)

Question from Brachy0008 (03:15, 28 August 2023)

What is the optimal number of WikiProjects I should participate in? So far, I’m involved in WikiProjects Singapore (Mainly the MRT station articles, you can ask @ZKang123 about it), Video games (List of Roblox games, Just Dance 2023 Edition, as well as its daughter project, Pokémon), Music, Songs, Olivia Rodrigo, and that’s it. Am I in too many WikiProjects, is it just right or can I take one or two more? Brachy08 _(Talk) 03:22, 28 August 2023 (UTC)

Brachy0008 There isn't any optimal number - you can participate in as many as you'd like! Calliopejen1 (talk) 19:34, 28 August 2023 (UTC)

Thanks! Brachy08 _(Talk) 22:14, 28 August 2023 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – September 2023

News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2023).

Administrator changes

• Pppery
• Theleekycauldron

• Dwheeler
• G.A.S
• Royalbroil
• Ssd

CheckUser changes

Bradv

Oversighter changes

Bradv

Guideline and policy news

• Following an RfC, TFAs will be automatically semi-protected the day before it is on the main page and through the day after.
• A discussion at WP:VPP about revision deletion and oversight for dead names found that [s]ysops can choose to use revdel if, in their view, it's the right tool for this situation, and they need not default to oversight. But oversight could well be right where there's a particularly high risk to the person. Use your judgment.

Technical news

• Special:Contributions now shows the user's local edit count and the account's creation date. (T324166)

Arbitration

• The SmallCat dispute case has closed. As part of the final decision, editors participating in XfD have been reminded to be careful about forming local consensus which may or may not reflect the broader community consensus. Regular closers of XfD forums were also encouraged to note when broader community discussion, or changes to policies and guidelines, would be helpful.

Miscellaneous

• Tech tip: The "Browse history interactively" banner shown at the top of Special:Diff can be used to easily look through a history, assemble composite diffs, or find out what archive something wound up in.

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Question from Pramod kumar singh hai on Doppelgänger (06:38, 4 September 2023)

Aapne ham sakal ko kayse dhode --Pramod kumar singh hai (talk) 06:38, 4 September 2023 (UTC)

Wikipedia is still a mystery to me

I do not understand why I have been assigned a mentor or what a mentor does. I do not understand the editing process. If you are a mentor, can you increase my clarity? Petroselinium (talk) 15:40, 12 September 2023 (UTC)

Petroselinium I'm just here in case you have questions about editing Wikipedia. Help:Introduction to Wikipedia is a good place to get started. Calliopejen1 (talk) 22:38, 12 September 2023 (UTC)

CfD nomination at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2023 September 25 § Slovenian Wikipedia categories

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Question from Cobrabrain775 (10:53, 28 September 2023)

hello can i make my own article and also any recommendations on where to start --Cobrabrain775 (talk) 10:53, 28 September 2023 (UTC)

Cobrabrain775 I recommend reading WP:Your first article. Good luck! Calliopejen1 (talk) 17:40, 2 October 2023 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – September 2023

News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2023).

Administrator changes

Hey man im josh

• Alex Bakharev
• CorbieVreccan
• Cyphoidbomb
• Davodd
• Hog Farm
• JamesR
• KnightLago
• Mark Ironie
• Nosebagbear (deceased)
• Rschen7754
• Tamzin
• TonyBallioni

CheckUser changes

DatGuy

• Ferret
• RickinBaltimore

• TonyBallioni
• Worm That Turned

Oversighter changes

RickinBaltimore

• TonyBallioni
• Worm That Turned

Guideline and policy news

• An RfC is open regarding amending the paid-contribution disclosure policy to add the following text: Any administrator soliciting clients for paid Wikipedia-related consulting or advising services not covered by other paid-contribution rules must disclose all clients on their userpage.

Technical news

• Administrators can now choose to add the user's user page to their watchlist when changing the usergroups for a user. This works both via Special:UserRights and via the API. (T272294)

Arbitration

• Remedy 9 ("MarioProtIV topic ban") of the WikiProject Tropical Cyclones case has been rescinded.

Miscellaneous

• The 2023 CheckUser and Oversight appointments process has concluded with the appointment of one new CheckUser.
• Self-nominations for the electoral commission for the 2023 Arbitration Committee elections opens on 2 October and closes on 8 October.

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Question from General Black Jack Pershing (03:27, 16 October 2023)

Is it okay to add images to other people's articles without letting them know, because I wouldn't really be changing anything i would just be adding onto stuff --General Black Jack Pershing (talk) 03:27, 16 October 2023 (UTC)

General Black Jack Pershing Yes! WP:Be bold! But be sure the images are freely licensed (i.e. most images you download from the internet aren't usable on Wikipedia). Calliopejen1 (talk) 13:14, 16 October 2023 (UTC)

Ok thanks! Just wanted to confirm! General Black Jack Pershing (talk) 20:04, 16 October 2023 (UTC)

Question from Adhoccom (13:07, 20 October 2023)

In the Wikipedia information about Van Cortlandt Park, it states the park is in the Bronx. The official New York City bough name is The Bronx. How can this change be made? --Adhoccom (talk) 13:07, 20 October 2023 (UTC)

Adhoccom, If you look at The Bronx, that one has "the" lower-cased in-text. If you want to try to form a consensus that it should be "The," I would start at Talk:The Bronx. It looks like this has been discussed several times there, though, with a current consensus for lower-case. Calliopejen1 (talk) 16:15, 20 October 2023 (UTC)

Question from Adhoccom (13:12, 20 October 2023)

Hello -- How do I correct a Wikipedia article about Van Cortlandt Park? The official New York City borough name is The Bronx and not the Bronx. Harvey --Adhoccom (talk) 13:12, 20 October 2023 (UTC)

Replied above. Calliopejen1 (talk) 16:16, 20 October 2023 (UTC)

Question from Cudavid (14:09, 18 October 2023)

Hi,

I'm trying to create a page for the community foundation for greater new haven - could you help me with it? --Cudavid (talk) 14:09, 18 October 2023 (UTC)

Hi Cudavid, I doubt this organization qualifies for an article. See WP:NCORP. If you think it does, can you paste here the best three sources so I can evaluate them? See WP:THREE for guidance about choosing the best three sources. Calliopejen1 (talk) 16:17, 20 October 2023 (UTC)

November Articles for creation backlog drive

Hello Calliopejen1:

WikiProject Articles for creation is holding a month long Backlog Drive!
The goal of this drive is to reduce the backlog of unreviewed drafts to less than 2 months outstanding reviews from the current 4+ months. Bonus points will be given for reviewing drafts that have been waiting more than 30 days. The drive is running from 1 November 2023 through 30 November 2023.

You may find Category:AfC pending submissions by age or other categories and sorting helpful.

Barnstars will be given out as awards at the end of the drive.

There is a backlog of over 900 pages, so start reviewing drafts. We're looking forward to your help! MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:23, 31 October 2023 (UTC)

Question from Trollhunter Pro12345 (00:21, 31 October 2023)

Hello! I was wondering if I could write about a religion I found called gokusim. --Trollhunter Pro12345 (talk) 00:21, 31 October 2023 (UTC)

Hi Trollhunter Pro12345, I'm not entirely sure if this religion meets wikipedia's notability guidelines (see WP:N) -- it's probably borderline. It looks like someone started an article at one point, and then it was moved to the "draft" space because others thought it wasn't ready for prime time. You could continue editing Draft:Gokuism (I'd recommend adding additional reliable sources) and then when you think it is ready, press the submit button to get it reviewed for inclusion in the encyclopedia. Calliopejen1 (talk) 15:32, 31 October 2023 (UTC)

Question from Strait Jacket 82 on 3rd Battalion, 10th Marines (16:51, 2 November 2023)

There was no mention of or service in Grenada and Beirut --Strait Jacket 82 (talk) 16:51, 2 November 2023 (UTC)

Question from Kiran Kudaligama (08:14, 3 November 2023)

Hi, H M Kudaligama the poet is my grandfather. There are missing information about his family members. I would like to add them. Also some photos of the poet too. --Kiran Kudaligama (talk) 08:14, 3 November 2023 (UTC)

Question from NAVEED349 (09:10, 7 November 2023)

hello how to find editable page about science. --NAVEED349 (talk) 09:10, 7 November 2023 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – November 2023

News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2023).

Administrator changes

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Tamzin

Dennis Brown

Interface administrator changes

Pppery

• Ragesoss
• TheresNoTime

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

• The WMF is working on making it possible for administrators to edit MediaWiki configuration directly. This is similar to previous work on Special:EditGrowthConfig. A technical RfC is running until November 08, where you can provide feedback.
• There is a proposed plan for re-enabling the Graph Extension. Feedback on this proposal is requested.

Arbitration

• Eligible editors are invited to self-nominate themselves from 12 November 2023 until 21 November 2023 to stand in the 2023 Arbitration Committee elections.
• Xaosflux, RoySmith and Cyberpower678 have been appointed to the Electoral Commission for the 2023 Arbitration Committee Elections. BusterD is the reserve commissioner.
• Following a motion, the contentious topic designation of Prem Rawat has been struck. Actions previously taken using this contentious topic designation are still in force.
• Following several motions, multiple topic areas are no longer designated as a contentious topic. These contentious topic designations were from the Editor conduct in e-cigs articles, Liancourt Rocks, Longevity, Medicine, September 11 conspiracy theories, and Shakespeare authorship question cases.
• Following a motion, remedies 3.1 (All related articles under 1RR whenever the dispute over naming is concerned), 6 (Stalemate resolution) and 30 (Administrative supervision) of the Macedonia 2 case have been rescinded.
• Following a motion, remedy 6 (One-revert rule) of the The Troubles case has been amended.
• An arbitration case named Industrial agriculture has been opened. Evidence submissions in this case close 8 November.

Miscellaneous

• The Articles for Creation backlog drive is happening in November 2023, with 700+ drafts pending reviews for in the last 4 months or so. In addition to the AfC participants, all administrators and New Page Patrollers can conduct reviews using the helper script, Yet Another AFC Helper Script, which can be enabled in the Gadgets settings. Sign up here to participate!

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Question from Ambramarino (00:21, 8 November 2023)

Hi nice to meet you. I will come to you if I have any questions. Thank you! --Ambramarino (talk) 00:21, 8 November 2023 (UTC)

Question from 84Swagahh (02:13, 18 November 2023)

Hi, I'm ready to edit! --84Swagahh (talk) 02:13, 18 November 2023 (UTC)

Question from LNMay23 (21:05, 19 November 2023)

Hi, I was signing up on Wiki in order to read information. I had no idea there was such a thing as editing on the site. One thing that catches my attention and I'd be interested in doing is correcting spelling errors. Otherwise I have much to learn.

Thank you --LNMay23 (talk) 21:05, 19 November 2023 (UTC)

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Question from DeptfordDave JC (23:20, 28 November 2023)

Hi Jen,

I was looking at the page 'Democracy Now', and noted that there appears to be a politically non-neutral change made on the 26 Nov 2023 at the beginning of the introduction paragraph. I understand that Wiki likes to keep language as neutral as possible, unless there is a documented reason not to in a description, such as an organization's own self declaration/discription.

The only change I noted for the 26 Nov 2023 edit was just adding the words 'far-left', per the following: "Democracy Now! is a far-left hour-long American TV, radio, and Internet news program...". Just about all the previous version were as follows: 'Democracy Now! is an hour-long American TV, radio, and Internet news program..." This change and previous version do state that the organization is a progressive outfit, which I believe is a more neutral term.

Also terms like 'far left' and 'far right' are emotive descriptions that are more subjective terms rather than being objective. In addition, what is considered 'far right' or 'far left' today, may become more central in people's eyes in the future, if the political central ground ends up significantly moving to the left or the right.

Anyway, what is your view on this as a longtime editor on Wiki? --DeptfordDave JC (talk) 23:20, 28 November 2023 (UTC)

Hi DeptforDave JC! I recommend starting by reading the discussion about "far left" and "far right" at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Words to watch/Archive 14. If, after this you think that the use of the words in the article are a problem, I'd raise it at Talk:Democracy Now!, and then if you want further feedback you could raise it at Wikipedia:Neutral point of view/Noticeboard. I don't know enough about the subject matter to know if this is an appropriate label myself in this context. Good luck! Calliopejen1 (talk) 06:06, 30 November 2023 (UTC)

Question from Leannehindlemas (17:09, 27 November 2023)

Hello! How are you? I am trying to write an article, how do I get the references to show next to each relevant reference rather than listed at the bottom? Or it does not matter? --Leannehindlemas (talk) 17:09, 27 November 2023 (UTC)

Instructions are here: Help:VisualEditor#Adding_a_new_reference. But the draft article in your userspace is an essay/how-to and is not appropriate for Wikipedia, so I would not recommend investing more energy into it... Calliopejen1 (talk) 06:09, 30 November 2023 (UTC)

Question from GDelog (16:10, 26 November 2023)

Hi! I noticed there is no page for an investment platform I use called Mintos (https://www.mintos.com) and I decided to create one! What do you think about this text: Mintos is a financial technology company headquartered in Riga, Latvia. Retail investors can invest in a mix of traditional and alternative assets through the platform, such as loans, ETFs and Fractional Bonds.

The company counts more than €600 million in assets under administration and over 500 000 registered users.

History

Mintos was founded in 2014 by Martins Sulte and Martins Valters. The company's headquarters are located in Riga, Latvia [1], and it has since expanded its presence across Europe.

In 2018, Mintos raised €5 million in Series A funding backed by Riga-based venture capital firm Grumpy Investments. [2]

In 2020, Mintos launched a crowdfunding campaign on Crowdcube: the company attracted over 7000 equity investors and raised a total of €7.2 million, the largest amount ever raised in continental Europe [3] [4] [5] [6].

On August 19, 2021, Mintos acquired the investment firm and electronic money institution licenses from the Bank of Latvia. Investors on Mintos are protected by the MiFID II investor protection framework, Prospectus Regulation, Packaged retail investment and insurance products (PRIIPs), Investor Protection Law.[7] [8] [9] [10]

On May 25, 2022, Mintos launched loan-backed securities called Notes [11] [12], which allow retail investors to invest in loans in a regulated environment.

In October 2023 the company launched high-yield Fractional Bonds. [16] [17]

Awards and Recognition Mintos has won AltFi’s People’s Choice Award five times in a row (2016-2020) and AltFi’s Alternative Finance Platform of the Year [14] [15].

References

[1] Aaron Eglitis, Milda Seputyte, Ott Ummelas (2020-02-19). “German savers transformed an EU fringe into a fintech vanguard”. Bloomberg. [2] O'Hear, Steve (2018-11-14). "Loans marketplace Mintos scores €5M Series A and plans to l --GDelog (talk) 16:10, 26 November 2023 (UTC)

GDelog, to be quite honest this is not an area of my interest. I'm also not sure that this company satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion (see WP:NCORP). I recommend using the articles for creation process for this article and submitting it for review by another editor. Good luck! Calliopejen1 (talk) 06:12, 30 November 2023 (UTC)

Question from HaveYouHeardAboutTheBird (02:24, 14 November 2023)

Hi, Jen. I want to replace the image on Kyle Massey's page, specifically the one in the Infobox, but I don't know how to do that. Can explain how? Keep in mind, I use the Visual Editor. --HaveYouHeardAboutTheBird (talk) 02:24, 14 November 2023 (UTC)

HaveYouHeardAboutTheBird have you uploaded the image to Wikimedia Commons yet? (Or do you see one there that you want to use?) If so, what is the filename? If not, and you want to upload an image, where did it come from and who took the photo? Calliopejen1 (talk) 20:31, 14 November 2023 (UTC)

I have not uploaded the image to Wikimedia Commons. Do I need to create an separate account for that, or can I use my Wikipedia account? HaveYouHeardAboutTheBird (talk) 01:23, 18 November 2023 (UTC)

HaveYouHeardAboutTheBird Your same account will work on Wikimedia Commons. The upload wizard there will help you through the somewhat cumbersome process of uploading and picking the correct license for your file. Importantly, most images you see on the internet cannot be uploaded to Wikimedia Commons. If you took the photo yourself, it won't be an issue. If you didn't, it can be kind of complicated. Happy to assist you with sorting out any licensing issues. Calliopejen1 (talk) 17:48, 20 November 2023 (UTC)

Hi, Jen. Sorry it keeps taking me a bit to reply. Anyways, I want to upload a image that I did not make. Like I said before, I want to add a image to Kyle Massey's page on Wikipedia, specifically the top image in this US Magazine article.

https://www.usmagazine.com/entertainment/news/kyle-massey-set-to-join-the-hills-revival/

I want to use this picture specifically because it's a bit more recent then the current picture of him on his page.

I did a reverse image search with a program called TinEye, and the results I found are also from US Magazine, so it's possible that they copyrighted that image. Let me know if you can help confirm or de-confirm it's copyrighted by them, and any other possible licensing issues that could come from this image.

Here's the exact search results I was talking about.

https://tineye.com/search/44321bb6930c64cba3e2fa8e78c0e063b1196654?sort=score&order=desc&page=1 HaveYouHeardAboutTheBird (talk) 19:33, 25 November 2023 (UTC)

HaveYouHeardAboutTheBird Unfortunately, that image is not usable for copyright reasons. Sometimes you can find amateur photographers on Flickr who are willing to relicense their images under free licenses, but looking for freely usable images of celebrities on the internet is often a fool's errand. Calliopejen1 (talk) 06:00, 30 November 2023 (UTC)

Well, so much for using a recent image of him, I guess. HaveYouHeardAboutTheBird (talk) 07:27, 30 November 2023 (UTC)

Question from Mads Rivers (18:38, 27 November 2023)

hello -- I've created a page. Could you take a look and give me any comments/feedback?

https://en.wiki.x.io/w/index.php?title=User:Mads_Rivers/sandbox&oldid=1186643142 --Mads Rivers (talk) 18:38, 27 November 2023 (UTC)

It looks like you already submitted via AFC and had this approved - good work! Calliopejen1 (talk) 06:13, 30 November 2023 (UTC)

thank you! Mads Rivers (talk) 12:49, 2 December 2023 (UTC)

Question from Barangaylovestories09 (15:53, 4 December 2023)

How can I use proper protection request and what is duplicate for page protection request --Barangaylovestories09 (talk) 15:53, 4 December 2023 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – December 2023

News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2023).

Administrator changes

• Ganesha811
• JPxG

• Ajpolino
• Lourdes
• Mairi
• RockMFR
• Somno
• WilyD

Beeblebrox → Just Step Sideways

CheckUser changes

• Beeblebrox
• Opabinia regalis

Oversight changes

• Beeblebrox
• Opabinia regalis

Guideline and policy news

• Following a talk page discussion, the Administrators' accountability policy has been updated to note that while it is considered best practice for administrators to have notifications (pings) enabled, this is not mandatory. Administrators who do not use notifications are now strongly encouraged to indicate this on their user page.

Arbitration

• Following a motion, the Extended Confirmed Restriction has been amended, removing the allowance for non-extended-confirmed editors to post constructive comments on the "Talk:" namespace. Now, non-extended-confirmed editors may use the "Talk:" namespace solely to make edit requests related to articles within the topic area, provided that their actions are not disruptive.
• The Arbitration Committee has announced a call for Checkusers and Oversighters, stating that it will currently be accepting applications for CheckUser and/or Oversight permissions at any point in the year.
• Eligible users are invited to vote on candidates for the Arbitration Committee until 23:59 December 11, 2023 (UTC). Candidate statements can be seen here.

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Question from Tahir Mustafa Malik on Photoblog (06:30, 15 December 2023)

How can i publish my work --Tahir Mustafa Malik (talk) 06:30, 15 December 2023 (UTC)

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Hello there, thanks for all of your contributions to Wikipedia! Wishing you a Very Merry Christmas and here's to a happy and productive 2024! ♦ Dr. Blofeld 20:06, 18 December 2023 (UTC)

Question from Ab.ms.abi (06:29, 21 December 2023)

Hi can you help me to create an article here --Ab.ms.abi (talk) 06:29, 21 December 2023 (UTC)

Hi Ab.ms.abi, it looks like you were trying to advertise on Wikipedia, but that's not what Wikipedia is for. If you have an idea for a legitimate encyclopedia article, please let me know. Calliopejen1 (talk) 09:16, 22 December 2023 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – January 2024

News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2023).

Administrator changes

Clovermoss

Dennis Brown

• Julia W
• Marasmusine
• PBS

CheckUser changes

• Aoidh
• HJ Mitchell
• Sdrqaz
• Spicy
• ToBeFree
• Vanamonde93
• Z1720

Maxim

• Enterprisey
• Izno
• SilkTork

Oversighter changes

• Aoidh
• Firefly
• Sdrqaz
• ToBeFree
• Z1720

Maxim

• Enterprisey
• Izno
• SilkTork

Arbitration

• Following the 2023 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been appointed to the Arbitration Committee: Aoidh, Cabayi, Firefly, HJ Mitchell, Maxim, Sdrqaz, ToBeFree, Z1720.
• Following a motion, the Arbitration Committee rescinded the restrictions on the page name move discussions for the two Ireland pages that were enacted in June 2009.
• The arbitration case Industrial agriculture has been closed.

Miscellaneous

• The New Pages Patrol backlog drive is happening in January 2024 to reduce the backlog of articles in the new pages feed. Currently, there is a backlog of over 13,000 unreviewed articles awaiting review. Sign up here to participate!

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Question from Mara Carlisle (20:52, 28 December 2023)

Hello, what should i keep in mind when searching / adding sources to an article? Thanks! --Mara Carlisle (talk) 20:52, 28 December 2023 (UTC)

Hi Mara Carlisle, and thanks for the thoughtful question. The most important factors are that sources are reliable and independent of the article subject. The page WP:RS has some further guidance. If you tell me the particular article subject, I probably can provide more specific/helpful advice. Calliopejen1 (talk) 15:11, 6 January 2024 (UTC)

Question from HaveYouHeardAboutTheBird (00:44, 31 December 2023)

How do I add a template above a page? Because there are a few that I feel could use a template pertaining to a lack of citations on said pages. --HaveYouHeardAboutTheBird (talk) 00:44, 31 December 2023 (UTC)

HaveYouHeardAboutTheBird Are you using the visual editor or source code editing? Calliopejen1 (talk) 15:10, 6 January 2024 (UTC)

I use visual editor. HaveYouHeardAboutTheBird (talk) 21:32, 6 January 2024 (UTC)

Question from Blueberry Harumi (16:52, 23 December 2023)

Hi I'm Blueberry Harumi and may I ask how does editing new pages work if I don't have the knowledge of the text at hand since I'm new here as this is my first day working with Wikipedia --Blueberry Harumi (talk) 16:52, 23 December 2023 (UTC)

(by talk reader) @Blueberry Harumi: Why did you become a registered Wikipedia user? Chris Troutman (talk) 19:53, 23 December 2023 (UTC)

Cos I want to spread the knowledge I have to other people Blueberry Harumi (talk) 18:52, 24 December 2023 (UTC)

Hi Blueberry Harumi, and apologies for the delayed reply. What do you mean by not having knowledge of the text at hand? Calliopejen1 (talk) 15:09, 6 January 2024 (UTC)

Meaning if I don't have the required information for a certain edit what should I do Blueberry Harumi (talk) 14:07, 9 January 2024 (UTC)

Blueberry Harumi Are these edits that are being suggested to you as a new user? You shouldn't make any edits that you don't have reliable sources to back up. Calliopejen1 (talk) 19:30, 11 January 2024 (UTC)

Question from SusyBaca96 (11:23, 10 January 2024)

Hi :) --SusyBaca96 (talk) 11:23, 10 January 2024 (UTC)

Hi SusyBaca96, and welcome to Wikipedia! Calliopejen1 (talk) 22:06, 16 January 2024 (UTC)

Question from Schanter (21:57, 12 January 2024)

Hey there, a Danish football player just transferred to my city's team. I have been trying to change the information on his site, but on Google, when I search for him, the current team doesn't change. The player's name is Marco Lund. --Schanter (talk) 21:57, 12 January 2024 (UTC)

Schanter Google updates its website on its own timetable -- we can't control that. Once it's updated here, generally it eventually rolls out to Google. Sometimes it takes a few days. Happy editing! Calliopejen1 (talk) 22:06, 16 January 2024 (UTC)

Question from Connorj2341 (14:16, 27 January 2024)

Hi! It's been a while, but I would like to know how to create a Cintaion. Thanks! --Connorj2341 (talk) 14:16, 27 January 2024 (UTC)

Hi Connorj2341! Here is a guide: mw:Help:VisualEditor/User_guide#Editing_references. Or if you can tell me what you're trying to cite, I could help more. Calliopejen1 (talk) 23:20, 29 January 2024 (UTC)

Question from Sajidkhan0070 (02:05, 30 January 2024)

Hey dear mentor, I just wanted to ask how can I write my own articles, I have seen many different culture, games, sports, festival and more famous name which are not on Wikipedia, Which need to be published on Wikipedia so people who are searching for it, will get the information, there are bunch of other things about my country which are not yet published on Wikipedia. --Sajidkhan0070 (talk) 02:05, 30 January 2024 (UTC)

Hi Sajidkhan0070 and welcome to Wikipedia. I'd recommend reading the guide WP:Your first article to start. Come back if you have any questions after reading that! Calliopejen1 (talk) 22:36, 31 January 2024 (UTC)

Question from JacknJay on User:JacknJay/sandbox (08:59, 30 January 2024)

Please provide me with correct information regrading the use of this service and permission to use --JacknJay (talk) 08:59, 30 January 2024 (UTC)

Hi JacknJay, I'm afraid I don't understand your question. Could you give me more information? Thanks, Calliopejen1 (talk) 22:37, 31 January 2024 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – February 2024

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

Administrator changes

• Red-tailed hawk
• Robertsky

• Ameliorate!
• Ancheta Wis
• Anthony Bradbury (deceased)
• Cobi
• Ev
• Moondyne
• Worm That Turned

Bureaucrat changes

Worm That Turned

CheckUser changes

Wugapodes

Interface administrator changes

• Enterprisey
• Izno

Guideline and policy news

• An RfC about increasing the inactivity requirement for Interface administrators is open for feedback.

Technical news

• Pages that use the JSON contentmodel will now use tabs instead of spaces for auto-indentation. This will significantly reduce the page size. (T326065)

Arbitration

• Following a motion, the Arbitration Committee adopted a new enforcement restriction on January 4, 2024, wherein the Committee may apply the 'Reliable source consensus-required restriction' to specified topic areas.
• Community feedback is requested for a draft to replace the "Information for administrators processing requests" section at WP:AE.

Miscellaneous

• Voting in the 2024 Steward elections will begin on 06 February 2024, 14:00 (UTC) and end on 27 February 2024, 14:00 (UTC). The confirmation process of current stewards is being held in parallel. You can automatically check your eligibility to vote.
• A vote to ratify the charter for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) is open till 2 February 2024, 23:59:59 (UTC) via Secure Poll. All eligible voters within the Wikimedia community have the opportunity to either support or oppose the adoption of the U4C Charter and share their reasons. The details of the voting process and voter eligibility can be found here.
• Community Tech has made some preliminary decisions about the future of the Community Wishlist Survey. In summary, they aim to develop a new, continuous intake system for community technical requests that improves prioritization, resource allocation, and communication regarding wishes. Read more
• The Unreferenced articles backlog drive is happening in February 2024 to reduce the backlog of articles tagged with {{Unreferenced}}. You can help reduce the backlog by adding citations to these articles. Sign up to participate!

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LA Meetup: February 17, 2024

Edit-a-thon and Wikipedia Day Celebration

Please join Wikimedians of Los Angeles on Saturday, February 17 from 12:00 to 4:00 pm for a Los Angeles and West Hollywood-themed edit-a-thon at the West Hollywood Library. (For the details and to sign up, see Wikipedia:Meetup/Los Angeles/February 2024.) We'll also be celebrating Wikipedia's 23rd birthday/Wikipedia Day. (There will be cake!) We hope to see you there! JSFarman via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 20:03, 1 February 2024 (UTC) Join our Facebook group here. To opt out of future mailings about LA meetups, please remove your name from this list.

Nomination of Cecilia Méndez for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Cecilia Méndez is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Cecilia Méndez until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article until the discussion has finished.

Boleyn (talk) 13:56, 6 February 2024 (UTC)

Question from Prodesigntz (09:32, 17 February 2024)

Hello,

I am glad that you are my mentor , i have an article a friend asked me to write about his bio on wikipedia very famous from Tanzania,

Yusuph Kileo ..... how can i get started --Prodesigntz (talk) 09:32, 17 February 2024 (UTC)

Hi Prodesigntz, I don't know that your friend qualifies for an article. Please read WP:THREE, then could you provide the three best sources establishing why he is notable (see WP:BIO)? Calliopejen1 (talk) 23:57, 19 February 2024 (UTC)

Hello,

He has a lot of articles online and he is a member of ICANNWiki., below are link for reference:

a. https://www.google.com/search?q=yusuph+kileo&rlz=1C1PNBB_enTZ1075TZ1075&oq=yusuph+kileo&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUqCggAEAAY4wIYgAQyCggAEAAY4wIYgAQyBwgBEC4YgAQyDQgCEAAYhgMYgAQYigUyDQgDEAAYhgMYgAQYigUyDQgEEAAYhgMYgAQYigXSAQc0MDVqMGo0qAIAsAIA&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

b. https://icannwiki.org/Yusuph_Kileo

c. https://aficta.africa/latest-news/373-yusuph-kileo-honoured-as-cyber-security-expert-of-the-year Prodesigntz (talk) 08:37, 21 February 2024 (UTC)

Hi Prodesigntz, if those are the best coverage of him, he does not qualify for an article. Sorry! Calliopejen1 (talk) 19:11, 21 February 2024 (UTC)

Question from Jodistevensbryce (21:02, 23 February 2024)

Hello. I am interested in making a Wiki page for an actress, singer, Performing Arts School Founder/Director --Jodistevensbryce (talk) 21:02, 23 February 2024 (UTC)

(by talk reader) @Jodistevensbryce: I don't think you should be writing about yourself. That's not what an encyclopedia is for. Chris Troutman (talk) 21:38, 23 February 2024 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – March 2024

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

Administrator changes

• Sdkb
• The Night Watch

• East718
• Isabelle Belato
• Mzajac
• Staecker
• Stan Shebs
• Sugarfish
• Tamzin

Bureaucrat changes

SilkTork

Guideline and policy news

• Phase I of the 2024 RfA review is now open for participation. Editors are invited to review, comment on, and propose improvements to the requests for adminship process.
• Following an RfC, the inactivity requirement for the removal of the interface administrator right increased from 6 months to 12 months.

Technical news

• The mobile site history pages now use the same HTML as the desktop history pages. (T353388)

Miscellaneous

• The 2024 appointees for the Ombuds commission are だ＊ぜ, AGK, Ameisenigel, Bennylin, Daniuu, Doǵu, Emufarmers, Faendalimas, MdsShakil, Minorax, Nehaoua, Renvoy and RoySmith as members, with Vermont serving as steward-observer.
• Following the 2024 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: Ajraddatz, Albertoleoncio, EPIC, JJMC89, Johannnes89, Melos and Yahya.

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Question from FreeAssange666 (12:24, 14 March 2024)

Hello how do I create a Wikipedia page for my favorite new artist?

I want to create a page for a brand new, up and coming Christian rapper from Utah.

God bless and thank you --FreeAssange666 (talk) 12:24, 14 March 2024 (UTC)

Can you provide the three best news sources discussing this artist in some depth? "Up and coming" musicians often do not qualify for articles. See WP:BIO and WP:MUSIC. Thank you! Calliopejen1 (talk) 20:49, 14 March 2024 (UTC)

Question from Jeanvaljeanjacket (20:47, 20 March 2024)

Hi there! Do you have any tips for helping to get my article public faster? Thanks so much. --Jeanvaljeanjacket (talk) 20:47, 20 March 2024 (UTC)

Jeanvaljeanjacket Can you read WP:THREE and provide me the three highest-quality, most in-depth, independent reliable sources about her? Calliopejen1 (talk) 22:25, 21 March 2024 (UTC)

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt2853094/?language=fr-fr She is featured in this 2013 documentary about the climate crisis called “Do the Math.” She is featured alongside well-known figures in the climate movement such as Bill McKibben, Naomi Klein, and James Hansen.

https://www.fao.org/about/meetings/soil-organic-carbon-symposium/presentations/en/ Her inclusion on the speaker list on day 3 of this United Nations scientific symposium shows that she is internationally recognized as an expert in the field of Soil Organic Carbon.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/10/is-climate-change-the-sleeper-issue-of-the-2012-election/263187/ Here she is quoted in an Atlantic article as a climate strategist explaining the importance of discussing climate change during political campaigns. A report she helped wrote is also cited in this article. She was also quoted in the New York Times about this topic.  

I have plenty more independent sources I can send along if any of these don't work. Thank you! Jeanvaljeanjacket (talk) 17:12, 22 March 2024 (UTC)

No, we need sources about her, not just sources where she is quoted. It does not appear that she qualifies for an article, sorry. Calliopejen1 (talk) 22:30, 22 March 2024 (UTC)

Question from N9gg (07:43, 29 March 2024)

I made one edit and it was reverted and I got no notification about it. How do I see the reason? --N9gg (talk) 07:43, 29 March 2024 (UTC)

N9gg Click on "View history" on the article page and you will get to this page - then scroll down. The reason for the reversion was "rv per WP:YOUTUBE; this is not a strong source, it's a single person with no oversight" Calliopejen1 (talk) 14:54, 29 March 2024 (UTC)

Question from Nen007 (11:56, 30 March 2024)

Hello! How can i check my account age ? --Nen007 (talk) 11:56, 30 March 2024 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – April 2024

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

Administrator changes

• Kbdank71
• Kosack
• NrDg
• TLSuda

Guideline and policy news

• An RfC is open to convert all current and future community discretionary sanctions to (community designated) contentious topics procedure.

Technical news

• The Toolforge Grid Engine services have been shut down after the final migration process from Grid Engine to Kubernetes. (T313405)

Arbitration

• An arbitration case has been opened to look into "the intersection of managing conflict of interest editing with the harassment (outing) policy".

Miscellaneous

• Editors are invited to sign up for The Core Contest, an initiative running from April 15 to May 31, which aims to improve vital and other core articles on Wikipedia.

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Question from NoahAlexandria (18:20, 7 February 2024)

Hello, I am at a standstill in making this page. Can you help me? Thank you --NoahAlexandria (talk) 18:20, 7 February 2024 (UTC)

(by talk reader) @NoahAlexandria: Regarding your draft about Dr. Farimah Farahmandi, the most important thing to establish with subjects of biographies is notability. Being a fellow of IEEE might be enough but you didn't provide an in-line citation to a reliable source for that assertion. Please read WP:CS as providing sources is crucial. Chris Troutman (talk) 21:31, 7 February 2024 (UTC)

Thank you - I am studying tutorials for adding the references. She also has several publications. NoahAlexandria (talk) 21:42, 7 February 2024 (UTC)

Hello. I added the recent information that she is now a National Science Foundation CAREER Award recipient and some external links. Would these links serve as the in-line citation. I did not see a cite button and not sure the process. Can you tell me the next steps? I appreciate it.

Sara NoahAlexandria (talk) 14:20, 2 April 2024 (UTC)

Question from Priyansh Kala (03:47, 4 April 2024)

i edited a page on session layer(Dialogue Control). and i don't know why it got removed --Priyansh Kala (talk) 03:47, 4 April 2024 (UTC)

Priyansh Kala The user who reverted your edit (KH-1) did not leave an edit summary explaining the reversion. But if I had to guess it was because medium.com is not a reliable source and also because you added the citation after the first word of a sentence so it's not clear what the citation was intended to support. Calliopejen1 (talk) 07:48, 4 April 2024 (UTC)

Question from Nen007 (11:56, 30 March 2024) (2)

Hello! How can i check my account age ? --Nen007 (talk) 11:56, 30 March 2024 (UTC)

User blocked as sockpuppet. Calliopejen1 (talk) 07:49, 4 April 2024 (UTC)

Question from Burtchd (19:50, 4 April 2024)

Good afternoon- How do I edit an entry? Cindy Estrada has a page and as asked me to add to her story since I was her top assistant. However, my edits have not been published. --Burtchd (talk) 19:50, 4 April 2024 (UTC)

(by talk reader) @Burtchd: Your conflict of interest with Cindy Estrada precludes you from editing there, and she should not be concerned with what Wikipedia's article says about her. Your edit to the page was reverted because you did not cite a reliable source. Wikipedia does not care what is true so you probably should not be editing here. If you do come up with independent reliable sources like newspapers, you can mention them on Talk:Cindy Estrada where un-involved third party editors can review what you've posted. Chris Troutman (talk) 20:16, 4 April 2024 (UTC)

Question from WikiEditorBharat (12:59, 6 April 2024)

Hello, I have created an article on Wikipedia in Marathi lanaguage. It has been published as a draft, but I am unable to move it to the review phase. I want my article to be published online. --WikiEditorBharat (talk) 12:59, 6 April 2024 (UTC)

Hi WikiEditorBharat, the volunteers here at the English-language Wikipedia don't review articles for the Marathi-language Wikipedia (nor is it likely that anyone would translate it for publication here). I would attempt to create the article here in the Marathi-language Wikipedia. Calliopejen1 (talk) 17:16, 6 April 2024 (UTC)

Question from SacredEmily on John Fabel (01:42, 5 April 2024)

Hi, how do I add a photo of Professor Fabel to his page? --SacredEmily (talk) 01:42, 5 April 2024 (UTC)

SacredEmily Where did you get the photo from, and who took it? Calliopejen1 (talk) 19:26, 5 April 2024 (UTC)

A conference I attended and I took the photo. SacredEmily (talk) 19:38, 5 April 2024 (UTC)

SacredEmily Okay, great! First, upload it to our sister site Wikimedia Commons using the wizard at Commons:Special:UploadWizard. Next, in the visual editor mode, click "Insert" then "Images and media" then search for the image you uploaded. Let me know if you have any questions.

Separately, I am concerned that John Fabel does not meet Wikipedia's standards for inclusion (see WP:BIO) so it is possible that this article may eventually be deleted.... If you have additional high-quality news articles about John Fabel (rather than just mentioning/quoting him) it would be great if you can add them to the article. Calliopejen1 (talk) 17:21, 6 April 2024 (UTC)

Question from Ahmed191700 (19:03, 14 April 2024)

I hope this question finds you well. As I continue to develop my editing skills, I value your expertise. Could you share any tips or resources to enhance my proficiency in editing? Your guidance would be immensely appreciated. --Ahmed191700 (talk) 19:03, 14 April 2024 (UTC)

Question from Minecraaaft1 (18:38, 10 April 2024)

Hello --Minecraaaft1 (talk) 18:38, 10 April 2024 (UTC)

Hello and welcome to Wikipedia! Calliopejen1 (talk) 23:22, 15 April 2024 (UTC)

Question from Rizzler788 (21:01, 15 April 2024)

How do I create a page --Rizzler788 (talk) 21:01, 15 April 2024 (UTC)

Hi Rizzler778, I recommend checking out the page Wikipedia:Your first article. Let me know if you have any questions after reviewing! Calliopejen1 (talk) 23:22, 15 April 2024 (UTC)

Question from Dipanshu Singh 7346 (10:49, 17 April 2024)

Hello, I created a page on Wikipedia and after about 2-3 hours it got removed. Tell me what I can do to get it back ? --Dipanshu Singh 7346 (talk) 10:49, 17 April 2024 (UTC)

Question from Nikolassvojtech on Project management (21:18, 20 April 2024)

Project --Nikolassvojtech (talk) 21:18, 20 April 2024 (UTC)

Question from Mey hour on Email hacking (11:38, 21 April 2024)

i want to know e-mail password --Mey hour (talk) 11:38, 21 April 2024 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – May 2024

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

Administrator changes

Nyttend

• JohnOwens
• Killiondude
• MelanieN
• Nihonjoe

Bureaucrat changes

Nihonjoe

CheckUser changes

Joe Roe

Oversight changes

GeneralNotability

Guideline and policy news

• Phase I of the 2024 requests for adminship review has concluded. Several proposals have passed outright and will proceed to implementation, including creating a discussion-only period (3b) and administrator elections (13) on a trial basis. Other successful proposals, such as creating a reminder of civility norms (2), will undergo further refinement in Phase II. Proposals passed on a trial basis will be discussed in Phase II, after their trials conclude. Further details on specific proposals can be found in the full report.

Technical news

• 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

Arbitration

• The arbitration case Conflict of interest management has been closed.

Miscellaneous

• This may be a good time to reach out to potential nominees to ask if they would consider an RfA.
• A New Pages Patrol backlog drive is happening in May 2024 to reduce the number of unreviewed articles in the new pages feed. Currently, there is a backlog of over 15,000 articles awaiting review. Sign up here to participate!
• Voting for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) election is open until 9 May 2024. Read the voting page on Meta-Wiki and cast your vote here!

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Question from Jazibrands (20:49, 3 May 2024)

how do I create a brand new page for a business? --Jazibrands (talk) 20:49, 3 May 2024 (UTC)

Hi, do you have a conflict of interest? If so, it must be disclosed on your userpage. See WP:PSCOI. Once you have responded/updated your page as appropriate, let me know. Calliopejen1 (talk) 15:33, 6 May 2024 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Citation Barnstar
	For your edit on Toro de fuego. --evrik (talk) 04:19, 7 May 2024 (UTC)

Thanks!! Calliopejen1 (talk) 05:32, 9 May 2024 (UTC)

Question from Vivek Kr Visheakrma on Talk:R.J. High School (Deo) (18:26, 11 May 2024)

Usid code --Vivek Kr Visheakrma (talk) 18:26, 11 May 2024 (UTC)

Question from Lesle Potucek Knop on Talk:Clifford R. Hope (11:44, 13 May 2024)

Please include this citation for Great Plains Wheat in the bio about Clifford Hope: https://www.uswheat.org/wheatletter/a-legacy-of-commitment-great-plains-wheat-focused-on-improving-quality-and-hrw-markets/ --Lesle Potucek Knop (talk) 11:44, 13 May 2024 (UTC)

Question from Mk Lamido (20:42, 15 May 2024)

Hello! How can I start editing Wikipedia contents? --Mk Lamido (talk) 20:42, 15 May 2024 (UTC)

Question from Poonam bollywood (19:03, 18 May 2024)

I’ve tried to submit a film page 2 times and added multiple references but it still gets rejected. Please help me. --Poonam bollywood (talk) 19:03, 18 May 2024 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:Style.com collection

Template:Style.com collection has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. – Jonesey95 (talk) 06:15, 30 May 2024 (UTC)

June 8, 2024

The Return of the LA Wiknic

Eat, drink, and bask in the glory of Los Angeles in early June at the 9th not-annual Wiknic! Saturday, June 8 from 11:30 to 2:30 pm Pan Pacific Park 7600 Beverly Blvd, Los Angeles CA 90036 Get the details and RSVP here. (It's a potluck. There's a wish list on the meetup page.) Get the details and join WikiLA here. To opt out of future mailings about LA meetups, please remove your name from this list.

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Administrators' newsletter – June 2024

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

Administrator changes

Graham Beards

• Deskana
• Mets501
• Staxringold

Bureaucrat changes

• Deskana
• Warofdreams

Oversight changes

Dreamy Jazz

Guideline and policy news

• Phase II of the 2024 RfA review has commenced to improve and refine the proposals passed in Phase I.

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

• The arbitration case Venezuelan politics has been closed.
• The Committee is seeking volunteers for various roles, including access to the conflict of interest VRT queue.

Miscellaneous

• WikiProject Reliability's unsourced statements drive is happening in June 2024 to replace {{citation needed}} tags with references! Sign up here to participate!

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Question from Craig Mutale (20:41, 1 June 2024)

Hello , I want to write a new article how do I get started --Craig Mutale (talk) 20:41, 1 June 2024 (UTC)

Craig Mutale I recommend reading WP:Your first article to start. If you have any questions after reading that, I'm happy to answer them! Calliopejen1 (talk) 22:27, 10 June 2024 (UTC)

Question from Olawale segun126 on Marvic Leonen (07:00, 6 June 2024)

Hello if I want to create site how can I create it --Olawale segun126 (talk) 07:00, 6 June 2024 (UTC)

Olawale segun126 I recommend reading WP:Your first article to start. If you have any questions after reading that, I'm happy to answer them! Calliopejen1 (talk) 22:27, 10 June 2024 (UTC)

Question from SashaHaza (00:19, 10 June 2024)

What do I do about vandalism from alt accounts? --SashaHaza (talk) 00:19, 10 June 2024 (UTC)

This user has been blocked indefinitely. Calliopejen1 (talk) 22:27, 10 June 2024 (UTC)

Question from Young Demon RSÄ on User:Young Demon RSÄ (06:39, 25 May 2024)

How to add a picture --Young Demon RSÄ (talk) 06:39, 25 May 2024 (UTC)

Hi, I'm guessing that this relates to your page that got deleted. If it was about something else, please let me know! Calliopejen1 (talk) 22:28, 10 June 2024 (UTC)

Question from Prettybarbie.effect (14:21, 14 June 2024)

When can I start creating a page --Prettybarbie.effect (talk) 14:21, 14 June 2024 (UTC)

Prettybarbie.effect Apologies for the delayed reply... I recommend reading WP:Your first article to start. If you have any questions after reading that, I'm happy to answer them! Calliopejen1 (talk) 16:08, 1 July 2024 (UTC)

Question from Wyler J R 2024 (16:43, 28 June 2024)

How do I search for a film title or film star? Where is the link on my home page? --Wyler J R 2024 (talk) 16:43, 28 June 2024 (UTC)

Wyler J R 2024 There is a search box at the top of the page - type your query there. Let me know if you have any more questions! Calliopejen1 (talk) 16:09, 1 July 2024 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – July 2024

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

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• Local administrators can now add new links to the bottom of the site Tools menu without using JavaScript. Documentation is available on MediaWiki. (T6086)

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Question from Ebubeobiegeegueeeguege (23:26, 3 July 2024)

yo how u doin? I wanna make an article all about me, how would I come about this? Thanks my boi --Ebubeobiegeegueeeguege (talk) 23:26, 3 July 2024 (UTC)

Hi Ebubeobiegeegueeeguege - I'd highly discourage you from attempting to write an article about yourself. Sorry! Calliopejen1 (talk) 19:35, 7 July 2024 (UTC)

Question from Mattia Count (12:45, 4 July 2024)

salve, come posso creare una biografia personale? --Mattia Count (talk) 12:45, 4 July 2024 (UTC)

Mattia Count I don't speak Italian and I don't know the rules/procedures of the Italian Wikipedia. If you're talking about an autobiography, I imagine those are discouraged at the Italian Wikipedia as well, though. Calliopejen1 (talk) 19:36, 7 July 2024 (UTC)

Question from CCHSFl (20:58, 8 July 2024)

Hello, The Clay County Historical Society Museum is located in the old courthouse annex, not in the train station. This should be corrected. --CCHSFl (talk) 20:58, 8 July 2024 (UTC)

Question from Insomniacturtle (03:02, 15 July 2024)

I'm currently studying Albanian history and saw it noted on Enver Hoxha's page (https://en.wiki.x.io/wiki/Enver_Hoxha) that Albania was the "first nation with complete electrification in the world." I checked the source for this comment listed as The History of Albania : From its Origins to the Present Day by Pollo, Stefanaq, and found the discussion in this book on page 280 (https://archive.org/details/historyofalbania0000poll/page/280/mode/2up). However, in the paragraph discussing this, it makes no mention of Albania being the first nation with complete electrification, only that Albania finished the project quickly and before schedule in 1970. Is this why it's noted on the original page that [better source needed]? --Insomniacturtle (talk) 03:02, 15 July 2024 (UTC)

Hi Insomniacturtle, I just went ahead and deleted that statement from the article because it's unsupported and I could not find an adequate alternative source with a quick check. (To the contrary, I found one article saying that the US was the first country with complete electrification.) Next time you find something like this, I encourage you to be bold and fix it! :) Calliopejen1 (talk) 23:02, 15 July 2024 (UTC)

Question from LaniListens (20:03, 9 July 2024)

Hi! I want to create a page on Yohanna Katanacho. He is an extremely accomplished Palestinian theologian, author, and speaker. He is currently the Dean of Bethlehem Bible College in Palestine, and he leads many humanitarian efforts. --LaniListens (talk) 20:03, 9 July 2024 (UTC)

Hi LaniListens, I recommend reading WP:Your first article for more info about writing your first article. Also, the biggest issue for biographies is always whether the person is notable enough for an article. Please have a look at WP:BIO to assess. I see one good source in Google Books: [1]. I'm not sure whether there are other good sources available (e.g. newspaper articles about Katanacho). Calliopejen1 (talk) 23:28, 15 July 2024 (UTC)

Question from ArmenianCrusader14 (04:50, 18 July 2024)

Hey bro how do I make my own Wikipedia page --ArmenianCrusader14 (talk) 04:50, 18 July 2024 (UTC)

ArmenianCrusader14 I recommend reading WP:Your first article for more info about writing your first article. Let me know if you have any questions after reading that... Also a couple notes: 1) I'm a woman, not "bro" :) 2) there is no such thing as "your own Wikipedia page" -- all Wikipedia articles are collaborative 3) I'm hoping your username doesn't suggest that you're on Wikipedia crusading for Armenia, but you probably should review WP:NPOV in case. Good luck and happy editing! Calliopejen1 (talk) 19:55, 18 July 2024 (UTC)

Wikiproject

Hi, I see you've contributed a lot to Haitian literature, would you be interested in a wikiproject on oral tradition? Kowal2701 (talk) 13:45, 26 July 2024 (UTC)

Question from Gavin Ks (13:47, 27 July 2024)

Hello, how do I add a link to an word or phrase? --Gavin Ks (talk) 13:47, 27 July 2024 (UTC)

Hi Gavin Ks and welcome to Wikipedia! Here is a video that shows you how: File:How to make a wikilink.webm. Let me know if you have any questions! Calliopejen1 (talk) 16:24, 29 July 2024 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – August 2024

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

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Question from Ramekin99

Hello Calliope! I am confused on the process of uploading a photo from Wikimedia Commons, I would like to upload a photo, but it always asks me if I created it. Which is a problem because I am trying to use a photo someone else created on Wikimedia Commons.

    Massively appreciated -Ramekin Ramekin99 (talk) 15:16, 26 July 2024 (UTC)

Hi Ramekin99 and apologies for the delayed reply. Do you mean that you are trying to add an image (that is already on Wikimedia Commons) to an article on Wikipedia? Calliopejen1 (talk) 16:23, 29 July 2024 (UTC)

Yes, that is exactly what I am trying to do. The photo is on Wikimedia commons already, and I am trying to add it to an article on Wikipedia. Ramekin99 (talk) 15:06, 3 August 2024 (UTC)

Ramekin99, hopefully this page has what you're looking for: Help:Introduction to images with VisualEditor/3. Let me know if you have any questions! Calliopejen1 (talk) 20:05, 5 August 2024 (UTC)

Oh hello! I was more so trying to upload the photo directly from Wikimedia Commons. Is that possible? Ramekin99 (talk) 23:47, 5 August 2024 (UTC)

Ramekin99 If an image is already in Wikimedia Commons, it should be just loaded from there. Very few images should be uploaded directly to English Wikipedia (pretty much only fair-use images or images that are in public domain in the US but not in their country of origin). Calliopejen1 (talk) 19:41, 6 August 2024 (UTC)

Question from Jamee49 (16:26, 6 August 2024)

Hey, I'm an artist on spotify. I only have 1 song so I don't have a page on here, but that 1 song has reached over 160k listens in just a month so I was thinking it would be cool to start a page here. I just dont know how, can you help please? --Jamee49 (talk) 16:26, 6 August 2024 (UTC)

Jamee49, sorry, but autobiographies are strongly discouraged here. You probably also do not qualify for an article at this stage of your career - see WP:NMUSIC. Calliopejen1 (talk) 19:45, 6 August 2024 (UTC)

Question from Ozzycode (21:11, 5 August 2024)

What should I do if I think an article should be deleted? I can't seem to find any information online about this topic: https://en.wiki.x.io/wiki/Reverse_DDM and it seems like the original author was describing some sort of USB port management, and it seems like they just invented the term Reverse DDM. --Ozzycode (talk) 21:11, 5 August 2024 (UTC)

Hi Ozzycode. For this I recommend the proposed deletion process described here: Wikipedia:Proposed deletion. Basically, in source-editing mode, paste {{subst:prod|The reason the article should be deleted}} at the top of the article. If someone contests the proposed deletion, you could use the WP:AFD process. Let me know if you have any questions, and good luck! Calliopejen1 (talk) 19:44, 6 August 2024 (UTC)

Thank you so much. Have a nice day. Ozzycode (talk) 20:15, 6 August 2024 (UTC)

Question from Dynamicpurecarekadlimited (22:36, 13 August 2024)

Hello how to create a caregiver topic --Dynamicpurecarekadlimited (talk) 22:36, 13 August 2024 (UTC)

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Question from Ary Ravi31 (07:02, 28 August 2024)

Hello, where do I get information to put into pages. --Ary Ravi31 (talk) 07:02, 28 August 2024 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – September 2024

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

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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

• Following a motion, remedies 5.1 and 5.2 of World War II and the history of Jews in Poland (the topic and interaction bans on My very best wishes, respectively) were repealed.
• Remedy 3C of the German war effort case ("Cinderella157 German history topic ban") was suspended for a period of six months.
• The arbitration case Historical Elections is currently open. Proposed decision is expected by 3 September 2024 for this case.

Miscellaneous

• Editors can now enter into good article review circles, an alternative for informal quid pro quo arrangements, to have a GAN reviewed in return for reviewing a different editor's nomination.
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Question from Gong gullu (22:55, 4 September 2024)

hey.i created this profile because I am a music distributor I know not 1 thing other than its what its for information.but as far as me using it the way I want to or need to I don't know were to start.

so basically I'm trying to put my information up were you can find my business or my artist when directed to this side. help please if no quick response I'm currently working so just text me what you think I should do --Gong gullu (talk) 22:55, 4 September 2024 (UTC)

Hi, sorry, this isn't an appropriate use of Wikipedia. See also WP:PSCOI. Calliopejen1 (talk) 19:29, 5 September 2024 (UTC)

Question from Hypertana (04:59, 16 September 2024)

how do i know what to edit --Hypertana (talk) 04:59, 16 September 2024 (UTC)

Hi Hypertana! I recommend you check out Wikipedia:Task Center which has some ideas for things you can get started with editing! Calliopejen1 (talk) 23:39, 16 September 2024 (UTC)