User talk:Mz7/December 2017–February 2018

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Hi, I am interested in joining the Counter Vandalism Academy as I would love to help out with Reviewing Pending changes or by being an Rollbacker in the future.Could you accept me as a student. I did previously apply for this with Titodutta but looks like he's busy. Thanks! Bingobro (Chat) 08:25, 6 October 2017 (UTC)

@Bingobro: I am currently a little busy, but today's the last day of that period of business. I will take a look at your editing history and see if I can get you set up tomorrow. Mz7 (talk) 09:50, 6 October 2017 (UTC)

@Mz7: Sure, you can look at my editing history. I've never done anything nonconstructive .I've got extended confirmed rights and never been blocked/warned. Bingobro (Chat) 10:22, 6 October 2017 (UTC)

@Mz7: So, whens it starting?? Bingobro (Chat) 03:45, 8 October 2017 (UTC)

@Bingobro: Ah yes, apologies for the delay. I've set up a page for you at User:Mz7/CVUA/Bingobro. Your first assignments are listed under section titled "the start". Please read the instructions there, and if you have questions, don't hesitate to let me know. Best of luck! Mz7 (talk) 04:18, 8 October 2017 (UTC)

@Mz7: Thank you! Bingobro (Chat) 04:48, 8 October 2017 (UTC)

@Mz7: Happy Birthday! and I'm back and have provided the diff's instead of permanent links at CVUA. Bingobro (Chat) 08:19, 15 October 2017 (UTC)

@Bingobro: Thanks! I'll review your submissions as soon as I can. Mz7 (talk) 21:16, 15 October 2017 (UTC)

@Mz7: Please do not mind I was just wondering if I could request Pending Changes reviewer rights at the moment as I had started up with CVUA.Bingobro (Chat) 11:27, 20 October 2017 (UTC)

 Done Mz7 (talk) 21:18, 20 October 2017 (UTC)

@Mz7: Ok, as for CVUA I'm simply unable to find any user to be reported to WP:AIV at this moment and will keep on seaching and I also had something on a slightly different topic,I had crated this article-[1] (my 2nd) in my sandbox and would love some expert opinion before moving it to the mainspace.Bingobro (Chat) 13:28, 1 November 2017 (UTC)

@Bingobro: I know the CVUA course page says to provide two examples of AIV reports, but I'll make an exception and allow you to submit only one example of an AIV edit. If you use Special:RecentChanges, you should be able to stumble across such a case. Another method I have used to find vandalism is to patrol Special:Log/newusers. This is the log of all new user account creations. Accounts have not yet made edits will have a red "contribs" link; look through the blue "contribs" links and sometimes you'll find vandalism that needs to be dealt with. It's also a great way to welcome new users to the project when you notice constructive edits. Regarding your draft article, I can take a look at it this weekend (a bit busy in real life at the moment). The key is to ensure that your references show that the subject has received significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject. Mz7 (talk) 03:36, 2 November 2017 (UTC)

Thanks and especially for the Special:Log/newusers link. Bingobro (Chat) 13:12, 2 November 2017 (UTC)

There's the user User:InterHigh and has created a draft for a school of the same name, looks highly promotional.You should check it out.Bingobro (Chat) 15:19, 3 November 2017 (UTC)

Hi again could you review the article that's in my sandbox your opinion will help me a lot. Thanks! Bingobro (Chat) 10:26, 6 November 2017 (UTC)

I've left some comments at User talk:Bingobro/sandbox/Fly Divine. Mz7 (talk) 02:22, 7 November 2017 (UTC)

@Mz7: Could you plese check out my talk page there's some problems with an IP editor (under the '?') section. Bingobro (Chat) 08:17, 22 November 2017 (UTC)

@Bingobro: I've left a comment there. Mz7 (talk) 08:28, 22 November 2017 (UTC)

@Mz7: If your'e free right now could you give feedback on CVUA.

@Bingobro:  Done Good work. Mz7 (talk) 08:40, 22 November 2017 (UTC)

@Mz7: Could you re review my article Yuva Jet as I believe it shouldn't be speedy deleted.At first the article was reviewed fine by User:Ymblanter but after a few minutes Someone else tagged it under CSD A7.Kindly help.Thanks! Bingobro (Chat) 10:48, 2 December 2017 (UTC)

@Bingobro: Looks like the article has already been deleted. :P You can ask the deleting administrator to "userfy" the article by moving it into your userspace. (Alternatively, you can appeal directly to the deleting administrator if you believe that they made a mistake, and if that doesn't work, you can start a community discussion at deletion review.) Personally, while I'm not sure whether I would have been the one to delete the article, I can see where DGG was coming from. Most of the sources in the article appear to report only on aviation-related matters, so it's not clear how much they go towards notability. Beyond that, because you stated this airline is merely planned at this stage, it's not clear to me whether that constitutes a credible claim of significance. I suppose many airlines can be planned, but are they really significant if they haven't commenced operations? Mz7 (talk) 21:23, 2 December 2017 (UTC)

@Mz7: I've started a discussion at DRV. Bingobro (Chat) 04:12, 3 December 2017 (UTC)

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Hi, I noticed you blocked User:FHIHwikipedia for username representing group and gave a COI warning. That account edited Maria Freire (scientist) and Foundation for the National Institutes of Health, much of it violating the MOS (adding external links in place of refs and other things).

I found User:FNIH, which has only edited Maria Freire (scientist) and John Porter (Illinois politician). This is clearly COI, with an edit summary of "(Biographical changes per John Porter)".

There is also User:Will FNHI which has only edited Maria Freire (scientist). These all look like the same person to me and they shouldn't be editing any of these articles.

I can clean up most of their changes myself with normal editing. But I believe there should be a stronger COI warning or blocking of the other accounts. Mentioning here since you were already involved, but I can just go to ANI or SPI if you want (I don't do much of this kind of stuff, I prefer content). MB 04:39, 5 December 2017 (UTC)

Hi, MB. Thanks for your message. I took a look, and back in May 2017 I placed a soft block on the account FNIHwikipedia for having a promotional username that implies shared use (i.e. the username represents that of a company, organization, or group). Since it was a soft username block, they are technically allowed to create a new account and continue editing with a new username that meets the username policy. I think it's likely that the account FNIH is related, but since this account has not edited since January 2017, I'm afraid the account is stale and I don't see a need for a block at this time.

Will FNIH, on the other hand, edited a few weeks ago, so I have left them a templated message on their user talk page about managing a conflict of interest. I don't think the issue at this time rises to a block; it's certainly possible that all of these accounts are controlled by the same person or closely related people, but the activity of each of the accounts are so spaced out from those of the other accounts that I'm not sure a block is necessary to prevent disruption at this time. The username "Will FNIH" is okay since it identifies an individual working at FNIH, not the entire group as a whole. Regards, Mz7 (talk) 08:12, 5 December 2017 (UTC)

46.125.249.127

User:46.125.249.127's edits were very lewd that I think the edits should be made invisible. CLCStudent (talk) 03:14, 9 December 2017 (UTC)

@CLCStudent:  Already done – I redacted them just as you posted here. Mz7 (talk) 03:16, 9 December 2017 (UTC)

I got a few more that were kicking about by a related IP. Primefac (talk) 03:31, 9 December 2017 (UTC) (talk page stalker)

User talk:HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL OF INDIA PROTECTION OF HUMAN RIGHTS

You may wish to revoke talk page access.--Cahk (talk) 08:11, 9 December 2017 (UTC)

@Cahk:  Done. Thanks for the heads up. Mz7 (talk) 10:02, 9 December 2017 (UTC)

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Redirects

Blocked for ban evasion. Mz7 (talk) 18:52, 14 December 2017 (UTC)
The following discussion has been closed. Please do not modify it.
Could you create redirects in the form "X (disambigation)"->"X" for the red links at https://en.wiki.x.io/w/index.php?title=Moscow_Metro_station&oldid=815069197#Station_names_used_on_more_than_one_line_-_different_stations ? These are feminine forms, in case there are double redirects they will be fixed by bots. RussBot did create redirects for some in 2011 [2]. 213.39.184.10 (talk) 12:16, 14 December 2017 (UTC) The IP is the globally banned user Tobias Conradi and is the subject of an ongoing SPI. Please feel free to ignore the request. TastyPoutine talk (if you dare) 13:29, 14 December 2017 (UTC) That is a false claim by User:TastyPoutine, a libel. 213.39.184.10 (talk) 13:45, 14 December 2017 (UTC)

I need assistance on an article (obstinate user)

Hi there MZ7. For the past 3 months, a user by the name of MusaYasharahla has been increasingly obstinate and engaging in edit warring on the Jews of Bilad el-Sudan (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) article.

This person is a Black Hebrew Israelite who has been trying to comprise the neutrality of the article the past few months by introducing the typical biased and unsubstantiated rhetoric spouted by BHIs into the page.

For the first few months, they did not provide any real citations to back up their edits. However, in the past few weeks they have attempted to back up their revisions by citing a biased and unscholarly pro-BHI book entitled From Babylon to Timbuktu, which is the equivalent of a Christian Identity person using an anti-Semitic or Holocaust Denier literature to back up their edits on the Wikipedia Holocaust article.

I've tried to warn them on their talk page, to no avail, about the lack of neutrality in their edits, and what seems like blatant article vandalism and original research. This person has attempted to accuse me of "hating black people" because I will not allow them to harm the neutrality of the article.

Truth be told, I do not want to break the rules in the process of having to revert their edits. I could really use your help and meditation to prevent this edit warring from going further. I appreciate your time and want to thank you in advance. Truth 101 (talk) 23:23, 17 December 2017 (UTC)

Hi Truth 101. Firstly, please understand that decision-making on Wikipedia is done through a consensus among editors; administrators cannot decide how content should be written by fiat, nor can I block an editor simply because they disagree with you. Instead, you need to resolve your dispute by discussing it with other editors – you don't necessarily have to convert your "opponent" (for lack of a better word), but you should be able to convince enough editors to form a consensus. There are a number of places where you can seek outside help in order to resolve the dispute – see Wikipedia:Dispute resolution for our policy and Wikipedia:Dispute resolution requests for an overview of the various avenues.

For some advice, I would avoid accusing your fellow editors of "vandalism", which has a narrow definition on Wikipedia of deliberately trying to harm the encyclopedia. Instead, even if you disagree with their point of view, try to assume good faith. In this case, they probably believe that the source they are adding is reliable enough for Wikipedia. If you disagree, then explain to them your reasoning. If that doesn't work, then seek outside help through the dispute resolution options. Another place where you might be able to find other editors for assistance regarding this subject is Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Judaism (though please keep in mind our canvassing guidelines and keep your requests for assistance neutrally worded).

As for the edit warring, in order to put a stop to it, I have protected the article for 1 week so that only administrators can edit it. I hope you use this time to consider the dispute resolution methods I recommended above. Mz7 (talk) 00:04, 18 December 2017 (UTC)

@Truth 101: Now, it was definitely inappropriate for the editor to call you a "racist bigot" on your talk page. I'll leave them some advice shortly. Mz7 (talk) 00:08, 18 December 2017 (UTC)

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19 December 2017

hi, you told me calling a person a racist bigot is offensive, yet this same person said BLACK hebrew israelite. There is no such thing as black people, black is not a nation or a geographical location and that to me sir is racist and was created through Caucasian supremacist. I stand by my statement and will not take it back. Truth101 is being racist and was disqualifying my sources with out providing any evidence. Those Jews in west Africa were in fact negroes and my people, Jewish people have no connections to the ancient Israelites

1980 Jewish Almanac “Strictly speaking it is incorrect to call an ancient Israelite a ‘Jew’ or to call a contemporary Jew an Israelite or a Hebrew.” (1980 Jewish Almanac, p. 3) – The Jewish Encyclopedia: “Khazars, a non-Semitic, Asiatic, Mongolian tribal nation who emigrated into Eastern Europe about the first century, who were converted as an entire nation to Judaism in the seventh century by the expanding Russian nation which absorbed the entire Khazar population, and who account for the presence in Eastern Europe of the great numbers of Yiddish-speaking Jews in Russia, Poland, Lithuania, Galatia, Besserabia and Rumania.” – The American Peoples Encyclopedia … for 1954 at 15-292 records the following in reference to the Khazars: “In the year 740 A.D. the Khazars were officially converted to Judaism. A century later they were crushed by the incoming Slavic-speaking people and were scattered over central Europe where they were known as Jews.

MusaYasharahla (talk) 04:48, 19 December 2017 (UTC)

@MusaYasharahla: I don't have an opinion in this dispute. I was merely pointing out that, since this is a collaborative project, neither you nor they are helping your respective cases by calling each other names. I've provided both of you links to Wikipedia's dispute resolution paths – that should be your next step. Mz7 (talk) 05:03, 19 December 2017 (UTC)

with all due respect sir, you were merely pointing that out yet you had no problem with him saying "Black" Hebrew Israelite, that didn't even raise your eyebrow??? MusaYasharahla (talk) 05:06, 19 December 2017 (UTC)

@MusaYasharahla: It kind of betrays my ignorance, but I did not realize that the term was considered offensive, and for that, I apologize. Mz7 (talk) 05:08, 19 December 2017 (UTC)

@MusaYasharahla: For the record, we have an entire article linked at Black Hebrew Israelites, and nowhere within the body of the article does it mention anything about the offensiveness of the term. That aside, Truth 101 shouldn't have commented at all on you personally—"comment on content, not contributors", as the mantra goes. This whole exchange is rather unfortunate, and I hope both of you can find a way to resolve the dispute elsewhere. As it stands, I don't see much I can do individually to help. Mz7 (talk) 05:13, 19 December 2017 (UTC)

That wiki page on Black Hebrew Israelite is bias and i can bet my savings that it was not put together by any Hebrew and or Israelite because the term Black is not a nationality and or geographical location. It is a color, you don't need a wiki page to know that. Furthermore there is DNA evidence that proves who the Hebrews were and historical documented evidence. The term Black is offensive because it only describe our complexion and not an identity. If that wiki page was put together by Hebrews and or Israelites please provide a way I can speak to them, so I can find out why it is worded the way it is. Thank you MusaYasharahla (talk) 05:22, 19 December 2017 (UTC)

@MusaYasharahla: The relevant Wikipedia policy here is neutral point of view. What neutral point of view means is that we cannot let our own personal feelings on a subject dictate how we write articles; instead, we have to publish all significant viewpoints on an issue that have been published in published, reliable sources (i.e. sources with a reputation for fact-checking and accuracy). If you have a dispute that an article is biased, you can bring it up at the article's talk page (Talk:Black Hebrew Israelites). Mz7 (talk) 05:34, 19 December 2017 (UTC)

Thank you for that information. If articles are neutral, then there wouldn't be a reason for you to use is to justify not knowing that Black is offensive when not referring to complexion of skin. The term used prior was insinuating a people group. I'm trying to understand what was the point. I told you it was offensive, you then used a wiki article as if I'm making things up, and then state the articles are neutral. If they are neutral then they would not mention that calling a Hebrew Israelite a Black Hebrew Israelite is offensive, especially when they used that term all over the article. MusaYasharahla (talk) 05:44, 19 December 2017 (UTC)

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Thank you, Buster7! Same to you! Mz7 (talk) 20:22, 22 December 2017 (UTC)

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Hello, Just curious, why were the edits of Carmella (wrestler) made by the IP you blocked 107.77.235.215 RevDeleted? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nikolaiho (talk • contribs) 04:17, 23 December 2017 (UTC)

Hi Nikolaiho. I deleted those revisions because, in my view, they fell under criterion 2 of the criteria for redaction (i.e. "grossly insulting, degrading, or offensive material"). I tend to be fairly liberal about revision deletion when it comes to information about living persons, since such content always has the potential to affect the person in real life. Mz7 (talk) 04:24, 23 December 2017 (UTC)

Thank you for the swift response and explanation. NikolaiHo^☎️ 04:27, 23 December 2017 (UTC)

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@TheSandDoctor, MRD2014, and K6ka: Apologies, as this is a very belated response, but thank you all so much! Here's to 2018! Mz7 (talk) 20:41, 2 January 2018 (UTC)

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7 January 2018

Ok ok I'm sorry. I will stop with my silly edits. Its amazing how quick its picked up now.

I do actually have a few edits I'd like to make which are correct however can't reference a third party but know they are correct as I own the physical items. Do I need to reference these changes? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.19.211.121 (talk) 21:52, 7 January 2018 (UTC)

Hello, thanks for agreeing to stop. Unfortunately, you will indeed have to reference the changes in accordance with Wikipedia's verifiability policy—see WP:INTREF for how to do this. I'm not sure exactly what you mean by "physical items"; however, references to offline sources, such as a newspaper that doesn't have an online archive, are allowed on Wikipedia as long as the sources are reliable publications. Unfortunately, Wikipedia cannot accept material that hasn't been published by a reliable source, even if you know that it is correct. For more information, see Wikipedia:No original research. Thanks, Mz7 (talk) 21:57, 7 January 2018 (UTC)

Slick

Too bad for them, they're not quite slick enough. Boomer Vial^{Be ready to fight the horde! • Contribs} 04:55, 10 January 2018 (UTC)

@Boomer Vial: Yikes, that is rather slick. I've now blocked the account. Thanks for pointing it out! Mz7 (talk) 06:02, 10 January 2018 (UTC)

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Approving my edit

I made the page for Fear the Walking Dead season 4 and you declined it because of many reasons. The premiere date was announced today as April 15th, and I added that and references. I'll still continue to edit it as more news arises. Can you please approve it? Thanks. Hurricane Seth (talk) 03:52, 14 January 2018 (UTC)

Hi Hurricane Seth. Let me quickly consult with a few other editors who are also actively editing Fear the Walking Dead-related articles to see what they think first. If they're okay with it, then I'll approve it. Mz7 (talk) 03:55, 14 January 2018 (UTC)

Thanks, I'd really appreciate it. I actively edit Fear the Walking Dead-related articles and i'd love to be able to create this page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hurricane Seth (talk • contribs) 04:00, 14 January 2018 (UTC)

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203.92.8.0/21

• 203.92.8.0/21 (block range · block log (global) · WHOIS (partial))

The vandal/LTA (User:My Royal Young) is back at it using this range once again. Could you perform this rangeblock again? This time for maybe a week or two...? Thanks. 222.117.134.232 (talk) 16:57, 22 January 2018 (UTC)

 Done for a week. Thanks for the heads up! Mz7 (talk) 19:19, 22 January 2018 (UTC)

Have a question about the 'username policy'

Hello Mz7,

I read your message about the 'username policy' on 24th Jan 2018.

I have a question about the 'username policy'.

- When i do modify our company wiki page, then i must using my personal iD?

Thank you in advance for your kindness. Arirangwiki (talk) 02:54, 24 January 2018 (UTC)

@Arirangwiki: Yes, across Wikipedia you should use a username that reflects you personally, not your company. Please also be aware that we do discourage direct editing of your company article, since you have a conflict of interest with respect to your company. Please see Wikipedia:Conflict of interest for more information. Thank you. Mz7 (talk) 02:59, 24 January 2018 (UTC)

CSI Miami season 4 driven

answer Honestly then I’ll Leav You Alone

1. Do You agree that Eric did Not ask for a Sketch Artist?

2. Why didn’t Eric think about Sketch Artist?(107.77.214.90 (talk) 16:51, 24 January 2018 (UTC)).

Wikipedia is not a publisher of original thought. We cannot publish our own conclusions we make about a subject, only ones that are directly stated by a reliable source. Mz7 (talk) 21:05, 24 January 2018 (UTC)

A pie for you!

Thank you for the barnstar... and for nabbing the page-move vandalizing editor themself! RA0808 talkcontribs 02:29, 31 January 2018 (UTC)

Edits

Hi, I made edits to Alberto Baco's page per the request of his daughter. There is no general source pertaining to information on his family, but I believe the primary source of his daughter is more than enough evidence. Please return the information. Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.205.246.131 (talk) 06:27, 1 February 2018 (UTC)

Replied on your talk page. Mz7 (talk) 06:31, 1 February 2018 (UTC)

Re: Scrappy Little Nobody

Unfortunately, taking a look at the IP's most recent changes on the page, its talk, and their user talk page, I think their behavior has crossed WP:AGF into at least WP:CIR if not WP:DUCK WP:TROLL. It looks very much to me that they need to be blocked for a little bit, but maybe some other action would be more suitable. I hope you can assist here. Also see User talk:Meters#WP:3RR on Talk:Scrappy Little Nobody. ⁓ Hello71 15:05, 3 February 2018 (UTC)

@Hello71: I also think a block might be justifiable at this point. I hesitate to do it myself, however, because having written the statement the editor is editing, I feel that I am too WP:INVOLVED to block myself. What I have done, however, is warned the user and edited my statement to align with how the IP wants it. Ultimately, I think this is one of those really low priority issues that we shouldn't be spending more than a few minutes on. If the user edits my statement again, I'll ask another admin to take a look myself. Mz7 (talk) 23:22, 3 February 2018 (UTC)

Sounds good. ⁓ Hello71 00:23, 4 February 2018 (UTC)

Why don't you just protect or semi-protect the page and its talk page? I won't let your insults towards Anna stand like they do. While you still didn't tell what she has done to you. --212.186.7.98 (talk) 07:51, 4 February 2018 (UTC)

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2018).

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Guideline and policy news

• An RfC has closed with a consensus that candidates at WP:RFA must disclose whether they have ever edited for pay and that administrators may never use administrative tools as part of any paid editing activity, except when they are acting as a Wikipedian-in-Residence or when the payment is made by the Wikimedia Foundation or an affiliate of the WMF.
• Editors responding to threats of harm can now contact the Wikimedia Foundation's emergency address by using Special:EmailUser/Emergency. If you don't have email enabled on Wikipedia, directly contacting the emergency address using your own email client remains an option.

Technical news

• A tag will now be automatically applied to edits that blank a page, turn a page into a redirect, remove/replace almost all content in a page, undo an edit, or rollback an edit. These edits were previously denoted solely by automatic edit summaries.

Arbitration

• The Arbitration Committee has enacted a change to the discretionary sanctions procedure which requires administrators to add a standardized editnotice when placing page restrictions. Editors cannot be sanctioned for violations of page restrictions if this editnotice was not in place at the time of the violation.

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Tech News: 2018-06

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• Bureaucrats can now add and remove the accountcreator permission by default. This means the user can help create a large number of accounts, for example for an editathon. Wikis can change this if they want to. [3]
• The Wikidata vandalism dashboard is a new tool to monitor vandalism on Wikidata labels and descriptions. It is filtered by language. [4]
• Info pages for file pages now show the file's SHA1 hash value in the table of basic information. This is so users can see that the file is the same as the one they uploaded. [5]

Problems

• Special:Export has a higher error rate right now. This means that the export does not always work. You should check to make sure your page exports worked. The developers are working on fixing this. [6]

Changes later this week

• When you review an edit made with the visual editor you can check a visual diff of your changes besides the wikitext diff. If you pick one diff type it will remember and show you that in future. The visual diff will now be the type first shown to new users. [7]
• When you use a gallery to show images you can define the size, like gallery widths="150px". You could use em or % instead of px but it would make no difference. You can now only use 150px or nothing (150). If you write something else, instead of treating it like px, it will not work. [8]
• The wording when you send a thanks message will change. Instead of Yes or No it will say Thank and Cancel. It will also be easier to understand that all thanks are public. [9]
• Redirects connected to Wikidata can create double Wikidata items. There will now be a tracking category for this. Wikis that don't want it can disable it. [10]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 February. It will be on all wikis from 8 February (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 6 February at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 7 February at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The Education Program extension will be removed on 30 June. It is replaced by the Programs and Events Dashboard. [11][12]

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20:51, 5 February 2018 (UTC)

New Page Reviewer Newsletter

Hello Mz7, thank you for your efforts in reviewing new pages!

The NPP backlog at the end of the drive with the number of unreviewed articles by creation date. Red is older than 90 days, orange is between 90 and 30 days old, and green is younger than 30 days.

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• The new page backlog is currently at 3819 unreviewed articles, with a further 6660 unreviewed redirects.
• We are very close to eliminating the backlog completely; please help by reviewing a few extra articles each day!

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• We made massive progress during the recent four weeks of the NPP Backlog Drive, during which the backlog reduced by nearly six thousand articles and the length of the backlog by almost 3 months!

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216.75.177.52

216.75.177.52 (talk · contribs · WHOIS)

Would you mind keeping an eye on this IPs edits and/or blocking them again? They're creating more inappropriate draft articles. Thanks. 2601:1C0:4401:F360:D076:E7E5:CA8D:AD72 (talk) 21:33, 9 February 2018 (UTC)

I've blocked this IP address for 1 month. Thanks for bringing it to my attention! Mz7 (talk) 23:05, 9 February 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-07

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• TemplateStyles has been deployed to the Swedish Wikipedia. TemplateStyles is a feature to make it easy to add CSS to templates without administrator privileges. This allows for better adaptability to screen sizes, especially on mobile where are half our total page views. If your community would like to be the next to have the feature, please submit a task on Phabricator. [13][14][15]
• Registration pages now collect keyboard/mouse usage information for research on identifying spambots.

Changes later this week

• You can opt in to a new beta feature that lets you use visual diffs on history pages. [16]
• The visual editor shows and lets you edit templates in one way, and reference lists in another. This meant that templates that only contain a fake reference list, like {{reflist}}, would not get updated as you edited. Now they will update as you edit, but you will no longer be able to visually edit them as templates. [17]
• The abuse filter extension has a new feature contains_all that you may use to check if one or more strings are all contained in another given string. [18]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 February. It will be on all wikis from 15 February (calendar).

Meetings

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• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 14 February at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The settings page and beta options for the mobile website are being improved. [19]

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21:59, 12 February 2018 (UTC)

Please check google maps for proof of my post: Calvary temple Ananthavaram, Andhra Pradesh 522016 16.509591, 80.433269

Check google maps for the post as the Calvari Shrine is located in google maps Regards, — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gamanatheway (talk • contribs) 07:40, 17 February 2018 (UTC)

@Gamanatheway: Thank you for your message. Unfortunately, I don't think Google Maps is sufficient to verify the information you added. Encyclopedia content needs to be reliably sourced preferably to secondary sources, such as those in books and news organizations that synthesize primary sources (i.e. what others have written directly about a subject). For more information on identifying reliable sources, see Wikipedia:Identifying reliable sources. For an introduction to how to cite sources on Wikipedia, see Help:Introduction to referencing with VisualEditor/1. Best, Mz7 (talk) 07:44, 17 February 2018 (UTC)

Thank you for rejection

Respected sir,Thanks for let me know about my faults. But please give me some information when and after how much edits should i apply for 'reviewing permission' ?. I know i'm able. But i have no majority in edits. Abirlal Mukhopadhyay (talk) 17:34, 17 February 2018 (UTC)

Hi Abir-lal. If you are interested in working with content, I would suggest working more on referencing your content additions with citations to reliable secondary sources. Many of the articles you've created only cite primary sources, such as census data – primary sources are sources which report directly on an event, whereas secondary sources report on what the primary sources say, providing a perspective that is one step removed from a subject. Secondary sources are the kind of sources that are most appropriate for an encyclopedia, in accordance with our no original research policy.

If you are more interested in the maintenance areas of Wikipedia, one great way to get yourself accustomed to our policies and guidelines (as well as demonstrate your knowledge of those guidelines) is participating in the article deletion process. Wikipedia:Articles for deletion is where Wikipedia editors discuss whether certain articles should be deleted, and a good argument at deletion debates will directly cite Wikipedia's guidelines. By reading through these discussions, you can gain a sense of familiarity with those guidelines and hopefully contribute your thoughts on a discussion yourself.

There's no specific time period or number of edits I can give you before I can grant you the pending changes reviewer permission. You need to demonstrate to administrators through your edits that you understand our core policies here, and I hope my comments here give you an idea of how you can do that. Mz7 (talk) 01:30, 18 February 2018 (UTC)

It is truely helpful to me. And i made out one more idea about you, you can explain more smoothly than wikipedia guidelines. I'm very glad to get your little time. Thank you. Abirlal Mukhopadhyay (talk) 04:07, 18 February 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-08

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• The explanation of the abbreviations on the recent changes page could overlap with the list of changes. This has been fixed. [20][21]
• You can now see statistics for pageviews per wiki per country. You can see this on maps or in a table. [22]

Problems

• Linter is reporting estimated counts instead of actual counts for some wikis. This is because of performance problems. You might notice a false higher number in linter counts for some categories. This will be fixed as soon as the performance problem has been fixed. [23]
• Last week the way that Visual Editor displays references lists was changed. As a result, the references generated by specific templates like {{sfn}} are not visible in the references list whilst editing. [24][25]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 20 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 February. It will be on all wikis from 22 February (calendar).

Meetings

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Future changes

• The way edit summaries and log comments are stored in the database is being changed. In the future this will make longer comments possible. [26]
• Edit conflicts could be solved in a different way in the future. You can test a new prototype.

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22:55, 19 February 2018 (UTC)

Jazz Jennings

Any reason you didn't permanently semi-protect? It looks to be a BLP vandalism magnet and I doubt it will stop. power~enwiki (π, ν) 04:34, 20 February 2018 (UTC)

@Power~enwiki: I took a closer look, and as we discussed on IRC, I'm inclined to agree.  Done: I've extended the protection to indefinite. Mz7 (talk) 04:47, 20 February 2018 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Counter-Vandalism Unit/Academy Student?

Hello, I'm a user who would like to get a little bit more experience with combating vandalism and would like to join WP:CVUA to facilitate that. I saw that you are an instructor, so would you be willing to take me on? – JocularJellyfish ^Talk_Contribs 02:05, 24 February 2018 (UTC)

@JocularJellyfish: I would be happy to mentor you as part of CVUA. I'm about to head off to sleep for tonight, so I will create your course page in the morning. See you then! Mz7 (talk) 09:38, 24 February 2018 (UTC)

@JocularJellyfish: I've created your course page: it can be found at User:Mz7/CVUA/JocularJellyfish. Your first assignment is to answer a few questions about the difference between good faith editing and vandalism, using the information in the policy and guideline pages I provided. If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask! Best of luck, Mz7 (talk) 21:53, 24 February 2018 (UTC)

Alright. I'll get cracking. – JocularJellyfish ^Talk_Contribs 01:24, 25 February 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-09

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• Checkusers and stewards can now view private data such as the IP address in the abuse log. This data is removed regularly. [27]

Problems

• Last week's MediaWiki version was rolled back because of a bug. [28][29]
• Since the deployment train last week until late evening on 20 February UTC, when you thanked someone for an edit, the thank went to the latest unthanked edit to that page. It didn't matter which edit you tried to give thanks for. This has been fixed. [30]
• Special:Statistics did not take newly created pages into account since 13 February 2018. Because of this the statistics are recreated. [31][32][33]

Changes later this week

• Users with version 10 of the Internet Explorer browser will no longer get JavaScript on Wikimedia wikis. If you use this browser on your computer, you can try upgrading to a newer version. [34]
• The Wikinews wikis will switch to use the Remex parsing library. This is to replace Tidy. It will happen on 27 February. Other wikis will be recommended to switch soon when they have fixed the errors that must be fixed. Tidy will be removed in the middle of 2018. [35][36]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 February. It will be on all wikis from 1 March (calendar).

Meetings

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19:52, 26 February 2018 (UTC)

Thanks for blocking the Piltdown Vandal!

Thanks so much! But there's still another: Jcm10010 is a possible sock/meatpuppet. Can you help me revert their edits? TheMitochondriaBoi (talk) 01:30, 28 February 2018 (UTC)

@TheMitochondriaBoi:  Done. Thanks for pointing that out! Please let me know if you see anything else. Mz7 (talk) 01:32, 28 February 2018 (UTC)

@Mz7: No problem! Glad I could help. TheMitochondriaBoi (talk) 01:36, 28 February 2018 (UTC)