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Welcome to the 2023 WikiCup!
Happy New Year and Happy New WikiCup! The 2023 competition has just begun and all article creators, expanders, improvers and reviewers are welcome to take part. Even if you are a novice editor you should be able to advance to at least the second round, improving your editing skills as you go. If you have already signed up, your submissions page can be found here. If you have not yet signed up, you can add your name here and the judges will set up your submissions page ready for you to take part. Any questions on the scoring, rules or anything else should be directed to one of the judges, or posted to the WikiCup talk page. Signups will close at the end of January, and the first round will end on 26 February; the 64 highest scorers at that time will move on to round 2. The judges for the WikiCup this year are: Sturmvogel 66 (talk · contribs · email) and Cwmhiraeth (talk · contribs · email). Good luck! MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 14:16, 1 January 2023 (UTC)
Happy New Year, PresN!
PresN,
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Administrators' newsletter – January 2023
News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2022).
Administrator changes
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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- Speedy deletion criterion A5 (transwikied articles) has been repealed following an unopposed proposal.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.
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- Voting for the Sound Logo has closed and the winner is expected to be announced February to April 2023.
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Promotion of List of Volition games
Nomination for deletion of Template:Elizabeth Haydon
Template:Elizabeth Haydon has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. Liz Read! Talk! 15:16, 22 January 2023 (UTC)
Your GA nomination of Butterfly Soup
Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Butterfly Soup you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. 
This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Shooterwalker -- Shooterwalker (talk) 19:21, 24 January 2023 (UTC)
Your GA nomination of Butterfly Soup
The article Butterfly Soup you nominated as a good article has passed 
; see Talk:Butterfly Soup for comments about the article, and Talk:Butterfly Soup/GA1 for the nomination. Well done! If the article has not already appeared on the main page as a "Did you know" item, or as a bold link under "In the News" or in the "On This Day" prose section, you can nominate it within the next seven days to appear in DYK. Bolded names with dates listed at the bottom of the "On This Day" column do not affect DYK eligibility. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Shooterwalker -- Shooterwalker (talk) 13:43, 28 January 2023 (UTC)
Always precious
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Administrators' newsletter – February 2023
News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2023).
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- 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.
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- 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.
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TFL notification for March 2023
Hi, PresN. I'm just posting to let you know that Hugo Award for Best Professional Magazine – a list that you have been heavily involved with – has been chosen to appear on the Main Page as Today's featured list for March 3. The TFL blurb can be seen here. If you have any thoughts on the selection, please post them on my talk page or at TFL talk. Regards, Giants2008 (Talk) 22:33, 3 February 2023 (UTC)
Promotion of Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book
Something odd about this one, and I can't figure out what caused it. I normally get a message underneath the article title that says "Currently a featured list candidate"; I don't get that message with this one. But the article talk page says "featured list candidate", and I don't see anything wrong with the nomination page. - Dank (push to talk) 17:27, 7 February 2023 (UTC)
- @Dank: It also says it's a "set index article" instead of a list, which is what I think is the issue- I think maybe the {{SIA}} template at the bottom is causing the "type" to change, and it's not set up to link the FLC for set index articles? In any case, the talk page is fine, so the FLC bot will be okay. --PresN 18:41, 7 February 2023 (UTC)
- Yep, that was it, all good now. - Dank (push to talk) 18:44, 7 February 2023 (UTC)
Your GA nomination of Butterfly Soup 2
Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Butterfly Soup 2 you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Shooterwalker -- Shooterwalker (talk) 17:41, 9 February 2023 (UTC)
Your GA nomination of Butterfly Soup 2
The article Butterfly Soup 2 you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Butterfly Soup 2 for comments about the article, and Talk:Butterfly Soup 2/GA1 for the nomination. Well done! If the article has not already appeared on the main page as a "Did you know" item, or as a bold link under "In the News" or in the "On This Day" prose section, you can nominate it within the next seven days to appear in DYK. Bolded names with dates listed at the bottom of the "On This Day" column do not affect DYK eligibility. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Shooterwalker -- Shooterwalker (talk) 17:18, 16 February 2023 (UTC)
Talk:WWE 2K23
Hey, I don't know why you changed the assessment grade of WWE 2K23 to a redirect class, but I reverted it. Would appreciate a reasoning 2603:6080:7C40:5E0:B808:ED1E:8B76:5913 (talk) 16:55, 17 February 2023 (UTC)
- Sorry, moving too fast- was fixing all the redirects/drafts that never got their talk pages updated, and I guess I double updated Draft talk:WWE 2K23. --PresN 18:36, 17 February 2023 (UTC)
You were wondering (on my talk page) if we could have a navbox for my current list series ... if so, User:Dank/Temp is my suggestion. People don't like to see red links in these things, so I can't deploy it right away, but I can probably deploy it soon. - Dank (push to talk) 17:52, 20 February 2023 (UTC)
- @Dank: Looks good! --PresN 21:04, 20 February 2023 (UTC)
- Also: I had been putting the image review info on the nominations page ... I'm now doing it as the last note on the list's talk page (for instance, at Talk:List of basal eudicot families. - Dank (push to talk) 03:00, 22 February 2023 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – March 2023
News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2023).
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Guideline and policy news
- Following a request for comment, F10 (useless non-media files) has been deprecated.
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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.
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WikiCup 2023 March newsletter
So ends the first round of the 2023 WikiCup. Everyone with a positive score moved on to Round 2, with 54 contestants qualifying. The top scorers in Round 1 were:
Unlimitedlead with 1205 points, a WikiCup newcomer, led the field with two featured articles on historical figures and several featured article candidate reviews.
Epicgenius was in second place with 789 points; a seasoned WikiCup competitor he specialises in buildings and locations in New York.
FrB.TG was in third place with 625 points, garnered from a featured article on a filmmaker which qualified for an impressive number of bonus points.
TheJoebro64, another WikiCup newcomer, came next with 600 points gained from two featured articles on video games.
Iazyges was in fifth place with 532 points, from two featured articles on classical history.
The top sixteen contestants at the end of Round 1 had all scored over 300 points; these included 
LunaEatsTuna, 
Thebiguglyalien, 
Sammi Brie, 
Trainsandotherthings, 
Lee Vilenski, 
Juxlos, 
Unexpectedlydian, 
SounderBruce, 
Kosack, 
BennyOnTheLoose and 
PCN02WPS. It was a high-scoring start to the competition.
These contestants, like all the others, now have to start again from scratch. The first round finished on February 26. Remember that any content promoted after that date but before the start of Round 2 can be claimed in Round 2. Some contestants made claims before the new submissions pages were set up, and they will need to resubmit them. Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. Remember, if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed.
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TFL notification for March 2023
Hi, PresN. I'm just posting to let you know that List of Civilization media – a list that you have been heavily involved with – has been chosen to appear on the Main Page as Today's featured list for March 24. The TFL blurb can be seen here. If you have any thoughts on the selection, please post them on my talk page or at TFL talk. Regards, Giants2008 (Talk) 17:29, 4 March 2023 (UTC)
Promotion of List of afrosoricids
Latest (and most likely final) issue of the WP:VG newsletter
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Question about source used in Secret of Mana
Hi PresN, I was trying to confirm some information about the history of Secret of Mana and Chrono Trigger, and in Secret of Mana you quote the source: "Schaulfelberger, Frederik (September 2006). "Sanningen om Mana" [The Truth about Mana]. Level (in Swedish). No. 6. IDG. pp. 114–121." for a number of sections of the article. Could possibly tell me more about this magazine? My deep dives on google, archive.org, and IDG/Foundry have been unable to find any examples or references to it. It's been rather frustrating. Mostly been coming up with a different Turkish magazine called Level instead. Thank you, Antipothis (talk) 21:54, 9 March 2023 (UTC)
- @Antipothis: No idea where I found it back in 2014 when I added it (though not in a tiny section at the end of the article...), but looks like there's scans and an English translation at here. Found it by googling "Secret of mana level magazine", and one of the hits was this VG247 article that quotes something different than the wikipedia article does and says it's an interview with Ishii, so I googled "secret of mana ishii interview level magazine" and it was the second hit. Unfortunately, I don't know anything about the magazine itself --PresN 22:53, 9 March 2023 (UTC)
- Thanks alot man. That's a huge help. --Antipothis (talk) 03:42, 10 March 2023 (UTC)
Your GA nomination of The Gardens Between
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Your GA nomination of The Gardens Between
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Your GA nomination of The Gardens Between
The article The Gardens Between you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:The Gardens Between for comments about the article, and Talk:The Gardens Between/GA1 for the nomination. Well done! If the article has not already appeared on the main page as a "Did you know" item, or as a bold link under "In the News" or in the "On This Day" prose section, you can nominate it within the next seven days to appear in DYK. Bolded names with dates listed at the bottom of the "On This Day" column do not affect DYK eligibility. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Vestigium Leonis -- Vestigium Leonis (talk) 20:21, 15 March 2023 (UTC)
Promotion of List of dasyuromorphs
Navbox or sidebar?
Do you have any preference whether the template at List of basal superasterid families#See also stays there or gets moved up to the upper right as a sidebar? My first thought was that that would never work since the table needs the whole page width and comes up so quickly, but now that I think of it, I could probably get away with it. I don't have a preference ... do you? If not, I'll ask the next batch of reviewers. - Dank (push to talk) 03:22, 26 March 2023 (UTC)
- @Dank: I'm not sure- I think that having a navbar in the see also instead of at the bottom feels odd, and that a sidebar might work better? But as it is it's too wide for that, even before sticking an image to the left of it. You could make it narrower and put the image above it, but there's not a lot of vertical space to work with before you hit the table and I'm not sure how you'd do that without losing the nested nature (e.g. Asterids are a subset of superasterids are a subset of eudicots). --PresN 03:28, 26 March 2023 (UTC)
- Okay, I'm thinking the same, I'll see what I can do. - Dank (push to talk) 03:30, 26 March 2023 (UTC)
- I've looked at all the lists, and it should be doable. The first thing I need to do is finish the other lists and move them into article-space. - Dank (push to talk) 14:02, 26 March 2023 (UTC)
- User:Dank/Sandbox/4? Thoughts? - Dank (push to talk) 00:59, 27 March 2023 (UTC)
- @Dank: I like it; I think it's a little odd having Eudicots get centered but monocots/early-diverging not, but that's okay. I usually see these templates using {{sidebar}}, not infobox, so I made one up at User:PresN/plantsidebar - it's narrower but much taller, so I don't know that it works. --PresN 01:25, 27 March 2023 (UTC)
- I like the way it looks, but I don't think I can make it work? If I try to put an image to the left of it, someone will throw me in a dungeon for violating some layout rule; if I put the image above it, it will push the table down too far in pretty much all of the lists. I'll see if I can make it fatter but shorter, if that works for you. - Dank (push to talk) 02:17, 27 March 2023 (UTC)
- Done. Thoughts? - Dank (push to talk) 02:31, 27 March 2023 (UTC)
- @Dank: I like it! --PresN 02:36, 27 March 2023 (UTC)
- Though as a note, "Lists of flowering plant families" gets the title onto one line. --PresN 02:37, 27 March 2023 (UTC)
- That helps, thanks. - Dank (push to talk) 02:39, 27 March 2023 (UTC)
- @Dank: I like it; I think it's a little odd having Eudicots get centered but monocots/early-diverging not, but that's okay. I usually see these templates using {{sidebar}}, not infobox, so I made one up at User:PresN/plantsidebar - it's narrower but much taller, so I don't know that it works. --PresN 01:25, 27 March 2023 (UTC)
TFL notification for April 2023
Hi, PresN. I'm just posting to let you know that List of viverrids – a list that you have been heavily involved with – has been chosen to appear on the Main Page as Today's featured list for April 21. The TFL blurb can be seen here. If you have any thoughts on the selection, please post them on my talk page or at TFL talk. Regards, Giants2008 (Talk) 21:32, 1 April 2023 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – April 2023
News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2023).
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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.
Your GA nomination of Tunic (video game)
Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Tunic (video game) you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Shooterwalker -- Shooterwalker (talk) 01:41, 11 April 2023 (UTC)
FLC close
Was Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/Timeline of the Warren G. Harding presidency/archive1 supposed to be closed? Thebiguglyalien (talk) 03:23, 14 April 2023 (UTC)
- @Thebiguglyalien: Yes, forgot the tag for the bot. Thanks! --PresN 11:49, 14 April 2023 (UTC)
Your GA nomination of Tunic (video game)
The article Tunic (video game) you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Tunic (video game) for comments about the article, and Talk:Tunic (video game)/GA1 for the nomination. Well done! If the article has not already appeared on the main page as a "Did you know" item, or as a bold link under "In the News" or in the "On This Day" prose section, you can nominate it within the next seven days to appear in DYK. Bolded names with dates listed at the bottom of the "On This Day" column do not affect DYK eligibility. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Shooterwalker -- Shooterwalker (talk) 13:23, 26 April 2023 (UTC)
FWIW. I suppose there are various ways to get some kind of nod from the reviewers for the 3 rows I just added to this existing FL ... if you have a preference, let me know. (This doesn't involve my two current noms, btw.) - Dank (push to talk) 15:26, 29 April 2023 (UTC)
- @Dank: Eh, it's a small addition, even if it results in changing the list name, it's fine. Feel free to ask their opinion if you want it, of course, but it's not necessary. I think from a "strict" classification standpoint it's a little odd to have all three together, but they are fairly closely related, they're just not sibling branches. Otherwise they have nowhere to go due to their length and position in the superrosids, so I wouldn't have opposed. --PresN 15:35, 29 April 2023 (UTC)
- Great. Apart from the campanulids, all I've got left is the malvids ... I'll try to finish them up this weekend. - Dank (push to talk) 15:49, 29 April 2023 (UTC)
Euasterids
Meh, another update, but this one isn't my fault, it's coming from the taxonomy guys. P.F. Stevens, over here (and click on the "SUMMARY OF APG IV" link), says that there is/are new euasterid order(s) that don't belong in the lamiids or the campanulids ... so, in the next version of these lists, I'll have to combine those two clades into one euasterid page. Rather than do it one way now and change everything in the future, I'm going to go ahead and add some basic information on the campanulids to my existing lamiid list. I'm going to ask my next batch of reviewers to glance at the changes for the lamiids page ... they might not want to, but there's no harm in asking. I'll get the changes reviewed one way or another. - Dank (push to talk) 02:13, 7 May 2023 (UTC)
- @Dank: If you think that would be helpful to readers now, then sure, though keep in mind that it's likely that these changes won't be accepted into APG IV or whatever (PAFTOL) for years and years; until they're accepted and published in a general reference, you just have "P. F. Stevens says that there's a general acceptance of these changes post-APG IV", which isn't a great source. It's not quite the same, but I ran into that with my mammals lists- MSW3 is was published in 2005, so quite a lot has changed since then, but for every generally accepted change there's 3 complex changes that no one agrees on the details of. There, I have to go through a complicated "do both the ASM and the IUCN agree on this change", even if the world expert on that family has a paper that e.g. splits up a species into three. I worry that this is kind of the same situation- Stevens may say that the addition of that order is a thing, but it may be a long time before reference works agree. --PresN 15:49, 7 May 2023 (UTC)
- Nice analysis, and I agree. If you see me doing anything that you disagree with in List of lamiid families (or euasterid, after the rename), please let me know. I'm not aware of any plans yet for "APG V", but sooner or later, there will be some kind of grudging agreement to move past 2016 taxonomy. My plan for now is to mention this new development in the notes but not in the table (until things change). - Dank (push to talk) 16:03, 7 May 2023 (UTC)
WikiCup 2023 May newsletter
The second round of the 2023 WikiCup has now finished. Contestants needed to have scored 60 points to advance into round 3. Our top five scorers in round 2 all included a featured article among their submissions and each scored over 500 points. They were:
- Iazyges (1040) with three FAs on Byzantine emperors, and lots of bonus points.
- Unlimitedlead (847), with three FAs on ancient history, one GA and nine reviews.
- Epicgenius (636), a WikiCup veteran, with one FA on the New Amsterdam Theatre, four GAs and eleven DYKs
BennyOnTheLoose (553), a seasoned competitor, with one FA on snooker, six GAs and seven reviews.- FrB.TG (525), with one FA, a Lady Gaga song and a mass of bonus points.
Other notable performances were put in by Sammi Brie, Thebiguglyalien, 
MyCatIsAChonk, PCN02WPS, and 
AirshipJungleman29.
So far contestants have achieved thirteen featured articles between them, one being a joint effort, and forty-nine good articles. The judges are pleased with the thorough reviews that are being performed, and have hardly had to reject any. As we enter the third round, remember that any content promoted after the end of round 2 but before the start of round 3 can be claimed in round 3. Remember too that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them.
If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article nominations, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed (remember to remove your listing when no longer required). Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Sturmvogel 66 and Cwmhiraeth. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 08:15, 2 May 2023 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – May 2023
News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2023).
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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.
Promotion of List of macropodiformes
Promotion of List of phalangeriformes
Bit of help at Species table
Hey, I'm trying to revamp List of sunbird species to make it an FLC (the draft is at my sandbox), and I've been using Template:Species table since I think that's it's a pretty good layout for species lists. However, I think the Size and ecology column is a bit extraneous since all of the species are around the same size and behave rather similarly. Could you add a parameter to get rid of the row to the template? Thanks, AryKun (talk) 15:29, 25 May 2023 (UTC)
- @AryKun: Makes sense; just added a |no-ecology=yes option, and added it to your first table in the sandbox as an example. Note that you have to add the parameter to the header template and each row template to suppress the column. Glad to see someone else using the template! --PresN 18:19, 25 May 2023 (UTC)
- Thank you so much for the quick response! AryKun (talk) 18:23, 25 May 2023 (UTC)
Notification of new articles post
I got a notification of [1] because the edit both contained your signature and a link to my user page. Many others must also have been notified. I don't know whether it was intentional but if you want to make links to user pages without making notifications then you can omit signing the edit. If you add a signature alone in a second edit then no notifications are sent. See Help:Notifications#Mentions. PrimeHunter (talk) 16:56, 30 May 2023 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – June 2023
News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2023).
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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.
Promotion of List of diprotodonts
TFL notification for July 2023
Hi, PresN. I'm just posting to let you know that Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book – a list that you have been heavily involved with – has been chosen to appear on the Main Page as Today's featured list for July 10. The TFL blurb can be seen here. If you have any thoughts on the selection, please post them on my talk page or at TFL talk. Regards, Giants2008 (Talk) 00:27, 21 June 2023 (UTC)
Promotion of Tunic (video game)
Reverted edit on Zork
I saw that you reverted my edit, but what is wrong with in-paragraph references? The very next paragraph has at least 8 refs which are not listed at the end of the paragraph. Is that not actually better since the referencing is less ambiguous? - Indefensible (talk) 21:39, 28 June 2023 (UTC)
- @Indefensible: There's nothing wrong with in-paragraph references. The problem is that the fact(s) you were citing were already cited. Adding another citation to text that already has a citation doesn't add anything, it just throws more super-scripted numbers in there. If the new citation had more detail that wasn't found in the old one, then it would be worth swapping them out, but in this case it just repeated what was in the article already- in fact, it repeated it almost exactly, which means it either copied the citations already used, or else copied the article itself. In either case, adding it just to add it doesn't do anything. --PresN 21:47, 28 June 2023 (UTC)
- At the very least that ref confirmed the fact which is only covered by [2] and not [3]. The ref is significantly more readable too. I think it could have stayed, there was little need to remove it for tidiness essentially. Indefensible (talk) 21:51, 28 June 2023 (UTC)