User talk:MB/Archive 4

Thomas Bond House

The article was quite obviously created to spam for the B&B - there's no question about that - hence the blocking of the author. The sources are however dubious, some are dead or don't exist at all. The sources listed on the talk page may be in respectable newspapers, but the mentions of the building are exceptionally fleeting or not in the body of the newspaper article at all. One article is a pure opinion piece. The result of the AfD was the best any closer could do under the circumstances. This article is on a very fine line between spam and an historical place. In the UK, Grade I and Grade II buildings are required to be what they are: 'listed', which the Bond house is not. That said, I would not personally be in a panic to see this article deleted but if it were to go to DELREV, I wouldn't comment there myself and it could possibly go either way. The normal procedure would be to first discuss with the closer, Michig, anyway. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 23:11, 9 March 2018 (UTC)

Kudpung, I just wanted to say thank you for reply. I have done nothing more with this based on your response of "either way" at DELREV. I firmly believe this subject is not notable. No one at the AFD provided any sources of coverage - this one just survived because several editors "like it" only because it is an old building in a historic district. I did try to discuss with the closer - I asked for a explanation of how they arrived at Keep when the article has no sources of in-depth coverage and none were supplied in the AFD discussion either. I was rebuffed with the terse response "per clear consensus in the AfD" (User_talk:Michig#Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Thomas_Bond_House). This seems to me like a consensus to ignore policy, but certainly not the only instance I've seen. That's probably why I am much less active at AFD than I used to be and am doing more content work. Thanks again.MB 21:04, 4 April 2018 (UTC)

Admins are very reluctant to close AfDs again numerical consensus, even if the consensus is quite wrong. Now that the spamlinks have been removed, whether or not it drives traffic into the hands of those who exploit it as a hotel, I think we're going to have to live with it. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 01:40, 5 April 2018 (UTC)

New user

Ritchie333, Kudpung, I noticed both of you have had some interaction with Money emoji. I noticed this account today because they non-admin closed their own AFD as a withdraw after I found sources. That seems a bit unusual for someone with a 2 1/2 week old account. Their entire editing history does not look to me like that expected for a newbie. But I have no evidence of anything more. Just an FYI. But let me know if I should do anything more official. MB 02:32, 5 April 2018 (UTC)

architect vs. builder

In this edit you got it right, that Drake was a builder not an architect, but in this edit you got it wrong about two persons being architects rather than builders. NRHP nomination documents were not referenced in either article; I'm adding them now, and then the information is adequately sourced.

Perhaps you aren't aware of past conflict about less-than-perfectly-informed usage of the NRIS database, which does not distinguish between architects vs. builders vs. engineers or others associated with a building. A partial solution was for the NRHP infobox generator to be modified so that "architect or builder=" was the temporary field name, to be changed if/when one actually knows whether "architect=" or "builder=" or "engineer=" would be relevant.

Please don't guess! :) Thanks for your contributions otherwise, of course, it is great to have you contributing on NRHP articles. --Doncram (talk) 22:19, 7 March 2018 (UTC)

I see you made a whole lot of edits back in December with "fix infobox" in your edit summary, including this one, which put Coombs as architect, without noting that Coombs was merely architect of the stable. Would it be possible for you to return to all of those edits and reverse them, or fix them using sources? --Doncram (talk) 22:30, 7 March 2018 (UTC)

During 3 January 2018 back to 2 January 2018, these included a bunch being done in something like alphabetical order, with "Fix infobox" in edit summary:

• Parvin Bridge‎ (Fix infobox) (current) --checked, done
• Perris Depot ‎ (Fix infobox, Adding/removing wikilink(s)) --checked, done
• Phoenix Towers ‎ (Fix infobox) (current)--checked, done
• Petit Jean River Bridge ‎ (Fix infobox)--checked, done
• Perkins Addition ‎ (Fix infobox) (current)--checked, done
• Rector Log Barn ‎ (Fix infobox, Adding/removing wikilink(s)) (current)--checked, done
• Rector Road Bridge ‎ (Fix infobox) NRIS-only. Not confirmed, Texas docs are hard to get. --got the National Archives doc, done. --Doncram (talk) 15:17, 5 April 2018 (UTC)
• Reading-Halls Station Bridge revised: likely was designer and builder, removed from infobox
• Russell House (Bedford, Pennsylvania) revised, corrected spelling, was both architect and builder
• Russellville Downtown Historic District checked, done--12:56, 5 April 2018 (UTC)
• Roth-Rosenzweig House, changed from architect to builder, other done --12:38, 5 April 2018 (UTC)
• Rolling Mill Historic District checked, done--12:56, 5 April 2018 (UTC)
• Rocky Island Historic District checked, NRHP doc added, done--12:38, 5 April 2018 (UTC)
• Rockwell Park checked, done--12:38, 5 April 2018 (UTC)
• Grant County Courthouse District checked, done--12:38, 5 April 2018 (UTC)
• Rockland Community Church and Cemetery checked, done--12:38, 5 April 2018 (UTC)

There would be more here but I could tell in advance for some, from rolling a cursor over the diffs, that they were correct revisions, informed by content about architects or builders in the rest of the article. Some of these will have been correct, some not. I am surmising you went through the entire alphabet. It is sort of a disaster, IMHO, in that incorrect info was introduced all at once, all over, in edits marked "minor". But revisiting them would be otherwise productive, e.g. for adding NRHP nomination document references which are needed anyhow, and available for many.

Is there some way efficient to make a list of all of these, to make a worklist for them all to be revisited? Do you know if AutoWikiBrowser can search on edit summaries? --Doncram (talk) 12:11, 5 April 2018 (UTC)

Kentucky prow house example

Thank you for creating Prow house article. It happens I just came across, while creating NRHP articles in Kentucky, what I think is my first example: Barlow Baxter House. It is very efficient to link to the nice article. cheer, --Doncram (talk) 04:26, 6 April 2018 (UTC)

Newspapers.com

Your access has been approved. Your e-mail keeps bouncing back to me so I'm notifying you here instead.

--Cameron₁₁₅₉₈ ^(Talk) 20:05, 16 April 2018 (UTC)

Cameron11598, OK just verified I have access again, for another year. Thanks! MB 21:51, 16 April 2018 (UTC)

DYK for CISBOT

On 19 April 2018, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article CISBOT, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the robot CISBOT once found a baseball under New York City? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/CISBOT. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, CISBOT), 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.

Ritchie333 ^{(talk) (cont)} 00:02, 19 April 2018 (UTC)

DYK for Gothic-arch barn

On 23 April 2018, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Gothic-arch barn, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that an entire Gothic-arch barn (example pictured) could be ordered from the Sears & Roebuck catalog? You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Gothic-arch barn), 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) 00:02, 23 April 2018 (UTC)

DYK for Pair-house

On 24 April 2018, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Pair-house, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the Scandinavian-influenced pair-house shows that some level of ethnic diversity was accepted in early Mormon society? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Pair-house. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Pair-house), 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) 12:01, 24 April 2018 (UTC)

DYK for East German balloon escape

On 26 April 2018, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article East German balloon escape, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that in 1979, eight people escaped from East Germany to the West in a homemade hot air balloon? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/East German balloon escape. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, East German balloon escape), 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) 12:02, 26 April 2018 (UTC)

Another RfC on Net Neutrality

A month ago you participated in an RfC at Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)/Archive 147#Net neutrality. The same proposal has been posted again at Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)#Proposal: A US-only CentralNotice in support of Net Neutrality. (This notice has been sent to all who participated in the prior RfC, regardless of which side they supported). --Guy Macon (talk) 20:50, 6 May 2018 (UTC)

Your CSD nominations

Hi there, {{db-blankdraft}} has very specific criteria which involve both the page not having any actual content and the user not having any edits for a full year. There are other criteria that may apply to these drafts, including G11 and U5, and WP:MfD may also be applicable, but G6 is definitely not. Also pinging RHaworth and Alexf, who deleted a few of these. Please check that the criteria apply next time. Thanks, ansh666 04:14, 10 May 2018 (UTC)

Also, you tagged User:NotoriousHackers/sandbox for {{db-nouser}}, but the user definitely exists - all the edits on the sandbox page were by them. Please be more careful in the future. ansh666 04:16, 10 May 2018 (UTC)

Merger discussion for List of Masonic buildings in the United States

An article that you have been involved in editing—List of Masonic buildings in the United States —has been proposed for merging with another article. If you are interested, please participate in the merger discussion. Thank you. Doncram (talk) 16:13, 22 May 2018 (UTC)

NPR Newsletter No.11 25 May 2018

Hello MB, thank you for your work reviewing New Pages!

ACTRIAL:

• WP:ACREQ has been implemented. The flow at the feed has dropped back to the levels during the trial. However, the backlog is on the rise again so please consider reviewing a few extra articles each day; a backlog approaching 5,000 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.

Deletion tags

• Do bear in mind that articles in the feed showing the trash can icon may have been tagged by inexperienced or non NPR rights holders. They require your further verification.

Backlog drive:

• A backlog drive will take place from 10 through 20 June. Check out our talk page at WT:NPR for more details. NOTE: It is extremely important that we focus on quality reviewing. Despite our goal of reducing the backlog as much as possible, please do not rush while reviewing.

Editathons

• There will be a large increase in the number of editathons in June. Please be gentle with new pages that obviously come from good faith participants, especially articles from developing economies and ones about female subjects. Consider using the 'move to draft' tool rather than bluntly tagging articles that may have potential but which cannot yet reside in mainspace.

Paid editing - new policy

• Now that ACTRIAL is ACREQ, please be sure to look for tell-tale signs of undisclosed paid editing. Contact the creator if appropriate, and submit the issue to WP:COIN if necessary. There is a new global WMF policy that requires paid editors to connect to their adverts.

Subject-specific notability guidelines

• The box at the right contains each of the subject-specific notability guidelines, please review any that are relevant BEFORE nominating an article for deletion.
• Reviewers are requested to familiarise themselves with the new version of the notability guidelines for organisations and companies.

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, tag as required, then move to draft if they do have potential.

News

• Development is underway by the WMF on upgrades to the New Pages Feed, in particular ORES features that will help to identify COPYVIOs, and more granular options for selecting articles to review.
• The next issue of The Signpost has been published. The newspaper is one of the best ways to stay up to date with news and new developments. between our newsletters.

---

Go here to remove your name if you wish to opt-out of future mailings. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 20:34, 24 May 2018 (UTC)

Borama airport

Please check the message I left you here. Regards. EELagoon (talk) 06:08, 1 June 2018 (UTC)

A beer for you!

Hi, I got your deletion message for the page i contributed, i.e., Vinayak Burman. Can you please explain me the reason for the same. Abhishek Arora - Abby (talk) 05:45, 13 June 2018 (UTC) |}

Abhishek Arora - Abby at the top of the article there is a link in blue to the discussion page for the deletion proposal. MB 20:40, 13 June 2018 (UTC)

Disambiguation link notification for June 15

An automated process has detected that when you recently edited Meagan Spooner, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page Hamilton College (check to confirm | fix with Dab solver).

(Opt-out instructions.) --DPL bot (talk) 09:03, 15 June 2018 (UTC)

NPP Backlog Elimination Drive

Hello MB, thank you for your work reviewing New Pages!

We can see the light at the end of the tunnel: there are currently 2900 unreviewed articles, and 4000 unreviewed redirects.

Announcing the Backlog Elimination Drive!

• As a final push, we have decided to run a backlog elimination drive from the 20th to the 30th of June.
• Reviewers who review at least 50 articles or redirects will receive a Special Edition NPP Barnstar: . Those who review 100, 250, 500, or 1000 pages will also receive tiered awards: , , , .
• Please do not be hasty, take your time and fully review each page. It is extremely important that we focus on quality reviewing.

---

Go here to remove your name if you wish to opt-out of future mailings. — Insertcleverphrasehere ^{(or here)} 06:57, 16 June 2018 (UTC)

Sources needed for Days of the Year pages

I see you recently accepted a pending change to June 29. I looked for a source for this date of birth in the John Fujioka and it was unsupported by any source there either.

You're probably not aware of this change, but Days of the Year pages are no longer exempt from WP:V and direct sources are required for additions. For details see the WikiProject Days of the Year style guide. I've gone ahead and backed out this edit.

Please do not accept additions to day of year pages where no direct source has been provided on that day of year page. The burden to provide sources for additions to these pages is on the editor who adds or restores material to these pages. Thank you. Toddst1 (talk) 23:35, 15 June 2018 (UTC)

Toddst1, perhaps you are not aware of what is expected of reviewing pending changes. From WP:RPC, "The process of reviewing is intended as a quick check to ensure edits don't contain vandalism, violations of the policy on living people, copyright violations, or other obviously inappropriate content." Complete verification of all aspects of changes is not within the scope of reviewing pending changes. When reviewing pending changes to DOY articles, I check that the for redlinks and other obvious problems. If the entry has a bluelink, I am satisified and accept the change leaving it for others to do further checking if desired. MB 00:29, 16 June 2018 (UTC)

You said violations of the policy on living people. WP:DOB is personal info about living people that can be used in identity theft and explicitly subject to WP:BLP.

Beyond that, as I explained, the new rule on DOY articles, "No direct source? No edit." Toddst1 (talk) 18:34, 16 June 2018 (UTC)

Speedy deletion declined: User:Saudahmed66/Karachi Cambridge School

Hello MB. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of User:Saudahmed66/Karachi Cambridge School, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: Not a blatant misuse of Wikipedia as a webhost. Thank you. Primefac (talk) 01:28, 29 June 2018 (UTC)

Primefac, This is a user-space draft that has not been edited by the now-blocked user in ten years. More recent edit have been ongoing maintenance type cleanup. It should be deleted to minimize such wasted effort. I have successfully used U5 on many similar pages before. If you don't think this qualifies as U5, then how should make it disappear? MB 17:00, 29 June 2018 (UTC)

WP:MFD. I would also argue it doesn't qualify for U5 because Boing! said Zebedee is still active, even if they haven't touched the page themselves in quite a while. Not sure why it was created where it's sitting. Primefac (talk) 23:38, 29 June 2018 (UTC)

Newspaper buildings

Would you possibly like to do another article about architecture/buildings, akin to Prow house? Newspaper building is a redlink.

• This New Republic article about newspaper buildings, old and new. Big buildings downtown with printing operations there, then printing sent out to suburbs later.
• Category:Newspaper buildings plus more to be added to it, and more NRHP-listed places with "Courier" or "Times" or the like in their names, some needing articles. To become a List of newspaper buildings, which can be included into, or split out from main article "Newspaper building" or "Newspaper building architecture".

Cheers, --Doncram (talk) 00:10, 2 July 2018 (UTC)

Doncram, Sure, but not for a couple of months. I'm away for the summer and using a tablet and slow connection, so just doing small edits now. I read the article you linked and it doesn't seem like there would be much on a newspaper building from an architectural perspective, but maybe just covering the history/function/cultural aspects. MB 16:15, 2 July 2018 (UTC)

Glider trucks

This edit and and any similar future edits removing well-sourced information from Wikipedia are unacceptable. Please respond on the talk page. I will be adding significantly more information with respect to this topic. Sorry, if an apology is necessary, for not using more sources initially. User:Fred Bauder Talk 21:37, 15 July 2018 (UTC)

Review page

Hi. Review the Sheena Allen page. Cheers

Aghachi7 (talk) 12:13, 17 July 2018 (UTC)

NPR Newsletter No.12 30 July 2018

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

Hello MB, thank you for your work reviewing New Pages!

June backlog drive

Overall the June backlog drive was a success, reducing the last 3,000 or so to below 500. However, as expected, 90% of the patrolling was done by less than 10% of reviewers.
Since the drive closed, the backlog has begun to rise sharply again and is back up to nearly 1,400 already. Please help reduce this total and keep it from raising further by reviewing some articles each day.

New technology, new rules

• New features are shortly going to be added to the Special:NewPagesFeed which include a list of drafts for review, OTRS flags for COPYVIO, and more granular filter preferences. More details can be found at this page.
• Probationary permissions: Now that PERM has been configured to allow expiry dates to all minor user rights, new NPR flag holders may sometimes be limited in the first instance to 6 months during which their work will be assessed for both quality and quantity of their reviews. This will allow admins to accord the right in borderline cases rather than make a flat out rejection.
• Current reviewers who have had the flag for longer than 6 months but have not used the permissions since they were granted will have the flag removed, but may still request to have it granted again in the future, subject to the same probationary period, if they wish to become an active reviewer.

Editathons

• Editathons will continue through August. Please be gentle with new pages that obviously come from good faith participants, especially articles from developing economies and ones about female subjects. Consider using the 'move to draft' tool rather than bluntly tagging articles that may have potential but which cannot yet reside in mainspace.

The Signpost

• The next issue of the monthly magazine will be out soon. The newspaper is an excellent way to stay up to date with news and new developments between our newsletters. If you have special messages to be published, or if you would like to submit an article (one about NPR perhaps?), don't hesitate to contact the editorial team here.

---

Go here to remove your name if you wish to opt-out of future mailings. — Insertcleverphrasehere ^{(or here)} 00:00, 30 July 2018 (UTC)

NPR Newsletter No.13 18 September 2018

Hello MB, thank you for your work reviewing New Pages!

The New Page Feed currently has 2700 unreviewed articles, up from just 500 at the start of July. For a while we were falling behind by an average of about 40 articles per day, but we have stabilised more recently. Please review some articles from the back of the queue if you can (Sort by: 'Oldest' at Special:NewPagesFeed), as we are very close to having articles older than one month.

Project news

• The New Page Feed now has a new "Articles for Creation" option which will show drafts instead of articles in the feed, this shouldn't impact NPP activities and is part of the WMF's AfC Improvement Project.

As part of this project, the feed will have some larger updates to functionality next month. Specifically, ORES predictions will be built in, which will automatically flag articles for potential issues such as vandalism or spam. Copyright violation detection will also be added to the new page feed. See the projects's talk page for more info.

• There are a number of coordination tasks for New Page Patrol that could use some help from experienced reviewers. See Wikipedia:New pages patrol/Coordination#Coordinator tasks for more info to see if you can help out.

Other

• A new summary page of reliable sources has been created; Wikipedia:Identifying reliable sources/Perennial sources, which summarizes existing RfCs or RSN discussions about regularly used sources.

Moving to Draft and Page Mover

• Some unsuitable new articles can be best reviewed by moving them to the draft space, but reviewers need to do this carefully and sparingly. It is most useful for topics that look like they might have promise, but where the article as written would be unlikely to survive AfD. If the article can be easily fixed, or if the only issue is a lack of sourcing that is easily accessible, tagging or adding sources yourself is preferable. If sources do not appear to be available and the topic does not appear to be notable, tagging for deletion is preferable (PROD/AfD/CSD as appropriate). See additional guidance at WP:DRAFTIFY.
• If the user moves the draft back to mainspace, or recreates it in mainspace, please do not re-draftify the article (although swapping it to maintain the page history may be advisable in the case of copy-paste moves). AfC is optional except for editors with a clear conflict of interest.
• Articles that have been created in contravention of our paid-editing-requirements or written from a blatant NPOV perspective, or by authors with a clear COI might also be draftified at discretion.
• The best tool for draftification is User:Evad37/MoveToDraft.js^(info). Kindly adapt the text in the dialogue-pop-up as necessary (the default can also be changed like this). Note that if you do not have the Page Mover userright, the redirect from main will be automatically tagged as CSD R2, but in some cases it might be better to make this a redirect to a different page instead.
• The Page Mover userright can be useful for New Page Reviewers; occasionally page swapping is needed during NPR activities, and it helps avoid excessive R2 nominations which must be processed by admins. Note that the Page Mover userright has higher requirements than the NPR userright, and is generally given to users active at Requested Moves. Only reviewers who are very experienced and are also very active reviewers are likely to be granted it solely for NPP activities.

List of other useful scripts for New Page Reviewing

Twinkle provides a lot of the same functionality as the page curation tools, and some reviewers prefer to use the Twinkle tools for some/all tasks. It can be activated simply in the gadgets section of 'preferences'. There are also a lot of options available at the Twinkle preferences panel after you install the gadget. In terms of other gadgets for NPR, HotCat is worth turning on. It allows you to easily add, remove, and change categories on a page, with name suggestions. MoreMenu also adds a bunch of very useful links for diagnosing and fixing page issues. User:Equazcion/ScriptInstaller.js(info): Installing scripts doesn't have to be complicated. Go to your common.js and copy importScript( 'User:Equazcion/ScriptInstaller.js' ); into an empty line, now you can install all other scripts with the click of a button from the script page! (Note you need to be at the ".js" page for the script for the install button to appear, not the information page) User:TheJosh/Scripts/NewPagePatrol.js(info): Creates a scrolling new pages list at the left side of the page. You can change the number of pages shown by adding the following to the next line on your common.js page (immediately after the line importing this script): npp_num_pages=20; (Recommended 20, but you can use any number from 1 to 50). User:Primefac/revdel.js(info): Is requesting revdel complicated and time consuming? This script helps simplify the process. Just have the Copyvio source URL and go to the history page and collect your diff IDs and you can drop them into the script Popups and it will create a revdel request for you. User:Lourdes/PageCuration.js(info): Creates a "Page Curation" link to Special:NewPagesFeed up near your sandbox link. User:Writ Keeper/Scripts/deletionFinder.js: Creates links next to the title of each page which show up if it has been previously deleted or nominated for deletion. User:Evad37/rater.js(info): A fantastic tool for adding WikiProject templates to article talk pages. If you add: rater_autostartNamespaces = 0; to the next line on your common.js, the prompt will pop up automatically if a page has no Wikiproject templates on the talk page (note: this can be a bit annoying if you review redirects or dab pages commonly).

Go here to remove your name if you wish to opt-out of future mailings. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 23:11, 17 September 2018 (UTC)

September 2018

Hello, I'm John from Idegon. I noticed that you made one or more changes to an article, Vancouver School of Arts and Academics, but you didn't provide a reliable source. It's been removed and archived in the page history for now, but if you'd like to include a citation and re-add it, please do so! If you need guidance on referencing, please see the referencing for beginners tutorial, or if you think I made a mistake, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Staff names other than principal are unencyclopedic content on school articles. That's why the vice principal and assistant principal parameters were deprecated. Please do not do what you did on this article, but rather simply remove the deprecated parameter and the data it contains. If you've done this on other articles, I'd appreciate it if you could go back and at least undo your edit. Then at least the unencyclopedic data doesn't display in the article. Thanks. John from Idegon (talk) 04:03, 23 September 2018 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Granby, South Carolina

Hello! Your submission of Granby, South Carolina at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! RightCowLeftCoast (Moo) 02:59, 29 September 2018 (UTC)

DYK for Ronald J. Shurer

On 1 October 2018, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Ronald J. Shurer, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that US Army combat medic Ronald J. Shurer's (pictured) Silver Star commendation for service in Afghanistan is being upgraded to a Medal of Honor today? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Ronald J. Shurer. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Ronald J. Shurer), 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.

Alex Shih (talk) 00:02, 1 October 2018 (UTC)

DYK for Granby, South Carolina

On 17 October 2018, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Granby, South Carolina, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that during the American Revolution, the British stronghold of Fort Granby in the South Carolina colony was attacked with a Quaker gun? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Granby, South Carolina. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Granby, South Carolina), 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.

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 00:02, 17 October 2018 (UTC)

DYK for William G. Blakely

On 24 October 2018, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article William G. Blakely, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the funeral procession after the 1920 death of William G. Blakely included the longest line of automobiles ever seen at a funeral in Kingman, Arizona? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/William G. Blakely. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, William G. Blakely), 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.

Alex Shih (talk) 00:02, 24 October 2018 (UTC)

Disambiguation link notification for November 9

An automated process has detected that when you recently edited Nichols House Museum, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page Federal (check to confirm | fix with Dab solver).

(Opt-out instructions.) --DPL bot (talk) 10:18, 9 November 2018 (UTC)

photo syntax

MB, is this how you get the photo to center in the infobox? Don't use the link provided, just the actual filename? valereee (talk) 16:01, 9 November 2018 (UTC)

Valereee, yes - infoboxes do all the necessary formatting. If you want to place a photo in the text of an article, you need to use something like [[File:filename|thumb|caption]]. MB 16:08, 9 November 2018 (UTC)

Ah! You know, I've been editing for over a decade and still learn something new (or perhaps simply relearn it) with the majority of my edits. Thanks! valereee (talk) 16:16, 9 November 2018 (UTC)

NPR Newsletter No.15 16 November 2018

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

Hello MB,

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)

ArbCom 2018 election voter message

Hello, MB. Voting in the 2018 Arbitration Committee elections is now open until 23.59 on Sunday, 3 December. All users who registered an account before Sunday, 28 October 2018, made at least 150 mainspace edits before Thursday, 1 November 2018 and are not currently blocked are eligible to vote. Users with alternate accounts may only vote once.

The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.

If you wish to participate in the 2018 election, please review the candidates and submit your choices on the voting page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:42, 19 November 2018 (UTC)

Sulawesi root rat

Why did you unreview Sulawesi root rat? SL93 (talk) 03:36, 22 November 2018 (UTC)

SL93, not sure what happened there. I was working from the page feed of new UNREVIEWED redirects. The log shows I UNREVIEWED it at 20:20, then REVIEWED it at 20:23. MB 04:16, 22 November 2018 (UTC)

Same with poor Gaoligong forest hedgehog, I presume (although that had been reviewed for quite some time). Eh, interface can be a bit screwy at times... --Elmidae (talk · contribs) 07:50, 22 November 2018 (UTC)

Elmidae, it this case it looks like I was trying to REVIEW Wang's forest hedgehog, a unreviewed redirect to Gaoligong forest hedgehog, but UNREVIEWED the target by mistake. Probably didn't notice which window was active when I clicked. Definitely not intentional. MB 14:36, 22 November 2018 (UTC)

Disambiguation link notification for November 26

An automated process has detected that when you recently edited Zacarías Reyán, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page Boyacá (check to confirm | fix with Dab solver).

(Opt-out instructions.) --DPL bot (talk) 09:21, 26 November 2018 (UTC)

Take part in a survey

Hi MB

We're working to measure the value of Wikipedia in economic terms. We want to ask you some questions about how you value being able to edit Wikipedia.

Our survey should take about 10-15 minutes of your time. We hope that you will enjoy it and find the questions interesting. All answers will be kept strictly confidential and will be anonymized before the aggregate results are published. Regretfully, we can only accept responses from people who live in the US due to restrictions in our grant-based funding.

As a reward for your participation, we will randomly pick 1 out of every 5 participants and give them $25 worth of goods of their choice from the Wikipedia store (e.g. Wikipedia themed t-shirts). Note that we can only reward you if you are based in the US.

Click here to access the survey: https://mit.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_eXJcEhLKioNHuJv

Thanks

Avi

Researcher, MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy --Avi gan (talk) 02:14, 28 November 2018 (UTC)

Unreviewed a redirect

Hi MB I was just curious about why the redirect for LNFL was unreviewed? Alucard 16_{❯❯❯ chat?} 23:33, 7 December 2018 (UTC)

Alucard 16, Unintentional. It is back to reviewed now. MB 23:37, 7 December 2018 (UTC)

Ah okay thanks Alucard 16_{❯❯❯ chat?} 23:39, 7 December 2018 (UTC)

"No longer supported. Please move cited/citable instances into prose."

You removed information from the infobox for M.A. Griffiths. I will complete the task for you by putting the information in the text. You're welcome. --MopTop (talk) 15:15, 13 December 2018 (UTC)

MopTop, The influences/influenced shouldn't go into the text without a citation. If you can find one, then thanks for improving the article. MB 15:19, 13 December 2018 (UTC)

NPR Newsletter No.16 15 December 2018

Hello MB,

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.

See also the list of top 100 reviewers.

Less good news, and an appeal for some help

The backlog is now approaching 5,000, and still rising. There are around 640 holders of the NPR flag, most of whom appear to be inactive. The 10% of the reviewers who do 90% of the work could do with some support especially as some of them are now taking a well deserved break.

Really good news - NPR wins the Community Wishlist Survey 2019

At #1 position, the Community Wishlist poll closed on 3 December with a resounding success for NPP, reminding the WMF and the volunteer communities just how critical NPP is to maintaining a clean encyclopedia and the need for improved tools to do it. A big 'thank you' to everyone who supported the NPP proposals. See the results.

Training video

Due to a number of changes having been made to the feed since this three-minute video was created, we have been asked by the WMF for feedback on the video with a view to getting it brought up to date to reflect the new features of the system. Please leave your comments here, particularly mentioning how helpful you find it for new reviewers.

---

If you wish to opt-out of future mailings, go here.

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 21:14, 14 December 2018 (UTC)

Disambiguation link notification for December 17

An automated process has detected that you recently added links to disambiguation pages.

Guy Anthony De Marco (check to confirm | fix with Dab solver)

added a link pointing to New York

(Opt-out instructions.) --DPL bot (talk) 10:00, 17 December 2018 (UTC)

DYK for Lackawanna Limited wreck

On 17 December 2018, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Lackawanna Limited wreck, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that an airplane carrying an emergency shipment of blood plasma for victims of the Lackawanna Limited wreck landed on a runway illuminated by automobile headlights? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Lackawanna Limited wreck. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Lackawanna Limited wreck), 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.

Vanamonde (talk) 12:01, 17 December 2018 (UTC)

Merry Merry

		Happy Christmas!
		Hello MB, Early in A Child's Christmas in Wales the young Dylan and his friend Jim Prothero witness smoke pouring from Jim's home. After the conflagration has been extinguished Dylan writes that Nobody could have had a noisier Christmas Eve. And when the firemen turned off the hose and were standing in the wet, smoky room, Jim's Aunt, Miss. Prothero, came downstairs and peered in at them. Jim and I waited, very quietly, to hear what she would say to them. She said the right thing, always. She looked at the three tall firemen in their shining helmets, standing among the smoke and cinders and dissolving snowballs, and she said, "Would you like anything to read?" My thanks to you for your efforts to keep the 'pedia readable in case the firemen chose one of our articles :-) Best wishes to you and yours and happy editing in 2019. MarnetteD|Talk 02:13, 19 December 2018 (UTC)

Atop a skyscraper

MB - My brother and I met and spent Christmas Eve and Day with Hugh Thornton, a 90 year old bricklayer from New York. He told us the story of his father and four uncles in the photo. I put in the edits because they are true, and add to the article. (He did also mention that the four uncles died from cirrhosis, they are drinking in the photo, the Indian he identified ‘was a good climber’, but I did not think those were appropriate.) I am a first time contributor here, and need to know what it will take for you to verify and publish his story. He was very proud we took an interest and tried to make this attribution. Please let me know. Mpeterson1806@gmail.com Tahitinui2 (talk) 02:48, 27 December 2018 (UTC)

Tahitinu2, Wikipedia requires all information to be backed up by published sources. We do not verify and publish new information, we only summarize information already published elsewhere in reliable sources. See WP:VER for more information. The information you added is not acceptable. MB 09:25, 27 December 2018 (UTC)