User talk:RoySmith

Garrett Reynolds (BMX riders)

Hello could you help me save this article thanks--OaxacaGenius (talk) 16:15, 7 July 2021 (UTC)

Articles for Creation July 2021 Backlog Elimination Drive

Hello RoySmith:

WikiProject Articles for creation is holding a month long Backlog Drive!
The goal of this drive is to eliminate the backlog of unreviewed articles. The drive is running until 31 July 2021.

Barnstars will be given out as awards at the end of the drive.
There is currently a backlog of over 1000 articles, so start reviewing articles. We're looking forward to your help!

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of Wikipedia:WikiProject Articles for Creation at 21:54, 7 July 2021 (UTC). If you do not wish to recieve future notification, please remove your name from the mailing list.

July 14: Virtual Coney Island Meetup + NYC monthly collaboration

July 14, 7pm: Virtual Coney Island Meetup + NYC monthly collaboration

Welcome to Wikimedia New York City! You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our monthly online gathering (7-8pm) and knowledge-sharing workshop. To join the meeting from your computer or smartphone, just visit this link. More information about how to connect is available on the meetup page. Instead of our usual "WikiWednesday" Salon, we'll focus on the WikiProject NYC monthly collaboration and this month's subject of Coney Island. And rather than Zoom, we'll meet on a proximity chat virtual Coney Island beach and share over topical articles and collaborations. We look forward to seeing local Wikimedians, but would also like to invite folks from the greater New York metropolitan area (and beyond!) who might not typically be able to join us in person! Wednesday July 14 Virtual Coney Island Meetup (optional RSVP on-wiki). 7:00pm - 8:00 pm online via WikiConey on Gather

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--Wikimedia New York City Team 14:40, 12 July 2021 (UTC)

Deletion review for Darnitsa (pharmaceutical company)

I have asked for a deletion review of Darnitsa (pharmaceutical company). Because you closed the deletion discussion for this page, speedily deleted it, or otherwise were interested in the page, you might want to participate in the deletion review. Kirotsi (talk) 19:57, 14 July 2021 (UTC)

Incomplete DYK nomination

Hello! Your submission of Template:Did you know nominations/Leaders of the World at the Did You Know nominations page is not complete; if you would like to continue, please link the nomination to the nominations page as described in step 3 of the nomination procedure. If you do not want to continue with the nomination, tag the nomination page with {{db-g7}}, or ask a DYK admin. Thank you. DYKHousekeepingBot (talk) 03:17, 19 July 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-29

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

Recent changes

• The tool to find, add and remove templates was updated. This is to make it easier to find and use the right templates. It was supposed to come to the first wikis on 7 July. It was delayed to 12 July instead. It will come to more wikis later this year. [1][2]
• Special:UnconnectedPages lists pages that are not connected to Wikidata. This helps you find pages that can be connected to Wikidata items. Some pages should not be connected to Wikidata. You can use the magic word __EXPECTED_UNCONNECTED_PAGE__ on pages that should not be listed on the special page. [3]

Changes later this week

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

Future changes

• How media is structured in the parser's HTML output will soon change. This can affect bots, gadgets, user scripts and extensions. You can read more. You can test it on Testwiki or Testwiki 2.
• The parameters for how you obtain tokens in the MediaWiki API were changed in 2014. The old way will no longer work from 1 September. Scripts, bots and tools that use the parameters from before the 2014 change need to be updated. You can read more.

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15:30, 19 July 2021 (UTC)

SPI request

Hi, I am was going to file a SPI report, but since the user involved is a newbie, I would like a SPI clerk to take a look and see if the evidence collected is worth a SPI. If/when time permits, can you take a look at the evidence below? I think that ElderZamzam (EZ) is a sock of TryDeletingMe (TD). Two years ago I reported TD's previous sock, ThreatMatrix (TM).

• DM and their sock were focused on the Yugoslavia conflicts, doing Serb nationalism POV pushing aimed at describing other parties of the conflicts as terrorists, highlighting crimes committed by non-Serbs in the conflicts in UNDUE ways or writing content in that way that gave the impression that the conflict was started by non-Serbs only. Examples include [4][5][6][7][8]. The same thing is being done by EZ, with examples including [9][10].
• In all these years on Wiki, I have seen and reported many Balkan editors, POV pushers and sock masters, but the only one with deep interest in air flight and related documents (airports, entry rights, passports and visa stuff) has been DM [11][12][13][14][15][16]. EZ is doing the same thing [17][18][19].
• In all these years, DM has been one of the only two Serb nationalism POV pushers with a major focus on Middle East's wars (the other being VJ-Yugo). Examples include: [20][21][22]. DM's userpage contained flags of Middle East armies/warlords [23]. EZ is doing the same thing [24][25][26][27][28][29].
• DM edited from Australia. EZ edits from Australia. If needed, I would like to send the evidence for this via email.
• To sum up, in all of these years, TryDeletingMe and ElderZamzam have been the only Serb nationalism POV pushers with all the following characteristics: an unique deep interest in air flight and related documents, focus on Middle East wars and geolocation in Australia. I doubt another Serb nationalism POV pusher (or some Balkan POV pusher, for that matter) would have all of these at the same time. Ktrimi991 (talk) 20:26, 20 July 2021 (UTC)