User talk:Czar

I am obsessed by the plain facts:

writing them literally down

is all the poetry I can.

Know that I esteem my editorial independence. Even as

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Would you know if there is something to...

...sort this this kind of mess? Is there a template calling for a bot or whatever, to re-arrange the list in alphabetical order? I am asking because doing it manually is really tiresome. Thanx. Cinadon36 (talk) 12:03, 11 January 2019 (UTC)

Extended content

#!/usr/bin/env python import re, operator class item(object): def __init__(self,name,contents): self.name = name self.contents = contents #https://stackoverflow.com/a/1535375/879266 def __repr__(self): return "<item name:%s contents:%s>" % (self.name, self.contents) def __str__(self): return "item: %s" % (self.name) text = clipboard.get_clipboard() array = [] for line in text.splitlines(): name = re.findall(r'\|\s*last\d*\s*=\s*([^\}]+)\s*[\|}]',line) if name: name = name[0].strip() else: name = re.findall(r'\|\s*title\d*\s*=\s*([^\|}]+)\s*[\|}]',line) if name: name = name[0].strip() else: name = 'null' array.append(item(name,line)) array = sorted(array, key=operator.attrgetter('name')) text = '' for each in array: text += each.contents+'\n' clipboard.fill_clipboard(text.strip())

@Cinadon36, above is the jury-rigged code that I use to alphabetize bulleted refs in my clipboard. You can trigger it with a tool such as autokey. Personally, when redoing a bibliography on a major article, I'd most likely rewrite the refs from scratch using OCLC data+WP:Zotero, considering how many of the existing citations are incomplete. czar 03:40, 12 January 2019 (UTC)

• I used to have some Python code on my laptop that fixed this sort of error (among others). I've been thinking about finding it an cleaning it up... but I would have no idea how to do anything similar with a bot... Lingzhi2 ♦ (talk) 03:44, 12 January 2019 (UTC)

Thanks both of you for your answers. I do not know though, they seem a little complicated for me. I also use some citation apps but it is for newbies like me. If I need help in the future, I will knock your door again. Cinadon36 (talk) 22:10, 13 January 2019 (UTC)

• @Cinadon36, by the by, I already have most of those books in my citation manager (though perhaps not the exact editions), so depending on what you'd like and whether all of those citations will remain in the article, I could also help with tidying the bibliography, if useful. czar 22:15, 13 January 2019 (UTC)

Toggle

Hey, would you like to try out test version? If so, change User:Lingzhi/reviewsourcecheck.js to User:Lingzhi2/reviewsourcecheck-test.js. Adds a little link to "Chk ref fmt" in toolbox left side of page. Default is NOT CHECK; click button to check... I haven't tested it all ..... Lingzhi ♦ (talk) 13:21, 11 January 2019 (UTC)

• Oops no doesn't work correctly. each press runs script again and again with accumulating error text sorry maybe later. Lingzhi ♦ (talk) 13:24, 11 January 2019 (UTC)
  • hey it seems to work now. Sorry took so long. First traveling then get caught up in another project. Please help me test... change User:Lingzhi/reviewsourcecheck.js to User:Lingzhi2/reviewsourcecheck-test.js. The link doesn't show up on the side amy more; it's on the "MORE" tab atop the page. Please let me know if you see probs.... If not I will make it go live... tks! ♦ Lingzhi2 (talk) 10:44, 2 February 2019 (UTC)

Hello, just a note to say that User:Lingzhi2/reviewsourcecheck has been update to add the option to toggle it on or off.

The installed script will add a tab to the drop-down tab at the top, located between the 'watchlist star' and the search box (using the vector.js skin). The tab toggles between "Hide ref check" and "Show ref check" with displaying the errors as the default option. Please do drop me a line if you have any problems or suggestions. Tks. ♦ Lingzhi2 (talk) 15:13, 2 February 2019 (UTC)

• It seems to be done. I'd appreciate it if you'd try it out for a while and let me know if it has any kinks. Happy Chinese New Year, btw. ♦ Lingzhi2 (talk) 05:57, 5 February 2019 (UTC)

We the People Will Fund the Wall

Just FYI at the time I removed it, it was showing as below... I'm guessing no url had been entered in Wikidata yet. But I routinely check Category:Official website missing URL. Just wanted you to know why I removed it. :-) --Zackmann (^{Talk to me}/_{What I been doing}) 17:42, 14 January 2019 (UTC)

@Zackmann08, hm, strange. Maybe it was a caching issue. I added the URL to Wikidata immediately after adding the template. czar 10:57, 15 January 2019 (UTC)

General tip: Add it at Wikidata first as sometimes it is caching. --Izno (talk) 13:23, 15 January 2019 (UTC)

Was tricky in this case since I had to get the official website link whitelisted (or, the hack, temporarily remove it in Wikidata until the article first let me save the template). Anyway, resolved now! czar 14:05, 15 January 2019 (UTC)

My soul hurt for having to read that. In at least two ways (one the workflow way, one the 'spam' way). --Izno (talk) 14:24, 15 January 2019 (UTC)

Help with User:HotArticlesBot/Config.json

Hey czar, I noticed you can make changes to the Hot Articles bot configuration at User:HotArticlesBot/Config.json. I left a note at the bot operator's talk page a week ago and got no response, so am coming here: There are 4 consecutive projects that have the target page configured incorrectly in the code: they use "Wikipedia:Wikiproject" rather than the correct CamelCase "Wikipedia:WikiProject". Could you correct the code for these four so the correct page gets updated? Thanks, UnitedStatesian (talk) 15:35, 15 January 2019 (UTC)

@UnitedStatesian, fixed! czar 10:51, 16 January 2019 (UTC)

Thanks! UnitedStatesian (talk) 12:00, 16 January 2019 (UTC)

Greg Williams (American football coach)

The article you just deleted has been updated to reflect that Greg Williams is notable due to his playing career as well as his extensive coaching career. There are many articles (that are less in depth than this) for other coaches throughout the NFL, who have far less experience. Please consider allowing this article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Turtleturtle00 (talk • contribs) 23:36, 17 January 2019 (UTC)

Moved to User talk:Turtleturtle00 § Reply

ANI notice

I don't know what point you thought you were making with a response like this, but it really didn't fill me with confidence that you're going to desist with your tendentious editing. So...

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Homeostasis07 (talk) 02:41, 18 January 2019 (UTC)

Clinton Ford

Despite closing the AfD as a delete, you haven't deleted Clinton Ford (painter). Regards, Jovanmilic97 (talk) 10:19, 21 January 2019 (UTC)

re Menna Elfyn

Please use Talk page for discussion. Then people can respond if need be. Bmcln1 (talk) 11:39, 22 January 2019 (UTC)

Usually this is only done when there is something to discuss, started by the person who wants to discuss it. In any event, appears we're in agreement. czar 02:53, 23 January 2019 (UTC)

Hi Czar!

You posted in my talk page some days ago! I´m very interested in help in the wiki project anarchism but I don´t know where to start.

Since most of the time I edit and try to improve the navigational boxes templates related to anarchism, socialism and libertarianism, I have some ideas to get the portal more friendly, like I try to do with the navboxes, I don´t know where I can show and discuss these ideas. But in the articles itself I don´t know what can I do since most of my knoledge on anarchism still comes mainly from the Afaq. I´m opened to suggestions on what I can do to the project!

ps: I´ve found very usefull this wikipedia guideline Wikipedia:Anarchism referencing guidelines specily the section of reliable publishers (Anarchy Archives, Anti-State.com, Libcom and Infoshop News).

Ogat (talk) 15:42, 23 January 2019 (UTC)

@Ogat, nice, welcome! I just put some advice in this "How can I help?" page as a place to start, but if you let me know what else you're into, I can suggest other areas. I'll also post some other ideas on the project talk page. Navboxes tend to not require much maintenance once set up, but if you like that sort of tinkering, you might appreciate categories. I put a blurb about category cleanup in that "How can I help?" page. And re: Wikipedia:Anarchism referencing guidelines, eh... that page looks severely outdated. I'd start with books by academic publishers (searchable in Google Books) and articles in academic databases, and unfortunately I don't think any of the four publishers you mentioned should be considered reliable for statements of fact (no editorial process/pedigree). Kind of hard to believe that they were at some point. I'll clean that up. czar 17:38, 27 January 2019 (UTC)

@Czar, I´ll see if I find some stub to expand or if I help in categorizing some articles! The navboxes, not only anarchy related but in general, are things that I relly like on wikipedia, for me they are like "mini-portals", I'm thinking in some improvements to he aarchism navbox, but I want to show first the "preview" that I made in a simple image editor just to preview the idea. Is there other way where the people involved in this project talk more easy than here, like telegram or other messaging software? (thanks for the advice about the publishers in that referencing guideline!) Ogat 14:09, 28 January 2019 (UTC)

@Czar Oh, and another doubt: Do you know if there is any proxy for the wiki site "Anarchopedia"? I didn´t find any mirror. Ogat 14:16, 28 January 2019 (UTC)

@Ogat, great! English WP users in general use IRC and Discord for live chat, if that helps. And the Internet Archive has a backup of Anarchopedia, but its quality was never very high. (I'd think that our content has surpassed it by this point.) czar 03:51, 29 January 2019 (UTC)

@Czar:, editors from the anarchism project preferer discord or irc to chat? I think it would be easier and quickier to talk in a instant platform! I´ll see the anarcopedia in the internetarchive. I noticed that the italian wikipedia have an article for this ended wiki, but here on english wikipedia there is not, and it´s aparently forbidden, saturday I wanted to translate the italian article and I found that it was locked. Do you know why? Ogat 14:18, 29 January 2019 (UTC)

@Ogat, most editors communicate on-wiki but feel free to propose otherwise to the group. I'm on the Discord sometimes but I've found that most editors prefer to communicate asynchronously. As for why some topics have articles and others don't, check out our general notability guideline and this summary. Essentially, unless reliable, secondary sources discuss Anarchopedia with some degree of depth, we'd need to base the entire article on primary sources and original research, which goes against what we're about. Some other language Wikipedias have more lax notability policies, but then again, they also have fewer editors, so sometimes it just takes them longer for some articles to be deleted. As for translations, I believe the content translation tool requires a certain permission level. czar 01:45, 3 February 2019 (UTC)

Zombieland 2

Hello! Please move Draft:Zombieland Too → Zombieland 2 — Thanks. --Captain Assassin! ^{«T ♦ C ♦ G»} 16:37, 23 January 2019 (UTC)

@Captain Assassin!, ✓ done czar 02:55, 24 January 2019 (UTC)

Possible help with the No Russian article

Hi there!

So I've been a bit preoccupied with school over the last few months, and was for a while burnt out with editing. But I've recently got back into it and I'm trying to bring the No Russian article up to FA status. It's a rather dense article for a single level, but as I'm sure your aware, it deserves to have a dense and detailed article. Right now I was just wondering if there was anything you could do to help, like a mock peer review. Nothing major, I just wanted to know what else I can do. Right now I still have to add more information about the initial reception from both gaming journalists and major new publications, the British parliament debating the content of the level, more analysis from research papers about the impact of No Russian, and the possible connection to the 2011 Norway Attacks. Thank you! Famous Hobo (talk) 23:13, 25 January 2019 (UTC)

@Famous Hobo, welcome back! Left a quick/brief peer review. Feel free to ping me there if you need anything czar 02:49, 28 January 2019 (UTC)

Grace Ueng - Deleted?

To Whom This May Concern,

I understand that Grace Ueng's wikipedia page was deleted because it did not meet the general notability guideline, but even after doing a lot of research into what that means, I still do not understand why exactly the page was taken down. She had MIT Tech Review (https://www.technologyreview.com/s/411472/grace-w-ueng-87/), Audrey Magazine (http://kore.am/audreys-women-of-influence-grace-ueng-founder-and-ceo-of-savvy-marketing-group-with-web-exclusives/), Inc Magazine (https://www.inc.com/magazine/20091001/ceo-passions-outdoor-cycling.html), and other secondary sources.

I was wondering if there's any way to restore her wiki. If there is no clear way, could I please at least have the content in Grace Ueng's deleted wikipedia page sent to my email? Thank you so much!

Best Regards — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dm7970 (talk • contribs) 07:30, 26 January 2019 (UTC)

Hi @Dm7970, those sources were used in previous versions of the article, and the first and third sources remained in the version under discussion. My involvement in the discussion was limited to assessing its consensus, so you would have to ask those editors to know more about their process. My independent assessment would ask what about this sourcing gives us enough content to write an article that does justice to the subject? The MIT piece is an alumni piece, and the Inc. piece is fluffy, about a hobby. If Ueng is known as a businesswoman, a reader would expect the biography to be about that acumen, not her biking regimen. If you have additional sources that were not considered, I'd first show them to the discussion's participants. If the other editors agree that they missed valuable sourcing, it would be no problem to restore the article or re-open a draft for review. Also I should mention, based on the article's history, that if you have an association with the subject or registered prior Wikipedia accounts, our policy is that you disclose this in a prominent location, such as your user page. czar 01:41, 28 January 2019 (UTC)

As I was one of the editors involved, Czar's questioning/assessment is on-point. Those sources are not sufficient; we need multiple independent reliable sources covering the topic in depth. All the sources I found were either a) dependent or b) did not cover her in depth. The one you add above is no different. --Izno (talk) 03:18, 28 January 2019 (UTC)

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Othello

Hello! I have reverted the redirect on Othello (2009 video game). It seems like a game that passes GNG just by a touch thanks to it's Switch release. Has 2 reviews from reliable sources in WP:VG/RS in Nintendo Life and Nintendo World Report, with 2 situational in Cubed3 and Gaming Age. None of these are deemed unreliable, thus making the game pass WP:GNG. Not the most notable game from Arc System Works, for sure, and the article state is pretty bad, but it is enough notable by wiki standards I guess. If you think that is not enough then I would advise opening an AfD for a fair discussion. Regards, Jovanmilic97 (talk) 13:11, 31 January 2019 (UTC)

Talk:Arc System Works#Proposed merge with Othello (2009 video game) czar 01:37, 3 February 2019 (UTC)

History of anarchism

Hi Czar, can I ask you a favor? I have finished with R Sources in history of anarchism. Can you help a little bit with spelling/grammar/syntax ( I am very weak in english and in my native lang in these kind of subjects). I have remove much of the content (unfortunatelly, non RS and seemed a little bit trivial) so there might be gaps in the history of anarchism. Have a look and let me know of your thoughts pls. My aim is to describe the history of ideas and actions of Anarchism as good as possible. Cheers!Cinadon36 (talk) 06:22, 1 February 2019 (UTC)

@Cinadon36, left some comments on the talk. When the basic sourcing issues are resolved, I can swing by for a readthrough/copyedit. Nice work! czar 23:30, 2 February 2019 (UTC)

Authority control

I already explained this on the noticeboard, where I thought the issue was settled - I added the Authority control to articles to see if they have wkidata already - this happened, for instance, on the page for the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Some pages do not have wikidata already, so I add it to the bottem of the page so that it will be ready if and when wikidata is created. Note that I also add it while also doing routine editing on a page, for instance the The Literary Voyager.--Bellerophon5685 (talk) 00:53, 3 February 2019 (UTC)

• Centralize discussion here: Template talk:Authority control#Preemptive addition of template czar 01:20, 3 February 2019 (UTC)

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Diamond Tooth

Hey, trying to figure out where in [1] it describes Lil as coming from a Jewish family? I searched for "Jew" and "Jewish" in the text but didn't see anything, and it wasn't mentioned anywhere else I could see? ♠PMC♠ (talk) 23:46, 19 February 2019 (UTC)

Not sure what created the rest of the ref errors, probably VE having an allergy to the ref style, I've fixed it now. ♠PMC♠ (talk) 23:49, 19 February 2019 (UTC)

@Premeditated Chaos, it was in the 1936-07-01 WaPo source: "She is known ... to have been the former Lillian Orinstein, daughter of a Jewish family." czar 23:54, 19 February 2019 (UTC)

Ah, I see. The WaPo one was attached to the next sentence so I didn't realize it was intended to cite the previous one as well; I thought you were working from the book. Can you do me a huge favor and email me the text of the WaPo article? I was working off an article on Newspapers.com that I thought was a re-run of that source but apparently not since they seem to have different text. I don't have ProQuest access unfortunately so I can't see the WaPo one. ♠PMC♠ (talk) 00:15, 20 February 2019 (UTC)

I'm wondering if there was a research fail somewhere along the line with regards to Red Light Women of the Rocky Mountains. It says Honora was born in Austria-Hungary, but all of the Newspapers.com records I can see refer to her being from a wealthy Montana family ([2], [3]) and nothing about her being from Europe. Maybe that was the convention of the time, I don't know. Even the WaPo article mentions a sister in Montana and a wealthy family in general. Red Light Women has a footnote for their claim, but it's not available for me on GBooks - not sure if it is for you - so I can't check what their source was. It's held in a library close to me so I've shot off an email asking if a librarian can verify their reference for me. RLW source seems to conflate the two Lils pretty freely, so I think having that info might help. ♠PMC♠ (talk) 15:35, 20 February 2019 (UTC)

My library was able to pull the citation page from RLW for me, and it's kind of contradictory. The text on p 163 says Honora was born in Austria. This is cited via footnote 9 to the Social Security Death Index Master File. I don't have full access to that, but the searchable versions of it on genealogy sites that I can access don't mention birthplace (so either footnote 9 only confirms the DOB, or the Master File has more info than the public versions). But then, footnote 13 says that the 1920 census listed Honora as being born in France. So either the census was wrong, RLW has accidentally conflated Honora with Evelyn (as it does quite a bit), or I've missed something again. Then there's the repeat references to the Montana cattle farmers in the Newspapers.com refs above. It's messy. ♠PMC♠ (talk) 21:30, 20 February 2019 (UTC)

Yep and until there is a more authoritative study, I tried to keep it light and unspecific with the claims. What I originally wrote for GA should be largely exhaustive of the cited sources. Once we start getting into the SSDMF/genealogy verification, gets easy to veer into original research. I have copies of all the sources I used, so let me know if you need anything. czar 01:28, 21 February 2019 (UTC)

I reworked the first paragraph to incorporate the contradictions; that way it doesn't make any judgment about which version is right, just says there's a bunch of versions (and cites them, of course). Sorry to have spammed you, I got a bit laser-focused on trying to get to the bottom of this and had some spare time to do it. I still have a pile of newspaper articles the Indiana library sent me about Evelyn awhile back that I never got to, but that's a project for another day. ♠PMC♠ (talk) 01:42, 21 February 2019 (UTC)

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Hello!

You visited my talk page and now I am visiting yours. I'm interested in contributing via my research on the contemporary political movement around squatting and refugee/migrant solidarity, but I'm having trouble deciding where it would best fit. I mentioned this on the squatting page, which merely lists political squatting as one of five types, and the Refugee crisis#Political Responses talk page as well. Let me know if you have thoughts on this. Thanks for working on anarchism-related content! A symmetrics (talk) 06:58, 21 February 2019 (UTC)

Hi @A symmetrics, in brief, both Squatting and Refugee crisis need a lot of work but likely need expansion from overview-type sources to build a basic structure before editors start applying specific journal articles, etc. If that's something you want to tackle, I can help you find sources, but we would be looking for sources that describe the topic with greater breadth than say, those specific to contemporary refugee crises or to Greece in specific. Based on the sources in your sandbox, and perhaps single-handedly thanks to South Atlantic Quarterly (2018) 117 (4), I think there is enough coverage to write an article on "Athens refugee squats" with a focus on recent Syrian refugees and their conditions. I plopped some sources in Draft:Athens refugee squats and you should feel free to tear it apart and make it your own. czar 14:07, 21 February 2019 (UTC)

This is great! Thank you! I also just dumped a bunch of sources into my sandbox, many of which are more general. A symmetrics (talk) 05:45, 27 February 2019 (UTC)

@A symmetrics, nice! I'm around if you'd like a hand with formatting or have any questions. Happy editing :) czar 11:41, 27 February 2019 (UTC)

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Your edits to Plastic Anniversary

I'm a bit baffled as to why you restored literally everything I changed. Firstly, I don't know why you didn't just format the dates yourself into mdy if you're going to force them to be in mdy with the df= parameter in references. The end result is exactly the same, and it saves needing to have those in the first place. Secondly, if there is only one author of an article, you don't need the 1 suffixes in first= and last=; I trust you know this? It gives the appearance of a newbie who just used an automatic reference template. Thirdly, we don't need the venue= parameter for studio albums. That's for live albums, and do you honestly think they recorded plastic objects at a venue rather than a studio? Doubt it. Finally, talking about something that hasn't happened yet as an excuse to remove a notability template doesn't really fly in all other circumstances. As I said in my second edit summary, I'm pretty sure admins should know better than to do this—this looks like an inexperienced editor who's pissed somebody tagged an article they made. If there is a concern, it shouldn't be removed until the issue is fixed and I'm quite sure a statement alone about something you think will happen but that hasn't actually happened yet doesn't fix it. If you're annoyed by my edit or me putting it there then you shouldn't be taking it personally, and that doesn't mean you should undo literally everything I did. Thanks. Ss112 00:27, 22 February 2019 (UTC)

I use a citation generator that formats with |df=. If you change the date format and spacing in a drive-by edit, yes, you should expect to be reverted. As for the other cosmetic changes, as I already wrote, they make no material change and are not needed. My revert rests well within BRD, but yours does not. As for taking it personally, start by re-reading your own post. czar 01:01, 22 February 2019 (UTC)

How did I take your undoing me personally? I saw it as pointless, reverted you and left a message explaining why—that's not taking it as some offense against me. No need to link me to cosmetic edit and BRD—I'm very well aware of both but cleanup edits are easily dismissed by those who don't like them as "cosmetic edits". Not every edit to Wikipedia has to be a significant addition of content to be worthwhile making. Also, you could literally dismiss half the edits to Wikipedia as "drive-by edits"—again, one does not have to make a significant contribution to an article for something to not be considered a drive-by edit. If your approach to what you characterise as "drive-by edits" is to always revert them (and that, as I said, is honestly half the edits made to Wikipedia), I really urge you to reconsider that mindset because that's pretty a terrible and heavy-handed way to approach editing and sounds like WP:IDON'TLIKEIT. I saw you deleted a redirect I made and decided to edit the article you made. That's all it is. Ss112 01:14, 22 February 2019 (UTC)

Clearly this isn't the first time you received this criticism. Edits to parameters and whitespace are cosmetic, yes, in that they make no material improvement to the article. I encourage you not to make such edits. czar 01:27, 22 February 2019 (UTC)

They're just a small part of a larger scope when cleaning up a page. But sure, thanks for the encouragement. Ss112 01:30, 22 February 2019 (UTC)

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Sabre Wulf

Hi Czar, this is listed at WP:TFAP for April. I'd like to run a suggested blurb by you. Thoughts? - Dank (push to talk) 02:13, 24 February 2019 (UTC)

Sabre Wulf is an action-adventure game by Ultimate Play the Game, initially released for the ZX Spectrum home computer in 1984. The player navigates the pith-helmeted Sabreman through a 2D jungle maze while collecting amulet pieces to bypass the guardian at its exit. The player does not receive explicit guidance on how to play and is left to decipher the game's objectives through trial and error. The developers had finished Sabre Wulf's sequels in advance of its release but—in keeping with their penchant for secrecy—chose to withhold them until later that year. Ultimate hired outside developers to port Sabre Wulf to other computing platforms: the BBC Micro, Commodore 64, and Amstrad CPC. Sabre Wulf was a bestseller and a financial success. Several gaming publications recommended the game, and Crash magazine readers named it the "Best Maze Game" of 1984. Game journalists rate it among the Spectrum's best releases.

@Dank, looks good—thanks! I made some suggested edits here but feel free to use/scrap what you want. Could also mention its inclusion in Rare Replay but I didn't see a great segue. Appreciate your asking czar 23:19, 24 February 2019 (UTC)

Sure, anytime. - Dank (push to talk) 00:19, 25 February 2019 (UTC)

violence in 1944

In Greek: Η ανοιχτή ιδεολογική αντιπαράθεση κατέληξε σε αιµατοχυσία, η οποία έφτασε σε αληθινό πογκρόµ κατά τα ∆εκεµβριανά. Αν και από τους 84 εκτελεσµένους από το ΚΚΕ αρχειοµαρξιστές και τροτσκιστές της περιόδου 1944-1945, οι περισσότεροι έχασαν τη ζωή τους στην πρωτεύουσα, οι κατοχικές δολοφονίες (µέχρι τον Νοέµβριο του 1944) είναι λιγότερες από δέκα

In English:The open ideological confrontation resulted in a bloodshed, which reached a pongrom in Decemvriana. Although of the 84 archeoMarxists and Trotskyites executed by the KKE in 1944-1945, most of them died in the capital, occupying assassinations (until November 1944) are fewer than ten.

From a most prominent historian. This is from his msc thesis in a conference. Published in a book.

He didn't mention any anarchist. He is the leading expert in Organization for the Protection of the People's Struggle. Anarchist didn't exist. Facts are facts.

Thank you for your kindness and for your time. Αντικαθεστωτικός (talk) 20:30, 24 February 2019 (UTC)

"Anarchist didn't exist" needs verification by Rel Sources that address the issue directly. Cinadon36 (talk) 23:01, 24 February 2019 (UTC)

Is this different from Talk:Anarchism in Greece#Greek anarchists, 1920–1967? If not, let's keep the discussion centralized there. Also, in general, masters' theses do not go through editorial review, so better to review in the form of the published book. czar 23:22, 24 February 2019 (UTC)

I just wanted to present a prominent historian opinion. Nothing more. It's from here. Αντικαθεστωτικός (talk) 23:46, 24 February 2019 (UTC)

sent you a message

Hi, I sent you a message about an issue I'm having. I'd love to hear your advice. Rachel Helps (BYU) (talk) 19:32, 25 February 2019 (UTC)

Books & Bytes, Issue 32

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Spoo

As Spoo used to be a featured article back in the day, I think it would be appropriate to keep the history accessible somewhere, maybe at spoo (food)? The talk page is also interesting and links to the old GA and FA promotion and demotion discussions. Would you mind undeleting and moving the histories to a good place? —Kusma (t·c) 15:14, 26 February 2019 (UTC)

Hiya, the FAC and GA pages are still live to use as needed. In terms of reasoning, the consensus was to delete and I haven't seen the precedent for restoring talk pages just because they're interesting, nevertheless because they once received a quality review. If you were planning to do something with the content or wanted it as a courtesy, would be slightly different. czar 23:06, 26 February 2019 (UTC)

Well, the consensus I read from the discussion is actually not to have a standalone article, but to redirect if possible. You deleted and then created a redirect. Usually I wouldn't care too much about the difference, but as the old FA and GA nomination pages are useless without the article they are referring to, and the fact that the status of the article as former main page FA wasn't even mentioned in the (not very well attended) discussion makes me believe it would be better to keep the history. I don't have a personal involvement in the page and agree that not having a standalone article is the correct outcome for the topic, but I like having the strangest topics to ever become a FA to point to so I can discuss how Wikipedia has changed. I just don't see the purpose of deleting the history here. —Kusma (t·c) 06:31, 27 February 2019 (UTC)

In other words, would you mind if I undeleted the history and moved it to spoo (food)? —Kusma (t·c) 07:24, 27 February 2019 (UTC)

My only qualm is using the article's former quality status as the only rationale for restoring its history. If you had said that you want to be able to link to its talk page history for any personal project—basically any other reason—no, I wouldn't see a reason to push back (go ahead). Point taken re: the dab page—I didn't realize that I had created that. The restoration will have some technical complications because of the dab page. czar 11:08, 27 February 2019 (UTC)

Yes, restoring and moving is going to be a slight headache / need some extra clicks. But I can deal with that when I find a quiet moment (sometime between tonight and next weekend). I'll also have to fix the talk page article milestones links, update the link at Wikipedia:Former featured articles and possibly add a note there that the article is a redirect now. (I was about to add a section "Former featured articles that have been deleted", but then I thought it is perhaps not worth drawing that much attention to it). Best wishes, —Kusma (t·c) 15:29, 27 February 2019 (UTC)

I think I've sorted it out. Please improve the note I left at Talk:Spoo (food) if you can. —Kusma (t·c) 20:43, 1 March 2019 (UTC)

Feb 27 WikiWednesday Salon + Mar 2 MoMA Art+Feminism and beyond

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WikiCup 2019 March newsletter

And so ends the first round of the competition. Everyone with a positive score moves on to Round 2. With 56 contestants qualifying, each group in Round 2 contains seven contestants, with the two leaders from each group due to qualify for Round 3 as well as the top sixteen remaining contestants.

Our top scorers in Round 1 were:

• L293D, a WikiCup newcomer, led the field with ten good articles on submarines for a total of 357 points.
• Adam Cuerden, a WikiCup veteran, came next with 274 points, mostly from eight featured pictures, restorations of artwork.
• MPJ-DK, a wrestling enthusiast, was in third place with 263 points, garnered from a featured list, five good articles, two DYKs and four GARs.
• Usernameunique came next at 243, with a featured article and a good article, both on ancient helmets.
• Squeamish Ossifrage was in joint fifth place with 224 points, mostly garnered from bringing the 1937 Fox vault fire to featured article status.
• Ed! was also on 224, with an amazing number of good article reviews (56 actually).

These contestants, like all the others, now have to start scoring points again from scratch. Between them, contestants completed reviews on 143 good articles, one hundred more than the number of good articles they claimed for, thus making a substantial dent in the review backlog. Well done all!

Remember that any content promoted after the end of Round 1 but before the start of Round 2 can be claimed in Round 2. Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. Remember, if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews.

If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to keep down the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Godot13 (talk), Sturmvogel 66 (talk), Vanamonde (talk) and Cwmhiraeth (talk).