User talk:Eddie891

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Marking Chand_Singh_(soldier) as Reviewed

I didn't get it, you just voted !delete on the AfD page and then marked the page as reviewed. This article is clearly going to be deleted. I am just curious what is the significance of the review. Zoodino (talk) 03:25, 27 June 2020 (UTC)

Hi Zoodino, that's a good question. After the AFD a consensus will be reached about the notability of the page one way or another. That means that it no longer needs to be reviewed by a new page reviewer and can be marked as reviewed. I'd recommend reading the tutorial thoroughly for more information on reviewing. Note at WP:NPPDEL where it says that "Unlike CSDs and PRODs, you can mark AfDed pages as 'reviewed' after tagging them, as their fate will be decided via discussion and they can't fall through the cracks if tags are removed (a bot will restore them so long as the AfD discussion is open)." It's not a big deal either way, just something I've started doing out of habit when voting in AFDs. Best wishes, Eddie891 ^Talk _Work 12:54, 27 June 2020 (UTC)

Eddie891, I partially agree with your reason. But as the reviewed pages start appearing in Wikipedia search and are indexed by google and other search engines, thus become visible to the common user as one of the first result after google search (mostly in BLP cases). That article content may not follow notability and verifiability. Therefore I think one should wait for the AfD to end before marking a page, just a personal opinion. Zoodino (talk) 08:59, 29 June 2020 (UTC)

Zoodino, thanks for bringing this up. Unless I'm mistaken, the AFD tag has noindex on it, so such an article shouldn't be indexed until after the AFD anyways. Best, Eddie891 ^Talk _Work 17:18, 13 July 2020 (UTC)

Eddie891, Thanks for the clarification, didn't know that earlier. Zoodino (talk) 04:32, 14 July 2020 (UTC)

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Hi

Hi Eddie. You're the smartest person ever on wikipedia.

Sincerely, Eddie891isthesmartestpersonever

In appreciation

		The Featured Article Medal
		By the authority vested in me by myself it gives me great pleasure to present you with this special, very exclusive award created just for we few, we happy few, this band of brothers, who have shed sweat, tears, and probably blood, in order to be able to proudly claim "I too have taken an article to Featured status". And then did it all over again! Gog the Mild (talk) 16:06, 7 July 2020 (UTC)

• Thank you very much, Gog the Mild! His article took a lot more work than I anticipated, but I feel was well worth it. A good portion of the credit should really go to you, HJ Mitchell and all the reviewers, for all the help they gave— I really cannot thank you all enough. I've been very lucky to meet such great people on-wiki and I certainly could not do half what I do without a lot of help. Maybe I'll be confident enough to start reviewing some more FACs and ACRs with this under my belt? I hope you're staying healthy, I hope to see you around again soon, and best wishes for the future! -- Eddie891 ^Talk _Work 18:13, 7 July 2020 (UTC)

Cheers Eddie. Your input is, IMO, well up to ACR and/or FAC review level; and if you should choose to review more in these areas you would be a welcome addition to the ranks of reviewers. Gog the Mild (talk) 18:29, 7 July 2020 (UTC)

Definitely start reviewing. Most nominators, myself included, are grateful for almost any input, and just reading the article and pointing out anything that sticks out is often the most useful thing a reviewer can do. Something that makes perfect sense to the person who wrote it might make no sense whatsoever to someone else. You'll pick up a lot of the fine point of the MoS etc as you go along. Well done on Fabian Ware. You put a lot of work into that but I hope you feel it was worth it to produce an impeccable article on such an important figure. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 15:16, 9 July 2020 (UTC)

Fellowship and caps

Hi, saw your edits to Jonathan Parry and it has raised a query in my mind, so I've opened a discussion at Wikipedia_talk:Manual_of_Style/Biography#Fellowship. Not fussed on the outcome but it does need clarifying, I think, for the sake of consistency. - Sitush (talk) 07:05, 9 July 2020 (UTC)

Sitush: now that you mention it, I’m not positive what the correct capitalization is. Thanks for raising this point. I’ll weigh in there shortly. Best wishes, Eddie891 ^Talk _Work 11:05, 9 July 2020 (UTC)

The Signpost

Hi Eddie. Really nice work on the list of new FAs in The Signpost. Is this something you are planning to do each month? Gog the Mild (talk) 20:05, 9 July 2020 (UTC)

• Gog the Mild first off, thanks! Most of the work really is done by an ancient script that I just discovered a few months ago-- it is great, and even works half the time(!). The section is something I hope to do each month for the foreseeable future. I think recognizing our content creators is something that is done nowhere near often enough and I'm happy to do it wherever I can. Besides, it's quite enjoyable to read the articles people write and learn a bit about all these places I've never visited, all the people I'll never meet, things I won't experience. With that said, if you'd like to help out, please feel welcome to (though not obligated in any way). Best wishes, Eddie891 ^Talk _Work 01:05, 10 July 2020 (UTC)

  Hi Eddie. First of all, where can I get a look at this script? Secondly, I was going to draw your attention to the draft blurbs - ready for TFAs - on the FAC discussion talk pages. You may well already be aware of them. I help prepare those for MilHist and related articles, with drafts living here. I thought that they may be easier to cut down than the full articles. However, so long as you don't mind, I would be happy to help out on the MilHist side, initially at least with MilHist FAs.

  What length of summary are you aiming for? I assume that I put them on Wikipedia:Signpost/Next issue/Featured content? Gog the Mild (talk) 17:32, 10 July 2020 (UTC)

• Gog the Mild: I absolutely don't mind your help-- in fact, you I would quite welcome it! The script generates a weekly list of featured content based upon WP:GO and its archives. The code is in this GitHub URL, you can see the basic formatting it generates at Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Featuredcontentimporting (so it takes away the manual need to go through WP:FAL, WP:FLL and WP:FPL to find the number of the archive and the nominators). When it doesn't work it's usually because of improper nomination formatting or a page move after the nomination passed (the script cannot follow redirects).

I've not really decided upon a great length to aim for, though they should be a solid paragraph (probably shorter than the FA blurbs, which I will be sure to look at- they seem quite useful). Right now around 500 characters comes to mind as an arbitrary goal, but for more interesting to me longer articles (or those that escape easy summation) don't hesitate to go over. Feel free to summarize any articles as you feel like it. Best wishes, Eddie891 ^Talk _Work 13:02, 11 July 2020 (UTC)

Eddie891, I use Wikipedia:Featured articles promoted in 2020 to keep track of new FAs. I have had a go at the MilHist FAs since 20 June. See here. The nominators and a possible picture for each for you to chose from are included. Feedback is welcome. If you could amend as appropriate and post them to The Signpost I will watch and learn. Gog the Mild (talk) 14:11, 11 July 2020 (UTC)

Gog the Mild, thanks very much for that! I'll take more of a look on Sunday night or Monday-- going away for the weekend shortly... Best, Eddie891 ^Talk _Work 14:14, 11 July 2020 (UTC)

Eddie891, shorter, and more informal, versions here. Gog the Mild (talk) 14:34, 12 July 2020 (UTC)

April–May 2020 GAN Backlog drive

		The Good Article Reviewer's Medal of Merit
		Thank you for completing an amazing 30 reviews in the April–May 2020 GAN Backlog drive. Your work helped us to reduce the backlog by over 60%. Regards, Harrias talk 07:59, 11 July 2020 (UTC)

• Thanks for co-ordinating the drive, Harrias and Lee Vilenski! Best wishes, Eddie891 ^Talk _Work 13:02, 11 July 2020 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CLXXI, July 2020

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Tech News: 2020-29

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

• Users can thank others for their edits. Checkusers can now see user data related to that action. This can help identify sock puppets who harass others using thanks. [1]

Problems

• Everyone was logged out a couple of weeks ago to fix a security problem. The problem was not entirely fixed. Because of this everyone was logged out once again last week. [2][3]

Changes later this week

• Wikis that are not for one specific language can translate pages. Sometimes parts of translations are outdated or missing. Outdated translations are marked with a pink background. Missing translations will also be marked in the future. This markup can sometimes break things. It can soon be disabled by using <translate nowrap></translate> on the source page. [4]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 July. It will be on all wikis from 16 July (calendar).

Future changes

• Wikimedia code review plans to use GitLab. It would be hosted on Wikimedia servers. [5][6][7][8]

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16:29, 13 July 2020 (UTC)

WikiProject Peer Review newsletter

Depiction by Raphael of Aristotle in the School of Athens receiving some useful feedback during an active peer review

Hello to all! This is the second Wikipedia Peer Review newsletter, containing some updates relating to peer review since the initial newsletter in August 2018. I intend these as infrequent newsletters that can be used to interact with interested editors and also let people know about relevant changes.

Thanks again to everyone who has been responding and helping out at peer review, it's great to see the venue so active.

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Yours, --Tom (LT) (talk) 23:22, 13 July 2020 (UTC)

What's new?

New closure script

There's a new script you can use to automate the process of closing a review. Now, for most reviews you just need to click a button (hurray!)

Developed by User:WritKeeper, to whom we are all very thankful, there is a script to help automate closing peer reviews. To use the script:

• Copy importScript('User:Writ Keeper/Scripts/peerReviewCloser.js'); into your Special:MyPage/common.js
• When you view a review, click on the tab that says "More" and then "Close peer review". The tab can be found near the "History" tab

I've added it to the list of tools here: Wikipedia:Peer_review/Tools#Closure_script

Volunteers list contacts

Editors can now choose to be contacted periodically by User:KadaneBot with unanswered peer reviews in specific topic areas. If you'd like to be contacted, please visit the volunteers page and update your preferences

Peer reviews on "Article alerts"

If you're a member of a WikiProject, you may have noticed peer reviews getting included in the article alerts lists, which is sure to enhance our subject-specific visibility.

How can I contribute?

1. Answer some reviews! A list of unanswered reviews is here: (WP:PRWAITING)
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3. Or, if you only want one request a blue moon, Click "watch" on the list of items that somehow missed getting added to the unanswered list (here). Sometimes, these reviews linger for months!!

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Thank you in July

July

pale globe-thistle above the Rhine

Thank you for improving articles in July! Now a FTN is open. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:45, 20 July 2020 (UTC)

Thank you for your support, - they now became a featured topic! ... exactly 10 years after both Brian and I were declared awesome ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:53, 3 August 2020 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2020-31

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 Starter kit is now available for wiki communities. This page lists technical resources, tools, and recommendations. These are essential to operate a wiki project. This is mostly useful for smaller wikis where the community has limited experience with this. [9]
• The first features of the Desktop Improvements project are available for logged-in users on all wikis. In order to use them, uncheck Use Legacy Vector in your local or global preferences in section Skin preferences. More improvements are planned. Feedback is welcome.
• On multiple wikis, a UTCLiveClock gadget is available. For wikis that import the gadget directly from mediawiki.org, end users can now choose a different timezone to show instead of UTC.

Problems

• The deployment train for MediaWiki has been blocked this week. [10][11]
• Translation Notification Bot was sending the same message multiple times to every translator. This has been fixed. [12]
• Some users were receiving the same notification multiple times. This has been fixed. [13]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from July 28. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from July 29. It will be on all wikis from JUly 30 (calendar).

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13:52, 27 July 2020 (UTC)

DYK for Sandra Perron

On 31 July 2020, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Sandra Perron, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Sandra Perron, whom other Canadian Armed Forces officers viewed as a threat, was once interrogated and left in the snow for two hours without boots as part of a training exercise? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Sandra Perron. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Sandra Perron), 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.

 — Amakuru (talk) 00:02, 31 July 2020 (UTC)

In appreciation

	The Working Man's Barnstar
	By the authority vested in me by myself it gives me great pleasure to present you with this barnstar in recognition of the sterling work you are doing at The Signpost. Thank you. Gog the Mild (talk) 17:20, 2 August 2020 (UTC)

• Many thanks for this, Gog, and especially thanks for your help this issue. I certainly wouldn't have been able to finish the article on my own this month. Eddie891 ^Talk _Work 00:37, 3 August 2020 (UTC)

The Signpost: 2 August 2020

• Special report: Wikipedia and the End of Open Collaboration?

• COI and paid editing: Some strange people edit Wikipedia for money

• News and notes: Abstract Wikipedia, a hoax, sex symbols, and a new admin

• In the media: Dog days gone bad

• Discussion report: Fox News, a flight of RfAs, and banning policy

• Featured content: Remembering Art, Valor, and Freedom

• Traffic report: Now for something completely different

• Gallery: Photos of threatened species from iNaturalist

• News from the WMF: New Chinese national security law in Hong Kong could limit the privacy of Wikipedia users

• Recent research: Receiving thanks increases retention, but not the time contributed to Wikipedia

• Essay: Not compatible with a collaborative project

• Obituaries: Hasteur and Brian McNeil

• In focus: WikiLoop DoubleCheck, reviewing edits made easy

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Tech News: 2020-32

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

Problems

• All queries to the Wikidata Query Service failed between 17:50 and 17:59 UTC on Thursday 23 July. Some queries failed during a longer period. [14]
• Interlanguage links were ordered incorrectly for the past few weeks. This problem was also mentioned in Tech News two weeks ago. The problem is now fixed. [15]
• There is a problem with the global preferences for the "Use Legacy Vector" option. Developers are working on fixing it. [16]
• A bug in the Wikibase extension had disabled the "move" and "create" types of protection in the main (Gallery) namespace on Wikimedia Commons. New protections could not be added, and existing protections were not enforced, allowing some page moves and page creations that should not have been possible. This has now been fixed. [17]

Changes later this week

• The video player will change to be simpler and more modern. This week, the current beta feature will become the video player for everyone on most non-Wikipedia wikis. The old player will be removed. [18]
• Users' global.js and global.css pages will now also be loaded on the mobile site. You can read documentation for how to avoid applying styles to the mobile skin. [19]
• In the MonoBook skin, the searchGoButton identifier is now searchButton. This may affect CSS and JS gadgets. Migration instructions can be found in T255953. This was previously mentioned in issue 27.
• Bot operators can use Pywikibot to regularly archive discussions. The behavior when the bot uses counter to prevent large archives was changed. [20]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from August 4. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from August 5. It will be on all wikis from August 6 (calendar).

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15:43, 3 August 2020 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CLXXII, August 2020

Your Military History Newsletter Project news: From the editors; awards and honours; contest results Articles: Last month's new featured and A-class content Book review: Recent external reviews Op-ed: Nick-D on 1945

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Tech News: 2020-33

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

• FileImporter and FileExporter became standard features on all Wikis during the first week of August. They help you transfer files from local wikis to Wikimedia Commons with the original file information and history intact. [21]

Problems

• The mobile skin displays a message at the bottom of the page about who edited last. This message showed raw wikitext. This has now been fixed. Some messages in Structured Discussions and content translation may still appear as raw wikitext. Developers are working on it. [22]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from August 11. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from August 12. It will be on all wikis from August 13 (calendar).

Future changes

• All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on September 1. This is planned between 13:30 and 15:30 UTC. More information will be published in Tech News and will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks. [23][24]

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16:06, 10 August 2020 (UTC)

A barnstar for you

		The Original Barnstar
		For finally running for RFA. I've thought you'd make a good admin for some time, and I'm glad to see you running. Hog Farm Bacon 00:02, 13 August 2020 (UTC)