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Thriller Records

Hello, I had created a Wikipedia Page for Bob Beckers new label called Thriller Records - he is also the founder of Fearless Records. It was deleted and I'm not sure why or how we can bring this back online. I used similar coding and linked to press articles from very reputable media articles such as alternative press. If you could help that would be super appreciated. I know a lot of people use Wikipedia to keep up with the current roster of the label. Thank you! --Nickm0110 (talk) 20:34, 16 December 2021 (UTC)

I deleted it because it was spam. Please don't use Wikipedia to advertise. – bradv^🍁 00:28, 17 December 2021 (UTC)

This is not spam? This is a very legitimate record label founded by notable people in the industry. Both of the founders have Wikipedia pages for their other labels so I'm confused why this would be considered spam? What was created was templated after their other record labels. Every artist on the label has a wikipedia page as well? What am I missing here? --Nickm0110 (talk) 01:26, 17 December 2021 (UTC)

Notability and BLP

o reason has been given why this highly-recognized industrial and academic scientist should not be considered notable. The references in many publications, including the Wall Street Journal are surely an indication. By itself, award of the Barbados Barbados Gold Crown of Merit award should be enough. --Zeamays (talk) 22:26, 16 December 2021 (UTC)

Replied at Talk:Ken R. Harewood. – bradv^🍁 22:39, 16 December 2021 (UTC)

Sadhbh O'Neill

Related conversation: User talk:Tzq99#Managing a conflict of interest

Thanks for the note. I'm not sure what you mean by the conflict of interest, none of those categories apply to me. I thought the material was well sourced from reliable sources, can you suggest what else is needed?Tzq99 (talk) 16:58, 18 December 2021 (UTC)

@Tzq99: It appears from your edits that you have some sort of relationship with Sadhbh O'Neill, which is why I left you that message. What is your connection? – bradv^🍁 17:11, 18 December 2021 (UTC)

@Bradv: I don't have any, though I'm interested in more obscure election results and details and am aware of her. I noticed that she is running in an upcoming election and has no page despite the fact that apparently less prominent candidates do. Tzq99 (talk) 17:38, 18 December 2021 (UTC)

@Bradv:I would point you to the pages for Tom Clonan and Hugo MacNeill (rugby union), who are other declared candidates in the same election. Unlike O'Neill, neither of them have ever been elected to any public office, neither have a more notable academic career than O'Neill, neither of them have been in the public eye to a greater extent than O'Neill and the only MacNeill has a modest amateur sporting record. It is well established that there is a huge imbalance in the number of males v females who have wiki biographies, and with candidates in this election, it is remarkable that the most notable of these three is a) the one who has no bio and b) the one who is female. I know that you are trying to keep wiki balanced, but I think that in this instance balance favours inclusion. Tzq99 (talk) 17:52, 18 December 2021 (UTC)

The relevant notability criteria is at WP:NPOLITICIAN. Candidates for office are not usually notable until they are elected, unless they are already notable for other reasons. – bradv^🍁 17:55, 18 December 2021 (UTC)

@Bradv: Brad, please have regard for what I wrote. She has been elected to public office previously, and male candidates in the current election who have not been elected and don't have any other notability criteria that she does not have, each have extensive wiki pages. This is really not a good look from a sexism point for wiki. Tzq99 (talk) 17:59, 18 December 2021 (UTC)

Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 22

Hello everyone, and welcome to the 22nd issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter. This issue will be covering new and updated user scripts from the past seven months (June through December 2021).

Got anything good? Tell us about your new, improved, old, or messed-up script here!

Featured script

LuckyRename, by Alexis Jazz, is this month's featured script. LuckyRename makes requesting file moves easier, and automates the many steps in file moving (including automatic replacement of existing usage). Give it a shot!

Updated scripts

• SD0001: hide-reverted-edits has been updated to take into account changes in reversion tools like Twinkle and RedWarn.
• Writ Keeper: massRollback.js has added a rollback-some option (missed in last issue).
• ClaudineChionh: SkinSwitcher (a fork and update of Eizen's script) provides an options menu/toolbox/toolbar allowing users to view a given page in MediaWiki's default skins.

Scripts++ Newsletter

Pending requests

• Mass-patrolling at Special:NewPages
• Taking up the mantle of an almost completed peer review javascript bot
• Restore the Wikipedia Citation Tool for Google Books
• Autohighlighting specific characters (Greek)
• ...and many more, all available at Wikipedia:User scripts/Requests

Miscellaneous

• Wikipedia:User scripts/Ranking is a sortable table of Wikipedia's thousand-or-so most commonly used scripts; it includes their author, last modification date, installation count, and sometimes a short description.
• Toolhub is a community managed catalog of software tools used in the Wikimedia movement. Technical volunteers can use Toolhub to document the tools that they create or maintain. All Wikimedians can use Toolhub to search for tools to help with their workflows and to create lists of useful tools to share with others.

New scripts

• Ahecht:
  • draft-sorter sorts AfC drafts by adding WikiProject banners to their talk pages. It supersedes User:Enterprisey/draft-sorter, adding a few features and fixing some bugs.
  • massmove, a modified User:Plastikspork/massmove.js that adds a link to the left column, allows adding and removing both prefixes and suffixes.
  • watchlistcleaner removes missing pages (redlinks), redirects, pages you haven't edited recently, and/or pages you've never edited from your watchlist.
• Awesome Aasim:
  • Infiniscroll adds infinite scrolling to user contributions, page histories, and log pages.
  • Quick create allows for the fast creation of red-linked pages with two clicks.
• Caburum:
  • UTCclock adds a clock displaying the current UTC time.
• Chlod:
  • CopiedTemplateEditor, mainly for CCI case handlers, allows graphically editing a talk page's {{copied}} templates.
• DaxServer:
  • BooksToSfn adds a portlet link in Visual Editor's source mode editing, in main namespace articles or in the user's Sandbox. When clicked, it converts one {{cite book}} inside a <ref>...</ref> tag block into an {{Sfn}}.
• FlightTime:
  • OneClickArchiver is a custom version of User:Technical_13/Scripts/OneClickArchiver which doesn't prepend {{Clear}} to the top of each section on the archive page.
• Jon Harald Søby:
  • diffedit enables editing directly from viewing a diff "when, for instance, you notice a tiny mistake deep into an article, and don't want to edit the entire article and re-find that one line to fix that tiny mistake".
  • warnOnLargeFile warns you if you're about to open a very large file (width/height >10,000px or file size >100 MB) from a file page.
• JPxG:
  • PressPass adds a collection of tools for Newspapers.com including configurable automatic citation generation in five different formats.
  • CurrentSwitcher gives you links on the contribs page to hide duplicate entries, current revisions, rollbacks, huggles, twinkles, and redwarns.
  • TrackSum lets you automatically sum the lengths of tracks in templates like {{track listing}} and get total runtimes.
• Nardog:
  • CopySectLink adds a button to copy the unencoded page title or section path next to each heading.
  • IPAInput allows you to type in IPA symbols by directly looking at an IPA key like Help:IPA/English and clicking on the symbols.
  • TemplatePreviewGuard warns when you try to use "Preview page with this template" with a page that doesn't transclude the template.
• NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh:
  • ContribsTabVector adds "Contributions" and "Statistics" tabs to user and user talk pages on the Vector skin.
  • CopyvioChecker adds a "CopyvioCheck" tab to all pages, except Special (Vector skin only).
  • LiveDiffLink is a version of Equazcion's LiveDiffLink which shows a wikilink instead of a URL.
  • QuickDiff (by OneTwoThreeFall at Fandom) lets you quickly view any diff link on a wiki, whether on Recent Changes, contribs pages, history pages, the diff view itself, or elsewhere. For more information, view its page on Fandom.
• Novem Linguae:
  • DetectSNG scans a list of 1,600 SNG keywords and displays them at the top of the article.
  • NotSoFast highlights recently created articles in the new pages feed, to discourage patrolling them too quickly.
  • UserRightsDiff concisely displays what perm was added or removed when viewing Special:UserRights.
  • VoteCounter displays a rough count of keeps and deletes at XFDs, RFCs, etc.
  • WatchlistAFD automatically watchlists the AFDs of any pages you AFC accept or NPP patrol, to help you calibrate your reviewing.
• P.T.Đ:
  • TwinkleMobile enables Twinkle on mobile view (Minerva skin).
• Qwerfjkl:
  • editRedirect adds a → link after redirects to edit them.
  • RegExTypoFix, a script for fixing typos, is a wrapper for User:Joeytje50/RETF.js.
  • talkback creates links after user talk page links like this: |C|TB (with the first linking to the user's contributions, and the latter giving the option of sending a {{talkback}} notice). It also adds a [copy] link next to section headers.
• Rublov:
  • diff-link shows "copy" links on history and contributions pages that copy an internal link to the diff (e.g., Special:Diff/1026402230) to your clipboard when clicked.
• Rummskartoffel:
  • auto-watchlist-expiry automatically watchlists every page you edit for a user-definable duration (you can still pick a different time using the dropdown, though).
  • generate pings generates the wikitext needed to ping all members of a category, up to 50 editors (the limit defined by MediaWiki).
  • share ExpandTemplates url allows for easy sharing of your inputs to Special:ExpandTemplates. It adds a button that, when clicked, copies a shareable URL to your exact invocation of the page, like this. Other editors do not need to have this script installed in order to access the URL generated.
  • show tag names shows the real names of tags next to their display names in places such as page revision histories or the watchlist.
• Tol:
  • VisualEditor Citation Needed adds a button (under "Insert") in VisualEditor to add a {{citation needed}} tag.
• Venkat TL:
  • ColourContrib color-codes the user contributions page so that pages you've edited last are sharply distinguished from pages where another editor was the last to edit the page.
• Vukky:
  • StatusChanger is a fork of Enterprisey's Status Changer, which adds a UI to the script. (using Morebits, so you'll need to have Twinkle enabled to use it).

All in all, some very neat scripts were written in these last few months. Hoping to see many more in the next issue -- drop us a line on the talk page if you've been writing (or seeing) anything cool and good. Filling in for DannyS712, this has been jp×g. Take care, and merry Christmas! jp×g 07:30, 24 December 2021 (UTC)

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Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

Hi Bradv, Wish you a Merry Christmas and a very Happy New Year, Thank you for your support and great work on Wikipedia. Happy Holidays. DMySon (talk) 15:14, 24 December 2021 (UTC)

Merry Christmas 2021

Merry Christmas everybody!!!

"And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold,

I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people.

For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord."

Luke 2:10-11 (King James Version)

CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) is wishing you a Merry Christmas.

This greeting (and season) promotes WikiLove.

Spread the cheer by adding {{Subst:Xmas4}} to their talk page with a friendly message.

CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 22:11, 24 December 2021 (UTC)

Merry Christmas, Bradv!

TheSandDoctor ^Talk is wishing you a Merry Christmas! This greeting (and season) promotes WikiLove and hopefully this note has made your day a little better. Spread the WikiLove by wishing another user a Merry Christmas, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past, a good friend, or just some random person. Happy New Year!

Spread the cheer by adding {{subst:Xmas5}} to their talk page with a friendly message.

Numelon

Merry Christmas, Bradv!
Could I please retrieve the deleted contents of Numelon which was marked as spam for "advertising"?
Thanks. --RDSRichy (talk) 20:17, 26 December 2021 (UTC)

Ishac Bertran

Hi Bradv! Will you restore the contents of the Ishac Bertran page to a draft? It was work a student did for my class through Wiki Education, and I haven't had a chance to review it. I apologize if it read as too promotional, I will clean it up in the draft as I review. Thanks -- AmeliaMN (talk) 16:38, 28 December 2021 (UTC)