User talk:DMacks

PWRR excellent job going out of your way to disrupt the page. I made good faith effort to add valid content to the page and you worked diligently to keep it off the page because of no citation. News flash 99% of that page is uncited but accurate because people like me actually try to contribute, while people like you maintain the poor reputation Wikipedia's editing class has created for itself. There is no citation available for lots of valid factual information, Wikipedia would be half of what it is if it only allowed cited information. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:1000:B103:9CDF:1982:F988:2F70:3BD6 (talk) 20:31, 29 November 2016 (UTC)

Hi DMacks! Completely agree with you and have no intention of advertising. I was just adding the website to the place where the brand was already mentioned. This will help users to go to the site easily. There is no new brand reference added to any of the pages by me and you can rest assured that will not be done ever

external links on New Power Party in Taiwan

Hi DMacks,

I had added some of those external links related to New Power Party, which they are mostly related to New Power Party with those external links on various reforms that are going on at Taiwan. I hope that you would at least read them on those various issues at Taiwan instead just using bots to delete them. Wikipedia is after all an encyclopedia for mass awareness to keep people informed on things around world.

Deletionism and inclusionism in Wikipedia - Wiki....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deletionism_and_inclusionism_in_Wikipedia

File:Size of English Wikipedia broken down.png....

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Size_of_English_Wikipedia_broken_down.png

I love science, too, but politics in Taiwan isn't exactly like academic papers, which are very rigor and even dry reading. Those external links are almost all related to Taiwan or exactly to topics of that page. My goals are to focus on struggle of Taiwan and why these political parties even existed in first place not to write strict academic papers to impress your peer scientists like most academic papers in very complex terminologies. I will just said that it is important for Taiwan to have those links regarding to reforms and human rights at Taiwan. China suppressed freedom of speech and so on. Better privacy laws are really needed in Taiwan to protect on those that are demanding for changes in Taiwan. I hope you will have understanding on that. Thanx! =) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 58.114.119.130 (talk) 04:37, 14 April 2017 (UTC)

Privacy International - Wiki....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privacy_International

Julian Assange - Wiki....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Assange

Not much love lost between Wikipedia and WikiLeaks - The Guardian....

https://www.theguardian.com/business/andrew-clark-on-america/2010/aug/30/wikipedia-wikileaks

Maybe Jimmy Wales needs to pay royalty to Julian Assange for using word such as wiki.... just joking! USA certainly got housing bubbles, student loan crisis, income inequality, and much more to that devastated middle income class. Anyhow.... noticed that Taiwan is rather red and rank very low on privacy laws.... sadly. I mean you can change world and save life on here not siding with any Pro-China and Anti-Democratic agenda for sure. Imagine that!  ;-) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 58.114.119.130 (talk) 05:29, 14 April 2017 (UTC)

Hi, we are staff from SCGS and we would like to help to keep the info up to date. Please advise how we can assist to keep the information updated. Thanks. email: scgss_ict@moe.edu.sg — Preceding unsigned comment added by 118.189.35.234 (talk) 01:10, 3 September 2015 (UTC)

Amino Acids, Response 13DEC2015

Hello DMacks! Thanks for catching my mistakes regarding the amino acid pages Histidine and Pyrrolysine. I added the links and fixed the sub-scripting as you suggested. When I get the chance to get to a PC with ChemDraw, I'll fix the images as well. Anything else you might suggest? Abuzzanco (talk)

Scoobalawyer==26 July 2015

Hello DMacks, I Kindly Request You To Protect This Wikipedia Page of Kick (2014 film) because of High Vandalism by unknown users link : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kick_(2014_film). Thanks!

Re: OxNotes.com on Wallington Grammar page

Hello DMacks,

I am a representative of OxNotes (a student run website and soon to be textbook) , I apologise for method in which it was recently added to the Wikipedia page, I have ensured all 'marketing speak' has been removed and what is left is only factual information. Please feel free to contact me via LinkedIn, Twitter or email k@oxnotes.com if you require any further information. Thank you.

Kind Regards

Kazim

Kazim Chaudri Editor: OxNotes by Fluxty (Non-Profit) www.linkedin.com/in/kazimchaudri

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Sorry not sure how els to contact you to discuss the farm page.

ANI notice

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you.

added external links

I had added one reference link to page Бесхвостые , tutorvista had added its 4 links, then why not i can add one more reference link from other website. Its not promotion, but the page which i have, also tells about fron digestive system. So is that bad to put a reference link on that page. Please guide me.

Support request with team editing experiment project

Dear tech ambassadors, instead of spamming the Village Pump of each Wikipedia about my tiny project proposal for researching team editing (see here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Research_team_editing), I have decided to leave to your own discretion if the matter is relevant enough to inform a wider audience already. I would appreciate if you could appraise if the Wikipedia community you are more familiar with could have interest in testing group editing "on their own grounds" and with their own guidance. In a nutshell: it consists in editing pages as a group instead of as an individual. This social experiment might involve redefining some aspects of the workflow we are all used to, with the hope of creating a more friendly and collaborative environment since editing under a group umbrella creates less social exposure than traditional "individual editing". I send you this message also as a proof that the Inspire Campaign is already gearing up. As said I would appreciate of *you* just a comment on the talk page/endorsement of my project noting your general perception about the idea. Nothing else. Your contribution helps to shape the future! (which I hope it will be very bright, with colors, and Wikipedia everywhere) Regards from User:Micru on meta.

Maybe you should not rollback my code in the word "leapyear"

Hi, DMacks:

    When I fixed the some mistake of python code in "leap year", my code is rollback by you for the reason "Too much detail/WP is not a how-to manual". I'm software engineer, and I found many people don't known the history of "leap year", include the textbooks about programming in china. the wrong code is used for getting "leap year"(before 1582). So, I spend some time to study this question, and wrote the code which let more people know "leap year". can you allow the code is added to the context of "leap year".

   It's my first commit in Wiki. :)

   Best Regards

   Jerry.Liu, Beijing, China

   PS:
   I have add python code to bake of baidu. let more people knows the history of "leap year".  My English is poor, maybe you can know what I said.  hah.

Czechia "Vandalisim"

How was it vandalism I just updated the name Ninvento (talk) 16:08, 29 March 2017 (UTC)

Please see the FAQ link I included in the message. DMacks (talk) 18:29, 29 March 2017 (UTC)

Javascript test pages

Hi Dmacks

Thanks for starting the discussion at WP:VPT#Categories_for_.js_pages about the categorisation of code. I learnt a lot from it.

However, the discussion has now run its course, so I was wondering if you would now like to disable (or delete) the two test pages you produced — User:DMacks/template-test1 and User:DMacks/test.js — so that they no longer populate non-existent categories?

It would be helpful to have them no longer appear in Special:WantedCategories. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 14:02, 31 March 2017 (UTC)

Done. Thanks for gnoming the categories! DMacks (talk) 20:08, 31 March 2017 (UTC)

Great! Thanks --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 21:39, 31 March 2017 (UTC)

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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 Save page button now says Publish page or Publish changes on most Wikipedias. The point is to make it more clear that the edit will change the page immediately. Publish page is when you save a new page and Publish changes when you edit an existing page. [1]
• The tracking category Category:Pages with template loops is now added when a template loop is found. A template loop is for example when a template tries to use a second template that uses the first template. [2]
• English Wikipedia now has cookie blocks. It will come to more wikis in the future. This is an extension to the autoblock system so when a user is blocked, the next time they visit the wiki a cookie will be set. This means that even if the user switches accounts and to a new IP address the cookie will block them again. [3]

Problems

• Wikidata descriptions, aliases and labels that used some characters could not be saved. This has now been fixed. [4]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 4 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 April. It will be on all wikis from 6 April (calendar).

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• New filters for Recent changes will come to Wikidata and Persian, Dutch, Russian, Turkish, Czech and Hebrew Wikipedia on 11 April. The new filters include filtering, highlighting and user intent prediction. User intent prediction means the filter tries to help editors determine if the edit was made in good faith or not. Other wikis will get it later. [5]

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Freedom Machine

Not a test page. Spam. Robert McClenon (talk) 17:01, 10 April 2017 (UTC)

Indeed. Thanks for canning it. DMacks (talk) 05:28, 11 April 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-15

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Recent changes

• Tidy is going to be replaced with an HTML5 parsing algorithm. Bad HTML in wikitext would cause problems on a number of wikis. There is now a ParserMigration extension on all wikis that you can use to help clean this up. You can read more about how you can use it. [6]

Changes this week

• Some older web browsers will not be able to use JavaScript on Wikimedia wikis from this week. If you have an old web browser on your computer you can upgrade to a newer version. [7]
• New filters for Recent changes will come to Wikidata and Persian, Russian, Turkish and French Wikipedia on 11 April. The schedule has been changed to fix the user intent prediction filters for some wikis. User intent prediction means the filter tries to make it easier for editors to determine if the edit was made in good faith or not. Other wikis will get it later. [8]
• The list of special characters in the wikitext editor and the visual editor will now have a group of Canadian Aboriginal characters. [9]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 11 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 April. It will be on all wikis from 13 April (calendar).

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Vandalism

@DMacks: @DMacks2: Somebody instead of clean up the article deleted 95% portion of your last edited article[10], photos, references, signature, Infobox information, awards and distinctions, books, reliable sources, quotes, occupation, example of poetry, khowar translation, links, reliable references and external links and many others has been deleted, please check this edit and revert the article to its original position and fix the protection template to save the article from vandalisum--175.107.55.33 (talk) 05:34, 17 April 2017 (UTC)

Looks fine to me. Sock blocked. DMacks (talk) 06:44, 17 April 2017 (UTC)

@DMacks: @DMacks2: sir due to oversight or human error you blocked the IP 175.107.55.33 please unblock the IP as someone deleted 95% portion of your last edited article[11] please revert the change to your last edit. Thanks --175.107.53.145 (talk) 03:55, 18 April 2017 (UTC)

No. DMacks (talk) 04:06, 18 April 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-16

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

• You can add ?safemode=1 to the end of the URL on Wikimedia wikis to disable your personal CSS and JavaScript. Example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literature?safemode=1. This means you can test if a problem is because of your user scripts or gadgets without uninstalling them. [12]
• You can now see a list of all autoblocks on Special:AutoblockList. [13]
• The Wikiversity and Wikinews logos are now shown directly from the configuration and not from [[File:Wiki.png]]. If you want to change logo or have an anniversary logo, see how to request a configuration change. This is how it already works for other projects. They can request logo changes the same way. [14]

Problems

• Because of a data centre test you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for 20 to 30 minutes on 19 April. This will start at 14:00 (UTC). You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. You can read more about this. This will also happen on 3 May.

Changes this week

• There is no new Mediawiki version this week. This is because of the data centre test.

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 18 April at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• stats.wikimedia.org will be replaced. You can see the new prototype. You can leave feedback on this change.
• Page Previews will be turned on for logged-out users on a large number of wikis in May. It could be postponed and happen later. Page Previews shows readers a short part of a linked article when they rest their mouse pointer on the link. This is to help them understand what it is about without leaving the article they are reading. Page Previews used to be called Hovercards. Users who have tested the feature can give feedback. [15]
• From next week, user scripts using very old deprecated wikibits functions will show errors. These functions have not worked since 2013. You should fix or disable broken scripts. You can see examples of how to upgrade scripts. [16][17]

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Tech News: 2017-17

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

• New filters for recent changes are now available as a beta feature on most wikis. You can turn it on in your preferences. Remaining wikis will have the new filters on 9 May. [18]
• When administrators, bureaucrats and stewards make a user a member of a user group they can now set an expiry date. A user group is for example "administrators" or "bots". This means that they can give someone user rights for a limited time. This is similar to how blocks and page protections can be limited in time. Special:UserRights will have new options for this. You can read more about user groups. [19]

Problems

• Since the data centre test last week the content translation tool has been disabled. This is because of a database problem. It will be back as soon as the problem has been solved. [20]

Changes this week

• The GuidedTour extension will be enabled on all wikis. This is a tool to explain to new users how to edit. [21]
• Wiktionary will handle interlanguage links in a new way. The Cognate extension will automatically link pages with the same title between Wiktionaries. For this to work all old interlanguage links have to be removed. You can read more about this. [22]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 April. It will be on all wikis from 27 April (calendar).

Meetings

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Tech News: 2017-18

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 content translation tool works again. It was turned off because of a database problem. [23]
• Scripts using very old deprecated wikibits functions show errors. These functions have not worked since 2013. You should fix or disable broken scripts. You can see examples of how to upgrade scripts. This is the same thing as Tech News wrote about in issue 2017/16. You need to add mw.loader.using( 'mediawiki.util' ) block for your scripts also, or add mediawiki.util dependency in gadget ResourceLoader section in MediaWiki:Gadgets-definition. [24][25]

Problems

• Because of a data centre test you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for 20 to 30 minutes on 3 May. This will start at 14:00 (UTC). You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. You can read more about this.

Changes this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week. This is because of the data centre test.

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 2 May at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• All Wikimedia wikis will have cookie blocks from May 8. This is an extension to the autoblock system so when a user is blocked, the next time they visit the wiki a cookie will be set. This means that even if the user switches accounts and to a new IP address the cookie will block them again. [26]
• The Publish changes, Show preview and Show changes buttons will look slightly different. This is to fit with the OOUI look. Users can test scripts, gadgets and so on to see if they work with the new interface by adding &ooui=1 to the URL. [27]

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19:50, 1 May 2017 (UTC)

Technical support scam article

Hi DMacks, I don't know why you removed my edit here - I added something important that wasn't covered in the article, but should've been. Please have a look at the source, my addition is demonstrated there. — Preceding unsigned comment added by MrDennis (talk • contribs) 13:52, 7 May 2017 (UTC)

The idea that SEO can elevate bad sites, either malware, ad sites, or all sorts of incorrect information, is already well-covered. I don't see what is substantially new or deserving of additional prominence, and I don't see a high-quality well-known reference site to support it (WP:RS and WP:UNDUE guidelines). I do see a new editor who seems to be fond of adding refs to the same site on many pages (refspam is a serious problem on Wikipedia). DMacks (talk) 14:23, 7 May 2017 (UTC)

The unique aspect of black-hat SEO combined with the fake tech support issue is something that search engines still didn't find a way to tackle properly. This is an industry that makes millions every month from unsuspecting users, and the idea of a reverse phone number search hasn't crossed anyone's mind yet. Looking over official sites, nobody mentions the SEO aspect, as though the ban on fake tech support ads by Google & Bing solved the problem. But it hasn't! The article demonstrates the research which was made and an issue that continues to plague search results and users.

The other edits I made that reference our site are also highly relevant and while I see your point about "a new editor who seems to be fond of adding refs to the same site on many pages", I'd like to point out that the specific pages I add are not only beneficial and highly relevant, but also unique, without a better substitute from a more authoritative site. (see this tool for example, which was also removed from the antivirus comparison page) — Preceding unsigned comment added by MrDennis (talk • contribs) 14:44, 7 May 2017 (UTC)

"without a better substitute from a more authoritative site." is one of the problems. If this were a major or notable situation, it would be covered by them. Especially someone like google getting tricked by a scam involving masquerading as google? Compare to the recent gmail phishing, which was widely covered. I suspect wikipedia just isn't ready to jump into the realm of cutting-edge information, instead taking a more conservative approach to reporting. DMacks (talk) 13:00, 8 May 2017 (UTC)

I appreciate your taking the time to discuss this, and if you think that the black-hat SEO networks are an insignificant issue, I can't convince you otherwise. However, if you truly believe that the importance of a research is determined solely by the popularity or fame of the researcher, I beg to differ. I guess we'll have to agree to disagree on this.

Do you mind if I raise the issue of the other submission which was removed? The tool that provides an aggregation of lab tests is a perfect resource for comparing antivirus test scores because (1) it combines scores from multiple AMTSO certified labs, (2) it allows users to view tests over time instead of a single test (the labs don't have such an option), and (3) each original test is accessible from the data points on the graph. All the data is based in fact and no other tool does that. — Preceding unsigned comment added by MrDennis (talk • contribs) 14:06, 8 May 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-19

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

• Some users have a problem with the watchlist. Some changes in categories make the watchlist a blank page. The developers are working on this. Until this is fixed you can try some things that have helped other editors if you have this problem. You can turn on Hide categorization of pages in your watchlist preferences. You can turn off Expand watchlist to show all changes, not just the most recent in your watchlist preferences. You can remove problematic categories from Special:EditWatchlist/raw. [28]
• There was a problem with the visual editor for several days. You could not save edits that triggered a CAPTCHA. This would for example be when a new user added external links in references. This was fixed on 2 May. [29]

Changes this week

• When you edit you can switch between the visual editor and the wikitext editor. This works if the wiki you edit has the visual editor. The menu will now say Visual editing and Source editing instead of Switch to visual editing and Switch to code editing. This is because it was confusing when the menu said you could switch to the editor you were already using. [30]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 May. It will be on all wikis from 11 May (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 9 May at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• You will be able to get a notification when a page you created is connected to a Wikidata item. This will come to Wikivoyage on 9 May. If there are no problems it will come to most Wikipedias on 30 May. It will come to other projects and English, French and German Wikipedia later in the summer. It will be opt-in for existing users and opt-out for new users. [31][32]
• Markup that looks like code for language variants might need to be fixed. If -{ is used in transclusions or web addresses it has to be escaped appropriately. You can use -<nowiki/>{ for transclusions and %2D{ in web addresses. A transclusion could for example be when you use -{ in a template: {{1x| sad :-{ face }}. This is because of some code fixes to the preprocessor and affects all wikis. [33][34]

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02:25, 9 May 2017 (UTC)

Unblock request on hold

There is an unblock request at User talk:1.136.96.43, in connection with a year-long range block that you placed on the range 1.136.96.0/24 in September 2016 for block evasion. I am much inclined to unblock, but I am consulting you, in case you know of relevant facts that I can't see. Looking at your editing history around the time when you placed the block I see no edits that appear to be related to the block, and which might throw light on the reason for the block, nor is it obvious from the IP editing what block was being evaded, which makes it difficult for me to fully assess the situation. However, the following are my observations based on what I can see.

There have been 1493 edits from 241 IP addresses in the range. Looking at the editing history, I see a wide range of different edits, with no obvious connections to one another, so that there is no reason at all to suppose that all, or even a large minority, of the edits are from one person. That being so, I see no reason at all to suppose that the editor who is requesting the unblock is the one who caused you to block the range. Indeed, in view of the evidence that many editors have used the range, I find it difficult to see how a long-term block on the whole range could have seemed justified in the first place. Also, any disruptive editing from the range which took place back in September was certainly not so extensive that unblocking now would pose a major risk. The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 11:42, 11 May 2017 (UTC)

I'm guessing this was Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Dylan Florida/Archive? I can see some of the previous range blocks were triggered by him and he uses Telstra. The history here in early 2016/2015 shows previous uses of this range. Not clear what triggered the most recent range block. Kuru (talk) 14:45, 11 May 2017 (UTC)

Yup, Dylan Florida as usual. DMacks (talk) 17:57, 11 May 2017 (UTC)

@JamesBWatson:, see also User talk:1.136.96.88, where you and I have already discussed this same rangeblock and another admin declined the unblock. DMacks (talk) 18:00, 11 May 2017 (UTC)

Here is the block log for the /24 range. In my opinion, it is not unreasonable to keep a /24 blocked for as much as a year if we have evidence that the problem is likely to continue. Since the block is anon-only we are just forcing the user to create an account, if they need to work from this range. EdJohnston (talk) 18:17, 11 May 2017 (UTC)

@EdJohnston and Kuru: & of course DMacks. Thanks for the clarifications. This is a good example of why it is virtually always best to check with the blocking administrator "in case you know of relevant facts that I can't see", because that is exactly what turns out to be the case. (And I didn't remember my own raising of a similar question for the same range block in September last year.) This is one of the rare occasions when I think that the considerable collateral damage caused by such a long-term block on a range with many editors is probably the lesser evil. I shall decline the unblock request. The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 20:13, 11 May 2017 (UTC)

@JamesBWatson: And thanks for asking! I certainly didn't mean my comment to be snide in any way, though I can now see it being read that way, but merely to keep discussions linked and available due to the...nature of the subject. DMacks (talk) 20:47, 11 May 2017 (UTC)

27.252.121.212

27.252.121.212 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) Quite opinionated. wp:KDL irrelevant, wp:disambiguation irrelevant... Cheers Jim1138 (talk) 09:01, 13 May 2017 (UTC)

And disruptive. If I weren't involved prior to seeing how widespread the pattern was, I would have blocked him myself ASAP. DMacks (talk) 20:59, 13 May 2017 (UTC)

Hagiographies

Any suggestions on what to do when I run across a hagiography such as Bernard Cheong? Other than fix it myself? Need a template:hagiography cleanup tag? Thanks Jim1138 (talk) 09:27, 13 May 2017 (UTC)

Request for undeletion the article Koushani Mukherjee

I am requesting you for undeletion the article Koushani Mukherjee. She is a bengali film actress who already made her debut in four films. I want to provide reliable sources on the article.

Tushar Singha (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 04:30, 14 May 2017 (UTC)

Because this was deleted as a result of a discussed consensus (Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Koushani Mukherjee), I cannot undelete it unilaterally. You were advised at WP:Deletion review who to contact instead, because I am not "the administrator who closed the discussion". DMacks (talk) 04:38, 14 May 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-20

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

• You can now use ISBNs to automatically generate citations in the visual editor. This works on wikis that have enabled Citoid. [35]
• The Two Column Edit Conflict View is available as a beta feature on all wikis. It is a new interface for the edit conflict resolution page. [36]

Problems

• The mediawiki.util library does not load automatically any more. Your Special:MyPage/common.js may use it. If you have technical problems that started a couple of weeks ago you can try adding mw.loader.using( 'mediawiki.util' ).done(function(){ as the first line in the file and }); as a last one. Tech News wrote about this in the 2017/18 issue. [37]

Changes this week

• The RevisionSlider extension will be a default feature on all wikis. RevisionSlider is an easier way to move between changes in the page history. It has been a default feature on German, Arabic and Hebrew Wikipedia and a beta feature on all wikis. You will be able to turn it off in your preferences. [38]
• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Future changes

• Administrators will soon be able to search through deleted pages. [39][40]
• Markup that looks like code for language variants might need to be fixed. Tech News wrote about this last week. If -{ is used in transclusions or web addresses it has to be escaped appropriately. You can use -<nowiki/>{ for transclusions and %2D{ in web addresses. This is because of some code fixes to the preprocessor and affects all wikis. You can now see the full list of wikis with this problem and help fix them to avoid that things break later this month. You might find false positives. You can read more about what to fix. [41][42]

Older unreported changes

• Your Meta user page is shown on all wikis where you don't have a local user page. You can now add the magic word __NOGLOBAL__ to your Meta user page to stop this. [43][44]

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21:48, 15 May 2017 (UTC)

Boner

You did not have to protect Boner, as I had quit editing the page after this revision by Bkonrad (talk · contribs).
―PapíDimmi (talk | contribs) 17:54, 16 May 2017 (UTC)

Your edits at: Historically black colleges and universities

DMacks,

You appear to be determined to pursue a pissing match, both grammatically and procedurally, on Historically black colleges and universities. Why? Not only are you edit-warring - and as an admin, you know better - but you're also treacherously close to 3RR. Just because you simply can't acknowledge that a dictionary disquisition is superior to the opinion of a Writer's Digest blogger/editor? Additionally, you entirely misstated procedure - and as an admin you should also know that too - in telling me that I "need consensus" because of BRD. That reveals a lack of fundamental understanding about what BRD actually entails. Please review it, as it clearly says in the very first sentence that BRD "is an optional method of reaching consensus." So, contrary to your claim, invoking BRD doesn't require that I "need" anything. But I do need editors/admins to follow the rules like the rest of us and not issue overbearing - and ill-informed - pronouncements in a transparent attempt to stifle or intimidate legitimate editorial disagreement.

But if this grammatical question really is so important to you - and not just a thinly veiled effort, per WP:WINNING; then you're certainly free to WP:RFC the matter. Or take it to any number of other dispute resolution processes available to you. Finally, I could revert your last 2 edits without reaching the 3RR threshold. But that would be inappropriate and only serve to escalate this nonsense. At least one of us should be the grownup. So instead, it would be more appropriate, especially given your position of trust here, if you self-reverted and then utilized the tools for DR at your disposal. Then, at least, others could review this and objectively determine that both editors actually acted like adults. X4n6 (talk) 20:51, 17 May 2017 (UTC)

Perhaps you'd like to seek a WP:3O, or ask at some WP:MOS talkpage? I cited WP:BRD as a normal behavioral standard for dispute resolution because you clearly don't have consensus (yet), and consensus is an official policy. You're trying to make a change, it's disputed, and so far the best I see you say is that your wording is "not worse" (allowed but not more correct, even according to your own cited ref), which is not the same as "better" (fixing an actual mistake, for example). If it's not actually an improvement, you're just getting into a personal-preference match with the original author and a time-sink that does not benefit readers or editors. I also noted that even your second edit seemed even further flawed by punctuation, a change of meaning that I strongly dispute even if I overlook alternately allowed wordings. Your right that being WP:POINTy would not serve use well. DMacks (talk) 21:01, 18 May 2017 (UTC)

I presume you're familiar with WP:BOOMERANG? Although any reference to your own culpability was notably absent. No acknowledgment of your edit-warring. But your view that BRD is a "normal behavioral standard" entirely misses the point. BRD is merely an: "an optional method" for reaching consensus. More critically, while you noted that I don't have consensus, per WP:EDITCONSENSUS, neither do you. I also question how thoughtful your objections have been, especially since both edits I made were reliably sourced here and here; and your only real objection was that neither was the original text. Actually, my amended edit was supported by a definitive source - Merriam Webster - and ironically, your own source. But, curiously, you still objected. Meaning that what you called "flawed by punctuation" was grammatically correct by all the sources presented. Re-read them. I had already expressed concern that your only interest was WINNING. But then you proved it. However, you are correct: we both have options. X4n6 (talk) 09:01, 20 May 2017 (UTC)08:41, 20 May 2017 (UTC)

wack-a-mole

Latest User:Salvidrim!/Macy VG IP vandal sock [45] Meters (talk) 22:00, 19 May 2017 (UTC)

Whacked, thanks. DMacks (talk) 21:06, 21 May 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-21

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Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 May. It will be on all wikis from 25 May (calendar).
• There will be a <div> tag around HTML from the MediaWiki wikitext parser. Gadgets with code that does not follow recommendations could have problems with this. You can report new problems you think are related to this. [46]

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22:06, 22 May 2017 (UTC)

Thiomersal

Hi DMacks, You took out my edit in March on Thiomersal saying you can't find anywhere on the quoted CDC page that the multi-dose Fluvirin vial contains 25 micrograms of Thiomersal... Just go on that CDC page again please (I put the citation back in the article), press ctrl-F / CMD-F (search text in browser), write "Fluvirin" (without quotation marks obviously...), press enter and read the figure next to multi-dose Fluvirin (the lower one out of the 2 Fluvirin vaccines). If you have a hard time interpreting the table, please research the topic a bit more before you delete or ask a pharmacist, physician or someone at the CDC. Thx! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Abalazs (talk • contribs) 20:35, 23 May 2017 (UTC) (sorry for my tone, didn't mean to be condescending, just was surprised by your statement that you "didn't find anywhere on the cited page evidence for the edited info"...)

It's actually not there as I view it. I did exactly that search, and "fluvirin" is not present on the page. But then I looked at https://www.cdc.gov/flu/pdf/protect/vaccine/rr6505-table-1.pdf that is linked as Table 1, and on there it does appear. Maybe your browser actually embeds that PDF in the main page. Interesting. Thanks for prompting me to look more closely! No worries about the tone. Given how you see it, it's no wonder my edit seemed so bizarre. DMacks (talk) 04:26, 24 May 2017 (UTC)

Deleted Yet again.

I am an internationally recognized visual artist and designer. In the course of my career I have exhibited with other artists of note and have been very influential in the art world, having appeared in various publications of note.

However over the past few years. No matter how many times someone puts a wiki article up on me, it gets deleted. I have begun to feel that there is some sort of racist act taking place. The few black American artists that appear on Wikipedia are far and in between.. Yet to have the article removed over and over again with little to no reason. Other than a vague statement suggesting that I am not worth any notability is hurtful and a blatant slap in my face. The Jalal Pleasant article wasn't live even long enough for new additional verifiable edits/links could be added before it was deleted by you. This in my opinion is unfair. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 73.104.49.120 (talk) 21:22, 24 May 2017 (UTC)

The most recent attempt at the Jalal Pleasant article sat for half a day with no "claim of notability". That means it's exactly within the realm of WP:CSD#A7, a reason that is clearly visible at User talk:Nieuwutrechter (the editor account who created it). The subject might be suitable for an article (assuming it meets standards such as WP:ARTIST for example). But the article at the time was not, and there was no evidence it was actively being edited: I can see the timestamps of the deleted edits, and there were many hours between last edit and my tagging it for deletion, and then several more hours with still no edits before the actual deletion happened. The previous attempt had sat for a whole week after tagging and with no further edits to attempt to address the problem or dispute that there was a problem. There is surely real bias on WP, and editors and article subjects might perceive additional bias that does not exist, but the policies and guidelines for wikipedia articles are quite neutral: the article must make claims of notability and there must be reliable independent sources to support it.

Maybe it would be better for you to collect your sources first, then write a non-live "draft" article and get some independent opinion on its suitability, without the time crunch of having to be written in a viable form for the live page right away? See Wikipedia:Your first article for more info. DMacks (talk) 04:39, 26 May 2017 (UTC)

Few days unplugged

Just a semi-annual forcing myself to be mostly-unplugged/light-lurk-mode for a few days, not a fancy "vacation" in real life. DMacks (talk) 05:26, 26 May 2017 (UTC)

Okay, that was nice. DMacks (talk) 02:35, 1 June 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-22

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Problems

• Last week’s MediaWiki version was rolled back from some wikis because of a problem. This means planned changes did not happen. [47]

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 30 May at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• You will be able to control who can notify you on the Wikimedia wikis. You will have a user blacklist. When you add a user to the blacklist you will not get a notification when they mention you. You can test this on Beta Wikipedia. You can read more and give feedback on Meta. [48]

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12:18, 30 May 2017 (UTC)

Aminophenol

Thanks for fixing that bit of mess. I didn't want to start an edit war. I actually had already fixed the link which incorrectly went to a glorified disambiguation page, so the entire reason for that addition no longer exists.JSR (talk) 16:03, 1 June 2017 (UTC)

Halogen oxides and acids

[49] This article currently says that I
₂O
₅ is the most stable oxide of iodine. It is also the most stable halogen oxide, as it and I
₄O
₉ are the only halogen oxides with negative heats of formation, and I
₄O
₉ will decompose to I
₂O
₅. Oxides such as ClO
₂, OF
₂, and Cl
₂O
₇ are relatively stable, but can still exothermically decompose to X
₂ and O
₂. What is the best way to incorporate this into the article?

On a similar note, the article Iodic acid states that "it is one of the most stable oxo-acids of the halogens in its pure state". It would seem that it and HIO
₄ are the most stable, as all the other halogen oxoacids state that they are in some way unstable:
Hypofluorous acid: "HOF is explosive at room temperature"
Hypochlorous acid: "HClO cannot be isolated from these solutions"
Hypobromous acid: "Hypobromous acid is a very weak and unstable acid"
Hypoiodous acid: "It rapidly decomposes by disproportionation"
Chlorous acid: "The pure substance is unstable"
Bromous acid: "It is an unstable compound"
Iodous acid: "Its salts are named iodites; these are exceedingly unstable"
Chloric acid: "Chloric acid is thermodynamically unstable with respect to disproportionation"
Bromic acid: "It only exists in aqueous solution"
Iodic acid: "it is one of the most stable oxo-acids of the halogens in its pure state"
Perchloric acid: "Anhydrous perchloric acid is an unstable oily liquid at room temperature"
Perbromic acid: "Perbromic acid is unstable"
Periodic acid: Appears to be stable
What is the best way to use this inormation to make HIO
₃ and/or HIO
₄ the most stable halogen oxoacids?
RedPanda25 17:55, 1 June 2017 (UTC)

2604:6000:e589:a200::/64

Thanks for your rangeblock earlier on that IP user. It gave admins time to protect List of Bear in the Big Blue House episodes with PC. However, before Lectonar protected the page, an IPv4 made the exact same edit two IPv6's now affected by your rangeblock (who were clearly the same person) made earlier today. The edit was made after your rangeblock, so I believe this is a clear case of block evasion. The IPv4 is 97.33.65.184. — Gestrid (talk) 21:51, 1 June 2017 (UTC)

On a related note, after seeing the IPv4's other edit, which was to Bear in the Big Blue House (along with one other IPv4), I believe this may be related to Wikipedia:Long-term abuse/Muppets LTA. You can correct me if I'm wrong on this. — Gestrid (talk) 21:56, 1 June 2017 (UTC)

That's not one of the sock-drawers I follow regularly (or at least recognize by name). But there are a few with similar patterns that I just block on sight without caring too much which specific master it might be. DMacks (talk) 14:50, 3 June 2017 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:Cleanup image accessibility

Template:Cleanup image accessibility has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Jc86035 (talk) Use {{re|Jc86035}}
to reply to me 07:11, 3 June 2017 (UTC)

Weather Channel

DMacks, why do you keep inexplicably deleting the edits to the Weather Channel page? Do you watch the Weather Channel? Do you know who their on-air meteorologists are? Kelly Cass has been there for 18 years and is the co-host of AMHQ. She is on weekends and many weekdays as well, hosting their flagship program AMHQ. Where do you get off repeatedly deleting her entry? She has been there longer than any of the other people on that list except for Paul Goodloe, who has been there for 18.5 years. You can check the Weather Channel's social media for AMHQ such as their twitter feed and Kelly is all over it. You can check her Social Media, www.facebook.com/twckellycass - her social media has blue check marks denoting that she is certified by Facebook and Twitter. If you have an explanation for your repeated incorrect deletions, please email me at keybeeny@hotmail.com and I will be happy to provide even more evidence that her entry belongs on that page, and I added Alexandra Wilson's as well. If you want to make yourself useful you can de-ambiguate Alexandra Wilson and give her an entry of her own since there seem to be many other people by that name. Keybeeny (talk) 22:17, 4 June 2017 (UTC)

I don't know or care anything about this subject. Nobody (me included) disagrees that she exists and is a presenter there. But per widely agreed wikipedia guideline, there was no evidence that she met the definition of "notable" (see WP:BIO guidelines)--it is quite clearly defined, and is possibly not what you think from standard dictionary definitions or your personal opinions. Therefore it is not acceptable to list in a section specifically for "notable" people (see WP:NLIST/WP:NOTDIR guidelines). DMacks (talk) 01:44, 5 June 2017 (UTC)

Also, your continued edit warring to insert it is a forbidden behavior here on wikipedia regardless of the truthfulness or acceptability of the edit. Please see also WP:COI, which sometimes makes it difficult for editors to handle themselves impartially here. DMacks (talk) 01:50, 5 June 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-23

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

• You can see new files on Special:NewFiles. You can now pick which dates you want to see files from. [50]
• When you read Wikipedia on a mobile device the first paragraph now comes before the infobox. [51]
• You can now remove navigation elements from your results when you search. This could for example be part of an infobox that is only there to help you find the previous or next article. [52]
• New users on Wikivoyages and Wikipedias (except French, English and German) now get a notification when a page they created is connected to Wikidata. Other wikis will get it 13 June. [53]

Problems

• The MediaWiki version from two weeks ago was rolled back. It was fixed late last week. Changes that were planned to go out last week did not happen. [54]

Changes this week

• Wikimedia wikis can show fewer links to articles in other languages. This is to make it easier to find the languages likely to be useful to the reader or editor. Everyone can still click to see the full list. Logged-in users who use the compact language links will see languages they have in their Babel box on their user page in the first, shorter list. You can turn the compact language list off or on in your preferences. [55]
• You can choose what dates to look at when you look at a user's contributions. [56]
• When you click on your watchlist in the mobile view you get a list of all pages in the watchlist instead of the latest changes to them. Logged-in users with at least ten edits will now get the latest changes instead. [57]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 June. It will be on all wikis from 8 June (calendar).
• String comparisons in Scribunto modules are now always done case-insensitively by byte order. Before they were sometimes in a case-sensitive US-English collation order. This could break some modules. [58]

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 6 June at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The 2006 wikitext editor will be removed the week of 27 June. This is the old toolbar with small square blue buttons. You can see a picture of it. 0.03% of active Wikimedia editors use this old tool. They will not see a toolbar at all. [59][60]
• Wikimedia wikis use OCG to create PDFs. The OCG code has a lot of problems and will stop working. It has to be replaced. An alternative is Electron. You can tell the developers what you need the PDF service to be able to do. Electron already works on German Wikipedia. It will be on English Wikipedia later this week so you can test it there too. [61]
• The Architecture Committee will change and get a new name. You can read and comment on the draft that describes the new committee.

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19:04, 5 June 2017 (UTC)

Daveed Diggs edit in Brown University article

Daveed Diggs is a Brown University class of 2004 alum and also received an honorary degree last month. source. - Kzirkel (talk) 12:44, 9 June 2017 (UTC)

Ah yes, my mistake. I only remembered seeing the press releases about the honorary one. Thanks for the cite to support it. DMacks (talk) 13:23, 9 June 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-24

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Recent changes

• Some wikis have the larger and brighter OOjs UI edit page buttons. When you write an edit summary there you can now see how many bytes you have left before the summary is too long. [62]
• When you search on Wikipedia you can now find pages on other Wikimedia projects that could be relevant. You see them next to the search results. [63]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 June. It will be on all wikis from 15 June (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 13 June at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• You will soon be able to get a notification when someone tries to log in to your account. You can test this on the test wiki. This will only work if they fail to log in to your account. [64]
• Wikimedia wikis use OCG to create PDFs. The OCG code has a lot of problems and will stop working. It has to be replaced. An alternative is Electron. You can tell the developers what you need the PDF service to be able to do. Electron now works on all Wikimedia projects. [65]
• Administrators can soon search for deleted page titles and find results that are similar to what they searched for. Today the search only finds pages that are exactly the same as what you search for. This is to make it easier to find pages when you don't know the exact title. Administrators on Arabic, Catalan, English, Persian, German, Italian, Polish, and Russian Wikipedia and on mediawiki.org can test this by adding &fuzzy=1 to the end of the web address when looking at Special:Undelete. [66][67]

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15:29, 12 June 2017 (UTC)

people complaining

We have people complaining this: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pleuromutilin&type=revision&diff=783728682&oldid=783489645 and people complaining that: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cavicularin&curid=2026951&diff=785132332&oldid=785131705. So eventually all articles degrade to zero content? V8rik (talk) 16:48, 12 June 2017 (UTC)

Benzene vs phenyl

Thanks and no problems. Nice to know that we can check on each other. I was kind of expecting someone to pull me back.

My logic was that benzene ring is C6H6, end, period, say no more. It is not any derivative of benzene. Following that line of thought, one can attach things to C6H6, I guess, but the products would be complicated: thing-C6H6 with various charges.

Oh, on a less mischievous theme, I was going to assume that consensus was achieved on the tobacco components and revert most of those entries from User:Bosley John Bosley. --Smokefoot (talk) 17:47, 12 June 2017 (UTC)

File:Meldrum-pyrolysis-nucleophile.png

Hi DMacks, I think you are the uploader of File:Meldrum-pyrolysis-nucleophile.png. There appears to be an error in the reagent converting the ketene to an amide, where R'₂N appears... I think should be R'₂NH. Would you be able to upload a corrected version? Thanks, EdChem (talk) 14:23, 17 June 2017 (UTC)

Fixed. Thanks for the proofreading! DMacks (talk) 13:44, 19 June 2017 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Purge

"to keep web spiders from accidentally purging pages when following links." - Purge at MediaWiki 83.31.80.210 (talk) 13:27, 19 June 2017 (UTC)

One could argue that a spider should purge first so that it does not follow links from an outdated cached copy of the page. As a disputed edit to a widely followed process, take it to talkpage and get consensus first. DMacks (talk) 13:29, 19 June 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-25

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Problems

• ORES had some problems on 13 June between 16:00 and 19:40 UTC. It has now been fixed. [68]

Changes this week

• irc.wikimedia.org has to be rebooted. This will probably happen on 21 June. It may be postponed. Some tools use this to get the recent changes feed. They will not work when it is down. [69]
• Special:PageData will be an entry point for machine-readable page data. [70]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 20 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 June. It will be on all wikis from 22 June (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 20 June at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• CSS in templates will be stored in a separate page in the future. You can now see how the TemplateStyles extension works on Beta Labs.

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15:44, 19 June 2017 (UTC)

Wanted to let you know that I'd retired

Thank you for earlier affirming interactions. See User:Leprof_7272 page for details if interested. Bonne chance. Le Prof 73.210.155.96 (talk) 16:09, 24 June 2017 (UTC)