User talk:Bri

Home Barnstars, Badges, & User Boxes Talk to me Creations Attempted account compromise The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion. This is for my talkpage watchers. Heads-up to heed Wikipedia:User account security. I've recently received multiple notifications of attempts to reset my password as well as failed logins from unknown devices. Just notifying the community in case there's a more widespread issue I'm not aware of. Strong passwords and other measures should prevent compromise of this account. However, if strange stuff comes from this account or my alternate, bri.public, please don't hesitate to request that an administrator block until it gets sorted out. ☆ Bri (talk) 16:26, 18 October 2017 (UTC) The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion. Thank you ...for finding the link to Greg Williams. For some reason that I don't remember I had problems with the link. I had his name in the byline but that and a link to his userpage is even better. Best Regards, Barbara ✐  ✉ 04:58, 13 March 2018 (UTC) Nomination of Petro gold for deletion A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Petro gold is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted. The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Petro gold until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines. Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Prince of Thieves (talk) 13:05, 15 March 2018 (UTC) Query Hi Bri, I saw you working on Signpost. Are you the right person to approach about an op-ed idea? --K.e.coffman (talk) 00:21, 16 March 2018 (UTC) Absolutely, or the Signpost story-idea submissions page; you can also email me if you'd prefer. ☆ Bri (talk) 01:01, 16 March 2018 (UTC) A barnstar for you! The Copyeditor's Barnstar Thanks for those so called "minor" but very IMPORTANT edits on the article Energica Ego. You have just improved that article to at least one standard higher! Navinsingh133 (talk) 19:57, 16 March 2018 (UTC) Thanks! ☆ Bri (talk) 20:35, 16 March 2018 (UTC) Signpost I have submitted an article for Signpost's next issue. I don't really know who is responsible for Signpost these days, but I thought you'd like to know and might like to copy edit it. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 06:16, 25 March 2018 (UTC) (bump) has Signpost actually given it's last croak? Will it ever be published again? What do you think are the reasons for so little interest in maintaining it these days? Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 01:11, 27 March 2018 (UTC) I saw a comment on the publisher's talkpage that he might be ill. I hope not, but it's unusual not to hear from another editor for over a month. I feel like I kind of helped kick-start it last June (IIRC) but can't keep pushing on a rope. ☆ Bri (talk) 01:14, 27 March 2018 (UTC) I actually replied to you in more detail on user talk:Montanabw before I saw your reply here. I think there's now enough content to get the next issue out but who has the tools (and knowledge) to do this? There must be prior Signpost editors who can come in and lend a hand or at least tell us how to do it - or have we been puting all our eggs in one basket? I've emailed the current publisher. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 04:59, 27 March 2018 (UTC) Then we have both emailed him. I also contacted the prior E in C. Maybe Pine has a suggestion? ☆ Bri (talk) 05:19, 27 March 2018 (UTC) Thanks for thinking of me. Much time has passed since I was deeply involved with the Signpost and I have likely forgotten some of the steps for publishing it correctly. I still have the password for the publication tool from my Signpost days although the password may have been changed after I discontinued my regular involvement. I have plenty of unpaid responsibilities at the moment and I am avoiding taking on more big or regular projects unless they are paid. If a community consensus emerges that the current Editor-in- Chief is no longer doing the job and someone else should take over then I would be willing to disclose the password that I have for the publication tool to the new designated person or people. I would like the Signpost to continue. --Pine✉ 04:38, 29 March 2018 (UTC) Thanks for chiming in, Pine. I'm not sure, but I seem to remember reading somewhere in the labarynthine Signpost project that the current E-in-C created a new publishing tool. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 05:06, 29 March 2018 (UTC) Evad37 has not edited since 28 February. I do hope everything is well with him, but we need to find a solution. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 05:20, 29 March 2018 (UTC) No replies to my email pings either. ☆ Bri (talk) 05:21, 29 March 2018 (UTC) Nor to mine. The publishing script is here. The manual process is described here but it looks extremely complicated. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 16:52, 29 March 2018 (UTC) I'm going to take it on. Shifting to Signpost newsroom. ☆ Bri (talk) 17:16, 29 March 2018 (UTC) I think you will need to get the MassMessage sender rights globally too - you can ask at m:RFH. --Rschen7754 18:48, 29 March 2018 (UTC) Thanks 7754, another admin helped (see below). If we don't get a publication manager by ~4 weeks from now I'll ask for it to be made perm. ☆ Bri (talk) 20:43, 29 March 2018 (UTC) @Pine: I think I did everything possible, incuding receiving mass-message rights to send notices on enwp! We haven't sent a tweet, Facebook update, or Wikimedia-L notices yet, could you? ☆ Bri (talk) 18:49, 29 March 2018 (UTC) Thank you so much, Bri. Someone called me (not realising it was middle of the night here) to tell me it was published . Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 19:11, 29 March 2018 (UTC) Thanks for getting this published. However, I am not going to add Signpost work to my responsibilities. If I am going to be effective on my existing priorities and not get burnt out then I cannot accept the vast majority of requests that I get. Thanks again for getting the publication done. --Pine✉ 03:10, 30 March 2018 (UTC) Thanks agian Bri. I never intended to get involved in Signpost but I will attempt to boost the content of future issues with an op-ed on some topic or another, and do some proof reading. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 04:44, 30 March 2018 (UTC) Grant proposal I wrote a draft grant to WMF to fund me to continue as Publication Manager for three months on a trial basis. This was done without any consultation so it might be dumb. But it might not. Comments can be made at the link provided. ☆ Bri (talk) 23:02, 29 March 2018 (UTC) COI case Dear Bri, I was cleaning up one Forex broker company article and noticed that another broker company article TeleTrade Group has been heavily edited by a connected contributor. I suggest you to follow up with this. I am not sure I can do it the right way. -- Bbarmadillo (talk) 17:09, 26 March 2018 (UTC) I've done some. Missing this though. SmartSE (talk) 20:21, 26 March 2018 (UTC) Smartse OK, I will check. I am not sure that is was shut down completely, probably just a small DDOS attack. -- Bbarmadillo (talk) 20:43, 26 March 2018 (UTC) Thanks for bringing it up. Looks like it's been well taken care of ☆ Bri (talk) 01:07, 27 March 2018 (UTC) When was born Jill Filipovic? Tell me, please, where has been a problem? Was she born as the article states, or the date and month are unknown, as in info box? It seems (at least: to me) as an incogruence, if not a contradiction. Please, explain me the logic to know it for future. Thanks. --Inoslav Bešker (talk) 06:17, 28 March 2018 (UTC) Pkease review Jill Filipovic again. There is no disagreement between the article body and the infobox. ☆ Bri (talk) 06:20, 28 March 2018 (UTC) Corrections Needed: Fourth and Madison Building page Hi Bri, I'm trying to speak with someone about corrections to this page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_and_Madison_Building Chiefly, the ownership is listed incorrectly (TIAA-CREF is now just TIAA), and the building is named inaccurately (e.g. it's just called 'Fourth & Madison' and it is stylized with the ampersand officially). I tried to make these edits myself, but they were changed. Can you assist? Thanks so much! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Robynhorn (talk • contribs) 23:34, 28 March 2018 (UTC) I'm the person who changed it so you're probably not at the right place. Rationale can be viewed here and here. ☆ Bri (talk) 23:38, 28 March 2018 (UTC) Great Western Iron and Steel Company/Workpage Would you mind doing something with Great Western Iron and Steel Company/Workpage? It's currently in the Article namespace, and is in Category:Misplaced workpages. Ideally, it would be incorporated into the article, but otherwise it could be moved to the Draft namespace (where it will probably get deleted if it sits too long) or to Talk:Great Western Iron and Steel Company/Workpage. I'm no expert on policy. Daask (talk) 05:49, 29 March 2018 (UTC) Done → Talk:Great Western Iron and Steel Company/Workpage. MassMessage Sender rights I've given you the ability to send mass messages. This should solve the Signpost problem? If you need help on Meta, I can do things over there as necessary. Courcelles (talk) 18:50, 29 March 2018 (UTC) Thanks; meta can wait a moment, I'm a little spooked right now honestly. Never mass messaged before. ☆ Bri (talk) 18:51, 29 March 2018 (UTC) @Courcelles: I think I'm ready to do the meta mass message if you can set the permission bit ☆ Bri (talk) 19:15, 29 March 2018 (UTC) Set for a day on Meta. (I've never given it out over there, and you're less active there.) Courcelles (talk) 19:19, 29 March 2018 (UTC) Charley the Tuna and the Washington Post Moved to Talk:Leo Burnett Worldwide New Page Review Newsletter No.10 Hello Bri, thank you for your work reviewing New Pages! ACTRIAL: ACTRIAL's six month experiment restricting new page creation to (auto)confirmed users ended on 14 March. As expected, a greatly increased number of unsuitable articles and candidates for deletion are showing up in the feed again, and the backlog has since increased already by ~30%. Please consider reviewing a few extra articles each day. Paid editing Now that ACTRIAL is inoperative pending discussion, please be sure to look for tell-tale signs of undisclosed paid editing. Contact the creator if appropriate, and submit the issue to WP:COIN if necessary. Subject-specific notability guidelines The box at the right contains each of the subject-specific notability guidelines, please review any that are relevant BEFORE nominating an article for deletion. Reviewers are requested to familiarise themselves with the new version of the notability guidelines for organisations and companies. A further discussion is currently taking place at: Can a subject specific guideline invalidate the General Notability Guideline? Nominate competent users for Autopatrolled While patrolling articles, if you find an editor that is particularly competent at creating quality new articles, and that user has created more than 25 articles (rather than stubs), consider nominating them for the 'Autopatrolled' user right HERE. News The next issue Wikipedia's newspaper The Signpost has now been published after a long delay. There are some articles in it, including ACTRIAL wrap-up that will be of special interest to New Page Reviewers. Don't hesitate to contribute to the comments sections. The Signpost is one of the best ways to stay up date with news and new developments - please consider subscribing to it. All editors of Wikipedia and associated projects are welcome to submit articles on any topic for consideration by the The Signpost's editorial team for the next issue. To opt-out of future mailings, go here. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 08:06, 30 March 2018 (UTC) AfC notification: User:Bri/List of 100 best SF novels has a new comment I've left a comment on your Articles for Creation submission, which can be viewed at User:Bri/List of 100 best SF novels. Thanks! Legacypac (talk) 08:23, 30 March 2018 (UTC) Women in Red's April+Further with Art+Feminism 2018 Please join us as Women in Red and Art+Feminism continue our collaboration in April 2018. Continue the work you've done in March and pledge to help close the gender gap in April! All you need to do is sign up on the Meet-Up page below and list any articles you create in the month of April. [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Meetup/71|April+Further with Art+Feminism]] To subscribe: Women in Red/English language mailing list or Women in Red/international list. To unsubscribe: Women in Red/Opt-out list. Follow us on Twitter: @wikiwomeninred Discussion at User_talk:Xaosflux#Signpost  You are invited to join the discussion at User_talk:Xaosflux#Signpost. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 23:11, 1 April 2018 (UTC)Template:Z48 Update: It's been  Done. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 02:41, 4 April 2018 (UTC) 11,000+ for the Squirrels Sparky is sad Not only did we make the main page on 4/1, over 11,000 took a look. Do we get a prize or something? Best Regards, Barbara ✐  ✉ 05:13, 2 April 2018 (UTC) I got nuttin'. Guess I wasn't considered a fur-most author. It's OK, I've got plenty of DYK credits squirreled away. ☆ Bri (talk) 06:22, 2 April 2018 (UTC) Read your article I like your article draft about solutions to making the Signpost 'better'. Nice job. Best Regards, Barbara ✐  ✉ 21:31, 3 April 2018 (UTC) Thanks. For stalkers, it's User:Bri/Signpost ☆ Bri (talk) 21:33, 3 April 2018 (UTC) Thanks. You just made my day, here. Eddie891 Talk Work 22:38, 3 April 2018 (UTC) Signpost (2) I've gotten a watchlist noticed approved and listed. If there is a slot in any of the unfilled positions on the editorial team that I could temporarily fill within my capabilities, don't hesitate to let me know. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 02:44, 4 April 2018 (UTC) Appreciate it and sorry I didn't have time to weigh in at the discussion first. ☆ Bri (talk) 02:52, 4 April 2018 (UTC) Kudpung: there is something you can do actually. Would you review User:Bri/Signpost for suitability? If you like it you can change the status to "Status|In development". ☆ Bri (talk) 03:03, 4 April 2018 (UTC) It's an absolutely necessary article. I've corrected a couple of typos but there is more I could do. IMO it rambles a bit and I could do a full copy edit for better readability, but of course I would not do this without your approval. That said, as you will have seen from my writings over the years, I'm a bit old fashioned and as I have a background as a published author, and newspaper contributor (in English, French, and German), my style for publications tends to be slightly more formal. I would absolutely not expect any attribution for copy editing it - I do enough around the Wiki already :)My other concern is that there are so many questions and suggestions that the user comments may possibly develop into an unmanagable thread which ultimately would perhaps be better directed to a dedicated suggestions sub page. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 03:36, 4 April 2018 (UTC) Oh, wow, I didn't expect it to be copyedited already. You know it started with me just throwing a bunch of ideas into a bucket, then Eddie chipped in with some more. Anyhow, thanks ☆ Bri (talk) 03:48, 4 April 2018 (UTC) Kudpung Ah, just one thing: we still need it actually to be approved by changing "Status|Unreviewed" to "Status|In development". Here's the edit link [1] ☆ Bri (talk) 03:50, 4 April 2018 (UTC) I haven't copy edited it yet. Just corrected a couple of tyos. Copy Editing is something quite different. I would need your approval to go ahead. I could do it in my user space and you could check it out. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 03:57, 4 April 2018 (UTC) Let's wait to copyedit ... I may be doing some more rough expansion ☆ Bri (talk) 03:59, 4 April 2018 (UTC) I thought you'd be interested in this - which certainly proves a point. Maybe you can add it to the list of publisher duties. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 17:13, 4 April 2018 (UTC) Precious five years! Precious Five years! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:16, 7 April 2018 (UTC) E-inC I think the Signpost needs a new Editor-in-Chief. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 04:12, 13 April 2018 (UTC) I've solicited input on division of labor at Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Newsroom#Contents and division of labor for April issue ☆ Bri (talk) 14:54, 13 April 2018 (UTC) Help Hello. Help expanded article by Maureen Wroblewitz from [2]. Thanks you.Kim Mai 13 (talk) 03:05, 19 April 2018 (UTC)