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A request for help

Hello sir, I am a wikipedian and had contributed to nearly 200 pages on wikipedia. I need your help becuase you may be the only one who can help me. I was interested in music and so i had been editing pages of american rock bands to add updated info and some honour related stuff. Since, you are from seattle its obvious that you maybe a fan of pearl jam. Actually, i like them too. So i did an edit on their page referring them to be one of the greatest band ever and cited the same statement of a very veteran and soon legendary artist named corey taylor and also ben harper. But some haters are relentless in reverting my edits and giving absolutely no reason for the act. I, thereby from the depth of my heart request you to please add this content to their page's forefront because they can't stop a master like you. Please for the sake of pearl jam, for the sake of grunge, for the sake of seattle and most importantly for the sake of wikipedia. I would always be indebt if you do it. A Honest Wikipedian Chandra Shekher Mishra 2405:204:A182:ACBC:26F:64FF:FECD:6FED (talk) 13:15, 28 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

The above message is from me,sir. You can talk to me now for more detailed information.Mr.Stoppable (talk) 14:04, 28 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Open note to TPS

My personal situation is probably going to change beginning in July with fewer hours devoted to Wikipedia. If there's any business I can take care of in the near term, please let me know. Otherwise, I'll probably go dark for a little while during a transition period then come back in a reduced contributor state. ☆ Bri (talk) 03:44, 28 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I was just about to ask you about turning this blue --- if your situation changes and you would like to, let me know. Best regards, — xaosflux ^Talk 03:26, 30 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

(+1)--Wot Xao sez:) ∯WBG^converse 05:21, 30 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I did the RfA thing. Not sure it's time to do it again. The stuff I think is important and don't plan on not doing, was the crux of the "failure to gain consensus". ☆ Bri (talk) 14:34, 17 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

WMF PII data spill

This whole ramble will be more clear when you see The Signpost Issue 9, just published on August 29 ... look for the News and Notes section on Go Fish Digital written by Kudpung and titled "WMF hires a spam outfit". This is partly a memo-to-self and partly for TPS or someone who comes here after publication.

The Signpost repeats something I stated in another venue about spillage of Personally identifiable information (PII) on EnWP users (I.e. you and me). This accords with Phabricator ticket 92893 in which Director of Site Reliability Engineering Faidon Liambotis says "The console data contain PII, so an NDA would be absolutely required". I said "de facto" because I didn't want to parse and defend whether or not the outside firm actually pulled this data and/or used it abusively. I think we are in the right to say we assume it was until proven otherwise, especially from a firm with a standard of business ethics such as this one's. ☆ Bri (talk) 02:15, 30 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Sock tool

I've written the code for the tool, but it might take me a while to work out how to make it usable from https://spi-inspector.appspot.com/ or somewhere on wmflabs. In the meantime, drop me a line and I can create them for you. I was thinking that it'd also be helpful to trawl through the contribs and create a list of diffs where substantial bytes were added to other articles a la https://tools.wmflabs.org/contributionsurveyor/ (RIP). SmartSE (talk) 20:23, 4 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

NPR Newsletter No.13 18 September 2018

Hello Bri, thank you for your work reviewing New Pages!

The New Page Feed currently has 2700 unreviewed articles, up from just 500 at the start of July. For a while we were falling behind by an average of about 40 articles per day, but we have stabilised more recently. Please review some articles from the back of the queue if you can (Sort by: 'Oldest' at Special:NewPagesFeed), as we are very close to having articles older than one month.

Project news

The New Page Feed now has a new "Articles for Creation" option which will show drafts instead of articles in the feed, this shouldn't impact NPP activities and is part of the WMF's AfC Improvement Project.

As part of this project, the feed will have some larger updates to functionality next month. Specifically, ORES predictions will be built in, which will automatically flag articles for potential issues such as vandalism or spam. Copyright violation detection will also be added to the new page feed. See the projects's talk page for more info.

There are a number of coordination tasks for New Page Patrol that could use some help from experienced reviewers. See Wikipedia:New pages patrol/Coordination#Coordinator tasks for more info to see if you can help out.

Other

A new summary page of reliable sources has been created; Wikipedia:Identifying reliable sources/Perennial sources, which summarizes existing RfCs or RSN discussions about regularly used sources.

Moving to Draft and Page Mover

Some unsuitable new articles can be best reviewed by moving them to the draft space, but reviewers need to do this carefully and sparingly. It is most useful for topics that look like they might have promise, but where the article as written would be unlikely to survive AfD. If the article can be easily fixed, or if the only issue is a lack of sourcing that is easily accessible, tagging or adding sources yourself is preferable. If sources do not appear to be available and the topic does not appear to be notable, tagging for deletion is preferable (PROD/AfD/CSD as appropriate). See additional guidance at WP:DRAFTIFY.
If the user moves the draft back to mainspace, or recreates it in mainspace, please do not re-draftify the article (although swapping it to maintain the page history may be advisable in the case of copy-paste moves). AfC is optional except for editors with a clear conflict of interest.
Articles that have been created in contravention of our paid-editing-requirements or written from a blatant NPOV perspective, or by authors with a clear COI might also be draftified at discretion.
The best tool for draftification is User:Evad37/MoveToDraft.js^(info). Kindly adapt the text in the dialogue-pop-up as necessary (the default can also be changed like this). Note that if you do not have the Page Mover userright, the redirect from main will be automatically tagged as CSD R2, but in some cases it might be better to make this a redirect to a different page instead.
The Page Mover userright can be useful for New Page Reviewers; occasionally page swapping is needed during NPR activities, and it helps avoid excessive R2 nominations which must be processed by admins. Note that the Page Mover userright has higher requirements than the NPR userright, and is generally given to users active at Requested Moves. Only reviewers who are very experienced and are also very active reviewers are likely to be granted it solely for NPP activities.

List of other useful scripts for New Page Reviewing

Twinkle provides a lot of the same functionality as the page curation tools, and some reviewers prefer to use the Twinkle tools for some/all tasks. It can be activated simply in the gadgets section of 'preferences'. There are also a lot of options available at the Twinkle preferences panel after you install the gadget.
In terms of other gadgets for NPR, HotCat is worth turning on. It allows you to easily add, remove, and change categories on a page, with name suggestions.
MoreMenu also adds a bunch of very useful links for diagnosing and fixing page issues.
User:Equazcion/ScriptInstaller.js^(info): Installing scripts doesn't have to be complicated. Go to your common.js and copy importScript( 'User:Equazcion/ScriptInstaller.js' ); into an empty line, now you can install all other scripts with the click of a button from the script page! (Note you need to be at the ".js" page for the script for the install button to appear, not the information page)
User:TheJosh/Scripts/NewPagePatrol.js^(info): Creates a scrolling new pages list at the left side of the page. You can change the number of pages shown by adding the following to the next line on your common.js page (immediately after the line importing this script): npp_num_pages=20; (Recommended 20, but you can use any number from 1 to 50).
User:Primefac/revdel.js^(info): Is requesting revdel complicated and time consuming? This script helps simplify the process. Just have the Copyvio source URL and go to the history page and collect your diff IDs and you can drop them into the script Popups and it will create a revdel request for you.
User:Lourdes/PageCuration.js^(info): Creates a "Page Curation" link to Special:NewPagesFeed up near your sandbox link.
User:Writ Keeper/Scripts/deletionFinder.js: Creates links next to the title of each page which show up if it has been previously deleted or nominated for deletion.
User:Evad37/rater.js^(info): A fantastic tool for adding WikiProject templates to article talk pages. If you add: rater_autostartNamespaces = 0; to the next line on your common.js, the prompt will pop up automatically if a page has no Wikiproject templates on the talk page (note: this can be a bit annoying if you review redirects or dab pages commonly).

Go here to remove your name if you wish to opt-out of future mailings. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 23:11, 17 September 2018 (UTC) [reply]

Holy Names Academy: seeking advice

As you know I have been focused far more on Commons than on Wikipedia in recent years, so even though I'm an admin I don't fully know what may currently be the acceptable way to proceed in a dispute.

I made this edit, trying to fix what I consider an anachronism in the Holy Names Academy article. User:ToconnorHolyNames, which appears to be a single-purpose account (virtually all edits are to this single article), reverted me with the comment '(Undid revision 859781361 by Jmabel (talk) The correct and legal name of this neighborhood, as currently designated by the City of Seattle, is "Chinatown/International District." It is not anachronistic. See https://www.seattle.gov/Documents/Departments/Neighborhoods/Districts/Neighborhood%20Snapshots/Chinatown-ID-Little-Saigon-Snapshot.pdf. See also the Wikipedia page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinatown-International_District,_Seattle)' (which is funny, because I wrote a good chunk of that page). As I'm sure you know, as a Seattlite, neighborhood names here are at most quasi-official even when used by the city gov't, and the fact that the name is used now has nothing to do with whether it is anachronistic to use it with reference to the period 1884-1906. The term "International District" simply did not exist in that era. Until the regrade, the location of Holy Names was simply "Jackson Hill".

Anyway, trying not to edit-war, I wrote my response at Talk:Holy Names Academy#"International District", where he has chosen not to respond. Is there anything I can do other than simply revert him, which seems painfully close to edit-warring? - Jmabel | Talk 04:57, 19 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

(talk page stalker) That article is an ad masquerading as an encyclopedia article. I've made some cuts and much more is to come. I doubt the person opposing you is going to worry too much about your edit much longer. John from Idegon (talk) 05:47, 19 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

It looks like this edit by Voceditenore is sticking. Hopefully this is the end of the argument on this semantic point. Good luck ☆ Bri (talk) 15:50, 19 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Future Electronics

Can you have a look at the history there and see what you think. I'm a bit bored playing ping pong and not sure of the COI procedure Lyndaship (talk) 11:42, 3 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Lyndaship: I'm not available at the moment, recommend taking this to WP:COIN where a whole lot of people will be interested in helping. ☆ Bri (talk) 01:34, 4 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Signpost

I found some extra time to help out at the Signpost. I hope this is an encouragement for you. Best Regards, Barbara ✐ ✉ 23:48, 7 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination of One people under one God for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article One people under one God 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/One people under one God until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, 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. wumbolo ^^^ 17:38, 12 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

*sigh* + Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Peaceful Vancouver Freedom March + Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Women's March on Portland ---Another Believer _(Talk) 13:29, 23 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Another Believer: I had a similar experience at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Boycott of The Ingraham Angle, which is an article I would like to move back into the namespace.

For this and other reasons I have started to draft Wikipedia:Removal of Wikipedia articles on notable topics. I am having difficulty articulating the issue, but one way to describe the problem is a trend for people to argue at AfD that topics which meet Wikipedia's notability criteria still merit deletion. I had imagined that "notability" was everyone's standard for inclusion but too often people are arguing other inclusion criteria. I want to start categorizing all the rationales which have been a basis for deletion. In these cases people are saying merge because they make a judgement that despite passing WP:N, doing merges is the right thing.

I am not aware of this argument having any basis in a policy. Blue Rasberry (talk) 13:56, 23 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

One people under one God will undoubtedly suffer the merge–delete cycle you identified in the essay. No way is that much content going to survive the merge intact. I've not got the cycles right now to fight it. ☆ Bri (talk) 23:11, 23 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

00:23, 24 October 2018 (diff | hist) (-9,072)‎ One people under one God ‎ (Merged, redirecting.) (current) [rollback: 1 edit] (Tag: New redirect)

00:20, 24 October 2018 (diff | hist) (+387)‎ Donald Trump presidential campaign, 2016 ‎ (→‎Religious community: Merge from One people under one God) (current) [rollback: 1 edit]

Voila: nine kilobytes magically becomes 387 bytes. ☆ Bri (talk) 01:16, 24 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Signpost Op-ed detail

Thanks for your question! It's not an official RfC at this point, but it is a proposal – that is the wording on Wikipedia:Changing_policies_and_guidelines for proposing changes/additions on the relevant talk page. There was an earlier version of the text where I called my signpost op-ed a "request for comments", and I changed that wording since that would be indeed misleading, given the official term RfC. But proposal would appear to me to be the right word at that point. Markus Pössel (talk) 08:36, 24 October 2018 (UTC) https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Bri&action=edit&section=10[reply]

From the editors

I don't like it. A call for customer feedback IMO is unnecessary. Many Wikipedians are mean spirited and absolutely revel in muck racking and opportunities to attack each other either directly or through back-stabbing elsewhere. This kind of appeal will just put beans up their noses and I would regret ever having had anything thing to with the magazine. I think there should be a firm editorial stance and policy to refrain from The Signpost becoming a gutter press. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 17:40, 28 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Signature change

I have changed the appearance of my signature. Barbara ✐✉ 10:49, 31 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

DYK nomination of Hyperion proto-supercluster

Hello! Your submission of Hyperion proto-supercluster at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! – Muboshgu (talk) 22:12, 11 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Did you know nominations/Requiem (Saint-Saëns)

Hi, in future, please be aware that per Rule H2, you are not allowed to approve your own hook. If you find yourself offering an alt suggestion, please call on another reviewer to complete the review. Thanks, Yoninah (talk) 15:33, 12 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Oops! Thanks Yoninah. ☆ Bri (talk) 15:35, 12 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

NPR Newsletter No.15 16 November 2018

Chart of the New Pages Patrol backlog for the past 6 months.

Hello Bri,

Community Wishlist Survey – NPP needs you – Vote NOW

Community Wishlist Voting takes place 16 to 30 November for the Page Curation and New Pages Feed improvements, and other software requests. The NPP community is hoping for a good turnout in support of the requests to Santa for the tools we need. This is very important as we have been asking the Foundation for these upgrades for 4 years.

If this proposal does not make it into the top ten, it is likely that the tools will be given no support at all for the foreseeable future. So please put in a vote today.

We are counting on significant support not only from our own ranks, but from everyone who is concerned with maintaining a Wikipedia that is free of vandalism, promotion, flagrant financial exploitation and other pollution.

With all 650 reviewers voting for these urgently needed improvements, our requests would be unlikely to fail. See also The Signpost Special report: 'NPP: This could be heaven or this could be hell for new users – and for the reviewers', and if you are not sure what the wish list is all about, take a sneak peek at an article in this month's upcoming issue of The Signpost which unfortunately due to staff holidays and an impending US holiday will probably not be published until after voting has closed.

Go here to remove your name if you wish to opt-out of future mailings. — Insertcleverphrasehere ^{(or here)}18:37, 16 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

ArbCom 2018 election voter message

Hello, Bri. Voting in the 2018 Arbitration Committee elections is now open until 23.59 on Sunday, 3 December. All users who registered an account before Sunday, 28 October 2018, made at least 150 mainspace edits before Thursday, 1 November 2018 and are not currently blocked are eligible to vote. Users with alternate accounts may only vote once.

The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.

If you wish to participate in the 2018 election, please review the candidates and submit your choices on the voting page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:42, 19 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

DYK for Hyperion proto-supercluster

On 22 November 2018, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Hyperion proto-supercluster, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the Hyperion proto-supercluster was discovered using astroinformatics? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Hyperion proto-supercluster. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Hyperion proto-supercluster), 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.

Alex Shih (talk) 00:01, 22 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Happy Turkey Day!

	Happy Thanksgiving!
	Have a blessed and wonderful Thanksgiving day and make happy memories. dawnleelynn^(talk) 17:55, 22 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Coal-fired pizza

I am a bit confused I always though coal fired pizza used charcoal. they actually use coal? Valoem ^talk ^contrib 21:58, 29 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

In the Northeast (U.S.) yes, it is coal. Anthracite, specifically. Here where I live (Cascadia) there is neither charcoal nor coal, but wood fired pizza; often alder or apple wood. ☆ Bri (talk) 22:49, 29 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Signpost

Oh, don't worry about not recognising me. I haven't really been on Wikipedia for two years because of a Wikibreak, so even if you knew it, it would have been long, long ago. I'll probably just do the update to the start of December, then catch up to whatever lead-time we want for this for the issue after that. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 20:53, 30 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Outline of cannabis

		The Original Barnstar
		is hereby awarded to Bri for creating and developing the Outline of cannabis. A very interesting topic, indeed, with much coverage on Wikipedia that this outline makes easier to find and navigate. Keep up the good work. Thank you. — The Transhumanist 22:15, 30 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Please join us for our Cascadia Wikimedians annual meeting, Saturday, December 29, 1 PM

If you are in the Seattle area, please join us for our Cascadia Wikimedians annual meeting, Saturday, December 29, 1 PM. If you cannot attend in person, you may join us virtually from your PC, Mac, Linux, iOS, or Android at this link: https://zoom.us/j/2207426850. The address of the physical meeting is: Capitol Hill Meeting Room at Capitol Hill Library (425 Harvard Ave. E., Seattle, WA 98102) 47°37′23″N 122°19′22″W / 47.622928°N 122.322912°W

The event page is here. You do not have to be a member to attend, but only members can vote in board elections. New members may join in person by completing the membership registration form onsite or (to be posted) online and paying $5 for a calendar year / $0.50 per month for the remainder of a year. Current members may renew for 2019 at the meeting as well.

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Student editor

Thanks for taking care of this. I saw the edit and noticed it was made by a student doing an assignment for a class. I don't have any experience with student editors so I reached out to Ian (Wiki Ed). Just an FYI. Thanks! Marquardtika (talk) 02:18, 9 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Diclofenac

Hi, May I know why did you remove the reference. For diclofenac-Vultures are long lived and slow to bread. It starts breading at the age of 6 and only 50 percent of them survive. This was included by me and with reference. You removed the reference and kept the text in article. Which reference are you going to introduce to this text. It it fair to steal some else work and put other reference? I need an explanation. I need those references back Omairosmani (talk) 21:33, 11 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

What? I have no idea what you are trying to say here. Do you mean "stealing someone else's work" (English corrected)? Who is stealing what from whom? And what does any of it have to do with bread? ☆ Bri (talk) 04:14, 12 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I thought you removed a reference link from the diclofenac. My apologies

Omairosmani (talk) 16:06, 12 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Even if the government ban is fully implemented it will take several years to revive the Vulture population- this was taken from themedpharma.com and given a wrong reference. May I know why is that? Either this sentence should be removed or should me give the right reference Omairosmani (talk) 07:19, 13 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Replying on your talkpage ☆ Bri (talk) 15:27, 13 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Seasons Greetings

dawnleelynn^(talk) 17:12, 13 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

NPR Newsletter No.16 15 December 2018

Hello Bri,

Reviewer of the Year

This year's award for the Reviewer of the Year goes to Onel5969. Around on Wikipedia since 2011, their staggering number of 26,554 reviews over the past twelve months makes them, together with an additional total of 275,285 edits, one of Wikipedia's most prolific users.

Thanks are also extended for their work to JTtheOG (15,059 reviews), Boleyn (12,760 reviews), Cwmhiraeth (9,001 reviews), Semmendinger (8,440 reviews), PRehse (8,092 reviews), Arthistorian1977 (5,306 reviews), Abishe (4,153 reviews), Barkeep49 (4,016 reviews), and Elmidae (3,615 reviews).
Cwmhiraeth, Semmendinger, Barkeep49, and Elmidae have been New Page Reviewers for less than a year — Barkeep49 for only seven months, while Boleyn, with an edit count of 250,000 since she joined Wikipedia in 2008, has been a bastion of New Page Patrol for many years.

Nomination of List of Native American women artists for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article List of Native American women artists 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/List of Native American women artists until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, 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. Yuchitown (talk) 17:03, 16 December 2018 (UTC)Yuchitown[reply]

Happy Holidays!

Best wishes for this holiday season! Thank you for your Wiki contributions in 2018. May 2019 be prosperous and joyful. --K.e.coffman (talk) 22:46, 21 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Noël ~ καλά Χριστούγεννα ~ З Калядамі ~ חנוכה שמח ~ Gott nytt år!

Request

Can you please review this Wikipedia page? - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:ODEM

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+Can you please review this Wikipedia page? - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:ODEM