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How to move a page?

Hello, I noticed that you are an administrator and you successfully move pages to the titles requested at Wikipedia:Requested moves/Technical requests. I'm a page mover. When I click on "Move" link, it does not let me to do because the title already exists as a redirect. It says "The page could not be moved: a page of that name already exists, or the name you have chosen is not valid." Can you tell me how I can move a page for those who request at Wikipedia:Requested moves/Technical requests? Mr. Smart ℒION ⋠☎️✍⋡ 13:48, 1 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@Mr. Smart LION: Actually, I am not an administrator but merely a page mover, just like you. If the target already exists as a redirect to the source with more than one edit in the history, either move it out of way first to some other plausible redirect or do a round-robin page swap. I have answered requests that do not require any special privileges, where the target B was either a redlink or a redirect to the source A with just one edit in the history. In the latter case, a log entry for the target page saying "deleted redirect B by overwriting" will be generated (since December 2016; from August 2016 to November 2016, the log entry just says "deleted page B" like regular admin deletions; and before August 2016, no log entry was generated). If page A was semi-protected, the protection will be preserved after the move and "moved protection settings from A to B" will appear in the logs for page B. GeoffreyT2000 (talk) 14:38, 1 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Hello GTrang, thank you for your efforts reviewing new pages!

Backlog update:

  • The new page backlog is currently at 18,511 pages. We have worked hard to decrease from over 22,000, but more hard work is needed! Please consider reviewing even just a few pages a a day.
  • Some editors are committing to work specifically on patrolling new pages on 15 July. If you have not reviewed new pages in a while, this might be a good time to be involved. Please remember that quality of patrolling is more important than quantity, that the speedy deletion criteria should be followed strictly, and that ovetagging for minor issues should be avoided.

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RfA

File:New Zealand TW-17.svg Thanks for supporting my run for administrator. I am honored and grateful. ) Cullen328 Let's discuss it 02:01, 24 July 2017 (UTC) [reply]
@Cullen328: Thank you for being the first WP:300 RfA candidate! I hope that you use deletion, protection, blocking, and user group management wisely and carefully. GeoffreyT2000 (talk, contribs) 04:28, 24 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Eli Levido

Hi Geoffrey, regarding Eli Levido and the page moves. I am happy to withdraw the prod to allow the page creator move it to the draft space. He has explained on my talk page is that his rationale is that he believes player will play first grade soon (which, if it happens, will make him notable per our guidelines). The editor in question is a new editor who has made mistakes but is improving and so I am trying not to come down hard on his every edit. If the draft space is not appropriate perhaps we can move it to his user space for the time being? Mattlore (talk) 23:50, 31 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@Mattlore: I have re-draftified Eli Levido to Draft:Eli Levido and removed the deletion template. My mistake, seeing that the draft still had the prod template in it even after it was moved from the article namespace. GeoffreyT2000 (talk, contribs) 20:24, 3 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Draft:Nupur Kohli

I hope I wasn't confusing with the fact that I had to perform an "undo" twice to explain why I moved the pages the way I did without a merge request. If the two pages are merged, an editor will be credited with creating that page who is not the creator of the content. I have seen sanctions placed on an editor who requested their original contribution be restored (which was just a redirect) after an entire article was created just so they could have credit for creating the page. If you disagree with my assessment of this, feel free to restore the tag you placed: I removed it so that an admin (probably Anthony Appleyard) would not execute the merge request prior to us having a chance to discuss the tag. (I mean, granted, I'm certain that Anthony Appleyard will determine that the two pages have parallel histories and this deny the request, but there's no guarantee of that.) Steel1943 (talk) 17:45, 2 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

History-merge query

New Page Reviewer Newsletter

Hello GTrang, thank you for your efforts reviewing new pages!

Backlog update:

  • The new page backlog is currently at 16,991 pages. We have worked hard to decrease from over 22,000, but more hard work is needed! Please consider reviewing even just a few pages a a day.

Technology update:

  • Rentier has created a NPP browser in WMF Labs that allows you to search new unreviewed pages using keywords and categories.

General project update:

  • The Wikimedia Foundation Community Tech team is working with the community to implement the autoconfirmed article creation trial. The trial is currently set to start on 7 September 2017, pending final approval of the technical features.
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Current Events page template updates

@GeoffreyT2000: Hello! I have noticed that you have maintained the Current Events archive [1] and I would like to thank you for that. It is a rather thankless task I would assume, yet so needed. I wanted to let you know that I have been working on improving the layout of Current Events and the sidebar components to be more mobile friendly. I'm not sure where you get each month's calendar for the page, but I would note that the latest versions will have an updated format. Please let me know if there is anything I can do to make this easier. It seems like a module should be able to generate those archive calendars quite easily. — RossO (talk) 23:16, 29 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

As a matter of fact, I've worked up a version of the calendar that can dynamically create the calendar that any CE Monthly Archive page will need: Portal:Current events/June 2017/Sandbox which uses Module:Current events archive calendar. Mr. Stradivarius has been helpful in getting the calendar generation code to a more modern structure. I'm hoping that the Mobile-friendly Layout project will be able to improve the Current events archives in the same way we're working on the front page. — RossO (talk) 17:24, 30 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I have now moved forward on the updated Calendar generator and applied it to the Archived Current events pages for 2017 and for Portal:Current events/December 1996. I would like your comments on the code updates before I update all of the monthly archive pages to use the new Calendar generator. The unified calendar module supports the "Only show the last 6 days" version used on Portal:Current events and supports the archived Current Events pages. The remaining issue is that it assumes a non-table based layout. This causes some margin issue on the layout which I will touch up soon.

I hope that this will save some of your time each month (or on the yearly process of) pre-creating the /Calendar pages. I also hope that having this code in one place will make it easier to move the Current events portal and all of the archive pages to a mobile-friendly layout. Cheers! — RossO (talk) 19:22, 1 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I would love to hear your feedback about the updates I've made here: [2] and particularly of the Intro Paragraph generator here: [3] I am attempting to make the Archive pages all use a common set of templates so that we can upgrade the look and feel of them to be mobile-friendly. This is a step in that direction. — RossO (talk) 00:49, 6 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I do like your changes, RossO. Calendars for months in the years 1997 to 2016 should then also invoke Module:Current events calendar. GeoffreyT2000 (talk, contribs) 01:00, 8 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

request move undoing a previous move

Hi, I am going through deja vu because I looked into this before. For some reason DeWitt Post Office shows up in my watchlist again, and I revisit it, and I see again that it is for a post office in DeWitt, Arkansas, and I am reminded again that there are more than one DeWitt Post Offices in the world, including in most or all of the following places: DeWitt, Illinois; DeWitt, Iowa; DeWitt, Michigan; DeWitt, New York; DeWitt, Virginia; DeWitt Charter Township, Michigan; DeWitt Township, DeWitt County, Illinois. So I go to move it again, to make way for disambiguation in the longer term, and to leave it marked as a {{Redirect with possibilities}} for now. Again I encounter the fact that the move doesn't work because there is something already at DeWitt Post Office (DeWitt, Arkansas), which is a redirect. I look at the edit history and find it is you (maybe i did that before) and this time I come to your Talk page to make this request: Could you please undo your move of it, and please put the redirect with possibilities in place. --doncram 00:31, 7 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

 Done, but please remember to actually create the articles showing that a disambiguation page at DeWitt Post Office is needed. Otherwise, the article DeWitt Post Office (DeWitt, Arkansas) might need to be moved to the undisambiguated title again. GeoffreyT2000 (talk, contribs) 00:41, 8 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you for reading and considering and doing that and replying. I don't want to have an argument, but I am not sure that an article for another DeWitt Post Office has to be created in any short time frame at all, and there might not be one soon because the DeWitt, New York one or another one might have to get listed on the National Register (which is possible) before it would be clearly Wikipedia-notable and to have separate article. It still remains that the DeWitt, New York one, and perhaps others, are more prominent in the world than the Arkansas one is, and readers would be surprised and think it is wrong that they arrive at the Arkansas one, if it were changed back. The truth is that it is kind of random and surprising that the Arkansas one is deemed notable by the combination of the NRHP processes and by our processes; a lesser place is in fact pushed forward in Wikipedia. It would simply be "wrong" in my view for it to be changed so that Wikipedia is asserting, against reason, that the Arkansas one is THE place and push it even further forward. I don't know whether this line of reasoning is embodied in any guideline on place naming or in any essay. But like i said before, this one has nagged me, and it boils down partly to the fact that I "know" that Wikipedia was getting it wrong by covering the more obscure one and doubly so by seeming to assert that was normal/best/that it is THE place. Whew, good to get that off my chest, maybe? Or maybe too much written. Anyhow, thanks again. --doncram 02:40, 14 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Please help

Hi Geoffrey,

You recently declined my page (draft:jah levi) because of a problem with citations. I am confused because last year someone helped with citations and it seemed like everything was good but we needed more references, which have been added in the same format.

Can you tell me what I am doing wrong and how to correct it?

Wiki is not the most user-friendly for us non-techie types.

Many thanks.Kabbalahhouse (talk) 15:04, 10 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

CE archive updates

I'm working on updates to the Current Events archive pages: User:RossO/sandbox#Curent_Events_Portal_Archive I thought you might be interested in my findings. — RossO (talk) 00:33, 12 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Ways to improve List of Super Why episodes

Hi, I'm ThePromenader. GeoffreyT2000, thanks for creating List of Super Why episodes!

I've just tagged the page, using our page curation tools, as having some issues to fix. Hello,

Your article submission references all come from a single source... that doesn't seem to exist.

Do try to diversify your sources (to working links) if you can.

Best.

The tags can be removed by you or another editor once the issues they mention are addressed. If you have questions, you can leave a comment on my talk page. Or, for more editing help, talk to the volunteers at the Teahouse.

THEPROMENADER ✎ ✓ 15:46, 13 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Theatre Of Shadows

Why do you keep redirecting the film, Haunted State: Theatre Of Shadows? I'm confused. (Adjinwis (talk) 00:25, 14 September 2017 (UTC))[reply]

I'd like to know what you need to keep it live on the site... other admins have edited it but not removed it. Can you explain what this article needs for you to not remove it? Adjinwis (talk) 11:19, 14 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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