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Wikimedia NYC Meetup- "Queens Open History Edit-a-Thon" at Queens Library! Friday December 6

Please join Queens Open History Edit-a-Thon on December 6, 2013! Everyone gather at Queens Library to further Wikipedia's local outreach for borough articles on the history and the communities. Drop-ins welcome 10am-7pm!--Pharos (talk) ~~~~~

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Books & Bytes New Years Double Issue

Books & Bytes

Volume 1 Issue 3, December/January 2013

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Happy New Year, and welcome to a special double issue of Books & Bytes. We've included a retrospective on the changes and progress TWL has seen over the last year, the results of the survey TWL participants completed in December, some of our plans for the future, a second interview with a Wiki Love Libraries coordinator, and more. Here's to 2014 being a year of expansion and innovation for TWL!

The Wikipedia Library completed the first 6 months of its Individual Engagement grant last week. Here's where we are and what we've done:

Increased access to sources: 1500 editors signed up for 3700 free accounts, individually worth over $500,000, with usage increases of 400-600%

Deep networking: Built relationships with Credo, HighBeam, Questia, JSTOR, Cochrane, LexisNexis, EBSCO, New York Times, and OCLC

New pilot projects: Started the Wikipedia Visiting Scholar project to empower university-affiliated Wikipedia researchers

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Saturday: NYC Art And Feminism Wikipedia Editathon

Please join Wikipedia "Art and Feminism Editathon" @ Eyebeam on Saturday February 1, 2014, an event aimed at collaboratively expanding Wikipedia articles covering Art and Feminism, and the biographies of women artists! There are also regional events that day in Brooklyn, Westchester County, and the Hudson Valley. --Pharos (talk)

Upcoming Saturday events - March 1: Harlem History Editathon and March 8: NYU Law Editathon

Upcoming Saturday events - March 1: Harlem History Editathon and March 8: NYU Law Editathon

You are invited to join upcoming Wikipedia "Editathons", where both experienced and new Wikipedia editors will collaboratively improve articles on a selected theme, on the following two Saturdays in March: Saturday March 1: Harlem History Editathon (RSVP), focusing on Harlem history, landmarks and biographies Saturday March 8: NYU Law Editathon (RSVP), focusing on innovation law and intellectual property (with social dinner afterward) I hope to see you there! Pharos (talk)

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GOCE February blitz wrapup

Guild of Copy Editors Wikipedia:WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors/Blitzes/February 2014 wrap-up Participation: Out of seven people who signed up for this blitz, all copy-edited at least one article. Thanks to all who participated! Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. Progress report: During the seven-day blitz, we removed 16 articles from the requests queue. Hope to see you at the March drive! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators Jonesey95, Miniapolis and Baffle gab1978. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list. Newsletter delivered by

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Saturday April 30: Contemporary Art of the Middle East and North Africa @ Guggenheim

Saturday April 30, 1-6pm: Contemporary Art of the Middle East and North Africa @ Guggenheim

File:Monir Portrait-exh ph021.jpg On Saturday April 30, 2016, in conjunction with a global campaign, the Guggenheim will host its fourth Wikipedia edit-a-thon — or, #guggathon — to enhance Wikipedia's coverage of modern and contemporary artists from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, and to counter geocultural systemic bias on Wikipedia. The Guggenheim aims to further the goals of the Guggenheim UBS MAP Global Art Initiative, and build on the model of campaigns like the Wikipedia Edit-a-thon at the Guggenheim: Women in Architecture, Wikipedia Asian Month, and Art+Feminism. New and experienced editors are welcome. The event will include a training session for participants who are new to Wikipedia and Wikipedia specialists will be on hand to provide basic instruction and editing support. Can’t join us in New York? Visit our global MENA Artists Month partnership page to coordinate international and online events as well. Saturday. April 30 Contemporary Art of the Middle East and North Africa @ Guggenheim (Participants have to bring their own laptops and power cords). Time: Presentation: 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm, Edit-a-thon: 2:30pm - 6:00pm Location: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1071 Fifth Avenue (88th Street), New York City, New York 10128 Guests should enter using the 88th Street entrance via the ramp at 88th Street and Fifth Avenue Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues! --Pharos (talk) ~~~~~

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Metropolitan Museum of Art Edit-a-thon (Nov 19) and global online Wikipedia Asian Art Month (Nov 1-30)

Sunday November 19, 10:30 am - 4:00pm: Metropolitan Museum of Art Edit-a-thon

The Wikipedia Asian Month Edit-a-thon @ The Met will be the Metropolitan Museum of Art's second edit-a-thon, hosted on Sunday November 19, 2017 in the Bonnie Sacerdote Classroom, Ruth and Harold D. Uris Center for Education (81st Street entrance) at The Met Fifth Avenue in New York City. Following the first Met edit-a-thon in May 2017, the museum is excited to work with Wikipedia Asian Month for the potential to seed new articles about Asian artworks, artwork types, and art traditions, from any part of Asia. These can be illustrated with thousands of its recently-released images of public domain artworks available for Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons from the museum’s collection spanning 5,000 years of art. The event is an opportunity for Wikimedia communities to engage The Met's diverse Asian collections onsite and remotely. Sunday November 19 Wikipedia Asian Month Edit-a-thon @ The Met (RSVP on-wiki or at meetup.com). 10:30 am - 4:00 pm in Bonnie Sacerdote Classroom, Uris Center for Education 81st Street entrance, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 Fifth Avenue Attendees should bring their own laptops and power cords. Light snacks, drinks and cake will be provided. We also welcome remote participation for the global online Wikipedia Asian Art Month, running November 1-30. Thanks, and hope to see you at the museum, and/or as part of the online Wikipedia Asian Month contest!--Pharos (talk) 16:36, 1 November 2017 (UTC)

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WikiCup 2017 November newsletter: Final results

The final round of the 2017 WikiCup is over. Congratulations to the 2017 WikiCup top three finalists:

• First Place - Adityavagarwal (submissions)
• Second Place - Vanamonde (submissions)
• Third Place - Cas Liber (submissions)

In addition to recognizing the achievements of the top finishers and everyone who worked hard to make it to the final round, we also want to recognize those participants who were most productive in each of the WikiCup scoring categories:

• Featured Article – Cas Liber (actually a two-way tie with themselves for an astonishing five FAs in R2 and R4).
• Good Article – Adityavagarwal had 14 GAs promoted in R5.
• Featured List – Bloom6132 (submissions) and 1989 (submissions) both produced 2 FLs in R2
• Featured Pictures – SounderBruce (submissions) improved an image to FP status in R5, the only FP this year.
• Featured Topic – MPJ-DK (submissions) has the only FT of the Cup in R3.
• Good Topic – Four different editors created a GT in R2, R3 and R4.
• Did You Know – Adityavagarwal had 22 DYKs on the main page in R5.
• In The News – MBlaze Lightning (submissions) had 14 ITN on the main page in R2.
• Good Article Review – Krishna Chaitanya Velaga (submissions) completed 31 GARs in R1.

Over the course of the 2017 WikiCup the following content was added or improved on Wikipedia: 51 Featured Articles, 292 Good Articles, 18 Featured Lists, 1 Featured Picture, 1 Featured Topics, 4 Good Topics, around 400 Did You Knows, 75 In The News, and 442 Good Article Reviews. Thank you to all the competitors for your hard work and what you have done to improve Wikipedia.

Regarding the prize vouchers - @Adityavagarwal, Vanamonde93, Casliber, Bloom6132, 1989, and SounderBruce: please send Godot13 (talk · contribs · email) an email from the email address to which you would like your Amazon voucher sent. Please include your preference of global Amazon marketplace as well. We hope to have the electronic gift cards processed and sent within a week.

We will open up a discussion for comments on process and scoring in a few days. The 2018 WikiCup is just around the corner! Many thanks from all the judges. If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Sturmvogel 66 (talk · contribs · email), Cwmhiraeth (talk · contribs · email), and Godot13 (talk · contribs · email) MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 11:40, 2 November 2017 (UTC)

Bennetts in Crown Heights

Hi Alan, See page 4, 4th line down. The Bennetts lived at 698 St. Marks Avenue. Brian — Preceding unsigned comment added by BrianThibodeaux (talk • contribs) 14:06, 2 November 2017 (UTC)

• BrianThibodeaux - See this source where Robert Bennett states "I was the first child of Nancy Walsh Bennett and F. Robert Bennett. Mother was a housewife and Dad worked for a bank. We lived at 698 St. Marks Avenue in what is now known as the Bedford-Stuyvesant section." Alansohn (talk) 14:14, 2 November 2017 (UTC)

Hi Alan, I saw that. He is accurate about his address. I found the family living there in the 1940 census. But he simply got the section of Brooklyn wrong where his old house is located. 698 St. Marks Ave is clearly not in Bedford-Stuyvesant but within the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn. See the second paragraph of the Crown Heights webpage: "Crown Heights is bounded by Washington Avenue to the west, Atlantic Avenue to the north, Ralph Avenue to the east, and Empire Boulevard/East New York Avenue to the south." Brian — Preceding unsigned comment added by BrianThibodeaux (talk • contribs) 14:29, 2 November 2017 (UTC)

• BrianThibodeaux, looking at the address on a map, I'd agree that it's Crown Heights. Thanks for providing the details, as Bennett didn't mention Crown Heights anywhere in the book. Alansohn (talk) 14:54, 2 November 2017 (UTC)

Thanks, *Alansohn. I am not sure who does what now? :) I've created a few pages and made some additions, but have not dealt with many issues like this. Do I (you) click the undo button? Please advise. Thanks, Brian — Preceding unsigned comment added by BrianThibodeaux (talk • contribs)

• BrianThibodeaux, I added both Bennetts back to the Crown Heights article. I reinserted and expaned the reference with an explanatory note about the address and neighborhood. Thanks for adding these entries and for bringing the issue to my attention. Alansohn (talk) 11:49, 3 November 2017 (UTC)

Invitation to join Women in Red

		Thank you for creating several articles on women and their works over the past couple of months. We have become aware of your contributions thanks to research undertaken by Bobo.03 at the University of Minnesota. You might be interested in becoming a member of our WikiProject Women in Red where we are actively trying to reduce Wikipedia's content gender gap. If you would like to receive news of our activities without becoming a member, you can simply add your name to our mailing list. In any case, thank you for actively contributing to the coverage of women (currently, 17.14% of English Wikipedia's biographies). Our priorities for November: [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/The World Contest|The Women in Red World Contest]] Continuing from month to month: [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Meetup/00|#1day1woman Global Initiative]]
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Mayors of locations in New Jersey

Here are all the mayors of New Jersey that we have as positions at Wikidata. --RAN (talk) 00:52, 5 November 2017 (UTC)

Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) only about 500 more to go. It's a nice start. Any ideas on expansion? Alansohn (talk) 00:59, 5 November 2017 (UTC)

I am working on automating it. These were just ones where we had at least three articles in Wikipedia for a mayor. Wikidata rules allow every political position to have an entry. --RAN (talk) 01:07, 5 November 2017 (UTC)

Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ), I don't know much about automating the Wikidata process, but I would love to learn and assist. Alansohn (talk) 01:24, 5 November 2017 (UTC)

Bill Winters (American football)

Bill Winters (American football)

Thank you for the editing job, However their is information that i can give you to make this more accurate. #1 The name of my high school is Monmouth Regional High School in Tinton Falls, New Jersey, #2 After Foot note #4 you deleted that I was named a starter you can refer to New York Times dated August 10th 1977 by writer Michael Katz where you see I made the roster, so if you can right after footnote 4 add He made the roster but then suffered a ruptured appendix... or what ever you fell is appropriate #3 We had two pictures in addition to the one that is up currently that you took down because you wanted to know who the photographer was so we had the photographer email you requesting for them to be put back up because you said we could. I was attempting to edit the page myself but the page was blocked from editing and if you can place the picture of me running out of the tunnel in Tampa which belongs in the "Professional Career section right before in 1983. The other picture is a picture of me in the water where the photographer emailed you letting you that She took the picture which goes right before 'Life after Football". This would be greatly appreciated and is very accurate you also might want to put that I was actually with the Giants from 1977-1978. Another article dated from Michael Katz from The New York Time titled "Kahl-Winter May Walk Into The Giants Starting Spot" Let us know if we can be of any help putting those picture back up and editing the way you see fit would be greatly appreciated. Bandit1455 (talk) 20:47, 5 November 2017 (UTC)

Bandit1455, thanks for the updates. The Winters vs. Kahl-Winter name change created some challenges for me, but I will make best use of these sources to expand the article. Alansohn (talk) 20:53, 5 November 2017 (UTC)

Any others?

• [1] towns adjacent to towns with the same name, usually over a political split. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) (talk • contribs)
  • Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) Such as Andover Borough / Township, Berlin Borough / Township, Boonton Town / Township, Bordentown City / Township, Burlington City / Township, Chatham Borough / Township, Chester Borough / Township , Clinton Town / Township, Egg Harbor City / Township, Freehold Borough / Township, Gloucester City / Township, Hopewell Borough / Township, Lebanon Borough / Township, Mendham Borough / Township --- Audubon / Audubon Park, Barnegat Light / Barnegat Township, Englewood / Englewood Cliffs, Haddon Township / Haddonfield. Haddon Heights, the Cape Mays and Wildwoods. And there's more.... Alansohn (talk) 02:36, 9 November 2017 (UTC)

I will update them in Wikidata with the "not to be confused with property" We recently did something similar with doppelganger people that were born and died on the same day. Some were aliases of the same person, some direct duplicates, and most were just coincidental. Did you see the Mendham township woman complaining to Chris Christie about the non merger? --RAN (talk) 02:43, 9 November 2017 (UTC)

November 15: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC @ NYU ITP

Wednesday November 15, 7pm: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC @ NYU ITP

You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our monthly "WikiWednesday" evening salon (7-9pm) and knowledge-sharing workshop at NYU ITP Tisch School of the Arts (4th floor) at 721 Broadway in Manhattan. We will include a look at the organization and planning for our chapter, and expanding volunteer roles for both regular Wikipedia editors and new participants. We will also follow up on plans for recent and upcoming edit-a-thons, museum and library projects, education initiatives, and other outreach activities. We welcome the participation of our friends from the Free Culture movement and from all educational and cultural institutions interested in developing free knowledge projects. After the main meeting, pizza/chicken/vegetables and refreshments and video games in the gallery! Wednesday November 15 WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC (RSVP on-wiki or at meetup.com). 7:00pm - 9:00 pm at NYU ITP Tisch School of the Arts (4th floor), 721 Broadway (note that we are not at Babycastles this month) We especially encourage folks to add your 5-minute lightning talks to our roster, and otherwise join in the "open space" experience! Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues! --Pharos (talk) ~~~~~ P.S. You are also invited to Wikipedia Asian Month Edit-a-thon @ Metropolitan Museum of Art on Sunday November 19!

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Category:American obstetricians has been nominated for discussion

Category:American obstetricians, which you created, has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. A discussion is taking place to see if it abides with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. Rathfelder (talk) 16:41, 11 November 2017 (UTC)

WikiCup 2018

So the 2017 WikiCup has come to an end. Congratulations to the winner, to the other finalists and to all those who took part. 177 contestants signed up, more than usual, but not all of them submitted entries in the first round. Were editors attracted by the cash prizes offered for the first time this year, or were these irrelevant? Do the rules and scoring need changing for the 2018 WikiCup? If you have a view on these or other matters, why not join in the WikiCup discussion about next year's contest? Sturmvogel 66 (talk · contribs · email), Godot13 (talk · contribs · email) and Cwmhiraeth (talk · contribs · email). MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:59, 17 November 2017 (UTC)

Christopher Collins

The reason you probably didn't find much under Christopher Collins is that the professional name (as well as his birth name) he uses is Chris Latta if you do a search on Google and Yahoo etc... using Chris Latta there are plenty of sources. YborCityJohn (talk) 16:12, 24 November 2017 (UTC)

• YborCityJohn, I looked up all combinations and permutations -- "Christopher Collins", "Christopher Latta", "Chris Collins" and "Chris Latta" -- and could find nothing to connect him to Orange, New Jersey. What reliable and verifiable sources have you found? Without those sources, I'm not sure why the entry was added. Alansohn (talk) 16:18, 24 November 2017 (UTC)

Haddon Township Police Department (New Jersey)

I received an automated message saying you had proposed a speedy deletion of this article. I went to the page to contest the deletion, but could not find the button usually found in such cases. May I presume you removed your proposal yourself?''Paul, in Saudi'' (talk) 09:35, 28 November 2017 (UTC)

• PaulinSaudi, another editor contested it here. Alansohn (talk) 13:42, 28 November 2017 (UTC)

Yahoo Sports Blog

Please stop trying to add the Yahoo sports blog as a reliable source. A better source already exists, but I'm telling you something you already know, as you're an experienced editor. The only possible reason I can see for you to keep reverting is some sense of "my version is better" without any factual basis; that smacks of WP:OWN, and I hope I'm wrong about this, because an editor making millions of edits hopefully wouldn't engage in behavior like that. Rockypedia (talk) 17:40, 28 November 2017 (UTC)

• Rockypedia, both sources are appropriate and each provides different details. The source you're adding is already in the article. Alansohn (talk) 17:43, 28 November 2017 (UTC)

Yes, I saw that, and made the appropriate changes. And no, a sports blog is not appropriate, especially when the blog is simply referencing the actual article which is already a source! Rockypedia (talk) 17:47, 28 November 2017 (UTC)

As for WP:CITEVAR, see this RfC, which clearly established that vertical and horizontal cites can co-exist, as they are considered different styles, not different formats. Regardless, why would you use that as partial cover for including a blog when the actual reliable source is available, and all that's needed? Rockypedia (talk) 17:50, 28 November 2017 (UTC)

Rockypedia, you've changed both WP:CITEVAR and WP:DATEVAR to reinsert your preferred format. I'm not sure what your edit war here is about, other than to impose your preferred style. Alansohn (talk) 17:57, 28 November 2017 (UTC)

If you really really need to have a horizontal format on that page, since it appears you think you own it, I really don't care to edit war about that. And change the date format, too, fine. But you should definitely be aware of that RfC, which it appears you weren't. The bigger point here is the blog as a source, and you using the CITEVAR and DATEVAR as some sort of distraction is ridiculous. Again, you've made millions of edits, and you know better than that. Then again, I now see you've also been blocked a few dozen times for petty arguments, so maybe this is in line with how you operate. I don't know. Just leave the blog out. Rockypedia (talk) 18:00, 28 November 2017 (UTC)

Again, you said "violation of CITEVAR" in your edit summary. It's patently not a violation. Did you even bother to read this RfC? Rockypedia (talk) 18:04, 28 November 2017 (UTC)

Rockypedia, I've dealt with abusive editors like you before. You know you're dealing with a genuine WP:DICK when the claims made are directly contradicted by the claimed source.

The RfC in question explicitly cites both WP:CITESTYLE -- "While citations should aim to provide the information listed above, Wikipedia does not have a single house style, though citations within any given article should follow a consistent style. A number of citation styles exist including those described in the Wikipedia articles for Citation, APA style, ASA style, MLA style, The Chicago Manual of Style, Author-date referencing, the Vancouver system and Bluebook." -- and WP:CITEVAR -- "Editors should not attempt to change an article's established citation style merely on the grounds of personal preference, to make it match other articles, or without first seeking consensus for the change.". Both of these guidelines explicitly contradict your claims. If your contribution to this encyclopedia is to violate policy and change citation formats, please help us all. For now, get lost and fight some other edit war to impose your bullshit preferences. Alansohn (talk) 18:32, 28 November 2017 (UTC)