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Garbage picking article renaming

You previously opposed a merger of the garbage picking article. Well, now someone wants to rename the article "dumpster diving" which I feel is not a good idea as it's not inclusive of the various situations discussed in the article. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Garbage_picking#Requested_move_31_August_2015 He already did the renaming once without any consensus. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Garbage_picking#Garbage_Picking_to_Dumpster_Diving_Move.2Frename_should_be_reverted. I thought you might not have seen the requested move and might wish to have your say one way or another. Thanks. Centerone (talk) 16:15, 2 September 2015 (UTC)

@Centerone: Thanks for the notification about matters occurring there. I may or may not become involved at this time. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 16:17, 2 September 2015 (UTC)

Hook

I think this is a better hook. We don't need to be so tentative. Active voice is better. I would propose it myself, but then you would need a new reviewer.

• ALT2 ...that around divers, hooded cuttlefish (pictured) are more curious and confident than squid or octopus? 7&6=thirteen (☎) 15:55, 2 September 2015 (UTC)

 Done. That works. Modified the ALT at the nomination. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 16:00, 2 September 2015 (UTC)

Your present hooks says: that hooded cuttlefish (pictured) are more curious and confident around divers than squid or octopus?

This is an Eats Shoots and Leaves problem. My version gets rid of the ambiguity. Makes it clear that there is a comparison of cuttlefish to squid or octopus. Sorry to be picky like that, but ... Best regards. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 16:29, 2 September 2015 (UTC)

 Done. It is now verbatim at the nomination as you suggested above. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 16:32, 2 September 2015 (UTC)

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further deletion of The Brothers' Network Page

Hello,

I see that you deleted the article for The Brothers' Network page. However, when searching for The Brothers' Network on other search engines, the link to the Wikipedia page is the first result, and it takes the user to the "this page has been deleted" page. Is there a way to completely erase the page and link to it or have the deleted article unsearchable?

Thank you for your help. — Preceding unsigned comment added by JBhasare (talk • contribs) 17:25, 2 September 2015 (UTC)

@JBhasare: Check out Wikipedia:Oversight, where you can ask an oversighter for enhanced deletion. The most punctual way to contact them is by email. I'm not a Wikipedia oversighter, so I cannot perform said actions. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 11:30, 3 September 2015 (UTC)

DYK haggis pakora

Is there anything else I should be doing to get someone else to check my work on this review? valereee (talk) 17:12, 3 September 2015 (UTC)

@Valereee: In my reviews I usually include whether or not content of the hook is backed by an inline citation to a reliable source in the article, as per section 3 of WP:WIADYK. This does not appear to be present in the review you provided at the discussion. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 23:34, 3 September 2015 (UTC)

Wikiproject Brands?

Wikiproject Brands seems to attract low interest and use, is it abandoned? Lately I have been updating a whole lot of articles and noticing the little work done to improve these articles. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lucasstar1 (talk • contribs) 00:45, 3 September 2015 (UTC)

@Lucasstar1: There have been four member sign-ups in 2015 (including yours) at the project, so I wouldn't call it abandoned. Perhaps consider sending out invitations to editors you know who may be interested in the project's scope. This can be done using: {{subst:WikiProject Brands invitation}}. Part of the reason I created the project was to have one focused upon brand-name products, which was previously lacking on Wikipedia. Prior to when WP:BRANDS was created, Wikiproject Companies was the closest fit. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 23:37, 3 September 2015 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 37, 2015)

Two high divers in mid-air Hello, Northamerica1000. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: High diving Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Plain dress • Historic house Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: EuroCarGT (talk) 00:22, 7 September 2015 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

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Robert Paulele Article

Hi,

It looks like you had deleted a bio article for Robert Paulele (Cincinnati Bengals draft pick 2008) back in 2014. I would like to add current relevant NFL related coaching information to his page but it is no longer accessible. Can this article be undeleted please?

Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by DawsonNFL (talk • contribs) 01:10, 9 September 2015 (UTC)

• @DawsonNFL: It is unlikely that the article can be restored without the subject's notability being demonstrated in terms of meeting criteria at WP:BASIC, WP:NCOLLATH or WP:NGRIDIRON. The Robert Paulele article has been deleted a total of four times (click on the red link to review the deletion history). The deletion I performed was per consensus at the deletion discussion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Robert Paulele. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 01:16, 9 September 2015 (UTC)

Hiiii ~Am

Hi y did u edit mattybs page btw I love mattyb 💕 😂 --64.18.45.4 (talk) 19:23, 10 September 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-39

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• There is now an experimental Wikimedia maps service. You can give feedback here. [9][10]
• Last week a few issues with UploadWizard were fixed. Before this was done, UploadWizard would stop you from uploading your files if something went wrong. [11][12][13][14]
• More Wikipedias can now use information from any Wikidata item in any Wikipedia article. Previously they could only use the Wikidata item that matched the subject of the article. [15]
• The VisualEditor welcome dialogue has been changed. The intention is to make it more helpful for new users. [16]

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• Wikimedia Labs' HTTPS certificate expired for most of Tuesday 15 September. To reach Wikimedia Labs and Tool Labs securely you had to ignore your browser's security error message. There was no risk to data security during this time. [17]
• Last week the notification system was split into two parts. This was temporarily undone because of a bug and performance concerns. It will return to two parts this week. [18][19]
• UploadWizard couldn't upload files larger than 5 MB when using chunked uploads. This has now been fixed. [20]

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• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from September 22. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from September 23. It will be on all Wikipedias from September 24 (calendar).
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• Wikibooks can now use data from Wikidata. [23]

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This week's article for improvement (week 38, 2015)

Transection of a human head Hello, Northamerica1000. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Head Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: High diving • Plain dress Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: EuroCarGT (talk) 00:11, 14 September 2015 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

Ref 1 has been used extensively. Details of this source are not available, not even the title of the source.--Nvvchar. 11:17, 14 September 2015 (UTC)

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Draft:Paige Beattie

Hi North, I'm happy to call Draft:Paige Beattie WP:G2 but I see that you changed your mind? Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 12:38, 12 September 2015 (UTC)

@Callanecc: I did not change my mind, my only edit to the page was adding {{db-test}}, and you deleted the article. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 12:41, 12 September 2015 (UTC)

I was looking at your deletion then restoration, sorry should have been clearer. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 12:42, 12 September 2015 (UTC)

@Callanecc: Now I see. I often tag articles for speedy deletion, rather than outright deleting them, so the actual deletion occurs as a seconding of the nomination. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 12:47, 12 September 2015 (UTC)

Righto, no worries :) Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 12:47, 12 September 2015 (UTC)

@Callanecc: Thanks for the replies. Cheers, North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 12:49, 12 September 2015 (UTC)

High diving

I have added more text. It is now worth posting on DYK.--Nvvchar. 02:12, 9 September 2015 (UTC)

• @Nvvchar: Thanks for your significant additions to High diving. Per my calculations, the article has not quite been expanded five-fold to qualify for DYK, as per WP:WIADYK. Prior to TAFI's collaboration, the article had 822 characters, (link), and presently (as of this post) has 3358 characters (diff). The article needs to pass 4110 characters to qualify for DYK. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 02:19, 9 September 2015 (UTC)

• I have expanded further. Now it is more than 4200.--Nvvchar. 06:39, 9 September 2015 (UTC)

• @Nvvchar: Thanks for the update, and for your work to improve the article. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 17:11, 9 September 2015 (UTC)
• At the end of the week you may consider posting it on DYK. My hook suggestion ... that the High diving (pictured) debuted as a sport at the 2013 World Aquatics Championships in Barcelona?Nvvchar. 01:25, 11 September 2015 (UTC)

• @Nvvchar: A nomination was performed by Sovereign Sentinel, located at Template:Did you know nominations/High diving. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 06:29, 14 September 2015 (UTC)

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DYK for Shark meat

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 02:06, 16 September 2015 (UTC)

I saw this on the main page and my first thought was that you were probably involved. — Mudwater ^(Talk) 02:36, 16 September 2015 (UTC)

Hey @Mudwater: Nice to hear from you. You thought right! North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 02:37, 16 September 2015 (UTC)

Weird

I happened to stumble upon the user User:Northamerica1001, a rather blatant impersonator of you, it would seem, who made some edits in 2012 and then stopped editing altogether. Just letting you know in case you want to block him or something. Everymorning (talk) 03:40, 16 September 2015 (UTC)

@Everymorning: Thanks for the notice. It could simply be someone who wanted to use such a user name, but upon noting that it was taken, then changed a digit. There's not much to go on, but from their contribution history, it does not appear that they were trying to impersonate me. Then again, maybe they were. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 06:35, 16 September 2015 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 39, 2015)

"Boy on white horse" by Theodor Kittelsen Hello, Northamerica1000. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Scottish mythology Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Head • High diving Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: EuroCarGT (talk) 00:10, 21 September 2015 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

• There are long sections without any referencing. Tried but could find suitable references.--Nvvchar. 09:31, 22 September 2015 (UTC)

FPT Group: Revision history

• FPT Group (history · logs)

Hello, Northamerica1000. You hid some revisions on this page due to a copyright violation. Would you mind taking a quick look at it, please? I noticed there is one revision (23 February 2015) that is still visible, even though it is surrounded by revisions that were hidden. According to the edit summary, it must be quite similar to the version that preceded it, so I was wondering whether it was intentional to have this revision still visible? Thanks! – Wdchk (talk) 12:51, 17 September 2015 (UTC)

@Wdchk:  Done. Revdeleted the 07:01, 23 February 2015 version. Thanks for bringing this to my attention. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 12:56, 17 September 2015 (UTC)

Please undelete Art strike

Hiya, can you undelete Art Strike please - if you google it you will find it is a significant, if somewhat obscure avant-garde, art movement/practice. I am creating some resources over on Wikiversity and there was some discussion on this, see https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Talk:Art_movements/Avant-Garde/Art_Strike

Also if you search within Wikipedia, there are lots of mentions of the art strike on other pages, eg artists pages and art event pages, showing that this is a real, notable and documented phenomenon and would serve the purposes of WP to have its own page. see https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?search=%22art+strike%22&title=Special%3ASearch&go=Go

Would be greatly appreciated. My main reason is that I want to do some work on Wikidata with avant-garde/ modernist/ anti-art etc for a workshop on the 100th anniversary of Dada... Thanks in advance, Dx (talk) 07:07, 16 September 2015 (UTC)

@Dx: After several source searches, there are some sources that provide significant coverage about the topic from reliable sources to qualify the topic's notability. A problem with the version of the article that was deleted was that most of the content was not sourced (it only had one source and inline citation). I am willing to userfy the article to your userspace, but strongly recommend basing an article upon what reliable sources state about the topic and concept, using inline citations to verify the content.

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The following are some of the sources I found: [24] (scroll down), [25] (scroll down), [26], [27], [28], [29]. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 07:31, 16 September 2015 (UTC)

Ok thanks for this - I have made the page at : User:Dx/Art Strike. Shall I let you know once I have got it ready? Thanks again Dx (talk) 12:23, 17 September 2015 (UTC)

@Dx:  Done. The page has been userfied to User:Dx/Art Strike. Please be sure to take into serious consideration the advice I provided above, and thank you for your work to improve Wikipedia. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 12:28, 17 September 2015 (UTC)

Ok thanks. I will work on it so it takes in all the references you have sourced, before I submit it. Thanks again for your help Dx (talk) 13:34, 17 September 2015 (UTC)

@Dx: Sure thing. Also, keep in mind that additional sources are available, above and beyond the examples I provided above (see below). North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 13:58, 17 September 2015 (UTC)

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How to request file moving?

Hello, Northamerica1000, are there any pages around Wikipedia that request file moving? If not, may you create and establish such a page please? Well, there is a request page for page protection, where non-admins can request for page protection, but there isn't one for file moving, I don't think. Qwertyxp2000 (talk | contribs) 10:48, 17 September 2015 (UTC)

• Hello @Qwertyxp2000:

• To request a file name change, use the {{Rename media}} template, which lists nominated articles at Category:Wikipedia files requiring renaming.
• Note that per Wikipedia:File mover, "Files uploaded to Commons cannot be renamed by Wikipedia administrators or filemovers". In other words, files hosted at Wikimedia Commons have to be dealt with at Commons.
• Requests for File name change information at Wikimedia Commons can be made is located at Commons:File renaming.
• FYI, for articles, templates and project pages, see Wikipedia:Requested moves. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 11:01, 17 September 2015 (UTC)

– North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 11:01, 17 September 2015 (UTC)

• This is helpful. Thank you. Qwertyxp2000 (talk | contribs) 20:39, 17 September 2015 (UTC)

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• In UploadWizard, the dialog to see an image preview has been removed. You already see the images in the thumbnails when you upload them. [30]
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• The Wikimedia mailing lists have been upgraded. [35]
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Problems

• Some visitors had problems reaching the Wikimedia sites for an hour on September 24. [37][38]

Changes this week

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15:15, 28 September 2015 (UTC)

DYK for Haggis pakora

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 00:01, 21 September 2015 (UTC)