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Chopin talk page

I had already added the Guardian article to the Chopin talk page, 15 minutes before you did. --Viennese Waltz 12:07, 25 November 2020 (UTC)

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Thank you for article work in November! Look today at BB music, a little crusade of mine ;) - his birthday on St Cecilia's day, patron saint of music. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:44, 22 November 2020 (UTC)

Today's DYK: to be sung "happily" --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:51, 26 November 2020 (UTC)

Emma Turner

I think it's MOS that we don't keep repeating links, but I'm not bothered enough to make an issue of it. I'm astonished that Rothschild misspelt his own surname, but if you are sure of that, so be it, cheers Jimfbleak - talk to me? 19:16, 27 November 2020 (UTC)

Incidentally, do we have a ref for the signatories? I was going to check the spelling but I'm not sure of the source Jimfbleak - talk to me? 19:20, 27 November 2020 (UTC)
Jimfbleak MoS was changed a while back to allow moderate repeating of links (MOS:REPEATLINK); typo was mine (now fixed); citation is in the article ("Observers of Birds". The Times. 1 July 1933.) Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 20:38, 27 November 2020 (UTC)

Hi. Thanks for commenting at the recent AfD for the above list. There is now an ongoing discussion around the best way to split the list, if any, if you wish to comment further. Lugnuts Fire Walk with Me 17:42, 29 November 2020 (UTC)

The Signpost: 29 November 2020

Wikidata weekly summary #444

17:44, 30 November 2020 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – December 2020

News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2020).

Administrator changes

removed AndrwscAnetodeGoldenRingJzGLinguistAtLargeNehrams2020

Interface administrator changes

added Izno

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

Arbitration


Implausible Age on Template:Infobox person/Wikidata appears to be fixed

I wanted to give you a heads up that the implausible age issue you cited on Template talk:Infobox person/Wikidata#Implausible age appears to be fixed. You said the issue appeared on Colin Campbell Garbett, and I'll leave it up to you if that means that it's ready to use the Wikidata infobox template. -Thunderforge (talk) 02:23, 1 December 2020 (UTC)

@Thunderforge: Thank you. We've since found full dates for Garbett, but I will look out for other examples. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 09:20, 1 December 2020 (UTC)

Had to undo one of your edits

it might not be mentioned on the talk page but it it mentioned at Wikipedia:Conflict of interest/Noticeboard Dq209 (talk) 13:56, 2 December 2020 (UTC)

You "had to" do no such thing; please refer to the template's documentation - the requirements detailed there are both unambiguous and clearly highlighted. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 14:03, 2 December 2020 (UTC)
Thank you for clearifing why you removed it and I won't re add it again.Dq209 (talk) 14:13, 2 December 2020 (UTC)

Crappy-sidebar TfD stuff

You might find this of interest, including my post mortem on the "no consensus" TfD that came after the successful ones.  — SMcCandlish ¢ 😼  21:57, 2 December 2020 (UTC)

16:14, 7 December 2020 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #445

New Page Patrol December Newsletter

Hello Pigsonthewing,

A chart of the 2020 New Page Patrol Queue

Year in review

It has been a productive year for New Page Patrol as we've roughly cut the size of the New Page Patrol queue in half this year. We have been fortunate to have a lot of great work done by Rosguill who was the reviewer of the most pages and redirects this past year. Thanks and credit go to JTtheOG and Onel5969 who join Rosguill in repeating in the top 10 from last year. Thanks to John B123, Hughesdarren, and Mccapra who all got the NPR permission this year and joined the top 10. Also new to the top ten is DannyS712 bot III, programmed by DannyS712 which has helped to dramatically reduce the number of redirects that have needed human patrolling by patrolling certain types of redirects (e.g. for differences in accents) and by also patrolling editors who are on on the redirect whitelist.

Rank Username Num reviews Log
1 DannyS712 bot III (talk) 67,552 Patrol Page Curation
2 Rosguill (talk) 63,821 Patrol Page Curation
3 John B123 (talk) 21,697 Patrol Page Curation
4 Onel5969 (talk) 19,879 Patrol Page Curation
5 JTtheOG (talk) 12,901 Patrol Page Curation
6 Mcampany (talk) 9,103 Patrol Page Curation
7 DragonflySixtyseven (talk) 6,401 Patrol Page Curation
8 Mccapra (talk) 4,918 Patrol Page Curation
9 Hughesdarren (talk) 4,520 Patrol Page Curation
10 Utopes (talk) 3,958 Patrol Page Curation
Reviewer of the Year

John B123 has been named reviewer of the year for 2020. John has held the permission for just over 6 months and in that time has helped cut into the queue by reviewing more than 18,000 articles. His talk page shows his efforts to communicate with users, upholding NPP's goal of nurturing new users and quality over quantity.

NPP Technical Achievement Award

As a special recognition and thank you DannyS712 has been awarded the first NPP Technical Achievement Award. His work programming the bot has helped us patrol redirects tremendously - more than 60,000 redirects this past year. This has been a large contribution to New Page Patrol and definitely is worthy of recognition.

Six Month Queue Data: Today – 2262 Low – 2232 High – 10271

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This Month in GLAM: November 2020





Headlines
  • AfLIA Wikipedia in African Libraries report: Launch of Wikipedia in African Libraries Project Pilot Cohort
  • Brazil report: Accessibility through audio descriptions, GLAM tutorials, WikidataCon 2021 and more updates on Brazilian GLAMs
  • Canada report: Taking a tour of CAPACOA workshops and some recent example sets from commons
  • Germany report: German symphony orchestra releases audio samples under free license
  • India report: Re-licensing of content on water & rivers in India
  • Indonesia report: #WikiSejarah WPWP Campaign
  • Netherlands report: Wikipedia and Education, Funding granted for two projects in 2021, KB completes collection highlights project
  • Serbia report: GLAM in Serbia makes important steps in the digitization of cultural heritage
  • Spain report: Edit-a-thons on women scientists and painters
  • Sweden report: Music, UNESCO and Wikidata
  • UK report: Hundreds of Khalili images
  • USA report: Black Lunch Table & Museum Computer Network
  • Calendar: December's GLAM events
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DYK for Sandister Tei

On 12 December 2020, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Sandister Tei, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Wikimedian of the Year Sandister Tei (pictured) of Ghana is a former multimedia journalist for Al Jazeera? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Sandister Tei. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Sandister Tei), and it may be added to the statistics page if it received over 400 views per hour. 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.

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 00:02, 12 December 2020 (UTC)

Beer

Hmmm, it just seemed to me that this isn't particularly notable info. Take any other random industry -the garment industry -should every business and their product lines need a mention? Even more extreme - where they are located and of what the garments are composed? Most of these business have only a handful of employees and will likely cease existing within a decade, their product lines have an even lower life expectancy -some of these craft beers will only exist a season.

Look, I was looking at articles for deletion earlier and some people were saying the fourth most important uranium mine in the world by volume was not notable enough for inclusion... How come tiny local beer start-ups are worshipped so? Seems silly.

Also, you say "restore sources" -I never removed those? Leo Breman (talk) 00:46, 12 December 2020 (UTC)

Question re. sandbox

Hello. I've looked for an answer to this question elsewhere without success, so I hope you don't mind this entry. I just created a new page titled Other Afternoons. When I moved the page from my sandbox to the main space, it brought along the history of other pages that I had previously worked on in the sandbox back in November (specifically Spiritual Unity and Live in Paris (1975) (Lost ORTF Recordings)). In other words, the history for Other Afternoons (which I started working on today) contains info regarding edits to other pages.

Is there any way to correct this problem? Can you please tell me how I can avoid repeating this mistake? Many thanks, best wishes, and apologies for the screw-up! Helen Puffer Thwait (talk) 15:26, 12 December 2020 (UTC)

@Helen Puffer Thwait: In future, copy the code (if using the code editor) from your sandbox to a brand new page.
To fix this instance, you'll need to ask an admin to undo the page move, delete the new page, and then you can act as I suggest above. Note that this can only be done if no-one else has made a substantial edit to the page in the interim. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 15:43, 12 December 2020 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CLXXVI, December 2020

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Wikidata weekly summary #446

21:33, 14 December 2020 (UTC)

This Month in Education: November 2020

This Month in Education

Volume 9 • Issue 11 • November 2020


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Precious anniversary

Precious
Eight years!

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