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Mauch Chunk Switchback Railway

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I noticed that you've done some editing to this article in the past and it has gotten quite a spate of changes recently - I think in general the edits are an improvement but the editor has left some broken syntax in their wake. I can't figure out what is wrong and would appreciate your taking a look. Thanks, Shearonink (talk) 05:40, 23 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

This should all be working now. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 08:27, 23 April 2017 (UTC).[reply]

Postal codes

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In this edit you changed MT to Montana where MT is an author's initials in |vauthors=Kosaki K, Bassi MT, ..., part of a {{cite journal}} template. Why would you do that?

—Trappist the monk (talk) 10:40, 27 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

It's an error. Thanks for letting me know. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 12:31, 27 April 2017 (UTC).[reply]


April events at Women in Red

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Welcome to Women in Red's
April 2017 worldwide online editathons.
Participation is welcome in any language.



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WikiProject Genealogy - newsletter No.4: Mail list created!

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Newsletter Nr 4, 2017-03-24, for WikiProject Genealogy (and Wikimedia genealogy project on Meta)

Participation:

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Wikidata weekly summary #253

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2017-03-27.

  • Development
    • Fixing a bug that prevented users to edit descriptions in some non-latin alphabets (phab:T161263)
    • Worked on Special:NewLexeme which will be used to create new Lexemes for supporting lexicographical data (phabricator:T157973)
    • Aligned some more colors with Wikimedia color palete (phabricator:T151194)
    • Added more autocompletion for the Wikidata Query Service (phabricator:T150950)
    • Started working on support for Forms of words in the UI for supporting lexicographical data (phabricator:T160520)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.


In some benign wp:CANVASSING

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Community input is politely requested for Jimbo's tkpg with regard ur expertise in gen. notability per wp:GNG & applicabilities of eg wp:PROF, wp:AUTH, etc. w/in AfD's
... here: User talk:Jimbo Wales#Suggested fix.--Hodgdon's secret garden (talk) 00:58, 28 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Wikidata weekly summary #254

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • A warm welcome to our new intern, Lucas Werkmeister! You may know him for his work on queries as WikidataFacts. He will work in the team for the next months.
    • Attending to Wikimedia Conference, talking with Wikidata and Wiktionary users
    • Improving performance on Special:Entities pages (phab:T161631)
    • Tracking the number of identifier properties on an item in page_props (phab:T114617)
    • More work on Senses (phab:T161523) and Forms (phab:T160524)
    • Improving the autocompletions of Query Service (phab:T150950)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

An update from the Sustainability Initiative

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Thank you for supporting the Sustainability Initiative!

Hi, Rich Farmbrough! Thank you again for supporting the Sustainability Initiative, which aims at reducing the environmental impact of the Wikimedia movement. Over the past two years, more than 200 Wikipedians from all over the world have come together to push the Wikimedia movement towards greater sustainability.

What's new?

We are writing you this message because there is great news: The Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation has finally passed a resolution stating that the Foundation is committed to seeking ways to reduce the impact of its activities on the environment. Also, we have created a cool logo and found a nice name for the project which you can see on the right :-)

What's next?

Currently, we are working with Wikimedia Foundation staff to make sustainability a key priority for the selection of a new location for Wikimedia servers in Singapore. Also, we have presented the Wikimedia Foundation with a green energy roadmap to have all Wikimedia servers run on renewable energy by 2019.

Please help!

Let's keep this project moving forward – and there are several ways in which you can help:

  • Ask other Wikipedians to sign the project page as well – this way we can show the Wikimedia Foundation that this is an issue that the community really cares about.
  • Talk to Wikimedians you know about the importance of reducing the environmental impact of the Wikimedia movement.
  • Improve and translate the project page on Meta.

If you have any questions, you can contact us on on Meta. Again, thank you very much for your support! --Aubrey and Gnom (talk) 22:13, 4 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Wikidata weekly summary #255

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • Preparing for making more ArticlePlaceholder indexable by search engines on Welsh Wikipedia (phab:T162244)
    • Preparing the deployments of Cognate and geoshape data type
    • Lexemes: starting adding sections for forms and senses

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

MfD nomination of Wikipedia:Competence is acquired

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Wikipedia:Competence is acquired, a page which you created or substantially contributed to (or which is in your userspace), has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; you may participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Competence is acquired and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of Wikipedia:Competence is acquired during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such a removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. Chris Troutman (talk) 02:11, 12 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Bots Newsletter, April 2017

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Bots Newsletter, April 2017

Greetings!

The BAG Newsletter is now the Bots Newsletter, per discussion. As such, we've subscribed all bot operators to the newsletter. You can subscribe/unsubscribe from future newsletters by adding/removing your name from this list.

Highlights for this newsletter include:

Arbcom

Magioladitis ARBCOM case has closed. The remedies of the case include:

  • Community encouraged to review common fixes
  • Community encouraged to review policy on cosmetic edits
  • Developers encouraged to improve AWB interface
  • Bot approvals group encouraged to carefully review BRFA scope
  • Reminders/Restrictions specific to Magioladitis
BRFAs

We currently have 27 open bot requests at Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval, and could use your help processing!

Discussions

There are multiple ongoing discussions surrounding bot-related matters. In particular:

New things

Several new things are around:

Wikimania

Wikimania 2017 is happening in Montreal, during 9–13 August. If you plan to attend, or give a talk, let us know!

Thank you! edited by:Headbomb 11:35, 12 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Nomination for deletion of Template:ASIN

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Template:ASIN has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Guy (Help!) 07:24, 13 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination for deletion of Template:Station exits

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Template:Station exits has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. – Train2104 (t • c) 19:24, 15 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion nomination of Sousa (disambiguation)

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A tag has been placed on Sousa (disambiguation) requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done for the following reason:

to move Sousa here.

Under the criteria for speedy deletion, pages that meet certain criteria may be deleted at any time.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be removed without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator, or if you have already done so, you can place a request here. Brainist (talk) 16:12, 16 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Template class

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Hi, you don't need to do this - for pages outside the main Talk: namespace, the class is automatically detected. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 18:56, 17 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Wikidata weekly summary #256

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

Events/Press/Blogs

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Other noteworthy stuff

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Did you know?

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Development

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You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

Monthly tasks

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T. Dudley Allen rename error in March 2015 (!)

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While researching something else, I stumbled on an article move you did over 2 years ago here. In the rename you misspelled the architect's name, making it T. Dudely Allen. It should be T. Dudley Allen, not "Dudely".

It gets worse. There's also a T. D. Allen which is a different (set of) people who are writers, and a whole bunch of redirects including T. Dudley Allen, Truman Allen, Truman Dudley Allen, Truman D. Allen and T.D. Allen (note the lack of spaces) now point you to the writers and not the architect. Which means a bunch of infoboxes in NRHP building articles take you to the those two writers instead of T. Dudley Allen the architect. And the hatnote on the article about the two writers is a circular reference! (Heads up to @Doncram: I think you created most of these redirects).

I rarely do article moves, and therefore I can't even wrap my head around how to unravel this mess - can you and Doncram get together and fix it? Thanks! --Krelnik (talk) 16:54, 18 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I have requested a move to fix the spelling. The redirects can either be sorted afterwards, or pointed to the incorrect spelling, relying on bots to fix the resulting double redirects. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 17:18, 18 April 2017 (UTC).[reply]
Now all done, simply awaiting the move. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 18:24, 18 April 2017 (UTC).[reply]
Hi. I see the move to T. Dudley Allen has been done, and I just edited further there. I checked all the articles on (NRHP-listed) works and confirm that their links go to the architect (i think Rich Farmbrough fixed them). All done for real. :) Thanks User:Krelnik for your good attention to detail and to Rich Farmbrough for fixing. cheers, --doncram 07:18, 19 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Awesome, thanks to you both! --Krelnik (talk) 13:53, 19 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

You say potato

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Hi Rich Farmbrough. Actually, according to Google Ngram, it is "Encyclopedia" Britannica, and by a large margin. The flatlining on Encyclopædia looks suspicious, but it's not entirely flatlined, so Google Ngram does recognize the string; so not sure what to make of that.

Regular Google hits are unreliable, but can give a general sense of magnitude. "Encyclopedia Britannica" gets 654,000 Google hits, while "Encyclopædia Britannica" gets 827,000, so the two strings are in the same ballpark, such that certainly "Encyclopædia Britannica" cannot be said to clearly be the WP:COMMONNAME.

As you know WP:COMMONNAME trumps WP:LEGALNAME. So since neither spelling clearly has the whip hand, plus the introduction of characters not in the normal Latin alphabet possibly isn't friendly to non-native speakers, I'm not seeing the need for a general crusade to change this. Or do you know something I don't know? Herostratus (talk) 11:33, 20 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I was just thinking of coming here and thanking Rich for his work correcting this misspelling, so here goes, thank you Rich, it is much appreciated. Misspellings make Wikipedia look shoddy. DuncanHill (talk) 11:36, 20 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you! All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 14:10, 20 April 2017 (UTC).[reply]
The Ngrams data is interesting, I suspect that it is an aritfact, probably of the OCR tool. Interestingly if you click the "case insensitive" box you get Search for "Encyclopædia Britannica" yielded only one result.
The Junior E B does not use the diphthong, nor do lazy journalists, nor, as you say, anyone restricted to basic Latin keyboard. We do not have an inbuilt preference for or against these graphemes, per WP:DIACRITICS, either for keyboarding or linguistic reasons.
The diphthong can be considered a nineteenth century affectation, however we generally go along with more extreme affectations than this, such as bell hooks, eBay and iPad.
Finally it is not a crusade, it is a boring slog. I would prefer we called it "that bloody book" right now. However if it were a crusade I would be at Antioch, the exercise is all but complete.
All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 14:10, 20 April 2017 (UTC).[reply]
Yeah OK. Well to each his own I guess. I mean I don't agree necessarily that it is "laziness", since certainly the word "encyclopedia" is not considered a misspelling (it might be considered an Americanism, or even an egregious barbarism, but that's not the same as a misspelling). Since the word is not a misspelling, IMO the case for "Encyclopædia" comes down to one of 1) it's made in Britain, and the British spell the common non "encyclopædia" or 2) it's how the company spells it.
The first is a WP:ENGVAR argument, and it could be correct (assuming the British do spell the common noun that way still, which I'm not even sure of that). But IMO ENGVAR is for article content, not about where the HQ of sources are located. And so you could end up with the article "The Americanness of Being American", peppered throughout the text with "encyclopedia", having a source named "Encyclopædia", which is the opposite of what's intended.
As to the second, yeah sometimes. We do "eBay" etc. because that's how (most) everyone else writes but. But we don't do "Macy*s" or "WAL*MART" etc, notwithstanding what's on their letterhead, because that's not how most everyone else writes it. So does (most) everyone worldwide write it ""Encyclopædia Britannica"? Or even most people? Maybe; not convinced yet.
But OK, it's not worth fighting about. Carry on. Herostratus (talk) 15:22, 20 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks, all done! All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 19:37, 20 April 2017 (UTC).[reply]


Food justice

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Hi!

Our Food Justice page got deleted but here's your work. Thank you for adding:

  Food and the body Disabled bodies and food According to a 2015 report by the CDC, 53 million people in the United States live with a disability. People with disabilities are more likely to be living in poverty and have reduced access to food. Disability and food justice advocates call for a both shift in public perception of disability as well as an increase in infrastructure supporting people with disabilities Disability and Food Studies scholars have discussed the way in which food becomes a site [clarification needed] in which ableism is perpetuated, whether difficulty obtaining food in grocery stores, inaccessible restaurants or discourses about "food as medicine", positing disability as something to be eliminated,. Disability scholar Kim Hall termed these discourses “alimentary ableism” critiquing the ways that they create dominant ideas about food and food justice.

Medicalization of food Food studies scholars have pointed to the biomedicalization of food as a site [clarification needed] of critique and analysis. Scholars who study the medicalization of food analyze the social and cultural forces which structure scientific and medical knowledge and how these forces have informed ideas of “food as medicine”. The power of the medical institution in the characterization of food as good or bad are traced, for instance, specifically through the development of Gerber baby food and the changing ideas for what was seen as healthy for infants and children during the 19th and 20th centuries.

While the "food as medicine" framework can improve access to "healthy" choices and remove stigma for some food related issues, scholars have found flaws this framework. Disability studies scholars have expressed concern with the narrative of good food preventing disability and the necessary tragedy which disability must play in such a discourse as well as the racist and classist undertones of "hygienic eating" and the focus of food systems on individual health rather than concern for worker safety. Additionally, scholars have critiqued the disproportionate medicalization of women’s lives (including food), the disguising of harmful socio-cultural forces as natural medical realities, and an unnecessary and excessive dependence on biomedical expertise and systems.

Genetically modified organisms Another concern for food justice is genetically modified organisms (GMOs), particularly how GMOs can be dangerous in the hands of big corporations. One example is wild rice. The documentary Manoomin: A Minesota Way of Life is part of a campaign against genetically engineered wild rice in the State of Minnesota. The film, aimed at state legislatures, details the cultural, spiritual, and historical significance of wild rice to the Ojibwe people of Minnesota. The threat to the rice comes from corporations who want to genetically engineer wild rice, which can then compromise the integrity of sanctity [clarification needed] of it.

Monsanto patenting of seeds has also been controversial for hurting farming. Vandana Shiva, an environmental activist, says that "Monsanto’s talk of 'technology' tries to hide its real objectives of ownership and control over seed where genetic engineering is just a means to control seed and the food system through patents and intellectual property rights." She claims Monsanto's patents on seeds are hurting farming in India. — Preceding unsigned comment added by EJAlly (talk • contribs) 23:49, 20 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! It's not really my work though. For anyone interested the page was userfied to User:Tamsberk/Food Justice. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 05:18, 21 April 2017 (UTC).[reply]

Wikidata weekly summary #257

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • Changing Special:NewProperty to not have a datatype selected by default (phab:T138295)
    • Restoration of deleted items broken on Wikidata (phab:T163144)
    • Making notifications when page is being connected to Wikidata ready to deploy (phab:T110604)
    • Writing basic documentation for WikibaseMediaInfo extension (phab:T159710)
    • Hiding header image gadget when sitelinks are floated below the statement section (phab:T160530)
    • Making the "add" button display the "add Form" form (phab:T162342)
    • Getting the datatype to link to tabular data sets on Commons ready to deploy (phab:T160048)
    • Showing supported data formats in Special:EntityData (phab:T162870)
    • Setting meta name="description" on article placeholders (phab:T157466)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.


Invitation

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Thank you for your contributions to articles about women on Wikipedia. I thought I'd let you know about the women's football/soccer task force, a collaborative effort to improve Wikipedia's coverage of women's football/soccer (WOSO). If you would like to participate, join by visiting the Members page. Thanks!

Problems with Bryan template modifications

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I've fix this one but you will need to check the rest. -- PBS (talk) 21:52, 27 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I came here with the same concern, this one is wrong after your correction. Fram (talk) 08:05, 28 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

But I notice that you self-corrected most of the others, so thank you. Fram (talk) 08:10, 28 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Drugs

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https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/67w5nr/wikipedia_is_no_longer_cuttingedge_on_covering/ All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 13:21, 28 April 2017 (UTC).[reply]

May 2017 at Women in Red

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Welcome to Women in Red's
May 2017 worldwide online editathons.
Participation is welcome in any language.



(To subscribe: Women in Red/English language list and Women in Red/international list. Unsubscribe: Women in Red/Opt-out list) --Rosiestep (talk) 19:22, 28 April 2017 (UTC) via MassMessaging[reply]

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