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Signpost interview request - Random Page Patrol

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Hello! I'm writing an article for The Signpost about the Random Page Patrol wikiproject. We often do interviews with Wikiproject members, and I saw your name on the list of members. As a relatively newer member and long-time Wiki contributor, I'd love to ask about the project, why you do it, and why you think it's valuable. I could drop a few questions for you below which you could answer in your own time over the next couple of weeks. Let me know - thank you! Ganesha811 (talk) 19:22, 9 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Ganesha811: Although I registered with Wikipedia 13 years ago, I have only been contributing (albeit significantly) for about a year now. If you're good with that, I am looking forward to your questions. — WILDSTARtalk 21:28, 9 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]
That's no problem at all! I'd still love to hear from you. I'll drop the questions below - if you could answer them by September 20th, 10 days from now, that would be idea. If you have any questions or clarifications, just ask. Thank you! Ganesha811 (talk) 12:54, 10 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • How did you come across the Random Page Patrol?
I first started to copy/edit articles on familiar topics, and then joined Wikipedia:Cleanup. At the time it was quiet there, so I decided to join similar Wikipedia projects and found Random Page Patrol.
  • Why did you decide to become a random page patroller? What do you find valuable about the project?
Random page patrollers are important in maintaining the integrity of the entire encyclopedia.
  • How often do you randomly page patrol? Do you use it mostly as a break from other Wikipedia contributions, or is it a major part of how you spend your time here?
All the time, and yes, sometimes it does provide a much needed break when more intensely engaged in other project areas.
  • Are there any articles you have edited as part of the Random Page Patrol that particularly stand out in your memory?
Yes. Just recently RPP took me to a copyright violation. What was particularly striking there was that the heading for the copyvio included the words "Taken directly from site", and that the copyvio went unnoticed for almost 3 years.
  • What would you say to someone considering joining the Patrol?
Feel free to join... like me, you may find that there is much to learn in doing so.
  • Is there anything else you'd like to add that I haven't asked you?
As mentioned here, Random Page Patrol can be fun, rewarding, and make you the first to discover "treasure" in the form of a wonderful article or page!
With that, I would like to thank you Ganesha811 for giving me the opportunity to participate in the writing of your The Signpost article. No pressure, but I am really looking forward to reading it! — WILDSTARtalk 23:16, 12 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you for your answers. I'll drop you a ping a few days before publication so you can look over the piece. There'll probably be some light editing to fit everything together, so I'll just want to make sure you're happy I haven't misrepresented you in any way. Ganesha811 (talk) 01:24, 13 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]
@Ganesha811: After reading and subscribing to The Signpost, I am providing you with more concise answers that should better suit the format of the magazine. Please use excerpts taken from this version for your article. Thank you! — WILDSTARtalk 14:43, 13 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Got it, thanks! I see you updated it on the draft, so should be all set. Ganesha811 (talk) 12:10, 19 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]
@WildStar: - the article has been edited. It's at Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Next issue/WikiProject report - please check it out ahead of publication on Sunday, and if you feel I've changed the meaning of any of your answers through editing, let me know and I'll fix it. Thank you again for participating! Ganesha811 (talk) 14:03, 24 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]
@Ganesha811: it looks good. I like how you intermingled everyone's responses for each of the questions. Great work! — WILDSTARtalk 16:00, 24 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 26 September 2021

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Pending changes reviewer granted

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Hello. Your account has been granted the "pending changes reviewer" userright, allowing you to review other users' edits on pages protected by pending changes. The list of articles awaiting review is located at Special:PendingChanges, while the list of articles that have pending changes protection turned on is located at Special:StablePages.

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Anarchyte (talk) 08:07, 1 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Friendly hello

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Just thought I'd drop by and say hi after noticing your edit at Theresa May. It is very strange that our usernames and signatures are so close haha. —WildComet talk 01:43, 17 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

WildComet, Hello there! Yes, I do remember editing Theresa May. In closing, please enjoy my attempt to visually align our Wikipedia signatures. — WILDSTARtalk 17:18, 17 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Be careful with AutoEd

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This edit with AutoEd was primarily cosmetic, fixing no actual errors, and broke at least one link by converting curly brace characters into actual braces. Please be careful with automated tools, and make sure that when you use them, you are fixing actual problems. – Jonesey95 (talk) 13:51, 21 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Jonesey95, actually, that edit was slightly more than cosmetic. Originally, my edit was to only fix the problematic [[Wikipedia:Short description|'''short description''']] to '''[[Wikipedia:Short description|short description]]''' which leaked the html tags <strong> and </strong> when mousing over the {{Short descriptions topicon}} seen when the "navigation popups" gadget is active. All to say, I was hopeful that AutoEd would have fixed that error (it did not), and unfortunately I missed the "%7D%7D" ASCII code and would have likely missed the susequent fix. I know that AutoEd is not perfect and needs work, and of course agree with you that care should indeed be taken when using user scripts, and going forward will be on the lookout for ASCII codes among other anomalies found when using AutoEd. Thank you for reaching out and all the best! — WILDSTARtalk 16:00, 21 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
As far as I know, [[Wikipedia:Short description|'''short description''']] is valid markup, used all over the place. I suggest that you submit a bug for the navigations popup gadget if it is leaking something that it should instead strip out. – Jonesey95 (talk) 16:09, 21 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

CFML

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I don't know that I necessarily agree with the closure of the RFD discussion, personally — but given that it has been closed, your next step would be to file a requested moves request to discuss moving CFML (disambiguation) to CFML. Bearcat (talk) 13:47, 26 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Bearcat, yes that premature closure was unfortunate. This caught my eye at WP:RM#CM: "Do not create a move request to rename one or more redirects". Any worries here? Also, can the article titled CFIX (AM) which now has more history about its former call sign CFML, be included in a CFML redirect, or is it better suited in the CFML (disambiguation) page?

Thanks

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Hello WS. I can't remember the last time I typed 5 tildes instead of four and this time I did it twice :-P Cheers. MarnetteD|Talk 18:18, 1 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

MarnetteD, ha ha... absolutely no worries! I'm sure I've done that too, and then some! :-) Thank you for this kind note. All the best! — WILDSTARtalk 18:36, 1 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
You are most welcome. Enjoy the rest of your week. MarnetteD|Talk 20:54, 1 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Sean Connery

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Sean Connery died in 2021 not 2020. 2600:1010:B126:1CA0:A9D1:6638:6CF9:2BC4 (talk) 01:03, 4 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Not according to his obit IP. MarnetteD|Talk 01:05, 4 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Your GA nomination of Cornwall Electric

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Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Cornwall Electric you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Ruthgrace -- Ruthgrace (talk) 18:01, 4 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Autopatrolled granted

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Hi WildStar, I just wanted to let you know that I have added the "autopatrolled" permission to your account, as you have created numerous, valid articles. This feature will have no effect on your editing, and is simply intended to reduce the workload on new page patrollers. For more information on the autopatrolled right, see Wikipedia:Autopatrolled. However, you should consider adding relevant wikiproject talk-page templates, stub-tags and categories to new articles that you create if you aren't already in the habit of doing so, since your articles will no longer be systematically checked by other editors (User:Evad37/rater and User:SD0001/StubSorter.js are useful scripts which can help). Feel free to leave me a message if you have any questions. Happy editing! – Joe (talk) 11:26, 6 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Your GA nomination of Cornwall Electric

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The article Cornwall Electric you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Cornwall Electric for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already appeared on the main page as a "Did you know" item, or as a bold link under "In the News" or in the "On This Day" prose section, you can nominate it within the next seven days to appear in DYK. Bolded names with dates listed at the bottom of the "On This Day" column do not affect DYK eligibility. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Ruthgrace -- Ruthgrace (talk) 13:21, 8 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

DYK for Cornwall Electric

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On 5 January 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Cornwall Electric, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that during the January 1998 North American ice storm, an employee at Cornwall Electric used a bow and arrow to provide power to a city? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Cornwall Electric. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Cornwall Electric), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. 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.

 — Amakuru (talk) 12:02, 5 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hook update
Your hook reached 5,783 views (481.9 per hour), making it one of the most viewed hooks of January 2022 – nice work!

theleekycauldron (talkcontribs) (they/she) 08:02, 6 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Theleekycauldron, that's amazing! Would it be possible to recognize, both the totals of Cornwall Electric, 5,783 (481.9 per hour) and those of January 1998 North American ice storm which received 8,061 (671.8 per hour) views, and to celebrate the even more impressive aggregated totals of 13,844 (1,153.7 per hour) views? Many thanks! — WILDSTARTALK 15:41, 6 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Oh wow! I'm sorry I didn't shuffle the hook to put the bolded article at the top. Unfortunately, the ice storm article would've had to have been bolded, which means it would've had to also pass the DYK criteria (particularly newly GA promoted/5x expanded). That's really rough, I've had hooks that lost out on the stats page because of that—still, though, 481.9 ain't nothin' to sneeze at! theleekycauldron (talkcontribs) (they/she) 20:40, 7 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Theleekycauldron, no worries and GTK (Good To Know)  :-) Thanks again! — WILDSTARTALK 15:45, 8 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

You are invited to join us on FOSS topics!

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Hi, WildStar! Thank you for your contributions to articles related to free and open-source software. I'd like to invite you to become a part of the free and open-source software task force, a project aimed at improving the quality of articles about free and open-source software on Wikipedia.

If you would like to participate, please visit the free and open-source software task force for more information. Feel free to sign your name under "Participants". Thanks! GavriilaDmitriev (talk) 10:56, 24 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I found you since you are currently an official participant of WT:FOSS. It is great to see how much you contribute to Wikipedia every day. Keep up the good work! We would love to have you be an active part of WT:FOSS and FOSS topics too. Feel free to join our talk page to see what recently happened (a lot!) GavriilaDmitriev (talk) 10:56, 24 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thomas Nast page

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During the last year, you have made suggestions to improve the Wikipedia entry on Thomas Nast. Accordingly, I want to call your attention to ThomasNast.com, a domain I have owned for 25 years and recently refreshed.

The site will give you a good overview of Nast in general and my biography in particular, America’s Most Influential Journalist: The Life, Times and Legacy of Thomas Nast. You can look at 160 Nast cartoons, each with its characters identified and its content and context explained. Categories include Christmas, Civil War, Lincoln, Tweed, Presidential Election Losers, Symbols, Shakespeare, and Inflation. The site’s purpose is to educate people about Nast and his work, as well as to preview my book.

The only previous substantive biography of Nast was published by Albert Bigelow Paine in 1902, and is frequently cited in Wikipedia. Although Paine was a good storyteller, his book has many significant errors and omissions because Nast misinformed him (eg., Nast never went to the front during the Civil War) or didn’t tell him about important events (Nast spent a year, beginning in May 1867, on his Grand Caricaturama (33 9 by 12 foot pictures in a traveling panorama which failed), Paine gave it two sentences).

There were also facts about his life that neither he nor Paine knew. Eg., Nast thought he was born on September 27, 1840, but his Landau birth certificate, issued under the auspices of the King of Bavaria, shows it was September 26. Understandable, every prior mention of his birth date is incorrect. I have made the correction to his Wikipedia entry along with a a copy of his birth certificate.

My 830-page biography contains 1,000 Nast cartoons, illustrations, sketches and paintings — 800 from Harper’s Weekly and 200 from other sources. The manually-created Index is predicated solely on Nast’s output. It includes Nast’s Life and Work; Topics/Issues and People/Characters. You can view the entire Index on ThomasNast.com. Harpweek (talk) 17:24, 2 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Cliff Richard re-release

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Where can you put the information of the 2022 remaster, could you please add to Cliff Richard discography, plus the re-release singles — Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.106.3.24 (talk) 17:42, 29 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

  • It's just a re-release of his 2001 album which was already listed here and as for the remaster in 2022 with the two singles (for digital download), you already mentioned it here. Not sure that a re-release needs or should be added to the discography article. Hopefully that helps! All the best! — WILDSTARTALK 18:02, 29 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Image tagging for File:Capturing the Killer Nurse.jpg

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The template {{Non-free use rationale poster}} was missing the closing brackets. My bad! — WILDSTARTALK 20:59, 6 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Good-faith disruptive editing

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I have reverted your recent good faith edit in Governor General's Award for English-language non-fiction because it appears to be a modification of the links in the article. However, I am 100% sure this won't continue. I appear to count this as good-faith disruptive editing because it is not harming the contributor. SpyridisioAnnis Discussion 10:07, 23 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I have restored the edit, a perfectly sensible link to a new article. If there is an issue with that article, removing links is not a helpful way forward. CMD (talk) 10:17, 23 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Chipmunkdavis, thank you! — WILDSTARTALK 12:54, 23 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Colleen Murphy

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Can't say I have any particularly strong opinions about that. I've never heard of the other person listed on the disambiguation page, personally, but most people have never heard of the Canadian filmmaker either, so I'd be hard-pressed to mount a convincing argument that she's more notable than the other person. If you're really wedded to it, you of course have the option of starting a WP:RM request to have the page moved back where it was, but I wouldn't say it looks worth the fight to me -- as long as the Canadian filmmaker isn't being listed for outright deletion, which I'd obviously oppose on the grounds of her notable literary and film award nominations, I don't really care that much whether she's disambiguated or not. Bearcat (talk) 19:34, 5 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Bearcat, I'm good with it, if you are too! :) Thanks! — WILDSTARTALK 20:48, 5 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

We Die Young (film 2019)

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Please create an article for We Die Young (2019) starring Jean-Claude Van Damme. Alimir1986 (talk) 15:10, 7 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Alimir1986, I saw the film and your Draft:We Die Young (film), but regrettably, I believe there isn't enough coverage for this one, and I would be hard-pressed to meet any of the requirements at WP:NFILM, which would almost certainly merit an AfD, which would be in my opinion, even more disappointing. You could also make an article request here. — WILDSTARTALK 20:07, 7 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

For future reference

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Please don't cite Goodreads as a source (as you did here), because it's user-generated: basically the equivalent of Some Random Person's Blog. DS (talk) 20:45, 8 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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