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Feedback request: Language and linguistics request for comment



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''The Signpost'': 26 September 2021



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Administrators' newsletter – October 2021



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:* Following an RfC ↗, extended confirmed protection may be used preemptively on certain high-risk templates ↗.
:*Following a discussion at the Village Pump ↗, there is consensus to treat discord logs the same as IRC logs. This means that discord logs will be oversighted if posted onwiki.

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:*A motion ↗ has standardised the 500/30 (extended confirmed) restrictions placed by the Arbitration Committee. The standardised restriction is now listed in the Arbitration Committee's procedures ↗.
:*Following the closure of the Iranian politics ↗ case, standard discretionary sanctions are authorized ↗ for all edits about, and all pages related to, post-1978 Iranian politics, broadly construed.
:*The Arbitration Committee encourages uninvolved administrators ↗ to use the discretionary sanctions procedure in topic areas where it is authorised to facilitate consensus in RfCs. This includes, but is not limited to, enforcing sectioned comments, word/diff limits and moratoriums on a particular topic from being brought in an RfC for up to a year.

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:* Editors have approved ↗ expanding the trial of Growth Features from 2% of new accounts to 25%, and the share of newcomers getting mentorship from 2% to 5%. Experienced editors are invited to add themselves to the mentor list ↗.
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''The Signpost'': 31 October 2021



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Administrators' newsletter – November 2021



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:* Phase 2 ↗ of the 2021 RfA review ↗ has commenced which will discuss potential solutions to address the 8 issues found in Phase 1 ↗. Proposed solutions that achieve consensus will be implemented and you may propose solutions till 07 November 2021.

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:*The 2021 CheckUser and Oversight appointments process ↗ has concluded with the appointment of five new CheckUsers and two new Oversighters.

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ARS Public School ↗ (3rd nomination)


You were a participant in the just closed 2nd nomination for deletion.<br>
"She breaches." Captain Ahab ↗ and his White Whale ↗. 'They pull you back in.' {{ndash}} Michael Corleone ↗ <span style="text-shadow:#396 0.2em 0.2em 0.5em; class=texhtml"><b style="color:#060">7&amp;6=thirteen</b> (<b style="color:#000">☎</b>)</span> 00:15, 10 November 2021 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2021 November 12#Draft:Soviet Boris Yeltsin ↗



Why would you close Draft:Soviet Boris Yeltsin ↗ without having a discussion? Personally, I don't see how your position is "obvious" and think it would be better left as a comment instead of a close. I do agree with the nominator that I see no reason for keeping this as a redirect and would like to see it deleted, possibly as a vandalism-ish creation. -- <span style="color:#000080; font-family:georgia">'''T'''avix</span> <sup>(<span style="color:#000080; font-family:georgia">talk</span>)</sup> 01:43, 14 November 2021 (UTC)

User:Inclusionist~enwiki/test5 RfD closure



Hi J947, I reverted your blanking of the redirect and closure of that RfD because nobody even suggested blanking as an option (hence no opposition) and because it was not even a day old. I don't see any basis for that close in policy and it reads to me as a left-field supervote ↗ of a discussion that has barely started, let alone drawn to a close. <span style="color:#BA5D00"><u>''ev''</u>iolite</span> <span style="color:#008484">(talk)</span> 03:43, 17 November 2021 (UTC)

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''The Signpost'': 29 November 2021



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Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 22



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''The Signpost'': 28 December 2021



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New Page Patrol newsletter May 2022



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At the time of the last newsletter (No.26, September 2021), the backlog was 'only' just over 6,000 articles. In the past six months, the backlog has reached nearly 16,000, a staggering level not seen in several years. A very small number of users had been doing the vast majority of the reviews. Due to "burn-out", we have recently lost most of this effort. Furthermore, several reviewers have been stripped of the user right for abuse of privilege and the articles they patrolled were put back in the queue.

Several discussions on the state of the process have taken place on the talk page ↗, but there has been no action to make any changes. The project also lacks coordination since the "position" is vacant.

In the last 30 days, only 100 reviewers ↗ have made more than 8 patrols and only 50 have averaged one review a day. There are currently {{NUMBEROFNEWPAGEPATROLLERS}} ↗ New Page Reviewers, but about a third have not had any activity in the past month. All {{NUMBEROFADMINS:R}} administrators have this permission, but only about a dozen significantly contribute to NPP.

This means we have an active pool of about 450 to address the backlog. We cannot rely on a few to do most of the work as that inevitably leads to burnout. A fairly experienced reviewer can usually do a review in a few minutes. If every active reviewer would patrol just one article per day, the backlog would very quickly disappear.

If you have noticed a user with a ''good'' understanding of Wikipedia notability and deletion, do suggest they help the effort by placing {{tq|<nowiki>{{subst:NPR invite}}</nowiki>}} on their talk page.

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At the time of the last newsletter (No.27, May 2022), the backlog was approaching 16,000, having shot up rapidly from 6,000 over the prior two months. The attention the newsletter brought to the backlog sparked a flurry of activity. There was new discussion ↗ on process improvements, efforts to invite new editors to participate in NPP increased and more editors requested the NPP user right so they could help, and most importantly, the number of reviews picked up and the backlog decreased, dipping below 14,000{{efn|not including another ~6,000 redirects}} at the end of May.

Since then, the news has not been so good. The backlog is basically flat, hovering around 14,200. I wish I could report the number of reviews done and the number of new articles added to the queue. But the available statistics we have are woefully inadequate. The only real number we have is the net queue size.{{efn|The number of weekly reviews reported in the NPP feed includes redirects, which are not included in the backlog we primarily track.}}

In the last 30 days, the top 100 reviewers ↗ have all made more than 16 patrols (up from 8 last month), and about 70 have averaged one review a day (up from 50 last month).

While there are more people doing more reviews, many of the ~730 with the NPP right are doing little. Most of the reviews are being done by the top 50 or 100 reviewers. They need your help. We appreciate every review done, but please aim to do one a day (on average, or 30 a month).

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A backlog reduction drive, coordinated by buidhe and Zippybonzo, will be held from July 1 to July 31. Sign up here ↗. 25px ↗ Barnstars will be awarded.

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Many new articles on schools are being created by new users in developing and/or non-English-speaking countries. The authors are probably not even aware of Wikipedia's projects and policy pages. WP:WPSCH/AG ↗ has some excellent advice and resources specifically written for these users. Reviewers could consider providing such first-time article creators with a link to it while also mentioning that not all schools pass the GNG and that elementary schools are almost certainly not notable.

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There is a new template available, {{txl|NPP backlog}}, to show the current backlog. You can place it on your user or talk page as a reminder:
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There has been significant discussion at WP:VPP ↗ recently on NPP-related matters (Draftification, Deletion, Notability, Verifiability, Burden). Proposals that would somewhat ease the burden on NPP aren't gaining much traction, although there are suggestions that the role of NPP be fundamentally changed to focus only on major CSD-type issues.

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After the last newsletter (No.28, June 2022), the backlog declined another 1,000 to 13,000 in the last week of June. Then the July backlog drive began, during which 9,900 articles were reviewed and the backlog fell by 4,500 to just under 8,500 (these numbers illustrate how many new articles regularly flow into the queue). Thanks go to the coordinators {{u|Buidhe}} and {{u|Zippybonzo}}, as well as all the nearly 100 participants. Congratulations to {{u|Dr vulpes}} who led with 880 points. See this page ↗ for further details.

Unfortunately, most of the decline happened in the first half of the month, and the backlog has already risen to 9,600. Understandably, it seems many backlog drive participants are taking a break from reviewing and unfortunately, we are not even keeping up with the inflow let alone driving it lower. We need the '''other 600 reviewers''' to do more! Please try to do at least '''one a day'''.

;Coordination: {{u|MB}} and {{u|Novem Linguae}} have taken on some of the coordination tasks. Please let them know if you are interested in helping out. {{u|MPGuy2824}} will be handling recognition, and will be retroactively awarding the annual barnstars that have not been issued for a few years.

;Open letter to the WMF: The Page Curation software needs urgent attention. There are dozens of bug fixes and enhancements that are stalled (listed at Suggested improvements ↗). We have written a letter to be sent to the WMF and we encourage as many patrollers as possible to sign it here ↗. We are also in negotiation with the Board of Trustees to press for assistance. Better software will make the active reviewers we have more productive.

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New Page Patrol newsletter October 2022



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Much has happened since the last newsletter over two months ago. The open letter ↗ finished with 444 signatures. The letter was sent to several dozen people at the WMF, and we have heard that it is being discussed but there has been no official reply. A related article appears in the current issue of ''The Signpost'' ↗. If you haven't seen it, you should, including the readers' comment section.

'''Awards''': Barnstars were given for the past several years (thanks to {{Noping|MPGuy2824}}), and we are now all caught up. The 2021 cup went to {{no ping|John B123}} for leading with 26,525 article reviews during 2021. To encourage moderate activity, a new "Iron" level barnstar is awarded annually for reviewing 360 articles ("one-a-day"), and 100 reviews earns the "Standard" NPP barnstar. About 90 reviewers received barnstars for each of the years 2018 to 2021 (including the new awards that were given retroactively). All awards issued for every year are listed on the Awards page ↗. Check out the new Hall of Fame ↗ also.

'''Software news''': {{Noping|Novem Linguae}} and {{Noping|MPGuy2824}} have connected with WMF developers who can review and approve patches, so they have been able to fix some bugs, and make other improvements to the Page Curation software. You can see everything that has been fixed recently here ↗. The reviewer report ↗ has also been improved.
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'''Suggestions''':

'''Backlog''':80px|left ↗ Saving the best for last: From a July low of 8,500, the backlog climbed back to 11,000 in August and then reversed in September dropping to below 6,000 and continued falling with the October backlog drive ↗ to under 1,000, a level not seen in over four years. Keep in mind that there are 2,000 new articles every week, so the number of reviews is far higher than the backlog reduction. To keep the backlog under a thousand, we have to keep reviewing at about half the recent rate!
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Plunket Shield lowest score



Regarding your recent edit on 2022–23 Plunket Shield season ↗ (which I'm about to overwrite with a slightly more clear explanation), I'm reasonably confident that Wellington's 167 run match aggregate is the lowest ever in the Plunket Shield. They did score lower in an 1887 first-class match, but the Plunket Shield did not exist until 1907, so it would still be a Plunket Shield record. Unfortunately I can't seem to find any actual database listing to confirm this, but many news reports (including NZC's own) refer to it as being a Plunket Shield record, so absence any evidence of a Plunket Shield match with a lower single-team aggregate it should be okay to go with. <span style="color:#008080;">'''Sellyme'''</span><sup style="color:#009933;">'''Talk'''</sup> 08:51, 12 December 2022 (UTC)

South African cricket seasons



Hello. You're "updating " South African cricketer biogs with en dashes for seasons rather than hyphens, but in some cases – not all – you're introducing errors. For example, with Gerald Bond, you've updated "1929-30" to read "from 1929 to 1930", when the reference is to the single South African cricket season of 1929-30, which began in autumn 1929 and concluded in spring 1930. Fine to make it "1929–30", but the other is wrong. Johnlp (talk) 12:30, 20 December 2022 (UTC)
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New Pages Patrol newsletter January 2023



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The October drive reduced the backlog from 9,700 to an amazing 0! Congratulations to {{noping|WaddlesJP13}} who led with 2084 points. See this page ↗ for further details. The queue is steadily rising again and is approaching 2,000. It would be great if <2,000 were the “new normal”. Please continue to help out even if it's only for a few or even one patrol a day.
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{{no ping|Onel5969}} won the 2022 cup for 28,302 article reviews last year - that's an average of nearly 80/day. There was one Gold Award (5000+ reviews), 11 Silver (2000+), 28 Iron (360+) and 39 more for the 100+ barnstar. {{no ping|Rosguill}} led again for the 4th year by clearing 49,294 redirects. For the full details see the Awards page ↗ and the Hall of Fame ↗. Congratulations everyone!

'''Minimum deletion time''': The previous WP:NPP ↗ guideline was to wait 15 minutes before tagging for deletion (including draftification and WP:BLAR ↗). Due to complaints, a consensus decided to raise the time to 1 hour. To illustrate this, very new pages in the feed ↗ are now highlighted in red. (As always, this is not applicable to attack pages, copyvios, vandalism, etc.)

'''New draftify script''': In response to feedback from AFC, the The Move to Draft script now provides a choice of set messages that also link the creator to a new, friendly explanation page ↗. The script also warns reviewers if the creator is probably still developing the article. The former script is no longer maintained. Please edit your edit your common.js ↗ or vector.js file from <code>User:Evad37/MoveToDraft.js</code> to <code>User:MPGuy2824/MoveToDraft.js</code>'''

'''Redirects''': Some of our redirect reviewers have reduced their activity and the backlog is up to 9,000+ (two months deep). If you are interested in this distinctly different task and need any help, see this guide ↗, this checklist ↗, and spend some time at WP:RFD ↗.

'''Discussions with the WMF''' The PageTriage open letter ↗ signed by 444 users is bearing fruit. The Growth Team has assigned some software engineers to work on PageTriage, the software that powers the NewPagesFeed and the Page Curation toolbar. WMF has submitted dozens of patches ↗ in the last few weeks to modernize PageTriage's code, which will make it easier to write patches in the future. This work is helpful but is not very visible to the end user. For patches visible to the end user, volunteers such as {{noping|Novem Linguae}} and {{noping|MPGuy2824}} have been writing patches for bug reports and feature requests. The Growth Team also had a video conference ↗ with the NPP coordinators to discuss revamping the landing pages that new users see.

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International cricket in 2024–25



Hello. I see you have initiated a discussion for possible deletion of this page ↗. Request you to please look into International cricket in 2024 ↗ page as well.
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I shouldn't have joined the discussion


I've just read the big red message on the discussion ↗. I shouldn't have joined it 3 years ago! -<span style="color:#0073CF">'''St3095'''</span> <span style="color:#007FCF"><sup>(?)</sup></span> 13:20, 18 February 2023 (UTC)

WikiProject Auckland



Kia ora! I'm hoping to start up WP:AUCK ↗ again as a more active project, so I thought I'd check in with everyone on the list who still edits. Are there any Auckland-related projects that you'd like to work on/currently working on? --Prosperosity (talk) 22:02, 4 March 2023 (UTC)
:No worries! I can take your name off the list. If you're interested in saying hi (even if you're not planning on editing Auckland articles!), we've restarted regular online and in-person meet-ups - the next one's on the 18th of March ↗. --Prosperosity (talk) 22:18, 4 March 2023 (UTC)

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Michael King III



I wanted it to get '''deleted''', not '''speedy deleted'''.
Should I renominate the redirect, should the discussion get reopened, or something? ErceÇamurOfficial (talk) 16:00, 9 June 2023 (UTC)

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In regards to Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Rollback of Vector 2022 ↗ you stated that {{xt|I really don't think this is something editors should decide; leave it to developers and more importantly ask the readers. And it is truly, IMO, too late now. Besides: I'll keep using old Vector, but is this change so horrible?}} How do you feel now, months after the discussion and with certain improvements added?

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You don't think Adult use ↗ is a misnomer for Legalization of non-medical cannabis in the United States ↗?
GMAFB! Talk about ham-fisted CSD patrol. You should do better. Toddst1 <small>(talk)</small> 16:25, 27 June 2023 (UTC)

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Cricket seasons



You're correcting hyphens to en dashes in various articles mentioning cricket seasons, which is mostly fine, but you need to watch that some of the corrections don't change the meaning. In Nummy Deane ↗, for example, changing "From 1925–26" to "From 1925 to 1926" makes a different meaning: the first means "from the 1925–26 South African cricket season onwards for a period of several years", while the second means a shorter period covering a maximum of two calendar years. Cricket seasons outside the UK usually straddle two calendar years and the convention is to use a hyphen or en dash, rather than an oblique: northern hemisphere soccer seasons tend to be similar. I'm afraid you have to read the context, which will slow the process of correcting them up a bit. I'll change Deane back to what it should be, but there may be others. Thanks. Johnlp (talk) 07:41, 7 July 2023 (UTC)

Signpost/Issue



I spent an entire afternoon fixing incoming links to these pages all over the project; per the incoming links ↗, there is nothing to break. The only incoming links right now are from tracking pages that I created to enumerate all of the pages in the ''Signpost'''s space to clean up nonsense pages and misplaced directories like this one. '''jp'''×'''g''' 22:40, 22 July 2023 (UTC)
:{{re|JPxG}} you can't fix links in edit summaries, external backlinks, bookmarks, habitual searches, etc. R3 specifically excludes {{tl|R from page move}}s for just this reason. '''<span style="color:#137412;">J947</span>''' † <sup>edits ↗</sup> 22:46, 22 July 2023 (UTC)
::I highly doubt that there are external backlinks to the Signpost's internal templates for embedding issue numbers; bookmarks and habitual searches will return a deletion summary and move log that links to the new location of the template. As for the historical integrity of the ''Signpost'''s historical structure, I can assure you that I have been spending the last eight months trying to document and preserve it. One of the major hurdles to making comprehensive documentation for the project is that it's existed for twenty years and has a very large number of pointless pages that don't do anything (or did something once, in 2008, have since been superseded, and still sit around in the namespace with no indication as to what they do or why they exist). A good example of this is the templates. Here are the prefixes used for Signpost templates:
::* <code>Template:Signpost </code>
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::* <code>Template:Signpost-</code>
::* <code>Template:Signpost_</code>
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::* <code>Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Template/</code>
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::What is the reason for it being this way? I will tell you: there isn't one. People just made templates where-the-hell-ever for twenty years, and nobody ever wrote down how or where they went, and the result is a completely impenetrable jungle of bullshit. You can't write templates to parse these, you can't go through them with scripts, everything requires you to hardcode insanely complicated edge case handling for each of the 14 template prefixes -- why? To a large extent, it seems like a self-reinforcing problem: for the most part nobody bothers to try to fix the problems because they are so bad and so deeply rooted, and the ones who do (note that there were similar attempts in 2009, 2016 and 2018) abandon them because at every step of the way people will object that it's hypothetically, somehow, possible for something to be broken by fixing typos from 2008. I feel it is also condign to reference the last time someone was browsing G6 nominations and brought up this objection: it required me to spam the bajeezus out of RfD with dozens of nominations for typo redirects and preload templates that hadn't been used in decades, of course all of which reached a resounding consensus to delete, although it did manage to delay the Signpost cleanup by about a month and create a mountain of bureaucratic busywork for RfD regulars/closers. '''jp'''×'''g''' 23:12, 22 July 2023 (UTC)
:::Look, I understand – I thought myself that that string of Signpost templates having to be brought to RfD was a waste of time. But at long-term former titles for main templates that fail R3 on 3 counts, I draw the line. If you must have R from moves deleted (for unknown or purely minorconvenience-related reasons), then a big RfD bundle nom is the path forward. '''<span style="color:#137412;">J947</span>''' † <sup>edits ↗</sup> 23:36, 22 July 2023 (UTC)

Other British monarch requested move discussions currently taking place


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In regards to the National Geographic Channel RfD ↗ which you closed as no consensus, I don't think I would've closed that with ''any'' result just yet. I !voted on it quite late (after 8 days) because it wasn't getting a lot of traction at RfD, but it ended up being closed when my comment (the only comment there) wasn't even 24 hours old, hence not enough time for others to weigh in. User:Edward-Woodrow had a pretty valid rationale for starting the discussion and I was curious if he had a response in regards to mine about the presence of "HD". <span style="background-color: #FFCFBF; font-variant: small-caps">Utopes <sub>('''talk''' / '''cont ↗''')</sub></span> 04:18, 23 September 2023 (UTC)

:I agree the close was a little premature; a relist would probably be more appropriate in my opinion. A note: I couldn't rebut {{u|Utopes}}' argument because I didn't see it. I only occasionally check through older RfDs I've started (I very rarely watch log days). Cheers, <span style="font-weight:bold; color:SlateBlue;"><span style="color:SlateBlue;">Edward-Woodrow</span> • <span style="color:SlateBlue;">talk</span></span> 12:15, 23 September 2023 (UTC)

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You mentioned cover art ↗ and I nominated it with leading examples (not being sure which you wanted and having got no feedback in that discussion). Still trying to figure out what vitality is and looking for feedback in that discussion.-TonyTheTiger <small>(T / C ↗ / WP:FOUR ↗ / WP:CHICAGO ↗ / WP:WAWARD ↗)</small> 04:21, 10 November 2023 (UTC)
:{{re|TonyTheTiger}} I'll give a brief description on what vitality is, can't really commit to much else at the moment. It's obviously importance, but addressed from a more historical, more academic, less Western-centric viewpoint than we would normally envision. If Wikipedia could only have 50,000 articles, what would they be? The best way of finding out more than that is to have a look through the VA4 list and VA4 discussion archives and see what's on the list and what isn't, and why. '''<span style="color:#137412;">J947</span>''' † <sup>edits ↗</sup> 07:15, 10 November 2023 (UTC)

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Your recent comments are spot-on. I'm really frustrated btw. Grnrchst made some questionable nominations and he still gets a second and a third for everything with no scrutiny. And what really worries me is that he's coming for earlier American politicians next. We could be seeing removal proposals for Daniel Webster, William Jennings Bryan, Stephen Douglas, John Hancock (because Grnrchst might not understand why those fellas are important, Piotr will support any American politician removal, and Blue will support any proposal I oppose)...and those proposals would essentially start with three supports, meaning most of the remaining editors would have to be rallied to stop them. SMH <span style="border:1px solid;background:#800080"><span style="color:#FFCC00">p</span><span style="color:#FFCC00;">b</span><span style="color:#FFCC00;">p</span></span> 02:28, 26 November 2023 (UTC)

It seems pretty obvious that we need to propose a quota increase for politicians, at the expense of pop culture and miscellaneous topics. <span style="border:1px solid;background:#800080"><span style="color:#FFCC00">p</span><span style="color:#FFCC00;">b</span><span style="color:#FFCC00;">p</span></span> 17:44, 27 November 2023 (UTC)

It hasn't been a great last 48 hours. Interstellarity voted to remove a bunch of American politicians without any rationale. Totalabe accused me of making tit-for-tat nominations. Nobody seems to understanding my analogies. Why do I feel so alone? <span style="border:1px solid;background:#800080"><span style="color:#FFCC00">p</span><span style="color:#FFCC00;">b</span><span style="color:#FFCC00;">p</span></span> 13:23, 30 November 2023 (UTC)

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Adding William G. Morgan ↗ to the level 4



Hello J947

I have question to you. I found you one of the most gentle and friendly users over the years in Vital articles project. I have question to you as my English is not very good. Could you please made in my !name nomination to add William G. Morgan to the level 4? Just as you did nomination to add Cat in the name of ios2019... I were repeating myself but I think that William G. Morgan definietly ''is'' vital as the person if we was in Volleyball Hall of Fame and if Volleyball is the only sport which at short page had globally more pageviews than Association Football. Volleyball is popular sport in many other countries than USA, for example in Indonesia is more popular than Rugby. Actually I could do that nomination by myself but I am not sure it would be ellegent from my side to fourth time nominate that during few years but I think this person is justfar more than enough vital at the level 4 and just because of sometimes we had not many active editiors to gain 66% then that does not mean this man does not deserve next chance to be added. Dawid2009 (talk) 12:42, 11 December 2023 (UTC)
:{{re|Dawid2009}} I've done so here ↗. Feel free to vote on it.{{pb}}If this doesn't pass, it's probably best to wait a few more years before you try again. '''<span style="color: #1009bf;">J</span><span style="color: #137412;">947</span>''' ‡ <sup>edits ↗</sup> 21:47, 11 December 2023 (UTC)
:: Ok, thanks Dawid2009 (talk) 21:55, 11 December 2023 (UTC)

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New year, new scripts. Welcome to the 23rd issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter ↗, covering around 39% of our favorite new and updated user scripts since {{#formatdate:2021-12-24|dmy}}. That’s right, we haven’t published in two years! Can you believe it? Did you miss us?

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Thank you!



Just wanted to thank you for the message even though it got reverted. I also removed the whole discussion from V5 because I'm too embarassed, hopefully nobody minds. It really sucks to be like this, but oh well, it's chronic. Thank you again! '''<span style="font-family:Sergio print;">The <span style="color:#2664F5">Blue</span> Rider</span>''' 19px|link= User talk:The Blue Rider ↗ 01:30, 19 January 2024 (UTC)
:No probs. Mental health is a pest. I was thinking you {{em|had}} left at first (partly why I reverted my comment), so it's a big relief that you haven't. '''<span style="color: #1009bf;">J</span><span style="color: #137412;">947</span>''' ‡ <sup>edits ↗</sup> 01:46, 19 January 2024 (UTC)

"Politicky politicians"



You used this term a few weeks back in a VA discussion. Curious for a little deeper explanation <span style="border:1px solid;background:#800080"><span style="color:#FFCC00">p</span><span style="color:#FFCC00;">b</span><span style="color:#FFCC00;">p</span></span> 14:07, 24 January 2024 (UTC)
:It was really just a statement that I don't think the most well-known politicians are necessarily the most vital. Those sort of politicians that are known for being controversial or outspoken figures aren't the most influential, etc. They're sort of like metapoliticians, playing the game rather than doing their job, to put it another way. '''<span style="color: #1009bf;">J</span><span style="color: #137412;">947</span>''' ‡ <sup>edits ↗</sup> 23:06, 24 January 2024 (UTC)

Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 24



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Hello everyone, and welcome to the 24th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter ↗, covering all our favorite new and updated user scripts since {{#formatdate:2021-12-24|dmy}}. Uh-huh, we're finally covering the good ones among the rest! Aren't you excited? Remember to include a link in double brackets to the script's .js page when you install the script, so that we can see who uses the script in WhatLinksHere! The ScriptInstaller gadget automatically does this. <span style="color:#0645ad">Aaron Liu</span> (talk) 01:00, 1 March 2024 (UTC)

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: '''Making user scripts load faster''' by '''SD0001''' is this month's featured script, which caches userscripts every day to eliminate the overhead caused by force-downloading the newest version of scripts every time you open a Wikipedia page. Despite being released in April 2021, our best script scouters have failed to locate it due to its omission from the US of L ↗. For security reasons, the script only supports loading JavaScript pages.

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New Pages Patrol newsletter April 2024



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'''Backlog update:''' The October drive reduced the article backlog from 11,626 to 7,609 and the redirect backlog from 16,985 to 6,431! Congratulations to {{no ping|Schminnte}}, who led with over 2,300 points.

Following that, New Page Patrol organized another backlog drive for articles in January 2024. The January drive started with 13,650 articles and reduced the backlog to 7,430 articles. Congratulations to {{no ping|JTtheOG}}, who achieved first place with 1,340 points in this drive.

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Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 25



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Hey there, welcome to the 25th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter ↗, covering all our favorite new and updated user scripts since {{#formatdate:2024-03-01|dmy}}. We've got a ton of wonderful editors taking back their pitchforks today. Don't worry, for they come in peace, to forcibly fix and extend existing scripts you use with sheer passion. There's so many, them forks have got what's basically their own column now! <small>gift us with some rows before it's too late</small> <span style="color:#0645ad">Aaron Liu</span> (talk) 04:01, 1 August 2024 (UTC)

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: '''inline-diff-inline-patrol ↗''' by '''Ponor ↗''' is this edition's featured script. By loading diffs inline on every page that shows a list of changes, it implements the 2023 community wish m:Community Wishlist Survey 2023/Admins and patrollers/Inline diffs and inline patrol ↗. Hopefully we won't need this script anymore soon, with the WMF's focus on the backlog ↗...

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Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 26



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Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2024 December 28#2028 Queensland state election ↗



Hey J947, can you please undo your closure of 2028 Queensland state election ↗? I fundamentally disagree that this is the wrong venue. It's not explicitly stated, but the nomination has a classic a WP:RETURNTORED ↗ argument. There is virtually no information on the 2028 election at the target and the subject could plausibly be expanded to an article. -- <span style="color:#000080; font-family:georgia">'''T'''avix</span> <sup>(<span style="color:#000080; font-family:georgia">talk</span>)</sup> 22:33, 28 December 2024 (UTC)
:If you want to create a new RfD you may (which is probably a better choice procedurally than re-opening given there was no argument for deletion/retargetting made), but I'd strongly advise to set a reminder for a week's time and get back to it then so to give time for GarbageKarate to create the article. The article for the next election is typically created soon after the previous election, and I dislike the ideas of RfDs in the interim. There's value in keeping Special:History/Next Queensland state election ↗ viewable as precedent for what's meant to happen in these cases. '''<span style="color: #1009bf;">J</span><span style="color: #137412;">947</span>''' ‡ <sup>edits ↗</sup> 23:00, 28 December 2024 (UTC)
::I don't want to create a new RfD in a weeks time, the current RfD needs to be reopened. Procedurally, your closure was incorrect. There was absolutely an argument for deletion: WP:RFD#D10 ↗. Anything else you're saying should be made as part of a potential keep !vote. -- <span style="color:#000080; font-family:georgia">'''T'''avix</span> <sup>(<span style="color:#000080; font-family:georgia">talk</span>)</sup> 23:45, 28 December 2024 (UTC)
:::I closed it as WP:SK#1 ↗. I fail to see your issue. '''<span style="color: #1009bf;">J</span><span style="color: #137412;">947</span>''' ‡ <sup>edits ↗</sup> 23:52, 28 December 2024 (UTC)
:::To clarify my position – you are free to reopen it if you want, but I am of the strong opinion that it would be an inappropriate use of time considering the editor who opened the RfD opened it because they wanted an article to be created in its place! '''<span style="color: #1009bf;">J</span><span style="color: #137412;">947</span>''' ‡ <sup>edits ↗</sup> 00:01, 29 December 2024 (UTC)
::::Wanting an article to be created in its place is a WP:REDLINK ↗ argument and a valid one for RfD. Thanks, I'll reopen it. -- <span style="color:#000080; font-family:georgia">'''T'''avix</span> <sup>(<span style="color:#000080; font-family:georgia">talk</span>)</sup> 00:07, 29 December 2024 (UTC)

Speedy deletion ↗ nomination of :Ivan Lazarenko (disambiguation) ↗


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OK



Pls, help with Wikipedia:Redirects_for_discussion/Log/2025_January_9#Tik_tok ↗ ''gtp'' (talk) 17:01, 9 January 2025 (UTC)

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Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 27



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Hello everyone, and welcome to the 27th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter ↗, covering all our favorite new and updated user scripts since 2025! Boy, does it feel good to kick off the year with an issue. Yep, it's been a year since we cleared out the 2022-2024 backlog with issues 23 and 24! Good times. <small>Though in this case "a year" just means... 6 months? 😯 The salience of whatever joke I was planning to make here has vanished speedily.</small> <span class="skin-invert" style="color:#0645ad">Aaron Liu</span> (talk) 21:00, 31 July 2025 (UTC)

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20px ↗ Featured script


: '''WikiTextExpander''' by '''Polygnotus ↗''', is this edition's featured script. At the click of a configurable hotkey, this script will find and replace or link a configurable list of phrases within the selected text in all source editors (even in the comment/reply field!). Besides allowing the quick insertion of templated messages, this script greatly mitigates the WP:WTF? ↗ problem by providing both the legibility of familiar words and the convenience of shortcuts. And to those asking, the capitalization of "Wikitext ↗" as "WikiText" was a necessary sacrifice for far-more-memorable acronymy.

20px ↗ Updated scripts



20px ↗ Newly maintained scripts



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20px ↗ Improve a script


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20px ↗ Requested scripts


We need scripts that...


20px ↗ Miscellaneous


In breaking m:Tech/News ↗, {{tq|Gadgets can now include <code>.vue</code> files. This makes it easier to develop modern user interfaces using Vue.js ↗, in particular using Codex ↗, the official design system of Wikimedia. Codex icons ↗ are now also available. The documentation ↗ has examples.}}

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Question about your RfD closure



Regarding your close at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2026 January 24#FIFA's ↗ – You stated that {{tqq|opinions were heavily devalued}} when they provided {{tqq|no rationale beyond referencing precedent}}. I'm just curious if that included my opinion ↗ which referenced specific issues problems with these redirect that were raised in prior discussions but did not spell out all of these problems. —<b style="font-family: verdana; color:#803280;">Myceteae</b><span style="visibility:hidden; color:transparent; padding-left:2px">&zwj;</span>🍄‍🟫 (talk) 19:33, 5 February 2026 (UTC)
:No. '''<span style="color: #1009bf;">J</span><span style="color: #137412;">947</span>''' ‡ <sup>edits ↗</sup> 20:47, 5 February 2026 (UTC)
::Thanks. I appreciate both your clarification here and your not treating my succinct opinion as equivalent to "Delete per precedent" without elaboration. —<b style="font-family: verdana; color:#803280;">Myceteae</b><span style="visibility:hidden; color:transparent; padding-left:2px">&zwj;</span>🍄‍🟫 (talk) 21:58, 5 February 2026 (UTC)

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Template:Dabr ↗ formatting



Just as an FYI, using "done" in this template doesn't actually remove it from the tracking category ↗, you need to use "d" (fixed here ↗). <span style="color:#1C7E85"><b>Rusalkii</b></span> (talk) 16:10, 4 July 2026 (UTC)
:Actually, never mind, I've fixed the template to accept "done" as a parameter. <span style="color:#1C7E85"><b>Rusalkii</b></span> (talk) 16:35, 4 July 2026 (UTC)
::That wasn't me ↗, which very much surprises me as I am sure I have made that mistake before when clearing the template, so thanks for improving it! '''<span style="color: #1009bf;">J</span><span style="color: #137412;">947</span>''' ‡ <sup>edits ↗</sup> 23:45, 4 July 2026 (UTC)
:::Oh, whoops, it would obviously be the person who completed it who left that and not the person who initially requested it. Oh well. <span style="color:#1C7E85"><b>Rusalkii</b></span> (talk) 00:37, 5 July 2026 (UTC)