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Your GA nomination of Kafka's Prayer

The article Kafka's Prayer you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Kafka's Prayer 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 Etriusus -- Etriusus (talk) 01:02, 14 July 2021 (UTC)

Domingos Passos

Hi Czar! I already finished my article on Domingos Passos. It's a translation from the Portuguese Wikipedia article that I wrote, with some little improvements. It is considered a good article there. I'll be glad if you can review it. Feel free to fix any mistakes and improve the article's text if it is necessary. Greetings! El Descamisado (talk) 19:50, 16 July 2021 (UTC)

I gave it a copyedit and left some notes on the talk page. Nice work! czar 22:56, 17 July 2021 (UTC)

Hi King George56 (talk) 04:01, 2 September 2021 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Emma Kinema

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Emma Kinema 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 Some Dude From North Carolina -- Some Dude From North Carolina (talk) 17:01, 18 July 2021 (UTC)

Red

Hello czar, I have opened a peer review for Red prior to taking it to FAC. If you have the time and are willing, I would greatly appreciate any comment or advice that you could give at the review. If you are unable, that is totally fine as well. Thank you! --TheSandDoctor ^Talk 01:14, 19 July 2021 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Emma Kinema

The article Emma Kinema you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:Emma Kinema for issues which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Some Dude From North Carolina -- Some Dude From North Carolina (talk) 20:01, 19 July 2021 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Emma Kinema

The article Emma Kinema you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Emma Kinema 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 Some Dude From North Carolina -- Some Dude From North Carolina (talk) 02:21, 20 July 2021 (UTC)

Typequick DYK nom review request

Hi Czar, I hope you're doing well! I was wondering if you would be willing to contribute to Template:Did you know nominations/Typequick? Another user RoySmith has begun a review, but it isn't very thorough . I believe the article could use a second opinion fromm a WP:VG mainstay. Thank you in advance!--Coin945 (talk) 11:22, 24 July 2021 (UTC)

About your proposal to remove ethical egoism in WT:VA5

Actually Wikipedia:Vital_articles/Level/5/Philosophy_and_religion#Approaches_(21_articles) should be changed to Wikipedia:Vital_articles/Level/5/Philosophy_and_religion#Approaches_(22_articles), since the "approaches" sub-section in "ethics" section now contains 22 rather than 21 articles.--RekishiEJ (talk) 07:46, 28 July 2021 (UTC)

#Remove Ethical egoism

@RekishiEJ, thanks! If it's easier in the future, I think it'd be uncontroversial to make that minor correction directly, especially as VIT5 counts continue to fluctuate. czar 15:36, 28 July 2021 (UTC)

What did the "it" in "If it's easier in the future" mean? I don't understand the meaning at all.--RekishiEJ (talk) 16:44, 29 July 2021 (UTC)

@RekishiEJ, I mean that while I do appreciate the heads up, it would be faster/more direct to simply make the minor, uncontroversial correction in my original edit instead of messaging me (or other editors like me in the future) to do so. czar 16:50, 29 July 2021 (UTC)

Books & Bytes – Issue 45

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American vs. European dates

Czar: You seem in the business of enforcing American-only style of dating MM DD YYYYY rather than accepting DD MM YYYY, which is standard practice in Europe (and elsewhere, I believe): is there some particular driver for your actions? Respectfully - Aboudaqn (talk) 15:03, 31 July 2021 (UTC)

Example: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Louis_Adamic&diff=next&oldid=1027887348

• ? The edit summary you linked explains the edit in full. If you disagree, you're welcome to contest it or discuss on the talk page. czar 17:24, 31 July 2021 (UTC)

Do not understand your explanation Aboudaqn (talk) 22:42, 1 August 2021 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – July 2021

News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2021).

Guideline and policy news

• An RfC is open to add a delay of one week from nomination to deletion for G13 speedy deletions.

Technical news

• Last week all wikis were very slow or not accessible for 30 minutes. This was due to server lag caused by regenerating dynamic lists on the Russian Wikinews after a large bulk import. (T287380)

Arbitration

• Following an amendment request, the committee has clarified that the Talk page exception to the 500/30 rule in remedy 5 of the Palestine-Israel articles 4 case does not apply to requested move discussions.

Miscellaneous

• You can vote for candidates in the 2021 Board of Trustees elections from 4 August to 17 August. Four community elected seats are up for election.

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Your GA Nomination of Paul Goodman

The page has been reviewed by me and it meets the GA rules. Sahaib3005 (talk) 06:39, 7 August 2021 (UTC)

Thanks at AfD

Hey. Thanks for the kindly redirection on my too-frequent answers.

I do think that the "contested" articles that TFD and I wiki-fence over get better for the mutual (if not always collegial) investment on both our parts, nevertheless. However, I may still be "shell shocked" from previous, and continuing wiki-fencing with TFD. Again, I appreciate your caution to pause to let other editors have a chance to chime in.

(1) Last year ten months plus on the American Revolutionary War for American independence, with fighting ending at Siege of Yorktown pretty much, versus the 'real' worldwide French-Spanish-American war against Britain including the Siege of Gibraltar in Spain and the Second Mysore War in India.

(2) It took over two calendar years to get the United States of America article to include Puerto Ricans as US citizens in a continuing (sometimes daily) wiki-fencing with TFD. Despite US law, federal court rulings, citizen PR military service, three UN-supervised referenda, Congressional Delegate privileges office, appointing two military freshmen to Army, Navy, Air Force and Coast Guard Academies, PR representation in National Republican and National Democratic Conventions ... But we still had to sort through all the UN committees, conferences and conventions chaired by Russia, Iran, China, North Korea, Cuba and Venezuela that contradicted the other internationally sourced evidence "on balance". Nothing denying PR citizenship in the US passes at the UN General Assembly, but there are so many reports from reliable sources that Puerto Ricans cannot be US citizens because of historical colonialism (sic), they each had to be vetted in context ... so it took some months to do that ... TheVirginiaHistorian (talk) 07:16, 7 August 2021 (UTC)

A technical question.

• The previously published article on the 1778-1787 county, titled "Ohio County (Virginia)", on the NORTH BANK of the Ohio River, with adequate citations from reliable sources, is lost to public view by an automatic link to Ohio County, West Virginia on the SOUTH BANK of Ohio River.

- Created at the American Revolutionary War incursion north of the Ohio River by Virginia militia Major George Rogers Clark, the LOST county article had substantial French-Speaking settlements at Cahokia and Vincennes. These together with Revolution veteran settlement were ceded by Virginia to the Northwest Territory in 1787.

- Please help to recover and reinstate the information as a separate article. Or, if you can give me a lead for general guidance, I can launch off into the wiki-spheres and give the restoration a good ol' 'college try' on my own . . . TheVirginiaHistorian (talk) 07:20, 7 August 2021 (UTC)

Hi @TheVirginiaHistorian, it looks like Ohio County, Virginia ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs) has no prior edit history—it's always been a redirect. I see no edit history, deleted or not, at Ohio County (Virginia) ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs). Is there prior text somewhere you were looking to restore? If you have multiple, reliable, independent sources to substantiate a standalone article on the Virginia county in specific, feel free to click that page's "edit" link and start building it over the redirect. I'm not as familiar with how the geographic features notability guideline works with historical entities but unless these two counties have nothing to do with each other, usually it suffices to cover a similar topic within another. Wikipedia talk:WikiProject United States might be able to offer advice as well. Happy editing! czar 10:10, 7 August 2021 (UTC)

They have nothing to do with one another, and all of the information that was found at the previous Ohio County (Virginia) has been extinguished, such as the French settlement in Spanish Louisiana at St. Louis, providing militia units to support Virginia Major George Rogers Clark's capture of the French settlement at Vincennes in the American Revolutionary War, and their acceptance of Virginia governance with the persuasive assistance of the local Roman Catholic parish priests. TheVirginiaHistorian (talk) 09:31, 8 August 2021 (UTC)

I can't find any prior edits or logs at "Ohio County (Virginia)". Perhaps you are thinking of a different title or phrasing? In any event, you would want to build that potential article at either Ohio County, Virginia (over the redirect) or at Draft:Ohio County, Viriginia, which is a recommended draft area where you can build the article without risking deletion. But in order to find/restore the "extinguished" prior content, I would need more information on where it once was located. czar 19:42, 8 August 2021 (UTC)

Thanks, despite your published dictum above. I may have confounded an "Ohio County" north of the Ohio River read on a map long ago, versus the Illinois County, Virginia here at Wikipedia. Thank you again for checking it out for me here at Wikipedia. TheVirginiaHistorian (talk) 18:52, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Paul Goodman

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Paul Goodman 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 Sahaib3005 -- Sahaib3005 (talk) 18:41, 7 August 2021 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: July 2021

This Month in GLAM – Volume XI, Issue VII, July 2021 Headlines Albania report: Collaboration with the New Vision Organization in Tirana; Summer of Wikivoyage Campaign 2021 Australia report: Representation and erasure: opportunities and risks that Wikipedia presents for First Nations knowledges Brazil report: A wikicontest to celebrate and make visible the state of Bahia India report: Rabimas proofread contest ends on Bengali Wikisource New Zealand report: New Zealand holds its second Wikimedia conference, and a performing arts Wikiproject gathers steam Serbia report: New chances for GLAM success Sweden report: Photos of Childrens theatre UK report: A Thousand Images of Islam, British Library Updates USA report: Smithsonian Wiki Focus: Black Women in Food History; San Diego 73; Black Lunch Table Black artists WMF GLAM report: A conversation about depicts and Structured Data on Commons Calendar: August's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

Mass killings under communist regimes (again)

I took a break from it and I would've hoped things would get better but they aren't. It's always the same stuff, the discussions go nowhere, etc. This is a good summary.

I don't trust the AfD or RfC process for this article because, despite Wikipedia clearly not being about voting, it boils down to that, because more users are just going to say "per sources" and our arguments for why they're engaging in original research, synthesis, and other policy violations, and sources don't support what they claim they do... they're just going to be ignored. I may have to go to the noticeboard for sources and go one by one whether each source support the article. If you can write a neutral AfD or RfC, go for it.

Even though I'm skeptical, that is the only solution. Thank you again for your time. Davide King (talk) 09:50, 11 August 2021 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: July 2021

This Month in GLAM – Volume XI, Issue VII, July 2021 Headlines Albania report: Collaboration with the New Vision Organization in Tirana; Summer of Wikivoyage Campaign 2021 Australia report: Representation and erasure: opportunities and risks that Wikipedia presents for First Nations knowledges Brazil report: A wikicontest to celebrate and make visible the state of Bahia India report: Rabimas proofread contest ends on Bengali Wikisource New Zealand report: New Zealand holds its second Wikimedia conference, and a performing arts Wikiproject gathers steam Serbia report: New chances for GLAM success Sweden report: Photos of Childrens theatre UK report: A Thousand Images of Islam, British Library Updates USA report: Smithsonian Wiki Focus: Black Women in Food History; San Diego 73; Black Lunch Table Black artists WMF GLAM report: A conversation about depicts and Structured Data on Commons Calendar: August's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

Sat Aug 14: Wikimania Wiknic NYC

August 14, 12-5pm: Wikimania Wiknic NYC

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Your GA nomination of Paul Goodman

The article Paul Goodman you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Paul Goodman 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 Sahaib3005 -- Sahaib3005 (talk) 09:01, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

Disambiguation link notification for August 23

An automated process has detected that when you recently edited Jacques Ellul, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page Wheaton College.

(Opt-out instructions.) --DPL bot (talk) 05:55, 23 August 2021 (UTC)

August 25: ONLINE WikiWednesday Salon NYC

August 25, 7pm: ONLINE WikiWednesday Salon NYC

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Deletion review for Alberta Association of Architects

An editor has asked for a deletion review of Alberta Association of Architects. Because you closed the deletion discussion for this page, speedily deleted it, or otherwise were interested in the page, you might want to participate in the deletion review.

Note I don't think you closed it incorrectly given the information available to you at the time but given the new information I think it might need reassessment. HighInBC ^{Need help? Just ask.} 23:38, 26 August 2021 (UTC)

Reporting: Editing clashes with another user

Hello Czar. I am sending you this message as I am being targeted by a random user who is accusing me of vandalism and falsifying information on an article here on Wikipedia. The article is about the South Korean movie, Once Upon a Time in High School. This user is even threatened to report me to the admins to have my account or, at the very least, my editing privileges removed. Before I tell you my request on this issue, I need to tell you how it all happened. So I was browsing through different articles on Wikipedia and then I encountered the Once Upon a Time in High School article. Upon reading it, I noticed that the last paragraph of the movie's plot was incorrect as I have seen the movie multiple times before and the last paragraph of the plot did not match with the movie's. I initially was taken aback for a few moments until I eventually decided to change the article so that the last paragraph was more accurate and correct. This was my first time editing an article on Wikipedia so I took careful actions when doing it. I even took the time to re-watch the movie once more before finalizing it, making sure there wasn't any errors. A week later, another user, the one I am referring to, reverts it back and starts accusing me of vandalism and falsifying information of the article. I then responded to the other user on the user's talk page, clarifying that I wasn't falsifying information nor vandalizing anything and I even provided a link of the movie for the other user to view to back my statements, but I have not heard from the user since. From there, I went back and undid his/her revision of my revision. I gradually waited for the other user to respond to my reply, but the other user instead went back to undid my revision again of Once Upon a Time in High School and once again accuses me of vandalism. This time, I started to get irritated and think that this other user is disregarding what I have to say and believes that he/she has justification for his/her action. I even looked up the revision history of the article and it seems that this may or may not be the first time he/she has done this to the article. Soon after, I did once more revision to the article and this again clarify that I not vandalizing nor falsifying anything, but the user still reverts it back and threatens me that he/she will report me to the admins. This is when I started to get on edge and decided to take matters into my own hands and contact the admins myself. I took some time to look up how to report to the admins, came across your name, and decided to message you. As for my request, I would like for you to confront this user and probably consider having him/her removed or blocked. You can find the user using this link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/2604:3D09:A580:3900:7558:734B:E6FB:64D4. When you go to the article and read the revision history, you can see a small conversation between me and the other user. For the link to the movie I used to back my statement, here it is: https://archive.org/details/once-upon-a-time-in-high-school. You may view the movie and the article side by side and decide who is correct. This is urgent as the more people vandalize and make innocents fall to their schemes, the more victims will fall into misinformation and disinformation. I have been a long time guest on Wikipedia and it hurts me to see someone drastically change an article, inputs false information, and then accuses others of falsifying information when it gets corrected. Thank you. Detective Stranger (talk) 21:38, 28 August 2021 (UTC)

(talk page watcher) I don't know what can be done about the other editor, whose IP changes. However, I've reverted the article to the correct ending per the film. Schazjmd (talk) 22:11, 28 August 2021 (UTC)

Hi @Detective Stranger, first, welcome to Wikipedia and I'm sorry your first editing experience has gone this way. It looks like @Schazjmd has confirmed the plot detail (thank you!) and can help monitor the page for changes. Since any editing community is bound to have disagreements, we have a general practice for resolving disputes: Wikipedia:BOLD, revert, discuss cycle. The gist is that editors are encouraged to be bold in their edits, but when the edit is disputed (reverted), to discuss on the talk page (Talk:Once Upon a Time in High School) rather than reverting back and forth out of desperation, which is known as Wikipedia:Edit warring (and note that more than three reverts on a single page in 24 hours will result in an automatic block). If the talk page discussion does not have traction, there are plenty of ways to move forward, first by seeking a third party as you did on my talk page but also by asking a forum like WT:FILM or others suggested at Wikipedia:Dispute resolution. There is no rush, so if your edit is reverted, remember that there is always time to discuss and restore the suggested text at some future point. Hope this helps and that you'll decide to edit some other film articles! :) czar 23:23, 28 August 2021 (UTC)

Hello Czar. I have seen the recent changes to the article and I would like to show my appreciation to you for taking the time to read my issue regarding my recent experience here on Wikipedia and taking action. It really demonstrates how people like you genuinely care about your users, editors, the Wikipedia standards, and so on. My first editing experience may be rough, but I still look forward to future endeavors here on Wikipedia with you, @Schazjmd, and many others. Again, thank you. Detective Stranger (talk) 23:41, 28 August 2021 (UTC)

Talk:Candleabracadabra/Native Hawaiian cuisine

Hello, Czar,

I'm going through a list of orphaned talk subpages and came across this one you created. But there doesn't seem to be an associated article. Should this just be deleted or can you think of a place it can be moved to? Thanks. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 22:34, 31 August 2021 (UTC)

Hi! Looks like something lost in the shuffle from User talk:Candleabracadabra/Native Hawaiian cuisine and, in any event, it's already covered in Talk:Native cuisine of Hawaii's templates so I've deleted it. Thanks for checking! czar 01:38, 1 September 2021 (UTC)

Well, I'm glad you know what to do with it. I'm coming across a lot of odd stuff. Apparently, when AFDs or PRODs are closed, the tools don't always delete article subpages, like archived talk pages and "To do" pages. Most everything showing up on the 1000+ page list is from after ~2014 so I guess before that, administrators relied more on manual deleting each page rather than deletion tools. I've also recently found that Twinkle will delete article redirects but not article redirect talk pages so maybe it's the same problem. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 01:52, 1 September 2021 (UTC)

@Liz, if it helps, it looks like I was using a tool for that in 2014—probably User:Mr.Z-man/closeAFD. If so, the good news is that was deprecated in 2017 and replaced with WP:XFDC, which is more robust. czar 02:06, 1 September 2021 (UTC)

WikiCup 2021 September newsletter

The fourth round of the competition has finished with over 500 points being required to qualify for the final round. It was a hotly competitive round with two contestants, The Rambling Man and Epicgenius, each scoring over 3000 points, and six contestants scoring over 1000. All but one of the finalists achieved one or more FAs during the round, the exception being Bloom6132 who demonstrated that 61 "in the news" items produces an impressive number of points. Other contestants who made it to the final are Gog the Mild, Lee Vilenski, BennyOnTheLoose, Amakuru and Hog Farm. However, all their points are now swept away and everyone starts afresh in the final round.

Round 4 saw the achievement of 18 featured articles and 157 good articles. Bilorv scored for a 25-article good topic on Black Mirror but narrowly missed out on qualifying for the final round. There was enthusiasm for FARs, with 89 being performed, and there were 63 GARs and around 100 DYKs during the round. As we start round 5, we say goodbye to the eight competitors who didn't quite make it to the final round; thank you for the useful contributions you have made to the Cup and Wikipedia, and we hope you will join us again next year. For other contestants, remember that any content promoted after the end of round 4 but before the start of round 5 can be claimed in round 5. Remember too that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them.

If you are concerned that your nomination, whether it be for a good article, a featured process, or anything else, will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed (remember to remove your listing when no longer required). If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to help keep down the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Sturmvogel 66 and Cwmhiraeth. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:01, 2 September 2021 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – September 2021

News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2021).

Administrator changes

Jake Wartenberg

Emperor • Viridian Bovary

Ashleyyoursmile → Viridian Bovary

Guideline and policy news

• Feedback is requested on the Universal Code of Conduct enforcement draft by the Universal Code of Conduct Phase 2 drafting committee.
• A RfC is open on whether to allow administrators to use extended confirmed protection on high-risk templates.
• A discussion is open to decide when, if ever, should discord logs be eligible for removal when posted onwiki (including whether to oversight them)
• A RfC on the next steps after the trial of pending changes on TFAs has resulted in a 30 day trial of automatic semi protection for TFAs.

Technical news

• The Score extension has been re-enabled on public wikis. It has been updated, but has been placed in safe mode to address unresolved security issues. Further information on the security issues can be found on the mediawiki page.

Arbitration

• A request for comment is in progress to provide an opportunity to amend the structure, rules, and procedures of the Arbitration Committee election and resolve any issues not covered by existing rules. Comments and new proposals are welcome.

Miscellaneous

• The 2021 RfA review is now open for comments.

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Z-Type

Hello. It was the best I could do for now. I didn't find much material on the web. Best regards. ✍A.WagnerC (talk) 13:37, 5 September 2021 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: August 2021

This Month in GLAM – Volume XI, Issue VIII, August 2021 Headlines Albania report: Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos (WPWP) Campaign in Albania and Kosovo Australia report: How Australian libraries are turning to Wikipedia during the global pandemic Brazil report: Transbordados: WikidataCon's preconference for Latin America discusses GLAM and decolonization Côte d'Ivoire report: Glam-wiki 2021 10 Juillet en Côte d'Ivoire France report: Wikimedian in residence; Some projects for this autumn India report: Second proofread competition starts on Bengali Wikisource in collaboration with the British Library Italy report: Summer school in July and two new WiR in August Netherlands report: 50 cool new things you can now do with KB’s collection highlights, and New old photographs of Algeria, Mali and Morocco by Angeline van Achterberg New Zealand report: A Wikimedian at New Zealand Opera Serbia report: Villas and castles of Serbia Sweden report: History, history and future UK report: Khalili Collections reaches 30 articles USA report: Wiki salons and Kearny Mesa Special story: Hack4OpenGLAM is ready to start Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons report: OpenRefine starts SDC development WMF GLAM report: GLAM conversations and feedbacks for a better Wikimedia movement Calendar: September's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

Crass

Can you explain this edit to Crass ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)? —Locke Cole • t • c 19:35, 13 September 2021 (UTC)

@Locke Cole, looks like a days-old edit conflict from leaving the edit window open too long. It was meant to be a revert of the David King Estate edits but gone horribly wrong so I've reverted it. Thanks for the heads up! czar 01:59, 14 September 2021 (UTC)

You're good, I wasn't sure what the intent was there so I figured it was best to ask in case I missed something. =) Thanks!! —Locke Cole • t • c 02:19, 14 September 2021 (UTC)

Could use your insight on the talk page regarding The Last of Us Part II

Hey man so we're having a discussion on the talk page for The Last of Us Part II regarding whether or not the narrative/transgender character was polarizing among critics and if we should remove it. I saw you chime in on the "Universal acclaim" descriptor thing for The Last of Us Part II's reception, maybe you could chime in here as well. TheMassEffector (talk) 01:24, 18 September 2021 (UTC)

Books & Bytes – Issue 46

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September 29: ONLINE WikiWednesday Salon + Annual Members' Meeting NYC

September 29, 7pm: ONLINE WikiWednesday Salon + Annual Members' Meeting NYC

Play media Welcome to Wikimedia New York City! You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our monthly "WikiWednesday" evening salon (7-8pm) and knowledge-sharing workshop. To join the meeting from your computer or smartphone, just visit this link. More information about how to connect is available on the meetup page. We look forward to seeing local Wikimedians, but would also like to invite folks from the greater New York metropolitan area (and beyond!) who might not typically be able to join us in person! If there's a project you'd like to share or a question you'd like answered, just let us know by adding it to the agenda or the talk page. Wednesday September 29 WikiWednesday Salon + Annual Members' Meeting NYC (optional RSVP on-wiki). 7:00pm - 8:00 pm online via Zoom (optional breakout rooms from 8:00-8:30)

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Administrators' newsletter – October 2021

News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2021).

Guideline and policy news

• 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.

Technical news

• DiscussionTools has superseded Enterprisey's reply-link script. Editors may switch using the "Discussion tools" checkbox under Preferences → Beta features.

Arbitration

• 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.

Miscellaneous

• 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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Anarchism

Thank you for the links and suggestions, Czar. I'm not specifically interested in Anarchism but in plugging historical gaps, often to do with foreign subjects not covered in English Wikipedia pages. Most recently, this has had to do with the Spanish and French struggles from the last century.Dm4244 (talk) 18:30, 3 October 2021 (UTC)

Reply

Hi Czar,

To be fair, I'm happy to receive your invitation, and I'm willing to help improve articles' qualities about anarchism, especially about anarchism in Asia. However, I'm a little busy in real life recently. But if I have time I will help, so if you need my help, don't hesitate to let me know. Also, I had monitored some articles about anarchism.--ときさき くるみ ^{not because they are easy, but because they are hard} 15:22, 4 October 2021 (UTC)

Sunday: Wiki-Pavilion Picnic NYC (part of WikiConference NA, Oct 8-10)

Sunday October 10, 12-5pm: Wiki-Pavilion Picnic NYC (part of WikiConference North America 2021, Oct 8-10)

WikiConference NA, October 8-10 Play media Welcome to Wikimedia New York City! You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for a planned socially-distanced Wiknic ("the picnic anyone can edit") in Brooklyn's Prospect Park, being held at the historic Concert Grove Pavilion to coincide with WikiConference North America 2021, which will run virtually from Friday to Sunday. For this occasion, and to allow more space as desired, we have individually packed lunches provided by the chapter, and attendees are encouraged to RSVP at Eventbrite and give sandwich/entree orders. Sunday October 10 Wiki-Pavilion Picnic NYC (optional RSVP on-wiki). 12:00pm - 5:00 pm at the Concert Grove Pavilion 40°39′34″N 73°57′51″W / 40.65934°N 73.96414°W / 40.65934; -73.96414 (Prospect Park, Brooklyn) Concert Grove Pavilion

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Nomination of Bowser's Fury for deletion

SkippyKR (talk) 23:09, 7 October 2021 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: September 2021

This Month in GLAM – Volume XI, Issue IX, September 2021 Headlines Albania report: Diaspora Edits Wikipedia Campaign Argentina report: New parnership agreements and more training! Australia report: Preserving paralympic history Belgium report: Wikimedia Belgium GLAM report September 2021 Brazil report: WikidataCon's right around the corner: find out how to participate France report: Wikidata training in Musée de Grenoble Italy report: Call for Italian museums, archives and libraries Kosovo report: Diaspora Edits Wikipedia Campaign Netherlands report: GLAM at WikiconNL2021, ISA-campaign Tag the species Naturalis en Rijksmuseum Serbia report: New WiR and presentation of our activities Spain report: Women Gastronomes Edit-a-thon Sweden report: Kulturhistoria som gymnasiearbete; Uploads from museums in Göteborg; Wiki Loves Monuments; LGBTQIA+ edit-a-thon UK report: British Library and Khalili Collections USA report: New page patrol not assuming good faith towards workshop editors Content Partnerships Hub report: Working towards a thematic hub on content partnerships Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons report: First steps for Wikimedia Commons reconciliation service WMF GLAM report: Updates on grant-funded technical projects Calendar: October's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

Deletion review for Template:Flaglist+link

An editor has asked for a deletion review of Template:Flaglist+link. Because you closed the deletion discussion for this page, speedily deleted it, or otherwise were interested in the page, you might want to participate in the deletion review. * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 02:54, 15 October 2021 (UTC)

Precious anniversary

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:13, 18 October 2021 (UTC)

Battle for the Bones - return?

Hey Czar,

Due to recently announced conference realignment news, UAB and Memphis will return to playing regularly as conference opponents. I think this may warrant a revival of the previously deleted article on the rivalry.

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/UAB–Memphis rivalry

• Reference article: https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2021/10/21/aac-expansion-battle-of-the-bones/
• Additional article: https://www.al.com/uab/2021/10/uab-birmingham-breathe-in-the-sweet-smell-of-victory.html

— Preceding unsigned comment added by Lanternofdiogenes (talk • contribs) 19:18, 21 October 2021 (UTC)

Not so much that the conference realignment itself warrants revisiting the deleted article, but those two new, linked sources are a good reason to revisit it, absolutely. Restored! and subsequent discussion should move to its talk page. czar 03:43, 23 October 2021 (UTC)

Hi

Hi Czar! How are you? Hope everything is alright. --Captain Assassin! ^{«T ♦ C ♦ G»} 07:56, 25 October 2021 (UTC)

Could you be able to please revert back the deleted history of Draft:Barbie (film), Draft:Flash Gordon (upcoming film), Draft:The Rosie Project (film), Draft:Untitled Disney fantasy animated film, Draft:The Division (film), and Draft:Bob the Musical? It seems to be deleted while I was gone. --Captain Assassin! ^{«T ♦ C ♦ G»} 07:56, 25 October 2021 (UTC)

Hi! All good—welcome back! Restored these. czar 02:25, 26 October 2021 (UTC)

Czar, when restoring G13 drafts, please make a minor edit to the page or remove the CSD tag or they are likely to be deleted again. See Draft:The Rosie Project (film). Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 03:24, 26 October 2021 (UTC)

Missed those. Thank you! czar 06:51, 26 October 2021 (UTC)

Hey, thanks man. --Captain Assassin! ^{«T ♦ C ♦ G»} 07:16, 27 October 2021 (UTC)

Growth Newsletter #19

18:36, 26 October 2021 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – November 2021

News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2021).

Guideline and policy news

• 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.

Technical news

• Toolhub is a catalogue of tools which can be used on Wikimedia wikis. It is at https://toolhub.wikimedia.org/.

Arbitration

• GeneralNotability, Mz7 and Cyberpower678 have been appointed to the Electoral Commission for the 2021 Arbitration Committee Elections. Ivanvector and John M Wolfson are reserve commissioners.
• Eligible editors are invited to self-nominate themselves to stand in the 2021 Arbitration Committee elections from 07 November 2021 until 16 November 2021.

Miscellaneous

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

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WikiCup 2021 November newsletter

The WikiCup is over for another year and the finalists can relax! Our Champion this year is The Rambling Man (submissions), who amassed over 5000 points in the final round, achieving 8 featured articles and almost 500 reviews. It was a very competitive round; seven of the finalists achieved over 1000 points in the round (enough to win the 2019 contest), and three scored over 3000 (enough to win the 2020 event). Our 2021 finalists and their scores were:

1. The Rambling Man (submissions) with 5072 points
2. Lee Vilenski (submissions) with 3276 points
3. Amakuru (submissions) with 3197 points
4. Epicgenius (submissions) with 1611 points
5. Gog the Mild (submissions) with 1571 points
6. BennyOnTheLoose (submissions) with 1420 points
7. Hog Farm (submissions) with 1043 points
8. Bloom6132 (submissions) with 528 points

All those who reached the final round will win awards. The following special awards will be made based on high performance in particular areas of content creation and review. Awards will be handed out in the next few days.

• The Rambling Man (submissions) wins the featured article prize, for 8 FAs in round 5.
• Lee Vilenski (submissions) wins the featured list prize, for 3 FLs in round 5.
• Gog the Mild (submissions) wins the featured topic prize, for 13 articles in a featured topic in round 5.
• Epicgenius (submissions) wins the good article prize, for 63 GAs in round 4.
• The Rambling Man (submissions) wins the good topic prize, for 86 articles in good topics in round 5.
• The Rambling Man (submissions) wins the reviewer prize, for 68 FAC reviews and 213 GAN reviews, both in round 5.
• Epicgenius (submissions) wins the DYK prize, for 30 did you know articles in round 3 and 105 overall.
• Bloom6132 (submissions) wins the ITN prize, for 71 in the news articles in round 1 and 284 overall.

Congratulations to everyone who participated in this year's WikiCup, whether they made it to the final round or not, and particular congratulations to the newcomers to the WikiCup, some of whom did very well. Wikipedia has benefitted greatly from the quality creations, expansions and improvements made, and the numerous reviews performed. Thanks to all who have taken part and helped out with the competition, not forgetting User:Jarry1250, who runs the scoring bot.

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Richard Ohmann

This seems up your alley? AleatoryPonderings (???) (!!!) 00:41, 4 November 2021 (UTC)

@AleatoryPonderings, nice work! czar 04:09, 4 November 2021 (UTC)

Not much to speak of at the moment, but thought I'd mention in case you were interested. AleatoryPonderings (???) (!!!) 04:10, 4 November 2021 (UTC)

Hello

Thanks for your mensage in my page! I have done one or two things in english wikipedia, but i am actually a editor in portuguese wikipedia, and i will problably remain exclusively there for some time since i do not have a sufficient grasp of english grammar to really contribute. But we should definetely do more exchanges to expand both projects! Nice to meet you! JoaquimCebuano (talk) — Preceding undated comment added 04:49, 6 November 2021 (UTC)

@JoaquimCebuano, thanks! Do you know if there is there some way for us to be notified when there are new articles for us to translate from the Portuguese Wikipedia? czar 14:42, 6 November 2021 (UTC)

Disambiguation link notification for November 8

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Restore

Hi again, need restoration of deleted edits from Draft:The Woman King (film) and Draft:Blade (upcoming film). Thanks --Captain Assassin! ^{«T ♦ C ♦ G»} 20:30, 9 November 2021 (UTC)

@Captain Assassin!,  Done czar 06:37, 10 November 2021 (UTC)

Sorry, I'd ask that the Blade restoration be reversed. I asked for the edits prior to July 19, 2019 to be removed here due to a banned user sock puppet requesting the histories be restored and the request was carried out. Rusted AutoParts 06:54, 10 November 2021 (UTC)

Reapplied the May 2019 sock deletion (G5), refunded the prior non-sock edits from 2017 (G13). czar 03:04, 11 November 2021 (UTC)

Books & Bytes – Issue 47

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This Month in GLAM: October 2021

This Month in GLAM – Volume XI, Issue X, October 2021 Headlines Australia report: Open access as Australia reopens Belgium report: Wikimedia Belgium GLAM report October 2021 Estonia report: Wikipedia Art Month + Heritage Days Italy report: Collaborations and partnership Netherlands report: How Wikipedia helped to create a Serbian stamp; Many GLAM-related presentations planned at WikiconNL New Zealand report: Outreach by members of the Aotearoa New Zealand Wikimedia User Group Nigeria report: Wikidata for Libraries and notable Librarians in Nigeria Serbia report: A good start to GLAM Fall Spain report: Women Writers Month Sweden report: The Constitution of Pylyp Orlyk; More museum data on Wikidata; LGBT edit-a-thon; Local business history in Nyköping; Stockholm City Museum ♥ Wikipedia; Writing about fashion at Nordiska museet UK report: British Library and Khalili Collections USA report: Wikiconference North America + Workshops Content Partnerships Hub report: Needs assessment interviews; Cultural heritage on Wikidata – thousands of monuments in Norway; Structured Data uploads continue Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons report: A Wikimedia Commons Reconciliation Service, You Say? WMF GLAM report: GLAM office hours, GLAM newsletter moving to Meta-wiki, and more Calendar: November's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.