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New navbox set up

Hi everyone. this is your friendly neigborhood Coordinator for WikiProject History. I have made a new type of navbox for history topics, focusing upon one period in Europe's history. what do you think of this? feel free to comment, offer suggestions, etc. thanks!!! Face-smile.svg


---Sm8900 (talk) 🌍 16:48, 3 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Could also include History of European Jews in the Middle Ages, Haskalah, Islamic world contributions to Medieval Europe, and maybe some other links to topics about the history of Europe that centre non-Christians? MadameOctavian (talk) 07:28, 3 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
those are good ideas. thanks!! by the way, would you like to be a Coordinator at WikiProject History? We can use input from some knowledgeable and experienced editors, on many areas. thanks!! Sm8900 (talk) 01:33, 2 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Review Request Help

Can someone review the page Draft:Spick_Media_Network ? This draft has been pending for more than 48 days.

Protection of the page and proof of "persistent vandalism"

Hello @Deepfriedokra and thank you for caring. And I believe you have the best intentions.

I saw the chance that you protected WP:COUNCIL after an IP blanked the page. While this is vandalism I don't see your quoted "persistent vandalism". I see that there are barely edits of the council page anyway (8 edits in this year, over the half of them related to this vandalism issue here). I don't appreciate that Wikipedia becomes increasingly protected so only senior members are able to edit Wikipedia. And in the case of WP:COUNCIL I see the justification as blatantly wrong. Did any public discussion happen prior to this action? Again I believe your best intentions. But I argue that your instantiated protection did more harm than it helped.

I request hereby that you remove the protection.

GavriilaDmitriev (talk • they/them) 04:02, 3 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@GavriilaDmitriev: Thank you for helping build Wikipedia. Semi-protection was requested at WP:RFPP, of course. Why else would I have have protected it? Please feel free to request unprotection at Wikipedia:Requests for page protection/Decrease. Please link to this discussion. All 17 of the most recent IP edits to the page going back two years have been reverted as vandalism. Though of low frequency, such vandalism (over two years) was persistent. Any autoconfirmed user can edit the page. And as the only IP edits were vandalism, I cannot agree that stopping the vandalism was harmful in any way. --Deepfriedokra (talk) 06:27, 3 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
@Deepfriedokra Thank you for your elaboration.
What percentage of users of en.wikipedia are autoconfirmed? Am I?
Can you confirm that I, as active participant of the council, am not able to do edits anymore? That I have to go the way to request via others to make changes on my behalf?
Stopping vandalism itself is a good thing. But you exclude most participants of wikipedia with this edit.
Also the request at WP:RFPP was with only two votes. Looking at the activity there it was basically your lone decision through a pseudo-democratic process.
Excuse my lack of friendly words here but wikipedia becomes more and more elitist and less a place for non-admins. This is a good example of that trend. Of course that is hard to see as #484 on the Wikipedia:List of Wikipedians by number of edits
GavriilaDmitriev (talk • they/them) 16:36, 3 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
HAve you been editing more then four days with tn edits? If so, you are autoconfirmed. Did you not even try to edit th page/ You should. --Deepfriedokra (talk) 17:29, 3 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
WP:Rfpp is not a vote. If you look closely, you will see requests are made and then answered appropriately. Admins make the determination. --Deepfriedokra (talk) 17:31, 3 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
There are about 500-1000 admins. There are six million users or so. --Deepfriedokra (talk) 17:32, 3 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Actually, this page shows 43,000,000 users and 1049 admins. So I think it's fair to say there are many more non admoins than admins. --Deepfriedokra (talk) 18:00, 3 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
@GavriilaDmitriev: Please see above replies. Please feel free to request decrease in protection at Wikipedia:Requests for page protection/Decrease. Thanks. --Deepfriedokra (talk) 17:35, 3 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you for caring @Deepfriedokra. I admit I was wrong on my assumption.
I confused autoconfirmation (as you mentioned 4 days old account and have made at least 10 edits) and extended confirmation (which is a pretty high bar with 500 edits). I assumed 60,585 extended confirmed user with the 43 million autoconfirmed.
I also correct that Wikipedia rarely votes on something but that admins often make the decisions - which is the issue I was trying to address. This is still a problem and a big reason why a lot of people are put off (even knowing and following the rules) on Wikipedia.
Excuse my temperamental reaction towards you. I appreciate the time you took with your explanation.
GavriilaDmitriev (talk • they/them) 06:19, 4 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
@GavriilaDmitriev: Just as a parting afterthought, I stood for adminship at a time before admins were regarded (by too many, not myself) as some sort of exalted potentates. We have three extra buttons that allow us to clean up-- like janitors we sweep (or mop). If there are any users who are to be regarded as "elite," it's those with Featured articles and/or Good articles. Not that the two groups are mutually exclusive. But as a "legacy admin," I am a janitor. We/I serve at the discretion of the Community. --Deepfriedokra (talk) 10:27, 4 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The process for creating a project page

Hello there, I am planning to create a project page for a Network at the University of St Andrews. Our main focus is to raise awareness about the Wikimedia projects, run Edit-a-thons and training events across the University of St Andrews and beyond. We hope that the project page will develop into something like this, which is created by our colleagues at the University of Edinburgh. We already have interested Wikipedians at our University, and I would appreciate some guidance on how to proceed with creating the page. For example, I am not sure in our case whether to propose the project page or start it directly. Many thanks Abd Alsattar Ardati (talk) 10:11, 12 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Review Request

Can someone review the page Draft:Nalinthip Sakulongumpai. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Publiconline123 (talk • contribs) 05:26, 18 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

RfC re: WikiProject Public Art

Unresolved

I've started an RfC re: whether or not WikiProject Public Art should be merged into WikiProject Visual arts:

If editors decide a merge is appropriate, I hope someone knows how to assist with converting a WikiProject into a task force appropriately.

Thanks, ---Another Believer (Talk) 14:15, 22 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The RfC at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Public Art has closed. I'd say there's generally support to convert WikiProject Public art into a task force of WikiProject Visual arts. Does someone know how to do this, or is there somewhere I can submit a request? ---Another Believer (Talk) 05:16, 28 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Class update

I'm working towards upgrading {{class}} to use Lua and a JSON definition file. Not least because this affects ~17% of all pages, I would appreciate input and/or review at Template talk:Class#Move to Lua/JSON version. Please respond there, or ping me if you respond here. {{Nihiltres |talk |edits}} 17:36, 21 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Review Request Draft Page

Please someone review the Draft page Draft:Lubna Marium this is my first artical. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ayatul nish (talk • contribs) 04:56, 22 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]