User talk:Sam Sailor/Archive 9

Page contents not supported in other languages.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Archive 5 ← Archive 7 Archive 8 Archive 9 Archive 10 Archive 11 → Archive 15

Draft:Elif Caglar

Dear Sam,

Hope you're ok. You've helped me through the submission process before, telling to post on Wikipedia Turkey Project page to get help about the Turkish references. I did but no one helped. The artist i want to add to Wikipedia is an award winning jazz musician who makes records with worldwide known musicians which is easy to verify with a quick look on the internet, not to mention her references are in the draft too. Less known musicians in her genre have made it as an article with less references, so i am thinking they were luckier only and am asking you once again if there is anything else i should be doing after this point. Thank you so much for your kind directions thus far : ) Peace.

Leafm (talk) 15:16, 22 March 2016 (UTC)Leafm

@Leafm: Hello again. Did you try to contact a couple of Turkish speaking editors directly? Best, Sam Sailor Talk! 19:37, 22 March 2016 (UTC)


Sam Sailor No i haven't, i will try that and i hope that they approve. By the way she already has a Turkish wiki page :) Thank you. Leafm (talk) 17:14, 30 March 2016 (UTC) Leafm

G13 Eligibility Notice

Collapsed

The following pages will become eligible for CSD:G13 shortly.

Thanks, HasteurBot (talk) 03:00, 23 March 2016 (UTC)

G13 Eligibility Notice

Collapsed

The following pages will become eligible for CSD:G13 shortly.

Thanks, HasteurBot (talk) 03:00, 25 March 2016 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:Donald Trump

The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Talk:Donald Trump. Legobot (talk) 04:23, 25 March 2016 (UTC)

Your draft article, Draft:Oliver Square

Hello, Sam Sailor. It has been over six months since you last edited your Articles for Creation draft article submission, "Oliver Square".

In accordance with our policy that Articles for Creation is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been nominated for deletion. If you plan on working on it further, or editing it to address the issues raised if it was declined, simply edit the submission and remove the {{db-afc}} or {{db-g13}} code.

If your submission has already been deleted by the time you get there, and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion by following the instructions at this link. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.

Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Onel5969 TT me 00:36, 26 March 2016 (UTC)

Thanks, Bill, but it's the usual case of a moved sandbox. I hope you and everyone dear to you are well. Best, Sam Sailor Talk! 00:42, 26 March 2016 (UTC)

G13 Eligibility Notice

Collapsed

The following pages will become eligible for CSD:G13 shortly.

Thanks, HasteurBot (talk) 03:00, 26 March 2016 (UTC)

G13 Eligibility Notice

Collapsed

The following pages will become eligible for CSD:G13 shortly.

Thanks, HasteurBot (talk) 03:00, 27 March 2016 (UTC)

The Signpost: 23 March 2016

* Read this Signpost in full * Single-page * Unsubscribe * MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 03:24, 27 March 2016 (UTC)

G13 Eligibility Notice

Collapsed

The following pages will become eligible for CSD:G13 shortly.

Thanks, HasteurBot (talk) 03:00, 28 March 2016 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #202

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 16:21, 28 March 2016 (UTC)

G13 Eligibility Notice

Collapsed

The following pages will become eligible for CSD:G13 shortly.

Thanks, HasteurBot (talk) 03:00, 29 March 2016 (UTC)

G13 Eligibility Notice

Collapsed

The following pages will become eligible for CSD:G13 shortly.

Thanks, HasteurBot (talk) 03:00, 30 March 2016 (UTC)

Broadcom (disambiguation) AfD?

Greetings! I noticed that you've contributed to articles on Broadcom Corporation, Avago Technology, and/or the new merged entity Broadcom Limited in the past. I'm pinging you to see if you wanted to add an opinion to a deletion debate on a disambiguation page (Broadcom (disambiguation)). If so, the debate is here. Thanks! Talk to SageGreenRider 23:33, 30 March 2016 (UTC)

G13 Eligibility Notice

Collapsed

The following pages will become eligible for CSD:G13 shortly.

Thanks, HasteurBot (talk) 03:00, 31 March 2016 (UTC)

G13 Eligibility Notice

Collapsed

The following pages will become eligible for CSD:G13 shortly.

Thanks, HasteurBot (talk) 03:00, 1 April 2016 (UTC)

The Signpost: 1 April 2016

* Read this Signpost in full * Single-page * Unsubscribe * MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 20:12, 1 April 2016 (UTC)

G13 Eligibility Notice

Collapsed

The following pages will become eligible for CSD:G13 shortly.

Thanks, HasteurBot (talk) 03:00, 3 April 2016 (UTC)

Articles you might like to edit, from SuggestBot

Note: All columns in this table are sortable, allowing you to rearrange the table so the articles most interesting to you are shown at the top. All images have mouse-over popups with more information. For more information about the columns and categories, please consult the documentation and please get in touch on SuggestBot's talk page with any questions you might have.

Views/Day Quality Title Content Headings Images Links Sources Tagged with…
Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Stub Georgica Pond (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more images Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Add sources
Quality: Medium, Assessed class: C, Predicted class: B Disciple (band) (talk) Please add more content Please add more images Please add more sources Add sources
Quality: Medium, Assessed class: C, Predicted class: B Francis Drake (talk) Add sources
Quality: Low, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: Start Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog (talk) Please add more content Please add more sources Add sources
Quality: Low, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: Start Shaheed Bhagat Singh College (talk) Please add more content Please add more sources Add sources
Quality: Medium, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: B Edith Bouvier Beale (talk) Please add more content Please add more images Please add more sources Add sources
Quality: High, Assessed class: GA, Predicted class: FA Nawabs of Bengal and Murshidabad (talk) Cleanup
Quality: Low, Assessed class: Unassessed, Predicted class: Start Laser turntable (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more images Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Cleanup
Quality: High, Assessed class: B, Predicted class: FA Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (talk) Cleanup
Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Stub Flight to Fury (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more images Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Expand
Quality: Medium, Assessed class: C, Predicted class: B Allies of World War II (talk) Expand
Quality: Medium, Assessed class: C, Predicted class: B Quotation marks in English (talk) Please add more sources Expand
Quality: Low, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: Start Lee Radziwill (talk) Please add more content Please add more sources Unencyclopaedic
Quality: Low, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: Start Albanian Subversion (talk) Please add more sources Unencyclopaedic
Quality: High, Assessed class: C, Predicted class: GA The Ren & Stimpy Show (talk) Unencyclopaedic
Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Start Gluster (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more images Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Merge
Quality: High, Assessed class: Unassessed, Predicted class: GA Lip-synching in music (talk) Merge
Quality: Low, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: Start LAN Manager (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more images Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Merge
Quality: High, Assessed class: FA, Predicted class: FA Belarus (talk) Wikify
Quality: Medium, Assessed class: B, Predicted class: B Tempo (talk) Please add more sources Wikify
Quality: High, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: FA Fatal Fury Special (talk) Please add more content Please add more sources Wikify
Quality: Low, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: Stub National Van Lines, Inc. (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more images Please add more sources Orphan
Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Stub Abbotsford motorcycles (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more images Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Orphan
Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Stub Arthur Hitchins (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more images Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Orphan
Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Start Athens Festival (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more images Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Stub
Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Stub Adamo Abate (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more images Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Stub
Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Stub Susan Froemke (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more images Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Stub
Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Stub Aubrey Island (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more images Please add more sources Stub
Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Start Vranov nad Dyjí Chateau (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Stub
Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Stub Johnnys Island (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more images Please add more sources Stub

SuggestBot picks articles in a number of ways based on other articles you've edited, including straight text similarity, following wikilinks, and matching your editing patterns against those of other Wikipedians. It tries to recommend only articles that other Wikipedians have marked as needing work. We appreciate that you have signed up to receive suggestions regularly; your contributions make Wikipedia better — thanks for helping!

If you have feedback on how to make SuggestBot better, please let us know on SuggestBot's talk page. -- SuggestBot (talk) 00:33, 4 April 2016 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:Syed Hamid Hussain

The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Talk:Syed Hamid Hussain. Legobot (talk) 04:23, 4 April 2016 (UTC)

G13 Eligibility Notice

Collapsed

The following pages will become eligible for CSD:G13 shortly.

Thanks, HasteurBot (talk) 03:01, 5 April 2016 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #203

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

G13 Eligibility Notice

Collapsed

The following pages will become eligible for CSD:G13 shortly.

Thanks, HasteurBot (talk) 03:00, 6 April 2016 (UTC)

G13 Eligibility Notice

Collapsed

The following pages will become eligible for CSD:G13 shortly.

Thanks, HasteurBot (talk) 03:01, 7 April 2016 (UTC)

Battle of Stalingrad reverted edit

Hi Sam Sailor! I saw that you reverted my edit of the article "Battle of Stalingrad" (https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Battle_of_Stalingrad&action=history), the one about "omitted part of Paulus quote (as in the citation source)".

I was just reading the original source from citation and noticed that the original German quote was "I have no intention of shooting [myself] for such a swine as this Bohemian corporal" and the one in the article was just "for this Bohemian corporal" without the swine part and without indication of any omission (like [...] ), so I added the omitted descriptor as in the source (it was quote from highest ranking German officer captured in the war, so his attitude towards the supreme commander is, I think, somewhat important in this context).

Anyway, maybe there are some specific wiki rules I don't know about and that quote was supposed to be presented like that. I'm just writing to let you know that it wasn't test or vandalism. Take care! 188.127.6.125 (talk) 22:11, 7 April 2016 (UTC)

@188.127.6.125: Vielen Dank für deine Nachricht. Kanst du mich die volle Zitat in Deutsch, und die Quelle geben, bitte? Sam Sailor Talk! 22:15, 7 April 2016 (UTC)
@188.127.6.125: You are totally right! Thank you. In fact the article had the full quote in German (cited from Der Spiegel) as well as the full translation to English, but only as a note. Why anybody in the first place has chosen the partial quote is a mystery. I "promoted" the note to give the full quote with a citation. Have a look. Sam Sailor Talk! 22:40, 7 April 2016 (UTC)

G13 Eligibility Notice

Collapsed

The following pages will become eligible for CSD:G13 shortly.

Thanks, HasteurBot (talk) 03:01, 8 April 2016 (UTC)

G13 Eligibility Notice

Collapsed

The following pages will become eligible for CSD:G13 shortly.

Thanks, HasteurBot (talk) 03:00, 10 April 2016 (UTC)

:: Help me! alignment of information request

Thanks, Bill, for your response.

But I'm just wondering how this kind of descriptive discrepancy happened?

And you mentioned that you can get me started with something more productive - I'm glad to learn of this....please.

Hear from you again,

Estella — Preceding unsigned comment added by 58.153.152.227 (talk) 17:35, 11 April 2016 (UTC)

  • @Estella: Thank you for your message. The discrepancy happens because so many people do not fact-check. So is he 1.77 m? Or is he 1.80 m? Maybe we will never know. Maybe we can live just as happily without knowing. Best, Sam Sailor Talk! 17:44, 11 April 2016 (UTC)

Indian polio

Thanks for sorting out the polio article, I've got earwig but maybe forgot to use it. ThanksAtlantic306 (talk) 18:58, 11 April 2016 (UTC)

@Atlantic306: You're welcome. I see you have not installed JavaScript, and you say you've got Earwig? Maybe you mean that you are running it via a link to Toollab. Give js a go. --Sam Sailor Talk! 18:30, 12 April 2016 (UTC)

Hello, yes am using a link to earwig, how do you enable javascript , to be honest i don't understand javascript thanks Atlantic306 (talk) 19:48, 12 April 2016 (UTC)

@Atlantic306: You do not have to understand JavaScript as such, you just need to know how to enable it. You could start simple and create your own common.js (right click the link and chose open in a new window). There you can put in
/************
*** copyvios.js
*** Adds a toolbox link to do a copyvio check on the given page.
*** Linkback: [[User:The Earwig/copyvios.js]]
*** Notes: "p-tb" = toolbar to the left
*************/
importScript('User:The Earwig/copyvios.js');

For more info, see Category:Wikipedia scripts. For inspiration feel free to see User:Sam Sailor/common.js. Sam Sailor Talk! 20:37, 12 April 2016 (UTC)

Thanks , will try them out, sorry for delay as forgot about it, am finding a bit of copyvio Atlantic306 (talk) 19:22, 23 April 2016 (UTC)

G13 Eligibility Notice

Collapsed

The following pages will become eligible for CSD:G13 shortly.

Thanks, HasteurBot (talk) 03:00, 12 April 2016 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #204

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 10:58, 12 April 2016 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: March 2016



Headlines
Read this edition in full • Single-page

To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

Advice/help for the page dedicated to the Palazzetto Bru Zane

Dear Sam Sailor

First of all I really want to thank you for your help on the page Palazzetto Bru Zane - Centre de musique romantique française. I read that there is a problem of copyright with the first paragraph. The website www.europera-ticket.com used the text that we wrote. I quoted the references and books we used. What should I do to risolve this issue?

Many thanks :)JoséphineKirch (talk) 12:55, 12 April 2016 (UTC)

  • It does look like you used the text from www.europera-ticket.com, not that www.europera-ticket.com used your text. Await someone zapping the copy-vio. Sam Sailor Talk! 18:32, 12 April 2016 (UTC)


  • Hello! actually I am doing an internship here at the Palazzetto, and the text is on their website and press kit, written by the scientific team. That why different websites use it. What can I do to show you that it is not written by europera-ticket.com?--JoséphineKirch (talk) 14:24, 13 April 2016 (UTC)

G13 Eligibility Notice

Collapsed

The following pages will become eligible for CSD:G13 shortly.

Thanks, HasteurBot (talk) 03:00, 13 April 2016 (UTC)

Wikimedia Highlights from March 2016

Here are the highlights from the Wikimedia blog in March 2016.
About · Subscribe/unsubscribe, 19:25, 13 April 2016 (UTC)

The Signpost: 14 April 2016

* Read this Signpost in full * Single-page * Unsubscribe * MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:46, 14 April 2016 (UTC)

G13 Eligibility Notice

Collapsed

The following pages will become eligible for CSD:G13 shortly.

Thanks, HasteurBot (talk) 03:00, 14 April 2016 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:Natalie Portman

The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Talk:Natalie Portman. Legobot (talk) 04:23, 14 April 2016 (UTC)

problem of copyright

Hello Sam Sailor, here is the link of the website of the Palazzetto where you can see that it is the team of the institution who wrote the text: http://www.bru-zane.com/?chi_siamo=il-casino-zane&lang=it&lang=en. Please could you help me to replace the paragraph of presentation in the page Palazzetto Bru Zane - Centre de musique romantique française? Should I insert a copyright "Palazzetto Bru Zane"? Many thanks --JoséphineKirch (talk) 14:25, 14 April 2016 (UTC)

G13 Eligibility Notice

Collapsed

The following pages will become eligible for CSD:G13 shortly.

Thanks, HasteurBot (talk) 03:00, 15 April 2016 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 16, 2016)

Debt is the amount of money that is owed or due.
Hello, Sam Sailor.

The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection:

Debt

Please be bold and help to improve this article!

Previous selections: Delicatessen • Pecan pie

Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations

Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:07, 18 April 2016 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI • Opt-out instructions

G13 Eligibility Notice

Collapsed

The following pages will become eligible for CSD:G13 shortly.

Thanks, HasteurBot (talk) 03:00, 18 April 2016 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #205

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 15:19, 18 April 2016 (UTC)

G13 Eligibility Notice

Collapsed

The following pages will become eligible for CSD:G13 shortly.

Thanks, HasteurBot (talk) 03:00, 19 April 2016 (UTC)

WikiProject X Newsletter • Issue 8

Newsletter • March / April 2016

This month:

Transclude article requests anywhere on Wikipedia

In the last issue of the WikiProject X Newsletter, I discussed the upcoming Wikipedia Requests system: a central database for outstanding work on Wikipedia. I am pleased to announce Wikipedia Requests is live! Its purpose is to supplement automatically generated lists, such as those from SuggestBot, Reports bot, or Wikidata. It is currently being demonstrated on WikiProject Occupational Safety and Health (which I work on as part of my NIOSH duties) and WikiProject Women scientists.

Adding a request is as simple as filling out a form. Just go to the Add form to add your request. Adding sources will help ensure that your request is fulfilled more quickly. And when a request is fulfilled, simply click "mark as complete" and it will be removed from all the lists it's on. All at the click of a button! (If anyone is concerned, all actions are logged.)

With this new service is a template to transclude these requests: {{Wikipedia Requests}}. It's simple to use: add the template to a page, specifying article=, category=, or wikiproject=, and the list will be transcluded. For example, for requests having to do with all living people, just do {{Wikipedia Requests|category=Living people}}. Use these lists on WikiProjects but also for edit-a-thons where you want a convenient list of things to do on hand. Give it a shot!

Help us build our list!

The value of Wikipedia Requests comes from being a centralized database. The long work to migrating individual lists into this combined list is slowly underway. As of writing, we have 883 open tasks logged in Wikipedia Requests. We need your help building this list.

If you know of a list of missing articles, or of outstanding tasks for existing articles, that you would like to migrate to this new system, head on over to Wikipedia:Wikipedia Requests#Transition project and help out. Doing this will help put your list in front of more eyes—more than just your own WikiProject.

An open database means new tools

WikiProject X maintains a database that associates article talk pages (and draft talk pages) with WikiProjects. This database powers many of the reports that Reports bot generates. However, until very recently, this database was not made available to others who might find its data useful. It's only common sense to open up the database and let others build tools with it.

And indeed: Citation Hunt, the game to add citations to Wikipedia, now lets you filter by WikiProject, using the data from our database.

Are you a tool developer interested in using this? Here are some details: the database resides on Tool Labs with the name s52475__wpx_p. The table that associates WikiProjects with articles and drafts is called projectindex. Pages are stored by talk page title but in the future this should change. Have fun!

On the horizon
  • The work on the CollaborationKit extension continues. The extension will initially focus on reducing template and Lua bloat on WikiProjects (especially our WPX UI demonstration projects), and will from there create custom interfaces for creating and maintaining WikiProjects.
  • The WikiCite meeting will be in Berlin in May. The goal of the meeting is to figure out how to build a bibliographic database for use on the Wikimedia projects. This fits in quite nicely with WikiProject X's work: we want to make it easier for people to find things to work on, and with a powerful, open bibliographic database, we can build recommendations for sources. This feature was requested by the Wikipedia Library back in September, and this meeting is a major next step. We look forward to seeing what comes out of this meeting.


Until next time,

Harej (talk) 01:29, 20 April 2016 (UTC)

G13 Eligibility Notice

Collapsed

The following pages will become eligible for CSD:G13 shortly.

Thanks, HasteurBot (talk) 03:00, 20 April 2016 (UTC)

Request for delete Sua (Muyscas)

Hi Sam, I followed almost all the steps for it, but if you want to revert, fine by me, there's so much more to do. The "discussion" was already started on the talk page of both Sua (Muyscas) and Bochica in 2013. I added my arguments for deletion, just like the other requests above it on the Request for deletion page (Umu music, etc.):

  1. Article name is wrong (should be Muisca (plural), not the old spelling Muyscas)
  2. Article is an orphan not containing any refs
  3. See talk page where in 2013 already a merge with Bochica was proposed; name is synonym for the sun god of the Muisca
  4. New redirects "Sua (Muisca)" and "Nemquetaha" should be created directing to Bochica

But as said, if procedures are more important than getting rid of crap, fine by me, other things to do. Thanks, Tisquesusa (talk) 21:56, 20 April 2016 (UTC)

Hi Tisquesusa. Deleting an article and merging an article into another are two different processes. In the case of Sua (Muyscas) there seems to be no need for a deletion discussion, as it would be a reasonable redirect to Bochica. Some processes here might seem a bit convoluted when you start out on your Wikipedia journey, but please remember that all processes were decided by the 1000s of people who have and are creating this encyclopaedia. Your addition of a deletion "request" of Sua (Muyscas) added to Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Umu music would have been reverted by any editor.
I have looked for sources on Sua and there are plenty to support that it's a another name for Bochica. (If you speak French you may want to go to fr:Discussion:Súa (divinité) and convince them they were wrong.) I consider a merge or Sua->Bochia uncontroversial and will perform it. I will also create a redirect from Sua (Muisca) -> Bochica. Finally I will fix the resulting double redirect from Nemquetaha.
Let me know if I can help with anything else. Sam Sailor Talk! 00:29, 21 April 2016 (UTC)
Hi Sam, thanks a lot, looks very good now. I can read French, speaking not so well. Thanks for the work and I understand the difference better, I just didn't want to touch/redirect the page as it had a history, on other wikis the R_with_history tag is not used, so that's why. If you're interested could you take a look at what I was working on in the meantime; the Muisca people article? See the version before I started and the current version. Still far from finished and I will look into new sources to add more and more relevant information. In the past days I've completed the articles on the different Muisca rulers, also taking original sources, not es:wiki. Thanks again and good night/day/morning, wherever you are, Tisquesusa (talk) 02:26, 21 April 2016 (UTC)
I'm not into the subject at all, but by the look of the pages you have created, I'd say you're doing good. And maybe have edited from IPs before. Take care, Sam Sailor Talk! 03:04, 21 April 2016 (UTC)
Thank you for the Barnstar! I will post it on my user page. I have been active in distant pasts on other wikis, not so much here. Sometimes it's even better if you're not into subjects for a good proof read. I try to use external sources and not es:wiki as that is a kind of circular loop and the main idea of Wikipedia is that it documents other sources. Thanks again, cheers, Tisquesusa (talk) 03:23, 21 April 2016 (UTC)

G13 Eligibility Notice

Collapsed

The following pages will become eligible for CSD:G13 shortly.

Thanks, HasteurBot (talk) 03:00, 21 April 2016 (UTC)

G13 Eligibility Notice

Collapsed

The following pages will become eligible for CSD:G13 shortly.

Thanks, HasteurBot (talk) 03:00, 22 April 2016 (UTC)

Request on 00:40:14, 23 April 2016 for assistance on AfC submission by 190.149.162.179


Hi, would you explain me more which kind of references do you want? I've seen another bands' wiki pages and some of them have at most one references, I included more than one on this recently created page.

Thanks in advance

190.149.162.179 (talk) 00:40, 23 April 2016 (UTC)

  • Please read the advice given in the pink and grey box on the draft, and in my comment: follow the links, read the instructions, then ameliorate the draft accordingly. And read Wikipedia:Other stuff exists. Sam Sailor Talk! 01:20, 23 April 2016 (UTC)

G13 Eligibility Notice

Collapsed

The following pages will become eligible for CSD:G13 shortly.

Thanks, HasteurBot (talk) 03:00, 23 April 2016 (UTC)

F1 IP editor

Hello, I thought it best to bring the discussion here rather than the req. page as I might go on a bit. It wouldn't be too bad if the re-directs were created as I, or another member of the F1 project, would add 'hidden' advice to the source that the article should not be created without first discussing at the F1 project. (As has been done in several other instances). This seems to be enough to dissuade our over-enthusiastic friend. Just by way of background, he has made multiple requests for redirects for cars which fail notability and then created (or tried to) poor quality articles from them. See also discussion here. This is just one of the issues the project has with this editor, who has been disrupting F1 articles for about 8 months now. Anyway, whatever you decide to do with the requests is probably OK in the long run. Thanks. Regards, Eagleash (talk) 15:02, 23 April 2016 (UTC)

@Eagleash: Both redirects are reasonable, as they are mentioned in the target, but the concerns your background knowledge raises are valid. If I go and create the redirects, and you post a {{Pinggroup}} here to other F1-project participants, e.g.
I believe we should thus have covered our bases. Thanks, Sam Sailor Talk! 15:15, 23 April 2016 (UTC)
There's at least 3 F1 editors who are constantly vigilant for IP's activity (one, at least, has almost every F1 page watchlisted!) So if the re-dirs are accepted, it's fine, we'll cover it. And I will immediately watchlist the re-dirs., although the 'pinggroup' idea is a good one. The cars aren't notable in any way as they are actually Formula 2 cars which 'made up the numbers' in (from memory) one F1 race each and achieved nothing of note. Thanks. Eagleash (talk) 15:31, 23 April 2016 (UTC)

Agent's address.

I was just fishing for an admission. It's fairly clear COI-- I mean, who puts the actual agent's address, with street and suite number in the lede? Hilarious. I deleted most of the content in any case, as it was a copyvio. HappyValleyEditor (talk) 05:07, 23 April 2016 (UTC)

To editor HappyValleyEditor: As long as the shipping company insists on a 15-year old mantra that everybody on the pier can jump onboard and start pulling ropes and churning winches without any training, this is the kind of ship you get: manned by an army of unpaid deckhands that try to teach the landlubbers, and constantly are running around politely pointing out that pissing against the wind is a no-no and that the poop deck is not for taking a dump.
If main space at times can be hilarious, try joining the ranks over at AfC. CAT:GFOO for the latest submissions. If you want to actively review, I recommend using Yet Another Articles for Creation Helper Script by enabling Preferences → Gadgets → Editing → check Yet Another AFC Helper Script. The blatant promo, the blatant copy-vios, the blatant non-significant subjects you get immune to. They are much less of a problem than the many, many well written drafts with a long list of references that tries to make a borderline subject pass the threshold of notability. Catch you around, Sam Sailor Talk! 13:14, 23 April 2016 (UTC)
Thank you for the kind advice! Now I understand the quote at the top of your user page. (BTW, I see him on the street every five years or so-- he has a house up the street from me. He always looks like any other neighbourhood sailor.) HappyValleyEditor (talk) 23:39, 23 April 2016 (UTC)
Thank you, HappyValleyEditor, for that wonderful picture: A fedora comes walking down the street with the old poet underneath. He hums "I'm turning tricks, I'm getting fixed, I'm back on boogie street". Sam Sailor Talk! 11:09, 24 April 2016 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:Bochasanwasi Shri Akshar Purushottam Swaminarayan Sanstha

The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Talk:Bochasanwasi Shri Akshar Purushottam Swaminarayan Sanstha. Legobot (talk) 04:27, 24 April 2016 (UTC)

The Signpost: 24 April 2016

* Read this Signpost in full * Single-page * Unsubscribe * MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 22:42, 24 April 2016 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 17, 2016)

Hello, Sam Sailor.

The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection:

Fame (Irene Cara song)

Please be bold and help to improve this article!

Previous selections: Debt • Delicatessen

Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations

Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:07, 25 April 2016 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI • Opt-out instructions

Wikidata weekly summary #206

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 20:42, 25 April 2016 (UTC)

Help on rebranding issue for Flixbus & Flixmobility

Hi Sam Sailor, I wanted to thank you shortly for your prompt help (hope this is the right place to do it). I will try now to continue the discussion there. Thanks again, Francesco — Preceding unsigned comment added by Fc2016 (talk • contribs) 12:31, 27 April 2016 (UTC)

Volterra and Bartoli family

Hi Sam. I had a look on Bartoli family and I think that not only is unsourced but it seems completely invented. I will do quicky some further searches. On Volterra's article, as soon as possible, I will try to improve it. --Chiorbone da Frittole (talk) 18:00, 27 April 2016 (UTC)

@Chiorbone da Frittole: Ciao, senti, non perdi tempo con il Bartoli caso, é proprio un inganno ... I'm sourcing Volterra as we speak, lascia a me. ;) Sorry for my rusty Italian. Sam Sailor Talk! 18:04, 27 April 2016 (UTC)

Nomination of Story of O - Chapter 2 for deletion

Dear Sam Sailor, here I'm. After looking on the many ways to get things moving forward in a positive way for the article to be kept: not really sure about the best option. In your view what can be done to enter the process to get the issue potentially resolved knowing that the page nominator stays silent? Could you indicate page leads on what can be done at this stage. Again thank you. Best, --Mateouso (talk) 06:57, 30 April 2016 (UTC)

@Mateouso: Bonsoir Mateouso. In short: don't worry. The Story of O - Chapter 2 will not be deleted. Even at the time of nomination for deletion, it had enough references to meet WP:NF. EditorE makes a call for an early close, and I myself find these nominations are a waste of community time. But I do not see evidence that this could be closed pursuant to WP:SKCRIT #2. MichaelQSchmidt makes a remark regarding noms argument Does not deserve its own article which is a WP:JUSTNOTNOTABLE-argument that should be avoided. It is, IMHO, bordering to being so weak that WP:SKCRIT #1 could be used for closure, but it is not a crystal clear case. So it is unlikely we will see a Speedy Keep closure. An early close as Snow Keep is a theoretical possibility but slim (I'll spare you the details and the caveats) ... anyways, I have voiced my opinion in the discussion, and thus should not close it, and as we are now only two days away from the 7 days the discussion is set to run, why not just kick back and relax. Yes, it looks horrible with that AfD box on one's work, but it will soon be over and forgotten. I'll close the {{Help me}} on your user talk page. Let me know if there's anything else I can do. Cordialement, Sam Sailor Talk! 15:39, 30 April 2016 (UTC)

Bit more Bartoli

I discovered there's also a draft here which I have nominated at MfD here (although in hindsight I suppose it could have been bundled at AfD). Good work on this stuff! Eagleash (talk) 15:55, 24 April 2016 (UTC)

Responded at the appropriate venue. Good find. I got tired of sifting through their contribs and took a break. All edits - incl. those logged out as 78.145.17.94 (talk · contribs · WHOIS) - have been towards building this hoax. Sam Sailor Talk! 16:03, 24 April 2016 (UTC)

Wondering if this should go to ANI (or somewhere)? Eagleash (talk) 22:20, 24 April 2016 (UTC)
@Eagleash: Def qualifies for a block, but I was contemplating another route, that would maybe save the brave editors at ANI for this case.
Knowing1900 (SUL) also made a disruptive edit on itwiki (I have reverted). From working cross-wiki with the case José Rafael Cordero Sánchez I recall a steward who's also an admin on itwiki. Since this case involves creating a hoax about something Italian, I'd assume he would globally lock the account if made aware of the matter. But I am open to other suggestions, what do you think? Sam Sailor Talk! 09:07, 25 April 2016 (UTC)
Knowing1900 (talk · contribs) is fairly obviously editing from the static address 78.145.17.94 (talk · contribs · WHOIS) which deserves a block as well, and I'm not sure what the policies are on global blocking an IP. So a local block here on enwiki is maybe what we should suggest the community to consider. Sam Sailor Talk! 11:10, 25 April 2016 (UTC)
Apologies, delay, RL is a so & so right now. TBH I don't really know enough about how blocking procedures etc. work. I'd just plonk what I could remember at ANI & hope for the best! The fact that the ed. has not attempted to defend their 'work' says it all though. So really I'm no help at all, sorry! Eagleash (talk) 23:31, 25 April 2016 (UTC)
@Eagleash: Apologies not needed, as you see from my own delay I've been procrastinating myself, but as Knowing1900 and the IP stopped, it is not an urgent matter. I posted a message to this steward; if for any reasons he does not globally lock, we'll file at ANI, it's a two liner with a block proposition. Catch you around, Sam Sailor Talk! 12:26, 27 April 2016 (UTC)
I imagine you have it watchlisted...but just in case...the article is being (badly) edited again by a different account. Eagleash (talk) 23:59, 27 April 2016 (UTC)

@Eagleash: Yeah, did notice. Not exactly Hemingway. And what's with the inline URLs to redlinked titles on Simple? I checked their global contribs, Special:CentralAuth/Coralsnan, they have been around Simple, but have not edited. Bartoli family says that "the younger son Fabio Bartoli resides in London". The IP is from London, I believe. Will you file at SPI? Did you check out Volterra? A regular has left in a part of the hoax without fact-checking it. I've been answering on their talk this morning. Peculiar case of denial any mistakes, despite being reverted by two editors. Find it in my contribs. ... Do you have or have you had teen kids? Just thinking aloud, no need to answer. YKWIM. TTYL, Sam Sailor Talk! 08:49, 28 April 2016 (UTC)

@Eagleash: It's been a long day in RL. I'm working on an ANI post regarding the Bartoli affair. Would that be OK with you? (Does the ECHO work here?? Gonna post you a TB.) Sam Sailor Talk! 22:36, 28 April 2016 (UTC)

I'm fine with an ANI post. I was mulling it over myself, as well as poss SPI, the second account doesn't seem to have edited further. I looked at the talk-page discussion you mentioned...couldn't really follow the other ed's. logic. No to teenagers...other peoples are enough of a pain! I got TB and a notification so everything seems to be working.
On another note a strange thing happened a day or two ago. A page (now deleted as a copy-vio of this) was having maintenance templates removed by two accounts both with Sunny Li in the name. I reverted. Both accounts ended up at AIV (1 blocked) but the next morning I got a friend request on Facebook from 'Sunny Li'; haven't accepted. Eagleash (talk) 22:58, 28 April 2016 (UTC)
@Eagleash: And next thing you know is they ask for a money transfer for their sick aunt. ;) "Life replicates bad television." I'm going to get that ANI report finished. You'll get a notification. Cheers mate, Sam Sailor Talk! 23:04, 28 April 2016 (UTC)
Haha; maybe...her FB doesn't have the hallmarks of a scam type page. Thanks for the ANI notification: by the time I got to it, it had been closed. All done and dusted then. Also noted that the post after yours was about a reviewer who the F1 project have long had (serious) reservations about...accepting multiple sub-standard drafts by our IP-hopping, re-direct-requesting, disruptive editor mentioned above. Regards, Eagleash (talk) 04:39, 29 April 2016 (UTC)
@Eagleash: FB: "Her"? You're sure? I had a chat experience were it was impossible to get "her" on Skype. To this day a buddy of mine keeps poking me saying "You're sure she was a 26-year old Norwegian med student interested in your boat, not a 65-year old man interested in something else, or just anybody manipulating you?" He's got a point, doesn't he? I'm glad I dropped that chat relatively quickly; hopefully it attests to some degree of sanity.
ANI: Good to notice that Cavarrone brings up ST at AfD in the current ANI thread. Yesterday he !voted (or maybe "voted" is the better word here?) at 68 AfDs, since 20 April he has voted at 500+. His arguments are mostly generalized, seldom does he cite specific notability guidelines. The dilemma is that his AfD stats (although with a low 6% keep) shows a high correct rate of 90+%. Did someone ever look at the degree of pile-on votes? Ex. Diff of Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Finrod Felagund - 06:02:44 and then 17 (!) seconds later in Diff of Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bageshwari (magazine) - 06:03:01 as third delete !vote. I see lots of <1 min between votes. He's not section editing, he's opening a new window or tab.
In regards to curation of F1 articles, why not make a proposal on WT:F1 that ST be requested to skip curation of F1 related articles? Sam Sailor Talk! 19:06, 29 April 2016 (UTC)
It has been mooted before that ST be asked not to 'review' F1 articles. I'm keeping out of the discussion a bit for various reasons. It's always possible that Sunny Li is an imposter. However the FB page has a good number of pics in various situations not just say one blurry smiley shot... still haven't accepted though. Boat... of course... sailor...haha. Many many years ago now I worked for a quite well-known yacht chandler in Piccadilly, London. (The bigger boats played havoc with the traffic!) On another note someone just asked my opinion of this. I think it's borderline and needs some work if it is to be kept, but they are wondering if it should go to AfD. Got a lot of refs though but not in English. Any thoughts? (If you can spare the time). Thanks. Eagleash (talk) 21:58, 30 April 2016 (UTC)
Ha, you worked in a chandlery? FB: Go for it. F1: The project gets what the consensus wants. Taneli Tikka: first impression: slick as teflon. History: 1 major editor. Look him up: disclosed paid editor. Finnish w/o a doubt. Also "custodian" of the same article on sv.wiki and fi.wiki. Sv.wiki has a maintenance template saying "looks like a press release, make less promotional, may not be notable". An Sv admin has been editing. (PersPOV: The smaller Wikis are often editor strapped, so the presence of an article in the original language may indicate at least some notability, but can mean that nobody had time to delete.) That's my first impression. I don't speak Finnish, so a thorough evaluation of the sources would take some time. I hope I'm not the only one that finds that a sentence like "Tikka is married and has two cats." has 8 legs too many. You could post a message to Widr and/or Tappinen they are the Finnish editors I can recall. Cheers, Sam Sailor Talk! 23:57, 30 April 2016 (UTC)
I had a look at the Finnish Taneli Tikka page, references are made to major national business newspapers and the few which I evaluated were OK. Usually, we do not question notability of someone who got such a large media visibility when it is not related to one event but several, as it is in this case. You can see from the talk page of the English page that "jjanhone (talk · contribs) has been paid by Tieto on behalf of Taneli Tikka."; jjanhone is a well-known editor in fi-wiki, and she knows the rules. Cheers, --Tappinen (talk) 04:33, 1 May 2016 (UTC)

Thank you, Tappinen. Did you get that, Eagleash? --Sam Sailor Talk! 12:45, 1 May 2016 (UTC)

Yes got that, many thanks. Eagleash (talk) 15:08, 1 May 2016 (UTC)

Articles you might like to edit, from SuggestBot

Collapsed

Note: All columns in this table are sortable, allowing you to rearrange the table so the articles most interesting to you are shown at the top. All images have mouse-over popups with more information. For more information about the columns and categories, please consult the documentation and please get in touch on SuggestBot's talk page with any questions you might have.

Views/Day Quality Title Content Headings Images Links Sources Tagged with…
Quality: Medium, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: B Old Azeri language (talk) Please add more images Add sources
Quality: Medium, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: B Anthony Cornero (talk) Please add more content Please add more images Please add more sources Add sources
Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Start Jukebox musical (talk) Please add more content Please add more images Please add more sources Add sources
Quality: High, Assessed class: GA, Predicted class: GA Philippines (talk) Add sources
Quality: High, Assessed class: GA, Predicted class: FA Frozen (2013 film) (talk) Add sources
Quality: Low, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: Start Vigna mungo (talk) Please add more content Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Add sources
Quality: Medium, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: C State school (talk) Please add more sources Cleanup
Quality: Medium, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: B The Cabin in the Woods (talk) Please add more images Cleanup
Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Start Desi Slava (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more images Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Cleanup
Quality: Medium, Assessed class: B, Predicted class: B Tesla Motors (talk) Expand
Quality: Medium, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: C Australian Curriculum (talk) Please add more content Please add more images Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Expand
Quality: High, Assessed class: FA, Predicted class: FA Houston (talk) Expand
Quality: High, Assessed class: C, Predicted class: GA Grand Theft Auto (video game) (talk) Please add more content Please add more sources Unencyclopaedic
Quality: Medium, Assessed class: C, Predicted class: B Ludhiana (talk) Please add more sources Unencyclopaedic
Quality: Medium, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: C Lucius Petronius Taurus Volusianus (talk) Please add more images Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Unencyclopaedic
Quality: Low, Assessed class: Unassessed, Predicted class: Stub Peacemaker (bus) (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Merge
Quality: Low, Assessed class: List, Predicted class: Start Nickelodeon (international) (talk) Please add more content Please add more sources Merge
Quality: High, Assessed class: GA, Predicted class: GA Shreya Ghoshal (talk) Merge
Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Stub National Union of Students Women's Campaign (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more images Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Wikify
Quality: High, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: A Secondary school (talk) Please add more sources Wikify
Quality: Medium, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: C George Washington Wilson (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Wikify
Phollop Willing Pa (talk) {2.0} {2.0} {2.0} {2.0} {2.0} Orphan
Quality: Low, Assessed class: Unassessed, Predicted class: Start Hong Kong Black Police (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Orphan
Quality: Medium, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: C Whales in Ghanaian waters (talk) Please add more content Please add more images Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Orphan
Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Start Muisca rulers (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Stub
Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Stub Tequendama Falls (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Stub
Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Stub Arkavati (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more images Please add more sources Stub
Quality: Low, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: Stub Stachys affinis (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Stub
Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Start Star Wars and Other Galactic Funk (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more images Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Stub
Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Stub Endothenia quadrimaculana (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more images Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Stub

SuggestBot picks articles in a number of ways based on other articles you've edited, including straight text similarity, following wikilinks, and matching your editing patterns against those of other Wikipedians. It tries to recommend only articles that other Wikipedians have marked as needing work. We appreciate that you have signed up to receive suggestions regularly; your contributions make Wikipedia better — thanks for helping!

If you have feedback on how to make SuggestBot better, please let us know on SuggestBot's talk page. -- SuggestBot (talk) 00:01, 2 May 2016 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 18, 2016)

Hello, Sam Sailor.

The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection:

À la carte

Please be bold and help to improve this article!

Previous selections: Fame (Irene Cara song) • Debt

Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations

Posted by: MusikBot talk 02:07, 2 May 2016 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI • Opt-out instructions

The Signpost: 2 May 2016

* Read this Signpost in full * Single-page * Unsubscribe * MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 03:08, 2 May 2016 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #207

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
Wikidata's coverage as of April 2016
Difference of Wikidata's coverage between April 2016 and 6 month before

A7

Hi,

I noticed your discussion here. I take it that you agree with my tag removal? I've been told by some people that I have the right idea about what constitutes a credible claim of significance. Others have told me that my idea is way off most people's. Some editors are in-between. One person even thinks I'm dangerous to Wikipedia and shouldn't be allowed to touch CSD with a bargepole because I keep going against "consensus". What consensus? Opinions are all over the place, and some editors simply do not understand significance properly. I was actually half-expecting the A7 tag to be restored, if not by the original nominator then by someone else. Given this confusion, I'd like to know where you stand on A7, because it's far too controversial if you ask me. Thanks. Adam9007 (talk) 00:38, 1 May 2016 (UTC)

Thanks for dropping by. Are we specifically talking Stefun Jahangir Carzon? Then I can not give an opinion, as it has been deleted for a second time pursuant to A7. I have no opinion on your work as I have not looked into it. Amongst the many clever and kind people here are those that will judge you, sometimes in a less than clever and kind way. Don't take their rants personally. But I did today send you a friendly thought when I saw you removed User:Velella's mistaken A7 from Evergreen Packaging. Well done. I just found your A7 hastiness post on WT:CSD. Personally I'd prefer if the bar was set higher for new creations for non-extended autoconfirmed. Main space is indexed. Draft space is not. Put new creations there, train more hands to review at AFC instead of NPP. But this kind of discussions have been going on for years. As for mainspace, I can't see why A7 should not have the same 15 min grace period. We have a two-liner on a young singer/actor/whatever for 2 min in main space or for 15 min, no big deal. But you are right, some people misunderstand A7. Velella is one, and we should try to help them understand, if we can. Cheers, Sam Sailor Talk! 01:55, 1 May 2016 (UTC)
I was actually talking about Thiel Audio. I removed the A7 tag from Evergreen Packaging because WP:CSD states "A page is eligible for speedy deletion only if all of its revisions are also eligible", and previous revisions did assert significance. It's not just CCS I encounter problems with, it's the scope too. For example, I don't recall the community deciding to include computer programs in A7, or class them as businesses (which is rather ironic and hypocritical if you get my drift...) and I think the history speaks for itself here. I think there's talk about making NPP a right, because far too often people with limited or no knowledge go there and do such erroneous taggings. Adam9007 (talk) 02:42, 1 May 2016 (UTC)
Thiel: If you as much as consider PRODing this previous revision of Thiel Audio, you have a lot to learn. If you actually smack a {{db-corp}} on it, you can't, IMHO, come much closer to shouting "I have no clue about CSD#A7". (The article has other issues; basically all the SPA promo needs to be cut out, and it needs referencing.) I had previously templated the tagger in regards to similar cases, so I chose to start a dialogue; after his first habitual answer, he did not respond.
Evergreen: Again, we are miles away from CSD territory.
Software is an ABCS. AlbumsBooksCreative_worksSoftware. ABCS are exempted from A7. Easy to remember, you should think. I PRODed a book stub once. Minutes later (several, don't remember and can't see history now) when reloading my watchlist, I saw it tagged with A7. History tab, what has happened? It went something like this: Deprodded by an IP (classic). Deprodding good-faithed Twinkle-reverted by a new'ish editor (also classic). Deprodded again by same IP. Then A7-tagged by the same new'ish editor. Upon refreshing the page, it had just been deleted under A7. Not the end of the world, but still ... To me NextGenSearchBot looks like software, has anyone argued it be web content? The PROD you show me there, not seen that one before. I suppose we can assume it is a fallacy that goes like "software is under NCORP, corps are under A7, so software is under A7".
An NPP flag has long been needed, hopefully the entry level for Twinkle use?
What's your opinion on this diff if not looking in the history? Again: no fun at all, if you look in the history first, do it after. Sam Sailor Talk! 07:46, 1 May 2016 (UTC)
I encountered the same problem with an article the other day. It had a CCS and it was deleted minutes after the A7 tag removal. There's a discussion about it at WT:CSD, which brings me to another problem; WP:NOTINHERITED. A lot of people think that applies to A7 and significance as much as AfD and notability, even though neither A7 or significance are even mentioned. They also treat it as policy rather than an opinion; although it's a very valid one, that's beside the point. Such people clearly don't understand significance, as User:SoWhy explained when I asked him about it and his essay WP:A7M. That isn't the first time people have cited WP:NOTINHERITED as why the claims listed there are not claims of significance. It rather annoys me that there's such a lack of understanding, especially among experienced editors and even admins. The only explanation I can think of for the "consensus" a certain editor keeps reminding me of, is that he thinks a certain number of wrongs somehow make a right. They do not. While I'm talking about experienced editors and getting A7 wrong, here's another one made by an editor who's been here for over 7 years. As for that BLPPROD, it was invalid because there was a reference. I haven't done as much on that, but invalid BLPPRODs seem almost as common as invalid A7s. A lot of people think that a link is only a reference if it has an inline citation, and don't seem to have heard of general references. It's shocking that even experienced admins are making such mistakes. BTW, I believe software comes under the products guideline, not corporations (there's an essay on software notability, which looks like it's derived from the products guideline), and there's disagreement about what constitutes web content. I've launched an RfC about that. There's a loophole which places a lot of software under the web content category, which therefore (in theory) makes them eligible for A7, despite them being explicitly excluded. Adam9007 (talk) 14:35, 1 May 2016 (UTC)

To editor Adam9007:

  • CCS: Is that confusion with NOTINHERITED because CCS will sometimes be determined based on a credible association? "John Doe had his first major role in Filmtitle." Maybe he's not ready to meet ACTOR/BASIC, but he's not A7 fodder, if we have Filmtitle. But this has nothing to do with NOINHERITED, as that deals with notability.
  • NOTINHERITED: To use this or any other AADDs (condensed version) in connection with a CSD debate is not logical to me. -- Speedy - PROD/BLPPROD - xFD. -- NOTINHERITED is part of the process that deals with determining notability. And WP:N with all its subsets of guidelines or even an essay specifically on xFD, should not be dragged over in the Speedy department. Two departments. Two toolsets. Is INHERITED mentioned at CSD? No. Think it should be? File a proposal. Use it as an argument on WT:CSD until then? No.
  • I was thinking, over at WP:AFCR we have a fine flowchart; do we have something similar for DELPRO?
  • I am all for helping each other here becoming more competent. This is a case of an organization, where everybody can join, who demands no admission test whatsoever, who offers very little in terms of basic training (TWA), and who does not demand taking formal training (NPP, CVU, mentorship) before using heavy equipment (Twinkle). But, this is what so many good people have agreed it should be over the course of 15 years, so that's how it is. For now. And that demands a great deal of understanding for each other and our different levels of competence and incompetence. And such an understanding is worthwhile developing.
  • As you may know from real life, tenure does not always equal the best qualified person for the job. Same here. Look at the stubborn case of IDHT where we met. Did you ever compare RfAs from 2005-06 and now?
  • But yes, the common STICKY mistake and the just as common {{Unreferenced}}/{{BLP unsourced}} mistake is something I would not expect from anyone who comes here regularly for a year or two. Coming from a user with admim tools after ten years ... job training. Inevitably I think the beautiful Lennon'ish idea that we could come together in a collaboratively environment has in-build flaws. But ... the project sure survives!
  • You do not have User:Writ Keeper/Scripts/deletionFinder.js installed, that's one you are going to love. You may want to get inspiration from my common.js.
  • SOFTWARE: Yes, I know NSOFT, and when I say software falls under NCORP it's sheer habit, because that's the main subject specific guideline and one criterion in that guideline is PRODUCT. At worst here you can accuse me for being sloppy, which won't be the last time you get that opportunity in this jungle! :) Where's that RfC located? Regards, Sam Sailor Talk! 23:51, 1 May 2016 (UTC)
    • I know about NOTINHERITED, but as I've previously mentioned, some people simply do not understand. I tried to get them to understand here in the discussion (I'll just link there rather than repeat everything here), but with no success. Should I take the article to DRV? I think SoWhy's explanation is more than sufficient as to why NOTINHERITED doesn't apply to A7.
    • I agree. I don't think people realise just what significance is; the possibility of notability. Obviously, being closely associated with something or someone notable is going to give the subject a fair chance of notability. It beats me why people don't see that. In fact, someone launched an RfC about NOTINHERITED applying to significance. NOTINHERITED is about something not actually being notable purely by association, not merely having a possibility of notability. There's also the fact that a lot of people confuse significance with notability, which of course further complicates matters because they think that by removing an A7 tag, I'm implying inherited notability, not just significance.
    • It doesn't look like we have a flowchart for DELPRO.
    • Maybe the reason no formal training or testing is required is because the proper experience can only be gained by actually doing it? But the problem with this is that if they keep getting away with getting it wrong, people are going to think it's right. As I've already said, no amount of wrongs make a right. It doesn't matter how many people get it wrong, it's still wrong.
    • Yeah, I've been looking through the unsourced articles categories and I've lost count of how many articles actually do have at least one source, but merely no inline citations.
    • Thanks for the link to the script, though I'm not sure if it's necessary. Is there any benefit to using it instead of going into the history and view the page logs from there?
    • The RfC about web content? It's here. In fact, I've just removed an A7 tag from Mooky (app), ignoring the loophole. It's clearly software in spirit. Adam9007 (talk) 00:59, 2 May 2016 (UTC)

@Adam9007: deletionFinder.js: It's a huge benefit over manual look-up, try load Noninvasive follicular thyroid neoplasm with papillary like nuclear features. See the prev dels to the right of the article title? I believe you have met the deleter. Now, why was this deleted as A11 in the first place? Another example, load up Codex Turicensis. See the prev AfDs to the right of the article title? The benefit of this the moment you load a page is well worth having the script running. Makes determining G4 and G5 candidates much quicker. Sam Sailor Talk! 16:53, 3 May 2016 (UTC)

Yes, I see it. So it's a shortcut? Thanks for your email by the way; I'm wary about replying because doing so will reveal my full identity, which I'd rather not do on a site like this (I actually had difficulty picking a username for here). On that note, I've noticed that WP:IMPORTANCE redirects to Wikipedia:Notability, which could be contributing to the confusion. Of course, I've launched an RfD about it :). Adam9007 (talk) 17:09, 3 May 2016 (UTC)

Ha! Yes, of course you have. :) Email: no prob, fully understand. Sam Sailor Talk! 17:12, 3 May 2016 (UTC)

E-mail from Fleet Admiral Ali

@Fleet Admiral Ali: You wrote: I'm glad you ended the rude deletions of my article, thank you! I wanted to ask you, though, if I complete my article tonight, can you review and publish it by tomorrow? I have to have this article up by a deadline, and I really need some help. So will you be able to look it through tonight/tomorrow?

I can review it. I can not promise it will be accepted into main space. That depends on contents and sourcing. Wikipedia:Your first article is one of several links you will find helpful. What kind of deadline are you dealing with? Sam Sailor Talk! 23:12, 4 May 2016 (UTC)

Thank you! I will have it done by Friday Night at 11:00 MT, I am trying to get this done and out by Monday in order to impress a potential employer (which I'm gunning hard for an internship from), and I just want to show that I not only take initiative but that I am also learned in the workings of his company. I'm really, really obliged you'll help me! Ali. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Fleet Admiral Ali (talk • contribs) 04:05, 5 May 2016 (UTC)


Please comment on Talk:Axl Rose

The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Talk:Axl Rose. Legobot (talk) 04:23, 5 May 2016 (UTC)

Vejendla railway station

As per railway website it is written as Vejandla railway station.--Vin09 (talk) 04:01, 5 May 2016 (UTC)

@Vin09: I believe you, and the redirect from the misspelling Vejendla railway station is still in place. Why do you tell me? Sam Sailor Talk! 09:45, 5 May 2016 (UTC)
Sorry for some confusion.--Vin09 (talk) 10:11, 5 May 2016 (UTC)
No problem, Vin09. Sam Sailor Talk! 10:12, 5 May 2016 (UTC)

Endre Lund Eriksen

Hi Sam, thank you so much for all the work that you put into this article. The one part that I'm not clear on are the changes that you made to the notable works list. You appear to have added some cite book references inline rather than as actual references, the net result being that the list is not well formatted. I am happy to clean it up, but I'm not sure what the intent was so I'm not sure of the best approach to re-formatting it. Robman94 (talk) 18:22, 5 May 2016 (UTC)

  • Hi Robman94 You can use a {{cite book}} inside ref tags when referencing a book source. You can use a cite book in (typically) a bulleted list, e.g. a Bibliography section. I hope this clears up matters. Thanks for your concern. Sam Sailor Talk! 18:26, 5 May 2016 (UTC)

Yeah, I use cite book for references all the time, but take a look at the resulting list of books that the author has written, most have a bullet, the year, the title and an English translation, but the entries that you have added appear indented and have a bullet, the author's name, a year, title, publisher, ISBN, etc and many are out of sequence with the rest of the years in the list. I wasn't sure if these cite book entries are there to support the existing entries as references or if they are all new books. Some appear to be new titles and some appear to be repeats of titles already in the list. My thinking is that I should convert them all into references, and then, for the ones that are new titles, add entries for those titles. What do you think? Robman94 (talk) 22:22, 5 May 2016 (UTC)

  • I think we should try to do that which gives the reader the best article. My idea was to indent translations. That's why you have out of sequence items. I have added an authormask and a small comment to the indented bullet items, does that clarify it? If not, we should find a better solution, definitely.
Google Books does not index any of Lund Eriksen's books in Norwegian. (Let that be a reminder to those who believe that Google indexes non-English languages as well as it does English.) Ideally somebody would make a nice {{Cite book}} manually for his Norwegian titles. But it is fine as it is with referenced raw titles.
I like that way you "stack" the references inside a {{reflist|refs=}} and use a named ref tag inline. Gives a very nice clarity to the body text. Sam Sailor Talk! 09:07, 6 May 2016 (UTC)
  • Yeah, once I discovered that feature, there was no going back. It makes reading the article in edit mode so much easier. Robman94 (talk) 12:40, 6 May 2016 (UTC)
Robman94 Agree. Do we have a script that is capable of doing the job? Sam Sailor Talk! 12:42, 6 May 2016 (UTC)
None that I know of, I've always handled it manually. Robman94 (talk) 18:03, 6 May 2016 (UTC)

Wild Bunch Paintball Team

Sam, 

  Hello, I am a new editor here on Wikipedia.  I wrote my first article, after reading through all the guidelines and recommendations.  Long story short, the article was nominated for deletion.  After it was nominated and a discussion was started, an editor named Velella attempted to delete the page through speedy deletion.  He almost got away with it, but I did some more research and, very politely, called him on it.  To his credit, he rolled things back and the page is now still in discussion.  I believe that I angered him and he is set to now get the page deleted through the article for deletion process.  Others have found counsel from you before, so I wanted to seek your wisdom on the best way to handle the situation.  If you have time, I would value your thoughts, I am new here and hope to be around a while.  Thank you.

FeelTheBernBaby (talk) 05:42, 6 May 2016 (UTC)

Hi FeelTheBernBaby, and welcome to Wikipedia. Whatever happens to Wild Bunch Paintball Team, do not despair. There will be other stuff that you can do here, if you want to.
WP:42 may already be familiar to you: "Articles generally require significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the topic." If you out of the 55 current citations you should chose the three you find are best in terms of coverage, reliability, and independence, which three would that be? Sam Sailor Talk! 08:30, 6 May 2016 (UTC)

Sam, 

    Wow! How you did that overnight, is beyond me.  Thank you!  The references look a lot cleaner (tricks I shall learn, hopefully). One of the biggest difficulties on the subject I chose is that the coverage is mainly in now-defunct mediums.  It has been a nightmare trying to find accessible copies of the magazines, and, in most cases, I have not found the articles in full themselves, so I lack even the ability to read the full article for comparison. The issues and features were talked about all over on sources that don't matter (private chat rooms, online forums, and the like), but the result is limited to other people's feedback about the articles, not the articles themselves.  What little I can find, via the methods above, about the two new issues that got added, suggest that they might be fantastic. An article centered on the team and one detailing the success of their charity work (which dovetails nicely into the rest of the page).  I am shopping around to see if I can buy (hopefully multiple issues, to have one scanned and then donated into my library system) to examine.  Beyond that, the Paintball Games International issue created the biggest splash online, but, again, I have not been able to find a copy for myself. So, that is where I am at with my continued research.  Appearently, toward the end of their original charity series, the games received local media coverage too, so I am at least trying to track that down as well.  That's where I am at.   Thank you again for your help, you are one of very few who have helped since I joined the community, and I appreciate your time and response.FeelTheBernBaby (talk) 12:44, 6 May 2016 (UTC)
The single edit I did to Wild Bunch Paintball Team was simply to run WP:REFILL on the article. And if you stick around you will get to know tools like that as well.
There is a big sourcing/referencing challenge with the article. A Google search brings up nada in reliable sources. A look in the HighBeam Research database gave me nothing. Sources do not have to be online, cf. WP:SOURCEACCESS, but I doubt that articles in Paintball 2Xtremes, Paintball Games International, and Action Pursuit Games will make WBPT meet inclusion criteria.
I hope we can retain you as an editor, could I convince you to sign up at and participate in Wikipedia:WikiProject Paintball? Sam Sailor Talk! 13:53, 6 May 2016 (UTC)

Okay, good to know. Though I feel like I have learned a lot in a short time, the amount I have yet to learn seems daunting. Those are/were the largest publications in the history of paintball thus far, so, if they fall short somehow, paintball will be a pretty hard topic on which to get anything to stay. There is a chance that they were featured in a book, I plan to order it and verify. I placed a few calls to local news stations and newspapers that are believed to have covered/run stories on the team. In total, I spent more than 40 hours on this, mainly on research, so it is pretty deflating to see it fizzle out. Thank you for your encouragement, I will be sure to look at that project (though it may be a bit, this took a lot out of me and now I have some life things to get caught up on). Thanks again.FeelTheBernBaby (talk) 00:03, 7 May 2016 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 19, 2016)

Gustaf Skarsgård
Hello, Sam Sailor.

The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection:

Gustaf Skarsgård

Please be bold and help to improve this article!

Previous selections: À la carte • Fame (Irene Cara song)

Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations

Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:08, 9 May 2016 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI • Opt-out instructions

A barnstar for you!

Collapsed
The Barnstar of Diligence
You corrected the error which was a puzzle to me. Your improvement is accurate. Thank you beeing so prompt! Aris de Methymna (talk) 14:14, 4 May 2016 (UTC)

User talk:The m0ne2

Probaly all his edits are unencyclopedic. I'm not a native speaker but User:The m0ne2 isn't probably acceptable, either.Xx236 (talk) 11:10, 9 May 2016 (UTC)

Xx236 That's an understatement. I reported him at AIV. Sam Sailor Talk! 11:13, 9 May 2016 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #208

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

Matt Greenwood

Did you see that via my talk page? It was not eligible for BLPPROD wasn't it? Adam9007 (talk) 18:43, 9 May 2016 (UTC)

  • It was not, and STICKY makes it very clear: "Only add a BLPPROD if there are no sources in any form that name the subject ... This compromise avoids the need for judgement calls about reliability of sources for placement". Sam Sailor Talk! 18:52, 9 May 2016 (UTC)
    • Yeah, I tried to point that out on the discussion on my talk page. What's surprising is that Randykitty is an administrator! She should know better. Adam9007 (talk) 18:54, 9 May 2016 (UTC)
      • Admins are humans too, friend. (But, granted, this mistake I would not expect from someone with the sysop flag.) Sam Sailor Talk! 18:56, 9 May 2016 (UTC)
        • I know, but admins are trusted to get it right (that's why they're admins). They're heavily involved in explaining policy to others. If they're getting it wrong, and are passing misinformation onto others, that's not good. Adam9007 (talk) 19:04, 9 May 2016 (UTC)

Anthony Jakobs

Hi Sam! Long time no speak. I left a note at the AfD - is there a proscription from A7'ng an article if a notability tag has been applied? I didn't know that. I don't do a lot of NPP work, but I rarely A7 an article if it's been created within a day or two, which is basically all that are there these days now that the backlog is gone. I decided this week to tag them for notability, and give the creator a day or two to come up with sourcing. If there's no improvement, I either prod or send to AfD. I try to broadly construe the meaning of "credible claim of significance or importance even if the claim is not supported by a reliable source". In the case of this kid, at what point does a youtuber have significance? Since there's no hard and fast rule, I probably would've prodded it, rather than A7'd it. Regardless, would love to hear your thoughts. Onel5969 TT me 12:34, 10 May 2016 (UTC) Responded at the appropriate venue. ... and good to hear from you onel5969, you joined the OTRS-team I noticed on Meta? Sounds good to me, how you go about with tagging, IMHO there's far too much haste with a lot of A7 among others. In the case of Anthony Jakobs I'd love to hear if other editors find there is a CCS. As you know it is a debated thing for the moment at WT:CSD etc. So, where do you see a CCS since you would have PRODed it? Sam Sailor Talk! 12:59, 10 May 2016 (UTC) Regarding the CSS - like you, I feel there is way too much use of the A7 tag, especially on new articles which aren't given the time to develop. In this particular instance, the youtube thing is what would have stopped me. As I said above, at what point does a youtuber become significant? Personally, I don't think 13000 followers meets that level, but another editor might see it differently, hence my sending it the prod/afd route. I would have tagged it with the notability thing, because despite my not being able to find sources, the article's creator might have access to some. It's happened several times to me in the past, where I've tagged something (either A7, prod or AfD) and the creator (or even another editor) added enough sources that I either missed (by using a different/variant spelling, or adding a + qualifier), or simply did not show up on the search engines. Take care. Onel5969 TT me 13:15, 10 May 2016 (UTC)

  • @Onel5969: Article states: "In 2013, Jakobs began making short film appearances and posting videos onto video streaming website YouTube." That is the only thing it says about Youtube. Based on that, I see no WP:CCS. The 13,000 followers are not on Youtube, but on Instagram: "Jakobs currently has 13,000+ followers on Instagram." All other mention of "film" is IMHO fluff. E.g. "In 2016, Jakobs independently released a short film titled Untitled Anthony Jakobs film." This is not a "release" in the classical sense of the word with a tour on the short film festival circuit, let alone a regular theatrical distribution. So, if this article is not A7, I'd like to know what is. That was also a reason for opening an AfD discussion. Sam Sailor Talk! 16:51, 10 May 2016 (UTC)
My bad, I conflated the two. You're spot on about the release. Onel5969 TT me 17:58, 10 May 2016 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: April 2016



Headlines
Read this edition in full • Single-page

To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

RE Wikipedia:Articles for creation/Redirects

I just now added sources. --72.67.245.191 (talk) 21:54, 10 May 2016 (UTC)

Brilliant. Thanks for all your suggestions. Sam Sailor Talk! 21:54, 10 May 2016 (UTC)

Article missing from created list.

I wonder if, as someone who knows the oily end of Wiki better than I do, you can shed any light on why an article I moved into mainspace on 30 April does not show up in my list of pages created? Two others moved at the same time do appear. Tony Dean (racing driver) is the offensiveding item. It's only a small thing but 'twas my 50th article and the tiniest rewards are all we can expect! Thanks. Regards, Eagleash (talk) 17:21, 13 May 2016 (UTC)

Thanks! I notice that a re-direct seems to be created automatically when moving out of draft. I don't think that's the problem as they exist for most, if not all, of the pages I've started. VPT looks like the way to solve it. Thanks again. Eagleash (talk) 19:47, 13 May 2016 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:The Matrix

The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Talk:The Matrix. Legobot (talk) 04:24, 15 May 2016 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 20, 2016)

Ozone-oxygen cycle in the ozone layer.
Hello, Sam Sailor.

The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection:

Ozone layer

Please be bold and help to improve this article!

Previous selections: Gustaf Skarsgård • À la carte

Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations

Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:09, 16 May 2016 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI • Opt-out instructions

This week's article for improvement (week 34, 2017)

East Germany erected the Berlin Wall to prevent emigration westward.
Hello, Sam Sailor.

The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection:

Emigration

Please be bold and help to improve this article!

Previous selections: Intermediate good • Blackmail

Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations

Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 21 August 2017 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI • Opt-out instructions
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Sam_Sailor/Archive_9&oldid=1146541324"