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Apparently I've not only been away from the wiki, but have ignored the news: I had no idea that Ali Maow Maalin had died until I read the article. I threw down a stub there what seems like a looong time ago, and was genuinely touched that someone had done the research to expand it so impressively. Thank you for your work. - BanyanTree 06:23, 26 October 2013 (UTC)

Vítor Aleixo

Just letting you know I am nominating Vítor Aleixo for CSD via A7 as the subject fails Wikipedia:NPOL and there is no outside claim for notability. I had initially tagged BLPROD, in a subtle way of giving the author a chance, but seems he didn't get the hint. Thought I'd give you the courtesy of letting you know since you had put work into it to remove the BLPROD tag. Thanks. Sulfurboy (talk) 21:07, 29 October 2013 (UTC)

Precious

reason
Thank you, returned editor without a watchlist, for quality articles such as George Hirst and Combermere Abbey, for taking care of Portal:Cheshire and Portal:Viruses, for vote and suggestion with reason, - repeating: you are an awesome Wikipedian (7 July 2010)!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:32, 30 October 2013 (UTC)

A year ago, you were the 649th recipient of my PumpkinSky Prize, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:38, 30 October 2014 (UTC)

Portal:Cheshire/Newest articles

Why did you make this revert? -- PBS (talk) 09:47, 7 November 2013 (UTC)

thanks for the explanation. I only looked at the one edit that came up in the red box in the tabs at the top -- sorry for the misunderstanding. Perhaps if future if you are modifying another's edit and not simply reverting it, then to do so in one edit will reduce the chances that other editors will make the mistake that I made in not viewing the edit as a whole. -- PBS (talk) 10:05, 7 November 2013 (UTC)

No worries. Thanks again for the explanation. -- PBS (talk) 10:16, 7 November 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for the work on Three Studies

Sorry about the edit conflict on ITN. Thanks for doing a really good job fleshing out the article :] Helixer (hábleme) 17:50, 13 November 2013 (UTC)

Portal:U2 for peer review

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Epstein–Barr virus

Thank you for your input on the EBV naming discussion. Your comments really catalyzed a change in my attitude on the en dash and I've altered my suggested changes to uniformly use the en dash in EBV-related pages. I'm embarrassed by how hard I was fighting and hope I did not come across as too much of a crazy-person. If you have time I hope you may be able to look over the suggested revisions (listed in a table towards the end of the Talk:Epstein–Barr virus page. Thank you again Walternmoss (talk) 03:27, 19 November 2013 (UTC)

ITN/C

The nom here is down to <24h on the clock at this point. Can I persuade you to at least withdraw opposition to the alternate blurb?   — C M B J   08:10, 20 November 2013 (UTC)

Fixed. Let's get this thing posted.   — C M B J   10:21, 20 November 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for just blindly reverting without any sort of discussion. Nick (talk) 12:54, 20 November 2013 (UTC)

Portals

Hiya. Thanks for adding a portal here. You made a slight mistake though - portals are not external links, but go in the 'See also' section, where I've now transferred it. Regards, Trafford09 (talk) 20:59, 25 November 2013 (UTC)

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Cheshire portal link

I have been watching the valiant work you have been doing in adding this to Cheshire articles. I have never been sure about the use of this link; should it be added to all Cheshire articles? Cheers. --Peter I. Vardy (talk) 21:27, 26 November 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for your reply. I was not sure whether the link was to attract people to the portal, or just a sort of "badge". Most of the articles I prepare are not particularly touristy, so I think I'll leave it to you to decide which article to flag. And thanks for your comment about the CP listing buildings. I realise that I have been straying into your part of the county, and am pleased you are happy about that. There's a lot of very interesting stuff I have discovered! Cheers, --Peter I. Vardy (talk) 09:03, 27 November 2013 (UTC)

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Isobel Harrop

thanks for notifying me. im afraid i agree, but i feel too close to the subject to argue either way directly. I did fix it up a bit. at least i wont contest the prod, which i sometimes do while also sending to AFD. I dont know her personally, but that damn photo grabbed me hard. i also am a fan of this kind of literature, so im obviously too close to be truly objective. i wish her well, and will be first in line to recreate the article (if deleted), if she gets more attention.Mercurywoodrose (talk) 18:51, 8 January 2014 (UTC)

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	Thanks for your help improving the Paleozoic Portal Abyssal (talk) 16:42, 21 January 2014 (UTC)

Userfy request for John Helfers

Could you please userfy John Helfers for me? I had nothing to do with the original page, but I suspect he's notable and would like to take a look. (He's a coauthor with Tom Clancy [1] and Martin H. Greenberg and has written various sf books. Thanks! Jodi.a.schneider (talk) 03:52, 18 February 2014 (UTC)

Peer review request

Hi Espresso Addict, I saw you on the list of portal peer reviewers, so wondered if you would mind taking a look at the Channel Islands peer review request? Thanks, Matty.007 21:09, 21 February 2014 (UTC)

Books & Bytes, Issue 4

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Portal:Literature at Wikipedia:Featured portal candidates

This is a message to inform you that Portal:Literature (promoted to Featured Portal in 2006, delisted in mid-2013) is currently being considered for relisting as a Featured Portal at Wikipedia:Featured_portal_candidates#Portal:Literature. If you have any questions or comments, or would like to offer your support or voice your opposition, I encourage you to do so there. The FPO criteria can be found at Wikipedia:Featured portal criteria. Thank you, Sᴠᴇɴ Mᴀɴɢᴜᴀʀᴅ Wha? 07:51, 2 March 2014 (UTC)

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Jac Schaeffer

I'm a bit confused by your decline of the proposed deletion of Jac Schaeffer. You declined claiming that sources were present at the time of the proposal. However, no citations are provided, and the only apparent potential sourcing are two sites listed as External links. If those are references then the article should likely be updated to more clearly reflect that. However, even if that's the case one of those links is to IMDb, which is not generally considered reliable, and the other is to a promotional page for Schaeffer's feature film debut, which I'm not sure would be considered reliable for BLP purposes.

I'm not necessarily averse to the page remaining, but I think it's in rather sad shape as it is, and it's been maintenance-tagged since 2010 without any evident improvement. If you don't feel a deletion is appropriate, I would welcome suggestions. FWIW I did do an admittedly cursory search and did not find anything I felt could be used to improve this article.

Thank you for your assistance. DonIago (talk) 14:29, 28 March 2014 (UTC)

Some thoughts on ITN

I hear what you are saying about losing enthusiasm when one's work is opposed. As one of the most prolific ITN writers, I certainly have experienced that situation a lot. Unfortunately, some people seem more interested in opposing everything they can then making the encyclopedia better.

I tried to look up some of "your" stories. Unfortunately, the search function doesn't work that well and I couldn't find them. I would be interested in taking a look at past nominations and/or look forward to seeing future nominations of yours. What I can say is that I find that the argument is the most important part of getting a story posted. A lot of people tend to assume it is obvious why people should support "their" story and don't say much. This makes it easy for lazy opposes. I have gotten some pretty unlikely stories (which have zero to do the the US) posted by making a really good argument.

I understand the position that we post too many sports. I happen to disagree (sports coverage takes up 20% or so of an average newspaper), but certainly am not looking to add more sports coverage. What I would like to do is get a better representative of what is important in the sporting world. As an American, it is absolutely wrong that we post things such as the Chicago Marathon that have no impact while (sometimes) ignoring items like NCAA basketball which is massive here. I don't know which way the NCAA item will head, but the timing of the nomination was wrong - it should have been nominated when it wasn't fresh on everyone's mind so that it could be properly assessed. Assuming it is not approved now, and I am successfully at getting some other American items removed, would you be willing to go neutral on NCAA basketball's inclusion? --ThaddeusB (talk) 03:28, 9 April 2014 (UTC)

Books & Bytes - Issue 5

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Thank you for your participation

Espresso Addict, I would like to take this moment and thank you for taking part in my RfA that happened a while ago. Although it didn't turn out as I had planned, I certainly appreciated all the comments and suggestions given by you and other people. I will learn from all of them and will hopefully run again someday when I'm fully ready. Thank you. TheGeneralUser (talk) 13:46, 3 June 2014 (UTC)

Books & Bytes, Issue 6

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I am inviting you to leave me some feedback, 18 months after you opposed my RfA. Do you still believe I am not fit to be an admin? Do you believe I have been able to improve past the concerns you have brought up? Do not be afraid of being too harsh, I am specifically welcoming criticism as I believe it is the best way to improve and I am always looking to learn from my mistakes. I am particularly looking for feedback as to whether you have objections to myself lifting the self-imposed 1RR restriction I had agreed to towards the end of my RfA. If you don't have time to comment, don't fret it either, this is nothing I'll lose sleep over. :) ☺ · Salvidrim! · ✉ 19:48, 20 July 2014 (UTC)

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Please, do not remove my suggestion about the CIA black sites court decision. Please, help me to do it properly. I cannot understand why the format is so ugly!Olegwiki (talk) 21:29, 26 July 2014 (UTC)

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Books and Bytes - Issue 7

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• Seven new donations, two expanded partnerships
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Re JSTOR

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Perrelli

I have worked to improve the Charlotte Perrelli article today. If you can find any further improvements, that would be appreciated! :)--BabbaQ (talk) 22:23, 6 August 2014 (UTC)

Books and Bytes - Issue 8

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• TWL now a Wikimedia Foundation program, moves on from grant status
• Four new donations, including large DeGruyter parntership, pilot with Elsevier
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Books and Bytes - Issue 9

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• New donations, including real-paper-and-everything books, e-books, science journal databases, and more
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List of Viruses

Hi, Espresso Addict, I am a brand new user, and would like to contribute a list of viruses I have compiled. I thought that, as the maintainer of the [Viruses Portal], you might have a good idea on where my list might fit into the existing structure of Wikipedia. Please take a look at my collapsible and linked "complete and up-to-date" taxonomy of viruses, which is currently sitting on my sandbox (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Bervin61/sandbox). Any advice, from formatting to where to post, will be greatly appreciated. Thanks!Bervin61 (talk) 18:12, 9 February 2015 (UTC)

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Thanks a lot Fpittui (talk) 10:31, 17 February 2015 (UTC)

DYK for Dinocampus coccinellae paralysis virus

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Books and Bytes - Issue 10

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• New donations - ProjectMUSE, Dynamed, Royal Pharmaceutical Society, and Women Writers Online
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Maria Jacson

Thanks. We have a lot of work to do on Wikipedia in terms of redressing the erasure of women from history. Interesting point you make about names and whether it is gendered - I will have to discuss with our students as to whether we are gendered in the way we use names. Happy International Women's Day. --Michael Goodyear (talk) 23:38, 8 March 2015 (UTC)

ITN / ISIL destruction

Could I trouble you to please have a look at my concerns expressed here? -- Y not? 15:01, 9 March 2015 (UTC)

Mackay

Your edit. Not stale yet. But never mind. The Rambling Man (talk) 21:03, 9 March 2015 (UTC)

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(This is a temporary user) I mistakenly made edits that reveal my ip. Is there a way to erase some edits from my user's history and from the page that was edited?Camp1234b (talk) 05:25, 11 March 2015 (UTC)

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WikiProject X Newsletter • Issue 2

For this month's issue...

Making sense of a lot of data.

Work on our prototype will begin imminently. In the meantime, we have to understand what exactly we're working with. To this end, we generated a list of 71 WikiProjects, based on those brought up on our Stories page and those who had signed up for pilot testing. For those projects where people told stories, we coded statements within those stories to figure out what trends there were in these stories. This approach allowed us to figure out what Wikipedians thought of WikiProjects in a very organic way, with very little by way of a structure. (Compare this to a structured interview, where specific questions are asked and answered.) This analysis was done on 29 stories. Codes were generally classified as "benefits" (positive contributions made by a WikiProject to the editing experience) and "obstacles" (issues posed by WikiProjects, broadly speaking). Codes were generated as I went along, ensuring that codes were as close to the original data as possible. Duplicate appearances of a code for a given WikiProject were removed.

We found 52 "benefit" statements encoded and 34 "obstacle" statements. The most common benefit statement referring to the project's active discussion and participation, followed by statements referring to a project's capacity to guide editor activity, while the most common obstacles made reference to low participation and significant burdens on the part of the project maintainers and leaders. This gives us a sense of WikiProjects' big strength: they bring people together, and can be frustrating to editors when they fail to do so. Meanwhile, it is indeed very difficult to bring editors together on a common interest; in the absence of a highly motivated core of organizers, the technical infrastructure simply isn't there.

We wanted to pair this qualitative study with quantitative analysis of a WikiProject and its "universe" of pages, discussions, templates, and categories. To this end I wrote a script called ProjAnalysis which will, for a given WikiProject page (e.g. Wikipedia:WikiProject Star Trek) and WikiProject talk-page tag (e.g. Template:WikiProject Star Trek), will give you a list of usernames of people who edited within the WikiProject's space (the project page itself, its talk page, and subpages), and within the WikiProject's scope (the pages tagged by that WikiProject, excluding the WikiProject space pages). The output is an exhaustive list of usernames. We ran the script to analyze our test batch of WikiProjects for edits between March 1, 2014 and February 28, 2015, and we subjected them to further analysis to only include those who made 10+ edits to pages in the projects' scope, those who made 4+ edits to the projects' space, and those who made 10+ edits to pages in scope but not 4+ edits to pages in the projects' space. This latter metric gives us an idea of who is active in a certain subject area of Wikipedia, yet who isn't actively engaging on the WikiProject's pages. This information will help us prioritize WikiProjects for pilot testing, and the ProjAnalysis script in general may have future life as an application that can be used by Wikipedians to learn about who is in their community.

Complementing the above two studies are a design analysis, which summarizes the structure of the different WikiProject spaces in our test batch, and the comprehensive census of bots and tools used to maintain WikiProjects, which will be finished soon. With all of this information, we will have a game plan in place! We hope to begin working with specific WikiProjects soon.

As a couple of asides...

• Database Reports has existed for several years on Wikipedia to the satisfaction of many, but many of the reports stopped running when the Toolserver was shut off in 2014. However, there is good news: the weekly New WikiProjects and WikiProjects by Changes reports are back, with potential future reports in the future.
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DYK for Pat Nuttall

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A new reference tool

Hello Books & Bytes subscribers. There is a new Visual Editor reference feature in development called Citoid. It is designed to "auto-fill" references using a URL or DOI. We would really appreciate you testing whether TWL partners' references work in Citoid. Sharing your results will help the developers fix bugs and improve the system. If you have a few minutes, please visit the testing page for simple instructions on how to try this new tool. Regards, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:47, 10 April 2015 (UTC)

Template:Did you know nominations/Melaleuca wilsonii

Espresso Addict, you reviewed this nomination by Cas Liber last month; he's since made a couple of responses. Are you able to return to the review, or (given your access issues) should I put out a call for a new reviewer? Please let me know. Many thanks. BlueMoonset (talk) 17:46, 15 April 2015 (UTC)

DYK for Bourbon virus

The DYK project (nominate) 20:32, 17 April 2015 (UTC)

DYK for Thogotovirus

The DYK project (nominate) 20:32, 17 April 2015 (UTC)

WikiProject X Newsletter • Issue 3

Greetings! For this month's issue...

We have demos!

After a lengthy research and design process, we decided for WikiProject X to focus on two things:

• A WikiProject workflow that focuses on action items: discussions you can participate in and tasks you can perform to improve the encyclopedia; and
• An automatically updating WikiProject directory that gives you lists of users participating in the WikiProject and editing in that subject area.

We have a live demonstration of the new WikiProject workflow at WikiProject Women in Technology, a brand new WikiProject that was set up as an adjunct to a related edit-a-thon in Washington, DC. The goal is to surface action items for editors, and we intend on doing that through automatically updated working lists. We are looking into using SuggestBot to generate lists of outstanding tasks, and we are looking into additional options for automatic worklist generation. This takes the burden off of WikiProject editors to generate these worklists, though there is also a "requests" section for Wikipedians to make individual requests. (As of writing, these automated lists are not yet live, so you will see a blank space under "edit articles" on the demo WikiProject. Sorry about that!) I invite you to check out the WikiProject and leave feedback on WikiProject X's talk page.

Once the demo is sufficiently developed, we will be working on a limited deployment on our pilot WikiProjects. We have selected five for the first round of testing based on the highest potential for impact and will scale up from there.

While a re-designed WikiProject experience is much needed, that alone isn't enough. A WikiProject isn't any good if people have no way of discovering it. This is why we are also developing an automatically updated WikiProject directory. This directory will surface project-related metrics, including a count of active WikiProject participants and of active editors in that project's subject area. The purpose of these metrics is to highlight how active the WikiProject is at the given point of time, but also to highlight that project's potential for success. The directory is not yet live but there is a demonstration featuring a sampling of WikiProjects.

Each directory entry will link to a WikiProject description page which automatically list the active WikiProject participants and subject-area article editors. This allows Wikipedians to find each other based on the areas they are interested in, and this information can be used to revive a WikiProject, start a new one, or even for some other purpose. These description pages are not online yet, but they will use this template, if you want to get a feel of what they will look like.

We need volunteers!

WikiProject X is a huge undertaking, and we need volunteers to support our efforts, including testers and coders. Check out our volunteer portal and see what you can do to help us!

As an aside...

Wouldn't it be cool if lists of requested articles could not only be integrated directly with WikiProjects, but also shared between WikiProjects? Well, we got the crazy idea of having experimental software feature Flow deployed (on a totally experimental basis) on the new Article Request Workshop, which seeks to be a place where editors can "workshop" article ideas before they get created. It uses Flow because Flow allows, essentially, section-level categorization, and in the future will allow "sections" (known as "topics" within Flow) to be included across different pages. What this means is that you have a recommendation for a new article tagged by multiple WikiProjects, allowing for the recommendation to appear on lists for each WikiProject. This will facilitate inter-WikiProject collaboration and will help to reduce duplicated work. The Article Request Workshop is not entirely ready yet due to some bugs with Flow, but we hope to integrate it into our pilot WikiProjects at some point.

Harej (talk) 01:58, 19 April 2015 (UTC)

Books and Bytes - Issue 11

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Books & Bytes
Issue 11, March-April 2015
by The Interior (talk · contribs), Ocaasi (talk · contribs), Sadads (talk · contribs), Nikkimaria (talk · contribs)

• New donations - MIT Press Journals, Sage Stats, Hein Online and more
• New TWL coordinators, conference news, and new reference projects
• Spotlight: Two metadata librarians talk about how library professionals can work with Wikipedia

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DYK nomination of Game larder

Hello! Your submission of Game larder at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! BlueMoonset (talk) 15:48, 10 May 2015 (UTC)

The Wikipedia Library needs you!

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Call for Volunteers

The Wikipedia Library is expanding, and we need your help! With only a couple of hours per week, you can make a big difference in helping editors get access to reliable sources and other resources. Sign up for one of the following roles:

• Account coordinators help distribute research accounts to editors.
• Partner coordinators seek donations from new partners.
• Outreach coordinators reach out to the community through blog posts, social media, and newsletters or notifications.
• Technical coordinators advise on building tools to support the library's work.

Sign up to help here :)

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WikiProject X Newsletter • Issue 4

Newsletter • May/June 2015

Hello friends! We have been hard at work these past two months. For this report:

The directory is live!

For the first time, we are happy to bring you an exhaustive, comprehensive WikiProject Directory. This directory endeavors to list every single WikiProject on the English Wikipedia, including those that don't participate in article assessment. In constructing the broadest possible definition, we have come up with a list of approximately 2,600 WikiProjects. The directory tracks activity statistics on the WikiProject's pages, and, for where it's available, statistics on the number of articles tracked by the WikiProject and the number of editors active on those articles. Complementing the directory are description pages for each project, listing usernames of people active on the WikiProject pages and the articles in the WikiProject's scope. This will help Wikipedians interested in a subject find each other, whether to seek feedback on an article or to revive an old project. (There is an opt-out option.) We have also come up with listings of related WikiProjects, listing the ten most relevant WikiProjects based on what articles they have in common. We would like to promote WikiProjects as interconnected systems, rather than isolated silos.

A tremendous amount of work went into preparing this directory. WikiProjects do not consistently categorize their pages, meaning we had to develop our own index to match WikiProjects with the articles in their scope. We also had to make some adjustments to how WikiProjects were categorized; indeed, I personally have racked up a few hundred edits re-categorizing WikiProjects. There remains more work to be done to make the WikiProject directory truly useful. In the meantime, take a look and feel free to leave feedback at the WikiProject X talk page.

Stuff in the works!

What have we been working on?

• A new design template—This has been in the works for a while, of course. But our goal is to design something that is useful and cleanly presented on all browsers and at all screen resolutions while working within the confines of what MediaWiki has to offer. Additionally, we are working on designs for the sub-components featured on the main project page.
• A new WikiProject talk page banner in Lua—Work has begun on implementing the WikiProject banner in Lua. The goal is to create a banner template that can be usable by any WikiProject in lieu of having its own template. Work has slowed down for now to focus on higher priority items, but we are interested in your thoughts on how we could go about creating a more useful project banner. We have a draft module on Test Wikipedia, with a demonstration.
• New discussion reports—We have over 4.8 million articles on the English Wikipedia, and almost as many talk pages as well. But what happens when someone posts on a talk page? What if no one is watching that talk page? We are currently testing out a system for an automatically-updating new discussions list, like RFC for WikiProjects. We currently have five test pages up for the WikiProjects on cannabis, cognitive science, evolutionary biology, and Ghana.
• SuggestBot for WikiProjects—We have asked the maintainer of SuggestBot to make some minor adjustments to SuggestBot that will allow it to post regular reports to those WikiProjects that ask for them. Stay tuned!
• Semi-automated article assessment—Using the new revision scoring service and another system currently under development, WikiProjects will be getting a new tool to facilitate the article assessment process by providing article quality/importance predictions for articles yet to be assessed. Aside from helping WikiProjects get through their backlogs, the goal is to help WikiProjects with collecting metrics and triaging their work. Semi-automation of this process will help achieve consistent results and keep the process running smoothly, as automation does on other parts of Wikipedia.

Want us to work on any other tools? Interested in volunteering? Leave a note on our talk page.

The WikiProject watchers report is back!

The database report which lists WikiProjects according to the number of watchers (i.e., people that have the project on their watchlist), is back! The report stopped being updated a year ago, following the deactivation of the Toolserver, but a replacement report has been generated.

Until next time, Harej (talk) 22:20, 17 June 2015 (UTC)

Books and Bytes - Issue 12

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Books & Bytes
Issue 12, May-June 2015
by The Interior (talk · contribs), Ocaasi (talk · contribs), Sadads (talk · contribs), Nikkimaria (talk · contribs)

• New donations - Taylor & Francis, Science, and three new French-language resources
• Expansion into new languages, including French, Finnish, Turkish, and Farsi
• Spotlight: New partners for the Visiting Scholar program
• American Library Association Annual meeting in San Francisco

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The Interior 15:23, 16 July 2015 (UTC)

Books and Bytes - Issue 13

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Books & Bytes
Issue 13, August-September 2015
by The Interior (talk · contribs), Ocaasi (talk · contribs), Sadads (talk · contribs), Nikkimaria (talk · contribs)

• New donations - EBSCO, IMF, more newspaper archives, and Arabic resources
• Expansion into new languages, including Viet and Catalan
• Spotlight: Elsevier partnership garners controversy, dialogue
• Conferences: PKP, IFLA, upcoming events

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The Interior via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:30, 1 October 2015 (UTC)

WikiProject X Newsletter • Issue 5

Newsletter • October 2015

Hello there! Happy to be writing this newsletter once more. This month:

We did it!

In July, we launched five pilot WikiProjects: WikiProjects Cannabis, Evolutionary Biology, Ghana, Hampshire, and Women's Health. We also use the new design, named "WPX UI," on WikiProject Women in Technology, Women in Red, WikiProject Occupational Safety and Health. We are currently looking for projects for the next round of testing. If you are interested, please sign up on the Pilots page.

Shortly after our launch we presented at Wikimania 2015. Our slides are on Wikimedia Commons.

Then after all that work, we went through the process of figuring out whether we accomplished our goal. We reached out to participants on the redesigned WikiProjects, and we asked them to complete a survey. (If you filled out your survey—thank you!) While there are still some issues with the WikiProject tools and the new design, there appears to be general satisfaction (at least among those who responded). The results of the survey and more are documented in our grant report filed with the Wikimedia Foundation.

The work continues!

There is more work that needs to be done, so we have applied for a renewal of our grant. Comments on the proposal are welcome. We would like to improve what we have already started on the English Wikipedia and to also expand to Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata. Why those? Because they are multilingual projects and because there needs to be better coordination across Wikimedia projects. More details are available in the renewal proposal.

How can the Wikimedia Foundation support WikiProjects?

The Wikimedia Developer Summit will be held in San Francisco in January 2016. The recently established Community Tech team at the Wikimedia Foundation is interested in investigating what technical support they can provide for WikiProjects, i.e., support beyond just templates and bots. I have plenty of opinions myself, but I want to hear what you think. The session is being planned on Phabricator, the Wikimedia bug tracker. If you are not familiar with Phabricator, you can log in with your Wikipedia username and password through the "Login or Register: MediaWiki" button on the login page. Your feedback can help make editing Wikipedia a better experience.

Until next time,

Harej (talk) 09:03, 26 October 2015 (UTC)

Books and Bytes - Issue 14

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Books & Bytes
Issue 14, October-November 2015
by The Interior (talk · contribs), Ocaasi (talk · contribs), Sadads (talk · contribs), Nikkimaria (talk · contribs)

• New donations - Gale, Brill, plus Finnish and Farsi resources
• Open Access Week recap, and DOIs, Wikipedia, and scholarly citations
• Spotlight: 1Lib1Ref - a citation drive for librarians

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The Interior, via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 19:12, 10 December 2015 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Original Barnstar
	Sorry about my article on REALiTEE GOLF. After reviewing the rules, it sounds like I have to wait a while longer to qualify for an article. That day is coming soon enough! Daveshultz12345 (talk) 01:21, 17 December 2015 (UTC)

Wishing you all the best . . .

Merry Christmas, Espresso Addict, and may your holidays be merry and bright . . . . Cheers. Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 17:40, 22 December 2015 (UTC)

78.26's RFA Appreciation award

	The 78.26 RFA Appreciation award
	Thank you for the participation and support at my RFA. It is truly appreciated. I hope to be of further help around here, and if you see me doing something dumb, you know where to find me. Again, I thank you. 78.26 (spin me / revolutions) 23:59, 23 December 2015 (UTC)

Bristol

I see you opposed at TFAR. Any interest in working with Rod on this one to get it up to snuff? - Dank (push to talk) 14:48, 19 January 2016 (UTC)

WikiProject X Newsletter • Issue 6

Newsletter • January 2016

Hello there! Happy to be writing this newsletter once more. This month:

What comes next

Some good news: the Wikimedia Foundation has renewed WikiProject X. This means we can continue focusing on making WikiProjects better.

During our first round of work, we created a prototype WikiProject based on two ideas: (1) WikiProjects should clearly present things for people to do, and (2) The content of WikiProjects should be automated as much as possible. We launched pilots, and for the most part it works. But this approach will not work for the long term. While it makes certain aspects of running a WikiProject easier, it makes the maintenance aspects harder.

We are working on a major overhaul that will address these issues. New features will include:

• Creating WikiProjects by simply filling out a form, choosing which reports you want to generate for your project. This will work with existing bots in addition to the Reports Bot reports. (Of course, you can also have sections curated by humans.)
• One-click button to join a WikiProject, with optional notifications.
• Be able to define your WikiProject's scope within the WikiProject itself by listing relevant pages and categories, eliminating the need to tag every talk page with a banner. (You will still be allowed to do that, of course. It just won't be required.)

The end goal is a collaboration tool that can be used by WikiProjects but also by any edit-a-thon or group of people that want to coordinate on improving articles. Though implemented as an extension, the underlying content will be wikitext, meaning that you can continue to use categories, templates, and other features as you normally would.

This will take a lot of work, and we are just getting started. What would you like to see? I invite you to discuss on our talk page.

Until next time,

Harej (talk) 02:53, 20 January 2016 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Today's featured article/February 9, 2016

EA, if this is one you're interested in, feel free. - Dank (push to talk) 14:34, 22 January 2016 (UTC)

TFA nomination for Bristol

Thanks for your comments about the quality of the prose at Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/Bristol. The article Bristol has since kindly been copy edited by User:Corinne (and others) on behalf of the GOCE. Do you think this has resolved the issues or are there still outstanding problems? Do you think it is worth renominating at TFA requests or shall I just forget it?— Rod ^talk 20:30, 28 January 2016 (UTC)

Thanks for taking another look. I will attempt to address some of the items you have identified. The references in the lead are because particular claims have been challenged in the past and I don't think references in the lead are specifically banned are they?— Rod ^talk 09:04, 29 January 2016 (UTC)

I've removed the refs from the lead by deleting if claim already cited in text or moving them (sometimes with the relevant fact) if they were not already cited elsewhere in the text. If they are challenged again I will just point them to the relevant paragraph.— Rod ^talk 20:51, 29 January 2016 (UTC)

DYK for Sarah Howe

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 12:02, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Today's featured article/February 22, 2016

You're welcome to take this one if you want it. (I'm watchlisting here.) - Dank (push to talk) 14:11, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

Sigh. I talked with Brian and Chris ... this one isn't being yanked, only pushed back a month or two. As soon as it is rescheduled, I'll let you know so you can copy your text into the new slot. Third time lucky, maybe? - Dank (push to talk) 14:06, 3 February 2016 (UTC)

The RoverTown page is still under construction, also RoverTown is a premium student discount app with very few other competitors in the segment. None of big companies like Groupon don't specifically provide student discounts especially which includes local dinners, mom and pop shops etc. Please specifically look into Groupon or any other discount app to check for local mom and pop stores.

RoverTown Page Deletion

The RoverTown page is still under construction, also RoverTown is a premium student discount app with very few other competitors in the segment. None of big companies like Groupon don't specifically provide student discounts especially which includes local dinners, mom and pop shops etc. Please specifically look into Groupon or any other discount app to check for local mom and pop stores. — Preceding unsigned comment added by StLouisBaymax (talk • contribs) 02:22, 5 February 2016 (UTC)

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Undelete my page for Jonathan Weiser

I did not even get a chance to update it. Can you undelete my page so I can work on it.

I did not even get a chance to add content.

This is real artist page with a significant amount of work. You can view some of it at jonathanweiser.com instagram.com/jonathanweiser balloonpuppymill.com

Here is a book published with my name on it http://www.amazon.com/Balloon-Dog-Puppy-Jon-Weiser/dp/0692485740

Thanks

Speedy Deletion Proposal - Chris Percival

You have nominated this page for a speedy deletion, however not only does it not actually meet the criterium for this, it has received significant work on the reposted version to widen the scope and depth of significant sources.

I request that you review the article and it's changes and withdraw your nomination, as it now meets WP:BIO, despite the previous deletion.

Johnoben (talk) 08:10, 9 February 2016 (UTC)

Did you know nominations/Elizabeth Barrett Browning: A Biography

Hello, Expresso Addict,

I have reviewed the above, and suggested an ALT1 hook. Alternatively, you may want to supply a shorter hook. Also, I have a suggestion for an anniversary connection.

Georgejdorner (talk) 06:54, 15 February 2016 (UTC)

---

Hello,

This time, the alternate hook is actually there. Promise.

Georgejdorner (talk) 16:22, 15 February 2016 (UTC)

Jena K. Silva

The reference establishing notability should really be included in the article and not on the talk page or a general link. I accept that the subject may be notable and agree that the PROD isn't warranted. IMDb however is not the most reliable/independent source, as it can be self-edited. Dan arndt (talk) 09:48, 16 February 2016 (UTC)

Will leave it up to other editors to make the necessary improvements to clearly establish the subject's notability, with verifiable references (despite the creator's comments Facebook is not a suitable reference 😅) Agree with your comments about the PROD. Dan arndt (talk) 10:36, 16 February 2016 (UTC)

Books & Bytes - Issue 15

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Books & Bytes
Issue 15, December-January 2016
by The Interior (talk · contribs), Ocaasi (talk · contribs), Sadads (talk · contribs), Nikkimaria (talk · contribs), UY Scuti (talk · contribs)

• New donations - Ships, medical resources, plus Arabic and Farsi resources
• #1lib1ref campaign summary and highlights
• New branches and coordinators

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The Interior via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 19:20, 19 February 2016 (UTC)

Undelete my page for Ray Lin

Hi Espresso Addict,

Could you please undelete the Page for Ray Lin, as I was still working on it.

thanksRlin1 (talk) 21:35, 19 February 2016 (UTC)

DYK for Lesley Lewis (art historian)

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 12:07, 20 February 2016 (UTC)

A kitten for you!

It likes you. It wants you to stroke it.

Analyi|(talk) 10:10, 21 February 2016 (UTC)

Thank you! I'm very fond of cats! Espresso Addict (talk) 11:25, 21 February 2016 (UTC)

About Entrance Time Deletion

Entrance time is neither a site nor a blog. It is a career management company situated in Perumpavoor. Add it back.

Hi

Seeing as though you're an admin that's been active in the past 10 minutes, please do something about this IP address. This IP is constantly blanking whole sections of Supermodel pages; A final warning was issued a while ago but he still hasn't been blocked yet and is wasting the time of people that are rapidly reverting him. Thanks. Zeke Essiestudy (talk) 19:45, 22 February 2016 (UTC)

WikiProject X Newsletter • Issue 7

Newsletter • February 2016

This month:

One database for Wikipedia requests

Development of the extension for setting up WikiProjects, as described in the last issue of this newsletter, is currently underway. No terribly exciting news on this front.

In the meantime, we are working on a prototype for a new service we hope to announce soon. The problem: there are requests scattered all across Wikipedia, including requests for new articles and requests for improvements to existing articles. We Wikipedians are very good at coming up with lists of things to do. But once we write these lists, where do they end up? How can we make them useful for all editors—even those who do not browse the missing articles lists, or the particular WikiProjects that have lists?

Introducing Wikipedia Requests, a new tool to centralize the various lists of requests around Wikipedia. Requests will be tagged by category and WikiProject, making it easier to find requests based on what your interests are. Accompanying this service will be a bot that will let you generate reports from this database on any wiki page, including WikiProjects. This means that once a request is filed centrally, it can syndicated all throughout Wikipedia, and once it is fulfilled, it will be marked as "complete" throughout Wikipedia. The idea for this service came about when I saw that it was easy to put together to-do lists based on database queries, but it was harder to do this for human-generated requests when those requests are scattered throughout the wiki, siloed throughout several pages. This should especially be useful for WikiProjects that have overlapping interests.

The newsletter this month is fairly brief; not a lot of news, just checking in to say that we are hard at work and hope to have more for you soon.

Until next time,

Harej (talk) 01:44, 24 February 2016 (UTC)

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Block user:74.131.231.57 and user:73.46.188.67. 2602:306:3357:BA0:87C:CB3B:8AE1:B999 (talk) 01:22, 3 March 2016 (UTC)

You might wanna protect Yanet García. 2602:306:3357:BA0:87C:CB3B:8AE1:B999 (talk) 01:26, 3 March 2016 (UTC)

You should also block user:Shuning Du because he keeps recreating deleted pages. 2602:306:3357:BA0:87C:CB3B:8AE1:B999 (talk) 01:28, 3 March 2016 (UTC)

Please hurry up now. 2602:306:3357:BA0:87C:CB3B:8AE1:B999 (talk) 01:32, 3 March 2016 (UTC)

Come on. 2602:306:3357:BA0:87C:CB3B:8AE1:B999 (talk) 01:37, 3 March 2016 (UTC)

DYK for New Cheshire Salt Works

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DYK for Elizabeth Barrett Browning: A Biography

— Coffee // have a cup // beans // 12:01, 6 March 2016 (UTC)

I would first like to state I am new to Wikipedia and apologise if I have not followed guidelines. I have recently put up a Wikipedia page for a Kooga Rugby. I have now received an email this morning receiving a ‘Speedy Deletion Nomination’ - I have attached a screenshot to show the thread. I am by no means trying to advertise anything at all.

I am eager to find a solution to this and would happily take advice on how to resolve this problem and I am happy to remove the text that is the problem - if this matter could be looked into.

I have attached the information I had placed on the page below and was hoping someone could highlight what information 'unambiguous advertising which only promotes a company, product, group, service’ [copy of article removed]

Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you

Garethbaillie (talk) 10:12, 8 March 2016 (UTC)

Nimra Ahmed

Hi, you had removed the speedy deletion template that I put on her wikipedia page, "saying some coverage of 'Jannat Kay Pattay' exists in English". Is it in the references mentioned on the page? bcz one is a facebook page and the other doesnt have any such mention. where is this coverage present? thank you.Sohebbasharat (talk) 00:18, 9 March 2016 (UTC)

TFA

I understand you'd prefer to stop doing these. You did a wonderful job, and you're welcome to resume work any time. Thanks. - Dank (push to talk) 13:50, 9 March 2016 (UTC)

Andri Björn Sigurðsson

Please compare Andri björn sigursson. At least one of the pages should be speedy deleted.Xx236 (talk) 11:04, 10 March 2016 (UTC) I don't know any such redirect.Xx236 (talk) 11:12, 10 March 2016 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Kooga Rugby

Thanks for your reply, this insight is a great help and over the next few weeks I will undertake rewriting the article so it is not biased and is not promotional in any way. The reason why I had undertaken producing the Kooga Rugby is because they are one of our clients and they had alerted us to the fact that when you search for 'Kooga Rugby' on google the wikipedia page that appears is actually for BLK as they have put a redirect on their page.

We would like to find out how to take this redirect off permanently as what they are stating on their wikipedia page regarding Kooga is factually incorrect as they do not own the rights to Kooga worldwide, as they only own rights to Kooga in Australia. Therefore the generic 'Kooga Rugby' redirect is directing ALL traffic to BLK's wikipedia and this is as major concern.

On BLKs site they ALSO state that they own the rights to Leicester Tigers Rugby team and Uruguay National Rugby team, once again this is factually incorrect. Could you let me know what steps I would need to take to have this redirect taken off.

Any help or advice on this matter would be greatly appreciated, many thanks for your time on this.

Garethbaillie (talk) 11:11, 10 March 2016 (UTC)

DYK for Robert Shope

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 00:02, 18 March 2016 (UTC)

Sorry to bother

Hey, I'm not sure if you missed my reply at Portal talk:Briarcliff Manor, New York, but I'd sure like your further input into how I can make this a featured portal. Thanks! ɱ (talk · vbm · coi) 04:10, 18 March 2016 (UTC)

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Books & Bytes - Issue 16

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Books & Bytes
Issue 16, February-March 2016
by The Interior (talk · contribs), UY Scuti (talk · contribs)

• New donations - science, humanities, and video resources
• Using hashtags in edit summaries - a great way to track a project
• A new cite archive template, a new coordinator, plus conference and Visiting Scholar updates
• Metrics for the Wikipedia Library's last three months

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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,

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Books & Bytes - Issue 17

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Books & Bytes
Issue 17, April-May 2016
by The Interior, Ocaasi, UY Scuti, Sadads, and Nikkimaria

• New donations this month - a German-language legal resource
• Wikipedia referals to academic citations - news from CrossRef and WikiCite2016
• New library stats, WikiCon news, a bot to reveal Open Access versions of citations, and more!

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WikiProject X Newsletter • Issue 9

Newsletter • May / June 2016

Check out this month's issue of the WikiProject X newsletter, featuring the first screenshot of our new CollaborationKit software!

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