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2001 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships

Hi. Clearly our sources are conflicting each other. Assuming your source is correct, why does the article for Morgan Hamm show only a medal for 2003 team competition in his medal count, while the article for Paul Hamm shows a medal for 2001 team competition when you are saying he was not on the team? 75.46.0.225 (talk) 23:40, 14 September 2008 (UTC)

Your source was a list of historical members of U.S. World teams. I'm not sure how that's a conflicting source with the official results list. Can you find a better source that the FIG wrote the wrong name? Kolindigo (talk) 23:49, 14 September 2008 (UTC)
Here is Paul Hamm's FIG profile. The bio says he lead the team to an unprecedented silver medal. His AA results appear in his results list. However, the team medal did not because they confused his name with Morgan's. http://exel.fig-gymnastics.com/events/athletes/bio.jsp?ID=1094 Also, take a look at the Logines' results. http://www.swisstiming.com/sports/gym/ag_wc2k1m/res-ind-qual.pdf There is no mention of Morgan. 75.46.0.225 (talk) 23:57, 14 September 2008 (UTC)
I suspect your source is incorrect. This following source also does not show any sign of Morgan being there. http://www.gymnasticsresults.com/w2001mqi.html 75.46.0.225 (talk) 23:49, 14 September 2008 (UTC)
I've done a news search and I believe you that it's Paul. I'm just looking for a free article to source it. I just don't want to use an unofficial site or a line in a bio for something like this. Kolindigo (talk) 23:59, 14 September 2008 (UTC)
OK, great. I'm glad we've agreed. 75.46.0.225 (talk) —Preceding undated comment was added at 00:02, 15 September 2008 (UTC).
Found a source. Reverting myself. Thanks for the heads up that FIG was in error. Kolindigo (talk) 00:09, 15 September 2008 (UTC)


Gymnastics Wikiproject

Your edits or discussions show that you may be interested in the new Gymnastics Wikiproject. Please join and help to start this new wikiproject. We need lots of members and lots of help. Wikiproject Gymnastics also contains the related sports of cheerleading, power tumbling, and trampolining. Maddie talk 19:28, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

By the way, you might want to archive your talk page, it loads pretty slowly.

Your idea sounds great, the box you've created is aesthetically pleasing. I can't say for sure if there are any errors, I can't see any ommissions but I'm not totally confident in my ability to notice stuff like that. I've got no objections, this is a great idea. Your knowledge of what is relevant to profiling gymnasts probably exceeds my own, my interest in gymnastics and competitions and professionals is very casual and I am ignorant of many of the interesting complexities of the sport. Thanks for being bold, it looks like you have contributed enthusiastically to this and other Wikipedia efforts, that's great. By the way, I know archiving can be easy to procrastinate if we are wanting to fix up some things prior to doing it, so to make it easier I was also bold and sort of cleaned it up a bit, like excess space and stuff. It should be easier to copy, requiring less scrolling and stuff. Tyciol (talk) 23:59, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

Gymnastics Infobox

Hi Kolindigo, thank you for your note! The work you have done on the infobox is amazing...I very much like it, and absolutely think it should be added to the gymnastics articles here. I prefer the one without the height and music, just because those things can change, but honestly, it's awesome work all the way around. I'm going to start adding it to articles now. If there's anything I can help with, please drop me a note anytime. Best, DanielEng (talk) 00:02, 13 June 2008 (UTC)


Age controversies in gymnastics

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Gymnastics

The Original Barnstar
Awarded for making valuable edits and substantial improvements to gymnastics articles on Wiki. Well done!DanielEng (talk) 05:17, 9 July 2008 (UTC)
Wow! Thank you so much! Kolindigo (talk) 21:51, 12 July 2008 (UTC)


Pamela O'Connor

Deleted, you can move the dab now. Kylu (talk) 20:40, 13 July 2008 (UTC)

Laura Robson

I'm adding back the Aussie country tag in the infobox as she has competed as an Aussie as well as a Brit and, as a junior, she's not bound to either. I've left a discussion point on the LRTalk page. Regards, Bazj (talk) 18:51, 17 July 2008 (UTC)

Dana Torres

I've had a go at providing wording for the Dara Torres article, but haven't had the time to work in into the rest of the text. Bluap (talk) 02:53, 23 July 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for taking a look at it! Kolindigo (talk) 03:10, 23 July 2008 (UTC)

Mao Asada

You commented : easily dated and completely unsourced, and you need to source that better than just linking to the results archive for the last ten years to say that she's never done something.

==

Sorry, I don't really understand what you're meaning. I linked past results of her performance in the last couple of seasons which is best source, I think. What do you mean by 'source'? Do you want me to link 'EVERY' judges scores in order to confirm just what she never done? Or do you think that a certain person's careless comment in website or newspaper is more believable than ISU official site? Please make sure what is best source to confirm her jump composition and each scores.


<added later>

Will I refer these pages to confirm that her triple axel jump is never perfect (It's not her trademark! Are you joking?) and she never jumped triple salchow? Do you really like it? That's terrible. Please show me what to do.


--2007/2008 season

http://www.isufs.org/results/wc2008/WC08_Ladies_SP_Scores.pdf http://www.isufs.org/results/wc2008/WC08_Ladies_FS_Scores.pdf (miss)

http://www.isufs.org/results/fc2008/FC08_Ladies_SP_Scores.pdf http://www.isufs.org/results/fc2008/FC08_Ladies_FS_Scores.pdf (success +GOE)

http://www.isufs.org/results/gpf0708/gpf0708_Ladies_SP_Scores.pdf http://www.isufs.org/results/gpf0708/gpf0708_Ladies_FS_Scores.pdf (success -GOE)

http://www.isufs.org/results/gpfra07/gpfra07_Ladies_SP_Scores.pdf http://www.isufs.org/results/gpfra07/gpfra07_Ladies_FS_Scores.pdf (downgrade)

http://www.isufs.org/results/gpcan07/sc07_Ladies_SP_Scores.pdf http://www.isufs.org/results/gpcan07/sc07_Ladies_FS_Scores.pdf (miss, 2A)

--2006/2007 season

http://www.isufs.org/results/wc2007/wc07_Ladies_SP_scores.pdf http://www.isufs.org/results/wc2007/wc07_Ladies_FS_scores.pdf (success -GOE)

http://www.isufs.org/results/gpf0607/gpf0607_Ladies_SP_scores.pdf http://www.isufs.org/results/gpf0607/gpf0607_Ladies_FS_scores.pdf (downgrade)

http://www.isufs.org/results/gpusa06/sa06_Ladies_SP_scores.pdf http://www.isufs.org/results/gpusa06/sa06_Ladies_FS_scores.pdf (miss, 1A)

http://www.isufs.org/results/gpjpn06/gpjpn06_Ladies_SP_scores.pdf http://www.isufs.org/results/gpjpn06/gpjpn06_Ladies_FS_scores.pdf (success -GOE)

--2005/2006 season

http://www.isufs.org/results/wjc2006/wjc06_LadiesQualifyingGroupB_FS_scores.pdf (success -GOE) http://www.isufs.org/results/wjc2006/wjc06_Ladies_SP_scores.pdf (success -GOE) http://www.isufs.org/results/wjc2006/wjc06_Ladies_FS_scores.pdf (miss, 1A)

http://www.isufs.org/results/gpf0506/gpf0506_Ladies_SP_scores.pdf http://www.isufs.org/results/gpf0506/gpf0506_Ladies_FS_scores.pdf (success +GOE)

http://www.isufs.org/results/gpchn05/gpchn05_Ladies_SP_scores.pdf http://www.isufs.org/results/gpchn05/gpchn05_Ladies_FS_scores.pdf (miss, 2A)

http://www.isufs.org/results/gpfra05/gpfra05_Ladies_SP_scores.pdf http://www.isufs.org/results/gpfra05/gpfra05_Ladies_FS_scores.pdf (success -GOE)

-- 2004/2005 season

http://www.isufs.org/results/wjc2005/wjc05_LadiesQualifyingGroupA_FS_scores.pdf (miss, 2A) http://www.isufs.org/results/wjc2005/wjc05_Ladies_SP_scores.pdf http://www.isufs.org/results/wjc2005/wjc05_Ladies_FS_scores.pdf (success)

http://www.isufs.org/results/jgpf0405/jgpf0405_Ladies_SP_scores.pdf http://www.isufs.org/results/jgpf0405/jgpf0405_Ladies_FS_scores.pdf (success +GOE)

http://www.isufs.org/results/jgpusa2004/jgpusa04_Ladies_SP_scores.pdf http://www.isufs.org/results/jgpusa2004/jgpusa04_Ladies_FS_scores.pdf (miss, 2A)(jumped 2S)

http://www.isufs.org/results/jgpukr2004/jgpukr04_Ladies_SP_scores.pdf http://www.isufs.org/results/jgpukr2004/jgpukr04_Ladies_FS_scores.pdf (miss, 2A)

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re: Switch field names in template

Hi, just letting you know that I completed your bot request and it has now been archived. Take care, ~ AmeIiorate U T C @ 10:36, 28 August 2008 (UTC)

Thanks! Kolindigo (talk) 16:15, 29 August 2008 (UTC)

Chinese name convention

Hello, please stop moving/redirecting pages containing Chinese names. e.g. Sui Jianshuang, not Sui Jian-Shuang. Because it's the Chinese name convention here. The 2nd and 3rd characters are combined as a given name. No need to use - in between. It doesn't matter what other websites say, but most Chinese names here follow this rule. If you want to edit in this way, you have tens of thousands of editions to do. Ramtears (talk) 12:11, 1 September 2008 (UTC)

Hey. I moved that article, and other Chinese rhythmic gymnast articles, because that was the way the name was split up in the FIG biographies. It was one word in the page that the article was generated from, but that page also stated that the gymnasts were artistic gymnasts and not rhythmic gymnasts and since that site could not get even that basic information correct, I did not trust them on the spelling on the name. I hadn't realized that Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Chinese) covered hyphenation. I'll know from now on. Thanks for letting me know. Kolindigo (talk) 19:17, 1 September 2008 (UTC)

Unit conversion templates for infobox

Kolindigo, I wasn't able to find a MOS on which unit conversion template to use. The only standards I know of are here. From that, with regard to skating and gymnastics articles, I basically get that metric units should come first (except for purely US-based topics), but that metric and imperial units should be provided.

When I standardized height for figure skaters, I wanted cm to be the main unit (as that is the unit of height used by the ISU), but then I wanted ft in to be the imperial unit (since that's the unit Americans most recognize with). I believe I used Template:Convert, so that I could have the units in centimeters instead of meters. I don't believe Template:Height allows for centimeters. I agree that Template:Convert is more general, but more confusing. I just looked it up the first time, then copied the syntax.

Skeetidot (talk) 21:26, 2 September 2008 (UTC)

Ksenia Semenova Article

Hi,

I am unclear why you reversed my latest entry on Wikipedia. Wikipedia permits copying materials based on a GFDL license under their rules. The website is a source of valuable information on Ksenia, and the Signature Skill is a notable and relevant fact of Ksenia that is noteworthy on a biography page. The mere fact that it's a "fansite" shouldn't in and of itself constitute a link that is illegitimate and requires removal. The content on the "fansite" is licensed (photographers granted permission to use images. VisualRian images are used under a license. The new clips were licensed by Russia Today. The remaining clips are used under the fair use provisions of U.S. Copyright law.

No hard feelings, but please help me to understand why this website can't be added and the Signature Skill was removed.

Update = Saw your message. I'll take a closer look at your comments and confirm the accuracy of my post. Thanks for replying.

Coderoyal (talk) 21:51, 19 September 2008 (UTC)CodeRoyal.

Ksenia Semenova Article Update

Hi Kolindigo,

Again thanks for posting your note on my talk page about the reversal. I've reviewed the link on the External Link policy. I am however still unclear on the basis for the removal of the Ksenia Semenova Online website, since it's a website that is clearly related to her. I do know in general fansites are well-known for stealing copyrighted content. However, the content on Ksenia Semenova is licensed, and the limited performances fall under 15 U.S.C. 107 of the Fair Use provisions since the clips are limited to Ksenia's performances and are incorporated in a Transformative nature into a new product. News clips are either licensed or linked to externally making no infringement. The photo gallery contains absolutely no photos that aren't licensed to be used.

The External link policy doesn't explicitly state that "fansites" aren't linkable. However, it does strongly caution against linking to websites that don't use content legally by copyright infringement, and I know fansites are commonly responsible for this.

Anyhow, no hard feelings. I'll withhold on linking Ksenia Semenova Online back on the article for now, but I'm wondering if you can point out what content on the website causes it to violate the terms of being linked to on Wikipedia. Perhaps I'm overlooking something and need to make a correction on the website.

Thanks and have a great weekend!

Signed, Coderoyal (talk) 22:23, 19 September 2008 (UTC)Alan

Skaters qualified to Grand Prix Final

Please see my explanations in Talk:2008–2009 ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating. An anonimous editor is repeatedly marking off qualified skaters. If that continues, I may ask for a mediator, or whatever you do in case of wars in wikinglish...--Nitsansh (talk) 21:55, 22 November 2008 (UTC)


Skating in Saskatchewan

Are you able to add information regarding skating in Saskatchewan to Sports in Saskatchewan as the 2009 Canadian Figure Skating Championships (awesome article which you created) will be held in Saskatoon? SriMesh | talk 19:02, 30 November 2008 (UTC)

Thank you for your reply!!!!SriMesh | talk 19:40, 30 November 2008 (UTC)

DYK for Twist lifts

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1960 USA-flag

Hello, Thank you for checking and correcting all my figure skating add ons. It is really nice! In 1960 I would not have known the correct USA flag. However, I have to continue with 1962 and there must be another USA flag. Which one is it? I will probably add 1962 after Christmas. Happy holidays! Uwe Langer (talk) 06:06, 16 December 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia:WikiProject Figure Skating

Just wanted to leave you a note saying I liked your project redesign. :) Viriditas (talk) 05:10, 19 December 2008 (UTC)

Patrick Chan

Hi Kolindigo, First of all, thanks for your contribution to Patrick Chan's profile. Recently, His profile was corrected as requested from his family, please don't roll it back. If you have any reason to do that, please let us know.

Thanks again. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Feijiangnan (talk • contribs) 04:55, 14 January 2009 (UTC)

Rachael Flatt

I link to sites if I've used them in editing a Wikipage i.e the Flatt Page. What's fair is fair. To promote one of my contributions as spam is ridiculous. —Preceding unsigned comment added by DoYouBelieve1980 (talk • contribs) 18:04, 16 January 2009 (UTC)

S Bear Bergman

You're right, all the way across. To prove it, perhaps you want to add a line about Bear's being a vocal proponent of gender-neutral pronouns and cite either that chapter of BUTCH IS A NOUN, the Out Magazine Trans Issue in which ze talk about them, or both. That ought to stop at least that much of the nonsense. 76.236.65.249 (talk) 23:12, 3 February 2009 (UTC)someone else who knows.

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List of Olympic medalists in figure skating

Hello

My English is no good. Only I can understand but not speak. I translated with Google translate into my writing. I hope we can understand each other.

Türkçe vikipedi tr:Artistik Buz Pateni'nde Olimpiyat madalyası kazananların kazandığı yaşa göre listesi page, began to build. Here, List of Olympic medalists in figure skating # List of winners by age as I began to write. Is the day of competition in the Olympics is not certain (2006 ice dancing= 20 february, 1984=?) that I used for calculating the last day of the Olympics. I would not want to write it as. Second, these pages as I've done in a different page in Turkish can be divided? I hope you can help.--Erica92 (talk) 13:45, 7 May 2009 (UTC)

Merhaba

İngilizcem hiç iyi değildir. Sadece anlayabiliyorum ancak konuşamıyorum. Sana Google translate ile çevrilmiş halini yazarım. Umarım birbirimizi anlayabiliriz.=)

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Thanks for your help on the FIBT links. Can you do the same things for the FIBT profiles and the recent FIL-Luge.org as well? That would be really appreciated. Chris (talk) 21:02, 12 November 2009 (UTC)

Yes. They have been for both news and results. The athletes remain unchanged for the FIL items. Chris (talk) 21:52, 12 November 2009 (UTC)
That will work on the luge names. Check on the news articles also. They have the same bracket issues as does FIBT. Good job on this! Chris (talk) 22:33, 12 November 2009 (UTC)


What a Brilliant Idea Barnstar
For your work in creating three templates that allows the external links and references for the FIBT and the International Luge Federation to be readable now to the average reader, I award you this barnstar as a matter of thanks. Chris (talk) 15:42, 13 November 2009 (UTC)


I did think of a couple of things you could add both to the FIBT template and FIL-Luge news template. They are date= and date accessed=. The first is the date the article was issued online while the second is for the date retrieved online. It would this version of the cite web template. Your thoughts? Chris (talk) 20:52, 13 November 2009 (UTC)

Perfect. Enjoy your barnstar! Chris (talk) 21:53, 13 November 2009 (UTC)

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Unnecessary revert of Midori Ito

I think your reverts of my page move from Midori Ito to Midori Itō were unnecessary. My move was explained in the summary AND on the talk page, which is allowed by Wikipedia:RM ("Discussions about retitling of an article (page move) can always be carried out at the article's talk page without adding an entry here."), but I will explain it more thorough here: Her family name is 伊藤 or in hiragana: いとう and that is transcribed according the Hepburn romanization system into Itou. In the revised Hepburn romanization system it's written as Itō, with a macron to point that it's a long vowel. Wikipedia uses the REVISED Hepburn romanization system, as can be read on Wikipedia:Japanese. There you will read that "Revised Hepburn romanization (described below) should be used in all cases, excepting the few unusual circumstances discussed below." Midori Itō is NOT one of the unusual circumstances, so according Wikipedia Guidelines should be written with the macron, thus as Itō. Unless there is something I missed... MarioR 23:34, 18 December 2009 (UTC)

My specific objection to the move was the fact that it was done incorrectly. A copy/paste move destroys the page history. As for the second part, I was thinking of the part of WP:MOS-JA#Article names that says Article titles should use macrons as specified for body text except in cases where the macronless spelling is in common usage in English-speaking countries and WP:MOS-JA#Names of modern figures where it says 1. Use the official trade name if available in English/Latin alphabet; 2. Use the form found in a dictionary entry from a generally accepted English dictionary; 3. Use the form publicly used on behalf of the person in the English-speaking world;... 5. If none of the above is available, use the macronned form. "Midori Ito" is certainly the common name in English and I have never seen the macronned form used. But as for all of that, the point remains that your move was done incorrectly, which is why I reverted it. Kolindigo (talk) 05:20, 19 December 2009 (UTC)
Looking at the points you mentioned, especially point 3 (Use the form publicly used...), I suppose you are right. Haven't read the whole Wikipedia:Japanese page yet, so definitely my bad... I don't understand why nobody noticed this before, because I have done it with more articles. I will revert those back myself... Thanks for pointing it out to me! MarioR 13:16, 19 December 2009 (UTC)

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Page move

You moved Martha Brown just as I was about to, and now I can't move it without using the tools. Could you move it to Elizabeth Martha Brown, please, as I've just realized that's her legal name. SlimVirgin TALK contribs 01:01, 21 January 2010 (UTC)

Also, we don't create dab pages when there are only two names. The more prominent takes the name. Can you say why you made that move? SlimVirgin TALK contribs 01:02, 21 January 2010 (UTC)
Not sure what you mean. I did link to the skater. I linked to the hanged woman on the skater's page, and to the skater on the hanged woman's page, which is what we do when there are only two. The skater is one sentence and not sourced, so clearly the other one -- several paragraphs, sourced, and growing -- appears more notable as things stand. You also didn't fix the dab on the skater's page. Can't quite understand why you involved yourself like this. SlimVirgin TALK contribs 01:19, 21 January 2010 (UTC)
Could you leave things as they are, for the time being? I'm currently trying to find out whether Martha Brown was more commonly known as Elizabeth or not. Once I've found out what most of the sources are saying, I can decide whether she ought to be at Elizabeth or Martha. SlimVirgin TALK contribs 01:38, 21 January 2010 (UTC)

TBD

is To Be Determined, there may be a better way to present that. -- Banjeboi 02:05, 21 January 2010 (UTC)

In that case, it's probably superfluous, and also something you'd have to go back and remove if the athlete withdraws, which could be tiresome, but hey, if the people adding it are also volunteering to remove it... ;)
But if it's added, it should be added to the legend, too. (As a nitpicker, I don't like that "determined" part of "to be determined", as if it's something determined by an external third party, rather than being judged on the programs.) Kolindigo (talk) 02:29, 21 January 2010 (UTC)
I think it could be removed under the two concepts of dating content inappropriately - "he just completed a tour" and not-a-crystal-ball - "will be announcing ______". -- Banjeboi 19:54, 21 January 2010 (UTC)

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A couple of comments regarding your recent edits[1][2]. In both of theses you reverted edits of IP 84.88.226.250 with edit summaries "rvv, please see your talk page". The abbreviation "rvv" stands for "reverting vandalism". What the IP did here certainly was not vandalism, so labeling the reverts as "rvv" was not appropriate. I personally do not particularly care about the issue of tables (whether to use one big table or several smaller ones), and to the extent that I do have an opinion, I probably agree with yours that having several smaller tables makes it easier to edit. But the disagreement between you and IP 84.88.226.250 about which table appearance to use is a legitimate editorial disagreement, with no vandalism on either side. Another point is that in a case like this it is better to leave a comment explaining the revert at the talk page of the article in question rather than at the talk page of the user (or leave such a comment in both places). Regards, Nsk92 (talk) 01:19, 5 February 2010 (UTC)

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Estonian Figure Skating Championships

I watched book in bookstore, there are all estonian champions 1917-2010. http://pood.rahvaraamat.ee/raamatud/iluuisutamine_eestis/110513 Rim555 (talk) 19:44, 21 February 2010 (UTC)

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Tugba Karademir

It's a bizarre day when NBC is not reliable enough for wikipedia. I think the sadder aspect is that if I hadn't referenced it at all—or if there were a Youtube video of the event—this information would still be around (and accurate). I was trying to take some dismal POV and back it up with something done by a news organization. I've reinstated most of what you took out with a new reference, this time to the Canadian equivalent of my previous reference. Perhaps you find Canadians more trustworthy than Americans. :) Andrew (talk) 02:56, 26 February 2010 (UTC)

Oh man. Scott Hamilton is the main reason I don't watch figure skating much. No wonder you were so skeptical. Andrew (talk) 05:41, 26 February 2010 (UTC)

Frank Carroll

Hello. I think Frank Carroll (Francis M. Carroll?) was born in March 1939 but I'm not 100% sure. He's 71 in February 2010 which as you edited in, means he's either 71 or 72 in 2010, meaning born in 1939 or 1938. Looking up on one of the databases, it shows Francis M. Carroll, born in March 1939, and living in Palm Springs, California where Frank Carroll, the skating coach, has a home. But one can't quote that database. I can't find easily any other mention elsewhere. But I'm still checking. He is a 1960 alumnus of College of the Holy Cross, verifiably so, which I added to the article with a footnote to the NYT article stating so (also see List of College of the Holy Cross alumni). Bests. --- (Bob) Wikiklrsc (talk) 23:11, 27 February 2010 (UTC)

That's excellent! Great find! ([3]) Clearly, Frank Carroll = "Francis M. Carroll" in the 1960 College of the Holy Cross yearbook. According to the database I used, "Francis M. Carroll" born March 1939 lives in Palm Springs. Now Frank Carroll has a place there. The chances are very high that's it's the same person. But I can't prove it. Hint: Zabasearch.com. You should add the hc1960.org citation to the article. I really think it's 1939. Maybe even March 1939. Many thanks. Let's try to nail this down, elusive as it seems. Your google is better than mine, apparently. ;) -- Bob Wikiklrsc (talk) 00:09, 28 February 2010 (UTC)
Excellent! Thanks for your kind help! I continue to look too. --- (Bob) Wikiklrsc (talk) 20:12, 28 February 2010 (UTC)

Li Mingzhu

Are cited and quoted content not valid enough for you? Or must I find something from a more valid source, like facebook, for you internet experts. Maybe you attack any page relentlessly when you don't know who they are. Or maybe you just delete things you don't know for fun. And what is it you have against chinese figure skating coaches? (and their birthdays?..) Take your hate elsewhere please. You'd think, too, that as a member of the lgbt community, you'd have learned to be more accepting of others and the unknown. before you go on your deleting rant, why don't you go do some research and stop being ignorant of other cultures and their viewpoints. Don't know where to do research? Find yourself a translator and google her name.

t10t10 21:46, 28 February 2010 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by T10julia (talk • contribs)

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Hi, I noticed that you were one of several editors who reverted the addition of the Brian Williams info in this article. If you get a chance, can you take a look at this article again, because no matter how many times he is told its a play on words, he keeps re-adding the info. He even left an edit summary with his latest revert claiming "that is why I noted this as a play on words, especially in the Canadian media". Where he noted this is a mystery because no matter how many times I read the section, I can't find it. Even if he did note it as a play on words, I don't see how that would all of a sudden make it appropiate for inclusion. The headline in question is supposed to be funny, not encyclopedic. I'm debating if I should even bother with the article anymore, because a quick read of the editors talk page shows he has made a habit out of getting into edit wars, and he's not one to back down. Cmr08 (talk) 23:22, 5 March 2010 (UTC)

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Welcome back, Kolindigo -- I hope you were happily "busy in real life." Sorry to greet you with a weird problem.

There's a real pickle concerning Eugene Turner. About half of his obituary as it recently appeared in PS Journal (the trade publication of the Professional Skaters Association) is copied verbatim from a version of WP Eugene Turner from just before his death on January 14th.

The latter half of the PS Journal obituary is composed mostly of copies (similarly verbatim) of whole paragraphs from Virginia Vale's History of the Los Angeles Figure Skating Club, which is linked from the bio. I noticed you deleted Coachrussell's wholesale addition (which was at least attributed to LAFSC, if sloppily) of biography-relevant parts of that essay of Vale's.[4] Thank you.

I'm grateful for your vigilance. Eugene Turner was my father, and I want him to have a proper Wikipedia biography, with due weight and proper use of sources. Virginia Vale's warm appreciation of him has its place: in the external links. Maybe a brief quote or two, or substantiation of details by citing her essay with footnotes, would have been OK. But wholesale copying, with bad quoting style, in support of nearly hagiographic treatment? Wrong, wrong, wrong.

The issue raised by PS Journal's use of this same material (which doesn't credit Virginia Vale or Wikipedia) is that readers of that journal, upon reading the obituary, might search the web on "Eugene Turner", click on the first link (my father's WP bio, at least in the case of Google), and think: "Wait a minute, Wikipedia is plagiarizing from PS Journal -- this is an outrage!" They might even, in the heat of the moment, read the LAFSC essay by Vale less carefully than they should, and assume that that LAFSC plagiarizes from their magazine.

I don't know what to do about this. Dad died not so long ago, and this whole thing stirs up bad feelings for me at a time when I want to get past his death. In the immediate wake of his death, I limited myself to adding his date of death to the article. Now, I'm in the middle of the process of trying to sort out this plagiarism issue with the PSA, with LAFSC, and with my family, but it's going slowly.

What to do? For now, it's possible to rewrite the article to make the text different enough that it doesn't look like plagiarism of the PS Journal obit; it's not "tampering with evidence" because I've already sent the PS Journal and LAFSC a link to the archive version of the article that substantiates the verbatim-copy nature of the plagiarism committed at that time.

My first thought was to simply post something over the article explaining that the PS Journal copies the article (and Vale's essay), not the other way around. But I just don't full understand the ethics of such situations, or what Wikipedia policies might apply. And I can't exactly consider myself an unbiased judge of issues in this case. You're obviously a much more experienced Wikipedia editor than I am, and with less of an emotional stake in the issue. Can you help? Or can you refer me to someone who can help, or to some appropriate WP process? I'd greatly appreciate it, if you could. Thanks again for your work on this article, in any case, and for your excellent work on other skating-related articles. Yakushima (talk) 05:44, 23 April 2010 (UTC)

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This week the Signpost interviews Casliber, an editor who has written or contributed significantly to a startling 69 featured articles. We learn what makes him tick, why he edits, and why he can write on everything from vampires to dinosaurs, birds to plants. He also gives some advice to budding featured article writers.
The Wikimedia Foundation's engineering report for July 2012 was published this week on the Wikimedia Techblog and on the MediaWiki wiki, giving an overview of all Foundation-sponsored technical operations in that month (as well as brief coverage of progress on Wikimedia Deutschland's Wikidata project). ... At least one fibre-optic cable was damaged at the WMF's Tampa site on August 6, leading to a sharp downwards spike in traffic lasting over an hour and almost three hours of disruption for readers around the globe.
This week, we spent some time with WikiProject Martial Arts. Since April 2004, the project has been the hub for discussion and improvement of martial arts articles, including all disciplines and national origins. The project maintains a variety of conventions for handling the names and descriptions of Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Indian, Sikh, Filipino, Okinawan, and hybrid martial arts. WikiProject Martial Arts has spawned or absorbed several subprojects focusing on boxing, kickboxing, sumo, and mixed martial arts.

The Signpost: 13 August 2012

In a certain way, writing Wikipedia is the same everywhere, in every language or culture. You have to stick to the facts, aiming for the most objective way of describing them, including everything relevant and leaving out all the everyday trivia that is not really necessary to understand the context. You have to use critical thinking, trying to be independent of your own preferences and biases. To some effect, that's all there is to it. Naturally, Wikipedians have their biases, some of which can never be cured. Most Wikipedians tend to like encyclopedias; but millions of people in the world don't share that bias, and we represent them rather poorly. I'm also quite sure that an overwhelming majority of Wikipedia co-authors are literate. Again, that's not true for everyone in this world. Yet we have other, less noticeable but barely less fundamental biases.
The Bangla language, also known as Bengali, is spoken by some 200 million people in Bangladesh and India. The Bangla Wikipedia has a very small active community of about ten to fifteen very active editors, with another 35–40 as less active editors. The project faces particular challenges in being a small Wikipedia, and Dhaka-based WMF community fellow User:Tanvir Rahman is working to understand these challenges and to develop strategies that can improve small wikis that have strong potential to expand their editing communities.
A request for arbitration was filed late last week, ending the three-week long absence of pending cases.
Six featured articles were promoted this week, including Business US Highway 41, which was a state trunkline highway that served as a business loop in Marquette in the US state of Michigan.
Three weeks into a month-long evaluation of code review tool Gerrit, a serious alternative has finally gained traction in the review process: Facebook-developed but now independently operated Phabricator and its sister command-line tool Arcanist.
This week, we interviewed the lively bunch at WikiProject Dispute Resolution. Started in November 2011 to study and discuss improvements to Wikipedia's resources for resolving disputes between editors, the young project has supplemented dispute resolution efforts currently handled at the Dispute Resolution Noticeboard, Mediation Committee, and other venues. Over 40 editors have signed up to provide feedback, a variety of ideas have been proposed, and a manual for dispute resolution has been created.
Current proposals and requests for comments include a competition to redesign the main page ...

The Signpost: 20 August 2012

The Wikimedia Foundation sometimes proposes new features that receive substantive criticism from Wikimedians, yet those criticisms may be dismissed on the basis that people are resistant to change—there's an unjustified view that the wikis have been overrun by vested contributors who hate all change. That view misses a lot of key details and insight because there are good reasons that Wikimedians are suspicious of features development, given past and present development of bad software, growing ties with the problematic Wikia, and a growing belief that it is acceptable to experiment on users.
The Core Contest is a month-long competition among editors to improve Wikipedia's most important "core" articles—especially those that are in a relatively poor state. Core articles, such as Music, Computer, and Philosophy, tend to lie in the trunk of the tree of knowledge; by analogy, featured-and good-article processes generally attract more specialist topics out on the branches.
In the Utah Court of Appeals this week, the majority opinion in Fire Insurance Exchange v. Robert Allen Oltmanns and Brady Blackner relied on Wikipedia for the basic premise of their legal opinion, and included a concurring opinion devoted solely to the issue of citing Wikipedia in a legal opinion.
Thirteen featured articles were promoted this week, including pelicans, which are a genus of large water birds comprising the family Pelecanidae, characterised by a long beak and large throat-pouch. They have a fossil record dating back at least 30 million years and are most closely related to the Shoebill and Hammerkop. These fish-feeders have a patchy relationship with humans: the birds are sometimes persecuted and sometimes feature in mythology.
New embeddable scripting ("template replacement") language Lua received considerable scrutiny this week when it began its long road to widespread deployment, landing on the test2wiki test site on Wednesday (wikitech-l mailing list). ... the fourth in our series profiling participants in this year's Google Summer of Code (GSoC) programme.
This week, we spent some time with WikiProject Korea. Started in September 2006, WikiProject Korea covers the history and culture of the Korean people, including both countries that currently occupy the Korean peninsula. This task has proven difficult with North Koreans notably absent from the Wikipedia community due to tight control over access to external media. The project is home to over 16,000 pages, including 15 pieces of Featured material and 66 Good and A-class Articles.

The Signpost: 27 August 2012

Wikimedia editors have been debating a community proposal for the adoption of a new project to host free travel-guide content. The debate reached a new stage when a three-month request for comment on Meta came to an end, with a decision to set up the first new type of Wikimedia project in half a decade. The original proposal for the travel guide unfolded during April on Meta and the Wikimedia-l mailing lists, centring around the wish of volunteer contributors to the WikiTravel project to work in a non-commercial environment.
A monthly overview of recent academic research about Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects, edited jointly with the Wikimedia Research Committee and republished as the Wikimedia Research Newsletter.
Developers were left one step closer to an understanding of the code review outlook this week after the creation of a graph plotting "number changesets awaiting review" over time. The chart, which also shows the number of new changesets created on a daily basis, reveals a peak in the number of unreviewed changesets in mid-July, followed by a short drop. The current figure stands at approximately 219 unreviewed changesets.
This week the Signpost interviews Mark Arsten, who has written or contributed significantly to ten featured articles; most have related to new religious movements, and some have touched on other controversial or quirky topics. Mark gives us a rundown on how he keeps neutral and what drives him to write featured content; he also gives some hints for aspiring writers.
This week, we hopped in a little blue box with a batch of companions from WikiProject Doctor Who. Started in April 2005, the project has grown to include about 4,000 pages about the world's longest-running science fiction television show, its spinoffs, and various related material. The project is the parent of the Torchwood Taskforce and a child of WikiProject British TV and WikiProject Science Fiction. With new Doctor Who episodes airing this week and a 50th anniversary celebration around the corner, we thought now would be a good time to inquire about the famed Time Lord.
Current discussions on the English Wikipedia.

The Signpost: 03 September 2012

Some of Wikimedia's most valuable photographs have been shot and uploaded under free licenses as a direct result of the annual Wiki Loves Monuments (WLM) event each September. Last year, the project was conducted on a European level, resulting in the submission of an extraordinary 168,208 free images of cultural heritage sites ("monuments") from 18 countries, making it the world's largest photographic competition. Organising the 2012 event—which has just opened and will run for the full month of September—has required input from chapters and volunteers in 35 countries.
Developers are currently discussing the possibility of a MediaWiki Foundation to oversee those aspects of MediaWiki development that relate to non-Wikimedia wikis. The proposal was generated after a discussion on the wikitech-l mailing list about generalising Wikimedia's CentralAuth system.
Five featured pictures were promoted this week, including a video explaining the recent landing of the Curiosity rover on Mars. NASA called the final minutes of the complicated landing procedure "the seven minutes of terror".
Since May 2012 I've been a Wikimedia Foundation community fellow with the task of researching and improving dispute resolution on English Wikipedia. Surveying members of the community has revealed much about their thoughts on and experiences with dispute resolution. I've analysed processes to determine their use and effectiveness, and have presented ideas that I hope will improve the future of dispute resolution.

The Signpost: 10 September 2012

Thanks to the initiative of Yuvi Panda and Notnarayan, the Signpost now has an Android app, free for download on Google Play. ... but would readers be interested in an iOS app for Apple devices?
Much like article content, the English Wikipedia's help pages have grown organically over the years. Although this has produced a great deal of useful documentation, with time many of the pages have become poorly maintained or have grown overwhelmingly complicated.
Philip Roth, a widely known and acclaimed American author, wrote an open letter in the New Yorker addressed to Wikipedia this week, alleging severe inaccuracies in the article on his The Human Stain (2000).
Three hip hop discographies were promoted this week, alongside seven other lists.
After a week's hiatus, the WikiProject Report returns with an interview featuring WikiProject Fungi. Started in March 2006, the project has grown to include over 9,000 pages, including 47 Featured Articles and 176 Good Articles. The project maintains a list of high priority missing articles and stubs that need expansion.
In dramatic events that came to light last week, two English Wikipedia volunteers—Doc James (James Heilman) and Wrh2 (Ryan Holliday)—are being sued in the Los Angeles County Superior Court by Internet Brands, the owner of Wikitravel.com. Both Wikipedians have also been volunteer Wikitravel editors (and in Holliday's case, a volunteer administrator). IB's complaints focus on both editors' encouragement of their fellow Wikitravel volunteers to migrate to a proposed non-commercial travel guidance site that would be under the umbrella of the WMF.
In its September issue, the peer-reviewed journal First Monday published The readability of Wikipedia, reporting research which shows that the English Wikipedia is struggling to meet Flesch reading ease test criteria, while the Simple English Wikipedia has "lost its focus".
The Wikimedia Foundation's engineering report for August 2012 was published this week on the Wikimedia Techblog and on the MediaWiki wiki, giving an overview of all Foundation-sponsored technical operations in that month (as well as brief coverage of progress on Wikimedia Deutschland's Wikidata project, phase 1 of which is edging its way towards its first deployment).
Current discussions on the English Wikipedia.

The Signpost: 17 September 2012

We now have a Facebook page at facebook.com/wikisignpost. We invite you to "like" the page and join the discussion there.
This week, we shine the spotlight on the Indian Cinema Task Force, a subproject that seeks to improve the quality and quantity of articles about Indian cinema. As a child of WikiProject Film and WikiProject India, the Indian Cinema Task Force shares a variety of templates, resources, and members with its parent projects. The task force works on a to-do list, maintains the Bollywood Portal, and ensures articles follow the film style guidelines. With Indian cinema celebrating its 100th year of existence in 2013, we asked Karthik Nadar (Karthikndr), Secret of success, Ankit Bhatt, Dwaipayan, and AnimeshKulkarni what is in store for the Indian Cinema Task Force.
Eight featured articles, six featured lists, ten featured pictures, and one featured topic were promoted this week.
The world's largest photo competition, Wiki Loves Monuments, is entering its final two weeks. The month-long event, of Dutch origin, is being held globally for the first time after the success of its European-level predecessor last year. During September 2011 more than 5000 volunteers from 18 countries took part and uploaded 168,208 free images. This year, volunteers and chapters from 35 countries around the world have organised the event. The best photographs will be determined by juries at the national and finally the global level.
1.20wmf12, the 12th release to Wikimedia wikis from the 1.20 branch, was deployed to its first wikis on September 17; if things go well, it will be deployed to all wikis by September 26. Its 200 or so changes – 111 to WMF-deployed extensions plus 98 to core MediaWiki code – include support for links with mixed-case protocols (e.g. Http://example.com) and the removal of the "No higher resolution available" message on the file description pages of SVG images.

The Signpost: 24 September 2012

Oliver Keyes' (User:Ironholds) defense of Wikipedia against the recent Philip Roth controversy has drawn a significant amount of attention over the last week. The problems between Roth, a widely known and acclaimed American author, and Wikipedia arose from an open letter he penned for the American magazine New Yorker, and were covered by the Signpost two weeks ago. Keyes—who wrote the piece as a prominent Wikipedian but is also a contractor for the Wikimedia Foundation—wrote a blog post on the topic, lamenting the factual errors in Roth's letter and criticizing the media for not investigating his claims: "[they took] Roth’s explanation as the truth and launched into a lengthy discussion of how we [Wikipedia] handle primary sourcing."
A paper to appear in a special issue of American Behavioral Scientist (summarized in the research index) sheds new light on the English Wikipedia's declining editor growth and retention trends. The paper describes how "several changes that the Wikipedia community made to manage quality and consistency in the face of a massive growth in participation have lead to a more restrictive environment for newcomers". The number of active Wikipedia editors has been declining since 2007 and research examining data up to September 2009 has shown that the root of the problem has been the declining retention of new editors. The authors show this decline is mainly due to a decline among desirable, good-faith newcomers, and point to three factors contributing to the increasingly "restrictive environment" they face.
This week, we tinkered with WikiProject Robotics. From the project's inception in December 2007, it has served as Wikipedia's hub for building and improving articles about robots and robotics, accumulating two Featured Articles and seven Good Articles along the way. The project covers both fictitious and real-life robots, the technology that powers them, and many of the brains behind the robotics field
In the second controversy to engulf Wikimedia UK in two months, its immediate past chair Roger Bamkin has resigned from the board of the chapter. The resignation last Wednesday followed a growing furore over the conflict of interest between two of Roger's roles outside the chapter and his close involvement in the UK board's decision-making process, including the access to private mailing lists that board members in all chapters need. But the irony surrounding Roger's resignation is its connection with efforts by Wikimedians and collaborators to strengthen the reach of Wikimedia projects through technical innovation.
Late last month, the "Technology report" included a story using code review backlog figures – the only code review figures then available – to construct a rough narrative about the average experience of code contributors. This week, we hope to go one better, by looking directly at code review wait times, and, in particular, median code review times
Fourteen featured articles were promoted this week, including Dodo, along with six featured lists and five featured pictures.
Current discussions on the English Wikipedia include...

The Signpost: 01 October 2012

Does Wikipedia Pay? is a Signpost series seeking to illuminate paid editing, paid advocacy, for-profit Wikipedia consultants, editing public relations professionals, conflict of interest guidelines in practice, and the Wikipedians who work on these issues by speaking openly with the people involved. This week, a scandal centering around Roger Bamkin's work with Wikimedia UK and Gibraltarpedia erupted ... In light of these events, opinions on how to avoid future controversy are as important as ever. ... The Signpost spoke with Jimmy Wales to better understand how he views the paid editing environment and what he thinks is needed to improve it.
Following considerable online and media reportage on the Gibraltar controversy and a Signpost report last week, the Wikimedia UK chapter and the foundation published a joint statement on September 28: "To better understand the facts and details of these allegations and to ensure that governance arrangements commensurate with the standing of the Wikimedia Foundation, Wikimedia UK and the worldwide Wikimedia movement, Wikimedia UK's trustees and the Wikimedia Foundation will jointly appoint an independent expert advisor to objectively review both Wikimedia UK's governance arrangements and its handling of the conflict of interest."
Five articles, three lists, and nine images were promoted to "featured" this week.
The Toolserver is an external service hosting the hundreds of webpages and scripts (collectively known as "tools") that assist Wikimedia communities in dozens of mostly menial tasks. Few people think that it has been operating well recently; the problems, which include high database replication lag and periods of total downtime, have caused considerable disruption to the Toolserver's usual functions. Those functions are highly valued by many Wikimedia communities ... In 2011, the Foundation announced the creation of Wikimedia Labs, a much better funded project that among other things aimed to mimic the Toolserver's functionality by mid-2013. At the same time, Erik Möller, the WMF's director of engineering, announced that the Foundation would no longer be supporting the Toolserver financially, but would continue to provide the same in-kind support as it had done previously.
In celebration of the 50th anniversary of the James Bond film series, we spent some time bonding with WikiProject James Bond. The project is in the unique position of having already pushed all of its primary content to Good and Featured status, including all of Ian Fleming's novels, short stories, and every film that has been released. Work has begun in earnest on the article Skyfall for the release of the new Bond film later this month. The project could still use help improving articles about Bond actors, characters, gadgets, music, video games, and related topics

The Signpost: 08 October 2012

Wikipedia in education is far from a new idea: years of news stories, op-eds, and editorials have focused on the topic; and on Wikipedia itself, the Schools and universities projects page has existed in various forms since 2003. Over the next six years, the page was rarely developed, and when it did advance there was no clear goal in mind.
On this day five years ago, the WikiProject Report debuted as a new Signpost column with an overview of WikiProject Biography. Today, we're celebrating two milestone: five years of the WikiProject Report and the tenth birthday of our first featured project. WikiProject Biography is by far the largest WikiProject on Wikipedia, with over one million articles under the project's scope. As a comparison, WikiProject Biography is three times larger than Wikipedia's second largest project, and if WikiProject Biography were split into its 14 subprojects and work groups, it would still make the list of the 20 largest WikiProjects... four times.
This week the Signpost interviews Arsenikk, an editor of six years who has brought sixteen lists through our featured list process, mostly regarding transportation in Norway but also about the 1952 Winter Olympics and World Heritage Sites in Africa. Arsenikk tells us about why he joined the project, what moves him, and how editors can join the sometimes daunting world of featured lists.
The Wikimedia Foundation's engineering report for September 2012 was published this week on the Wikimedia Techblog and on the MediaWiki wiki, giving an overview of all Foundation-sponsored technical operations in that month (as well as brief coverage of progress on Wikimedia Deutschland's Wikidata project, phase 1 of which is edging its way towards its first deployment). Three of the seven headline items in the report have already been covered in the Signpost: problems with the corruption of several Gerrit (code) repositories, the introduction of widespread translation memory across Wikimedia wikis, and the launch of the "Page Curation" tool on the English Wikipedia, with development work on that project now winding down. The report also drew attention to the end of Google Summer of Code 2012, the deployment to the English Wikipedia of a new ePUB (electronic book) export feature, and improvements to the WLM app aimed at more serious photographers.
Current discussions on the English Wikipedia include ...

WikiWomen's Collaborative

WikiWomen Unite!
Hi Kolindigo! Women around the world who edit and contribute to Wikipedia are coming together to celebrate each other's work, support one another, and engage new women to also join in on the empowering experience of shaping the sum of all the world's knowledge - through the WikiWomen's Collaborative.

As a WikiWoman, we'd love to have you involved! You can do this by:

We can't wait to have you involved, and feel free to drop by our meta page (under construction) to see how else you can participate!

Can't wait to have you involved! SarahStierch (talk) 23:49, 9 October 2012 (UTC)

The Signpost: 15 October 2012

There is wide agreement among English Wikipedians that the administrator system is in some ways broken—but no consensus on how to fix it. Most suggestions have been relatively small in scope, and could at best produce small improvements. I would like to make a proposal to fundamentally restructure the administrator system, in a way that I believe would make it more effective and responsive. The proposal is to create an elected Administration Committee ("AdminCom") which would select, oversee, and deselect administrators.
This week saw a front-page story in the Wall Street Journal on editorial debates in Wikipedia. The story focused on the title-naming dispute surrounding the Beatles article, and specifically the RfC on whether the 'the' in the band's name should be capitalized or not.
On the English Wikipedia, five featured articles, ten featured lists, and four featured pictures were promoted, including USS Lexington, a ship built for the United States Navy that, although ordered in 1916 as a battlecruiser, was converted to an aircraft carrier. It was sunk in the Battle of the Coral Sea during the Second World War.
The volunteer-led Wikimedia Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC) and interested community members are looking at Wikimedia organization applications worth about US$10.4 million out of the committee's first full year's operation, in just the inaugural round one of two that have been planned for the year with a planned budget of US$11.4M.
A trial of the first phase of Wikimedia Deutschland's "Wikidata" project–implementing the first ever interwiki repository—may soon get underway following the successful passage of much of its code through MediaWiki's review processes this week.
This week, we experimented with WikiProject Chemicals. Started in August 2004, WikiProject Chemicals has grown to include over 10,000 articles about chemical compounds. The project has a unique assessment system that omits C-class, Good, and Featured Articles. As a result, the project's 11 GAs and 9 FAs are treated as A-class articles. WikiProject Chemicals is a child of WikiProject Chemistry (interviewed in 2009) and a parent of WikiProject Polymers.

The Signpost: 22 October 2012

Unlike the long-running disputes that have characterised attempts to reform the RfA process on the English Wikipedia, the German Wikipedia's tradition of making decisions not by consensus but knife-edged 50% + 1 votes has led to a fundamentally different outcome. In 2009, the project managed to largely settle the RfA mode issue in 2009 indirectly.
One clarification request concerns the civility enforcement case – specifically, Malleus Fatuorum's perceived circumvention of his topic ban. It has resulted in thousands of bytes spent in vitriolic discussions, multiple blocks, and "no confidence" motions against the Arbitration Committee and one arbitrator, among other ramifications.
Planning for Wikivoyage's migration into the WMF fold built up steam this week following a statement by WMF Deputy Director Erik Möller about what the technical side of the migration will involve. Wikivoyage, which split from sister site Wikitravel in 2006, is hoping to migrate its own not-inconsiderable user base to Wikimedia, as well as much of its content, presenting novel challenges for Wikimedia developers
Current discussions on the English Wikipedia include...
It is well known that women are underrepresented in the sciences, and that high-achieving female scientists have often been excluded from authorship lists and passed over for awards and honours solely on the basis of gender. Also significant has been the underplaying in the academic literature, news reporting, and online, of women's current and historical contributions to science.
The WikiProject Report normally brings tidings from Wikipedia's most active, inventive, and unique WikiProjects. This week, we're trying something new by focusing on Wikipedia's dark side: the various regional and national WikiProjects that are dead or dying. How can some tiny municipalities and exclaves generate highly active, cross-language, multimedia platforms be successful while the projects representing many sovereign countries and entire continents wallow in obscurity? Today, we'll search for answers among geographic projects large and small, highly active and barely functioning, enthusiastic about the future and mired in past conflicts.
Eleven articles, including one on Franz Kafka, three lists, one image, and one portal were promoted to 'featured' status this week.

The Signpost: 29 October 2012

The first round of the Wikimedia Foundation's new financial arrangements has proceeded as planned, with the publication of scores and feedback by Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC) staff on applications for funding by 11 entities—10 chapters, independent membership organisations supporting the WMF's mission in different countries, and the foundation itself. The results are preliminary assessments that will soon be put to the FDC's seven voting members and two non-voting board representatives. The FDC in turn will send its recommendations to the board of trustees on 15 November, which will announce its decision by 15 December. Funding applications have been on-wiki since 1 October, and the talk pages of applications were open for community comment and discussion from 2 to 22 October, though apart from queries by FDC staff, there was little activity.
This week, we're checking out ways to motivate editors and recognize valuable contributions by focusing on the awards and rewards of WikiProject Military History. Anyone unfamiliar with WikiProject Military History is encouraged to start at the report's first article about the project and make your way forward. While many WikiProjects provide a barnstar that can be awarded to helpful contributors, WikiProject Military History has gone a step further by creating a variety of awards with different criteria ranging from the all-purpose WikiChevrons to rewards for participating in drives and improving special topics to medals for improving articles up to A-class status to the coveted "Military Historian of the Year" award.
The TimedMediaHandler extension (TMH), which brings dramatic improvements to MediaWiki's video handling capabilities, will go live to the English Wikipedia this week following a long and turbulent development, WMF Director of Platform Engineering Rob Lanphier announced on Monday ... Wikidata.org, a new repository designed to host interwiki links, launched this week and will begin accepting links shortly. The site, which is one half of the forthcoming Wikidata trial (the other half being the Wikidata client, which will be deployed to the Hungarian Wikipedia shortly) will also act as a testing area for phase 2 of Wikidata (centralised data storage). The longer term plan is for Wikidata.org to become a "Wikimedia Commons for data" as phases 2 and 3 (dynamic lists) are developed, project managers say.
Thirteen articles, ten lists, nine images, one topic, and one portal were promoted to featured after peer reviews.
A paper in the Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, coming from the social control perspective and employing the repertory grid technique, has contributed interesting observations about the governance of Wikipedia.

The Signpost: 05 November 2012

J Milburn is a British editor who has been on the site since 2006. He is one of two judges of the WikiCup. Here, he uses an op-ed to explain the way the WikiCup works and to review this year's competition, which ended recently.
The results of most of the national heats for Wiki Loves Monuments (WLM) have been published on Commons. A maximum of 10 images have been submitted by all but eight of the 34 participating countries, and the international jury for what is the largest competition of its type in the world is set to announce the global winner in four weeks' time.
Hurricane Sandy was the largest Atlantic hurricane on record and has caused millions of dollars in damage. Naturally, Wikipedia covered it. But was Wikipedia's coverage unbiased?
The Signpost's weekly roundup of topics for discussion on the English Wikipedia.
This week, the Signpost interviewed two editors. The first, PumpkinSky, collaborated with Gerda Arendt in writing the recently featured article on Franz Kafka and won second prize in the Core contest last August. The second, Cwmhiraeth, collaborated with Thompsma in promoting the article Frog, which was featured last week. We asked them about the special challenges faced while writing Core content and things to watch out for.
The Wikimedia Foundation's engineering report for October 2012 was published this week on the Wikimedia Techblog and on the MediaWiki wiki, giving an overview of all Foundation-sponsored technical operations in that month. TimedMediaHandler also went live.
This week, The Signpost sings along with WikiProject Songs which focuses on articles about songs of every generation and genre. The project initially began as a rough outline in October 2002 and was reimagined in March 2004 using its parent WikiProject Albums as a template.

The Signpost: 12 November 2012

Last week, media outlets reported a ruling by a German court on the problem of businesses using Wikipedia for marketing purposes. The issue goes beyond the direct management of marketing-related edits by Wikipedians; it involves cross-monitoring and interacting among market competitors themselves on Wikipedia. A company that sells dietary supplements made from frankincense had taken a competitor to court. The recently published judgment by the Higher Regional Court of Munich, in dealing with the German Wikipedia article on frankincense products, was handed down in May and is based on European competition law.
Thirteen articles, six lists, and five images were promoted to 'featured' status last week.
In late September, the Technology report published its findings about (particularly median) code review times. To the 23,900 changesets analysed the first time (the data for which has been updated), the Signpost added data from the 9,000 or so changesets contributed between September 17 and November 9 to a total of 93,000 reviews across 45,000 patchsets. Bots and self-reviews were also discarded, but reviews made by a different user in the form of a superseding patch were retained. Finally, users were categorised by hand according to whether they would be best regarded as staff or volunteers. The new analyses were consistent with the predictions of the previous analysis.
As promised, we're expanding our horizons by featuring projects that cover underrepresented areas of the globe. This week, we headed to WikiProject Brazil which keeps track of articles about the world's largest Portuguese-speaking country. The project has shown spurts of activity and continues to serve as a hub for discussions, despite the project's collaborations, peer reviews, and outreach activities being largely inactive.

The Signpost: 19 November 2012

The WMF's Funds Dissemination Committee has published its recommendations for the inaugural round 1 of funding. Requests totalled US$10.4M, nearly all of the FDC's budget for both first and second rounds. The seven-member committee of community volunteers appointed in September advises the WMF board on the distribution of grant funds among applying Wikimedia organizations. The committee, which has a separate operating budget of $276k for salaries and expenses, considered 12 applications for funds, from 11 chapters and from the WMF itself for its non-core activities. The decision-making process included community and FDC staff input after October 1, the closing date for submissions. Taken together, the volunteers decided to endorse an average of 81% of the funding sought—a total of $8.43M, which went to 11 of the 12 applicants. This leaves $2.71M to be distributed in round 2, for which applications are due in little more than three months' time.
This week, we spent some time with WikiProject Turtles. The young project started in January 2011 and has accumulated 5 Featured Articles, 3 Featured Lists, and 6 Featured Pictures. The project maintains a combined to-do list and hot articles meter, a popular pages ranking, and a collection of resources for turtle articles. We interviewed Faendalimas and NYMFan69-86.
WMF Executive Director Sue Gardner was forced to clarify this week that proposed structural changes to the Foundation's Engineering and Product Development Department were not a "done deal" and that it was "important that you [particularly affected staff] realise that ... your input is wanted". The reorganisation, announced on November 5 and planned for the middle of next year, will see its two components split off into their own departments.
Seven featured articles, four featured lists and ten featured pictures – including the photograph that spawned the Streisand effect – were promoted this week.
Current discussions on the English Wikipedia include the question of ticker symbol placement and the notability of various types of creative performer.

The Signpost: 26 November 2012

On November 24, a general assembly of Wikimedia Germany (WMDE) voted on the fate of the Wikimedia Toolserver, a central external piece of technical infrastructure supporting the editing communities with volunteer-developed scripts and webpages of various kinds that are assisting in performing mostly menial tasks.
An open-access preprint presents the results from a study attempting to predict early box office revenues from Wikipedia traffic and activity data. The authors – a team of computational social scientists from Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Aalto University and the Central European University – submit that behavioral patterns on Wikipedia can be used for accurate forecasting, matching and in some cases outperforming the use of social media data for predictive modeling. The results, based on a corpus of 312 English Wikipedia articles on movies released in 2010, indicate that the joint editing activity and traffic measures on Wikipedia are strong predictors of box office revenue for highly successful movies.
Six articles, one list, and six images were promoted to 'featured' status this week.
Wikidata, the new "Wikimedia Commons for data" and the first new Wikimedia project since 2006, reached 100,000 entries this week. The project aims to be a single, human- and machine-readable database for common data, spanning across all Wikipedia projects, which will "lead to a higher consistency and quality within Wikipedia articles, as well as increased availability of information in the smaller language editions" while lowering the burden on Wikipedia's volunteer editors—whose numbers have stalled overall, and continue to dwindle on the English Wikipedia.
This week, we uncovered WikiProject Deletion Sorting, Wikipedia's most active project by number of edits to all the project's pages. This special project seeks to increase participation in Articles for Deletion nominations by categorizing the AfD discussions by various topic areas that may draw the attention of editors. The project was started in August 2005 with manual processes that are continued today by a bevy of bots, categories, and transclusions. The project took inspiration from WikiProject Stub Sorting and some historical discussions on deletion reform. As the sheer number of AfDs continues to grow, the project is seeking better tools to manage the deletion sorting process and attract editors to comment on these deletion discussions.

The Signpost: 03 December 2012

The global jury of Wiki Loves Monuments (WLM), the world’s largest photo contest, announced its results on 3 December.
Three articles, two lists, and four images were promoted to 'featured' status this week.
Current discussions on the English Wikipedia include...
Deployments of MediaWiki 1.21wmf5 cause widespread problems for users across wikis when HTML and CSS updates came temporarily out of sync. On the first wikis targeted for deployment, this was caused by the different cache invalidation rates for HTML (typically one month) and CSS (typically five minutes). The retrospective on the problem highlighted the fact that that the test wiki – the WMF's answer to a production environment that individual developers can no longer practically emulate themselves – actually demonstrated the exact problem that would later manifest itself on production wikis. It went unnoticed.
This week, we went searching for white roses in the lands of WikiProject Yorkshire. The project began in May 2007 as a way to improve articles about the historic English county of Yorkshire and its modern-day administrative divisions and cities. Since then, the project has accumulated 31 Featured Articles, 14 Featured Lists, 91 Good Articles, and a monstrous list of Did You Know entries. Despite all of the effort improving Yorkshire articles, the project has experienced waning participation in the last few years. The project still publishes a newsletter each month, monitors the popularity of and recent changes to its articles, maintains a portal, and collects resources for contributors to use.

The Signpost: 10 December 2012

At the time of writing, this year's election has just closed after a two-week voting period. The eight seats were contested by 21 candidates. Of these, 15 have not been arbitrators (Beeblebrox, Count Iblis, Guerillero, Jc37, Keilana, Ks0stm, Kww, NuclearWarfare, Pgallert, RegentsPark, Richwales, Salvio giuliano, Timotheus Canens, Worm That Turned, and YOLO Swag); four candidates are sitting arbitrators (David Fuchs, Elen of the Roads, Jclemens, and Newyorkbrad); and two have previously served on the committee (Carcharoth and Coren). Four Wikimedia stewards from outside the English Wikipedia stepped forward as election scrutineers: Pundit, from the Polish Wikipedia; Teles, from the Portuguese Wikipedia; Quentinv57, from the French Wikipedia; and Mardetanha, from the Persian Wikipedia. The scrutineers' task is to ensure that the election is free of multiple votes from the same person, to tally the results, and to announce them. The full results are expected to be released within the next few days and will be reported in next week's edition of the Signpost.
Eight articles, four images, six lists, and one topic were promoted to 'featured' status on the English Wikipedia this week.
The Visual Editor project – an attempt to create the first WMF-deployable WYSIWYG editor – will go live on its first Wikipedias imminently following nearly six months of testing on MediaWiki.org. A full explanatory blog post accompanied the news, explaining the project and its setup. Once a user has opted-in, the editor can handle basic formatting, headings and lists, while safely ignoring elements it is yet to understand, including references, categories, templates, tables and images. At the last count, approximately 2% of pages would break in some way if a user tried the Visual Editor on them; it is unclear whether any specific protection will be put in place beyond relying on editors to spot problems.
In celebration of Human Rights Day, we checked out WikiProject Human Rights. Started in February 2006, the project has grown to include over 3,000 articles, including 12 Featured Articles, 3 Featured Lists, 66 Good Articles, a large collection of Did You Know entries, and a few mentions "in the news". The project monitors listings of popular pages and cleanup tags. We interviewed Khazar2, Cirt, and Boud.

The Signpost: 17 December 2012

Seven days after the close of voting, the results of the recent Arbitration Committee (ArbCom) elections have been announced by two of the four stewards overseeing the election, Mardetanha and Pundit. Of the 21 candidates, 13 managed to gain positive support-to-oppose ratios, and the top eight will be appointed to two-year terms on the committee by Jimbo Wales, exercising one of his traditional responsibilities.
In the past year, we've tried to expand our horizons by looking at how WikiProjects work in other languages of Wikipedia. Following in the footsteps of our previously interviewed Czech and French projects, we visited the German Wikipedia to explore WikiProjekt Computerspiel (WikiProject Computer Games). The project dates back to November 2004 and has become the back-end of the Computer Games Portal, which covers all video games regardless of platform. Editors writing about computer games at the German Wikipedia deal with unique cultural and legal challenges, ranging from a lack of fair use precedents to the limited availability of games deemed harmful for youths to strong standards for the inclusion of material on the German Wikipedia.
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This week's big story on the English Wikipedia is obviously the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting (which, by the time you read this, may be renamed 2012 Connecticut school shooting). Quickly created and nominated for deletion not once but twice, and both times speedily kept, the article saw the expected flurry of edits (a look at the history suggests an average of at least one a minute over the first day and a half) and more than half a million page views on the first full day.
Four articles, three lists, and five images were promoted to 'featured' status on the English Wikipedia this week, including a picture of a three-week old donkey (also known as an 'ass').
MediaWiki users (including Wikimedians) can now organise themselves into groups, receiving recognition and support-in-kind from the Wikimedia Foundation. The project, backed by new Wikimedia technical contributor coordinator Quim Gil, has seen five proposals lodged in its first week of operation. The idea of MediaWiki groups mimics that of Wikimedia User Groups.

The Signpost: 24 December 2012

As part of its new focus on core responsibilities, the Wikimedia Foundation is reforming its grant schemes so that they are more accessible to individual volunteers. The community is invited to look at proposals for a new scheme—for now called Individual engagement grants (IEGs)—which is due to kick off on January 15. On Meta, the community is once again debating the two new offline participation models—user groups (open membership groups designed to be easy to form) and thematic organizations (incorporated non-profits representing the Wikimedia movement and supporting work on a specific theme within or across countries). In a consultation process on Meta that will last until January 15, the community will be discussing WMF proposals for a new guideline on conflicts of interests concerning Wikimedia resources. The draft covers COI issues for both volunteers and organizations across the movement.
This week, we spent some time with WikiProject A Song of Ice and Fire, which focuses on the eponymous series of high fantasy literature, the television series Game of Thrones, and related works by George R. R. Martin. The project was started in July 2006 and has grown to include 11 Good Articles maintained by a small yet enthusiastic band of editors.
Seven articles and two lists were promoted to 'featured' status this week, including List of battlecruisers. The article covers all of the battlecruisers—which were a type of warship similar in size to a battleship but with several defining characteristics—ever planned or constructed. The last British battlecruiser built, HMS Hood, is pictured at right.
Efforts were stepped up this week to sow a feeling of trust between the major parties with an interest in the future of the Toolserver. The tool- and bot-hosting server – more accurately servers – are currently operated by German chapter, Wikimedia Germany, with assistance from the Foundation and numerous volunteers, including long-time system administrator Daniel Baur (more commonly known by his pseudonym DaB). However, those parties have more recently failed to see eye-to-eye on the trajectory for the Toolserver, which is scheduled to be replaced by Wikimedia Labs in late 2013, with increasing concern about the tone of discussions.

The Signpost: 31 December 2012

In the impersonal, detached Colosseum that is Wikipedia, people find it much easier to put their thumbs down. As such, many people active in the Wikimedia movement have witnessed a precipitous decline in civil discourse. This is far from a new trend, yet many people would agree that it all seemed somehow worse in 2012.
A recent, poorly researched and poorly written story in the Register highlighted the perceived "cash rich" status of the Wikimedia movement. ... The Telegraph and Daily Dot, among others, have alleged that there are multiple links between the WMF, Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales, and Kazakhstan's government, which is, for all intents and purposes, a one-party non-democratic state.
On 27 December the Wikimedia Foundation announced the conclusion of their ninth annual fundraiser, which attracted more than 1.2 million donors. The appeal reached its goal of US$25 million, even though fundraising banners ran for only nine days.
In the first of two features, the Signpost this week looks back on 2012, a year when developers finally made inroads into three issues that had been put off for far too long (the need for editors to learn wiki-markup, the lack of a proper template language and the centralisation of data) but left all three projects far from finished.
Current discussions on the English Wikipedia include ...
Brion Vibber has been a Wikipedia editor for nearly 11 years and was the first person officially hired to work for the Wikimedia Foundation. He was instrumental in early development of the MediaWiki software and is now the lead software architect for the foundation's mobile development team.
At the beginning of the year, we began a series of interviews with editors who have worked hard to combat systemic bias through the creation of featured content; although we haven't seen six installments yet, we've also had some delightful interviews with people who write articles on some of our most core topics. Now, as we close the year, I would like to present some of my own musings on the state of featured content—especially as it pertains to systemic bias and core topics.
This week, we're celebrating the New Year from Times Square by interviewing WikiProject New York City. Since December 2004, WikiProject NYC has had the difficult task of maintaining articles about the largest city in the United States, many of which are also among the the most viewed articles on Wikipedia. The project is home to 22 Featured Articles, 7 Featured Lists, 32 pieces of Featured Media, and a lengthy list of Did You Know? entries.
Northeastern University researcher Brian Keegan analyzed the gathering of hundreds of Wikipedians to cover the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in the immediate aftermath of the tragedy. ... A First Monday article reviews several aspects of the Wikipedia participation in the 18 January 2012, protests against SOPA and PIPA legislation in the USA. The paper focuses on the question of legitimacy, looking at how the Wikipedia community arrived at the decision to participate in those protests.

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Motto of the Day Help Request April 2014

Motto of the Day (WP:MOTD) is in a state of emergency and really needs your help! There are not enough editors who are reviewing or nominating mottos at Wikipedia:Motto of the day/Nominations/In review, and this probably means that you will notice a red link or “This space for rent” as our mottos for the next weeks and months.

Please take a moment to review the nominations and nominate your own new mottos at Wikipedia:Motto of the day/Nominations/In review and Wikipedia:Motto of the day/Nominations/'Specials. Any help would be appreciated! MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 09:13, 29 April 2014 (UTC)

This message has been sent by pjoef on behalf of Motto of the Day to all editors of the English Wikipedia who are showing MOTD's templates on their pages, and to all the participants to MOTD: (page, template, and category).

Wiki Loves Pride 2014

Hi Kolindigo. In case you are not aware, there is an upcoming campaign to improve coverage of LGBT-related topics on Wikipedia, culminating with an international edit-a-thon on June 21. See Wiki Loves Pride 2014 for more information. If you are interested, you might consider creating a page for a major city (or cities!) near you, with a list of LGBT-related articles that need to be created or improved. This would be a tremendous help to Wikipedia and coverage of LGBT culture and history. Thanks for your consideration, and please let me know if you have any questions! --Another Believer (Talk) 15:59, 9 May 2014 (UTC)

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Hi, I originally left a comment here asking for help, but I have since figured out my question with help from another user, so I edited out my original comment. I hope I wasn't a bother, thank you!Saysthiguoy (talk) 19:09, 20 May 2014 (UTC)

Your article User:Kolindigo/jgp

Discussion involving transgender issues

You may want to be aware of and possibly join in: Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)/Archive 121#MOS:IDENTITY clarification. Skyerise (talk) 08:07, 5 June 2015 (UTC)

ArbCom elections are now open!

Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee Elections December 2015/MassMessage MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:10, 23 November 2015 (UTC)

Wiki Loves Pride 2016

As a participant of WikiProject LGBT studies, you are invited to participate in the third annual Wiki Loves Pride campaign, which runs through the month of June. The purpose of the campaign is to create and improve content related to LGBT culture and history. How can you help?

  1. Create or improve LGBT-related Wikipedia pages and showcase the results of your work here
  2. Document local LGBT culture and history by taking pictures at pride events and uploading your images to Wikimedia Commons
  3. Contribute to an LGBT-related task force at another Wikimedia project (Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons, Wikivoyage, etc.)

Looking for topics? The Tasks page, which you are welcome to update, offers some ideas and wanted articles.

This campaign is supported by the Wikimedia LGBT+ User Group, an officially recognized affiliate of the Wikimedia Foundation. The group's mission is to develop LGBT-related content across all Wikimedia projects, in all languages. Visit the affiliate's page at Meta-Wiki for more information, or follow Wikimedia LGBT+ on Facebook. Remember, Wiki Loves Pride is about creating and improving LGBT-related content at Wikimedia projects, and content should have a neutral point of view. One does not need to identify as LGBT or any other gender or sexual minority to participate. This campaign is about adding accurate, reliable information to Wikipedia, plain and simple, and all are welcome! If you have any questions, please leave a message on the campaign's talk page.

Thanks, and happy editing! ---Another Believer (Talk) 20:12, 30 May 2016 (UTC)

Invitation to the African Destubathon

Hi. You may be interested in participating in the African Destubathon which starts on October 15. Africa currently has over 37,000 stubs and badly needs a quality improvement editathon/contest to flesh out basic stubs. There are proposed substantial prizes to give to editors who do the most articles, and planned smaller prizes for doing to most destubs for each of the 53 African countries, so should be enjoyable! So it would be a good chance to win something for improving stubs on African sportspeople, including footballers, athletes, Olympians and Paralympians etc, particularly female ones, but also male. Even if contests aren't your thing we would be grateful if you could consider destubbing a few African articles during the drive to help the cause and help reduce the massive 37,000 + stub count, of which many are rated high importance (think Regions of countries etc). If you're interested in competing or just loosely contributing a few expanded articles on African Paralympians, Olympians and committees etc, please add your name to the Contestants/participants section. Diversity of work from a lot of people will make this that bit more special. Thanks. --MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 21:13, 6 October 2016 (UTC)

We're on Twitter!

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Follow the Wikimedia LGBT user group on Twitter at @wikilgbt for news, photos, and other topics of interest to LGBT Wikipedans and allies. Use #wikiLGBT to share any Wiki Loves Pride stuff that you would like to share (whether this month or any day of the year) or to alert folks to things that the LGBT Wikipedan community should know. RachelWex (talk)

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2010 Junior worlds listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect 2010 Junior worlds. Since you had some involvement with the 2010 Junior worlds redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. Iazyges Consermonor Opus meum 04:42, 4 January 2018 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Figure skating convenience templates

A tag has been placed on Category:Figure skating convenience templates requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the category has been empty for seven days or more and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Liz Read! Talk! 01:44, 23 July 2019 (UTC)

Queering Wikipedia 2021 User Group Working Days: May 14–16

The Wikimedia LGBTQ+ User Group is holding online working days in May. As a member of WikiProject LGBT studies, editing on LGBTQ+ issues or if you identify as part of the LGBTQ+ community, come help us set goals, develop our organisation and structures, consider how to respond to issues faced by Queer editors, and plan for the next 12 months.

We will be meeting online for 3 half-days, 14–16 May at 1400–1730 UTC. While our working language is English, we are looking to accommodate users who would prefer to participate in other languages, including translation facilities.

More information, and registration details, at QW2021.--Wikimedia LGBT+ User Group 02:49, 27 April 2021 (UTC)

User category proposed deletion

You may be interested in Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2021 August 21#Category:Wikipedians who know where their towel is. It is proposed to delete this category. SpinningSpark 16:30, 30 August 2021 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:FIL-Luge name

Template:FIL-Luge name has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. – Jonesey95 (talk) 19:06, 16 May 2022 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Romanian Figure Skating Championships templates

A tag has been placed on Category:Romanian Figure Skating Championships templates indicating that it is currently empty, and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion. If it remains empty for seven days or more, it may be deleted under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself. Liz Read! Talk! 01:41, 21 February 2023 (UTC)

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