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Hi Bagumba! I saw your !vote at Wikipedia:In_the_news/Candidates#Thai_Protests_for_Ongoing—Ongoing democracy struggles will always be more encyclopedic for me than the trite WP:MINIMUMDEATHS blurbs—and it definitely resonates. ITN overall seems to have locked itself into this very specific and peculiar set of standards. Do you have any thoughts on how it might be more broadly reformed? {{u|Sdkb}} ^talk 07:57, 20 November 2020 (UTC)

Sdkb: Looking at the discussion for its last removal, it seems to be based off rationales using incorrect information, which are contradicted. Any reform attempts are contingent on more like-minded editors becoming involved, or being more persuasive to existing ones. Sorry, I dont have anything concrete.—Bagumba (talk) 08:30, 20 November 2020 (UTC)

Sabbatino: Unfortunately, those IPs don't have active edits now, and the range is not narrow enough to be able to do a block.—Bagumba (talk

) 07:03, 23 November 2020 (UTC)

I put three reliable sources, idk what more you want. Like I said, ESPN, Adrian Wojnarowski, who is literally an NBA Insider, and NBA.com, you know, the league Adams plays for? 1Luca2 (talk) 17:12, 21 November 2020 (UTC)

1Luca2: A source that says "finalizing a trade" does not mean "traded".—Bagumba (talk) 00:10, 22 November 2020 (UTC)

It kind of does. 1Luca2 (talk) 00:26, 26 November 2020 (UTC)

1Luca2: "kind of does" ≠ "does". See Wikipedia:No original research. Cheers.—Bagumba (talk) 00:35, 26 November 2020 (UTC)

Fine, it does mean it. You are such a hater! When I am the main moderator of Wikipedia I am blocking you from my account! 1Luca2 (talk) 08:25, 28 November 2020 (UTC)

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Sabbatino: Based on past warnings, blocking for the unsourced edit on Template:Philadelphia 76ers roster. It's not clear how to verify that one.—Bagumba (talk

) 10:12, 2 December 2020 (UTC)

I would say it should say "conspiracy theories, which news sources unanimously report as false, allege fraud", with one or more citations after the word "sources". Marvinmarsupial (talk) 22:53, 2 December 2020 (UTC)

Marvinmarsupial: My response at the article talk page was here.—Bagumba (talk) 02:05, 3 December 2020 (UTC)

Bagumba: For the statement "the sun sets in the west each evening", if you were writing about a group that claimed otherwise, would you write "they falsely claim" or would you just write "they claim"? Marvinmarsupial (talk) 03:33, 3 December 2020 (UTC)

consensus, perhaps with evidence of why it is undue.—Bagumba (talk

) 05:38, 3 December 2020 (UTC)

Bagumba: I shouldn't need to establish consensus in order for wikipedia to cover the subject neutrally. Marvinmarsupial (talk) 06:33, 3 December 2020 (UTC)

Marvinmarsupial: Wikipedia is crowdsourced, and all decisions are by consensus here. If that doesn't suit you, there are other outlets, like your own blog, etc.—Bagumba (talk) 07:24, 3 December 2020 (UTC)

Bagumba: rather than consensus-building on each article, there are wikipedia-wide policies for editors to follow. it's not up to a few editors to decide what point of view to represent. they must represent a neutral point of view. Marvinmarsupial (talk) 08:11, 3 December 2020 (UTC)

Marvinmarsupial: Feel free to establish a new consensus that the article is not neutral. You can also refer to Wikipedia:Dispute resolution. Regards.—Bagumba (talk) 08:24, 3 December 2020 (UTC)

Hi Bagumba, I hoped I could please get your help on Deshon Taylor. It has had an IP (and now a user) appear intermittently to change his birth year incorrectly. I have left notes and edit summaries but they are insistent on the year from Taylor's Twitter bio. Many thanks and all the best. CalDoesIt (talk) 18:29, 4 December 2020 (UTC)

WP:DR. Regards.—Bagumba (talk

) 19:13, 4 December 2020 (UTC)

I appreciate the guidance. Thank you. CalDoesIt (talk) 19:20, 4 December 2020 (UTC)

This guy. Heights/weights/positions on rosters. Thanks. Rikster2 (talk) 23:10, 7 December 2020 (UTC)

Done.—Bagumba (talk) 00:45, 8 December 2020 (UTC)

An IP keeps inappropriately PRODing the article. Greene played in EuroLeague and the Olympics so he meets

Done.—Bagumba (talk) 02:06, 10 December 2020 (UTC)

Hi!

I am conducting an interview study about how Wikipedia editors collaborate in the English edition of Wikipedia. The project description is on the WMF meta wiki: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Characterizing_Collaboration_Models_in_the_EN,_FR_and_ES_Language_Editions_of_Wikipedia.

This research study is part of a larger project where we are trying to understand how editors collaborate in different language editions of Wikipedia. I was looking some article talk pages and came across the conversations that you had on the Lebron James article talk page. I am interested in learning more about those conversations and some other interactions you have had with editors.

Would you be willing to participate in a 1 hour interview about your experience? The interview will take place virtually over Skype, Hangout, Zoom or phone.

Our research team will make our best efforts to keep your participation confidential. Participation in our study is voluntary. If you are willing to participate in this interview, or if you have additional questions please email me. Or, if you are concerned about direct email you can contact me through Wikipedia’s mail feature.

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via Email: [email protected] or English Wikipedia: tbipat 2601:602:9280:5C20:753F:E39B:2138:C2E4 (talk) 23:37, 16 December 2020 (UTC)

On 20 December 2020, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Sarah Fuller (athlete), which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that shortly after winning a conference tournament championship with Vanderbilt's soccer team, Sarah Fuller became the first woman to play football in a Power Five conference game? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Sarah Fuller (athlete). You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Sarah Fuller (athlete)), and it may be added to the statistics page if it received over 400 views per hour. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

 — Amakuru (talk) 00:02, 20 December 2020 (UTC)

I have a feeling that

Sabbatino: Sorry for late response. Go ahead and file an SPI, though it would need evidence about specific editing style, more than just being a Suns fan. I havent looked into it.—Bagumba (talk

) 00:38, 23 December 2020 (UTC)

Hello, what is the correct format for NBA stats. I see we do number for points and text for other stats in some pages. Is this a standard? Like 18 points, one rebound, nine assists, and ten blocks, in 20 minutes? Nintendoswitchfan (talk) 08:47, 24 December 2020 (UTC)

MOS:NUMERAL i.e. 0–9 in words.—Bagumba (talk

) 08:49, 24 December 2020 (UTC)

Ok. Thank you very much. Nintendoswitchfan (talk) 08:51, 24 December 2020 (UTC)

Are NBA game records specific to Christmas Day notable enough as entries for players' Wikipedia pages? Nintendoswitchfan (talk) 11:40, 26 December 2020 (UTC)

Nintendoswitchfan: The better question is for you to explain why you think they are (or are not) notable, and provide an example or two.—Bagumba (talk) 12:47, 26 December 2020 (UTC)

Example, Duncan Robinson record first-half threes on a Christmas day game Nintendoswitchfan (talk) 13:23, 26 December 2020 (UTC)

Nintendoswitchfan: I personally wouldn't add it. But I wouldn't object to it either, as at least it's in a reliable source, e.g. AP, and not just a bloggy fan site or a stats db.—Bagumba (talk) 14:19, 26 December 2020 (UTC)

Got it. I feel like it's not notable enough either, but someone put it in his career records list earlier. Nintendoswitchfan (talk) 17:24, 26 December 2020 (UTC)

Hi Bagumba, can you protect the Blake Snell page? Natg 19 (talk) 04:42, 28 December 2020 (UTC)

Natg 19: Done.—Bagumba (talk) 04:50, 28 December 2020 (UTC)

On 30 December 2020, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Great American Bank, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Great American Bank, based in San Diego, was the first savings and loan association founded in Southern California? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Great American Bank. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Great American Bank), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (ie, 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

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Hey - I am auditing all historical NBA player articles (currently in the middle of the Ps) and noticed that is appears that basketball-reference shows up whether there is a "bbr" field or not - is that the case? I have been adding the field in my audits but can stop doing so if it is no longer necessary. Thanks. Rikster2 (talk) 21:51, 4 January 2021 (UTC)

I just added Wikidata support, similar to what had been done recently for the NBA profile. So if |bbr= is specified, it is used. If it's not, it uses the value in Wikidata, if it is available. It's up to editors if they want to explicitly add the BBR id on Wikipedia or not, kinda like some people add the "short description" here and not rely on Wikidata. If you have any objections, I can change or remove it. —Bagumba (talk) 01:04, 5 January 2021 (UTC)

No, just wanted to make sure I was updating these to the latest standard. I will probably just keep adding bbr. Rikster2 (talk) 01:07, 5 January 2021 (UTC)

Ok. I should have mentioned it at

WT:NBA, but was lulled into thinking it was similar to the NBA link change.—Bagumba (talk

) 01:15, 5 January 2021 (UTC)

Dear Bagumba Your sentence is still not reading quite right. Maybe you may be kind enough to check it out.Gladiator-Citizen (talk) 07:35, 14 January 2021 (UTC)

boldly edit it. I just happened to pass by there and have no great interest. Cheers. —Bagumba (talk

) 07:42, 14 January 2021 (UTC)

Hey Bagumba, can you tell me "How to know does photo have copyright"? BosnianBeast60 (talk) 08:59, 14 January 2021 (UTC)

@BosnianBeast60: You can refer to Wikipedia:Image use policy. The safe thing is to assume everything on the interenet is not free, unless you find an explicit statement that says otherwise. Some resources can be found at m:Free image resources.—Bagumba (talk) 09:53, 14 January 2021 (UTC)

Thanks, see ya BosnianBeast60 (talk) 10:53, 14 January 2021 (UTC)

On 15 January 2021, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Ty Jordan, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Utah Utes football player Ty Jordan died on Christmas Day, one day after being named the Pac-12 Conference newcomer of the year for 2020? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Ty Jordan. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Ty Jordan), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (ie, 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 12:01, 15 January 2021 (UTC)

Hey.

Per

Adam Gibson (basketball). I'll update the navboxes. If there are still links where the redirect can be avoided, I may or (likely) may not get around to updating them.—Bagumba (talk

) 09:52, 17 January 2021 (UTC)

this guy Rikster2 (talk) 18:17, 25 January 2021 (UTC)

2 weeks. Thanks.—Bagumba (talk) 01:02, 26 January 2021 (UTC)

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Hi Bagumba,

You answered my question regarding the updates for the East Asia Super League page. I'm assuming much of what I have below contains a little too much self promotion. But, I would appreciate you taking a look and making suggestions as what I can do on behalf of EASL to get the page updated. Thanks,

Ballerofficial (talk) 01:22, 2 February 2021 (UTC)

@

conflict of interest. For your convenience, I've left a similar overview on your account here as I previously left on your IP's talk page. Regards.—Bagumba (talk

) 04:59, 2 February 2021 (UTC)

@

WP:ELNO's not allowing a site that does not provide a unique resource beyond what the article would contain if it became a featured article.)—Bagumba (talk

) 02:31, 25 January 2021 (UTC)

Thank you, supposedly there's actually two of these and they're trying to merge. Best, GPL93 (talk) 14:18, 25 January 2021 (UTC)

The second TfD is now up at Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2021 February 2. Best, GPL93 (talk) 21:56, 2 February 2021 (UTC)

@GPL93: D'oh! Actually never even knew there was a first one, because that one above only linked to the talk page about the merge, which said nothing about a TfD. Oh well, it'll get there. Thanks.—Bagumba (talk) 01:42, 3 February 2021 (UTC)

Hola! Wanted to share some additional info per your question at

mysql> select * from december_views where referer =  "Main_Page" and type = 'link'  order by pageviews desc;
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| referer   | target                                                     | type | pageviews |
+-----------+------------------------------------------------------------+------+-----------+
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| Main_Page | COVID-19_pandemic_by_country_and_territory                 | link |    120652 |
| Main_Page | Great_conjunction                                          | link |    106300 |
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| Main_Page | 2020_Indian_farmers'_protest                               | link |     78387 |
| Main_Page | Encyclopedia                                               | link |     71174 |
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| Main_Page | COVID-19_vaccine                                           | link |     42007 |
| Main_Page | Coronavirus_disease_2019                                   | link |     35132 |
| Main_Page | EU–UK_Trade_and_Cooperation_Agreement                      | link |     34183 |
| Main_Page | Free_content                                               | link |     27974 |
| Main_Page | Knap_Hill                                                  | link |     20346 |
| Main_Page | George_Gosse                                               | link |     19712 |
| Main_Page | Immune_system                                              | link |     16425 |
| Main_Page | 2020_Aden_attacks                                          | link |     13183 |
| Main_Page | 2020_Petrinja_earthquake                                   | link |     12287 |
| Main_Page | Severe_acute_respiratory_syndrome_coronavirus_2            | link |     11643 |
| Main_Page | December_31                                                | link |     11593 |
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| Main_Page | European_Union                                             | link |     11051 |
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| Main_Page | Margaret_Thatcher                                          | link |      8575 |
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| Main_Page | Jupiter                                                    | link |      7225 |
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| Main_Page | Lorraine_Monk                                              | link |      5420 |
| Main_Page | Petrinja                                                   | link |      4155 |
| Main_Page | Wikimedia_Foundation                                       | link |      3718 |
| Main_Page | Manhattan_Project                                          | link |      3245 |
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| Main_Page | Aden_International_Airport                                 | link |      2927 |
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| Main_Page | January_1                                                  | link |      2062 |
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| Main_Page | Bessie_Smith                                               | link |       245 |
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| Main_Page | Ellis_Island                                               | link |       175 |
| Main_Page | Jerky                                                      | link |       172 |
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| Main_Page | 1892                                                       | link |        23 |
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| Main_Page | Pahang                                                     | link |        13 |
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| Main_Page | Bruges_speech                                              | link |        10 |
+-----------+------------------------------------------------------------+------+-----------+
94 rows in set (8.41 sec)

@Ktin: 94 seems too low. I suspect some clicks from the MP are somehow not being classified as "internal".—Bagumba (talk) 16:29, 3 February 2021 (UTC)

Bagumba, Agree on the first statement. If the second is true, we have pretty much no way of getting the right answers. i.e. if the referer page is not captured accurately. For now, I have been ignoring the type field (i.e. link vs other) which seems reasonable to do. Ktin (talk) 16:42, 3 February 2021 (UTC)

Any leads in those groups whom we can ask to check the sanctity of the .tsv files? Ktin (talk) 16:42, 3 February 2021 (UTC)

Ktin: Perhaps someone at Wikipedia:Village pump (technical) would have more details on type other?—Bagumba (talk) 17:01, 3 February 2021 (UTC)

But, fwiw -- the COVID pages views match the asterisk test that we setup on

WT:ITNC sometime back. So, that reasonably tells us that we are capturing the referer field correct. Ktin (talk

) 16:44, 3 February 2021 (UTC)

I wanted to let you know that I just tagged Andrew Langford for deletion, because the article doesn't clearly indicate why the subject is important enough to be included in an encyclopedia.

If you feel that the article shouldn't be deleted and want more time to work on it, you can contest this deletion, but don't remove the speedy deletion tag from the top.

You can leave a note on my talk page if you have questions. Thanks!

Message delivered via the Page Curation tool, on behalf of the reviewer.

JW 1961 Talk 22:10, 3 February 2021 (UTC)

Hi Bagumba, I know you didn't create this current version of the page, but were the creator of the orignal article which was re-directed then an IP created this "article" that showed up on page curation - sorry for the auto template from page curation JW 1961 Talk 22:13, 3 February 2021 (UTC)

Joseywales1961: Thanks for the background.—Bagumba (talk) 00:10, 4 February 2021 (UTC)

Pending trade. Rikster2 (talk) 01:42, 8 February 2021 (UTC)

Done.—Bagumba (talk) 02:04, 8 February 2021 (UTC)

On 9 February 2021, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Pedro Gomez (journalist), which you updated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. Stephen 01:03, 9 February 2021 (UTC)

On 13 February 2021, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Marty Schottenheimer, which you updated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. Spencer^T•C 02:43, 13 February 2021 (UTC)

FYI [2] [3] --Patrickpedia (talk) 09:02, 22 February 2021 (UTC)

@

breaking news based off of anonymous sources.—Bagumba (talk

) 09:07, 22 February 2021 (UTC)

On 24 February 2021, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Doug Wilkerson, which you nominated and updated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. TJMSmith (talk) 21:41, 24 February 2021 (UTC)

Could you take a look at Pink Saffron, who seems to have been caught in the autoblock you gave PeopleAreSuss? Normally, if the account had edited productively for a long time, I'd just have gone ahead and modified the block, but while this account hasn't done anything wrong it sure seems awful strange that almost two years after being created it picks this day to emerge from inactivity for a somewhat manic romp across Wikipedia, raining praise on other users, renaming themselves, and along the way coincidentally editing "sock puppet". They seem to have been able to edit other pages again, perhaps by changing their physical location. So maybe they don't to have the autoblock lifted. But something still seems a little off to me here. Daniel Case (talk) 05:34, 27 February 2021 (UTC)

WP:DUCK, not sure about CU. Regards.—Bagumba (talk

) 12:11, 27 February 2021 (UTC)

Hi, Im editing a Basketball player bio page and I need help with adding career history/previous teams played inside the info basketball biography template info box. The field is called 'years and teams'. I get an error message whenever trying to add information. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!Feed2wiki (talk) 17:39, 27 February 2021 (UTC)

Feed2wiki: Welcome to Wikipedia. I believe you are using the VisualEditor? I'm actually not familiar with it, as I edit using native wiki markup. You can try getting help at Wikipedia:Teahouse. Best.—Bagumba (talk) 17:51, 27 February 2021 (UTC)

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  ).

Arbitration

• By motion, the discretionary sanctions originally authorized under the GamerGate case are now authorized under a new Gender and sexuality case, with sanctions authorized for all edits about, and all pages related to, any gender-related dispute or controversy and associated people. Sanctions issued under GamerGate are now considered Gender and sexuality sanctions.
• The Kurds and Kurdistan case was closed, authorizing standard discretionary sanctions for the topics of Kurds and Kurdistan, broadly construed.

Miscellaneous

• Following the 2021 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: AmandaNP, Operator873, Stanglavine, Teles, and Wiki13.

On 1 March 2021, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Irv Cross, which you updated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. Spencer^T•C 19:14, 1 March 2021 (UTC)

Hey mate. This user might require a block or Andrew Bogut might need to be semi'd again. Thanks. DaHuzyBru (talk) 13:45, 4 March 2021 (UTC)

Someone else blocked the user already. I reinstated the pending changes for 2 years; the vandalism appears infrequent. Let me know if the situation changes.—Bagumba (talk) 15:14, 4 March 2021 (UTC)

There is a discussion ongoing regarding whether Dean Smith should to be moved to another page. Since you had some involvement with Talk:Dean Smith#Is this the primary topic?, you might want to participate in the move discussion, which is taking place here. Domeditrix (talk) 18:26, 5 March 2021 (UTC)

On 7 March 2021, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Robin Schreiber, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that after going viral, Robin Schreiber danced at the 2017 NBA All-Star Weekend with Stephen Curry, who later wore shoes featuring designs in her honor? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Robin Schreiber. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Robin Schreiber), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (ie, 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

 — Amakuru (talk) 12:01, 7 March 2021 (UTC)

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