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Hi Mduvekot, This is LadyBarbarella. I just posted a new article, and you sent me a helpful note. I know that I took directly from the sources, as I thought that a quote would be okay as long as it is cited. Is it not? Can we not use other people's words to aid in our edits? I thought writing it in my own words would not be neutral, and thus against wiki policy. I'd love more input on this! Christine — Preceding unsigned comment added by LadyBarbarella (talk • contribs) 02:23, 19 March 2017 (UTC)

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hello table neighbour :) Hollyjomaker (talk) 16:54, 19 March 2017 (UTC)

http://web.b.ebscohost.com.ocadu.idm.oclc.org/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?vid=1&sid=5e2e7777-98da-4e08-8399-1a1fd5f1cf8b%40sessionmgr101&hid=124 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nkle (talk • contribs) 18:17, 19 March 2017 (UTC)

Thank you so much for the welcome, Mduvekot! Helen Gardiner (talk) 18:25, 19 March 2017 (UTC)

This award is in recognition of an incredible store of Wikipedia meta-knowledge, an incredible willingness to share it, and the practical applications made of it in numerous contributions. Thank you!

- Seazzy (talk) 00:36, 20 March 2017 (UTC)

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

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in Berlin on March 31st
  • Upcoming: Datensummit in Berlin, April 29th. We're looking for Wikidata editors to help :)
  • Upcoming: Wikidata Workshop in Rennes, March 22nd
  • A successful Wikidatathon about women's history in Puri, India
  • Wikidata as information source to support the Dutch elections
  • Quora: Adding Locations via Wikidata
  • Quora: Identifying Topics about People
  • How to quickly generate word analogy datasets with Wikidata by Finn Arup Nielsen

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Deadline for submitting a presentation for Wikimania 2017 is March 30th: discuss about ideas or ask for help
  • SWAT4LS 2016 poster Linking Wikidata to the Semantic Web
  • Mix’n’match interface update

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: FFA ID, European Athletics ID, All-Athletics.com ID
  • Query examples:
    • Gallery of authors of scientific articles that have been published on this day of the year (source)
    • Scholarly articles that have Wikipedia articles about them (source)
    • False Vermeer works (source)
    • From Natalie Portman to Paul Erdös graph (source)

• Development
  • Fixing a bug on the save button (phab:T159244)
  • Fixing a bug with the link to the Query Service on an ember query (phab:T156013)
  • More work on Federation (phab:T157442, phab:T158169)
  • Fixing a bug on geoformats (phab:T158772)
  • Fixing a bug on the treemap view (phab:T160320) Thanks EdouardHue for the patch!
  • More groundwork on Lexemes (phab:T157791)
  • Show thumbnails in commons suggester (phab:T160319)
  • Fixing a bug on coordinate (phab:T153429)
  • Applying WikimediaUI color palette to Wikibase (phab:T151194)
  • Writing spec for technical data model for Wiktionary support (phab:T150785)
  • Working on providing API for constraint check (phab:T102757)

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  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention
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  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 16:28, 20 March 2017 (UTC)

Thank you so very much Mduvekot

I am thrilled to have your feedback. I too am an artist in Vancouver and, as you may have guessed completely new at all this. In great need of assistance and advice. Just heading to my studio and will have a look there at your suggested corrections.Will do my best to try and fix them but may need your assistance. Will try and get to this ASAP.

Thank you again and my very best regards, --Bulldoggirl (talk) 16:41, 20 March 2017 (UTC)Buldoggirl

Good to hear from you

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...Hi again Michiel, (Not even sure how to reply to you now. Im going to try this.)

Thanks I most certainly will be needing your ehlpe, Cheers and talk soon, Lyse (Bulldoggirl) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bulldoggirl (talk • contribs) 16:47, 20 March 2017 (UTC)

When you have a moment, would you mind having a look at June Clark and June Clark (artist) etc? I do not fully understand disambiguation and I also contributed to the June Clark (artist) article so am not neutral -- but I don't see why the one page gets to be a default and the others have descriptive qualifiers. Shouldn't June Clark be a central page that says "June Clark may refer to: " etc? Thanks for any light you can shed. - the artchivist (talk) 19:00, 20 March 2017 (UTC)

 Done

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Thank you! - the artchivist (talk) 19:39, 20 March 2017 (UTC)

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My pleasure on the VR article. It would be great to get it toned up - planning on reading the Lem book *out of personal interest*. -Seazzy (talk) 14:45, 21 March 2017 (UTC)

Hi Mr. Duvekot,

Thank you for your message. The article on 'Christopher Coritsidis' was submitted on behalf of our news & pr department - not Mr. Coritsidis nor has it been reviewed/edited by him.

Thank you for seeking to maintain the integrity of Wikipedia content.

Best,

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A simple revert will do. Just make sure to clarify in your edit summary that your edit was made in error. ℯxplicit 02:24, 22 March 2017 (UTC)

--Bulldoggirl (talk) 02:36, 22 March 2017 (UTC) Hello Michiel, Please accept my apologies for not writing earlier. I am quite busy and finding it difficult to find the time to make the corrections. In fact sadly I am at quite at a loss as to how to do so. I'm feeling rather irresponsible as I as well am a visual artist and would really like to make this entry solid.

I'd be happy if you could help to make this page not an "orphan".

Also find it difficult to find how to respond to you, took me forever again to find this page reply page...Sorry feeling old and tired :( In addition, living in Vancouver, three hours away.

If you can let me know how I could "un-orphan" this entry would very much appreciate it.

Best, --Bulldoggirl (talk) 02:36, 22 March 2017 (UTC)Lyse-BulldogGirl

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Addressed your concern; thank you for review and comments on Joseph Forer.

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

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2017-03-27.

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in Berlin, Friday, March 31st at 19:30 in Neukölln
  • Upcoming: Wikidata IRC office hour, April 5th, 16:00 UTC, on #wikimedia-office ^connect
  • A tool to estimate gender gap on Wikidata and Wikipedia (source)
  • (fr) Odonymie rennaise : que nous apprend Wikidata sur les noms des voies de Rennes ? (source)
  • Wikidata's excellent sample SPARQL queries by Bob DuCharme
  • 10 steps to integrate CIViCdb with other public data in Wikidata

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • RFC: Wikidata → OSM lookup table
  • Participate to the definition of the Wikimedia movement's strategy
  • The deadline for Wikimania talks submission has been extended to April 10th (check what we're planning around Wikidata)
  • Conceptual documentation for the Lexemes and examples (feel free to help translating)

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: FI WarSampo army unit ID, KMRB film rating, FI WarSampo person ID, film script, volcano observatory, BoF person ID, Bivouac.com pass ID, Elle.fr person ID, Evidence & Conclusion Ontology ID, Parks.it ID, YerelNET district ID, The Numbers movie ID, S2A3 Biographical Database ID, Mapa place ID, Tax-exempt heritage asset ID, TV Guide show ID, original film format, Launchpad.net project ID, INEGI municipality ID, Safsal coach ID, Safsal player ID, Star Wars Databank ID, autonomous system number, Bureau of Meteorology station ID, Flora of Israel plant ID, Dictionary of Sydney ID, IPv6 routing prefix, rate of fire, Art Renewal Center ID, AnimeCons.com ID, Telegram username, BNA author ID, danskefilm silent film ID, danskefilm person ID, danskefilm film ID, CiteSeerX ID, Christie's work ID, Artnet artist ID, has active ingredient, active ingredient in, negative allosteric modulator of, positive allosteric modulator of, antisense inhibitor of, inhibitor of, disrupting agent for, blocker of, antagonist of, agonist of, activator of, PeakFinder ID, It's Rugby ID, Medieval Libraries of Great Britain Book ID
  • Query examples:
    • Time zones that are more than 12 hours away from UTC (source)
    • Countries which have the same name as their capital in their official language (source)
    • Roman amphitheatres on Wikidata (source)
    • Sluices on canals in Bretagne (France) (source)
  • Newest database reports: film scripts
  • Showcase items: Wressle Castle (Q8037764)

• Development
  • Fixing a bug that prevented users to edit descriptions in some non-latin alphabets (phab:T161263)
  • Worked on Special:NewLexeme which will be used to create new Lexemes for supporting lexicographical data (phabricator:T157973)
  • Aligned some more colors with Wikimedia color palete (phabricator:T151194)
  • Added more autocompletion for the Wikidata Query Service (phabricator:T150950)
  • Started working on support for Forms of words in the UI for supporting lexicographical data (phabricator:T160520)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 14:39, 27 March 2017 (UTC)

Hi

If you're going to revert my edit without explanation or justification then at least remove the tag from the Afd, so I don't have to clean up your mess.

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Well, I am sorry for snapping. thank you.

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Thanks for reviewing Sudhan Education Conference, Mduvekot.

Unfortunately Mabalu has just gone over this page again and unreviewed it. Their note is:

Unreviewing so that if the creator removes the deletion tag again, it won't pass through as "reviewed"

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Mabalu (talk) 10:26, 30 March 2017 (UTC)

SORRY. I know these are really bloody annoying, but there's no way to uncontroversially unreview a page without spamming the reviewer's talk page. Mabalu (talk) 10:30, 30 March 2017 (UTC)

[[User:|Mabalu]] No worries. Thanks for the notification.

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The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Talk:Ernest Hemingway. Legobot (talk) 04:26, 31 March 2017 (UTC)

Hi Sir, I am writing on the deletion of my page "Cynthia Rosah B Hounihui." His page is for my assignment which we were requested to create an article on a Female Leader in our community. Women are not recognised as men in our society for their work thus the reason for us creating articles on women who have helped in community work one way or the other. I would be happy if you could consider my page and allow it to go live just for a week for our course coordinator to access it before deleting it. Thank you for your time and hope to hear from you soon. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Chaniell Meke (talk • contribs) 05:06, 31 March 2017 (UTC)

Chaniell Meke You've been assigned the hardest thing there is on Wikipedia; writing a biography of a living person in an area where systemic bias is an enormous problem. As far as I can tell, you have received no training or guidance. That is not fair to you. I'd love a word with your course coordinator. Please point them to this discussion, or ask them to get in touch with me. The problem, as you have probably noticed by now, is that is is incredibly difficult to establish the notability of women from your community when they receive little attention in the media in the first place. Sometimes athletes are notable, if they participate in international events representing their nation, as participants in the Olympic games for example. That automatically establishes notability, even if there is little coverage. But for social activists, no such exception exists. You must show that other people have written about your subject in reliable, independent sources. You are probably dependent upon the few media outlets that exist in the Solomon Islands. As you point out, they are not recognized as men are. As far as I can tell, only two women from the Solomon Islands who are not athletes are the subject of a Wikipedia article: Vika Lusibaea and Hilda Kari.

The article you wrote was not suitable for inclusion in the encyclopedia. This has been pointed out to you on more than one occasion, here, here, here and here. It has been deleted under

Wikipedia:Your_first_article as well as the guidance on notability and sources in the article wizard. Things like that tend to make other editors a bit grumpy, because you create extra work for them, but show no willingness to learn. I have found that if you ask for help, and you are listening to the advice that experienced editors give you, you can always find someone who is willing to help you. The teahouse

is a great start.

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

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in Grenoble (France), April 4th (more info)
  • Upcoming: Wikidata IRC office hour, April 5th, 16:00 UTC, on #wikimedia-office ^connect
  • Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in London (UK), April 8th (more info)
  • Bunhill Fields: Wikimedia, gamification and richer media content
  • Biocuration 2017
    • Talk: Repurpos.us: A fully open and expandable drug repurposing portal by Sebastian Burgstaller-Muehlbacher, PhD
    • Poster: Best practices for data provenance in Wikidata by Gregory S. Stupp et al.
    • Poster: Using Shape Expressions (ShEx) to model, validate and curate Wikidata by Andra Waagmeester et al.
  • Five years ago, the development of Wikidata started

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Attention: Editing will be disabled during parts of April 19 and May 3, to allow a server switch
  • New filters for the Recent Changes will be deployed on April 11. (more info)
  • Data donation: Songkick have donated a datafile with 155K of their Songkick artist ID (P3478). ~45K are already matched, and the rest are in Mix'n'Match, awaiting your kind attention.
  • Query Service: you can now create a template to explain what your query is doing
  • new data type for geographical shapes will be enabled on April 24th
  • Several CC0 databases are now federated with the Query Service endpoint

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: located in present-day administrative territorial entity, Human Phenotype Ontology ID, slope rating, Tab4u artist ID, Tab4u song ID, United States Public Law, Pinterest username, Mendeley person ID, RTC film rating, diaspora, Europeana Fashion Vocabulary ID, object has role, CueTracker player ID, Publons author ID, wears, JSTOR topic ID, Welsh Rugby Union player ID, United States Statutes at Large citation, VTJ-PRT building ID, Ethnologue language status, rules for classification, Bangla Movie Database ID, Flanders Arts Institute venue ID
  • Query examples:
    • Map of the megaliths of the World, coloured by type (showing some nice paterns, source)
    • French people without a gender (source)
    • Eldest members of noble families (source)
    • Map of places with population “zero” (0) (source)

• External Tools News
  • wikidata-cli
    • new command: wd summary
    • improved support for custom Wikibase instances
  • wikidata-edit:
    • new function: remove claim
    • improved support for custom Wikibase instances
  • wikidata-sdk:
    • new function: simplify.entity
    • major documentation restructuration
  • wikidata-filter:
    • new filter criteria: sitelinks. Example of a query that times out on the SPARQL endpoint but that is now possible with wikidata-filter: Get all entities with a Chinese and a French Wikipedia article, keeping only id, labels, and sitelinks matching those languages
  • Monumental: brand new app for displaying heritage data

• Development
  • A warm welcome to our new intern, Lucas Werkmeister! You may now him for his work on queries as WikidataFacts. He will work in the team for the next months.
  • Attending to Wikimedia Conference, talking with Wikidata and Wiktionary users
  • Improving performance on Special:Entities pages (phab:T161631)
  • Tracking the number of identifier properties on an item in page_props (phab:T114617)
  • More work on Senses (phab:T161523) and Forms (phab:T160524)
  • Improving the autocompletions of Query Service (phab:T150950)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 13:35, 3 April 2017 (UTC)

Hi Mduvekot,

I read your wiki message about my page Raenwal,saw the page Renwal,which is identical to what I had created.So I have put a Redirect on my page Raenwal which will redirect to Renwal.Plus I removed the content that I had put in my page. I think this will close this issue.

Thanks Bye Anuj — Preceding unsigned comment added by Anujs5586jaipur (talk • contribs) 06:18, 4 April 2017 (UTC)

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Thank you for the review on my first wiki page! As a newcomer, I appreciate the time you took to look at

I noticed that you deleted a Teahouse question. Why? Cullen³²⁸ Let's discuss it 01:48, 5 April 2017 (UTC)

Cullen that must have been an error. I certainly did not intend to do that. Very sorry. 01:51, 5 April 2017 (UTC)

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Thank you for posting the "Stats for April 4, 2017" item. I was surprised to see my name in the list. Frankly, most of that total came from similar articles about athletes that I could process faster than if the same number of articles had been about a variety of topics.

I must admit that it's a bit depressing to see that the number of unreviewed articles continues to grow. Your statistics for April 4 indicate that the number of new articles exceeded the number reviewed by about 50 percent. Since I began reviewing several weeks ago, the total at the bottom of the "New pages feed" window has increased from less than 15,000 to 18,187 (at the time I am writing this post).

Is there any hope of reversing the trend? Certainly, it's good to have new articles coming in, but I wonder whether some of the people who created some of those 18,000-and-growing articles will become discouraged and stop contributing. Eddie Blick (talk) 01:58, 5 April 2017 (UTC)

The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Talk:Fabergé egg. Legobot (talk) 04:26, 5 April 2017 (UTC)

Hi Mduvekot. Thanks so much for your comments on my article, Decibel Therapeutics. I'm pretty new to Wikipedia, and I'm currently learning about it in a class I'm taking in college. I'm really hoping you can provide some help for improving my page on Decibel Therapeutics, because it would be really cool to successfully create my own page. Decibel Therapeutics is a company I've read about in the news and although it's new, I think it's super noteworthy because the work it's doing is very innovative in the medical field. While I understand the edits that were made, I'm hoping you can provide more tips for me so that my article will survive in the main space. Because it's new, I've only been able to find some news-type articles online. Are those reputable sources? Thanks again. Marinamano (talk) 17:29, 5 April 2017 (UTC)

Hi

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) 17:59, 5 April 2017 (UTC)

Hi Marinamano. Please take a look at these articles:

• NeXT
• Mutual Broadcasting System
• Oliver Typewriter Company
• Film Booking Offices of America
• Baltimore Steam Packet Company
• Odwalla
• Delrina
• Icos
• Elderly Instruments
• Tahirih Justice Center
• London Necropolis Company
• Scene7
• Oriental Film
• Panavision
• Holden

These are

featured articles. To be perfectly honest, some of them probably don't meet our current standards anymore, but they are "used by editors as examples for writing other articles". Please take a look at those first, and let me know if you're OK with moving Decibel Therapeutics

to Draft.

A barnstar for you!

	The Teamwork Barnstar
	Thank you for your contributions, I appreciate it. I value your experience and time. Rheab16 (talk) 22:30, 6 April 2017 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Original Barnstar
	For creating the page-curation stats page. Winged Blades Godric 12:02, 9 April 2017 (UTC)

The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Talk:Too Much Too Soon (album). Legobot (talk) 04:27, 10 April 2017 (UTC)

Thanks for reviewing

Unfortunately Mabalu has just gone over this page again and unreviewed it. Their note is:

Apologies foe the automated-spam, just unreviewing this so that if it fails the CSD nom, it is forced to be reviewed again by another editor and its issues assessed again.

To reply, leave a comment on Mabalu's talk page.

Mabalu (talk) 10:31, 10 April 2017 (UTC)

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

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: Zolo
  • New request for comments: Proposed client side disambiguation page

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • The Initiative for Open Citations (I4OC) helps unlock millions of connections between scholarly research, on WMF blog, by Dario Taborelli
  • Le canal de Nantes à Brest sur Wikidata (fr) by Édouard Hue
  • Comprende!, a quiz interface on top of MediaWiki/WikiBase by Magnus Manske
  • Next Wikidata meetup in Berlin: April 26th, 18:00 in WMDE's office

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Deadline for submitting a talk, workshop or roundtable for Wikimania is today, April 10th, at midnight (UTC)!
  • There's now also a #100wikidays challenge on Wikidata, aptly named #100wikidatadays! It is a personal challenge in which a person very significantly improves (at least) one Wikidata items per day, for 100 days in a row. There was already a version of the challenge on various Wikipedias, on Commons and on Wikisource - now on Wikidata as well. Participate and make Wikidata shine!
  • New filters for Recent Changes: the beta deployment is rescheduled on May 9th
  • Grant application to extend the work of John Commings at UNESCO
  • New MapRoulette challenges: Add missing Wikidata ids to cities and capitals on OpenStreetMap
  • You can be a candidate for the Wikimedia Foundation's board of trustees
  • Log of the last IRC office hour with Wikidata development team
  • Help us translating this short message in your language

• Did you know?
• Newest properties: TV Guide person ID, Deutsche Synchronkartei film ID, DLV athlete ID
  • Query examples:
    • Notable integers
    • Longest streets of Moscow
    • Top 20 of heaviest humans in Wikidata (source)
    • Timeline of Paris marathons (source)
    • Countries not involved in any world war (source)
    • People whose place of birth is named after them (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: Figure skating
  • Newest external tools: Sistercities, an overview of sister cities of German cities on Wikipedia and Wikidata
  • Newest database reports: list of duos

• Development
  • Preparing for making more ArticlePlaceholder indexable by search engines on Welsh Wikipedia (phab:T162244)
  • Preparing the deployments of Cognate and geoshape data type
  • Lexemes: starting adding sections for forms and senses

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention
  • Suggested and open tasks!
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  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 12:26, 10 April 2017 (UTC)

Contrary to what people might think based on comments I occasionally make, I'm not really a fan of stats, preferring the solid evidence of empiracal experience. However, NPP is certainly an area where stats can quickly illustrate what is going wrong, and put an end to the unfounded conjecture. Thank you again for doing what you can. I also think it's time to start handing out some of those barnstars I made in preparation to my retirement from NPP. Some individuals may qualify for not one, but several of them already. Barnstars serve not just as an encouragement for the editor concerned, but also for other users who see them on talk pages. There are no rules as to who can hand out barnstars - they are not the exclusive domain of the new NPP coords. Perhaps you might wish to rise to the challenge of sifting through your stats and seeing who deserves some recognition for their work. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 01:31, 11 April 2017 (UTC)

Hi Michiel, Thank you for your interest and attention to the article. I tried to fix the issues, hopefully it is enough to reach "notability" of the information? I added links to independent official governmental sources (president of Poland, Polish Press Agency), national scientific (Polish Academy of Sciences), international scientific bodies (EAAE) and so on. Could you be so kind and check it and remove the tag(s) about non-notability if convenient? Have a good day,LukaszKatlewa (talk) 07:19, 13 April 2017 (UTC)

Thanks

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	Have no idea how to send normal message
	I left to Coreboot community the choice. After 100 ours no complains. So, Please, move the page (Draft: Coreboot/VBT back to normal (NO draft). Thank You, Zoran Zoran.stojsavljevic (talk) 11:05, 13 April 2017 (UTC)

Hello

Hi, but I can't edit a lot here because before the whole block ip of Angola had already been blocked here, and have added me status of insect of blockade of global IP, but I'm always with problem with the wikis that ip had already been angolan Blocked, here's times the blockade of my ip comes for yes, and then leave is only 2 H the blockade returns, I'm editor of Wikipedia in Portuguese I'm noncommissioned officer, but contribute 5550 editions, you can talk to an administrator for that Add me insect the blocking of IP? FranciscoMG (talk) 12:48, 13 April 2017 (UTC)

Hi FranciscoMG, I think you're contacting me because I left you a message about Phytocosmetics on your talk page. I don't understand what your problem is. You have posted a message on my talk page, so you can't be blocked. I am not an administrator and I cannot do anything about blocking. I did see that there is a request for help from an administrator on your talk page, so I hope that someone can help sort you out. I think it would be easier for you if we could find someone who spoke Portuguese. I have looked for someone who is both an administrator and who speaks Portuguese, but didn't see anyone. Perhaps @RadiX:, who you have mentioned on your talk page can help?

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I know exactly what the edit was. I understand why you did it but if you want to call the police, just call them don't announce it on Wikipedia. ~ GB fan a "frantic, furious ball of anger" 14:15, 13 April 2017 (UTC)

Thanks, I appreciate the feedback. If you feel that it would be appropriate to revdel my comment, feel free. And hand me that trout please.

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It doesn't meet any criteria for RevDel. You retracting the statement is as far as we need to go. ~ GB fan a "frantic, furious ball of anger" 16:14, 13 April 2017 (UTC)

Michael: Your redirect is an unintentional mistake. You forwarded a historical county in Moravia (which no longer exists) to the current name of one of the towns that was in that historical county. Town boundaries are not the same as county boundaries, and in this instance, their is no current county equivalent. Clearly this was unintentional. Please revert. Thanks. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=County_Friewaldau&action=history Watkec (talk) 21:57, 14 April 2017 (UTC)

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In my view "County" is the appropriate term because "district" is not a term used for the area of an administrative government entity (at least in American, British and Canadian English -- where "county" prevails). Note here: https://dict.leo.org/german-english/Landkreis?side=right These areas had governmental oversight by area. As far as I know, "Landkreis" was a term used in less populated areas, and "Kreis" was used in more populated areas. Technically "Kreis" literally means "Circle" - but in German it designated an administrative area of control. To most English readers "County" is preferred because that gives the same idea of an area of administration. In terms of the spelling, it should be the German spelling (which is what is historically referred to here) and thus should be "Freiwaldau." Hope that helps. Watkec (talk) 02:56, 15 April 2017 (UTC)

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GA? I ran with no GAs and and one or two closures and ended up with a top ten ever in RfA supports. Content creation is good and you do that. Your manner is great too. Requiring GA is overkill and the absence won't tank an RfA. As for the misstep, well, only admins can see that and they can say if it is forgivable. I think it is. Live and learn. I've made a few serious mistakes and that is normal. I wouldn't worry about it. The poll will tell you if you do need to worry. You are rock solid in many areas and the poll is there exactly to give you an idea of what the community thinks. It is nothing to fear. I enourage you to give it a go. Best, Anna Frodesiak (talk) 21:17, 15 April 2017 (UTC)

I'm sorry for not being clearer on the AfD. I live in London, and its late - I should already be in bed :) . I just don't understand how we can include anything from source number 3 given that it doesn't exist (as far as I can tell). I am going to rescind the AfD given your comments. I would like to point out that I am and was 'author blind' which was your main concern in the AfD. I didn't consider the author as it doesn't really matter usually, I (almost) always assume good faith and uphold the other pillars of Wikipedia (although, if you check my talk page, a certain someone might disagree with you) and so this was in no way me jumping to conclusions, as I would have CSD'd under

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Hi! Recently, the article

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Hi there. Just to let you know that this ping won't have triggered a notification for the user, as you didn't add it in the same edit as you signed your post. See

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

• Events/Press/Blogs
• Wikidata workshop in Paris, Friday, April 21st, about external tools
• "Wikidata pour la science" training day in Paris, April 24th
• Heritage in Flanders and Crowd-Sourced Projects - featuring Wikidata, Wikipedia and OpenStreetMap
• The ACS Spring disclosures of 2017 #1 - about news drug compounds entering Wikidata

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Attention: Editing will be disabled during parts of April 19 and May 3, to allow a server switch
• Wikidata description editing in the Wikipedia Android app to be deployed on several Wikipedias
• More federated endpoints have been added (DBpedia, INSEE, UK Office for National Statistics...)
• All UNESCO sites in Wikishootme
• You can now cheat Stadt Fluss Land game with a query ;)
• To be deployed on Monday, April 24th: new datatype for geoshapes and Cognate on Wiktionaries

Did you know?

• Newest properties: type of reference, suicide rate, Italian Navy Lighthouses and Beacons ID, MyDramaList name ID, iTunes app ID, Wormbase Gene ID, Environment Ontology ID, route diagram, cinenacional.com person ID, Quebec municipalities geographical code, LombardiaBeniCulturali artwork ID, Soundtrack Collector ID, Rat Genome Database ID, FlyBase Gene ID, cinenacional.com movie ID, LombardiaBeniCulturali toponym ID, LombardiaBeniCulturali institution ID, Irish Rugby Football Union ID, Open Library subject ID, DBC author ID
• Query examples:
  • The 500 most important paintings, according to Wikidata sitelinks (source)
  • The most important works in German by Wiki* articles (source)
  • Cities in France starting with the letter W (source)
• Newest external tools: Wikinity displays a map of items near any given place
• Newest database reports: list of anthology films

Development

• More work on support for Forms and Lexemes (phab:T160052)
• Adding monolingual language code UMU (phab:T160531)
• Fixing a bug about Commons gallery and category (phab:T161826)
• Improving header image gadget (phab:T160530)
• Provide a special page to list all available badges (phab:T114473)
• Show supported data formats in Special:EntityData (phab:T162870)
• Track the number of identifier properties on an item (phab:T114617)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

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Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 10:26, 18 April 2017 (UTC)

Hi Mduvekot! Thanks for your reply at the Teahouse. Can I count on you for any doubts that I may have while I expand the article? May try to use Template:under construction. Thanks Teranair (talk) 15:53, 18 April 2017 (UTC) Hello

Hi Mduvekot. Can I check that you are using four tildes to insert your signature to discussion page posts, rather than signing manually? The reason I ask is that your signature here does not meet the requirements of

Hi Cordless Larry. When I answered that question at the Teahouse, I used the Join this discussion link/pop-up, which doesn't offer the same insert signature function that the wikitext editor does. It looks like I may have accidentally added a 5-tilde signature. As far as I can tell my other posts at the Teahouse doe have a proper signature. Does that sound plausible? Mduvekot 11:34, 19 April 2017 (UTC)

Five tildes would have added a timestamp without your name. How did you sign your reply to me here, because that's missing a link too? Cordless Larry (talk) 14:03, 19 April 2017 (UTC)

Go to Special:Preferences. Make sure the checkbox next to "Treat the above as wiki markup. " under the signature is not checked. It looks like that box is checked and you just have "Mduvekot" in the signature box, no wikimarkup. ~ GB fan a "frantic, furious ball of anger" 14:37, 19 April 2017 (UTC)

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It now works. ~ GB fan a "frantic, furious ball of anger" 14:46, 19 April 2017 (UTC)

Yep, all good now. I was going to suggest that, but it seemed to have been working recently so thought it could be something else. Cordless Larry (talk) 14:51, 19 April 2017 (UTC)

The

Hi Mduvekot, thank you very much for your comments on Maharram Gasimli. You are very active on wikipedia, wow! I'm wondering if there is another way we could categorize this page. He's more than an academic-- he's also a TV show host and currently holds the chairman position of the Ashugs' Union (a big deal in this country)-- is there another category that would be a better fit for those things? There are also a few more academic references or his works in Azerbaijani, but not in English. I will try to add some references. Thanks for your help! (Buyerlerdeqalardim (talk) 18:05, 22 April 2017 (UTC))

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

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • The Wikidata data model and your SPARQL queries by Bob DuCharme
  • Wikidata meetup in Berlin, Wednesday, April 26th in WMDE's office
  • Datensummit by OKFN, April 29th, in Berlin

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Editing will be disabled during parts of May 3rd, to allow a server switch
  • Deployed on Monday, April 24th: new datatype for geoshapes and Cognate on Wiktionaries

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: PictoRight ID-Droit de suite, observing time available, MetaboLights Compound ID, Swiss Federal Archives ID, Boijmans artist ID, KVAB member ID, number of perpetrators, History of Modern Biomedicine ID, Tilastopaja male athlete ID, Red Bull athlete ID, Tilastopaja female athlete ID, National Track & Field Hall of Fame athlete ID, Caverphone, Cologne phonetics, Soundex, HappyCow restaurant ID, category for alumni of educational institution, Justia Patents company ID, Justia Patents inventor ID, daily patronage, patronage, tributary orientation, ZFIN gene ID, IAFD female-born performer ID, MyDramaList title ID, Israel Chess Federation player ID, LAWA waterbody ID
  • Query examples:
    • Place of birth of the candidates to French presidency since 1958 (source)
    • Oldest given names on Wikidata (source)
    • Cocktails and their ingredients (source)
    • Cities in UK named after a patron saint (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: Wikiproject Terrorism
  • New template: d:Template:Film festivals

• Development
  • Changing Special:NewProperty to not have a datatype selected by default (phab:T138295)
  • Restoration of deleted items broken on Wikidata (phab:T163144)
  • Making notifications when page is being connected to Wikidata ready to deploy (phab:T110604)
  • Writing basic documentation for WikibaseMediaInfo extension (phab:T159710)
  • Hiding header image gadget when sitelinks are floated below the statement section (phab:T160530)
  • Making the "add" button display the "add Form" form (phab:T162342)
  • Getting the datatype to link to tabular data sets on Commons ready to deploy (phab:T160048)
  • Showing supported data formats in Special:EntityData (phab:T162870)
  • Setting meta name="description" on article placeholders (phab:T157466)

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• Monthly Tasks
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  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 13:14, 24 April 2017 (UTC)

Hello, you recently commented on Ciara Taylor's page, which I am working on. It is currently nominated to be deleted - and I would like to clear up that deletion, because I think this source is really crucial. I'm unsure what to do going forward, as I am new to Wikipedia. I understand that there are limited sources on her - but that is exactly the issue I am trying to combat. She is made invisible on main stream media and information, which is a problematic issue. I am looking to give her the recognition that she deserves, but is not given. Please let me know what I should do.

Mwettick (talk) 00:27, 27 April 2017 (UTC)

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Thank you for getting back to me. This is very helpful! I will work on sources that connect her to dream defenders, and I will work on finding more sources over all. Thank you, all the best, Mwettick (talk) 01:48, 27 April 2017 (UTC)

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

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Past: FOSSnorth (Gothenburg), where Lydia gave a keynote about Wikidata
  • Past: Wikidata meetup in Berlin
  • Past: Datensummit in Berlin, organized by OKFN, where we introduced Wikidata and the query service
  • Combining Forces with the Wikipedia Universe - by Songkick, about their data donation
  • Introducing Wikimedian in Residence, Mr Andy Mabbett - by The History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Attention: Editing will be disabled for an hour on May 3rd, to allow a server switch
  • New filters for the Recent Changes will be deployed on May 9th. (more info)
  • new data type for tabular data to be deployed on May 15th
  • Try our new script that displays constraint violations on the item pages
  • Get involved in the movement strategy for Wikidata
  • Query the Mediawiki API with the Query Service? Give us your feedbacks
  • Documentation on using OpenRefine to match from a data set you have to items in Wikidata

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Canadian Coastguard Lighthouse ID, contributed to published work, Répertoire national des associations identifier, IPA number order, UNESCO Thesaurus ID, Athletics Australia athlete ID, GuideStar Israel organization ID, MobyGames developer ID, newspaper format, STW Thesaurus for Economics ID, Bollywood Hungama ID, last words, Reprezentacija ID, LoJ peak ID, Ishim ID, GINCO ID, VIVC grape variety ID, column, had as last meal, ADAGP artist ID, CONICET person ID, Medium username
  • Query examples:
    • 15415 people who died in 2016
    • Maps of statues of Jeanne d'Arc on a horse (source)
    • Families who’ve had the same occupation for five generations (source)
    • Couples of capitals more than 19,000 km away from each other (source)
    • A ten-persons “surname = given name” chain on Wikidata (source)
  • Newest database reports: list of newspapers by newspaper format

• Development
  • Working on Lexeme support - specifically grammatical features of Forms of a Lexeme and statements on Forms
  • Finishing touches on a new notification type for Echo. This will notify the creator of an article when it has been connected to an item on Wikidata.
  • The new d:Special:AvailableBadges list all badges that can be used for sitelinks.
  • Discussed implementation plan for Multi Content Revisions which are a building block for structured data on Commons (phabricator:T107595)
  • Worked on feedback for the constraints API and user script
  • Worked on database and access improvements to take load off a much-used database table

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 14:09, 2 May 2017 (UTC)

The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Talk:Yesterday and Today. Legobot (talk) 04:26, 3 May 2017 (UTC)

for reviewing my article on New England Regional Art Museum and for your appreciation. I intend to write a couple more, on art patrons Howard Hinton and Chandler Coventry.