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Given name in Wikidata

Hi, Tagishsimon. The Romans did not have a given name but praenomen. Read the documentation before making massive changes to Wikidata. Thank you. --Romulanus (talk) 10:32, 17 December 2017 (UTC)

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Der zürnenden Diana

In Cathinka Buchwieser, we need to translate the caption and the title of the song, which is "Der zürnenden Diana", which means "To the ... Diana". Afaik, the old-fashioned "zürnen" is much more serious than "quarrel". I find "get angry", and also "rage against". "Zorn", from which it is derived, comes as anger, wrath, rage, fury ... - no quarrel. Perhaps "raging" comes closest, as "zürnen" is derived from a verb. "To the raging Diana"? - This has "To Diana in her wrath". - this doesn't translate the title, but describes her as a force of destruction. - All of which still doesn't cover the caption. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:35, 28 March 2018 (UTC)

I'm not sure, at this distance, Gerda Arendt, where I picked up "quarrelsome" from. Thought it was the image's commons descripton, but no. I'm happy that the caption be improved and profess no competence whatsoever in the questions you're raising. That said, can I throw some questions back at you...

• Based on the commons file name, and the existing caption, are we not looking at an image celebrating Schubert's treatment of Der Fischer (Goethe) and if so, is not the right-most person the mermaid, and is she not trying to pull the fisher-person into the water? If so, the caption might be altered to allude to this?
• If CB is the middle of the three people, the caption should say "Centre:" rather than "Left:" ... Schubert is on the left
• If she is Diana, then yes, wrathful probably much better than quarrelsome.

hth --Tagishsimon (talk) 14:39, 28 March 2018 (UTC)

I confess that I'd love to learn more on that painting, which is from a tryptich, to make things worse. I agree with the mermaid as the right person, but don't think she needs to be mentioned on Buchwieser's article. Fischer seems to be the title of the right panel of three, - I wouldn't know where to find the others. The bow in "Diana's" hands points at the first line of the "zürnenden" poem, "Ja, spanne nur den Bogen, mich zu tödten" . Seems more than one scene on that panel, and here's the left. Even if we agree that Diana is a reference to Buchwieser, it doesn't say she posed nude for it, or does it somewhere? I doubt it. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:09, 28 March 2018 (UTC)

So the right panel is a mash-up of CD as Diana replacing the fisherman in Der Fischer, seems to be the interim conclusion? Agree we do not need to mention the mermaid, but we should mention Der Fischer & Goethe? From where comes the knowledge that the centre person is CB ... I guess I should ask, though I take it on trust. --Tagishsimon (talk) 15:18, 28 March 2018 (UTC)

Can't follow ;) - I see poor Schubert, in the centre, - killed by Diana and torn to the water by the nymph, - between two dangerous women. I guess I'll word the DYK without the nude. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:23, 28 March 2018 (UTC)

I see. I'd read it completely differently, and wrongly. I had Schubert on the pedestal, but that's our CB as Diana. I had CB as the person in the middle, but that's Schubert. "CB as Diana adopts a pose, indifferent to Schubert being dragged to his death in a rendering of Goethe's Der Fischer. Perhaps she didn't like his music after all.". There. Fixed it for you. --Tagishsimon (talk) 16:40, 28 March 2018 (UTC)

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I'm trying to take a Wikibreak, due to illness in the family. However, I have noticed that 86.183.83.1 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) is making wholesale changes to cats: on War Memorial pages without reference or explanation. I've only had time to revert the Portland Cenotaph page, but thought you should be aware. Regards, David J Johnson (talk) 11:40, 13 April 2018 (UTC)

Thank David. Sorry about the illness :(

83.1 in the example you provide is moving the article from an 'in the UK' category to an 'in England' category ... there is such a category and it has 130ish entries ... is that a problem? --Tagishsimon (talk) 14:37, 13 April 2018 (UTC)

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Willing to help

I’m willing to help with the Wikidata task you started at Misplaced Pages talk:WikiProject Women in Red#Inconsistency between redlists. I have a tech-ish background, and I learn fast, but I need some help learning how to edit the code. Would you be willing to teach me enough to get started on this? NotARabbit (talk) 21:07, 9 May 2018 (UTC)

Ahah! Investigating your diff, I can see that the edit you made was not on Wikidata, but on the project list page. That should be easy enough to replicate; I’ll start at the other end of the alphabet for occupations. Please do check in on a couple of my edits and make sure I’m doing them right, though. NotARabbit (talk) 21:22, 9 May 2018 (UTC)

(ec) That would be great, NotARabbit, thank you. It's fairly easy: pick a redlist, edit it, check if it has the wrong statements in it, and if so, delete the statements and insert the right statement ... this diff shows it fairly well.

We remove ?sitelink schema:about ?item . (but only where it is on its own. It if is in the form OPTIONAL { ?sitelink schema:about ?item . } we leave it alone because it is being used to count sitelinks,

We remove FILTER NOT EXISTS { ?wfr schema:about ?item . ?wfr schema:inLanguage "en" } (and note that the variable name may be different - not ?wfr but ?wen or ?somethingelse ... doesn't matter).

we insert < FILTER NOT EXISTS { ?wen schema:about ?item; schema:isPartOf <https://en.wikipedia.org/> . }

save, then hit the "Automatically update the list now " link ... Listeria will do its stuff.

If it doesn't work (i.e. the SPARQL is incorrect), there'll probably be no change in the page; or else the page will have zero rows. You can revert the edit.

I normally check the history to see that listeria has written a new page, which has more bytes in it, so, this sort of thing

ping me as you need. I will check your edits (though I have to attack some plaster with steam and menaces ... DIY time :( --Tagishsimon (talk) 21:28, 9 May 2018 (UTC) --Tagishsimon (talk) 21:26, 9 May 2018 (UTC)

Whoops, I pinged you on the project page instead of here. Sorry to scatter this! Anyway, I’ve only made two edits so far, and both of them increased the page by a whole lot: and . Both had that SERVICE command that I mentioned on the project page, which I didn’t touch.

”Menaces”?! Are you threatening your walls? :-D In about 45 minutes, I’ll be starting my own DIY job—trying to clean out my patio. Good luck on whatever you’re doing, and thanks for your help! NotARabbit (talk) 22:18, 9 May 2018 (UTC)

Okay, I’m stopping now, because when I ran the bot after editing on the journalists list, the list decreased by 484,179 bytes. I think that was because there was a typo in the original code (?wwiki instead of ?wiki). Which brings me to a serious conundrum: is okay to interchange ?wiki, ?wfr, and ?wer? I was copying the text of your edit on mathematicians, and now realize that I’ve been replacing everything willy-nilly as I go. I don’t want to compound the error, if it is an error, so I’ll go do my chores now. Back later. NotARabbit (talk) 22:48, 9 May 2018 (UTC)

@NotARabbit: Checking ... footballers=good. Poets - you left the ?sitelink schema:about ?item . in ... needs to be removed (I've done). Playrights - ditto, needed to remove ?sitelink schema:about ?item . (done). Novelists - ditto - done. Journalists - yes, you're right, the SPARQL as you found it was wrong. You were correct to make both variable names the same ... doesn't matter what the name is, does matter that it is the same. It's saying "there's a value which is a sitelink, and the same value is a member of en.wiki." If you use different variables names, then it reads 'there is a value which is a site link, and there is a different value which is part of en.wiki.'. So there are two errors we're trying to correct ... footballers you corrected both. The others you corrected one out of the two, which is why the row lengths increased; but I fixed the other, which is why they increased again. And you fixed the Journalists error just for the hell of it. Journalists dropped by a large amount because it has been broken since October 2017, and in that time has had the limit lowered from 5000 to 2000. So. All good; thanks for doing those, and I hope SPARQL is becoming a little clearer. It's great stuff.

In my 1880's Victorian flat, a previous occupant did the equivalent of this, but using some sort of plaster over intricately detailed ceiling mouldings. What were roses, leaves, stems, etc, became blobs. I've done a couple of metres. I think I have about 30 metres to go. Painstaking & filthy ... blast with steam, peel away the paint layer, get the plaster wet, poke with plastic things, and repeat. What's emering is gorgeous. I hope your patio is now a delight :) --Tagishsimon (talk) 23:18, 9 May 2018 (UTC)

Oh, those are variables! Now it makes sense that they’re different! I’m sorry about missing the ?sitelink schema:about ?item ., and thank you for cleaning those up.

Your project sounds grueling but immensely rewarding. It reminds me of a time when I was little and my dad bought us an old upright piano. The previous owners had painted it, thickly and badly. He spent months stripping and refinishing it; it turned out to be beautiful rosewood underneath. Unfortunately, my patio will never be anything other than utilitarian, but thank you for your good wishes. I’ll get back to editing now. NotARabbit (talk) 01:58, 10 May 2018 (UTC)

When you have a chance, could you take a look at the list of scientists? I’m afraid I missed a bracket or something. (I reverted myself.) NotARabbit (talk) 02:55, 10 May 2018 (UTC)

Turns out that the list of feminists has been broken for a while. I finally got it to run after 3 tries, and it went from 3 entries (none of whom were necessarily feminists, and one that already has an article on en.wiki) to 372! You might want to check to see that the rest of the code is all right. NotARabbit (talk) 04:59, 10 May 2018 (UTC)

Same for cartoonists. That one hasn’t run for more than a year. NotARabbit (talk) 07:24, 10 May 2018 (UTC)

• The two of you are doing a great job here. I hope you can keep it up and eliminate all the errors. Would it be useful to draw up guidelines for WIR showing how to compile a new red list based for example on an occupation (with just one query) and another based on an occupation comprising two or more variants (i.e. several profession queries)? This would allow other editors to add new lists as needed. In addition (or alternatively), you could provide us with examples of what you consider to be good examples of red link lists of these two types.--Ipigott (talk) 09:03, 10 May 2018 (UTC)

@NotARabbit: Afternoon. Good job on the Feminists; very satisfying to see broken redlists discovered and fixed. I've had a look at the three above and tweaked where necessary. Scientists, if I remember, had a filter written as FILTER(NOT EXISTS {some stuff})} where normally we expect FILTER NOT EXISTS {some stuff} ... i.e. it used parenthesis, and also included the } which terminates the query rather than having it on the line below. I'll join you later in fixing some more. And yes, there was an Abigail's Party period in the UK where mouldings, fireplaces & wood panel doors were covered up; tiling removed or painted over, and woodwork - your piano - painted in jaunty colours. Unimaginable now, but I guess it made sense then. (Just noticed - good grief, you've finished By Occupation. I feel ashamed of my sloth ... well done; very good work.) --Tagishsimon (talk) 13:12, 10 May 2018 (UTC)

Nationality - the queries there seem to be missing a ?item wdt:P31 wd:Q5 ... i.e. they're not checking the item is a human, but assuming that a female with an occupation is a human. I've not corrected this in the By Nationality - A; might go back and do so later. The most harm the omission will do, is to include some fictional characters in the lists ... and very few of them. Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by nationality/Afghanistan varies from the others - it's looking at several different properties in an item, for country=Afghanistan .. such as 'Country for Sport'. I need some time to convince myself of its approach before I apply it more widely; and right now I've run out of time. this diff shows what I did for Afghanistan ... mainly fixed the normal error; made it neater by inserting line breaks, and added in the P31 doodab. Have fun. --Tagishsimon (talk) 13:43, 10 May 2018 (UTC)

@Ipigott: I'll write a wee guide and do some commenting of model queries and ping you when that's ready. I kinda defected to wikidata a year or so ago, and have been geeking over SPARQL ever since, although I remain a novice. Talk to me about long lists ... do we split them, e.g. long_list A-M, long_list N-Z? Do we want 15 or so redlist pages for actresses, of whom there are 39k? And if so, split by what? First letter of the name? Time period? Country? What are your thoughts? --Tagishsimon (talk) 13:12, 10 May 2018 (UTC)

I'm not too keen on further splits. The actresses are a special case and attract huge Misplaced Pages coverage with or without red lists. Those interested in working specifically on actresses, can find useful listings by simply using the appropriate nationality-based lists. Same applies to models. So I would just leave things as they are.--Ipigott (talk) 13:20, 10 May 2018 (UTC)

That list of occupations

My SPARQL skills are still extremely rudimentary; I can “read” much better than I can “write” in the language. But I keep lurching along.

Your WQS report is dismaying! Not for the numbers in various occupations, but for the list of occupations themselves. There are 39,911 Q33999 (actor), but that number is incomplete unless you include Q15290732 (Actress), of which there are 5. There are acrobatic gymnasts and acrobatic gymnastics, archaeologists and archaeologists of the Roman provinces, acting and acting coaches, action films and activism, accompaniments and accompanists, agricultural scientists, agriculture, and agronomists. And that’s just dipping into the A’s.

It makes me want to dive in and start merging and correcting all that mess. I guess I shouldn’t be surprised that Wikidata is just as allovertheplace as all the other projects! I think I was misled by the work “structured” in “structured data” — I thought that meant it would be orderly. Instead, it’s just as rambunctious and disordered as other human endeavors!

I’ll stop ranting on your talk page now. NotARabbit (talk) 02:40, 14 May 2018 (UTC)

@NotARabbit: It is a bit messy around the edges, yes. All the mistakes you could hope to see made, made. But oftimes when you dive into the detail it comes down to language issues and bad labelling ... I looked at a couple of forester occupations, where it looks like one is your average tree-chopper, and the other a more professional role - German, I think - which we might term an aborioculturalist. As to various degrees of archeologists ... it may be that (should be) that we can have families of occupations, where one - archaeologists of the Roman provinces - are a subclass of another - archaeologists.

All of that is not to say that it's not a great big - but glorious - mess. Dig in :) --Tagishsimon (talk) 02:55, 14 May 2018 (UTC)

FILTER NOT EXIST etc. may not be necessary

Hi! I discovered that {{Wikidata list}} has a lovely little built-in parameter that we can take advantage of for our redlists: links. If you set it to links=red_only, it removes “entries for which there exists a local article”. Very handy, and it works. Simplifies the SPARQL query. Cheers! NotARabbit (talk) 23:31, 20 May 2018 (UTC)

@NotARabbit: Good spot, NotARabbit. I'm guessing Listeria takes our query, and makes it part of a nested query in which Listeria does things like make the results distinct; gets labels; and with your new parameter, does the FILTER NOT EXISTS trick. I'm probably not going to rush to implement it, though, mainly for the reasons that there are advantages in being able to move the list query into WDS to play with it there; and advantages for anyone who reads the code but is unaware (like me up to 2 mins ago) that the template will do the removal trick. We should give the autolist parameter a spin sometime, see what it does. In the lists I did today (and thank you for your kind words) I'll direct your attention to the Rest of world list, wherein a series of MINUS {?item wdt:P27 wd:Q183 .} statements remove items which appear in the other country lists. There is a task to be done of looking through the Rest of World lists for country values that could be added to a country list (and deducted from the Rest of World with an additional MINUS statement). And in the Writers - Russia list we see the handling for multiple countries - another VALUES statement. --Tagishsimon (talk) 00:03, 21 May 2018 (UTC)

I like the MINUS statements, especially where you used to stand in for an object of “any value”. I’ve been using it to find just how many geologists we’ve been missing because no one specified their gender. (Most of them are difficult to figure out unless you know their native language, but I’ve found a few Georges, Borises, and Neldas.) And while adding some explanatory comments to the list of scientists, I realized that NO earth scientists were included (humph!), so there’s not much overlap with the list I made. :-) NotARabbit (talk) 04:43, 21 May 2018 (UTC)

@NotARabbit: Yup, I think you've wrung out as many females as are identifiable by eye in that list. A few tempting but possible false positives left. Do you fancy looking again at the occupations you've excluded ... some look earth sciency to me, but I know nothing of that discipline: I bunked out of geography classes in school and took metalwork instead. Handy with a lathe or molten aluminium; less useful with a rock hammer. And there might be others that could be folded into the geologists list? We could do with an accessible index of occupations mapped to redlists ... I might have a play with that later. --Tagishsimon (talk) 12:27, 21 May 2018 (UTC)

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Just when I thought I’d gotten that glitch...

...you found it propagating in another spot! Thanks for the fix. NotARabbit (talk) 05:06, 30 May 2018 (UTC)

Wikidata lists on librarians and curators

I think Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by occupation/Librarians and Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by occupation/Curators may benefit from your helping hand.--Ipigott (talk) 07:26, 30 May 2018 (UTC)

Actresses, painters, politicians, writers

I appreciate all the work you have been doing on the Wikidata lists and the templates but I've just been trying to access Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by occupation/Actresses from the Redlist index and found it was no longer there, having been replaced by Misplaced Pages:WikiProject_Women_in_Red/Redlist_index#actresses which points to lists by country. I see the same process has been implemented for painters, politicians and writers. I think it is rather unfortunate that the main lists have disappeared as I frequently make use of them to search, for instance, for actresses who died many years ago (wherever they came from) or for those who were both actresses and singers, etc., etc. I know you have been concerned that these general lists have not been able to display all the potential names but those already listed can be very useful when we are searching for pertinent articles which comply with specific criteria. Would it not be possible to include the longer lists before each item (actresses, painters, politicians, writers) on the "Misplaced Pages:WikiProject_Women_in_Red/Redlist_index#actresses" listing, possibly with a word of explanation? Rather than simply being bold and reinserting them myself, it would be useful to have reactions from SusunW and Megalibrarygirl.--Ipigott (talk) 10:58, 30 May 2018 (UTC)

I am just grateful to have lists. For me it makes no difference how many there are, or how they are sorted, because I always sort the list by death date, try to find a dearly departed with sources and if not then look at the BLPs. If I don't find one there, that floats my boat, I look for another list. SusunW (talk) 14:02, 30 May 2018 (UTC)

@Ipigott: If you are finding the lists useful, odds are you aren't alone and it would be good to have more lists like you specify available. Megalibrarygirl (talk) 17:20, 30 May 2018 (UTC)

@SusunW and Megalibrarygirl:: Thanks for these comments. I've tried to include them as discreetly as possible for those of us who find them useful. I also see that following my earlier suggestion, Headbomb has gone ahead and created the following categores: Category:Women in Red redlink lists (by dictionary), Category:Women in Red redlink lists (by nationality), Category:Women in Red redlink lists (by occupation) and Category:Women in Red redlink lists (by time period). Not only do these categories provide an alternative method of finding pertinent lists, they help to ensure that any which happen to be missing from other listings can be identified through their categories. I see that appropriate headers, etc., have also been added, even to the most recent ones. Great work, Headbomb!--Ipigott (talk) 06:22, 31 May 2018 (UTC)

a brownie for you

Back from holiday in the US and wanted to thank you for your contributions to the Women's Classical Committee discussion page. So, here's a virtual brownie from my hols.

Claire 75 (talk) 11:00, 6 June 2018 (UTC)

@Claire 75: thank you. Ping me if you want anything vaguely technical doing with with any of the redlist, the talk page banner, the alerts page or the quality assessment stuff. Hope your time across the pond was excellent. --Tagishsimon (talk) 18:30, 6 June 2018 (UTC)

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New Page Patrol?

Hi Tagishsimon,

I've recently been looking for editors to invite to join New Page Patrol, and from your editing history, I think you would be a good candidate. Reviewing/patrolling a page doesn't take much time but it requires a good understanding of Misplaced Pages policies and guidelines; we could use some additional help from an experienced user like yourself.

Would you please consider becoming a New Page Reviewer? (After gaining the flag, patrolling is not mandatory. One can do it at their convenience). But kindly read the tutorial before making your decision. If you choose to apply, you can drop an application over at WP:PERM/NPR.

Cheers, and hope to see you around, — Insertcleverphrasehere 21:20, 23 June 2018 (UTC)

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Carol Howe

Hi Tagishmon. It looks like you accepted Carol Howe via AfC, but you didn't create the corresponding article talk page. I'm not exactly sure which template AfC reviewers use when they accept drafts, so I was wondering if you could add that to the talk page. Thanks in advance. -- Marchjuly (talk) 05:17, 24 October 2018 (UTC)

Thanks. I'm not much inclined to get involved in AfC tomfoolery, so, no. --Tagishsimon (talk) 08:50, 24 October 2018 (UTC)

Facto Post – Issue 17 – 29 October 2018

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	Thanks for your support! Srsval (talk) 09:59, 1 November 2018 (UTC)

Stupidity

If you feel the need to complain about the stupidity of others, then at least make sure that you know the difference between a speedy and a prod. Furthermore, Sebastiana de Jesus Salcedo is unknown as such (no Google books hits at all for that name). You may see some obvious reason why that prod was extremely stupid, bubt the least you could have done was to improve the article to remove the reason for the prod. Otherwise you are just throwing around empty insults, which is not really useful. Fram (talk) 16:37, 3 November 2018 (UTC)

The obvious reasons why the prod was stupid were a) you argued that the subject was largely forgotten. That's a stupid reason for deleting an article. Most of the subjects of our articles are lagely forgotten. You argued that the references were not independent of the subject; yet there was no obvious connection between the five dead-tree refs, and the iirc C17 subject; nor is there much likelihood that you reviewed the content of the refs, since they were no online. No gbooks ghits != lack of notability. I'm not clear, given the foregoing, what you anticipate I might have done. Take out an full page advert in the WaPo to publicise her? hth --Tagishsimon (talk) 19:57, 3 November 2018 (UTC)

The sources were not independent, she was (according to the deleted article) a Dominican nun, and we got sources like the "Dominican Provincial Chapter" (a source which is completely unverifiable) or a source from the "Congregation of the Dominican Sisters", two other sources written by Dominicans, and a source by the "Mother Francisca Commission", which again is a Dominican organisation. So all sources in the article were by Dominicans, about a Dominican sister. That's a rather obvious and clear connection. An organisation writing about their own history is not an independent source. So what you might have done, instead of simply removing the prod with an insulting message, was checking whether any independent sources for this person were available, and then either improving the article with them, or endorsing the prod. Fram (talk) 07:36, 5 November 2018 (UTC)

RE: Victims of the White Terror

I think it's better now. Wen I created the article, I was in a hurry so I didn't modify it, but then I checked it and I corrected some problems. Thanks for the notice. Greetings. Tajotep (talk) 22:33, 14 November 2018 (UTC)

BERRY IIT

Hello and thank you for the Speedy Delete. Honestly, this user has recreated this page under so many different names (eg. Berry IIT was SALT'd) since October that I have reported them to AIV. They are ignoring our warnings and this is becoming disruptive. They are so clearly WP:NOTHERE. HickoryOughtShirt?4 (talk) 09:12, 16 November 2018 (UTC)

@HickoryOughtShirt?4: Annoying. Always worth dropping a warning on their talk page - admins tend to block people faster if we can point to them having been properly warned. I've done that. I like your salt template - wasn't aware of that. Good that there are more of us than him/her. Illegitimi non carborundum. --Tagishsimon (talk) 09:19, 16 November 2018 (UTC)

Ha, you are right. While I did informally warn them just yesterday about this, per their message on Talk:BERRY IIT they still aren't getting it. Also the use of "us" is concerning. Sigh HickoryOughtShirt?4 (talk) 09:23, 16 November 2018 (UTC)

@HickoryOughtShirt?4: They're now blocked. --Tagishsimon (talk) 12:55, 16 November 2018 (UTC)

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Thanks for creating the Wikidata link for the stub article on Alice Cooper Bailey.

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Remember WP:ATD - Mary marquardt

Hi there. Just a quick note that you should always consider alternatives to deletion before tagging an article for (speedy) deletion. In this case (Mary marquardt), a redirect to Ford's article was obviously the better alternative to deletion and you could have done so yourself. Regards SoWhy 11:06, 23 November 2018 (UTC)

Upper Pilton, Queensland

Can you let me know when you have finished messing with this. I was in the middle of merging the text when you swooped in and started redirecting when I was in mid-edit. Please note Use Australian English, Use DMY dates. Please use Queensland Globe for the geography as that is the authoritative source. Kerry (talk) 01:50, 25 November 2018 (UTC)

@Kerry Raymond: All done now.

Tagishsimon, please remember to follow appropriate attribution guidelines when merging content from one page to another page (see Misplaced Pages:Copying within Misplaced Pages). I performed a "history merge" to preserve attribution, but in general a page cannot be deleted once content from the page has been merged elsewhere. Let me know if you have any questions about this. Cheers, -- Black Falcon 03:26, 25 November 2018 (UTC)

Dont delete

Dont delete this bit liliys wikipedia's post Bmmbb (talk) 02:31, 26 November 2018 (UTC)

db-madeup

Please have some evidence that the subject was made up by the creator or someone the creator knows; this isn't "db-neo" – that is, it isn't meant to apply to "anything that will obviously fail WP:NEO". Case in point: The_Traveling_"THE" appears to not have been made up by the creator. I have managed to find other problems with it, though... ErikHaugen (talk | contribs) 19:44, 26 November 2018 (UTC)

Speedy deletion aurornisxui

I am new and unclear on how to add this page so it doesn't get deleted. It is a user page for the WikiProject Paleontology (it's the page that opened when I clicked on the red link). — Preceding unsigned comment added by Aurornisxui (talk • contribs) 21:00, 26 November 2018 (UTC)

Doh

Anthonyz17 (talk) 23:23, 26 November 2018 (UTC)I'm wondering if you can point out specific sections that made you delete my page?

@Anthonyz17: If you write an article that looks like an advert, it will be deleted as if it were an advert. If you cannot tell the difference between 'looks like an advert' and 'a wikipedia article', then writing on wikipedia is probably not for you. hth --Tagishsimon (talk) 23:40, 26 November 2018 (UTC)

MMI have removed all persuasive language before publishing so it is merely a company page. And also have reference pages like Binance, Uber. Simply including historical and neutral language about a company does not constitute has an advertisement — Preceding unsigned comment added by Anthonyz17 (talk • contribs) 23:55, 26 November 2018 (UTC)

I refer you to my answer above. You tried. It got deleted. Move on. --Tagishsimon (talk) 00:02, 27 November 2018 (UTC)

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	Thanks for fixing the Women in Science prize table! Tarselli (talk) 16:30, 27 November 2018 (UTC)

@Tarselli: Thank you; very kind. Sadly the GSA website was down last night, which is why things peter out towards the end of the list ... I wasn't keen on using CVs as a source. I live in hope we can complete the table eventually. --Tagishsimon (talk) 16:35, 27 November 2018 (UTC)

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RE: Tulsa–Wichita State men's basketball rivalry

Thanks! The numbers in the box refer to the ranking of the winning team at the time in the AP Poll, I could add a footnote or something maybe pointing this out but I wouldn't be exactly sure where in the article to point it out. Best, User talk:RichieNebraska —Preceding undated comment added 22:40, 29 November 2018 (UTC)

Facto Post – Issue 18 – 30 November 2018

Facto Post – Issue 18 – 30 November 2018 The Editor is Charles Matthews, for ContentMine. Please leave feedback for him, on his User talk page. To subscribe to Facto Post go to Misplaced Pages:Facto Post mailing list. For the ways to unsubscribe, see the footer. Back numbers are here. WikiCite issue GLAM ♥ data — what is a gallery, library, archive or museum without a catalogue? It follows that Wikidata must love librarians. Bibliography supports students and researchers in any topic, but open and machine-readable bibliographic data even more so, outside the silo. Cue the WikiCite initiative, which was meeting in conference this week, in the Bay Area of California. In fact there is a broad scope: "Open Knowledge Maps via SPARQL" and the "Sum of All Welsh Literature", identification of research outputs, Library.Link Network and Bibframe 2.0, OSCAR and LUCINDA (who they?), OCLC and Scholia, all these co-exist on the agenda. Certainly more library science is coming Wikidata's way. That poses the question about the other direction: is more Wikimedia technology advancing on libraries? Good point. Wikimedians generally are not aware of the tech background that can be assumed, unless they are close to current training for librarians. A baseline definition is useful here: "bash, git and OpenRefine". Compare and contrast with pywikibot, GitHub and mix'n'match. Translation: scripting for automation, version control, data set matching and wrangling in the large, are on the agenda also for contemporary library work. Certainly there is some possible common ground here. Time to understand rather more about the motivations that operate in the library sector. Links Wikidata and Libraries: Facilitating Open Knowledge, book chapter by Mairelys Lemus-Rojas, metadata librarian and Lydia Pintscher, Wikidata Product Manager, from Leveraging Misplaced Pages: Connecting Communities of Knowledge (2018) LD4P and WikiCite: Opportunities for collaboration, WikiCite 2018 program abstract, Christine Fernsebner Eslao of Harvard Library Information and Technical Services and Michelle Futornick, Linked Data for Production Program Manager at Stanford University Shell Lessons for Librarians, Library Carpentry lesson At-risk content on Flickr, blogpost 3 November 2018, Andrew Gray Toward an Abstract Misplaced Pages, recent white paper by Wikidata founder Denny Vrandečić (Google) Account creation is now open on the ScienceSource wiki, where you can see SPARQL visualisations of text mining. If you wish to receive no further issues of Facto Post, please remove your name from our mailing list. Alternatively, to opt out of all massmessage mailings, you may add Category:Wikipedians who opt out of message delivery to your user talk page. Newsletter delivered by MediaWiki message delivery

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Chilling

As is probably painfully obvious, I'm not a Misplaced Pages user but I appreciate your support against that VintageFeminist lady. I came in with good intentions but I'm finding myself repeatedly attacked by her. I assume it's because I'm "attacking" the arguments put forward by Rachel parent and her anti-GMO pro-organic website and entire narrative. I've confirmed that the website was set up by Wayne Parent of Nutrition House (as others had already noted) but apparently that's not enough either. I sense an air of misandry about this and it's making me uncomfortable. Misplaced Pages isn't really my thing as should be obvious from my mea culpas. I have nothing against Rachel, but her message isn't just wrong, it's deliberately deceitful. Any simple fact checking on the site shows a typical anti-science bent and a deep connection to a web of the usual suspects like Vandana Shiva and Jeffery Smith. I have other questions I need to ask them but, coming from traditional media as I do, you won't accept my word unless I have citations on "reputable" site. It's a circular problem to a degree. Sorry for moaning but I'm getting discouraged from trying to help. Smidoid (talk) 23:55, 1 December 2018 (UTC)

@Smidoid: Misplaced Pages and wikipedians can be a bit of a steamroller, I'm afraid, Smidoid. I'm not entirely sure where VintageFeminist is coming from; and from long experience here, I'm not going to spend any time wondering about that element. It's generally best for all concerned that we assume good faith in our fellow editors - and assume the same good faith in those less familiar with Misplaced Pages, such as youself. I don't think the response to your intervention was handled well, and I've said my piece on that elsewhere. I'm sorry - and unsurprised - that you find it depressing & discouraging.

As to the article itself, it is a great problem that we have a plethora of completely uncritical 'reliable sources' charting her ascent to some minor notability, and iirc only the HuffPo article with which to rebut her questionable argument. That said, I think GreenMeansGo has done a very good job in reshaping the article and introducing the Criticism section. The artice has a much better balance; it sets out in neutral terms the basics of her story and press reaction to it; lends no support to her views; and provides a rebuttal of her views in no uncertain terms. The critical reader should come away with an understanding that her platform is found to be questionable. Of course, the uncritical reader will leave the article with whatever view they had when they entered it. Anti-GMO folk will dismiss the criticism; Anti-anti-GMO folk will nod in understanding of the criticism and sigh.

I'm sorry that - and again, I understand why - the whole reliable sources business is getting you down. Sometimes the best that can be done is the sort of thing that GMG has done. Of course, if you can turn anything else up, that would be great; but it probably won't change the price of bread. Her story will remain the same. Uncritical press coverage of her will remain. Misplaced Pages will be honour bound to report those things in neutral terms. It's very unlikely that anything we find will alter much the section of the article above the criticism section. We might find more sources for the criticism, but tbh the views reported there are sufficiently unequivocal that adding more of the same will not actually add significantly to readers' understanding. And of course, I accept the nexus of Parent, her parents, and fringe views such as Shiva and Smith which, unfortunatly, have currency in this wretched anti-expert society we find ourselves in.

There you go. Not sure if any of that helps. But always happy to talk about it, and to lend support to the aim of improving the quality of the article if that can be done. --Tagishsimon (talk) 00:31, 2 December 2018 (UTC)

Thank you. That's very supportive. My only other experience of any rate, is over the Hedy Lamarr/FHSS invention claim - and has been similarly drowned out. This is an area of my own expertise and I've done a considerable amount of on and off Internet digging to get to the truth. The results were not dissimilar in that case. I found myself attacked over original research because the entire narrative has been captured by those who believe the story promulgated by her fanbase. It all stems from a poorly checked patent and one of Hedy's fans. I've expanded on Dr. Tony Rothman's work and managed to join the dots to discover the ID third person (alluded to by Lamar in a press clipping but never named). This was the man (and there lies a major issue, he's man and Lamar has become a feminist icon) who actually designed the electronics aided by Hedy's friend, George Antheil. He is not named on the patent of course. However, in any case the technology was invented by the Germans in WW1 and before that (in a very crude form) by Nikola Tesla at the back end of the 19th century. Lamarr did some good things for the war effort but a lot of what she says (including a claim of rape - a charge quickly dropped and that resulted in a civil case that she subsequently lost) are fictions. The entire story which spans far more than has ever been covered by Misplaced Pages (or, to my knowledge, any other writer) spans decades and even connects loosely to the capture of the Enigima machine from the "U571". It's claimed that the FHSS tech was ignored by the US Navy but the reality is, it solved a problem that it didn't have. The torpedoes were "missing" not because US Sub commanders couldn't shoot straight - but rather that explosive charge weight slightly more than the dummy warheads used in testing with the result that the projectile sank well below its target over the 1-2km firing range and failed to detonate. As you might guess, there's a lot more behind this but I tire of fighting on the Internet and I'll have to try and find a publisher brave enough to face off against the likely pushback. Lamarr has been inducted into the American Inventors Hall of Fame for something that, the secret history shows, she had very little do with. Smidoid (talk) 14:25, 2 December 2018 (UTC)

@Smidoid: Well there's a very remarkable coincidence. I used to correspond with someone - now dead - who knew Hedy Lamarr, holidayed with her, etc, and who scorned the Hedy patent story. We discussed the truth versus received wisdom of that case. Small world. Presuming you have set up email options in your wikipedia preferences, you could use this link to drop me an email, and I'll share some of what I was told. --Tagishsimon (talk) 14:40, 2 December 2018 (UTC)

that IS interesting. I've dropped you an internal PM with my private email so we can discuss. You might have better luck than I did overturning this story on Misplaced Pages anyway- a lot of people stand to lose a lot of face over this. There are books dedicated to it and even one that claims FHSS was used to help defuse the Bay of Pigs. A lot of the stuff is still highly classified of course so I can only piece together the stuff that's in the public archives but this is another piece of propaganda that really needs to be overturned. There are far more inspiring women who are frequently overlooked or sidelined: Rosalind Franklin, "Amazing" Grace and so on. Hedy was popular because of that that infernal Halo Effect. Same reason (I expect) that Vani Hari and Rachel Parent also got/get so much unchecked coverage. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Smidoid (talk • contribs) 18:05, 2 December 2018 (UTC)

@Smidoid: Yup, that worked. You have email. --Tagishsimon (talk) 18:23, 2 December 2018 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

The Barnstar of Diligence

Hi tagishsimon, Thanks for all the input on my article! I'm travelling for work today and tomorrow so I may be a little tardy in following up as I doubt I'll get time to read all the guidelines you've pointed me towards until Wednesday at which point I will be able to get it all done. I trust that's fine with you. Really appreciate you helping me learn the ropes. I'm quite familiar with WordPress and a few other web publishing platforms but Misplaced Pages very much has a different interface and I can see I have plenty to learn. Speak more on Wednesday. Kind regards, Minxymoggy Minxymoggy (talk) 18:04, 3 December 2018 (UTC)

@Minxymoggy: I think the canonical set right now for you is WP:COI, WP:N, WP:V, WP:RS and WP:AfD. Enjoy. --Tagishsimon (talk) 21:43, 3 December 2018 (UTC)

Elizabeth Diller

thanks for the cleanup. I'm not super well versed in architects but it had been bugging me that she didn't have a page when one was well deserved. Figured if I started, someone would come help. StarM 03:12, 4 December 2018 (UTC)

@Star Mississippi: No probs, and you're right, long overdue that she had an article; thanks for adding it. Misplaced Pages doesn't seem to do architects very well, women doubly so. --Tagishsimon (talk) 12:09, 4 December 2018 (UTC)

We should probably raid w:es:Elizabeth_Diller sometime. Plenty to be stolen. --Tagishsimon (talk) 12:33, 4 December 2018 (UTC)

ooh thanks for that tip, hadn't found it. I do read Spanish so will see what I can bring over. StarM 19:39, 9 December 2018 (UTC)

thx for connecting Ruth Benedict Prize to its wikidata item

Thx! I forgot to do that MauraWen (talk) 17:51, 4 December 2018 (UTC)

@MauraWen: Bit more work to do... - they're people who have an Award value for the RBP. :Tagishsimon (talk) 18:10, 4 December 2018 (UTC)

@Tagishsimon: Ok, but I am not exactly sure how much I need to do. I am guessing that I need to add the RB prize statement to all the award winners's wikidata pages. What about people who don't have a wikipedia profile? please advise.

I will put this on my list for tomorrow. thx MauraWen (talk) 18:36, 4 December 2018 (UTC)

As much or little as you like. It never stops. I had a look just now; add award to those who already have a wikidata item; add wikidata items for those without; find some additional attributes for the added person, and add the award; realise the book or paper doesn't exists so add that; realise there are a bunch of papers which have an 'author name string' rather than an author value, so need changing. Fortunately none of us are under any obligation to complete all of that. I can see myself doing more tonight; I'll let you know how I got on at the end of the evening. --Tagishsimon (talk) 20:56, 4 December 2018 (UTC)

@MauraWen: As it stands ... I've done them all, including new items for those previously without. We can probably forget all about this now :) --Tagishsimon (talk) 23:23, 4 December 2018 (UTC)

@Tagishsimon: Thanks for your help! You've been very busy. I am surprised that the list needs to go in order of oldest award at the top. I have been creating profiles of award winning poets, and I could swear many of the awards were listed with most recent date first. I guess that's wrong. Thx again. MauraWen (talk) 01:18, 5 December 2018 (UTC)

@MauraWen: Thanks! Yup, I was a bit dismayed by the list order thing. My preference is generally for most recent at the top; and the list is sortable on columns anyway. I more & more find wikipedia to be a bit old-school, having become part of the bright new wikidata borg. --Tagishsimon (talk) 01:25, 5 December 2018 (UTC)

Policy banks (China)

Thank you very much for your advice, Tagishsimon! I've checked the two misleading problems and have corrected both of them. Please check, and thank you again.Mike hangzhou (talk) 14:17, 5 December 2018 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Amitchell125/Archive5

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A kitten for you!

Thanks for you help with my article on Christine Allen!

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Timewasting

There is currently a discussion at Misplaced Pages:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Tonyinman (talk) 15:41, 15 December 2018 (UTC)

Zzz. --Tagishsimon (talk) 17:57, 15 December 2018 (UTC)

BBLD ID

Could you merge these: ? 78.54.28.6 (talk) 16:02, 16 December 2018 (UTC)

Done 3, Not convinced by http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q25391120 http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q54506661 - different dates of death. Are you sure? --Tagishsimon (talk) 16:24, 16 December 2018 (UTC)

Thank you, including for being cautious! Someone else was sure. The death date 1833 was probably taken from the old BBLD ID , but 1833 not found anymore in the BBLD. So merge seems good. 89.12.179.248 (talk) 02:28, 17 December 2018 (UTC)

6 new duplicates. The export of BBLD IDs to Wikidata is paying off. 77.11.158.98 (talk) 21:06, 17 December 2018 (UTC)

Good stuff. You've dealt with them. Nothing showing on this report. --Tagishsimon (talk) 21:33, 17 December 2018 (UTC)

I made a record before asking you. Some user, which also did the 4th above which you left, cleaned 5 of the 6 after I posted. One more thing: 77 males at d:Wikidata:Database reports/Humans with missing claims/P2580 - all females and non-humans removed if I am not mistaken. Could you batch-male-fy them? 77.183.238.223 (talk) 23:40, 19 December 2018 (UTC)

Done. --Tagishsimon (talk) 00:04, 20 December 2018 (UTC)

Great! user:Arachn0 is helping adding new IDs reported via a ruwiki-page. But 57 new IDs during the last ~24 hours might be good for batch: ru:Википедия:Форум/Викиданные/BBLD_ID#BBLD_ID_-_new_IDs_-_2018-12-22 I would have done it directly, but Jura1 not only vandalized P2580 - removing valid IDs from 1000+ items, which Magnus Manske than run a batch to fix - insert fake constraints etc. (some of Baltic Historic Commission not happy about that), but also managed to prevent editing via IP of P2580 and the P2580 statements. So, all BBLD fixes that I find, I report somewhere else so that others can apply them ... What is achieved? More work for others, slower progress with Wikimedia projects. He also tried to intimidate other users, several times successful, but not e.g. with this very helpful user.

BTW, the BBLD has now 1380 IDs based on ISNI , but these are not necessarily the current preferred/primary ISNI, as those can change without notice. ISNI-IA is very bad WRT transparency and working error free. 77.191.114.98 (talk) 03:31, 22 December 2018 (UTC)

1684 based on ISNI . But SPARQL gives less. Do you know a tool to find 1) in WD but not in https://bbld.de/beacon.isni.txt 2) In https://bbld.de/beacon.isni.txt but not in WD? 78.54.172.225 (talk) 19:43, 14 January 2019 (UTC)

All of the isni's in WD are in isni.txt. The following isni's in isni.txt are not in wikidata (put into edit mode if you want a tabular list) - note that the WD comparison is based on the SPARQL you supplied - so it's the set of items having having BBLDs. --Tagishsimon (talk) 19:54, 14 January 2019 (UTC) 0000000002859311 0000000012427969 0000000013006277 0000000015443796 0000000016250574 OK 0000000017577931 in WD/ISNI (print format) 0000000038238955 0000000038638887 OK 0000000050587728 in WD/ISNI (print format) / vandalised https://www.wikidata.org/search/?title=Q4236585&diff=775806400&oldid=762129059 0000000051802696 0000000051916335 OK 000000005266095X in WD/ISNI (print format) 0000000055430236 OK 000000005646258X in WD/ISNI (print format) 0000000058864769 OK 0000000072931024 OK 0000000108910605 OK 0000000109565313 OK 0000000116359104 in WD/ISNI (print format) 0000000119047325 OK 0000000121482940 in WD/ISNI (print format) 0000000377435427 in WD/ISNI (print format) 0000000385156786 OK 0000000387510451 OK 0000000397172249 0000000397452072 000000041031090X OK 0000000417110521

Thanks a lot! I will check them later. 89.12.67.41 (talk) 17:05, 15 January 2019 (UTC)

You once helped to add year of birth/death. Maybe you could to it again? SPARQL for birth (P569). P570 would be death. 89.12.67.41 (talk) 17:05, 15 January 2019 (UTC)

No probs; done. (or, at least, doing as I write this) --Tagishsimon (talk) 18:41, 15 January 2019 (UTC)

Great! Could you write SPARQL for all P2580 that have reference URL P854 or even better any reference. The value is certainly wrong at https://www.wikidata.org/search/?title=Q323699&oldid=836471999#P2580 . 77.13.102.139 (talk) 20:37, 17 January 2019 (UTC)

Let's start with this which I think gives you a rundown of all of the references for all of the BBLD items ... in short, most have no reference. --Tagishsimon (talk) 21:26, 17 January 2019 (UTC)

I'm being a bit slow tonight. The BBLD ID itself can be used to form a P854 style reference, yes? If so I could run a quickstatements job and add P854s to them all. Let me know. I've amended the query to show the ?BBLD ID. --Tagishsimon (talk) 21:48, 17 January 2019 (UTC)

The BBLD made the regex more strict (https://bbld.de/info/2019) and changed some more IDs. 2019-01-19 for the first time a list of all BBLD IDs was published https://bbld.de/beacon.all.txt (4957 items) . That is a chance to check all BBLD IDs in Wikidata. Could you Step 1) remove ALL current references Step 2) add references to all IDs found in .txt ? If that is done, WD-editors only need to review all items without reference, and adjust the IDs. 78.55.127.103 (talk) 15:39, 20 January 2019 (UTC)

BBLD ID - ExternalUse

https://www.wikidata.org/search/?title=Property_talk:P2580&action=edit could you fix

1. remove "lvwiki: " before the lv:-Link, the others don't have that and it is redundant, as lv: stands for lvwiki.
2. the small d in BBLd are wrong for uk: and ru:. Correct is BBLD.

77.13.90.170 (talk) 20:33, 18 February 2019 (UTC)

Attitude

I'll appreciate you take your warrior attitude elsewhere, along with your pissy summaries. I see you are a frequent guest at ANI board. Stay there! Sincerely, Rowan Forest (talk) 21:50, 16 December 2018 (UTC)

@Rowan Forest: Grow up, Rowan. The facts of the matter are, you reverted an edit because you made a stupid and erroneous assumption. You did not even take the basic step of checking what the edit did, and in reverting it re-introduced a grammatical error to the article. Now you come onto this board and talk crap about me being "frequent guest at ANI board". And I'm the one who's supposed to have an attitude? Mirror, much? --Tagishsimon (talk) 21:56, 16 December 2018 (UTC)

ZZZzzz Piss off. Rowan Forest (talk) 21:57, 16 December 2018 (UTC)

@Rowan Forest:Isn't it past your bedtime? You seem to be a bit cranky. Get mummy to make you a hot water bottle, maybe? --Tagishsimon (talk) 21:59, 16 December 2018 (UTC)

Small detail

The album is properly titled "Moon And Sand". I don't know why the artist chose to capitalize the "A" in "and," but there it is on the cover . I would add a picture of the cover if I had any facility with that kind of thing. Regards, Hamster Sandwich (talk) 02:53, 17 December 2018 (UTC)

@Hamster Sandwich: The covers that I've seen have the entire title in uppercase - e.g. https://www.allmusic.com/album/moon-and-sand-mw0000611944 and https://www.discogs.com/Kenny-Burrell-Moon-And-Sand/release/3658420 so I'm puzzled as to why you would come to this page and make the above claim, as if a title of AND must always be rendered as And. Are you suggesting now that the wikipedia article should be all uppercase? Or have you merely decided that your title-case And is better than a conventional lower-case and? --Tagishsimon (talk) 03:03, 17 December 2018 (UTC)

Thanks for the prompt reply! I thought I would answer your various questions in point form:

1. I came to this page because you made an edit that I had the question about. I didn't see a point in asking someone else about it.

2. I do not understand where I made an inference that anything should always be anything. I did not make any suggestions to any generalizations of WP:MOS

3. I have not "merely decided" anything. Not at this point, anyways.

In closing, I was attempting to discern that perhaps unlike other entries in article space with the same title, this one might be different. Perhaps not. I'm not tied to any of my edits in Misplaced Pages. None of us should be. Regards, Hamster Sandwich (talk) 03:16, 17 December 2018 (UTC)

@Hamster Sandwich: You came to this page asserting that the album is properly titled "Moon And Sand". You briefly touched on your inability to say why the artist decided to capitalise the A, reinforcing your assertion that the album is properly titled "Moon And Sand". You vouchsafed as evidence a youtube of the album cover in which the title is all in uppercase. The evidence you provided does not support your assertion. So. I remain puzzled. --Tagishsimon (talk) 03:23, 17 December 2018 (UTC)

@Hamster Sandwich: In the absence of any consensus on capitalisation of the work - and google searches suggest there is not consensus - I take it you will agree that Misplaced Pages:Naming conventions (capitalization)#Titles of works should apply? --Tagishsimon (talk) 03:33, 17 December 2018 (UTC)

I agree with whatever the current standard naming conventions for WP articles are. The YouTube entry displays the title as I described. It is, of course not a good source for a citation. And since each letter of the cover shot is indeed a capitalized letter, it falls to someone like yourself to correct the edit. I did make an assertion of the artists intent based on bad information from a weak source.

I should repeat, to stress the point: I am not tied to any of my edits in Misplaced Pages. My hope is to make a baseline shot, and other people come along a shine it up. On the other hand, it's nice to be able to do that for some of the total shit that passes for writing in mainspace as well. But I'm never willing to argue much over other peoples editing. Especially when it concerns a trivial article for lovely album I just happened to listen to today, and there was no article to describe it. Now there is, and my thanks to you for your help. Hamster Sandwich (talk) 03:51, 17 December 2018 (UTC)

Chikakiyo's daughters

Hey, thanks for connecting Chikakiyo's fifth daughter to a WikiData item. I was aware of the ja.wiki article earlier, but unfortunately I don't agree with what they've done over there, and am planning on creating separate articles on Chikakiyo's fourth daughter, Chikakiyo's daughter and Chikakiyo's daughter's younger sister. User:Hijiri88/Inter-WAM/2019/003 is what I've got done so far, but I'm considering putting the project on hold until we can get community consensus on how to format the names of these and similar articles. (The most famous are Takasue's daughter, Shunzei's daughter and Michitsuna's mother but I've found at least a dozen or so more.)

At the very least the topic merits two separate articles since the fourth and fifth daughters were definitely different people, and once those two articles exist I'm not sure what to do about WikiData short of going to ja.wiki and requesting they follow suit and split the article there. Thoughts?

Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 03:06, 19 December 2018 (UTC)

@Hijiri88: I'm sorry, but I'm so not the right person to ask about this. I'm mainly concerning myself with ensuring that were we have en.wiki articles on females, that they're minimally represented in Wikidata with a Q5 and female value ... all of that to ensure that Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Women in Red statistics are up-to-date.

That said, now that I've looked in detail at the ja.wiki article, I'm thinking that Chikakiyo's fifth daughter should actually have its own wikidata item ... the ja.wiki linked item is presumably about the set of daughters? I'm reading the ja.wiki article via Google translate; it's not abundently clear. It would be useful if you can confirm my suspicion. (And if we do this, we can link the Chikakiyo's fifth daughter to Q11483547 using part of / has part.)

I thoroughly support your aim of creating discrete articles, presuming there is enough content. I leave you to decide on whether you need to pause to secure name format consensus; equally article names can be changed later. --Tagishsimon (talk) 03:15, 19 December 2018 (UTC)

I'm thinking that Chikakiyo's fifth daughter should actually have its own wikidata item ... the ja.wiki linked item is presumably about the set of daughters? That's right. He had at least two poet daughters, one of whom is known to history as the fourth daughter and the other as the fifth. He definitely had at least three other daughters (obviously!), but there is uncertainty as to whether the "Chikakiyo's daughter" and "Chikakiyo's daughter's younger sister" (mentioned in some other official court anthologies) might be the same two people as the fourth and fifth daughters, or one might be the same, or he had four daughters whose poems have come down to us. For this reason it seems ja.wiki just said "Fuck it -- one article on Chikakiyo's daughters".

Thank you for your support on the point about discrete articles. I will need to do a bit more work to determine whether the "daughter" and "daughter's younger sister" need their own articles or if the "fourth" and "fifth" daughters are enough (my preferred source, an encyclopedia of Japanese classical literature, has two articles on the fourth and fifth daughters, which both address the question that there may have been one or two more, and that might be the way to go).

Honestly the main reason I'm here is because I have no earthly idea how to give the fifth daughter her own WikiData entry. I was gonna hold off on WikiData and interwiki links until the above issues were resolved (normally I put the interwiki links in the article and the WikiData stuff to bots), but since you connected them on WikiData already I kinda feel it needs to be addressed first.

Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 03:29, 19 December 2018 (UTC)

@Hijiri88: She has her own item now - Chikakiyo's fifth daughter and the ja.wiki iem is renamed (in English, at least) daughters of Chikakiyo. I'm happy to do any wikidata work you need doing - feel free to drop an article & instructions on me if you want something done. --Tagishsimon (talk) 04:04, 19 December 2018 (UTC)

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		Thank you for your attention to detail in ensuring the absolute accuracy of coordinates on articles about Lutyens' war memorials. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 23:43, 22 December 2018 (UTC)

My women bios page

Thank you! I'd completely forgotten that I put that together - now I need to go write a few. The Drover's Wife (talk) 09:53, 24 December 2018 (UTC)

Not at all. I was vaguely thinking of keeping them around for a Women in Green-style effort on notable women with bad articles, but as you can see I'd long forgotten about it - feel free to go to town on it. The Drover's Wife (talk) 21:12, 24 December 2018 (UTC)

Also - you're welcome to move this into WIR space or somewhere where other people might feel freer to add to it if you want. The Drover's Wife (talk) 21:15, 24 December 2018 (UTC)

Sorry to see you give up on the Wikidata NSW stuff - I think those last 97 were easily enough explained given time to sort it out. The Drover's Wife (talk) 09:47, 29 December 2018 (UTC)

FWIW, I've completed the NSW state heritage register in Wikidata. Ironically it appears that Wikidata has detected at least 8 items missing from the source lists used for article generation, and 5 articles not created for other reasons, so I think you can feel pretty vindicated. Thanks for all your help and work on these and happy new year! --Canley (talk) 02:11, 31 December 2018 (UTC)

@The Drover's Wife and Canley: Thank you both; glad to hear it is complete. There has been some tremedously impressive work done by all concerned, even by my friend Kerry :). Happy upside-down (relatively speaking) new year to you both! --Tagishsimon (talk) 02:32, 31 December 2018 (UTC)

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Created a page which got deleted

Hi, I created a page that got deleted, "Surf2ship.com" Can I know the reason for the delete? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gaztrorio (talk • contribs) 09:58, 31 December 2018 (UTC)

@Gaztrorio:. Sure. Go read WP:COI and WP:N first. Next, consider that your website is very new and largely not notable. Last, consider that wikipedia does not exist to promote websites. Come back and discuss anything you don't understand. Bottom line is, we who work on wikipedia day-in and day-out *really* don't like people who abuse wikipedia as you have just done. Consider your card well and truly marked. --Tagishsimon (talk) 10:05, 31 December 2018 (UTC)

WoRMS database

Hi Tagishsimon, I was approved by WoRMS to get access to a monthly data extract of their entire database in darwin core format. I now have a tab-delimited file that has 587,713 taxa. What is the best way to go about importing all of it into Wikidata? — Ganeshk (talk) 03:20, 6 January 2019 (UTC)

Pinging @Tom.Reding: — Ganeshk (talk) 03:21, 6 January 2019 (UTC)

Ganeshk Very good news. Not sure. Pywikibot, maybe, if you're a python person. See also this tutorial. I'm not, and I cannot speak for it. Or, although your QS experience was not the best so far, QS batches will happily sit there for days or weeks at a time. OpenRefine, maybe? Big job! Thank goodnesss for Binomial nomenclature, otherwise duplicate detection would be a real pain. Having established that programming & bots are not my thing, if I can give any help, call on me. I'm good with SPARQL, fwiw. --Tagishsimon (talk) 03:42, 6 January 2019 (UTC)

Looks like that is what I should do. I did find a couple of Python darwin core data reader frameworks, and . I will let you know if I run into any issues. — Ganeshk (talk) 03:57, 6 January 2019 (UTC)

@Ganeshk: the only bulk WD tool I've used is QS, so I'm afraid I'm not much help here. Succu would be the best to ask for taxon ID imports of this scale if you're looking for advice or someone to hand the data off to.   ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf)  05:49, 6 January 2019 (UTC)

Tom.Reding Thank you, I will check with Succu. Not sure I can hand the data off though per the licensing agreement. Thanks, — Ganeshk (talk) 05:54, 6 January 2019 (UTC)

I am getting Succu's help with the upload. I shared it with them privately over e-mail. — Ganeshk (talk) 18:32, 6 January 2019 (UTC)

@Ganeshk: Good; Succu is, I think, very knowledgable in this area - you're in good hands. Meanwhile I look forward to 10% of en.wikipedia articles being about sea snails :) --Tagishsimon (talk) 18:34, 6 January 2019 (UTC)

lol for the 10% comment. I think there are around 50,000 marine snail taxa, the impact will be miniscule. — Ganeshk (talk) 18:54, 6 January 2019 (UTC)

@Ganeshk: Well that's very disappointing. I was so looking forward to the outrage :) --Tagishsimon (talk) 02:52, 7 January 2019 (UTC)

Your help desk question

Did you find out the answer to this question no one responded to?— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 21:58, 7 January 2019 (UTC)

Vchimpanzee Nope. It's maybe something that might get answered on Phab; if I summon the energy to ask it there & get an answer, I'll let you know. --Tagishsimon (talk) 22:04, 7 January 2019 (UTC)

Siege of Oxford (1142)

Hello Simon
Thank you for your note about this (sorry, I don't know how to link it), but I only created the title as a redirect (years ago!). The article was

Ajai Vasudev move?

• Do you want Draft:Ajai vasudev to be moved to Ajai Vasudev? Anthony Appleyard (talk) 05:45, 24 January 2019 (UTC)

@Anthony Appleyard: Thanks; no. Seems to have been moved to draft after I put in my move request. --Tagishsimon (talk) 08:29, 24 January 2019 (UTC)

Help

Hi, an admin told me to create FasciaBlaster, I request you to please let him check and then place that deletion, it was still in process and I further expanded it. Please check and help me cover the week areas. Admin was User:StraussInTheHouse — Preceding unsigned comment added by Julia Hudson 1 (talk • contribs) 23:40, 24 January 2019 (UTC)

@Julia Hudson 1: No. It's a dreadful article and will be deleted. Sorry about that. If you want to get the attention of the admin in question, try @StraussInTheHouse:, but as he or she will tell you, it's a dreadful article and will be deleted. --Tagishsimon (talk) 23:45, 24 January 2019 (UTC)

Thanks, I am adding more to it, and I'll see what he/she have to say. Julia Hudson 1 (talk) 23:52, 24 January 2019 (UTC)

@Julia Hudson 1: The admin in question will not return until 4th Feb. The tag on the article now means it will be looked at by another admin, who will decide whether to speedy delete it. In the unlikely event it is not speedy deleted, I will take it to articles for deletion. I have to tell you that it is rare indeed that articles I mark for deletion are not deleted. I don't think this one will be an exception. --Tagishsimon (talk) 23:57, 24 January 2019 (UTC)

Oh ok, I am not sure about the process. I'll wait for anyone else to check or that admin to return. It's nothing personal you are the boss, you can do anything. Thanks Julia Hudson 1 (talk) 00:01, 25 January 2019 (UTC)

Strauss is not an administrator and even if he were, no one person, admin or otherwise has the sole discretion of deciding notability. Praxidicae (talk) 00:06, 25 January 2019 (UTC)

Ok thanks Praxidicae Julia Hudson 1 (talk) 00:11, 25 January 2019 (UTC)

@Julia Hudson 1: It's now at Draft:FasciaBlaster. --Tagishsimon (talk) 00:13, 25 January 2019 (UTC)

@Tagishsimon: Thanks, how can I submit it for review as nothing appears there, seems dead. Julia Hudson 1 (talk) 00:16, 25 January 2019 (UTC)

@Julia Hudson 1: I've added an AfC template to it. But if you're just going to resubmit it through the AfC process, then we'll be back to where we were a few minutes ago. Whoever picks it up at AfC may or may not allow it back into article space. If they do, I'll mark it for deletion again. It remains a fundamentally bad article about a fundamentally bad and non-notable product. The very best thing to do would be to delete it and walk away. --Tagishsimon (talk) 00:27, 25 January 2019 (UTC)

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test

IP block exemption

Assuming that was you in IRC before, you should follow the procedure at WP:IPEXEMPTCONDITIONS first, and then nudge an admin if you'd prefer that it be done quickly. TheDragonFire (talk) 08:45, 29 January 2019 (UTC)

@TheDragonFire: Yes. In this instance, quickness was of the essence. Seems the block on this train's wifi is fairly recent - 18 Nov, iirc. As it is, I lost 70 minutes of editing time. --Tagishsimon (talk) 08:49, 29 January 2019 (UTC)

Actually looks like it's an open proxy block, therefore WP:IPECPROXY would apply. It seems like you'll need CheckUser assistance, which may take a while unfortunately... TheDragonFire (talk) 08:56, 29 January 2019 (UTC)

@TheDragonFire: I'm completely unfamiliar with the whole business of blocks &c. I've been given IPBE on en.wiki and wikidata, which is all I really need ... presuming those are not taken away... --Tagishsimon (talk) 08:58, 29 January 2019 (UTC)

Ah, didn't see Billinghurst's IPBE grant. Happy editing! :) TheDragonFire (talk) 09:01, 29 January 2019 (UTC)

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Speedy deletion declined: Lianren Liu

Hello Tagishsimon. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of Lianren Liu, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: coverage in reliable source indicates significance. Thank you. SoWhy 13:13, 7 February 2019 (UTC)

DYK for Inter-Allied Women's Conference

On 10 February 2019, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Inter-Allied Women's Conference, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the Inter-Allied Women's Conference, which opened in Paris 100 years ago today, marked the first time women were granted formal participation in an international treaty negotiation (conference organizer Marguerite de Witt-Schlumberger pictured)? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Inter-Allied Women's Conference. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Inter-Allied Women's Conference), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. 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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Talkback

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Savior of a Man's honour

	A Knight Errant we need
	Thank you for being vigilant and saving a man's honour. Clearly his beard was unable to save him, which is when you appeared and like a Knight errant saved the day. DBigXrayᗙ 09:36, 12 February 2019 (UTC)

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Facto Post – Issue 21 – 28 February 2019

Facto Post – Issue 21 – 28 February 2019 The Editor is Charles Matthews, for ContentMine. Please leave feedback for him, on his User talk page. To subscribe to Facto Post go to Misplaced Pages:Facto Post mailing list. For the ways to unsubscribe, see the footer. Back numbers are here. What is a systematic review? Systematic reviews are basic building blocks of evidence-based medicine, surveys of existing literature devoted typically to a definite question that aim to bring out scientific conclusions. They are principled in a way Wikipedians can appreciate, taking a critical view of their sources. Ben Goldacre in 2014 wrote (link below) " : the "information architecture" of evidence based medicine (if you can tolerate such a phrase) is a chaotic, ad hoc, poorly connected ecosystem of legacy projects. In some respects the whole show is still run on paper, like it's the 19th century." Is there a Wikidatan in the house? Wouldn't some machine-readable content that is structured data help? File:Schittny, Facing East, 2011, Legacy Projects.jpg Most likely it would, but the arcana of systematic reviews and how they add value would still need formal handling. The PRISMA standard dates from 2009, with an update started in 2018. The concerns there include the corpus of papers used: how selected and filtered? Now that Wikidata has a 20.9 million item bibliography, one can at least pose questions. Each systematic review is a tagging opportunity for a bibliography. Could that tagging be reproduced by a query, in principle? Can it even be second-guessed by a query (i.e. simulated by a protocol which translates into SPARQL)? Homing in on the arcana, do the inclusion and filtering criteria translate into metadata? At some level they must, but are these metadata explicitly expressed in the articles themselves? The answer to that is surely "no" at this point, but can TDM find them? Again "no", right now. Automatic identification doesn't just happen. Actually these questions lack originality. It should be noted though that WP:MEDRS, the reliable sources guideline used here for health information, hinges on the assumption that the usefully systematic reviews of biomedical literature can be recognised. Its nutshell summary, normally the part of a guideline with the highest density of common sense, allows literature reviews in general validity, but WP:MEDASSESS qualifies that indication heavily. Process wonkery about systematic reviews definitely has merit. Links Evidence-Based Practice: Appraise, resources page from Duke University Medical Library & Archives. What should Cochrane do next?, Bad Science blogpost 5 November 2014, Ben Goldacre. Cambridge (UK) Science Festival event, How do scientific discoveries become clinical medicine?, ScienceSource workshop for ContentMine 23 March 2019, with systematic review process diagram. Also on Eventbrite for tickets, taking place in Makespace, 16 Mill Lane. PROSPERO database of PRISMA, for registration of systematic review protocols. Process wonkery thread, wikien-l mailing list, September 2006. Meta-Analysis, xkcd cartoon. If you wish to receive no further issues of Facto Post, please remove your name from our mailing list. Alternatively, to opt out of all massmessage mailings, you may add Category:Wikipedians who opt out of message delivery to your user talk page. Newsletter delivered by MediaWiki message delivery

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Ways to improve Solventogenesis

Hello, Tagishsimon,

Thanks for creating Solventogenesis! I edit here too, under the username Elmidae and it's nice to meet you :-)

I wanted to let you know that I have tagged the page as having some issues to fix, as a part of our page curation process and note that:-

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Speedy deletion declined: Victoria Jancke

Hello Tagishsimon. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of Victoria Jancke, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: please don't remove claims of significance like hosting sporting events for a notable TV network and then tag for A7. Thank you. SoWhy 10:30, 14 March 2019 (UTC)

@SoWhy: Ah; my bad. I read part of the ref as spam. --Tagishsimon (talk) 10:36, 14 March 2019 (UTC)

WiR focus on Portuguese-speaking countries

In April, our geofocus is on Portuguese-speaking countries. I see we have no Wikidata lists for Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, or São Tomé and Príncipe. Do you think it would be worthwhile to create them, either separately or together? I'll leave it up to you as I have no idea how many names are likely to come up.--Ipigott (talk) 11:58, 22 March 2019 (UTC)

Buck and Cunnington

Sent you an email ... PKM (talk) 00:51, 25 March 2019 (UTC)

Wrongly deleted page

On 18th of February 2019 you wrongly deleted the page I created Betty homer all of the information that I put on there was true. I had only managed to put on what I knew. She was my great great auntie and she did alot during the war and I was and still am trying to find out even more about her heroics Abi25gail05 (talk) 13:22, 25 March 2019 (UTC)

Well, good luck with that. Thanks for coming here and telling me. --Tagishsimon (talk) 14:05, 25 March 2019 (UTC)

April editathons at Women in Red

April 2019

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Facto Post – Issue 22 – 28 March 2019

Facto Post – Issue 22 – 28 March 2019 The Editor is Charles Matthews, for ContentMine. Please leave feedback for him, on his User talk page. To subscribe to Facto Post go to Misplaced Pages:Facto Post mailing list. For the ways to unsubscribe, see the footer. Back numbers are here. When in the cloud, do as the APIs do Half a century ago, it was the era of the mainframe computer, with its air-conditioned room, twitching tape-drives, and appearance in the title of a spy novel Billion-Dollar Brain then made into a Hollywood film. Now we have the cloud, with server farms and the client–server model as quotidian: this text is being typed on a Chromebook. File:Cloud-API-Logo.svg The term Applications Programming Interface or API is 50 years old, and refers to a type of software library as well as the interface to its use. While a compiler is what you need to get high-level code executed by a mainframe, an API out in the cloud somewhere offers a chance to perform operations on a remote server. For example, the multifarious bots active on Misplaced Pages have owners who exploit the MediaWiki API. APIs (called RESTful) that allow for the GET HTTP request are fundamental for what could colloquially be called "moving data around the Web"; from which Wikidata benefits 24/7. So the fact that the Wikidata SPARQL endpoint at query.wikidata.org has a RESTful API means that, in lay terms, Wikidata content can be GOT from it. The programming involved, besides the SPARQL language, could be in Python, younger by a few months than the Web. Magic words, such as occur in fantasy stories, are wishful (rather than RESTful) solutions to gaining access. You may need to be a linguist to enter Ali Baba's cave or the western door of Moria (French in the case of "Open Sesame", in fact, and Sindarin being the respective languages). Talking to an API requires a bigger toolkit, which first means you have to recognise the tools in terms of what they can do. On the way to the wikt:impactful or polymathic modern handling of facts, one must perhaps take only tactful notice of tech's endemic problem with documentation, and absorb the insightful point that the code in APIs does articulate the customary procedures now in place on the cloud for getting information. As Owl explained to Winnie-the-Pooh, it tells you The Thing to Do. Links Wikidata as a semantic framework for the Gene Wiki initiative, 2016 paper by Andrawaag and others, commenting inter alia on the role of the API on Wikidata Working With Wikibase From Go, Digital Flapjack blogpost 26 November 2018, Michael Dales, developer for ScienceSource using golang, with a software engineer's view on Wikibase and the MediaWiki API Dealing with the Rust, Magnus Manske blogpost 12 March 2019, on the Rust language and the MediaWiki API mw:API:RecentChanges, mediawiki.org page on the API for access to "recent changes" on a wiki wikitech:Analytics/AQS/Pageviews, wikitech.wikimedia.org for the Pageview API, giving Wikimedia traffic information xkcd cartoon, API Guide If you wish to receive no further issues of Facto Post, please remove your name from our mailing list. Alternatively, to opt out of all massmessage mailings, you may add Category:Wikipedians who opt out of message delivery to your user talk page. Newsletter delivered by MediaWiki message delivery

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Power tripping is not mature, child.

This is your final warning. You will not lie about other users again on some power-trip. Cover up information all you want, biased one. But you should grow up. - AgedIntel, the objective autistic edtior. — Preceding unsigned comment added by AgedIntel (talk • contribs) 10:56, 30 March 2019 (UTC)

Any clues about what the fuck you're on about? --Tagishsimon (talk) 12:10, 30 March 2019 (UTC)

Ah. The Dawn Foster thing. You know, people who do things you don't like / don't understand are not automaticaly nazis. Go read WP:V and come back when you have a clue. --Tagishsimon (talk) 12:14, 30 March 2019 (UTC)

Afd

What do you mean Lamarsmith15 (talk) 13:04, 3 April 2019 (UTC)

@Lamarsmith15: Articles for deletion. The user had marked the article for speedy deletion. I objected to that and specified that if they wanted the article to be deleted they would need to propose the deletion and allow a discussion to take place. See WP:AFD. --Tagishsimon (talk) 13:10, 3 April 2019 (UTC)

Thanks re Quincy Newell. (However...she's a woman.)

Quincy Newell--Hodgdon's secret garden (talk) 18:57, 5 April 2019 (UTC)

@Hodgdon's secret garden: Sorry about that. Sadly I sometimes hit the wrong button. I do have some petscan reports I use to find my mistakes later, but they depend on the article being in a women category, which this one is not, so... --Tagishsimon (talk) 19:01, 5 April 2019 (UTC)

Thank you

Thank you for your ongoing encouragement of my efforts. Thank you for your help with problems on both Misplaced Pages and Wikidata that I don't know how to fix myself. Thank you for introducing me to some of the intricacies and lesser known areas, particularly of Wikidata. I'm very glad to have your support and am enjoying my editing.Oronsay (talk) 03:19, 7 April 2019 (UTC)

Reply: UK/CDT/GVCAC

Thank you for your comments, I understand that such titles are confusing to such amateurs, but I believe that in order for anyone to edit a page they must fully understand context and form/appearances of that page/subject. Please correct if I am wrong, but I believe you are not familiar with such, very professional and quality works of, either exhibit Template:Ranks and Insignia of NATO Navies/OF/United Kingdom or more appropriately for the subject exhibit Template:Ranks and Insignia of NZCF/CDT/ALL. I also believe that the page title acts as an address such as the NZCF/CDT/ALL is much similar to my own Template:Insignia of UK/CDT/CCF/RN.

If I have acted at all, it is to create a better and more professional page for my Combined Cadet Force or my Community Cadet Force. The GVCAC, which I am not even apart of, can keep it how it is if they like.

I thank you for rash and rather rude criticism and I shall in future ignore completely the GVCAC and try ad create less professional work.

Many Thanks C. D. Southcott Esq. (talk) 16:35, 15 April 2019 (UTC)

Wiki linking of "Nihlism"?

This is a bit of a nit-picky question, but during your Six Heretical Teachers expansion, you included the piped wiki link ]. This seems odd to me because it links directly to the article "nihilism" but displays the misspelling "nihlism" (additionally, nihlism redirects to the common spelling). Why did you pipe the link like this? e (talk | contribs) 18:33, 16 April 2019 (UTC)

@E to the Pi times i: I think that Noahhoward added that. Way above my paygrade ;) --Tagishsimon (talk) 20:25, 16 April 2019 (UTC)

Whoops, sorry to bother you. It's especially strange I made that mistake, since you only did one edit to that article, while Noahhoward did the bulk of the edits.

I've copied the question over to their talk page, so you don't have to be bothered by any further discussion. e (talk | contribs) 21:02, 16 April 2019 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Original Barnstar
	Thank you 7VM (talk) 08:01, 18 April 2019 (UTC)

Authority control for Duos

I'm watching to see how you add the authority control tags to this! I left them out because I figured you would know what to do. ThatMontrealIP (talk) 02:51, 19 April 2019 (UTC)

@ThatMontrealIP: Sadly, in the normal way. Wikidata now has three records; Rhonda Weppler and Trevor Mahovsky, Trevor Mahovsky and Rhonda Weppler, and the first record is connected to the second & third by reciprocal 'has part' / 'part of' properties. Should there be identifiers for Rhonda Weppler and Trevor Mahovsky as a duo, they'll appear on your article - you have invluded an authority control template in it. However identifiers for the individuals as individuals will not appear on your duo article. Should there ever be articles about each individual, then their identifiers would appear on their individual article.

Whether {{authority control}} should be able to pull identifiers from wikidata items that are not linked to the article is an interesting question. Certainly at the moment it is unable to do so. From a purist point of view, the duo is a distinct thing from the two individuals, and so authority control is doing the right thing. From a practical point of view, it can be argued that it would be desirable to add identifiers for the individuals to the duo article. It would be possible to do that by adding a couple of authority control templates in which the identifier parameters are specified within the template, rather than being pulled from wikidata. Bit of a cludge, though. --Tagishsimon (talk) 11:56, 19 April 2019 (UTC)

Wholesomeness listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Wholesomeness. Since you had some involvement with the Wholesomeness redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you wish to do so. Shhhnotsoloud (talk) 18:44, 21 April 2019 (UTC)

Message for you here

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CSD criteria

Please do not nominate pages for speedy deletion unless you can identify a relevant CSD criterion. I recognise the difficulty in dealing with obviously inappropriate content, but the CSD criteria are narrowly defined and should be followed strictly. Thanks — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 08:51, 30 April 2019 (UTC)

Facto Post – Issue 23 – 30 April 2019

Facto Post – Issue 23 – 30 April 2019 The Editor is Charles Matthews, for ContentMine. Please leave feedback for him, on his User talk page. To subscribe to Facto Post go to Misplaced Pages:Facto Post mailing list. For the ways to unsubscribe, see the footer. Back numbers are here. Completely clouded? Talk of cloud computing draws a veil over hardware, but also, less obviously but more importantly, obscures such intellectual distinction as matters most in its use. Wikidata begins to allow tasks to be undertaken that were out of easy reach. The facility should not be taken as the real point. Coming in from another angle, the "executive decision" is more glamorous; but the "administrative decision" should be admired for its command of facts. Think of the attitudes ad fontes, so prevalent here on Misplaced Pages as "can you give me a source for that?", and being prepared to deal with complicated analyses into specified subcases. Impatience expressed as a disdain for such pedantry is quite understandable, but neither dirty data nor false dichotomies are at all good to have around. Issue 13 and Issue 21, respectively on WP:MEDRS and systematic reviews, talk about biomedical literature and computing tasks that would be of higher quality if they could be made more "administrative". For example, it is desirable that the decisions involved be consistent, explicable, and reproducible by non-experts from specified inputs. What gets clouded out is not impossibly hard to understand. You do need to put together the insights of functional programming, which is a doctrinaire and purist but clearcut approach, with the practicality of office software. Loopless computation can be conceived of as a seamless forward march of spreadsheet columns, each determined by the content of previous ones. Very well: to do a backward audit, when now we are talking about Wikidata, we rely on integrity of data and its scrupulous sourcing: and clearcut case analyses. The MEDRS example forces attention on purge attempts such as Beall's list. Links Misplaced Pages:Wikipedia_Signpost/2019-03-31/In focus#The_Wikipedia_SourceWatch by Headbomb. Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Academic Journals/Journals cited by Misplaced Pages/Questionable1 d:Wikidata:ScienceSource project/Beall's list: Beall's list, final version, matched into Wikidata. SPARQL query for Quackwatch: query to find items on Wikidata for articles subject to the Quackwatch blacklist of "Nonrecommended Periodicals", under "Journals (Fundamentally Flawed)". SPARQL query to find retracted articles on Wikidata. d:Wikidata:ScienceSource project/NCBI2wikidata dashboard, metadata for biomedical articles being built up, sourced from PubMed and PubMed Central. If you wish to receive no further issues of Facto Post, please remove your name from our mailing list. Alternatively, to opt out of all massmessage mailings, you may add Category:Wikipedians who opt out of message delivery to your user talk page. Newsletter delivered by MediaWiki message delivery

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Henry Timmins

Hello. I see you've added a tag (https://en.wikipedia.org/Template:Lead_rewrite) to Henry Timmins, but without leaving a reason. I didn't reverse it, because I assume that you do have a reason; please share that, and any recommendations, either here or on the Timmins' TALK page. Thank you, Lindenfall (talk) 18:00, 30 April 2019 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Technical Barnstar
	Thank you for your patience with explaining Wikidata issues at Women in Red and handling some of the Wikidata problems we encounter. And always with such kindness. Rosiestep (talk) 14:28, 1 May 2019 (UTC)

Thank you @Rosiestep:. WiR gives me great pleasure. Lovely community, great leadership :) --Tagishsimon (talk) 14:33, 1 May 2019 (UTC)

Simple request

Please stop accusing me of offensive things, suggesting that I'm in a club, and making up issues with my contributions. Natureium (talk) 18:51, 4 May 2019 (UTC)

If & when you end your Jess Wade campaign. --Tagishsimon (talk) 18:59, 4 May 2019 (UTC)

No, you don't get to stop harassing me when you feel like it. WP:CIVIL is a policy. Natureium (talk) 19:03, 4 May 2019 (UTC)

I'm not the person piling on Jess Wade. You are. You should expect and you will get push-back because of your deplorable behaviour. --Tagishsimon (talk) 21:43, 4 May 2019 (UTC)

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AE

Notifying you of this. Natureium (talk) 23:25, 4 May 2019 (UTC)

Why do you continue to place comments outside your section? That is not permitted on AE. I corrected this for you four times already, but, as mentioned, there will not be a 5th. Your comments are just going to be summarily removed. Again, AE is not AN/I. We try to keep discussion more orderly there. Thanks. El_C 01:43, 5 May 2019 (UTC)

@El C: Because a thread is the most sensible way to respond. Why are you getting so upset about it? --Tagishsimon (talk) 09:06, 5 May 2019 (UTC)

I'm not upset about this. Just giving you simple instructions, which are already on the AE board, to begin with. El_C 09:09, 5 May 2019 (UTC)

Talkback

Hi Tagishsimon, I left a note at Talk:Heather_Wakelee#Issues_with_the_article and hope you could respond there. Best, Kevin (aka L235 · t · c) 16:58, 12 May 2019 (UTC)

Hello Tagishsimon, hope you're well. This is a long time later and I'm not sure if you've responded in another location but I would appreciate if you could respond to my question at the link above or point me to any other discussion where this was addressed. Thanks! Kevin (aka L235 · t · c) 14:30, 27 June 2019 (UTC)

Facto Post – Issue 24 – 17 May 2019

Facto Post – Issue 24 – 17 May 2019 The Editor is Charles Matthews, for ContentMine. Please leave feedback for him, on his User talk page. To subscribe to Facto Post go to Misplaced Pages:Facto Post mailing list. For the ways to unsubscribe, see the footer. Back numbers are here. Semantic Web and TDM – a ContentMine view Two dozen issues, and this may be the last, a valediction at least for a while. It's time for a two-year summation of ContentMine projects involving TDM (text and data mining). Wikidata and now Structured Data on Commons represent the overlap of Wikimedia with the Semantic Web. This common ground is helping to convert an engineering concept into a movement. TDM generally has little enough connection with the Semantic Web, being instead in the orbit of machine learning which is no respecter of the semantic. Don't break a taboo by asking bots "and what do you mean by that?" The ScienceSource project innovates in TDM, by storing its text mining results in a Wikibase site. It strives for compliance of its fact mining, on drug treatments of diseases, with an automated form of the relevant Misplaced Pages referencing guideline MEDRS. Where WikiFactMine set up an API for reuse of its results, ScienceSource has a SPARQL query service, with look-and-feel exactly that of Wikidata's at query.wikidata.org. It also now has a custom front end, and its content can be federated, in other words used in data mashups: it is one of over 50 sites that can federate with Wikidata. The human factor comes to bear through the front end, which combines a link to the HTML version of a paper, text mining results organised in drug and disease columns, and a SPARQL display of nearby drug and disease terms. Much software to develop and explain, so little time! Rather than telling the tale, Facto Post brings you ScienceSource links, starting from the how-to video, lower right. Links for participation http://sciencesource-review.wmflabs.org/, review tool link in the left-hand sidebar at http://sciencesource.wmflabs.org/Main_Page The review tool requires a log in on sciencesource.wmflabs.org, and an OAuth permission (bottom of a review page) to operate. It can be used in simple and more advanced workflows. Examples of queries for the latter are at d:Wikidata_talk:ScienceSource project/Queries#SS_disease_list and d:Wikidata_talk:ScienceSource_project/Queries#NDF-RT issue. Please be aware that this is a research project in development, and may have outages for planned maintenance. That will apply for the next few days, at least. The ScienceSource wiki main page carries information on practical matters. Email is not enabled on the wiki: use site mail here to Charles Matthews in case of difficulty, or if you need support. Further explanatory videos will be put into commons:Category:ContentMine videos. If you wish to receive no further issues of Facto Post, please remove your name from our mailing list. Alternatively, to opt out of all massmessage mailings, you may add Category:Wikipedians who opt out of message delivery to your user talk page. Newsletter delivered by MediaWiki message delivery

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June events with WIR

June 2019, Volume 5, Issue 6, Numbers 107, 108, 122, 123, 124, 125 Check out what's happening in June at Women in Red: Virtual events: New topics: Pride / Royals / Space Geofocus: Mediterranean Continuing initiatives: Suffrage / #1day1woman Other ways you can participate: Help us plan our future events: Ideas Cafe Join the conversations on our talkpage Follow us on Twitter: @wikiwomeninred Subscription options: Opt-in/Opt-out

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Redirects question

I would like to know if any articles are redirected to Chlorophyll. I would like to know this information to share with a Facebook Group for other names for Chlorophyll. How do I do this? Thank you, --Wyn.junior (talk) 17:49, 12 June 2019 (UTC)

You totally rock!

Know that your work is appreciated. SusunW (talk) 23:09, 24 June 2019 (UTC)

July events from Women in Red!

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Your GA nomination of Battersea Town Hall

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Battersea Town Hall you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of KJP1 -- KJP1 (talk) 17:22, 29 June 2019 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Battersea Town Hall

The article Battersea Town Hall you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:Battersea Town Hall for issues which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of KJP1 -- KJP1 (talk) 13:21, 30 June 2019 (UTC)

OpenStreetMap for Zambian Roads

Thank you very much for importing and putting up OpenStreetMap images on the Misplaced Pages Pages of the T1, T2, T3, T4 and M9 roads of Zambia. I was hoping that you would do the same on the Misplaced Pages Pages of the M1, M4, M8 and M10 roads of Zambia. Thank you very much for using the most accurate map! Thank you, Chils Kemptonian (talk) 21:19, 3 July 2019 (UTC)

Raising a concern

Hi Tagishsimon, I have a concern about the WiR statistics. In the last day or so I've noticed a lot of Wikidata items being created by the bot User:GZWDer_(flood). It seems to create items for all sorts of Misplaced Pages articles and not just for English Misplaced Pages. But in many cases it only creates the item, so they won't come up on your list of "Instance of: human". An example is Q65047730, to which I have subsequently added a description, instance (human) and sex or gender (male). Another concern is that I have found and merged a number of Wikidata items created by this bot, which you will see if you look in my user contributions. Happy to provide examples if needed. Not sure how to handle this, hence am raising it with you. Oronsay (talk) 07:51, 6 July 2019 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Women in Red/Newest items about women writers from some language Misplaced Pages

Hi. Regarding Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Women in Red/Newest items about women writers from some language Misplaced Pages, I'm trying to "Automatically update the list now", but keep getting the error message "Trying to update Misplaced Pages:WikiProject_Women_in_Red/Newest_items_about_women_writers_from_some_language_Wikipedia... There was an error running the query ". Can you check the edit history and see if I screwed something up when I was re-arranging columns? Thanks. --Rosiestep (talk) 20:32, 9 July 2019 (UTC)

Sorry to butt in here, Rosie, but I find the title "from some language Misplaced Pages" rather confusing, especially as it is explained that "This is a list of 1000 most recently created human women writer items on Wikidata who have an article in English Misplaced Pages on Wikidata". I see, nevertheless, that Susan J. Matt is not yet listed on the EN wiki but only on FR. I thought perhaps the italics indicated articles on another language wiki but see that Amelia Minerva Starkweather is only on EN. I can see the items listed could be useful for both EN editors and those from other languages but it looks to me as if it would be useful to add more explanations. Perhaps after you have completed your modifications, the listing will be easier to follow. Maybe Jane023 could also offer clarifications.--Ipigott (talk) 10:03, 10 July 2019 (UTC)

Well my first thought was that it was timing out, but I rearranged the query and tried cutting it back to 500, rather than 1000, but nothing seems to help. The query runs fine in Wikidata query though here: try it - so maybe a problem with listeria? Jane (talk) 11:10, 10 July 2019 (UTC)

Thanks, Jane023 for checking out why it's not updating. If the issue is with Listeria, I assume it'll sort out at some point. Ipigott brings up some other points which should be addressed by those who are familiar with the list; I just became aware of it within the last couple of days. --Rosiestep (talk) 18:08, 10 July 2019 (UTC)

I thought Jane023 could answer my queries as she created the list.--Ipigott (talk) 19:36, 10 July 2019 (UTC)

The query is simple - it calls up ALL items with gender=female, article on +.wikipedia.org, then sorts the Q number in descending order. So it is the type of query that will timeout at some point because it calls up everything. I changed the text to say "some" instead of "English" because the query will stop at finding the first linked WP article in any language, so it is English+, not just English. Jane (talk) 08:19, 11 July 2019 (UTC)

Thanks, Jane023. Any idea why many of the names are in italics? If we can get this sorted out, it may be useful to apply the same approach to other important occupations, e.g. artists. Maybe you also have some views on this, Tagishsimon?--Ipigott (talk) 10:28, 12 July 2019 (UTC)

Ipigott The names in italics are items either associated with a Misplaced Pages other than en-wp, or the item is affiliated with another project, e.g. Wikisource. --Rosiestep (talk) 12:12, 12 July 2019 (UTC)

Rosiestep: I've just successfully updated the list now. I see it's only half as long and has additional columns.--Ipigott (talk) 10:32, 12 July 2019 (UTC)

@Ipigott and Jane023, I am delighted to see that the list has been updated. I like the idea behind it, and I think it should not be too difficult to replicate for other occupations. Has it been added to the Redlist Index? --Rosiestep (talk) 11:26, 12 July 2019 (UTC)

Additions to Wikidata since 8 July

Thanks a million for all the additions you have been making to Wikidata over the past few days. I see you have been adding all the WiR Listeria redlists as well as a considerable number of new articles, no doubt trying to cover the entries which would normally have been made by a bot. I have never received so many alerts. I did not realize I had started so many redlists. I must say I am now very relieved to have someone with real competence taking care of the Wikidata work. You are really doing a great job.--Ipigott (talk) 09:37, 10 July 2019 (UTC)

I agree, Tagishsimon; it's wonderful to see that you've been adding the WiR redlists (Listeria-based and crowd-sourced, too) to Wikidata. Thank you!! Is there a way to generate a list of the ones which have been given a Wikidata item, and if so, can that list be in the form of a spreadsheet on en-wp, and can a link to it be placed on the WiR redlist index page? OR, are you keeping track of the ones which have a Wikidata item in some other way? --Rosiestep (talk) 18:46, 10 July 2019 (UTC)

Artemis Simopoulos

I recommend in the future you give some time for a new article to develop before you recommend for deletion, at least a few hours after initial launch. No need to replay. Semper Fi! FieldMarine (talk) 00:42, 21 July 2019 (UTC)

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Thanks!

Just to say thanks for connecting Madalena Boavida to a Wikidata item - I'm sorry, I forgot to do it for her! As that didn't automatically bring up the German version of the article, I just checked, and found it was connected to Maria Boavida in Wikidata, so I've merged that to the item you created (which was newer, but had more information), and added more variant names there too. Thanks again! RebeccaGreen (talk) 20:16, 9 August 2019 (UTC)

Naveen Prasad Journalist Page should not be processed in Deletion

Hi Everyone. This Page Naveen Prasad Journalist should not be deleted as this Public Figure is a Journalist of an Indian Media.

As we all know Media is the 4th Pillar of Democracy. So we should appreciate his Enthusiasm. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Codefunda (talk • contribs) 16:05, 11 August 2019 (UTC)

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"Laurie Heyer" (Q66857295)

Thanks for making this new data item. But can you please explain why you thought it appropriate to add a statement that her citizenship is American? We have no sources for that claim. The article does not state a birthplace. The article lists her as "American", but all I meant by stating that in the article is that she was educated in and works in the US. For academics, in particular, making the jump from that sort of statement to an inference about citizenship is often a mistake. I think in this case it is more likely than not that she actually is a US citizen, but we should not say such things without much more certainty than that. This sort of dubious statement is a big part of why my trust in the integrity of Wikidata and my willingness to allow any of its data to be imported to Misplaced Pages is so low. —David Eppstein (talk) 01:44, 31 August 2019 (UTC)

David Eppstein: I find this rather confusing. I see that you described her as an "American mathematician" in the Misplaced Pages article and in the List of women in mathematics. This to me means that her citizenship is American, otherwise - if there is a real doubt - I would expect something like "based in the United States". Lack of citizenship on Wikidata, impairs the usefulness of redlists on other language versions of Misplaced Pages. Unless you have good reason to doubt her American citizenship, I would suggest it should be restored on Wikidata.--Ipigott (talk) 07:12, 9 September 2019 (UTC)

I think that in leads, conciseness is more important than using very many words to accurately and correctly express precisely the correct meaning. So I will write "American" to mean that someone has largely been based in America throughout whatever they are notable for, regardless of what exactly their citizenship has been documented to be. In this I believe I am far from alone. Also, I believe that many (maybe even most) citizenship claims on Wikidata are inadequately sourced. It is that inadequate sourcing, the willingness of Wikidata enthusiasts to make logical leaps like this without sourcing, and the inability to express nuance like "they were educated and worked in the US and for all I know they are a US citizen but I have no clear documentation of that fact" that makes the data portions of Wikidata as useless as they are (essentially unusable for importing as Misplaced Pages content). —David Eppstein (talk) 07:18, 9 September 2019 (UTC)

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Thanks for adding my new person-article to Wikidata ...

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Help keep these notable pages

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Wikidata on Christine von Kohl

I'm surprised the Wikidata entry on this person is Christine Kohl (Q1083879). In all the other authority files she is Christine von Kohl. If we can have Ludwig van Beethoven then it should be possible to have Christine von Kohl. Can you fix it?--Ipigott (talk) 16:56, 16 November 2019 (UTC)

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Thanks for your development of the inclusion criteria for academics at Misplaced Pages:Draft rewrite of Notability (academics). I am also working on this issue at d:Wikidata:Scholia. I think you have the right idea about the direction of the future. I told your collaborators Megalibrarygirl and SusunW the same thing. Blue Rasberry (talk) 19:52, 21 November 2019 (UTC)

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Wikidata request

Any chance you could create a Wikidata redlist for our focus on "Women who died in 2019"? If there are too many for just one list, then perhaps they could be broken down in lists by geographical area or occupation. I'll leave it up to you.--Ipigott (talk) 12:05, 26 November 2019 (UTC)

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Wikidata queries from WiR for Wikimujeres

Hi Tagishsimon! I wanted to create the lists of WiR for the Spanish project Wikimujeres, and then when I started re-creating the queries for listeria I realized some of them were working while some of them weren't. Then I realized that for example this query that you did has some sections of code that include thins like this: filter(str(?sitelink_list)="Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by occupation/Actresses" that seem to be the reason why I'm unable to then recreate the query on Spanish Misplaced Pages. Any hint on how to solve this issue would be appreciated. I tried to replace that with the link for the same page but on Spanish (like this one for actress) but that didn't work either. Anyways, I'm not super proficient with SPARQL queries but if you give me some hints I can replace the code and make it work for Spanish missing women. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks again! Scann (talk) 01:44, 7 December 2019 (UTC)

Request for route map advice

Hi there. I found you on the WikiProject Oregon Graphics page. I'm hoping you can point me in the right direction for getting a route map made (or making one myself) for an article on Naito Parkway I created. I went through the instructions on the US Roads WikiProject maps page and wound up sinking several hours into QGIS and inkscape without any usable results. It seems like any blank OSM tiles I've found are cluttered with too much irrelevant detail to be appropriate. I haven't asked at US Roads, as their scope would not include this map. Is there a solution I'm overlooking? Any help or advice you can provide is appreciated.

Thanks! Skeletor3000 (talk) 01:38, 18 December 2019 (UTC)

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Gender gap dashboard

Hi Tagishsimon, would you happen to have a WIR/gender gap dashboard for basic Wikidata stats? E.g., to see at a glance, the current gender ratio of enwp biographies, number of enwp biographies without a tagged gender. I was curious about enwp biography gender ratios by various factors such as occupation and other Wikidata attributes. Do you have a dashboard (or set of regular queries) to monitor stuff like this already? If not, no worries, but thought I'd ask. czar 08:40, 29 December 2019 (UTC)

Thanks

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Can you fix the contest page so the parameters conform to the mobile format? I may also need your help with generating some stub lists! Thanks.♦ Dr. Blofeld 12:08, 2 February 2020 (UTC)

Daisy Edgar-Jones

I strongly disagree with the publication of this draft - I reviewed it yesterday and declined it as there just isn't any evidence of notability. I've placed a "speedy deletion" request on it. MurielMary (talk) 08:42, 9 February 2020 (UTC)

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You posted something about my recent article on Gwendolyn Oxenham. I've been away for a while, and I haven't any idea what it means, though it sounds pretty interesting. Could you please clue me in a bit? Lou Sander (talk) 00:17, 14 February 2020 (UTC)

Kennox House

I note that this house is now an airbnb and that they have made a fewe alterations to my original article such as 'inline links'. Just to make you aware that I am not involved in these changes as per 'Don't do this again.' Rosser Gruffydd 13:01, 22 February 2020 (UTC)

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Acacia maps

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Wikidata entry on Maria Veronica Reina

I'm working on the biography of Maria Verónica Reina and see that the Wikidata entry on her name is incorrectly presented without the accent on the O in Verónica. I'm not too sure how this should be corrected. Can you help?--Ipigott (talk) 11:34, 10 March 2020 (UTC)

Maria Verónica Reina (Q87075153) has the English name as "Maria Verónica Reina". @Ipigott, where do you see it without the accent? czar 02:23, 11 March 2020 (UTC)

Czar: Thanks for dropping by. It was the basic Wikidata entry that had no accent. It was corrected yesterday.--Ipigott (talk) 06:39, 11 March 2020 (UTC)

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Duplicity

I've noticed in the last week or so that the Duplicity tool is not working. At first I wondered if there had been another "flood" of articles into Wikidata. I do not believe this is the case. Are you aware of this? Where should I go to seek its reinstatement as a working tool? Oronsay (talk) 01:08, 19 May 2020 (UTC)

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Correction of a Link (lower case to upper case)

Hi there :-), Need some help. Can you help me to make "Mohamed_wisham" to "Mohamed_Wisham" in the url. (letter 'w' to be made "W")

https://en.wikipedia.org/Mohamed_wisham

Thanks Existance 23:32, 28 June 2020 (UTC)

At this point I still don't understand what you have done but my guess is that, it is for a good reason and I am grateful. I am slightly more than one month on Misplaced Pages and I still don't understand its workings but I hope to get there one time. This is the first article I have created and I am overwhelmed by the willingness of editors on here to help. Many thanks. Acwecacommunicationg (talk) 19:40, 12 July 2020 (UTC)

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Accepted Style for Biographies

Hi Tagishsimon, where is the "accepted style for biographies" documented? I was unaware of it. Thanks! T. E. Meeks T. E. Meeks (talk) 11:44, 29 August 2020 (UTC)

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wikidata and writer's pseudonyms

Thank you for merging Elinor Denniston and Rae Foley on Wikidata!. WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 17:53, 1 September 2020 (UTC)

Powel

When you have a moment, can you revisit the FAC for Powel? I would like to address any further concerns you may have, but I have lost track of what still needs work? --- C&C (Coffeeandcrumbs) 02:06, 3 September 2020 (UTC)

Textile artists

I have just come across the Wikidata redlist d:User:PKM/Textile_artists and see that they are nearly all women. If you have time, I think it would be useful to adapt it for the WiR redlists. Perhaps you could combine it with Textile designers.--Ipigott (talk) 10:37, 8 September 2020 (UTC)

Laziness here

For pages like Patrick O'Keeffe (politician) I have been adding the military intelligence files, often when going past I see no person bio template, do we have a pertinent wikidata link bio template available that I don't have to complete? — billinghurst sDrewth 11:49, 11 September 2020 (UTC)

Hmm, I notice that gaWP has ga:template:WD Bosca Sonraí Duine though I have no idea of its specifics. — billinghurst sDrewth 11:51, 11 September 2020 (UTC)

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Mildred Weston

Hello TagishSimon, the two Mildred Westons are quite similar - both published authors born 13 years apart - and I had quite a bit of trouble distinguishing between them. I think this issue will arise again and I wanted to save future researchers some time - T. E. Meeks T. E. Meeks (talk) 11:33, 23 September 2020 (UTC)

A beer for you!

Thanks again! Cheers! Quaenuncabibis (talk) 18:32, 22 October 2020 (UTC)

AfC by User:BatYote.

Hello Tagishsimon, my colleague BatYote. has several AfCs stuck in the process. Might I dare to ask you to have a look at them, too? Those are the articles: Jacques Fellay, Grégoire Courtine, and Michael Unser. If you think this is inappropriate, please forget about my question. (I have further one hanging in pipeline as well: Draft:Pierre Gönczy :) ) Many thanks! Best, Quaenuncabibis (talk) 08:12, 23 October 2020 (UTC)

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Hyphen or dash in the page title

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Robert Rubin

Hi Tagishsimon, some years back I recall you were willing to consider proposed COI edits related to a U.S. politics and business BLP that I worked on, and I am wondering if you might be interested to look at another. Since the summer I've been working with advisers of the former U.S. Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin to propose changes to his biographical article. Although the article is well more than a stub, it's also missing quite a bit about his career prior to government service and even some key roles he played in the Clinton administration.

As always, I refrain from making direct edits to articles and seek volunteer help, but over the last seven weeks or so, I've tried reaching out to various wikiprojects and even past editors of the page, and received either crickets or (mostly) polite refusals on the basis that I am working with people close to Mr. Rubin. Remembering that you were open-minded and thoughtful before, I figured I would reach out and see if this interested you at all. If so, you might have a look at my suggestion on the Rubin talk page about the 1993 Deficit Reduction Act. If not, I'll respect that. Thanks, WWB Too (Talk · COI) 13:45, 11 November 2020 (UTC)

Request on 19:40:48, 11 November 2020 for assistance on AfC submission by RMcNHouston

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Ref.: Articles for creation: Tom (Thomas Henry) Marlowe (November 11)

Hi, Tagishsimon, and thank you for your very swift reply - I'm completely new to this, so welcome your / others' inputs. I will review and edit in due course the draft article; I may need some help in finding broken links / uploading pictures?

Thank you again for the swift reply. With best regards,

RMcNHouston 19:40 GMT, 11/11/2020

RMcNHouston (talk) 19:40, 11 November 2020 (UTC)

Saving Brinton

You recently rejected an article about the oldest continuously operated film theatre in the United States. I was hoping this stub, not really article could spark more edits from other people. A documentary featuring the town/theatre called Saving Brinton was created and has its own wikipedia page. Considering Washington, Iowa is a very old and rural community I highly doubt people from that community are familiar with wikipedia processes and procedures but if the article is already created I am sure they could contribute. It is also of great historical importance. Please reconsider this, thank you. There are articles of comparable size about National Register of Historic Places — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:646:8501:8880:E4E1:F6C4:6B06:8001 (talk) 22:31, 11 November 2020 (UTC)

Makuchowska + Pikulska

You might want to keep an eye on Mirosława Makuchowska and Katarzyna Pikulska, for notability and/or deletion issues, according to an active Wikipedian. Boud (talk) 19:53, 13 November 2020 (UTC)

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2020–21 Melbourne Stars season

Hello @Tagishsimon:,

I am confused as to why my article 2020–21 Melbourne Stars season was declined by you. I understand that yes, outsiders reading the article would have no idea who the Melbourne Stars are going to be confused by it, but at the same time people with no prior knowledge of the team would have no reason to read the article. There was even an embedded link that directs readers to the main article of the club so it's evident that you're not even trying to understand. Are you here to say that the article 2020–21 Liverpool F.C. season says anything of who and what Liverpool F.C is?? Please, if you're going to reject an article aimed at an extremely specific group of cricket viewers, at least think of a indisputable reason and not some fluff pulled out of your rear end.

--115.70.233.235 (talk) 23:03, 19 November 2020 (UTC)

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Thank you for considering the Brainphone draft. This article was my first attempt at a Misplaced Pages contribution. Your critique and concerns are valid -- for now. I'll try again in a year, when the reality is closer to the writing. :=) I sincerely appreciate your time and advice. OldCyberGuy (talk) 19:41, 24 November 2020 (UTC)

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wolfTPM and go-tpm libraries

Hi Tagishsimon,

I want to answer your comment - "Why is this, out of 8 zillion libraries, notable? Tagishsimon (talk) 16:39, 25 November 2020 (UTC)"

A. There are just four TPM libraries in total. If we count Microsoft's own TPM library that's five. But not even one zillion :)

B. wolfTPM is the only TPM library designed for Embedded Systems. It is also the only one without external dependencies, which makes it lightweight and easy to deploy on devices with limited resources. Such systems are IoT Industrial Medical list goes on.

C. go-tpm is created by a team at google and what is notable for it is they used golang. All other TPM libraries are written in C programming language. This library has been deployed on systems with lots of performance, like data centers and google's cloud servers.

Both wolfTPM and go-tpm were created last year (2019). Before that there were just Intel and IBM's TPM libraries.

The field of Trusted Computing and TPM is slowly rising in 2020. One of the reasons for the slow adoption is the difficulty of acquiring information about the technology. I hope that by adding information about wolfTPM and go-tpm in Misplaced Pages more people will be aware there are two new libraries. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tomovdimi (talk • contribs) 21:53, 26 November 2020 (UTC)

RE: Comment on Handshake

I dont own Handshake, just found and recently and have done a lot of research on it. I guess I am pretty excited about its future, but I have no stake in it reaally besides like $5 lol I guess I can be proud to know I wrote something good enough that it make it seem like I owend a whole company :D

Do you have any suggestions where I can hunt for better sources for this stuff? Handshake is fairly new I guess, just a year, so I guess there hasnt been much coverage yet

Im wanting to add this dns root to wikipedia so people have a public source to learn about it, and I based the whole article writing style off this: https://en.wikipedia.org/Namecoin

Imagine a decentralized internet! The more you censor the information the less chances people learn about alternatives like Namecoin and Handshake.. people need to be able to learn about these things!

Man Made Sea Plan

Hey! It's Switherlandio. When I made my Misplaced Pages account the goal was introducing things not a lot of people around the world knew about that was still notable enough to be on Misplaced Pages. The first 2 or 3 I made were not very good and didn't cite sources because I didn't know how. After practicing in my sandbox I decided I knew how to add sources and began my creation. I looked up things on Misplaced Pages and most of them were already on here. Suddenly I looked up "Manmade Sea Plan" and it was not on here. I began adding my article and tried hard to add reliable sources. They were reliable enough but you said my article was "something you made up". I am willing to take any advice but I did not make up that topic. The small YouTuber who came up with the idea, coincidentally just did a live stream a few hours ago. I am one of very few people who give her credit for it. Most people don't know who came up with the idea and just post about it online. I cited really notable websites who talked about it. Y Combinator is the same company that funded Reddit and 2 other notable websites. They talked about it. Please respond soon. I understand you are very busy.

                                                                     - Jane (Switherlandio)  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Switherlandio (talk • contribs) 02:16, 5 December 2020 (UTC)

Request on 10:46:42, 7 December 2020 for assistance on AfC submission by Ansgrayson

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Hi - I really appreciate your feedback, although some of your language did upset me, I'm only trying to bring value to Misplaced Pages, and not annoy you!

I understand that you're busy, but could if you could spare a couple of minutes, I'd really appreciate some added guidance on the points you raised?

I'm more than happy to remove the term "premium" if you deem that advertorial, but I only used that term because I extracted it from the Harvard Business School and BCG Institute publication referenced below. I did the same with cutting-edge algorithm (hence the quotations).

I have gone back and edited the language as per your request but I would just like some clarity for future pages, because I've been trying to write this article as if I were writing an evidence-supported academic dissertation, extracting details from external sources to guide the core points of information.

I've been researching and editing other platforms in the industry for a guide as to what to write, so if I was to take a look at Catalant (https://en.wikipedia.org/Catalant) and the unreferenced mentions of "intelligent recommendations" - would this not be deemed puffery too?

Does the latest version add that crucial layer of neutrality now? It's been an interesting learning curve, so thank you for guiding me towards my first Misplaced Pages article creation. I have a few more articles about the contingent workforce and shift to digital for freelancers that I can't wait to write next, so I'm really excited to get past this first step as a page creator! Thanks :) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ansgrayson (talk • contribs) 09:56, 7 December 2020 (UTC)

ADDED NOTE: I am a financial consultant, so I certainly do not work for a recruitment company, nor for anybody sadly at this moment?. I am a freelancer who gets connected to work, and the shift to remote work has opened up new opportunities for freelancers across the world to find better opportunities than we were able to before - this is a really important topic right now - independent workers need to be aware of the platforms like Toptal, Catalant, Comatch, Fiverr, Talmix, Beeline that are out there to connect us to work while many of us (myself included)have lost jobs during the pandemic.

Ansgrayson (talk) 10:46, 7 December 2020 (UTC)