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== Favor ==

Hi Smokey,

I'd appreciate a sanity check.

Does this close seem reasonable, or like a supervote to you?

https://en.wikipedia.org/Talk:Jaggi_Vasudev#Requested_move_20_October_2018

Thanks --] ] 00:02, 27 November 2018 (UTC)

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Misplaced Pages:Numbers

Sorry for the late reply. Feel free to reuse that title for Misplaced Pages: Notability (numbers), or a redirect to it. Cheers. —Michael Z. 2007-10-08 20:49 Z

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Help Project newsletter : Issue 4

The Help Project Newsletter
Issue IV - September 2012
Project news summary
From the editor

Hi, and welcome to the fourth issue of the Help Project newsletter.

It's been another busy month in the world of Misplaced Pages help. The results from the in-person usability tests conducted as part of the help pages fellowship have been released. There are no great surprises here, the tests confirmed that people have trouble with the existing help system, and people looking for help on the same topic often end up at wildly different pages. Editors who experienced a tutorial and/or edited a sandbox as part of their learning were noticeably more confident when editing a real article.

Drawing on that, three new "Introduction to" tutorials for new users have been created: referencing, uploading images and navigating Misplaced Pages. These join the popular existing introductions to policies and guidelines and talk pages. Feel free to edit them, but please do remember that the idea is to keep them simple and as free from extraneous details as possible. All three have been added to Help:Getting started, which is intended to be the new focal point for new editors, and will also be seeing a redesign soon.

In other news, the Article Feedback Tool (AFT) can now be used to collect feedback on help pages. By default it has been deployed to all pages in the Help: namespace. It can be disabled on any page by adding Category:Article Feedback Blacklist, or enabled for pages in other namespaces by adding Category:Article Feedback 5 Additional Articles. Once a page has AFT applied, you can add feedback using the form which appears at the bottom of it. Feedback can be reviewed by clicking "View feedback" in the sidebar, or the "Feedback from my watched pages" link at the top of your watchlist.

I'm now entering the final month of my fellowship, and will be focusing my efforts on making much needed improvements to Help:Contents, the main entrance point to our help system. It's been a pleasure working as a fellow, and I just want to thank all the people who have helped me or offered advice over the past months. That definitely won't be the end of my involvement in the Help Project though, I'll be sticking around as a volunteer and continuing to write this newsletter.

Any comments or suggestions for future issues are welcome at Misplaced Pages:Help Project/Newsletter. If you don't wish to receive this newsletter on your talk page in future then just edit the participants page and add "no newsletter" next to your name.

-- the wub "?!" 20:00, 7 September 2012 (UTC)

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Help Project newsletter : Issue 5

The Help Project Newsletter
Issue V - January 2013
Project news summary
From the editor

Hello again from the Help Project!

In the last newsletter (which was quite a while ago sorry!) I talked about my fellowship and the plans for improving the main portal page, Help:Contents. Well I'm sad to say that my fellowship is now over, but very happy to say that the proposed improvements to that page have been completed and implemented. Do check it out if you haven't already.

Another important and frequently used help page, Misplaced Pages:Contact us, has also seen a significant revamp. You may recognise the design inspiration from the new tutorial pages.

In project news, we now have a subscription to the "article alerts" service. Any deletion nominations, move discussions, or requests for comments on pages within the Help Project's scope will now show up at Misplaced Pages:Help Project/Article alerts. So that's definitely a page which project members might want to watch.

Any comments or suggestions for future issues are welcome at Misplaced Pages:Help Project/Newsletter. If you don't wish to receive this newsletter on your talk page in future then just edit the participants page and add "no newsletter" next to your name.

-- the wub "?!" 23:34, 13 January 2013 (UTC)

WikiProject:REHAB update

You signed up for WikiProject User Rehab

Hi there, I'm RDN1F. It's come to my attention that you've signed up for WikiProject Rehab, but since that time the project has retired. I've decided to take it upon myself to rejuvenate the project - but I could do with your help. If you are still willing to help mentor (or even give me a hand in bringing this project back!) leave a message on my talk page
RDN1F TALK 16:32, 2 March 2013 (UTC)

Help Project newsletter : Issue 6

The Help Project Newsletter

Issue VI - April 2013

Open Help Conference

The Open Help Conference will be taking place June 15-19 in Cincinnati Ohio, USA. The conference includes two days of presentations and open discussions, followed by team "sprints" - collaborative efforts to write and improve documentation.

It has been suggested to send a team from Misplaced Pages/Wikimedia: to share our own knowledge about help, learn from others in the open source community working on similar problems, and to carry out a sprint to improve some aspect of Misplaced Pages's help.

There may be support available for volunteers to attend from the Participation Support program (and your editor is certainly hoping to be there!) Please join the discussion in Meta's IdeaLab if you're interested, and/or have suggestions about what we could work on.

Other news

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Suggestions for future issues are welcome at Misplaced Pages:Help Project/Newsletter.

the wub "?!" 16:22, 25 April 2013 (UTC)

Check this out: Misplaced Pages talk:Wikimedia Strategy 2017#Wikimedia data is at the heart of AI research, but the Wikimedia community is not

NPA violation warning

Please do not comment about editors or their behavior on policy/guideline talk pages, as you did here. --В²C ☎ 02:19, 28 August 2018 (UTC)

NPR Newsletter No.13 18 September 2018

Hello SmokeyJoe, thank you for your work reviewing New Pages!

The New Page Feed currently has 2700 unreviewed articles, up from just 500 at the start of July. For a while we were falling behind by an average of about 40 articles per day, but we have stabilised more recently. Please review some articles from the back of the queue if you can (Sort by: 'Oldest' at Special:NewPagesFeed), as we are very close to having articles older than one month.

Project news
As part of this project, the feed will have some larger updates to functionality next month. Specifically, ORES predictions will be built in, which will automatically flag articles for potential issues such as vandalism or spam. Copyright violation detection will also be added to the new page feed. See the projects's talk page for more info.
Other
Moving to Draft and Page Mover
  • Some unsuitable new articles can be best reviewed by moving them to the draft space, but reviewers need to do this carefully and sparingly. It is most useful for topics that look like they might have promise, but where the article as written would be unlikely to survive AfD. If the article can be easily fixed, or if the only issue is a lack of sourcing that is easily accessible, tagging or adding sources yourself is preferable. If sources do not appear to be available and the topic does not appear to be notable, tagging for deletion is preferable (PROD/AfD/CSD as appropriate). See additional guidance at WP:DRAFTIFY.
  • If the user moves the draft back to mainspace, or recreates it in mainspace, please do not re-draftify the article (although swapping it to maintain the page history may be advisable in the case of copy-paste moves). AfC is optional except for editors with a clear conflict of interest.
  • Articles that have been created in contravention of our paid-editing-requirements or written from a blatant NPOV perspective, or by authors with a clear COI might also be draftified at discretion.
  • The best tool for draftification is User:Evad37/MoveToDraft.js. Kindly adapt the text in the dialogue-pop-up as necessary (the default can also be changed like this). Note that if you do not have the Page Mover userright, the redirect from main will be automatically tagged as CSD R2, but in some cases it might be better to make this a redirect to a different page instead.
  • The Page Mover userright can be useful for New Page Reviewers; occasionally page swapping is needed during NPR activities, and it helps avoid excessive R2 nominations which must be processed by admins. Note that the Page Mover userright has higher requirements than the NPR userright, and is generally given to users active at Requested Moves. Only reviewers who are very experienced and are also very active reviewers are likely to be granted it solely for NPP activities.
List of other useful scripts for New Page Reviewing

  • Twinkle provides a lot of the same functionality as the page curation tools, and some reviewers prefer to use the Twinkle tools for some/all tasks. It can be activated simply in the gadgets section of 'preferences'. There are also a lot of options available at the Twinkle preferences panel after you install the gadget.
  • In terms of other gadgets for NPR, HotCat is worth turning on. It allows you to easily add, remove, and change categories on a page, with name suggestions.
  • MoreMenu also adds a bunch of very useful links for diagnosing and fixing page issues.
  • User:Equazcion/ScriptInstaller.js: Installing scripts doesn't have to be complicated. Go to your common.js and copy importScript( 'User:Equazcion/ScriptInstaller.js' ); into an empty line, now you can install all other scripts with the click of a button from the script page! (Note you need to be at the ".js" page for the script for the install button to appear, not the information page)
  • User:TheJosh/Scripts/NewPagePatrol.js: Creates a scrolling new pages list at the left side of the page. You can change the number of pages shown by adding the following to the next line on your common.js page (immediately after the line importing this script): npp_num_pages=20; (Recommended 20, but you can use any number from 1 to 50).
  • User:Primefac/revdel.js: Is requesting revdel complicated and time consuming? This script helps simplify the process. Just have the Copyvio source URL and go to the history page and collect your diff IDs and you can drop them into the script Popups and it will create a revdel request for you.
  • User:Lourdes/PageCuration.js: Creates a "Page Curation" link to Special:NewPagesFeed up near your sandbox link.
  • User:Writ Keeper/Scripts/deletionFinder.js: Creates links next to the title of each page which show up if it has been previously deleted or nominated for deletion.
  • User:Evad37/rater.js: A fantastic tool for adding WikiProject templates to article talk pages. If you add: rater_autostartNamespaces = 0; to the next line on your common.js, the prompt will pop up automatically if a page has no Wikiproject templates on the talk page (note: this can be a bit annoying if you review redirects or dab pages commonly).

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/* Roy Johnston (artist) */

Hi @SmokeyJoe: Its ErinCrisp, I recently submitted Roy Johnson (artist), for consideration for an article. You created a draft and I replied to your post on my talk page about further questions you had. Just wondering if theres any progress on creating the article or if you need additional information or help, looking forward to hearing from you ErinCrisp (talk) 20:58, 27 September 2018 (UTC)ErinCrisp

Fixed your link, hope that's OK

I think I've fixed your link, hope that's OK and please revert if not (or I will if you prefer). And thanks for the comment, agree, but I felt a bit too involved to say that. Andrewa (talk) 03:34, 14 October 2018 (UTC)

  • Oh thanks. I have on my userpage an open statement of permission to fix my typos and misstatements. I could spend more time composing, but I find when I do that I have not actually posted until the discussion has long died down. I am starting to use text-to-speech for reviewing my writing, but only on pc. Thanks again. —SmokeyJoe (talk) 06:37, 14 October 2018 (UTC)

Merger discussion for Operation Hope Not

An article that you have been involved in editing—Operation Hope Not—has been proposed for merging with another article. If you are interested, please participate in the merger discussion. Thank you. U-Mos (talk) 22:19, 18 October 2018 (UTC)

NPR Newsletter No.14 21 October 2018

Graphs are unavailable due to technical issues. Updates on reimplementing the Graph extension, which will be known as the Chart extension, can be found on Phabricator and on MediaWiki.org.
Chart of the New Pages Patrol backlog for the past 6 months.

Hello SmokeyJoe, thank you for your work reviewing New Pages!

Backlog

As of 21 October 2018, there are 3650 unreviewed articles and the backlog now stretches back 51 days.

Community Wishlist Proposal
Project updates
  • ORES predictions are now built-in to the feed. These automatically predict the class of an article as well as whether it may be spam, vandalism, or an attack page, and can be filtered by these criteria now allowing reviewers to better target articles that they prefer to review.
  • There are now tools being tested to automatically detect copyright violations in the feed. This detector may not be accurate all the time, though, so it shouldn't be relied on 100% and will only start working on new revisions to pages, not older pages in the backlog.
New scripts

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Your revert of my edit

I saw someone link to WP:NC in a discussion, and I clicked the link and it took me to WP:Article titles, and I was confused because there was no mention of the WP:NC abbreviation anywhere in the article or in the shortcut boxes that could explain what NC stands for in this case (though now I realize it's "Naming conventions"). So I thought it would be helpful to those like me who were wondering what "NC" means or what it had to do with article titles if the redirect were included in the shortcut template at the top of the page. But apparently we shouldn't be telling users about this redirect because it's not the best one to use. Is there some policy regarding this sort of thing that is the reason you reverted my edit? IntoThinAir (talk) 01:42, 22 October 2018 (UTC)

The guidance is at WP:LINKBOXES, and specifically "do not list everything". In 2010, the policy page was renamed, see Wikipedia_talk:Article_titles/Archive_21#RFC_on_proposed_rename. Before that, WP:NC was the obvious shortcut. This itself was a problem. NC is more frequently used to refer to the concept of "No Consensus". Accordingly, since 2010, the use of WP:NC to point to the WP:Article titles is actively discouraged. The policy already contains the hatnote: ""WP:NC" redirects here". The purpose of a LINKBOX is to encourage use of the accepted shortcuts. Instead of helping people understand why WP:NC was used to point to WP:AT, it would be better to tell that someone who wrote the WP:NC shortcut in discussion that this is a discouraged shortcut. --SmokeyJoe (talk) 01:53, 22 October 2018 (UTC)

My reversion of your comments at DRV

I'm not sure what happened here. Based on the timestamp, I was on a mobile device at the time. I suspect I generated some accidental clicks which resulted in that. Thanks for fixing it. -- RoySmith (talk) 14:54, 12 November 2018 (UTC)

NPR Newsletter No.15 16 November 2018

Graphs are unavailable due to technical issues. Updates on reimplementing the Graph extension, which will be known as the Chart extension, can be found on Phabricator and on MediaWiki.org.

Chart of the New Pages Patrol backlog for the past 6 months.

Hello SmokeyJoe,

Community Wishlist Survey – NPP needs you – Vote NOW
  • Community Wishlist Voting takes place 16 to 30 November for the Page Curation and New Pages Feed improvements, and other software requests. The NPP community is hoping for a good turnout in support of the requests to Santa for the tools we need. This is very important as we have been asking the Foundation for these upgrades for 4 years.
If this proposal does not make it into the top ten, it is likely that the tools will be given no support at all for the foreseeable future. So please put in a vote today.
We are counting on significant support not only from our own ranks, but from everyone who is concerned with maintaining a Misplaced Pages that is free of vandalism, promotion, flagrant financial exploitation and other pollution.
With all 650 reviewers voting for these urgently needed improvements, our requests would be unlikely to fail. See also The Signpost Special report: 'NPP: This could be heaven or this could be hell for new users – and for the reviewers', and if you are not sure what the wish list is all about, take a sneak peek at an article in this month's upcoming issue of The Signpost which unfortunately due to staff holidays and an impending US holiday will probably not be published until after voting has closed.

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Request on 16:13:58, 19 November 2018 for assistance on AfC submission by JeffreySarnoff


You asked me to give you two independent reliable sources commenting about Jeff Bezanson.

Chris Stokel-Walker is an independent journalist; this article of his comments on Jeff Bezanson https://increment.com/programming-languages/goldilocks-language-history-of-julia/

GPCE 2018 - 17th International Conference on Generative Programming: Concepts & Experiences posted this about Jeff Bezanson https://conf.researchr.org/profile/gpce-2018/jeffbezanson

Please let me know if something more or different is needed.

Thank you, Jeffrey Sarnoff JeffreySarnoff (talk) 16:13, 19 November 2018 (UTC)

Thanks for your reply, apologies for the delay in responding. It is a tough one. The first source your offer, https://increment.com/programming-languages/goldilocks-language-history-of-julia/, is good for attesting Misplaced Pages-notabilty. You need a second, but https://conf.researchr.org/profile/gpce-2018/jeffbezanson is not good enough. It is a directory-style profile, I confidently presume it is not independent of the subject, and I point to the lack of authorship information for the few sentences of commentary.
Checking in Misplaced Pages, I find Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/Jeff Bezanson. Basically, the decision was already made. Redirect to Julia (programming language)#History. This means, although unstated in that discussion, that it is decided to be a case of WP:BIO1E. JB is known only for one thing, and that is Julia (programming language). To reverse this decision, I strongly recommend against re-drafting, and recommend instead to add more content about JB in the article Julia (programming language). To overcome the prior decision to redirect, there needs to be a new consensus, at Talk:Julia (programming language), in support of a WP:SPINOUT of Jeff Bezanson from the article. A precondition of that is that there is so much material about Jeff Bezanson that it is starting to not fit.
I am not going to redirect the draft, matching the old mainspace title, to Julia (programming language)#History. I recommend that you get out of draftspace, and work to improve the mainspace article.
I note that you, JeffreySarnoff (talk · contribs), have only ever edited this one topic. You are a WP:SPA. This immediately makes us suspicious of you having a WP:COI, and makes us quick to assume that you don't really understand Misplaced Pages. My advice is: Edit mainspace articles. Find multiple articles associated with your topic(s) of interest. If Jeff Bezanson is worth of a stand alone article, he will be worthy of mention in multiple other articles articles. Doing so will also give you experience, and credibility. --SmokeyJoe (talk) 00:43, 23 November 2018 (UTC)

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Favor

Hi Smokey,

I'd appreciate a sanity check.

Does this close seem reasonable, or like a supervote to you?

https://en.wikipedia.org/Talk:Jaggi_Vasudev#Requested_move_20_October_2018

Thanks --В²C ☎ 00:02, 27 November 2018 (UTC)

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