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| It's not a given that it passes ] - ''"Buildings, including private residences and commercial developments may be notable as a result of their historic, social, economic, or architectural importance, but they require significant coverage by reliable, third-party sources to establish notability."'' - Lets have the discussion at Talk. ] (]) 12:00, 2 April 2019 (UTC) | It's not a given that it passes ] - ''"Buildings, including private residences and commercial developments may be notable as a result of their historic, social, economic, or architectural importance, but they require significant coverage by reliable, third-party sources to establish notability."'' - Lets have the discussion at Talk. ] (]) 12:00, 2 April 2019 (UTC) | ||
| :Please read the first part: "Artificial geographical features that are officially assigned the status of cultural heritage or national heritage, or of any other protected status on a national level and which verifiable information beyond simple statistics are available are presumed to be notable." The school is a listed building. ] (]) 12:18, 2 April 2019 (UTC) | :Please read the first part: "Artificial geographical features that are officially assigned the status of cultural heritage or national heritage, or of any other protected status on a national level and which verifiable information beyond simple statistics are available are presumed to be notable." The school is a listed building. ] (]) 12:18, 2 April 2019 (UTC) | ||
| ::Its not an artificial geographical feature. Its a building. Let's have the discussion at the appropriate venue which is ]. The facts are in dispute. We need to discuss it. Asserting/reverting your opinion is not collaborative. Please revert your removal of the template or it goes to ] ] (]) 12:26, 2 April 2019 (UTC) | |||
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Help please with Business Initiative Directions entry/article. Hi Edward,
First of all sorry if I'm writing in the wrong place and sorry for my poor English (I'm not an English native speaker) I write to you because you wrote me back, and I have not been able to contact with someone else inside Misplaced Pages. Neither I understand the way this website works... I find no chat boxes nor anything. I must confess I'm and old man, and perhaps because of that I found this site incredible hostile. I write to you because since august someone posted an entry on Business Initiative Directions. Its a Spanish marketing agency that sells different products and services (I have no economic relation with them, except for the fact that the owner is an old friend and an old man like I) I want to be clear on the fact that yes, I know this company, and yes, 30 years ago (or more I don't recall) I worked with them several times. It's a marketing company, but the entry accuse them of selling "fake awards". They don't sell awards at all. They do advertising and corporate events. In their events they charge a fee, this is no secret, neither is illegal in anyway. They have 50 years operating inside Spain and now inside the European Union legal framework. Their HQ is located behind the Ministry of Defense in Madrid... every soul there knows them. They offer international business gatherings, and charge a fee for that (among other things more related to traditional marketing, like flyers, magazines and banners... they don't do digital because most of them are old people that don't even have social media) This article is destroying them... based on nothing at all but the opinion of a company that got the invitation to the event and got mad because they wanted to go to an business convention in Paris for free... this people then wrote to a so called NGO that decided to wage war on this small Spanish marketing agency. They created the Misplaced Pages post and used all the bad press against the company to destroy their prestige...everybody has bad press... this is not fair, neither I humbly believe, was the idea behind Misplaced Pages. I think Misplaced Pages was meant to be an encyclopedia for humanity. Not a corporate revenge instrument. Please, help us and guide us on how to deal with this. My friend is asking me if their version of the post could be taken into consideration. All complains of the NGO are addressed there, and even a mixed version will be acceptable for them, but what is cruel and brutal for this company reputation is to post only the NGO version... that is not fair.
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Re your kind thanks. Cheers, Edwardx, nice article
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About the Everette Taylor article
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Proposed deletion of Raj Matharu
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Tech News: 2019-10
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 March. It will be on non-Misplaced Pages wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 March. It will be on all wikis from 7 March (calendar).
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Tech News: 2019-11
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- Pages can use geocoordinates from Wikidata with the
mw.wikibase.entity:formatStatementsLua function or the#statementsparser function. If they do, they will now be shown using a Kartographer<maplink>if the wiki can use Kartographer. You can report bugs or ask questions on Phabricator. - There is now an EventStream to see when links are added or removed on Wikimedia wikis. You can read the discussions and plans.
Problems
- Some wikis will not be able to edit for a short period of time on 19 March (UTC). This will start at 15:00 UTC. It will last up to 15 minutes but probably shorter. You can see the list of affected wikis. This is because of network maintenance. You can still read the wikis.
- Editors who use Firefox to edit with the visual editor had a problem with copying text. When they tried to select text that included footnotes, templates or block images in the middle they would often only get part of the text. This has now been fixed.
- Some maps didn't work for a while on 8 March. This has been fixed.
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- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 March. It will be on non-Misplaced Pages wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 March. It will be on all wikis from 14 March (calendar).
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NPR Newsletter No.17
Hello Edwardx,
- News
- The WMF has announced that Google Translate is now available for translating articles through the content translation tool. This may result in an increase in machine translated articles in the New Pages Feed. Feel free to use the {{rough translation}} tag and gently remind (or inform) editors that translations from other language Misplaced Pages pages still require attribution per WP:TFOLWP.
- Discussions of interest
- Two elements of CSD G6 have been split into their own criteria: R4 for redirects in the "File:" namespace with the same name as a file or redirect at Wikimedia Commons (Discussion), and G14 for disambiguation pages which disambiguate zero pages, or have "(disambiguation)" in the title but disambiguate a single page (Discussion).
- {{db-blankdraft}} was merged into G13 (Discussion)
- A discussion recently closed with no consensus on whether to create a subject-specific notability guideline for theatrical plays.
- There is an ongoing discussion on a proposal to create subject-specific notability guidelines for chemicals and organism taxa.
- Reminders
- NPR is not a binary keep / delete process. In many cases a redirect may be appropriate. The deletion policy and its associated guideline clearly emphasise that not all unsuitable articles must be deleted. Redirects are not contentious. See a classic example of the templates to use. More templates are listed at the R template index. Reviewers who are not aware, do please take this into consideration before PROD, CSD, and especially AfD because not even all admins are aware of such policies, and many NAC do not have a full knowledge of them.
- NPP Tools Report
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DYK for Karen (orangutan)
On 18 March 2019, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Karen (orangutan), which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that in 1994, Karen became the first orangutan to have open heart surgery? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Karen (orangutan). You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Karen (orangutan)), 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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Tech News: 2019-12
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
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- When you use rollback you will be able to get a confirmation prompt on most wikis. It asks you if you wanted to do the rollback. This is to avoid misclicks. You will have to opt in to get it. On German Misplaced Pages it will be an opt-out feature from 28 March.
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- Admins will be able to block someone from editing a page or a namespace. This already works on a few Wikimedia wikis. You can read more. If your wiki wants to be an early tester of this, you can tell the developers.
- Toolforge will shut down the Ubuntu Trusty job grid. This will happen the week of 25 March. Tools that use this grid needs to be moved to the new Debian Stretch job grid. If they haven't, they will be taken offline. Maintainers can restart the tools later. Users may not be able to use them in the meanwhile. You can see a list of affected tools.
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Nomination of By The Horns Brewing Co. for deletion
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Tech News: 2019-13
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- The new version of the content translation tool will be used for all new translations. The older version will still be used for translations that were started with it. Most users won’t see any change. More than 80% of the published translations are already using the new version.
Problems
- There was a problem with editing with Safari on iOS. When you wrote an edit summary you couldn't save the edit. This has now been fixed.
- The editing toolbar sometimes disappears when you scroll on iOS devices. This will be fixed soon.
- Wikis can over-ride interface messages on-wiki. A problem meant that sometimes an old versions of any changed messages were shown instead. This included the sitenotice and other important parts of the interface. This was fixed at around 2019-03-22 16:00 (UTC). Logged-out users may still get the wrong message. Purging the page should fix it for them.
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 March. It will be on non-Misplaced Pages wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 March. It will be on all wikis from 28 March (calendar).
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18:04, 25 March 2019 (UTC)
"strong and stable"
I've decided this might be notable after all, and have expanded it out of a redirect. Feel free to chip in. Ritchie333 13:33, 26 March 2019 (UTC)
- Thanks. To the efforts of you and Philafrenzy, it is looking much better. Can't have anyone calling it "weak and wobbly" can we? Edwardx (talk) 15:38, 26 March 2019 (UTC)
- It's rock solid, no need for any indicative votes. Philafrenzy (talk) 19:19, 26 March 2019 (UTC)
- Hear, hear. Edwardx (talk) 19:25, 26 March 2019 (UTC)
- P.S. There would certainly be enough sources to develop Brexit means Brexit from a redirect on the same basis. Philafrenzy (talk) 20:42, 26 March 2019 (UTC)
- I can't believe somebody would say that no DYK is better than a bad DYK though. Ritchie333 12:45, 27 March 2019 (UTC)
- TRM? Those two hooks are both fine, yet there might be something stronger we could think up. Edwardx (talk) 13:38, 27 March 2019 (UTC)
- I can't believe somebody would say that no DYK is better than a bad DYK though. Ritchie333 12:45, 27 March 2019 (UTC)
- P.S. There would certainly be enough sources to develop Brexit means Brexit from a redirect on the same basis. Philafrenzy (talk) 20:42, 26 March 2019 (UTC)
- Hear, hear. Edwardx (talk) 19:25, 26 March 2019 (UTC)
- It's rock solid, no need for any indicative votes. Philafrenzy (talk) 19:19, 26 March 2019 (UTC)
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Facto Post – Issue 22 – 28 March 2019
Facto Post – Issue 22 – 28 March 2019
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. 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.
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Proposed deletion of Victor Vescovo
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The Signpost: 31 March 2019
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Tech News: 2019-14
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Changes later this week
- Notifications tell you about things that happen on the wiki. You can turn on notifications about new links to pages you created. For performance reasons you can no longer get e-mails about this.
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 April. It will be on non-Misplaced Pages wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 April. It will be on all wikis from 4 April (calendar).
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16:29, 1 April 2019 (UTC)
DYK for Dennis Lennon
On 2 April 2019, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Dennis Lennon, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Dennis Lennon hoped his design for the interior of the Queen Elizabeth 2 (pictured) would be the "setting for the world's best party"? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Dennis Lennon. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Dennis Lennon), 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.
DYKUpdateBot (talk) 00:01, 2 April 2019 (UTC)
Kenmont Primary
It's not a given that it passes WP:GEOFEAT - "Buildings, including private residences and commercial developments may be notable as a result of their historic, social, economic, or architectural importance, but they require significant coverage by reliable, third-party sources to establish notability." - Lets have the discussion at Talk. Fob.schools (talk) 12:00, 2 April 2019 (UTC)
- Please read the first part: "Artificial geographical features that are officially assigned the status of cultural heritage or national heritage, or of any other protected status on a national level and which verifiable information beyond simple statistics are available are presumed to be notable." The school is a listed building. Edwardx (talk) 12:18, 2 April 2019 (UTC)
- Its not an artificial geographical feature. Its a building. Let's have the discussion at the appropriate venue which is where I started it. The facts are in dispute. We need to discuss it. Asserting/reverting your opinion is not collaborative. Please revert your removal of the template or it goes to WP:ANI Fob.schools (talk) 12:26, 2 April 2019 (UTC)