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Wikipedia_talk:Manual_of_Style#Increasing_problems_posed_by_translated_articles. Tony (talk) 04:33, 30 September 2016 (UTC)

Invitation to Women in Food and Drink editathon

November 2016
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Two-Factor Authentication now available for admins

Hello,

Please note that TOTP based two-factor authentication is now available for all administrators. In light of the recent compromised accounts, you are encouraged to add this additional layer of security to your account. It may be enabled on your preferences page in the "User profile" tab under the "Basic information" section. For basic instructions on how to enable two-factor authentication, please see the developing help page for additional information. Important: Be sure to record the two-factor authentication key and the single use keys. If you lose your two factor authentication and do not have the keys, it's possible that your account will not be recoverable. Furthermore, you are encouraged to utilize a unique password and two-factor authentication for the email account associated with your Wikimedia account. This measure will assist in safeguarding your account from malicious password resets. Comments, questions, and concerns may be directed to the thread on the administrators' noticeboard. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 20:33, 12 November 2016 (UTC)

A new user right for New Page Patrollers

Hi Hoary.

A new user group, New Page Reviewer, has been created in a move to greatly improve the standard of new page patrolling. The user right can be granted by any admin at PERM. It is highly recommended that admins look beyond the simple numerical threshold and satisfy themselves that the candidates have the required skills of communication and an advanced knowledge of notability and deletion. Admins are automatically included in this user right.

It is anticipated that this user right will significantly reduce the work load of admins who patrol the performance of the patrollers. However,due to the complexity of the rollout, some rights may have been accorded that may later need to be withdrawn, so some help will still be needed to some extent when discovering wrongly applied deletion tags or inappropriate pages that escape the attention of less experienced reviewers, and above all, hasty and bitey tagging for maintenance. User warnings are available here but very often a friendly custom message works best.

If you have any questions about this user right, don't hesitate to join us at WT:NPR. (Sent to all admins).MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:47, 15 November 2016 (UTC)

Dimitrios Maximos

I've gone to a steward's talk page to ask about Swineposit's situation: instead of requesting a global lock, which might well be declined, I pointed to your WP:AN and WD:AN comments and asked basically "In this situation, would a lock request have a chance, or would it be shot down immediately?" My only concern is Swineposit's non-activity globally since the 15th of November; this is more disruptive than the only user for whom I've request a global lock on the grounds of general disruption to a lot of Wikipedias (several years ago, before Wikidata's creation, I discovered a user who was long-term messing with interwiki links on lots and lots of articles), so I don't think there would be opposition on the grounds that this isn't disruptive enough. Nyttend (talk) 22:56, 20 November 2016 (UTC)

ArbCom Elections 2016: Voting now open!

Hello, Hoary. Voting in the 2016 Arbitration Committee elections is open from Monday, 00:00, 21 November through Sunday, 23:59, 4 December to all unblocked users who have registered an account before Wednesday, 00:00, 28 October 2016 and have made at least 150 mainspace edits before Sunday, 00:00, 1 November 2016.

The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Misplaced Pages arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.

If you wish to participate in the 2016 election, please review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. Mdann52 (talk) 22:08, 21 November 2016 (UTC)

Motbag12

Just letting you know he's editing still. . Doug Weller talk 22:06, 27 December 2016 (UTC)

I've blocked a couple of the IPs. He's still insulting editors. Doug Weller talk 08:54, 28 December 2016 (UTC)

Oh dear, you're right. Thank you for the heads up. -- Hoary (talk) 09:11, 28 December 2016 (UTC)

Kmoksy and A Taste of Thyme

I tried to given an answer to your request at WP:ANI#User:Kmoksy. I don't know if you saw it, since another editor hid it.  --Lambiam 17:29, 29 January 2017 (UTC)

Thank you. Yes, I did see it. It's helpful. The reason given for hiding it is valid, but the hiding still seems capricious. Why hide your response to my question and not my question as well? I could make a fuss about this, but there are only 24 hours in the day, so I let it pass. For the next three days I'll be pretty busy, but perhaps thereafter I'll post something on the article's talk page. -- Hoary (talk) 23:35, 29 January 2017 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter - February 2017

News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2017). This first issue is being sent out to all administrators, if you wish to keep receiving it please subscribe. Your feedback is welcomed.

Administrator changes

NinjaRobotPirate • Schwede66 • K6ka • Ealdgyth • Ferret • Cyberpower678 • Mz7 • Primefac • Dodger67

Briangotts • JeremyA • BU Rob13

Guideline and policy news

• A discussion to workshop proposals to amend the administrator inactivity policy at Misplaced Pages talk:Administrators has been in process since late December 2016.
• Misplaced Pages:Pending changes/Request for Comment 2016 closed with no consensus for implementing Pending changes level 2 with new criteria for use.
• Following an RfC, an activity requirement is now in place for bots and bot operators.

Technical news

• When performing some administrative actions the reason field briefly gave suggestions as text was typed. This change has since been reverted so that issues with the implementation can be addressed. (T34950)
• Following the latest RfC concluding that Pending Changes 2 should not be used on the English Misplaced Pages, an RfC closed with consensus to remove the options for using it from the page protection interface, a change which has now been made. (T156448)
• The Foundation has announced a new community health initiative to combat harassment. This should bring numerous improvements to tools for admins and CheckUsers in 2017.

Arbitration

• The Arbitration Committee released a response to the Wikimedia Foundation's statement on paid editing and outing.

Obituaries

• JohnCD (John Cameron Deas) passed away on 30 December 2016. John began editing Misplaced Pages seriously during 2007 and became an administrator in November 2009.

13:37, 1 February 2017 (UTC)

Hello

Hi, My English not so well, but I will try to say. here I think something isn't right. --TonJ (talk) 09:17, 12 February 2017 (UTC)

Thank you for alerting me. It's not something I'm competent to deal with, so I've brought it up at Misplaced Pages:Village_pump_(technical)#Template:Webarchive. -- Hoary (talk) 09:54, 12 February 2017 (UTC)

OK, thank you!!--TonJ (talk) 11:32, 12 February 2017 (UTC)

It turns out that there was/is no problem, but thank you for your vigilance all the same. -- Hoary (talk) 12:49, 12 February 2017 (UTC)

07:02:59, 23 February 2017 review of submission by Ducati-2007

• Ducati-2007 (talk · contribs)
  • Draft:Coffee Shop University (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Thanks for your inputs, will get back with more updates and reliable references

Dear Hoary please give your feedback on the actual page. Bearing in mind we shall provide a few official critics later in a month or two. Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ducati-2007 (talk • contribs) 08:21, 28 February 2017 (UTC)

I provided feedback on 23 February. I see no evidence that you have acted on it.

I'll save you some time. Are there independent, reliable sources about this book? (For example, has it received reviews in newspapers?) If so, then provide references to these. If not, then the book does not merit an article in Misplaced Pages. -- Hoary (talk) 09:09, 28 February 2017 (UTC)

Ok Hoary :) Thanks for your feedback, will keep editing and updating it and soon will get reviews but promise: you will hear enough about it independently :)

Cheers — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ducati-2007 (talk • contribs) 11:59, 28 February 2017 (UTC)

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Rock Revolt Magazine

• Draft talk:Rock Revolt Magazine
• Draft:Rock Revolt Magazine
  

This article was not part of AFC, so should not have been deleted as an AFC draft.  Please restore the draft.  Thank you, Unscintillating (talk) 13:28, 26 February 2017 (UTC)

Oops. On G13, I now see: This applies to rejected or unsubmitted Articles for creation pages that have not been edited in over six months (excluding bot edits). This criterion applies to draft articles in the draft namespace or userspace that are using the project's {{AFC submission}} template. That's only a minority of the musty drafts I've deleted over the last two or three days. I suppose I'll have to revisit them. However, that is going to have to wait 15 hours or so. -- Hoary (talk) 13:45, 26 February 2017 (UTC)

I started on the job. But now I'm falling asleep, so the rest is going to have to wait some hours. -- Hoary (talk) 13:57, 26 February 2017 (UTC)

There is currently a discussion at Misplaced Pages:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved.

There is currently a discussion at Misplaced Pages:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The thread is Admin has brainfart; carnage ensues. --Shirt58 (talk) 09:10, 27 February 2017 (UTC)

Many thanks for alerting me to this, Shirt58. -- Hoary (talk) 10:41, 27 February 2017 (UTC)

Request for help

Hoary, I see that that you and I have crossed paths - in a nice way - in the past. I am trying to resolve a dispute regarding the Ellis Paul article and am hoping you will lend support on the Talk:Ellis Paul page by offering a Third Party Opinion. In a nutshell, another editor removed a sound sample box that has been part of the article for 10 years. I would like to have a consensus to be able to add the sound sample back. I would appreciate your support. Thank you for your time and consideration.Kmzundel (talk) 12:48, 3 April 2017 (UTC)

Hello

I'm Michael Recanati son that article is mostly made up and and rest half truth there is much personal information about living people that Is private. I want help in a complete rewrite Flamingoflorida (talk) 07:11, 12 June 2017 (UTC)

Thank you, but please make any request at Talk:Michael Recanati. -- Hoary (talk) 13:33, 12 June 2017 (UTC)

Probal Rashid: notable or not?

I would like your advice about a photojournalist bio, Probal Rashid, that has been on my radar for a while as needing either improvement or deletion. I've been impressed with your insights on other photographer bios, so would appreciate any guidance you have time to give.

It cites one feature article about him in an independent reliable source, which is a good start, but not normally enough to pass WP:GNG. My searches found one other reliable source with significant coverage, although in the form of an interview, so not independent to the extent that it's him talking about him.

His work has been widely published, but that's the job of a photojournalist. I'm not sure whether there's a point at which that becomes evidence that he's regarded as an important figure or his work has become a significant monument. I couldn't find any books of/on his work. He has participated in about 20 group exhibitions, but no solo exhibitions. I'm unsure how to weigh the importance of solo/group exhibitions in this field. Eleven of his works are in the collection of the Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts, which is another good start, but WP:CREATIVE calls for "several notable galleries or museums".

There's a long list of awards, but of the nine that cite a source, the gold and first prizes are in lesser-known contests (Asian Press Photo Contest (APPC), Foreign Correspondents' Club of Thailand (FCCT) and LightRocket Asia-Pacific Photojournalism Contest) while the awards in the notable contests (National Press Photographers Association (NPPA) Best of Photojournalism Awards, and Pictures of the Year International) are honorable mentions or awards of excellence.

So what do you think, would the encyclopedia be better off if I tried to clean this up, or if I took it to AfD? Thanks, --Worldbruce (talk) 05:55, 9 July 2017 (UTC)

Agreed: It's not obviously either encyclopedic or non-encyclopedic. Recently I've been tending to think that if an article on somebody who's borderline is straightforward and modest, and if there's no reason to think that this will soon change, then as far as I'm concerned it can stay. And this article does seem modest -- except for an unnecessarily long list of honors and almost-honors, which I think can beneficially be stripped of mere honorable mentions. But I don't suppose I'd find backing for this in WP policy. -- Hoary (talk) 06:12, 9 July 2017 (UTC)

My name is Franz Lidz. For the last 40 years I have worked as a professional journalist. I spent 27 of those years as a senior writer for Sports Illustrated. For the the last five, I have been a columnist for Smithsonian magazine. I am also -- concurrently -- Vice President of Communications of the Detroit Pistons, an NBA franchise owned by Palace Sports & Entertainment. All of these inarguable facts can easily be verified in the External Links section of my Misplaced Pages page. (For instance, the Sports Illustrated resource search opens to my current bio, which is scrupulously maintained by my longtime employer: https://www.si.com/vault-authors/franz-lidz I’m still a contributor to that magazine). Similarly, the Smithsonian magazine resource search has catalogued my columns - sometimes with additional biographical material - since my hiring in 2012. Both full-time jobs have long been listed on my Misplaced Pages page.That is, until yesterday, when an editor changed one job title from columnist to "published magazine article writer” and the other to “former vice president.” I should note here that I rarely pay much attention to my page unless a Misplaced Pages user alerts me to mischief by other users. But yesterday was different. Yesterday morning a college professor sent me a distressing email about what he termed "vandalism and trolling" on the Talk page of my entry. At the time, I wasn't exactly sure where the Talk page was, but when found it, I was horrified. Copy had been mangled, misinformation inserted and aspersions cast on my character and integrity. For reasons I can only guess at, over the last few days one editor implied that I lied at a reading I gave before several hundred people, and that if I hadn't, I should have. (In a subsequent post, he frantically walked back this theory, but the damage had already been done and his biases baldly revealed). In another exchange, the professor mentioned that he teaches my oeuvre in his classes, prompting another editor to snark, "I look forward to the invitation I am sure will be coming from you shortly to look over your course material and help you improve it." (Emphasis mine. In the magazine world, we call this "open contempt" for a subject - not the sort of neutral attitude WP encourages in its editors, is it?) By tacking a couple of demeaning templates onto the first page of the entry, that same editor implicated me, my family, close friends and a onetime Bloomsbury U.S.A.publishing flak in a vast conspiracy to insert my name into pretty much every Misplaced Pages story ever written. OK, I may be overstating things, but the notion of any conspiracy between me and people close to me (let alone "paid" by me) is as insulting as it is preposterous. (I have no idea who's responsible for the pranks, but pinning the blame on a dead Bloomsbury publicist is probably the wrong way to go). BTW, Bloomsbury delisted the book in question in 2011, at which point the paperback rights were sold to Penguin, which doesn't plan to market it the anniversary of the event, in 2024. Tell me - Why would Bloomsbury care? These Wiki shenanigans - and the egregious behavior of the editors behind them -- both anger and disgust me. Normally, I’d just shrug it off as “kids will be kids.” But Misplaced Pages editors are alleged to be adults. The Talk page fantasizing and the finger-pointing templates that blanket both pages of my entry are inappropriate, unprofessional, malicious and, in the opinion of PS&E counsel, potentially libelous. And because the pages are on public display, they impugn my professional reputation. According to Talk page guidelines, personal attacks and insults are not allowed (Editor Ken violates this rule repeatedly). Which is why I have been advised to request that the entire entry - including the Talk page -- be "blanked" and replaced by clean, untainted copy. I realize that under normal circumstances, Misplaced Pages articles should not be blanked. But these aren't normal circumstances. Misplaced Pages's bylaws state that it is acceptable to blank an article for libel or privacy reasons as an emergency measure, as described in the policy on biographies of living persons. Your rulebook also notes that "completed deletion discussions (or other discussions) may be blanked for reasons of privacy or courtesy to individuals. Which suits me fine. I'd love to put all this behind me and give the page a fresh start. In other words, I'm asking for a common courtesy.

I look forward to your response. FL

FRANZ LIDZ Vice President of Communications

248.377.0148 / office 610.306.7022 / cell flidz@palacenet.com

Do you remember this guy at all? Maybe you can help

"Franz Lidz" from 2010. On his talk page you were involved in trying to clear it up back then. No problem if you've forgotten.

https://en.wikipedia.org/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Incidents#Promotional_behavior_by_OPamuk1967b — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pastoes777 (talk • contribs) 17:19, 20 July 2017 (UTC)

I didn't remember at first, no. (Oddly, the photo did look dimly familiar.) Good evidence collection/presentation there, Pastoes777: I enjoyed reading through it, although not in the way that its writer intended. -- Hoary (talk) 09:10, 21 July 2017 (UTC)

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