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G13 Eligibility Notice

The following pages will become eligible for CSD:G13 shortly.

• Draft:BITalino

Thanks, HasteurBot (talk) 03:00, 16 April 2016 (UTC)

Dementia Research Centre

Thanks for relisting this at AfD, I made a real hash of itValidcharm (talk) 03:04, 16 April 2016 (UTC)

• Sure thing. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 03:06, 16 April 2016 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Disposable cup

Hello! Your submission of Disposable cup at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Yoninah (talk) 20:54, 17 April 2016 (UTC)

Dirrty

Lol don't worry about my edits! I am planning to clean up the article and make it FA-worthy. Simon (talk) 14:24, 17 April 2016 (UTC)

@HĐ: Thanks for the clarification. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 14:32, 17 April 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-16

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

• You can filter Special:Log in more detail. You can filter different imports and new users. [1][2]
• You can use Telnet to read Wikimedia wikis. [3]
• MediaWiki wikis can handle bigger file uploads. The new limit is 4 GB. [4]

Changes this week

• Wikimedia has a new backup data center in Dallas. Because of planned work on this, you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for a short period of time on both 19 April and 21 April. This will start at 14:00 UTC and last for 15 to 30 minutes. [5]
• There is no new Mediawiki version this week. This is because of the data center test.

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on April 19 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is shadow namespaces. The meeting will be on 20 April at 21:30 (UTC). See how to join.

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20:40, 18 April 2016 (UTC)

DYK for Pastrami on rye

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 00:56, 10 April 2016 (UTC)

DYK for Jianbing

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 12:42, 10 April 2016 (UTC)

Quick Question

I have a question, however, please don't feel like you have to help me if you don't want to. I recently made a sandbox for another shopping mall near me, but a user who lived in St. Cloud didn't feel like the article would pass WP:NOTABILITY or whatever he said. I was wondering if you could take a look at it, here it is: User:Carbrera/MSM. Thanks! Carbrera (talk) 05:16, 10 April 2016 (UTC)

• @Carbrera: Upon a review of independent sources in the draft, only one provides what could be considered significant coverage. There's also WP:AUD to keep in consideration. Has the topic received any additional coverage that is significant and independent of the topic? North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 19:30, 10 April 2016 (UTC)

• Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL

Your GA nomination of Railroad Gazette

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Railroad Gazette 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 Sainsf -- Sainsf (talk) 12:41, 20 April 2016 (UTC)

DYK for Chestnut pie

On 13 April 2016, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Chestnut pie, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that chestnut pie dates back to the 15th century in Italy, having been documented in an early cookbook written by Bartolomeo Platina? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Chestnut pie. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Chestnut pie), 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.

Gatoclass (talk) 00:01, 13 April 2016 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Instant pudding

Hello! Your submission of Instant pudding at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 13:01, 23 April 2016 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 16, 2016)

Debt is the amount of money that is owed or due. Hello, Northamerica1000. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Debt Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Delicatessen • Pecan pie Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:07, 18 April 2016 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

ANI

Please see there — Preceding unsigned comment added by 166.170.51.254 (talk) 20:59, 14 April 2016 (UTC)

• Another user removed your post there (diff). Contrary to your opinion, relisting deletion discussions without adding comment is entirely allowed for the first two relists. See WP:RELIST for the actual guideline, which is part of the Wikipedia:Deletion process guideline page. Hopefully this clarifies matters for you. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 21:33, 14 April 2016 (UTC)

Accidental deletion on AfD

I haven't looked at EXACTLY what happened, but assure you that any removal on the EGS AfD was accidental on my part, there was quite a bit of edit-conflict happening. Apologies.Pincrete (talk) 11:16, 17 April 2016 (UTC)

• N.b. here's the diff. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 14:14, 17 April 2016 (UTC)

Yes, don't know how it happened, combination of edit conflicts and 'slipped in' comments I think. Accidental I assure you.Pincrete (talk) 18:19, 17 April 2016 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Railroad Gazette

The article Railroad Gazette you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Railroad Gazette for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Sainsf -- Sainsf (talk) 07:21, 21 April 2016 (UTC)

G13 Eligibility Notice

The following pages will become eligible for CSD:G13 shortly.

• Draft:People who live in glass houses
• Draft:Wuvable Oaf

Thanks, HasteurBot (talk) 03:00, 23 April 2016 (UTC)

DYK for Brooke Bond Taj Mahal Tea House

On 15 April 2016, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Brooke Bond Taj Mahal Tea House, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the Brooke Bond Taj Mahal Tea House is Hindustan Unilever's first tea restaurant business? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Brooke Bond Taj Mahal Tea House. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Brooke Bond Taj Mahal Tea House), 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.

Gatoclass (talk) 00:26, 15 April 2016 (UTC)

Verification help

Hi North America, I was wondering if I could briefly enlist your help to verify 22 edits made by my bot. Simply look at the 22 edits and report if they contain any errors, or not. The bot approval process is stalled because there is no one helping. You don't need to know anything about bots, just report if the 22 edits are accurate, or not. The page is here, last section "Edits needing verification". If your busy or don't want to do it understood. Thanks for any help. -- GreenC 17:57, 14 April 2016 (UTC)

• @Green Cardamom: I have chipped in by adding some input at the end of the page at Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/GreenC bot, but I can't commit to going through all 22 edits at this time. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 21:40, 14 April 2016 (UTC)

Thank you very much, NA for your perspective. I should have caught those but sometimes hard to see when you're in the forest. -- GreenC 03:15, 15 April 2016 (UTC)

DYK for Stroganina

Gatoclass (talk) 00:02, 16 April 2016 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Clam dip

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Clam dip 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 AHeneen -- AHeneen (talk) 23:00, 25 April 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-17

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Problems

• Wikimedia tested a new data center last week. This meant that the wikis could be read but not edited for 45 minutes on April 19 and for 20 minutes on April 21. [6]
• When the data center was tested, new edits were not shown in the recent changes log for 20 minutes. They are in the logs now. You can read more about how to find the edits.
• Unread notifications were sometimes counted incorrectly. This has now been fixed. [7]

Changes this week

• Wikimedia Commons will have better access to Wikidata. They can use data from any page on Wikidata on any page on Commons. This will happen on April 26. [8]
• It will be easier to choose if you want to watch files you have uploaded with the upload wizard. [9]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from April 26. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from April 27. It will be on all wikis from April 28 (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on April 26 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The "Save page" button when you edit will be called "Publish" instead. This is to help new editors understand what it does. It already works like this on some wikis. [10]

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21:02, 25 April 2016 (UTC)

Note

This was relisted by you here on April 1 but is still open for 16 days and it has neither been closed nor relisted again. Pharaoh of the Wizards (talk) 01:16, 18 April 2016 (UTC)

@Pharaoh of the Wizards: Another user relisted the discussion on 20 April 2016 (diff). North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 05:58, 21 April 2016 (UTC)

Thanks for your reply. As I had commented in the AFD and hence was involved and wanted an uninvolved editor to take a call here and I see it has been done (now here) and is now resolved.Pharaoh of the Wizards (talk) 02:09, 25 April 2016 (UTC)

Moving Marine (Doom) to Doomguy

Can you help me move this redirect is blocking Doomguy is WP:COMMONNAME. Valoem ^{talk contrib} 07:54, 18 April 2016 (UTC)

@Valoem: Let's maybe hold off, because the merge discussion occurring at Talk:Doom (series) may result in the article ending up being merged to Doom (series). Also, I noticed that you requested this move at the discussion, but it may be prudent to wait to see what others think about this idea there. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 17:49, 18 April 2016 (UTC)

The original move to Marine (Doom) was done by a banned editor whose intention was to make source finding more difficult please move it back if this goes AfD. As per WP:GNG please move this as is it uncontroversial. A merge discussion is irrelevant to the move request. Valoem ^{talk contrib} 18:01, 18 April 2016 (UTC)

@Valoem:  Done I performed the move and then performed history merging for the pages. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 22:32, 18 April 2016 (UTC)

Thanks, can you do the same for PAX Labs? I created the article at the time without realizing it was already made under Ploom, Inc.. Valoem ^{talk contrib} 22:39, 18 April 2016 (UTC)

@Valoem: It appears that another admin handled this. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 06:57, 19 April 2016 (UTC)

FLC for List of Padma Bhushan award recipients (1960–69)

Hi! I have nominated the subject list for FL. Could you find some time out and give your comments here? §§Dharmadhyaksha§§ {Talk / Edits} 09:09, 18 April 2016 (UTC)

@Dharmadhyaksha: I'm presently working on other matters, so I may not contribute to the discussion at this time. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 07:11, 19 April 2016 (UTC)

Okay! No problem. §§Dharmadhyaksha§§ {Talk / Edits} 08:26, 21 April 2016 (UTC)

Miss Tibet

Perhaps a nice article for you to improve Miss Tibet. It is one big mess, poorly sourced about a pageant with only a few contestants a year. The Banner talk 21:22, 19 April 2016 (UTC)

WikiProject X Newsletter • Issue 8

Newsletter • March / April 2016

This month:

Transclude article requests anywhere on Wikipedia

In the last issue of the WikiProject X Newsletter, I discussed the upcoming Wikipedia Requests system: a central database for outstanding work on Wikipedia. I am pleased to announce Wikipedia Requests is live! Its purpose is to supplement automatically generated lists, such as those from SuggestBot, Reports bot, or Wikidata. It is currently being demonstrated on WikiProject Occupational Safety and Health (which I work on as part of my NIOSH duties) and WikiProject Women scientists.

Adding a request is as simple as filling out a form. Just go to the Add form to add your request. Adding sources will help ensure that your request is fulfilled more quickly. And when a request is fulfilled, simply click "mark as complete" and it will be removed from all the lists it's on. All at the click of a button! (If anyone is concerned, all actions are logged.)

With this new service is a template to transclude these requests: {{Wikipedia Requests}}. It's simple to use: add the template to a page, specifying article=, category=, or wikiproject=, and the list will be transcluded. For example, for requests having to do with all living people, just do {{Wikipedia Requests|category=Living people}}. Use these lists on WikiProjects but also for edit-a-thons where you want a convenient list of things to do on hand. Give it a shot!

Help us build our list!

The value of Wikipedia Requests comes from being a centralized database. The long work to migrating individual lists into this combined list is slowly underway. As of writing, we have 883 open tasks logged in Wikipedia Requests. We need your help building this list.

If you know of a list of missing articles, or of outstanding tasks for existing articles, that you would like to migrate to this new system, head on over to Wikipedia:Wikipedia Requests#Transition project and help out. Doing this will help put your list in front of more eyes—more than just your own WikiProject.

An open database means new tools

WikiProject X maintains a database that associates article talk pages (and draft talk pages) with WikiProjects. This database powers many of the reports that Reports bot generates. However, until very recently, this database was not made available to others who might find its data useful. It's only common sense to open up the database and let others build tools with it.

And indeed: Citation Hunt, the game to add citations to Wikipedia, now lets you filter by WikiProject, using the data from our database.

Are you a tool developer interested in using this? Here are some details: the database resides on Tool Labs with the name s52475__wpx_p. The table that associates WikiProjects with articles and drafts is called projectindex. Pages are stored by talk page title but in the future this should change. Have fun!

On the horizon

• The work on the CollaborationKit extension continues. The extension will initially focus on reducing template and Lua bloat on WikiProjects (especially our WPX UI demonstration projects), and will from there create custom interfaces for creating and maintaining WikiProjects.
• The WikiCite meeting will be in Berlin in May. The goal of the meeting is to figure out how to build a bibliographic database for use on the Wikimedia projects. This fits in quite nicely with WikiProject X's work: we want to make it easier for people to find things to work on, and with a powerful, open bibliographic database, we can build recommendations for sources. This feature was requested by the Wikipedia Library back in September, and this meeting is a major next step. We look forward to seeing what comes out of this meeting.

Until next time,

Harej (talk) 01:29, 20 April 2016 (UTC)

Editor of the Week : nominations needed!

The Editor of the Week initiative has been recognizing editors since 2013 for their hard work and dedication. Editing Wikipedia can be disheartening and tedious at times; the weekly Editor of the Week award lets its recipients know that their positive behaviour and collaborative spirit is appreciated. The response from the honorees has been enthusiastic and thankful.

The list of nominees is running short, and so new nominations are needed for consideration. Have you come across someone in your editing circle who deserves a pat on the back for improving article prose regularly, making it easier to understand? Or perhaps someone has stepped in to mediate a contentious dispute, and did an excellent job. Do you know someone who hasn't received many accolades and is deserving of greater renown? Is there an editor who does lots of little tasks well, such as cleaning up citations?

Please help us thank editors who display sustained patterns of excellence, working tirelessly in the background out of the spotlight, by submitting your nomination for Editor of the Week today!

Sent on behalf of Buster Seven Talk for the Editor of the Week initiative by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 06:18, 22 April 2016 (UTC)

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This week's article for improvement (week 17, 2016)

Hello, Northamerica1000. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Fame (Irene Cara song) Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Debt • Delicatessen Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:07, 25 April 2016 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

DYK nomination of Dessert sauce

Hello! Your submission of Dessert sauce at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Yoninah (talk) 19:51, 25 April 2016 (UTC)

Opposing TAFI noms

Hi, NA1K. I just noticed one more thing about TAFI noms, and please correct me if I am wrong: Recently you opposed several noms that were on their 20th day with no action. Doesn't that start the 21 day clock again? Whereas if no comment was left they would time out automatically the next day?

Also, the nom header says that noms are automatically removed after 21 days of inaction. But, if you tag them with "not approved" doesn't that start the 21 day clock again? The bot will see the "not approved" comment as action, and the clock will start again.

Correct me if I am wrong. This is something I noticed today. Cheers! {{u|Checkingfax}} {Talk} 09:01, 26 April 2016 (UTC)

@Checkingfax: I paid no mind to the timestamps when I !voted. Yes, the clock was restarted, which seems a bit counterproductive in instances such as these. Perhaps this should be discussed at WT:TAFI, whereby such types of nominations would be qualifiable to be unapproved and archived. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 12:33, 26 April 2016 (UTC)

Hi, NA1K. I started a thread there. Feel free to refactor my attempt before you add your comments. You have my total permission to refactor without doing anything formal to acknowledge the refactoring. I want to make sure the thread is crystal clear about the issue, and you are good at accomplishing that. Cheers! {{u|Checkingfax}} {Talk} 17:43, 26 April 2016 (UTC)

A page that was previously deleted-and is also a redirect now to a band that has been recreated

Alex Gaskarth (Musician), I put the previously deleted tag, but not sure if that works here. The page Alex Gaskarth is a redirect to the band, not sure what type of deletion this would get. On a similar note, the page Danielle Marcot (Shining Time Station) is the same page as Danielle Marcot, which is a redirect. Again not sure what to say. Wgolf (talk) 04:35, 24 April 2016 (UTC)

@Wgolf: Another user declined the WP:G4 speedy deletion rationale but did not leave a reason for doing so. This is all right in this case, because the present version of the article is not substantially identical to the deleted version (I cross-checked the two). I have declined the WP:A7 speedy deletion proposal, because as the lead vocalist, guitarist, and primary songwriter of the pop-punk band All Time Low, this is a credible claim of importance in my view. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 12:14, 24 April 2016 (UTC)

I have added sources to the article. In my view, the subject meets WP:BASIC, thus qualifying for an article at this time. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 12:35, 24 April 2016 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free image File:Cheeseburger in Caseville logo.jpg

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Thanks for uploading File:Cheeseburger in Caseville logo.jpg. The image description page currently specifies that the image is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, the image is currently not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the image was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that images for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (see our policy for non-free media).

Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described in the criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. Stefan2 (talk) 13:12, 28 April 2016 (UTC)

N.b. The image disappeared when a user removed it for no reason. I have restored the logo to the article. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 14:31, 28 April 2016 (UTC)

Non-free use of File:BewaretheBeast.jpg

Thank you for uploading File:BewaretheBeast.jpg. However, there is a concern that the use of the image on Wikipedia may not meet the criteria required by Wikipedia:Non-free content. Details of this problem, and which specific criteria that the image may not meet, can be obtained by going to the image description page. If you feel that this image does meet those criteria, please place a note on the image description or talk page explaining why. Do not remove the {{di-fails NFCC}} tag itself.

An administrator will review this file within a few days, and having considered the opinions placed on the image page, may delete it in accordance with our criteria for speedy deletion or remove the tag entirely. If you have any questions, please ask them at the media copyright questions page. Thank you. Stefan2 (talk) 22:10, 28 April 2016 (UTC)

• N.b. I did not upload this file. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 01:35, 29 April 2016 (UTC)

DYK for Camaron rebosado

On 19 April 2016, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Camaron rebosado, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that camaron rebosado (example pictured) is a Philippine dish that has a Spanish name, but originated in China? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Camaron rebosado. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Camaron rebosado), 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.

Worm^TT(talk) 20:47, 19 April 2016 (UTC)

DYK for Joe's Steaks + Soda Shop

On 20 April 2016, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Joe's Steaks + Soda Shop, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Joe's Steaks + Soda Shop in Philadelphia changed its business name in 2013 because the name it had used for 64 years was controversial? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Joe's Steaks + Soda Shop. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Joe's Steaks + Soda Shop), 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.

Worm^TT(talk) 21:17, 20 April 2016 (UTC)

DYK for Blueberry sauce

On 21 April 2016, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Blueberry sauce, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that blueberry sauce can be used to prepare blueberry Martinis? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Blueberry sauce. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Blueberry sauce), 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.

Worm^TT(talk) 09:31, 21 April 2016 (UTC)

Merger discussion for Vitalik Buterin

An article that you have been involved in editing—Vitalik Buterin —has been proposed for merging with another article. If you are interested, please participate in the merger discussion. Thank you. Jtbobwaysf (talk) 16:37, 29 April 2016 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Acquacotta

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Acquacotta 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 Carbrera -- Carbrera (talk) 17:20, 30 April 2016 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2016-18

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 visual editor now works when you use Internet Explorer 9. [11]

Problems

• There was a security problem with the MobileFrontend extension. It showed information that had been oversighted. This has now been fixed. [12]

Changes this week

• You can now see which notifications are available on a wiki on Special:DisplayNotificationsConfiguration. [13]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from May 3. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from May 4. It will be on all wikis from May 5 (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is "PSR-6 Cache interface in Mediawiki core". The meeting will be on May 4 at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Pages could be added to new users' watchlists by default when they edit them. New users could also by default get email notifications when pages they watch are edited. This is discussed on Meta. [14]

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20:09, 2 May 2016 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of File:St Andrew's Church, Presteigne. - geograph.org.uk - 98030.jpg

A tag has been placed on File:St Andrew's Church, Presteigne. - geograph.org.uk - 98030.jpg requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section F2 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is an image page for a missing or corrupt image or an empty image description page for a Commons-hosted image.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be removed without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Stefan2 (talk) 21:30, 3 May 2016 (UTC)

My DYK? Nomination

Hello,

I have now dealt with the close paraphrasing issue here.--Template:Did you know nominations/Elye Falkovitsh. Thus, can you please take a look at my changes to this article and see if this article of mine is currently good enough to receive a DYK? nomination? Futurist110 (talk) 19:44, 1 May 2016 (UTC)

Replied at the discussion. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 16:24, 4 May 2016 (UTC)

G13 Eligibility Notice

The following pages will become eligible for CSD:G13 shortly.

• Draft:The Food Lab

Thanks, HasteurBot (talk) 03:00, 4 May 2016 (UTC)

DYK for Banana cake

On 24 April 2016, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Banana cake, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that steamed banana cake is found in Chinese cuisine, Indonesian cuisine and Vietnamese cuisine? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Banana cake. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Banana cake), 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.

Worm^TT(talk) 09:08, 24 April 2016 (UTC)

DYK for Disposable cup

On 25 April 2016, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Disposable cup, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that one doughnut shop chain uses an estimated one billion disposable cups per year, enough to circle the Earth twice? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Disposable cup. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Disposable cup), 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.

Worm^TT(talk) 09:38, 25 April 2016 (UTC)

Template:Did you know nominations/List of accolades received by Bajirao Mastani

The nominator has posted a couple of responses to your review. Can you please see whether the work done was sufficient to address your concerns, most notably about sufficient original text? Many thanks. (If you would prefer me to call for a new reviewer, I can do that instead.) BlueMoonset (talk) 16:37, 25 April 2016 (UTC)

@BlueMoonset: I'll pass on spending a bunch more time evaluating whether or not the article is factually accurate at this time, which it was not when nominated, so perhaps a "new review needed" icon would be in order. There's also additional matters to follow up on, regarding content being copied from other articles, and whether or not the article qualifies per all of this. I just don't feel like spending more time on this; too many problems, and I have other things to do. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 17:14, 27 April 2016 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 19, 2016)

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wikipedia:sandbox

hello Northamerica1000, I have a question:sandbox in article I wrote letters in random trial and was subsequently made ​​clear . I'm sorry, I will not do ever again I wanted to understand the workings of Wikipedia and subsequently bought back--İnternion (talk) 09:51, 30 April 2016 (UTC)

Question

Hello N1000. I work with the cleaning up items in Category:Wikipedia pages with incorrect protection templates well those that the bots don't get :-) . Today I noticed that there are three pics in the category. As I investigated further I found that you have placed a {{mprotected}} template on them yet when I check the logs (for example) there is no protection recorded. As I am not familiar with this new template or how what you are doing works I thought that I would ask if you know how to get those files out of the category. Redrose64 and MusikAnimal also work with the cat so they might be able to help as well. Thanks for your time. MarnetteD|Talk 18:39, 1 May 2016 (UTC)

{{mprotected}} is not new; it's used on images that are displayed on the main page, see WP:Cascading protection. --Redrose64 (talk) 20:30, 1 May 2016 (UTC)

Okay. I should have said that it was new to me Redrose64. As you know I have been working with the category for more than a year and this is the first time that pics with this template have shown up in it so the question of how to get the them out of the category remains. Any insight would be appreciated. MarnetteD|Talk 20:42, 1 May 2016 (UTC)

File:R-dehmel 1905.jpg is on the main page right now, in the "Did you know..." (DYK) section. File:Hypercycle-eigen.svg has been selected to appear in DYK (it's currently in Queue 4). File:St Andrew's Church, Presteigne. - geograph.org.uk - 98030.jpg was selected by PFHLai (talk · contribs) to appear on main page in the DYK section, but Nikkimaria (talk · contribs) seems to have pulled it. --Redrose64 (talk) 21:20, 1 May 2016 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 18, 2016)

Steak à la carte Hello, Northamerica1000. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: À la carte Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Fame (Irene Cara song) • Debt Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 02:07, 2 May 2016 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

AfD error

Hi. I mis-clicked while attempting to relist a discussion, and a discussion was included at Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Albums and songs by mistake. I removed the notation from the AfD discussion (Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mikko Markkula), but aren't sure how to get it off the sort list. Onel5969 ^{TT me} 13:26, 3 May 2016 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) - onel5969 I've removed the AFD from the sort list for you - If you ever click those by accident just revert yourself and it'll remove it from the list :), –Davey2010^Talk 13:34, 3 May 2016 (UTC)

Duh. Don't know why I didn't try that. Guess it seemed too easy. Thanks Davey2010! Onel5969 ^{TT me} 13:41, 3 May 2016 (UTC)

Haha, You're welcome :), –Davey2010^Talk 13:47, 3 May 2016 (UTC)

Undid recent prep moves

Northamerica1000, I restored Prep 6 and Prep 2 to what they had been before your most recent moved: we need Prep 6 to be promoted to Queue 6 and then to the main page within the next six hours, so emptying Prep 6 with so little time remaining was just not a good idea.

If there are any time-sensitive hooks in Prep 6 that should not run for some reason (I didn't see any comments in the set to indicate such was the case), feel free to move them out to a later set; filling a hole or two should be easily enough done (we could raid Prep 1 if necessary). Thanks, and I hope you understand why I did this. BlueMoonset (talk) 18:44, 5 May 2016 (UTC)

@BlueMoonset: Thanks for fixing this, and sorry I goofed there. I didn't check up at Template:Did you know/Queue first... North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 18:49, 5 May 2016 (UTC)

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Recent changes

• Wikiversities now have better access to Wikidata. They can use data from any page on Wikidata on any page on Wikiversity. This happened on May 3. [15]
• You can use Wikipedia GapFinder to find missing articles between languages. [16]
• Users are invited to try Cross-wiki Notifications on all wikis. This is the last test session before the release by default, scheduled for May 12th at 23:00 UTC. [17][18]
• You can use keyboard shortcuts to open the visual editor (meta+V) or the wikitext editor (meta+E) (on certain wikis, even if you have chosen a favorite editor). [19]
• Uploading files bigger than 100 megabytes on Wikimedia Commons required to opt-in in your preferences. This is not necessary anymore. [20]
• The UploadsLink extension is now available on Wikimedia Commons. [21]
• Deleting a translation unit page didn't remove the corresponding content from the translation page. This is now solved. [22]
• Translation suggestions based on Apertium are now available on Mediawiki.org. [23]

Problems

• MediaWiki 1.27.0-wmf.23 has been rolled back from Wikimedia wikis, due to a performance issue. [24]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from May 10. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from May 11. It will be on all wikis from May 12 (calendar).

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Future changes

• Today, in categories, a page titled "11" comes before "2". We plan to reorder that: "2" will come before "11". Please tell the developers if the change will cause problems. [25]

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23:22, 9 May 2016 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Acquacotta

The article Acquacotta 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:Acquacotta for things which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Carbrera -- Carbrera (talk) 21:40, 3 May 2016 (UTC)

DYK for Clam dip

On 25 April 2016, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Clam dip, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that after the Kraft Music Hall television show aired a recipe for clam dip (example pictured) in the early 1950s, canned clams in New York City sold out within 24 hours? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Clam dip. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Clam dip), 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.

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 21:52, 25 April 2016 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Clam dip

The article Clam dip you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Clam dip for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of AHeneen -- AHeneen (talk) 02:21, 26 April 2016 (UTC)

DYK for Instant pudding

On 26 April 2016, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Instant pudding, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that some instant puddings are vegan? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Instant pudding. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Instant pudding), 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.

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 22:23, 26 April 2016 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 19, 2016)

Gustaf Skarsgård Hello, Northamerica1000. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Gustaf Skarsgård Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: À la carte • Fame (Irene Cara song) Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:08, 9 May 2016 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •