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Hey Katstrout44 (talk) 00:12, 22 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Hey back! All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 12:34, 12 April 2018 (UTC).[reply]

Heh Rich I need someone to write about my biography in Wikipedia that is considered reliable who would I seek out ? Markpain (talk) 23:24, 11 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

If you meet the requirements for WP:Notability you could leave a request at the appropriate sub-page of Wikipedia:Requested articles. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 12:34, 12 April 2018 (UTC).[reply]

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2018).

Administrator changes

331dot • Cordless Larry • ClueBot NG

Gogo Dodo • Pb30 • Sebastiankessel • Seicer • SoLando

Guideline and policy news

• Administrators who have been desysopped due to inactivity are now required to have performed at least one (logged) administrative action in the past 5 years in order to qualify for a resysop without going through a new RfA.
• Editors who have been found to have engaged in sockpuppetry on at least two occasions after an initial indefinite block, for whatever reason, are now automatically considered banned by the community without the need to start a ban discussion.
• The notability guideline for organizations and companies has been substantially rewritten following the closure of this request for comment. Among the changes, the guideline more clearly defines the sourcing requirements needed for organizations and companies to be considered notable.
• The six-month autoconfirmed article creation trial (ACTRIAL) ended on 14 March 2018. The post-trial research report has been published. A request for comment is now underway to determine whether the restrictions from ACTRIAL should be implemented permanently.

Technical news

• There will soon be a calendar widget at Special:Block, making it easier to set expiries for a specific date and time.

Arbitration

• The Arbitration Committee is considering a change to the discretionary sanctions procedures which would require an editor to appeal a sanction to the community at WP:AE or WP:AN prior to appealing directly to the Arbitration Committee at WP:ARCA.

Miscellaneous

• A discussion has closed which concluded that administrators are not required to enable email, though many editors suggested doing so as a matter of best practice.
• The Foundations' Anti-Harassment Tools team has released the Interaction Timeline. This shows a chronologic history for two users on pages where they have both made edits, which may be helpful in identifying sockpuppetry and investigating editing disputes.

I was given permission to use AWB to clear the backlog of articles in the Category:Biography_articles_without_living_parameter and have done so. Every so often I open up AWB to clear the category once again, but it has been raised to my attention that in clearing the category it won't always be inline with the rules, as when I add living=n this does not actually affect the page visually. I assumed that because it was a mandatory field (as noted on the WikiProject page), this would be still acceptable. Is my assumption right? Thanks. Wpgbrown (talk) 17:32, 3 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

(talk page stalker) Adding or removing a category changes the visual appearance of a page. Technically. You might get some pushback, but plenty of people use AWB to fix errors and subsequently cause a category to appear or disappear. – Jonesey95 (talk) 04:05, 4 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Jonesey is perfectly correct. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 08:01, 4 April 2018 (UTC).[reply]

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Slate Blue. Since you had some involvement with the Slate Blue redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. Steel1943 (talk) 14:11, 4 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Rich,

As you know, I've been learning JavaScript.

Well, I've created a user script...

It provides menu items on Wikipedia's search results page to enhance search output. Boy was it a bitch to get them to work on each other's output.

Hope you have a fast computer. :)

I'd be honored if you gave it a test drive.

If you do, let me know what you think of it.

All comments are welcome.     — The Transhumanist    02:34, 5 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

P.S.: It is especially useful when &limit is set high, like &limit=500 to &limit=5000

Most of my hardware is at least 10 years old. But I'll take a look anyway... All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 17:59, 7 April 2018 (UTC).[reply]

In the plot of “Resident Evil the final chapter” movie article Alice the main character Kills the Villain Isaacs by using a grenade. The word “grenade” is misspelled. Maybe you could edit that? Thank you for your time. SKRAT567. SKRAT567 (talk) 09:49, 7 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I fixed this, but you can easily fix this sort of thing yourself. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 18:08, 8 April 2018 (UTC).[reply]

Template:Plot hook has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Lojbanist ^{remove cattle from stage} 02:27, 10 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Units attention has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Lojbanist ^{remove cattle from stage} 02:40, 10 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Unreferenced small has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Lojbanist ^{remove cattle from stage} 02:42, 10 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

There's an RfC going on to eliminate all portals and portal space.

Would you use your programming acumen to determine how many views the portals got over the past year?

That figure would sure help.     — The Transhumanist    05:00, 12 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Rich, just realised that you've been changing MA in a few articles. I'm curious, why? Regards Keith-264 (talk) 22:03, 13 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

We try to avoid postal abbreviations such as these. Firstly they are not widely known outside the US, secondly they can be ambiguous, for example WA is both Washington (state), and Western Australia. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 22:12, 13 April 2018 (UTC).[reply]

Bloody hell! I've been abbreviating them for years; are you going to paint the Forth rail bridge for an encore? ;O).Keith-264 (talk) 22:26, 13 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

It will probably end up being a bot task. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 22:30, 13 April 2018 (UTC).[reply]

Will this be done to all US place names? Regards Keith-264 (talk) 09:54, 14 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Ideally. There is a lot of work to do before we can do that. On a naive basis, for example, Evolution contains the strings "CO", "SC", "VI" and "ID" which should not be changed, so I will need a proper gazetteer. Most likely I will create a learning algorithm. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 16:45, 14 April 2018 (UTC).[reply]

How do you transclude just the lead section from an article?    — The Transhumanist   06:03, 14 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

P.S.: please {{ping}} me.

The Transhumanist, see WP:LST for information about how to transclude any section of an article into another. Primefac (talk) 15:54, 14 April 2018 (UTC) (talk page stalker)[reply]

Alternatively I think you would need to use <onlyinclude> tags, or write custom lua. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 15:58, 14 April 2018 (UTC).[reply]

Yeah, <onlyinclude> would also work if you knew you just wanted the lead. LST is better for copying different parts of pages to different locations. Primefac (talk) 16:27, 14 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Hello,

There will be some changes to the way wikitext is parsed during the next few weeks. It will affect all namespaces. You can see a list of pages that may display incorrectly at Special:LintErrors. Since most of the easy problems have already been solved at the English Wikipedia, I am specifically contacting tech-savvy editors such as yourself with this one-time message, in the hope that you will be able to investigate the remaining high-priority pages during the next month.

There are approximately 10,000 articles (and many more non-article pages) with high-priority errors. The most important ones are the articles with misnested tags and table problems. Some of these involve templates, such as infoboxes, or the way the template is used in the article. In some cases, the "error" is a minor, unimportant difference in the visual appearance. In other cases, the results are undesirable. You can see a before-and-after comparison of any article by adding ?action=parsermigration-edit to the end of a link, like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Foss?action=parsermigration-edit (which shows a difference in how {{infobox ship}} is parsed).

If you are interested in helping with this project, please see Wikipedia:Linter. There are also some basic instructions (and links to even more information) at https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2018-April/001836.html You can also leave a note at WT:Linter if you have questions.

Thank you for all the good things you do for the English Wikipedia. Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 21:18, 19 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

please help translate this message into your local language via meta

The 2017 Cure Award

In 2017 you were one of the top ~250 medical editors across any language of Wikipedia. Thank you from Wiki Project Med Foundation for helping bring free, complete, accurate, up-to-date health information to the public. We really appreciate you and the vital work you do! Wiki Project Med Foundation is a user group whose mission is to improve our health content. Consider joining here, there are no associated costs.

Thanks again :-) -- Doc James along with the rest of the team at Wiki Project Med Foundation 02:54, 26 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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