Books & Bytes – Issue 37
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Issue 37, November – December 2019
- #1Lib1Ref
- Wikimedia and Libraries User Group
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Gamaliel (talk) 22:42, 3 February 2020 (UTC)Happy First Edit Day!
Have a very happy first edit anniversary!
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Happy First Edit Day!
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Proposed deletion of Miami Valley College
The article Miami Valley College has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:
Does not pass WP:GNG. Only sources I could find are either primary sources or non-significant coverage.
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Nomination of Aron Wright for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Aron Wright is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.
The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Aron Wright until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.
Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Bait30 Talk? 03:20, 24 February 2020 (UTC)
Aron Wright
I know you're trying to cleanup the article, but next time please be more careful as you removed the AfD template when you did that. Bait30 Talk? 22:22, 24 February 2020 (UTC)
WAM 2019 Postcard: All postcards are postponed due to the postal system shut down
Dear all participants and organizers,
Since the outbreak of COVID-19, all the postcards are postponed due to the shut down of the postal system all over the world. Hope all the postcards can arrive as soon as the postal system return and please take good care.
Best regards,
Wikipedia Asian Month International Team 2020.03
Thank you for your participation in the WikiGap Challenge!
Hi!
Now, we have finalized the results from the WikiGap Challenge. You can find the general and top results here. I want to thank you for your contribution, which together with the other participants have created a tremendous and long lasting impact for the visibility of women on Wikipedia.
We want to give you a barnstar for your participation, to praise your efforts for a better visibility of women on Wikipedia!
We will analyze the challenge and the way it works closely, to see how we can improve it for next year. It would be very valuable for us if you wanted to share your views on the challenge, especially when it comes to: the point system, the focus, and the adding of the list from UN Human Rights. You can send your answers to eric.luth@wikimedia.se!
I hope you found the challenge exciting, and that you want to participate next year as well!
Best, Eric Luth (WMSE) (talk) 12:02, 24 April 2020 (UTC)
Issue 38, January – April 2020
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Books & Bytes
Issue 38, January – April 2020
- New partnership
- Global roundup
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Can you help with the source
you mention at Talk:RealClearPolitics#Conservative? See[1] where an IP thinks it doesn't exist. Thanks. Doug Weller talk 11:28, 2 May 2020 (UTC)
- I still have it in my inbox from when a different conservative ideologue claimed it didn't exist back in 2013. Emailed it to you. Gamaliel (talk) 12:02, 2 May 2020 (UTC)
- Great. I did a null edit to use an edit summary to say I had the source. The whole RealClear stable is a problem. Doug Weller talk 12:45, 2 May 2020 (UTC)
Your draft article, Draft:Keum Suk Gendry-Kim
Hello, Gamaliel. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "Keum Suk Gendry-Kim".
In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been nominated for deletion. If you plan on working on it further, or editing it to address the issues raised if it was declined, simply and remove the {{db-afc}}, {{db-draft}}, or {{db-g13}} code.
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Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia! TheImaCow (talk) 08:14, 4 May 2020 (UTC)
Your draft article, Draft:Piyale Madra
Hello, Gamaliel. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "Piyale Madra".
In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been nominated for deletion. If you plan on working on it further, or editing it to address the issues raised if it was declined, simply and remove the {{db-afc}}, {{db-draft}}, or {{db-g13}} code.
If your submission has already been deleted by the time you get there, and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion by following the instructions at this link. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.
Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia! Lapablo (talk) 10:23, 7 May 2020 (UTC)
Articles for Creation: List of reviewers by subject notice
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Books & Bytes – Issue 39, May – June 2020
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Issue 39, May – June 2020
- Library Card Platform
- New partnerships
- ProQuest
- Springer Nature
- BioOne
- CEEOL
- IWA Publishing
- ICE Publishing
- Bytes in brief
On behalf of The Wikipedia Library team --MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 06:13, 11 June 2020 (UTC)
Digital Postcards and Certifications
Dear Participants and Organizers,
Because of the COVID19 pandemic, there are a lot of countries’ international postal systems not reopened yet. We would like to send all the participants digital postcards and digital certifications for organizers to your email account in the upcoming weeks. For the paper ones, we will track the latest status of the international postal systems of all the countries and hope the postcards and certifications can be delivered to your mailboxes as soon as possible.
Take good care and wish you all the best.
This message was sent by Wikipedia Asian Month International Team via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:58, 20 June 2020 (UTC)
William E. Gleason
This is clearly a different person than the one in the Wikidata entry. How do you unpublish this incorrect information from Wikidata? BD2412 T 16:10, 17 July 2020 (UTC)
- @BD2412: It's not the same person, some of the uncited information in Wikipedia is incorrect. Gamaliel (talk) 16:12, 17 July 2020 (UTC)
- I may be wrong after all. Looking further into it. BD2412 T 16:14, 17 July 2020 (UTC)
- On further review, I was clearly wrong, and I apologize for jumping the gun. I was thrown by the different spelling, and didn't bother to look at the second page of the biography, which discusses his service on the Dakota court. BD2412 T 16:28, 17 July 2020 (UTC)
File:Robert rauschenberg speaking in tongues talking heads.jpg listed for discussion
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William N. Sheats
There are now four links pointing to William N. Sheats.[2] You've made a good start at User:Gamaliel/Sheats. Care to bring it up to a stub? Mobi Ditch (talk) 05:12, 1 August 2020 (UTC)
- @Mobi Ditch: Sure, why not? Thanks for the suggestion. It's live now at William N. Sheats. I see that FloridaArmy also has a draft they've been working on, perhaps they'd like to contribute too. Gamaliel (talk) 17:56, 2 August 2020 (UTC)
- Super! Thanks. I'll also let FloridaArmy know. Mobi Ditch (talk) 19:21, 2 August 2020 (UTC)
Thank you!
- Thank you so much for making the redlist from the Native American Women: A Biographical Dictionary. Very much appreciate your help as the technical aspects were far beyond my ability, but the material will truly bring more balance to our encyclopedia. SusunW (talk) 18:07, 23 August 2020 (UTC)
Thanks for getting me over the HUMP.
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White Camel of Internet Treks |
| Thanks for helping with images & article pdfs lately. A camel just felt appropriate. Jamie-NAL (talk) 15:05, 1 September 2020 (UTC) |
Books & Bytes – Issue 40
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Issue 40, July – August 2020
- New partnerships
- Al Manhal
- Ancestry
- RILM
- #1Lib1Ref May 2020 report
- AfLIA hires a Wikipedian-in-Residence
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DYK for Vaccine Safety Net
 | On 19 September 2020, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Vaccine Safety Net, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that to help counteract misleading online information on vaccines, the Vaccine Safety Net provides a list of scientifically reviewed websites? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Vaccine Safety Net. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Vaccine Safety Net), 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) 12:12, 19 September 2020 (UTC)
Notice of noticeboard discussion
There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The thread is "Users with indefinitely protected user talk pages". Thank you. Jackmcbarn (talk) 19:19, 27 September 2020 (UTC)
Wikipedia Asian Month 2020
Hi WAM organizers and participants!
Hope you are all doing well! Now is the time to sign up for Wikipedia Asian Month 2020, which will take place in this November.
For organizers:
Here are the basic guidance and regulations for organizers. Please remember to:
- use Fountain tool (you can find the usage guidance easily on meta page), or else you and your participants’ will not be able to receive the prize from WAM team.
- Add your language projects and organizer list to the meta page before October 29th, 2020.
- Inform your community members WAM 2020 is coming soon!!!
- If you want WAM team to share your event information on Facebook / twitter, or you want to share your WAM experience/ achievements on our blog, feel free to send an email to info@asianmonth.wiki or PM us via facebook.
If you want to hold a thematic event that is related to WAM, a.k.a. WAM sub-contest. The process is the same as the language one.
For participants:
Here are the event regulations and Q&A information. Just join us! Let’s edit articles and win the prizes!
Here are some updates from WAM team:
- Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this year we hope all the Edit-a-thons are online not physical ones.
- The international postal systems are not stable enough at the moment, WAM team have decided to send all the qualified participants/ organizers extra digital postcards/ certifications. (You will still get the paper ones!)
- Our team has created a meta page so that everyone tracking the progress and the delivery status.
If you have any suggestions or thoughts, feel free to reach out the WAM team via emailing info@asianmonth.wiki or discuss on the meta talk page. If it’s urgent, please contact the leader directly (jamie@asianmonth.wiki).
Hope you all have fun in Wikipedia Asian Month 2020
Sincerely yours,
Wikipedia Asian Month International Team 2020.10DYK for Heji Shin
| On 14 October 2020, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Heji Shin, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that photographer Heji Shin created Big Cocks, a series of portraits of roosters that she admired for their "angry cock energy"? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Heji Shin. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Heji Shin), 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) 00:04, 14 October 2020 (UTC)
Clay Shaw page
Thanks for (possibly) helping to resolve the dispute on the Clay Shaw page. Although I have to plead guilty to the fact that some of that PRIMARY material is stuff i added. (In the interest of elaborating further on the other PRIMARY stuff.) Regards.Rja13ww33 (talk) 20:36, 15 October 2020 (UTC)
Books & Bytes – Issue 41
The Wikipedia Library
Books & Bytes
Issue 41, September – October 2020
- New partnership: Taxmann
- WikiCite
- 1Lib1Ref 2021
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A Barnstar for you!
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Wikipedia Asian Month 2020 Postcard
Dear Participants, Jury members and Organizers,
Congratulations!
It's Wikipedia Asian Month's honor to have you all participated in Wikipedia Asian Month 2020, the sixth Wikipedia Asian Month. Your achievements were fabulous, and all the articles you created make the world can know more about Asia in different languages! Here we, the Wikipedia Asian Month International team, would like to say thank you for your contribution also cheer for you that you are eligible for the postcard of Wikipedia Asian Month 2020. Please kindly fill the form, let the postcard can send to you asap!
- This form will be closed at February 15.
- For tracking the progress of postcard delivery, please check this page.
Cheers!
Thank you and best regards,
Wikipedia Asian Month International Team, 2021.01