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Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers
How can Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers create a wikipedia page like Yale University Press? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.150.208.165 (talk) 15:54, 5 September 2014 (UTC)
- The short answer is that you don't. You have a conflict of interest and are strongly advised not to create the article yourself. We strongly discourage users from creating articles about subjects where they have a conflict of interest because you will find it almost impossible to maintain the required neutral point of view. Please see: Wikipedia:COI, Wikipedia:BESTCOI and Wikipedia:NPOV.
- You can request that the article be created by following the process set out at Wikipedia:RA or, you can create the article yourself via the articles for creation process bearing in mind that all the issues that I linked to above will apply to such a draft. That process is set out at Wikipedia:AFC.
- If you need help with that process, please visit the Tea House and follow the instructions to leave a request for help there (click the "ask a question" link in the box at the top of the page) Wikipedia:THQ. I hope this helps.--ukexpat (talk) 16:25, 5 September 2014 (UTC)
The Signpost: 03 September 2014
- Arbitration report: Media viewer case is suspended
"On 1 September, the Arbitrators voted to suspend the Media Viewer case for 60 days. After the suspension period is up, the case is to be closed unless the committee votes otherwise. The case suspension comes in response to several new initiatives and policies announced by the Wikimedia Foundation that may make the case moot. In the same motion, the committee declared that Eloquence's resignation of the administrator right was "under the cloud" and that he can only regain the right through another RfA."
- Featured content: 1882 × 5 in gold, and thruppence more
Two articles, one list, and ten pictures were promoted
- Op-ed: Automated copy-and-paste detection under trial
Doc James and some collaborators are working on quick detection of copyright violations
- Traffic report: Holding Pattern
"This week we saw three of the top ten articles remain in place, with the Ice Bucket Challenge at #1, Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis at #2, and Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant at #5, all for a second straight week..."
- WikiProject report: Gray's Anatomy (v. 2)
"This week, the Signpost went out to meet WikiProject Anatomy, dedicated to improving the articles about all our bones, brains, bladders and biceps, and getting them to the high standard expected of a comprehensive encyclopaedia."
- Recent research: A Wikipedia-based Pantheon; new Wikipedia analysis tool suite; how AfC hamstrings newbies
The latest roundup of research about Wikimedia
An unoriginal thank you.
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The Tireless Contributor Barnstar | |
| For being a great Wikipedia "fixture" - writing content, cleaning up random messes and copyediting, while maintaining a consistent good humour and attention to detail. Euryalus (talk) 00:40, 10 September 2014 (UTC) |
- I'm not a fan of moving barnstars, but this one seemed most appropriate. Thought it worthwhile to recognise your long and high-quality service to Wikipedia, as others have done before me. Disappointed in your failure to set up WP:JAL, but will no doubt learn to live with it. Euryalus (talk) 00:40, 10 September 2014 (UTC)
- Thanks for that, it is much appreciated and makes all the gnoming worthwhile!--ukexpat (talk) 00:47, 10 September 2014 (UTC)
Happy First Edit Day
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Happy First Edit Day, Ukexpat, from the Wikipedia Birthday Committee! Have a great day! Anastasia [Missionedit] (talk) 23:14, 13 September 2014 (UTC) |
The Signpost: 10 September 2014
- Op-ed: Media Viewer software is not ready
Last month, I wrote an open letter to the Wikimedia Foundation, inviting others to join me in a simple but important request: roll back the recent actions—both technical and social—by which the Wikimedia Foundation has overruled legitimate decisions of several Wikimedia projects.
- Traffic report: Refuge in celebrity
Even though it's not quite 3/4 over, it's safe to say that 2014 will go down as a year of war, mass murder, plane crashes and terrible diseases. While certainly paying it some heed, it's not surprising that Wikipedia viewers tried this week to find any alternative to that litany of tragedy and pain, and their chosen method of escape was, as usual, celebrity.
- Featured content: The louse and the fish's tongue
The amazing and strange tongue-eating louse replacing a fish's tongue! Because isopods, the subject of a new featured article, are both awesome and really damn weird!
- WikiProject report: Checking that everything's all right
This week, the Signpost decided to have a look around with WikiProject Check Wikipedia a maintenance project not concerned so much with articles' content, but in all the tiny errors that are to be found scattered within them. Their front page gives a list of things they mainly focus on ...
Hi,
Thank you for your interest in the Rhoda Holmes Nicholls article. I rolled back the edits because:
- Encyclopedia Britannica is a Wikipedia:Tertiary source and should be avoided if there are good secondary sources. See RSN Archive 115 - Is Encyclopedia a reliable source?
- The guideline for dashes is to not to put spaces before and after the dash Wikipedia:Dashes.
- "She met with" might be a difference in American vs. British English. It's common in the states - but I wouldn't have rolled back that comment alone.
- ", like" is also appropriate. "Such as" was interjected without the comma - so this is another example where the change from like to such as would not have resulted in a roll back, except that the comma was removed
- I see you added [[American Watercolor Society|American Water Color Society]], which I had at one time, too, but the piped name was removed. It's not wrong either way.
I did return the edit Rhoda Holmes Nicholls-->Nicholls.
I hope that makes sense,but feel free to respond here or on my talk page if you have any questions.--CaroleHenson (talk) 17:16, 16 September 2014 (UTC)
- Whatever, just trying to be helpful - in fact some of those weren't even my original edits, but were caught up in an edit conflict.--ukexpat (talk) 18:31, 16 September 2014 (UTC)
- Yep, I later saw that it was another user that originally posted the Encyclopedia Britannica and posted a comment on their user page, too.
- Of course your were trying to be helpful and it's appreciated. Thinking of how you might feel to have your edits reverted without an explanation, I just wanted to explain my reasoning... and (not being the bearer of all wisdom (laughing at my seriousness sometimes)), please let me know if I've got something wrong.--CaroleHenson (talk) 19:03, 16 September 2014 (UTC)
The Signpost: 17 September 2014
- In the media: Turkish Twitter outrage, medical translation, audience metrics
The Hürriyet Daily News reports on a series of posts on Twitter from Turkish Minister of Culture and Tourism Ömer Çelik.
- WikiProject report: A trip up north to Scotland
As Scotland is deciding its future this week, we thought it might be a good idea to get to know the editors of WikiProject Scotland and talk to them about the project.
- News and notes: Wikipedia's traffic statistics are off by nearly one-third
A prominent Wikipedia researcher has discovered that the encyclopedia's widely used article traffic statistics are missing out on approximately one-third of total views.
- Traffic report: Tolstoy leads a varied pack
There is no unifying theme we can slap on top article popularity this week.
- Featured content: Which is not like the others?
Four articles, two lists, and 51 pictures were promoted to "featured" status this week on the English Wikipedia.
Admin
I demand permission to nominate you for adminship. DocumentError (talk) 20:03, 18 September 2014 (UTC)
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The Signpost: 24 September 2014
- Featured content: Oil paintings galore
Six articles, four lists, one topic, and 17 pictures were promoted to "featured" status this week on the English Wikipedia.
- In the media: Indian political editing, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Congressional chelonii
The Hindustan Times speculates (September 18) that politicians and their supporters are "sanitizing" their articles in advance of the 2014 Maharashtra State Assembly election. The Times notes the absence of significant controversies in the articles of particular politicians and the presence of heavily promotional language.
- Recent research: 99.25% of Wikipedia birthdates accurate; focused Wikipedians live longer; merging WordNet, Wikipedia and Wiktionary
0.75% of Wikipedia birthdates are inaccurate, reported Robert Viseur at WikiSym 2014. Those inaccuracies are "low, although higher than the 0.21% observed for the baseline reference sources". Given that biographies represent 15% of English Wikipedia, the third largest category after "arts" and "culture", their accuracy is important.
- Traffic report: Wikipedia watches the referendum in Scotland
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- WikiProject report: GAN reviewers take note: competition time
A year and a week later, we're with some of the members of WikiProject Good Articles, who wanted to share the news of their upcoming contest within the project, the GA Cup. The aim of this friendly competition, which is held in the same light friendly manner of the WikiCup and the Core Contest, is to reduce the backlog of unreviewed articles at Good article nominations which has been a constant problem for quite a few years for those running the GA process.
- Arbitration report: Banning Policy, Gender Gap, and Waldorf education
Banning Policy finishes the workshop phase on 23 September. Parties have proposed findings of fact on the topics of the 3RR, the role of Jimbo Wales, and proxying for banned users. A request for arbitration was posted on 20 September about Landmark Worldwide.
Discussion on WP:BLPNAME
Based on this previous discussion, could you please take a look at this ? For more insight, this discussion has also been taking place. Thank you. -- Winkelvi ● ✉ ✓ 02:43, 2 October 2014 (UTC)
Orphaned non-free image File:SocialSolutionslogo.png
Thanks for uploading File:SocialSolutionslogo.png. 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) 19:14, 3 October 2014 (UTC)
- Not any more - I have restored the image to the article.--ukexpat (talk) 19:21, 3 October 2014 (UTC)
- Removed tag. Mlpearc (open channel) 19:25, 3 October 2014 (UTC)
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The Signpost: 01 October 2014
- From the editor: The Signpost needs your help
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- Dispatches: Let's get serious about plagiarism
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- News and notes: Wikipedia article published in peer-reviewed journal; Wikipedia in education
The argument on Wikipedia over the benefits of crowdsourcing versus the primacy of "expert" contributors stretches back to co-founder Larry Sanger's break with the project to start the alternative Citizendium.
- WikiProject report: Animals, farms, forests, USDA? It must be WikiProject Agriculture
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- Traffic report: Shanah Tovah
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- Featured content: Brothers at War
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Royal Warrants...possibly hairsplitting
Hi UKexpat, just a quick query on this. Not sure if it matters much either way but you stated on Philip Somerville that you have a Royal Warrant from. Hair splitting maybe, but Royal Warrant of Appointment is the full title and it is as a supplier to the household of the respective member of the royal family. Have you only ever seen it as 'from' as I'm pretty certain I've seen the phrase 'holder of a royal warrant to the...'? I'll do some digging to see what I come up with. Libby norman (talk) 14:20, 7 October 2014 (UTC)
- "Warrant to" doesn't make any sense in this context. It is (colloquially) a warrant from the Queen to be supplier to the Queen. So you could say "held a Royal Warrant to supply" or "as a supplier to" or "as milliner to", but saying he held a "Royal Warrant to the Queen" leaves out the operative bit. Happy to be corrected if you find something to the contrary.--ukexpat (talk) 17:38, 7 October 2014 (UTC)
- Not quite so in my book. The whole statement would be: Royal Warrant of appointment as supplier of cheese/mobile phones/gin/whatever to the Queen/Prince Charles/Duke of Edinburgh. And Royal Warrant holders are then allowed to say By Appointment to... I think this shows that 'to' is used "More than 170 regular suppliers of goods and services hold royal warrants of appointment to The Prince of Wales." It's my bolding. And here we have a Royal Warrant holder using the shortened form . Happy for it to stay as it is on Philip Somerville, but I would say that 'to' is comprehensible in this context and is in usage. Libby norman (talk) 19:10, 7 October 2014 (UTC)
Speedy deletion nomination of 33needs
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The Signpost: 08 October 2014
- In the media: Opposition research firm blocked; Australian bushfires
Also, Wikimedia Norge and Nobel Peace Center edit-a-thon
- Featured content: From a wordless novel to a coat of arms via New York City
2 Featured articles, 4 Featured lists, 62 Featured pictures, and 2 Featured portals were promoted.
- Traffic report: Panic and denial
The first case of the Ebola virus on US shores sent people into a tizzy, rushing to their keyboards to try and learn what they could.
- Technology report: HHVM is the greatest thing since sliced bread
No seriously, it is.
GOCE October 2014 newsletter
Guild of Copy Editors October 2014 newsletter is now ready for review. Highlights:
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The Signpost: 15 October 2014
- Op-ed: Ships—sexist or sexy?
Why does Wikipedia still use the gendered pronouns "she" and "her" for ships?
- In the media: College player falsely linked to sports scandal by Wikipedia; the Nobel Prizes
Ben Koo of the sports blog Awful Announcing investigated how player Joe Streater's name became involved in recent years with a historic sports scandal.
- Arbitration report: One case closed and two opened
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- Featured content: Bells ring out at the Temple of the Dragon at Peace
Nine articles and twenty-six pictures were promoted to featured status on the English Wikipedia.
- Technology report: Attempting to parse wikitext
This week we sat down with The Earwig to learn about his wikitext parser.
- Traffic report: Now introducing ... mobile data
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- WikiProject report: Signpost reaches the Midwest
Today, it's the turn of WikiProject Ohio to give us an interview probing deep into of how they manage to run a project covering one fiftieth of the United States, and the workings of how they manufacture their successes and other articles.
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The Signpost: 22 October 2014
- Featured content: Admiral on deck: a modern Ada Lovelace
Four articles, four lists, and fifty-three pictures were promoted to featured status.
- Op-ed: Hong Kong's Umbrella Revolution—a wiki-protest
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- In the media: The story of Wikipedia; Wikipedia reanimated and republished; New UK government social media rules; death of Italian Wikipedia administrator
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- Traffic report: Death, War, Pestilence... Movies and TV
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- WikiProject report: De-orphanning articles—a huge task but with a huge team of volunteers to help
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