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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) 20:34, 12 November 2016 (UTC)

Please delete article Rishiraj Basu properly

You have delete my article its ok... But it is showing on google page... dont draft it please delete... Thankyou Rishirajmusic (talk) 01:48, 14 November 2016 (UTC) Please reply — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rishirajmusic (talk • contribs) 01:51, 14 November 2016 (UTC)

Deleted as requested. Google could take days to remove it. Ronhjones  (Talk) 01:52, 14 November 2016 (UTC)

BGF Ventures deleted

Dear Ron Jones, I notice that you have deleted the page BGF Ventures, as of 01.00 this morning. BGF Ventures is the largest UK-focused Venture Capital fund, with £200M of committed capital. Whilst we are a new company, we already have made 13 investments, and are investing in approx one company per month - this is a faster pace than many funds that have large and active Wikipedia pages such as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balderton_Capital, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seedcamp, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entrepreneur_First, and many many more. This is a vital part of the technology ecosystem in the UK. Why have you singled us out for deletion in this way? I would appreciate it if you could restore the page, so that contributors can add to the listing, which I admit was rather primitive. Many thanks, Harry — Preceding unsigned comment added by Harrybriggs (talk • contribs) 16:54, 14 November 2016 (UTC)

@Harrybriggs:. No one objected to deletion for the deletion over the seven days, but now restored as contested PROD. The article is very week. It either needs a lot of work very soon or move to Draft. I don't think it would survive a full deletion process as it stands - the deletion process would be about the article as written, not the subject. A poor article on a good subject can still get deleted. Ronhjones  (Talk) 17:31, 14 November 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-46

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  • When you edit with the visual editor you can use meta + shift + k to add a reference. The meta key is often the control key or command key. [1]

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  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from November 15. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from November 16. It will be on all wikis from November 17 (calendar).
  • In Special:Preferences you can choose which language menus and buttons will be in. If there is no translation for that language, MediaWiki has a list of fallback languages. A fallback language is a language many will understand better than English. MediaWiki will now use English when there is no Ukrainian translation. [2]

Meetings

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19:18, 14 November 2016 (UTC)

IP at Talk:Race (human categorization)

Any IP editing race articles whose IP address is Birkbeck College is the racist Mikemikev. Thanks for the block. Doug Weller talk 11:03, 15 November 2016 (UTC)

A new user right for New Page Patrollers

Hi Ronhjones.

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)

Tahaki

Hello Ronhjones,

I'm the creator of the content for Tahaki page.

You've recently deleted the content because you consider it as advertisement.

I'm trying to create a page similar to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mapillary

Is there a way to have the page up again. Or if there is any advice you can provide me I'd be glad to adopt it.

arabiagis — Preceding unsigned comment added by Arabiagis (talk • contribs) 06:59, 15 November 2016 (UTC)

@Arabiagis: Creating pages direct is virtually impossible, unless you are an experienced editor. So page is now at Draft:Tahaki. Suggestions...
  1. Don't over highlight headings, they are preset to a desired standard, bold is not required - it makes the "table of contents" look odd as well.
  2. Don't use bare URLs links in main body, looks like spam. URLs are only OK in in-line references - WP:CITE
  3. Make sure the heading names are not promotional.
  4. Look at adding template:infobox company to the top of page (under the AfC banner line). Move the official website link there and eliminated the External Links section (most editors hate ELs)
I've tidied the headings and removed the bare urls. Also added a banner at top with a page review link. Ronhjones  (Talk) 16:03, 16 November 2016 (UTC)

Say...

Whaaaaaaaatttttt!!!!????? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 107.77.215.189 (talk) 10:28, 19 November 2016 (UTC)

Far-right social centres

Hi Ron - Jeez your talk page is LOUD :) You just declined my speedy deletion of Far-right social centres stating "Plenty of references, not really an attack page". Okay so you're the admin with 150k+ edits - the daddy - but please help me out here. All of the refs on the page are non English and therefore no more accessible than snow in Havana. And having read through all of the text I found no information other than the opinion offered in the first sentence - to wit - "inspired by neo-fascist and Third Position ideas".

In what way does this article approximate any semblense of encyclopedic worth on Wikipedia.Eng when it offers no more than one opinion and a series of addresses?

Much as I want to defer to your greater experience I think it should at least be listed AFD.

Lemme know what you think.

Thanks MarkDask 23:33, 19 November 2016 (UTC)

@Markdask: Speedies should be obvious. After all we are by-passing the standard community discussion for a deletion. If they are not obvious then it's off to AfD we go. Also we have to note what the template says ...serves no purpose but to disparage or threaten its subject or some other entity. This includes libel, legal threats, material intended purely to harass or intimidate a person or an article about a living person that is entirely negative in tone and unsourced. It doesn't really fall into that box. We don't insist on English references, so Italian ones are OK. as for their content, one really needs an Italian speaker - not me. Also I saw that it links to a larger article (CasaPound) which is written in a similar way. Ronhjones  (Talk) 23:53, 19 November 2016 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:Cc-by-sa-3.0-br

Template:Cc-by-sa-3.0-br has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. ~ Rob13Talk 06:31, 20 November 2016 (UTC)

File:Jacques La Ramee.jpg

Hi -- I did not add this image, but the current title is incorrect: it is not a portrait of Jacques La Ramee. The image is derived from a painting by William Tylee Ranney, entitled simply "Trapper", and dating to 1850, long after Ramee's death. I don't know how to move an image page, but it would be more appropriate to title it something like "William-Tylee_Ranney_Trapper_1850". -- Elphion (talk) 19:21, 20 November 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-47

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Recent changes

  • Administrators, bureaucrats, oversighters and checkusers can now use two-factor authentication. This makes their Wikimedia accounts more secure. This can be turned on in Special:Preferences. There are discussions on how to best turn it on for everyone. [4]
  • You can now search for file properties. For example you can search for media type, how big a file is or what resolution it has. [5]
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  • A hacker group is hacking Wikimedia accounts. They can probably do this because users have the same passwords on Wikimedia wikis as on other sites. Please have a password you use only on the Wikimedia wikis and nowhere else. This is especially important for administrators, bureaucrats, oversighters and checkusers. These users can also turn on two-factor authentication. [6]

Changes this week

  • There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
  • RevisionSlider will be a default feature on German, Arabic and Hebrew Wikipedia. This will happen on 22 November. It will come to other wikis later. [7][8][9]

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 22 November at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • It will be possible to do cross-wiki search. The developers who work on this are looking for communities that want to test this. [10]
  • Hovercards will leave the beta stage. The Wikimedia Foundation Reading Web team wants communities to set Hovercards as a default option for readers who are not logged in. Communities that are interested can say so on the Hovercards talk page. [11]

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15:33, 21 November 2016 (UTC)

You deleted my Joshua White Director/ Video Artist page

Hello,

I'm asking that you please reconsider deleting my Joshua White page. thank you

Guyrichardssmit1 (talk) 14:59, 21 November 2016 (UTC) guy

@Guyrichardssmit1: There is no option. Wikipedia does not allow copy and paste from other web sites unless the copyright license is compatible. That data was found at http://www.indiesourcemag.com/NewMedia/2183/GUY-RICHARDS-SMIT%E2%80%99S-SITCOM-WEB-SERIES-THE-GROSSMALERMAN-SHOW/ with a license of "Copyright 2014 by Indie Source, LLC. All Rights Reserved.", which is not compatible for use on Wikipedia. The only way to use such data would be for the web site to remove the All Rights Reserved banner and replace with a CC-BY-SA-3.0 banner, OR for the copyright holder of the web site to write in to permissions@wikimedia.org (from an e-mail address that can be associated with the web page) donating the copyright to at least CC-BY-SA-3.0 - see WP:CONSENT Ronhjones  (Talk) 15:40, 21 November 2016 (UTC)

Joshua White page deletion

I would understand if that were the case but I can't find anywhere in the text where there is any copyrighted material. If there is I'm happy to get rid of it. It's in no way needed to tell the story of Joshua White. Guyrichardssmit1 (talk) 17:53, 21 November 2016 (UTC) guy

@Guyrichardssmit1: About 80% down the page - starts Born and raised in New York City, Joshua White and is in grey text Ronhjones  (Talk) 17:58, 21 November 2016 (UTC)

ArbCom Elections 2016: Voting now open!

Hello, Ronhjones. 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 Wikipedia 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. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 22:08, 21 November 2016 (UTC)

Deletion of entry "Theory of infinitely extended particles‬"

Hi

I have noticed the entry I had written and spent a lot of time on has been removed by you without notifying me. Please kindly have it restored.

Theory of infinitely extended particles‬

It had been reviewed by Wikipedia on October 28 and I had received a confirmation email for that. The link should have been

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_infinitely_extended_particles

Sincerely Sina Khorasani — Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.55.176.169 (talk) 20:16, 21 November 2016 (UTC)

Restored as Contested PROD. Ronhjones  (Talk) 22:35, 21 November 2016 (UTC)

Re: Non-free rationale for File:The mamas and the papas glad to be unhappy.jpg

Hello. Pursuant to your request, I have swapped out the image with another, and re-edited the description of non-free rationale for its use, based on Wiki's template for said.

Catalyststyle (talk) 00:05, 22 November 2016 (UTC)

Joshua White page deletion

Ahh! Okay, I see what happened. They simply reprinted a piece that I wrote and then I lazily reused. I've entirely rewritten it now. Is it possible to try again? thanks, Guyrichardssmit1 (talk) 00:50, 22 November 2016 (UTC) guy

@Guyrichardssmit1: A useful lesson - always publish in Wikipedia first to lock in the date of creation (same goes for images). You are free to re-create the page. Ronhjones  (Talk) 00:53, 22 November 2016 (UTC)

Joshua White page deletion

Okay Thanks Ron! Guyrichardssmit1 (talk) 00:56, 22 November 2016 (UTC) guy

Limiting "new version" uploads

Hi! As you curate image files a lot on Wikipedia, I thought of asking you this first before going on some common forum. Non-free images at times do see many versions being uploaded. Editors edit-war over it and when they don't talk or show no sense at all, patrollers end up tagging for unused non-free files and admins end up deleting it. For example we are on 6th version for File:Geet Gaya Patharon Ne.jpg whose 1st version you deleted in 2014. This is an unnecessary activity actually which can be avoided. Is there a possibility by some system change itself that not more than let's say 3 versions can be uploaded on a single file name? Means is this possible to implement? I doubt that it is possible and hence secondly, can admins who delete a certain file's third version simply discuss and form a consensus to lock the file permanently? The second option seems quite easy in implementation. What do you say? §§Dharmadhyaksha§§ {Talk / Edits} 05:35, 22 November 2016 (UTC)

@Dharmadhyaksha: There should be little need to change a non-free image. It's a picture of the film poster, no real need for a different one. All it does is end up as another edit war. Editors should discuss before edit warring - even images have a talk page. I've killed all the unused images and protected for a couple of months - let the editors talk and come to a consensus. Ronhjones  (Talk) 00:27, 23 November 2016 (UTC)
P.S. There is no limit to the number of images. We can just add the same protections as article pages. Ronhjones  (Talk) 00:28, 23 November 2016 (UTC)

Unprotection Of the Page Syed Aman Mian Sharma

Hello This is Syed Aman Mian Sharma, I am A Bollywood (INDIAN) Actor and my team created a Wikipedia article on my name and it got protected by some administrator of Wikipedia! Earlier our team wasn't able to understand the reason of protection/deletion of the Article, Now we have figured out that we didn't added much reference links which showed the Subject's Notability.Now We have made a draft (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Syed_Aman_Mian_Sharma) and also have submitted by the same name, we request you to see it and accept it as we are now providing you the Links of Media Attraction, Work Links, Stuff From Wikipedia Itself,etc.

http://www.blogarama.com/tv-film-blogs/299577-bollywood-news-movie-reviews-box-office-collecti-blog/16418367-syed-aman-mian-sharma-joins-cast-sony-tvs-bajirao-mastani

http://newsdog.today/a/article/580a422a129071315ed2d6ab/

http://www.justbollywood.in/syed-aman-mian-sharma-joins-cast-sony-tvs-bajirao-mastani/

http://www.justbollywood.in/sony-tvs-peshwa-bajirao-changes-character-syed-aman-mian-sharma-nasir-ballu/

http://www.tellyserialupdates.com/peshwa-bajirao-sony-tv-upcoming-serial-wiki-star-cast-timings-story-first-episode-promo/

http://www.justbollywood.in/peshwa-bajiraos-ballu-phadke-exclusive-look/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peshwa_Bajirao_(TV_series)

I wasn't able to message you from my Original Wikipedia Id as it is blocked due to the same, please do not reply to this message as i can't see your reply! Just Accept The Page Draft Submitting!

Much Thanks, Love From India

91.109.30.114 (talk) 06:54, 22 November 2016 (UTC)

? Page has never been protected. Awaiting review - will take a few weeks. Ronhjones  (Talk) 00:31, 23 November 2016 (UTC)

Category:PD chem

Hi Ron. Could you please remove your user script from that category? --Leyo 16:52, 23 November 2016 (UTC)

@Leyo: Ooo, didn't think script would do that - split the text in two parts and added a "+" to join - txt = txt + '\n[[Category:'+'PD chem]]\n'; - seems to have done the trick. Ronhjones  (Talk) 00:28, 24 November 2016 (UTC)

7 years ago today...

Wishing Ronhjones/Archive 31 a very happy adminship anniversary on behalf of the Wikipedia Birthday Committee! Mz7 (talk) 03:27, 26 November 2016 (UTC)

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G11

Speedy is in fact applicable as per WP:G11 and WP:NOT because it's still a, regardless of whether it could be improve d especially because some of these contain the blatant "We offer our important customers". SwisterTwister talk 17:39, 26 November 2016 (UTC)

@SwisterTwister:. They can say what they like in Draft as no one will read it - check the HTML page source of any draft page - about line 20 it will say <meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow"/> - their page will never appear in Google. Therefore they will have to rewrite it, they could well be new editors, it takes time to get into the WP way of writing, don't forget don't bite the newbies. G11 says "This applies to pages that are exclusively promotional and would need to be fundamentally rewritten" - well it's a draft, they can re-write it, it won't pass AfC review until it does, or they give up and 6 months later it goes. No damage to anyone and no-one cares. Ronhjones  (Talk) 18:19, 26 November 2016 (UTC)
It's damaging to delete an advertising Draft as G13 because it makes it available for restoring (and ultimately an indefinite host of said advertising), hence advertising again. That's why the first of part of WP:G11 says, "This applies to pages" (any pages) and WP:NOT states "Wikipedia is not a business YellowPages or a company catalog" and that's what those Drafts were. It would not matter if it appears in Google because it's still advertising here in Wikipedia. It's alike to mainspace or userspace where they could improve it, but it's still speedy advertising in that exact case. SwisterTwister talk 18:24, 26 November 2016 (UTC)
It's still very bitey, and an advert you cannot see is hardly an advert. We'll have to agree to disagree. Ronhjones  (Talk) 21:58, 26 November 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-48

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  • When someone tries to log in to a blocked account they will be blocked by a cookie. This means their browser will be blocked even if they change their IP address. This makes it more difficult for returning vandals. [12]
  • When you use Content Translation to adapt a template to a new translation it will work differently. You can adapt big templates such as infoboxes. Translators will have control over the template parameters. A first version of this is released this week. It is possible it will not work correctly with all templates. There will be more updates for this soon. [13]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 29 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 30 November. It will be on all wikis from 1 December (calendar).
  • Gadgets will have a new option called "hidden". This means you can register gadgets that can't be turned on or off from the preferences page. Hiding gadgets was already possible by using [rights=hidden]. You should now use [hidden] instead. [rights=hidden] in old gadgets should be changed to [hidden]. [14][15]

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 29 November at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

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21:17, 28 November 2016 (UTC)

FFD script for you

Hi Ronhjones,

If you are going to hang around FFD I highly recommend installing the closer script. It adds a line of buttons to the header in each section that allows you to quickly close, remove the notice on the file page, and add the header to the file talk page if kept, and quick delete the file if necessary. It can be found here: Evad37/FFDcloser. Cheers! --Majora (talk) 23:51, 28 November 2016 (UTC)

@Majora: Cheers for that. Added yet another script to my lists. Lets hope Wiki don't fall over all of them :-) Ronhjones  (Talk) 23:54, 28 November 2016 (UTC)
Appears to be working, has put up the options. Bit like the commons system (joy of being admin in both...} Ronhjones  (Talk) 23:59, 28 November 2016 (UTC)
Glad you like it. Even for a normie like myself it makes closing things as keep/relicense/etc. so much easier. I've been told the one click delete and close feature is quite nice as well. --Majora (talk) 00:17, 29 November 2016 (UTC)

Help with change of name

Thanks for your response,can you help me fix it and also can you help me change the name to Playbak instead of PlayBak? Cliton1 (talk) 22:43, 2 December 2016 (UTC)

@Cliton1: Sorry, No. Admins can't change names, only bureaucrats. Ronhjones  (Talk) 22:44, 2 December 2016 (UTC)

User 177.159.54.120

Hi, I just noticed you warned said user to stop being disruptive. I would like to point out that this user has recently added a lot of information (unsourced) to List of Peppa Pig characters. As an adult, I cannot confirm if it is correct or not, but based on basic spelling mistakes, I think this editor is a child (or at least pretending to be). Perhaps it is better to go a little softer that "vandalism3"? Just my opinion. -- Kndimov (talk) 18:29, 4 December 2016 (UTC)

If you want to reply, please do so on my talk page, thank you. If not, cheers! -- Kndimov (talk) 18:30, 4 December 2016 (UTC)
I stand corrected. Maybe its a child who's older sibling recently taught them a few words? That's the end of my benefit of the doubt. -- Kndimov (talk) 18:39, 4 December 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-49

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Recent changes

  • You can choose to see users from specific user groups in Special:ActiveUsers. [16]
  • Everyone can now see Special:UserRights. Previously only those who could change user rights could. Other users got an error message. [17]
  • ORES can now show how likely an edit is to be damaging to the wiki with different colours. This only works for languages that have trained ORES to recognize damaging edits. [18]

Changes this week

  • You will now see categories with 0 pages in Special:Categories. Previously you did not see empty categories there. [19]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 December. It will be on all wikis from 8 December (calendar).

Meetings

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Future changes

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18:07, 5 December 2016 (UTC)

[Tactical Edge, Inc.] Deletion

It appears that my article [Tactical Edge, Inc.] was PRODded and subsequently deleted by you on 14 November 2016. Is is possible for you to undelete the article? I don't think I received notification of the PROD tags being placed on the page. I appreciate your patience with me as I'm new to this. Thanks. Garberino (talk) 20:38, 9 December 2016 (UTC)

 Done Ronhjones  (Talk) 00:16, 10 December 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-50

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Recent changes

  • Users who have Yahoo email addresses could not use Special:EmailUser to send emails. This has now been fixed. Emails will now come from a @wikimedia.org address. Users who get an email from you will still reply to your email address and be able to see it. [20]
  • You can now see how many categories and pages there are in the categories in Special:TrackingCategories. This is to help you find pages that could need attention. [21]
  • Markup colours for reviewed and pending revisions in the page history and recent changes and logs now match Wikimedia standard colours. The "You have a new message on your talk page" notification will have a slightly different colour. [22]

Problems

  • Because of work on cross-wiki watchlists global renaming is not working. The plan is to turn it on again on 16 December. Global renaming was turned off for a while in late November and early December as well. [23]

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 December. It will be on all wikis from 15 December (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 December 13 at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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19:30, 12 December 2016 (UTC)

Can you please undelete my page?

Hi,

Can you please restore the following page: Daniel Abraham (record producer) that you deleted (November 28, 2014)

Note that I had not created the page originally, so I didn't get a notification when you requested to take it down. I think the page was originally created by a Duran Duran fan based on my work with the band.

01:36, 28 November 2014 Ronhjones (talk | contribs) deleted page Daniel Abraham (record producer) (Expired PROD, concern was: The coverage (references, external links, etc.) does not seem sufficient to justify this article passing Wikipedia:General notability guideline and the more detailed Wikipedia:Notability (biographies) requ...)

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Daniel_Abraham_(record_producer)&action=edit&redlink=1

Please let me know if you need any more info.

Best, DanielFalconwhit (talk) 00:51, 15 December 2016 (UTC)

Please Undelete my article - Sunstar Group

Dear Ron,

It appears you deleted the Sunstar Group article last month. I am not sure why, but I am asking if you could please restore the article. Please see below for the reference.

>> 01:00, 14 November 2016 Ronhjones (talk | contribs) deleted page Draft:Sunstar Group (G8: Redirect to deleted page "Sunstar Group" (TW))

Thanks. Davidintokyo1 (talk) 07:14, 16 December 2016 (UTC) davidintokyo1

It appears to have been moved by the WP:AfC process to Sunstar Group, and then it got a proposed deletion, but no-one removed the proposed template (which is what one does to object to a proposed deletion). So 7 days later it was deleted. I've restored the article back. The old page Draft:Sunstar Group stays deleted as it was just a redirect, which is what the system makes when a page is moved. Ronhjones  (Talk) 19:39, 16 December 2016 (UTC)

Request for right

I see we have a new patroller right. Can you please add this right to my account? I'm a former admin with thousands of successful CSD taggings done while patrolling new pages, mostly for spam, and have also deleted 20,000 or so new pages tagged by others. Thanks for your time. lNeverCry 06:14, 18 December 2016 (UTC)

Done. Materialscientist (talk) 06:27, 18 December 2016 (UTC)

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Recent changes

  • Administrators and translation administrators can now use Special:PageLanguage on wikis with the Translate extension. This means you can say what language a page is in. The Translate extension will use that language as the source language when you translate. Previously this was always the wiki's default language. This was usually English. [24]
  • Wikis connected to Wikidata can now use the parser function {{#statements: }} to get formatted data. You can also use {{#property: }} to get raw data. You can see the difference between the two statements. There are also similar new functions in Lua. [25]

Problems

  • Some abuse filters for uploaded files have not worked as they should. We don't know exactly which filters didn't work yet. This means some files that filters should have prevented from being uploaded were uploaded to the wikis. MediaWiki.org and Testwiki have been affected since 13 October. Commons and Meta have been affected since 17 October. Other wikis have been affected since 17 November. [26]

Changes this week

  • There is no new MediaWiki version this week. There will be no new MediaWiki version next week either.

Meetings

  • The next meeting with the VisualEditor team will be on 3 January at 20:00 (UTC). During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. See how to join.

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20:33, 19 December 2016 (UTC)

IPv6

Hi Ron, just as a comment regarding your decline to range block here, a /64 subnet on an IPv6 range is generally only allocated to a single user and can often be blocked with little chance of collateral. Cheers, --Jezebel's Ponyobons mots 00:15, 21 December 2016 (UTC)

Well you learn something every day. I've only one IPv6 address! Ronhjones  (Talk) 00:17, 21 December 2016 (UTC)
That's very spartan of you :)--Jezebel's Ponyobons mots 00:29, 21 December 2016 (UTC)

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File:Original Terry clip.jpg

You insist on adding {{non-free reduce}} to this file, stating in an edit summary, "Way too big - does not comply with non free guideline, there is no reason to have such a big image."

This is an image of an original Terry clip. To see that it is an original clip, sold by Herbert Terry & Sons Limited, viewers need to be able to read the text on the side of the clip. Before uploading, I reduced the image as much as possible within this constraint. If the resolution is reduced further, as you are insisting, then the image will no longer be fit for illustrating the article Terry clip and should be deleted. HairyWombat 19:28, 22 December 2016 (UTC)

@HairyWombat: I've no objection to keeping the image for showing the text, it was very big for a non-free image and something could be done with it. The non-free guideline is at Wikipedia:Non-free_content#Image_resolution and the standard maximum is 100,000 pixels. Your image was 1,504,000 pixels which as you can see is over 10 times too big. The guideline is not fixed and can be overruled if necessary, but images should still be reduced as far as possible. I have therefore done a manual reduction, cropping out some of the blank areas (all adds to the pixel count), and trying a 50% reduction. Pixel count is now 247,324 - still bigger than the guideline, but more acceptable, and the text is still readable. Ronhjones  (Talk) 00:24, 23 December 2016 (UTC)

Merry Christmas

Hello Ronhjones: Enjoy the holiday season and winter solstice if it's occurring in your area of the world, and thanks for your work to maintain, improve and expand Wikipedia. Cheers, CAPTAIN RAJU (✉) 21:13, 23 December 2016 (UTC)

Spread the WikiLove; use {{subst:Season's Greetings}} to send this message

Merry, merry!

From the icy Canajian north; to you and yours! FWiW Bzuk (talk) 14:35, 24 December 2016 (UTC)

Draft:Matra-Simca MS650

Hello, I noticed your edit at the above which restored the page. The user "Rowde" and the IP used to create the page are one and the same. This is a an IP hopping editor well-known to the Wiki F1 project (and other Motorsport projects) who habitually edits whilst logged out, usually only logging in to move pages or create re-directs etc. His IP address changes sometimes more that once a day (over 150 since August last year) making it extremely difficult to communicate with him and he does not respond at Rowde's TP other than to periodically blank the page (removing all warnings and advice he is given). There already exists a page at Matra-Simca MS650 which he created from an existing re-direct whilst logged in as Rowde. Presumably having discovered the re-direct and 'restored' the page he then went to his draft and blanked it...it is likely that he does not understand that this will not actually remove the page as he has little, if any, grasp of any policies or guidelines etc. Another editor had already raised this point at Draft talk:Matra-Simca MS650 and I answered there, but more briefly. Hope this is not too much of a problem... regards, season's greetings. Eagleash (talk) 23:03, 25 December 2016 (UTC)

@Eagleash: The rules are it has to be blanked by the author (i.e. 92.21.250.1). Rowde cannot ask for deletion or blank the page. If you try to assign the IP to the user he could claim privacy invasion. If it does not get edited in 6 months - it goes. As a draft page there will be no indexing by google. Ronhjones  (Talk) 23:33, 25 December 2016 (UTC)
OK sure, it is unlikely to be edited further, although he may blank it again from a different IP I suppose. Let it run its course and {{Db-g13}} when the time comes. (One of my 'colleagues' at the F1 project may take it to MfD in the meantime though). Eagleash (talk) 23:43, 25 December 2016 (UTC)
@Eagleash: Fine. MfD is the way to go if you want it removed completely, (at least he can't ask for it back then!) Ronhjones  (Talk) 23:49, 25 December 2016 (UTC)
He has indeed (despite your message at his TP) blanked the page again as 'Rowde'. I've restored it but will probably take it to MfD in a short while. Eagleash (talk) 14:11, 28 December 2016 (UTC)

Request for change in protection level

Hi Ron – thank you for taking care of things at the Maria Sharapova article a couple of days ago. That editor was a real piece of work. However, since this editor's block has been extended to indefinite after a rather... "passionate" email (which I only just read now), could you please change the level of the protection that you placed on the page to allow autoconfirmed users to edit the page? I thought that only allowing administrators to edit the page for a month was a bit much, as I was not at fault – I was only reverting the user's disruptive edits and personal attacks, having meanwhile reported the editor to AIV and waited for his/her inevitable block. Anyway, regardless of what you decide to do, thanks for your help. 4TheWynne(talk)(contribs) 07:48, 28 December 2016 (UTC)

@4TheWynne: Just standard to go full protect until the dust settles. Changed to 3 month semi - with an indef block now on, they might try sneaking in as an IP. You need to keep an eye out when 3 months is over, I get the feeling they are not the type to give up that easily. Ronhjones  (Talk) 16:07, 28 December 2016 (UTC)
Ah, I see. OK, cool – thanks again. 4TheWynne(talk)(contribs) 00:11, 29 December 2016 (UTC)

Help with malformed prod

Greetings. Sorry to bug you, but I noticed you deleted one of the articles I had tagged with a prod, so I thought you might be able to help. I went to tag the page, David Edwards (basketball) with a prod, and it did not give me that wonderful pre-packaged prod box as usual. I have left the malformed prod at the top of the page, as I am unsure what to do. It comes up on my prod log, so maybe I need to do nothing? Thanks. Onel5969 TT me 22:55, 30 December 2016 (UTC)

@Onel5969: Fixed, you missed one sq. bracket off the end of the link - wiki then misses end of template. The wiki can be a temperamental beast at times :-) Ronhjones  (Talk) 23:05, 30 December 2016 (UTC)

Eddie Irvine

It's been over 5 years since protection was applied to the page to prevent IP hopping vandals. Perhaps we could try unprotection?. Sakuura Cartelet Talk 06:25, 31 December 2016 (UTC)

Happy New Year, Ronhjones!

Happy New Year!

Ronhjones,
Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia.
Donner60 (talk) 04:59, 2 January 2017 (UTC)

   Send New Year cheer by adding {{subst:Happy New Year fireworks}} to user talk pages.

Creating new bio page

Hello, On Dec 20th you found my article and pushed it back to draft. Because I'm a newbie, I don't understand fully how I get this draft reviewed. I followed your instructions for placing code at top of page. This page ready for review.

{{subst:submit}} 

Have I labeled it correctly so that it gets reviewed? It's been a few weeks now and have not seen any reply so concerned I did not do this correctly. How long does this normally take?  Thank you and Happy New Year.

Lkamms (talk) 17:59, 2 January 2017 (UTC)

@Lkamms: Ooops my error, should be a : not | - I've fixed the article. Ronhjones  (Talk) 19:33, 2 January 2017 (UTC)

File:New York Islanders logo.png

Hi,

Why would you place the non-free reduce template at File:New York Islanders logo.png if the image is already up to standards? I'm mainly referring to WP:IMAGERES, which states that At the low pixel count end of the range, most common pictorial needs can be met with an image containing no more than about 100,000 pixels (0.1 megapixels), obtained by multiplying the horizontal and vertical pixel dimensions of an image, and the current image/logo is 99,820 pixels. Care to explain for such careless (at least that's what I think) tag placement? – Sabbatino (talk) 10:20, 3 January 2017 (UTC)

@Sabbatino: Obviously a bug/feature in the wiki search system. The search used was all files matching incategory:"All non-free media" filew:>1000 fileh:>1000, thus my generated list of files to process somehow included yours - I think it was because the original had not been hidden as it's supposed to be after a reduce, and therefore it showed in the search. I've removed the template (the resizing bot would have ignored it, at that size) and hid the original. Ronhjones  (Talk) 20:57, 3 January 2017 (UTC)
Thanks. – Sabbatino (talk) 21:10, 3 January 2017 (UTC)

IP vandal

Hi, you blocked this IP vandal [27] in November, but he is back vandalising again, could you please take appropriate action? Thanks. --Marbe166 (talk) 17:42, 3 January 2017 (UTC)

@Marbe166: Same style of edits, I remember them - done, 6 months Ronhjones  (Talk) 21:12, 3 January 2017 (UTC)

Reduce resolution on SA Coins 1961-1964.JPG

Hi, you tagged File:SA Coins 1961-1964.JPG for a lower-resolution version, but I think the image is out of copyright since the coins were last used more than 50 years ago. According to Copyright law in South Africa, "Government works are protected for fifty years from first publication.[9]". What is your take on this? Thanks, Zaian (talk) 16:53, 3 January 2017 (UTC)

@Zaian: It got tagged as it's a very big image, and set up as a non-free image. Thus it needs to be reduced. If you want to set it up with {{PD currency}} and remove the NFR template, then that seems fine, as you say, SA only has 50 years copyright. Ronhjones  (Talk) 21:06, 3 January 2017 (UTC)
Thank you, I have done that. Zaian (talk) 15:07, 4 January 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-02

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Problems

  • Editors who use Firefox 50 might get logged out or fail to save their edits. This is because of a browser bug. Until this is fixed you can enter about:config in the address bar and set network.cookie.maxPerHost to 5000. Firefox 50 is the current version of the Firefox. [32]

Changes this week

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19:12, 9 January 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-03

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Recent changes

Problems

  • video2commons was down for two weeks. This was because of a problem with Commons video transcoders. It is now back up. [34]

Changes this week

  • There is a new magic word called {{PAGELANGUAGE}}. It returns the language of the page you are at. This can be used on wikis with more than one language to make it easier for translators. [35]
  • When an admin blocks a user or deletes or protects a page they give a reason why. They can now get suggestions when they write. The suggestions will be based on the messages in the dropdown menu. [36]
  • You will be able to use <chem> to write chemical formulas. Before you could use <ce>. <ce> should be replaced by <chem>. [37]
  • You now can add exceptions for categories which shouldn't be shown on Special:UncategorizedCategories. The list is at MediaWiki:Uncategorized-categories-exceptionlist. [38]
  • The "Columns" and "Rows" settings will be removed from the Editing tab in Preferences. If you wish to keep what the "Rows" setting did you can add this code to your personal CSS: #wpTextbox1 { height: 50em; } You can change the number 50 to make it look like you want to. [39]
  • Sometimes edits in MediaWiki by mistake are shown coming from private IP addresses such as 127.0.0.1. Edits and other contributions logged to these IP addresses will be blocked and shown the reason from MediaWiki:Softblockrangesreason. This should not affect most users. Bots and other tools running on Wikimedia Labs, including Tool Labs will receive a "blocked" error if they try to edit without being logged in. [40]
  • When you edit with the visual editor categories will be on the top of the page options menu. [41]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 January. It will be on all wikis from 19 January (calendar).

Meetings

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23:24, 16 January 2017 (UTC)

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COI editing

Thanks for your recent email about COI editing and adding templates to my talk page. I have made an edit request here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Duncan_Selbie

S&nwaterloo (talk) 18:10, 19 January 2017 (UTC)

Regarding the page Growtopia

Why is it protected from creation? I want to try create it in a Wikipedian style. Ugly Blobfish (talk) 04:35, 21 January 2017 (UTC)

@Ugly Blobfish: Articles that are repeatedly created and deleted are usually protected from creation. By this time the subject has been shown to be probably unsuitable for inclusion, and any further attempts should be done via WP:AfC. In this case, that has already happened and the draft has been rejected 3 times already - see Draft:Growtopia (Game). Last edit was 25th August, possible liable for deletion as stale draft post 25th Feb unless someone starts improving it. Ronhjones  (Talk) 16:24, 21 January 2017 (UTC)

Permission to use figure in a book.

Dear Ronhjones,

I am working with Prof. Steven LaValle to help obtain permissions for borrowing figures or pictures in his upcoming book Virtual Reality, to be published by Cambridge University Press. The book is online here:

http://vr.cs.uiuc.edu/

We are hoping to include the picture of yours (https://skyyan.com/wikipedia/en/a/a8/The_Dress_%28viral_phenomenon%29.png) in this book (Chapter 6, Figure 6.20). Could we please have your permission for this? Thank you.

Please contact me at <hidden>

Sincerely,

Adam Warkoczewski — Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.25.191.254 (talk) 10:02, 22 January 2017 (UTC)

Not possible. I did not upload it anyway. File:The Dress (viral phenomenon).png is a non-free image used under US fair-use policy. The image page shows the source (The Independent Newspaper - shows "Swiked/Tumblr" as source Ronhjones  (Talk) 17:25, 22 January 2017 (UTC)

non-free reduce

It's my understanding that the size (physical dimensions) of an image are different from its resolution ie. a low resolution picture can be enlarged to better show its content. Is that not right? -- GreenC 19:38, 22 January 2017 (UTC)

@Green Cardamom: A non free image should always be low resolution (no more that about 5 on Photoshop). The total size should not exceed 100,000 pixels (i.e. width x height - so, for example, square images are 315 x 315) unless there are very compelling reasons to have a bigger image, in which case that needs to go into the rationale, and it should still be reduced as much as possible. The use of {{non-free reduce}} will invoke a reducing bot which will reduce overnight to just under 100,000 pixels. It does not seem to alter the resolution. Ronhjones  (Talk) 19:56, 22 January 2017 (UTC)

SHIA Waleed Artist Deleted Page important request

Hello This is Melissa, could you please bring back Shia Waleed Article.

Thank you — Preceding unsigned comment added by Melissaarab (talk • contribs) 23:04, 22 January 2017 (UTC)

E-mail answered Ronhjones  (Talk) 00:31, 23 January 2017 (UTC)

Nonfree reduce on File:Bitbucket UI.png

Hey there - I saw you tagged this one. I'm worried that shrinking this one down much further is going to render the text illegible, which kind of destroys its utility as a screenshot of the app's user interface. The source where I got it is here, and even that is a bit hard to make out in a couple places at 640x398. Taking it down to 315x315 would render the text illegible:

Karunamon ✉ 22:28, 22 January 2017 (UTC)

@Karunamon: Tried a manual reduction instead with PhotoShop CS. For a true non-free it would be 401 x 249. Reductions that are not a power of 2 tend to be worse due to interpolation, so I tried 50% - that forces a block of 4 pixels into 1 and no interpolation, and is usually very good. That's now uploaded as a manual reduction and the text is still just readable. If the actual text of any non-free image is very important then it should be in the article text. I did try 401x249 and you do lose the text. I think we'll call that a day. I'll add it to my list of files not be to be tagged. Ronhjones  (Talk) 00:28, 23 January 2017 (UTC)
Cool, thanks :) Karunamon ✉ 16:16, 23 January 2017 (UTC)

Waterways diagrams

I noticed you added [[Category:Waterway routemap templates]] to hundreds of waterways diagrams. Did you not realize that {{UK-waterway-routemap}} automatically includes any page it is transcluded onto into the category? Useddenim (talk) 15:40, 23 January 2017 (UTC)

@Useddenim: Well it was not working yesterday, there was about 20 items in the list - you have changed the code of {{UK-waterway-routemap}} today, so it now works - I know that as I skipped sandbox versions like User:Paypwip/sandbox which is now included. I'll sort out the reversions. Ronhjones  (Talk) 16:30, 23 January 2017 (UTC)
I see what had happened: some editor had wrapped the category: declaration with {{main other}} for some reason… Useddenim (talk) 16:44, 23 January 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-04

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Recent changes

  • You can see a list of the templates on a page you edit with the visual editor. [42]

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 24 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 25 January. It will be on all wikis from 26 January (calendar).

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20:15, 23 January 2017 (UTC)

Oops

I didn't mean to step on your toes, but I was working on cleaning up some of the backlogs, saw a ticket in the schools queue, missed that you had already responded, composed a long response, and rather than throw it away change the owner to myself so I could respond. I'll be happy to change the owner back to you if you wish. ticket:2017012310010591--S Philbrick(Talk) 19:04, 27 January 2017 (UTC)

@Sphilbrick: Enjoy the ticket. I can't always log in every day. Rather a ticket got answered than sitting unanswered. Ronhjones  (Talk) 20:03, 27 January 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-05

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Recent changes

  • The OAuth management interfaces now look slightly different. [43]

Changes this week

  • ElectronPdfService will be enabled by default on Meta and German Wikipedia. This is a new way to get articles as PDF files you can download. It will come to more wikis later. [44]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from January 31. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from February 1. It will be on all wikis from February 2 (calendar).

Future changes

  • The Community Tech team will develop more tools to handle harassment of Wikimedia editors. The goal is to give the communities better tools to find, report and evaluate harassment. They will also work on more effective blocking tools. [45][46]
  • The Wikimedia technical community is doing a Developer Wishlist survey. Developers can propose ideas before 31 January 23:59 UTC. This is soon.

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18:46, 30 January 2017 (UTC)

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  • 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 Wikipedia, 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.

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13:36, 1 February 2017 (UTC)

Duncan_Selbie

Hi Ron Jones - you kindly recently emailed me about some COI edits to some pages. A couple of weeks ago I left some suggested edits to a talk page and these remain unresolved. I'm not sure if they have been seen or if I've requested correctly/appropriately https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Duncan_Selbie S&nwaterloo (talk) 19:34, 1 February 2017 (UTC)

@S&nwaterloo: It's correctly in the queue - Category:Requested edits Ronhjones  (Talk) 23:18, 1 February 2017 (UTC)

Nishanth

hi,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nishanth

The above link is my article which has been deleted . I am an actor in tamil film industry . I have also send you the details of my previous films where you could find my Name under casting,please help me to create an article on "NISHANTH" so i could link all the wiki articles to my profile.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renigunta_(film)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thoonga_Nagaram

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naan_Rajavaga_Pogiren

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metro_(2016_film)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pazhaya_Vannarapettai


External links

http://www.behindwoods.com/tamil-movies-slide-shows/movie-4/performances-2009/johnny-nishanth.html

http://www.filmibeat.com/celebs/nishanth/filmography.html

http://www.behindwoods.com/new-videos/tamil-actors/nishanth/nishanth-interview.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJPAikiRKEQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zu94Vnp7UQg

Thank you, Nishanth — Preceding unsigned comment added by Yugimrlonely (talk • contribs) 14:30, 3 February 2017 (UTC)

I do not create articles on request - suggest you try WP:Requested Articles Ronhjones  (Talk) 21:18, 3 February 2017 (UTC)

'Small' in NFCC

Hello,

How small File:Rookie - Red Velvet (Albumart).jpg should be? (After initial upload, I realized the image was too big and high-res, and made it 250x250px.) Is this still unacceptable or can I (or you) remove that tag? Thanks, — regards, Revi 02:59, 2 February 2017 (UTC)

Less than 1000,000 pixels. It's OK now. You changed the size between me getting my list of pictures to tag and actually adding the tag. Had you not changed it the auto script would have reduced it to 316x316. Ronhjones  (Talk) 21:20, 3 February 2017 (UTC)

File:Oldkelling.jpg

Hi, Are you sure it needs reducing more, it's already only 29K? Regards--palmiped |  Talk  18:42, 5 February 2017 (UTC)

Yes, the guildeline (unless there is some specific need - e.g. important item corrupted on reduction) is 100,000 pixels - byte size is irrelevant (current image is 648956 pixels). I would also state that as the article stands it could fail No.8 in WP:NFCC - One cannot just put a non-free image in, it needs some discussion around it to be able to stay (the only exception is when a non-free has to be used in an infobox template). Given the proposed date, I would think a little more investigation should be done to try to find an exact date and possibly an author - and thereby try to get it into a suitable PD category. Ronhjones  (Talk) 19:25, 5 February 2017 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2017-06

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

  • The block log sometimes showed blocks as being much longer than they were. This has now been fixed. [47]

Changes this week

  • Wikimedia pages will now be better at showing pictures when you share them on social media. The descriptions will be different too. You can see an example of before and after. [48]
  • There are some changes to the OOjs UI. Some old functions will not work anymore or not work as they used to. This could be a breaking change. [49]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 February. It will be on all wikis from 9 February (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 7 February at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • Tidy will be replaced later this year. Instead, the HTML 5 parsing algorithm will be used to clean up bad HTML in wikitext. This will cause problems on a number of wikis. They need to be fixed first. You can see if your wiki still has something to fix here for one of the HTML problems. This list does not cover all problems. You can read about more problems. [50][51]

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19:46, 6 February 2017 (UTC)

{{non-free reduce}}

Good Afternoon. I was looking at some of the images you tagged with non-free reduce (nice job tagging by the way) and wanted to let you know that you tagged a number of .svg (scalable vector graphics) file with the template (such as File:Bundesliga logo (2002, 3D).svg, File:Eisbären Berlin Logo.svg, File:Bioversity logo.svg). As SVGs can be rendered at any size with no loss of fidelity due to the image being determined by a fixed set of shapes (as opposed to a fixed set of pixels in jpeg or png files) I'm not sure we need to tag them for reduction. While NFCC requires non-free images be displayed in articles at the lowest practical resolution their is no technological restriction to what size SVGs can be displayed at, e.g. a 20 x 20 stored svg is identical to a 2000 x 2000 stored svg, as they are dynamically rendered at size when inserted in an article. So while downsampling a non-free jpeg is necessary under WP:NFCC to limit its size it appears that doing the same to a SVG may be redundant. The SVGs you tagged were hardly the majority of what you tagged but I wanted to let you know if you weren't already aware of the technical capability of vector graphics to scale infinitely. Thanks, I hope you have a great day, Mifter (talk) 21:06, 6 February 2017 (UTC)

@Mifter: I know, they end up in here - Category:Wikipedia non-free file size reduction requests for manual processing - probably about 4% on the images I've tagged. Not much we can do as you say, but I change the page size when I get some spare time. Method at User:Ronhjones/SVGreduce - so the default view on opening the image page is a small image. Nothing more possible. Maybe we should insist non-free svg are changed to jpg, so we can have a small image....! Ronhjones  (Talk) 21:18, 6 February 2017 (UTC)
P.S. Here is an example - File:4MK logo 2016.svg Ronhjones  (Talk) 21:21, 6 February 2017 (UTC)
Thanks for the method, I'll have to tackle some of them when I get some time. Non-free svgs are a bit of a quandary as low resolution and svg are nonsequiters. Have a good one, Mifter (talk) 01:21, 7 February 2017 (UTC)

Belbin profile picture

Thanks for yours, sorry only just seen it. Picture is from author's web page and is listed as copyright free. See http://www.davidbelbin.com/downloads/

Nottsboy — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nottsboy (talk • contribs) 15:35, 8 February 2017 (UTC)

@Nottsboy: Restored and tidied up. Ronhjones  (Talk) 21:55, 8 February 2017 (UTC)


Cheers for that. Nottsboy (talk) 14:47, 9 February 2017 (UTC)

Sally Sweetland

Hi Ron, further to my email and comment, could you please tell me whether Ticket 2016121510000491 means I can edit the article to confirm Sally's death. I did edit it, but another user reverted it. Please see what I've written under your comment. The SSDI won't confirm her death for another year, so it seems silly to keep her listed as alive until then. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Sally_Sweetland --TrottieTrue (talk) 18:07, 10 February 2017 (UTC)

@TrottieTrue: I agree, but all pages have to be a consensus. I would add a ping to the other people on the talk page - they might have stopped watching it. Ronhjones  (Talk) 22:58, 10 February 2017 (UTC)
Glad you agree. I didn't know about a ping, but it must be what you've written above. As my changes got reverted almost instantly, one of the users there must be watching it. --TrottieTrue (talk) 03:14, 11 February 2017 (UTC)

File:Site plan of the Mackenzie Vaughan Hospital.jpg

Regarding this edit, I uploaded an image that was 25% of the original size, and it's difficult to read about half the text as it is (on my monitor, I can't read the lower right legend nor some of the labels on the diagram, and I can barely read the lower left legend). Reducing the resolution any more than I already have is going to make the image useless, in which case it may as well be deleted. Mindmatrix 00:42, 11 February 2017 (UTC)

@Mindmatrix: Agree. It's one of the few images that is unable to fit the non free guideline size of 100000 pixels. I changed the banner (it will help to stop me tagging it again!), also added to my list at User:Ronhjones/Non_Free_Reduce_Data#Contetsed_-_do_not_suggest_again - that is the total "odd" ones out of about 20,000 images tagged and reduced. Ronhjones  (Talk) 00:54, 11 February 2017 (UTC)
Thanks for updating it! Mindmatrix 13:25, 11 February 2017 (UTC)

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18:06, 13 February 2017 (UTC)

User talk:Stanprog

Could you please unprotect user talk:Stanprog? 96.87.65.53 (talk) 23:31, 13 February 2017 (UTC)

It's not protected - it's not used. The user is only active on Bulgarian Wikipedia. All accounts are global, once you have a global name it's reserved on very Wikipedia until one visits that Wikipedia, at which point it becomes "attached" Ronhjones  (Talk) 23:35, 13 February 2017 (UTC)
I meant user talk:StanProg. 96.87.65.53 (talk) 23:38, 13 February 2017 (UTC)
You should ask the admin that protected the page user:Widr, as he will have more of the reasons for the protection. Ronhjones  (Talk) 23:40, 13 February 2017 (UTC)

Question about size of a non-free image

Can you please explain why you added Template:Non-free reduce to File:Cook's Timetable various covers 1949-2010.jpg? The overall size of the image is irrelevant, because the image shows eight separate items (laid out by hand on a table), not one item, and each cover is small and very low-resolution (even somewhat out of focus) — even more than most other non-free magazine and newspaper covers I have seen in use as non-free images for Wikipedia articles about publications. I try to be very careful about copyright, and I have tagged several files on Commons for deletion for that reason (not an enjoyable activity, but necessary), and I am puzzled about this one, as this eight-cover image seems to be within policy, as far as I can see. SJ Morg (talk) 05:28, 6 February 2017 (UTC)

@SJ Morg: If you wish to have 8 separate images then that would be your choice. As it stands it is a single non-free image that is way too big. I agree it might not work at the current guidelines, but there is still plenty of room for some reduction without significant loss of detail. It will need to be analysed manually to get the best result. I'll tag accordingly Ronhjones  (Talk) 15:27, 6 February 2017 (UTC)
Having 8 separate images makes no sense to me. The file's main value lies in its being a comparison of 8 related items in one image. Where are you finding a policy that indicates that the original version (now reduced by you, I see) was "too big"? Is there a standard that specifies maximum dimensions or number of kilobytes for non-free images? I cannot find one, but if you can point me to one, please do. SJ Morg (talk) 05:31, 7 February 2017 (UTC)
@SJ Morg: WP:NFCC#3b says low resolution - resolution in WP terms is also the size - you can use it in the form of "fileres:>684" in the advanced search box - 684 is your current image - it's the square root of the pixel count (no idea who worked that out). Also we have a guideline (it's not mandatory, but works fine for 99+% of images, and it is what the automated bot will do) at Wikipedia:Non-free_content#Image_resolution where fileres will be 314 for 100,000 pixels. Which is why I did the manual reduce as I did evaluate the potential bot reduce and agreed that it was too severe. Ronhjones  (Talk) 21:45, 10 February 2017 (UTC)
Thanks for the additional info. and links. I had previously seen the page on non-free content criteria, but had not found the page with detailed info. on image resolution for such content until you sent that other link. – SJ Morg (talk) 10:13, 15 February 2017 (UTC)

You Made Me

DO NOT edit the You Made Me Album page. I have entered into a confidential settlement agreement with Josh Todd. Although the order and settlement are under court seal, I can tell you your edit violate that order and other copyrights. Do not edit gain please. Todd Meagher <redacted> — Preceding unsigned comment added by 47.185.22.124 (talk) 15:23, 14 February 2017 (UTC)

Removal of referenced content is vandalsim, and will always be reverted. Prove it or do what I said on User talk:Toddmeagher Ronhjones  (Talk) 15:42, 14 February 2017 (UTC)

I have contacted Wikipedia legal regarding your conduct I have also forwarded your information to my attorney in London and instructed him to pursue you for violation of my copyrights.

Todd Meagher — Preceding unsigned comment added by Toddmeagher (talk • contribs) 15:48, 14 February 2017 (UTC)

(talk page stalker)This editor has been blocked for making legal threats. --Orange Mike | Talk 06:32, 15 February 2017 (UTC)
Thanks Orange Mike. I did note that from ANI. Legal have also been given the heads up. Ronhjones  (Talk) 17:05, 15 February 2017 (UTC)

Please leave the Sally-Anne test article and image alone

There is no absolute rule that an image may be max 300px wide, and enforcing that in this case makes the text in the image unreadable. There are a number of clear reasons why this image has absolutely no commercial value, and it would be proper to leave it at the current zoomed in resolution which corresponds to roughly 450px wide. Carl Fredrik 💌 📧 23:19, 15 February 2017 (UTC)

@CFCF: It was not reduced to 300 wide - please re-check the image - it was reduced to 408 wide, still well in excess of the NFCC image guidelines, and still readable, and was tagged with a suitable banner - I cannot see your problem with it. Your original is 918 × 1310 pixels = 1.2million pixels - some 12 times in excess of the guidelines and well too big - you cannot leave it at this resolution and keep it non-free. Standard reduction to guidelines would be 264 x 377, which I manually tried and agreed that it would be over-reduced. Commercial value has no say in it - if you think that, you should try the authors for a free issue. If you want 450 wide then I will go back to PhotoShop and reduce to that - I'm not going to argue over 42 pixels.Ronhjones  (Talk) 23:54, 15 February 2017 (UTC)

USA Team wiki page undelete

Good afternoon,

We are trying to have a USA Team page on Wikipedia because there is nothing about the U.S.A. representation at the World University Games.

I work closely with the people from both the US Federation as we as the logistical company...they were the ones who gave me the authorization to use all those materials...

What should I do? Restart the page again? They do not have lots of materials...

Best, 50.199.5.2 (talk) 20:32, 17 February 2017 (UTC)

The only thing wrong with Draft:USA Team - World University Games (Universiade) is that the material was copied from another web site. That is not allowed for any page. If you wish to copy copyright material and then slowly go through and edit it to completely re-phrase it, then that stage has to be done on your own PC, and then the re-phrased material copied to Wikipedia in one go. As soon as one of the auto scripts find a word by word match of part of a page with a remote web site, then the page is doomed to die within the hour. Ronhjones  (Talk) 20:44, 17 February 2017 (UTC)

On non-free image reduce

Please be careful in tagging these. I see a set of resolutions on your progress page that edge into sizes that do need reduction, but there would be no automatic requirement to do that, and needs more than automagic tagging based on size alone. While its easy for anyone to revert the tag, this type of blind tagging has been problematic before for NFC and needs a lot more human interaction. --MASEM (t) 23:57, 19 February 2017 (UTC)

@Masem: I can confirm they are not blind tagging. All are visually pre-screened, before I make a list to tag with AWB (because you can't see the image in AWB - but it's much quicker than editing every page individually). If I see one that needs special treatment or if someone objects to a reduction then I either do it manually (if possible) or add to my list of files not to tag. So far I have just 26 images in my non-reduce list out of about 30,000 done so far. Ronhjones  (Talk) 00:20, 20 February 2017 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

Minor Admin's Barnstar
A variation on the minor barnstar, for normal admin work like blocking disruptive users, protecting pages, etc. RileyBugzYell at me | Edits 01:57, 20 February 2017 (UTC)
Thank You Ronhjones  (Talk) 02:00, 20 February 2017 (UTC)

English sailing INTP :o

That's three things we have in common :) Uamaol (talk) 03:45, 20 February 2017 (UTC)

@Uamaol: Not sure about the sailing bit - You won't find these in rough waters - File:Swan Fradley.jpg (complete with the wife's finger!) - and I know the brass mushrooms are not polished, because I never do it! Ronhjones  (Talk) 17:18, 20 February 2017 (UTC)
Woops. I misinterpreted "boating". Gotta love them narrowboats! I've probably spent more time in my life on them than dinghies! 😂 Uamaol (talk) 17:38, 20 February 2017 (UTC)
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