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I started work on sourcing the IWD article a little better and i am struggling to come up with how to actually source that May Day is celebrated in places like Ethiopia or Somalia. Would something like lonelyplanet do? Not really confident it would though, hence me asking. I used info from Air France, a german Telecom company and RTE (electricity company) to source the same info in other places, which i assume is acceptable? Otherwise i am just not sure what to look for to verify it, given i don't speak amharic lol. Any thoughts, pointers or hints on the matter would be appreciated. 91.248.136.141 (talk) 20:48, 7 May 2019 (UTC)

Never mind! Who would have thought that the federation of Somali trade unions has an english language website hahaha. And i found something for Ethiopia as well after an idea for new search terms. So... sorry to have bothered you. 91.248.136.141 (talk) 22:19, 7 May 2019 (UTC)

Best greetings; I've created an article by the name of "U.S. intervention in Venezuela", but a user renamed its title to "Foreign involvement during the Venezuelan presidential crisis". Actually, although it was mentioned in AFD () (concerning the disagreement of the rename), --but-- he renamed it without surveying the view of others. Afterwards, I'd undo its change (to return it to its first title), but seemingly I hadn't/haven't such option to undo that. Hence, I appreciate your help --to solve the discussion (to return its first name). Ali Ahwazi (talk) 17:07, 8 May 2019 (UTC)

@Ali Ahwazi: Have you discussed this with Jamez42? At the very least, this should be something brought up on the article talk page, perhaps involving people who were in the AFD, rather than pinging someone completely uninvolved. Thanks. —howcheng {chat} 17:13, 8 May 2019 (UTC)

Hi, Howcheng. I need this portrait in original size, could you sent me the deleted version to pamyat at list.ru? thanks. --Алый Король (talk) 01:40, 10 May 2019 (UTC)

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Hello Howcheng, I was reading the Cream Cheese article recently and was left curious as to how exactly lowering the pH below the isoelectric point of the proteins would impact the coagulation. Being unable to find articles specifically on the subject and seeing that you were the first to add this kind of information to the page I was wondering if you had source or further readings on the subject. Thanks!

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@Mikidep: Sorry, I only got the information from a Wired magazine article myself. —howcheng {chat} 21:27, 15 July 2019 (UTC)

Hi, Howcheng. Welcome back and I hope you enjoyed your vacation! Just so you know, I am working on July 18 as I write this message. --- Coffeeandcrumbs 21:20, 15 July 2019 (UTC)

@Coffeeandcrumbs: Thanks, I've got 3 weeks' worth of notes to write, so that's very helpful. —howcheng {chat} 21:21, 15 July 2019 (UTC)

If you don't mind I would like to do the notes for the three days I did. It would be great learning experience. --- Coffeeandcrumbs 21:23, 15 July 2019 (UTC)

That's great, it would certainly help to have some more hands doing these updates. —howcheng {chat} 21:28, 15 July 2019 (UTC)

Any concerns on 20 July? Any concerns at all? I am going to stay hands-off on 21 July and skip to 22 July, that is if you have no objections to me continue on. I am going to start doing two per day and get ahead of schedule like I believe you prefer. If you like what you have seen so far, I am happy to continue. --- Coffeeandcrumbs 19:39, 18 July 2019 (UTC)

@Coffeeandcrumbs: Sorry I didn't reply in time. You can keep going as long as you want. I did this every day for 8+ years so it's nice to not have to worry about it. Just let me know if you need me to step back in for any reason. Thanks. —howcheng {chat} 15:25, 22 July 2019 (UTC)

John William Finn was born July 24 according to his article, but July 23 according to Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/July 23. Art LaPella (talk) 06:08, 22 July 2019 (UTC)

I proposed some changes to Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/August 1, mostly because I wanted to see Herman Melville listed on his 200th birthday, and I just kept going. Please have a look and feel free to undo anything that's incorrect or which you don't think works. Jonathunder (talk) 23:00, 25 July 2019 (UTC)

Thank you for allow me to do this for the past few weeks but I think I would like to stop doing it soon or take breaks so I don't burn out. I will continue until August 15. I have learned what a great amount of work you have done for the past few years. If you ever need another Wiki-break please don't hesitate to ask. It was fun and very educational! Maybe we can do a schedule where we alternate every other month. You take August 16 to September 15. I take September 16 to October 15, and so on. Up to you. Cheers.--- Coffeeandcrumbs 22:29, 31 July 2019 (UTC)

Thank you for allowing me to extend my OTD vacation for a few more weeks! —howcheng {chat} 15:42, 1 August 2019 (UTC)

That's it for me. Be back to do this in September. August 1718 is the last one I updated. --- Coffeeandcrumbs 22:02, 15 August 2019 (UTC)

I am going to keep going. Feel free to tag back in, if you feel like it. --- Coffeeandcrumbs 07:56, 17 August 2019 (UTC)

@Coffeeandcrumbs: I was actually going to restart today but then my computer got caught in Windows update hell (it took 2 hours!!), so I couldn't do anything during that time. —howcheng {chat} 02:09, 18 August 2019 (UTC)

Already working on August 20. You can do the notes and start on August 21. --- Coffeeandcrumbs 02:18, 18 August 2019 (UTC)

BTW, with help from another user, I have created a QUARRY-based system that allows me to find GA and FA-level articles to use for born/died section. So I am going to keep adding more eligible BIOs as we go, even on days that I am not updating fully. --- Coffeeandcrumbs 02:32, 18 August 2019 (UTC)

@Coffeeandcrumbs: Thanks for doing the births/deaths. That really saves me a lot of time. In fact, that was probably the section that took me the longest to do and thus was the biggest headache for me. If you are going to keep doing those, then I'm fine with doing the regular blurbs. Of course, if you want to jump in and do it, I'm not going to stop you either. :) —howcheng {chat} 16:40, 30 August 2019 (UTC)

I think we have struck a nice balance. I might throw some event blurbs into the eligible section now and then. Right now I am happy just doing the births/deaths. If I do any more it is going to be rescuing some ineligibles. I am also open to taking a couple of months a year to give you a break. --- Coffeeandcrumbs 18:16, 30 August 2019 (UTC)

I discovered Louis XVIII of France when searching for birth dates but I think it is a waste to use the article for born/died. There is an ineligible blurb at Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/May 30 that you could use Louis XVIII article to rescue. Or another event blurb could be written. --- Coffeeandcrumbs 13:11, 1 September 2019 (UTC)

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I wonder if you present the probable problem with nominating these articles for OTD of September: one, the assassination of Mir Asadollah Madani for 11 September, second, the Battle of al-Harra for 26 August. Thanks!Saff V. (talk) 12:47, 17 August 2019 (UTC)

(talk page stalker)@Saff V.: I have been doing the OTD section recently and I would probably not include Mir Asadollah Madani and Event of Mubahala because they low quality articles. Battle of al-Harra is a great addition. --- Coffeeandcrumbs 13:06, 17 August 2019 (UTC)

@Coffeeandcrumbs: Aha, I hope to be successful in doing the OTD section and Thanks for a response quickly, But could you explain to me exactly problems cause low quality. especially about Event of Mubahala?Saff V. (talk) 13:26, 17 August 2019 (UTC)

Event of Mubahala is a not that bad but there are several issues tagged. Look for where it is tagged with "[Citation needed]", "[Which?]", and "[Who?]".

Mir Asadollah Madani is very short and give almost no detailts about imam's life and career. --- Coffeeandcrumbs 13:35, 17 August 2019 (UTC)

I get it and will give it try to solve the issues. Thanks!Saff V. (talk) 13:40, 17 August 2019 (UTC)

@Coffeeandcrumbs: Excuse me, but "I have been doing the OTD section recently"means that Howcheng will not be active in this section from now on.Am I right?Saff V. (talk) 05:53, 19 August 2019 (UTC)

@Saff V.: No, I'm still active. —howcheng {chat} 16:09, 19 August 2019 (UTC)

I was removing mentioned issues of Event of Mubahala.Now is it ok to go for OTD of 26 August?Regards!Saff V. (talk) 16:39, 22 August 2019 (UTC)

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Just an FYI, Howcheng: I took 1936 Naval Revolt off OTD for Sept.9th. It was pointed out on WP:ERRORS that the articles says this revolt took place on Sept.8th. I've swapped in 1493 Battle of Krbava Field to fill that spot on OTD for now. Hope this helps. Cheers! --PFHLai (talk) 16:21, 8 September 2019 (UTC)

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At the bottom of Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/November 6, Ri Ul-sol died on November 7 not 6, according to that article and its reference. Art LaPella (talk) 04:47, 5 November 2019 (UTC)

At the bottom of Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/November 7, Paul Sandby died November 9 not 7, according to that article. Art LaPella (talk) 01:17, 6 November 2019 (UTC)

Art LaPella, Fixed --- Coffeeandcrumbs 01:36, 6 November 2019 (UTC)

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I'm not sure if we should change the 1729 date, but for Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/November 24, the Alexander Suvorov article uses both 1729 and 1730 for his birth, several times each. Art LaPella (talk) 05:29, 23 November 2019 (UTC)

OK I moved him to May 18 (death date). —howcheng {chat} 06:50, 23 November 2019 (UTC)

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Hi Howcheng - I saw you update the article history for German cruiser Admiral Graf Spee, which spurred me to go look at the OTD entry for the article (I hadn't noticed it was there yesterday) - anyway, the line needs to be corrected (it states the ship suffered "heavy damage" but that's not accurate) but I don't really want to spend the time necessary to navigate the labyrinthine maze of templates. I'm guessing you know your way around the OTD setup better than I do, so could you point me in the right direction? Thanks. Parsecboy (talk) 16:56, 18 December 2019 (UTC)

@Parsecboy: It's Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/December 17. Please edit as necessary. Thanks. —howcheng {chat} 16:58, 18 December 2019 (UTC)

Thanks, I'll go fix it. Parsecboy (talk) 17:03, 18 December 2019 (UTC)

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I've moved this back. This is a proper name for a specific vase, not the others attributed to him. See WP:VAMOS also. Johnbod (talk) 18:20, 15 January 2020 (UTC)

@Johnbod: No problem. The only thing is, the article always refers to it as the "Euphronios krater", so that probably should be corrected. —howcheng {chat} 18:21, 15 January 2020 (UTC)

Indeed - I'll look at that. Obviously it is "the krater" in running prose. Johnbod (talk) 18:23, 15 January 2020 (UTC)

My last two consecutive article edits have been to clean up unfortunate typos from your edits. This and this. Think about that. I'm just looking at articles in my favorite sections DYK and OTD and I come across goofs twice consecutively by one editor? For that to happen, what rate of errors are you committing?

It is a pet peeve of mine that 'experienced' editors seem to not use "Show preview"? When I see "300December" and "desribes" I can only believe that is true, and perhaps due to too much hurry? Shenme (talk) 01:38, 17 January 2020 (UTC)

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Hello again! I've highlighted a sentence which you violated so you know.Jonteemil (talk) 17:15, 13 March 2020 (UTC)

You may not be aware of this, but I'm one the people who wrote NFCC#8, so I'm very familiar with how it works, although I must admit it has been many years since I have done enforcement of it. However, I agree that the article was used in too many places, so I've limited it to Pepsi and Edward F. Boyd, where it's the most relevant. —howcheng {chat} 20:56, 13 March 2020 (UTC)

I was not aware of that. Good that you limited its use. Cheers.Jonteemil (talk) 23:41, 16 March 2020 (UTC)

I see that you reverted 17 of my edits to "Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries" pages. I admit that in Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/April 27 I messed up when I dropped the y in livery. Other than that, I believe my changes are correct in that they removed bogus image options lint errors. My changes also improved the displayed captions. For example, Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/April 26, the right-most image caption improved from "border=yes" to "B&O Royal Blue". In other examples, I prevented bad line breaks. Your edit summary each time was "there's a reason for this". Kindly let me know the reason(s) that applied to the 17 reversions (other than, of course, misspelling "livery"). (I am glad to see that you did not revert my edit to Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/April 14, where the lint error I fixed was fostered content.) Cheers ... —Anomalocaris (talk) 06:42, 19 March 2020 (UTC)

@Anomalocaris: Sorry, but I really don't care about lint errors. The point is not to make the gallery viewable for readers; it's to make it easier to update the events that are displayed. What you call "bogus image options" are actually parameters for the {{main page image}} template, which is used to display the image. This makes it possible to then just cut & paste the line into the template. If we were to use proper image gallery syntax, then that's just more work to prep the day's blurbs (see ). Thus, please leave those as-is. Thank you. —howcheng {chat} 06:55, 19 March 2020 (UTC)

What am I supposed to see in the "see" link?

Sorry, I should have been clearer. Lines 7 and 13 show how I was able to cut/paste the line from the gallery; the other part of that is farther down the page: {{main page image|File:Traian Vuia aircraft.jpg|Traian Vuia's monoplane|width=x137}} → {{main page image|File:Bouvet capsizing March 18 1915 (cropped).jpg|The French battleship ''Bouvet'' capsizing|title=The French battleship Bouvet capsizes after striking a mine during the Battle of Gallipoli.|width=175}}

Lint errors are a serious problem in Wikipedia, and one tiny lint error on a page can cause the rest of the page following to display with incorrect indentation, color, or font size. Therefore, I hope when you say "I really don't care about lint errors" you mean, "I really don't care about lint errors for pages that are used as scratchpads for other pages; of course I do care about lint errors on actual production pages."

Again, my apologies for not being clearer. Yes, that is exactly what I meant.

Please explain the purpose of "title=" and why it appears sometimes and not other times.

Please explain the purpose of "border=yes".

Please explain the purpose of "|width=100" and "width=x137". Can these both be right? —Anomalocaris (talk) 07:49, 19 March 2020 (UTC)

For those, please see the template documentation, although I'm not exactly sure how the x137 syntax works (User:David Levy is the one who usually uses that). Thanks. —howcheng {chat} 18:00, 19 March 2020 (UTC)

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What is this newsletter meant for , can you please explain because I don't understand it

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@Nndms: The above newsletter is for administrators. Since you aren't one, it's not applicable to you. —howcheng {chat} 15:44, 2 April 2020 (UTC)

Hi. I removed the refimprove section tag on Book of the Law, it seemed fine. Am I missing something there? The section is well in need of a paragraph break or two though. Randy Kryn (talk) 22:29, 5 April 2020 (UTC)

@Randy Kryn: That big long paragraph only has one footnote, right at the beginning. Thus, the tag. Thanks. —howcheng {chat} 22:33, 5 April 2020 (UTC)

When I talk to people about editing Wikipedia they seem hesitant to even attempt to do it, like putting your footprint in new cement or something. So I usually use the example of paragraph breaks, "just find a too-long paragraph and put a break in there". That one is a doozy of a text wall, so good catch. Randy Kryn (talk) 22:36, 5 April 2020 (UTC)

p.s. looks like Regardie's quotes in the long graph (I've added one break) are probably from the same source referenced. Putting it near the start was likely some editors way of referencing the quote bank. Randy Kryn (talk) 22:41, 5 April 2020 (UTC)

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@Fastily: FYI this was a duplicate of File:Han-Jiang-Teochew-temple-door.jpg. I'd forgotten I had uploaded it separately here. Thanks. —howcheng {chat} 07:07, 12 April 2020 (UTC)

At Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/April 14, the Arthur Matthew Weld Downing article says April 13, not 14. Art LaPella (talk) 04:38, 13 April 2020 (UTC)

I did not know what to do with this eligible article. I was think as feast day on April 24 but I thought I would leave it up to you. It is well sourced but there is a bit of confusion about the feast day. --- C&C (Coffeeandcrumbs) 01:52, 21 April 2020 (UTC) @Coffeeandcrumbs: I'm afraid we can't use it, then. I can deal with ambiguity about the year (c.f. Mariah Carey) but not the actual date. —howcheng {chat} 15:55, 21 April 2020 (UTC)

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Please, add the article of Treaty of Trianon (1920) to Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/June 4 because of its centenary today. --Norden1990 (talk) 22:24, 3 June 2020 (UTC)

Thank you very much! --Norden1990 (talk) 22:50, 3 June 2020 (UTC)

Hi, Howcheng. I'm a little confused with the dates. Do you mean June or July? 1879 or 1881? I can go fix Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/July 13 and Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/June 13 myself, but I thought I should check with you first. Thanks. --PFHLai (talk) 23:11, 15 June 2020 (UTC)

@PFHLai: I'm not sure why I thought the sinking was on July 13. Please feel free to fix it. Thanks. —howcheng {chat} 02:54, 16 June 2020 (UTC)

It's now back on the June 13th OTD/SA template. Thanks, Howcheng. --PFHLai (talk) 08:03, 16 June 2020 (UTC)

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Hello Howcheng, I would really appreciated if you could add the article Huey Long to the Selected anniversaries for September 8. It was delisted for this year due to atrocious references. In the past month, I've done a lot of work and I think I'll actually be able to nominate for GA in another week of editing. On top of that, this year is also the 85 anniversary of his shooting. Thanks! ~ HAL333 18:11, 22 July 2020 (UTC)

@HAL333: 85th anniversary doesn't have get any special treatment, unfortunately. If the GA passes, are you planning to put in for a DYK appearance? If so, that would disqualify him from OTD year. At any rate, I won't be touching that page until a few days prior, so if you do get to a good point, your best bet is to leave a note on the talk page so that I'll see it when I do the update. Thanks and good luck! —howcheng {chat} 18:22, 22 July 2020 (UTC)

Ok, thanks! ~ HAL333 18:30, 22 July 2020 (UTC)

Hi, Howcheng. Just an FYI: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Helen_Mirren&diff=968513948&oldid=968439307 Your {refimprove} got reverted, too. --PFHLai (talk) 06:01, 24 July 2020 (UTC)

Well, if I run it, you can be sure TRM is going to flag it. —howcheng {chat} 06:43, 24 July 2020 (UTC)

I know... --PFHLai (talk) 13:05, 24 July 2020 (UTC)

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Hi, Howcheng. Do you mean that Obama is better on MainPage for the 13th anniversary of his becoming POTUS than on his 60th birthday? I prefer anniversaries with nice round numbers, if available. Oh, well... it's okay. --PFHLai (talk) 21:39, 1 August 2020 (UTC)

@PFHLai: No, just that people don't normally get to appear for birth/death anniversaries if they are already in a regular blurb. We also might make an exception for really significant birth dates like centennials. Also, it seems that putting him in this year might seem like a political statement, so I don't think he'll make an appearance until next year at the earliest. —howcheng {chat} 04:17, 2 August 2020 (UTC)

Well, that was indeed for next year. Note my edit summary. Not a 100th, though. --PFHLai (talk) 11:57, 2 August 2020 (UTC)

Hello. I saw the changes that you made to the selected anniversaries for August 9, which will be shown on the Main Page in a few days' time. I do not know if the selection of blurbs among those that are in the staging area is random (aside from the restrictions), but my attempt to change some of those was reverted. I did see that my edit resulted in that page having too many 20th century events, but it had already happened at least once, such as in 2018. Was that a valid excuse for the revert? Also, do you think the use of the word cheers (in a probably inappropriate use) in the edit summary might have qualified as a breach of a now-vacated motion?

I would have wanted to have the anniversaries for the Fat Man bomb and the expulsion of Singapore from Malaysia displayed on the Main Page, as those events are celebrating their 75th and 55th anniversaries respectively this year. Would it be possible to exempt this year (and not again until the 100th anniversary) from the restriction that the anniversaries for Little Boy and Fat Man should not appear in the same year? Thanks. LSGH (talk) (contributions) 17:36, 7 August 2020 (UTC)

@LSGH: Nagasaki unfortunately will always live in the shadow of Hiroshima. If they didn't happen so close in succession, that might be a different story. As for Singapore, the Picture of the Day for August 9 is about Singapore, and it is longstanding custom that we don't duplicate content between sections of the Main Page, so that one is a non-starter. Additionally, 55 is not an anniversary that gets priority: it's multiples of 10 when less than 100 years old, and multiples of 25 for older than 100 years. Articles are not chosen at random. I make an effort to maintain variety in chronology, location, and topic, but sometimes it's just not possible. Please see WP:Selected anniversaries#When guidelines conflict for more details. Lastly, I think you're stretching a bit to find that in violation of anything. It seems to be a perfectly normal British greeting to me. —howcheng {chat} 02:51, 8 August 2020 (UTC)

Thanks, I get it now. The two bombs served a very similar purpose anyway. And yes, a lot of other editors use that word when participating in discussions, though they would normally use it as part of a positive or helpful reply. LSGH (talk) (contributions) 05:20, 8 August 2020 (UTC)

Hi, Howcheng. If interested, Percy Mayfield's 100th birthday is coming up on August 12th. He wrote this song, and many others. Cheers! --PFHLai (talk) 15:13, 9 August 2020 (UTC)

Thank you, Howcheng, for fixing the referencing on Percy Mayfield's wikipage. I just found out about AllMusic, and then found out you have gotten everything fixed already. Thank you. Happy editing! Cheers! --PFHLai (talk) 10:10, 11 August 2020 (UTC)

Hi, Howcheng. There are quite a few broken links used as references in this article. Some broken links are re-used quite a few times. It looks worrisome. I don't think this can be easily fixed. I'm taking this anniversary off SA/OTD for now. Could you pick another item to replace it, please? Thank you. --PFHLai (talk) 00:00, 13 August 2020 (UTC)

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Hello Howcheng, I hope you don't mind me messaging you here - I see you are the person who updates the 11 September OTD most frequently. Rather short notice but I was wondering if Batu Lintang camp could be added for tomorrow - it's the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the camp in 1945 at the end of WW2. In the selected anniversaries edit box it says it has an unsourced section - I have just been through that section in the Batu Lintang page and added the refs, but can't removed the unsourced warning from the OTD box. Thanks! Jasper33 (talk) 12:23, 10 September 2020 (UTC)

@Jasper33:  Done 16:25, 10 September 2020 (UTC)

Thank you Howcheng, much appreciated. Jasper33 (talk) 07:22, 11 September 2020 (UTC)

Shouldn't Last use of capital punishment in Spain be in the omitted notes for both 2019 and 2020? Valenciano (talk) 13:02, 30 September 2020 (UTC)

@Valenciano: No, the meaning of "omitted" here means "was taken out of rotation" or "moved from active to inactive status". —howcheng {chat} 15:27, 30 September 2020 (UTC)

Got it, thanks, was just wondering. Good job on those pages by the way. Valenciano (talk) 15:42, 30 September 2020 (UTC)

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• The filter log now provides links to view diffs of deleted revisions (phab:T261630).

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• The 2020 CheckUser and Oversight appointment process has begun. The community consultation period will take place from September 27th to October 7th.
• Following a request for comment, sitting Committee members may not serve on either the Ombuds Commission or the WMF Case Review Committee. The Arbitration Committee passed a motion implementing those results into their procedures.

Miscellaneous

• The Universal Code of Conduct draft is open for community review and comment until October 6th, 2020.
• Office actions may now be appealed to the Interim Trust & Safety Case Review Committee.

Hi, Howcheng. I'm not sure if there are any plans for Beethoven 250th birthday to be featured on MainPage. There is no official record of his birth. He was baptised on December 17th. Shall we have this on the SA/OTD template? It's neither a birth nor a death, so I don't know what the format should be. Any thoughts, please? Thank you. --PFHLai (talk) 20:59, 18 October 2020 (UTC)

We are OK with baptized dates I think. —howcheng {chat} 21:19, 18 October 2020 (UTC)

Thanks. I'll ask on Template talk:Born and died list to see if baptism can be included in that template. --PFHLai (talk) 05:54, 21 October 2020 (UTC)

News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2020).

Administrator changes John M Wolfson Bduke • Nilfanion • Philosopher • Rspeer • Yunshui Interface administrator changes Ragesoss TonyBallioni

CheckUser changes EdJohnston • Oshwah • Yamla Yunshui Oversight changes Anarchyte Yunshui

Guideline and policy news

• Community sanctions now authorize administrators to place under indefinite semiprotection any article on a beauty pageant, or biography of a person known as a beauty pageant contestant, which has been edited by a sockpuppet account or logged-out sockpuppet, to be logged at WP:GS/PAGEANT.

Technical news

• Sysops will once again be able to view the deleted history of JS/CSS pages; this was restricted to interface administrators when that group was introduced.
• Twinkle's block module now includes the ability to note the specific case when applying a discretionary sanctions block and/or template.
• Sysops will be able to use Special:CreateLocalAccount to create a local account for a global user that is prevented from auto-creation locally (such as by a filter or range block). Administrators that are not sure if such a creation is appropriate should contact a checkuser.

Arbitration

• The 2020 Arbitration Committee Elections process has begun. Eligible editors will be able to nominate themselves as candidates from November 8 through November 17. The voting period will run from November 23 through December 6.
• The Anti-harassment RfC has concluded with a summary of the feedback provided.

Miscellaneous

• A reminder that standard discretionary sanctions are authorized for all edits about, and all pages related to post-1932 politics of the United States and closely related people. (American Politics 2 Arbitration case).

Hey Howcheng, the page is listed as ineligible in Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/November 14. Do you know what it's meant by "too detailed"? --Mhhossein ^talk 16:11, 11 November 2020 (UTC)

@Mhhossein: If you look at the page last year, there was a {{too detailed}} tag on it. —howcheng {chat} 02:26, 12 November 2020 (UTC)

Template:POTD/2007-07-02—a POTD subpage which you contributed to—has been added to the Selected picture section of the Portal:Sports. —⁠andrybak (talk) 00:59, 24 November 2020 (UTC)

As well as many others: Template:POTD/2008-03-01, Template:POTD/2008-05-16, Template:POTD/2008-05-21, Template:POTD/2010-02-07, and so on. Thank you for your contributions to POTDs. —⁠andrybak (talk) 01:03, 24 November 2020 (UTC)

Similarly for Portal:History:

• Template:POTD/2008-01-05
• Template:POTD/2008-05-19
• Template:POTD/2008-09-21
• Template:POTD/2008-11-26

Thanks. —⁠andrybak (talk) 01:11, 24 November 2020 (UTC)

News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2020).

Administrator changes

Andrwsc • Anetode • GoldenRing • JzG • LinguistAtLarge • Nehrams2020

Interface administrator changes

Izno

Guideline and policy news

• There is a request for comment in progress to either remove T3 (duplicated and hardcoded instances) as a speedy deletion criterion or eliminate its seven-day waiting period.

Technical news

• Voting for proposals in the 2021 Community Wishlist Survey, which determines what software the Wikimedia Foundation's Community Tech team will work on next year, will take place from 8 December through 21 December. In particular, there are sections regarding administrators and anti-harassment.

Arbitration

• Voting in the 2020 Arbitration Committee Elections is open to eligible editors until Monday 23:59, 7 December 2020 UTC. Please review the candidates and, if you wish to do so, submit your choices on the voting page.

News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2020).

Administrator changes Hammersoft Andres • Brion VIBBER • Rkitko • Thatcher

CheckUser changes Barkeep49 • BDD • CaptainEek • Primefac Oversight changes Barkeep49 • BDD • CaptainEek Joe Roe

Guideline and policy news

• Speedy deletion criterion T3 (duplication and hardcoded instances) has been repealed following a request for comment.

Technical news

• You can now put pages on your watchlist for a limited period of time.

Arbitration

• By motion, standard discretionary sanctions have been temporarily authorized for all pages relating to the Horn of Africa (defined as including Ethiopia, Somalia, Eritrea, Djibouti, and adjoining areas if involved in related disputes). The effectiveness of the discretionary sanctions can be evaluated on the request by any editor after March 1, 2021 (or sooner if for a good reason).
• Following the 2020 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been appointed to the Arbitration Committee: Barkeep49, BDD, Bradv, CaptainEek, L235, Maxim, Primefac.

Hey I noticed you were the one who added a copy editing tag to the article on mathematician Brook Taylor for "cleaning up the stilted language of the original Britannica article." I went through and did some minor edits, but I couldn't determine why you added the tag in the first place, or if my edits fixed the problem. (This is the version you flagged by the way, and this is the current version). I'd appreciate some clarification if you have the chance. Cheers. Fredlesaltique (talk) 08:18, 6 January 2021 (UTC)

Hello, Howcheng. I recently created the page Day of the Unification of the Romanian Principalities, which is about a Romanian holiday celebrated on 24 January. I created it with the intention of adding it later to Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/January 24, but I didn't know that I can't edit a selected anniversaries page if it will be shown tomorrow. Since you seem to be the most engaged person on the subject of selected anniversaries, is it possible for you to add this holiday at January 24's selected anniversaries? There is no holiday featured yet from what I see. I would appreciate if you did this but I also understand if this request is rejected or ignored as I am asking for a last minute change to an important page. Regards. Super Ψ Dro 23:21, 23 January 2021 (UTC)

@Super Dromaeosaurus: So sorry, I wasn't on wiki for a day so I missed your message. We'll have to put it in for next year. Thanks. —howcheng {chat} 08:06, 25 January 2021 (UTC)

Well, I guess it was just bad luck. Don't worry about it. Super Ψ Dro 09:14, 25 January 2021 (UTC)

News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2021).

Administrator changes Hog Farm Mattflaschen • Nandesuka • Savidan • Wangi

CheckUser changes Berean Hunter • Xeno Oversight changes Someguy1221 • Xeno

Arbitration

• The standard discretionary sanctions authorized for American Politics were amended by motion to cover post-1992 politics of United States and closely related people, replacing the 1932 cutoff.

Miscellaneous

• Voting in the 2021 Steward elections will begin on 05 February 2021, 14:00 (UTC) and end on 26 February 2021, 13:59 (UTC). The confirmation process of current stewards is being held in parallel. You can automatically check your eligibility to vote.
• Wikipedia has now been around for 20 years, and recently saw its billionth edit!

Hi, Howcheng. I see that you have reverted my edit in the SA/OTD template for Feb. 26th with a note saying "footnote 21 ("Siege of Kaifeng" section)". May I ask if you plan to insert this footnote, please? The date currently appears in that section of the article, but that sentence with the footnote and the date is not related to the hook on the SA/OTD template. I don't have the book to check, so I cannot insert the footnote myself to a sentence related to the hook material. Please advise. Thanks. --PFHLai (talk) 20:55, 27 February 2021 (UTC)

@PFHLai: Ah you're right. I rewrote the blurb to sync with the article. —howcheng {chat} 21:18, 27 February 2021 (UTC)

Hello, Howcheng. Thank you for your quick response on the SA/OTD template. I should let you know that I am going to make further changes there. I have done more digging and was fortunate enough to find an online version of the ref for footnote 21 here. Accordingly, Feb. 26th, 1233 was not the date the emperor left town, but the date he reached the destination GuiDe; considering the means required for transportation back then, he must have left earlier than that. A few lines further down in that same paragraph in the ref, it says the invaders were allowed into the city on May 29th. I think the original blurb can still be used, but on the SA/OTD template for May 29th, instead of Feb. 26th. I shall start moving things to the "new" date after this edit here on your talkpage. Thanks. --PFHLai (talk) 02:35, 28 February 2021 (UTC)

Greetings,

Lot many events like Women's protest March do take place on International Women's Day, amongst them, since 2018 Pakistan women take out Aurat March and is leading to substantial social discourse in Pakistan, with substantial media coverage.

Earlier I requested help to see if Aurat March and/or International Women's Day can be nominated Wikipedia main page 'Ongoing' sub section of Wikipedia:In the news section ?

The Rambling Man suggested me to seek your inputs whether it would be better idea to include Aurat March and/or International Women's Day at WP:Selected anniversaries than WP:ITNC.

Please do guide.

Thanks and regards

Bookku (talk) 12:36, 28 February 2021 (UTC)

@Bookku: IWD has been included every year for many years. Aurat March looks to be good quality so we can also add it. —howcheng {chat} 05:19, 2 March 2021 (UTC)

News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2021).

Administrator changes

TJMSmith

Boing! said Zebedee • Hiberniantears • Lear's Fool • Only • WGFinley

Interface administrator changes

AmandaNP

Guideline and policy news

• A request for comment is open that proposes a process for the community to revoke administrative permissions. This follows a 2019 RfC in favor of creating one such a policy.
• A request for comment is in progress to remove F7 (invalid fair-use claim) subcriterion a, which covers immediate deletion of non-free media with invalid fair-use tags.
• A request for comment seeks to grant page movers the delete-redirect userright, which allows moving a page over a single-revision redirect, regardless of that redirect's target. The full proposal is at Wikipedia:Page mover/delete-redirect.
• A request for comment asks if sysops may place the General sanctions/Coronavirus disease 2019 editnotice template on pages in scope that do not have page-specific sanctions?
• There is a discussion in progress concerning automatic protection of each day's featured article with Pending Changes protection.

Technical news

• When blocking an IPv6 address with Twinkle, there is now a checkbox with the option to just block the /64 range. When doing so, you can still leave a block template on the initial, single IP address' talkpage.
• When protecting a page with Twinkle, you can now add a note if doing so was in response to a request at WP:RfPP, and even link to the specific revision.
• There have been a number of reported issues with Pending Changes. Most problems setting protection appear to have been resolved (phab:T273317) but other issues with autoaccepting edits persist (phab:T275322).

Arbitration

• By motion, the discretionary sanctions originally authorized under the GamerGate case are now authorized under a new Gender and sexuality case, with sanctions authorized for all edits about, and all pages related to, any gender-related dispute or controversy and associated people. Sanctions issued under GamerGate are now considered Gender and sexuality sanctions.
• The Kurds and Kurdistan case was closed, authorizing standard discretionary sanctions for the topics of Kurds and Kurdistan, broadly construed.

Miscellaneous

• Following the 2021 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: AmandaNP, Operator873, Stanglavine, Teles, and Wiki13.

Hi Howcheng, just a heads up that I think you missed a closing "noinclude" tag when you updated tomorrow's OTD, which I think would have caused it not to appear on the main page correctly. Luckily I just happened to glance at WP:Main Page/Tomorrow and spotted that the OTD was missing. I think I've fixed it, but if you see any issues then do let me know. Cheers  — Amakuru (talk) 14:52, 24 March 2021 (UTC)

News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2021).

Administrator changes

Alexandria • Happyme22 • RexxS

Guideline and policy news

• Following a request for comment, F7 (invalid fair-use claim) subcriterion a has been deprecated; it covered immediate deletion of non-free media with invalid fair-use tags.
• Following a request for comment, page movers were granted the delete-redirect userright, which allows moving a page over a single-revision redirect, regardless of that redirect's target.

Technical news

• When you move a page that many editors have on their watchlist the history can be split and it might also not be possible to move it again for a while. This is because of a job queue problem. (T278350)
• Code to support some very old web browsers is being removed. This could cause issues in those browsers. (T277803)

Arbitration

• A community consultation on the Arbitration Committee discretionary sanctions procedure is open until April 25.

Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/April 18. The Ippolita Maria Sforza article has conflicting birth years, 1445 and 1446, and the reference is offline. [[User:|Art LaPella]] (talk) 05:49, 17 April 2021 (UTC)

@Art LaPella: Google searches are inconclusive. I found results in seemingly reliable sources for both 1445 and 1446. —howcheng {chat} 06:57, 17 April 2021 (UTC)

For years a cloud of gloom has obscured my joy—this cloud having been borne by a certain aspect of the Wikipedia protocol of using four tildes to automatically sign one's notes. In particular, that aspect is the lack of a suitable transition between the signator's name and the preceding body of text. Even a space would be vastly preferable to no transition. Eventually, I developed the habit of consciously inserting a space between the end of my notes and the start of my tildeic sequence. Yet this barely satisfied.

Today, on an article's Talk page, I chanced to see your markup construction that left a dash before your name, in your signature. At first, the curious combination of punctuatory sigils puzzled—I was critical and suspicious of the naked characters—I said to myself, Lo, what trickery hath here been wrought? When I saw the practical result, my attitude inverted and I was well pleased. Kudos to you, for your delightful, useful invention. It is strong enough to qualify as a candidate for being a universal change to the effect of the quadtildean signature protocol. I’ve not yet endeavored to assimilate the change into mine own signature, but I assure you that doing so is now my priority.

Again, I praise your creativity and I salute you. I shall remain your servant, catsmoke (talk) 08:35, 18 April 2021 (UTC)

News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2021).

Administrator changes

Enchanter • Carlossuarez46

Interface administrator changes

Ragesoss

Guideline and policy news

• Following an RfC, consensus was found that third party appeals are allowed but discouraged.
• The 2021 Desysop Policy RfC was closed with no consensus. Consensus was found in a previous RfC for a community based desysop procedure, though the procedure proposed in the 2021 RfC did not gain consensus.

Technical news

• The user group oversight will be renamed to suppress. This is for technical reasons. You can comment at T112147 if you have objections.

Arbitration

• The community consultation on the Arbitration Committee discretionary sanctions procedure was closed, and an initial draft based on feedback from the now closed consultation is expected to be released in early June to early July for community review.

On the Lise de Baissac article I rolled back your edits because you changed the footnote O'Connor 2012 to O'Connor 2016 which is incorrect as it refers to the wrong O'Connor book. That's understandable on your part as the wrong O'Connor book is listed in the bibliography. So, I have made the appropriate changes in the bibliography and notes to get the O'Connor references correct.

However, my rollback seems to have had an unintended consequence. The footnotes related to Binney, 2003 have a weird error message in red as follows: Binney 2003, p. 141. sfn error: multiple targets (2×): CITEREFBinney2003 (help). I don't perceive what the problem is and a search on Wikipedia help didn't enlighten me. Can you help or explain? Thanks. Smallchief (talk) 08:51, 9 May 2021 (UTC)

Oops, never mind. Somebody has already fixed whatever was the problem. Smallchief (talk) 08:57, 9 May 2021 (UTC)

@Smallchief: Excellent, thanks. Oh, we should use the Telegraph obit for her birth/death dates because you're missing page numbers for the Kramer and Helm sources and I would prefer not to add {{page needed}} to those. Thanks. —howcheng {chat} 21:57, 9 May 2021 (UTC)

Template:Replace this image has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. Dylsss^{(talk contribs)} 22:47, 16 May 2021 (UTC)

News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2021).

Administrator changes

Ashleyyoursmile • Less Unless

Husond • MattWade • MJCdetroit • Carioca • Vague Rant • Kingboyk • Thunderboltz • Gwen Gale • AniMate • SlimVirgin (deceased)

Guideline and policy news

• Consensus was reached to deprecate Wikipedia:Editor assistance.
• Following a Request for Comment the Book namespace was deprecated.

Technical news

• Wikimedia previously used the IRC network Freenode. However, due to changes over who controlled the network with reports of a forceful takeover by several ex-staff members, the Wikimedia IRC Group Contacts decided to move to the new Libera Chat network. It has been reported that Wikimedia related channels on Freenode have been forcibly taken over if they pointed members to Libera. There is a migration guide and Wikimedia discussions about this.

Arbitration

• After a Clarification request, the Arbitration Committee modified Remedy 5 of the Antisemitism in Poland case. This means sourcing expectations are a discretionary sanction instead of being present on all articles. It also details using the talk page or the Reliable Sources Noticeboard to discuss disputed sources.