Adam Cuerden
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POTD notification
Hi Adam,
Just to let you know, the Featured Picture File:Émile Bertrand - Jules Massenet - Cendrillon poster.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on May 24, 2015. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2015-05-24. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Crisco 1492 (talk) 13:31, 5 May 2015 (UTC)
January-March 2015 Milhist reviewing award
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Featured article for 20 May Signpost
Hello, I did not know where to put this. This was promoted 14 May, so I think it goes in the Signpost coming out next week.
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- Camas pocket gopher (nominated by Gaff) Said to be "one of the most vicious animals known for its size", the camas pocket gopher of Oregon in the United States is born toothless, blind and hairless before growing to become a fearsome rodent. Fortunately the animal is herbivorous so its purring or twittering should not indicate danger to humans.
The Bugle: Issue CX, May 2015
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It would be nice, if you could close this one for me. Regards, 14:45, 29 May 2015 (UTC)
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POTD notification
Hi Adam,
Just to let you know, the Featured Picture File:Illustrated War News, Dec. 23, 1914, page 38, left side - Darwan Sing Negi.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on June 24, 2015. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2015-06-24. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Chris Woodrich (talk) 00:03, 4 June 2015 (UTC)
- The image has been rescheduled for the 26th. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 00:22, 6 June 2015 (UTC)
Potential FPs from Yorkshire GLAMwiki partnerships
Hi Adam, could I get some advice about the featured picture process. I'm running the Yorkshire Network GLAMwiki Project and I'd love to see some of the images get featured but am a little wary of COI issues and how to go about the process. Here's a gallery of just a few files that might be worth a shot but I'd appreciate your thoughts and perhaps you'll find more appropriate images in the relevant Commons Categories?
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A flythrough of Templeborough Roman Fort provided from an interactive programme commissioned by Rotherham Museums
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A high-resolution version of William Smith's original geological map. A restoration candidate? Originally published August 1815 -
![A high-resolution version of one of Franz Snyder's great still life paintings. Colour corrected tiff available too]]](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/37/A_Game_Stall_by_Franz_Snyder_YORAG-802.jpg/120px-A_Game_Stall_by_Franz_Snyder_YORAG-802.jpg)
A high-resolution version of one of Franz Snyder's great still life paintings. Colour corrected tiff available too]]
![A high-resolution version of one of Franz Snyder's great still life paintings. Colour corrected tiff available too]]](/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:A_Game_Stall_by_Franz_Snyder_YORAG-802.jpg)
The commons cats are:
- Images from the York Museums Trust Online Collection
- Images donated by York Museums Trust
- Images from Harrogate Museums and Arts
What do you think? Cheers PatHadley (talk) 11:42, 4 June 2015 (UTC)
- @PatHadley: The first thing to do is to get them into all appropriate articles that they should be in. For example. the Franz Snyder would be an excellent candidate, but needs to be in an article for seven days. They may benefit from having suitable crops taken from them - for example, the map might benefit from cropping out the wood holding it down at the bottom and the black around it - these should, of course, be uploaded as separate files. Link the variants together: You say that there's a tiff available of the game stall, but that's not linked. An example of one I've restored and how I like to link things is File:Charlotte_Perkins_Gilman_c._1900.jpg - note the "Other versions" field; it doesn't matter exactly how you do it, though, so long as it's all linked.
- These are clearly valuable resources. I can give some thoughts:
- I don't think we've had a flythrough at FPC before. I suspect one with such credentials pass easily, one might want to add it to some articles on archaeological reconstruction, and consider an article on flythrough, but probably not necessary. User:Crisco 1492, any thoughts?
- The strata map is excellent. Restoration is possible, though this will strain my computer a little bit. It may be unnecessary outside of an appropriate crop. Adam Cuerden (talk) 13:50, 4 June 2015 (UTC)
- I think a flythrough would probably have a chance. Still finishing up an article, though, so I haven't had time to look at it in detail. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 13:58, 4 June 2015 (UTC)
- Cracking. Thanks for all the advice. I'll get them on more relevant articles and do some tweaked versions of some of them. Cheers PatHadley (talk) 14:31, 4 June 2015 (UTC)
- @PatHadley: File:Coppergate Helmet YORCM CA665-1.jpg would be an excellent candidate as well. Adam Cuerden (talk) 14:47, 4 June 2015 (UTC)
- Actually, it strikes me as oversharpened. If there's access to the RAW files, I'd love to work with them. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 15:11, 4 June 2015 (UTC)
- Thanks for all this help folks!
- I suspect that the Coppergate Helmet image is actually a scanned slide but I can't be sure. I'll have more of a poke around. I remember seeing some really good detailed shots of the filigree work too. (personally I'd love the excuse to pop it out the case and snap it again with the new kit at YMT.
- I've had a quick go at adjusting the Smith map but have limited photoshop access. The current version in use on the article (File:Geological map Britain William Smith 1815.jpg) is much punchier and usable at small sizes but obviously lacks the resolution or authenticity/provenance of the Yorkshire Museum's copy. As can be seen from the Geological Soceity's recently rediscovered copy (here on Flickr but watermarked) the original colours were much brighter.
- I'll also play with the Snyder. I'll see if I can get some info from the curators in order to be adding cropped details more informatively.
- Cheers all! PatHadley (talk) 09:55, 5 June 2015 (UTC)
- If there's a chance at retaking it, that would be great... shame I'm too darned far away to help. I'm ... somewhat handy with a camera myself. — Chris Woodrich (talk)
- Right, here's a quick and dirty reworking of the map. Probably not good enough for FP but might be better for the article and inspire a more competent restoration attempt. Thoughts? @Crisco 1492: We'd love to have you, but at least I can now be confident that the skills in-house will do things justice! PatHadley (talk) 12:54, 5 June 2015 (UTC)
- That seems to have changed the colours of the ink, amongst other issues. I'm not quite sure what you did to it... Adam Cuerden (talk) 13:02, 5 June 2015 (UTC)
- Like I said, quick and dirty. I mostly used the automatic tools in GIMP (free and handy) and used the Geological Society's copy as a guide. Far too much scope for error but no more than the other versions on Commons? I'm more than happy for that to be over-written with a better version. PatHadley (talk) 10:23, 8 June 2015 (UTC)
- @PatHadley: Yes, the ones I've seen look very good. Have you been editing to correct for lens distortion? I took a look at A Game Stall, and I note that the frame seems to bend. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 13:12, 5 June 2015 (UTC)
- Also, there are slight parallax errors on the top of the frame. I'm curious as to whether or not you are using a panoramic head with your tripod. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 13:20, 5 June 2015 (UTC)
- That image was taken by moving the tripod laterally on a trolley and then stitching with Microsoft ICE. It was a test that we were reasonably pleased with but perhaps for FP it'd be better to supply the calibrated single image? PatHadley (talk) 10:23, 8 June 2015 (UTC)
- Ah, that explains it. I tried working with ICE for a while, but there were issues. It's a very fast and dirty program with room to modify the output. I believe Photoshop would work for a trolley shot (it's similar to scanning a work in multiple portions, after all, which I know is supported), but it can consume a lot of resources. PTGui works pretty well, too, and is less of a processor/RAM hog. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 12:23, 8 June 2015 (UTC)
- We actually tried PhotoShop first and ICE was far better. Both have settings for tracking rather than panning. I'll have a crack with PTGui. We're looking into kit or a home-made rig that will enable us to move orthogonally sideways and up/down to get gridded stitches (that is just 3 shots in portrait). GigaPixel here we come! PatHadley (talk) 13:08, 8 June 2015 (UTC)
- Interesting. If you use PT Gui, you may want to use the SmartBlend plugin. It handles parallax better. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 13:16, 8 June 2015 (UTC)
- Ah, that explains it. I tried working with ICE for a while, but there were issues. It's a very fast and dirty program with room to modify the output. I believe Photoshop would work for a trolley shot (it's similar to scanning a work in multiple portions, after all, which I know is supported), but it can consume a lot of resources. PTGui works pretty well, too, and is less of a processor/RAM hog. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 12:23, 8 June 2015 (UTC)
- That image was taken by moving the tripod laterally on a trolley and then stitching with Microsoft ICE. It was a test that we were reasonably pleased with but perhaps for FP it'd be better to supply the calibrated single image? PatHadley (talk) 10:23, 8 June 2015 (UTC)
- Also, there are slight parallax errors on the top of the frame. I'm curious as to whether or not you are using a panoramic head with your tripod. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 13:20, 5 June 2015 (UTC)
VisualEditor News #3—2015
When you click on a link to an article, you now see more information:
The link tool has been re-designed:
There are separate tabs for linking to internal and external pages.
The user guide has more information about how to use VisualEditor.
Since the last newsletter, the Editing Team has created new interfaces for the link and citation tools, as well as fixing many bugs and changing some elements of the design. Some of these bugs affected users of VisualEditor on mobile devices. Status reports are posted on Mediawiki.org. The worklist for April through June is available in Phabricator.
A test of VisualEditor's effect on new editors at the English Wikipedia has just completed the first phase. During this test, half of newly registered editors had VisualEditor automatically enabled, and half did not. The main goal of the study is to learn which group was more likely to save an edit and to make productive, unreverted edits. Initial results will be posted at Meta later this month.
Recent improvements
Auto-fill features for citations are available at a few Wikipedias through the citoid service. Citoid takes a URL or DOI for a reliable source, and returns a pre-filled, pre-formatted bibliographic citation. If Citoid is enabled on your wiki, then the design of the citation workflow changed during May. All citations are now created inside a single tool. Inside that tool, choose the tab you want (⧼citoid-citeFromIDDialog-mode-auto⧽, ⧼citoid-citeFromIDDialog-mode-manual⧽, or ⧼citoid-citeFromIDDialog-mode-reuse⧽). The cite button is now labeled with the word "⧼visualeditor-toolbar-cite-label⧽" rather than a book icon, and the autofill citation dialog now has a more meaningful label, "⧼Citoid-citeFromIDDialog-lookup-button⧽", for the submit button.
The link tool has been redesigned based on feedback from Wikipedia editors and user testing. It now has two separate sections: one for links to articles and one for external links. When you select a link, its pop-up context menu shows the name of the linked page, a thumbnail image from the linked page, Wikidata's description, and/or appropriate icons for disambiguation pages, redirect pages and empty pages. Search results have been reduced to the first five pages. Several bugs were fixed, including a dark highlight that appeared over the first match in the link inspector (T98085).
The special character inserter in VisualEditor now uses the same special character list as the wikitext editor. Admins at each wiki can also create a custom section for frequently used characters at the top of the list. Please read the instructions for customizing the list at mediawiki.org. Also, there is now a tooltip to describing each character in the special character inserter (T70425).
Several improvements have been made to templates. When you search for a template to insert, the list of results now contains descriptions of the templates. The parameter list inside the template dialog now remains open after inserting a parameter from the list, so that users don’t need to click on "⧼visualeditor-dialog-transclusion-add-param⧽" each time they want to add another parameter (T95696). The team added a new property for TemplateData, "Example", for template parameters. This optional, translatable property will show up when there is text describing how to use that parameter (T53049).
The design of the main toolbar and several other elements have changed slightly, to be consistent with the MediaWiki theme. In the Vector skin, individual items in the menu are separated visually by pale gray bars. Buttons and menus on the toolbar can now contain both an icon and a text label, rather than just one or the other. This new design feature is being used for the cite button on wikis where the Citoid service is enabled.
The team has released a long-desired improvement to the handling of non-existent images. If a non-existent image is linked in an article, then it is now visible in VisualEditor and can be selected, edited, replaced, or removed.
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Ping
Hi Adam,
I don't know how closely you’ve followed the research project about VisualEditor, but since they will be moving into the data analysis phase before long, I wanted to personally ask a few "regulars" at WP:VEF to let me know if they’d seen anything unusual during the last week or two. (It's been a while since you've posted much there, but you're still in the top 10 all-time editors at WP:VEF.) Anyway, if you've seen anything or have any thoughts on it, then please let me know. There's a thread open at Wikipedia:VisualEditor/Feedback#Test feedback if you want, or you can always leave a note at my talk page or send me e-mail. Thanks, Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 06:19, 7 June 2015 (UTC)
POTD notification
Hi Adam,
Just to let you know, the Featured Picture File:Strobridge & Co. Lith.- Ben-Hur - Klaw & Erlanger's Stupendous Production.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on June 30, 2015. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2015-06-30. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Chris Woodrich (talk) 23:59, 8 June 2015 (UTC)
Jeeves
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- You enjoy literary images; was wondering if you wanted a go at File:My-man-jeeves-1sr-edition.jpg. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 02:01, 9 June 2015 (UTC)
Good to see you back
I hope your downtime was restful, or fruitful, or both. Tony (talk) 08:16, 12 June 2015 (UTC)
A barnstar for you!
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Thank you for the support
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Ideas
Hi, Adam.
I saw your comment at VPPR, and it looks like you might not have finished. (You seemed to be starting a numbered list, but there’s only one item in it. ;-) Anyway, I thought you might like to know that they're working on a GuidedTour for VisualEditor (read up on it at phab:T89074 and phab:T101481). They're also currently working on some animated tutorials, like this one (a few other ideas listed at phab:T101211). If you've got more ideas, then leaving a note at WP:VEF or directly on the Phab tasks might be good. Thanks, Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 06:32, 20 June 2015 (UTC)
- Hi Adam, and thanks for the note. I'm dubious that experienced editors would accept yet another button cluttering up the upper right. Name, Echo, Talk, Sandbox, Prefs, Beta, Watchlist, Contributions, Log out (and the UTC clock for me) plus "Show/Hide VisualEditor" might be wider than some people's screens, especially if the screen is small and the fonts need to be large. The team has been looking at other options for asking editors if they want to opt-in, like a small pop-up note (try going to el:Special:Random – that might trigger the big pop-up that the Content Translation tool is using). It's complicated, though: if a notice is big enough (or bright enough, or whatever) to be noticed by most people, then it's big enough to be very annoying to some people. There are no options that are both "effective" and "unnoticeable". I've been thinking about another watchlist notice, or maybe a sitenotice (maybe one set to display only on 1% of page views or only once per account). I suppose that the current discussion is likely to have an unintended side effect as a sort of 'opt-in reminder', too.
- I've talked to the team in the past about help buttons, and the goal is to include in-context help where it's needed, and otherwise to omit it. You can see an example of this in the Media dialog. Add or edit an image, and then look for the (?) icons next to the caption and alt text fields. They have several tasks on their list related to this idea, and the Design Research team is testing different components to see which need help. However, in the study, the people who had VisualEditor were able to successfully make just as many unreverted edits as those who didn't, so there's no logical reason to delay access over these improvements. I also watched the usual on-wiki help forums during the test, and I saw no problems related to VisualEditor. If you have suggestions for specific places to add in-context help, then please leave a note with details at WP:VEF.
- There are plans to eventually integrate the editing environments, with the ability to switch back and forth at will. It'll look more like what they do in Mobile – first you open the editor, and then you switch to VisualEditor if/when you want to. (It's supposed to remember what you used for the last edit, so if you like VisualEditor, you won't have to switch every single time.) But this is a couple of years out.
- You can make links in VisualEditor without taking your hands off your keyboard. I made this link without taking my hands off the keyboard until I needed to click the final "Save" button. Control+⌥ Option+v opens VisualEditor. I typed the sentence, selected a word, and typed Control+⌥ Option+k to open the link tool (I'm told that 'k' matches the shortcut in Google Docs and Microsoft Office). I used arrow keys to select the link target, and ↵ Enter to close it. Control+⌥ Option+s opens the Save dialog, where I typed the edit summary. The only thing I can't do from the keyboard is click the final "Save" button – and that's planned at phab:T98105. Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 19:00, 20 June 2015 (UTC)
Carl Nielsen
Thanks, Adam, for taking an interest in this article and adding a new photograph of Carl Nielsen. Unfortunately it cannot be included until we have established its first date of publication. We went through a series of problems with photographs of Nielsen when the article was under examination for FA. I have in fact identified a number of early illustrated publications on Nielsen and will obtain them from the library when I return to Denmark in a couple of weeks time. Until then, I think it is safer to keep those that have been approved.--Ipigott (talk) 08:49, 20 June 2015 (UTC)
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POTD notification
Hi Adam,
Just to let you know, the Featured Picture File:Portrait of ASTP crews - restoration.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on July 15, 2015. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2015-07-15. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Chris Woodrich (talk) 00:56, 24 June 2015 (UTC)
FPs for FC
Hey Adam, I was just checking in to see whether you would be able to get the FPs done for FC this week -- we would like to publish in 24-36 hours or so. If you could let me know either way, that'd be great. Thanks -- Go Phightins! 03:00, 24 June 2015 (UTC)
POTD notification
Hi Adam,
Just to let you know, the Featured Picture File:Vertigomovie restoration.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on July 18, 2015. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2015-07-18. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Chris Woodrich (talk) 00:16, 27 June 2015 (UTC)
Spelling
This service is brought to you by Anal Pedants International Inc. -- Jack of Oz [pleasantries] 11:45, 28 June 2015 (UTC)
- @JackofOz: Dagnabbit, I'm usually better about that. Adam Cuerden (talk) 11:49, 28 June 2015 (UTC)
Help needed
Hi Adam, are you interested in helping out with this? Wikipedia:Labels/VE experiment edits Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 16:44, 28 June 2015 (UTC)
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- Thank you for your nomination and support for the kue jajan pasar image. I do really appreciate it, this is my first featured picture, terima kasih. Gunkarta talk 06:15, 30 June 2015 (UTC)
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Question
You've done an outstanding job on the restoration on the linking of the first transcontinental railroad image, and for that I owe you some thanks, however before I give it I have a question for you: since you are much better at locating and restoring images than I am, would you be interested in taking on another D&R nomination from me existing FP stock? TomStar81 (Talk) 19:54, 1 July 2015 (UTC)
- The image in question is File:USS Pennsylvania moving into Lingayen Gulf.jpg (my very first FPC success story, incidentally :) Nommed by me back in August of 2005, the photo is coming up on 10 years as an FP but is below the current size limit for FPs, and to complicate matters there are two versions floating around, the featured version and a derivative linked from the page that shows the radar mast (apparently that got altered due to WWII censorship). I'd like to get the current FP switched to the version with radar mast included, but unless a higher resolution photo with the radar mast can be located the only success I'd have at FPC would be obtaining consensus to delist and replace with File:USS PENNSYLVANIA and battleship of COLORADO class followed by three cruisers move in line into Lingayen Gulf... - NARA - 520627.tif, an image with the need resolution but in need of a little TLC. If you know where we might find a version with the need resolution and the radar mast it would be the jackpot, but I'd settle for the second linked image restored to have a classic image updated to to meet current FP guidelines. Can you help? TomStar81 (Talk) 05:37, 2 July 2015 (UTC)
- Here's the one with the radar mast. TomStar81 (Talk) 05:43, 2 July 2015 (UTC)
- I'll defer to your judgement on that one then, although I did notice (having finally looked closely at both versions) that every other ship in both photos save but for Pennsylvania (the lead ship) has radar masts regardless of which version is used. In either event, would it be possible to restore the hi-res version for a delist-and-replace FP nomination? I would like for this one to remain an FP, but to do that I need some help. TomStar81 (Talk) 03:43, 5 July 2015 (UTC)
- Here's the one with the radar mast. TomStar81 (Talk) 05:43, 2 July 2015 (UTC)
POTD notification
Hi Adam,
Just to let you know, the Featured Picture File:Henry Atwell Thomas - Franz von Suppé - Fatinitza.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on July 23, 2015. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2015-07-23. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Chris Woodrich (talk) 00:26, 4 July 2015 (UTC)
- Nice memories when seeing it on the Main page, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:59, 23 July 2015 (UTC)
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Image at Ray Charles discography
Hi, can you maybe tell me why the image is not working in the infobox at Ray Charles discography?
Thanks in advance, Coldbolt (talk) 19:10, 8 July 2015 (UTC)
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Could you close this for me? Armbrust The Homunculus 20:24, 10 July 2015 (UTC)
POTD notification
Hi Adam,
Just to let you know, the Featured Picture File:Bird's eye view of Detroit, Michigan, 1889 - . Calvert Lithographing Co..jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on July 30, 2015. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2015-07-30. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Chris Woodrich (talk) 00:26, 11 July 2015 (UTC)
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Signpost Featured Content
Hi, Adam,
I have been organizing the Signpost archives and have gotten through almost all 10 1/2 years of issues and I just wanted to say how beautiful the Featured Content page has become. If you look through older issues (Category:Wikipedia Signpost Featured content archives), you can see how the Featured Content page used to be a list of articles that had reached FA status and a few thumbnail images.
But now it is just visually gorgeous. I know it takes a lot of work and several editors each week to produce such a high quality article. But having seen what the page used to look like has just made me appreciate the current state of the page even more and I wanted to tell you that. Liz Read! Talk! 21:04, 14 July 2015 (UTC)
Family Quarrels
Adam, you may like the image I have included in this new article. Best, --Smerus (talk) 18:11, 15 July 2015 (UTC)
Fixing
Hey Adam,
While creating the FP nomination of Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Shrinika performing Abhinaya, I got missed something, the caption is not showing the direct link to the page, could you try fixing it ? I tried but again it was getting confused. DreamSparrow Chat 20:44, 15 July 2015 (UTC)
- Thank you so much. I have added the image to the article Abhinaya. How is it now ? DreamSparrow Chat 20:54, 15 July 2015 (UTC)
- Adam, kindly have a look at this. I have requested Criso also to check this out. Am not that confident but still, feel to keep, check it out once and either way comment please. DreamSparrow Chat 21:16, 15 July 2015 (UTC)
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FA review
Hi Adam,
A couple of weeks ago you posted a helpful image review at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Hu Zhengyan/archive1, for which I posted some requests for clarification. I hate to pester, but would you mind looking them over and replying? The review's been up for over a month now, and I'm concerned about it getting archived. Much obliged, Yunshui 雲水 08:20, 17 July 2015 (UTC)
- Hi Adam. Sorry to bother you again, but if you could at least find time to comment on the letter image at some point I'd be very grateful. Yunshui 雲水 09:32, 27 July 2015 (UTC)
- I don't know if you've seen this or not, but the article's now been promoted and the FA review closed. However, if you'd like to further discuss the images or help out in improving them, please do feel free to post to the talkpage there; I'd be glad of your help. Yunshui 雲水 08:47, 3 August 2015 (UTC)
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It's a nice thought to remember a friend, and it's very useful :-). Thanks! Dryopterisery (talk) 17:08, 19 July 2015 (UTC)
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[[:File:Archibald Standish Hartrick - Rudyard Kipling - Soldier Tales 18 - The Taking of Lungtungpen 1.jpg|thumb|100px|right|POTD]] [[:File:Archibald Standish Hartrick - Rudyard Kipling - Soldier Tales 19 - The Taking of Lungtungpen 2.jpg|thumb|100px|right|POTD]] Hi Adam,
Just to let you know, the Featured Pictures File:Archibald Standish Hartrick - Rudyard Kipling - Soldier Tales 18 - The Taking of Lungtungpen 1.jpg and File:Archibald Standish Hartrick - Rudyard Kipling - Soldier Tales 19 - The Taking of Lungtungpen 2.jpg are due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on August 8, 2015. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2015-08-08/1 and Template:POTD/2015-08-08/2. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Chris Woodrich (talk) 01:17, 20 July 2015 (UTC)
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The Bugle: Issue CXII, July 2015
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Could you close this delist nomination for me? (This isn't automated, it's enough if you do step 1. I can do the others, if you want.) Armbrust The Homunculus 13:13, 24 July 2015 (UTC)
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GV GA
Oops! Looks like we inadvertently clashed with our edits (at 06:58) - I will stand back now until you are through - many thanks for your care- best,--Smerus (talk) 07:22, 26 July 2015 (UTC)
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The relentless...
...march of technology! Sca (talk) 14:04, 30 July 2015 (UTC)
Summerhill
Hi Adam, I'm a big admirer of your restoration work. Do you take requests? I use File:SummerhillSchool.jpg in a whole lot of articles and it would be great to have it fixed up to FP quality. (I'm trying to secure a few more images of historic figures in alternative education too, if you'd be interested.) – czar 04:53, 31 July 2015 (UTC)
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Invitation to participate in an interview
Hi Adam, Ian Rose and I are hoping to run a group interview with some of the editors who have worked on military history-themed FPs in the next issue of The Bugle and we'd like to invite you to participate. If you have time, I'd appreciate it if you could post responses at Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/News/August 2015/Interview by 14 August. Please let me know if you have any questions. Regards, Nick-D (talk) 11:27, 2 August 2015 (UTC)
- Thanks a lot for your responses Adam Nick-D (talk) 00:24, 7 August 2015 (UTC)
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September and October Bugle
Hi Adam, Nick and I find what we'll both be travelling in September and October so was wondering if you'd be able to organise FPs for the Bugle for those months' issues. We should be able to organise the other parts of the Bugle through the MilHist coordinators but be great if you could handle FPs while we're away (of course happy for you to do them any time but September and October will be particularly helpful). Cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 05:55, 3 August 2015 (UTC)
- @Ian Rose: I should be able to. If nothing else, today marks the end of what was a very stressful waiting game, and I can't help but feel that, good or bad, I'll be better in a month from today than I've been in any of the three stressful months prior. Adam Cuerden (talk) 06:30, 3 August 2015 (UTC)
- That's great to hear, Adam -- on all counts! Cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 06:32, 3 August 2015 (UTC)
- Thanks also from me Adam Nick-D (talk) 08:41, 3 August 2015 (UTC)
- That's great to hear, Adam -- on all counts! Cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 06:32, 3 August 2015 (UTC)
LOUDER
Hi Adam. FYI, I found a bunch more audio files that are great except for audibility. Many of them have little or no static. However, instead of asking you or User:Graham87 to boost the volume, I did this. Cheers.Anythingyouwant (talk) 21:06, 3 August 2015 (UTC)
- In case you and/or User:Graham87 is interested, here's a link to updated information about this. Anythingyouwant (talk) 22:46, 3 August 2015 (UTC)
Louder but now in very bad quality
Hi Adam. Thank you for handling our audio files. The sound is louder but the quality has deteriorated massively by your edit (original 102 MB, your edit with 38 MB). You cannot use a standard filter program to edit sound of shellac discs, because 78 rpm records have no RIAA curve (the most filter programs uses RIAA or DECCA). The linear increase of the mid frequencies make the music louder, but reduces the quality drastically! We digitize all gramophone records without the use of any filtering software in studio quality with professional audio equipment in 24-Bit/192 kHz. Files which we have digitized before August 2014 we will replace in the next months with a file in better quality. Commons users are warmly welcome to improve the quality. Can you please upload a new file in better quality? Thank you for your cooperation. Pdproject (talk) 22:50, 4 August 2015 (CET) - more infos: Sound/list#Pdproject
- I know very little about restoring sound from old records. But I'm glad to learn. There's a Wikipedia article about it here. User:Pdproject, the original file that you uploaded to Wikimedia Commons is still available without any alterations, and Adam merely created a separate file. If Adam does as you have requested, and replaces the separate file with one that has 102 MB, will it sound better or worse to us, or will we not be able to tell the difference?
In any event, you will be replacing the original file with a better one soon, and so any improvement that Adam makes now in the separate file he created will become insufficient once you replace the original file?Cheers.Anythingyouwant (talk) 16:28, 5 August 2015 (UTC)- I have started a table here showing some very successful music restoration efforts here at Wikipedia. Adam, please feel free to add items to the list. Cheers.Anythingyouwant (talk) 17:27, 6 August 2015 (UTC)
- I know very little about restoring sound from old records. But I'm glad to learn. There's a Wikipedia article about it here. User:Pdproject, the original file that you uploaded to Wikimedia Commons is still available without any alterations, and Adam merely created a separate file. If Adam does as you have requested, and replaces the separate file with one that has 102 MB, will it sound better or worse to us, or will we not be able to tell the difference?
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Moving Burma to Myanmar - new 2015 poll
You participated in a Burma RM in the past so I'm informing you of another RM. I hope I didn't miss anyone. New move attempt of Burma>Myanmar Fyunck(click) (talk) 08:09, 7 August 2015 (UTC)
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Hi, Adam. Could you upload this one in full resolution to Commons? We currently have him from the same source, but this is noticeably cropped and the original seems to be absent. I've tried Dezoomify and View page info in Firefox, but neither worked for me. Brandmeistertalk 15:55, 13 August 2015 (UTC)
POTD notification
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Copyright
Adam,
This has come to my attention while searching for some interesting things about Idukki Dam. Am not sure, but I felt this must be a copyrighted property of some other people, kindly have a look. DreamSparrow Chat 13:51, 15 August 2015 (UTC)
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The Bugle: Issue CXIII, August 2015
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Could you check, whether this Gallica file has a higher resolution version than 1,024 × 1,540?
Regards, Armbrust The Homunculus 18:41, 23 August 2015 (UTC)
- @Armbrust: Most definitely. Adam Cuerden (talk) 05:37, 26 August 2015 (UTC)
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Adam, I'm giving you a hard time on the FAC, but only because I like the the article and think that while close it is not quite there yet. My sence is that with a little more it should do. Ceoil (talk) 08:11, 29 August 2015 (UTC)
Request for restoration
Adam, could you do one of your fine restoration jobs on File:Conestoga wagon on Oregon_Trail - NARA - 286056.jpg? I would be happy if you nominated it at FPC when you've finished. Thanks, --Pine✉ 16:47, 30 August 2015 (UTC)
Fairy
I was just going to ask if you'd had any time to do anything on that absinthe poster, but it looks like you are snowed under; do we have any other restorers that would be willing to do a restoration for a scantily clad beauty (not me; the poster model)? Belle (talk) 00:20, 1 September 2015 (UTC)
Siegfried
Adam, could you please give me your opinion as to whether File:Siegfried - Heinrich Gudehus.jpg qualifies for PD status? It seems to me to be unclear. Thanks and best regards, --Smerus (talk) 13:48, 1 September 2015 (UTC)
- Many thanks for helpful and incredibly speedy response. I'm trying to tidy up the individual Ring opera articles with a view maybe to GA/FA at some stage. At present they are not very well-written and they lean (too) heavily on Rackham for illustrations when I am sure there are many photos of historic productions around - as you've clearly demonstrated. The Paris set illustrations e.g. could be good. If you have time to sort out some good Ring photos over the near future I'd be very grateful. Also I'm seeking a good one for Lohengrin, where the infobox is currently using a snap from a not particularly special recent production. Best, --Smerus (talk) 16:42, 1 September 2015 (UTC)
WikiCup 2015 September newsletter
The finals for the 2015 Wikicup has now begun! Congrats to the 8 contestants who have survived to the finals, and well done and thanks to everyone who took part in rounds 3 and 4.
In round 3, we had a three-way tie for qualification among the wildcard contestants, so we had 34 competitors. The leader was by far 
Casliber (submissions) in Group B, who earned 1496 points. Although 913 of these points were bonus points, he submitted 15 articles in the DYK category. Second place overall was 
Coemgenus (submissions) at 864 points, who although submitted just 2 FAs for 400 points, earned double that amount for those articles in bonus points. Everyone who moved forward to Round 4 earned at least 100 points.
The scores required to move onto the semifinals were impressive; the lowest scorer to move onto the finals was 407, making this year's Wikicup as competitive as it's always been. Our finalists, ordered by round 4 score, are:
Cas Liber (submissions), who is competing in his sixth consecutive Wikicup final, again finished the round in first place, with an impressive 1666 points in Pool B. Casliber writes about the natural sciences, including ornithology, botany and astronomy. A large bulk of his points this round were bonus points.
Godot13 (submissions) (FP bonus points), second place both in Pool B and overall, earned the bulk of his points with FPs, mostly depicting currency.
Cwmhiraeth (submissions), first in Pool A, came in third. His specialty is natural science articles; in Round 4, he mostly submitted articles about insects and botany. Five out of the six of the GAs he submitted were level-4 vital articles.
Harrias (submissions), second in Pool A, took fourth overall. He tends to focus on articles about cricket and military history, specifically the 1640s First English Civil War.
West Virginian (submissions), from Pool A, was our highest-scoring wildcard. West Virginia tends to focus on articles about the history of (what for it!) the U.S. state of West Virginia.- Rodw (submissions), from Pool A, likes to work on articles about British geography and places. Most of his points this round were earned from two impressive accomplishments: a GT about Scheduled monuments in Somerset and a FT about English Heritage properties in Somerset.
Rationalobserver (submissions), from Pool B, came in seventh overall. RO earned the majority of her points from GARs and PRs, many of which were earned in the final hours of the round.
Calvin999 (submissions), also from Pool B, who was competing with RO for the final two spots in the final hours, takes the race for most GARs and PRs—48.
The intense competition between RO and Calvin999 will continue into the finals. They're both eligible for the Newcomers Trophy, given for the first time in the Wikicup; whoever makes the most points will win it.
Good luck to the finalists; the judges are sure that the competition will be fierce!
Figureskatingfan (talk · contribs), Miyagawa (talk · contribs) and Sturmvogel 66 (talk · contribs) 11:47, 2 September 2015 (UTC)
CSS crop for Götterdämmerung
I'm not a fan of the hard crop (which I learned from you). If this works for you, be my guest...--Godot13 (talk) 08:05, 5 September 2015 (UTC)
Question about Wikinews
hello Adam, I found my self in trouble on Wikinews. Now i found your article Proposal for closing of Wikinews. Especially i am interested on on Paragraph Wikinews_actively_drives_users_of. It kind of describes my situation. Do you have any experience there?--85.94.172.236 (talk) 16:03, 6 September 2015 (UTC)
POTD notification
Hi Adam,
Just to let you know, the Featured Picture File:Tomb of Bibi Jawindi.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on October 1, 2015. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2015-10-01. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Chris Woodrich (talk) 00:02, 7 September 2015 (UTC)
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FC
Hi Adam, since it looks like the regulars aren't available this week, I was asked to do FC. I hope you don't mind if I experiment a little in this one edition. Thanks and looking forward to your return. Tony (talk) 12:30, 8 September 2015 (UTC)
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The Bugle: Issue CXIV, September 2015
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Could you close this one for me? Regards, Armbrust The Homunculus 07:32, 29 September 2015 (UTC)
POTD notification (Agir)
Hi Adam,
Just to let you know, the Featured Picture File:S.M. Küstenpanzerschiff Ägir - restoration.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on October 15, 2015. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2015-10-15. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Chris Woodrich (talk) 00:28, 30 September 2015 (UTC)
ITN
FYI, I defended your honor here. Sca (talk) 15:49, 3 October 2015 (UTC)
- Sorry I missed the debate - I would have supported if I'd seen it in time. Though I doubt it would have made any difference. — An optimist on the run! (logged on as Pek the Penguin) 12:17, 5 October 2015 (UTC)
FLRC notification
I have nominated List of major opera composers for featured list removal here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets the featured list criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks; editors may declare to "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Giants2008 (Talk) 00:28, 4 October 2015 (UTC)
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- If you're looking for new ideas for restorations, check out commons:Category:Media contributed by KITLV. I just found it. Images like File:Hamengkoe Boewono VII, sultan van Jogjakarta, in uniform - Kassian Céphas - KITLV 10001.tif shouldn't be all that difficult. I wish I wasn't so busy with RL work; I'd leap in with both feet. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 14:10, 6 October 2015 (UTC)
VisualEditor update
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We don’t expect this to cause any glitches, but in case your account no longer has the settings that you want, please accept our apologies and correct it in the Editing tab of Special:Preferences. Thank you for your attention, Elitre (WMF) -16:32, 7 October 2015 (UTC)
Signpost FC
Hi, Adam,
I don't know if you are still like to work on the Signpost article on Featured Content but this week's edition has just been posted, if you would like to help with some descriptions or resizing photos: Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2015-10-07/Featured content. Thanks for your help! Liz Read! Talk! 16:35, 7 October 2015 (UTC)
ITN
I definitely agree with you that there are problems at ITN, especially with inconsistent criteria being applied to similar noms and then complete disregard towards others. I think we need input from more editors though, to fix it. We need to be actively trying to shape it to be the best it can be. – Muboshgu (talk) 02:35, 12 October 2015 (UTC)
The Bugle: Issue CXV, October 2015
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Hi, I would be much grateful if you could give your opinion about this. Regards, Yann (talk) 11:01, 21 October 2015 (UTC)
POTD notification
Hi Adam,
Just to let you know, the Featured Picture File:Moenitarri warrior in the costume of the dog danse 0056v.jpg is scheduled to be Picture of the Day on November 10, 2015. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2015-11-10. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Chris Woodrich (talk) 23:38, 22 October 2015 (UTC)
POTD notification
Hi Adam,
Just to let you know, the Featured Picture File:Irish WWI poster - Is Your Home Worth Fighting For? - Hely's Limited, Litho, Dublin.jpg is scheduled to be Picture of the Day on November 11, 2015. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2015-11-11. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Chris Woodrich (talk) 00:16, 24 October 2015 (UTC)
VisualEditor News #5—2015
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WikiCup 2015: The results
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WikiCup 2015 is now in the books! Congrats to our finalists and winners, and to everyone who took part in this year's competition.
This year's results were an exact replica of last year's competition. For the second year in a row, the 2015 WikiCup champion is 
Godot13 (submissions) (FP bonus points). All of his points were earned for an impressive 253 featured pictures and their associated bonus points (5060 and 1695, respectively). His entries constituted scans of currency from all over the world and scans of medallions awarded to participants of the U.S. Space program. 
Cwmhiraeth (submissions) came in second place; she earned by far the most bonus points (4082), for 4 featured articles, 15 good articles, and 147 DYKs, mostly about in her field of expertise, natural science. 
Cas Liber (submissions), a finalist every year since 2010, came in third, with 2379 points.
Our newcomer award, presented to the best-performing new competitor in the WikiCup, goes to 
Rationalobserver (submissions). Everyone should be very proud of the work they accomplished. We will announce our other award winners soon.
A full list of our award winners are:
- Godot13 (submissions) (FP bonus points) wins the prize for first place and the FP prize for 330 featured pictures in the final round.
- Cwmhiraeth (submissions) wins the prize for second place and the DYK prize for 160 did you knows in the final round (310 in all rounds).
- Cas Liber (submissions) wins the prize for third place and the FA prize for 26 featured articles in all rounds.
- West Virginian (submissions) wins the prize for fourth place
- Calvin999 (submissions) wins a final 8 prize.
- Rationalobserver (submissions) wins a final 8 prize.
- Harrias (submissions) wins a final 8 prize and the FL prize for 11 featured lists.
- Rodw (submissions) wins the most prizes: a final 8 prize, the GA prize for 41 good articles, and the topic prize for a 13-article good topic and an 8-article featured topic, both in round 3.
ThaddeusB (submissions) wins the news prize for the most news articles in round 3.
We warmly invite all of you to sign up for next year's competition. Discussions and polls concerning potential rules changes are also open, and all are welcome to participate. The WikiCup judges will be back in touch over the coming months, and we hope to see you all in the 2016 competition. Until then, it only remains to once again congratulate our worthy winners, and thank all participants for their involvement! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send.
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Restoration question
Hi Adam, about your proposed replacement on FP nom. of Nikola Tesla, [1]. I am wondering if you want to restore it? If you are not particularly interested, I am interested in restoring it, hopefully with your input and feedback on the restoration. FYI, I use GIMP and I have more to learn about restoring images. Hopefully the final result will be good. And if you want to restore it, I understand, you have my FP support vote in advance. Bammesk (talk) 03:26, 12 November 2015 (UTC)
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Hi Adam,
Just to let you know, the Featured Picture File:S.M. kleiner kreuzer Gefion - restoration, borderless.jpg is scheduled to be Picture of the Day on November 30, 2015. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2015-11-30. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Chris Woodrich (talk) 23:38, 12 November 2015 (UTC)
JSTOR cleanup drive
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The Bugle: Issue CXVI, November 2015
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POTD notification
Hi Adam,
Just to let you know, the Featured Picture File:Noel Coward Allan warren edit 1.jpg is scheduled to be Picture of the Day on December 16, 2015. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2015-12-16. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Chris Woodrich (talk) 23:24, 27 November 2015 (UTC)
POTD notification
Hi Adam,
Just to let you know, the Featured Picture File:S.M. Küstenpanzerschiff Odin im Salut - restoration.jpg is scheduled to be Picture of the Day on December 19, 2015. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2015-12-19. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Chris Woodrich (talk) 00:31, 1 December 2015 (UTC)
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Adam, what's up with the feral kitten? – Sca (talk) 14:21, 15 December 2015 (UTC)
A barnstar for you!
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POTD notification
Hi Adam,
Just to let you know, the Featured Picture File:S.M. Linienschiff Kurfürst Friedrich Wilhelm - restoration, border removed.jpg is scheduled to be Picture of the Day on January 4, 2016. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2016-01-04. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Chris Woodrich (talk) 23:38, 16 December 2015 (UTC)
POTD notification
Hi Adam,
Just to let you know, the Featured Picture File:Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn - Jeremia treurend over de verwoesting van Jeruzalem - Google Art Project.jpg is scheduled to be Picture of the Day on January 5, 2016. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2016-01-05. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Chris Woodrich (talk) 23:38, 16 December 2015 (UTC)
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WikiCup 2016 is just around the corner...
Hello everyone, and we would like to wish you all a happy holiday season. As you will probably already know, the 2016 WikiCup begins in the new year; there is still time to sign up. There are some changes we'd like to announce before the competition begins.
After two years of serving as WikiCup judge, User:Miyagawa has stepped down as judge. He deserves great thanks and recognition for his dedication and hard work, and for providing necessary transition for a new group of judges in last year's Cup. Joining Christine (User:Figureskatingfan) and Jason (User:Sturmvogel 66) is Andrew (User:Godot13), a very successful WikiCup competitor and expert in Featured Pictures; he won the two previous competitions. This is a strong judging team, and we anticipate lots of enjoyment and good work coming from our 2016 competitors.
We would also like to announce one change in how this year's WikiCup will be run. In the spirit of sportsmanship, Godot13 and Cwmhiraeth have chosen to limit their participation. See here for the announcement and a complete explanation of why. They and the judges feel that it will make for a more exciting, enjoyable, and productive competition.
The discussions/polls concerning the next competition's rules will be closed soon, and rules changes will be made clear on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Scoring and talk pages. The judges are committed to not repeating the confusion that occurred last year and to ensuring that the new rules are both fair and in the best interests of the competition, which is, first and foremost, about improving Wikipedia.
If you have any questions or concerns, the judges can be reached on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, on their talk pages, or by email. We hope you will all join us in trying to make the 2015 WikiCup the most productive and enjoyable yet. You are receiving this message because you are listed on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Sturmvogel 66 (talk), Figureskatingfan (talk), and Godot13 (talk).--MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 06:46, 22 December 2015 (UTC)
Wonderful holidays
Merry Christmas and a happy New Year! --Tremonist (talk) 15:20, 23 December 2015 (UTC)
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Could you close this for me? Regards, Armbrust The Homunculus 22:46, 24 December 2015 (UTC)
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THIS is the unsourced stub you chose to take to AFD. As truly decent sources were plentiful and as notability is determined through sources available, even if not used and even though improving was not required, I took a few of the many and addressed issues thusly.... taking the 1927 characters (320 words) start-class-needing-work and turned it into a quite decent and well-sourced 6872 characters (1112 words) B-class article... a 3x expansion.. Might you care to defend your strange assertion that there was only a "bare smattering of coverage"
over at the AFD? Thanks, Schmidt, Michael Q. 20:16, 30 December 2015 (UTC)
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Notability and reliability
Hi Adam, hope your 2016 is beginning well.
Your idea that topics must have "notable sources" in order to be proven notable makes sense, but if you think about it it would run into problems.
For example, say I wanted to write about a topic, like "dogs". "Notable" means "has received significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject". Suppose we changed "reliable" to "notable". I found two books, What are Dogs? by Adams, and Canid Evolution, by Birch, which discussed dogs. If I had to prove those sources were themselves notable (not just reliable), I'd need to find two notable sources discussing What are Dogs? by Adams and two notable sources discussing Canid Evolution by Birch. Say I did find two sources discussing the first book. Well, then I'd just have to prove that they were notable in turn, meaning that they had been discussed by two notable sources.... the cycle would never end. That's why we rely on things like WP:Identifying reliable sources to decide that, if a source has been published in a peer-reviewed journal or published by a reputable academic publisher, it's reliable enough, and we don't have to go hunting down other people's reviews of the source. FourViolas (talk) 13:28, 4 January 2016 (UTC)
- @FourViolas: Not asking it to descend all the way down. But neologisms are surely a special case, especially as the question we're asking is "Has the neologism gained independent notability from the book?" - no-one doubts the book is notable, it's whether the term it created is. And that, surely, deserves higher standards. I don't want to trivialise Joy's work - it seems a useful analysis, hence why there's lots of summaries of it - so, if you'll forgive jumping to fiction, take, say, terms created for a fantasy book like hobbit and Nazgul. Those kind of things need much better sources to spin off. We can't have articles on every term created by any notable book, we need to establish the term has notability independent of the book, and that needs notable sources. Adam Cuerden (talk) 16:36, 4 January 2016 (UTC)
- Okay, I think I see where you're coming from now. There needs to be particularly strong evidence to show that two articles should exist, one on the book that introduced the idea and one on the idea. But WP:NEO deals with that, and it doesn't say anything about "notable sources". As you pointed out [2], sources which happen to be notable themselves are not necessarily useful sources for encyclopedic coverage.
- It comes down to the same question as before: does significant, reliable, independent coverage exist about the idea that is not simply about the book? This is the key, and it's a subjective question on which we disagree. We'll see what consensus decides. Thanks for being willing to discuss! FourViolas (talk) 17:28, 4 January 2016 (UTC)
- (ec) Adam, this may all make sense to you (it sounds pretty arbitrary to me, but that's not the point), but it does not correspond to any guideline or policy that I know of, and quite clearly goes against the explanation of what notability is (and what it is for) at WP:NOTE. Josh Milburn (talk) 17:37, 4 January 2016 (UTC)
- Question for you, one restorer to another: think it's worth the trouble of going through the whole book, or just cleaning up that (really messy) cover? — Chris Woodrich (talk) 14:10, 5 January 2016 (UTC)
Request for trwiki
Hey Adam, hope all is fine since we last talked. We have a request for trwiki if you would be interested. Could you check your message page there? İyivikiler... ho? ni! 06:30, 6 January 2016 (UTC)