User talk:1AmNobody24
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Hello! I have been working on List of United States tornadoes pages. For the tornado ratings, I don't know how to put, or change the color. If you know and could tell me that would be great. Thank you. --TBFmars (talk) 19:59, 1 May 2024 (UTC)
- Hi @TBFmars, The colors in the wikitables are invoked from Module:Storm categories using
background-color:#{{#invoke:Storm categories|color|Example color}}
The colors available are found at Module:Storm categories#Full list of available values. I hope this helps. Nobody (talk) 05:19, 2 May 2024 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – May 2024[edit]
News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2024).
- Phase I of the 2024 requests for adminship review has concluded. Several proposals have passed outright and will proceed to implementation, including creating a discussion-only period (3b) and administrator elections (13) on a trial basis. Other successful proposals, such as creating a reminder of civility norms (2), will undergo further refinement in Phase II. Proposals passed on a trial basis will be discussed in Phase II, after their trials conclude. Further details on specific proposals can be found in the full report.
- Partial action blocks are now in effect on the English Wikipedia. This means that administrators have the ability to restrict users from certain actions, including uploading files, moving pages and files, creating new pages, and sending thanks. T280531
- The arbitration case Conflict of interest management has been closed.
- This may be a good time to reach out to potential nominees to ask if they would consider an RfA.
- A New Pages Patrol backlog drive is happening in May 2024 to reduce the number of unreviewed articles in the new pages feed. Currently, there is a backlog of over 15,000 articles awaiting review. Sign up here to participate!
- Voting for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) election is open until 9 May 2024. Read the voting page on Meta-Wiki and cast your vote here!
Reminder to vote now to select members of the first U4C[edit]
- You can find this message translated into additional languages on Meta-wiki. Please help translate to other languages.
Dear Wikimedian,
You are receiving this message because you previously participated in the UCoC process.
This is a reminder that the voting period for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) ends on May 9, 2024. Read the information on the voting page on Meta-wiki to learn more about voting and voter eligibility.
The Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) is a global group dedicated to providing an equitable and consistent implementation of the UCoC. Community members were invited to submit their applications for the U4C. For more information and the responsibilities of the U4C, please review the U4C Charter.
Please share this message with members of your community so they can participate as well.
On behalf of the UCoC project team,
RamzyM (WMF) 23:17, 2 May 2024 (UTC)
Question from Naila mansoor on User:Naila mansoor (16:36, 3 May 2024)[edit]
H --Naila mansoor (talk) 16:36, 3 May 2024 (UTC)
Question from FAY RXDEROSE (21:32, 3 May 2024)[edit]
Hi.So how do you edit? --FAY RXDEROSE (talk) 21:32, 3 May 2024 (UTC)
- Hi @FAY RXDEROSE, You can learn about editing here and here. Nobody (talk) 07:36, 4 May 2024 (UTC)
RFA2024 update: phase I concluded, phase II begins[edit]
Hi there! Phase I of the Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/2024 review has concluded, with several impactful changes gaining community consensus and proceeding to various stages of implementation. Some proposals will be implemented in full outright; others will be discussed at phase II before being implemented; and still others will proceed on a trial basis before being brought to phase II. The following proposals have gained consensus:
- Proposals 2 and 9b (phase II discussion): Add a reminder of civility norms at RfA and Require links for claims of specific policy violations
- Proposal 3b (in trial): Make the first two days discussion-only
- Proposal 13 (in trial): Admin elections
- Proposal 14 (implemented): Suffrage requirements
- Proposals 16 and 16c (phase II discussion): Allow the community to initiate recall RfAs and Community recall process based on dewiki
- Proposal 17 (phase II discussion): Have named Admins/crats to monitor infractions
- Proposal 24 (phase II discussion): Provide better mentoring for becoming an admin and the RfA process
- Proposal 25 (implemented): Require nominees to be extended confirmed
See the project page for a full list of proposals and their outcomes. A huge thank-you to everyone who has participated so far :) looking forward to seeing lots of hard work become a reality in phase II. theleekycauldron (talk), via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 08:08, 5 May 2024 (UTC)
Question from BentNative on File:Kyle Bent.jpg (23:34, 5 May 2024)[edit]
I am being told I need to first upload a picture in order to edit this page of myself. I am a music artist/rapper but under my description it has “American raper” 😬 definitely need that fixed. What would I need to do? --BentNative (talk) 23:34, 5 May 2024 (UTC)
- Fixed.--Bbb23 (talk) 00:19, 6 May 2024 (UTC)
- Hi @BentNative, Bbb23 has fixed the Image for you. If you plan on writing an article about yourself, I recommend reading Wikipedia:Autobiography first. Nobody (talk) 05:13, 6 May 2024 (UTC)
- Thanks BentNative (talk) 14:30, 6 May 2024 (UTC)
Tech News: 2024-19[edit]
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- The appearance of talk pages changed for all wikis, except for Commons, Wikidata and most Wikipedias (a few have already received this design change). You can read the detail of the changes on Diff. It is possible to opt-out these changes in user preferences ("Show discussion activity"). The deployment will happen at remaining wikis in the coming weeks. [1][2]
- Interface admins now have greater control over the styling of article components on mobile with the introduction of the
SiteAdminHelper
. More information on how styles can be disabled can be found at the extension's page. [3] - Wikimedia Enterprise has added article body sections in JSON format and a curated short description field to the existing parsed Infobox. This expansion to the API is also available via Wikimedia Cloud Services. [4]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 May. It will be on all wikis from 9 May (calendar). [5][6]
- When you look at the Special:Log page, the first view is labelled "All public logs", but it only shows some logs. This label will now say "Main public logs". [7]
Future changes
- A new service will be built to replace Extension:Graph. Details can be found in the latest update regarding this extension.
- Starting May 21, English Wikipedia and German Wikipedia will get the possibility to activate "Add a link". This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to all Wikipedias. These communities can activate and configure the feature locally. [8]
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MediaWiki message delivery 16:41, 6 May 2024 (UTC)
Question from Alliemeetsfungi (22:32, 6 May 2024)[edit]
Aloha, why do i keep getting blocked from publishing? --Alliemeetsfungi (talk) 22:32, 6 May 2024 (UTC)
- (talk page watcher) @Alliemeetsfungi: You should be able to make the edit now; if you don't have it saved somewhere, let us know, and we'll help you recover it. Suffusion of Yellow (talk) 23:03, 6 May 2024 (UTC)
Question from Smartschaser (07:54, 11 May 2024)[edit]
Hello how do you edit --Smartschaser (talk) 07:54, 11 May 2024 (UTC)
- Hi @Smartschaser, see here to learn about editing. Nobody (talk) 14:42, 11 May 2024 (UTC)
Question from Kittykatty73 (13:46, 11 May 2024)[edit]
Why is the Aboriginal Flag is not noted by Google as an independent race --Kittykatty73 (talk) 13:46, 11 May 2024 (UTC)
- Hi @Kittykatty73, I can't tell you why Google does that, but you can learn more about Aboriginal Australians here. Nobody (talk) 14:47, 11 May 2024 (UTC)
Tech News: 2024-20[edit]
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- On Wikisource there is a special page listing pages of works without corresponding scan images. Now you can use the new magic word
__EXPECTWITHOUTSCANS__
to exclude certain pages (list of editions or translations of works) from that list. [9] - If you use the user-preference "Show preview without reloading the page", then the template-page feature "Preview page with this template (what's this?)" will now also work without reloading the page. [10]
- Kartographer maps can now specify an alternative text via the
alt=
attribute. This is identical in usage to thealt=
attribute in the image and gallery syntax. An exception for this feature is wikis like Wikivoyage where the miniature maps are interactive. [11] - The old Guided Tour for the "New Filters for Edit Review" feature has been removed. It was created in 2017 to show people with older accounts how the interface had changed, and has now been seen by most of the intended people. [12]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 May. It will be on all wikis from 16 May (calendar). [13][14]
- The Special:Search results page will now use CSS flex attributes, for better accessibility, instead of a table. If you have a gadget or script that adjusts search results, you should update your script to the new HTML structure. [15]
Future changes
- In the Vector 2022 skin, main pages will be displayed at full width (like special pages). The goal is to keep the number of characters per line large enough. This is related to the coming changes to typography in Vector 2022. Learn more. [16]
- Two columns of the
pagelinks
database table (pl_namespace
andpl_title
) are being dropped soon. Users must use two columns of the newlinktarget
table instead (lt_namespace
andlt_title
). In your existing SQL queries:- Replace
JOIN pagelinks
withJOIN linktarget
andpl_
withlt_
in theON
statement - Below that add
JOIN pagelinks ON lt_id = pl_target_id
- See phab:T222224 for technical reasoning. [17][18]
- Replace
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MediaWiki message delivery 23:56, 13 May 2024 (UTC)
Question from TeardropGames (17:07, 14 May 2024)[edit]
Hello! How do I make my own article? --TeardropGames (talk) 17:07, 14 May 2024 (UTC)
- Hi, you can learn about creating an article at Help:Your first article. But you should know that creating an article about your company or products is strongly discouraged. The reasons for that can be found at Wikipedia:Conflict of interest. There's also your username that is currently against the Wikipedia:Username policy and part of the reason you're blocked right now. Nobody (talk) 05:23, 15 May 2024 (UTC)
Question from Atazy on Canada-Israel Committee (17:44, 14 May 2024)[edit]
How do I add some articles --Atazy (talk) 17:44, 14 May 2024 (UTC)
- Hi Atazy, if you mean creating a new article then Help:Your first article is the place for help. If you mean adding internaö links to an article you can check Help:Wikilinks. If you mean article as a reference you can check Help:Referencing for beginners. Nobody (talk) 05:26, 15 May 2024 (UTC)
Question from JulesJDT on Wikipedia:External links (21:51, 15 May 2024)[edit]
Arlene Harris would like me to remove a link (reference) that includes her Mother's maiden name. Can I delete it? Also there are many references that are no longer found. Can they be deleted? Her page was most likely made about 50 years ago. The same is true for Martin Cooper. Many links are no longer found. Arlene Harris inventor and Martin Cooper Inventor. --JulesJDT (talk) 21:51, 15 May 2024 (UTC)
- Hi JulesJDT, If you want to remove that reference you have to replace it with a different one that has the articles information sourced from the reference. We also don't delete links just because they're not available anymore, see Wikipedia:Link rot to learn more about that. Her article was created October 25, 2011, not 50 years ago. Nobody (talk) 05:49, 16 May 2024 (UTC)
The Signpost: 16 May 2024[edit]
- News and notes: Democracy in action: multiple elections
- Special report: Will the new RfA reform come to the rescue of administrators?
- Arbitration report: Ruined temples for posterity to ponder over – arbitration from '22 to '24
- Comix: Generations
- Traffic report: Crawl out through the fallout, baby
Review request[edit]
Hello @1AmNobody24:, could you review Draft:Battle of Gochouri and Draft:Battle of Akhaltsikhe (1444) articles? Thank you 179.6.7.67 (talk) 23:08, 18 May 2024 (UTC)
- Hi 179.6.7.67, thanks for the request. I took a look at the drafts and while they look good to me, I sadly don't know enough about military history articles to say if the drafts are good. Nobody (talk) 05:28, 19 May 2024 (UTC)
Question from EllaWikiMagi (01:23, 19 May 2024)[edit]
Hi! I am trying to publish a friend's profile on wikipedia. How do i do this? --EllaWikiMagi (talk) 01:23, 19 May 2024 (UTC)
- Hi @EllaWikiMagi, at this point following the advice from Drm310 on your talk page is your best chance of staying here. Nobody (talk) 05:28, 19 May 2024 (UTC)
Question from Staffscribbles (05:07, 20 May 2024)[edit]
Hi 1AmNobody24! I'm currently in the process of writing an article about a Swedish jazz fusion band called Hawk on Flight. The draft for the article (WIP) is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Hawk_on_Flight. Before making an account, I wrote this article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scope_(Dutch_band) . Since I'm still confused about references and sources, I would like to ask a bunch of things:
- I've been told that album releases need to have references. What sources could I use for that? In this case, would using the record label's website as a source be considered acceptable?
- Is it possible to use YouTube videos as references for TV broadcasts? Even though I used proper sources to justify other broadcasts related to the band, there's some 1981 footage of them playing one of their compositions, which at the time hadn't been released. This video seems to have been recoded from Norwegian TV, but I can't find any Norwegian articles that mention this.
- Aside from the sources that I've already used, do you have any recommendations? I can't find any way to access Swedish newspaper/magazine scans, even after having signed up to the waiting list for the Swedish Wikipedia's Mediearkivet page.
Please have in mind that most of the article still lacks references, which I need to justify many of the things I wrote. Thanks in advance. --Staffscribbles (talk) 05:07, 20 May 2024 (UTC)
- Hi Staffscribbles, the quality of sources is determined by their reliability. The record labels website can be considered reliable for the album releases, so would be past chart rankings if the albums made it. Youtube videos are generally considered not reliable (RSPYT). The problem with the lack of sources of the TV broadcasts can sometimes be explained due to lacking notability. As for other sources: CDs can be added as a sources using {{Cite AV media}} and Offline sources in general are probably the best way. Nobody (talk) 06:50, 20 May 2024 (UTC)
- Thanks! I removed the 1981 broadcast from the article and included record label websites, but I still have some questions to ask:
- - Many of the record labels mentioned in the article are defunct, and most of the ones that are not tend to omit any mention of the band in their websites for no apparent reason. Having this in mind, I might have to resort to using offine sources to prove the existence of the albums. How could I handle referencing them? The article that explains it is a bit vague, and since most people on Wikipedia might not have a physical copy of those CDs/vinyls - myself included - the odds of my article getting rejected could be higher.
- - What sources could I use to justify claims that are mainly related to musical styles? The Norwegian sources I used for references outside of TV broadcasts are all from the early 80s and don't offer an in-depth description of the group's musical style at the time. Of course, Norwegian newspapers past this period rarely mention the band, since Haakon Graf, the only Norwegian member, left the group in 1982. Like I've previously said, I don't have access to Swedish newspapers and magazines to look for reviews, which I'd need to justify claims such as "This album has a style closer to jazz as well as a more accessible sound featuring typical timbres found in 80s music, such as Yamaha's DX7 synthesizer".
- - Are there any issues with my current references? I would appreciate some feedback.
- If there's anything else you would like to point out about the article in its current state, feel free to tell me. Staffscribbles (talk) 17:43, 20 May 2024 (UTC)
- - Using offline sources for uncontroversial things will most likely not be challenged. But it's true that some won't count towards the notability requirements (Notability, NMUSIC), which is the reason most drafts are rejected.
- I also don't know how those are normally referenced. You could ask for help at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Musicians or at the Help desk as they probably have some better advice for you.
- The current sources are quite good, especially the newspapers. If you have time you could add|quote=
and|trans-quote=
to some (not all, only the most important ones, due to copyright concerns) as it would make it easier for non-swedish speaking users to verify the information from them (See Cite_news#Quote on how to use them)
Be sure that all information in the Lead and infobox is referenced somewhere in the article. If you know all the Members years when they joined and left you could add a Timeline in the article (Example: HammerFall). Nobody (talk) 06:04, 21 May 2024 (UTC)
- - Using offline sources for uncontroversial things will most likely not be challenged. But it's true that some won't count towards the notability requirements (Notability, NMUSIC), which is the reason most drafts are rejected.
Tech News: 2024-21[edit]
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- The Nuke feature, which enables administrators to mass delete pages, will now correctly delete pages which were moved to another title. [19]
- New changes have been made to the UploadWizard in Wikimedia Commons: the overall layout has been improved, by following new styling and spacing for the form and its fields; the headers and helper text for each of the fields was changed; the Caption field is now a required field, and there is an option for users to copy their caption into the media description. [20][21]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 May. It will be on all wikis from 23 May (calendar). [22][23]
- The HTML used to render all headings is being changed to improve accessibility. It will change on 22 May in some skins (Timeless, Modern, CologneBlue, Nostalgia, and Monobook). Please test gadgets on your wiki on these skins and report any related problems so that they can be resolved before this change is made in all other skins. The developers are also considering the introduction of a Gadget API for adding buttons to section titles if that would be helpful to tool creators, and would appreciate any input you have on that.
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MediaWiki message delivery 23:01, 20 May 2024 (UTC)
Question from Volkankorkusuz (19:38, 22 May 2024)[edit]
how can i submit an article --Volkankorkusuz (talk) 19:38, 22 May 2024 (UTC)
- Hi @Volkankorkusuz, You can submit a draft by pressing the big blue Submit button. Your draft however needs to follow our policies if you want it to be accepted. Nobody (talk) 05:08, 23 May 2024 (UTC)
Hello. Is there a place to get all the rules in editing? How do you put in a reference when replacing one vs adding a new reference? --JulesJDT (talk) 21:11, 22 May 2024 (UTC)
- Hi @JulesJDT, You can take a look at Policies and guidelines and the Wikipedia:Manual of Style to learn about the rules. You can see how the reference needs to look at Cite web. Nobody (talk) 05:12, 23 May 2024 (UTC)
Question from Jaden21.10 (00:09, 23 May 2024)[edit]
Hey, I have a question how does Wikipedia get new articles? Is there a way for any user to put a new article on the site or is it strictly determined through some algorithm? Also if I might ask what this algorithm is. --Jaden21.10 (talk) 00:09, 23 May 2024 (UTC)
- Hey I managed to resolve my matter so I'll change my question to format. Do I need a specific format can I use something like MLA format or do I need the format that seems to be the Wikipedia format? --Jaden21.10 (talk) 00:24, 23 May 2024 (UTC)
- Hi @Jaden21.10, You can learn about that at MOS:LAYOUT. Also know that everything must be sourced and unsourced additions are likely to be deleted. Nobody (talk) 05:16, 23 May 2024 (UTC)