User talk:Ferien/Archives/2021/August

Ban request

Can you please ban 2A02:21B0:644C:4E63:CC52:DFFF:FE40:8D38. He is vandalising categories constantly! Thegameshowlad (talk) 10:00, 1 August 2021 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) @Thegameshowlad: Please use our existing processes and make this kind of request at WP:VIP. In addition, an admin cannot unilaterally ban a user. Bans are done by community discussion. --Auntof6 (talk) 10:37, 1 August 2021 (UTC)

Wikipedia translation of the week: 2021-31

The winner this Translation of the week is en:Abstract photography Please be bold and help translate this article! Abstract photography, sometimes called non-objective, experimental or conceptual photography, is a means of depicting a visual image that does not have an immediate association with the object world and that has been created through the use of photographic equipment, processes or materials. An abstract photograph may isolate a fragment of a natural scene in order to remove its inherent context from the viewer, it may be purposely staged to create a seemingly unreal appearance from real objects, or it may involve the use of color, light, shadow, texture, shape and/or form to convey a feeling, sensation or impression. The image may be produced using traditional photographic equipment like a camera, darkroom or computer, or it may be created without using a camera by directly manipulating film, paper or other photographic media, including digital presentations. (Please update the interwiki links on Wikidata of your language version of the article after each week's translation is finished so that all languages are linked to each other.) About · Nominate/Review · Subscribe/Unsubscribe · Global message delivery 01:28, 2 August 2021 (UTC)

Talk page protection

May I have talk page protection please? Being vandalised by Ljupco. SHB2000 (talk) 10:35, 2 August 2021 (UTC)

@SHB2000: Done by Bsadowski1, I'm currently away so apologies for replying later than I usually would. --Ferien2 (talk) 13:42, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-31

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

• If your wiki uses markup like <div class="mw-content-ltr"> or <div class="mw-content-rtl"> without the required dir attribute, then these will no longer work in 2 weeks. There is a short-term fix that can be added to your local wiki's Common.css page, which is explained at T287701. From now on, all usages should include the full attributes, for example: <div class="mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr" lang="en"> or <div class="mw-content-rtl" dir="rtl" lang="he">. This also applies to some other HTML tags, such as span or code. You can find existing examples on your wiki that need to be updated, using the instructions at T287701.
• Reminder: Wikimedia has migrated to the Libera Chat IRC network, from the old Freenode network. Local documentation should be updated.

Problems

• Last week, all wikis had slow access or no access for 30 minutes. There was a problem with generating dynamic lists of articles on the Russian Wikinews, due to the bulk import of 200,000+ new articles over 3 days, which led to database problems. The problematic feature has been disabled on that wiki and developers are discussing if it can be fixed properly. [1][2]

Changes later this week

• When adding links to a page using VisualEditor or the 2017 wikitext editor, disambiguation pages will now only appear at the bottom of search results. This is because users do not often want to link to disambiguation pages. [3]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 3 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 4 August. It will be on all wikis from 5 August (calendar).

Future changes

• The team of the Wikipedia app for Android is working on communication in the app. The developers are working on how to talk to other editors and get notifications. You can read more. They are looking for users who want to test the plans. Any editor who has an Android phone and is willing to download the app can do this.
• The Beta Feature for Discussion tools will be updated in the coming weeks. You will be able to subscribe to individual sections on a talk page at more wikis. You can test this now by adding ?dtenable=1 to the end of the talk page's URL (example).

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20:47, 2 August 2021 (UTC)

My talk page

Hi Ferien, could you please temporarily protect my talk page and the talk page of Thegameshowlad due to vandalism from IP's? Thanks, Hockeycatcat (talk) 11:38, 5 August 2021 (UTC)

Hi Hockeycatcat, the vandalism seems to have stopped now but I'll keep an eye on your talk page and if more vandalism continues I'll temporarily protect it. --Ferien2 (talk) 11:57, 6 August 2021 (UTC)

@Ferien: Thank you Ferien, I panic quite easily when a page is vandalised a lot in a short amount of time! Cheers, Hockeycatcat (talk) 08:25, 7 August 2021 (UTC)

@Hockeycatcat: It's understandable, that editor can be frustrating. --Ferien (talk) 19:09, 7 August 2021 (UTC)

Hi Ferien, It’s happening again, could you please protect my talk page? Sorry. Cheers, Hockeycatcat (talk) 03:45, 8 August 2021 (UTC) Hockeycatcat (talk) 03:45, 8 August 2021 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) @Hockeycatcat It might be better to post at WP:AN that way any admin can help you. PDL^{Talk to me!}_{OMG, What have I done?} (Pronouns: He, him, his) 04:03, 8 August 2021 (UTC)

@PotsdamLamb: Sorry, I will do that next time. I went straight to Ferien as I see them as a trusted person. Cheers, Hockeycatcat (talk) 08:38, 8 August 2021 (UTC)

@Hockeycatcat I don’t know about that. I mean he did get admin then took a 2 week holiday lol! Yeah usually you can get a pretty fast response by posting on the admin board and the vip board WP:VIP. Or just post a couple hundred times like the bot did about him not signing lol PDL^{Talk to me!}_{OMG, What have I done?} (Pronouns: He, him, his) 08:41, 8 August 2021 (UTC)

@Hockeycatcat: It's ok to post protection requests to my talk page, just you'll likely get a quicker response on AN. Regards, --Ferien (talk) 08:41, 8 August 2021 (UTC)

Looks like you've got a copycat

Nothing too important, but this gave me a little bit of a laugh. SHB2000 (talk) 13:35, 5 August 2021 (UTC)

SHB2000, maybe they are trying to avoid being caught if they want to do something unacceptable, to the wiki. Not sure though. ~ Hulged (talk) 13:38, 5 August 2021 (UTC)

Copycats on userpages aren't unusual though. Often newbies copy my English Wikivoyage page all the time/ SHB2000 (talk) 13:40, 5 August 2021 (UTC)

Hmm, interesting. The only other time someone ever copied my user page was when a user was copying everything – and I mean everything – I did on this Wikipedia. Editing the exact same pages as/doing similar work to me, from my first edit... --Ferien (talk) 19:30, 7 August 2021 (UTC)

Please remember to sign when you leave messages

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Please remember to sign when you leave messages

Hello and welcome to Wikipedia! Just in case you didn't know, when you post messages on talkpages and Wikipedia pages, you should sign your posts by typing four tildes ("~~~~") at the end of your message. You can also click on the signature button ( or ), located in the edit toolbar, which is above the change window. This will put a signature containing your user name or IP address and the time you posted the message. This information is useful because other users will be able to tell who said what, and when. Pages that may require a signature, such as User talk:107.196.208.135, User talk:195.74.154.217, User talk:83.233.110.228. Thank you for your participation. --Cewbot (talk) 20:28, 7 August 2021 (UTC)

Please remember to sign when you leave messages

Hello and welcome to Wikipedia! Just in case you didn't know, when you post messages on talkpages and Wikipedia pages, you should sign your posts by typing four tildes ("~~~~") at the end of your message. You can also click on the signature button ( or ), located in the edit toolbar, which is above the change window. This will put a signature containing your user name or IP address and the time you posted the message. This information is useful because other users will be able to tell who said what, and when. Pages that may require a signature, such as User talk:220.245.33.90, User talk:217.238.99.186, User talk:203.87.76.145. Thank you for your participation. --Cewbot (talk) 20:29, 7 August 2021 (UTC)

Please remember to sign when you leave messages

Hello and welcome to Wikipedia! Just in case you didn't know, when you post messages on talkpages and Wikipedia pages, you should sign your posts by typing four tildes ("~~~~") at the end of your message. You can also click on the signature button ( or ), located in the edit toolbar, which is above the change window. This will put a signature containing your user name or IP address and the time you posted the message. This information is useful because other users will be able to tell who said what, and when. Pages that may require a signature, such as User talk:95.151.177.95, User talk:94.103.82.118, User talk:212.202.64.10. Thank you for your participation. --Cewbot (talk) 20:29, 7 August 2021 (UTC)

Please remember to sign when you leave messages

Hello and welcome to Wikipedia! Just in case you didn't know, when you post messages on talkpages and Wikipedia pages, you should sign your posts by typing four tildes ("~~~~") at the end of your message. You can also click on the signature button ( or ), located in the edit toolbar, which is above the change window. This will put a signature containing your user name or IP address and the time you posted the message. This information is useful because other users will be able to tell who said what, and when. Pages that may require a signature, such as User talk:162.212.14.113, User talk:2600:6C65:747F:FB64:5C0:AFF2:F7F5:626D, User talk:2409:4072:897:FF01:F9A3:3462:E10:C5F7. Thank you for your participation. --Cewbot (talk) 20:29, 7 August 2021 (UTC)

Come on Ferien!

You know better man! For the love of hades sign your posts already! Lol! Glad to see you back! PDL^{Talk to me!}_{OMG, What have I done?} (Pronouns: He, him, his) 02:10, 8 August 2021 (UTC)

You'd think that after 20 years, the WMF would've found a way to autosign messages on desktop mode, but it seems still not. SHB2000 (talk) 02:16, 8 August 2021 (UTC)

They do it’s called clicking the reply link and it auto signs PDL^{Talk to me!}_{OMG, What have I done?} (Pronouns: He, him, his) 03:31, 8 August 2021 (UTC)

It works if you're using the reply tool like I am, but it's not the best. I believe it also works on CD as well. SHB2000 (talk) 04:14, 8 August 2021 (UTC)

@SHB2000 If you are still listening to CDs, I’ll send you some 8 tracks :)@SHB2000 PDL^{Talk to me!}_{OMG, What have I done?} (Pronouns: He, him, his) 04:16, 8 August 2021 (UTC)

lol. last time I ever used a CD was in 2011, about 10 years ago. But this is the tool that autosigns messages. For the most part, Spotify does most of my job in what CD's used to do. SHB2000 (talk) 04:20, 8 August 2021 (UTC)

It’s called DiscussionTools. CD and DT are not compatible. I like discussion tools for what I need and it hasn’t failed me. It’s in your settings I think under gadgets or beta. I need to take a nap and be back to work by 0800 my time so like 5 hours from now. PDL^{Talk to me!}_{OMG, What have I done?} (Pronouns: He, him, his) 10:02, 8 August 2021 (UTC)

I'm using DT to enter these messages, I like it for the most part except for the autosignature. Which sort of... you know. SHB2000 (talk) 10:48, 8 August 2021 (UTC)

Visual editors: well yes but actually no Elytrian - Talk 04:05, 8 August 2021 (UTC)

Mine does on both mobile and desktop. PDL^{Talk to me!}_{OMG, What have I done?} (Pronouns: He, him, his) 04:11, 8 August 2021 (UTC)

Look what I found

This is not an actual notice to Ferien, it is an example of a template I found

This is the only warning you will get. Your vandalism will not be allowed on Wikipedia. Although vandalizing articles on occasions that are days or weeks apart from each other sometimes stops editors from being blocked, your continued vandalism shows a long term pattern of abuse. The next time you vandalize a page, you may be blocked from changing Wikipedia without any more warnings. PDL^{Talk to me!}_{OMG, What have I done?} (Pronouns: He, him, his) 09:07, 8 August 2021 (UTC)

which template is this? SHB2000 (talk) 10:47, 8 August 2021 (UTC)

Wikipedia translation of the week: 2021-32

The winner this Translation of the week is en:Michaux-Perreaux steam velocipede Please be bold and help translate this article! The Michaux-Perreaux steam velocipede was a steam powered velocipede made in France sometime from 1867 to 1871, when a small Louis-Guillaume Perreaux commercial steam engine was attached to a Pierre Michaux manufactured iron framed pedal bicycle. It is one of three motorcycles claimed to be the first motorcycle, along with the Roper steam velocipede of 1867 or 1868, and the internal combustion engine Daimler Reitwagen of 1885. (Please update the interwiki links on Wikidata of your language version of the article after each week's translation is finished so that all languages are linked to each other.) About · Nominate/Review · Subscribe/Unsubscribe · Global message delivery 01:29, 9 August 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-32

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Problems

• You can read but not edit 17 wikis for a few minutes on 10 August. This is planned at 05:00 UTC. This is because of work on the database. [4]

Changes later this week

• The Wikimania Hackathon will take place remotely on 13 August, starting at 5:00 UTC, for 24 hours. You can participate in many ways. You can still propose projects and sessions.
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 10 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 11 August. It will be on all wikis from 12 August (calendar).
• The old CSS <div class="visualClear"></div> will not be supported after 12 August. Instead, templates and pages should use <div style="clear:both;"></div>. Please help to replace any existing uses on your wiki. There are global-search links available at T287962.

Future changes

• The Wikipedia Library is a place for Wikipedia editors to get access to sources. There is an extension which has a new function to tell users when they can take part in it. It will use notifications. It will start pinging the first users in September. It will ping more users later. [5]
• Vue.js will be the JavaScript framework for MediaWiki in the future. [6]

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16:21, 9 August 2021 (UTC)

Substing on user talk pages

I am not saying not to do it, but I just wanted to make you aware that you are triggering notifications/emails to every person whose talk page you subst on. It is why most of these templates have never been gone through and subst'ed on user talk pages. So that we don't annoy the people with unnecessary notifications. Just something to consider while you are are doing it to many many users. -Djsasso (talk) 11:47, 11 August 2021 (UTC)

Ok, I understand. If an actual bot did it, would there still be notifications? If not, a bot might be a better way to do that. --Ferien (talk) 11:49, 11 August 2021 (UTC)

I am not sure. I will test that in a second with my bot account. -Djsasso (talk) 11:53, 11 August 2021 (UTC)

Doesn't with a bot, but now I am wondering if it doesn't with a flood flag. I assumed it did, but maybe I was wrong. I will test that as well. -Djsasso (talk) 11:57, 11 August 2021 (UTC)

Actually I obviously can't test on myself. Could you subst the welcome on my talk page. -Djsasso (talk) 11:58, 11 August 2021 (UTC)

Of course. I'll just readd the flood flag to myself --Ferien (talk) 11:59, 11 August 2021 (UTC)

Yeah still gives a notification on flood. Is it just welcome and unsigned that you have been substing? I could probably have my bot fly through them. -Djsasso (talk) 12:03, 11 August 2021 (UTC)

It was just {{welcome}} I have been signing today, although I added unsigned templates to some of the unsigned ones. I've done about 3/4 of them. A few days ago I did {{welcome2}} and {{SharedIPAdvice}}. --Ferien (talk) 12:06, 11 August 2021 (UTC)

Think I got all of them. -Djsasso (talk) 12:32, 11 August 2021 (UTC)

Thanks. --Ferien (talk) 12:35, 11 August 2021 (UTC)

Red links

Hi Ferien, I have noticed that the red link colour has changed. Is this normal, because I have noticed it on different browsers and I believe it is site-wide. demonstration12345. Cheers, Hockeycatcat (talk) 10:16, 13 August 2021 (UTC)

Hi Hockeycatcat, it's changed for me too, so it's likely normal, yes. --Ferien (talk) 10:22, 13 August 2021 (UTC)

I'm getting that too. Hurts so bad :( SHB2000 (talk) 22:30, 15 August 2021 (UTC)

Turns out that they're actually working to get the red link colour back to how it used to be. See phab:T288739. --Ferien (talk) 18:06, 30 August 2021 (UTC)

I am sorry

I apologise for adding me to vandalism in progress . Please don't block me. — Preceding unsigned comment added by MrDanielBryer (talk • contribs) 21:56, 15 August 2021 (UTC)

Wikipedia translation of the week: 2021-33

The winner this Translation of the week is zh:祝融号火星车 (en:Zhurong (rover)) Please be bold and help translate this article! Zhurong (Chinese: 祝融; pinyin: Zhùróng) is China's first Mars rover, which formed part of the Chinese Tianwen 1 mission to Mars. It landed on May 14, 2021, to make China the second country to successfully soft land on Mars and establish communications from the Martian surface, after the United States. Zhurong was successfully deployed on 22 May 2021, 02:40 UTC (Please update the interwiki links on Wikidata of your language version of the article after each week's translation is finished so that all languages are linked to each other.) About · Nominate/Review · Subscribe/Unsubscribe · Global message delivery 03:06, 16 August 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-33

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

• You can add language links in the sidebar in the new Vector skin again. You do this by connecting the page to a Wikidata item. The new Vector skin has moved the language links but the new language selector cannot add language links yet. [7]

Problems

• There was a problem on wikis which use the Translate extension. Translations were not updated or were replaced with the English text. The problems have been fixed. [8][9][10]

Changes later this week

• A revision tag will soon be added to edits that add links to disambiguation pages. This is because these links are usually added by accident. The tag will allow editors to easily find the broken links and fix them. If your wiki does not like this feature, it can be hidden. [11]
• Would you like to help improve the information about tools? Would you like to attend or help organize a small virtual meetup for your community to discuss the list of tools? Please get in touch on the Toolhub Quality Signal Sessions talk page. We are also looking for feedback from tool maintainers on some specific questions.
• In the past, edits to any page in your user talk space ignored your mute list, e.g. sub-pages. Starting this week, this is only true for edits to your talk page. [12]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 August. It will be on all wikis from 19 August (calendar).

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19:28, 16 August 2021 (UTC)

If you are an administrator can you block this dude

Vandalism from [13] 172.92.107.138 (talk) 15:21, 18 August 2021 (UTC)

 Done --Ferien (talk) 15:40, 18 August 2021 (UTC)

Why?

I QD' Girrafer's talk for a specific reason. See the RfD Discussion for Dc Themmie. Its an LTA spam and has an investigation for socks on en-wiki. I gave an adequate reason for qd in the reason part. Ely - Talk 12:46, 19 August 2021 (UTC)

Elytrian, I can't delete pages just because it was created by a certain person. The page would have to meet the quick deletion criteria, which it did not. Giraffer can still remove the content from his talk page if he wishes to. Regards, --Ferien (talk) 12:51, 19 August 2021 (UTC)

Decline

Saw your decline. The page about him is pretty close to a copy of the same page with an added word to the title. The only difference I mainly see is under achievements in which there are a lot more, otherwise the two are the same and they are the same person. Can it be deleted under duplicate page of the same subject? I feel that would be more appropriate. I was also under the impression it’s one article per RfD for searching and archiving as well as all directions use the singular article and not articles. Thanks! PDL^{Talk to me!}_{OMG, What have I done?} (Pronouns: He, him, his) 22:17, 19 August 2021 (UTC)

@PotsdamLamb: Maybe you could redirect the page as it's a duplicate page? If the page was a redirected then it could get deleted after the RfD. And if it stayed as it is, unless I'm mistaken, it could be deleted under G4: It includes an identical or similar copy, with any title, of a page that was deleted, after being discussed in Requests for deletion. There's no QD criteria for a duplicate page, only if the original page was deleted, so I think the best thing to do here is wait for the RfD to end. Regards, --Ferien (talk) 10:05, 20 August 2021 (UTC)

Is it ok?

Is my last edit ok? Haoreima (talk) 06:35, 21 August 2021 (UTC)

Haoreima, you just need to add another _ on each side. --Ferien (talk) 08:15, 21 August 2021 (UTC)

What is the significance of this? Haoreima (talk) 08:17, 21 August 2021 (UTC)

@Haoreima: The NOINDEX will only work if you have two underscores before and two underscores after the NOINDEX text. --Ferien (talk) 08:29, 21 August 2021 (UTC)

I mean, what will "NOINDEX" do for us? Haoreima (talk) 08:30, 21 August 2021 (UTC)

Haoreima, it stops your page from being indexed by search engines. --Ferien (talk) 08:32, 21 August 2021 (UTC)

Can I add this to user page as well as user talk page too? Haoreima (talk) 08:33, 21 August 2021 (UTC)

Haoreima, yes. --Ferien (talk) 09:15, 21 August 2021 (UTC)

Block 82.43.236.6 again

Hello Ferien, I noticed you blocked unregistered User:82.43.236.6 for 31 hours on 20 August 2021. However, if you can see from Deaths in 2021's page history, he's just continuing his vandalism. Could I recommend blocking the user for a longer time period seeing how they'll just continue their unconstructive edits. Thanks! --TDKR Chicago 101 (talk) 08:12, 22 August 2021 (UTC)

You'd have a better chance at WP:VIP where other admins can handle it as well. SHB2000 (talk) 08:28, 22 August 2021 (UTC)

@SHB2000: Thanks! --TDKR Chicago 101 (talk) 10:01, 22 August 2021 (UTC)

Blocked by IWI now. Thanks for reporting, TDKR. --Ferien (talk) 11:38, 22 August 2021 (UTC)

Tag

I had that on there in case anyone comes along and wants to change it so they are notified:/ PDL^{Talk to me!}_{OMG, What have I done?} (Pronouns: He, him, his) 15:38, 22 August 2021 (UTC)

PotsdamLamb, ok, feel free to readd it if you would like to. It's just designed if you're doing a major edit in a more edited place, so no-one edits whilst you're doing a big edit. --Ferien (talk) 18:59, 22 August 2021 (UTC)

Well you know as well as I do about our regular LTA who hits the pages. Can you Sp it for the time being and when I’m done I’ll let you know? Thanks PDL^{Talk to me!}_{OMG, What have I done?} (Pronouns: He, him, his) 21:43, 22 August 2021 (UTC)

@PotsdamLamb: Of course, let me do that now. --Ferien (talk) 18:57, 23 August 2021 (UTC)

 Done :) --Ferien (talk) 18:58, 23 August 2021 (UTC)

Wikipedia translation of the week: 2021-34

The winner this Translation of the week is en:Luna Park (Coney Island, 1903) Please be bold and help translate this article! Luna Park was an amusement park in Coney Island, Brooklyn, New York City. Luna Park was located on a site bounded by Surf Avenue to the south, West 8th Street to the east, Neptune Avenue to the north, and West 12th Street to the west. Luna Park opened in 1903 and operated until 1944. (Please update the interwiki links on Wikidata of your language version of the article after each week's translation is finished so that all languages are linked to each other.) About · Nominate/Review · Subscribe/Unsubscribe · Global message delivery 01:39, 23 August 2021 (UTC)

Please remember to sign when you leave messages

Hello and welcome to Wikipedia! Just in case you didn't know, when you post messages on talkpages and Wikipedia pages, you should sign your posts by typing four tildes ("~~~~") at the end of your message. You can also click on the signature button ( or ), located in the edit toolbar, which is above the change window. This will put a signature containing your user name or IP address and the time you posted the message. This information is useful because other users will be able to tell who said what, and when. Pages that may require a signature, such as User talk:138.94.152.209, User talk:197.210.44.147, User talk:138.117.38.8. Thank you for your participation. --Cewbot (talk) 15:24, 23 August 2021 (UTC)

Copyright

It’s a full on copy of what’s on there. That’s why I added the checker link. All the bold words are matched between both articles hence why I tagged it. Even if it has a license compatible it can’t be copied word for word (what trigged me was the amount of bolding which I was fixing) then I ran across a couple words which would never be in our articles and EN doesn’t have it either. PDL^{Talk to me!}_{OMG, What have I done?} (Pronouns: He, him, his) 19:59, 23 August 2021 (UTC)

​Well, copying would not cause us copyright problems with that license.

Also, rereviewing my action, I noticed that on the page it says This article "Kamlesh K Mishra" is from Wikipedia. The list of its authors can be seen in its historical. Articles taken from Draft Namespace on Wikipedia could be accessed on Wikipedia's Draft Namespace., so it's not even copied from that website, it's copied from the English Wikipedia. --Ferien (talk) 20:05, 23 August 2021 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) It was also the same editor who created it on en.wiki so there is no attribution issues either. -Djsasso (talk) 20:12, 23 August 2021 (UTC)

Ok so still a copy vio ;) I didn’t see the en wiki one. The en wiki is probably copied from the same site PDL^{Talk to me!}_{OMG, What have I done?} (Pronouns: He, him, his) 20:13, 23 August 2021 (UTC)

Not a copy vio since its the same author, and the site you liked to in your QD had copied it from en.wiki so it is an acceptable article unless it is from some other page out there. But at this point I see no proof of that. -Djsasso (talk) 20:16, 23 August 2021 (UTC)

There is one section very close to copyright as the paraphrasing is almost the same. You can see the comments on the EN draft. PDL^{Talk to me!}_{OMG, What have I done?} (Pronouns: He, him, his) 05:34, 24 August 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-34

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 Score extension (<score> notation) has been re-enabled on public wikis and upgraded to a newer version. Some musical score functionality may no longer work because the extension is only enabled in "safe mode". The security issue has been fixed and an advisory published.

Problems

• You will be able to read but not edit some wikis for a few minutes on 25 August. This will happen around 06:00 UTC. This is for database maintenance. During this time, operations on the CentralAuth will also not be possible.

Changes later this week

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

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21:59, 23 August 2021 (UTC)

I think I found it

I think this is the longest intro I have ever seen on an article and it’s a good article lol PDL^{Talk to me!}_{OMG, What have I done?} (Pronouns: He, him, his) 05:36, 24 August 2021 (UTC)

It's even longer than the enwiki article :P

It's much simpler though, and intros tend to be more summary-like on enwiki. --Ferien (talk) 18:02, 30 August 2021 (UTC)

@PotsdamLamb I had a look some of the longest pages at Special:LongPages, and it seems none has such a long intro, although it seems that "Bird" is only the 526th longest article. SHB2000 (talk) 06:58, 31 August 2021 (UTC)

Wow! Really? I think we have some articles that need the lead cut down then or maybe it is just one big paragraph that is a run on 🤷‍♂️ PDL^{Talk to me!}_{OMG, What have I done?} (Pronouns: He, him, his) 08:00, 31 August 2021 (UTC)

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Deletion of 'Mohammed Shanooj (musician)

Hello Ferien, Why did you selected article 'Mohammed Shanooj (musician)' for speedy deletion! The Article seems Notable and there are more references to stable. It contains no promotional, advertising, autobiography, or anything. Its view in neutral point of view. Please Undo/Remove your Block and Republish same article as soon as possible, because its Notable and need to be in wikipedias with policy. If you find any Mistakes or any manner, please edit it & improve you can or for other users instead of speedy deletion. UnknownEditor1234567890 (talk) 15:26, 29 August 2021 (UTC)

Hi UnknownEditor1234567890. The reason I deleted your article is because the subject didn't claim notability. I also protected it from creation because the page Mohammed Shanooj was protected already, and you were creating Mohammed Shanooj (musician) to evade that protection. Please don't recreate the page. If you still have a problem with my deletion, please go to Wikipedia:Deletion review. Thank you. --Ferien (talk) 15:44, 29 August 2021 (UTC)

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