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There's nothing like a good old bit of Cold War nostalgia, combined with a suitably scary international incident, to focus our attention on the real world. That said, nothing could stem our outpouring of affection for the beloved comedian Harold Ramis, whose death managed to top the week in the face of those international concerns.
Current discussions on the English Wikipedia include...
This week, the Signpost caught up with the Wikipedia Library (TWL), which aims to connect reference resources with Wikipedia editors who can use them to improve articles. Funded through the Wikimedia Foundation's Individual Engagement Grants program, TWL has a new "visiting scholars" initiative and a microgrants program in the works.
The WikiCup competition is ongoing, while six articles, three lists, and ten pictures were promoted to "featured" status of the English Wikipedia this week.
This week, the Signpost delved into the English Wikipedia's Article Rescue Squadron.
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 You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template. WOWIndian Talk 13:01, 13 March 2014 (UTC) Review requestedI have patrolled a user on Wikipedia having similar issues with many of his recent contribution. I have found that this user have created several articles (can be found on his user-page itself) about movies which are not even released, one of them I have proposed for deletion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Buddhan Chirikkunnu. I would like to request you to interfere in this matter. Thank you! WOWIndian Talk 11:04, 12 March 2014 (UTC)
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Paul McDonaldHi. I noticed that you were the closing administrator for the deletion discussion about Paul McDonald (musician) from a few months ago. You closed the discussion as a Redirect, and I sort of understand your decision, based on the comments that had been made during the discussion. However, I feel that there is reason for this article to be recreated. I've never gone about doing something like this before, so I'm not entirely sure what the correct process is. But it seems like a good idea to discuss it with you. The initial nomination for deletion was rationalized with this statement: "the possible plethora of mentions in TV guides and gossip magazines related to Idol is not evidence of real-life notability, and the article and the man's career seem to indicate a lack of real-life notability." Somehow, the nominator must have failed to notice that the article had been referenced with such sources as USA Today, Entertainment Weekly, The New York Daily News, and MTV (all of which had provided significant coverage). A very quick Google search also yielded results from The Huffington Post and Yahoo! Music. I have no doubt that if I searched a little bit longer, I would be able to find countless more professional, independent sources providing significant coverage on McDonald. The only other reason that was given for redirecting his article, was that he failed WP:MUSIC, due to none of his albums selling more than 10,000 copies. I don't actually see anything in those guidelines saying that an artist has to sell over 10,000 copies of an album in order to be notable, but I suppose that the editor was either referring to Criteria #2 - Has had a single or album on any country's national music chart - or #3 - Has had a record certified gold or higher in at least one country. The problem here, is that a musician doesn't need to meet every one of WP:MUSIC's notability criteria in order to be notable enough for Wikipedia. The most important thing is that the person meets Criteria #1, which is essentially the same as the general notability guideline. As I've mentioned, McDonald meets this criteria many times over. However, he also meets criteria #4 (having participated in the 2011 American Idols Live Tour), #9 (having placed eighth in the tenth season of American Idol), #10 (having performed one of his songs in an episode of Parenthood), and #12 (having performed for several weeks on American Idol). In fact, he even meets #2, as his pre-Idol album The Grand Magnolias placed on Billboard's Top Heatseekers chart. [1] Also, he's married to Nikki Reed. And if we consider his old band "an independently notable ensemble" since it placed on a Billboard chart, then McDonald also meets Criteria #6, since he has since released an album with Nikki Reed as a duo. --Jpcase (talk) 16:38, 13 March 2014 (UTC) English name of songHi you moved back to an English title. Which is fine if as you say there is a reliable (i.e. not Kpop blog or Youtube) source. I'm sure if you say so then there is, but what is it? Can you please add it to the article, thanks. In ictu oculi (talk) 20:47, 14 March 2014 (UTC) The Signpost: 12 March 2014Wikimedians around the world gathered to celebrate Women's History Month and the associated International Women's Day by holding editathons. If you lived in the United Kingdom, you had the opportunity to attend Wikimedia UK's event at the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, part of University College London and host to one of the largest collections of Egyptian and Sudanese artifacts in the world.
An intensely busy week, as a confluence of celebratory, curious and urgent topics pushed typical residents like Facebook and Deaths in 2014 out of the top ten entirely.
Five articles, two lists, and 52 pictures were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia this week.
This week, we interviewed Anaxibia from the Russian-language Entomology WikiProject.
Orphaned non-free image File:Iei-logo.jpg Thanks for uploading File:Iei-logo.jpg. The image description page currently specifies that the image is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, the image is currently not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the image was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that images for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (see our policy for non-free media). Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described in the criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. Stefan2 (talk) 23:26, 16 March 2014 (UTC) The Signpost: 19 March 2014Non-US editors and chapters have taken issue with a multitude of image deletions done on the Wikimedia Commons to comply with the Uruguay Round Agreements Act, a US law that brought the country into compliance with the Berne Convention.
This week, we visited WikiProject History, an ancient project with roots dating back to 2001. The project is home to 196 pieces of Featured material and 483 Good and A-class articles independent of the vast accomplishments of its various child projects. WikiProject History maintains a lengthy list of tasks, oversees the history portal, and continues to build Wikipedia's outline of history.
In a record-breaker, the English Wikipedia has a new largest good topic: the 71-article Light cruisers of Germany, which concerns the light cruisers used by Germany during the 20th century.
Twelve articles, fourteen lists, and six pictures were promoted to 'featured' status on the English Wikipedia last week.
One of the first university Wikipedian in residence positions, hosted at Harvard University in 2012, has jumped back into the spotlight amid questions about its ethical integrity.
The utterly mystifying events surrounding Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, which has not fallen from the sky so much as vanished from it entirely, has left an information-starved public scrambling for precedents, some logical, some... not.
The Wikimedia engineering report for February 2014 has been published. A summarized version is also available. Major news include
The Signpost: 26 March 2014
April Fools' Day is rapidly approaching. Every year, members of the community pull pranks and make (or attempt to make) humorous edits to pages across the project. Every year, the community follows April Fools' Day with a contentious debate about whether or not it is necessary to impose limits on April Fools' Day jokes for future years. It is a polarizing issue.
Topics like the 2014 Crimea crisis or the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 eased down the list, making way for such traditional topics as St Patrick's Day, Reddit threads and even Google Doodles, which have reappeared after a long absence.
Have you wondered about differences in the articles on Crimea in the Russian, Ukrainian, and English versions of Wikipedia? A newly published article entitled "Lost in Translation: Contexts, Computing, Disputing on Wikipedia" doesn't address Crimea, but nonetheless offers insight into the editing of contentious articles in multiple language editions through a heavy qualitative examination of Wikipedia articles about the Kosovo in the Serbian, Croatian, and English editions.
Results for the two-stage 2013 Commons Picture of the Year have been announced. This year's winning photograph (above) shows a lightbulb that has been cracked, allowing inert gas to escape—and oxygen to enter, so that the tungsten filament burns. From the flames rise elegant curls of blue smoke.
Four articles, two lists, and twelve pictures were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia this week.
On 3 April, we will roll out some changes to the typography of Wikipedia's default Vector skin, to increase readability for users on all devices and platforms. After five months of testing, four major iterations, and through close collaboration with the global Wikimedia community, who provided more than 100 threads of feedback, we’ve arrived at a solution which improves the primary reading and editing experience for all users.
As you have probably read on this weeks op-ed, or via various other channels of announcement, 3 April will see the introduction of the Typography refresh (or update) for the Vector skin on all Wikipedias. Other projects like Commons will have this update rolled out a few days prior.
This week, the Signpost interviewed the English Wikipedia's Mountains WikiProject.
Just in case you missed it.I left a message for you a week ago, under a section titled "Paul McDonald", regarding an AfD discussion that you closed. It was recently archived, and I see that you haven't been active lately, so I just wanted to leave a note in case you missed it. Any help that you could give would be much appreciated. Thanks! :) --Jpcase (talk) 23:00, 21 March 2014 (UTC)
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