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DYK for Explore: The Journal of Science & HealingOn 27 January 2017, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Explore: The Journal of Science & Healing, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the Elsevier publication Explore: The Journal of Science & Healing has been described as a "sham masquerading as a real scientific journal" that publishes "truly ridiculous studies"? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Explore: The Journal of Science & Healing. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Explore: The Journal of Science & Healing), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page. Harrias talk 12:48, 27 January 2017 (UTC) Comments at ANIHey EdChem, I wanted to follow up with you, as I fear you may have misunderstood some of what I said. First, I wasn't on TRM's talk page in my capacity as an admin—we've had plenty of run-ins, making me far too involved with regards to him. That feeds into #2: the secondary clause in my apology was to ensure no people dropping into the ANI discussion (especially ones that know the history between TRM and I) would mistakenly think that I was deliberately insulting him. You can see a second apology that makes that clearer here. Third, saying that I didn't have time to redact was not a justification for anything. It referred to a comment from TRM, which you can see here, that "By the way, you've got one chance to redact that bullshit "like a normal human being" or else it's ANI for the both of us. You choose." Ten minutes later, we were at ANI. Best, Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 00:20, 30 January 2017 (UTC)
DYK for Elizabeth Plankinton HouseOn 31 January 2017, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Elizabeth Plankinton House, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that "Merchant Prince and Princely Merchant" John Plankinton built a mansion (pictured) as a wedding gift for his daughter Elizabeth, but she refused to live in it because her fiancé Richard Henry Park ran off with a dancer? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Elizabeth Plankinton House. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Elizabeth Plankinton House), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page. Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 12:28, 31 January 2017 (UTC) DYK for John PlankintonOn 31 January 2017, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article John Plankinton, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that "Merchant Prince and Princely Merchant" John Plankinton built a mansion (pictured) as a wedding gift for his daughter Elizabeth, but she refused to live in it because her fiancé Richard Henry Park ran off with a dancer? You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, John Plankinton), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page. Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 12:28, 31 January 2017 (UTC) DYK for Richard Henry ParkOn 31 January 2017, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Richard Henry Park, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that "Merchant Prince and Princely Merchant" John Plankinton built a mansion (pictured) as a wedding gift for his daughter Elizabeth, but she refused to live in it because her fiancé Richard Henry Park ran off with a dancer? You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Richard Henry Park), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page. Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 12:28, 31 January 2017 (UTC) Regarding just a specific small portion of this paragraph......the obvious question has to be: 'why ever not...?' Cheers, O Fortuna!...Imperatrix mundi. 16:32, 8 January 2017 (UTC)
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John Plankinton statue has been nominated for Did You KnowHello, EdChem. John Plankinton statue, an article you either created or to which you significantly contributed,has been nominated to appear on Wikipedia's Main Page as part of Did you know. You can see the hook and the discussion here. You are welcome to participate! Thank you. APersonBot (talk!) 12:01, 5 February 2017 (UTC) Your account is now ready happy editing!--Cameron11598 (Talk) 04:44, 14 February 2017 (UTC) Hexamethylbenzene
1) In what looks like the second or third paragraph of the Hexamethylbenzene#Preparation section, we read the following:
This sentence is not completely clear. I tried to read it two ways: (a) An early approach used a mixture of acetone and methanol vapours over an alumina catalyst at 400 °C. This part is a complete sentence. The final phrase, "reacts to form hexamethylbenzene", does not seem to go (at least grammatically) with the rest of the sentence. If this is the way the sentence is to be read, something has to be done to connect this phrase to the earlier part of the sentence. or: (b) An early approach used a mixture of acetone – that's one clause, albeit a short one – with another somewhat longer clause following "and":
If the sentence is to be read this way, we should add a comma after "a mixture of acetone" and change "reacts" to "react" since the subject is plural: "methanol vapours". 2) I'm not involved in the writing of articles, and I don't even review articles (I'm too busy editing at GOCE), but I wonder if the lead isn't a little long relative to the rest of the article. In particular, I wonder if you need to include the quote from Dean Tantillo in the lead since you have it later in the article. 3) I notice that you have linked terms several times. You might want to read WP:OVERLINKING if you haven't read it already. Generally, terms are linked once in the lead, or once in the lead and at first mention after the lead, and no more, but there is a section at WP:OVERLINKING that addresses links in technical articles, so you might want to read that. I know terms can be linked where an understanding of the word is essential to understanding a paragraph or section. I'll let you make this determination. Let me know if you need any help. 4) In the first paragraph in the section Hexamethylbenzene#Nomenclature and properties is the phrase "planar cyclic system". I wonder if either "planar" or "cyclic system", or both, could be linked. I found an article for "planar", Trigonal planar molecular geometry, but I don't know if that's the right one. Well, that's all. – Corinne (talk) 06:15, 9 February 2017 (UTC) 5) I just noticed that there is a backslash (\) before "Spectroscopic" in the Hexamethylbenzene#Dication section. Is that supposed to be there? – Corinne (talk) 15:35, 10 February 2017 (UTC)
You're welcome. I don't get involved much in reviewing because I'm too busy editing at GOCE. Sometimes I read the comments at reviews; I'm curious to read what reviewers say about article's I've copy-edited, and other articles. I suppose you've already seen WP:Good article criteria. One way to see what reviewers might say is to read the GA reviews of articles that are similar to yours. You can find the review of an article that has been approved for GA status in a link at the top of the article's talk page. Just look at some chemistry articles, look on the talk page, and see if there is a link to a GA review. I have only extensively copy-edited about twenty science articles (so I remember some of the titles). One was Radiocarbon dating. I looked for a GA review on that article but couldn't find it. On the talk page of the article I only found a Peer review Wikipedia:Peer review/Radiocarbon dating/archive1 and then an FAC review Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Radiocarbon dating/archive1, but you might be interested in reading those. Another was Oil shale in Estonia. Here's the link to the GA review: Talk:Oil shale in Estonia/GA1. Regarding finding duplicate links, there are two ways to find them. 1) You probably have a "find" tool. I use Google Chrome, and the "Find" tool is in a drop-down menu when I click on three tiny vertical dots at the far top-right-hand corner of my screen. When I click on "Find", a horizontal search bar opens up. You can use this in regular article view or in edit mode. I usually use it in edit mode so that if I see a duplicate link, or a link at the wrong place in the article, I can change it immediately. Also, in edit mode, it is easier to see the double square brackets of the links at linked terms. All the instances, linked and unlinked, of the word or phrase that you typed in the horizontal bar will be highlighted. Just search through them, and you will see which ones are linked and which ones are not. Sometimes I find duplicate links. Sometimes I find that the term not linked at the first mention but at a later mention, so I fix that. (You do have WikEd enabled, don't you? If not, I highly recommend enabling it. It makes editing so much easier. It's in "Preferences", then "Gadgets", in the "Editing" section, then save.) 2) The second method is to use Visual Editor. If you haven't already enabled it, here's how you do it: Click "Preferences". Click on the "Editing" tab (not the "Gadgets" tab). Then, near the bottom, you will see a single line with "Editing mode". Next to that phrase is a white, horizontal bar. If you click on the little black triangle/arrow, you'll see four options. "Source editor" is the regular editor. That's what I use. With "Visual editor", you can choose whether you want only Visual editor or both Visual editor and source (regular) editor. Of course you can change these at any time. Just now, I selected "Show me both editor tabs". Then click "Save" at the bottom. Now, when you look at any article, you will see two editing tabs: "Edit source" is the regular editing tab (which is just "Edit" when you don't have Visual Editor enabled) and "Edit" is to use Visual Editor. If you click on "Edit", you'll see that it still looks like you're in regular article view mode, but there are editing tools along the top. (I haven't used Visual Editor to actually edit, and in fact, I don't usually have it enabled.) Look at the vertical menu at the left side, and under "Tools", you'll see "Highlight duplicate links". If you click that, you'll see all duplicate links are highlighted with a red line, or box, around them. The problem is, I haven't figured out how to make changes using Visual Editor, so I just use the other method I described above in (1). You might find it helpful to have two windows open, one with regular edit mode view ("Edit source" if you've got Visual editor enabled) and one with this view open. You'll see the duplicate links in red boxes in one window and you can make the changes in the other, regular edit mode window. Maybe Checkingfax can remind me how to remove unwanted duplicate links using Visual editor. I hope this helps. – Corinne (talk) 16:30, 11 February 2017 (UTC)
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DYK for Ahmad Hashim Abd al-IsawiOn 22 February 2017, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Ahmad Hashim Abd al-Isawi, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Ahmad Hashim Abd al-Isawi earned the nickname the "Butcher of Fallujah" after allegedly masterminding the 2004 ambush in which four private contractors were killed, mutilated, and their bodies displayed? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Ahmad Hashim Abd al-Isawi. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Ahmad Hashim Abd al-Isawi), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page. — Coffee // have a cup // beans // 12:02, 22 February 2017 (UTC) DYK for HexamethylbenzeneOn 24 February 2017, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Hexamethylbenzene, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the pyramidal structure of the hexamethylbenzene dication (pictured) has a central carbon atom bonded to an "unprecedented" six other carbon atoms? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Hexamethylbenzene. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Hexamethylbenzene), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page. Mifter (talk) 12:01, 24 February 2017 (UTC) DYK for Trifluoroperacetic acidOn 27 February 2017, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Trifluoroperacetic acid, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the potentially explosive trifluoroperacetic acid is not commercially available, yet can be quickly prepared in three different ways using hydrogen peroxide? You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Trifluoroperacetic acid), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page. Mifter (talk) 00:04, 27 February 2017 (UTC) DYK nomination of James Oakley (politician)Hello! Your submission of James Oakley (politician) at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! BlueMoonset (talk) 18:59, 27 February 2017 (UTC) March 2017 WikiCup newsletterAnd so ends the first round of the competition, with 4 points required to qualify for round 2. It would have been 5 points, but when a late entrant was permitted to join the contest in February, a promise was made that his inclusion would not result in the exclusion of any other competitor. To achieve this, the six entrants that had the lowest positive score of 4 points have been added to the 64 people who otherwise would have qualified. As a result, some of the groups have nine contestants rather than eight. Our top four scorers in round 1 were:
The largest number of DYKs have been submitted by Vivvt and The C of E, who each claimed for seven, and MBlaze Lightning achieved eight articles at ITN. Carbrera and Peacemaker67 each claimed for five GAs and Krishna Chaitanya Velaga was well out in front for GARs, having reviewed 32. No featured pictures, featured topics or good topics yet, but we have achieved three featured articles and a splendid total of fifty good articles. So, on to the second round. Remember that any content promoted after the end of round 1 but before the start of round 2 can be claimed in round 2. Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. Remember, if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points equally. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is a good article candidate, a featured process, or anything else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to help keep down the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Godot13, Sturmvogel 66 and Cwmhiraeth 13:52, 1 March 2017 (UTC) quoted your comments re fairness of DR processesI have quoted your comments at my TBAN closure event a while back, at ANI https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Incidents#Possible_logged-out_editing_to_evade_topic_ban I am slow to notify you as I was a bit unsure as to whether it was appropriate or not. Jed Stuart (talk) 04:41, 2 March 2017 (UTC) Fair Use in Australia discussionAs an Australian Wikipedian, your opinion is sought on a proposal to advocate for the introduction of Fair Use into Australian copyright law. The discussion is taking place at the Australian Wikipedians' notice board, please read the proposal and comment there. MediaWiki message delivery MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 11:08, 2 March 2017 (UTC) This message has been automatically sent to all users in Category:Australian Wikipedians. If you do not wish to receive further messages like this, please either remove your user page from this category, or add yourself to Category:Opted-out of message delivery DYK for John Plankinton statueOn 3 March 2017, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article John Plankinton statue, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that William Plankinton, for whom the William Plankinton Mansion is named, commissioned the John Plankinton statue (pictured) from the sculptor who was his sister's ex-fiancé? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/John Plankinton statue. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, John Plankinton statue), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page. Mifter (talk) 12:01, 3 March 2017 (UTC) DYK for William Plankinton MansionOn 3 March 2017, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article William Plankinton Mansion, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that William Plankinton, for whom the William Plankinton Mansion is named, commissioned the John Plankinton statue (pictured) from the sculptor who was his sister's ex-fiancé? You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, William Plankinton Mansion), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page. Mifter (talk) 12:01, 3 March 2017 (UTC) DYK for William PlankintonOn 3 March 2017, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article William Plankinton, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that William Plankinton, for whom the William Plankinton Mansion is named, commissioned the John Plankinton statue (pictured) from the sculptor who was his sister's ex-fiancé? You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, William Plankinton), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page. Mifter (talk) 12:02, 3 March 2017 (UTC) TalkbackHello, EdChem. You have new messages at Template:Did you know nominations/James Oakley (politician).
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re: Request assistance - polish language sources in a DYK nominationI can confirm the Alt2 hook ref is correct, I didn't see any other issues. Cheers! --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 12:49, 9 April 2017 (UTC)
Re: "Please can we keep this a discussion and avoid arguing and posts which degenerate towards fights" The discussion started as a fight. It started with some bad faith assumptions and attacks on the 'crats, doomsday predictions, and threats of future manipulation. That's about as bad as a discussion can start. I don't feel regret at calling those three out on it in the same language.--v/r - TP 02:29, 10 April 2017 (UTC)
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Henry is the father of Lewis Ludington (another article I created). I just did a major expansion and will be nominating Henry tomorrow for DYK. Can you look over for possible tweaks. The hook will have something to do with his involvement with the first secret service and George Washington. See quotes in the references. Thanks for any help you can provide.--Doug Coldwell (talk) 22:21, 24 April 2017 (UTC) Environmental Justice course discussionHi! Thanks again for your input on whether or not I (and students) should be sanctioned. You suggested we wait until June to engage, which is fine with me, but wanted to ping you to get the process started in any case. I've created a page for that purpose, but would appreciate you're adding whatever flags one might to restrict the conversation per your suggestion. Also flagging Ryan_(Wiki_Ed) and Ian (WikiEd) and Helaine_(Wiki_Ed) for their participation when the time is ripe... Looking forward to the discussion and learning more about how to constructively make a difference in Wikipedia! EJustice (talk) 21:20, 27 April 2017 (UTC) May 2017 WikiCup newsletterThe second round of the competition has now closed, with just under 100 points being required to qualify for round 3. YellowEvan just scraped into the next round with 98 points but we have to say goodbye to the thirty or so competitors who didn't achieve this threshold; thank you for the useful contributions you have made to the Cup and Wikipedia. Our top scorers in round 2 were:
Vivvt submitted the largest number of DYKs (30), and MBlaze Lightning achieved 13 articles at ITN. Carbrera claimed for 11 GAs and Argento Surfer performed the most GARs, having reviewed 11. So far we have achieved 38 featured articles and a splendid 132 good articles. Commendably, 279 GARs have been achieved so far, more than double the number of GAs. So, on to the third round. Remember that any content promoted after the end of round 2 but before the start of round 3 can be claimed in round 3. Remember too that you must claim your points within 10 days of "earning" them. Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. Remember, if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points equally. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article nominations, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to help keep down the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Godot13, Sturmvogel 66 and Cwmhiraeth 13:16, 1 May 2017 (UTC) |