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Milhist coordinator election voting has commencedG'day everyone, voting for the 2018 Wikiproject Military history coordinator tranche is now open. This is a simple approval vote; only "support" votes should be made. Project members should vote for any candidates they support by 23:59 (UTC) on 28 September 2018. Thanks, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 06:22, 15 September 2018 (UTC) Note: the previous version omitted a link to the election page, therefore you are receiving this follow up message with a link to the election page to correct the previous version. We apologies for any inconvenience that this may have caused. AWB task request: please help with the backlogHey... If you have AWB laying around, please dust it off and crank it up! ;) We have a growing backlog! There are now 545 portals. Of those, 51 are of the new design. Many of the new portals are orphaned or near orphaned, and need links pointing to them:
To make a list of corresponding templates, you can use AWB's make list feature to make a list of the pages in Category:Single-page portals. Then you copy that list to a sandbox, and replace To make a list of corresponding root articles, make a list of portal links, and then remove "Portal:" from the links. To make a list of category links to process, make sure you use a leading colon (:) in the category links, like this: All new and revamped portals can be found at Category:Single-page portals. Thank you. — The Transhumanist 20:44, 17 September 2018 (UTC) Have your say!Hi everyone, just a quick reminder that voting for the WikiProject Military history coordinator election closes soon. You only have a day or so left to have your say about who should make up the coordination team for the next year. If you have already voted, thanks for participating! If you haven't and would like to, vote here before 23:59 UTC on 28 September. Thanks, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 03:29, 26 September 2018 (UTC) DYK nomination of Hijabophobia
The citations need a little bit of work; afterwards, I'll try to help with copy edit for paraphrasing and NPOV. – Reidgreg (talk) 20:11, 11 October 2018 (UTC)
DYK nomination of Iran's 2018 lawsuit at ICJ against United States
Hi, I left a comment on the nomination; not sure if you saw the ping. --K.e.coffman (talk) 01:43, 2 November 2018 (UTC)
DYK for Hijabophobia On 5 November 2018, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Hijabophobia, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that a ruling by the European Court of Justice allowing employers to ban staff from wearing the hijab has been described as a normalization of hijabophobia? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Hijabophobia. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Hijabophobia), 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. Alex Shih (talk) 00:02, 5 November 2018 (UTC) Re: "Hey, did I get it right"AN3 is for ongoing issues, and the incidents at People's Mujahedin of Iran occurred several days ago. What happened there is no longer a reason for sanctions, unless there's a bigger issue of some sort with one or more users, and if that's the case, it ought to go to WP:ANI for others to have the opportunity to comment on it. Nyttend (talk) 11:56, 14 November 2018 (UTC)
RD1 request Deutsche Bank PlaceHow do we know that the purported source was in existence prior to the initial added in 2006?--S Philbrick(Talk) 17:05, 14 November 2018 (UTC)
ArbCom 2018 election voter message Hello, Mhhossein. Voting in the 2018 Arbitration Committee elections is now open until 23.59 on Sunday, 3 December. All users who registered an account before Sunday, 28 October 2018, made at least 150 mainspace edits before Thursday, 1 November 2018 and are not currently blocked are eligible to vote. Users with alternate accounts may only vote once. The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail. If you wish to participate in the 2018 election, please review the candidates and submit your choices on the voting page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:42, 19 November 2018 (UTC) Speedy deletion contested: Farshid HakkiHello Mhhossein. I am just letting you know that I contested the speedy deletion of Farshid Hakki, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: Utilising the User:SoWhy standard, article makes a credible claim of significance (indeed, arguably more than one) for its subject. Thank you. ——SerialNumber54129 11:41, 22 November 2018 (UTC)
DYK for Iran's 2018 lawsuit at ICJ against the United StatesOn 28 November 2018, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Iran's 2018 lawsuit at ICJ against the United States, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the United States was ordered by the World Court to lift some sanctions against Iran over humanitarian concerns? You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Iran's 2018 lawsuit at ICJ against the United States), 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. — Maile (talk) 00:02, 28 November 2018 (UTC) Talkback Message added 17:50, 30 November 2018 (UTC). You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template. ProgrammingGeek talktome 17:50, 30 November 2018 (UTC) Nominations now open for "Military historian of the year" and "Military history newcomer of the year" awardsNominations for our annual Military historian of the year and Military history newcomer of the year awards are open until 23:59 (GMT) on 15 December 2018. Why don't you nominate the editors who you believe have made a real difference to the project in 2018? MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 02:26, 3 December 2018 (UTC) About Portal:Ashura which you have marked for manual maintenanceHello, I have noticed that you marked the portal Ashura for manual maintenance in June 2018, but this notice has not been updated in 6 months. This notice needs to be kept up to date to reflect the current status of the portal in December 2018. You can:
If you don't respond by updating the date in the notice in 2 weeks, then your name will be removed from the notice and the portal marked for automatic maintenance. Thanks for your dedication to Portal:Ashura. If you have questions about this message please {{ping}} me about it. Thanks and happy editing, Dreamy Jazz 🎷 talk to me | my contributions 23:39, 13 December 2018 (UTC) Voting now open for "Military historian of the year" and "Military history newcomer of the year" awardsVoting for our annual Military historian of the year and Military history newcomer of the year awards is open until 23:59 (GMT) on 30 December 2018. Why don't you vote for the editors who you believe have made a real difference to Wikipedia's coverage of military history in 2018? MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 02:17, 16 December 2018 (UTC) Arun LuthraYou tagged Arun Luthra for copyvio-revdel; are you sure? The oldest web capture of http://sweetsoulsound.com/ at archive.org is dated 20 August 2013 [1] while the alleged copyvio content exists on the Wikipedia article dating back to 2010. It is possible that sweetcoulsound is (an unattributed) mirror of the Wikipedia article not the other way round. Nthep (talk) 19:46, 31 December 2018 (UTC)
Welcome to the 2019 WikiCup!Hello and Happy New Year! Welcome to the 2019 WikiCup, the competition begins today. If you have already joined, your submission page can be found here. If you have not yet signed up, you can add your name here and we will set up your submissions page. One important rule to remember is that only content on which you have completed significant work during 2019, and which you have nominated this year, is eligible for points in the competition, the judges will be checking! Any questions should be directed to one of the judges, or left on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup. Signups will close at the end of January, and the first round will end on 26 February; the 64 highest scorers at that time will make it to round 2. Good luck! The judges for the WikiCup are Sturmvogel 66 (talk · contribs · email), Godot13 (talk · contribs · email), Vanamonde93 (talk · contribs · email) and Cwmhiraeth (talk · contribs · email). MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 11:14, 1 January 2019 (UTC) Wikipedia:WikiProject Portals update #028, 04 Feb 2019Here's a quicky status report:
But of course, there has been more going on than just that... Dreamy Jazz Bot is up and running!Dreamy Jazz Bot has been approved and is now up and running. What it does is places missing links to orphaned portals. It places a link in the See also section of the corresponding root article, and it puts one at the top of the corresponding category page. We have thousands of new portals that have yet to be added to the encyclopedia proper, just waiting to go live. When they do go live, over the coming days or weeks, due to Dreamy Jazz Bot, it will be like an explosion of new portals on the scene. We should expect an increase in awareness and interest in the portals project. Perhaps even new participants. Get ready... Get set... Go! Another sockpuppet infiltrator has been discoveredUser:Emoteplump, a recent contributor to the portals project, was discovered to be a sockpuppet account of an indefinitely blocked user. When that happens, admins endeavor to eradicate everything the editor contributed. This aftermath has left a wake of destruction throughout the portals department, again. The following portals which have been speedy deleted, are in the process of being re-created. Please feel free to help to turn these blue again:
And the corresponding talk pages:
New portals since the last issue
Keep up the great workUntil next time, — The Transhumanist 09:02, 4 February 2019 (UTC) Category:Discrimination against Muslims has been nominated for discussion Category:Discrimination against Muslims, which you created, has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. Rathfelder (talk) 22:24, 5 February 2019 (UTC) DYK nomination of Death of Mohammad Habali
WikiCup 2019 March newsletterAnd so ends the first round of the competition. Everyone with a positive score moves on to Round 2. With 56 contestants qualifying, each group in Round 2 contains seven contestants, with the two leaders from each group due to qualify for Round 3 as well as the top sixteen remaining contestants. Our top scorers in Round 1 were:
These contestants, like all the others, now have to start scoring points again from scratch. Between them, contestants completed reviews on 143 good articles, one hundred more than the number of good articles they claimed for, thus making a substantial dent in the review backlog. Well done all! 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. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, 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 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 (talk), Sturmvogel 66 (talk), Vanamonde (talk) and Cwmhiraeth (talk). Nomination of Death of Mohammad Habali for deletionA discussion is taking place as to whether the article Death of Mohammad Habali is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted. The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Death of Mohammad Habali until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines. Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Icewhiz (talk) 12:13, 3 March 2019 (UTC) A page you created, Eric Walberg has been nominated for deletion.E.M.Gregory (talk) 14:03, 8 March 2019 (UTC) ANIHi: minor detail, but I did not merge the "Awful contributions" section with the "POV pushing by Saff_V" section at ANI; that was someone else. The note I left was unclear and made it seem like I merged all three (my fault, and I'm about to clarify it), but I only merged the third thread with the already-merged first two threads. I'd appreciate if you would change your recent post to remove my username (you can mention the user who did the merge if you want to). Thank you! Levivich 19:07, 3 February 2019 (UTC)
I have closed this ANI thread. You are strongly warned to avoid making personal attacks, to stop treating Wikipedia as a battleground, to seek consensus rather than edit-warring over contentious material, and to be mindful of our policies about maintaining a neutral point of view. Please read through the comments there, and keep them in mind, so that a sanction does not prove necessary. Regards, Vanamonde (Talk) 06:47, 8 March 2019 (UTC)
ThanksThanks for making the article on Hijabophobia. I didn't know about that term until I encountered that article.VR talk 16:30, 9 March 2019 (UTC)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Portals update #030, 17 Mar 2019Previous issue:
This issue:
The collection of portals has shrunkAll Portals closed at WP:MfD during 2019 Grouped Nominations total 127 Portals:
Individual Nominations:
Related WikiProject: (Attribution: Copied from Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard#Portal MfD Results) WikiProject Quantum portalsThis was a spin-off from WikiProject Portals, for the purpose of developing zero-page portals (portals generated on-the-screen at the push of a button, with no stored pages). It has been merged back into WikiProject Portals. In the MfD the vote was "demote". See Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:WikiProject Quantum portals. Hiatus on mass creation of PortalsAt WP:VPR, mass creation of Portals using semi-automated tools has been put on hold until clearer community consensus is established. See Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)#Hiatus on mass creation of Portals. The Transhumanist banned from creating new portals for 3 monthsSee Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard#Proposal 1: Interim Topic-Ban on New Portals. Until next issue...Keep on keepin' on. — The Transhumanist 04:06, 17 March 2019 (UTC) Muhammad Baqir al-SadrHello: I have finished the copy edit you requested of the article on Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr. There are several direct quotations in the Scholarship section of the article that need to be cited. It would also be a good idea to include the title of his work in this sentence: "This led to a major work on Islamic banking [title missing], which still forms the basis for modern Islamic banks." Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns. Regards, Twofingered Typist (talk) 19:55, 12 April 2019 (UTC)
WikiCup 2019 May newsletterThe second round of the 2019 WikiCup has now finished. Contestants needed to scored 32 points to advance into round 3. Our top four scorers in round 2 all scored over 400 points and were:
Other notable performances were put in by So far contestants have achieved nine featured articles between them and a splendid 80 good articles. Commendably, 227 GARs have been completed during the course of the 2019 WikiCup, so the backlog of articles awaiting GA review has been reduced as a result of contestants' activities. The judges are pleased with the thorough GARs that are being performed, and have hardly had to reject any. As we enter 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 14 days of "earning" them. 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 Needed (remember to remove your listing when no longer required). 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 your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Godot13 (talk), Sturmvogel 66 (talk), Vanamonde (talk) and Cwmhiraeth (talk) MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:46, 1 May 2019 (UTC) Wikipedia:WikiProject Portals update #031, 01 May 2019Back to the drawing boardImplementation of the new portal design has been culled back almost completely, and the cull is still ongoing. The cull has also affected portals that existed before the development of the automated design. Some of the reasons for the purge are:
Most of the deletions have been made without prejudice to recreation of curated portals, so that approval does not need to be sought at Deletion Review in those cases. In addition to new portals being deleted, most of the portals that were converted to an automated design have been reverted. Which puts us back to portals with manually selected content, that need to be maintained by hand, for the most part, for the time being, and back facing some of the same problems we had when we were at this crossroads before:
These and other concepts require further discussion. See you at WT:POG. However, after the purge/reversion is completed, some of the single-page portals might be left, due to having acceptable characteristics (their design varied some). If so, then those could possibly be used as a model to convert and/or build more, after the discussions on portal creation and design guidelines have reached a community consensus on what is and is not acceptable for a portal. See you at WT:POG. CurationA major theme in the deletion discussions was the need for portals to be curated, that is, each one having a dedicated maintainer. There are currently around 100 curated portals. Based on the predominant reasoning at MfD, it seems likely that all the other portals may be subject to deletion. See you at WT:POG. TrafficAn observation and argument that arose again and again during the WP:ENDPORTALS RfC and the ongoing deletion drive of {{bpsp}} default portals, was that portals simply do not get much traffic. Typically, they get a tiny fraction of what the corresponding like-titled articles get. And while this isn't generally considered a good rationale for creation or deletion of articles, portals are not articles, and portal critics insist that traffic is a key factor in the utility of portals. The implication is that portals won't be seen much, so wouldn't it be better to develop pages that are? And since such development isn't limited to editing, almost anything is possible. If we can't bring readers to portals, we could bring portal features, or even better features, to the readers (i.e., to articles)... Some potential future directions of developmentQuantum portals?An approach that has received some brainstorming is "quantum portals", meaning portals generated on-the-fly and presented directly on the view screen without any saved portal pages. This could be done by script or as a MediaWiki program feature, but would initially be done by script. The main benefits of this is that it would be opt-in (only those who wanted it would install it), and the resultant generated pages wouldn't be saved, so that there wouldn't be anything to maintain except the script itself. Non-portal integrated componentsAnother approach would be to focus on implementing specific features independently, and provide them somewhere highly visible in a non-portal presentation context (that is, on a page that wasn't a portal that has lots of traffic, i.e., articles). Such as inserted directly into an article's HTML, as a pop-up there, or as a temporary page. There are scripts that use these approaches (providing unrelated features), and so these approaches have been proven to be feasible. What kind of features could this be done with? The various components of the automated portal design are transcluded excerpts, news, did you know, image slideshows, excerpt slideshows, and so on. Some of the features, such as navigation footers and links to sister projects are already included on article pages. And some already have interface counterparts (such as image slideshows). Some of the rest may be able to be integrated directly via script, but may need further development before they are perfected. Fortunately, scripts are used on an opt-in basis, and therefore wouldn't affect readers-in-general and editors-at-large during the development process (except for those who wanted to be beta testers and installed the scripts). The development of such scripts falls under the scope of the Javascript-WikiProject/Userscript-department, and will likely be listed on Wikipedia:User scripts/List when completed enough for beta-testing. Be sure to watchlist that page. Where would that leave curated portals?Being curated. At least for the time being. New encyclopedia program features will likely eventually render most portals obsolete. For example, the pop-up feature of MediaWiki provides much the same functionality as excerpts in portals already, and there is also a slideshow feature to view all the images on the current page (just click on any image, and that activates the slideshow). Future features could also overlap portal features, until there is nothing that portals provide that isn't provided elsewhere or as part of Wikipedia's interface. But, that may be a ways off. Perhaps months or years. It depends on how rapidly programmers develop them. Keep on keepin' onThe features of Wikipedia and its articles will continue to evolve, even if Portals go by the wayside. Most, if not all of portals' functionality, or functions very similar, will likely be made available in some form or other. And who knows what else? No worries. Until next issue... — The Transhumanist 00:29, 2 May 2019 (UTC) MfD nomination of Portal:Ashura
Portal:AshuraPer your request at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Ashura, I have moved Portal:Ashura to User:Mhhossein/Ashura. Good luck with incorporating it into Portal:Shia Islam ... and thanks for being so nice about the MFD. Best wishes, --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 21:26, 6 May 2019 (UTC)
For deletionWas it necessary to say a file is up for deletion right below the sentence that the file is up for deletion? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:03, 16 May 2019 (UTC)
ThanksThanks for speaking up. I don't know if you saw this, but the thread was closed without comment on the issue. I'm sorry I didn't dig into the history a bit more; I've kind of had my hands full. Best wishes, SashiRolls t · c 14:48, 19 May 2019 (UTC)
Pleaseread WP:NOQUORUM and WP:RELISTBIAS. Regards, ∯WBGconverse 14:28, 19 June 2019 (UTC)
WikiCup 2019 July newsletterThe third round of the 2019 WikiCup has now come to an end. The 16 users who made it to the fourth round needed to score at least 68 points, which is substantially lower than last year's 227 points. Our top scorers in round 3 were:
Contestants managed 4 (5) featured articles, 4 featured lists, 18 featured pictures, 29 good articles, 50 DYK entries, 9 ITN entries, and 39 good article reviews. As we enter the fourth round, remember that any content promoted after the end of round 3 but before the start of round 4 can be claimed in round 4. Please also remember that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them, and it is imperative to claim them in the correct round; one FA claim had to be rejected because it was incorrectly submitted (claimed in Round 3 when it qualified for Round 2), so be warned! When doing GARs, please make sure that you check that all the GA criteria are fully met. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article nominations, a featured process, or anything else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed (remember to remove your listing when no longer required). 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 your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Godot13 (talk), Sturmvogel 66 (talk), Vanamonde (talk) and Cwmhiraeth (talk). MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 20:12, 2 July 2019 (UTC) ThanksI appreciate your email. Accept my apologize to response you with a belated period. My best wishes and DUA to Almighty for YOU. Thanks Nannadeem (talk) 15:54, 13 June 2019 (UTC)
Speedy deletion nomination of Death of Mohammad Habali
A tag has been placed on Death of Mohammad Habali requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G4 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page appears to be a repost of material that was previously deleted following a deletion discussion, such as at Articles for deletion. When a page has substantially identical content to that of a page deleted after a discussion, and any changes in the content do not address the reasons for which the material was previously deleted, it may be deleted at any time. If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator, or if you have already done so, you can place a request here. Icewhiz (talk) 15:09, 30 July 2019 (UTC) MEK is under 'consensus required' restrictionHey, your edit is a breach of the recent restriction of the page made by El C after users agreed upon it. Please self revert, and be careful for next edits. Thanks. -- Stefka Bulgaria (talk) 15:06, 10 August 2019 (UTC)
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A community discussion has authorised the use of general sanctions to curtail disruption in articles related to post-1978 Iranian politics, broadly construed. Before continuing to make edits that involve this topic, please read the full description of these sanctions here. General sanctions is a system of conduct regulation designed to minimise disruption in controversial topic areas. This means uninvolved administrators can impose sanctions for edits relating to these topics that do not adhere to the purpose of Wikipedia, our standards of behaviour, or relevant policies. Administrators may impose sanctions such as editing restrictions, bans, or blocks. An editor can only be sanctioned after he or she has been made aware that general sanctions are in effect. This notification is meant to inform you that sanctions are authorised in these topic areas, which you have been editing. It is only effective if it is logged here. Before continuing to edit pages in these topic areas, please familiarise yourself with the general sanctions system. Don't hesitate to contact me or another editor if you have any questions.Backlog BanzaiIn the month of September, Wikiproject Military history is running a project-wide edit-a-thon, Backlog Banzai. There are heaps of different areas you can work on, for which you claim points, and at the end of the month all sorts of whiz-bang awards will be handed out. Every player wins a prize! There is even a bit of friendly competition built in for those that like that sort of thing. Sign up now at Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/September 2019 Backlog Banzai to take part. For the coordinators, Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 08:18, 22 August 2019 (UTC) Closure review- Order of paragraphs in lead of MEK articleDo you really wish to cast aspersions of wikilawyering, given, you are taking my quote out of the fuller context, you appear to be arguing that the lead should not
Wikiproject Military history coordinator election nominations openNominations for the upcoming project coordinator election are now open. A team of up to ten coordinators will be elected for the next year. The project coordinators are the designated points of contact for issues concerning the project, and are responsible for maintaining our internal structure and processes. They do not, however, have any authority over article content or editor conduct, or any other special powers. More information on being a coordinator is available here. If you are interested in running, please sign up here by 23:59 UTC on 14 September! Voting doesn't commence until 15 September. If you have any questions, you can contact any member of the coord team. Cheers, Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 02:38, 1 September 2019 (UTC) WikiCup 2019 September newsletterThe fourth round of the competition has finished in a flurry of last minute activity, with 454 points being required to qualify for the final round. It was a hotly competitive round with two contestants with over 400 points being eliminated, and all but two of the finalists having achieved an FA during the round. Casliber, our 2016 winner, was the highest point-scorer, followed by Enwebb and Lee Vilenski, who are both new to the competition. In fourth place was SounderBruce, a finalist last year. But all those points are swept away as we start afresh for the final round. Round 4 saw the achievement of 11 featured articles. In addition, Adam Cuerden scored with 18 FPs, Lee Vilenski led the GA score with 8 GAs while Kosack performed 15 GA reviews. There were around 40 DYKs, 40 GARs and 31 GAs overall during round 4. Even though contestants performed more GARs than they achieved GAs, there was still some frustration at the length of time taken to get articles reviewed. As we start round 5, we say goodbye to the eight competitors who didn't quite make it; thank you for the useful contributions you have made to the Cup and Wikipedia, and we hope you will join us again next year. Remember that any content promoted after the end of round 4 but before the start of round 5 can be claimed in round 5. Remember too that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them (some people have fallen foul of this rule and the points have been removed). If you are concerned that your nomination, whether it be for a good article, a featured process, or anything else, will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed (remember to remove your listing when no longer required). 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. 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, Vanamonde and Cwmhiraeth MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:44, 1 September 2019 (UTC) DYK for Assassination of Ali Sayyad ShiraziOn 2 September 2019, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Assassination of Ali Sayyad Shirazi, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Ali Sayyad Shirazi, deputy chief of staff of the Iranian armed forces, was assassinated in 1999 by a Mojahedin-e Khalq agent disguised as a street cleaner? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Assassination of Ali Sayyad Shirazi. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Assassination of Ali Sayyad Shirazi), 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. valereee (talk) 12:01, 2 September 2019 (UTC) Milhist coordinator election voting has commencedG'day everyone, voting for the 2019 Wikiproject Military history coordinator tranche is now open. This is a simple approval vote; only "support" votes should be made. Project members should vote for any candidates they support by 23:59 (UTC) on 28 September 2018. Thanks, Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 03:37, 15 September 2019 (UTC) Dispute resolutionI've taken one of our discussions on the MEK's TP to Dispute resolution. This message is to notify you. Stefka Bulgaria (talk) 09:41, 17 September 2019 (UTC) Wikiproject Military history coordinator election half-way markG'day everyone, the voting for the XIX Coordinator Tranche is at the halfway mark. The candidates have answered various questions, and you can check them out to see why they are running and decide whether you support them. Project members should vote for any candidates they support by 23:59 (UTC) on 28 September 2018. Thanks, Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 07:36, 22 September 2019 (UTC) PhotoDear Mhhossein, El_C has given his OK to put the photo back in the article. Since I am still under sanction, would you be so kind to put it back in the article? To refresh your memory it should be located in the "State-Sponsorship" section. Thanks.--Kazemita1 (talk) 16:18, 27 September 2019 (UTC) Please self-revertMhhossein, between September 14 and 15 (can't tell for sure because admin Diannaa crossed-out the edits), Kazemita1 added the subheading to the MEK article "Violence and Terrorism". I then reverted this to the long standing version of the article, which means you shouldn't have reverted it back to the article based on its current restrictions. To avoid reporting you and as a sign of WP:AGF, I'm asking you to self-revert to the long-standing version of the article. Stefka Bulgaria (talk) 11:32, 29 September 2019 (UTC)
@Mhhossein: you were indeed suggesting that it was my responsibility "to achieve consensus" over text that had been added to the article 6 weeks prior you complaining about it: El_C asked you to self-revert 3 days ago, and you still have not. @El C: to resume, On Sept. 29th I reverted an edit that was added by Kazemita1 on Setp 15th. It took me a while to find the edit because they had been made unavailable due to copy-right infringements. Mhhossein then re-reverted my revert, so as a sign of WP:AGF I asked him here to self-revert to avoid reporting him, but he refused. You then asked him to self-revert, and he also refused. Isn't this a violation of the page's current restrictions? Stefka Bulgaria (talk) 16:03, 1 October 2019 (UTC)
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Welcome to the 2020 WikiCup!Happy New Year, Happy New Decade and Happy New WikiCup! The competition begins today and all article creators, expanders and improvers are welcome to take part. If you have already signed up, your submissions page can be found here. If you have not yet signed up, you can add your name here and the judges will set up your submissions page. We are relaxing the rule that only content on which you have completed significant work during 2020 will count; now to be eligible for points in the competition, you must have completed significant work on the content at some time! Any questions on the rules or on anything else connected to the Cup should be directed to one of the judges, or posted to the WikiCup talk page. Signups will close at the end of January, and the first round will end on 26 February; the 64 highest scorers at that time will move on to round 2. Good luck! The judges for the WikiCup are Sturmvogel 66 (talk · contribs · email), Godot13 (talk · contribs · email), Vanamonde93 (talk · contribs · email) and Cwmhiraeth (talk) 11:43, 1 January 2020 (UTC) RfCThis is a perfect example of a battleground attitude, and I'm sorely tempted to sanction you for it. An RfC is a consensus building mechanism. If another editor comes up with an option that resolves the dispute, that is a good thing. You removing options looks like you're interested in pushing your preferred text rather than in resolving the dispute; if that's not the case, please drop the issue now. Vanamonde (Talk) 16:45, 10 February 2020 (UTC)
March Madness 2020G'day all, March Madness 2020 is about to get underway, and there is bling aplenty for those who want to get stuck into the backlog by way of tagging, assessing, updating, adding or improving resources and creating articles. If you haven't already signed up to participate, why not? The more the merrier! Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 08:19, 29 February 2020 (UTC) for the coord team WikiCup 2020 March newsletterAnd so ends the first round of the competition. Everyone with a positive score moves on to Round 2, with 57 contestants qualifying. We have abolished the groups this year, so to qualify for Round 3 you will need to finish Round 2 among the top thirty-two contestants. Our top scorers in Round 1 were:
These contestants, like all the others, now have to start scoring points again from scratch. In Round 1 there were four featured articles, one featured list and two featured pictures, as well as around two hundred DYKs and twenty-seven ITNs. Between them, contestants completed 127 good article reviews, nearly a hundred more than the 43 good articles they claimed for, thus making a substantial dent in the review backlog. Contestants also claimed for 40 featured article / featured list reviews, and most even remembered to mention their WikiCup participation in their reviews (a requirement). Remember that any content promoted after the end of Round 1 but before the start of Round 2 can be claimed in Round 2. Some contestants made claims before the new submissions pages were set up, and they will need to resubmit 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. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, 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 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 (talk), Sturmvogel 66 (talk), Vanamonde (talk) and Cwmhiraeth (talk). MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:47, 1 March 2020 (UTC) WikiCup newsletter correctionThere was an error in the WikiCup 2020 March newsletter; Possible problem with hadith articleAs a member of the Wikipedia:WikiProject Islam/Hadith task force I was wondering if you would have a look at the recent edits of the Hadith article made by User:VenusFeuerFalle. They seem to be aimed at deleting substantial information explaining why hadith are important to Islam. Thank you in advance if you can do this.--BoogaLouie (talk) 22:47, 24 February 2020 (UTC)
Importance of hadith complementing the QuranThe theological importance of hadith comes from several verses in the Quran such as (The claim is not back up by any source, it is only concluded from the following statements within the section):
Yes, the entire section was build upon this. Next one: "derived solely from the hadith" (I changed to "reported in hadiths" since not all practises are on hadiths alone, there are even other sources apart from the Quran which simply derived over time as folkloric pracitises or they derived from exegesis of the Quran n combination with the hadith. Regarding the source given, I could not find the reference, but probably because the page number is not shown at GoogleBooks (have not found it in my libary). The most close I found was "As Nawawi explains, when the ulama have arrived at certainty about a stance derived from the Qur'an and Sunna as a whole, all individual Qur'anic verses and Hadiths must be interpreted to accord with it." Not sure if this cites the statement above, but I think it does not matter, since it is evident from that follows and that is self-evident. This is also the reason I did not removed it and would not eve remove, if the source actually makes no explicit statement. But I thought it should be rewritten (the "solely")). Here we have the next: " Almost all Muslims, therefore, can be called Hadithists (i.e. believers in hadith), and maintain that the hadith" (as stated in the edit-summary, the term "hadithiss" seems to be invented. Never encoutnered any scholar who refered to non-Quranites as "hadithists". The term simply does not exists (there is also no source given, which could have introduced the term).) "Quranists, on the contrary, hold that if the Quran is silent on some matter, it is because Allah did not hold its detail to be of consequence; and that some hadith contradict the Quran, evidence that some hadith are a source of corruption and not a complement to the Quran." (This is a statement about the belief of a specific group, what should have been sourced. Also, it implies about the Quran, it is silent about something, a point Quranites would disagree entirely, since they hold the Quran does not need explanation but is complete already. For example the prayers, usually regarded by opponents of Quranism, as relying on the hadith, Quranits use Quran-verses only to perform prayer. This debate was also written below. But since this implies as dispute, not supported by any reliable source, I removed it. It leads to an ongoing discussion Quranites and non-Quranites have and we are not a forum for discussion, we add discussions, when we have unbiased sources for them and not write that either we think or we think others might think. It is not a blog, neither is it an essay.) "A classical example is salat (the five daily prayers of Islam), which is commanded in the Quran, and considered by all Muslims to be an obligatory part of Islamic religious practice, one of the five pillars of Islam." (More Essay-Style, when referring to an exmaple provided by the author of the article, tells about a dispute. Since the dispute is well known, I shortened it to " An example are the obligatory prayers, which are commanded in the Quran, but explained in hadith." and added it to the section above, but the conclusion made up by the author of the article (still the author of the article, not a source!) was removed by me, that is the " demonstrating to Hadithists that hadith "validly" fulfill the Quranic command of ritual prayer"-part." Although I think the following part " However, hadith differ on these details and consequently salat is performed differently by different hadithist Islamic sects.[Note 2] " is still unencessary, I kept it, since I think it does not violent any WikiPedia Guidelines, nor that it is biased. But the removed content (or in another case adjusted content), was rather like an Essay, providing two points of arguements with a final conclusion, based on the opinnion of the former author, only supported by Webpages, which only confirmed one side of the arguement." Just to sum it up. My objection was not solely based on the sources used as explained above.--VenusFeuerFalle (talk) 19:33, 25 February 2020 (UTC)
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 Mhhossein (block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log)) Request reason: I did not miss the sources provided and gone through some of them. I had started a Wikipedia:BOLD, revert, discuss cycle and there was no edit war or exchange of edits in between. As a participant, I was expressing my understanding of the of the sources and the term which was to be inserted. I have actively participated many talk page discussions and created dozens of GAs and hence know about the five pillars. I was accused of "sophistry" by the blocking admin. "I don't believe this, so it isn't true" is also used against me to reach the conclusion that I am "unable to separate [my] personal POV from that of the sources" then I invite you to take a look at [3] and [4] where the editor, who is an admin, is explaining the applicability of "cult of personality" when it comes to PERSONs. I request the review of block, just tarnished my block-log, since I have always tried to show my participation in talk page discussions in a constructive manner. The block essentially stopped the possibility of any further dispute resolution steps, discussions and refinements. Mhhossein talk 07:58, 17 April 2020 (UTC) Decline reason: Mhhossein, I'm sorry, I know this isn't what you want to hear, but I agree with Vanamonde. The whole de facto argument does come across as sophistry, and is, therefore, tendentiousness. The Post-1978 Iranian politics General Sanctions gives Vanamonde a lot of leeway in applying sanctions for conduct to which they consider a violation. My assessment is that they were well within their remit. An edit war is not a prerequisite for sanctions to be applied. I'm confident you can improve by learning from this temporary restriction. Best, El_C 13:01, 18 April 2020 (UTC) If you want to make any further unblock requests, please read the guide to appealing blocks first, then use the {{unblock}} template again. If you make too many unconvincing or disruptive unblock requests, you may be prevented from editing this page until your block has expired. Do not remove this unblock review while you are blocked.
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WikiCup 2020 May newsletterThe second round of the 2020 WikiCup has now finished. It was a high-scoring round and contestants needed 75 points to advance to round 3. There were some very impressive efforts in round 2, with the top ten contestants all scoring more than 500 points. A large number of the points came from the 12 featured articles and the 186 good articles achieved in total by contestants, and the 355 good article reviews they performed; the GAN backlog drive and the stay-at-home imperative during the COVID-19 pandemic may have been partially responsible for these impressive figures. Our top scorers in round 2 were:
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Farsi Wikipedia - COVID-19Hi Mhhossein, I hope you're doing well. I found your username at the Wikipedia Embassy for Farsi. Over at fa:دنیاگیری کروناویروس بر پایه کشور و سرزمین, the image "COVID-19 Outbreak World Map per Capita.svg" is used from Commons with a specified date, but the file is continuously updated. To try to make sure the dates are up to date, the person who created the image and I created an item on Wikidata, which will have the correct date on it. For the most part, I'm just updating the pages on other wikis as appropriate, but in the process of trying to find the relevant bit to update on fawiki (as I'm fa-0), Google Translate translates Would you mind telling me if that's the correct place to put the date that the corresponding map was last updated, or whether the date there is meant to represent something else? Thank you! Naypta ☺ | ✉ talk page | 10:38, 1 June 2020 (UTC)
Requesting helpHi greetings, I have been looking for update and expansion support for 2 following articles in draft namespace
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Please do have a look at the article, do update, expand, correct inaccuracies, suggest and discuss better article titles Looking forward to your kind support. Thanks and warm regards Bookku (talk) 08:21, 30 June 2020 (UTC)
Thanks for your support to the article, very nice of you. Actually I am also looking for opinions on moving article Draft:Aurat (word) to Awarat (word) @ Draft talk:Aurat (word)#Draft:Awrat (word) as 1'st round informal discussion. Since you have visited the article your opinion will be helpful. Thanks and regards Bookku (talk) 13:19, 30 June 2020 (UTC)
In a way you are partially right, Right now I see it as possibly either as a main article covering historical linguistic factors or if community decides later will get spit and merge in other articles. Basically length of the article would depend how much enthusiastically people from different geographies will work of historical and contemporary linguistics and other aspects (depends again not get stone walled). Some of the historical linguistic part will remain out of scope of awrah and some historical linguistic part will remain out of scope of Draft:Aurat (as women). If a little of extra information how so ever well researched and referenced is stone walled citing WP:COATRACK. Any way etymological section in awrah is/was not properly referenced. Splitting merging or retaining can be decided later. My outlook is always let people write first with references with as much a global view as much possible. WP:COATRACK is used to stone wall global view. Historical transformation and usage of certain word is it my making? I study deep write in detail encyclopedic only. I find Wikipedia decision making strange some times. Although by now it is bit of long story but to cut it short actually I worked for article Aurat as women. added etymological information in normal course with refs as I usually work in detail it grew to two paras, some body else forced word 'Word' in title and indirectly forced to split out Aurat Women. I didn't liked all the presumptuous stone walling, in Wikipedia concerns of curation get precedence even before researching and writing. Those who neither have subject background, study or research take decisions such situation I find myself helpless in a way. I prefer to focus on research, study and write. I am coming to terms with Wikipedia environment with 'Let others do fights over curation and decisions how so ever illogical those are' Bookku (talk) 14:07, 30 June 2020 (UTC) WikiCup 2020 July newsletterThe third round of the 2020 WikiCup has now come to an end. The 16 users who made it into the fourth round each had at least 353 points (compared to 68 in 2019). It was a highly competitive round, and a number of contestants were eliminated who would have moved on in earlier years. Our top scorers in round 3 were:
Between them, contestants managed 14 featured articles, 9 featured lists, 3 featured pictures, 152 good articles, 136 DYK entries, 55 ITN entries, 65 featured article candidate reviews and 221 good article reviews. Additionally, 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 Needed (remember to remove your listing when no longer required). 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 your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Godot13 (talk), Sturmvogel 66 (talk), Vanamonde (talk), Cwmhiraeth (talk) MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 12:33, 2 July 2020 (UTC)
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