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User talk:Teblick/Archive 2Articles you might like to edit, from SuggestBotNote: All columns in this table are sortable, allowing you to rearrange the table so the articles most interesting to you are shown at the top. All images have mouse-over popups with more information. For more information about the columns and categories, please consult the documentation and please get in touch on SuggestBot's talk page with any questions you might have. SuggestBot picks articles in a number of ways based on other articles you've edited, including straight text similarity, following wikilinks, and matching your editing patterns against those of other Wikipedians. It tries to recommend only articles that other Wikipedians have marked as needing work. We appreciate that you have signed up to receive suggestions regularly; your contributions make Wikipedia better — thanks for helping! If you have feedback on how to make SuggestBot better, please let us know on SuggestBot's talk page. Regards from Nettrom (talk), SuggestBot's caretaker. -- SuggestBot (talk) 01:34, 13 January 2016 (UTC) WikiProject X Newsletter • Issue 6 Newsletter • January 2016
Hello there! Happy to be writing this newsletter once more. This month: What comes next
Some good news: the Wikimedia Foundation has renewed WikiProject X. This means we can continue focusing on making WikiProjects better. During our first round of work, we created a prototype WikiProject based on two ideas: (1) WikiProjects should clearly present things for people to do, and (2) The content of WikiProjects should be automated as much as possible. We launched pilots, and for the most part it works. But this approach will not work for the long term. While it makes certain aspects of running a WikiProject easier, it makes the maintenance aspects harder. We are working on a major overhaul that will address these issues. New features will include:
The end goal is a collaboration tool that can be used by WikiProjects but also by any edit-a-thon or group of people that want to coordinate on improving articles. Though implemented as an extension, the underlying content will be wikitext, meaning that you can continue to use categories, templates, and other features as you normally would. This will take a lot of work, and we are just getting started. What would you like to see? I invite you to discuss on our talk page.
Articles you might like to edit, from SuggestBotNote: All columns in this table are sortable, allowing you to rearrange the table so the articles most interesting to you are shown at the top. All images have mouse-over popups with more information. For more information about the columns and categories, please consult the documentation and please get in touch on SuggestBot's talk page with any questions you might have. SuggestBot picks articles in a number of ways based on other articles you've edited, including straight text similarity, following wikilinks, and matching your editing patterns against those of other Wikipedians. It tries to recommend only articles that other Wikipedians have marked as needing work. We appreciate that you have signed up to receive suggestions regularly; your contributions make Wikipedia better — thanks for helping! If you have feedback on how to make SuggestBot better, please let us know on SuggestBot's talk page. Regards from Nettrom (talk), SuggestBot's caretaker. -- SuggestBot (talk) 01:42, 27 January 2016 (UTC) A barnstar for you!
Articles you might like to edit, from SuggestBotNote: All columns in this table are sortable, allowing you to rearrange the table so the articles most interesting to you are shown at the top. All images have mouse-over popups with more information. For more information about the columns and categories, please consult the documentation and please get in touch on SuggestBot's talk page with any questions you might have. SuggestBot picks articles in a number of ways based on other articles you've edited, including straight text similarity, following wikilinks, and matching your editing patterns against those of other Wikipedians. It tries to recommend only articles that other Wikipedians have marked as needing work. We appreciate that you have signed up to receive suggestions regularly; your contributions make Wikipedia better — thanks for helping! If you have feedback on how to make SuggestBot better, please let us know on SuggestBot's talk page. Regards from Nettrom (talk), SuggestBot's caretaker. -- SuggestBot (talk) 01:24, 10 February 2016 (UTC) Books & Bytes - Issue 15
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The Interior via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 19:19, 19 February 2016 (UTC) Articles you might like to edit, from SuggestBotNote: All columns in this table are sortable, allowing you to rearrange the table so the articles most interesting to you are shown at the top. All images have mouse-over popups with more information. For more information about the columns and categories, please consult the documentation and please get in touch on SuggestBot's talk page with any questions you might have. SuggestBot picks articles in a number of ways based on other articles you've edited, including straight text similarity, following wikilinks, and matching your editing patterns against those of other Wikipedians. It tries to recommend only articles that other Wikipedians have marked as needing work. We appreciate that you have signed up to receive suggestions regularly; your contributions make Wikipedia better — thanks for helping! If you have feedback on how to make SuggestBot better, please let us know on SuggestBot's talk page. Regards from Nettrom (talk), SuggestBot's caretaker. -- SuggestBot (talk) 01:20, 24 February 2016 (UTC) WikiProject X Newsletter • Issue 7 Newsletter • February 2016
This month: One database for Wikipedia requests
Development of the extension for setting up WikiProjects, as described in the last issue of this newsletter, is currently underway. No terribly exciting news on this front. In the meantime, we are working on a prototype for a new service we hope to announce soon. The problem: there are requests scattered all across Wikipedia, including requests for new articles and requests for improvements to existing articles. We Wikipedians are very good at coming up with lists of things to do. But once we write these lists, where do they end up? How can we make them useful for all editors—even those who do not browse the missing articles lists, or the particular WikiProjects that have lists? Introducing Wikipedia Requests, a new tool to centralize the various lists of requests around Wikipedia. Requests will be tagged by category and WikiProject, making it easier to find requests based on what your interests are. Accompanying this service will be a bot that will let you generate reports from this database on any wiki page, including WikiProjects. This means that once a request is filed centrally, it can syndicated all throughout Wikipedia, and once it is fulfilled, it will be marked as "complete" throughout Wikipedia. The idea for this service came about when I saw that it was easy to put together to-do lists based on database queries, but it was harder to do this for human-generated requests when those requests are scattered throughout the wiki, siloed throughout several pages. This should especially be useful for WikiProjects that have overlapping interests. The newsletter this month is fairly brief; not a lot of news, just checking in to say that we are hard at work and hope to have more for you soon. Until next time, Harej (talk) 01:44, 24 February 2016 (UTC) Articles you might like to edit, from SuggestBotNote: All columns in this table are sortable, allowing you to rearrange the table so the articles most interesting to you are shown at the top. All images have mouse-over popups with more information. For more information about the columns and categories, please consult the documentation and please get in touch on SuggestBot's talk page with any questions you might have. SuggestBot picks articles in a number of ways based on other articles you've edited, including straight text similarity, following wikilinks, and matching your editing patterns against those of other Wikipedians. It tries to recommend only articles that other Wikipedians have marked as needing work. We appreciate that you have signed up to receive suggestions regularly; your contributions make Wikipedia better — thanks for helping! If you have feedback on how to make SuggestBot better, please let us know on SuggestBot's talk page. -- SuggestBot (talk) 01:22, 9 March 2016 (UTC) Maryn McKennaThank you for your contributions to the article Maryn McKenna. I figured the article would have been deleted which is why I started the draft Maryn McKenna Draft. I'm sure it needs to be deleted but it could be of some use because I've added more references to it, and Perhaps you can use some of the info from the draft to put on the page. Book-Portal & Talk 11:11, 21 March 2016 (UTC) Articles you might like to edit, from SuggestBotNote: All columns in this table are sortable, allowing you to rearrange the table so the articles most interesting to you are shown at the top. All images have mouse-over popups with more information. For more information about the columns and categories, please consult the documentation and please get in touch on SuggestBot's talk page with any questions you might have. SuggestBot picks articles in a number of ways based on other articles you've edited, including straight text similarity, following wikilinks, and matching your editing patterns against those of other Wikipedians. It tries to recommend only articles that other Wikipedians have marked as needing work. We appreciate that you have signed up to receive suggestions regularly; your contributions make Wikipedia better — thanks for helping! If you have feedback on how to make SuggestBot better, please let us know on SuggestBot's talk page. -- SuggestBot (talk) 00:25, 23 March 2016 (UTC) TB You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template. Hi!I have checked the 69 articles created by you, please check my most recent edits. If you search within a PDF file the URL changes. For example, if you search for "army hour" then it looks like this: http://www.americanradiohistory.com/hd2/Archive-BC-IDX/40-OCR/1940-04-01-BC-OCR-Page-0074.pdf#search=%22army hour%22 (emphasis mine). The last part of that URL, #search=%22army hour%22, causes an error on Wikipedia. I fixed that, simply by removing that last part of the URL. Before that edit, the article looked like this and now the article looks like this. %22 is the URL encoding for the double quote. The Quixotic Potato (talk) 03:02, 30 March 2016 (UTC) A Article Reward for you!
Articles you might like to edit, from SuggestBotNote: All columns in this table are sortable, allowing you to rearrange the table so the articles most interesting to you are shown at the top. All images have mouse-over popups with more information. For more information about the columns and categories, please consult the documentation and please get in touch on SuggestBot's talk page with any questions you might have. SuggestBot picks articles in a number of ways based on other articles you've edited, including straight text similarity, following wikilinks, and matching your editing patterns against those of other Wikipedians. It tries to recommend only articles that other Wikipedians have marked as needing work. We appreciate that you have signed up to receive suggestions regularly; your contributions make Wikipedia better — thanks for helping! If you have feedback on how to make SuggestBot better, please let us know on SuggestBot's talk page. -- SuggestBot (talk) 12:19, 6 April 2016 (UTC) Books & Bytes - Issue 16
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The Interior via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 15:16, 14 April 2016 (UTC) WikiProject X Newsletter • Issue 8Newsletter • March / April 2016
This month: Transclude article requests anywhere on Wikipedia
In the last issue of the WikiProject X Newsletter, I discussed the upcoming Wikipedia Requests system: a central database for outstanding work on Wikipedia. I am pleased to announce Wikipedia Requests is live! Its purpose is to supplement automatically generated lists, such as those from SuggestBot, Reports bot, or Wikidata. It is currently being demonstrated on WikiProject Occupational Safety and Health (which I work on as part of my NIOSH duties) and WikiProject Women scientists. Adding a request is as simple as filling out a form. Just go to the Add form to add your request. Adding sources will help ensure that your request is fulfilled more quickly. And when a request is fulfilled, simply click "mark as complete" and it will be removed from all the lists it's on. All at the click of a button! (If anyone is concerned, all actions are logged.) With this new service is a template to transclude these requests: {{Wikipedia Requests}}. It's simple to use: add the template to a page, specifying Help us build our list!
The value of Wikipedia Requests comes from being a centralized database. The long work to migrating individual lists into this combined list is slowly underway. As of writing, we have 883 open tasks logged in Wikipedia Requests. We need your help building this list. If you know of a list of missing articles, or of outstanding tasks for existing articles, that you would like to migrate to this new system, head on over to Wikipedia:Wikipedia Requests#Transition project and help out. Doing this will help put your list in front of more eyes—more than just your own WikiProject. An open database means new tools
WikiProject X maintains a database that associates article talk pages (and draft talk pages) with WikiProjects. This database powers many of the reports that Reports bot generates. However, until very recently, this database was not made available to others who might find its data useful. It's only common sense to open up the database and let others build tools with it. And indeed: Citation Hunt, the game to add citations to Wikipedia, now lets you filter by WikiProject, using the data from our database. Are you a tool developer interested in using this? Here are some details: the database resides on Tool Labs with the name On the horizon
Until next time, Harej (talk) 01:29, 20 April 2016 (UTC) Articles you might like to edit, from SuggestBotNote: All columns in this table are sortable, allowing you to rearrange the table so the articles most interesting to you are shown at the top. All images have mouse-over popups with more information. For more information about the columns and categories, please consult the documentation and please get in touch on SuggestBot's talk page with any questions you might have.
SuggestBot picks articles in a number of ways based on other articles you've edited, including straight text similarity, following wikilinks, and matching your editing patterns against those of other Wikipedians. It tries to recommend only articles that other Wikipedians have marked as needing work. We appreciate that you have signed up to receive suggestions regularly; your contributions make Wikipedia better — thanks for helping! If you have feedback on how to make SuggestBot better, please let us know on SuggestBot's talk page. -- SuggestBot (talk) 14:03, 20 April 2016 (UTC) Shhhh!I must have goofed up when I added the links to your user page and the research page because you weren't supposed to know until later. :-) We hope (talk) 00:54, 24 April 2016 (UTC) Re: Removing images that do not meet WP guidelines Please note that all old questions are archived after 2-3 days of inactivity. Message added by Marchjuly (talk) 00:51, 27 April 2016 (UTC). (You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{teahouse talkback}} template. TalkbackYou can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template. Articles you might like to edit, from SuggestBotNote: All columns in this table are sortable, allowing you to rearrange the table so the articles most interesting to you are shown at the top. All images have mouse-over popups with more information. For more information about the columns and categories, please consult the documentation and please get in touch on SuggestBot's talk page with any questions you might have. SuggestBot picks articles in a number of ways based on other articles you've edited, including straight text similarity, following wikilinks, and matching your editing patterns against those of other Wikipedians. It tries to recommend only articles that other Wikipedians have marked as needing work. We appreciate that you have signed up to receive suggestions regularly; your contributions make Wikipedia better — thanks for helping! If you have feedback on how to make SuggestBot better, please let us know on SuggestBot's talk page. -- SuggestBot (talk) 12:23, 4 May 2016 (UTC) Joan EdwardsI think you'll need to create a disambiguation page with both of these names on it and redirect "Joan Edwards" to the disambiguation page you create.We hope (talk) 16:34, 4 May 2016 (UTC)
Articles you might like to edit, from SuggestBotNote: All columns in this table are sortable, allowing you to rearrange the table so the articles most interesting to you are shown at the top. All images have mouse-over popups with more information. For more information about the columns and categories, please consult the documentation and please get in touch on SuggestBot's talk page with any questions you might have. SuggestBot picks articles in a number of ways based on other articles you've edited, including straight text similarity, following wikilinks, and matching your editing patterns against those of other Wikipedians. It tries to recommend only articles that other Wikipedians have marked as needing work. We appreciate that you have signed up to receive suggestions regularly; your contributions make Wikipedia better — thanks for helping! If you have feedback on how to make SuggestBot better, please let us know on SuggestBot's talk page. -- SuggestBot (talk) 13:11, 18 May 2016 (UTC) Disambiguation link notification for May 23Hi. Thank you for your recent edits. Wikipedia appreciates your help. We noticed though that when you edited Ichabod and Me, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page Christine White. Such links are almost always unintended, since a disambiguation page is merely a list of "Did you mean..." article titles. Read the FAQ • Join us at the DPL WikiProject. It's OK to remove this message. Also, to stop receiving these messages, follow these opt-out instructions. Thanks, DPL bot (talk) 09:44, 23 May 2016 (UTC) Books & Bytes - Issue 17
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The Interior via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 02:36, 16 June 2016 (UTC) WikiProject X Newsletter • Issue 9Newsletter • May / June 2016
Check out this month's issue of the WikiProject X newsletter, featuring the first screenshot of our new CollaborationKit software! Harej (talk) 00:23, 25 June 2016 (UTC) Re: photosYou're welcome! :) As I find more, I'll add them. ;) Re; Article changesYou're always welcome! :-) If you have the book Radio Speakers, you can read the account of the red hot feud between the Fitzgeralds and Dorothy Kilgallen and her husband, Richard Kollmar (Breakfast with Dorothy & Dick). I just looked to see if the 1979 Kilgallen bio was online as it also detailed it, but no luck. ;-) We hope (talk) 21:30, 17 July 2016 (UTC) Reference errors on 26 July
Please check this page and fix the errors highlighted. If you think this is a false positive, you can report it to my operator. Thanks, ReferenceBot (talk) 00:20, 27 July 2016 (UTC) Re: Ed Prentiss photoAdd these to the file description: Giving the link lets anyone see at a glance where the photo came from Radio and Television Mirror January 1941 Giving the link lets anyone verify the date Link for the magazine publisher A search for renewal was done in publications for the years 1968 and 1969. There were no listings for the title Radio and Televsion Mirror. There's no evidence of renewal for the magazine. That lets anyone who cares to look it up if they want to see for themselves. HTH! We hope (talk) 19:34, 17 August 2016 (UTC)
Old time radio categoriesI think it's because no one took the time to create these categories. Don't think there have been a lot of people who worked with old time radio; there was one active editor for quite a while but a couple of years ago, he stopped editing for some reason. I'd say there's no reason you can't create the categories as long as you're willing to sort out all of the articles to populate them. :) We hope (talk) 02:30, 23 August 2016 (UTC) thxfor interest Victuallers (talk) 16:16, 23 August 2016 (UTC) Books & Bytes - Issue 18
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The Interior via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 23:25, 31 August 2016 (UTC) Proposed deletion of Ted Steele (disambiguation) The article Ted Steele (disambiguation) has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:
While all constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, content or articles may be deleted for any of several reasons. You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing Re:photoIt always seems to me there's more trouble getting a decent size photo when the image is wider than it is tall. One thing you can work with is this [[File:Joyce Jordan-Girl Interne (1940).jpg|250px]] because it lets you change the size of the image, as you would if you were posting a photo elsewhere in the article with the "thumb" feature. [[File:Joyce Jordan-Girl Interne (1940).jpg|250px|thumb]] This is a link to a full-size copy of the magazine page; the photo will be quite a bit larger taken from it. You can re-do the photo from it and upload it over the present one (no worries because it's only a larger copy). Think one or both of these will help. We hope (talk) 13:56, 22 September 2016 (UTC)
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19:07, 1 November 2016 (UTC) ArbCom Elections 2016: Voting now open! Hello, Teblick. Voting in the 2016 Arbitration Committee elections is open from Monday, 00:00, 21 November through Sunday, 23:59, 4 December to all unblocked users who have registered an account before Wednesday, 00:00, 28 October 2016 and have made at least 150 mainspace edits before Sunday, 00:00, 1 November 2016. 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 2016 election, please review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 22:08, 21 November 2016 (UTC) Looking for TeblickI saw that you edited a page on Marvin Miller, the original voice of Robbie the Robot. My grandfather was one of the original radio announcers for NBC in St. Louis. He died around 1957 in a car accident and Marvin Miller was with him. They were in their way back from Hollywood to St. Louis at the time of the accident. I was wondering if you had any resources that I could search to find info on my grandfather. His name was Sidney Yawitz. Any ideas or help would be greatly appreciated! Dennis Yawitz Rocket0023@msn.com Rocket0023 (talk) 05:29, 4 December 2016 (UTC) Looking for TeblickI saw that you edited a page on Marvin Miller, the original voice of Robbie the Robot. My grandfather was one of the original radio announcers for NBC in St. Louis. He died around 1957 in a car accident and Marvin Miller was with him. They were in their way back from Hollywood to St. Louis at the time of the accident. I was wondering if you had any resources that I could search to find info on my grandfather. His name was Sidney Yawitz. Any ideas or help would be greatly appreciated! Dennis Yawitz Rocket0023@msn.com Rocket0023 (talk) 05:29, 4 December 2016 (UTC) Looking for TeblickI saw that you edited a page on Marvin Miller, the original voice of Robbie the Robot. My grandfather was one of the original radio announcers for NBC in St. Louis. He died around 1957 in a car accident and Marvin Miller was with him. They were in their way back from Hollywood to St. Louis at the time of the accident. I was wondering if you had any resources that I could search to find info on my grandfather. His name was Sidney Yawitz. Any ideas or help would be greatly appreciated! Dennis Yawitz Rocket0023@msn.com Rocket0023 (talk) 05:30, 4 December 2016 (UTC) TalkbackMessage added 19:52, 22 December 2016 (UTC). You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template. |
