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Nomination of Taziki's Mediterranean Café for deletion

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A barnstar for you

Holiday barnstar
You deserve a holiday barnstar, but this snowflake was as close as I could come. And best holiday wishes to you. Thank you for making Wikipedia a better place. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 16:49, 19 December 2017 (UTC)

Categories

Question - considering Eric R. Dursteler studies the history of food, apparently with a focus on the Mediterranean, I was thinking maybe we should add some food categories to his BLP. Yes or no? Atsme📞📧 23:24, 28 December 2017 (UTC)

Digital clock

Hi, NA1k - question for you...the template Digital clock and date - is there a way to change the date to UTC-6? Atsme📞📧 15:10, 30 December 2017 (UTC)

  • Hi @Atsme: You would have to first substitute the clock to a page and then change the offset parameters only after substituting. If you were to change the parameters directly on the Template:Digital clock and date edit page, then everyone would have to view the time as per your setting. See the offset section on User:Anakin101/digiclock for more information, where it states, "offset = number of hours + or - UTC (default: 0)". On the Template:Digital clock and date page, the offset is at the default 0, and it needs to stay this way on the page itself. Hope all this jargon helps out! North America1000 18:00, 30 December 2017 (UTC)
Yes, thank you. I thought that might be the solution but wasn't sure if the two were connected. Have fun, be safe, and pace yourself tomorrow night! ;-) Atsme📞📧 18:07, 30 December 2017 (UTC)
@Atsme: I will certainly pace the timing on New Years Eve to have a nice, fresh drink ready the second my vodka cran runs out, perhaps then switching to a whiskey, timed right when the stroke of midnight occurs. North America1000 18:12, 30 December 2017 (UTC)
Ah-hah!! Another Cape Codder!! YES!! Before we get into happy hour, I tried adjusting the time to Texas time (-6 UTC) per your instructions (or what I understood of your instructions) but it didn't work. :-(. What am I doing wrong? Atsme📞📧 19:22, 30 December 2017 (UTC)
@Atsme: I believe I have fixed it for you on your talk page. My first edit was to re-place the template using {{subst:Digital clock and date}} (diff). This transcludes the entire template in it's markup form on your page. Then the next edit was to adjust the offset to -6, which is what you had in place previously (diff). Let me know if this worked out to display the time you want there. North America1000 22:58, 30 December 2017 (UTC)
Perfect!! I never would have figured that out on my own. Thank you!! Atsme📞📧 23:49, 30 December 2017 (UTC)
@Atsme: Aah, it was easy; it's what I get for contributing too often. Well, you're in store for a surprise from me in the next couple of days or so, but you'll just have to wait and see (don't worry, it's something nice). North America1000 23:55, 30 December 2017 (UTC)
Ooooh...I love a surprise!. Atsme📞📧 00:10, 31 December 2017 (UTC)

Update: I LOVE my digital clock & calendar!! It's one of my favorite WP Christmas presents. Thank you, NA1000!!! Be safe and have a wonderful New Year celebration!!! Atsme📞📧 23:33, 31 December 2017 (UTC)

New Years new page backlog drive

Hello Northamerica1000, thank you for your efforts reviewing new pages!

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Hattie B's Hot Chicken

I'm quite impressed by your rewriting of the article. I was thinking of renominating it in a year or so, but I'm not going to do that now. DGG ( talk ) 02:03, 31 December 2017 (UTC)

Happy New Year

Happy New Year!

Best wishes for 2018. —Donner60 (talk) 07:36, 31 December 2017 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 1, 2018)

Economic recovery – a "Project funded by The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act" project sign.
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Happy New Year, Northamerica1000!

Happy New Year!

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Happy New Year, Northamerica1000!

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Happy New Year to you too!

Happy New Year!

Keep up the great content creation!!! (I copied Donner) Valoem talk contrib 18:54, 2 January 2018 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – January 2018

News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2017).

Administrator changes

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Happy New Year!

New Year cats
New Year cats

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Thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia, and a Happy New Year to you and yours! AmericanAir88 (talk) 02:52, 3 January 2018 (UTC)
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Thanks to all for the kind New Year messages. Happy 2018! North America1000 08:10, 3 January 2018 (UTC)

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Ocarina of Time Userfication Request

Hi, could you please redo the Userfication you performed here once more? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:MrLinkinPark333/Archive_3#Ocarina_of_Time_and_username_question Allytogood (talk) 23:46, 28 December 2017 (UTC)

  • Hello Allytogood: I am going to defer your request to Premeditated Chaos because this admin deleted the content on 22 July 2017 as per the MfD discussion here, long after I userfied the content on February 23, 2016 ([1], [2]). I have notified Premeditated Chaos about this request. North America1000 07:30, 29 December 2017 (UTC)
Thanks Northamerica1000, I'll look into it :) ♠PMC♠ (talk) 00:32, 30 December 2017 (UTC)

Stuffed pizza

Can you start an article on that I don’t have access to a computer for a few days and must edit from phone. Valoem talk contrib 07:17, 30 December 2017 (UTC)

  • Hi Valoem: I don't know if I will get around to this idea or not, but I don't mind the suggestion. Also, thanks again for creating the new Pan pizza article. North America1000 08:33, 30 December 2017 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 2, 2018)

There are about 260 known living species of monkeys. Pictured is a common squirrel monkey.
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  • Special:UnusedFiles shows files that have been uploaded but are not used. It will show a file that is not used on the wiki it has been uploaded to, even if the file is used on another wiki. The new Special:GloballyUnusedFiles page on Commons only shows files that are not used on any wiki. [6]
  • Structured discussions now uses the 2017 wikitext editor instead of its old custom one. This will work with your preference for wikitext or visual editor. The documentation has been updated. [7][8]

Problems

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  • With the new filters in the recent changes, "Exclude selected" in "Namespaces" did not work for "Saved filters" between 13 December and 2 January. When you loaded the saved filter all other namespaces were excluded instead. This has now been fixed. If you made any changes to your saved filters between 13 December and 2 January, you need to save your filters with excluded namespaces again. [10]
  • The latest version of Google Chrome broke how section links are shown in the address bar. You now see #R%C3%A9sum%C3%A9 instead of #Résumé even if MediaWiki did not encode it that way. This happened in early December. This problem has been solved. The fix will be in Chrome 64 (23 January) or Chrome 65 (6 March). [11]
  • Some POST requests to the API took longer than usual in parts of December. This affected the Wikidata UI and some gadgets the most. It has now been fixed. [12]

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This week's article for improvement (week 3, 2018)

Culture of Asia – an East Asian cultural region representation
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  • Bureaucrats on Wikimedia wikis where the Translate extension is installed can now add and remove the translation administrator permission by default. Administrators of wikis where this extension is enabled can add and remove this permission to or from themselves. Wikis that used a different configuration before have not changed. [17]
  • There is a new Discourse test support channel for Wikimedia developers. You can ask questions or answer others questions about MediaWiki and Wikimedia software development. [18]

Problems

  • Last week's MediaWiki update was rolled back. This was because of a bug that changed non-ASCII characters when a page was edited. [19][20]

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 January. It will be on all wikis from 18 January (calendar).

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Unicom Group

Can you please userfy? Valoem talk contrib 23:06, 3 January 2018 (UTC)

  • Hi Valoem: Despite it not being deleted as such, after reviewing the deleted version of the Unicom Group page, it contains copyright infringement of at least two internet websites. As such, I can't userfy the content. North America1000 23:09, 3 January 2018 (UTC)
It should be fine to userfy a blank copy I've asked another editor, I will not restore the CV but I tend to need a basic format to work I'll see what he thinks. Valoem talk contrib 01:25, 4 January 2018 (UTC)
Valoem: I'm not sure what you mean by "blank copy", but I cannot restore deleted copyvio anywhere, which would be copyvio. North America1000 07:01, 4 January 2018 (UTC)

Wu Yongning

Can you undelete this for deletion review? Valoem talk contrib 07:19, 4 January 2018 (UTC)

If it hadn't already been undeleted, I would have happily undeleted it for you, Valoem — I don't bite. ;) A Traintalk 07:30, 4 January 2018 (UTC)
Oops don't know how I missed that @A Train: I hope you reconsider the sources were included in the original discussion but not highlight like I did now at the time is was 3 keeps 1 delete from nominator. I hope the NYTimes source giving this individual significant coverage holds some weight, if so can you override my DRV and change to no consensus? Discussion would not be needed. Valoem talk contrib 07:37, 4 January 2018 (UTC)
Hey Valoem, if you can pony up any reliable sources discussing the subject's lasting significance, then I'll happily re-open the discussion so they can be considered. A Traintalk 07:48, 4 January 2018 (UTC)

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DYK for Garlic oil

On 12 January 2018, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Garlic oil, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that steam-distilled garlic oil has around 900 times the strength of fresh garlic? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Garlic oil. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Garlic oil), 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.

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Tech News: 2018-04

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Problems

  • With the new OOUI look menus and popups can open upwards instead of downwards. This was meant to make long dropdown menus easier to use. Sometimes these menus have been overlapped by other things. This is now fixed. [25]

Changes later this week

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Future changes

  • irc.wikimedia.org will be rebooted on 22 February. Some bots use this to get the recent changes feed. They need to be able to reconnect automatically or they will not work until they have been fixed. Most bots can reconnect automatically. [26]

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Belated best wishes for a happy 2018

The Fox Hunt (1893) by Winslow Homer, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.
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Merger discussion for Dahi (curd)

An article that you have been involved in editing—Dahi (curd)—has been proposed for merging with another article. If you are interested, please participate in the merger discussion. Thank you. Phonet (talk) 23:11, 20 January 2018 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 4, 2018)

Scarab bearing the name of the Hyksos King Apepi
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Discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Organized crime#Loops

 You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Organized crime#Loops. —usernamekiran(talk) 18:55, 22 January 2018 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2018-05

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This week's article for improvement (week 5, 2018)

"Welcome to Virginia" sign along northbound Interstate 81 entering Washington County, Virginia from Bristol, Tennessee
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Interstate 81

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deletion of Minimal Named-Entity Recognizer

I took a quick look at this, and it has zilcho footprint. I'd rather just take over the abortive nom that you closed than put in a second nom on the same day. Mangoe (talk) 15:51, 26 January 2018 (UTC)

  • Hi Mangoe: Just to be clear, would you like me to re-open the discussion? I can do this if you'd like. North America1000 22:04, 26 January 2018 (UTC)
Yes, please, thank you. Mangoe (talk) 01:22, 27 January 2018 (UTC)
Mangoe:  Done. North America1000 01:26, 27 January 2018 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2018-06

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

Recent changes

  • Bureaucrats can now add and remove the accountcreator permission by default. This means the user can help create a large number of accounts, for example for an editathon. Wikis can change this if they want to. [28]
  • The Wikidata vandalism dashboard is a new tool to monitor vandalism on Wikidata labels and descriptions. It is filtered by language. [29]
  • Info pages for file pages now show the file's SHA1 hash value in the table of basic information. This is so users can see that the file is the same as the one they uploaded. [30]

Problems

  • Special:Export has a higher error rate right now. This means that the export does not always work. You should check to make sure your page exports worked. The developers are working on fixing this. [31]

Changes later this week

  • When you review an edit made with the visual editor you can check a visual diff of your changes besides the wikitext diff. If you pick one diff type it will remember and show you that in future. The visual diff will now be the type first shown to new users. [32]
  • When you use a gallery to show images you can define the size, like gallery widths="150px". You could use em or % instead of px but it would make no difference. You can now only use 150px or nothing (150). If you write something else, instead of treating it like px, it will not work. [33]
  • The wording when you send a thanks message will change. Instead of Yes or No it will say Thank and Cancel. It will also be easier to understand that all thanks are public. [34]
  • Redirects connected to Wikidata can create double Wikidata items. There will now be a tracking category for this. Wikis that don't want it can disable it. [35]
  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 February. It will be on all wikis from 8 February (calendar).

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Junglee.com

Just letting you know, that since no-one contributed to the merger discussion relating to Junglee.com, I removed the notice as 'no consensus'. However I found sources which say Amazon closed down Junglee in November 2017 and the current URL simply redirects to Amazon India. As a result, I have set the Junglee page to redirect to Amazon's article, where I have added a section relating to Junglee under 'Subsidiaries' and noted that it now redirects to Amazon India and the subsidiary is now defunct. Good Day! ChieftanTartarus (talk) 11:18, 1 February 2018 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 6, 2018)

A selection of internal organs in human anatomy
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Organ (anatomy)

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Administrators' newsletter – February 2018

News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2018).

Administrator changes

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Technical news

  • A tag will now be automatically applied to edits that blank a page, turn a page into a redirect, remove/replace almost all content in a page, undo an edit, or rollback an edit. These edits were previously denoted solely by automatic edit summaries.

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Sunpentown

Hey can you verify that the information here is correct? I’m getting conflicting information that this is a Taiwanese company founded in 1985 [38]. I am also getting information that this is an American company founded in 1993. [39] Can you verify which is correct? Valoem talk contrib 07:25, 25 January 2018 (UTC)

  • Hi Valoem This could be a case in which the U.S. version is a subsidiary of the older Taiwan-based company, and it could also be a case of two very similar companies that manufacture and purvey very similar products that share the same name. The former is the most likely in my opinion, although I haven't been able to verify this. North America1000 12:23, 25 January 2018 (UTC)
  • Valoem: Also, this could also be an instance of the company reorganizing and relocating to the US, while retaining their company name. It's unclear, but just another idea. North America1000 06:42, 28 January 2018 (UTC)
Thanks, I was able get some more information from Cunard. Also Spartaz has questioned my close of Vimala's Curryblossom Cafe on my talk page any input from you is appreciated. Valoem talk contrib 17:50, 30 January 2018 (UTC)
Valoem: Aah, per the discussion at Cunard's talk page Here, my first hunch was the correct one! I passed on commenting about the Cafe article, in part because I !voted in the discussion. North America1000 16:29, 7 February 2018 (UTC)

Have you ever had scrapple?

I'm not sure why you thought it was a pudding.[40] Doug Weller talk 16:40, 5 February 2018 (UTC)

  • @Doug Weller: Ah, I made an error there back in the day, certainly not a dessert, but it is a savory pudding. North America1000 22:14, 6 February 2018 (UTC)
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