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Question from Skyscraper Aficionado (20:58, 2 January 2025)
Hi, I'm looking to create an article about an approved skyscraper in Milwaukee known as The Edison. However, there is already an article using the name "The Edison". Would "The Edison (Milwaukee)", "The Edison (Building)", or some other variation of the title work? --Skyscraper Aficionado (talk) 20:58, 2 January 2025 (UTC)
- Hi Skyscraper Aficionado. Yes, something like The Edison (skyscraper) would work. Happy editing, C F A 21:32, 2 January 2025 (UTC)
Influencer page
Why did you move the “influencer” page to “social media influencer”? I don’t see any discussion happening and influencer is where things seemed to have landed after discussion to create the page. Can you please move it back? Nnev66 (talk) 20:18, 31 December 2024 (UTC)
- Hi Nnev66. It was originally moved to Social media influencer by InfiniteNexus with the rationale "
WP:BOLDly move recently created article. "Influencer" is short for "social media influencer"; we should be using the full, original, and more formal term.
". A sockpuppet then requested it be moved back to Influencer. I reverted their request per WP:BMB. I've moved it back per your request here, but perhaps the next course of action should be a discussion on the talk page. Happy editing, C F A 20:33, 31 December 2024 (UTC)- Thanks @CFA for explaining what happened. I've created an Article name discussion topic on the Influencer talk page so hopefully a consensus can be reached about this. Nnev66 (talk) 23:33, 31 December 2024 (UTC)
- @InfiniteNexus explained the rationale for his page move request so I’m now not opposed to the move. It’s apparently going to DYK soon, perhaps January 7, so it should be moved back to “Social media influencer”. Not sure if this has been initiated yet. Apologies for the confusion, I just didn’t understand what was going on. Nnev66 (talk) 22:38, 2 January 2025 (UTC)
- Thanks @CFA for explaining what happened. I've created an Article name discussion topic on the Influencer talk page so hopefully a consensus can be reached about this. Nnev66 (talk) 23:33, 31 December 2024 (UTC)
Question from Royiswariii (03:38, 3 January 2025)
Hello, CFA! I'm consulting about citing a tweet. I'm skeptical about citing a tweet regarding awards and nominations because I'm planning to nominate a list of awards and nominations (which I am currently drafting). Some awards are only acknowledged on social media and not covered in news articles. For example, a boy band or girl group or individual singers etc. may have an award, nominations or honoree, not necessarily a popular one, but their record label acknowledges it through social medi, without any mention or covers in news articles. Is it okay to such sources if they are only from social media? --Royiswariii Talk! 03:38, 3 January 2025 (UTC)
- Hi Royiswariii. The answer to this is generally no.
- Per WP:ABOUTSELF (emphasis mine):
- Self-published ... sources may be used as sources of information about themselves, usually in articles about themselves or their activities, ... so long as:
- The material is neither unduly self-serving nor an exceptional claim;
- It does not involve claims about third parties;
- It does not involve claims about events not directly related to the source;
- There is no reasonable doubt as to its authenticity; and
- The article is not based primarily on such sources.
- If a singer's record label posts about the singer winning an award, it most likely involves
claims about third parties
andevents not directly related to the source
, so it would not be an appropriate use of a self-published source. Hope this helps, C F A 02:28, 4 January 2025 (UTC)- Thank you for this answer, CFA! Do you have an idea on Featured List, if a featured list can be nominated on WP:TFA? Royiswariii Talk! 03:24, 4 January 2025 (UTC)
- Featured lists appear on the main page on Mondays and Fridays — see WP:TFL. C F A 04:07, 4 January 2025 (UTC)
- CFA one more about my previous question, I see this [1] which is from news organization ABS-CBN, however, it was from Facebook page and considered it as reliable source per WP:TAMBAY/RS. It can be considered this on List of awards and nominations received by Bini? Royiswariii Talk! 04:40, 4 January 2025 (UTC)
- I can't see the Facebook post, but as long as it is ABS-CBN's official account, it inherits its reliability. So yes it would be fine to use, though some people might prefer if you find a direct link to an article. C F A 18:26, 4 January 2025 (UTC)
- CFA one more about my previous question, I see this [1] which is from news organization ABS-CBN, however, it was from Facebook page and considered it as reliable source per WP:TAMBAY/RS. It can be considered this on List of awards and nominations received by Bini? Royiswariii Talk! 04:40, 4 January 2025 (UTC)
- Featured lists appear on the main page on Mondays and Fridays — see WP:TFL. C F A 04:07, 4 January 2025 (UTC)
- Thank you for this answer, CFA! Do you have an idea on Featured List, if a featured list can be nominated on WP:TFA? Royiswariii Talk! 03:24, 4 January 2025 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – January 2025
News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2024).
Administrator changes
CheckUser changes
Guideline and policy news
- Following an RFC, Wikipedia:Notability (species) was adopted as a subject-specific notability guideline.
- A request for comment is open to discuss whether admins should be advised to warn users rather than issue no-warning blocks to those who have posted promotional content outside of article space.
Technical news
- The Nuke feature also now provides links to the userpage of the user whose pages were deleted, and to the pages which were not selected for deletion, after page deletions are queued. This enables easier follow-up admin-actions.
Arbitration
- Following the 2024 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been elected to the Arbitration Committee: CaptainEek, Daniel, Elli, KrakatoaKatie, Liz, Primefac, ScottishFinnishRadish, Theleekycauldron, Worm That Turned.
Miscellaneous
- A New Pages Patrol backlog drive is happening in January 2025 to reduce the number of unreviewed articles and redirects in the new pages feed. Sign up here to participate!
This week's article for improvement (week 2, 2025)
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South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Entomology • Architect Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 6 January 2025 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • |
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A barnstar for you!
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The Editor's Barnstar |
| Hello CFA,
I don't have any relation to you, but I can tell how genuine you are. You continuously review my articles, and I appreciate your efforts. This little act may not be a massive deal to you, but you keep inspiring me. I have had times with editors with attitude problems, but you are incredible. Please accept my appreciation with immense regards. Cameremote (talk) I came from a remote place 16:00, 7 January 2025 (UTC) |
Question
Hey CFA! Have a q. I came across this draft in AfC Draft:Trees in the Book of Mormon and saw that it's attributed as being translated from the polish wikipedia [2]. I noticed that it was translated using google translate and while it's not an exact copy and paste, there are some sections that do match. So was just wondering what the general rule of thumb is for approaching such articles? Thanks. Eucalyptusmint (talk) 02:03, 5 January 2025 (UTC)
- Hi Eucalyptusmint. There's not much you can do, aside from tagging the article with {{rough translation}} and leaving the creator a note. I'd just assess it as I would any other draft. It's an OKA translation, which, in my experience, are usually fairly well done. C F A 02:32, 6 January 2025 (UTC)
- Sounds good, ya overall it seemed pretty good but wasn't sure since, like I said, there are few paragraphs/sentences that match exactly. But, will do. Thank you! Eucalyptusmint (talk) 23:53, 7 January 2025 (UTC)
Please move Social media influencer back to Influencer
Please move Social media influencer back to Influencer so that I can commence a WP:RM discussion from the original location as protocol suggests.-TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 04:09, 7 January 2025 (UTC)
- You should ask InfiniteNexus to revert their move. I'm not going to judge whether there's consensus for it. C F A 00:28, 8 January 2025 (UTC)
NPP Awards for 2024
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The New Page Reviewer's Silver Award | |
| This award is given in recognition to CFA for conducting 2,007 article reviews in 2024. Thank you so much for all your excellent work. Keep it up! Hey man im josh (talk) 18:05, 8 January 2025 (UTC) |
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Feedback request: Media, the arts, and architecture request for comment
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Question from NLA-Collections (08:20, 10 January 2025)
Hello CFA, I am sure I will be asking some questions soon. Glad to have you as a mentor. --NLA-Collections (talk) 08:20, 10 January 2025 (UTC)
Books & Bytes – Issue 66
The Wikipedia Library: Books & Bytes
Issue 66, November – December 2024
- Les Jours and East View Press join the library
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Next Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia Volunteers' Corner will be on January 13
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This week's article for improvement (week 3, 2025)
 Wool weaving shuttle, with pirn in middle
Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation • Entomology Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 13 January 2025 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • |
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Tech News: 2025-03
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Weekly highlight
- The Single User Login system is being updated over the next few months. This is the system which allows users to fill out the login form on one Wikimedia site and get logged in on all others at the same time. It needs to be updated because of the ways that browsers are increasingly restricting cross-domain cookies. To accommodate these restrictions, login and account creation pages will move to a central domain, but it will still appear to the user as if they are on the originating wiki. The updated code will be enabled this week for users on test wikis. This change is planned to roll out to all users during February and March. See the SUL3 project page for more details and a timeline.
Updates for editors
- On wikis with PageAssessments installed, you can now filter search results to pages in a given WikiProject by using the
inproject:keyword. (These wikis: Arabic Wikipedia, English Wikipedia, English Wikivoyage, French Wikipedia, Hungarian Wikipedia, Nepali Wikipedia, Turkish Wikipedia, Chinese Wikipedia) [3] - One new wiki has been created: a Wikipedia in Tigre (
w:tig:) [4] 
View all 35 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, there was a bug with updating a user's edit-count after making a rollback edit, which is now fixed. [5]
Updates for technical contributors
Wikimedia REST API users, such as bot operators and tool maintainers, may be affected by ongoing upgrades. Starting the week of January 13, we will begin rerouting some page content endpoints from RESTbase to the newer MediaWiki REST API endpoints for all wiki projects. This change was previously available on testwiki and should not affect existing functionality, but active users of the impacted endpoints may raise issues directly to the MediaWiki Interfaces Team in Phabricator if they arise.- Toolforge tool maintainers can now share their feedback on Toolforge UI, an initiative to provide a web platform that allows creating and managing Toolforge tools through a graphic interface, in addition to existing command-line workflows. This project aims to streamline active maintainers’ tasks, as well as make registration and deployment processes more accessible for new tool creators. The initiative is still at a very early stage, and the Cloud Services team is in the process of collecting feedback from the Toolforge community to help shape the solution to their needs. Read more and share your thoughts about Toolforge UI.
- For tool and library developers who use the OAuth system: The identity endpoint used for OAuth 1 and OAuth 2 returned a JSON object with an integer in its
subfield, which was incorrect (the field must always be a string). This has been fixed; the fix will be deployed to Wikimedia wikis on the week of January 13. [6] - Many wikis currently use Cite CSS to render custom footnote markers in Parsoid output. Starting January 20 these rules will be disabled, but the developers ask you to not clean up your MediaWiki:Common.css until February 20 to avoid issues during the migration. Your wikis might experience some small changes to footnote markers in Visual Editor and when using experimental Parsoid read mode, but if there are changes these are expected to bring the rendering in line with the legacy parser output. [7]
Meetings and events
- The next meeting in the series of Wikimedia Foundation Community Conversations with the Wikimedia Commons community will take place on January 15 at 8:00 UTC and at 16:00 UTC. The topic of this call is defining the priorities in tool investment for Commons. Contributors from all wikis, especially users who are maintaining tools for Commons, are welcome to attend.
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The Signpost: 15 January 2025
- From the editors: Looking back, looking forward
- Traffic report: The most viewed articles of 2024
- In the media: Will you be targeted?
- Technology report: New Calculator template brings interactivity at last
- Opinion: Reflections one score hence
- Serendipity: What we've left behind, and where we want to go next
- Arbitration report: Analyzing commonalities of some contentious topics
- Humour: How to make friends on Wikipedia
Question from Theemausoliam (06:50, 16 January 2025)
Hello! I was reading the article on the "Salmon problem" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salmon_problem) and noticed that it had lots of issues. Some of these were simple typos but some seemed to be issues with translation from sources in German. I fixed a few of the minor typos, but I suspect the typos and larger translation issues happened at the same time. I wanted to reword some sentences to what I *think* is trying to be said, but since I don't speak German, I can't really confirm my suspicions. This is a very interesting article with lots of potential, but I don't know if I can fix all of its issues on my own.
-Liam --Theemausoliam (talk) 06:50, 16 January 2025 (UTC)
Your draft article, Draft:Bidenisms
Hello, CFA. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or draft page you started, "Bidenisms".
In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been nominated for deletion. If you plan on working on it further, or editing it to address the issues raised if it was declined, simply and remove the {{db-afc}}, {{db-draft}}, or {{db-g13}} code.
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Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia! Vanderwaalforces (talk) 21:04, 16 January 2025 (UTC)
DYK for Burt (crocodile)
On 17 January 2025, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Burt (crocodile), which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that an Australian crocodile named Burt starred in Crocodile Dundee? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Burt (crocodile). You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Burt (crocodile)), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. 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.
1=Launchballer 00:03, 17 January 2025 (UTC)
Question from NLA-Collections (08:49, 17 January 2025)
Hello CFA, I am concerned my article John Guest (researcher and author) may be deleted..This is my first article. I have given the article a hard edit. To be honest I have fumbled my way through the process. And I am.learning on the run so to speak. Are you able to take a look at it and offer practical suggestions? --NLA-Collections (talk) 08:49, 17 January 2025 (UTC)
Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia Newsletter #185 is out: Happy Wikipedia day! Quarterly planning
The first update of 2025 for Abstract Wikipedia and Wikifunctions is out. Please, come and read it!
In this issue, we present our plan for the upcoming quarter (January-March 2025), we suggest changes to our "Function of the week" section, and we take a look at the latest software developments.
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Impersonator
Hello, CFA,
If you visit WP:AN, you'll see you had a quite sneaky impersonator tonight. Any guesses on who this might have been? Liz Read! Talk! 04:09, 18 January 2025 (UTC)
- It looks like the request for advanced permissions has been removed but Extraordinary Whit linked to this list so I guess having impersonators calling themselves your alternate account is nothing new. Liz Read! Talk! 05:07, 18 January 2025 (UTC)
- No, definitely not anything new. BuickCenturyDriver was messing around yesterday (see CFA (sock) and CerEffAya), but I think CFA (public testing account) is the unrelated LTA (MAB?) that has been obsessed with me for the past few months. C F A 16:05, 18 January 2025 (UTC)
- Liz I just blocked the impersonating account Isabele Belato, whose sole edit was reporting CFA to ANEW. – Muboshgu (talk) 17:53, 18 January 2025 (UTC)
- Followed up with Mobashgu – Muboshgu (talk) 17:58, 18 January 2025 (UTC)
- No, definitely not anything new. BuickCenturyDriver was messing around yesterday (see CFA (sock) and CerEffAya), but I think CFA (public testing account) is the unrelated LTA (MAB?) that has been obsessed with me for the past few months. C F A 16:05, 18 January 2025 (UTC)
This week's article for improvement (week 4, 2025)
 The prescription symbol, ℞, as printed on the blister pack of a prescription drug
Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Pirn • South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:06, 20 January 2025 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • |
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Tech News: 2025-04
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Updates for editors
- Administrators can mass-delete multiple pages created by a user or IP address using Extension:Nuke. It previously only allowed deletion of pages created in the last 30 days. It can now delete pages from the last 90 days, provided it is targeting a specific user or IP address. [8]
- On wikis that use the Patrolled edits feature, when the rollback feature is used to revert an unpatrolled page revision, that revision will now be marked as "manually patrolled" instead of "autopatrolled", which is more accurate. Some editors that use filters on Recent Changes may need to update their filter settings. [9]
- View all 31 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the Visual Editor's "Insert link" feature did not always suggest existing pages properly when an editor started typing, which has now been fixed.
Updates for technical contributors
- The Structured Discussion extension (also known as Flow) is being progressively removed from the wikis. This extension is unmaintained and causes issues. It will be replaced by DiscussionTools, which is used on any regular talk page. The last group of wikis (Catalan Wikiquote, Wikimedia Finland, Goan Konkani Wikipedia, Kabyle Wikipedia, Portuguese Wikibooks, Wikimedia Sweden) will soon be contacted. If you have questions about this process, please ping Trizek (WMF) at your wiki. [10]
- The latest quarterly Technical Community Newsletter is now available. This edition includes: updates about services from the Data Platform Engineering teams, information about Codex from the Design System team, and more.
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Nomination of New Jersey Transit 6539-6549 for deletion
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Notability of extinct species
Hi there, and thank you for your help with NPP! I wanted to reach out really quickly because I noticed you marked a few species articles reviewed that shouldn't have been (e.g., Jujubinus armatus). Typically, species are an easy review because of NSPECIES; however, this does not apply to extinct species, such as Jujubinus armatus. I only recently learned about this, so I'm not scolding by any means. Just wanted to let you know. :) Significa liberdade (she/her) (talk) 21:22, 22 January 2025 (UTC)
- Technically, yes, NSPECIES does not apply to extinct species — in practice, however, they are always kept at AfD. They aren't included because there was a disagreement with some members of WP:PALEO on whether they should be merged up to the genus level. To ensure the proposal passed, they were excluded until a more firm consensus could be reached. I generally just mark as reviewed; other editors are free to merge up if they want. C F A 21:39, 22 January 2025 (UTC)
Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia Newsletter #186 is out: Welcome, David! Naming conventions recommendations
There is a new update for Abstract Wikipedia and Wikifunctions. Please, come and read it!
In this issue, we welcome a new member of the team, we introduce our current discussion on naming conventions recommendations, we introduce a new section dedicated to the newest functions created, and we take a look at the latest software developments.
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Enjoy the reading! -- User:Sannita (WMF) (talk) 16:36, 23 January 2025 (UTC)
Feedback request: Media, the arts, and architecture request for comment
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Concern regarding Draft:Bidenism
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Thank you
Hello CFA, I hope you are doing well. First of all, thank you for your translation attribution script. I have been using it to attribute translations, and it's amazing! The only issue is that it adds a duplicate {{Translated page}} template on the talk pages. Could you please fix this by adding a condition to check if the template has already been added, and if so, skip adding the duplicate? – DreamRimmer (talk) 16:40, 18 January 2025 (UTC)
- I'll get to this over the weekend. C F A 23:10, 22 January 2025 (UTC)
Done, along with some other improvements. C F A 01:58, 26 January 2025 (UTC)
- Thank you! Could you please adjust the regex to match all redirects? A lot of people tend to use redirects instead of the full template name. – DreamRimmer (talk) 02:13, 26 January 2025 (UTC)
- Done. C F A 02:56, 26 January 2025 (UTC)
- Thank you! Could you please adjust the regex to match all redirects? A lot of people tend to use redirects instead of the full template name. – DreamRimmer (talk) 02:13, 26 January 2025 (UTC)
This week's article for improvement (week 5, 2025)
Hello, CFA. The article for improvement of the week is:
Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Medical prescription • Pirn Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:36, 27 January 2025 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • |
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Tech News: 2025-05
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Weekly highlight
- Patrollers and admins - what information or context about edits or users could help you to make patroller or admin decisions more quickly or easily? The Wikimedia Foundation wants to hear from you to help guide its upcoming annual plan. Please consider sharing your thoughts on this and 13 other questions to shape the technical direction for next year.
Updates for editors
- iOS Wikipedia App users worldwide can now access a personalized Year in Review feature, which provides insights based on their reading and editing history on Wikipedia. This project is part of a broader effort to help welcome new readers as they discover and interact with encyclopedic content.
Edit patrollers now have a new feature available that can highlight potentially problematic new pages. When a page is created with the same title as a page which was previously deleted, a tag ('Recreated') will now be added, which users can filter for in Special:RecentChanges and Special:NewPages. [11]- Later this week, there will be a new warning for editors if they attempt to create a redirect that links to another redirect (a double redirect). The feature will recommend that they link directly to the second redirect's target page. Thanks to the user SomeRandomDeveloper for this improvement. [12]
- Wikimedia wikis allow WebAuthn-based second factor checks (such as hardware tokens) during login, but the feature is fragile and has very few users. The MediaWiki Platform team is temporarily disabling adding new WebAuthn keys, to avoid interfering with the rollout of SUL3 (single user login version 3). Existing keys are unaffected. [13]
- View all 30 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.
Updates for technical contributors
- For developers that use the MediaWiki History dumps: The Data Platform Engineering team has added a couple of new fields to these dumps, to support the Temporary Accounts initiative. If you maintain software that reads those dumps, please review your code and the updated documentation, since the order of the fields in the row will change. There will also be one field rename: in the
mediawiki_user_historydump, theanonymousfield will be renamed tois_anonymous. The changes will take effect with the next release of the dumps in February. [14]
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Feedback request: Wikipedia style and naming request for comment
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Regarding the page moves you recently made
I am reaching out regarding the page moves you recently made (link). These were carried out at the request of a potential vandal, FromCzech, who has a history of nationalistically renaming stadiums under Polish names. As a result, there is now considerable inconsistency, which can be easily observed in the stadium categories (link). Would it still be possible to revert these changes, as contested? Alternatively, is there a formal process to challenge them? It seems highly problematic to introduce such modifications after many months without prior discussion, as it leads to unnecessary confusion and disrupts established naming conventions. Looking forward to your thoughts. Paradygmaty (talk) 17:27, 29 January 2025 (UTC)
- I reiterate my appeal, my friend—how much disorder have you caused? Paradygmaty (talk) 08:50, 30 January 2025 (UTC)
- I’m sorry, a lot has happened, even without you being involved. I apologize for sending you two emotional messages. I want to move forward, and I’d like you to take my intention to improve in good faith. The topics I raised are still relevant, but I’d like us to discuss them neutrally. Take care. 🙏 Paradygmaty (talk) 09:48, 30 January 2025 (UTC)
Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia Newsletter #187 is out: With 2000 Functions into the new year: time for stats
There is a new update for Abstract Wikipedia and Wikifunctions. Please, come and read it!
In this issue, we present some statistics about where we are as a project, we give some updates about our Types, and we take a look at the latest software developments.
Want to catch up with the previous updates? Check our archive!
Also, we remind you that if you have questions or ideas to discuss, the next Volunteers' Corner will be held on February 3, at 18:30 UTC (link to the meeting).
Enjoy the reading! -- User:Sannita (WMF) (talk) 14:05, 30 January 2025 (UTC)