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|style="vertical-align: middle; border-top: 1px solid gray;" | Congratulations! You have been awarded the [[Wikipedia:Four Award|Four Award]] for your work from beginning to end on '''[[A Voyage Round the World]]'''. — [[User:Bilorv|Bilorv]] ('''[[User talk:Bilorv|<span style="color:purple">talk</span>]]''') 17:29, 2 October 2021 (UTC)
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A Voyage Round the World

Hello:

The copy edit you requested from the Guild of Copy Editors of the article A Voyage Round the World has been completed.

Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns.

Best of luck with the FA if you decide to move forward.

Regards,

Twofingered Typist (talk) 14:04, 3 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you so much @Twofingered Typist! I do have a question that I should have asked in my request: Are you happy with my use of Georg/Reinhold/Forster? I find it difficult to just call them all "Forster", but first name only could also be considered problematic. You didn't flag this up much, so do you think it is about ok? Thanks for the ALTs, that was somewhere on my todo list. I have just undone one of your phrasing edits, as it was in a direct quote that we probably shouldn't improve :) Thanks again, —Kusma (talk) 15:32, 3 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]
@Kusma: Thank you. I don't see how this naming problem can be avoided. This way avoids confusion. It passed the GA this way so it should be okay for FA. Twofingered Typist (talk) 16:12, 3 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – September 2021

News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2021).

Administrator changes

readded Jake Wartenberg
removed Emperor • Viridian Bovary
renamed Ashleyyoursmile → Viridian Bovary

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

  • The Score extension has been re-enabled on public wikis. It has been updated, but has been placed in safe mode to address unresolved security issues. Further information on the security issues can be found on the mediawiki page.

Arbitration

Miscellaneous

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 20:45, 3 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Your GA nomination of Hermann Boeschenstein

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Hermann Boeschenstein you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of PinkElixir -- PinkElixir (talk) 14:21, 4 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Hello. I'm curious as to why you recently changed the formatting on a inter language link from :de:example to ill|example? When I read about the policy it stated either one is fine. Is there something I'm missing? Thank you. Samurai Kung fu Cowboy (talk) 15:58, 5 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Generally, I believe that displaying red links to show where Wikipedia is incomplete is a good thing. An additional problem with direct crosswiki links is that people who write a missing article often don't notice that its foreign version is being linked to (one problem here is that crosswiki links look almost like local links), and so we keep having a crosswiki link even if we have a local article. {{ill}} fixes all these problems at once. I'd be surprised if we have a policy about that; it sounds like something that should be a guideline at most (and it also sounds like that guideline is wrong). —Kusma (talk) 16:09, 5 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Does either one influence a GA rating? Samurai Kung fu Cowboy (talk) 16:27, 5 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]
@Samurai Kung fu Cowboy, from my recent GA experience both as a reviewer and as author of reviewed GAs, no. There's nothing in WP:GA? and the linked parts of the MOS that would tell you how to format links to other languages. —Kusma (talk) 16:35, 5 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]
(Of course I and many other people would suggest to use {{ill}} because it is better, but it is not a requirement). —Kusma (talk) 16:51, 5 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Help Required for Re-Editing & Publishing my First Article Page with Name Dasha Deckwerth

Greetings Kusma, Hope you are doing well.

I am trying to Publish my First Article Page in my Wiki Account, today Morning I Published an Article with name Dasha Deckwerth with Link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Dasha_Deckwerth#Dasha_Deckwerth. but a few Minutes ago I got a Notification of Declining of the Article/Page & after that the same Page was Deleted by the Editors, after which I am not able to Edit the Page/Article. My First Article is about my own Biography, like my Professional Experience, Achievements etc. But No Problem, I'll Create another Page but need some help for the Acceptance of the Article Page. Is there any Requirement for the Article Page to Follow the Rules Set by Wikipedia? As I got the Rejection Reason saying the Article is like a CV. Kindly guide me a little bit so that I can Create & Publish my Articles there on Wikipedia Platform.

Thanks

Regards — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ddeckwerth (talk • contribs) 10:11, 6 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Ddeckwerth:, have you read all the helpful links that others posted at User talk:Ddeckwerth? Please do not write about yourself. Autobiographies are so strongly discouraged as to be almost prohibited. Unless there are multiple reliable sources reporting about your achievements, no article about you will be accepted. See Help:Your first article for information about writing articles here and ask if you need further information. If you are only here to write about yourself, I won't be able to help you. —Kusma (talk) 10:19, 6 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Your GA nomination of Hermann Boeschenstein

The article Hermann Boeschenstein you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Hermann Boeschenstein for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already appeared on the main page as a "Did you know" item, or as a bold link under "In the News" or in the "On This Day" prose section, you can nominate it within the next seven days to appear in DYK. Bolded names with dates listed at the bottom of the "On This Day" column do not affect DYK eligibility. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of PinkElixir -- PinkElixir (talk) 17:41, 7 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks

The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar
For your help with the UEFA Euro 1976 Final sourcing. The Rambling Man (Keep wearing the mask...) 09:21, 9 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for the barnstar, happy to help! I still have to double check some of these translations... —Kusma (talk) 10:01, 9 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Re-however many weeks ago

Apologies on taking so long to reply, life has been a bit hectic. I had a nice laugh though when I saw my original message managed to get archived in the intervening time. Anyway, it's too bad, it looks like there aren't many cheap used copies of A Voyage Round the World available – the shipping to Canada really jacks the price up on affordable editions. Anyway, I guess I'll make do with the Wiki page for the moment! When you decide to put it up as an FAC, let me know and I'll provide a review. Cheers. Tkbrett (✉) 14:57, 11 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Tkbrett, funny that you mention this: Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/A Voyage Round the World/archive1 is going pretty smoothly so far :) —Kusma (talk) 15:38, 11 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]
That's great! I'll do my best to get a review in Monday. Tkbrett (✉) 23:32, 17 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Congrats on the FA! And my apologies on being so slow ... I was around a quarter of the way through reviewing it when I got called in to work and struggled to find time to get through the rest. Point is, I clearly owe you big-time after promising and not delivering! Do you have any plans to get anything else up at FAC anytime soon? Tkbrett (✉) 11:49, 28 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Plans? Lots! (I'd love to write more about 18th century explorers and the corresponding books). Soon? No. Too busy at work. And you don't owe me anything, but I will remember your offer when I find myself in need of a review. Talk to you soon! —Kusma (talk) 13:00, 28 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

DYK for Characteres generum plantarum

On 12 September 2021, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Characteres generum plantarum, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Characteres generum plantarum, a work about the botany of the second voyage of James Cook, contains an apology for only including 75 new genera? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Characteres generum plantarum. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Characteres generum plantarum), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. 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.

Cwmhiraeth (talk) 00:02, 12 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Apollo 16

Do you have some time to look at my current FAC, above? I'm under pressure to get some reviews from the coordinators. Link is here.--Wehwalt (talk) 19:45, 19 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Wehwalt, I can't quite foresee how busy I'll be in real life tomorrow, but I'll try to get to it if I can. —Kusma (talk) 20:50, 19 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Your GA nomination of Werner Teske

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Werner Teske you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of The Rambling Man -- The Rambling Man (talk) 16:40, 21 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Congratulations

The Featured Article Medal
By the authority vested in me by myself it gives me great pleasure to present you with this special, very exclusive award created just for we few, we happy few, this band of brothers, who have shed sweat, tears and probably blood, in order to be able to proudly claim "I too have taken an article to Featured status". Gog the Mild (talk) 21:57, 26 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Promotion of A Voyage Round the World

Congratulations, Kusma! The article you nominated, A Voyage Round the World, has been promoted to featured status, recognizing it as one of the best articles on Wikipedia. The nomination discussion has been archived.
This is a rare accomplishment and you should be proud. If you would like, you may nominate it to appear on the Main page as Today's featured article. Keep up the great work! Cheers, Gog the Mild (talk) via FACBot (talk) 00:06, 27 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Regarding User:Carwrecker1

Hi,

I noticed that you deleted the user page for Carwrecker1. I believe it's a sock of another blocked account, Carswreckersau, created 3 minutes apart. Please do the needful. Thanks!

MT TrainTalk 10:56, 27 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, blocking slipped my mind, done now. Another admin got the other one. Thank you for reporting! —Kusma (talk) 11:21, 27 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Your GA nomination of Werner Teske

The article Werner Teske you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:Werner Teske for issues which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of The Rambling Man -- The Rambling Man (talk) 11:00, 27 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Triple Crown

I am pleased to award the Imperial Triple Crown Jewels to Kusma for their continued contributions to Wikipedia. Your work is appreciated. Damien Linnane (talk) 11:30, 27 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Congratulations! Well earned, and worth the wait. –♠Vami_IV†♠ 13:33, 27 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you @Vami IV! One of these days I hope to work with you on some German castle, but I've been too busy recently. For example Schloss Wörlitz [de] (one of the few examples of Palladian architecture in Germany) looks like a reasonable sized project, but I haven't even started looking for sources. —Kusma (talk) 14:56, 27 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Congratlations to the grown, and good plans for the Schloss! Yesterday, I couldn't decide which DYK to show on my talk, a woman in red or a green park so took both. I had enough of a break now in the situation regarding LouisAlain which leaves me plain unhappy. Should we continue my talk, or here, or do I really have to return to the thread of which I believe Wikipedia would have been better without it? My first editnotice read: "Every editor is a human being" which is quoted from a comment by Geometry guy in a 2012 discussion on WP:AN. No doubt about LouisAlain having used terrible insults, but I doubt he would have done it in a kinder discussion, and I doubt that you (as an offended one) should have performed a block (Iridescent just lectured me about: let someone else do it), and I doubt that a block for personal attacks should be indef. The "lying" could just be misunderstanding a question, no? As for articles, I have seen troublesome articles on Wikipedia, promotional autobiographies, other contentious content, while the translations by LouisAlain are typically about historic bios and institutions, backed up by a valid article in a different Wikipedia: I see no imminent danger even if they are not perfect. In 2019, we had a list of articles with problems monitored, same in 2020, - this year we did it case by case. We could return to a monitoring system if that helps. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:51, 28 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]
I've tried to start a "ways forward" subthread at WP:AN just after blocking, but it has not worked (instead turned into a discussion of pre-block and civility issues). By all means go and turn it into something constructive if you can. The "monitoring" you mention could be an option if there are five or six people as dedicated as you are who will take responsibility for everything (if LouisAlain does not take any responsibility for his edits). —Kusma (talk) 12:51, 28 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Sigh. I didn't see it because I avoided the AN. It hurt me too much to come near it. Certainly not today, because today is the last day for two three DYK nominations. I prefer content work to noticeboards anytime. WP:Great Dismal Swamp. I think I made some suggestions in the course of the discussion, which were ignored. - Would you have time to comment in the Laurent Ferlet deletion discussion, perhaps? I am dedicated to rescuing content. Even a stub translation can be useful, opening the door - via the "Other languages" feature - to information in those other languages. My pov. I don't see a lack of responsibility in such a case. I even encouraged it, today. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:33, 28 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]
One of the three is nominated. Working on the second which I found like this. What do you think, responsibility-wise? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:46, 28 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]
That one is also nominated, and I dropped the plans for the third. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:08, 28 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]
New day: where you told me to put constructive suggestions was closed. I'll check Max Creutz now, and you tell me the difference in sourcing and translation quality of that one and Questenberg, which was already approved for DYK. I believe we have to think again about our approach to machine translation. Deepl is often better than I am, - why should we dismiss that wholesale? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:38, 29 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]
There are great lessons here about how humans are still better than machines and how mechanical machine translation is harmful: The sentence about the mobile Vorbildersammlung is terribly written in the original German, and turning that into one sentence of English can't possibly work, so the machine translation was even more incomprehensible than the original. A human should have just refused to translate it. You also had to re-translate a "both" as "sisters" because "both were active as authors" is ambiguous, unlike the original where Autorinnen is clear. In the Questenberg translation, many of the side remarks and subclauses of the original German are omitted or rewritten, making the text much more readable. I'm not a fan of contributors placing {{refimprove}} tags on their own articles and would prefer un-seen sources to be clearly marked, but I don't think there is a consensus to do that yet (some discussion is at the AN, in the parts that have not been taken over by the rehashing of old feuds). —Kusma (talk) 14:11, 29 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]
I didn't say Deepl is perfect, just that Deepl information will often be better than no information. Both original articles have few inline citations, - that's customary in German. Afaik, inline citations are demanded in English for "contentious information about BLP". Articles without inline citations are not perfect, but better than no articles, imho. - I posted on AN, before I saw this reply. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:24, 29 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]
I hope you don't think I'm rude when I don't reply once more on AN. We know what you said, but in the closed discussion it was pointed out that it's not quite as clear as it sounds. I have to think of others now: sad sad sad sad, the death of two precious colleagues was reported, one yesterday, one today, and two articles are nominated in the Recent deaths section, and one needs care right now while the world looks. Excuse me please. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:46, 29 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]
I agree that it is better to get back to content work. —Kusma (talk) 21:02, 29 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]
In Freundschaft GA for GA. TFA by SlimVirgin. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:32, 30 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – October 2021

News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2021).

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

Arbitration

  • A motion has standardised the 500/30 (extended confirmed) restrictions placed by the Arbitration Committee. The standardised restriction is now listed in the Arbitration Committee's procedures.
  • Following the closure of the Iranian politics case, standard discretionary sanctions are authorized for all edits about, and all pages related to, post-1978 Iranian politics, broadly construed.
  • The Arbitration Committee encourages uninvolved administrators to use the discretionary sanctions procedure in topic areas where it is authorised to facilitate consensus in RfCs. This includes, but is not limited to, enforcing sectioned comments, word/diff limits and moratoriums on a particular topic from being brought in an RfC for up to a year.

Miscellaneous

  • Editors have approved expanding the trial of Growth Features from 2% of new accounts to 25%, and the share of newcomers getting mentorship from 2% to 5%. Experienced editors are invited to add themselves to the mentor list.
  • The community consultation phase of the 2021 CheckUser and Oversight appointments process is open for editors to provide comments and ask questions to candidates.
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Four Award

Four Award
Congratulations! You have been awarded the Four Award for your work from beginning to end on A Voyage Round the World. — Bilorv (talk) 17:29, 2 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
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