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I remember asking one of the signpost regulars on discord about it, but it didn't actually get added. But meta:Wikimedia_Foundation_Bulletin/2024 was started last month and might be good for a small section on the News section. Best I can understand, it's WMF's ways of keeping the community updated on all departments and they recently published the one for 06-02, so we might see 07-01 before next signpost even. It's something I think more people will want to know about Soni (talk) 19:01, 6 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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Hi @Celestecourtesi:, I assume you are referring to this or an edit similar to it. The answer is simple and it isn't "falsing information". All information on Wikipedia must be verifiable: this is one of the core policies explained at WP:Verifiability. You or I or anyone else can remove information from articles that needs references, and is lacking them. So that's what I did. Please reply here or at one of the help boards if you don't understand. ☆ Bri (talk) 16:12, 7 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Fellow Wikipedians, I'm about to take a hiatus on most editing, starting with lightening up on monitoring of beauty pageant articles. It's a mess of unattributed unreferenced content, nonstandard markup including inappropriate use of flags, and ... let's say passionate editors. I hope that others like @Sciencefish: can keep the momentum moving in the right direction. This is after all an encyclopedia, not a fansite. I've listed some pages to watch at the top of this note, which I'll soon be taking off of my own watchlist. Note that many of these pages are protected due to persistent disruptive editing (including sockfarms) and all are under WP:GS/PAGEANTS. ☆ Bri (talk) 16:54, 8 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for filing that SPI. I had noticed both Gonecarpe and Oilycoldly and thought something odd was going on with them but am not familiar with Slowking. I tagged Gonecarp's article for G5 deletion because I did not think most of them really met notability anyway. Are you going to go through any other the other socks and tag those for G5? If so, let me know if you need help. Happy to grab a group or two. S0091 (talk) 17:21, 25 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Some of those had too many edits by other editors to be eligible for G5 and while I did tag Ana Laura Portuondo Isasi, another editor removed it. S0091 (talk) 14:54, 26 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Hi Bri. While I was taking a break from WP I noticed you redirected many of the Miss Teen USA and Miss USA articles. Most have significant media coverage as evidenced by a quick search in Newspapers.com, but at the moment the Wikipedia Library connection is broken so that while I can search and view the articles, I can't clip them to reference in the article. Just wondering what the best way forward would be? Wait until they (hopefully) fix the Newspapers.com connection? Or just reference the newspaper details without a clipping link? I was able to fix some of the Miss USA articles from existing clips but the job would be a lot easier starting the research from scratch. Cheers CJinoz (talk) 11:17, 26 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Not sure exactly which page you intend to work on, but I think the ones I redirected had at most one or two sources. I guess the best way is to wait until your sources are accessible, then restore the page from the last revision prior to the redirect, and add the sources? Still, adding just one source to a one-source article probably won't be good enough for general notability, so I hope you plan to bring them up to snuff for WP:NEVENT. ☆ Bri (talk) 17:22, 26 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Most of the sources about the delegates are announced on instagram, not on anywhere else but some editors did not allow to add these sources into the article. That's why i could not add these references. What can i do ? i thought that as long as these references from instagram will not take up more than 60% ? i had tried to add other sources as much as i can but some sources can only be announced and found on instagram Rain0099 (talk) 04:37, 3 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Rain0099:Sounds like you are asking what to do if sources are less than exemplary. I'd say there are following options.
Leave the article as a draft (or move to draft) until better sources appear
Publish with poor sources and take your chances that it will be challenged by another editor and possibly deleted, stubbed, redirected, or draftified.
Personally I don't have a big problem with Instagram sourcing for announcements of regional contestants, but I don't think it's good to have the entire article based on Instagram alone. Lack of any independent coverage, especially after the finals, is a pretty good signal that the event was not notable. Good luck. ☆ Bri (talk) 13:50, 6 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Hello there Bri
i know who is falsing information and protect vandalism its Aubrey O'Connell not PickMe10 Bina.biny99 and celestecourtesi. Please are u interested to unblock three users. they are not false information and protect vandalism, they're good editors to edit beauty pageant pages. Malincharanan (talk) 10:20, 6 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Malincharanan: I do not have any special privileges to block or unblock. I'm a regular Wikipedia user like you – not an administrator. If you think pages need protection, you can ask for it at WP:RFPP. If you open a case there, you might mention that pageant pages are covered by pageants general sanctions (WP:GS/PAGEANTS), which makes it easier for administrators to take action. ☆ Bri (talk) 13:46, 6 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Why u deleting Miss Grand China on Contestants List
Sorry, I feel the burden is on the person adding a blank row. Not on me to fill in the row for them. It is supposed to be a table of selected people, not a table of names of countries followed by a bunch of blank columns.
In other words, tables of people "who have been selected" should not be set up for contests where someone has not been selected. It is self contradictory and just looks bad for a factual encyclopedia. ☆ Bri (talk) 13:34, 14 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]