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Your GA nomination of Those Old Scientists edit

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Those Old Scientists 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 ChristieBot, on behalf of Sammi Brie -- Sammi Brie (talk) 01:41, 1 January 2024 (UTC)Reply

Your GA nomination of Those Old Scientists edit

The article Those Old Scientists 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:Those Old Scientists and Talk:Those Old Scientists/GA1 for issues which need to be addressed. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Sammi Brie -- Sammi Brie (talk) 02:02, 1 January 2024 (UTC)Reply

Happy New Year, David Fuchs! edit

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Regarding Those Old Scientists GAN edit

Hey there @David Fuchs! I hope you're having a good day. I'm just a random editor and occasionally decide to help out in aiding GAR articles and stuff, and stumbled upon yours. I went ahead and I think wrapped up most, if not all the GAR edits necessary as it was mainly just a bit of CE and grammatical issues. Other than that, I'll let you check and personally see if ofc all the GAR things have been done, but hopefully I think everything should've been covered. Congrats on the imminent GA! Dcdiehardfan (talk) 18:43, 2 January 2024 (UTC)Reply

Thanks Dcdiehardfan, that was very kind of you. Der Wohltemperierte Fuchs talk 19:07, 2 January 2024 (UTC)Reply
@David Fuchs No worries man. I'm counting on the article to pass! :) Dcdiehardfan (talk) 19:13, 2 January 2024 (UTC)Reply
Also, make sure to check all the items that have been done just to make it easier for the reviewer. I'll go ahead and do that for you if you like or you can do that. I think there was still 1 last unresolved thing from the Source spotcheck, and that was something about a VFX, but I think you can take it from here for now. Dcdiehardfan (talk) 19:14, 2 January 2024 (UTC)Reply

Your GA nomination of Those Old Scientists edit

The article Those Old Scientists you nominated as a good article has passed  ; see Talk:Those Old Scientists for comments about the article, and Talk:Those Old Scientists/GA1 for the nomination. Well done! If the article has never appeared on the Main Page as a "Did you know" item, and has not appeared within the last year either as "Today's featured article", 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 at DYK. Bolded names with dates listed at the bottom of the "On this day" column do not affect DYK eligibility. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Sammi Brie -- Sammi Brie (talk) 00:42, 3 January 2024 (UTC)Reply

Featured article help edit

Hi David, I am currently working on Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas with the goal of (hopefully) getting TFA for its 20th anniversary on 26 October 2024. I saw you were on WP:FACM so I'm wondering if you would take a look over and see if there's anything missing - this is my first FA so I'm not too too sure what to look for. Thanks! RetroCosmos talk 16:07, 10 January 2024 (UTC)Reply

Hey RetroCosmos I'll be happy to take a look. I've got stuff on my plate so if you haven't heard from me in a week or two bug me so it doesn't fall off. Der Wohltemperierte Fuchs talk 18:41, 10 January 2024 (UTC)Reply
Thanks so much! RetroCosmos talk 01:26, 11 January 2024 (UTC)Reply

The Signpost: 10 January 2024 edit

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Halo Reach edit

Hello again! How’re you?

I wanted to mention that I added that mention of bungie and 343 on its page because reach was the final game created by bungie before their departure. Shouldn’t it at least be added as a significant mention? Firekong1 (talk) 22:37, 18 January 2024 (UTC)Reply

FAC mentor edit

Hello, I saw you were an FAC mentor that happens to be interested in video games. It's a little late for me to actually ask about being mentored since I already made my first FAC nomination a couple days ago. Luckily it's co-nominated with an editor with FAC experience, but it's their first video game FAC.

So instead of a mentor question, I was wondering if you could at the very least have a look at the article (The Dark Pictures Anthology: House of Ashes) to see if there are any notable issues while we wait for the reviews to start (hopefully). Unless you want to do a full review on the nom instead, but I just mostly want to make sure there are no big issues that we missed. You were the first mentor I saw listed with video game interest so I was hoping you had experience either reviewing or writing those kinds of FACs. -- ZooBlazer 02:57, 26 January 2024 (UTC)Reply

The Signpost: 31 January 2024 edit

Welcome to the drive! edit

Welcome, welcome, welcome David Fuchs! I'm glad that you are joining the drive! Please, have a cup of WikiTea, and go cite some articles.

CactiStaccingCrane (talk)18:45, 1 February 2024 UTC [refresh]via JWB and Geardona (talk to me?)

Letterpress FAC edit

Regarding this discussion:
Where can I find your email?
Thanks, TWOrantulaTM (enter the web) 04:46, 2 February 2024 (UTC)Reply

@TrademarkedTWOrantula you can use the "Email this user" function under Tools. Der Wohltemperierte Fuchs talk 15:16, 2 February 2024 (UTC)Reply

Thu Feb 8 NYC Hacking Night + Feb 21 WikiWednesday edit

February 8: Hacking Night @ Prime Produce
 

You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for NYC Hacking Night at Prime Produce in Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan. It is intended primarily for technical contributors, though newcomers are welcome as well!

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February 21: WikiWednesday Salon @ Prime Produce

WikiWednesday is back this month! You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our WikiWednesday Salon at Prime Produce in Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan, with an online-based participation option also available. No experience of anything at all is required. All are welcome!

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Thank you edit

  Thank you for providing your analysis on the NPOV dispute for Margaret Sanger. I added a reply to your comment. I appreciate your independent analysis. DocZach (talk) 21:02, 8 February 2024 (UTC)Reply

The Signpost: 13 February 2024 edit

March 2024 GAN backlog drive edit

Good article nominations | March 2024 Backlog Drive
 
March 2024 Backlog Drive:
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Tue March 5: Wiki Gala NYC edit

March 5: Wiki Gala @ Prime Produce
 
Wiki-fashion show at last year's event

You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community and visitors from the global Wikimedia Foundation for our Wiki Gala at Prime Produce in Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan. All are welcome!

This is a sequel to the March 2023 Grand Central Salon and the March 2022 Wiki-Tent Brunch.

The event will feature lightning talks and a Wiki-fashion show, for which you are encouraged to dress in your finest Wikimedia clothing and accessories (bags, buttons, even books), or clothing connected to the topics you edit on wiki projects.

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Administrators' newsletter – March 2024 edit

News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2024).

  Guideline and policy news

  Technical news

  • The mobile site history pages now use the same HTML as the desktop history pages. (T353388)

  Miscellaneous


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The Signpost: 2 March 2024 edit

Conflict of interest management: Case opened edit

Hello David Fuchs,

You recently offered a statement in a request for arbitration. The Arbitration Committee has accepted that request for arbitration and an arbitration case has been opened at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Conflict of interest management. Evidence that you wish the arbitrators to consider should be added to the evidence subpage, at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Conflict of interest management/Evidence. Please add your evidence by March 20, 2024, which is when the evidence phase closes. You can also contribute to the case workshop subpage, Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Conflict of interest management/Workshop. For a guide to the arbitration process, see Wikipedia:Arbitration/Guide to arbitration.

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WikiNYC: 3/14 Hacking Night + 3/16 Queens Name Explorer edit

March 14: Hacking Night @ Prime Produce
 

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March 16: Queens Name Explorer @ QPL Tech Lab
 

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Guild of Copy Editors 2023 Annual Report edit

Guild of Copy Editors 2023 Annual Report
 

Our 2023 Annual Report is now ready for review.

Highlights:

  • Introduction
  • Membership news, obituary and election results
  • Summary of Drives, Blitzes and the Requests page
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Tenebrae edit

I don't understand your tenebrae reference in terms of the community pushing arbcom. Arbcom received a report about the article and promptly began investigating. What am I missing? The other two are much clearer to me. Barkeep49 (talk) 03:26, 20 March 2024 (UTC)Reply

Barkeep49 my point was absent the Daily Dot article I see no way the case would have ended up at ArbCom, and to do that required someone to out Tenebrae, it just happened to be the press instead of a Wikipedian (and it was done in collaboration with Wikipediocracy, so fundamentally it's the same as any post there and whether someone does something about it here.) I guess you can argue ArbCom worked around it by just saying Tenebrae had a COI without actually stating who Tenebrae was, but it's splitting hairs at that point. My ultimate point is that COI investigations almost always require outing, and the real-world impact as far as Wikipedia has been is that the outing is far less egregious than the actual edits and content people have been trying to get away with. The harassment policy cannot be used as a shield against COI disclosures and investigations, or else all those editors would still be on their merry way making Wikipedia worse. So either ArbCom does it in a timely manner off-wiki, or it's still better it happens on-wiki than not at all. Der Wohltemperierte Fuchs talk 12:49, 20 March 2024 (UTC)Reply
Thanks for this explanation and the evidence overall. I found it helpful. Barkeep49 (talk) 14:23, 20 March 2024 (UTC)Reply

The Signpost: 29 March 2024 edit

Nomination of Factions of Halo for deletion edit

 
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Factions of Halo is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

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Administrators' newsletter – April 2024 edit

News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2024).

 

  Administrator changes

 

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  • The Toolforge Grid Engine services have been shut down after the final migration process from Grid Engine to Kubernetes. (T313405)

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WikiWednesday (April 10) and City Tech Library LGBTQIA edit-a-thon (April 11) edit

April 10: WikiWednesday @ Prime Produce
 
Prime Produce

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Among the topics, we'll be covering the newly-released drafts of the Movement Charter for Wikimedia global governance.

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April 11: City Tech Library LGBTQIA edit-a-thon
 
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Guild of Copy Editors April 2024 Newsletter edit

Guild of Copy Editors April 2024 Newsletter
 

 

Hello and welcome to the April 2024 newsletter, a quarterly digest of Guild activities since December. Don't forget you can unsubscribe at any time; see below. We extend a warm welcome to all of our new members. We wish you all happy copy-editing.

Election results: In our December 2023 coordinator election, Zippybonzo stepped down as coordinator; we thank them for their service. Incumbents Dhtwiki and Miniapolis were reelected coordinators, and Wracking was newly elected coordinator, to serve through 30 June. Nominations for our mid-year Election of Coordinators will open on 1 June (UTC).

Drive: 46 editors signed up for our January Backlog Elimination Drive, 32 of whom claimed at least one copy-edit. Between them, they copy-edited 289 articles totaling 626,729 words. Barnstars awarded are here.

Blitz: 23 editors signed up for our February Copy Editing Blitz. 18 claimed at least one copy-edit and between them, they copy-edited 100,293 words in 32 articles. Barnstars awarded are here.

Drive: 53 editors signed up for our March Backlog Elimination Drive, 34 of whom claimed at least one copy-edit. Between them, they copy-edited 300 articles totaling 587,828 words. Barnstars awarded are here.

Blitz: Sign up for our April Copy Editing Blitz, which runs from 14 to 20 April. Barnstars will be awarded here.

Progress report: As of 23:17, 11 April 2024 (UTC), GOCE copyeditors have processed 109 requests since 1 January 2024, and the backlog stands at 2,480 articles.

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Thu April 25: WikiNYC Hacking Night edit

April 25: Hacking Night @ Prime Produce
 
Past event at Prime Produce.

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