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[[User:{{{nominator}}}]] submitted the following nomination for [[WP:Editor of the Week|Editor of the Week]]:
[[User:Clovermoss]] submitted the following nomination for [[WP:Editor of the Week|Editor of the Week]]:
:I am nominating Deor for EOTW because, quite surprisingly, they have not yet been EOTW. They have been steadily editing since 2006 and have a whopping 130,000+ edits with an above average 81% of them in mainspace. An all-around amazing WikiGnome; they help at the [[Wikipedia:Help Desk|Help Desk]] and the [[Wikipedia:Reference desk/Language|Language reference desk]]. The articles [[Arthur Conan Doyle]], [[Atlantis]] and [[C.S. Lewis]] are just a few examples of the articles Deor has watched over the years. I see them across my watchlist all the time doing helpful things like adding coordinates to geography-related articles. A great contributor. Seconded by [[User:Girth Summit]]
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Revision as of 12:58, 21 August 2022

Precious anniversary

Precious
Three years!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:15, 8 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2022).

Technical news

  • user_global_editcount is a new variable that can be used in abuse filters to avoid affecting globally active users. (T130439)

Arbitration

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:28, 10 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Vega Alta coords

Can you add coords to Vega Alta, Cuba, I created it a few mouths ago and don’t know how to add coords. CubanoBoi (talk) 15:55, 10 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

 Done. Deor (talk) 16:40, 10 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you so much, your amazing! CubanoBoi (talk) 20:45, 10 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Regarding Henri Mordacq

About your edits to Mordacq, please be advised that just as Wikipedia is the Encyclopedia Britannica of the internet, Internet Archive is the library of the internet. Millions of books have been scanned into the site, and they are available free of charge if you sign up for a free account. Knowing that you can go directly to a reference, and from a footnote directly to the page that cites that reference, gives Wikipedia an incredible edge over hard copy books. Also, the domain name, https://archive.org/ has been around since the mid 1990's, and will never be a broken link. I wish Wikipedia had an exceptions rule for external links (my understanding is that an external link may one day result in a dead link, which is why they are discouraged), because if it did, Internet Archive would top the list. So, sign up for a free account.🙂 Lord Milner (talk) 01:35, 17 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Lord Milner: Creating a "References" section with external links to the home pages of WorldCat and the Internet Archive is absolutely useless. A reference has to be placed inline, immediately after the information it supports, and needs to include basic information like the title of a specific work and the page on which the information can be found. Please see Help:Referencing for beginners (and the pages linked therein) for a handy guide to proper referencing. Deor (talk) 15:42, 17 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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readded Valereee
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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 08:44, 5 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

See Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)#User:Nightscream

The poster seems to have had a lot of warnings, etc. Posting to you because you posted to them recently. Are they still a net benefit? Doug Weller talk 10:29, 11 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Wikidata coords

Rabana-Merquly has coords pulled from WD that are over-precise. With local coords, I normally just fix this. In this case, I could copy the coords into the article or edit them on WD. Another solution could be to specify the precision to use (a modification to {{WikidataCoord}}) I don't know if that would be worth the effort. Thoughts? MB 06:04, 14 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@MB: I'm not a fan of Wikidata's handling of coords, which are sometimes erroneous, often overprecise, and lack such useful parameters as type and region. (Parameters can be added to {{WikidataCoord}}, but no one ever bothers to do so; and some infoboxes are apparently now set up to pull coords from Wikidata without {{WikidataCoord}} being explicitly invoked in an article.) These days, I usually just replace the {{WikidataCoord}} template with an appropriate {{coord}} template (or add |coordinates= and a {{coord}} template to an infobox to override automatic use of WD coords), but sometimes I do edit coords on Wikidata if they're actually incorrect. I doubt that altering {{WikidataCoord}} to specify precision is worth the trouble. Since different locations may require different precisions, how would one go about it? Deor (talk) 13:41, 14 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]
I meant add a parameter to the {{WikidataCoord}} so the display precision could be set for the article. Normally, the user specifies the precision explicitly when providing the coords to {{coord}}; this parameter would allow the user to equivalently specify the precision when saying "just use the WD coords".
I'm not a fan of using Wikidata at all. I looked at this infobox closer and the "country" should not have been linked per WP:SEAOFBLUE, the "type" field started with lower case, the "area" field contained small font, not allowed in an infobox per MOS:SMALL, and the map captions were poor. And in WD, there were two highly precise coords specified (neither with a source), one for each of two rock reliefs in this "cluster of archaeological sites" that were a mile apart. Since {{WikidataCoord}} was pulling the first coord (qualified in WD as "applies to part"), and the infobox is for the entire archaeological site, I went ahead an picked the mid-point. I also fixed all the other infobox issues so now it conforms with en.wp infobox conventions.
At first, I was looking for a way to keep using WD here since that was the "theme" of this infobox. But there were so many things wrong, it's now mixed WD and local info. MB 16:22, 14 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Editor of the week

Editor of the Week
Your ongoing efforts to improve the encyclopedia have not gone unnoticed: You have been selected as Editor of the Week in recognition of your great contributions! (courtesy of the Wikipedia Editor Retention Project)

User:Clovermoss submitted the following nomination for Editor of the Week:

I am nominating Deor for EOTW because, quite surprisingly, they have not yet been EOTW. They have been steadily editing since 2006 and have a whopping 130,000+ edits with an above average 81% of them in mainspace. An all-around amazing WikiGnome; they help at the Help Desk and the Language reference desk. The articles Arthur Conan Doyle, Atlantis and C.S. Lewis are just a few examples of the articles Deor has watched over the years. I see them across my watchlist all the time doing helpful things like adding coordinates to geography-related articles. A great contributor. Seconded by User:Girth Summit

You can copy the following text to your user page to display a user box proclaiming your selection as Editor of the Week: 

{{User:UBX/EoTWBox}}

Thanks again for your efforts! ―Buster7 ☎ 12:53, 21 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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