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Page move request 25

Hello again Shyamal, I would like to request a move of the monotypic order Lithonida to its family page Minchinellidae. The family page is currently a redirect without any significant page history. Thanks, Loopy30 (talk) 22:41, 20 March 2019 (UTC)

@Loopy30:  Done Shyamal (talk) 01:15, 21 March 2019 (UTC)

Facto Post – Issue 22 – 28 March 2019

• Wikidata as a semantic framework for the Gene Wiki initiative, 2016 paper by Andrawaag and others, commenting inter alia on the role of the API on Wikidata
• Working With Wikibase From Go, Digital Flapjack blogpost 26 November 2018, Michael Dales, developer for ScienceSource using golang, with a software engineer's view on Wikibase and the MediaWiki API
• Dealing with the Rust, Magnus Manske blogpost 12 March 2019, on the Rust language and the MediaWiki API

Friedrich Bodenheimer and Shimon Fritz Bodenheimer

Friedrich Bodenheimer appears to be the same person as Shimon Fritz Bodenheimer (Friedrich Simon is the German name, Fritz Shimon the Hebrew name), and thus the two need merging (see also Wikidata, Shimon Fritz Bodenheimer (Q7496986) and WorldCat. Other variants of his name include Frederick (translating from German and Hebrew to ENglish is never flawless): we should probably use the most commonly used spelling in English sources. Cheers, --Animalparty! (talk) 02:36, 30 March 2019 (UTC)

Yes, I noticed. I am in the merge process. Shyamal (talk) 02:37, 30 March 2019 (UTC)

Good, good. Looks like there are abundant sources in a multitude of languages, e.g. [1], [2], [3]. --Animalparty! (talk) 02:54, 30 March 2019 (UTC)

Facto Post – Issue 23 – 30 April 2019

Facto Post – Issue 23 – 30 April 2019 The Editor is Charles Matthews, for ContentMine. Please leave feedback for him, on his User talk page. To subscribe to Facto Post go to Wikipedia:Facto Post mailing list. For the ways to unsubscribe, see the footer. Back numbers are here. Completely clouded? Cloud computing logo Talk of cloud computing draws a veil over hardware, but also, less obviously but more importantly, obscures such intellectual distinction as matters most in its use. Wikidata begins to allow tasks to be undertaken that were out of easy reach. The facility should not be taken as the real point. Coming in from another angle, the "executive decision" is more glamorous; but the "administrative decision" should be admired for its command of facts. Think of the attitudes ad fontes, so prevalent here on Wikipedia as "can you give me a source for that?", and being prepared to deal with complicated analyses into specified subcases. Impatience expressed as a disdain for such pedantry is quite understandable, but neither dirty data nor false dichotomies are at all good to have around. Issue 13 and Issue 21, respectively on WP:MEDRS and systematic reviews, talk about biomedical literature and computing tasks that would be of higher quality if they could be made more "administrative". For example, it is desirable that the decisions involved be consistent, explicable, and reproducible by non-experts from specified inputs. What gets clouded out is not impossibly hard to understand. You do need to put together the insights of functional programming, which is a doctrinaire and purist but clearcut approach, with the practicality of office software. Loopless computation can be conceived of as a seamless forward march of spreadsheet columns, each determined by the content of previous ones. Very well: to do a backward audit, when now we are talking about Wikidata, we rely on integrity of data and its scrupulous sourcing: and clearcut case analyses. The MEDRS example forces attention on purge attempts such as Beall's list. Links Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2019-03-31/In focus#The_Wikipedia_SourceWatch by Headbomb. Wikipedia:WikiProject Academic Journals/Journals cited by Wikipedia/Questionable1 d:Wikidata:ScienceSource project/Beall's list: Beall's list, final version, matched into Wikidata. SPARQL query for Quackwatch: query to find items on Wikidata for articles subject to the Quackwatch blacklist of "Nonrecommended Periodicals", under "Journals (Fundamentally Flawed)". SPARQL query to find retracted articles on Wikidata. d:Wikidata:ScienceSource project/NCBI2wikidata dashboard, metadata for biomedical articles being built up, sourced from PubMed and PubMed Central. If you wish to receive no further issues of Facto Post, please remove your name from our mailing list. Alternatively, to opt out of all massmessage mailings, you may add Category:Wikipedians who opt out of message delivery to your user talk page. Newsletter delivered by MediaWiki message delivery

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FYI

I created a little stub that may be of interest to you: Harriet C. Tytler.ThatMontrealIP (talk) 02:09, 4 May 2019 (UTC)

Nice. I will try and add to it. This book might be of interest, although I have never quite managed to locate a copy to read. Shyamal (talk) 02:34, 4 May 2019 (UTC)

WOW. I asked the right person! Thank you, you're fabulous. I would never have known how to find such excellent and relevant detail. One thing I could not find a source for was the naming of Mount Harriet National Park after her. ThatMontrealIP (talk) 02:55, 4 May 2019 (UTC)

Some of their kin apparently went to Vancouver! Stanley Delhi-Force Tytler might need an entry too - http://www.british-columbia-artists.ca/tytler.pdf https://www.myheritage.com/family-15_15001253_30451381_30451381/tytler-stanley-delhi-force-tytler-hester-ellen-meluish- Shyamal (talk) 02:59, 4 May 2019 (UTC)

		The Stub Barnstar
		for your instantaneous and amazing improvements to Harriet C. Tytler. I was deeply impressed! ThatMontrealIP (talk) 04:04, 4 May 2019 (UTC)

Golden-breasted Fulvetta

If you're bored (ha ha) and looking for something to do, feel free to jump in on Golden-breasted Fulvetta. I've decided it's time to tackle some Bhutanese birds!! :D MeegsC (talk) 18:16, 4 May 2019 (UTC)

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 article improvement. Thank you for the great contributions! (courtesy of the Wikipedia Editor Retention Project)

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

I am very, very pleased to nominate Shyamal to be the Editor of the Week. Shyamal is an extraordinary contributor to Wikipedia, who contributes to articles more related to the Animal Kingdom. He has immensely improved numerous animal-related articles through his overwhelming 63,100 edits among which a noteworthy 77% or 44,700 edits are in the mainspace of Wikipedia. Besides being one of the oldest contributors to Wikipedia, Shyamal has profoundly improved innumerable articles relating WikiProject Ecology, WikiProject Lepidoptera, WikiProject Birds, WikiProject Amphibians and Reptiles, and WikiProject Tree of Life. He has created an astonishing number of 5400 pages on Wikipedia among which 1600 are articles. Furthermore, Shyamal has also uploaded an astronomical number of 16,000 images. Also, he has created a Did you know (Formiscurra) for the main page and a colossal number of 55 other templates. His contributions to Wikipedia are just too many those make him an utterly prolific contributor to Wikipedia. What's more, his fully amiable and cordial disposition to old and new editors alike complements the numerous accomplishments he has achieved on Wikipedia. For more reasons than the aforementioned, I strongly advocate that Shyamal be honored with the Editor of the Week award. You can copy the following text to your user page to display a user box proclaiming your selection as Editor of the Week:

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Thanks again for your efforts! ―Buster7 ☎ 15:10, 5 May 2019 (UTC)