User talk:Bearian/ArchivesSeptDec2016

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Deletion review for User talk:Beamking

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The Signpost: 06 September 2016

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September 14: WikiWednesday Salon / Wikimedia NYC Annual Meeting

Wednesday September 14, 7pm: WikiWednesday Salon / Wikimedia NYC Annual Meeting

You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our evening "WikiWednesday" salon and knowledge-sharing workshop by 14th Street / Union Square in Manhattan.

This month will also feature on our agenda, upcoming editathons, the organization's Annual Meeting, and Chapter board elections.

We will include a look at the organization and planning for our chapter, and expanding volunteer roles for both regular Wikipedia editors and new participants.

We will also follow up on plans for recent (UN Women and CFR!) and upcoming edit-a-thons, and other outreach activities.

We also hope for the participation of our friends from the Free Culture movement and from educational and cultural institutions interested in developing free knowledge projects. We will also follow up on plans for recent and upcoming editathons, and other outreach activities.

Along with the main meeting, hummus and refreshments and video games in the gallery!

7:00pm - 9:00 pm at Babycastles, 137 West 14th Street

Featuring a keynote talk this month to be determined! We especially encourage folks to add your 5-minute lightning talks to our roster, and otherwise join in the "open space" experience! Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues! --Pharos (talk) 18:06, 10 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Lauren Southern

Please delete your recent vote because you already voted delete on 27 August 2016.

Sorry about that, I guess I was reading too fast. MB 21:23, 12 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Unauthorized attempts to modify or modifications of any information stored on the State's web pages may result in criminal prosecution.

Hi there, The discussion of Wikipedia:Templates_for_discussion/Log/2013_July_11#Template:PD-NJGov "Unauthorized attempts to modify or modifications of any information stored on the State's web pages may result in criminal prosecution."

maybe this is a reference to hacking and the modification of the content on the server itself? James Michael DuPont (talk) 08:29, 24 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 29 September 2016

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Sun October 16: CommonsLab / Open House NY Photo Contest + Hackathon

Sunday October 16, 2pm: CommonsLab / Open House NY Photo Contest + Hackathon

On Sunday, October 16, Wikimedia NYC will host a multimedia tutorial, workshop, and hackathon focused on Wikimedia Commons and the work processes for cultural multimedia wiki-projects.

The CommonsLab is the concluding "upload party" to the Wikipedia @ Open House New York Weekend photo scavenger hunt, and an accompanying Wikimedia Commons multimedia hackathon.

The event will take the form of a modified unconference, with sessions for photographers/creatives, editors/writers and hackers/software folks!

2:00pm - 8:00 pm at NYU ITP, Tisch School of Arts, 721 Broadway, 4th Floor

Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues! --Pharos (talk) 13:35, 14 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

And RSVP now for our next event after this, focusing on Latin American art and artists:

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The Signpost: 14 October 2016

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Saturday October 22: WikiArte Latin American Edit-a-thon @ MoMA

Saturday October 22, 10am: WikiArte Latin American Edit-a-thon @ MoMA

Join us for a full Saturday of social Wikipedia editing at the Museum of Modern Art (drop-in any time!), during which we will create, update, and improve Wikipedia articles pertaining to the lives and works of Latin American artists.

The WikiArte (Wiki Arte y Cultura Latinoamerica) edit-a-thon is a global campaign to improve Wikipedia's coverage of Latin American arts and culture and to counter geocultural systemic bias on Wikipedia.

Featuring an opening Artists' Panel at 10am, with Sol Aramendi, Sharon Lee De La Cruz, and Marisa Morán Jahn, to be moderated by Rocío Aranda-Alvarado, curator at El Museo del Barrio.

The Museum of Modern Art and Fundacion Cisneros/Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros are uniting with international allies to focus on the lives and works of Latin American artists, architects and designers. With keystone events scheduled for October 22 in New York City and other cities throughout the month (Mexico City, Buenos Aires, Caracas, & others), the campaign aims to further similar goals to Art+Feminism.

All are invited, with no specialized knowledge of the subject or Wikipedia editing experience required. Introductory training on the basics of Wikipedia editing will be given throughout the edit-a-thon. Please bring your laptop and power cord; we will have library resources, WiFi, and a list of suggested topics on hand.

10:00am - 6:00pm at The Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Education and Research Building at MoMA, 4 West 54th Street (between 5th and 6th Avenue)
Please note that this entrance is one block north of the main 53rd Street entrance, closer to 5th Avenue

Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues! --Pharos (talk) 23:28, 19 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Mary Kavanagh

I have no objection to keeping this article. I hope that someone will resolve its longstanding issues. Rogermx (talk) 01:00, 29 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you, Rogermx. Bearian (talk) 01:22, 29 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 4 November 2016

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Hiya!

Would you be so kind to merge Latina_stereotypes_in_hip_hop to Mami (hip hop)? I don't know how. Thanks in advance, (((The Quixotic Potato))) (talk) 18:20, 4 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, but not immediately. The Quixotic Potato, can it wait a few days? (written earlier, forgot to do the tildes) Bearian (talk) 00:00, 5 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]
We potatoes do not experience a single linear timeline, unlike humans. (((The Quixotic Potato))) (talk) 19:30, 4 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]
I knew it was a difficult question (((The Quixotic Potato))) (talk) 21:24, 27 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Shamefully asks The Quixotic Potato for more time. Bearian (talk) 03:27, 28 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Time is a social construct made by humans for humans. (((The Quixotic Potato))) (talk) 22:49, 28 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Look, we both know that this merge isn't gonna happen. Can you please remove the merge templates? Please ping me when you've removed them. (((The Quixotic Potato))) (talk) 22:38, 14 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]
 Done (((The Quixotic Potato))) (talk) 00:56, 17 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Saturday November 12: Women in Science Edit-a-thon @ NY Academy of Sciences (plus Sunday Indigenous People's Justice event)

Saturday November 12, 12-4pm: Women in Science Edit-a-thon @ NY Academy of Sciences

Join us for a full Saturday of social Wikipedia editing at NY Academy of Sciences (drop-in any time!), during which we will create, update, and improve Wikipedia articles covering Women in science for their second annual edit-a-thon!.

This event also coincides with the year-long celebration of the Academy's 200th Anniversary and a Women in Red online campaign.

Beginning and experienced Wikipedia writers are both welcome, and there will be helpers on hand to assist those new to editing the encyclopedia.

Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues! --Pharos (talk) 19:26, 10 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

And RSVP now for our other event this Sunday in Brooklyn, focusing on Indigenous communities and social justice:

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New deal for page patrollers

Hi Bearian,

In order to better control the quality of new pages, keep out the spam, and welcome the genuine newbies, the current system we introduced in 2011 is being updated and improved. The documentation and tutorials have also been revised and given a facelift. Most importantly a new user group New Page Reviewer has been created.

Under the new rule, you may find that you are temporarily unable to mark new pages as reviewed. However, this is nothing to worry about - most current experienced patrollers are being accorded the the new right without the need to apply, and if you have significant previous experience of patrolling new pages, we strongly encourage you to apply for the new right as soon as possible - we need all the help we can get, and we are now providing a dynamic, supportive environment for your work.

Find out more about this exiting new user right now at New Page Reviewers and be sure to read the new tutorial before applying. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 04:28, 13 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

The Challenge Series

The Challenge Series is a current drive on English Wikipedia to encourage article improvements and creations globally through a series of 50,000/10,000/1000 Challenges for different regions, countries and topics. All Wikipedia editors in good standing are invited to participate.

Theory of infinitely extended particles

The subject article was tagged as "endorses the proposal to delete" by yourself - it has been restored as a contested PROD. I have informed the original PROD proposer (User talk:Dukwon), in case (s)he want to go for AfD. Ronhjones  (Talk) 22:39, 21 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

ArbCom Elections 2016: Voting now open!

Hello, Bearian. Voting in the 2016 Arbitration Committee elections is open from Monday, 00:00, 21 November through Sunday, 23:59, 4 December to all unblocked users who have registered an account before Wednesday, 00:00, 28 October 2016 and have made at least 150 mainspace edits before Sunday, 00:00, 1 November 2016.

The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.

If you wish to participate in the 2016 election, please review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 22:08, 21 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Saturday December 3: Contemporary Chinese Art Edit-a-thon @ Guggenheim

Saturday December 3: Contemporary Chinese Art Edit-a-thon @ Guggenheim

On Saturday December 3, 2016, in conjunction with a global campaign, the Guggenheim will host its fifth Wikipedia edit-a-thon—or, #guggathon—to enhance Wikipedia's coverage of modern and contemporary artists from Greater China. The event will cap off Wikipedia Asian Month, an online campaign dedicated to augmenting Asian content on Wikipedia throughout November.

New and experienced editors are welcome. The event will include a training session for participants who are new to Wikipedia, and Wikipedia specialists will be on hand to provide basic instruction and editing support. Editors are invited to view the exhibition Tales of Our Time following the event.

The Guggenheim aims to raise awareness of the artists featured in the Tales of Our Time exhibition supported by The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Chinese Art Initiative, and build on the model of campaigns like the Wikipedia Edit-a-thon at the Guggenheim: Women in Architecture, Wikipedia Edit-a-thon at the Guggenheim: Contemporary Art of the Middle East and North Africa, and Art+Feminism.

  • Enter at the 88th Street entrance via the ramp at 88th Street and Fifth Avenue.

Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues! --Pharos (talk) 09:45, 23 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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The Signpost: 4 November 2016

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Question on Rodd Wolff AfD

  • @Bearian: Brian, you’ve made my day as you are the first editor to weigh in on the Rodd Wolff AfD and offer actual improvements to the article, so I thank you for your time and expertise. If you’ve read through the this AfD you might have noticed I’ve taken quite a beating. :o)
But back to the reason for this note, I do have a question for you. In the opening paragraph you deleted a major portion of a quote from a book. The entire quote was “Without the stuntman, the movies that we so enjoy today would be very boring. It was the stuntman who allowed the actors to continue working. They were men and women who put their lives on the line daily to make their fellow actor look good. Rodd Wolff was one of these modern day cowboys who put his life on the line in the world of motion pictures.[1]” All of that was from the book The Heart of a Cowboy by John H Conley Jr. You deleted the first 3 sentences and left only the “Rodd Wolff was one of these modern day cowboys who put his life on the line in the world of motion pictures” part. By deleting the first 3 sentences the remaining sentence doesn’t make sense by itself. What was your logic for deleting the first 3 sentences? Was it because you agreed with some of the other editors that this was “gibberish,” or did you not recognize the firs 3 sentences were part of the quote? I will admit that perhaps I didn’t have my citation correct, perhaps I should have put quotation marks around the entire quote (I am a newbie at this Wikipedia stuff)?
Actually I don’t mind deleting the entire 4-sentence quote as it wasn’t in the original writeup, I added that quote only to address a complaint of the AfD nominator, something like ...“the subject is not notable as the profession of stunt performers is not notable,...it’s not like they are real actors…” I added that book reference and the quote about the importance of the stunt perfomers in general. So I now seem to be in a Catch-22 position. My adding that quote for the nominator gets criticized as being gibberish by other editors.

Anyway, thanks again for your improvements, but at this time it probably doesn’t matter as I see another Delete vote just came in. Zootsuit1941 (talk) 21:21, 6 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Happy birthday!

Warm regards, Mz7 (talk) 04:18, 14 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you, Mz7. I was literally on the other side of the world. Bearian (talk) 13:37, 28 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

December 21: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC (plus Wikipedia Day on Jan 15!)

Wednesday December 21, 7pm: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC

You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our monthly "WikiWednesday" evening salon (7-9pm) and knowledge-sharing workshop at Babycastles gallery by 14th Street / Union Square in Manhattan.

This will be the holiday party! Celebrate a December holiday with us, or in wiki-fashion, edit the calendar itself and join us to celebrate any holiday of your choice regardless of when it usually happens.

Featuring special guest presentations on structure data, university library meetups, metrics and reporting, and other topics.

We will also follow up on plans for recent and upcoming edit-a-thons, and other outreach activities.

We welcome the participation of our friends from the Free Culture movement and from all educational and cultural institutions interested in developing free knowledge projects.

After the main meeting, savory and sweet pies and refreshments and video games in the gallery!

7:00pm - 9:00 pm at Babycastles gallery, 137 West 14th Street

We especially encourage folks to add your 5-minute lightning talks to our roster, and otherwise join in the "open space" experience! Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues! --Pharos (talk) 21:43, 17 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Season's Greetings

Hello Bearian: Enjoy the holiday season, and thanks for your work to maintain, improve and expand Wikipedia. Cheers, North America1000 15:30, 18 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Spread the WikiLove; use {{subst:Season's Greetings1}} to send this message

The Signpost: 22 December 2016

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Merry, merry!

From the icy Canajian north; to you and yours! FWiW Bzuk (talk) 19:17, 26 December 2016 (UTC) [reply]

Thank you, Bzuk. I was in the very warm Philippines. Bearian (talk) 13:40, 28 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Holiday Greetings! Brian

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year!
Thank you for helping make Wikipedia a better place. Blessings. May we all have peace in the coming year. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 00:56, 27 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you, User:7&6=thirteen. 2017 has got to be better than 2016. Bearian (talk) 13:43, 28 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]


Mitchell Schwartz - barnstar

Although I !voted "keep" at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mitchell Schwartz (public figure), I am thankful for your lengthy and well-reasoned closure to "delete" this article. Bearian (talk) 20:08, 31 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. It was a close that did require some consideration, and I can well understand why some were voting to keep, as there was an appearance of notability in the amount of coverage of his role in the Obama presidential campaign. But it was shown that that coverage was largely self-generated, and our practise is not to give weight to such promotional and temporary coverage. It may be that he does become notable later on and an article can be created then. If you or anyone else wishes to use the deleted material to create a new article, please let me know and I will userfy it. SilkTork ✔Tea time 10:01, 1 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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