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DYK for Statue of Edward Snowden[edit]

Harrias talk 12:02, 11 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

In the future, I’d appreciate looking a little deeper into good faith edits before dismissing them as vandalism. —Wiki Wikardo 04:50, 18 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@Wiki Wikardo: Alright, sorry. There's been so many vandalistic edits on that page the last few days or so that I might have been to quick with that assumption. However do you have any sources for your edit? For instance the wiki article of Louis Pasteur says "the sculpture was designed by Harriet G. Moore and cast in 1984 by Artworks Foundry" and nothing about the "Work Projects Administration" (and neither does Google).
--Fixuture (talk) 15:36, 18 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]
That passage is, clearly, referring to a different sculpture—how could “the Waldos” have met there in 1971 if it was not cast until 1984? The page on Commons lists the sculptor as noted Bay Area artist Beniamino Bufano (one of whose most famous pieces may be the sculpture of Sun Yat-Sen in Chinatown, but likely better known within Marin is the bear in front of Ross city hall) and googling his name along with `wpa' produces several relevent results, including pages about the work itself, an interview with the artist in which he states, “I made … the statue of Pasteur, which is on your side of the Bay at San Rafael,” and a manifesto that reads, in part, “Our art must become as democratic as science and the children in the playgrounds of our cities. That is why I have sculptured Pasteur for one of our high schools…” —Wiki Wikardo 17:32, 18 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]
@Wiki Wikardo: Well again sorry for the mistake. However it would be nice if you added a reference to it when readding it, like this one: http://www.newdealartregistry.org/map/LouisPasteur/SanRafaelHighSchool/SanRafael/CA/, and not removed the "at San Rafael High School" part. --Fixuture (talk) 20:31, 18 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]
It’s alright. I can imagine that there’s a severe uptick in unconstructive contributions around this time of the month. But it bothers me that many established editors and admins are very quick to revert whatever they don’t immediately recognize or understand. Having good-faith edits by longtime users tagged “vandalism” feels especially galling.
The reason I removed the reference to San Rafael High is that I wanted to include the information about artist and historical context of the piece, but with all that it then got unwieldy for a short blurb, and the statue’s particular location didn’t seem relevant to the image caption outside of some sort of school boosterism, being as it’s already mentioned in the article.
Take care. —Wiki Wikardo 22:30, 18 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]
@Wiki Wikardo: So I just revisited this edit-conflict and I'm really not sure why you wrote "WPA-sponsored" as the statue is certainly not. Anyways I added sourced info on it being created by Benny Bufano. --Fixuture (talk) 15:02, 22 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Merging[edit]

I saw you proposed this merge. There are a couple additional steps in the process of proposing a merge. One is the add Template:Mergefrom to the target article. The other is to create a talk page thread along the lines of "Merger proposal" on the talk page for the target where discussion can take place. — Rhododendrites talk \\ 15:13, 25 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for reminding me. I also added the expert-needed template (even though it inappropiately automatically links to the subject's WikiProjects [it's a subject that doesn't need an expert in the broad domain of for example the Technology Wikiproject - but specifically Darknets etc.]). There are already two sections on the talk page for the discussion of each so I linked those. --Fixuture (talk) 15:53, 25 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

A kitten for you![edit]

I appreciate all of the recent thank-you's for edits, even if it seems like people are just writing over them :P But hey, that's the spirit of the site!

Myconix (talk) 09:08, 26 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Elon Musk - relevance edit[edit]

This was inserted into the article when there was dispute over whether they had remarried or not. If you look, there is no source to say they did in fact remarried, this is because the fact that they were invited to the White House dinner together was used as evidence that they were remarried. Now that we know they obviously were remarried, the White House point is, intact, irrelevant. wolf (talk) 20:38, 30 May 2015 (UTC) (Heuh0)[reply]

@Heuh0: Well I see your point now. However the White House dinner part should definitely stay in the article...if anything the context of that sentence needs to be changed instead of having it removed. However one could read that part of the section as within the context of the marriage as well as simply a chronologically ordered description of his personal life. But maybe there needs to be a whole new section in that article (for things like that) when thinking about it...something like "Reception" (maybe I should post an entry on the talk page for that; the "Awards and recognition" section could be a subsection of it). --Fixuture (talk) 20:49, 30 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Open world[edit]

Hi Fixuture,

To explain this (and my subsequent reverting and undoing my own revert), ECW28 (talk · contribs) main purpose on Wikipedia has been adding 'open world' to articles and categories (scroll down their contributions to see what I mean). See for instance Bloodborne, Metro 2033 and Tomb Raider. I've told them several times that instead of adding their own opinion, they'll need to back that up with a valid source. When I noticed they were up to it again, I naturally assumed it was either incorrect and/or unsourced. But unlike the other articles, No Man's Sky actually *is* considered an open world game. Sorry for the reverting, and happy editing. --Soetermans. T / C 13:56, 4 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@Soetermans: No problem, thanks for the explanation. --Fixut͉͇̞͖͉̼̭͉͓͑̈̉́͑ȗ̹̲ͨͮ̂̂̄ṙ̫̥͚͚̜͙͍̰́̈́ė̺̩̞̗̓̉ͧͩ̿ͤ̎̆ (talk) 15:24, 4 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Your signature[edit]

So your talk page signature obscures the text above and below, making it hard for to read. Do you intend this? Can you change it so it doesn't do that? It's kind of annoying. --Dennis Bratland (talk) 21:56, 7 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Yes I intended this. Not sure if I change it sometime...I find it easily readable - but I'm going to test it on some other browsers and settings later. For me that upper and lower glitch stuff disappears after hovering over it once (and it also hides one or two chars at most) so I'm not sure if changing it is really needed...(maybe I'll trim it a bit) --Fixut͉͇̞͖͉̼̭͉͓͑̈̉́͑ȗ̹̲ͨͮ̂̂̄ṙ̫̥͚͚̜͙͍̰́̈́ė̺̩̞̗̓̉ͧͩ̿ͤ̎̆ (talk) 22:04, 7 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
There are guidelines on this: WP:SIGPROB. This extra distraction is isn't necessary for the purpose of identifying the user, so it really needs to go. To me it's a question of why we are here, to build an encyclopaedia. Not see who can make the most unusual sig. Also, on Chrome and Safari on iOS, there's no way to mouse over to get the junk out of the way. Not that I really want to have to mouse over a page in order to read what should be displayed plainly without having to do anything special. --Dennis Bratland (talk) 22:21, 7 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Well I went long time without doing anything to my sig...then I saw more and more people doing fancy stuff with it and couldn't see what might speak against changing it...I really had no problems of reading the text even if the sig flows over into the text. I change it however when people mistake it as a sign of misdedication / unseriousness about editing/building Wikipedia. --Fixuture (talk) 22:37, 7 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you! I would look over the archives at Talk:List of common misconceptions so you can review the discussions that took place to agree on the list criteria. Once you understand why they did it that way, you might be better able to suggest changing it. I don't think it will be easy to change many minds on that, but maybe you will be able to see something others missed in the original discussions. --Dennis Bratland (talk) 22:45, 7 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
I came to complain as well, but I see you already came to your senses :) —TheDJ (talkcontribs) 23:36, 7 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
I was wondering why I was seeing zalgo on Wikipedia. Alakzi (talk) 23:56, 7 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Ditto TheDJ. Thank you as well. ―Mandruss  13:46, 8 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Thank god I'm not the only one that this. :P—cyberpowerChat:Online 08:54, 9 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for fixing that! TenOfAllTrades(talk) 22:21, 12 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

It appears to be that you are edit warring on the Peter Joseph article. As mostly a single purpose account editor who's very first edit on Wikipedia is Zeitgeist Joseph related, keep particular care not to exert a pov about the material. An experienced editor recently reverted your edits and it is a good idea to have a listen to what they said instead of reinserting the information. [1] <--Your editing history would seem to indicate neutral editing should take precedence over pov assuming you are a member of the Zeitgeist, so caution please. Earl King Jr. (talk) 00:44, 9 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Fixuture has popped up a lot recently in my watchlist on different kinds of pages, I wouldn't call them a single-purpose account. — Jeraphine Gryphon (talk) 08:55, 9 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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List defined references[edit]

Hi Fixuture,

I'm REH7 and I recently created a page called Access Economy. You changed my references. I was using list-defined references, which is a recommended way to do them because it's easier to read the article in edit mode. You can find documentation of it here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Footnotes#WP:LDR. The way I created my references was working fine, I think, and it's much tidier.

Please let me know if you know something I don't... otherwise I'd like to undo your change.

Thanks, REH7 (talk) 01:21, 13 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@REH7: Well the references were screwed up even if you're using the list-defined references. You can undo it of course (no need to ask btw; just leave an explanation in the edit-description) but then please fix that afterwards. --Fixuture (talk) 17:14, 13 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Okeedoke. Thanks for all your other edits btw... they were all good. I thought the references were okay but I'm new to this (it is my first new article). REH7 (talk) 00:09, 14 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Hello,

I just added an answer to the minds's talk page, on your subject. I let you see it there. R3sJAP155M (talk) 23:43, 15 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]


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Mindwipe and memory erasure[edit]

The categories are getting quite confusing now. What is the difference between memory erasure and alteration in fiction and a Mindwipe? Is a mindwipe the official fictional term? AngusWOOF (barksniff) 19:55, 17 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Mindwipe just stands for memory erasure and doesn't include any other memory-alterations. "Mindwipe" is the science fiction term for (deliberate) memory erasure...and hence it is relevant to Category:Memory erasure and alteration in fiction. --Fixuture (talk) 19:59, 17 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Okay, fair enough. I've redirected the "Memory erasure in science fiction" term and categories to Mindwipe as shown in my recent edits. Is it planned to be have an annotated list? How will this fit in with amnesia in fiction? AngusWOOF (barksniff) 20:22, 17 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Ok.
Is it planned to be have an annotated list?
Well I haven't planned making a list, but you could set one up if you want to. Lists' advantage over categories is that they allow for some more detailed info for its entries, that they also allow for entries which don't yet have wiki-articles and that they can be sorted by various criteria if they're tables (e.g. by year of the novel/film).
Would be nice if you left a note here if you set it up.
How will this fit in with amnesia in fiction?
Category:Amnesia in fiction is just a see-also in that category as amnesia is not human/technical deliberate manipulation of a person's memory but a natural disease. Entries in it are not in the scope of Category:Memory erasure and alteration in fiction aside if it includes someone intentionally causing amnesia in someone else by whatever means. Category:Amnesia in fiction is neither a sub nor a superordinate category to Category:Memory erasure and alteration in fiction...there could be a category "Category:Memory in fiction" which has both categories in it. Not sure if it's a good idea to create it though - but if you can think of any article being in the scope of that category but not the two other ones please go ahead and create it...
--Fixuture (talk) 20:41, 17 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Well, I don't want to have to create a comprehensive list, as I've had to with Body swap appearances in media since the category is good enough for that. The most prominent examples should be in the Mindwipe article, and can be combined into the prose where it makes sense. Some of the entries are already there, just need the sources to back it up. AngusWOOF (barksniff) 22:15, 17 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
I've updated the article. It still needs more references in the early defining paragraphs, and some links to some science fiction encyclopedias or books that discuss the procedure as used in fiction. I could not find the term in the general dictionaries like Webster's. AngusWOOF (barksniff) 02:29, 18 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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For years the gallery section of the National personification page looked terrible, with very big gaps between the pictures. it became worse and worse the more pictures were added. It was really an eye-sore, every time I looked at the page. I thought I found a simple solution which worked and made it look perfectly OK. You have promptly reversed what I did and restored the VERY bad old look. Is there a better solution than what I tried? If there is such a solution and you know it - fine, please implement it. Thanks! (Blanche of King's Lynn (talk) 19:58, 8 September 2015 (UTC))[reply]

Thanks for your attempt of fixing this problem. Your edit didn't fix it on my side though – actually it made it look slightly worse (if you'd like to have a screenshot I could send you one).
I don't know how it can be fixed. I made a few attempts with the width and height parameters and actually also tried splitting it up into multiple smaller galleries but they didn't work out.
There's one more thing one could try though which is m
Well actually I just found a way that makes it look ok: splitted it up into multiple galleries – just 4 images each so that it should look ok on most smaller monitors / browser-windows – and set the alignment to center.
I guess you've already seen my post about it at Template talk:Gallery? --Fixuture (talk) 20:12, 8 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Revert[edit]

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Thank you![edit]

Hi Fixuture

Although it seems a little circular I nonetheless want to thank you for your note of appreciation on my edit (wayback machine). Feedback here is so often of the negative variety, reversions and the like. It was appreciated and I'd like you to know that!

All the best here, and everywhere.

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Grants:IEG/Wikipedia likes Galactic Exploration for Posterity 2015[edit]

Dear Fellow Wikipedians,

I JethroBT (WMF) suggested that I consult with fellow Wikipedians to get feedback and help to improve my idea about "As an unparalleled way to raise awareness of the Wikimedia projects, I propose to create a tremendous media opportunity presented by launching Wikipedia via space travel."

Please see the idea at meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Wikipedia_likes_Galactic_Exploration_for_Posterity_2015. Please post your suggestions on the talk page and please feel free to edit the idea and join the project.

Thank you for your time and attention in this matter. I appreciate it.

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WikiProject X Newsletter • Issue 5[edit]

Newsletter • October 2015

Hello there! Happy to be writing this newsletter once more. This month:

We did it!

In July, we launched five pilot WikiProjects: WikiProjects Cannabis, Evolutionary Biology, Ghana, Hampshire, and Women's Health. We also use the new design, named "WPX UI," on WikiProject Women in Technology, Women in Red, WikiProject Occupational Safety and Health. We are currently looking for projects for the next round of testing. If you are interested, please sign up on the Pilots page.

Shortly after our launch we presented at Wikimania 2015. Our slides are on Wikimedia Commons.

Then after all that work, we went through the process of figuring out whether we accomplished our goal. We reached out to participants on the redesigned WikiProjects, and we asked them to complete a survey. (If you filled out your survey—thank you!) While there are still some issues with the WikiProject tools and the new design, there appears to be general satisfaction (at least among those who responded). The results of the survey and more are documented in our grant report filed with the Wikimedia Foundation.

The work continues!

There is more work that needs to be done, so we have applied for a renewal of our grant. Comments on the proposal are welcome. We would like to improve what we have already started on the English Wikipedia and to also expand to Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata. Why those? Because they are multilingual projects and because there needs to be better coordination across Wikimedia projects. More details are available in the renewal proposal.

How can the Wikimedia Foundation support WikiProjects?

The Wikimedia Developer Summit will be held in San Francisco in January 2016. The recently established Community Tech team at the Wikimedia Foundation is interested in investigating what technical support they can provide for WikiProjects, i.e., support beyond just templates and bots. I have plenty of opinions myself, but I want to hear what you think. The session is being planned on Phabricator, the Wikimedia bug tracker. If you are not familiar with Phabricator, you can log in with your Wikipedia username and password through the "Login or Register: MediaWiki" button on the login page. Your feedback can help make editing Wikipedia a better experience.


Until next time,

Harej (talk) 09:03, 26 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Hey there, Fixuture. I noticed that you added a couple of pages relating to Percy Jackson into the category Greek gods in fiction. Because they're already in Category:Greco-Roman mythology in popular culture and also suffering from a serious case of overcategorization, I am going to add the whole lot of them to your category, as a subcategory. This means "Greek gods in fiction" won't appear on these pages (solving the overcategorization issue), but they will ultimately remain in that parent category. Just wanted to give you a heads up. Happy editing! -- 2ReinreB2 (talk) 23:44, 7 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@2ReinreB2: Alright, thank you! I'd also think that this would probably be the better choice...however I haven't read/watched much of the series and afaik not all of them issue or portray Greek gods (but all of them Greco-Roman mythology) which is why I just added the few ones I was sure of to feature/issue Greek gods. --Fixuture (talk) 23:51, 7 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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WikiProject X Newsletter • Issue 6[edit]

Newsletter • January 2016

Hello there! Happy to be writing this newsletter once more. This month:

What comes next

Some good news: the Wikimedia Foundation has renewed WikiProject X. This means we can continue focusing on making WikiProjects better.

During our first round of work, we created a prototype WikiProject based on two ideas: (1) WikiProjects should clearly present things for people to do, and (2) The content of WikiProjects should be automated as much as possible. We launched pilots, and for the most part it works. But this approach will not work for the long term. While it makes certain aspects of running a WikiProject easier, it makes the maintenance aspects harder.

We are working on a major overhaul that will address these issues. New features will include:

  • Creating WikiProjects by simply filling out a form, choosing which reports you want to generate for your project. This will work with existing bots in addition to the Reports Bot reports. (Of course, you can also have sections curated by humans.)
  • One-click button to join a WikiProject, with optional notifications.
  • Be able to define your WikiProject's scope within the WikiProject itself by listing relevant pages and categories, eliminating the need to tag every talk page with a banner. (You will still be allowed to do that, of course. It just won't be required.)

The end goal is a collaboration tool that can be used by WikiProjects but also by any edit-a-thon or group of people that want to coordinate on improving articles. Though implemented as an extension, the underlying content will be wikitext, meaning that you can continue to use categories, templates, and other features as you normally would.

This will take a lot of work, and we are just getting started. What would you like to see? I invite you to discuss on our talk page.


Until next time,

Harej (talk) 02:53, 20 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@Harej:
we created a prototype WikiProject based on two ideas: (1) WikiProjects should clearly present things for people to do, and (2) The content of WikiProjects should be automated as much as possible. We launched pilots, and for the most part it works. [...] * Creating WikiProjects by simply filling out a form, choosing which reports you want to generate for your project. This will work with existing bots in addition to the Reports Bot reports. (Of course, you can also have sections curated by humans.)
Those 2 basic ideas for WikiProjects are great, for (1) that could be the tasks I described over at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_X/Archive_2#Improving_WikiProject_participation. For (2) I very much agree that this would be useful: most things are already possible but are hidden and obstructed by them being extra bots, page, templates and whatnot - all of that should be taken together and set up for all WikiProjects in the always same, standardized manner (and for the WikiProjects that get newly created). It needs one WikiProject-control-dashboard in which all those many things can be configured.
One-click button to join a WikiProject, with optional notifications.
Great - that's badly needed.
Be able to define your WikiProject's scope within the WikiProject itself by listing relevant pages and categories, eliminating the need to tag every talk page with a banner. (You will still be allowed to do that, of course. It just won't be required.)
Could it be made possible that all articles and categories added there get the banner added automatically? For instance for WikiProject Science Fiction I'd like to add the banner to all articles of Category:Science fiction. Actually it would probably best to have all articles missing the banner in a specified category (and their subcategories!; this is the catch) listed somewhere so that they can be checked before the banner gets added automatically - many pages are miscategorized or are exceptions etc. so I'd really suggest it to be semi-automatically.
but also by any edit-a-thon or group of people that want to coordinate on improving articles
You might be interested in this relevant suggestion (pls see my comment there): m:2016_Community_Wishlist_Survey/Categories/Editing#Real_time_group_editing
Lastly you might also be interested in my suggestion on the Community Wishlist here: m:2016_Community_Wishlist_Survey/Categories/WikiProjects#Suggestions_for_WikiProjects_to_join. (I listed almost all my proposals concerning WikiProjects in the "Improving WikiProject participation" section I linked further up.)
Not sure if I should move my comment here to some other talk page or so. Anyways I hope this keeps on going, wishing you the best,
--Fixuture (talk) 16:04, 3 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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