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The Signpost: 27 May 2015

The Wikimedia Foundation recently switched to a quarterly report structure to better align reporting with the generally quarterly planning and goal-setting processes.
British media reports on Wikipedia editing to articles of Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom prior to the May 7 United Kingdom general election from IP addresses assigned to Parliament.
To many, Internet Relay Chat is an old relic, but not to Wikipedia. Wikipedia currently has an IRC help channel designated to help and assist editors with editing Wikipedia.
Fifteen featured articles, four featured lists, and six featured pictures were promoted this week.
Wikipedia's articles on drugs are pretty good – good enough to impress even doctors. A new research study adds some substance to that impression.
As usual for the time of year, pop culture rules this week. The start of summer vacation in the US means a focus on summer movies, particularly blockbuster sequels Avengers: Age of Ultron, Pitch Perfect 2 and Mad Max: Fury Road.
...allegedly. In a post to wikitech-l, Steven Walling pointed out that the TV show CSI: Cyber had used a screenshot of MediaWiki's HTML output and claimed it was responsible for blowing up printers.

Redesign Wikipedia:WikiProject Video games/Requests

Hello, I've been trying to sort through some of the requests here but it's difficult because of the way it's laid out. Would it be possible to make it so this page is laid out similar to this and this? Please reply on my talk page or reply here and leave a talkback template on my talk page.--☣Anarchyte☣ 02:45, 31 May 2015 (UTC)

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The Signpost: 03 June 2015

The Wikimedia Foundation's volunteer election committee has announced the election results for the three vacant seats on the Board of Trustees. Dariusz Jemielnak, James Heilman, and Denny Vrandečić are set to take up their two-year terms on the Board. They will replace the three incumbents, all of whom stood this time unsuccessfully: Phoebe Ayers, Samuel Klein, and María Sefidari.
Caitlyn Jenner—the American hero of the 1976 Olympics, a film actor, and prominent member of Keeping Up with the Kardashians—may now be the most famous openly transgender person in the world.
Since the dawn of Wikipedia, or at least since 22 December 2005, the template named Persondata has existed.
Two featured articles and ten featured pictures were promoted this week.
Over the past few weeks, developers have been working on improving Wikimedia's performance when users connect to it using SPDY.
Wikipedia appears to be the single most used website for health information globally, exceeding traffic observed at the NIH, WebMD, WHO et al..
More UK government vandalism; legend has it; minding the gender gap
The traffic report is nothing unusual this week, with a Google Doodle for astronaut Sally Ride topping the list, the accidental death of famous mathematician John Forbes Nash, Jr. at #2, and the normal fare of recent popular American movies and television.

The Signpost: 10 June 2015

This week saw the publication of the Chapter-wide Financial Trends Report 2013, a now-completed research project that examines the finances and outlays of the 36 movement-affiliated chapters.
"Happy families are all alike," Leo Tolstoy said, "but unhappy families are unhappy after their own fashion."
UK media covers Wikipedia Arbitration case; Lila Tretikov visits Israel.
Four featured articles, two featured lists, one featured topic, and twenty-eight featured pictures were promoted this week.
Today it was announced that Wikimedia sites are going to become HTTPS only, finishing up 10 year effort of rolling out HTTPS.
The Medical Translation Project, an ambitious attempt to improve and translate Wikipedia’s medical content from English into other languages, began in 2012.

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The Signpost: 17 June 2015

The Princess of Asturias Foundation announced that Wikipedia would be the recipient of the 2015 Princess of Asturias award in the category of International Cooperation.
The Arbitration Committee delivered its final decision in a case that reached the attention of the UK national press.
This would end a long-standing tradition in many countries that the skyline and the public scene should belong to everybody.
We need to be ever-diligent in ensuring that articles remain of high quality.
The rollout of HTTPS only has now been completed across all Wikimedia wikis.
We interviewed an Australian veteran who deployed to the region as a peacekeeper and now writes articles on the region's history to help him understand what he encountered there.
A more than usually severe outage Wikimedia Labs occurred after a massive database corruption implosion on June 17.
Six featured articles, seven featured lists, and seven featured pictures were promoted this week.
Author's note: This might be a violation of WP:BEANS; read at your own risk.
It wouldn't be the WikiProject report if we didn't feature an Australian topic once in a while, so this week we're looking at the left side.

Your GA nomination of Mega Man 5

The article Mega Man 5 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:Mega Man 5 for things which need to be addressed. AdrianGamer (talk) 11:25, 24 June 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 24 June 2015

Over more than a decade of weekly publication, The Signpost has accumulated an incredibly lengthy and detailed record about the issues, controversies, successes, and failures of the English Wikipedia community and the movement at large.
The Wikimedia Foundation's Language Engineering team plans to introduce Content Translation—a tool that makes it easier to translate Wikipedia articles into different languages—as a beta feature on the English Wikipedia.
During 2009–2011 Google ran the Google Translation Project (GTP), a program utilising paid translators to translate most popular English Wikipedia articles to various Indian language Wikipedias.
Four articles and nine pictures were promoted to featured status this week.
One paper looks at the topic of Wikipedia governance in the context of online social production.
This past week saw the kick-off of the 2015 MediaWiki architecture focus of improving our content platform.
The Board of Trustees is the "ultimate corporate authority" of the Wikimedia Foundation and the level at which the strategic decisions regarding the Wikimedia movement are made ...
The Hürriyet Daily News reports that the Turkish Wikipedia has posted banners on the top of the encyclopedia to warn users that a number of articles are being blocked by the Turkish government.
After six years of work, a residency in the Canadian Rockies, endless debugging, and more than a little help from my friends, I have made Print Wikipedia.
Clausewitz' pithy summary of warfare as "politics by other means" seems to be the motto of some Wikipedia editors.

The Signpost: 01 July 2015

This week The Center for Internet and Society published a promotional blog post highlighting the heritage of the center's creation of the Train the Trainer program.
A week now remains until the vote, expected on 9 July, when the European Parliament will express either its approval, disapproval, or lack of opinion on the question of freedom of panorama in the European Union.
Here to share their wisdom are Dodger67, Penny Richards, LilyKitty, and Mirokado of WikiProject Disability
Four featured list and twelve featured pictures were promoted this week.
For the week of June 21 to 27, 2015, the 10 most popular articles on Wikipedia, as determined from the report of the most viewed pages.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community.
Like many editors of the world's largest encyclopedia, Karanacs was browsing the site's articles and found that they were of relatively poor quality—and that the traditional narrative she'd learned was not necessarily accurate.

The Signpost: 08 July 2015

It seems like a good time to discuss the various communications channels available to community members.
Lila Tretikov this week posted an email to the wikimedia-l mailing list announcing the final publication of the Wikimedia Foundation's 2015 annual plan.
The mayor of Esino Lario warns that Wikimedia 2016 is "at risk of disappearing".
It's July 4 weekend and on this list that means only one thing: Wimbledon. Sure, the American Independence Day gets noticed too, but it can't hold a candle to that staggeringly British sporting event.
12 featured articles, 2 featured lists, and 15 featured pictures were promoted this week.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community.

RfA mail

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Winner 42 Talk to me! 02:26, 16 July 2015 (UTC)

Speedy deletion contested: Draft:Pokemon Mega Evolution

Hello GamerPro64. I am just letting you know that I contested the speedy deletion of Draft:Pokemon Mega Evolution, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: speedy criteria not applicable, due to the lack of an AfC template and it's not in AfC either. Thank you. Armbrust The Homunculus 13:10, 15 July 2015 (UTC)

I've been getting mixed messages about this process. On one side I'm told this. But when I do take it to MfD, I get chastized for not putting it up for speedy deletion. Where do I even go to bring this tedious issue up? GamerPro64 14:22, 15 July 2015 (UTC)
I think WP:MFD is the right place if you want that page to be deleted. Armbrust The Homunculus 15:30, 15 July 2015 (UTC)
I mean where do I go to file a complaint by the fact that I'm usually in a catch 22 on this? If I nominate stuff like this for speedy deletion, it gets removed and am told to take it to MfD. If I do take it to MfD, I'm told I should've nominated it for Speedy Deletion. I'm tired of these mixed messages. GamerPro64 16:07, 15 July 2015 (UTC)
Stale non-AfC drafts seem to be a bit of an odd topic to deal with, because almost nobody comments on them at MfD. A few months ago I tried to create a WP:DRAFTPROD system that would deal with them but it faced strong opposition. By current consensus all stale drafts that aren't AfC tagged have to go through MfD. Where have you been hearing that they should be speedied? Bosstopher (talk) 10:47, 16 July 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 15 July 2015

"How long will this take?" This is one of the first questions new clients ask. They come to us because the Wikipedia entry about the company at which they work is wrong, incomplete, or even just outdated. The answer varies ...
However coy they may be about it in public, Americans love to win. And when they do, they make no secret of it.
We return this week with an interview with a historical project that's still fairly active, WikiProject Former countries.
In The Register, Andrew Orlowski reports that three weeks ago, Grant Shapps filed a request with Wikimedia UK (WMUK) under the Data Protection Act 1998 "for all data relating to him".
The Wikimedia Foundation is pleased to announce the release of our latest transparency report.
Wikimania 2015 is underway in Mexico City, and one of its sessions—a scheduled follow-up to the annual Wikimedia Conference that was held in Berlin in May—is good reason to provide a retrospective of that Conference.
One featured article, seven featured lists, and 14 featured pictures were promoted this week.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community

User page

Hey Crisco. Do you know how to withdraw an RfA? GamerPro64 00:55, 17 July 2015 (UTC)

RfA nomination

Crud. I need to pay more attention to RfA. I didn't suggest it last time because I didn't know if it would be considered canvassing, but it seems to be common enough that I'll ask this time: please ping me next time you're headed to RfA. -Thibbs (talk) 10:36, 29 July 2015 (UTC)
Thanks for the sentiment, Thibbs. But I don't think I'll ever become an admin here. Though I personally think you could pass it if you've ever up for it yourself. GamerPro64 14:30, 29 July 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 22 July 2015

We want to take a moment to ask you to consider contributing to the Signpost.
Wikimania features remarks from some leading players from the Wikimedia Foundation as well as the free knowledge movement.
WMF's Executive Director, Lila Tretikov, gave the opening plenary address.
Three novelists "have found a way to control the Wikipedia narrative" by using the annotation website Genius to annotate their own Wikipedia articles.
Summary:When I was a kid, being a nerd meant wanting to go to Pluto.
WikiProject Politics of the United Kingdom
Three featured articles, two featured lists, and 29 featured pictures were promoted this week.
46 years ago this week, humanity set foot on the Moon.
Community technical news.

Annotations in good topics

Hello, there. Any news about this? No rush (I'm not very active), but I'm still interested in the matter. Waltham, The Duke of 20:35, 30 July 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 29 July 2015

An RFC proposes to create a "Bureaucrats' Admin Review Committee" (BARC) composed of bureaucrats empowered to remove adminship rights.
Two years ago, I discovered that I was on the autism spectrum.
An article argues that Wikipedia displays some key characteristics of a collective intelligence process.
"Editors representing rival political tribes [are] frequently attempting to impose their respective narratives as the official version of one or another cultural controversy."
Five featured articles, five featured lists, and sixteen featured pictures were promoted this week.
For the first time since this list began, India-related topics have claimed both the top two slots.

The Signpost: 05 August 2015

That particular artists would be omitted through oversight or happenstance is reasonable, but that one of the world's leading publishers of art books is completely unaware of their major omissions is startling.
The public interest in remembering the facts about trials and convictions is, in my view, at least as strong as any "right to be forgotten."
VisualEditor is now on slow roll-out on the English Wikipedia.
The Report checks in with WikiProject Templates.
The Indian government has launched an investigation into the source of Wikipedia edits regarding Jawaharlal Nehru that caused outrage in that country.
Death is no stranger to this list, but it has never cast such a pall as this week, when for the first time half the slots in the top 10 were devoted to it, including the top 3.
Three featured articles, seven featured lists, and twenty-two featured pictures were promoted this week.
What if there was a gathering place on Wikipedia for newer editors to find a mentor?

The Signpost: 12 August 2015

Superprotect was a novel page protection level implemented on August 10 last year, without warning.
The Atlantic discusses "The Covert World of People Trying to Edit Wikipedia—for Pay".
The community speaks out on paid editing.
Our ongoing Wikimanía coverage.
The charts are led this week by UFC women's champion Ronda Rousey, who won her last match at UFC 190 (#9) in 34 seconds.
Watch out for icebergs.
Wikimedia technical news.
During World War II, the German battleship Tirpitz was a major threat to Allied convoys travelling across the North Atlantic and Arctic Sea.

The Signpost: 19 August 2015

Nothing makes Wikipedians more angry than a discussion of gender and feminism on Wikipedia.
A new article in PLOS ONE about Wikipedia's science coverage has attracted media attention.
This week's featured content.
Tony the Tiger tours New York City.
It's a long way from the leafy bowers of Greenwich, Connecticut to the concrete barrens of Compton, California.
Community technical news.
Wikipedia is capable of covering news like any news agency.

Arb report

Hi Gamer, I noticed you said on the NAN talk page you have been paying "hyper attention" to ArbCom this year, and also know you have no formal affiliation with the committee. Would you have any interest in joining a team of rotating writers for the Signpost's arbitration report? We have one writer already on board, and would like a team of at least three to help share the workload. If you would have any interest, do let me know. Go Phightins! 02:10, 24 July 2015 (UTC)

Must say, Phightins. I have always been interested in writing for the Signpost. And I do know how to do writing for the newsletters here, being one-third of the Video Game Newsletter. I am interested in helping with the work in any way for the reports. Can certainly do so after August 1st if that works. GamerPro64 02:22, 24 July 2015 (UTC)
Awesome!!! That is great news, so great, I am going to ping Gamaliel as well. We will be in touch to coordinate the details shortly. Thanks! Go Phightins! 02:34, 24 July 2015 (UTC)

Hello from the Signpost and welcome aboard. Would you consider writing about the Arbitration Enforcement case? The decision isn't due until August 9. Gamaliel (talk) 02:59, 29 July 2015 (UTC)

Certainly. Looks to be interesting. GamerPro64 03:08, 29 July 2015 (UTC)

Note to self: Workshop Proposed decision is still going on. No peace in the ArbCom case. GamerPro64 02:25, 11 August 2015 (UTC)

Came here to leave a note that the case was still open, but I see you've already noticed that. I suspect they'll be done soon as most of the proposals already have 6-7 votes. Gamaliel (talk) 15:13, 16 August 2015 (UTC)

They just closed the case. Gamaliel (talk) 02:16, 24 August 2015 (UTC)
Thanks for the heads up. I begin a draft. GamerPro64 02:34, 24 August 2015 (UTC)

Dyscourse files

Dunno if you've seen, but the licensing e-mail has finally been processed and the files have been restored. :) ☺ · Salvidrim! · ✉ 17:27, 24 August 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for the news, Salvidrim. Been wondering when it was going to happen. Now to figure out how to move some of them to here. GamerPro64 17:33, 24 August 2015 (UTC)
You don't need to move anything. You can just link to the files as if they were local ([[File:Example.jpg]])... it makes Commons convenient. :) ☺ · Salvidrim! · ✉ 17:44, 24 August 2015 (UTC)
Seven years here and I keep learning new things. I'll never know how I managed to survive here. GamerPro64 17:47, 24 August 2015 (UTC)
Don't worry too much; I've recently had it pointed out to me that a range-block I had put in place had inadvertently blocked 618 septillion addresses (that's NOT a typo). ;) ☺ · Salvidrim! · ✉ 18:05, 24 August 2015 (UTC)
That might explain why I couldn't edit on my phone for the past couple of days. GamerPro64 20:00, 24 August 2015 (UTC)
.... More like months..... ☺ · Salvidrim! · ✉ 20:14, 24 August 2015 (UTC)

That's… a big booboo. GamerPro64 22:23, 24 August 2015 (UTC)

Arb report

Hi, thanks for taking a swing at covering an admittedly complicated arbitration case. The first draft looks pretty good, but we do have a few concerns we'd like you to address before publication. Primarily, the text of the decision did not characterize GorillaWarfare's actions as wheel warring, which you did in the background section. Could you rework the background section to be as neutral as possible? I saw your note about copyediting in the newsroom; we'll look at that when the content is in place. Thanks again for your help, Go Phightins! 20:31, 25 August 2015 (UTC)

Gotcha. If you have anyone comments on the writeup, let me know. GamerPro64 20:39, 25 August 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 26 August 2015

Does the data mean good news for the encyclopedia?
The Russian Wikipedia is blocked, more blocks may be on the on the horizon.
Should paid event staff supplement the work of volunteers?
The Wikimedia Foundation's grant structure.
This week's featured content.
The recently closed Arbitration Enforcement case.
A look at the research presented at the OpenSym 2015 conference.

I wrote one of these articles. God help us. GamerPro64 02:23, 28 August 2015 (UTC)

Samus Arun

Its an out of context quote from a Japanese Developer. This should refute the claims. http://m.ign.com/articles/2011/07/22/six-things-you-didnt-know-about-metroids-samus-aran Xgllo (talk) 03:31, 2 September 2015 (UTC)

Honestly I just want this to stop and have people take a step back to realize how stupid the claim is. GamerPro64 03:34, 2 September 2015 (UTC)
Ok listen people are trying to reclaim recognisable persons like them in media. It's not Wikipedic - but it's also not stupid. It was quoted, after all. http://moontouched-moogle.tumblr.com/post/124116902012/people-who-dont-think-samus-is-trans Ogress smash! 04:33, 2 September 2015 (UTC)
Ah yes. Tumblr. A website noted to not be reliable here. GamerPro64 12:40, 2 September 2015 (UTC)
hehehehe, as a lurker of the wikipedia antics for a while now I gotta say I'm loving the cynicism from those with common sense. It's a sign these idealogues are finally crumbling down, and it's a glorious sight to behold. 65.78.150.19 (talk) 08:13, 3 September 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 02 September 2015

Nearly 400 accounts blocked in largest paid-editing bust ever.
The WMF collaboration team announced this week that Flow will no longer be under active development.
A conflict regarding fundraising banners on the Italian Wikipedia is resolved.
This Signpost "Featured content" report covers material promoted from 16 August to 24 August.
Also vital statistics regarding Ja Rule.
The late-summer smash success of Straight Outta Compton remains the chief talking point of the English-speaking world, interrupted only by the welcome return of a Google Doodle.
Community technical news.

Archive bot

Re: [1], you know that there's a bot that will handle the archiving, right? (I posted about it at WTVG) – czar 02:12, 4 September 2015 (UTC)

Well yeah. I noticed that PC Gamer made a new list for top 100 games for this year so I decided to add it onto the page. While doing so I noticed some of the links were dead. Might as well while I was there. GamerPro64 02:17, 4 September 2015 (UTC)

Proposed amendment to WP:ADMIN regarding paid editing

You recently commented on a brainstorm that discussed banning administrators from paid editing. A concrete proposal to amend the administrator policy to this effect has been made at Wikipedia talk:Administrators#Proposed change - 'No paid editing" for admins. Your comments would be appreciated. MER-C 08:17, 5 September 2015 (UTC)

A Question

Do you want to continue as lead editor of the signpost's arbitration report or move to a backup? Because I did it this week, even though there were two lead editors for it, and I enjoyed it and would like to pick it up as my lead responsibility. Please ping me in response. Thanks Tortle (talk) 19:17, 9 September 2015 (UTC)

@Tortle: Yes I do want to continue to be a lead editor of the Arbitration report. Didn't think there would be need of it this week but your work shown so far proves me wrong. GamerPro64 20:00, 9 September 2015 (UTC)
Thanks for the prompt response, sounds good! Tortle (talk) 20:02, 9 September 2015 (UTC)
Btw, have you told the editor in chiefs about writing for the signpost? GamerPro64 20:28, 9 September 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 09 September 2015

The National Library is now releasing some of the nation's most treasured collections to Wikimedia Commons for everyone to use and enjoy.
Tony1 interviews a prolific featured content participant, Ian Rose.
Fram tells us why DYK is a problem.
First bot-created article generated from Wikidata; the Orange Bar of Doom has finally met its doom; active editor numbers still on the rise; arbitrator to resign; ne templates added in wake of Orangemoody case
This week's theme in popular articles revolved entirely around mass media productions.
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A recap of Wikipedia in the media this week

Resurrecting an old project

Hey there! Long time no see. Let me get right down to business. If I remember correctly, one of your specialties is tidying up and nominating abandoned projects—Anachronox and Pilotwings spring to mind. Well, I'd like to propose one to you: Maniac Mansion. I worked on that article with MuZemike and GuyinBlack way back in the day... it's like four or five years (!) ago now. They kept working on it after I left, and it grew to an unbelievable size and depth. And it was impressive even before all that expansion. About three years ago, its one and only FAC failed because of prose concerns, and it's been collecting dust ever since. The article is 95% of the way to being perfect—it would be a real jewel in WPVG's crown if it finally got featured.

Tonight I got inspired to copyedit the behemoth. Did the lead and gameplay section, but there's quite a bit left. I'd love to do the rest. If I had a partner who was willing to double-check the references, do some trimming on the excess content and handle an FAC nomination, I'd keep going on the CE in a heartbeat. That's when you came to mind! Would you be interested in handling the nom and whatever little janitor work the article needs? I'm pretty sure it's in good shape aside from the prose, which I'm dealing with myself, but it's been a long time since the main contributors shelved it. Some of the links might need archiving, etc. The nomination is the biggest thing—with work and all, I'm definitely not up for the stress and time commitment that would require. Totally understand if you aren't, either. But I'd really love to see this article get its due, and you're the most qualified project-salvager I can ask. You interested? JimmyBlackwing (talk) 08:46, 16 August 2015 (UTC)

Certainly. I've had Maniac Mansion in the back of my head for some time. I'll look through the article and do some fixing up there. GamerPro64 18:39, 16 August 2015 (UTC)
Great to hear. I'll keep plugging away at the copyedit. JimmyBlackwing (talk) 19:06, 16 August 2015 (UTC)

Looks like the article's going to need more janitor work than I feared. There are mangled ref templates and dead links galore, not to mention article text that's drifted from the sources over time. The copyedit is going well, but this thing will require a lot more work besides, unfortunately. JimmyBlackwing (talk) 22:00, 19 August 2015 (UTC)

You could ask for some assistance and make request on the WikiProject's talk page. Would be interesting to make this a full out project collaboration. That hasn't happened in years. GamerPro64 22:08, 19 August 2015 (UTC)
That's true, but I'm a bit nervous about work on the article getting derailed. I abandoned the previous push to bronze-star Maniac Mansion after a fourth editor, who was not the best writer, joined our collaboration and rewrote large portions of the article to be (if I'm honest) flat-out worse. He did some good work expanding it, but the article never had a prayer of satisfying 1a in that shape. Rather than fight over it and lose my hair, I just bailed. I'd rather not see something like that happen again. JimmyBlackwing (talk) 22:57, 19 August 2015 (UTC)
I getcha, Jimmy. I think we can make it work for its second go. GamerPro64 03:18, 20 August 2015 (UTC)
Prose-wise, the monster has very nearly been tamed. It's looking quite good for the most part: the content is strong. If we can get the technical side nailed down (and the writing spotchecked), we shouldn't have any trouble at FAC. Exciting stuff to finally see this project come together. JimmyBlackwing (talk) 09:26, 22 August 2015 (UTC)
Great. Also, I am about to get ready for college again. So once that's done with I can more available to help out with the page. GamerPro64 14:21, 22 August 2015 (UTC)
Sounds good. JimmyBlackwing (talk) 17:47, 22 August 2015 (UTC)
Copyedit complete, barring whatever minor tweaks might need to be made in the future. I cut probably 7,000-10,000 bytes from the article—truly unbelievable levels of cruft and bloat. What's left is very solid. Once you're back in the saddle, we should be able to fix up the rest in no time. JimmyBlackwing (talk) 23:40, 22 August 2015 (UTC)

So besides filling in some clips from conferences I think the article looks pretty well made. What do you think about putting it at FAC now? GamerPro64 00:17, 27 August 2015 (UTC)

Oh, I missed this message until just now. I'd like to spotcheck the article first. A lot has changed since those references were first added. I'll work on that over the next few days, then you can feel free to nom. JimmyBlackwing (talk) 19:27, 29 August 2015 (UTC)
Okay. I'm cool with that. GamerPro64 19:42, 29 August 2015 (UTC)
Getting near the end of checking and fixing sources. The last big one I have to check is a GamesTM issue, which I've requested scans from at hahnchen's talk page. He said it's going to be two weeks before he can access the issue, though, so the nom is still a decent ways off. I don't think there's a huge rush, anyway. JimmyBlackwing (talk) 03:42, 1 September 2015 (UTC)
Good luck with that. Surprised people still make magazines for gaming these days. GamerPro64 04:00, 1 September 2015 (UTC)
Hahnchen got me the scans today. I'll finish up the source-checks and then let you know when it's set to nominate. JimmyBlackwing (talk) 18:34, 12 September 2015 (UTC)
Done. In the end, I wasn't able to double-check every single source, but I did a huge number of them. Any further errors will be tiny and easily fixable. Feel free to nominate the article at will. JimmyBlackwing (talk) 05:27, 13 September 2015 (UTC)
Started the FAC. Now for the waiting game. GamerPro64 15:13, 13 September 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 16 September 2015

On Wikipedia's commitment to open access and its obligations to readers and editors.
WMF CFO to depart, notifications come and go, and questions about the possible editing by a recently arrested terrorism suspect.
Probably not. Also, Whitehall still editing Wikipedia.
This week's featured content.
No particular trends to spot in this week's top article traffic.
Community technical news.

Merry Christmas II You

Hi. Would every linked article in the track listing have to ba a GA for a Good Article Topic, or just the ones that Mariah has an article for? (One Child, When Christmas Comes, Oh Santa, Christmas Time Is in the Air Again, All I Want for Christmas, Auld Lang Syne New Years Anthem)?  — Calvin999 19:37, 22 September 2015 (UTC)

I think the latter works here but I also suggest taking this up at Wikipedia talk:Featured topic questions just to make sure. GamerPro64 19:41, 22 September 2015 (UTC)
Thanks.  — Calvin999 19:43, 22 September 2015 (UTC)

Notification system

How many times are they going to separate the alerts and messages here? This is almost as bad as VisualEditor at this point. GamerPro64 18:35, 24 September 2015 (UTC)

  • Meh, Echo was an extremely welcome feature AFAIAC. Splitting notifs and messages was probably not necessary but it's setting the groundwork for future Flow-like systems. It's not harmful or detrimental for now. ☺ · Salvidrim! · ✉ 18:40, 24 September 2015 (UTC)
Well at least they let you keep having the Orange Bar of Doom here. Wouldn't want that novelty to go away. GamerPro64 18:48, 24 September 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 23 September 2015

PETA launches a copyright lawsuit over the infamous photograph.
No, really, just stop.
This week's featured content.
This time of year features the Latin Grammy Awards, so here for an interview are WikiProject Latin music.
This week, drug lord and wannabe Bolivar Pablo Escobar was joined by a whole host of somewhat more primetime-friendly political insurgents.
Community technical news.

Re: Speedy deletion nomination of Eipix Entertainment

Hello, Gamer!

Could you, please, direct me to any specific parts of the article you find overtly promotional or in need of improvement, so that I could change them (or provide support for those claims). Thank you! --NebojsaCato (talk) 07:37, 28 September 2015 (UTC)

Well here's a question. Do you have any relations to the company? GamerPro64 14:28, 28 September 2015 (UTC)

DYK for Dyscourse

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 19:39, 29 September 2015 (UTC)

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Arbreport

Is the Arb Report ready to go? If you don't want us to publish it this week, let Go Phightins! know. He's planning on publishing Saturday. Gamaliel (talk) 20:34, 6 October 2015 (UTC)

I think its good to go. Nothing much else seems to be happening at this time. GamerPro64 20:37, 6 October 2015 (UTC)

Precious again

red user
Thank you for quality articles such as video game Anachronox and The Green Album, for serving as a delegate for Featured topic candidates and maintaining categories, for suggesting The Mystery of the Leaping Fish, and for the beauty of your simple user page, telling us all in talk and contributions, - you are an awesome Wikipedian!

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A year ago, you were the 996th recipient of my PumpkinSky Prize, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:42, 8 October 2015 (UTC)

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I want your opinion on an article

Us at WP:AUTO are debating whether or not the article List of automobiles notable for negative reception should be deleted or kept. Seeing as you are active in maintaining List of video games notable for negative reception, we want your opinion on the matter. Any input from you or anyone else who is active involved in looking after that article would be greatly appreciated! Karrmann (talk) 09:30, 17 October 2015 (UTC)

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Maniac Mansion

Thanks for all your help! The article finally passed FAC today. Feels great to have closure on that project after all these years. JimmyBlackwing (talk) 21:17, 22 October 2015 (UTC)

You're welcome. Though I expected the FAC to have lasted longer than it did, seeing how Indrian didn't respond. GamerPro64 21:25, 22 October 2015 (UTC)

To self

Once again was thought to be an admin here. Need to keep track on how many times that has happened to me. GamerPro64 03:24, 24 October 2015 (UTC)

+1 a few times over the years from myself. Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/GamerPro64 2 (which I've just now discovered) was a cryin' shame. ☺ · Salvidrim! · ✉ 03:34, 25 October 2015 (UTC)
Now that one was, like the first one, was poor timing on my part. I've mentioned before that the first RfA was during midterms. The second was right before I started my first job. I consider that RfA to be a "lost episode" of sorts. God RfA is terrible. GamerPro64 03:39, 25 October 2015 (UTC)

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From endosan

Yes and yes. Thank you very much. --Kiyoshiendo (talk) 02:25, 31 October 2015 (UTC)

I also have to thank you for putting the positives first. Most folks don't do that anymore, despite Dale Carnegie selling millions of his books. --Kiyoshiendo (talk) 02:29, 31 October 2015 (UTC)
How may I attach a reference name when using the visual editor? I don't know how to do manual references, and I relied on either the automatic or the form-fill functions. --Kiyoshiendo (talk) 02:36, 31 October 2015 (UTC)
Thank you for telling me. I figured out how to call a reference without creating a new one. --Kiyoshiendo (talk) 03:15, 31 October 2015 (UTC)
Yes. I can play through it again to get a better understanding. I would like the plot section to be cleaned up (if not by me specificially), as it seems a little long. Cave Story has a similar choose-your-own plot, though that summary is somewhat concise. I would also like a reassessment of the article if we can add in pictures of combat and overworld, because it's been improve a little bit from C-class. I can't add in pictures because I'm a new user, so I'll focus on other things. What do you think the article needs? I think we can use more citations, a concise plot, a character list, and a soundtrack list (if length allows). --Kiyoshiendo (talk) 16:58, 31 October 2015 (UTC)

Uploading Undertale images

I got two good pictures of Undertale. They're full screenshots, and I wouldn't want to place the burden of editing them on you, but I gave you more to work with instead of making something you couldn't use. I hope you understand. They're at http://imgur.com/a/uLDQW. --Kiyoshiendo (talk) 02:46, 1 November 2015 (UTC)

I think it might be better to find a pre-existing image online. One that might be used on a website, like Mobygames or Gamasutra or something like that. I think that would be more sufficient. GamerPro64 02:49, 1 November 2015 (UTC)
For captions, I was thinking for the first one, "Undertale's visual style takes inspiration from Super NES role-playing games such as EarthBound. For the second, "The player battles Toriel, the first boss. Combat involves moving your heart to avoid attacks." BTW licensing from online sources are hellish. At least we know where mine came from. --Kiyoshiendo (talk) 02:51, 1 November 2015 (UTC)
I've done my fair share of uploading images on here. Not as much as anyone else but I've done it well enough. They have either been taken from a website or, on one occasion, was given by the developers for free to use. Personally it might be better if there was a GIF to show the gameplay. But a screenshot can still work. GamerPro64 03:08, 1 November 2015 (UTC)
I could make you a .gif if I had some fair use footage. If I record it myself it might unusuable due to low quality. Are you okay to edit nd upload the screenshots I took? What guidelines should they meet? --Kiyoshiendo (talk) 03:26, 1 November 2015 (UTC)
You can start reading with this. I also suggest taking this up with the Video Game Project on this. Again, I rarely do image uploads. GamerPro64 03:30, 1 November 2015 (UTC)
Oh, I know how to license it. I just can't physically do it for about three days when my autoconfirmation occurs. --Kiyoshiendo (talk) 03:36, 1 November 2015 (UTC)
Then let's worry about it later. I also recommend using the first image with the Whimsun to show the combat system and sparing enemies. GamerPro64 03:39, 1 November 2015 (UTC)
I made a thread on the VGA discussion forum asking for opinions. The Whimsum screenshot shows the battle menu, though not the combat. It might be harder to explain visually than the Toriel fight. --Kiyoshiendo (talk) 03:42, 1 November 2015 (UTC)

5 million

                                                  We've reached five million!!                                                  

The English Wikipedia now has over 5,000,000 articles! Woo-hoo!

Feel free to pass this message on! You can never celebrate too much. 5 000 000

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Mega Man Powered Up

Here are some sources that may or may not be in the article right now. I'm on a Wikibreak so I won't be able to put them to prose.

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  • [5] - PSM Magazine, Play Magazine, Game Informer, Official U.S. PlayStation Magazine, PSM2 Magazine UK, games(™), Official PlayStation 2 Magazine UK
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Good news from endosan

I managed to review a good article. You just added the tag for Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney. Do you think I did a good enough job at reviewing it? I'm not experienced with some things like proper citation formatting and in-game citing. --Kiyoshiendo (talk) 02:01, 3 November 2015 (UTC)

The citing look to be all right here. The sources are reliable. Did you check to see if all the sources backed up what was in the article? GamerPro64 02:04, 3 November 2015 (UTC)
All of the web links I checked out were accurate. If there's an issue, somebody can change it, though I don't think there are any issues major enough for a timely reassessment. --Kiyoshiendo (talk) 02:16, 3 November 2015 (UTC)

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Dyscourse

Hi GamerPro64,

Did you happen to get my ping at Talk:Dyscourse? --Soetermans. T / C 11:18, 9 November 2015 (UTC)

Yes. I've been trying to figure out how to answer it. GamerPro64 14:31, 9 November 2015 (UTC)

Re:Ron Gilbert interview

Really nice find. I'll have to go over that if I ever go back to the LucasArts adventure topic—big interviews like these are goldmines. JimmyBlackwing (talk) 22:15, 9 November 2015 (UTC)

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Arbitration Election Season

I completely forgot that this was a thing before writing for the Signpost. I expect interesting things to happen from this. GamerPro64 00:46, 10 November 2015 (UTC)

Hello Gamer, I have been perhaps a bit over-WP:BOLD with my changes, can you please double-check the revised WP:Wikipedia_Signpost/2015-11-18/Arbitration_report? Thanks. Also, I am wondering if adding material is allowed; I would like to stick in a couple sentences pointing out the voter-guides which have been made available, and the candidate-question-pages, so that interested Signpost readers can click to get involved. p.s. Agree this is an interesting season.  :-)     75.108.94.227 (talk) 22:16, 18 November 2015 (UTC)
Okay, done with my revisions. Please give them a once-over with a critical wiki-eye. p.s. I was sore tempted to add a final sentence, after the list of arbs not up for re-election this year... "May the 2016 arbitration committee members wear their official ArbCom bathrobes with honour." But I resisted doing so, in deference to the dignity of the publication.  :-)     75.108.94.227 (talk) 13:52, 21 November 2015 (UTC)
Yeah I think you made the article more presentable than I would have. Thanks for the help. GamerPro64 15:37, 21 November 2015 (UTC)
Well, you are certainly welcome; unfortunately I am new at this, so mostly I just wrote in my normal 'Mainspace Style' which is pretty bland, and heavy on the wiki-links. Presentable is not the same as readable/enjoyable, and you have a style that is terse and to the point, plus kinda fun to read. More important than presentable, in my book. Feel free to ping my usertalk if you have something you want to collaborate on, and I'll try to lend a hand again, and less of a heavy-handed one, as I get used to the way it works. 75.108.94.227 (talk) 22:24, 21 November 2015 (UTC)

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ArbCom elections are now open!

Hi,
You appear to be eligible to vote in the current Arbitration Committee election. The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to enact binding solutions for disputes between editors, primarily related to serious behavioural issues that the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the ability 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, you are welcome to review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. For the Election committee, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:56, 24 November 2015 (UTC)

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