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March 2018

Production Section and Cleanup.

It's been about two months since we did an overhaul of the production section of the film manual of style, and while it's helpful to the point that I have not into any disagreements about changing production sections to fit it, there's also an overwhelming amount of articles to be fixed. I've tried three times over at Talk:Wikproject film to ask for help brainstorming a way to lessen the load and get more people involved but to no success. I'm kinda lost on what to do. There really isn't a way to announce this as a task for cleanup as it is so extensive. When I talked to @NinjaRobotPirat: he suggested creating a cleanup template and then all the pages would be neatly sorted into categories but I just don't want to go around tagging articles for an inordinate amount of time. Again. I'm kinda lost. Any advice? --Deathawk (talk) 04:18, 1 March 2018 (UTC)

@Deathawk: Ah, what you want is WP:AWB; you can use it to burn through entire category trees quickly. I'm swearing off most editing of pop-culture-related articles, myself, because too many editors spend too much time on them, and WP is dominated by them. PS: It's been my experience that major MoS changes are something that a) take a long time to propagate, organically, and b) are sped along by someone saying "F it, I'll put in the work" and hitting it for a good long time with fairly singleminded purpose. Film doesn't overwhelm me with interest to the extent I'd do that. — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼 15:36, 2 March 2018 (UTC)

Thank you ...

... for improving article quality in Febuary 2018! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:23, 1 March 2018 (UTC)

My pleasure. — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼 15:29, 2 March 2018 (UTC)

... and in March! Happy Easter! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:46, 1 April 2018 (UTC)

... and in April! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:23, 1 May 2018 (UTC)

... and in May! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:54, 1 June 2018 (UTC)

... and in June! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:28, 1 July 2018 (UTC)

... and in July! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:27, 1 August 2018 (UTC)

... and in August! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:21, 1 September 2018 (UTC)

... and in September! Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:46, 1 October 2018 (UTC)

A 2nd User Page Barnstar for you

		The Userpage Barnstar
		I decided you deserved this for your very interesting and informative User Page (perhaps all the more so because I only came here because we had been on opposite sides in your ENGVAR Templates RFC). Then I discovered that you already have one of these, so I decided to give you the alternative format. Regards. Tlhslobus (talk) 14:53, 1 March 2018 (UTC)

@Tlhslobus: Thanks. :-) I consider it kind of a mess; some other editors have done a lot of fancy CSS work to make theirs better, but I don't like to spend a lot of time on userpage stuff unless it's directly geared at productivity. So, it's kind of a feature dump of tools I use, and to-dos, and proposals and their results, plus a bunch of infoboxes that I hope help explain my proclivities, skill sets, interests, and hot buttons to other editors. — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼 15:32, 2 March 2018 (UTC)

Well, if it really is a mess, then it would seem to be a very useful and informative mess

Tlhslobus (talk) 02:22, 3 March 2018 (UTC)

Glad it's been helpful. :-) — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼 12:07, 7 March 2018 (UTC)

Discussion at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Capital letters

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Hi SMcCandlish, you may be interested in an evolved suggestion regarding MOS:JOBTITLES that is receiving support/non-support at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Capital letters#Alternative suggestion for comment. Cheers, HopsonRoad (talk) 17:24, 1 March 2018 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:Faith healing

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Notice for the record

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– Responded at Wikipedia talk:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Civility in infobox discussions, to the extent a response was even needed.

Hi SMcCandlish, in the open Civility in infobox discussions arbitration case, a remedy or finding of fact has been proposed which relates to you. Please review this decision and draw the arbitrators' attention to any relevant material or statements. Comments may be brought to the attention of the committee on the proposed decision talk page. For a guide to the arbitration process, see Wikipedia:Arbitration/Guide to arbitration. For the Arbitration Committee, Kevin (aka L235 · t · c) 19:02, 7 March 2018 (UTC)

Tabletop football

Thank for redaction of this article (I am an author of piłkarzyki na sprężynkach from PL wiki). I also have found interesing article in PTwiki: pt:Futebol_de_pino. BTW what do you think about new article ca:Billiard hockey (Mybe strect is similar game to cymbergaj and gombfoci), pl:Cymbergaj ~~and hu:Gombfoci (popular in Hungary and Brazil)~~ artile gombfoci exist in ENwiki as Button football Dawid2009 (talk) 11:51, 8 March 2018 (UTC)

@Dawid2009: Interesting. "Billiard hockey" and "table hockey" (the subject of the Galician article) appear to be synonymous, in the usage of the so-called World Table Hockey Association (which seems to include two countries, not the world). It uses disks similar to those for carrom. I would cover this in a section at Table hockey games, and not give it a separate disambiguation entry at Table hockey, since it is just one of many table hockey games. Pin football, the subject of the Portuguese article, should be covered as variant at Tabletop football. Neither are independently notable enough for their own articles on English Wikipedia. I don't know what to make of the Polish game; the machine translation I get is poor enough, I'm not sure how it's really played. The term used there, cymbergaj, seems to also be used for air hockey; at least, that's how Google Translate want to treat it; if we can find more info on it, it would also go in Table hockey games. The Hungarian gombfoci ("key football") might be worth adding to Tabletop football as a variant, since it's clear from the photos that commercially made equipment for it exists. As with the Polish game, it's not clear from the article over there what the actual rules are. PS: We should probably do something about the inconsistent naming of Table hockey games and Tabletop football ("Table foo games", "Tabletop foo", and "Tabletop foo games" are all possibilities; just "Table foo" is too ambiguous on its own in both cases. I prefer the names ending in "games" because they're more WP:PRECISE, though at the expense of being WP:CONCISE, in letting the reader know they're about multiple games. — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼 13:43, 8 March 2018 (UTC)

Structure of pl:Cymbergaj article seems to me be quite similar to de:pinning (rules and variants of the game) although in cymbergaj there are in usage combs/rulers or pencils (it there were also popular especially in schools) to movement buttons/coins (it can be coin game and it can be button game) so it is also similar to Tabletop football/Table hockey games. ca:Billiard hockey is czech game which reeally is comercial version of pl:Cymbergaj#Cymbergaj szóstkowy (but cymbergaj not imit hockey, it imit rather football, but it is generally not important for rules of game, similarly paper soccer = paper hockey). Genesis of Biliard Hockey is from czech game Strect (most propably similar game to Hungarian gombfoci and Polish cymbergaj), it would be as reaible source and example in Tabletop football#history (actually there isn't sources about: Inspired by home-made games involving children flicking marbles)

The term used there, cymbergaj, seems to also be used for air hockey - yes it is, but originnaly cymbergaj (cym-ber-gaj) mean something other - צו מיר גיי; see pl:Cymbergaj, pl:Jidyszyzm. And it isn't related to Air Hockey. Indentification is modernly and wrong.

We should probably do something about the inconsistent naming of Table hockey games and Tabletop football - English language isn't my native so I can talk nothing but it seems to value for disscussion. BTW, it seems to value for disscussion Paper football and Paper soccer? Dawid2009 (talk) 16:42, 8 March 2018 (UTC)

According to this disscussion (machine translation show me) that asztali labdarúgás is formal sport (like to for example Biliard Hockey or ITHF table hockey) while gombfoci is just a game (like to for example strect or carrom), views in google can confirm it. Accorting to google translate also asztali labdarúgás = Table football (litearlly not as Foosball) and gombfoci = Button football (litearlly).

Pin football (the subject of the Portugese article) actually is popular outside Brazil and has different variants (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aV9yCvbxsGo&index=275&t=0s&list=FLhuK0r1J-7ItoE33-yZBZwQ , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVdRRpKm9Q8 - video from yesterday). In Tabletop football#types also there is described most propably de: Tipp-Kick. There are also other similar games to Tabletop football and Tabletop hokey with usage of magnesium: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqjiWkwIIGM , WeyKick ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAem6Zozb0Y&list=FLhuK0r1J-7ItoE33-yZBZwQ&t=0s&index=348 ), de:Klask . Dawid2009 (talk) 14:46, 9 March 2018 (UTC)

@Dawid2009: The main issues from my perspective are these:

Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information. Just because one of the non-English wikis has an article on something doesn't mean en.Wikipedia should; we have a stricter WP:Notability standard than many. To the extent we cover any of these things, they should be merged into the existing articles here, which are broad enough to cover all these variants.
We shouldn't include any for which there are no reliable sources. They do not need to be in English, but they do need to not be forums, blogs, and other self-published or user-generated content. When it comes to something like asztali labdarúgás, the website of the organization that promotes it is good enough to establish that it is real and what its rules are according to that organization (per WP:ABOUTSELF policy), but it doesn't help to establish notability for a separate article, since that isn't a independent source.

Personally, I have little incentive toward adding this material myself; my goal was just cleaning up the existing material. I'm happy to edit added material, for English grammar, etc. But beware of the problems of using machine translation to try to figure out what the rules of these games are. It may be better to provide only very basic information about these variants to start with; people competent in both English and whatever other language (Hungarian, Polish, Galician, etc.) can expand the information later.
— SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼 11:42, 10 March 2018 (UTC)

# Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information - Actually I am not intrested in new articles and I really perfectly well understand vision of deletionism for example in this case but I am interested in corrects in some articles. In Tabletop football#history there is sentence which is not compatibile with reliable sources (Inspired by home-made games involving children flicking marbles - althought it is also in Button football). In Tabletop football#history also is next wrong information: The earliest was Newfooty in 1929 (according to de:Tipp-Kick#Geschichte tabletop there were before, in 1921). Due to Wikipedia:Neutral point of view I suggest to write it carefully and generally: 20's and with omnission of name of first authors/companies.

Just because one of the non-English wikis has an article on something doesn't mean en.Wikipedia should; we have a stricter WP:Notability standard than many. - Pin soccer (from Portugese article) should be included in Tabletop football#types. I just have explained and showed you that this game has variants and it is also popular outside Brazil. It game is more common than tabletop football with springs, due to fact tabletop football with springs in google has only two reaible sources/encyclopaedic premises: lego soccer and inspiration of Magnetic Soccer (video game), it has no sources in BoardGameGeek.

To the extent we cover any of these things, they should be merged into the existing articles here, which are broad enough to cover all these variants. - asztali labdarúgás would be as one information in Button Football. WeyKick or Klask - would be in Air hockey as one information (for example in see also, althought WeyKick can be similar to tabletop football or tabletop hockey). Biliard hockey - For including this to an other article it will be big problem here (where it would be included?). Billiard hockey's look/imitation is like hockey but mechanic of gameplay/rules of game is like to tabletop football or button football. However Table hockey games should have Template:Cleanup reorganize. For the one side this article describe different tabletop hockey games like to in Tabletop football) for the other side this article should be megred with ITHF table hockey - problematic is section Original table hockey - who sets some standards? It is not compatibile with Wikipedia:Neutral point of view and some variants aren't very other than ITHF table hockey

A propos cymbergaj (game's name from yiddish, game is coin football and button football) interesing also is edition of Izrael IP (I just have corrected this mistake )

Personally, I have little incentive toward adding this material myself; my goal was just cleaning up the existing material. I'm happy to edit added material, for English grammar, etc. - What do you think about disscussion about Paper soccer and Paper football? Paper soccer is in google popular as paper soccer but it is most propably just due to de fact article in English Wikipedia has been created in 2004 in US English and the name Paper soccer has been popularised in Internet. Are these de facto original research? Dawid2009 (talk) 17:02, 10 March 2018 (UTC)

That all sounds reasonable to me. On the final point: I don't know. It would be original research to decide that "paper soccer" is more popular in Google than "paper football" because of original research. >;-) I would keep it at Paper soccer because Paper football is a completely different article, and Paper soccer is sufficient disambiguation and precision and recognizability in English. It's a total myth that association football is only called "soccer" by Americans; the short name actually originated in England. It's just not used in any "official" capacity by association football governing bodies and such. — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼 22:37, 10 March 2018 (UTC)

Please comment on Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)

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Discussion at Talk:United Kingdom general election, January 1910#Requested move 2 March 2018

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You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:United Kingdom general election, January 1910#Requested move 2 March 2018. --Neve~selbert 19:40, 9 March 2018 (UTC)

Neutral notice

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A move request regarding Deadline.com / Deadline Hollywood, an article whose talk page you have edited, is taking place at Talk:Deadline Hollywood#Requested move 11 March 2018. It is scheduled to end in seven days.--Tenebrae (talk) 19:25, 11 March 2018 (UTC)

Thanks. I commented there, since I was the nominator of the previous RM. — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼 23:02, 14 March 2018 (UTC)

Capitalization of honorific titles

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I would appreciate if you could comment about which of these two articles has the correct title formatting: Kentucky colonel and Nebraska Admiral. Both of these are honorific titles bestowed by the governor of the state in question. (In case you would prefer to reply there, I just posed the same question at User talk:Shadow007.) —BarrelProof (talk) 17:56, 12 March 2018 (UTC)

I'll comment there, to centralize discussion. — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼 23:29, 14 March 2018 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:Doug Ford Jr.

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Please comment on Talk:National Rifle Association

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Veteran editor using circular references

An editor working on the article Sinn Sisamouth is placing inline citations with a circular reference of a website that copied verbatim Wikipedia content. If I understand correctly he is doing it as a placeholder and to get a better reference, something I don't understand. [He added the citation] (which is used in several places), I indicated in his talk page that per WP:CIRCULAR they shouldn't use those, but he then placed "better source needed" instead of removing the circular references. He is doing a lot of work, which I praise, but I think using circular references is a no-no. What do you think? Thinker78 (talk) 06:04, 24 March 2018 (UTC)

@Thinker78: That's clearly not okay under WP:CIRCULAR. If the material in question isn't controversial, I would remove the bogus cite and {{cn}}-tag the material. If it is controversial, it should just be removed until properly sourced. Hopefully this is already old news and it's resolved. I was on wikibreak for a while and am just now catching up. — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼 03:52, 8 May 2018 (UTC)

Welcome back! Thinker78 (talk) 04:04, 8 May 2018 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Civility in infobox discussions closed

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Discuss this at: Wikipedia talk:Arbitration Committee/Noticeboard#Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Civility in infobox discussions closed

For the arbitration committee, GoldenRing (talk) 09:00, 28 March 2018 (UTC)

Doug Ford Jr.

IMHO, the actual claim the Globe and Mail made is overstated by one or more editors who read far more into an "investigation" and a second editorial piece clearly labeled "opinion" than is warranted for the use of Wikipedia to make a claim beyond what the newspaper actually makes as a claim. I would ask you to note the carefully parsed language used by the newspaper, as opposed to the claim being sought in the BLP. Thanks. Collect (talk) 14:13, 29 March 2018 (UTC)

@Collect: That seems like a reasonable concern. I may have overstated something, but I also went on a fairly long wikibreak and the issue seems stale now. Feel free to ping me again is there's more discussion. — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼 03:50, 8 May 2018 (UTC)

It's an awful lot more tangled than all that. The G&M article itself became widely-reported news (and continues to be four years later) that has deeply affected peoples' perceptions of Ford, so it almost undoubtedly should be reported in the WP article (despite BLP concerns). A sticky problem is that many of the supporters want it not only included, but presented in the article so that it has the impression of being a fact (by placing it the "Early life" section, or in a section of its own). The most prominent POV-pusher has since been indeffed as an unrepententant sockmaster, but there are others still pushing it (including an admin), and inevitably will be more as we near the election in June. The RfC wasn't designed to deal with these issues, so a lot has been left up to ... creative interpretation of the "consensus". Curly "JFC" Turkey 🍁 ¡gobble! 06:17, 8 May 2018 (UTC)

Sounds like it's worth a second RfC. We SHOULD be covering it as a "live" controversy, but not choosing a side in it. — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼 10:09, 11 May 2018 (UTC)

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Nominating cnote templates for merge

Moot

– Got there too late, and it closed as "no consensus", but I would have supported the merge.

Hi! The {{cnote}} templates has been nominated for merging with the {{efn}}/{{notelist}} family of templates. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Thank you. E to the Pi times i (talk | contribs) 06:29, 31 March 2018 (UTC)