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In the media:Wiki Education; medical content; PR firms The Los Angeles Times highlighted a recent Wiki Education Foundation (WEF) course at Pomona College in their article "Wikipedia pops up in bibliographies, and even college curricula". We interviewed Char Booth, the campus ambassador for the course, for additional details.
Traffic report:The Cup runneth over... and over. WithGame of Thrones over for another year, the World Cup dominated yet again. And that is pretty much that. This list isn't likely to be particularly eventful until the Cup is won.
News and notes:Wikimedia Israel receives Roaring Lion award Wikimedia Israel (WMIL) has won a Roaring Lion in the category of Internet and cellular for its public outreach during the tenth anniversary of the Hebrew Wikipedia in July 2013.
Featured content:Ship-shape Six articles, five lists, seventeen pictures, and one topic were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia this week.
Technology report:In memoriam: the Toolserver (2005–14) In the early hours of Tuesday morning, Wikimedia Deutschland's Toolserver project was switched off, marking the end of one of the Wikimedia movement's longest running Chapter-led projects. The Toolserver, which was in fact a collection of servers, first came online in 2005, hosting hundreds of webpages and scripts ("tools") made available for use by Wikimedia readers, editors and administrators.
Special report:Wikimania 2014—what will it cost? Last May, James Forrester announced to the world that London had been awarded the 2014 Wikimania conference. Functioning as the Wikimedia movement's annual conference, it is separate from the chapter-focused Wikimedia Conference. The first, located in Frankfurt, took place in 2005 and had 380 attendees. London, the tenth, is now expected to attract 1500. With Wikimania ambition, attention, and attendance rising significantly over the last nine years, how have this year's monetary costs come to be?
Wikicup:Wikicup's third round sees money, space, battleships and more After an extremely close race, round three is over. 244 points secured a place in Round 4, which is comparable to previous years—321 was required in 2013, and 243 points in 2012.
Wikimedia in education:Exploring the United States and Canada with LiAnna Davis The Wikimedia Education Program currently spans 60 programs around the world; students and instructors participate at almost every level of education. The Education programSignpost series presents a snapshot of the Wikimedia Global Education Program as it exists in 2014.
Featured content:Three cheers for featured pictures! Five articles, six lists, and nine pictures were promoted to 'featured' status last week on the English Wikipedia.
News and notes:Echoes of the past haunt new conflict over tech initiative As with the troubled release of the Wikimedia Foundation's (WMF) flagship VisualEditor project, the release of the new Media Viewer has also been met with opposition from the English Wikipedia community.
Traffic report:World Cup, Tim Howard rule the week Unsurprisingly, the World Cup continued to dominate the English Wikipedia's viewing statistics. In particular, the record-breaking performance of US goalkeeper Tim Howard and the tournament-ending injury to Brazil's Neymar drove large amount of views to their articles.
Special report:$10 million lawsuit against Wikipedia editors withdrawn, but plaintiff intends to refile On the same day the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) announced it would offer assistance to English Wikipedia editors embroiled in a legal dispute with Yank Barry, the lawsuit has been withdrawn without prejudice at the request of Barry's legal team—but this action is being described as "strategic" so that they can refile the lawsuit with a "new, more comprehensive complaint."
Traffic report:World Cup dominates for another week This week it's still more and more World Cup, with five entries out of the top ten (and 14 out of the Top 25).
Wikimedia in education:Serbia takes the stage with Filip Maljkovic It all started in late 2005, when we first held lectures about Wikipedia in two educational institutions (universities) ...
Featured content:The Island with the Golden Gun Eight articles, three lists, and 28 pictures were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia last week.
News and notes:Bot-created Wikipedia articles covered in theWall Street Journal, push Cebuano over one million articles The Swedish Wikipedia's prolific Lsjbot, which has created a significant proportion of the site's 1.7 million articles and has nearly single-handedly pushed it to being the fourth-largest Wikipedia, was covered in theWall Street Journal this week. The newspaper reported that the bot has created 2.7 million articles, which is apparently a reference to the Waray-Waray and Cebuano Wikipedias, where Lsjbot is also active, and that "on a good day", it creates 10,000 articles.
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Traffic report:The World Cup hangs on, though tragedies seek to replace it Last week I predicted that the World Cup dominance on the report would be over—but I was wrong. The World Cup Final fell on the 13th of July, which was actually the first day of the week covered by this report, not the last day of the last report. Hence, five of the Top 10 this week are again World Cup related-topics.
News and notes:Institutional media uploads to Commons get a bit easier Galleries, libraries, archives, and museums (GLAMs) today are facing fewer barriers to uploading their content onto Wikimedia projects now that the new GLAM-Wiki Toolset Project has been launched. The tool, which is the fruit of a collaboration between Europeana and several Wikimedia chapters, relieves GLAMs from having to write their own automated scripts and gives them a standardized method of uploading large amounts of their digitized holdings.
Forum:Did you know?—good idea, needs reform The English Wikipedia's did you know (DYK) section has been a feature of the site's main page since February 2004. From the beginning, the section has served as a place to highlight Wikipedia's newest articles. But over the last few years, the did you know section has gotten steadily larger and more complex, and non-notable or plagiarized articles have occasionally slipped through the reviewing process, leading numerous editors to call for reforms to the system. We asked two editors to share their views.
Featured content:Why, they're plum identical! Ten articles, five lists, and 25 pictures were promoted to featured status on the English Wikipedia last week.
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Hi! I've recently logged onto Wikipedia, and I've noticed that you had stated that the Animal Diversity Web page has a disclaimer of it being unreliable. Would it be okay for me to just edit out the parts that I used with the page (it was only 4 locations) while I attempt to backtrack my other sources! Thanks for reading, and please contact me on my page when you get the chance, if not the Curve-billed Thrasher talk page itself!LeftAire (talk)17:16, 31 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Book review:Knowledge or unreality? InCommon Knowledge: An Ethnography of Wikipedia, Dariusz Jemielniak discusses Wikipedia from the standpoint of an experienced editor and administrator who is also a university professor specializing in management and organizations. InVirtual Reality: Just Because the Internet Told You, How Do You Know It's True?, Charles Seife presents a more broadly themed work reminding us to question the reliability of information found throughout the Internet.
Recent research:Shifting values in the paid content debate Kim Osman has performed a fascinating study on the three 2013 failed proposals to ban paid advocacy editing in the English language Wikipedia. Using a Constructivist Grounded Theory approach, Osman analyzed 573 posts from the three main votes on paid editing conducted in the community in November 2013.
News and notes:How many more hoaxes will Wikipedia find? Another hoax on the English Wikipedia was uncovered this week—not by any thorough investigation, but through the self-disclosure of an anonymous change made when the editors were in their sophomore year of college. The deliberate misinformation had been in the article for over five years with plenty of individuals noticing, but not one suspected its authenticity. This leads to one obvious question: how many more are there?
Traffic report:Doom and gloom vs. the power of Reddit We indeed moved far away from football this week, and further into much more serious issues of war and death. The Israel-Palestinian conflict continues to dominate the news, and the top 10, with Gaza Strip, Israel, and Hamas. The top 25 also includes Palestine and the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. Death also lies behind the popularity of James Garner, the American actor who died on July 19th, Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, and deaths in 2014.
Featured content:Skeletons and Skeltons Two articles, four lists, and seven pictures attained featured status on the English Wikipedia last week.
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Technology report:A technologist's Wikimania preview As the start of Wikimania proper on 8 August approaches, theSignpost looks ahead to what its dozens of presentations might offer the technologically-inclined, whether attending in person or taking advantage of what promises to be a strong digital offering.
Traffic report:Ebola Serious news continues to dominate the most popular articles chart on Wikipedia this week, with the Ebola virus disease far and away in the top spot. In the top 25, we see the related articles Ebola virus, which talks about biological aspects, at #18 and 2014 West Africa Ebola outbreak at #19.
News and notes:"History is a human right"—first-ever transparency report released as Europe begins hiding Wikipedia in search results The Wikimedia Foundation has published its first transparency report, covering from July 2012 to June 2014. The move comes on the same day the organization announced that Google, in order to comply with a recent court order upholding the "right to be forgotten", has removed a number of Wikipedia articles from their European search results.
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Special report:Twitter bots catalogue government edits to Wikipedia Slate reports that Tom Scott, co-creator of the emoji social network Emojli, created a Twitter bot called Parliament WikiEdits to automatically tweet a link to any Wikipedia edits made from an IP address belonging to the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Scott's bot initially did not tweet any links to edits made from Parliament and, according to Scott, an "insider" reports that their IP addresses changed. Despite this, Scott's Twitter bot has inspired similar creations in numerous other countries.
Traffic report:Disease, decimation and distraction It's been a grim few weeks. It says something that formerly arresting crises like the war in Ukraine, Boko Haram and the 2014 Israel–Gaza conflict, despite still being ongoing, have fallen out of the top 10 to make way for the 2014 West Africa Ebola outbreak and the equally if not more intense conflict against the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant.
Wikimania:Promised the moon, settled for the stars Wikimania 2014 was held last week in the Barbican Centre in London. Below, the Signpost's former "Technology report" writer Harry Burt (User:Jarry1250) shares his thoughts on a bustling conference.
News and notes:Media Viewer controversy spreads to German Wikipedia Wikimedia Foundation staff members have now been granted superpowers that would allow them to override community consensus. The new protection level came as a response to attempts of German Wikipedia administrators to implement a community consensus on the new Media Viewer. "Superprotect" is a level above full protection, and prevents edits by administrators.
Op-ed:Red links, blue links, and erythrophobia Erythrophobia is the fear of, or sensitivity to, the colour red. Recently, I have seen more and more erythrophobic Wikipedians; specifically, Wikipedians who are scared of red links. In Wikipedia's early days, red links were encouraged and well-loved, and when I started editing in 2006, this was still mostly the case. Jump forward to 2014, and many editors now have an aversion to red links.
In the media:Monkey selfie, net neutrality, and hoaxes The Observer reported (August 2) that Google would "restrict search terms to a link to a Wikipedia article, in the first request under Europe's controversial new 'right to be forgotten' legislation to affect the 110m-page encyclopaedia."
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WikiProject report:Bats and gloves At the plate with WikiProject Baseball!
Op-ed:A new metric for Wikimedia Denny Vrandečić argues that "We should focus on measuring how much knowledge we allow every human to share in, instead of number of articles or active editors."
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Traffic report:Viral "This was a week when an actual virus, Ebola, competed for attention with several viral social phenomena; most notably the Ice Bucket Challenge..."
Featured content:Cheats at Featured Pictures! Sixteen articles, five lists, five pictures, and one topic were promoted.
I would send you a pie too.Pai-chan is mine tho. By the way, Wikipedia worries too much about spam. I'm still getting CAPTCHAs, is there any way to stop them?ServanteDeFeu (talk)07:04, 3 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Just a quick note to congratulate you on the promotion ofSind sparrow to FA status recently. If you would like to see this (or any other FA) appear as "Today's featured article" soon (either on a particular date or on any available date), please nominate it atthe requests page. If you'd like to see an FA appear on a particular date in the next year or so, please add it tothe "pending" list. In the absence of a request, the article may end up being picked at any time (although with about 1,302 articleswaiting their turn at present, there's no telling how long – or short! – the wait might be). If you'd got any TFA-related questions or problems, please let me know.BencherliteTalk13:41, 1 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Where has Wikiproject birds decided to use commonwealth English for all bird articles, including North America? ((i.e. Wood Duck)...I thought prevailing though was Commonwealth English in the Nearctic (except for British trusts, territories and protectorates) and American English in the Nearctic (except for American trusts, territories and protectorates)....Pvmoutside (talk)05:47, 4 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]
According toWP:ENGVAR, unless topics have strong national ties, you use the national variety first used. It shouldnot be a rule that we change all North American bird articles to U.S. English. That said, I don't care myself if you change it in this particular case, though others might, just do so consistently. —innotata06:08, 4 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]
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Maybe they're a contributor to the site, but it's put out by an academic organisation, and it's anincredibly useful resource. It'snotspam. Our policy page on spam doesn't say anything about having to remove links that aren't commercial, questionably useful, or such, if they are mass added. So, can you let me restore them for all the weaver articles? Now that I know about it, I'd like to add to any weaver articles that don't have it. —innotata14:15, 5 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]
The first sentence ofWP:SPAM states:There are three main types of spam on Wikipedia. These are: advertisements masquerading as articles; external link spamming; and adding references with the aim of promoting the author or the work being referenced. There is no loophole for being non-commercial.WP:ADV states thatyou should avoid linking to a site that you own, maintain, or represent—even if Wikipedia guidelines seem to imply that it may otherwise be linked Again, there is no loophole for being non-commercial.
WP:ELNO states that links to be avoided includeAny site that does not provide a unique resource beyond what the article would contain if it became a featured article. Is it not true that there is no information on that site beyond what each article would contain where they to become featured articles? If the information is important, add content and use it as a reference. Mass adding external links doesn't make articles better.Helpsome (talk)14:24, 5 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, there is, there's information on populations and lots of photos, among other things, that couldn't be in featured articles. So, they don't go against that suggestion, and none of the articles on weavers are featured articles, so they're even more useful to readers in our existing wiki. The pages on spam don't say that links must be removed, and cannot be restored by third-party editors. That would be silly and unconstructive. So I'm going to go ahead and add them to the weaver articles. —innotata16:55, 5 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]
The fact that they aren't featured articles doesn't mean we should ignoreWP:ENLO it means you should work towards making them featured articles. Respectfully, did you bother to readWP:SPAM? Under the section entitled "Tagging articles with spam or prone to spam" it statesIf articles have spam, and you haven't the time or ability to remove it, you can tag them... I had the time to remove them so I did. Frankly, I'm not sure how you mass reverted those removals wouldn't qualify as spamming. We can take it to an administrator board if you would like.Helpsome (talk)17:05, 5 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]
There might be a difference in Wikipedia philosophies here, but I assume we should make articles as useful as possible to editors at any given time, whether that's by expanding articles substantially—which I have done a lot, and plan to do with some of the weavers—or by adding useful external resources in the interim.And as useful as guidelines can be, we shouldn't let them get in the way of improving Wikipedia. Plus, I would add the Weaver Watch links on articles likechestnut-crowned sparrow-weaver andred-headed fody even if I brought them to FA status, for the nest information and media, etc. Feel free to bring it up with others, there's nothing problematic with making sure articles have the most useful possible external resources. —innotata17:17, 5 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]
I'm not doing it knee-jerk: I'd previously noticed the site's helpful, and I'll check at each article whether the link is worth including. I'm also adding links to articles that weren't linked before. It's quite routine, if one has found a very useful external site, to go and add it to topical articles. WikiProject Birds has had a bit of a project to link to BirdLife International and Internet Bird Collection pages. More generally, how is something improper if it isn't either unconstructive or disruptive to conversation? —innotata17:28, 5 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Hi - I am slightly confused by your move ofRoger Wheeler (British Army officer) toRoger Neil Wheeler. My understanding of wikipedia's preference for names is to have a descriptor in brackets after the name - seeMOS:DABPEOPLE. The Wheeler article was previously shown as Roger Neil Wheeler until Proteus moved it to Roger Wheeler (British Army officer) in August 2008: this seem a sensible move at the time. The same principle applies toIan Gill (British Army officer). I personally think we should use Roger Wheeler (British Army officer) and Ian Gill (British Army officer) and would welcome your thoughts in this. Best wishes.Dormskirk (talk)20:35, 5 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]
WP:NCDAB says to use "natural disambiguation" where possible, so it's best to use people's middle names/initials so long as they are very often referred to by such. —innotata20:41, 5 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]
I understand your point but the guidance inMOS:DABPEOPLE is very specific on how to disambiguate names. If we apply your principle we would have to rename many thousands of articles and redirect even more links. Best wishes.Dormskirk (talk)20:46, 5 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Eh? It doesn't specifically say how to disambiguate. It just says thatif you disambiguate using parentheses, you shouldn't use articles in the parentheses, and says how to format disambiguation pages.WP:NCDAB is the relevant guideline. As far as this goes, I don't think every page of this sort should/can be moved—some people aren't often referred to by their middle names (entertainerscontra military men and scientists)—and using parenthetical disambiguations is a good option too. —innotata20:59, 5 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Often enough, there's some books quoting him, government websites, and news articles that refer to him with his middle name, a decent portion of the small amount of material on him online. I check that before I move any articles, of course. —innotata21:14, 5 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Arbitration report:Media viewer case is suspended "On 1 September, the Arbitrators voted to suspend theMedia Viewer case for 60 days. After the suspension period is up, the case is to be closed unless the committee votes otherwise. The case suspension comes in response to several new initiatives and policies announced by the Wikimedia Foundation that may make the case moot. In the same motion, the committee declared that Eloquence's resignation of the administrator right was "under the cloud" and that he can only regain the right through another RfA."
Traffic report:Holding Pattern "This week we saw three of the top ten articles remain in place, with the Ice Bucket Challenge at #1, Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis at #2, and Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant at #5, all for a second straight week..."
WikiProject report:Gray's Anatomy (v. 2) "This week, theSignpost went out to meetWikiProject Anatomy, dedicated to improving the articles about all our bones, brains, bladders and biceps, and getting them to the high standard expected of a comprehensive encyclopaedia."
Hi Innotata! Thank you for correcting my edit of the Somali sparrow page. That was my first article edit here, so I'm still trying to learn the ropes. Just for clarification, if I use a source that's not on the page I'm translating from (because I figured that info needed to be cited somewhere) then I don't need to post that I translated it from the other language page? I wasn't sure, so I went ahead and posted in the talk page just to be safe. Thanks (:— Precedingunsigned comment added byLeofyr (talk •contribs)16:30, 6 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]
You're figuring things out pretty fast. Yeah, you just need to post it on the talk page. The template "expand language" is meant toask users to translate more, that's what you got mixed up. —innotata16:33, 6 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]
I don't see how a rule to use the commonly used name means we follow the rarely used official form, but I'll open an RM for this article and some similar ones and we can discuss this there. —innotata22:14, 10 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]
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Op-ed:Media Viewer software is not ready Last month, I wrote an open letter to the Wikimedia Foundation, inviting others to join me in a simple but important request: roll back the recent actions—both technical and social—by which the Wikimedia Foundation has overruled legitimate decisions of several Wikimedia projects.
Traffic report:Refuge in celebrity Even though it's not quite 3/4 over, it's safe to say that 2014 will go down as a year of war, mass murder, plane crashes and terrible diseases. While certainly paying it some heed, it's not surprising that Wikipedia viewers tried this week to find any alternative to that litany of tragedy and pain, and their chosen method of escape was, as usual, celebrity.
Featured content:The louse and the fish's tongue The amazing and strange tongue-eating louse replacing a fish's tongue! Because isopods, the subject of a new featured article, are both awesome and really damn weird!
WikiProject report:Checking that everything's all right This week, theSignpost decided to have a look around with WikiProject Check Wikipedia a maintenance project not concerned so much with articles' content, but in all the tiny errors that are to be found scattered within them. Their front page gives a list of things they mainly focus on ...
WikiProject report:A trip up north to Scotland As Scotland is deciding its future this week, we thought it might be a good idea to get to know the editors of WikiProject Scotland and talk to them about the project.
News and notes:Wikipedia's traffic statistics are off by nearly one-third A prominent Wikipedia researcher has discovered that the encyclopedia's widely used article traffic statistics are missing out on approximately one-third of total views.
Traffic report:Tolstoy leads a varied pack There is no unifying theme we can slap on top article popularity this week.
Featured content:Which is not like the others? Four articles, two lists, and 51 pictures were promoted to "featured" status this week on the English Wikipedia.
Thank you! I know; I was just as fascinated as you, and it's among the articles I'm proudest of. I came across the bare article while improving categories (!) and while learning more the amazingness only increased (even compared to otherchild soldiers). What I couldn't find was much about her as a person, since her life is not much documented; I did find a quote from a letter she wrote, and there are the opinions of the men of her time: Cámus, Baquedano, Mackenna. —innotata02:13, 19 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]
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That might be a one-off (or maybe I'll work on some of the other unusually named species from Dance's article that haven't got articles). As for your edits from the article, are you sure about calling it "saltwater"? It most definitely occurs in brackish water, with a low salt concentration, and ichthyologists at least wouldn't describe such a fish as "saltwater". If you could find any more information on the species, that would be great, it's a pretty incomplete article; the only description I could find was Annandale's off of subfossils, and there's not enough on its distribution and ecology. Anyone who has reference books that mention the species would be able to add something. —innotata23:38, 20 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks Innotata. I changed the intro sentence to reflect that the species lives in brackish water, thanks for pointing out my error. Although I don't have any reference books for that area, I can see if I can find more info on that species online, but in reality there may not be much more that is known about it. Best wishes,Invertzoo (talk)13:11, 22 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]
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Eh? If you didn't take the photo or otherwise own the copyright, you're violating copyright by posting it on Wikipedia. The fact that's in on your hard drive doesn't change anything. —innotata15:51, 24 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Why was the page no moved? The opposers based their decisions on the fact that someone (whose intention was only to oppose me) made this orphaned stub, thus making my original claim "The other actress has no page" no longer valid. However, as I've shown, the 1980 actress is clearly primary with respect to usage over the other actress. Please review.Timmyshin (talk)01:31, 26 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Both had three users opposing your suggestion, and none supporting, even after being listed on RM for 3 weeks. So there was at least something approaching a consensus for not moving, and the discussions were too stale for relisting. I wouldn't take any particular side personally, as there wasn't enough evidence on which of the people was the primary topic…but it's more on therequester to provide evidence. And yeah, I'm sorry, if your argument is just "the other person doesn't have a page", the creation of a page does invalidate it ;) Since both had two actresses of the same name, and the second has three people of the same name, you'd really need to demonstrate well that one is primary with respect to usage and long-term significance. —innotata02:12, 26 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]
I understand where you are coming from, and I'm thankful that you are replying in an understanding manner. However, please consider the following: none of the 5 people has any long-term significance. As for usage, page view stats are clearly overwhelming, particularly since 3 of these pages were just created in the past 3 weeks (again, for no reason but to oppose the move):
You should know that the recent creation of some of them and the RM mean the pageviews tell us nothing. Even otherwise, they don't tell us anything about usage outside Wikipedia, and such a small number of pageviews is pretty uninformative (well, pageviews are always going to have issues…). As for long-term significance, it's relative, so they all have some. (And why the articles were created isn't really germane to what the article titles should be.)
As I said, you should have provided more reason than the above—during the requested move. You had plenty of opportunity to convince during the RM, and you still haven't made this a no-brainer. But feel free to bring this up atWP:MR if youreally disagree with my closure.I'm not an admin and rarely close discussions, but I think it's clear there was no consensus. I'm not sure there's a particular reason to start new move requests here… —innotata05:31, 26 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]
OK, point taken. I'm not going to go through WP:MR on these two. I just have to say, the process is quite arbitrary. I was involved in another discussion of 2 Korean actresses with even fewer page views and a smaller page-view difference but the discussion consensus was the complete opposite (namely 1 actress got the primary topic). I don't disagree with your closure per se, but I don't agree with some of your points, like pageviews being uninformative in this situation etc. If pageviews are uninformative, then what is informative in your opinion, may I ask?Timmyshin (talk)05:45, 26 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Yeah, I supported your move; one key difference there was that the people were directly comparable. There are lots of reasons pageviews can be problematic: they may be affected by things that have nothing to do with the subject's notability, they have technical limitations and accuracy problems, and they might not be statistically meaningful. Maybe nothing is informative or at leastclear, sometimes :P But you know, there's usage online (in different languages), in books; and then there's indications of significance like awards, which both you and the users opposed to the moves mentioned. —innotata05:56, 26 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Featured content:Oil paintings galore Six articles, four lists, one topic, and 17 pictures were promoted to "featured" status this week on the English Wikipedia.
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