User talk:Davidrlowe
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Best regards! Liuxinyu970226 (talk) 05:03, 29 November 2015 (UTC)
RfD
[edit]There are several RfDs from you which have been flagged by Benebot* as in use. That means they have an incoming link from another item. This makes them notable unless the item with the incoming link isn't notable itself. A sitelink to Wikipedia isn't needed for notability, that's just one of reasons an item can be notable. Valid incoming links makes that they are notable as a structural need. (For example actors playing in a notable movie are notable due to structural need.) Could you check the items flagged by Benebot* and tag those that fulfill a structural need with {{Nd}}? And for the others please explain why they still aren't notable. Mbch331 (talk) 11:14, 13 December 2015 (UTC)
Removing valid claims
[edit]Why are you removing valid occupation (P106)photographer (Q33231) claims? Mbch331 (talk) 19:00, 13 December 2015 (UTC)
- Sorry. Trying to systematically go through those listed as photographers and clear out those with no links, or whose claims of being a photog are unsupported or not notable. Hadn't known of the incoming links til now (new here). Still, it does seem that anyone with an instagram account can claim to be a photographer, eh. --Davidrlowe (talk) 19:16, 13 December 2015 (UTC)
- Having an instagram account doesn't make you a photographer, but try other sources: personal websites, IMDb, google search, linkedin before removing the claims. Mbch331 (talk) 19:24, 13 December 2015 (UTC)
Open questions on RfD page
[edit]There are some open questions for items nominated by you on WD:RfD, could you please answer there? Mbch331 (talk) 11:42, 16 December 2015 (UTC)
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Thank you! --EGalvez (WMF) (talk) 20:36, 13 January 2017 (UTC)
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Your feedback matters: Final reminder to take the global Wikimedia survey
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[WMF Board of Trustees - Call for feedback: Community Board seats] Meetings with the Wikidata community
[edit]The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees is organizing a call for feedback about community selection processes between February 1 and March 14. While the Wikimedia Foundation and the movement have grown about five times in the past ten years, the Board’s structure and processes have remained basically the same. As the Board is designed today, we have a problem of capacity, performance, and lack of representation of the movement’s diversity. Our current processes to select individual volunteer and affiliate seats have some limitations. Direct elections tend to favor candidates from the leading language communities, regardless of how relevant their skills and experience might be in serving as a Board member, or contributing to the ability of the Board to perform its specific responsibilities. It is also a fact that the current processes have favored volunteers from North America and Western Europe. In the upcoming months, we need to renew three community seats and appoint three more community members in the new seats. This call for feedback is to see what processes can we all collaboratively design to promote and choose candidates that represent our movement and are prepared with the experience, skills, and insight to perform as trustees?
In this regard, two rounds of feedback meetings are being hosted to collect feedback from the Wikidata community. Two rounds are being hosted with the same agenda, to accomodate people from various time zones across the globe. We will be discussing ideas proposed by the Board and the community to address the above mentioned problems. Please sign-up according to whatever is most comfortable to you. You are welcome to participate in both as well!
- Round 1 - Feb 24, 4:00 pm UTC
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- Sign-up and meeting details: Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees/Call for feedback: Community Board seats/Conversations/Wikidata
Also, please share this with other volunteers who might be interested in this. Let me know if you have any questions. KCVelaga (WMF), 14:32, 21 February 2021 (UTC)
Hi!
[edit]Just a confirmation - nice to meet you! - Kosboot (talk) 17:11, 9 March 2021 (UTC)