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Marathon Petroleum Corporation Logo Assistance

Hello, I noticed that you have made some edits to the Marathon Petroleum Corporation page in the past and I was hoping you could help me replace the logo that is there now. The logo for branded Marathon retail gas stations was updated recently but not the the corporate one. "...the retail brand debuted a new Endurance image, including a retooled logo..." https://csnews.com/marathon-petroleum-goes-live-new-retail-brand-campaign https://csnews.com/marathon-unveils-new-image-branded-gas-stations

The accurate logo can be found on the Marathon Petroleum Corporation website here: https://www.marathonpetroleum.com/Newsroom/Corporate-Logos-and-Standards/ Is this something you would be able to help with? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:19B:8301:B5A0:241F:9AA:2CD6:28C3 (talk) 15:12, 1 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

2601:19B:8301:B5A0:241F:9AA:2CD6:28C3, hi! I don't really see the difference in logos. Regardless, the place to go is Wikipedia:Files for upload to upload the new logo. Then once it gets uploaded, you can replace the current one in the article with the new one. DOes that help? — Qwerfjkl talk 15:21, 1 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, this should help.

The logos are very similar but if you'll notice the text in the logo is all caps for the refinery business, while the retail brand uses some lower case letters.

In any case, this should help me.

Thank you! 2601:19B:8301:B5A0:1F7:3086:7200:76E8 (talk) 19:09, 20 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Great! Happy to help. Qwerfjkl talk 20:14, 20 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Just following up here, I went ahead and submitted to the URL that you provided but my request was rejected. Are you able to help?

Again, thanks for your help to this point. 2601:19B:8301:B5A0:C868:CD74:59BC:4D3A (talk) 16:50, 2 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@CFA, it's not clear to me why you declined the request. The images are not the same. Qwerfjkl talk 17:20, 2 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry about that — they look very similar. Is there a higher-resolution version available? It's below the threshold of originality in the United States so it can just be uploaded on Commons as {{PDTL}}. C F A 02:30, 3 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your attention to this matter @CFA. I am working on tracking down the higher resolution file right now.

Once I have that, should I provide that to you or send it somewhere else? Apologies for being dense, I don't have much experience editing on Wikipedia.

Again, thank you for your help. 2601:19B:8301:B5A0:3C62:A175:A4B6:284F (talk) 17:58, 6 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, feel free to leave the link on my talk page once you find it and I'll upload it. C F A 22:06, 6 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I was able to find a hi-res JPEG and I've added that note to your talk page @CFA. Thank you both very much for your help. 12.97.49.171 (talk) 13:42, 12 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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A new version of the standard wikitext editor-mode syntax highlighter will be available as a beta feature later this week. This brings many new features and bug fixes, including right-to-left support, template folding, autocompletion, and an improved search panel. You can learn more on the help page.
The 2010 wikitext editor now supports common keyboard shortcuts such Ctrl+B for bold and Ctrl+I for italics. A full list of all six shortcuts is available. Thanks to SD0001 for this improvement. [1]
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View all 25 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, a user creating a new AbuseFilter can now only set the filter to "protected" if it includes a protected variable.

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The CodeEditor, which can be used in JavaScript, CSS, JSON, and Lua pages, now offers live autocompletion. Thanks to SD0001 for this improvement. The feature can be temporarily disabled on a page by pressing Ctrl+, and un-selecting "Live Autocompletion".
Tool-maintainers who use the Graphite system for tracking metrics, need to migrate to the newer Prometheus system. They can check this dashboard and the list in the Description of the task T350592 to see if their tools are listed, and they should claim metrics and dashboards connected to their tools. They can then disable or migrate all existing metrics by following the instructions in the task. The Graphite service will become read-only in April. [2]
The New PreProcessor parser performance report has been fixed to give an accurate count for the number of Wikibase entities accessed. It had previously been resetting after 400 entities. [3]

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A Language community meeting will take place November 29 at 16:00 UTC. There will be presentations on topics like developing language keyboards, the creation of the Mooré Wikipedia, the language support track at Wiki Indaba, and a report from the Wayuunaiki community on their experiences with the Incubator and as a new community over the last 3 years. This meeting will be in English and will also have Spanish interpretation.

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Question from Francocriscola (15:14, 26 November 2024)

Hello, I am currently trying to translate a wikipedia page. I used the auto-translate feature and fixed whatever needed to be fixed, but it was surprisingly very accurate. However, the page won't let me upload given that it is 98% similar to the auto-translation. Is there a way to get around this issue? --Francocriscola (talk) 15:14, 26 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Francocriscola, I'm not aware of any translation tool that allows automatic translation on the English Wikipedia. Were you trying to translate to English, or a different language? And what tool did you use - what did it look like etc.? — Qwerfjkl talk 17:24, 26 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hello

Hello!I've just created a new article draft: Will there be an article on "Adam Islands"? Thanks. Happy editing! Abduvaitov Sherzod V Wiki (talk) 17:19, 28 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Abduvaitov Sherzod V Wiki, I see you created Draft:Adams island, which seems to be a duplicate of Adams Island (New Zealand). — Qwerfjkl talk 19:15, 28 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

New

I created a new article "Ballens Island (Alaska)". Check out the article and give me feedback! Thanks. Happy editing! Abduvaitov Sherzod V Wiki (talk) 11:42, 29 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Abduvaitov Sherzod V Wiki, it looks good, passing WP:GEONATURAL. You should fix the error in the infobox and add a few mroe sources - the first source is just a link to a non-existant article. — Qwerfjkl talk 20:28, 29 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you! Abduvaitov Sherzod V Wiki (talk) 07:55, 30 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

OP g-locked as LTA and article summarily deleted for a variety of reasons (this and previous section). DMacks (talk) 11:35, 1 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Qwerfjkl (bot) – 80.193.98.150

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Comment/question: The item linked to doesn't have a title and Wikipedia seemingly allows zero exceptions to the requirement for a title when this is the case.

80.193.98.150 (talk) 14:24, 29 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I believe all references are supposed to have titles - you could title this one something like "Internal NHS letter" or something of the sort. — Qwerfjkl talk 20:21, 29 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Two new parser functions were added this week. The {{#interwikilink}} function adds an interwiki link and the {{#interlanguagelink}} function adds an interlanguage link. These parser functions are useful on wikis where namespaces conflict with interwiki prefixes. For example, links beginning with MOS: on English Wikipedia conflict with the mos language code prefix of Mooré Wikipedia.
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Following an RFC, the policy on restoration of adminship has been updated. All former administrators may now only regain the tools following a request at the Wikipedia:Bureaucrats' noticeboard within 5 years of their most recent admin action. Previously this applied only to administrators deysopped for inactivity.
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Rabdan Academy Wikipedia Page

Hello Dear,

Can you check my revisions on Rabdan Academy Wikipedia Page. I am still waiting for Wikipedia Review and approval. It has been more than two months since I did the update and the changes still not reflected. Please advise!

Thank you, AlBadareenYazeed (talk) 17:51, 3 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@AlBadareenYazeed, if we look at your edits, you appear to have made some changes to the article and then reverted the change two minutes later. Qwerfjkl talk 18:25, 3 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Deletion review for Category:Hypoiodites

An editor has asked for a deletion review of Category:Hypoiodites. Because you closed the deletion discussion for this page, speedily deleted it, or otherwise were interested in the page, you might want to participate in the deletion review. DMacks (talk) 08:37, 5 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Question from EnderRex411 (15:51, 6 December 2024)

hello --EnderRex411 (talk) 15:51, 6 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hello! — Qwerfjkl talk 21:58, 6 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Question from Laxman khandy007 (17:13, 6 December 2024)

evaluation

Introduction,↑

Let us know about the play.

Naatak is a process which helps in entertaining people. It was used earlier also. It entertains people and gives them a feeling of peace. Earlier also kings and Maharajas used to get it used in their kingdoms and enjoyed it. Today, along with entertainment, people want to convey some message through this drama. This tradition has been going on for ages.

middle part,

Drama is an art form through which people perform their art, in which many people come together. Each of them has a character. They perform at their own time. It has many forms.

1. The characters of the play are spreading their dominance

Mohan,

Mohan said. Father, please tell us what the steam is doing.

Father.

I have not said anything. I am sitting and reading the letter wondering what all you have to tell me.

In this way, they display their art in drama and entertain the people. Along with the people, they want to tell the society what is the purpose of this drama. Drama is a human art and wherever they get a little space to perform it, they start displaying their art there. One good thing is that drama has been written by our best poets.

We know that the characters of the drama perform their part, but we evaluate them to see if they have made any mistake. It is necessary to depict how they spoke, where and how they kept their hair, and what was their manner of speaking. We point out the shortcomings of the characters of the drama so that they can perform well. So that they can become good actors after performing.

The tradition of drama is going on for ages, due to which our culture is still intact and due to this drama being adopted so well, its use is being done so much that every village has its own culture. Conclusion We know that the characters of the drama perform their part, but we evaluate them to see if they have made any mistake. It is necessary to depict how they spoke, where and how they kept their hair, and what was the --Laxman khandy007 (talk) 17:13, 6 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Question from Laxman khandy007 (17:16, 6 December 2024)

evaluation.

Introduction,↑

Let us know about the play.

Naatak is a process which helps in entertaining people. It was used earlier also. It entertains people and gives them a feeling of peace. Earlier also kings and Maharajas used to get it used in their kingdoms and enjoyed it. Today, along with entertainment, people want to convey some message through this drama. This tradition has been going on for ages.

middle part,

Drama is an art form through which people perform their art, in which many people come together. Each of them has a character. They perform at their own time. It has many forms.

1. The characters of the play are spreading their dominance

Mohan,

Mohan said. Father, please tell us what the steam is doing.

Father.

I have not said anything. I am sitting and reading the letter wondering what all you have to tell me.

In this way, they display their art in drama and entertain the people. Along with the people, they want to tell the society what is the purpose of this drama. Drama is a human art and wherever they get a little space to perform it, they start displaying their art there. One good thing is that drama has been written by our best poets. We know that the characters of the drama perform their part, but we evaluate them to see if they have made any mistake. It is necessary to depict how they spoke, where and how they kept their hair, and what was their manner of speaking. We point out the shortcomings of the characters of the drama so that they can perform well. So that they can become good actors after performing.

The tradition of drama is going on for ages, due to which our culture is still intact and due to this drama being adopted so well, its use is being done so much that every village has its own culture. Conclusion This tradition can make more people aware in future. People can achieve their goals with a lot of effort. This not only leads to personal development, but also leads to progress of the society. --Laxman khandy007 (talk) 17:16, 6 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Guild of Copy Editors December 2024 Newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors December 2024 Newsletter

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CfD lister change

Can Please can an admin add the following be changed to Can an admin please add the following. I believe that the latter sounds better. Thanks for your script! ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 09:28, 8 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Bunnypranav, I will not make the change. I see no reason to. In any case, I'm glad you found my script to be of help. — Qwerfjkl talk 12:14, 8 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

It's up to you, but grammatically the latter is correct. ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 12:45, 8 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, as is the former. — Qwerfjkl talk 13:03, 8 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2024-50

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Technical documentation contributors can find updated resources, and new ways to connect with each other and the Wikimedia Technical Documentation Team, at the Documentation hub on MediaWiki.org. This page links to: resources for writing and improving documentation, a new #wikimedia-techdocs IRC channel on libera.chat, a listing of past and upcoming documentation events, and ways to request a documentation consultation or review. If you have any feedback or ideas for improvements to the documentation ecosystem, please contact the Technical Documentation Team.

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Later this week, Edit Check will be relocated to a sidebar on desktop. Edit check is the feature for new editors to help them follow policies and guidelines. This layout change creates space to present people with new Checks that appear while they are typing. The initial results show newcomers encountering Edit Check are 2.2 times more likely to publish a new content edit that includes a reference and is not reverted.
The Chart extension, which enables editors to create data visualizations, was successfully made available on MediaWiki.org and three pilot wikis (Italian, Swedish, and Hebrew Wikipedias). You can see a working examples on Testwiki and read the November project update for more details.
Translators in wikis where the mobile experience of Content Translation is available, can now discover articles in Wikiproject campaigns of their interest from the "All collection" category in the articles suggestion feature. Wikiproject Campaign organizers can use this feature, to help translators to discover articles of interest, by adding the <page-collection> </page-collection> tag to their campaign article list page on Meta-wiki. This will make those articles discoverable in the Content Translation tool. For more detailed information on how to use the tool and tag, please refer to the step-by-step guide. [7]
The Nuke feature, which enables administrators to mass delete pages, now has a multiselect filter for namespace selection. This enables users to select multiple specific namespaces, instead of only one or all, when fetching pages for deletion.
The Nuke feature also now provides links to the userpage of the user whose pages were deleted, and to the pages which were not selected for deletion, after page deletions are queued. This enables easier follow-up admin-actions. Thanks to Chlod and the Moderator Tools team for both of these improvements. [8]
The Editing Team is working on making it easier to populate citations from archive.org using the Citoid tool, the auto-filled citation generator. They are asking communities to add two parameters preemptively, archiveUrl and archiveDate, within the TemplateData for each citation template using Citoid. You can see an example of a change in a template, and a list of all relevant templates. [9]
One new wiki has been created: a Wikivoyage in Indonesian (voy:id:) [10]
Last week, all wikis had problems serving pages to logged-in users and some logged-out users for 30–45 minutes. This was caused by a database problem, and investigation is ongoing. [11]
View all 19 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, a bug in the Add Link feature has been fixed. Previously, the list of sections which are excluded from Add Link was partially ignored in certain cases. [12][13]

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Codex, the design system for Wikimedia, now has an early-stage implementation in PHP. It is available for general use in MediaWiki extensions and Toolforge apps through Composer, with use in MediaWiki core coming soon. More information is available in the documentation. Thanks to Doğu for the inspiration and many contributions to the library. [14]
Wikimedia REST API users, such as bot operators and tool maintainers, may be affected by ongoing upgrades. On December 4, the MediaWiki Interfaces team began rerouting page/revision metadata and rendered HTML content endpoints on testwiki from RESTbase to comparable MediaWiki REST API endpoints. The team encourages active users of these endpoints to verify their tool's behavior on testwiki and raise any concerns on the related Phabricator ticket before the end of the year, as they intend to roll out the same change across all Wikimedia projects in early January. These changes are part of the work to replace the outdated RESTBase system.
The 2024 Developer Satisfaction Survey is seeking the opinions of the Wikimedia developer community. Please take the survey if you have any role in developing software for the Wikimedia ecosystem. The survey is open until 3 January 2025, and has an associated privacy statement.
There is no new MediaWiki version this week. [15]

Meetings and events

The next meeting in the series of Wikimedia Foundation discussions with the Wikimedia Commons community will take place on December 12 at 8:00 UTC and at 16:00 UTC. The topic of this call is new media and new contributors. Contributors from all wikis are welcome to attend.

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Question from Taodonnell (03:10, 10 December 2024)

Hello, I have an article drafed in sandbox and i'm ready to move it to be live. My account is older than 4 days old and I have made more than 10 edits. I can not see the Move button so i'm having trouble pushing the article out of sandbox. Please advise how I can do this. --Taodonnell (talk) 03:10, 10 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, Taodonnell! First of all, per this log, you are not autoconfirmed, probably because it hasn't been 96 hours (i.e. 4 full days) since your account was created. Additionally, I'd recommend you add better sources before moving the article to mainspace, because in its current state it could be tagged for deletion. — Qwerfjkl talk 10:28, 10 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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What does CS1 stand for?

It seems to mean the red error messages on citations, but is it a code for a type of error? (tag me if you reply here please) Industrial Metal Brain (talk) 04:20, 13 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Industrial Metal Brain, it refers to Citation Style 1, meaning the {{cite foo}} templates. CS2 is used in the {{Citation}} template. — Qwerfjkl talk 10:16, 13 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. Industrial Metal Brain (talk) 11:59, 13 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Question from Andrew.wikiwiki22 (21:09, 14 December 2024)

How can I create an article? --Andrew.wikiwiki22 (talk) 21:09, 14 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Andrew.wikiwiki22. Welcome! Creating a new article from scratch is extremely challenging, and new editors are strongly recommended to spend a few months learning how Wikipedia works, by making improvements to some of our existing seven million articles before trying it. When you do decide to have a go at a new article, you are highly encouraged to read WP:Your first article. If you haven't already also check out WP:TUTORIAL; it's a lot of fun! Happy editing! Qwerfjkl talk 21:28, 14 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Question from Ik hajji (22:09, 14 December 2024)

I submitted a page for creation about Robert Stanley Matano, a former Kenyan MP and the former kingpin of the Coast Region politics. Kindly assist on how to submit. --Ik hajji (talk) 22:09, 14 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Ik hajji, according to Special:Contributions/Ik hajji you haven't made any page by that name. You need to press the "Publish" button to save a draft. — Qwerfjkl talk 13:24, 15 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]