I have tried to follow your advice on not posting more to the AN discussion. I posted 2 specific times to profusely apologize for a specific mistake I made. Now someone has changed it into a proposal to ban me from editing Wikipedia for at least a year. This seems to be a very unfair proposal, expecially as a punishment for merely asking for a topic ban to be lifted. No one warned me that asking for a topic ban to be lifted could be grounds for punishing me more. The whole thing has gone sideways. This is really worrying and distressing me. John Pack Lambert ( talk) 18:39, 7 October 2022 (UTC)
Hello, Ovinus,
I thought I'd let you know that seconds before I was about to delete this PROD'd article, the page creator removed the PROD tag. I don't know why they waited all week until the last possible second (literally) to do so but I thought you'd want to know in case you want to pursue other forms of deletion. Thanks. Liz Read! Talk! 02:33, 8 October 2022 (UTC)
Hi,
I declined the copyvio revdel request for Metal–organic biohybrid. The source paper from which the text was copied is available under a free license. The only thing missing was proper attribution which I've now added after restoring the text. Regards. Whpq ( talk) 03:22, 8 October 2022 (UTC)
Just in case you don't have pings enabled. Jo-Jo Eumerus ( talk) 09:14, 9 October 2022 (UTC)
Hi, I spotted your edit of the article and since I haven't seen you contribute there before, I guess you don't watch changes.
I reverted your edit, as it's beyond my understanding how it can possibly be misleading (nor did anyone else raise such concern before), but feel free to explain why you think so. 188.66.34.3 ( talk) 15:50, 9 October 2022 (UTC)
Thanks for bringing up the revert to me; I won't contest it, although I'd suggest it be converted to prose (in fact, the paragraph immediately above it contains almost the same information). My concern was that the table compares chips in a haphazard manner: it varies across years and chip types, and doesn't provide information on the transistor size/density. I feel that text is more appropriate for giving context, for example the currently un-elaborated meaning of "wafer" and "stack". Cheers, Ovinus(talk) 21:37, 9 October 2022 (UTC)
Good evening. I have just written a detailed analysis that aims to address every key point you've raised in the Commons deletion nomination you've raised a few days ago. Would you mind taking a thorough look, and address any important points that I may have missed? Cheers in advance, -- benlisquare T• C• E 10:36, 11 October 2022 (UTC)
Ovinus,
I just thought I would say hi because I noticed you left a message on my talk page almost two years ago (sorry for the delayed response!). I stopped editing Wikipedia but picked it back up recently. I hope you are doing well; you gave me a warm welcome when I was new here back in September 2020. mossypiglet ( talk) Go blue! 20:24, 11 October 2022 (UTC)
Hello Ovinus,
Much has happened since the last newsletter over two months ago. The open letter finished with 444 signatures. The letter was sent to several dozen people at the WMF, and we have heard that it is being discussed but there has been no official reply. A related article appears in the current issue of The Signpost. If you haven't seen it, you should, including the readers' comment section.
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Just wanted to commend you on your handling of a perhaps slightly awkward situation at Talk:Trans woman. There's no prejudice for asking a question or being confused about something, and when it was pointed out, you understood, and graciously went beyond the call of duty, first striking part of your post, and then boxing it as o/t. That demonstrated a lot of good faith and good etiquette, but you probably didn't need to go that far. In any case, I look forward to collaborating with you on that or any other article. Cheers, Mathglot ( talk) 06:00, 17 October 2022 (UTC)
FYI I have finished the exercises. Roads4117 ( talk) 06:35, 17 October 2022 (UTC)
I have finished paraphrasing, and apparently it is 89 words long. Is that OK, or does it need to be slightly shorter? Speaking on a BBC programme, Ms Kelly said that the hard-shoulder extension could be used for the M1 and M6, and that tolls could be introduced to tackle congestion, like the M6 Toll in Birmingham. She went on to say that "there will always be a need for road widening" and "there is a huge and severe congestion problem". Her main point, however, was whether the M1 and M6 need an active traffic management approach to "get more people using the motorway network and improve reliability on the road".
Roads4117 (
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Ms Kelly said that the hard-shoulder extension should be used on both the M1 and the M6. To tackle congestion on Britain's roads, tolls could be introduced, like the M6 Toll near Birmingham. She continued to say that there will always be a need for road widening where there is severe congestion problems. Her main point however, was whether the M1 and M6 need an active traffic management approach system, to improve reliability on Britain's road network.Roads4117 ( talk) 09:19, 20 October 2022 (UTC)
Except the M6 Preston Bypass, the M1 was Britain's first major motorway. It was a new type of road - with dual carriageways, three lanes in each direction, a continuous ‘hard shoulder’, no speed limit, and flyover junctions.Roads4117 ( talk) 16:45, 21 October 2022 (UTC)
Also Ovinus, if you don't want me to put mentorship stuff on your userpage, and keep it on our designated shared userpage, then please let me know. Roads4117 ( talk) 16:49, 21 October 2022 (UTC)
Hi Ovinus, sorry to put mentorship stuff on your userpage but do you have any more exercises for me, or have I finished them all? I put this on the shared userpage, but you probably didn't see it. Thanks again, Roads4117 ( talk) 17:01, 14 November 2022 (UTC)
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Pinging you since you did comment on the second FAC, in case you have suggestions for resolving the issues noted there. Jo-Jo Eumerus ( talk) 09:02, 2 November 2022 (UTC)
Thanks for your comments about MEDRS at the ROGD Rfc. The timing of your comments was a bit ironic, and perhaps you aren't aware of the extent to which we are in agreement about the basic issues of source compliance, esp. where MEDRS is involved. I also can't help wondering if you were unaware of the Rfc subsection § NPOV discussion at the time you cast your original !vote relying heavily on MEDRS, and then in your follow-up comments with about it. (See in particular, subsection § Scholar searches.) I find the voting in that Rfc chaotic and based largely on opinion rather than policy or on actual data, and I created that subsection in order to attempt to put it on a solid footing with respect to both. The data gathering and reporting is still ongoing (and the analysis portion not even begun), and if you wish to help with data gaterhing, that would be appreciated. I'll just add that it's been over a month since the Rfc began, so in theory someone might try to close it at any point, although normally with the quantity of continuing responses, and clear indications (such as my "more coming..." notes) they wouldn't close an active discussion. Mathglot ( talk) 21:44, 2 November 2022 (UTC)
@ Ovinus Hello. I've seen you have much more experience in reviewing GA Mathematics articles. I am still new, and I have no idea what to do. Any tips? Honestly, I don't mean to request a second opinion in Talk:Triaugmented triangular prism/GA1, but I would like to question for tips just in case. Dedhert.Jr ( talk) 11:35, 26 November 2022 (UTC)
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Hi. My name is Amber and I work for Yelp. I disclosed a conflict of interest and proposed a few changes at Talk:Yelp#Requested_Updates. I was hoping you might be willing to take a look. It appears as though in prior years Yelp collaborated with @ Protonk:, who did the GA review of a prior version of the page. However, Protonk appears to have retired a few months back. Alalbrech ( talk) 18:08, 6 December 2022 (UTC)
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Thanks for handling like 24 requests over at Talk:Legality of child pornography! I'll try to handle the section-ing for now, thanks! Aaron Liu ( talk) 12:23, 9 December 2022 (UTC) |
Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article El Palo Alto you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of David Eppstein -- David Eppstein ( talk) 09:01, 28 December 2022 (UTC)
The article El Palo Alto you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:El Palo Alto for comments about the article, and Talk:El Palo Alto/GA1 for the nomination. Well done! If the article has not already appeared on the main page as a "Did you know" item, or as a bold link under "In the News" or in the "On This Day" prose section, you can nominate it within the next seven days to appear in DYK. Bolded names with dates listed at the bottom of the "On This Day" column do not affect DYK eligibility. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of David Eppstein -- David Eppstein ( talk) 07:00, 31 December 2022 (UTC)
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Hello! Your submission of El Palo Alto at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) at your nomination's entry and respond there at your earliest convenience. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Narutolovehinata5 ( talk · contributions) 09:15, 1 January 2023 (UTC)
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On 16 January 2023, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article El Palo Alto, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the city of Palo Alto, California, is named after a big tree? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/El Palo Alto. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page ( here's how, El Palo Alto), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
BorgQueen ( talk) 00:03, 16 January 2023 (UTC)
Hi Ovinus. Thanks for chipping in at Talk:Yelp#Requested_Updates. I wanted to check-in to see if you saw my post asking for a few more edits and if you had time to review/consider them. Let me know and thanks again. Best regards. Alalbrech ( talk) 22:54, 18 January 2023 (UTC)
Hi Ovinus, thanks for your work at the above article; have you finished copy-editing it? I ask because the sub-section on the GOCE Requests page still has your working tag on it. If you're finished, please mark the request with either {{ done}} or {{ partly done}}; if you plan to continue the c/e, please let me know, otherwise I'll mark it "partly done" so someone else can continue the c/e. I'll ensure you get a co-credit in the archives. Cheers, Baffle☿gab 20:28, 19 January 2023 (UTC)
Hi -- not sure if you're planning to go back to the code you wrote to piece together GA history, but I ran into another oddity that is likely to cause problems if you do. See Talk:Staffa; I hadn't realized there were old GA reviews that were simply sections on a talk page. In that case there's articlehistory, but that probably won't always be the case. And it also occurs to me that a few GAs have been deleted, which will also screw things up -- though I would guess most have left redirects behind so that would make them traceable at least. I am starting to think the task may be impossible. Mike Christie ( talk - contribs - library) 02:54, 24 January 2023 (UTC)