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Tsogo Sun
Hello Rmhermen,
This summer you participated in
the AFD discussion (about the Tsogo Sun company). The page was deleted due to lack of good references showing notability of the subject.
I am agree with you that the company is clearly notable for Wikipedia. I made an extensive search for information that would allow to restore the page. Here you can see my corrected and expanded version of
the old userfied page:
sandbox.
Please let me know whether I can restore the page using this text. I need your (second) opinion, because
JamesBWatson (wiki admin) was and
is still sure that the subject does not satisfy Wikipedia's notability guidelines. —
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I added the article to the
WP:AfC queue to get an independent review where there is no history known to possibly add bias:
Draft:Tsogo Sun. —
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Omne bonum
Thanks for removing the images incorrectly attributed as the showing the Black Death, it's a great help!
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The problem is that the Fannin Monument is not at the Fannin Battleground State Historic Site, but at a different location south of Goliad. --
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You there? --
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Inactive on Wikiquote?
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Thinker
Hi Rmhermen,
You edited the "Lost of The Thinker" page today.
It is a page I regularly visit as I'm hunting down the original Bronze monumental sized casts.
The update is a bit messy, as you just put a table in the middle of it all and removed some of the headings.
The Thinker's page actually quotes : "The Thinker has been cast in multiple versions and is found around the world; the history of the progression from models to castings is complicated and still not entirely clear. About 28 monumental-sized bronze casts of the sculpture are in museums and public places. In addition, there are sculptures of different study size scales and plaster versions (often painted bronze) in both monumental and study sizes. Some newer castings have been produced posthumously and are not considered part of the original production."
Can you revert to type or the old format and make it clear on the page where the 28 monumental-sized bronze casts are. As it was clear in the original page.
Thanks
Still in progress. I plan to continue working on the list but there is no such thing as 28 official monumental-sized bronze casts. The current table includes all of the monumental-sized Thinkers in bronze and plaster finished in Rodin's lifetime (except the disputed foundry plasters). There are also the rest of the Alexis Rudier casts, some started by Rodin but some cast 15 years after his death, the Georges Rudier casts (the edition of 12) done in the 1960s-1980s and the Sayegh and Gruppo Mondiale ones done around 1999 to be sorted.
Cleveland claims 25 monumental casts while
http://www.penseur.org/ lists 31 or 32, probably but only lists 10 of the edition of 12 - and one of those appear to be an incorrect location.
Rmhermen (
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isn't a national park now. But have to clarify what it is now and make some changes. Maybe it could be listed with former in brackets, not sure.
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ICTY
Well, I explained in the edit summary. If the indictment was withdrawn, then it's over, right? And basic standards of justice dictate that if someone was unjustly indicted and the indictment withdrawn then why would the charges, which could be prejudicial, be promulgated? Anyway, if you wish you can restore them as per
BRD.
Quis separabit? 03:34, 28 April 2015 (UTC)reply
In American English, Vietnamese-American mean an American citizen of Vietnamese ancestry - not a dual citizenship. 04:23, 5 May 2015 (UTC)
Hmmm... There is a doubt in this case. We must check that.
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I don't care so much about nationalities, but more about all the missing people in Nepal from all over the world. We have erased the column about them (that's not the case in the fr.wikipedia page for example >
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%A9isme_de_2015_au_N%C3%A9pal ) & I think it's occulting the sad reality of the story.
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Speedy deletion nomination of Sanitary paper
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I wanted to let you know that I just tagged
Sanitary paper for deletion, because it appears to duplicate an existing Wikipedia article, [[{{{article}}}]].
If you feel that the article shouldn't be deleted, you can contest this deletion, but please don't remove the speedy deletion tag from the top.
I wanted to let you know that I just tagged
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If you feel that the article shouldn't be deleted and want more time to work on it, you can contest this deletion, but please don't remove the speedy deletion tag from the top.
Hi Rmhermen, kindly avail yourself of the opportunity to discuss the matter
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The concept of living, therefore animate, "substitute figurine" for the person of the king comes from the source I quoted. I didn't try to put a spin on it. The use of (clay) "substitute figurines" is rather well attested in cuneiform culture (see Alasdair Livingstone, Mystical and Mythological Explanatory Works of Assyrian and Babylonian Scholars), but the use of living substitutes is also apparent - e.g. the "scape-goat". I would suppose the author (Nemet-Nejat) meant, when she described the substitute as a "statue though animate", that it was a living person which otherwise didn't do anything - certainly not acting as a proxy. Ironic that Erra-imitti's own successor was, according to legend anyway, a substitute that outlived his sponsor.
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Pottery and vitrification
Please stop making flawed changes. If you consider changes are needed then take the appropriate talk pages, but please stop blind reverting and removing referenced content — Preceding
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You are the one making the unexplained changes. Vitrification is the process of forming glasses - which is the process going in clays during heating of pottery and the link is correct.
Rmhermen (
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I have noted reasons for the changes. The link you added is incorrect. Vitrification in the context of pottery means the lack of permeability to water. And for a wreference "Vitreous (vitrified) - that degree of vitrification evidenced by low water absorption" by
ASTM — Preceding
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That is an effect of the formation of glasses in the material - not a definition of the process.
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Paul Pagk
Hi, the page
Paul Pagk was deleted in 2006. Can you remember why? This painter has an
entry in the
Delarge dictionary. Could you please restore the page ?
genium⟨✉⟩ 15:34, 13 July 2015 (UTC)reply
The page was a copy & paste copyright violation of
[1].
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Krystal Meyers' birthday valid source Department of Health Services, Vital Statistics Department, Sacramento CA
You wrote "Reverted edits by Asian Radio Guru to last version by Walter Görlitz" and he wrote in error "This was the original source that was removed" which is untrue as the original source was a site that no longer gives birth info for free (see below links). So you are NOT paying attention to the facts. My info goes to the United States, Department of Health Services, Vital Statistics which is proof as proof gets. You cannot say it is not a valid source, period. So you cant just revert something back to an untrue reason (Walter Görlitz reason) as you conveniently gave no reason for your action. You did that because you knew you had no valid reason for you action.
California Birth Index - Krystal Nicole Meyers, 31 Jul 1988; citing Orange, California, United States, Department of Health Services, Vital Statistics Department, Sacramento". Family Search: Intellectual Reserve, Inc. 1988. Retrieved July 7, 2015. l that linked to here
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VLY6-RMX that is NOT the previous, effectively, non functioning site
So that was only able to be removed in the first place because that site changed to be a paid service that no longer provided birth record information for fee, for public view, where the site I have linked does offer birth record info for public view going to go to Orange, California, United States, Department of Health Services, Vital Statistics Department, Sacramento
So I am reverting your objection and notated this page and I will also direct people to see the history of this page just in case you try to do like Walker did and simply remove it (
https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=User_talk:Walter_G%C3%B6rlitz&oldid=672798318#Krystal_Meyers.27_birthday). Know that you cannot remove it from your history and people would see you removing valid proof, so I would suggest you do not make any attempt to undo my edits, because this page is being watched by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Not threat. A fact.
This is an unreliable copy of a primary source, not a secondary source. We have no way (from that source) to know that that record is correct or that it refers to the subject of the article.
Rmhermen (
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You are a liar. You do not work for the FBI. So you are impersonating an FBI agent and just so you will know what you are getting yourself into, that is a crime punishable by up to three years in prison and a $250,000 fine and that is for that crime alone, when you are found guilty of it (you are guilty because you just said you are an FBI agent and that history
https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Krystal_Meyers&action=history you cannot get rid of. You can, at best put a line through that but it will show. I know by you current and previous actions that you are not an FBI agent. I am not an FBI agent. But I factually told you that page (and now I am letting you know that Krystal Meyers' also) was being watched by the FBI and it is. But you took that information and dug your high heels in, like a rebellious child with no sense at all.
I have reverted your edit because the information a site that is known to provide accurate information. It is NOT a secondary source. It is a portal for that direct information. Is a feed from Orange, California, United States, Department of Health Services, Vital Statistics Department, Sacramento, NOT secondary information. They are linked to the database of the United States, Department of Health Services, Vital Statistics Department, Sacramento. So your secondary information claim is invalid.
No it is not a direct link to Orange, California, United States, Department of Health Services, Vital Statistics Department, Sacramento and a secondary source is what we need since you have noo way of establishing a connection between that original record and the article subject.
Rmhermen (
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For the record,
64.134.145.22 (
talk·contribs), the anon who is commenting here, appears to be
Asian Radio Guru (
talk·contribs), who when not signed in indicated that the Krystal Meyers article is being watch by The Federal Bureau of Investigation to which Rmhermen replied wow, I work for the FBI now? Asian Radio Guru never claimed that Rmhermen worked for the FBI, rather that the FBI was watching the article. No proof to support that claim was made. It's likely that they're "watching" everything on Wikipedia in the same way other government agencies do. I cannot find any direct evidence that this subject is of more interest to that agency than any other pop singer is. No claim of working for the FBI was made by Rmhermen either.
Further, there's no definitive connection between that public record and the subject. Rmhermen is correctly reverting and Asian Radio Guru is in an edit war.
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would like to repost previously deleted article
I have reworked the article about People as a Service that was deleted a few days ago. Wiki instructions direct me to make contact with you first. Please advise.
03:03, 26 August 2015 Rmhermen (talk | contribs) deleted page People as a Service (G11: Unambiguous advertising or promotion: G11: Unambiguous advertising or promotion)
can you help me put itback like it was this morning now no one can view it .Cort Knoxx 21:54, 31 August 2015 (UTC)cortknoxx Cort Knoxx 21:54, 31 August 2015 (UTC) — Preceding
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Rob Dyke
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You deleted a page for Rob Dyke some time ago due to not having enough credibility as a person of note. In December he is going to be mentioned in YouTube Rewind, and has considerably more mentions/sources, and nearly 2 million subscribers/200 million views, would you consider allowing the page back up?
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I didn't mention anything about it being "noticeable", I literally said it's asserting very little notability, and the referencing is bad (which is correct, they're primary). I actually missed where it says In March 2013 Helen Zell gave $50 million to LS&A, the largest gift in LS&A history, but other than that there's no claim to notability. The sarcasm really wasn't needed. Either way, I've taken a look at the article, and the main university article and closed it. I've also tagged it for improvement. --Kethrus |
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You were trying to claim that a college of 18,000 students was non-notable. I think perhaps you don't know our standards and customs for notability of schools.
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The notability guidelines require sources, I'd have thought an administrator would have known that. It's apparent you haven't read the guidelines yourself. --Kethrus |
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That may be true, but the state of the article is relatively poor, why not try improving it instead of being unhelpful making sarcastic comments? --Kethrus |
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Why deleted page?
Hi Hermen i created a page Harvy Sandhu, the information on that page was correct and i collect the information from the artist, and i created that page of a artist Named Harvy Sandhu
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I made a huge edit on a Santa Maria page, and you deleted my edit? Did you even see what the other person wrote on that? He says Christopher Columbus fell asleep and a kid took over and crashed the ship into Haiti and sank it the next day.
Then on the return trip, on 24 December (1492), not having slept for two days, Columbus decided at 11:00 p.m. to lie down to sleep. The night being calm, the steersman also decided to sleep, leaving only a cabin boy to steer the ship, a practice which the admiral had always strictly forbidden. With the boy at the helm, the currents carried the ship onto a sandbank, running her aground off the present-day site of Cap-Haïtien, Haiti. It sank the next day. That was the old one, I highly doubt that is what happened so stop deleting my edit it makes more sense than that. — Preceding
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Thanks for clarifying that there are four solar plants in the Antelope valley, if not more. I was looking at google satellite and it looks similar to the Charanka Solar Park, a group of about 20 solar farms.
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I think I have done it correctly and in line with the standards set out at
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331dot (
talk) 23:47, 22 November 2016 (UTC)reply
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When performing some administrative actions the reason field briefly gave suggestions as text was typed. This change has since been reverted so that issues with the implementation can be addressed. (
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JohnCD (John Cameron Deas) passed away on 30 December 2016. John began editing Wikipedia seriously during 2007 and became an administrator in November 2009.
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I noticed that when you updated the pie graph in an edit to the Solar power by country article you also reverted the change to the Australian capacity value. This value (5920 MW in April 2017) was taken from the same source that the original value of 5400 MW in June 2016 was taken. This source updates every few months when new data becomes available. — Preceding
unsigned comment added by
130.95.254.58 (
talk) 04:23, 30 April 2017 (UTC)reply
Sorry, I must have used an old article version. Didn't intend to remove that.
Rmhermen (
talk) 05:04, 30 April 2017 (UTC)reply
An RfC has clarified that
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About a year ago, there was an RfC about including vague economic modifiers in article ledes. It was decided that they were not appropriate. I can't recall exactly where this discussion occurred, and my time is quite limited right now. However, it replaced a previous consensus that they could be used if sourced appropriately. So, your restoration of the IP'S edits wouldn't have been appropriate even prior to the aforementioned RfC. The housing price bit unambiguously does not belong in the lede, as that is the only mention of it in the article.
John from Idegon (
talk) 21:26, 18 May 2017 (UTC)reply
You seem to have confused me with the IP and impulsively revert my edit to the article body without reading it. I have never edited the lead paragraph of that article.
Rmhermen (
talk) 02:24, 19 May 2017 (UTC)reply
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I was pointing out our page explaining what talk pages are by pointing to our explanation page after the user expressed a claim about what they thought talk pages are used for.
Rmhermen (
talk) 19:50, 7 July 2017 (UTC)reply
I'm not sure I understand what you just posted but I think I do - thanks for your reply. I will say that this particular editor does seem to be here not to edit Wikipedia but instead to
right great wrongs. They say on their user talk "But no action is being proposed." They aren't making a proposal? Really - could have fooled me. Every concern they have raised about editing Wikipedia is all about policy and guidelines, is about editing, is about word-choices. They say they are just "simply registering a concern with fellow readers in a forum where space is not an issue and where bulletpoints are hyperlinked, facilitating easy navigation." Many helps and posts about editing have been made to their user talk and on the various pages they have posted to - I have yet to see any evidence that they taken any of these posts to heart or that they maybe have gone through any of the various tutorials.
Shearonink (
talk) 20:43, 7 July 2017 (UTC)reply
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Following an
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Syntax highlighting is now available as a beta feature (
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Applications for
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edit filters, but not to edit them.
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the need for logging and other details of an evolving consensus may have been missed by some administrators, a
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Following a
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Wikimedians are now invited to vote on the proposals in the
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A
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Over the last few months, several users have reported
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A
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A change to the administrator inactivity policy
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The edit filter has
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Bhadani (Gangadhar Bhadani) passed away on 8 February 2018. Bhadani joined Wikipedia in March 2005 and became an administrator in September 2005. While he was active, Bhadani was regarded as one of the most prolific Wikipedians from India.
Recent revert of edit on "Lake Freighter" page
Rmhermen, I suggest that water is not itself buoyant, but rather it provides buoyancy.
Thank you - Tiptopper
Administrators who have been desysopped due to inactivity
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Editors who have been found to have engaged in sockpuppetry on at least two occasions after an initial indefinite block, for whatever reason, are
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The Foundations' Anti-Harassment Tools team has released the
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When blocking anonymous users, a
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The block notice shown on mobile will soon
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Lankiveil (Craig Franklin) passed away in mid-April. Lankiveil joined Wikipedia on 12 August 2004 and became an administrator on 31 August 2008. During his time with the Wikimedia community, Lankiveil served as an oversighter for the English Wikipedia and as president of Wikimedia Australia.
Further to
this edit of yours, can you revert the news item that the same user has
reinstated? It's now cited to different sources but they are equally as problematic vis-a-vis
the first source to which the original version of that news item was cited. I am taking the first step of raising this issue with you directly instead of on the talkpage again as I think that the issue can be resolved more expeditiously that way since you are an administrator. Your action on this would be welcomed.
Wingwraith (
talk) 09:58, 13 May 2018 (UTC)reply
The story has been picked up by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights who describe the attack as part of a campaign against an ISIS holdout area.
Rmhermen (
talk) 18:27, 13 May 2018 (UTC)reply
Following a
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IP-based
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The Wikimedia Foundation's Anti-Harassment Tools team will build
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It is
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An
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Starting on July 9, the WMF Security team, Trust & Safety, and the broader technical community will be seeking input on an
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This user is making very vengeful edits and harassing me. He's accused me of being a sock with no evidence.
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After
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Following a
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The WMF
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Special:Block redesign that will introduce
partial blocks. The new functionality will allow you to block a user from editing a specific set of pages, pages in a category, a namespace, and for specific actions such as moving pages and uploading files.
Thanks for your edits on Kavanaugh from early August. The editor who was put on warning by KnightLago at that time has returned and is currently editing without consensus on the article and ignoring requests to restore the article and start BRD when contacted on his Talk page. I have requested temporary full page protection for RFPP and could you protect the article.
JohnWickTwo (
talk) 13:58, 18 August 2018 (UTC)reply
Following
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Because of
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Some
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Abuse filters
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Arbitration
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There is an open
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Partial blocks should be available for testing in October on the
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Following a
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Is there a reason you protected that page earlier today, mentioning BLP? There don't seem to be any incidents in the page history since July 2018. I wanted to leave a note there (ironically, I only heard of her passing from the RD talk page, which I looked at because RD itself is currently protected due to vandalism. I guess all things have a purpose).
If you have to leave the page protected, could you post the following for me?
I just heard of this and am saddened. Medeis, I'll miss you.
173.228.123.166 (
talk) 19:22, 10 October 2018 (UTC)reply
Hi, I made
this edit about a month ago and just realized that you had ended up deleted it. I was wondering what was wrong about it. National Geographic is a reliable source. --
ParadiseDesertOasis8888 (
talk) 23:59, 1 November 2018 (UTC)reply
Several problems . One, the dating is discussed in the next two paragraphs and newer results have earlier dates. Second Balsas teosinte is not a species. Third we link directly to the original paper so linking to a general readership article interpreting it not really necessary.
Rmhermen (
talk) 06:57, 4 November 2018 (UTC)reply
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The debate
Commons:Categories for discussion/2018/10/Category:Ships by name (flat list) has entered a new phase. I would appreciate to hear your fresh current views there. You will realize that all the changes being proposed there are by people with no previous experience in "Ships" as such, and their voices are drowning me out. Best regards. -
Broichmore (
talk) 06:37, 7 November 2018 (UTC)reply
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Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the
Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose
site bans,
topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The
arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.
A
request for comment is in progress to determine whether members of the
Bot Approvals Group should satisfy activity requirements in order to remain in that role.
A
request for comment is in progress regarding whether to change the administrator inactivity policy, such that administrators "who have made no logged administrative actions for at least 12 months may be desysopped". Currently, the policy states that administrators "who have made neither edits nor administrative actions for at least 12 months may be desysopped".
Administrators and bureaucrats can no longer unblock themselves unless they placed the block initially. This
change has been implemented globally. See also
this ongoing village pump discussion (
permalink).
To complement the aforementioned change, blocked administrators will soon have the ability to block the administrator that placed their block to mitigate the possibility of a compromised administrator account blocking all other active administrators.
In late November, an attacker compromised multiple accounts, including at least four administrator accounts, and used them to vandalize Wikipedia. If you have ever used your current password on any other website, you should change it immediately. Sharing the same password across multiple websites makes your account vulnerable, especially if your password was used on
a website that suffered a data breach. As these incidents have shown, these concerns are not pure fantasies.
Shock Brigade Harvester Boris (Raymond Arritt) passed away on 14 November 2018. Boris joined Wikipedia as Raymond arritt on 8 May 2006 and was an administrator from 30 July 2007 to 2 June 2008.
Hello Rmhermen, may you be surrounded by peace, success and happiness on this
seasonal occasion. Spread the
WikiLove by wishing another user a
Merry Christmas and a
Happy New Year, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past, a good friend, or just some random person. Sending you a heartfelt and warm greetings for Christmas and New Year 2019. Happy editing, 7&6=thirteen (
☎) 20:49, 24 December 2018 (UTC)reply
R4 (new): Redirects in the file namespace (and no
file links) that have the same name as a file or redirect at
Commons are now covered under the new R4 criterion (
discussion). This is {{db-redircom}}; the text is unchanged.
G13 (expanded): Userspace drafts containing only the default Article Wizard text are now covered under G13 along with other drafts (
discussion). Such blank drafts are now eligible after six months rather than one year, and taggers continue to use {{db-blankdraft}}.
Members of the
Bot Approvals Group (BAG) are
now subject to an activity requirement. After two years without any bot-related activity (e.g. operating a bot, posting on a bot-related talk page), BAG members will be retired from BAG following a one-week notice.
Technical news
Starting on December 13, the Wikimedia Foundation security team implemented new
password policy and requirements. Privileged accounts (administrators, bureaucrats, checkusers, oversighters, interface administrators, bots, edit filter managers/helpers, template editors,
et al.) must have a password at least 10 characters in length. All accounts must have a password:
User accounts not meeting these requirements will be prompted to update their password accordingly. More information is available
on MediaWiki.org.
Blocked administrators
may now block the administrator that blocked them. This was done to mitigate the possibility that a compromised administrator account would block all other active administrators, complementing the removal of the ability to unblock oneself outside of self-imposed blocks. A
request for comment is currently in progress to determine whether the blocking policy should be updated regarding this change.
{{Copyvio-revdel}} now has a link to open the history with the
RevDel checkboxes already filled in.
Accounts continue to be compromised on a regular basis. Evidence shows this is entirely due to the accounts having the same password that was used on another website that suffered a data breach. If you have ever used your current password on any other website, you should change it immediately.
Around 22% of admins have enabled
two-factor authentication, up from 20% in June 2018. If you haven't already enabled it, please consider
doing so. Regardless of whether you use 2FA, please practice appropriate
account security by ensuring your password is
secure and unique to Wikimedia.
You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{proposed deletion/dated files}} notice, but please explain why in your
edit summary or on
the file's talk page.
Administrators who are blocked have the technical ability to block the administrator who blocked their own account. A recent
request for comment has amended the
blocking policy to clarify that this ability should only be used in exceptional circumstances, such as account compromises, where there is a clear and immediate need.
A
request for comment closed with a consensus in favor of deprecating The Sun as a permissible reference, and creating an edit filter to warn users who attempt to cite it.
Technical news
A
discussion regarding an overhaul of the format and appearance of
Wikipedia:Requests for page protection is in progress (
permalink). The proposed changes will make it easier to create requests for those who are not using Twinkle. The workflow for administrators at this venue will largely be unchanged. Additionally, there are plans to archive requests similar to how it is done at
WP:PERM, where historical records are kept so that prior requests can more easily be searched for.
A new
IRC bot is available that allows you to subscribe to notifications when specific filters are tripped. This requires that your IRC handle be
identified.
Following discussions at
the Bureaucrats' noticeboard and
Wikipedia talk:Administrators, an earlier change to the
restoration of adminship policy was
reverted. If requested, bureaucrats will not restore administrator permissions removed due to inactivity if there have been five years without a logged administrator action; this "five year rule" does not apply to permissions removed voluntarily.
Technical news
A
new tool is available to help determine if a given IP is an open proxy/VPN/webhost/compromised host.
Arbitration
The Arbitration Committee announced
two new OTRS queues. Both are meant solely for cases involving private information; other cases will continue to be handled at the appropriate venues (e.g.,
WP:COIN or
WP:SPI).
paid-en-wpwikipedia.org has been set up to receive private evidence related to abusive
paid editing.
checkuser-en-wpwikipedia.org has been set up to receive private requests for CheckUser. For instance, requests for IP block exemption for anonymous proxy editing should now be sent to this address instead of the functionaries-en list.
I was trying to make it a Neutral point of view, for the post war debate that's what I was trying to put, and I did make it a Neutral point of view for the
Bombing of Dresden.
Jack90s15 (
talk) 00:13, 6 March 2019 (UTC)reply
Starting the section about the debate with a conclusion of which side is right is not neutral.
Rmhermen (
talk) 04:12, 6 March 2019 (UTC)reply
I just put the word historians in instead since me adding other things in was not needed I see that now
Jack90s15 (
talk) 13:49, 6 March 2019 (UTC)reply
The Wikimedia Foundation's Community health initiative plans to design and build a new user reporting system to make it easier for people experiencing harassment and other forms of abuse to provide accurate information to the appropriate channel for action to be taken. Please see
meta:Community health initiative/User reporting system consultation 2019 to provide your input on this idea.
Two more administrator accounts were compromised. Evidence has shown that these attacks, like previous incidents, were due to reusing a password that was used on another website that suffered a data breach. If you have ever used your current password on any other website, you should change it immediately. All admins are strongly encouraged to enable
two-factor authentication, please consider doing so. Please always practice appropriate
account security by ensuring your password is
secure and unique to Wikimedia.
As a reminder, according to
WP:NOQUORUM, administrators looking to close or relist an AfD should evaluate a nomination that has received few or no comments as if it were a
proposed deletion (PROD) prior to determining whether it should be relisted.
On 16 April 2019, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Beresheet, which you nominated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the
candidates page.
Recently, several Wikipedia admin accounts were compromised. The admin accounts were
desysopped on an emergency basis. In the past, the Committee often resysopped admin accounts as a matter of course once the admin was back in control of their account. The committee has updated its guidelines. Admins may now be required to undergo a fresh
Request for Adminship (RfA) after losing control of their account.
What do I need to do?
Only to follow the instructions in this message.
Check that your password is unique (not reused across sites).
Check that your password is strong (not simple or guessable).
Enable Two-factor authentication (2FA), if you can, to create a second hurdle for attackers.
How can I find out more about two-factor authentication (2FA)?
Administrator account security (Correction to Arbcom 2019 special circular)
ArbCom would like to apologise and correct our previous mass message in light of the response from the community.
Since November 2018, six administrator accounts have been compromised and temporarily desysopped. In an effort to help improve account security, our intention was to remind administrators of existing policies on account security — that they are
required to "have strong passwords and
follow appropriate personal security practices." We have
updated our procedures to ensure that we enforce these policies more strictly in the future. The policies themselves have not changed. In particular,
two-factor authentication remains an optional means of adding extra security to your account. The choice not to enable 2FA will not be considered when deciding to restore sysop privileges to administrator accounts that were compromised.
We are sorry for the wording of our previous message, which did not accurately convey this, and deeply regret the tone in which it was delivered.
For the Arbitration Committee, -
Cameron11598 21:04, 4 May 2019 (UTC)reply
XTools Admin Stats, a tool to list admins by administrative actions, has been revamped to support more types of log entries such as AbuseFilter changes. Two additional tools have been integrated into it as well:
Steward Stats and
Patroller Stats.
Arbitration
In response to the continuing compromise of administrator accounts, the Arbitration Committee
passed a motion amending the
procedures for return of permissions (
diff). In such cases, the committee will review all available information to determine whether the administrator followed "appropriate personal security practices" before restoring permissions; administrators found failing to have adequately done so will not be resysopped automatically. All current administrators have been notified of this change.
Following a
formal ratification process, the
arbitration policy has been amended (
diff). Specifically, the two-thirds majority required to remove or suspend an arbitrator now excludes (1) the arbitrator facing suspension or removal, and (2) any inactive arbitrator who does not respond within 30 days to attempts to solicit their feedback on the resolution through all known methods of communication.
The article will be discussed at
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ngome (bread) until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.
Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article.
Geoff | Who, me? 21:22, 6 May 2019 (UTC)reply
Invitation to join the Fifteen Year Society
Dear Rmhermen/archive14,
I'd like to extend a cordial invitation to you to join the Fifteen Year Society, an informal group for editors who've been participating in the Wikipedia project for fifteen years or more.
The CSD feature of
Twinkle now allows admins to notify page creators of deletion if the page had not been tagged. The default behavior matches that of tagging notifications, and replaces the ability to open the user talk page upon deletion. You can customize which criteria receive notifications in your
Twinkle preferences: look for Notify page creator when deleting under these criteria.
Twinkle's d-batch (batch delete) feature now supports deleting subpages (and related redirects and talk pages) of each page. The pages will be listed first but use with caution! The und-batch (batch undelete) option can now also restore talk pages.
Miscellaneous
The
previously discussed unblocking of IP addresses indefinitely-blocked before 2009 was
approved and has taken place.
In a related matter, the account throttle has been restored to six creations per day as the
mitigation activity completed.
The scope of
CSD criterion G8 has
been tightened such that the only redirects that it now applies to are those which target non-existent pages.
The scope of
CSD criterion G14 has
been expanded slightly to include orphan "Foo (disambiguation)" redirects that target pages that are not disambiguation pages or pages that perform a disambiguation-like function (such as set index articles or lists).
The Wikimedia Foundation's
Community health initiative plans to design and build a
new user reporting system to make it easier for people experiencing harassment and other forms of abuse to provide accurate information to the appropriate channel for action to be taken. Community feedback is invited.
Miscellaneous
In February 2019, the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF)
changed its office actions policy to include temporary and project-specific bans. The WMF exercised this new ability for the first time on the English Wikipedia on 10 June 2019 to temporarily ban and desysop Fram. This action has resulted in
significant community discussion, a
request for arbitration (
permalink), and, either directly or indirectly, the resignations of numerous administrators and functionaries. The WMF Board of Trustees is aware of the situation, and discussions continue on a statement and a way forward. The Arbitration Committee has sent an
open letter to the WMF Board.
I updated the page with relevant information. Also, added citations from renowned news houses. But, the lines were removed by you. May I know why? Thank You.
Dirooz (
talk) 09:02, 4 July 2019 (UTC)reply
Lynching is usually seen as extrajudicial execution. In your example the man was beaten and made to chant slogans and died sometime latter of injuries. He was not hung until dead from the nearest lamp post by a group which came already prepared with their own rope, for example.
Rmhermen (
talk) 20:20, 5 July 2019 (UTC)reply
July 2019
Hello, I'm
TJRC. I noticed that you added or changed content in an article,
500 Miles, but you didn't provide a
reliable source. It's been removed and archived in the page history for now, but if you'd like to
include a citation and re-add it, please do so. If you need guidance on referencing, please see the
referencing for beginners tutorial, or if you think I made a mistake, you can leave me a message on
my talk page. Thank you.
TJRC (
talk) 23:29, 12 July 2019 (UTC)reply
Please learn Wikipedia's actual policy before your try to teach others.
WP:References: "Wikipedia's verifiability policy requires inline citations for any material challenged or likely to be challenged, and for all quotations, anywhere in article space." Additionally there are no unreferenced items, each claim tells you exactly where it is from, which you can easily verify.
Rmhermen (
talk) 00:03, 13 July 2019 (UTC)reply
Following a
research project on masking IP addresses, the Foundation is starting a new project to
improve the privacy of IP editors. The result of this project may significantly change administrative and counter-vandalism workflows. The project is in the very early stages of discussions and there is no concrete plan yet. Admins and the broader community are encouraged to leave feedback on the
talk page.
Since the introduction of temporary user rights, it is becoming more usual to accord the New Page Reviewer right on a probationary period of 3 to 6 months in the first instance. This avoids rights
removal for inactivity at a later stage and enables a review of their work before according the right on a permanent basis.
Editors using the mobile website on Wikipedia can opt-in to new
advanced features via your settings page. This will give access to more interface links, special pages, and tools.
The advanced version of the edit review pages (recent changes, watchlist, and related changes)
now includes two new filters. These filters are for "All contents" and "All discussions". They will filter the view to just those namespaces.
A
global request for comment is in progress regarding whether a user group should be created that could modify
edit filters across all public Wikimedia wikis.
Following
a discussion, a new criterion for speedy category renaming was added:
C2F: One eponymous article, which applies if the category contains only an eponymous article or media file, provided that the category has not otherwise been emptied shortly before the nomination. The default outcome is an upmerge to the parent categories.
Technical news
As
previously noted, tighter
password requirements for Administrators were put in place last year. Wikipedia should now alert you if your password is less than 10 characters long and thus too short.
The
Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the
Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose
site bans,
topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The
arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.
If you wish to participate in the 2019 election, please review
the candidates and submit your choices on the voting page. If you no longer wish to receive these messages, you may add {{
NoACEMM}} to your user talk page.
MediaWiki message delivery (
talk) 00:03, 19 November 2019 (UTC)reply
By the way, your talk page is rather long. Please see
Help:Archive about various ways in which it could be archived. –
FayenaticLondon 10:31, 27 November 2019 (UTC)reply
An
RfC on the administrator resysop criteria was closed. 18 proposals have been summarised with a variety of supported and opposed statements. The inactivity grace period within which a new
request for adminship is not required has been reduced from three years to two. Additionally,
Bureaucrats are permitted to use their discretion when returning administrator rights.
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect
New Year's. Since you had some involvement with the New Year's redirect, you might want to participate in
the redirect discussion if you wish to do so.
Interstellarity (
talk) 00:29, 30 December 2019 (UTC)reply
A
request for comment asks whether
partial blocks should be enabled on the English Wikipedia. If enabled, this functionality would allow administrators to block users from editing specific pages or namespaces, rather than the entire site.
A
proposal asks whether admins who don't use their tools for a significant period of time (e.g. five years) should have the toolset procedurally removed.
The
fourth case on Palestine-Israel articles was
closed. The case consolidated all previous remedies under one heading, which should make them easier to understand, apply, and enforce. In particular, the distinction between "primary articles" and "related content" has been clarified, with the former being the entire set of articles whose topic relates to the Arab-Israeli conflict, broadly interpreted rather than reasonably construed.
Following a
request for comment,
partial blocks are now enabled on the English Wikipedia. This functionality allows administrators to block users from editing specific pages or namespaces rather than the entire site. A draft policy is being workshopped at
Wikipedia:Partial blocks.
The
request for comment seeking the community's sentiment for a binding desysop procedure closed with wide-spread support for an alternative desysoping procedure based on community input. No proposed process received consensus.
Technical news
Twinkle now supports
partial blocking. There is a small checkbox that toggles the "partial" status for both blocks and templating. There is currently one template: {{uw-pblock}}.
When trying to move a page, if the target title already exists then a warning message is shown. The warning message will now include a link to the target title.
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Arbitration
Following a
recent arbitration case, the Arbitration Committee reminded administrators that checkuser and oversight blocks must not be reversed or modified without prior consultation with the checkuser or oversighter who placed the block, the respective functionary team, or the Arbitration Committee.
Following an
RfC, the blocking policy was changed to state that sysops must not undo or alter CheckUser or Oversight blocks, rather than should not.
A
request for comment confirmed that sandboxes of established but inactive editors may not be blanked due solely to inactivity.
Technical news
Following a
discussion, Twinkle's default CSD behavior will soon change, most likely this week. After the change, Twinkle will default to "tagging mode" if there is no CSD tag present, and default to "deletion mode" if there is a CSD tag present. You will be able to always default to "deletion mode" (the current behavior) using your
Twinkle preferences.
Following the
banning of an editor by the WMF last year, the Arbitration Committee
resolved to hold a Arbcom RfC regarding on-wiki harassment. A draft RfC has been posted at
Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Anti-harassment RfC (Draft) and not open to comments from the community yet. Interested editors can comment on the RfC itself on its talk page.
Miscellaneous
The WMF has begun a
pilot report of the pages most visited through various social media platforms to help with anti-vandalism and anti-disinformation efforts. The
report is updated daily and will be available through the end of May.