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Hi Amakuru....I read this today and you may have seen it already but I thought you might be interested. Whispyhistory ( talk) 09:10, 23 January 2021 (UTC)
Hello mate, I know we've chatted a bit about the current series of events, but I've decided to jack in FAC for the moment. It's obvious to anyone that my contributions in both nomination and review capacity are not welcome by one or two of the establishment and it's making me very unwell. I don't want to leave you in the lurch and I'm happy to work on stuff in the background if I can, but I can't participate at FAC for the time being. Cheers. The Rambling Man ( Stay alert! Control the virus! Save lives!!!!) 23:53, 23 January 2021 (UTC)
Thank you for supporting DYK :) Jirangmoon ( talk) 09:53, 25 January 2021 (UTC) |
Hi Amakuru. Quick check -- I tried looking for COVID-19 pandemic* here. But, it does not appear in the drop down. Is that because of the replication delays etc? Or do you think it might have to do with the special character "*". Thoughts? Ktin ( talk) 19:38, 25 January 2021 (UTC)
Thanks for notifying me but I cannot claim credit for Climate change in Kenya, as the one I have submitted for DYK is Climate change in Brazil. Chidgk1 ( talk) 12:07, 28 January 2021 (UTC)
Jerome Kohl was on the Main page today, thank you for prep promotion. - He is remembered in friendship. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 13:54, 28 January 2021 (UTC)
On 30 January 2021, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article 1987 FA Cup Final, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Coventry City's winning goal in the 1987 FA Cup Final was an own goal scored in extra time off Gary Mabbutt's knee? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/1987 FA Cup Final. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page ( here's how, 1987 FA Cup Final), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (ie, 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. 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.
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Hello! Can you remove the file c:File:Протесты на Тверской улице.jpg from this page? This file need to be deleted. I can explain the details, if it necessary. -- Brateevsky ( talk to me) 12:06, 3 February 2021 (UTC)
While I understand removing a TFA with problems, and like birds, aren't two birds in two days a bit too much of a good thing? -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 11:04, 4 February 2021 (UTC)
On a related subject ... but first, a big freaking disclaimer: it wasn't my job to weigh in on the suitability of TFA article selections or the people selecting them even before January, and ... there's no authority without responsibility, and I have no official TFA responsibilities at the moment, so no authority at all. Having said that: you and I have worked together a long time, and I just want you to know that I have no reservations or objections at all to the suggestion put forward today about you becoming a TFA coord. I have just a little more to say, but I'm waiting on a reply before I say it. - Dank ( push to talk) 18:04, 5 February 2021 (UTC)
Just thoroughly enjoying Sydney Riot of 1879 which is OTD in a couple of days but realised that this would never get to FA these days with the lop-sided application of MOSLINK. Imagine having to explain "throwing", "hat-trick", "Test", "overs", "stumps", "not out", "run out".... within each and every cricket article. Just imagine it!! And then when someone has crowbarred in a bunch of grim "summaries" of each of these terms, it becomes completely unreadable to precisely the predicted audience. Well done FAC. The Rambling Man ( Stay alert! Control the virus! Save lives!!!!) 09:43, 6 February 2021 (UTC)
Evans fell meekly, prodding a ball straight to Hassett at silly mid-on, prompting O'Reilly to deem Loxton "lucky to be on deck when the English tail were falling over themselves in their nervous speed to commit hara-kiri".Try making sense of that! — Amakuru ( talk) 15:45, 9 February 2021 (UTC)
Please see the note at Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article#February 2021 Pending TFAs from "very old" or "old" Unreviewed FAs; Margate F.C. doesn't appear to have been updated since 2016, and it runs on the mainpage in just a few more hours. SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 19:46, 6 February 2021 (UTC)
A non-wiki related query for you... is this something that is actually going to happen? It's seems like a huge deal but I'm just learning about it. I have so many questions... why would the other countries agree to combine with Burundi and (???) South Sudan? Seems like a recipe for disaster; nothing against Burundi or South Sudan, but the political instability and poverty sounds like it would drag all of the other countries down with it–especially considering the other ones we're talking about are (afaik) in the upper tiers of wealth and stability in the context of Africa. Would all of the leaders keep their posts and rule collectively, or would they adopt a main leader in addition to or instead of? I'm just baffled, do you know anything about this? Aza24 ( talk) 02:26, 9 February 2021 (UTC)
Please could you check Queue 1 as I both built it and moved it into the queue, a thing I should not have done. I also moved Queue 2, but that is OK, having been built by someone else. However, I built Prep 3 and Prep 4, so these will also need moving to the queue in due course by another admin. Yoninah is sorely missed, and I may concentrate on prep set building in her absence. We'll see if anyone else gets involved. Cwmhiraeth ( talk) 07:06, 11 February 2021 (UTC)
Hello Amakuru, I can't help but notice I created some extra work for you by unapproving the Thomas Ashburton Picken and Robert C. Pringle (indirectly) hooks. Should similar situations always result in the nominations being manually shifted back to the primary DYK nom page, even for minor issues? If so, should I do that as the unapprover? Thanks, CMD ( talk) 15:01, 12 February 2021 (UTC)
Hello dude, hope all is well. Writing for a favour, long term project etc. As you probably know I have an unnatural interest in the glorious 'Tabs ongoing domination of a certain canoe race. After this year's amazing victory for us, I'll be nominating it as a "good topic", but to do that I need to overhaul the main article to something which could be a GA. Right now it's a mess. And it could use (a) some eyes from outside the wood/trees that I'm in and (b) some non-Cantab eyes, both in order to drag it into reality. The topic is a little wild, check out the draft here: User:The Rambling Man/The Boat Race. Anyway, it's no major rush. It would be tops if I could get it to a good topic candidate after this year's race, but whatev's. Cheers. The Rambling Man ( Stay alert! Control the virus! Save lives!!!!) 23:53, 13 February 2021 (UTC)
happy Valentine's! -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 16:06, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
Hello Amakuru. I wrote the article on Imran Kombe, a Tanzanian general who served as Director of the Tanzania Intelligence and Security Service from 1983 to 1995. In some reports I'm finding it stated that he tipped off President Moi of Kenya about a possible assassination plan against Juvénal Habyarimana on April 6 1994 at the East African regional summit occurring in Dar es Salaam. The claim seems to emanate from Wayne Madsen's book, Genocide and Covert Operations in Africa, 1993-1999 (see here). Madsen is a conspiracy theorist, so I am loathe to consider his assertions of any value. But seeing as you know something about the Rwandan Civil War, can you tell me if the claim holds any water? - Indy beetle ( talk) 04:50, 17 February 2021 (UTC)
Because there is rather a large backlog of featured pictures of banknotes (many of them US) and coins, I have been scheduling them in alternate months. January was Danzig banknotes, February was a coin month and March will be a banknote month. I've chosen Template:POTD/2021-03-12, which is a set of US fractional currency with five issues and a total of twenty images. There is little to distinguish the different issues, so I'm just checking with you that twenty images on the same day is OK. I wasn't proposing to write about each image individually, but was intending to provide the facility to view a random image and click through to any of the others at choice. Cwmhiraeth ( talk) 11:55, 17 February 2021 (UTC)
Would you be able to move this revision of Erma to Erma (webtoon)? 2001:BB6:528A:2E00:B155:57A:B5DB:9829 ( talk) 11:21, 18 February 2021 (UTC)
Could you take a look at the DYK for Molly please. At the moment its just hanging. I'm happy to go without an image if required but it does need to be resolved. (Sorry I forgot where we were having this discussion) Victuallers ( talk) 17:01, 20 February 2021 (UTC)
... to your recent Kigali success. I mean, I'm reading a sentence full of links like "Kigali is in a granitic and metasedimentary region, with lateritic soils on the hills and alluvial soils in the valleys." and thinking, HOW DID THIS GET PAST THE LATEST MOS THINKING?????? I guess it depends "who" is doing the FAC...! The Rambling Man ( Stay alert! Control the virus! Save lives!!!!) 14:26, 24 February 2021 (UTC)
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Thank you for your call for ILCs in The Thankful Poor's DYK nomination. If it were not for your last-minute review, I likely would never have bothered referencing/expanding the article to the Good Article status it reached today. GeneralPoxter ( talk) 02:24, 27 February 2021 (UTC)
Hi Amakuru. First thanks for your work for the wiki and DYK - your talk page looks impressive. I was looking at my own page and wondering why I had'nt seen any DYK templates for recent nominations I've made. I went to investigate and found that Molly Clutton-Brock had been promoted on the 24th Feb. So I'd expect a notice on my talk page, but no big deal cos I know the bots can be mutinous at times. However I then went to look at how many times the article had been viewed and its very very low. I would have expected to see a one day spike of clicks for its DYK appearance.... but no. I noticed that you had done the main page promotion and wondered if you might care to offer a theory as to why it failed to appear? Cheers Victuallers ( talk) 10:58, 1 March 2021 (UTC)
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Today: Carmen for TFA (on my request), with Bizet's music " expressing the emotions and suffering of his characters" as Brian worded it. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 16:34, 3 March 2021 (UTC)
Hi Amakura, can you take a glance at the edits of Traineek? It seems to be a series of poorly sourced, extreme POV pushing edits... [3] [4] [5] Aza24 ( talk) 03:41, 5 March 2021 (UTC)
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I was just going to French wiki to read the article on Kigali and was very pleasantly surprised to see a featured article on here for an African capital city. A hearty congratulations from the artist formerly known as Dr. B! Thankyou! Keep up the great work!! † Encyclopædius 11:46, 11 March 2021 (UTC) |
I would add that when I think of "pillar" articles to get up to good status on here, capital cities and regions of developing world counties are as core as you can get. In fact I was considering running a contest aimed at getting core articles on capital cities and regions etc up to GA status.† Encyclopædius 11:52, 11 March 2021 (UTC)
Ooo yes, Bujumbura would be perfect. Go for it! † Encyclopædius 12:23, 11 March 2021 (UTC)
Hi. May I ask why this was relisted? I felt a consensus had been reached. GhostOfDanGurney ( talk) 15:04, 12 March 2021 (UTC)
Not sure if you can help, but a user by the name of Inset Days has been posting pro-Abolish The Welsh Assembly content and been removing UKIP columns from the wikipedia page. He seems to be a main contributer on the Abolish the Welsh Assembly wikipedia page and recently we had a dispute over content that I attempted to add. He has obvious leanings, but seems to be taking direct action against UKIP content now (claiming that one candidate means that the whole column should be removed.) Any chance of a review? I saw you last locked the page due to an editing war and was hopeful you could do something. Many thanks. ( talk) 19:00, 13 march 2021 (UTC)
Since you are around, can you redact an accidental outing by RedRose on Whispyhistory's talk? Thanks. Philafrenzy ( talk) 11:40, 15 March 2021 (UTC)
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FYI, I did this. The Rambling Man ( Stay alert! Control the virus! Save lives!!!!) 17:15, 16 March 2021 (UTC)
Hi Amakuru: When you promoted DYK Prep 1 to Queue 1, it doesn't appear to have properly cleared out Prep 1; there's a duplicate copy of all the hooks still sitting in Prep 1. Shall I clear them out by hand, or do you admins have some speedier way to do it? MeegsC ( talk) 11:46, 1 April 2021 (UTC)
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You may be interested in the TFA on Easter Sunday that played a role in my life! -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 14:24, 4 April 2021 (UTC)
On 5 April 2021, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Sutton United 2–1 Coventry City (1989), which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that a team including bricklayers, assistant bank managers and insurance clerks defeated Coventry City in the third round of the FA Cup in 1989? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Sutton United 2–1 Coventry City (1989). You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page ( here's how, Sutton United 2–1 Coventry City (1989)), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (ie, 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. 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.
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I'm just seeing when you're going to post your query about the Sussex Drive hook. I hope that I'm not coming across as rude - I just want to see about getting whatever issue it is resolved as soon as possible. SL93 ( talk) 01:22, 9 April 2021 (UTC)
That's my middle name too! —valereee ( talk) 21:28, 18 April 2021 (UTC) @ Valereee: oh wow, what are the odds? It's a very good and useful name to have 😎 — Amakuru ( talk) 21:49, 18 April 2021 (UTC)
Hello.
There seems to have been a bit of a very heavy-handed misunderstanding at the centre of this.
How You Like That had topped the World Charts, but the Global 200 didn't officially exist at the time, as How You Like That came out in July while the Global 200 came out in September. This was widely reported as being Blackpink's only global number 1 in their history, however, as we now use the Global 200 as the official chart, there is that confusion.
Lovesick Girls, of note, didn't top the Global 200 - it only topped the Global Excluding US 200, so it is a bit confusing why Guinness decided that that was good enough.
My edits, nonetheless, were trying to provide greater accuracy in the Rose (singer) article. I am perfectly happy with that extra detail not being included, especially as, as seems to be the case, there is some uncertainty as to whether Guinness were referring to How You Like That or Lovesick Girls.
The point I was making, though, was that Paper9oll had, for the 15th time with me, reverted something that was actually accurate, whilst falsely accusing me of disruptive editing. There was nothing remotely disruptive with what I wrote, and falsely accusing me of disruptive editing (now enforced with a permanent ban on editing the article) is extraordinary.
I think that a more appropriate response from Paper9oll, rather than an immediate reversion, would have been to discuss it. Of note, he broke WP:3RR four times with reverting my edits, each and every one of which was later included.
My comments in the talk page were aimed at getting a consensus.
As it seems that the consensus now is to include Lovesick Girls instead of How You Like that, I am happy to go with that.
My aim was greater accuracy in the article.
Of note - I wasn't insisting it was included. I only added it once, and then clarified it. It is Paper9oll who was insisting that I wasn't allowed to write anything.
I wrote a message on Paper9oll's talk page to ask him to stop harassing me. His response was that he was allowed to stalk me, and allowed to harass me, and he then went to AN/I to make a complaint of "false accusations".
All I asked was for him to stop reverting me without checking his facts.
I know that he prides himself on being a Recent Changes Patroller and he has admitted to having a Watch alert on my page (and presumably several others), but, as I have a history of 0 non-constructive edits, I don't think it is remotely warranted, and I have checked his edits and he gets it wrong a lot with a lot of editors, who he regularly warns for no good reason.
My suggestion is for him to calm down.
Of note, I don't think that the article ban against me editing Rose (singer) is remotely warranted. I made about 40 article edits on that article, every one of which is still in the article, and they were most certainly constructive. I don't think we can say the same thing for Paper9oll.
I request for the article ban against me to be revoked, and I reiterate my request for Paper9oll to kindly stop stalking and harassing me. Skb7 ( talk) 10:28, 19 April 2021 (UTC)
In other words, abusive people like Paper9oll can do whatever they like, stalking is perfectly fine, harassment and false claims and lies and abuse are all wonderful and lovely, but daring to suggest that it should stop is BAD! This is disgusting. Skb7 ( talk) 01:25, 20 April 2021 (UTC)
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Thanks for your review on Freidreichs Ataxia. I love Rwanda BTW and my daughter lived there for a bit. -- Akrasia25 ( talk) 13:46, 20 April 2021 (UTC)
Hint hint [6]. It looks very strong to me, but is languishing. PS, realise you almost always seem super busy; I think its in great "condition", just needs a few eyes. Ceoil ( talk) 22:39, 22 April 2021 (UTC)
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Hi Amakuru....I read this today and you may have seen it already but I thought you might be interested. Whispyhistory ( talk) 09:10, 23 January 2021 (UTC)
Hello mate, I know we've chatted a bit about the current series of events, but I've decided to jack in FAC for the moment. It's obvious to anyone that my contributions in both nomination and review capacity are not welcome by one or two of the establishment and it's making me very unwell. I don't want to leave you in the lurch and I'm happy to work on stuff in the background if I can, but I can't participate at FAC for the time being. Cheers. The Rambling Man ( Stay alert! Control the virus! Save lives!!!!) 23:53, 23 January 2021 (UTC)
Thank you for supporting DYK :) Jirangmoon ( talk) 09:53, 25 January 2021 (UTC) |
Hi Amakuru. Quick check -- I tried looking for COVID-19 pandemic* here. But, it does not appear in the drop down. Is that because of the replication delays etc? Or do you think it might have to do with the special character "*". Thoughts? Ktin ( talk) 19:38, 25 January 2021 (UTC)
Thanks for notifying me but I cannot claim credit for Climate change in Kenya, as the one I have submitted for DYK is Climate change in Brazil. Chidgk1 ( talk) 12:07, 28 January 2021 (UTC)
Jerome Kohl was on the Main page today, thank you for prep promotion. - He is remembered in friendship. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 13:54, 28 January 2021 (UTC)
On 30 January 2021, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article 1987 FA Cup Final, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Coventry City's winning goal in the 1987 FA Cup Final was an own goal scored in extra time off Gary Mabbutt's knee? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/1987 FA Cup Final. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page ( here's how, 1987 FA Cup Final), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (ie, 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. 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.
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Hello! Can you remove the file c:File:Протесты на Тверской улице.jpg from this page? This file need to be deleted. I can explain the details, if it necessary. -- Brateevsky ( talk to me) 12:06, 3 February 2021 (UTC)
While I understand removing a TFA with problems, and like birds, aren't two birds in two days a bit too much of a good thing? -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 11:04, 4 February 2021 (UTC)
On a related subject ... but first, a big freaking disclaimer: it wasn't my job to weigh in on the suitability of TFA article selections or the people selecting them even before January, and ... there's no authority without responsibility, and I have no official TFA responsibilities at the moment, so no authority at all. Having said that: you and I have worked together a long time, and I just want you to know that I have no reservations or objections at all to the suggestion put forward today about you becoming a TFA coord. I have just a little more to say, but I'm waiting on a reply before I say it. - Dank ( push to talk) 18:04, 5 February 2021 (UTC)
Just thoroughly enjoying Sydney Riot of 1879 which is OTD in a couple of days but realised that this would never get to FA these days with the lop-sided application of MOSLINK. Imagine having to explain "throwing", "hat-trick", "Test", "overs", "stumps", "not out", "run out".... within each and every cricket article. Just imagine it!! And then when someone has crowbarred in a bunch of grim "summaries" of each of these terms, it becomes completely unreadable to precisely the predicted audience. Well done FAC. The Rambling Man ( Stay alert! Control the virus! Save lives!!!!) 09:43, 6 February 2021 (UTC)
Evans fell meekly, prodding a ball straight to Hassett at silly mid-on, prompting O'Reilly to deem Loxton "lucky to be on deck when the English tail were falling over themselves in their nervous speed to commit hara-kiri".Try making sense of that! — Amakuru ( talk) 15:45, 9 February 2021 (UTC)
Please see the note at Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article#February 2021 Pending TFAs from "very old" or "old" Unreviewed FAs; Margate F.C. doesn't appear to have been updated since 2016, and it runs on the mainpage in just a few more hours. SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 19:46, 6 February 2021 (UTC)
A non-wiki related query for you... is this something that is actually going to happen? It's seems like a huge deal but I'm just learning about it. I have so many questions... why would the other countries agree to combine with Burundi and (???) South Sudan? Seems like a recipe for disaster; nothing against Burundi or South Sudan, but the political instability and poverty sounds like it would drag all of the other countries down with it–especially considering the other ones we're talking about are (afaik) in the upper tiers of wealth and stability in the context of Africa. Would all of the leaders keep their posts and rule collectively, or would they adopt a main leader in addition to or instead of? I'm just baffled, do you know anything about this? Aza24 ( talk) 02:26, 9 February 2021 (UTC)
Please could you check Queue 1 as I both built it and moved it into the queue, a thing I should not have done. I also moved Queue 2, but that is OK, having been built by someone else. However, I built Prep 3 and Prep 4, so these will also need moving to the queue in due course by another admin. Yoninah is sorely missed, and I may concentrate on prep set building in her absence. We'll see if anyone else gets involved. Cwmhiraeth ( talk) 07:06, 11 February 2021 (UTC)
Hello Amakuru, I can't help but notice I created some extra work for you by unapproving the Thomas Ashburton Picken and Robert C. Pringle (indirectly) hooks. Should similar situations always result in the nominations being manually shifted back to the primary DYK nom page, even for minor issues? If so, should I do that as the unapprover? Thanks, CMD ( talk) 15:01, 12 February 2021 (UTC)
Hello dude, hope all is well. Writing for a favour, long term project etc. As you probably know I have an unnatural interest in the glorious 'Tabs ongoing domination of a certain canoe race. After this year's amazing victory for us, I'll be nominating it as a "good topic", but to do that I need to overhaul the main article to something which could be a GA. Right now it's a mess. And it could use (a) some eyes from outside the wood/trees that I'm in and (b) some non-Cantab eyes, both in order to drag it into reality. The topic is a little wild, check out the draft here: User:The Rambling Man/The Boat Race. Anyway, it's no major rush. It would be tops if I could get it to a good topic candidate after this year's race, but whatev's. Cheers. The Rambling Man ( Stay alert! Control the virus! Save lives!!!!) 23:53, 13 February 2021 (UTC)
happy Valentine's! -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 16:06, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
Hello Amakuru. I wrote the article on Imran Kombe, a Tanzanian general who served as Director of the Tanzania Intelligence and Security Service from 1983 to 1995. In some reports I'm finding it stated that he tipped off President Moi of Kenya about a possible assassination plan against Juvénal Habyarimana on April 6 1994 at the East African regional summit occurring in Dar es Salaam. The claim seems to emanate from Wayne Madsen's book, Genocide and Covert Operations in Africa, 1993-1999 (see here). Madsen is a conspiracy theorist, so I am loathe to consider his assertions of any value. But seeing as you know something about the Rwandan Civil War, can you tell me if the claim holds any water? - Indy beetle ( talk) 04:50, 17 February 2021 (UTC)
Because there is rather a large backlog of featured pictures of banknotes (many of them US) and coins, I have been scheduling them in alternate months. January was Danzig banknotes, February was a coin month and March will be a banknote month. I've chosen Template:POTD/2021-03-12, which is a set of US fractional currency with five issues and a total of twenty images. There is little to distinguish the different issues, so I'm just checking with you that twenty images on the same day is OK. I wasn't proposing to write about each image individually, but was intending to provide the facility to view a random image and click through to any of the others at choice. Cwmhiraeth ( talk) 11:55, 17 February 2021 (UTC)
Would you be able to move this revision of Erma to Erma (webtoon)? 2001:BB6:528A:2E00:B155:57A:B5DB:9829 ( talk) 11:21, 18 February 2021 (UTC)
Could you take a look at the DYK for Molly please. At the moment its just hanging. I'm happy to go without an image if required but it does need to be resolved. (Sorry I forgot where we were having this discussion) Victuallers ( talk) 17:01, 20 February 2021 (UTC)
... to your recent Kigali success. I mean, I'm reading a sentence full of links like "Kigali is in a granitic and metasedimentary region, with lateritic soils on the hills and alluvial soils in the valleys." and thinking, HOW DID THIS GET PAST THE LATEST MOS THINKING?????? I guess it depends "who" is doing the FAC...! The Rambling Man ( Stay alert! Control the virus! Save lives!!!!) 14:26, 24 February 2021 (UTC)
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For persistent and sustained effort to improve top-level Rwanda-related articles, across a range of topics. CMD ( talk) 14:42, 24 February 2021 (UTC) |
Thank you for your call for ILCs in The Thankful Poor's DYK nomination. If it were not for your last-minute review, I likely would never have bothered referencing/expanding the article to the Good Article status it reached today. GeneralPoxter ( talk) 02:24, 27 February 2021 (UTC)
Hi Amakuru. First thanks for your work for the wiki and DYK - your talk page looks impressive. I was looking at my own page and wondering why I had'nt seen any DYK templates for recent nominations I've made. I went to investigate and found that Molly Clutton-Brock had been promoted on the 24th Feb. So I'd expect a notice on my talk page, but no big deal cos I know the bots can be mutinous at times. However I then went to look at how many times the article had been viewed and its very very low. I would have expected to see a one day spike of clicks for its DYK appearance.... but no. I noticed that you had done the main page promotion and wondered if you might care to offer a theory as to why it failed to appear? Cheers Victuallers ( talk) 10:58, 1 March 2021 (UTC)
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I just saw you !voted to oppose the RM at Aston. With all due respect, you had the opportunity to participate when the request was open. It feels like you blocked the technical move because it didn't go the way you wanted to vote. I think you should have abstained from !voting after contesting the technical move request. Vpab15 ( talk) 23:12, 2 March 2021 (UTC)
Today: Carmen for TFA (on my request), with Bizet's music " expressing the emotions and suffering of his characters" as Brian worded it. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 16:34, 3 March 2021 (UTC)
Hi Amakura, can you take a glance at the edits of Traineek? It seems to be a series of poorly sourced, extreme POV pushing edits... [3] [4] [5] Aza24 ( talk) 03:41, 5 March 2021 (UTC)
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I was just going to French wiki to read the article on Kigali and was very pleasantly surprised to see a featured article on here for an African capital city. A hearty congratulations from the artist formerly known as Dr. B! Thankyou! Keep up the great work!! † Encyclopædius 11:46, 11 March 2021 (UTC) |
I would add that when I think of "pillar" articles to get up to good status on here, capital cities and regions of developing world counties are as core as you can get. In fact I was considering running a contest aimed at getting core articles on capital cities and regions etc up to GA status.† Encyclopædius 11:52, 11 March 2021 (UTC)
Ooo yes, Bujumbura would be perfect. Go for it! † Encyclopædius 12:23, 11 March 2021 (UTC)
Hi. May I ask why this was relisted? I felt a consensus had been reached. GhostOfDanGurney ( talk) 15:04, 12 March 2021 (UTC)
Not sure if you can help, but a user by the name of Inset Days has been posting pro-Abolish The Welsh Assembly content and been removing UKIP columns from the wikipedia page. He seems to be a main contributer on the Abolish the Welsh Assembly wikipedia page and recently we had a dispute over content that I attempted to add. He has obvious leanings, but seems to be taking direct action against UKIP content now (claiming that one candidate means that the whole column should be removed.) Any chance of a review? I saw you last locked the page due to an editing war and was hopeful you could do something. Many thanks. ( talk) 19:00, 13 march 2021 (UTC)
Since you are around, can you redact an accidental outing by RedRose on Whispyhistory's talk? Thanks. Philafrenzy ( talk) 11:40, 15 March 2021 (UTC)
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FYI, I did this. The Rambling Man ( Stay alert! Control the virus! Save lives!!!!) 17:15, 16 March 2021 (UTC)
Hi Amakuru: When you promoted DYK Prep 1 to Queue 1, it doesn't appear to have properly cleared out Prep 1; there's a duplicate copy of all the hooks still sitting in Prep 1. Shall I clear them out by hand, or do you admins have some speedier way to do it? MeegsC ( talk) 11:46, 1 April 2021 (UTC)
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I'm just seeing when you're going to post your query about the Sussex Drive hook. I hope that I'm not coming across as rude - I just want to see about getting whatever issue it is resolved as soon as possible. SL93 ( talk) 01:22, 9 April 2021 (UTC)
That's my middle name too! —valereee ( talk) 21:28, 18 April 2021 (UTC) @ Valereee: oh wow, what are the odds? It's a very good and useful name to have 😎 — Amakuru ( talk) 21:49, 18 April 2021 (UTC)
Hello.
There seems to have been a bit of a very heavy-handed misunderstanding at the centre of this.
How You Like That had topped the World Charts, but the Global 200 didn't officially exist at the time, as How You Like That came out in July while the Global 200 came out in September. This was widely reported as being Blackpink's only global number 1 in their history, however, as we now use the Global 200 as the official chart, there is that confusion.
Lovesick Girls, of note, didn't top the Global 200 - it only topped the Global Excluding US 200, so it is a bit confusing why Guinness decided that that was good enough.
My edits, nonetheless, were trying to provide greater accuracy in the Rose (singer) article. I am perfectly happy with that extra detail not being included, especially as, as seems to be the case, there is some uncertainty as to whether Guinness were referring to How You Like That or Lovesick Girls.
The point I was making, though, was that Paper9oll had, for the 15th time with me, reverted something that was actually accurate, whilst falsely accusing me of disruptive editing. There was nothing remotely disruptive with what I wrote, and falsely accusing me of disruptive editing (now enforced with a permanent ban on editing the article) is extraordinary.
I think that a more appropriate response from Paper9oll, rather than an immediate reversion, would have been to discuss it. Of note, he broke WP:3RR four times with reverting my edits, each and every one of which was later included.
My comments in the talk page were aimed at getting a consensus.
As it seems that the consensus now is to include Lovesick Girls instead of How You Like that, I am happy to go with that.
My aim was greater accuracy in the article.
Of note - I wasn't insisting it was included. I only added it once, and then clarified it. It is Paper9oll who was insisting that I wasn't allowed to write anything.
I wrote a message on Paper9oll's talk page to ask him to stop harassing me. His response was that he was allowed to stalk me, and allowed to harass me, and he then went to AN/I to make a complaint of "false accusations".
All I asked was for him to stop reverting me without checking his facts.
I know that he prides himself on being a Recent Changes Patroller and he has admitted to having a Watch alert on my page (and presumably several others), but, as I have a history of 0 non-constructive edits, I don't think it is remotely warranted, and I have checked his edits and he gets it wrong a lot with a lot of editors, who he regularly warns for no good reason.
My suggestion is for him to calm down.
Of note, I don't think that the article ban against me editing Rose (singer) is remotely warranted. I made about 40 article edits on that article, every one of which is still in the article, and they were most certainly constructive. I don't think we can say the same thing for Paper9oll.
I request for the article ban against me to be revoked, and I reiterate my request for Paper9oll to kindly stop stalking and harassing me. Skb7 ( talk) 10:28, 19 April 2021 (UTC)
In other words, abusive people like Paper9oll can do whatever they like, stalking is perfectly fine, harassment and false claims and lies and abuse are all wonderful and lovely, but daring to suggest that it should stop is BAD! This is disgusting. Skb7 ( talk) 01:25, 20 April 2021 (UTC)
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Thanks for your review on Freidreichs Ataxia. I love Rwanda BTW and my daughter lived there for a bit. -- Akrasia25 ( talk) 13:46, 20 April 2021 (UTC)
Hint hint [6]. It looks very strong to me, but is languishing. PS, realise you almost always seem super busy; I think its in great "condition", just needs a few eyes. Ceoil ( talk) 22:39, 22 April 2021 (UTC)