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I'm not sure where to turn with this, as user pages are not something I've dealt with much. You've provided some assistance for me in the past, so I could use a little input.
User:Mureungdowon recently created their user page and...
it's a lot. Primarily a political diatribe, with some real doozies like Many LDPJ politicians are fascists
and American liberals should support the views of South Korean liberals, not Japanese fascists.
I don't know if this needs to go through some deletion process, admin warnings, or what. The user recently came off a 1 week block for edit warring, and appears to now be on a tear of editing political articles, but I haven't delved into those edits.
I'd appreciate any advice you could give when you're free. — The Hand That Feeds You: Bite 13:08, 8 May 2023 (UTC)
I have sent you an e-mail. I have spilled the beans about it at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#WikiUser70176 performs personal attacks and complains frivolously of being harassed by me. tgeorgescu ( talk) 04:22, 12 May 2023 (UTC)
Ten years ago, you were found precious. That's what you are, always. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 05:53, 14 May 2023 (UTC)
Sorry, I know you mean well, but did you take away their talk page access based on their interaction with me, or for something unrelated? I don't think they were acting in a disruptive manner. I read their request for feedback as an attempt to understand why we do things a certain way on Wikipedia, and not so much an attempt to actually change how we do things (which I suspect they realize is not currently possible). It's hard for me to have a dialogue with them on how Wikipedia and Wikipedians work if they can't use their talk page at all. Cheers, Cobblet ( talk) 20:53, 16 May 2023 (UTC)
Hi, how can I add a request at Wikipedia:Village pump about adding a filter by namespace to the Special:GlobalUsage page? Presently, there is no way to exclude Talk pages when searching for a file's usage. ♆ CUSH ♆ 15:37, 18 May 2023 (UTC)
Hello @ Doug Weller:, I just wrote an article and I have submitted it for review. The instructions at WP:MOVE are quite confusing to me. I would to know sinceI have submitted the draft, if it can still be moved to article space. If so, could you please do that for me. Here is the link: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Dewar%27s_Candy_Shop. Thank you! The Capitalist forever ( talk) 19:06, 19 May 2023 (UTC)
Yes thank you very much Doug! The Capitalist forever ( talk) 15:16, 20 May 2023 (UTC)
Good morning Doug Weller,
Wanted to throw a revdel request your way as I can't confirm 100% at the moment but I feel like this diff might need a revdel for the included external link. Nothing privacy sensitive but my spidey sense says it might be something not worth keeping on record. Apologies if it's a false alarm! GabberFlasted ( talk) 15:03, 23 May 2023 (UTC)
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Not sure if I should take this to ANI or not, or if a checkuser can possibly help here. I dislike having to say something because I think this individual or individuals are well-motivated and just don't understand how Wikipedia works, so maybe you can advise on the best course of action.
In your Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Foundational Black American after Fijiwahwah ( talk · contribs)'s two separate wall of text !votes were combined into one [2] (sorry if this diff is hard to parse, it's hard for me to see what was done in it myself), two new accounts, Dresmond762 ( talk · contribs) and Rougeedoogee ( talk · contribs) also !voted in an attempt to save the article. Not sure if it is sock puppetry, meat puppetry, canvassing, or what.
—DIYeditor ( talk) 10:54, 7 June 2023 (UTC)
Actually, reading Tariq Nasheed, where the article was redirected, I feel less sympathetic here. Sounds like a counterpart to Andrew Tate. Misogynistic, homophobic, race baiting, conspiracy theorist. I thought he was a run of the mill activist before reading the article. —DIYeditor ( talk) 11:03, 7 June 2023 (UTC)
Hey, I wanted to double check with an admin real quick on the rules for closed topics on a talk page. On Talk:Battle of Bakhmut, I non-admin-closed a discussion as a duplicate fork of an open RFC. Moments after I closed it, another user added some very relevant information to the closed discussion, namely that the person starting that discussion was WP:CANVASSING, giving greater cause to closing (and ignoring) said discussion. The user being accused of canvassing keeps reverting this information citing the rule that you should not continue a closed discussion, but it looks to me that he is just trying to hide bad faith. Would it be acceptable to continue reverting his removal of the comment calling him out, or is he correct in that nothing may be added once the conversation was closed? Fieari ( talk) 05:37, 9 June 2023 (UTC)
Hi, how can I re-open the deletion request for First wave of European colonization? The article is of horrible quality and accuracy. Apparently, it has been split or moved since the last AfD request. ♆ CUSH ♆ 06:30, 10 June 2023 (UTC)
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Hi, would you mind taking a look at Paganism in Middle-earth and its history, and make a determination if this constitutes WP:SYNTH and WP:OWN and advise whether something should be done about it? ♆ CUSH ♆ 19:37, 26 June 2023 (UTC)
Hi Doug! Hope you are doing well. I stumbled upon a journal(Medieval Warfare) in JSTOR and it appears to be published by Karwansaray BV, located in Netherlands.
I am unfamiliar with this publishing house and wanted your opinion on whether this makes their journal, Medieval Warfare, an unreliable source.
My sincerest thanks as always. -- Kansas Bear ( talk) 17:19, 28 June 2023 (UTC)
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Thank you for your help with the username issue! I really appreciate it! WMrapids ( talk) 08:30, 29 June 2023 (UTC) |
Entire source cannot be used in the article. You can decide how to write the article.
Alt News report. https://www.altnews.in/bhagwa-love-trap-an-elaborate-conspiracy-theory-in-response-to-the-love-jihad-narrative/
The Wire (India) the video is in Hindi.
https://twitter.com/thewire_in/status/1664556208219406337
This is most detailed- https://twitter.com/khanthefatima/status/1663780292132483075
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Hi Doug - I hope you are doing well. I'm not sure how much admin work you're doing these days, but wanted to reach out on a question for an admin. Today, the Christian Identity page was moved to Christian Identity (white-separatist movement) as a bold move without discussion. It was my opinion that this move was unecessary as there are no other similarly named pages - it's based solely on another editor's opinion that "Christian Identity" is ambiguous (never mind that that would be "identity" - small "i"). While the move may ultimately be determined to be necessary or desired, that needs to be determined by consensus; and the fact that there isn't a consensus or a discussion on this IMO warrants undoing the move and opening a discussion. However, I cannot undo such a move as the other editor involved also immediately created Christian Identity as a disambiguation page, requiring a technical move to undo it. What are your thoughts? Am I just too knit-picky? Or does it seem reasonable to discuss this move first? If you tend to agree, can you revert the move and notify the editor ( User:Zilch-nada) of the need to discuss it first? TIA for any input. ButlerBlog ( talk) 17:29, 2 July 2023 (UTC)
You'll probably see a revert in your notices and it was a complete accident. What I was looking at, the page had evidently not fully loaded so as I was clicking something else, the page view shifted and moved the "rollback" link to where my cursor was clicking. As you know, that's a one click revert. It was totally not intentional and I immediately rolled that edit back, but figured I should drop a note of explanation. Sorry about that. (Hope you're doing well - thanks for what you do here in the community) ButlerBlog ( talk) 13:21, 4 July 2023 (UTC)
Hey Doug, I changed the indentation of your comment at Talk:Graham Hancock by one, as it made it seem like I was suggesting "alternative theories". If this was a mistake, please revert me. Kind regards, Hypnôs ( talk) 19:22, 4 July 2023 (UTC)
Morning Doug
Small chance I’m rake-able on ADMINSHOP charges for this, as I’ve already been to
Liz for a sock block of the same IP, but ANI’s ‘Recently Active Admins’ says you’ve popped in, and your name’s on
WP:REVDELREQUEST’s list.
Mind having a look at
this? Seems a bit RD2/RD3ish to me?
Cheers.
MM
(Give me info.)
(Victories)
07:35, 5 July 2023 (UTC)
, thanks! Moneytrees🏝️ (Talk) 22:07, 29 June 2023 (UTC)
Hello. You reverted a recent edit of mine on 'Jayadeva birth controversy stating : 'It appears to me that a lot of this addition doesn't mention the controversy'. However, the information quoted about sociocultural and musicological evidence (by eminent scholars on the very point of Jayadeva's birth) are one of the proofs that point to the poet's place of origin. The points that you removed / deleted were :
The sources were well-cited and were reputable as well. One must understand that the above scholars have examined the birth controversy from multiple points of view and furnished evidence from primary sources such as inscriptions and manuscripts. It doesn't seem fair to simply delete one side of the story (that is, the Odisha POV) by reverting my edit. Prateek Pattanaik ( talk) 16:25, 9 July 2023 (UTC)
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User Nakulnbhatt, who you blocked from editing this page, has been evading the block using IP addresses 2402:3a80:66b:d8c1:9429:7eff:fe4a:c50 and 2402:8100:3142:ab43:b917:1681:c597:df98
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Hi Doug Weller, hope you are fine. The suspected sock is literally damaging consensus version of articles (details mentioned in my email). Please look into this! Thanks & Regards. Ekdalian ( talk) 13:32, 18 July 2023 (UTC)
Hi Doug, A couple of days ago you reverted an edit of mine which (inadvertently) restored an editorial conjoining of two different sources with the phrase “even though”, and also left me a note on my talk page not to do that. Today I faced a similar situation and followed your guidance to remove an editorial "however" [15], and was promptly reverted by the editor how put that "however" phrasing into the article. I don't want to get into an edit war ver this, so I hope you can provide the same advice you gave me to them, and also undo that revert of theirs. Red Slapper ( talk) 00:34, 19 July 2023 (UTC)
Hi Doug. I wish you courage and strength in your medical challenges. This is a comment about the Janet Wu article which is now a bit schizoid. There are/were two Janet Wu broadcasters in the Boston area. The present article is about --- in the main --- Janet Wu, Yale and Columbia graduate who works for Bloomberg News now. The other Janet Wu, graduate of University of Michigan who retired from WCVB-TV after nearly a half century in broadcasting, I think used to have a separate article but is oddly mixed in this article to a fault. It needs repair. I will try to repair it. Best Wishes ever. --- (Bob) Wikiklrsc Wikiklrsc ( talk) 02:33, 19 July 2023 (UTC)
The Talk:Sound of Freedom (film) has gotten really heated, and I think we may need your help with this. Basically there’s a whole debate of whether or not the Peterson and Ballard interview should be in the article. My proposal was to move the Interview to the respective Tim Ballard articl since it fitted there better than the film article, and it appeared most agreed with it. But later this day these two editors are debating over whether or not it should be included again. Your help is much appreciated Wolfquack ( talk) 01:41, 20 July 2023 (UTC)
As for IP addresses, if I have 2 mobile phones on different suppliers I can switch back and forth.
Why did you unprotect this page, especially without consulting me? It wasn’t the socks causing problems, everyone blocked was autoconfirmed anyway, it was all the partisan IPs. Which have immediately come back… Courcelles ( talk) 17:32, 24 July 2023 (UTC)
What disruptive editing was I involved in? None of my recent conduct stands out as problematic to me. Oktayey ( talk) 14:52, 26 July 2023 (UTC)
I'm appealing the sanction you applied on me here. Oktayey ( talk) 09:52, 29 July 2023 (UTC)
Hi! I took a look at the list of recently active CheckUsers and your name came up. Would you happen to have the time to take care of WP:Sockpuppet investigations/Hugo Refachinho, which to my eye is a very straightforward case of a WP:DUCK? TompaDompa ( talk) 16:56, 1 August 2023 (UTC)
im impressed and that's all you need to know Abo Yemen ✉ 18:24, 1 August 2023 (UTC)
Can I request a rev/del please [16]. Thanks Knitsey ( talk) 18:31, 5 August 2023 (UTC)
I am not blocked form editing anything, so you are not proxying for a blocked user. But that page got protected.
Most modern biographers of Herod, and probably a majority of biblical scholars, dismiss Matthew's story as a literary device.
Got changed into:
There are Herodian biographers as well as Biblical scholars who dismiss Matthew's story as a literary device.
Herod also appears in the Christian
Gospel of Matthew as the ruler of Judea who orders the
Massacre of the Innocents at the time of the
birth of Jesus, although most Herod biographers do not believe that this event occurred.
Got changed into:
In the Christian New Testament Gospel of Matthew, Herod is mentioned as the ruler of Judea who ordered the Massacre of the Innocents at the time of the birth of Jesus; there are Herodian biographers do not believe that the event occurred.
In the green version WP:RS/AC gets applied; in the red version it does not get applied. tgeorgescu ( talk) 16:41, 6 August 2023 (UTC)
You may wish to revoke TPA. Cahk ( talk) 07:13, 7 August 2023 (UTC)
Can you take a look at this [17] and see if it needs deleting please. I've reverted it. Knitsey ( talk) 15:09, 7 August 2023 (UTC)
Lucabien ( talk · contribs) seems to be a sock/meatpuppet of the previous blocked sock, Thrillydee ( talk · contribs) - Hipal ( talk) 19:41, 9 August 2023 (UTC)
But I believe this requires some type of administrator response, as it seems to run afoul of WP:PA (against not only KoA) and WP:RGW. Perhaps I am wrong. But this type of WP:NOTHERE behavior, along with all the other behaviors documented in their block log, indicates that additional, major time sinks are inevitable. JoJo Anthrax ( talk) 20:50, 10 August 2023 (UTC)
How can we ensure the independence of Wikipedia if we use the policies we built to defend our encyclopaedia in this way?, where "in this way" refers to both the writer getting blocked and the removal of KoA's ridiculously inappropriate block, is grossly unfair to KoA and sounds like a WP:NOTHERE manifesto of things to come. JoJo Anthrax ( talk) 21:21, 10 August 2023 (UTC)
evidence of manipulation, etc. and making broad accusations or "just asking questions" is just continuing what they were blocked for. That is getting right back to the behavior we had to craft a specific principle at ArbCom for at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Genetically_modified_organisms#Casting_aspersions.
Hi Doug! Hope everything goes well in terms of your health and I wish for the best.
On the Ardashir I talk page, you mention that the letter mentioning his (albeit possible) Kurdish roots is something you talked about? Whilst it was 10 years ago (embarrassed im asking this) do you have any of the archives or knowledge remaining?
God speed and greetings from the Humber! Volkish Kurden ( talk) 00:23, 13 August 2023 (UTC)
Defunct you say? I don't remember the thing. Guess I wouldn't have been eligible anyway. -- Deepfriedokra ( talk) 17:27, 13 August 2023 (UTC)
I am doing a rewrite of an article and need your opinion if the "Official list of popes" section should stay or be removed. -- Kansas Bear ( talk) 02:51, 14 August 2023 (UTC)
Hi Doug Weller,
My name is Dr. Tim Koskie and I am a researcher at the Centre for Media Transition (CMT) at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS). We are conducting a study on the implications of content-generating AI systems such as ChatGPT for knowledge integrity on Wikipedia, and are approaching you because you have participated in discussions on this topic on Wikimedia pages.
If you are interested, we would like to invite you to participate in our study. It would involve joining either a focus group discussion or an interview (around 1 hour), in person at Wikimania in Singapore if you are going to be there, or online at a future date. At these sessions we would ask you questions about how you think generative AI will impact Wikipedia, as well as about the kinds of work you do on Wikipedia.
The project is funded by the Wikimedia Research Fund grant programme. You can find out more about the project here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Implications_of_ChatGPT_for_knowledge_integrity_on_Wikipedia If you are interested, let me know and I will forward you some more detailed information on the project. Tbkoskie ( talk) 03:49, 15 August 2023 (UTC)
Hi Doug. First off I want to apologize for being a total d*ck to you in the past because I couldn't wrap my head around your POV on some things. The more I've seen of your conduct, the more respect I have for you. I was out of line.
Also - what the title says. The user you asked me about earlier today has continued to contact me, even after I explicitly asked them not to. It's fine to dislike me (I know I'm not always the most likable), but it's not fine to follow me from thread to thread with nasty remarks and all-caps demands to shut up. I'd really like to continue doing my thing without having to interact directly with this user any more. How can I solve this constructively? Thanks. Philomathes2357 ( talk) 04:29, 15 August 2023 (UTC)
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For you and your wife: in my most recent images (click on songs), two wedding cakes are hidden. - Today's story is about the Inkpot Madonna who returned to "her place" 9 years ago, and also has aspects of early learning, remember? -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 16:35, 15 August 2023 (UTC)
Please stop adding bias to the Noah’s ark wikipedia page. Brennan1111 ( talk) 23:37, 16 August 2023 (UTC)
How did I tell on myself Brennan1111 ( talk) 01:16, 17 August 2023 (UTC)
Hi,
You recently left this comment on my Talk page - "On this encyclopedia project, editors
assume good faith while interacting with other editors, which you did not appear to do at
User talk:Vanamonde93. Here is Wikipedia's
welcome page, and it is hoped that you will assume the good faith of other editors and continue to help us improve Wikipedia! Thank you very much! "
Here are some of the things that Vanamonde93 has said to me, these are all offensive -
He also made a number of unsubstantiated / provably false claims -
Its hard for me to emphasise following -
Whether or not
Vanamonde93 or anyone else agrees with the changes I made is another question. These changes are backed up by solid Academic Sources (e.g. Cambridge University Press). As such, whatever was happening was not an attempt at vandalism.
If you believe that what I did violated some policy, I would encourage you to raise it in appropriate forums.
Nonentity683 (
talk)
22:04, 17 August 2023 (UTC)
Most importantly, these reverts are not for the same content. (Hence my initial confusion around this claim). These are for different parts / different content. As such, this is not a case of someone restoring same content over and over again over an extended period of time to cheat on the 24 Hour time Window for 3RR.Have you read WP:3RR and WP:EDITWAR? —DIYeditor ( talk) 23:48, 17 August 2023 (UTC)
Hi Dough,
Thank you for writing. I am an employee at Livingston International, and recently, we underwent a brand overhaul, which involved redesigning our logo. I require assistance with the process of uploading the updated logo, as I am currently encountering an issue where the system prevents me from overwriting the existing file. Your support in this matter would be greatly valued. Manjeetcares ( talk) 13:37, 21 August 2023 (UTC)
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15:23, 21 August 2023 (UTC)
Hi Doug. If you or a talkpage watcher has a second, could you please take a look at Proud Indian Arnab ( talk · contribs)'s contribs since your warning? Thanks. -- Tamzin[ cetacean needed (she|they|xe) 04:12, 22 August 2023 (UTC)
Mr Weller, you have accused me of threatening you. What do you mean by that? Sweet6970 ( talk) 16:09, 21 August 2023 (UTC)
I hope you aren’t threatening meThis is a suggestion that I am threatening him. And as for ‘perceived legal threats’ – how on earth could my comment be perceived as a legal threat? The only person who could sue for defamation would be Brendan O’Neill. And DW has no grounds for believing I am B O’N. Sweet6970 ( talk) 17:35, 21 August 2023 (UTC)
I hope you aren’t threatening me. So far, he has not had the courtesy to reply, and in fact he deleted my original question. And Girth Summit and Floquenbeam– I don’t think it is appropriate to refer to a
fumble in the park. Leave sex out of this. Sweet6970 ( talk) 17:42, 21 August 2023 (UTC)
I see no marine mammals. What I see is an unedifying pile-on of admins against a rank-and-file editor. You should be ashamed. Sweet6970 ( talk) 17:49, 21 August 2023 (UTC)
Actually there are several sources for his name Marcus Sanders. There is scanty evidence that he has used other names ie Marcus Rayford, Marcus V. Thomas. I don't know. Before you beat me to the revert, I was going to remove the info myself because I couldn't trust the sources either though folks on YT videos and info showing up on search readouts saying his birth name is M. Sanders. So, there you are. Thanks Koplimek ( talk) 19:48, 26 August 2023 (UTC)
331dot ( talk) 15:30, 29 August 2023 (UTC)
Actually there are several sources for his name Marcus Sanders. There is scanty evidence that he has used other names ie Marcus Rayford, Marcus V. Thomas. I don't know. Before you beat me to the revert, I was going to remove the info myself because I couldn't trust the sources either though folks on YT videos and info showing up on search readouts saying his birth name is M. Sanders. So, there you are. Thanks Koplimek ( talk) 19:48, 26 August 2023 (UTC)
331dot ( talk) 15:30, 29 August 2023 (UTC)
Hi, we have a dilemma at Talk:Historical reliability of the Gospels#Reference problem and Talk:Historical reliability of the Gospels#Arbitrary break. Could you help us sort it out? tgeorgescu ( talk) 01:59, 7 September 2023 (UTC)
Not actually sure where I should bring this up, but I saw you on his talk page. Tesla car owner is still adding gibberish to articles. Take his most recent diff made a few hours ago. Dialmayo ( talk) ( Contribs) she/her 11:23, 8 September 2023 (UTC)
Sir , I have added a map of Chandragupta 2 of Gupta dynasty. My intention is not to represent it as the map of mythological Vikramaditya but as the map of Chandrgupta 2 who also adopted the title Vikramaditya .
Sir please took a look , I added map under Chandrgupta 2 heading not in any other mythological Vikramaditya heading ....
Sir please revert it with some changes, if you want any modifications in what I have written please modify it .
Please guide me if I am violating any rule as I am not very experienced wiki user... thanks you . I hope you reply.
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Hope it's OK to bug you with this question, Doug. Christian Zionism has been popping up in my watchlist lately as someone is adding to the list of "notable proponents". I looked at the history, and TBH, the list was excessive before this editor started adding to it. But now it's becoming unwieldy. I was going to just remove it altogether with some TP notes about what exactly determines "notable" along with the fact that all of the listed articles are in some way under Category:Christian Zionism (including its subcategories), making this embedded list unnecessary. It also ends up with about 1/3 of the total refs on the page being to cite individuals in the list, none of whom as far as I can tell are mentioned elsewhere in the article. Am I just being too knit-picky? Wondered if you could give me your opinion or thoughts. TIA. ButlerBlog ( talk) 16:25, 8 September 2023 (UTC)
Could you take a look at [29] please. Knitsey ( talk) 19:41, 12 September 2023 (UTC)
I don't care about anything Taylor Swift has done, will do, or plans to do. I care about Wikipedia being used for promotional purposes, and particularly being used to promote someone our own sources say is loved by the alt-right. chbarts ( talk) 14:45, 15 September 2023 (UTC)
Heh! my claptrapometer is more sensitive that there's.😛 -- Deepfriedokra ( talk) 16:50, 18 September 2023 (UTC)
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![]() | Happy adminship anniversary! Hi Doug Weller! On behalf of the Birthday Committee, I'd like to wish you a very happy anniversary of your successful request for adminship. Enjoy this special day! CAPTAIN RAJU (T) 22:18, 18 September 2023 (UTC) |
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Today's story is about a great pianist with an unusual career, taking off when he was 50. It's the wedding anniversary of Clara and Robert Schumann, but I was too late with our gift. Tell your wife! -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 14:45, 12 September 2023 (UTC)
Today I remember Raymond Arritt, who still helps me, five years after he died, per what he said in my darkest time on Wikipedia (placed in my edit-notice as a reminder), and by teh rulez. - Latest pics from a weekend in Berlin (one more day to come). -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 18:33, 19 September 2023 (UTC)
I saw your comment on Corbie's talk page and wanted to ask how you are doing. Wikipedia is so blessed to have editors like you. You are a very kind and thoughtful person and one of the best examples of an admin. Just wanted to spread some Wiki-love on this Monday amid so much gloom. -- ARose Wolf 15:32, 18 September 2023 (UTC)
Re your e-mail, Doug. I'm having trouble with my gmail account, so I'm replying to your query here instead: please see WP:CASTE for the community caste sanctions. Bishonen | tålk 16:58, 3 October 2023 (UTC).
Hi Doug,
Following up on your warning to IP 93.72.49.123, I note that the IP has continued to make edits prohibited under the WP:GSRUSUKR, despite your warning, and warnings from multiple other Administrators. In the past few days, the IP has been edit warring [34], [35], [36] on a page covered by the general sanctions.
Please take a look and let me know what your think. Carter00000 ( talk) 16:03, 4 October 2023 (UTC)
Hi Doug, I hope you are doing okay. If you've got the time, could you take a look at Leyo's comments in this AFD? They appeared out of nowhere and commented that mine and KoA's !votes are less valid because I have a link to meta:exclusionism on my user page(!) and because KoA has previously reverted edits to the page. It's concerning coming so soon after the admin review and AE request which both admonished him and looks an awful lot like WP:HOUNDING. I'm not really sure on next steps. Cheers SmartSE ( talk) 22:43, 4 October 2023 (UTC)
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My story today is sad but great. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 19:37, 6 October 2023 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at
Wikipedia:Village pump (policy) § RfC on the "Airlines and destinations" tables in airport articles. I saw that you participated in a
discussion on a similar topic.
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Hello Doug Weller. I stumbled on the story of User talk:Shoemaker's Holiday, an editor with 200 featured article contributions and the top contributor in the civility policy (even though they left in 2010). You may be interested in their case. Regards, -- Thinker78 (talk) 04:51, 21 October 2023 (UTC)
Hi Doug Weller, if you feel comfortable sharing could you help me understand why you find the image at Parkinson's disease offensive? I primarily edit articles on diseases, and am often selecting images to use. I'd hate to think I'm selecting images that offend someone affected by the disease; typically we get so little feedback it's challenging to know. Any insight you're willing to share would be appreciated. Pardon the blindness to feelings you may think are obvious. Spending time in the medicine space does warp one's perspective. Thank you. Ajpolino ( talk) 23:05, 21 October 2023 (UTC)
Hi, you left a final warning on this user's talk page on the 8th. Would you still consider blocking the user for their recent changes? — *Fehufangą ( ✉ Talk · ✎ Contribs) 22:27, 21 October 2023 (UTC)
Hi Doug,
Following up on your block of IP 93.72.49.123, the IP has again made an edit on a page prohibited under WP:GSRUSUKR, despite your block. The following was made on Vulkan files leak.
Please take a look and let me know what your think. Carter00000 ( talk) 10:19, 22 October 2023 (UTC)
You deleted a paragraph about my Mithradates Eupator profile on Facebook which was removed by Facebook in 2015. I tried to reinstate it, apologies for calling it a minor edit. You joined my Mithradates group (not profile) on Oct 24, 2023 apparently to prove that the profile still exists. The explanation and source for the paragraph you removed can be found in the "About" section of the Mithradates Eupator group on Facebook. I was the manager of the profile that was deleted by Facebook and I am the manager of the new group that I established in 2015. What is the problem with keeping this paragraph on Wikipedia? what further sort of "source" do you need? Thank you. Sufiji ( talk) 04:39, 26 October 2023 (UTC)
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Sir, it is regarding disruptive editing in this article. I'd like to request a page protection if possible. Thanks. - Fylindfotberserk ( talk) 09:48, 3 November 2023 (UTC)
Hi,
My edit at " Coelbren y Beirdd" was just to revert the addition of a disambiguation link to " script". It may well be that " writing system" is not the most appropriate target link, but I'm fairly certain that " script" is not the right target either. Would " alphabet" be better?
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Just so that you know. Uncle G ( talk) 05:00, 11 November 2023 (UTC)
Hi, Doug. You may like to re-read your edit summary here, and read the paragraph as it was after you had restored it. JBW ( talk) 11:04, 15 November 2023 (UTC)
I have just seen your quote from John McCutcheon on your user page. 👍. JBW ( talk) 15:06, 15 November 2023 (UTC)
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Just a quick head's up, I have reviewed the block you placed on this user, which is on hold after they submitted an unblock request. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 16:54, 16 November 2023 (UTC)
Publishing a RFC at Village Pump is perfect reasonable per WP:RFCTP. Would you rather it be at WP:VPM? The village pump is pretty relaxed so it really shouldn't matter. That topic is dominated by same group of editors so as much outside input that can be generated is good to get a consensus one way or the other. Thanks! Nemov ( talk) 19:57, 16 November 2023 (UTC)
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I don’t think we should treat something that many people believe as a revelation from God as someone copying a story from an ancient story. Brennan1111 ( talk) 20:10, 26 November 2023 (UTC)
@ Doug Weller I have been undoing edits (bias) on the Libertarian Party of Argentina article for hours. I honestly don't know how it works to contact the administration, but this guy won't stop.
Eh... and it's not like I can be 24 hours a day checking the article. 93.45.229.98 ( talk) 21:54, 26 November 2023 (UTC)
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Hi Doug! I am fairly new at editing wikipedia but recently filed the first time for deletion. It feels a bit nerve wrecking because I want to do everything correct and respectfully. It's about this article here: /info/en/?search=Talk:Wolfram_Aichele#Concerns_about_Conflict_of_Interest and some articles I mentioned in that comment on that Talk page. I see you filed for deletion in 2011 for Wolfram: The Boy Who Went To War so I am coming back to you as it is a bit related. If you have time and capacity, let me know whether my procedure was okay or whether I am mis-reading or accidentally disregarding some Wiki rules. I have similar concerns for Alexandra Milton, Wolfram Aichele, Erwin Aichele, Giles Milton as stated on the Talk page as well as all the Bibliography edits on various historical Wikipedia pages and I'm not entirely sure what's the correct procedure. I'm just leaning out of the window at the moment to see what happens. Have a good start in your day. Hiko ( talk) 13:50, 29 November 2023 (UTC)
Hi Doug Weller. I don't think we've personally crossed paths but I've seen a few people speak very highly of you. I'm looking to interview people here. Feel free to pass if you're not interested. Clovermoss🍀 (talk) 13:18, 1 December 2023 (UTC)
Is that really true? That you don't know how to edit in wiki markup? How then did you manage during the years that Visual Editor wasn't a thing yet? — Python Drink ( talk) 18:57, 3 December 2023 (UTC)
Hi, Doug,
I'm looking for a friendly face in order to get feedback on a new Navbox I just wrote, so I can polish it up before I advertise it more widely. It's called {{ Ancient seafaring}}, and it's a member of multiple WikiProjects related to antiquity, and your name was the only familiar one in the list of members of WP:WikiProject Ancient Egypt. (The other related WikiProjects are Rome, Greece, MILHIST, Phoenicia, and Ships, but I haven't tried those yet.) Not sure if you're a fan of Nav boxes or feel like having a look, I know you're busy with things both on- and off-wiki. If not, if you could suggest an Egypt-project person you trust, otherwise I'll pick a different project. Thanks, and hope you're doing well and having fun! Mathglot ( talk) 01:54, 30 November 2023 (UTC)
Hello,
What did you mean by what you said on my talk page?
Thanks Zilch-nada ( talk) 14:16, 7 December 2023 (UTC)
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Hi Doug, I just noticed that the Administrators' newsletter – December 2023 has been delivered to the user TheProEditor11, a novice editor (level 4)! I just thought, I should share this apparent bug! Thanks & Regards. Ekdalian ( talk) 17:21, 8 December 2023 (UTC)
Pinging @ Bishonen: as another administrator familiar with the editor in question, and who might be able to help.
I presented evidence to this recently-closed ArbCom case (see here), which I amended after the editor Gtoffoletto was explicitly added as a party to the case. As you can read from the above link, the evidence I presented included a substantial number of recent examples of Gtoffoletto engaging in personal attacks, aspersions, and harassment against one of the case's named parties. I noted further that such attacks from Gtoffoletto were also evident on the ArbCom case's own Talk pages.
Something, however, apparently went wrong/didn't stick/was missed/whatever with adding Gtoffoletto as a party, and they were later removed, sort of, from the case. It was unquestionably an ArbCom snafu. But...what about all those personal attacks I cited? That evidence received no action/concern/comment whatsoever by the committee or, for that matter, any other administrators. Do I interpret this situation correctly, that procedural mistakes within an ArbCom case render multiple examples of egregious behavior immune from sanction? Seems like a creative mechanism for mooting an editor's repeated violations of policy.
So, other than never again contributing to any ArbCom case (about which I will shortly self-trout a reminder onto my Talk page), do you have any advice on what I should do going forward? I don't much like ignoring egregious personal attacks, at least not when they are directed against other editors, and we're talking about well over a dozen of them. But I also don't much like wasting my time if legitimate concerns about personal attacks, aspersions, etc. are simply going to be ignored. Thanks. JoJo Anthrax ( talk) 14:25, 18 December 2023 (UTC)
I was half way through writing a report about this user when I noticed your block -- thanks saving me the trouble :). Happy editing, JBL ( talk) 21:55, 18 December 2023 (UTC)
Hi Doug, can you please have a look at the recent revision history of the article, Tili Jati which is nothing more than a WP:REDUNDANTFORK as well as a WP:POVFORK of the article on Tilli; in fact it became redundant after I removed all possible OR! The user SWAPAN.CHAKROBARTY011112 is edit warring (without edit summaries) in spite of all forms of warnings on their talk page. Please help! Thanks & Regards, Ekdalian ( talk) 18:02, 19 December 2023 (UTC)
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I was gonna give you a beer, but decided against it. Both cancer and PD and you're still fighting. Inspriration to us all, I hope you Christmas is good, you New Years is stellar, and your Festivus is filled with joy. I like Astatine ( Talk to me) 04:31, 21 December 2023 (UTC) |
Dear Doug. Peter Toennies has brought to my attention that his English biographical wiki page is in pretty bad shape. It is indeed so (e.g., he is not an American scientist to begin with). Previously, he was trying to maintain the page himself, but he understood from communication with some of the editors/users that a person is not supposed to be creating or editing their page themselves. Therefore he asked for my advice (he is 93 and I'm 45 ;). I'm not a regular Wikipedia contributor and don't exactly know what the rules are, so I'm trying to figure it out as I go.
My current understanding is that Peter Toennies can legitimately have a bio page per the wiki notability criteria for academics ( /info/en/?search=Wikipedia:Notability_(academics)). He definitely fulfills the criteria 1,2,3,5,8. Previous edits lacked references, which can be easily provided. I have done so in the tentative edits currently posted in the Talk section of the page. It would be great if you can either unprotect the page for me to bring it to a decent shape or introduce the edits yourself/explain why they are not appropriate.
My connection with J. Peter Toennies: I worked in his group in 2001-2005 and he served as the supervisor of my PhD thesis, which I submitted back in 2004. Currently I'm working as a department head at Max-Born-Institute in Berlin and have practically no scientific overlap with Peter anymore. We do communicate occasionally.
I appreciate your assistance. With best wishes,
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Doug, I wish you and yours a very happy holiday season. I hope you remain safe and enjoy this time of the year. For the new year I hope for health and healing. I know it may be me being selfish but I want many more years with you as a friend and member of this community. You have impacted me in such a positive way and I have learned a lot from you. Keep sharing your Song and your Colors, they are beautiful and awe inspiring. -- ARose Wolf 17:58, 22 December 2023 (UTC)
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Hello Doug Weller: Enjoy the holiday season and winter solstice if it's occurring in your area of the world, and thanks for your work to maintain, improve and expand Wikipedia. Cheers, -- Dustfreeworld ( talk) 10:53, 25 December 2023 (UTC)
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Wishing you and yours a Happy New Year, from the horse and bishop person. May the year ahead be productive and distraction-free and may Janus light your way. Ealdgyth ( talk) 14:29, 31 December 2023 (UTC) |
Glad to see you around, Doug. Hope your latest treatments, are, well, treating you well! and that you are feeling happy and getting good time with your family and friends. Andre 🚐 12:59, 28 December 2023 (UTC)
Dear Doug, Just to say thinking of you and yours and hoping the New Year will be positive for you. I'm awaiting the results of latest blood tests - always a rough time. Very best regards, David & Susie Johnson. David J Johnson ( talk) 14:49, 31 December 2023 (UTC)
Happy New Year to you Doug. It is so good to see you keeping strong and carrying on with your great contribution to Wikipedia. Dudley Miles ( talk) 19:12, 31 December 2023 (UTC)
Decorated by my wonderful wife Helen Walland .
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OK, not really... asking some advice for me, actually. But first, let me say, it turned into a large saga, so since I very much respect your time - both on wiki and off - if you don't want to bother looking at this, I completely understand - just skip to reply and say so (or ignoring it is fine, too). Just in case you need to skip to a "thanks, but I can't look at this", I'll slip my New Year's greeting here at the top. I am hoping you have a great new year, and wish you the best in your fight!
Now the mess... should you decide to look at it. There was a round of edit warring on The Chosen (TV series) over some cast list items. This spilled over into a talk page discussion, and ultimately, an ANI thread resulting in a partial block for the other editor. During that, there was some personal talk page discussion. After it, since the partial block was the article and not the TP, there was additional talk page activity, some additions to the ANI thread, and my last ditch effort to explain things on the editor's TP.
To give diffs that put it into time order would be a mess, and looking at it all is a slog, and therefore, I am completely aware that it's a "big ask" to ask you to look at it at all. So why am I asking? I respect your experience and the high regard most of the admins I look to also respect it. I'm trying to figure out if it's the other editor (my opinion) or just me (humble enough to say that's a possibility), if I could have done something better (like drop it altogether), or maybe my approach as the other editor indicated really is "off-putting and rude". Ultimately, it boils down to she accused me of personal attacks (in which I see there were none - I think she views opening an ANI discussion as a form of attack on her personally), when in fact she did make several attacks on me (which we define by our policies as personal attacks - I believe she doesn't see it that way), some of which were technical and I didn't even point out. My end attempt to explain that seems to have ended in failure, and my concern is that since her stated intention is further editing within an article that I have also spent a good deal of effort then has the potential for future strain that I would like to avoid if possible (IBAN seems drastic). I may ultimately have to just walk away from the article, which I am loathe to do as I put a large effort into getting it to where I could put it in for GA nom. I already did that twice and failed because this editor decided to edit war (something that bothered me previously, but I have now come to the conclusion that GA nom was too early anyway because the article is for a series that is not yet concluded and thus really not finished). Again, if this is all too much of an ask, please say so; I respect you too much to think otherwise. If you did come this far, my heartfelt thanks for even reading this at all. Once again, best wishes in the new year! ButlerBlog ( talk) 19:24, 1 January 2024 (UTC)
Hi Doug Weller. Can you please take a look at this. User is trying to bring Draft:Tula/Tilak/Tuli Caste to mainspace without proper sourcing, formatting and has promotional language as well. Has been moved to draft/deleted multiple times. Jeraxmoira🐉 ( talk) 09:06, 5 January 2024 (UTC)
Boing! said Zebedee ( talk) 13:32, 8 January 2024 (UTC)
Hello. I'm not a registered user so I don't think I can post at WP:AN but I just wanted to let you know as you've already pointed out the issue with user Koavf's talk page messages that you might want to raise there that this is how he's dealing with a 0RR restriction: User talk:Oldsource#Changing styles, Special:Diff/1193479075, Special:Diff/1193439393. Harassing users by repeatedly asking them to undo their own edits because he can't undo them himself. Over track listing formats? It just doesn't seem feasible or reasonable for him to do indefinitely. 2A01:599:81A:65E6:38B0:CB01:A292:785A ( talk) 14:10, 9 January 2024 (UTC)
Greetings, so, I am unsure if you know anything about the history of the Dene/Athabaskan peoples but since I see you around discussing fringe theories including on history and archaeology, I was wondering if you knew where to look for information (or at least, a better talk page) about their migration. I've recently expanded Mount Churchill, the volcano that produced the White River Ash. There is a widespread theory that one of these ash layers drove the migration of Dene-speaking people south into the present-day USA, but I don't get a clear impression about whether this is the mainstream theory, or there is disagreement. Jo-Jo Eumerus ( talk) 12:51, 9 January 2024 (UTC)
You have a problem with me calling an editor dishonest after they have told repeated lies. I did not make any unsourced edits on the MGTOW page. I wrote a brief a summary of the history and ideology into the lede, using information from those sections that is already source. I was also dishonestly accused of not discussing my edits after my suggestions for edits were repeatedly deleted from the talk page, after I was asked to discuss my edits on the talk page! GalantFan ( talk) 08:33, 13 January 2024 (UTC)
facts Peshewapope ( talk) 01:43, 14 January 2024 (UTC)
Hello, kudoz for being so diligent in terms of civility. I reiterate that I won't edit articles related to the Ukraine. I will stop marking my edits as minor, I actually never read the definition and what I thought of as minor actually weren't. Sorry about that. -- Ouro ( blah blah) 12:05, 24 January 2024 (UTC)
Thanks. Also appears to be using LLMs to game EC status. Vanamonde93 ( talk) 17:28, 24 January 2024 (UTC)
There are three archives at User_talk:LuckyLouie that are attracting some vandalism, probably because my User page and User Talk page are already protected. If you could add protection to those archive pages for a couple of weeks that would be great. Thanks, - LuckyLouie ( talk) 18:51, 24 January 2024 (UTC)
I write to request removal of the topic ban for pages related to WP:MEDRS.
Thanks for your consideration. sbelknap ( talk) 15:43, 25 January 2024 (UTC)
I believe this "article" is in need of a major rewrite using reliable sources. Would you be able to move this article back to the creating editor's draft space? -- Kansas Bear ( talk) 21:33, 25 January 2024 (UTC)
I notice you left a notice to a new editor on his talk page re EC articles, indicating that "constructive comments" and edit requests were permissible on the article talk page. However. This [72] indicates that only edit requests are permissible. Can you clear this up? I think possibly a template message needs to be revised. Thank you. Coretheapple ( talk) 20:57, 21 January 2024 (UTC)
Hi Doug Weller.. there's a content dispute in the article on Chandraseniya Kayastha Prabhu, and an IP editor (possibly a POV pusher) is involved; please check Talk:Chandraseniya Kayastha Prabhu#Varna Dispute.You know how difficult it is to convey messages (e.g DS alert, edit warring, warnings) to an IP editor! Moreover, all such contentious caste articles like Kayastha, Bengali Kayastha are protected (ECP), while this one has no protection! Would request you to protect the article. Thanks & Regards. Ekdalian ( talk) 07:44, 27 January 2024 (UTC)
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Hi Doug, I got nosy and found that you had dealt with Alaska4Me2 before, so I thought I'd call your attention to their current dead-horse-whipping at Talk:Sound of Freedom (film). In particular, this latest comment reads like a veiled aspersion to me, given that EducatedRedneck was merely trying to help organize the talk page and immediately was suspiciously questioned by the one editor that's already been calmly asked to relax, multiple times. ER handled it nicely and professionally, but I also find Alaska4Me2's statement 'I don't understand your reference to "ANI'" hard to believe, as they've been reported there three times in the last six months. Fred Zepelin ( talk) 03:17, 30 January 2024 (UTC)
Hi Doug, regarding ECP gaming and this revert, see the interaction report for OctoGreeko vs User:AstroSaturn, a blocked sock of User:Breaker007. Sean.hoyland ( talk) 08:50, 1 February 2024 (UTC)
I'm responding here simply to avoid a major tangent within the FTN discussion. You probably already know this, but that user (Archangel1966) was indef blocked last November by Bbb23 following this discussion at ANI. This post on their Talk page was a post-block, neonatal example of the personal attacks against LuckyLouie that have lately become de rigueur within the woo set. I am unable to decipher Archangel1966's cryptic reference today to the Village Pump, but their past obsession with the LL/Mick West thing (which they refer to as "a long studied concern") makes me suspect the purpose is entirely WP:NOTHERE. JoJo Anthrax ( talk) 15:09, 29 January 2024 (UTC)
I (Helpfulguy101) was blocked from editing The Exodus nearly two years ago indefinitely due to disruptive editing. Not here to dispute the claim, would just like the "block" removed from my account. Not necessarily to edit the page, just for the slate. Thanks! Helpfulguy101 ( talk) 17:10, 6 February 2024 (UTC)
Thanks for letting me know on these! I think I've fixed them. Didn't realize that a pipe and label would not work on those links. Let me know if they still don't work for you. And as for the discussion at Jesus - yeah, I genuinely was surprised at your response. I've gone off-topic before but didn't think this was one of those times. The other editor...very much did do so. Anyway, it's still good to be reminded once in a while! Thanks. Jtrevor99 ( talk) 20:53, 6 February 2024 (UTC)
Hi Doug.. would request you to have a look at the recent revision history of the article on Pal (surname) and the edit warring by the user Palrajputs in spite of all forms of warnings including the DS alert! Seems like the user is here for POV pushing only! Thanks & Regards. Ekdalian ( talk) 10:00, 9 February 2024 (UTC)
No i wont i really only spend a minute on some edits just trying to get my edit count to 500 so i can be extended confiremed then ill really try editing rn i put little effort into editing (i cant do 500 full on page extensions while being a student) also i dont have time to edit much my edits that i put effort into are accually pretty well formed (i am an accual edtior not just a volenter for projects outside of wikipedia. also i dont think that i need to worry about spelling for this message because well replying to YOU isnt worth my time (as i DONT have 12 hours a day to edit and encyclopedia) Lion1010NT ( talk) 01:23, 12 February 2024 (UTC)
I know what i said was not nice but Canterbury tail said I was basically useless to Wikipedia as a portion of my edits were reverted. I'm new to editing I don't fully get some of the encyclopedia rules but him being rude about it doesn't help. do think i should just give up on editing? Lion1010NT ( talk) 00:11, 11 February 2024 (UTC)
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Some very fresh flowers for you and your wife! - I thanked Seiji Ozawa, and have the story of Helga Paris today, a photographer of houses and faces. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 19:31, 13 February 2024 (UTC)
Doug, I just wanted to let you know that I thought of you today. So I offer a red rose to remind you that you are loved.
Take extra care of yourself, your friend, --
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I don't know why I'm doing this, and sorry if I'm wasting your time, but for some wrong reason, I just do NOT like Valentine's Day. NoobThreePointOh ( talk) 00:53, 15 February 2024 (UTC)
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Dear @ Doug Weller,
Given your experience and particularly your experiences with dealing with this user before, I was wondering if you might take a look into the recent behaviour of ChurCuz, who I find is consistently rude and even destructive on Wikipedia pages. Despite the fact that this user regularly removes comments against them on their talk page to present a better outlook, sanctions enforced upon them for various reasons (e.g. edit warring) can still be observed here, as well as: [76], [77], [78], [79], [80], [81]. The full list can be found here: [82]. The user has also shown how they make unnecessary yet constant reverts/display bad behaviour here, as well as: [83], [84]: and I’m sure these are not the only recent examples. As you can see, this has been occurring for some time (a period of years) yet the user has not seemed to have learnt from sanctions (as other have) despite changing their name from RossButsy to ChurCuz. The point of me bringing up older engagements is to prove this point. I myself was alerted to their recent bad behaviour in a disagreement here in which I was not entirely blameless, but in which the user gave no valid reason for their reverts and did not apply consistent policies to other pages in a somewhat hypocritical manner. The user has not responded to my last queries, before which he dismissed me unfairly and attacked me ad hominem.
As a user of great experience yourself, is there anything to be done about this user, if needs be?
Thank you very much,
– Scientelensia ( talk) 12:48, 13 February 2024 (UTC)
Aloha @ Doug Weller. I am trying to help improve this article as requested in the banners at the beginning and did not intend to be contentious or create stress. I am relatively new to Wikipedia, but had extensive experience revising the Magnetic sail article and some other physics and space propulsion articles to remove such banners. I already removed one by fixing the broken anchor. In these experiences the few reliable source discussions I had focused on the publisher and the context, never the author. There appears to be history here that I need search on in RSN to educate myself. Thank you again for that pointer. Dmcdysan ( talk) 20:04, 17 February 2024 (UTC)
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Thanks for being such an inspiration for how to create great works and building community while maintaining Wikipedia's integrity and support its core values. And for providing real information about early Florida! Yuchitown ( talk) 17:30, 18 February 2024 (UTC) |
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Hope you are doing well as far as your health is concerned! Take care. Cheers. Ekdalian ( talk) 12:32, 19 February 2024 (UTC) |
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Aloha @ Doug Weller. Regarding your undo of my reversion [117] you did not give me time to post anything on the article's talk page Talk:Younger Dryas impact hypothesis#Sweatman as Reliable source. There I posted a wiki link to the discussion in Archive 4, which I read and I did not see consensus reached that Sweatman was not a reliable source. I also reported on the results found using the search function on RSN regarding "Graham Hancock" as not a reliable source and found one for which I posted a wiki link that consensus appeared to be officially declared. I thought this was the result of the process to decide on whether a source is reliable (or not) which you referred to as "rsn." In the new topic on YDIH I requested that others read the specific section in Archive 4. In your undo you said also to talk to someone, and that is why am posting this on your Talk page. I would appreciate it if you could look at the new topic and point out what I did that did not follow documented Wikipedia guidelines that I can read. Thanks Dmcdysan ( talk) 22:31, 18 February 2024 (UTC)
Hey Doug , I am Harvici, and it seems you blocked me for doing vandal edits, but can you specify the vandal I am doing? As you mentioned in the reason for block "to stop just doing vandalism edits to rush to ECP, but you continued," so to clarify that I am not rushing to get ECP, and I told you before that until I make 500 constructive edits (which I am recording here), I would not apply for WP:PERM. I am still patrolling Recent Changes, and I am only reverting vandalism that is surely vandalism, like adding abusive words and blanking.Thanks Harvici ( talk) 14:36, 22 February 2024 (UTC)
Hi Doug.. please have a look at the latest revision history of Tilli! Users SWAPAN.CHAKROBARTY011112 and SagnikBhattacharya2023 have already been blocked as socks. There's a new suspected sock, Nobita.Uzumaki doing exactly the same thing, currently edit warring in spite of all possible warnings! Would request you to take appropriate action. Thanks & Regards. Ekdalian ( talk) 12:50, 24 February 2024 (UTC)
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Hey Doug, I am Harvici, and I was thinking about my block and the stupid decisions I make, so I was thinking of beginning a new start from the very same IP address. But WP:Clean Start has criteria to not allow users who have blocks. So,can I be an exception and I promise to not vandal patrol until I get ECP rights (and cleared by you or any other admin) and you can also monitor me? Harvici ( talk) 16:18, 26 February 2024 (UTC)
Hi, can a user declare them as an admin like what this guy is doing? - Fylindfotberserk ( talk) 11:34, 27 February 2024 (UTC)
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I'm not sure where to turn with this, as user pages are not something I've dealt with much. You've provided some assistance for me in the past, so I could use a little input.
User:Mureungdowon recently created their user page and...
it's a lot. Primarily a political diatribe, with some real doozies like Many LDPJ politicians are fascists
and American liberals should support the views of South Korean liberals, not Japanese fascists.
I don't know if this needs to go through some deletion process, admin warnings, or what. The user recently came off a 1 week block for edit warring, and appears to now be on a tear of editing political articles, but I haven't delved into those edits.
I'd appreciate any advice you could give when you're free. — The Hand That Feeds You: Bite 13:08, 8 May 2023 (UTC)
I have sent you an e-mail. I have spilled the beans about it at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#WikiUser70176 performs personal attacks and complains frivolously of being harassed by me. tgeorgescu ( talk) 04:22, 12 May 2023 (UTC)
Ten years ago, you were found precious. That's what you are, always. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 05:53, 14 May 2023 (UTC)
Sorry, I know you mean well, but did you take away their talk page access based on their interaction with me, or for something unrelated? I don't think they were acting in a disruptive manner. I read their request for feedback as an attempt to understand why we do things a certain way on Wikipedia, and not so much an attempt to actually change how we do things (which I suspect they realize is not currently possible). It's hard for me to have a dialogue with them on how Wikipedia and Wikipedians work if they can't use their talk page at all. Cheers, Cobblet ( talk) 20:53, 16 May 2023 (UTC)
Hi, how can I add a request at Wikipedia:Village pump about adding a filter by namespace to the Special:GlobalUsage page? Presently, there is no way to exclude Talk pages when searching for a file's usage. ♆ CUSH ♆ 15:37, 18 May 2023 (UTC)
Hello @ Doug Weller:, I just wrote an article and I have submitted it for review. The instructions at WP:MOVE are quite confusing to me. I would to know sinceI have submitted the draft, if it can still be moved to article space. If so, could you please do that for me. Here is the link: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Dewar%27s_Candy_Shop. Thank you! The Capitalist forever ( talk) 19:06, 19 May 2023 (UTC)
Yes thank you very much Doug! The Capitalist forever ( talk) 15:16, 20 May 2023 (UTC)
Good morning Doug Weller,
Wanted to throw a revdel request your way as I can't confirm 100% at the moment but I feel like this diff might need a revdel for the included external link. Nothing privacy sensitive but my spidey sense says it might be something not worth keeping on record. Apologies if it's a false alarm! GabberFlasted ( talk) 15:03, 23 May 2023 (UTC)
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Not sure if I should take this to ANI or not, or if a checkuser can possibly help here. I dislike having to say something because I think this individual or individuals are well-motivated and just don't understand how Wikipedia works, so maybe you can advise on the best course of action.
In your Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Foundational Black American after Fijiwahwah ( talk · contribs)'s two separate wall of text !votes were combined into one [2] (sorry if this diff is hard to parse, it's hard for me to see what was done in it myself), two new accounts, Dresmond762 ( talk · contribs) and Rougeedoogee ( talk · contribs) also !voted in an attempt to save the article. Not sure if it is sock puppetry, meat puppetry, canvassing, or what.
—DIYeditor ( talk) 10:54, 7 June 2023 (UTC)
Actually, reading Tariq Nasheed, where the article was redirected, I feel less sympathetic here. Sounds like a counterpart to Andrew Tate. Misogynistic, homophobic, race baiting, conspiracy theorist. I thought he was a run of the mill activist before reading the article. —DIYeditor ( talk) 11:03, 7 June 2023 (UTC)
Hey, I wanted to double check with an admin real quick on the rules for closed topics on a talk page. On Talk:Battle of Bakhmut, I non-admin-closed a discussion as a duplicate fork of an open RFC. Moments after I closed it, another user added some very relevant information to the closed discussion, namely that the person starting that discussion was WP:CANVASSING, giving greater cause to closing (and ignoring) said discussion. The user being accused of canvassing keeps reverting this information citing the rule that you should not continue a closed discussion, but it looks to me that he is just trying to hide bad faith. Would it be acceptable to continue reverting his removal of the comment calling him out, or is he correct in that nothing may be added once the conversation was closed? Fieari ( talk) 05:37, 9 June 2023 (UTC)
Hi, how can I re-open the deletion request for First wave of European colonization? The article is of horrible quality and accuracy. Apparently, it has been split or moved since the last AfD request. ♆ CUSH ♆ 06:30, 10 June 2023 (UTC)
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Hi, would you mind taking a look at Paganism in Middle-earth and its history, and make a determination if this constitutes WP:SYNTH and WP:OWN and advise whether something should be done about it? ♆ CUSH ♆ 19:37, 26 June 2023 (UTC)
Hi Doug! Hope you are doing well. I stumbled upon a journal(Medieval Warfare) in JSTOR and it appears to be published by Karwansaray BV, located in Netherlands.
I am unfamiliar with this publishing house and wanted your opinion on whether this makes their journal, Medieval Warfare, an unreliable source.
My sincerest thanks as always. -- Kansas Bear ( talk) 17:19, 28 June 2023 (UTC)
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Entire source cannot be used in the article. You can decide how to write the article.
Alt News report. https://www.altnews.in/bhagwa-love-trap-an-elaborate-conspiracy-theory-in-response-to-the-love-jihad-narrative/
The Wire (India) the video is in Hindi.
https://twitter.com/thewire_in/status/1664556208219406337
This is most detailed- https://twitter.com/khanthefatima/status/1663780292132483075
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Hi Doug - I hope you are doing well. I'm not sure how much admin work you're doing these days, but wanted to reach out on a question for an admin. Today, the Christian Identity page was moved to Christian Identity (white-separatist movement) as a bold move without discussion. It was my opinion that this move was unecessary as there are no other similarly named pages - it's based solely on another editor's opinion that "Christian Identity" is ambiguous (never mind that that would be "identity" - small "i"). While the move may ultimately be determined to be necessary or desired, that needs to be determined by consensus; and the fact that there isn't a consensus or a discussion on this IMO warrants undoing the move and opening a discussion. However, I cannot undo such a move as the other editor involved also immediately created Christian Identity as a disambiguation page, requiring a technical move to undo it. What are your thoughts? Am I just too knit-picky? Or does it seem reasonable to discuss this move first? If you tend to agree, can you revert the move and notify the editor ( User:Zilch-nada) of the need to discuss it first? TIA for any input. ButlerBlog ( talk) 17:29, 2 July 2023 (UTC)
You'll probably see a revert in your notices and it was a complete accident. What I was looking at, the page had evidently not fully loaded so as I was clicking something else, the page view shifted and moved the "rollback" link to where my cursor was clicking. As you know, that's a one click revert. It was totally not intentional and I immediately rolled that edit back, but figured I should drop a note of explanation. Sorry about that. (Hope you're doing well - thanks for what you do here in the community) ButlerBlog ( talk) 13:21, 4 July 2023 (UTC)
Hey Doug, I changed the indentation of your comment at Talk:Graham Hancock by one, as it made it seem like I was suggesting "alternative theories". If this was a mistake, please revert me. Kind regards, Hypnôs ( talk) 19:22, 4 July 2023 (UTC)
Morning Doug
Small chance I’m rake-able on ADMINSHOP charges for this, as I’ve already been to
Liz for a sock block of the same IP, but ANI’s ‘Recently Active Admins’ says you’ve popped in, and your name’s on
WP:REVDELREQUEST’s list.
Mind having a look at
this? Seems a bit RD2/RD3ish to me?
Cheers.
MM
(Give me info.)
(Victories)
07:35, 5 July 2023 (UTC)
, thanks! Moneytrees🏝️ (Talk) 22:07, 29 June 2023 (UTC)
Hello. You reverted a recent edit of mine on 'Jayadeva birth controversy stating : 'It appears to me that a lot of this addition doesn't mention the controversy'. However, the information quoted about sociocultural and musicological evidence (by eminent scholars on the very point of Jayadeva's birth) are one of the proofs that point to the poet's place of origin. The points that you removed / deleted were :
The sources were well-cited and were reputable as well. One must understand that the above scholars have examined the birth controversy from multiple points of view and furnished evidence from primary sources such as inscriptions and manuscripts. It doesn't seem fair to simply delete one side of the story (that is, the Odisha POV) by reverting my edit. Prateek Pattanaik ( talk) 16:25, 9 July 2023 (UTC)
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User Nakulnbhatt, who you blocked from editing this page, has been evading the block using IP addresses 2402:3a80:66b:d8c1:9429:7eff:fe4a:c50 and 2402:8100:3142:ab43:b917:1681:c597:df98
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Hi Doug Weller, hope you are fine. The suspected sock is literally damaging consensus version of articles (details mentioned in my email). Please look into this! Thanks & Regards. Ekdalian ( talk) 13:32, 18 July 2023 (UTC)
Hi Doug, A couple of days ago you reverted an edit of mine which (inadvertently) restored an editorial conjoining of two different sources with the phrase “even though”, and also left me a note on my talk page not to do that. Today I faced a similar situation and followed your guidance to remove an editorial "however" [15], and was promptly reverted by the editor how put that "however" phrasing into the article. I don't want to get into an edit war ver this, so I hope you can provide the same advice you gave me to them, and also undo that revert of theirs. Red Slapper ( talk) 00:34, 19 July 2023 (UTC)
Hi Doug. I wish you courage and strength in your medical challenges. This is a comment about the Janet Wu article which is now a bit schizoid. There are/were two Janet Wu broadcasters in the Boston area. The present article is about --- in the main --- Janet Wu, Yale and Columbia graduate who works for Bloomberg News now. The other Janet Wu, graduate of University of Michigan who retired from WCVB-TV after nearly a half century in broadcasting, I think used to have a separate article but is oddly mixed in this article to a fault. It needs repair. I will try to repair it. Best Wishes ever. --- (Bob) Wikiklrsc Wikiklrsc ( talk) 02:33, 19 July 2023 (UTC)
The Talk:Sound of Freedom (film) has gotten really heated, and I think we may need your help with this. Basically there’s a whole debate of whether or not the Peterson and Ballard interview should be in the article. My proposal was to move the Interview to the respective Tim Ballard articl since it fitted there better than the film article, and it appeared most agreed with it. But later this day these two editors are debating over whether or not it should be included again. Your help is much appreciated Wolfquack ( talk) 01:41, 20 July 2023 (UTC)
As for IP addresses, if I have 2 mobile phones on different suppliers I can switch back and forth.
Why did you unprotect this page, especially without consulting me? It wasn’t the socks causing problems, everyone blocked was autoconfirmed anyway, it was all the partisan IPs. Which have immediately come back… Courcelles ( talk) 17:32, 24 July 2023 (UTC)
What disruptive editing was I involved in? None of my recent conduct stands out as problematic to me. Oktayey ( talk) 14:52, 26 July 2023 (UTC)
I'm appealing the sanction you applied on me here. Oktayey ( talk) 09:52, 29 July 2023 (UTC)
Hi! I took a look at the list of recently active CheckUsers and your name came up. Would you happen to have the time to take care of WP:Sockpuppet investigations/Hugo Refachinho, which to my eye is a very straightforward case of a WP:DUCK? TompaDompa ( talk) 16:56, 1 August 2023 (UTC)
im impressed and that's all you need to know Abo Yemen ✉ 18:24, 1 August 2023 (UTC)
Can I request a rev/del please [16]. Thanks Knitsey ( talk) 18:31, 5 August 2023 (UTC)
I am not blocked form editing anything, so you are not proxying for a blocked user. But that page got protected.
Most modern biographers of Herod, and probably a majority of biblical scholars, dismiss Matthew's story as a literary device.
Got changed into:
There are Herodian biographers as well as Biblical scholars who dismiss Matthew's story as a literary device.
Herod also appears in the Christian
Gospel of Matthew as the ruler of Judea who orders the
Massacre of the Innocents at the time of the
birth of Jesus, although most Herod biographers do not believe that this event occurred.
Got changed into:
In the Christian New Testament Gospel of Matthew, Herod is mentioned as the ruler of Judea who ordered the Massacre of the Innocents at the time of the birth of Jesus; there are Herodian biographers do not believe that the event occurred.
In the green version WP:RS/AC gets applied; in the red version it does not get applied. tgeorgescu ( talk) 16:41, 6 August 2023 (UTC)
You may wish to revoke TPA. Cahk ( talk) 07:13, 7 August 2023 (UTC)
Can you take a look at this [17] and see if it needs deleting please. I've reverted it. Knitsey ( talk) 15:09, 7 August 2023 (UTC)
Lucabien ( talk · contribs) seems to be a sock/meatpuppet of the previous blocked sock, Thrillydee ( talk · contribs) - Hipal ( talk) 19:41, 9 August 2023 (UTC)
But I believe this requires some type of administrator response, as it seems to run afoul of WP:PA (against not only KoA) and WP:RGW. Perhaps I am wrong. But this type of WP:NOTHERE behavior, along with all the other behaviors documented in their block log, indicates that additional, major time sinks are inevitable. JoJo Anthrax ( talk) 20:50, 10 August 2023 (UTC)
How can we ensure the independence of Wikipedia if we use the policies we built to defend our encyclopaedia in this way?, where "in this way" refers to both the writer getting blocked and the removal of KoA's ridiculously inappropriate block, is grossly unfair to KoA and sounds like a WP:NOTHERE manifesto of things to come. JoJo Anthrax ( talk) 21:21, 10 August 2023 (UTC)
evidence of manipulation, etc. and making broad accusations or "just asking questions" is just continuing what they were blocked for. That is getting right back to the behavior we had to craft a specific principle at ArbCom for at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Genetically_modified_organisms#Casting_aspersions.
Hi Doug! Hope everything goes well in terms of your health and I wish for the best.
On the Ardashir I talk page, you mention that the letter mentioning his (albeit possible) Kurdish roots is something you talked about? Whilst it was 10 years ago (embarrassed im asking this) do you have any of the archives or knowledge remaining?
God speed and greetings from the Humber! Volkish Kurden ( talk) 00:23, 13 August 2023 (UTC)
Defunct you say? I don't remember the thing. Guess I wouldn't have been eligible anyway. -- Deepfriedokra ( talk) 17:27, 13 August 2023 (UTC)
I am doing a rewrite of an article and need your opinion if the "Official list of popes" section should stay or be removed. -- Kansas Bear ( talk) 02:51, 14 August 2023 (UTC)
Hi Doug Weller,
My name is Dr. Tim Koskie and I am a researcher at the Centre for Media Transition (CMT) at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS). We are conducting a study on the implications of content-generating AI systems such as ChatGPT for knowledge integrity on Wikipedia, and are approaching you because you have participated in discussions on this topic on Wikimedia pages.
If you are interested, we would like to invite you to participate in our study. It would involve joining either a focus group discussion or an interview (around 1 hour), in person at Wikimania in Singapore if you are going to be there, or online at a future date. At these sessions we would ask you questions about how you think generative AI will impact Wikipedia, as well as about the kinds of work you do on Wikipedia.
The project is funded by the Wikimedia Research Fund grant programme. You can find out more about the project here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Implications_of_ChatGPT_for_knowledge_integrity_on_Wikipedia If you are interested, let me know and I will forward you some more detailed information on the project. Tbkoskie ( talk) 03:49, 15 August 2023 (UTC)
Hi Doug. First off I want to apologize for being a total d*ck to you in the past because I couldn't wrap my head around your POV on some things. The more I've seen of your conduct, the more respect I have for you. I was out of line.
Also - what the title says. The user you asked me about earlier today has continued to contact me, even after I explicitly asked them not to. It's fine to dislike me (I know I'm not always the most likable), but it's not fine to follow me from thread to thread with nasty remarks and all-caps demands to shut up. I'd really like to continue doing my thing without having to interact directly with this user any more. How can I solve this constructively? Thanks. Philomathes2357 ( talk) 04:29, 15 August 2023 (UTC)
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Please stop adding bias to the Noah’s ark wikipedia page. Brennan1111 ( talk) 23:37, 16 August 2023 (UTC)
How did I tell on myself Brennan1111 ( talk) 01:16, 17 August 2023 (UTC)
Hi,
You recently left this comment on my Talk page - "On this encyclopedia project, editors
assume good faith while interacting with other editors, which you did not appear to do at
User talk:Vanamonde93. Here is Wikipedia's
welcome page, and it is hoped that you will assume the good faith of other editors and continue to help us improve Wikipedia! Thank you very much! "
Here are some of the things that Vanamonde93 has said to me, these are all offensive -
He also made a number of unsubstantiated / provably false claims -
Its hard for me to emphasise following -
Whether or not
Vanamonde93 or anyone else agrees with the changes I made is another question. These changes are backed up by solid Academic Sources (e.g. Cambridge University Press). As such, whatever was happening was not an attempt at vandalism.
If you believe that what I did violated some policy, I would encourage you to raise it in appropriate forums.
Nonentity683 (
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Most importantly, these reverts are not for the same content. (Hence my initial confusion around this claim). These are for different parts / different content. As such, this is not a case of someone restoring same content over and over again over an extended period of time to cheat on the 24 Hour time Window for 3RR.Have you read WP:3RR and WP:EDITWAR? —DIYeditor ( talk) 23:48, 17 August 2023 (UTC)
Hi Dough,
Thank you for writing. I am an employee at Livingston International, and recently, we underwent a brand overhaul, which involved redesigning our logo. I require assistance with the process of uploading the updated logo, as I am currently encountering an issue where the system prevents me from overwriting the existing file. Your support in this matter would be greatly valued. Manjeetcares ( talk) 13:37, 21 August 2023 (UTC)
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Hi Doug. If you or a talkpage watcher has a second, could you please take a look at Proud Indian Arnab ( talk · contribs)'s contribs since your warning? Thanks. -- Tamzin[ cetacean needed (she|they|xe) 04:12, 22 August 2023 (UTC)
Mr Weller, you have accused me of threatening you. What do you mean by that? Sweet6970 ( talk) 16:09, 21 August 2023 (UTC)
I hope you aren’t threatening meThis is a suggestion that I am threatening him. And as for ‘perceived legal threats’ – how on earth could my comment be perceived as a legal threat? The only person who could sue for defamation would be Brendan O’Neill. And DW has no grounds for believing I am B O’N. Sweet6970 ( talk) 17:35, 21 August 2023 (UTC)
I hope you aren’t threatening me. So far, he has not had the courtesy to reply, and in fact he deleted my original question. And Girth Summit and Floquenbeam– I don’t think it is appropriate to refer to a
fumble in the park. Leave sex out of this. Sweet6970 ( talk) 17:42, 21 August 2023 (UTC)
I see no marine mammals. What I see is an unedifying pile-on of admins against a rank-and-file editor. You should be ashamed. Sweet6970 ( talk) 17:49, 21 August 2023 (UTC)
Actually there are several sources for his name Marcus Sanders. There is scanty evidence that he has used other names ie Marcus Rayford, Marcus V. Thomas. I don't know. Before you beat me to the revert, I was going to remove the info myself because I couldn't trust the sources either though folks on YT videos and info showing up on search readouts saying his birth name is M. Sanders. So, there you are. Thanks Koplimek ( talk) 19:48, 26 August 2023 (UTC)
331dot ( talk) 15:30, 29 August 2023 (UTC)
Actually there are several sources for his name Marcus Sanders. There is scanty evidence that he has used other names ie Marcus Rayford, Marcus V. Thomas. I don't know. Before you beat me to the revert, I was going to remove the info myself because I couldn't trust the sources either though folks on YT videos and info showing up on search readouts saying his birth name is M. Sanders. So, there you are. Thanks Koplimek ( talk) 19:48, 26 August 2023 (UTC)
331dot ( talk) 15:30, 29 August 2023 (UTC)
Hi, we have a dilemma at Talk:Historical reliability of the Gospels#Reference problem and Talk:Historical reliability of the Gospels#Arbitrary break. Could you help us sort it out? tgeorgescu ( talk) 01:59, 7 September 2023 (UTC)
Not actually sure where I should bring this up, but I saw you on his talk page. Tesla car owner is still adding gibberish to articles. Take his most recent diff made a few hours ago. Dialmayo ( talk) ( Contribs) she/her 11:23, 8 September 2023 (UTC)
Sir , I have added a map of Chandragupta 2 of Gupta dynasty. My intention is not to represent it as the map of mythological Vikramaditya but as the map of Chandrgupta 2 who also adopted the title Vikramaditya .
Sir please took a look , I added map under Chandrgupta 2 heading not in any other mythological Vikramaditya heading ....
Sir please revert it with some changes, if you want any modifications in what I have written please modify it .
Please guide me if I am violating any rule as I am not very experienced wiki user... thanks you . I hope you reply.
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Hope it's OK to bug you with this question, Doug. Christian Zionism has been popping up in my watchlist lately as someone is adding to the list of "notable proponents". I looked at the history, and TBH, the list was excessive before this editor started adding to it. But now it's becoming unwieldy. I was going to just remove it altogether with some TP notes about what exactly determines "notable" along with the fact that all of the listed articles are in some way under Category:Christian Zionism (including its subcategories), making this embedded list unnecessary. It also ends up with about 1/3 of the total refs on the page being to cite individuals in the list, none of whom as far as I can tell are mentioned elsewhere in the article. Am I just being too knit-picky? Wondered if you could give me your opinion or thoughts. TIA. ButlerBlog ( talk) 16:25, 8 September 2023 (UTC)
Could you take a look at [29] please. Knitsey ( talk) 19:41, 12 September 2023 (UTC)
I don't care about anything Taylor Swift has done, will do, or plans to do. I care about Wikipedia being used for promotional purposes, and particularly being used to promote someone our own sources say is loved by the alt-right. chbarts ( talk) 14:45, 15 September 2023 (UTC)
Heh! my claptrapometer is more sensitive that there's.😛 -- Deepfriedokra ( talk) 16:50, 18 September 2023 (UTC)
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Today's story is about a great pianist with an unusual career, taking off when he was 50. It's the wedding anniversary of Clara and Robert Schumann, but I was too late with our gift. Tell your wife! -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 14:45, 12 September 2023 (UTC)
Today I remember Raymond Arritt, who still helps me, five years after he died, per what he said in my darkest time on Wikipedia (placed in my edit-notice as a reminder), and by teh rulez. - Latest pics from a weekend in Berlin (one more day to come). -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 18:33, 19 September 2023 (UTC)
I saw your comment on Corbie's talk page and wanted to ask how you are doing. Wikipedia is so blessed to have editors like you. You are a very kind and thoughtful person and one of the best examples of an admin. Just wanted to spread some Wiki-love on this Monday amid so much gloom. -- ARose Wolf 15:32, 18 September 2023 (UTC)
Re your e-mail, Doug. I'm having trouble with my gmail account, so I'm replying to your query here instead: please see WP:CASTE for the community caste sanctions. Bishonen | tålk 16:58, 3 October 2023 (UTC).
Hi Doug,
Following up on your warning to IP 93.72.49.123, I note that the IP has continued to make edits prohibited under the WP:GSRUSUKR, despite your warning, and warnings from multiple other Administrators. In the past few days, the IP has been edit warring [34], [35], [36] on a page covered by the general sanctions.
Please take a look and let me know what your think. Carter00000 ( talk) 16:03, 4 October 2023 (UTC)
Hi Doug, I hope you are doing okay. If you've got the time, could you take a look at Leyo's comments in this AFD? They appeared out of nowhere and commented that mine and KoA's !votes are less valid because I have a link to meta:exclusionism on my user page(!) and because KoA has previously reverted edits to the page. It's concerning coming so soon after the admin review and AE request which both admonished him and looks an awful lot like WP:HOUNDING. I'm not really sure on next steps. Cheers SmartSE ( talk) 22:43, 4 October 2023 (UTC)
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My story today is sad but great. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 19:37, 6 October 2023 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at
Wikipedia:Village pump (policy) § RfC on the "Airlines and destinations" tables in airport articles. I saw that you participated in a
discussion on a similar topic.
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Hello Doug Weller. I stumbled on the story of User talk:Shoemaker's Holiday, an editor with 200 featured article contributions and the top contributor in the civility policy (even though they left in 2010). You may be interested in their case. Regards, -- Thinker78 (talk) 04:51, 21 October 2023 (UTC)
Hi Doug Weller, if you feel comfortable sharing could you help me understand why you find the image at Parkinson's disease offensive? I primarily edit articles on diseases, and am often selecting images to use. I'd hate to think I'm selecting images that offend someone affected by the disease; typically we get so little feedback it's challenging to know. Any insight you're willing to share would be appreciated. Pardon the blindness to feelings you may think are obvious. Spending time in the medicine space does warp one's perspective. Thank you. Ajpolino ( talk) 23:05, 21 October 2023 (UTC)
Hi, you left a final warning on this user's talk page on the 8th. Would you still consider blocking the user for their recent changes? — *Fehufangą ( ✉ Talk · ✎ Contribs) 22:27, 21 October 2023 (UTC)
Hi Doug,
Following up on your block of IP 93.72.49.123, the IP has again made an edit on a page prohibited under WP:GSRUSUKR, despite your block. The following was made on Vulkan files leak.
Please take a look and let me know what your think. Carter00000 ( talk) 10:19, 22 October 2023 (UTC)
You deleted a paragraph about my Mithradates Eupator profile on Facebook which was removed by Facebook in 2015. I tried to reinstate it, apologies for calling it a minor edit. You joined my Mithradates group (not profile) on Oct 24, 2023 apparently to prove that the profile still exists. The explanation and source for the paragraph you removed can be found in the "About" section of the Mithradates Eupator group on Facebook. I was the manager of the profile that was deleted by Facebook and I am the manager of the new group that I established in 2015. What is the problem with keeping this paragraph on Wikipedia? what further sort of "source" do you need? Thank you. Sufiji ( talk) 04:39, 26 October 2023 (UTC)
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Sir, it is regarding disruptive editing in this article. I'd like to request a page protection if possible. Thanks. - Fylindfotberserk ( talk) 09:48, 3 November 2023 (UTC)
Hi,
My edit at " Coelbren y Beirdd" was just to revert the addition of a disambiguation link to " script". It may well be that " writing system" is not the most appropriate target link, but I'm fairly certain that " script" is not the right target either. Would " alphabet" be better?
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Could you comment at
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Just so that you know. Uncle G ( talk) 05:00, 11 November 2023 (UTC)
Hi, Doug. You may like to re-read your edit summary here, and read the paragraph as it was after you had restored it. JBW ( talk) 11:04, 15 November 2023 (UTC)
I have just seen your quote from John McCutcheon on your user page. 👍. JBW ( talk) 15:06, 15 November 2023 (UTC)
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Just a quick head's up, I have reviewed the block you placed on this user, which is on hold after they submitted an unblock request. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 16:54, 16 November 2023 (UTC)
Publishing a RFC at Village Pump is perfect reasonable per WP:RFCTP. Would you rather it be at WP:VPM? The village pump is pretty relaxed so it really shouldn't matter. That topic is dominated by same group of editors so as much outside input that can be generated is good to get a consensus one way or the other. Thanks! Nemov ( talk) 19:57, 16 November 2023 (UTC)
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I don’t think we should treat something that many people believe as a revelation from God as someone copying a story from an ancient story. Brennan1111 ( talk) 20:10, 26 November 2023 (UTC)
@ Doug Weller I have been undoing edits (bias) on the Libertarian Party of Argentina article for hours. I honestly don't know how it works to contact the administration, but this guy won't stop.
Eh... and it's not like I can be 24 hours a day checking the article. 93.45.229.98 ( talk) 21:54, 26 November 2023 (UTC)
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Hi Doug! I am fairly new at editing wikipedia but recently filed the first time for deletion. It feels a bit nerve wrecking because I want to do everything correct and respectfully. It's about this article here: /info/en/?search=Talk:Wolfram_Aichele#Concerns_about_Conflict_of_Interest and some articles I mentioned in that comment on that Talk page. I see you filed for deletion in 2011 for Wolfram: The Boy Who Went To War so I am coming back to you as it is a bit related. If you have time and capacity, let me know whether my procedure was okay or whether I am mis-reading or accidentally disregarding some Wiki rules. I have similar concerns for Alexandra Milton, Wolfram Aichele, Erwin Aichele, Giles Milton as stated on the Talk page as well as all the Bibliography edits on various historical Wikipedia pages and I'm not entirely sure what's the correct procedure. I'm just leaning out of the window at the moment to see what happens. Have a good start in your day. Hiko ( talk) 13:50, 29 November 2023 (UTC)
Hi Doug Weller. I don't think we've personally crossed paths but I've seen a few people speak very highly of you. I'm looking to interview people here. Feel free to pass if you're not interested. Clovermoss🍀 (talk) 13:18, 1 December 2023 (UTC)
Is that really true? That you don't know how to edit in wiki markup? How then did you manage during the years that Visual Editor wasn't a thing yet? — Python Drink ( talk) 18:57, 3 December 2023 (UTC)
Hi, Doug,
I'm looking for a friendly face in order to get feedback on a new Navbox I just wrote, so I can polish it up before I advertise it more widely. It's called {{ Ancient seafaring}}, and it's a member of multiple WikiProjects related to antiquity, and your name was the only familiar one in the list of members of WP:WikiProject Ancient Egypt. (The other related WikiProjects are Rome, Greece, MILHIST, Phoenicia, and Ships, but I haven't tried those yet.) Not sure if you're a fan of Nav boxes or feel like having a look, I know you're busy with things both on- and off-wiki. If not, if you could suggest an Egypt-project person you trust, otherwise I'll pick a different project. Thanks, and hope you're doing well and having fun! Mathglot ( talk) 01:54, 30 November 2023 (UTC)
Hello,
What did you mean by what you said on my talk page?
Thanks Zilch-nada ( talk) 14:16, 7 December 2023 (UTC)
News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2023).
Hi Doug, I just noticed that the Administrators' newsletter – December 2023 has been delivered to the user TheProEditor11, a novice editor (level 4)! I just thought, I should share this apparent bug! Thanks & Regards. Ekdalian ( talk) 17:21, 8 December 2023 (UTC)
Pinging @ Bishonen: as another administrator familiar with the editor in question, and who might be able to help.
I presented evidence to this recently-closed ArbCom case (see here), which I amended after the editor Gtoffoletto was explicitly added as a party to the case. As you can read from the above link, the evidence I presented included a substantial number of recent examples of Gtoffoletto engaging in personal attacks, aspersions, and harassment against one of the case's named parties. I noted further that such attacks from Gtoffoletto were also evident on the ArbCom case's own Talk pages.
Something, however, apparently went wrong/didn't stick/was missed/whatever with adding Gtoffoletto as a party, and they were later removed, sort of, from the case. It was unquestionably an ArbCom snafu. But...what about all those personal attacks I cited? That evidence received no action/concern/comment whatsoever by the committee or, for that matter, any other administrators. Do I interpret this situation correctly, that procedural mistakes within an ArbCom case render multiple examples of egregious behavior immune from sanction? Seems like a creative mechanism for mooting an editor's repeated violations of policy.
So, other than never again contributing to any ArbCom case (about which I will shortly self-trout a reminder onto my Talk page), do you have any advice on what I should do going forward? I don't much like ignoring egregious personal attacks, at least not when they are directed against other editors, and we're talking about well over a dozen of them. But I also don't much like wasting my time if legitimate concerns about personal attacks, aspersions, etc. are simply going to be ignored. Thanks. JoJo Anthrax ( talk) 14:25, 18 December 2023 (UTC)
I was half way through writing a report about this user when I noticed your block -- thanks saving me the trouble :). Happy editing, JBL ( talk) 21:55, 18 December 2023 (UTC)
Hi Doug, can you please have a look at the recent revision history of the article, Tili Jati which is nothing more than a WP:REDUNDANTFORK as well as a WP:POVFORK of the article on Tilli; in fact it became redundant after I removed all possible OR! The user SWAPAN.CHAKROBARTY011112 is edit warring (without edit summaries) in spite of all forms of warnings on their talk page. Please help! Thanks & Regards, Ekdalian ( talk) 18:02, 19 December 2023 (UTC)
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I was gonna give you a beer, but decided against it. Both cancer and PD and you're still fighting. Inspriration to us all, I hope you Christmas is good, you New Years is stellar, and your Festivus is filled with joy. I like Astatine ( Talk to me) 04:31, 21 December 2023 (UTC) |
Dear Doug. Peter Toennies has brought to my attention that his English biographical wiki page is in pretty bad shape. It is indeed so (e.g., he is not an American scientist to begin with). Previously, he was trying to maintain the page himself, but he understood from communication with some of the editors/users that a person is not supposed to be creating or editing their page themselves. Therefore he asked for my advice (he is 93 and I'm 45 ;). I'm not a regular Wikipedia contributor and don't exactly know what the rules are, so I'm trying to figure it out as I go.
My current understanding is that Peter Toennies can legitimately have a bio page per the wiki notability criteria for academics ( /info/en/?search=Wikipedia:Notability_(academics)). He definitely fulfills the criteria 1,2,3,5,8. Previous edits lacked references, which can be easily provided. I have done so in the tentative edits currently posted in the Talk section of the page. It would be great if you can either unprotect the page for me to bring it to a decent shape or introduce the edits yourself/explain why they are not appropriate.
My connection with J. Peter Toennies: I worked in his group in 2001-2005 and he served as the supervisor of my PhD thesis, which I submitted back in 2004. Currently I'm working as a department head at Max-Born-Institute in Berlin and have practically no scientific overlap with Peter anymore. We do communicate occasionally.
I appreciate your assistance. With best wishes,
Oleg. Kappuzin ( talk) 18:28, 21 December 2023 (UTC)
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Today, I have a special story to tell, of the works of a musician born 300 years ago. - I wish you and your wife a good festive season and a peaceful New Year! -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 15:07, 22 December 2023 (UTC)
{{subst:User:Shearonink/Holiday}}
to your friends' talk pages.(Sent: 16:50, 22 December 2023 (UTC)) Shearonink ( talk) 16:50, 22 December 2023 (UTC)
Doug, I wish you and yours a very happy holiday season. I hope you remain safe and enjoy this time of the year. For the new year I hope for health and healing. I know it may be me being selfish but I want many more years with you as a friend and member of this community. You have impacted me in such a positive way and I have learned a lot from you. Keep sharing your Song and your Colors, they are beautiful and awe inspiring. -- ARose Wolf 17:58, 22 December 2023 (UTC)
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Wishing everybody a Happy Holiday Season, and all best wishes for the New Year! The Nativity scene on the Pulpit in the Pisa Baptistery by Nicola Pisano is my Wiki-Christmas card to all for this year. Johnbod ( talk) 02:59, 24 December 2023 (UTC) |
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to your friends' talk pages.(Sent: 10:16, 24 December 2023 (UTC)) ★Trekker ( talk) 10:16, 24 December 2023 (UTC)
Hello Doug Weller: Enjoy the holiday season and winter solstice if it's occurring in your area of the world, and thanks for your work to maintain, improve and expand Wikipedia. Cheers, -- Dustfreeworld ( talk) 10:53, 25 December 2023 (UTC)
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Wishing you and yours a Happy New Year, from the horse and bishop person. May the year ahead be productive and distraction-free and may Janus light your way. Ealdgyth ( talk) 14:29, 31 December 2023 (UTC) |
Glad to see you around, Doug. Hope your latest treatments, are, well, treating you well! and that you are feeling happy and getting good time with your family and friends. Andre 🚐 12:59, 28 December 2023 (UTC)
Dear Doug, Just to say thinking of you and yours and hoping the New Year will be positive for you. I'm awaiting the results of latest blood tests - always a rough time. Very best regards, David & Susie Johnson. David J Johnson ( talk) 14:49, 31 December 2023 (UTC)
Happy New Year to you Doug. It is so good to see you keeping strong and carrying on with your great contribution to Wikipedia. Dudley Miles ( talk) 19:12, 31 December 2023 (UTC)
Decorated by my wonderful wife Helen Walland .
Doug Weller talk 15:02, 29 December 2023 (UTC)
Doug Weller,
Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable
New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia.
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Send New Year cheer by adding {{ subst:Happy New Year fireworks}} to user talk pages.
OK, not really... asking some advice for me, actually. But first, let me say, it turned into a large saga, so since I very much respect your time - both on wiki and off - if you don't want to bother looking at this, I completely understand - just skip to reply and say so (or ignoring it is fine, too). Just in case you need to skip to a "thanks, but I can't look at this", I'll slip my New Year's greeting here at the top. I am hoping you have a great new year, and wish you the best in your fight!
Now the mess... should you decide to look at it. There was a round of edit warring on The Chosen (TV series) over some cast list items. This spilled over into a talk page discussion, and ultimately, an ANI thread resulting in a partial block for the other editor. During that, there was some personal talk page discussion. After it, since the partial block was the article and not the TP, there was additional talk page activity, some additions to the ANI thread, and my last ditch effort to explain things on the editor's TP.
To give diffs that put it into time order would be a mess, and looking at it all is a slog, and therefore, I am completely aware that it's a "big ask" to ask you to look at it at all. So why am I asking? I respect your experience and the high regard most of the admins I look to also respect it. I'm trying to figure out if it's the other editor (my opinion) or just me (humble enough to say that's a possibility), if I could have done something better (like drop it altogether), or maybe my approach as the other editor indicated really is "off-putting and rude". Ultimately, it boils down to she accused me of personal attacks (in which I see there were none - I think she views opening an ANI discussion as a form of attack on her personally), when in fact she did make several attacks on me (which we define by our policies as personal attacks - I believe she doesn't see it that way), some of which were technical and I didn't even point out. My end attempt to explain that seems to have ended in failure, and my concern is that since her stated intention is further editing within an article that I have also spent a good deal of effort then has the potential for future strain that I would like to avoid if possible (IBAN seems drastic). I may ultimately have to just walk away from the article, which I am loathe to do as I put a large effort into getting it to where I could put it in for GA nom. I already did that twice and failed because this editor decided to edit war (something that bothered me previously, but I have now come to the conclusion that GA nom was too early anyway because the article is for a series that is not yet concluded and thus really not finished). Again, if this is all too much of an ask, please say so; I respect you too much to think otherwise. If you did come this far, my heartfelt thanks for even reading this at all. Once again, best wishes in the new year! ButlerBlog ( talk) 19:24, 1 January 2024 (UTC)
Hi Doug Weller. Can you please take a look at this. User is trying to bring Draft:Tula/Tilak/Tuli Caste to mainspace without proper sourcing, formatting and has promotional language as well. Has been moved to draft/deleted multiple times. Jeraxmoira🐉 ( talk) 09:06, 5 January 2024 (UTC)
Boing! said Zebedee ( talk) 13:32, 8 January 2024 (UTC)
Hello. I'm not a registered user so I don't think I can post at WP:AN but I just wanted to let you know as you've already pointed out the issue with user Koavf's talk page messages that you might want to raise there that this is how he's dealing with a 0RR restriction: User talk:Oldsource#Changing styles, Special:Diff/1193479075, Special:Diff/1193439393. Harassing users by repeatedly asking them to undo their own edits because he can't undo them himself. Over track listing formats? It just doesn't seem feasible or reasonable for him to do indefinitely. 2A01:599:81A:65E6:38B0:CB01:A292:785A ( talk) 14:10, 9 January 2024 (UTC)
Greetings, so, I am unsure if you know anything about the history of the Dene/Athabaskan peoples but since I see you around discussing fringe theories including on history and archaeology, I was wondering if you knew where to look for information (or at least, a better talk page) about their migration. I've recently expanded Mount Churchill, the volcano that produced the White River Ash. There is a widespread theory that one of these ash layers drove the migration of Dene-speaking people south into the present-day USA, but I don't get a clear impression about whether this is the mainstream theory, or there is disagreement. Jo-Jo Eumerus ( talk) 12:51, 9 January 2024 (UTC)
You have a problem with me calling an editor dishonest after they have told repeated lies. I did not make any unsourced edits on the MGTOW page. I wrote a brief a summary of the history and ideology into the lede, using information from those sections that is already source. I was also dishonestly accused of not discussing my edits after my suggestions for edits were repeatedly deleted from the talk page, after I was asked to discuss my edits on the talk page! GalantFan ( talk) 08:33, 13 January 2024 (UTC)
facts Peshewapope ( talk) 01:43, 14 January 2024 (UTC)
Hello, kudoz for being so diligent in terms of civility. I reiterate that I won't edit articles related to the Ukraine. I will stop marking my edits as minor, I actually never read the definition and what I thought of as minor actually weren't. Sorry about that. -- Ouro ( blah blah) 12:05, 24 January 2024 (UTC)
Thanks. Also appears to be using LLMs to game EC status. Vanamonde93 ( talk) 17:28, 24 January 2024 (UTC)
There are three archives at User_talk:LuckyLouie that are attracting some vandalism, probably because my User page and User Talk page are already protected. If you could add protection to those archive pages for a couple of weeks that would be great. Thanks, - LuckyLouie ( talk) 18:51, 24 January 2024 (UTC)
I write to request removal of the topic ban for pages related to WP:MEDRS.
Thanks for your consideration. sbelknap ( talk) 15:43, 25 January 2024 (UTC)
I believe this "article" is in need of a major rewrite using reliable sources. Would you be able to move this article back to the creating editor's draft space? -- Kansas Bear ( talk) 21:33, 25 January 2024 (UTC)
I notice you left a notice to a new editor on his talk page re EC articles, indicating that "constructive comments" and edit requests were permissible on the article talk page. However. This [72] indicates that only edit requests are permissible. Can you clear this up? I think possibly a template message needs to be revised. Thank you. Coretheapple ( talk) 20:57, 21 January 2024 (UTC)
Hi Doug Weller.. there's a content dispute in the article on Chandraseniya Kayastha Prabhu, and an IP editor (possibly a POV pusher) is involved; please check Talk:Chandraseniya Kayastha Prabhu#Varna Dispute.You know how difficult it is to convey messages (e.g DS alert, edit warring, warnings) to an IP editor! Moreover, all such contentious caste articles like Kayastha, Bengali Kayastha are protected (ECP), while this one has no protection! Would request you to protect the article. Thanks & Regards. Ekdalian ( talk) 07:44, 27 January 2024 (UTC)
The Herald (Benison) ( talk) 14:59, 28 January 2024 (UTC)
Hi Doug, I got nosy and found that you had dealt with Alaska4Me2 before, so I thought I'd call your attention to their current dead-horse-whipping at Talk:Sound of Freedom (film). In particular, this latest comment reads like a veiled aspersion to me, given that EducatedRedneck was merely trying to help organize the talk page and immediately was suspiciously questioned by the one editor that's already been calmly asked to relax, multiple times. ER handled it nicely and professionally, but I also find Alaska4Me2's statement 'I don't understand your reference to "ANI'" hard to believe, as they've been reported there three times in the last six months. Fred Zepelin ( talk) 03:17, 30 January 2024 (UTC)
Hi Doug, regarding ECP gaming and this revert, see the interaction report for OctoGreeko vs User:AstroSaturn, a blocked sock of User:Breaker007. Sean.hoyland ( talk) 08:50, 1 February 2024 (UTC)
I'm responding here simply to avoid a major tangent within the FTN discussion. You probably already know this, but that user (Archangel1966) was indef blocked last November by Bbb23 following this discussion at ANI. This post on their Talk page was a post-block, neonatal example of the personal attacks against LuckyLouie that have lately become de rigueur within the woo set. I am unable to decipher Archangel1966's cryptic reference today to the Village Pump, but their past obsession with the LL/Mick West thing (which they refer to as "a long studied concern") makes me suspect the purpose is entirely WP:NOTHERE. JoJo Anthrax ( talk) 15:09, 29 January 2024 (UTC)
I (Helpfulguy101) was blocked from editing The Exodus nearly two years ago indefinitely due to disruptive editing. Not here to dispute the claim, would just like the "block" removed from my account. Not necessarily to edit the page, just for the slate. Thanks! Helpfulguy101 ( talk) 17:10, 6 February 2024 (UTC)
Thanks for letting me know on these! I think I've fixed them. Didn't realize that a pipe and label would not work on those links. Let me know if they still don't work for you. And as for the discussion at Jesus - yeah, I genuinely was surprised at your response. I've gone off-topic before but didn't think this was one of those times. The other editor...very much did do so. Anyway, it's still good to be reminded once in a while! Thanks. Jtrevor99 ( talk) 20:53, 6 February 2024 (UTC)
Hi Doug.. would request you to have a look at the recent revision history of the article on Pal (surname) and the edit warring by the user Palrajputs in spite of all forms of warnings including the DS alert! Seems like the user is here for POV pushing only! Thanks & Regards. Ekdalian ( talk) 10:00, 9 February 2024 (UTC)
No i wont i really only spend a minute on some edits just trying to get my edit count to 500 so i can be extended confiremed then ill really try editing rn i put little effort into editing (i cant do 500 full on page extensions while being a student) also i dont have time to edit much my edits that i put effort into are accually pretty well formed (i am an accual edtior not just a volenter for projects outside of wikipedia. also i dont think that i need to worry about spelling for this message because well replying to YOU isnt worth my time (as i DONT have 12 hours a day to edit and encyclopedia) Lion1010NT ( talk) 01:23, 12 February 2024 (UTC)
I know what i said was not nice but Canterbury tail said I was basically useless to Wikipedia as a portion of my edits were reverted. I'm new to editing I don't fully get some of the encyclopedia rules but him being rude about it doesn't help. do think i should just give up on editing? Lion1010NT ( talk) 00:11, 11 February 2024 (UTC)
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Some very fresh flowers for you and your wife! - I thanked Seiji Ozawa, and have the story of Helga Paris today, a photographer of houses and faces. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 19:31, 13 February 2024 (UTC)
Doug, I just wanted to let you know that I thought of you today. So I offer a red rose to remind you that you are loved.
Take extra care of yourself, your friend, --
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I don't know why I'm doing this, and sorry if I'm wasting your time, but for some wrong reason, I just do NOT like Valentine's Day. NoobThreePointOh ( talk) 00:53, 15 February 2024 (UTC)
ChurCuz ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) ~ToBeFree
Dear @ Doug Weller,
Given your experience and particularly your experiences with dealing with this user before, I was wondering if you might take a look into the recent behaviour of ChurCuz, who I find is consistently rude and even destructive on Wikipedia pages. Despite the fact that this user regularly removes comments against them on their talk page to present a better outlook, sanctions enforced upon them for various reasons (e.g. edit warring) can still be observed here, as well as: [76], [77], [78], [79], [80], [81]. The full list can be found here: [82]. The user has also shown how they make unnecessary yet constant reverts/display bad behaviour here, as well as: [83], [84]: and I’m sure these are not the only recent examples. As you can see, this has been occurring for some time (a period of years) yet the user has not seemed to have learnt from sanctions (as other have) despite changing their name from RossButsy to ChurCuz. The point of me bringing up older engagements is to prove this point. I myself was alerted to their recent bad behaviour in a disagreement here in which I was not entirely blameless, but in which the user gave no valid reason for their reverts and did not apply consistent policies to other pages in a somewhat hypocritical manner. The user has not responded to my last queries, before which he dismissed me unfairly and attacked me ad hominem.
As a user of great experience yourself, is there anything to be done about this user, if needs be?
Thank you very much,
– Scientelensia ( talk) 12:48, 13 February 2024 (UTC)
Aloha @ Doug Weller. I am trying to help improve this article as requested in the banners at the beginning and did not intend to be contentious or create stress. I am relatively new to Wikipedia, but had extensive experience revising the Magnetic sail article and some other physics and space propulsion articles to remove such banners. I already removed one by fixing the broken anchor. In these experiences the few reliable source discussions I had focused on the publisher and the context, never the author. There appears to be history here that I need search on in RSN to educate myself. Thank you again for that pointer. Dmcdysan ( talk) 20:04, 17 February 2024 (UTC)
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Thanks for being such an inspiration for how to create great works and building community while maintaining Wikipedia's integrity and support its core values. And for providing real information about early Florida! Yuchitown ( talk) 17:30, 18 February 2024 (UTC) |
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Hope you are doing well as far as your health is concerned! Take care. Cheers. Ekdalian ( talk) 12:32, 19 February 2024 (UTC) |
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Aloha @ Doug Weller. Regarding your undo of my reversion [117] you did not give me time to post anything on the article's talk page Talk:Younger Dryas impact hypothesis#Sweatman as Reliable source. There I posted a wiki link to the discussion in Archive 4, which I read and I did not see consensus reached that Sweatman was not a reliable source. I also reported on the results found using the search function on RSN regarding "Graham Hancock" as not a reliable source and found one for which I posted a wiki link that consensus appeared to be officially declared. I thought this was the result of the process to decide on whether a source is reliable (or not) which you referred to as "rsn." In the new topic on YDIH I requested that others read the specific section in Archive 4. In your undo you said also to talk to someone, and that is why am posting this on your Talk page. I would appreciate it if you could look at the new topic and point out what I did that did not follow documented Wikipedia guidelines that I can read. Thanks Dmcdysan ( talk) 22:31, 18 February 2024 (UTC)
Hey Doug , I am Harvici, and it seems you blocked me for doing vandal edits, but can you specify the vandal I am doing? As you mentioned in the reason for block "to stop just doing vandalism edits to rush to ECP, but you continued," so to clarify that I am not rushing to get ECP, and I told you before that until I make 500 constructive edits (which I am recording here), I would not apply for WP:PERM. I am still patrolling Recent Changes, and I am only reverting vandalism that is surely vandalism, like adding abusive words and blanking.Thanks Harvici ( talk) 14:36, 22 February 2024 (UTC)
Hi Doug.. please have a look at the latest revision history of Tilli! Users SWAPAN.CHAKROBARTY011112 and SagnikBhattacharya2023 have already been blocked as socks. There's a new suspected sock, Nobita.Uzumaki doing exactly the same thing, currently edit warring in spite of all possible warnings! Would request you to take appropriate action. Thanks & Regards. Ekdalian ( talk) 12:50, 24 February 2024 (UTC)
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I hate cancer. Wishing you the very best. Unbroken Chain ( talk) 16:57, 25 February 2024 (UTC) |
Hey Doug, I am Harvici, and I was thinking about my block and the stupid decisions I make, so I was thinking of beginning a new start from the very same IP address. But WP:Clean Start has criteria to not allow users who have blocks. So,can I be an exception and I promise to not vandal patrol until I get ECP rights (and cleared by you or any other admin) and you can also monitor me? Harvici ( talk) 16:18, 26 February 2024 (UTC)
Hi, can a user declare them as an admin like what this guy is doing? - Fylindfotberserk ( talk) 11:34, 27 February 2024 (UTC)