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The third round of the 2018 WikiCup has now come to an end. The 16 users who made it to the fourth round had at least 227 points. Our top scorers in round 3 were:
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I have manually archived everything from May 2016 to October 2017. Your talk page was literally the largest on all of Wikipedia (not including subpages)! I've also unsubscribed you from the Wikidata weekly updates and the NYC invite list. I hope this is okay... I just don't want the talk page to grow to be too large with messages that aren't being read. More over, I hope to see you active again! :) Hope all is well. Warm regards — MusikAnimal talk 16:51, 11 July 2018 (UTC)
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Following a
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Hello and welcome to the August 2018 GOCE newsletter. Thanks to everyone who participated in the Guild's June election; your new and returning coordinators are listed below. The next election will occur in December 2018; all Wikipedia editors in good standing may take part. ![]() Our June blitz focused on Requests and articles tagged for copy edit in October 2017. Of the eleven people who signed up, eight editors recorded a total of 28 copy edits, including 3 articles of more than 10,000 words. Complete results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. Thanks to everyone who participated in the July drive. Of the seventeen people who signed up, thirteen editors completed 194 copy edits, successfully removing all articles tagged in the last three months of 2017. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are here. The August blitz will run for one week, from 19 to 25 August. Sign up now! Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators, Reidgreg, Baffle gab1978, Jonesey95, Miniapolis and Tdslk. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from
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The fourth round of the 2018 WikiCup has now come to an end. The eight users who made it to the final round had to score a minimum of 422 points to qualify, with the top score in the round being 4869 points. The leaders in round 4 were:
During round four, 6 featured articles and 164 good articles were promoted by WikiCup contestants, 13 articles were included in good topics and 143 good article reviews were performed. There were also 10 "in the news" contributions on the main page and 53 "did you knows". Congratulations to all who participated! It was a generally high-scoring and productive round and I think we can expect a highly competitive finish to the competition.
Remember that any content promoted after the end of round 4 but before the start of round 5 can be claimed in round 5. Remember too that you must claim your points within 10 days of "earning" them. If you are concerned that your nomination will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. It would be helpful if this list could be cleared of any items no longer relevant. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to keep down the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck, and let the best editor win! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Godot13, Sturmvogel 66, Vanamonde and Cwmhiraeth. MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 18:31, 1 September 2018 (UTC)
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Does this mean you are back??? - Ad Orientem ( talk) 02:51, 11 October 2018 (UTC)
It's been very interesting this past week, catching up on what's been going on on Wikipedia over the past year. Longtime admins gone and sometimes even blocked, other admins/CUs retiring suddenly and disappearing, other editors who've been great contributors who have been sanctioned as sockpuppeteers, not to mention policy amendments or changes and recent ANI and ARBCOM cases (although there seem to be fewer than there used to be, thank God). I don't see how an ex-admin who came back after 5+ years could ever get up to speed on the changes.
I've just spent the past 7 days reading, reading, reading and I feel just about ready to dive back in. Maybe when you log in every day you think nothing ever changes here, day to day, but you come back after a year and wow!, the landscape seems very different. It makes me very grateful for the editors/admins who continue to plug away despite all of the distractions. You're doing great work and maybe you never hear that but I just had a hour-long discussion with a person about how Wikipedia works and they were just astounded at the contributions made by unpaid volunteers. It's easy to focus on what doesn't go right here but to the hundreds of millions of people who check in with Wikipedia to answer their questions, they take for granted that what is here in the articles is the god honest truth. In an era where anything that contradicts ones world's view is called "fake news", millions of people still come to Wikipedia every day to read what they believe is accurate information on every subject under the sun. You done good, folks. Liz Read! Talk! 01:37, 18 October 2018 (UTC)
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Welcome back. -- Dweller ( talk) Become old fashioned! 18:19, 25 October 2018 (UTC)
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Welcome back!
I originally posted this to your talk page at 00:54, 28 November 2017; you were one of the first of over 700 users I contacted regarding signature issues. I wrote ...
Please be aware that your signature uses deprecated <font>
tags, which are causing
Obsolete HTML tags lint errors. Your signature is also causing
Tidy bug affecting font tags wrapping links.
You are encouraged to change
<font face="Papyrus" size="3" color="#800080">[[User:Liz|'''''L'''''iz]]</font> <sup><font face="Times New Roman" color="#006400">[[Special:Contributions/Liz|'''''Read!''''']] [[User talk:Liz|'''''Talk!''''']]</font></sup>
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Talk!... and as you noticed, my proposed signature exceeds the 255-character limit. At that time, I also wasn't aware of the provisions of WP:SIGAPP, which says to avoid markup that enlarges text. Complying with WP:SIGAPP makes it easy to fit within the character limit. Please change your signature to:
<span style="font-family:Papyrus; color:#800080;">[[User:Liz|'''''L'''''iz]]</span> <sup style="font-family: Times New Roman; color: #006400;">[[Special:Contributions/Liz|'''''Read!''''']] [[User talk:Liz|'''''Talk!''''']]</sup>
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Talk!Respectfully, Anomalocaris ( talk) — Anomalocaris ( talk) 05:41, 1 November 2018 (UTC)
The WikiCup is over for another year! Our Champion this year is
Courcelles (
submissions), who over the course of the competition has amassed 147 GAs, 111 GARs, 9 DYKs, 4 FLs and 1 ITN. Our finalists were as follows:
All those who reached the final win awards, and awards will also be going to the following participants:
Awards will be handed out in the coming weeks. Please be patient!
Congratulations to everyone who participated in this year's WikiCup, whether you made it to the final rounds or not, and particular congratulations to the newcomers to the WikiCup who have achieved much this year. Thanks to all who have taken part and helped out with the competition.
Next year's competition begins on 1 January. You are invited to sign up to participate; it is open to all Wikipedians, new and old. The WikiCup judges will be back in touch over the coming months, and we hope to see you all in the 2019 competition. Until then, it only remains to once again congratulate our worthy winners, and thank all participants for their involvement! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Sturmvogel 66 ( talk · contribs · email), Godot13 ( talk · contribs · email), Cwmhiraeth ( talk · contribs · email) and Vanamonde93 ( talk · contribs · email).
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Could you please hide the edits made by user:87.254.70.43. Thank you. CLCStudent ( talk) 17:03, 10 November 2018 (UTC)
Thank you for being kind enough to invite me to the discussion of the proposed deletion of Template:Founders_of_Kappa_Alpha_Psi. The pages that I created that were using this template were deleted without anyone informing me. I would have been able to provide extra context and nuance had I been asked. This may or may not have changed the overall decision, but I think it would have been, at the least, the courteous thing to do. Thank you for exercising that courtesy. WDavis1911 ( talk) 06:02, 12 November 2018 (UTC)
I noticed that you're making a return to Wikipedia and just wanted to message you and welcome you back to the project. I hope life is going well and that we'll be able to catch up with one another soon. Good to see you back, Liz! :-) ~Oshwah~ (talk) (contribs) 23:08, 14 November 2018 (UTC)
I am glad to see you back as an administrator. Best Regards, Barbara ✐ ✉ 14:57, 16 November 2018 (UTC)
Hello, Liz. Voting in the 2018 Arbitration Committee elections is now open until 23.59 on Sunday, 3 December. All users who registered an account before Sunday, 28 October 2018, made at least 150 mainspace edits before Thursday, 1 November 2018 and are not currently blocked are eligible to vote. Users with alternate accounts may only vote once.
The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.
If you wish to participate in the 2018 election, please review the candidates and submit your choices on the voting page. MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 18:42, 19 November 2018 (UTC)
Hi Liz
We're working to measure the value of Wikipedia in economic terms. We want to ask you some questions about how you value being able to edit Wikipedia.
Our survey should take about 10-15 minutes of your time. We hope that you will enjoy it and find the questions interesting. All answers will be kept strictly confidential and will be anonymized before the aggregate results are published. Regretfully, we can only accept responses from people who live in the US due to restrictions in our grant-based funding.
As a reward for your participation, we will randomly pick 1 out of every 5 participants and give them $25 worth of goods of their choice from the Wikipedia store (e.g. Wikipedia themed t-shirts). Note that we can only reward you if you are based in the US.
Click here to access the survey: https://mit.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_eXJcEhLKioNHuJv
Thanks
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Researcher, MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy -- Avi gan ( talk) 02:03, 28 November 2018 (UTC)
I TSD nominated Template:User from Czechia, Template:User interest Czechia, Template:User citizen Czechia a few days ago due to the repeated recreation and irrelevance of the templates and going against the numerous discussions on Talk:Czech Republic and WP:COMMONNAME, and you were the one who responded to them. I am messaging you as I noticed that Template:User in Czechia and Template:User Czechia are also still in use and are similarly not needed and against the afforementioned policy. Template:User in Czechia, has a similar issue as the deleted templates, in that the same user repeatedly recreates it. - R9tgokunks ⭕ 06:12, 28 November 2018 (UTC)
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Guild of Copy Editors December 2018 Newsletter
Hello and welcome to the December 2018 GOCE newsletter. Here is what's been happening since the August edition. ![]() Thanks to everyone who participated in the August blitz ( results), which focused on Requests and the oldest backlog month. Of the twenty editors who signed up, eleven editors recorded 37 copy edits. For the September drive ( results), of the twenty-three people who signed up, nineteen editors completed 294 copy edits. Our October blitz ( results) focused on Requests, geography, and food and drink articles. Of the fourteen people who signed up, eleven recorded a total of 57 copy edits. For the November drive ( results), twenty-two people signed up, and eighteen editors recorded 273 copy edits. This helped to bring the backlog to a six-month low of 825 articles. The December blitz will run for one week, from 16 to 22 December. Sign up now! Elections: Nominations for the Guild's coordinators for the first half of 2019 will be open from 1 to 15 December. Voting will then take place and the election will close on 31 December at 23:59 UTC. Positions for Guild coordinators, who perform the important behind-the-scenes tasks that keep our project running smoothly, are open to all Wikipedians in good standing. We welcome self-nominations, so please consider nominating yourself if you've ever thought about helping out; it's your Guild and it doesn't run itself! Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators; Reidgreg, Baffle gab1978, Jonesey95, Miniapolis and Tdslk. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from
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Yeet — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2603:900A:1711:D700:79FB:9632:9230:EC45 ( talk) 00:09, 5 December 2018 (UTC)
I thought I was a member of that category, due to having the User:UBX/penology interest on my userpage? MW131tester ( talk) 00:13, 8 December 2018 (UTC)
Just letting you know I added a source to and de-prodded Samuel Suba. Take to AfD if you feel the article is not notable... Eddie891 Talk Work 17:41, 8 December 2018 (UTC)
Hi,
I was just hoping I could get a more detailed explanation of the deletion of the Mark Lindquist article that was recently speedied, with specific reference to how my talk page brief defence was incorrect - I've only nominated one attack page, so I don't get much experience with them. I also only very recently started watching the article/talk page and hadn't actually edited the article itself so hopefully I'm fairly neutral towards it (as I'm aware there were biased IPs and SPAs (nothwithstanding the SPA-CSD)). [Please Ping] Nosebagbear ( talk) 00:24, 10 December 2018 (UTC)
Peace is a state of balance and understanding in yourself and between others, where respect is gained by the acceptance of differences, tolerance persists, conflicts are resolved through dialog, peoples rights are respected and their voices are heard, and everyone is at their highest point of serenity without social tension.
@ Liz: I have edited {{ User MU}} ,Can I remove deletion tag for this. - Afingba Mangang ( talk) 13:56, 11 December 2018 (UTC)
I noticed you've done some work on Action Deafness. Just to let you know, I've nominated it for deletion. You can see the discussion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/December 2018#Action Deafness. CircleGirl ( talk) 02:08, 12 December 2018 (UTC)
As I don't often work with proxies, I didn't know what a good substitute block length was, so I abdicated my responsibility by leaving a "help me" note at WP:AN instead :-) The IP's apparently now no longer a proxy, so it's simply been unblocked. Nyttend ( talk) 20:05, 13 December 2018 (UTC)
Why did you remove the copyvio tag? you didn't leave an edit summary or a message on my talk page. Did I make a mistake? [ Username Needed 19:25, 15 December 2018 (UTC)
Pages dependent on a non-existent or deleted page(see diff). I've been told not to delete talk pages on redirect pages so I removed the CSD tag and left the talk page alone. I thought the tag was placed in error.
I mentioned you at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mark Lindquist attempting to correct your concerns and valid reasoning for deleting an attack page that was reverted before I could even finish. I undid the revert with a note to the editor, changed my !vote, and provided rationale and policy for my actions. This is something I usually do not do but enough is enough. I am alerting you because I feel the policy does not need consensus (according to the page) and that adding material back to the article should conform to policies and guidelines. Thank you, Otr500 ( talk) 13:51, 16 December 2018 (UTC)
Hi. Remember how you closed the admin noticeboard with a warning to thewolfchild and told him to be more civil on at 22:54 15 December 2018? Well, less than five hours after that civility reminder, he did it again. (on 16 December at 04:42) He does not have a history of responding well to civility reminders. And it appears he took the warning as "a bunch of nonsense". Can you be a bit more clear with him? Numerous civility warnings have meant nothing to him.-- PlanespotterA320 ( talk) 18:15, 17 December 2018 (UTC)
I've now had to take that article off my watchlist because of the persistent attacks there. Posts that have nothing to do with the content of that article and everything to do with a serious case of preachy must-have-the-last-word-ism by someone who has clearly failed to consider their own behavioural issues or what this continued vendetta is costing this project. Then I come here only to find more of the same, along with the claim that I referred to your close of the ANI as "a bunch of nonsense" which is obviously a blatant lie.
Liz, not only am I willing to move on to other things, but I have already done so. And not only am I willing to ignore PsA320, but I'd be happy to do so (I had already clearly stated last October that I was no longer interested in discussing anything further with her). Perhaps if the obvious boomerang had been handed out at ANI, this still wouldn't be dragging on. I've suggested they DTS and move on, but maybe if it now came from an admin, they will actually, finally, do just that. - wolf 00:28, 18 December 2018 (UTC)
I'm not sure if you are notified of pings, and you haven't answered my question. Semi Hyper cube 21:43, 17 December 2018 (UTC)
Re this comment I agree that starting an ANI over a single incidence of personal attacks by an established editor would be dumb, and I do not plan an ANI report without more wrongdoing. However, I am disturbed by JzG's reactions to me, and not sure how to deal with it should his problematic behavior continue. Me and JzG have had several disputes on vaccine-related articles, I am ok with content disputes, while JzG has made some accusatory comments and used his opinions as arguments at times, we have been able to resolve most of the content disputes without conduct issues, and I would never want someone sanctioned for a good-faith content dispute.
However, in a recent dispute JzG added the unsourced claim that Lucija Tomljenovic (a researcher who has authored bad studies trying to link aluminum vaccine adjuvants and autism) is an anti-vaccine activist [1], this page is on my wachlist, so I saw and removed the unsourced claim, citing BLP [2]. JzG then restored the claim [3], but saying "anti-vaccinationist" instead of "anti-vaccine activist", this time, JzG includes a "source", but the "source" he uses is about Wakefield and MMR (there is no aluminum or other adjuvant in MMR), and never mentions Tomljenovic, and the edit summery casts aspersions suggesting that I am an antivaxer. JzG quickly adds another source [4], this source does talk about a vaccine-critical paper Tomljenovic co-authored getting retracted, but it is OR to call her an anti-vaccinationist based solely on the fact that she co-authored one paper saying that aluminum adjuvants give mice autism.
I raised the issue of using edit summaries to cast aspersions on JzG's talk, leading to this discussion [5], in which JzG tries to convince me to accept his OR and accuses me of "Defending the indefensible" and trying to "defend antivax cranks". However, he never tries to restore the OR based edit (which I had removed here [6] while the talk was ongoing). We subsequently engaged in (less bizarre) content disputes here [7], and I was hoping we could continue to get along acceptably.
The other day I made a poorly worded comment on an ANI case over the size of nazi images [8] JzG, who was not involved in the nazi image issue previously, misinterprets my comment as a defense of nazis [9] and when criticized for this by another editor, JzG makes this absurd comment [10] I redact the personal attacks [11], which JzG restores, claiming his attacks on me are "statments of fact" [12]. JzG tells me that his comments were valid admin observations about my behavior [13] [14] and thinks this should be "blindingly obvious". I think if anything should be blindingly obvious, it's that being an admin doesn't give JzG the right to follow a user (me) who he has just been in disputes with to completely unrelated discussions and basically call me a bad editor and suggest that my edits are bad faith.
I don't want any extra drama, and I am hoping that JzG will just not make these assumptions of bad faith in the future, but his attitude is not encouraging and I am unsure of the best course of action if he continues. Tornado chaser ( talk) 19:49, 18 December 2018 (UTC)
Hi,
You placed an indefinite vandalism-only account block template on this user's talkpage, yet you only blocked them for 31 hours. Which block duration did you mean to set? Thanks. 2601:1C0:4401:24A0:A996:495F:5003:B72F ( talk) 04:09, 19 December 2018 (UTC)
Hello, Liz. The problem with this is that it is a hard redirect to an article, not a {{ category redirect}} to another category. If you can identify a proper target for it, great (I couldn't); but if no such target exists then it shoild be deleted. -- R'n'B ( call me Russ) 10:25, 19 December 2018 (UTC)
FYI, I've brought them to ANI again because they've continued the same sort of thing.-- Jasper Deng (talk) 17:36, 19 December 2018 (UTC)
Hello Liz. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of Eugène Dieudonné, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: membership in Bonnot Gang indicates significance and should be redirected there in case of missing notability per WP:ATD-R. Thank you. So Why 09:44, 20 December 2018 (UTC)
Hi Liz. Would you look again at Glenn Mena, which you speedied. The new version, other than the name, and the first sentence, is not the same as the previous version. The new version is very different, and contains a range of reliable sources which were not there in the original version. My view of it is that it does not quality for G4 as it is a different version, and contains reliable sources to indicate the subject's notability, enough to survive a new AfD. SilkTork ( talk) 16:17, 20 December 2018 (UTC)
This month: A general update.
The current status of the project is as follows:
Until next time,
-— Isarra ༆ 22:44, 20 December 2018 (UTC)
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I really don't understand why BrownHairedGirl insists on creating categories like Category:2019 Albanian television seasons when the articles that she adds to them clearly do not meet the category inclusion criteria the she herself added. If it was any other editor it would be considered disruptive at best. Al it does is to create work for other editors. -- AussieLegend ( ✉) 06:23, 23 December 2018 (UTC)
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Thanks for your helpfulness, and well-intentioned intervention. Hey, I made a rhyme! Huggums537 ( talk) 22:55, 25 December 2018 (UTC)
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Thank you, Shearonink, I love your holiday card! Have a wonderful 2019! Liz Read! Talk! 03:29, 26 December 2018 (UTC)
Liz,
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The second round of the 2019 WikiCup has now finished. Contestants needed to scored 32 points to advance into round 3. Our top four scorers in round 2 all scored over 400 points and were:
Other notable performances were put in by
Barkeep49 with six GAs,
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Lee Vilenski, and
Canada Hky, each with seven GARs, and
MPJ-DK with a seven item GT.
So far contestants have achieved nine featured articles between them and a splendid 80 good articles. Commendably, 227 GARs have been completed during the course of the 2019 WikiCup, so the backlog of articles awaiting GA review has been reduced as a result of contestants' activities. The judges are pleased with the thorough GARs that are being performed, and have hardly had to reject any. As we enter the third round, remember that any content promoted after the end of round 2 but before the start of round 3 can be claimed in round 3. Remember too that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them.
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Since November 2018, six administrator accounts have been compromised and temporarily desysopped. In an effort to help improve account security, our intention was to remind administrators of existing policies on account security — that they are required to "have strong passwords and follow appropriate personal security practices." We have updated our procedures to ensure that we enforce these policies more strictly in the future. The policies themselves have not changed. In particular, two-factor authentication remains an optional means of adding extra security to your account. The choice not to enable 2FA will not be considered when deciding to restore sysop privileges to administrator accounts that were compromised.
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I NEVER write messages to myself on my own talk page but I just saw https://xtools.wmflabs.org/adminstats on the Admin Report and it's an interesting resource if any talk page stalkers don't check User:JamesR/Adminstats to look at admin stats. Psst! The admins you see the most on Wikipedia are not exactly the most active admins by stats counter. People get a niche area and work in it. Liz Read! Talk! 01:59, 5 May 2019 (UTC)
Dear Liz,
to start with kindly let me highlight that I'm a newbee at Wikipedia. While highly appreciating the good content, I'm still getting accustomed to the article requirements (whereas I am also closely studying the official guidelines).
You deleted my draft page on the German shipping company "Peter Döhle Schiffahrts-KG" with the reason „G8:Redirect to a deleted or nonexistent page“ which I frankly speaking don’t understand. Merely a citation of a publication on the company by an independent publishing house as well as a link to their corporate website was included in my draft. Furthermore, I would be happy to add some references like Financial Times, etc. and not only on this company, but actually others later on as well. But before preparing different drafts, I would like to know the exact requirements.
Thank you for your kind help!! Best regards, BulbousBow 56 — Preceding unsigned comment added by BulbousBow56 ( talk • contribs) 14:39, 19 September 2019 (UTC)
No I didn’t. Signpost is part of Wikipedia and we have every right to enforce our policies there. Defamation is a “hair on fire” situation where you remove first and ask questions later. Jehochman Talk 17:24, 1 July 2019 (UTC)
[15] If we want to disagree on something, we'll have to find something better ;-) Gråbergs Gråa Sång ( talk) 16:57, 1 July 2019 (UTC)
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He also joined the person from the redacted site in calling me a sick and twisted pervert. True crime is a specialist subject for me, not an obsession. I feel that someone should care about victims after the media spotlight has changed. If i was wrong, i am sorry. Paul Benjamin Austin ( talk) 00:34, 2 July 2019 (UTC)
Hello Liz, I believe the very first sentence of your ArbCom statement may be disputed. I invite you to read paragraph 4 of my statement, where I provided some evidence. starship .paint ( talk) 00:52, 2 July 2019 (UTC)
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The third round of the 2018 WikiCup has now come to an end. The 16 users who made it to the fourth round had at least 227 points. Our top scorers in round 3 were:
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I have manually archived everything from May 2016 to October 2017. Your talk page was literally the largest on all of Wikipedia (not including subpages)! I've also unsubscribed you from the Wikidata weekly updates and the NYC invite list. I hope this is okay... I just don't want the talk page to grow to be too large with messages that aren't being read. More over, I hope to see you active again! :) Hope all is well. Warm regards — MusikAnimal talk 16:51, 11 July 2018 (UTC)
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Hello and welcome to the August 2018 GOCE newsletter. Thanks to everyone who participated in the Guild's June election; your new and returning coordinators are listed below. The next election will occur in December 2018; all Wikipedia editors in good standing may take part. ![]() Our June blitz focused on Requests and articles tagged for copy edit in October 2017. Of the eleven people who signed up, eight editors recorded a total of 28 copy edits, including 3 articles of more than 10,000 words. Complete results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. Thanks to everyone who participated in the July drive. Of the seventeen people who signed up, thirteen editors completed 194 copy edits, successfully removing all articles tagged in the last three months of 2017. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are here. The August blitz will run for one week, from 19 to 25 August. Sign up now! Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators, Reidgreg, Baffle gab1978, Jonesey95, Miniapolis and Tdslk. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from
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Books & Bytes
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-— Isarra ༆ 22:24, 30 August 2018 (UTC)
The fourth round of the 2018 WikiCup has now come to an end. The eight users who made it to the final round had to score a minimum of 422 points to qualify, with the top score in the round being 4869 points. The leaders in round 4 were:
During round four, 6 featured articles and 164 good articles were promoted by WikiCup contestants, 13 articles were included in good topics and 143 good article reviews were performed. There were also 10 "in the news" contributions on the main page and 53 "did you knows". Congratulations to all who participated! It was a generally high-scoring and productive round and I think we can expect a highly competitive finish to the competition.
Remember that any content promoted after the end of round 4 but before the start of round 5 can be claimed in round 5. Remember too that you must claim your points within 10 days of "earning" them. If you are concerned that your nomination will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. It would be helpful if this list could be cleared of any items no longer relevant. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to keep down the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck, and let the best editor win! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Godot13, Sturmvogel 66, Vanamonde and Cwmhiraeth. MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 18:31, 1 September 2018 (UTC)
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Does this mean you are back??? - Ad Orientem ( talk) 02:51, 11 October 2018 (UTC)
It's been very interesting this past week, catching up on what's been going on on Wikipedia over the past year. Longtime admins gone and sometimes even blocked, other admins/CUs retiring suddenly and disappearing, other editors who've been great contributors who have been sanctioned as sockpuppeteers, not to mention policy amendments or changes and recent ANI and ARBCOM cases (although there seem to be fewer than there used to be, thank God). I don't see how an ex-admin who came back after 5+ years could ever get up to speed on the changes.
I've just spent the past 7 days reading, reading, reading and I feel just about ready to dive back in. Maybe when you log in every day you think nothing ever changes here, day to day, but you come back after a year and wow!, the landscape seems very different. It makes me very grateful for the editors/admins who continue to plug away despite all of the distractions. You're doing great work and maybe you never hear that but I just had a hour-long discussion with a person about how Wikipedia works and they were just astounded at the contributions made by unpaid volunteers. It's easy to focus on what doesn't go right here but to the hundreds of millions of people who check in with Wikipedia to answer their questions, they take for granted that what is here in the articles is the god honest truth. In an era where anything that contradicts ones world's view is called "fake news", millions of people still come to Wikipedia every day to read what they believe is accurate information on every subject under the sun. You done good, folks. Liz Read! Talk! 01:37, 18 October 2018 (UTC)
Books & Bytes
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Welcome back. -- Dweller ( talk) Become old fashioned! 18:19, 25 October 2018 (UTC)
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Welcome back!
I originally posted this to your talk page at 00:54, 28 November 2017; you were one of the first of over 700 users I contacted regarding signature issues. I wrote ...
Please be aware that your signature uses deprecated <font>
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Talk!... and as you noticed, my proposed signature exceeds the 255-character limit. At that time, I also wasn't aware of the provisions of WP:SIGAPP, which says to avoid markup that enlarges text. Complying with WP:SIGAPP makes it easy to fit within the character limit. Please change your signature to:
<span style="font-family:Papyrus; color:#800080;">[[User:Liz|'''''L'''''iz]]</span> <sup style="font-family: Times New Roman; color: #006400;">[[Special:Contributions/Liz|'''''Read!''''']] [[User talk:Liz|'''''Talk!''''']]</sup>
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Talk!Respectfully, Anomalocaris ( talk) — Anomalocaris ( talk) 05:41, 1 November 2018 (UTC)
The WikiCup is over for another year! Our Champion this year is
Courcelles (
submissions), who over the course of the competition has amassed 147 GAs, 111 GARs, 9 DYKs, 4 FLs and 1 ITN. Our finalists were as follows:
All those who reached the final win awards, and awards will also be going to the following participants:
Awards will be handed out in the coming weeks. Please be patient!
Congratulations to everyone who participated in this year's WikiCup, whether you made it to the final rounds or not, and particular congratulations to the newcomers to the WikiCup who have achieved much this year. Thanks to all who have taken part and helped out with the competition.
Next year's competition begins on 1 January. You are invited to sign up to participate; it is open to all Wikipedians, new and old. The WikiCup judges will be back in touch over the coming months, and we hope to see you all in the 2019 competition. Until then, it only remains to once again congratulate our worthy winners, and thank all participants for their involvement! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Sturmvogel 66 ( talk · contribs · email), Godot13 ( talk · contribs · email), Cwmhiraeth ( talk · contribs · email) and Vanamonde93 ( talk · contribs · email).
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Could you please hide the edits made by user:87.254.70.43. Thank you. CLCStudent ( talk) 17:03, 10 November 2018 (UTC)
Thank you for being kind enough to invite me to the discussion of the proposed deletion of Template:Founders_of_Kappa_Alpha_Psi. The pages that I created that were using this template were deleted without anyone informing me. I would have been able to provide extra context and nuance had I been asked. This may or may not have changed the overall decision, but I think it would have been, at the least, the courteous thing to do. Thank you for exercising that courtesy. WDavis1911 ( talk) 06:02, 12 November 2018 (UTC)
I noticed that you're making a return to Wikipedia and just wanted to message you and welcome you back to the project. I hope life is going well and that we'll be able to catch up with one another soon. Good to see you back, Liz! :-) ~Oshwah~ (talk) (contribs) 23:08, 14 November 2018 (UTC)
I am glad to see you back as an administrator. Best Regards, Barbara ✐ ✉ 14:57, 16 November 2018 (UTC)
Hello, Liz. Voting in the 2018 Arbitration Committee elections is now open until 23.59 on Sunday, 3 December. All users who registered an account before Sunday, 28 October 2018, made at least 150 mainspace edits before Thursday, 1 November 2018 and are not currently blocked are eligible to vote. Users with alternate accounts may only vote once.
The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.
If you wish to participate in the 2018 election, please review the candidates and submit your choices on the voting page. MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 18:42, 19 November 2018 (UTC)
Hi Liz
We're working to measure the value of Wikipedia in economic terms. We want to ask you some questions about how you value being able to edit Wikipedia.
Our survey should take about 10-15 minutes of your time. We hope that you will enjoy it and find the questions interesting. All answers will be kept strictly confidential and will be anonymized before the aggregate results are published. Regretfully, we can only accept responses from people who live in the US due to restrictions in our grant-based funding.
As a reward for your participation, we will randomly pick 1 out of every 5 participants and give them $25 worth of goods of their choice from the Wikipedia store (e.g. Wikipedia themed t-shirts). Note that we can only reward you if you are based in the US.
Click here to access the survey: https://mit.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_eXJcEhLKioNHuJv
Thanks
Avi
Researcher, MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy -- Avi gan ( talk) 02:03, 28 November 2018 (UTC)
I TSD nominated Template:User from Czechia, Template:User interest Czechia, Template:User citizen Czechia a few days ago due to the repeated recreation and irrelevance of the templates and going against the numerous discussions on Talk:Czech Republic and WP:COMMONNAME, and you were the one who responded to them. I am messaging you as I noticed that Template:User in Czechia and Template:User Czechia are also still in use and are similarly not needed and against the afforementioned policy. Template:User in Czechia, has a similar issue as the deleted templates, in that the same user repeatedly recreates it. - R9tgokunks ⭕ 06:12, 28 November 2018 (UTC)
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Hello and welcome to the December 2018 GOCE newsletter. Here is what's been happening since the August edition. ![]() Thanks to everyone who participated in the August blitz ( results), which focused on Requests and the oldest backlog month. Of the twenty editors who signed up, eleven editors recorded 37 copy edits. For the September drive ( results), of the twenty-three people who signed up, nineteen editors completed 294 copy edits. Our October blitz ( results) focused on Requests, geography, and food and drink articles. Of the fourteen people who signed up, eleven recorded a total of 57 copy edits. For the November drive ( results), twenty-two people signed up, and eighteen editors recorded 273 copy edits. This helped to bring the backlog to a six-month low of 825 articles. The December blitz will run for one week, from 16 to 22 December. Sign up now! Elections: Nominations for the Guild's coordinators for the first half of 2019 will be open from 1 to 15 December. Voting will then take place and the election will close on 31 December at 23:59 UTC. Positions for Guild coordinators, who perform the important behind-the-scenes tasks that keep our project running smoothly, are open to all Wikipedians in good standing. We welcome self-nominations, so please consider nominating yourself if you've ever thought about helping out; it's your Guild and it doesn't run itself! Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators; Reidgreg, Baffle gab1978, Jonesey95, Miniapolis and Tdslk. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from
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Yeet — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2603:900A:1711:D700:79FB:9632:9230:EC45 ( talk) 00:09, 5 December 2018 (UTC)
I thought I was a member of that category, due to having the User:UBX/penology interest on my userpage? MW131tester ( talk) 00:13, 8 December 2018 (UTC)
Just letting you know I added a source to and de-prodded Samuel Suba. Take to AfD if you feel the article is not notable... Eddie891 Talk Work 17:41, 8 December 2018 (UTC)
Hi,
I was just hoping I could get a more detailed explanation of the deletion of the Mark Lindquist article that was recently speedied, with specific reference to how my talk page brief defence was incorrect - I've only nominated one attack page, so I don't get much experience with them. I also only very recently started watching the article/talk page and hadn't actually edited the article itself so hopefully I'm fairly neutral towards it (as I'm aware there were biased IPs and SPAs (nothwithstanding the SPA-CSD)). [Please Ping] Nosebagbear ( talk) 00:24, 10 December 2018 (UTC)
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@ Liz: I have edited {{ User MU}} ,Can I remove deletion tag for this. - Afingba Mangang ( talk) 13:56, 11 December 2018 (UTC)
I noticed you've done some work on Action Deafness. Just to let you know, I've nominated it for deletion. You can see the discussion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/December 2018#Action Deafness. CircleGirl ( talk) 02:08, 12 December 2018 (UTC)
As I don't often work with proxies, I didn't know what a good substitute block length was, so I abdicated my responsibility by leaving a "help me" note at WP:AN instead :-) The IP's apparently now no longer a proxy, so it's simply been unblocked. Nyttend ( talk) 20:05, 13 December 2018 (UTC)
Why did you remove the copyvio tag? you didn't leave an edit summary or a message on my talk page. Did I make a mistake? [ Username Needed 19:25, 15 December 2018 (UTC)
Pages dependent on a non-existent or deleted page(see diff). I've been told not to delete talk pages on redirect pages so I removed the CSD tag and left the talk page alone. I thought the tag was placed in error.
I mentioned you at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mark Lindquist attempting to correct your concerns and valid reasoning for deleting an attack page that was reverted before I could even finish. I undid the revert with a note to the editor, changed my !vote, and provided rationale and policy for my actions. This is something I usually do not do but enough is enough. I am alerting you because I feel the policy does not need consensus (according to the page) and that adding material back to the article should conform to policies and guidelines. Thank you, Otr500 ( talk) 13:51, 16 December 2018 (UTC)
Hi. Remember how you closed the admin noticeboard with a warning to thewolfchild and told him to be more civil on at 22:54 15 December 2018? Well, less than five hours after that civility reminder, he did it again. (on 16 December at 04:42) He does not have a history of responding well to civility reminders. And it appears he took the warning as "a bunch of nonsense". Can you be a bit more clear with him? Numerous civility warnings have meant nothing to him.-- PlanespotterA320 ( talk) 18:15, 17 December 2018 (UTC)
I've now had to take that article off my watchlist because of the persistent attacks there. Posts that have nothing to do with the content of that article and everything to do with a serious case of preachy must-have-the-last-word-ism by someone who has clearly failed to consider their own behavioural issues or what this continued vendetta is costing this project. Then I come here only to find more of the same, along with the claim that I referred to your close of the ANI as "a bunch of nonsense" which is obviously a blatant lie.
Liz, not only am I willing to move on to other things, but I have already done so. And not only am I willing to ignore PsA320, but I'd be happy to do so (I had already clearly stated last October that I was no longer interested in discussing anything further with her). Perhaps if the obvious boomerang had been handed out at ANI, this still wouldn't be dragging on. I've suggested they DTS and move on, but maybe if it now came from an admin, they will actually, finally, do just that. - wolf 00:28, 18 December 2018 (UTC)
I'm not sure if you are notified of pings, and you haven't answered my question. Semi Hyper cube 21:43, 17 December 2018 (UTC)
Re this comment I agree that starting an ANI over a single incidence of personal attacks by an established editor would be dumb, and I do not plan an ANI report without more wrongdoing. However, I am disturbed by JzG's reactions to me, and not sure how to deal with it should his problematic behavior continue. Me and JzG have had several disputes on vaccine-related articles, I am ok with content disputes, while JzG has made some accusatory comments and used his opinions as arguments at times, we have been able to resolve most of the content disputes without conduct issues, and I would never want someone sanctioned for a good-faith content dispute.
However, in a recent dispute JzG added the unsourced claim that Lucija Tomljenovic (a researcher who has authored bad studies trying to link aluminum vaccine adjuvants and autism) is an anti-vaccine activist [1], this page is on my wachlist, so I saw and removed the unsourced claim, citing BLP [2]. JzG then restored the claim [3], but saying "anti-vaccinationist" instead of "anti-vaccine activist", this time, JzG includes a "source", but the "source" he uses is about Wakefield and MMR (there is no aluminum or other adjuvant in MMR), and never mentions Tomljenovic, and the edit summery casts aspersions suggesting that I am an antivaxer. JzG quickly adds another source [4], this source does talk about a vaccine-critical paper Tomljenovic co-authored getting retracted, but it is OR to call her an anti-vaccinationist based solely on the fact that she co-authored one paper saying that aluminum adjuvants give mice autism.
I raised the issue of using edit summaries to cast aspersions on JzG's talk, leading to this discussion [5], in which JzG tries to convince me to accept his OR and accuses me of "Defending the indefensible" and trying to "defend antivax cranks". However, he never tries to restore the OR based edit (which I had removed here [6] while the talk was ongoing). We subsequently engaged in (less bizarre) content disputes here [7], and I was hoping we could continue to get along acceptably.
The other day I made a poorly worded comment on an ANI case over the size of nazi images [8] JzG, who was not involved in the nazi image issue previously, misinterprets my comment as a defense of nazis [9] and when criticized for this by another editor, JzG makes this absurd comment [10] I redact the personal attacks [11], which JzG restores, claiming his attacks on me are "statments of fact" [12]. JzG tells me that his comments were valid admin observations about my behavior [13] [14] and thinks this should be "blindingly obvious". I think if anything should be blindingly obvious, it's that being an admin doesn't give JzG the right to follow a user (me) who he has just been in disputes with to completely unrelated discussions and basically call me a bad editor and suggest that my edits are bad faith.
I don't want any extra drama, and I am hoping that JzG will just not make these assumptions of bad faith in the future, but his attitude is not encouraging and I am unsure of the best course of action if he continues. Tornado chaser ( talk) 19:49, 18 December 2018 (UTC)
Hi,
You placed an indefinite vandalism-only account block template on this user's talkpage, yet you only blocked them for 31 hours. Which block duration did you mean to set? Thanks. 2601:1C0:4401:24A0:A996:495F:5003:B72F ( talk) 04:09, 19 December 2018 (UTC)
Hello, Liz. The problem with this is that it is a hard redirect to an article, not a {{ category redirect}} to another category. If you can identify a proper target for it, great (I couldn't); but if no such target exists then it shoild be deleted. -- R'n'B ( call me Russ) 10:25, 19 December 2018 (UTC)
FYI, I've brought them to ANI again because they've continued the same sort of thing.-- Jasper Deng (talk) 17:36, 19 December 2018 (UTC)
Hello Liz. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of Eugène Dieudonné, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: membership in Bonnot Gang indicates significance and should be redirected there in case of missing notability per WP:ATD-R. Thank you. So Why 09:44, 20 December 2018 (UTC)
Hi Liz. Would you look again at Glenn Mena, which you speedied. The new version, other than the name, and the first sentence, is not the same as the previous version. The new version is very different, and contains a range of reliable sources which were not there in the original version. My view of it is that it does not quality for G4 as it is a different version, and contains reliable sources to indicate the subject's notability, enough to survive a new AfD. SilkTork ( talk) 16:17, 20 December 2018 (UTC)
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I really don't understand why BrownHairedGirl insists on creating categories like Category:2019 Albanian television seasons when the articles that she adds to them clearly do not meet the category inclusion criteria the she herself added. If it was any other editor it would be considered disruptive at best. Al it does is to create work for other editors. -- AussieLegend ( ✉) 06:23, 23 December 2018 (UTC)
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I NEVER write messages to myself on my own talk page but I just saw https://xtools.wmflabs.org/adminstats on the Admin Report and it's an interesting resource if any talk page stalkers don't check User:JamesR/Adminstats to look at admin stats. Psst! The admins you see the most on Wikipedia are not exactly the most active admins by stats counter. People get a niche area and work in it. Liz Read! Talk! 01:59, 5 May 2019 (UTC)
Dear Liz,
to start with kindly let me highlight that I'm a newbee at Wikipedia. While highly appreciating the good content, I'm still getting accustomed to the article requirements (whereas I am also closely studying the official guidelines).
You deleted my draft page on the German shipping company "Peter Döhle Schiffahrts-KG" with the reason „G8:Redirect to a deleted or nonexistent page“ which I frankly speaking don’t understand. Merely a citation of a publication on the company by an independent publishing house as well as a link to their corporate website was included in my draft. Furthermore, I would be happy to add some references like Financial Times, etc. and not only on this company, but actually others later on as well. But before preparing different drafts, I would like to know the exact requirements.
Thank you for your kind help!! Best regards, BulbousBow 56 — Preceding unsigned comment added by BulbousBow56 ( talk • contribs) 14:39, 19 September 2019 (UTC)
No I didn’t. Signpost is part of Wikipedia and we have every right to enforce our policies there. Defamation is a “hair on fire” situation where you remove first and ask questions later. Jehochman Talk 17:24, 1 July 2019 (UTC)
[15] If we want to disagree on something, we'll have to find something better ;-) Gråbergs Gråa Sång ( talk) 16:57, 1 July 2019 (UTC)
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He also joined the person from the redacted site in calling me a sick and twisted pervert. True crime is a specialist subject for me, not an obsession. I feel that someone should care about victims after the media spotlight has changed. If i was wrong, i am sorry. Paul Benjamin Austin ( talk) 00:34, 2 July 2019 (UTC)
Hello Liz, I believe the very first sentence of your ArbCom statement may be disputed. I invite you to read paragraph 4 of my statement, where I provided some evidence. starship .paint ( talk) 00:52, 2 July 2019 (UTC)
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