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13:53, 27 July 2020 (UTC)
Greetings Wugapodes, I have been trying to make an interactive map of covid cases similar to Template:Interactive COVID-19 maps/Cumulative confirmed cases. I am not getting it to work, don't know where it goes wrong? Since you made the mentioned one, I'm asking you this. If you get a free time, can you have a look at this? I get "TypeError: undefined has no properties" when I preview it at mw:Special:GraphSandbox. ( Links for dependent sub-pages.) Thanks - Timbaaa -> ping me 15:50, 27 July 2020 (UTC)
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15:43, 3 August 2020 (UTC)
Hi Wugapodes. I noticed your comment above that you're a bit busy right now; my query is low priority, no hurry on this. Just wanted your thoughts on a matter I came across whilst doing overhauls of the Template:Gs system, whenever you have spare time and can get around to it.
Regarding {{ COVID19 GS editnotice}}, which was created in response to this request back in March, and ref this, my understanding of edit notices for DS is that they follow ArbCom's procedure on page-level restrictions: if there are page restrictions (either for a whole topic, or for a single article) that an editnotice is required (alongside a talk notice) to meet the sanctioning requirements. The COVID GS doesn't authorise 1RR or other page-level restrictions, instead solely standard discretionary sanctions, whose awareness procedure doesn't require an editnotice. The COVID GS would seem like an anomaly here, as it's the only DS or GS with an active editnotice without any page-level sanctions on the topic.
If my understanding here is correct, would it be okay to delete this editnotice? There are a small number of pages like Coronavirus disease 2019 which have custom page-level sanctions, so would continue to require some form of custom editnotice. Aside from principle/consistency, my bigger concern is that a big red editnotice on articles isn't great for encouraging newer editors to participate (COVID EN reads harsher than the ArbCom DS editnotices imv), so if not required by the bureaucratic powers that be (ie the awareness rules) I was hoping it'd be possible to get this one deleted?
Thank you. ProcrastinatingReader ( talk) 00:42, 31 July 2020 (UTC)
Administrators should add an editnotice and talk page notice on restricted pages. Editors who ignore or breach page restrictions may be sanctioned by any uninvolved administrator only if the editor was warned about this decision and an editnotice describing the page restriction was placed on the restricted page., resulting in a few editnotices for pages without page-level sanctions. Following that, some editors mass-created COVID editnotices, to the point where about 200 pages are now tagged with them. Somewhat delayed to request deletion now, but they do appear to be improper, and anything that unnecessarily discourages participation should be scrapped imo. ProcrastinatingReader ( talk) 01:04, 31 July 2020 (UTC)
my understanding is that the COVID GS editnotice is sufficient warning, and the template seems to be used to warn editors that failure to comply with MEDRS will result in them being sanctioned, do you mean that for COVID the editnotice is treat as the 'awareness' for sanctions, and so {{ Gs/alert}} is unneeded to sanction an editor? ProcrastinatingReader ( talk) 06:44, 31 July 2020 (UTC)
Editors ... may be sanctioned by any uninvolved administrator only if the editor was warned about this decision and an editnotice describing the page restriction was placed on the restricted page."(emphasis mine), implying that an editnotice is distinct from a warning. For the sake of transparency, just adding that PR raised this question on IRC and I responded, but since I have your talk page on my watchlist, I'd have come here to clarify anyway.
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Can you pull email access from User:Sarbashis Kumar Paul? I got an unsolicited email from him whining for an unblock. I can't think of how he would have picked me in particular, so I assume he's just randomly emailing every established user he comes across. Jackmcbarn ( talk) 05:50, 9 August 2020 (UTC)
Hi Wugapodes. Could you reassess the need for partial protection at Kiki Camarena ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)? There's almost certainly sock/meatpuppetry going on. The dynamic ip's edit-warring there appear to be only two people, one of which appears to be a logged out editor who'd be otherwise blocked if these edits were coming from his/her account. Talk:Kiki_Camarena#stop_deleting/adding_material_under_discussion_to_the_article, related discussion. -- Hipal/Ronz ( talk) 16:01, 9 August 2020 (UTC)
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16:06, 10 August 2020 (UTC)
Hi. I may be misinterpreting your actions, but it looks like you restored all revisions of this page after I'd made a point of only restoring the oldest ones (because everything since then is promotional). Now the draft looks the same as it did when it was nominated for G11 a few days ago. I was wondering what the rationale was? Deb ( talk) 08:59, 12 August 2020 (UTC)
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20:40, 17 August 2020 (UTC)
Thank you for your help on this! Based on this articles' history, we will likely have to seek an "IP Block" for the article G. Capo ( talk) 20:47, 17 August 2020 (UTC)
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17:59, 24 August 2020 (UTC)
I saw this answer you gave. I'm one of the participants in that dispute. I think those asking for the "temporary" location are asking because a "no consensus" result of a page move discussion will automatically favor their chosen name. While discussions should be closed based on policy and not number of votes, I feel this is not always the case (I went through Category:Closed move reviews and found some examples to the contrary). Worse yet, this particular discussion on article name change appears to have attracted two sockpuppets in the last two weeks alone. I would like to request name change under WP:RMCM, is there any way to ensure the closer focuses purely on the strength of arguments made and disregards the number of votes for each side? VR talk 01:57, 26 August 2020 (UTC)
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20:08, 31 August 2020 (UTC)
The fourth round of the competition has finished, with 865 points being required to qualify for the final round, nearly twice as many points as last year. It was a hotly competitive round with two contestants with 598 and 605 points being eliminated, and all but two of the contestants who reached the final round having achieved an FA during the round. The highest scorers were
Between them, contestants achieved 14 featured articles, 14 featured lists, 2 featured pictures, 87 good articles, 90 DYK entries, 75 ITN entries, 95 featured article candidate reviews and 81 good article reviews. 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. If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Godot13 ( talk), Sturmvogel 66 ( talk), Vanamonde ( talk), Cwmhiraeth ( talk) MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 19:53, 1 September 2020 (UTC)
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I like today's Main page, with the TFA (thank you for your FAC comments!) on the anniversary day (of both dedication and our concert), a DYK, and a great photographer who didn't make it soon enough, Jürgen Schadeberg, - more on my talk, mostly about the tribute to Brian who shared his sources. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 20:42, 1 September 2020 (UTC)
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Rhythm Is It! - I expanded that stub on my dad's birthday because we saw the film together back then, and were impressed. As a ref said: every educator should see it. Don't miss the trailer, for a starter. - A welcome chance to present yet another article by Brian on the Main page, Le Sacre du printemps. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 14:07, 31 August 2020 (UTC)
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15:59, 7 September 2020 (UTC)
Continuation of this conversation. The page move seems to have been closed by a non-admin who did not cite any policy and seems only to have counted votes. The closure also happened in the middle of a discussion (less than 1 hour between the last comment and the closure).
Not counting IP votes, there seem to have been 7 votes for "Concubinage in Islam" and 8 votes against it. Of the votes against it:
Given such a contested debate I would have expected the closer to given a detailed rationale for their decision. Please let me know your thoughts. VR talk 16:14, 8 September 2020 (UTC)
Sorry, I do not really have anything else to say apart from what I already said. Since the result is no consensus, you can resubmit a request move, ideally no earlier than in three months. Vpab15 ( talk) 23:17, 8 September 2020 (UTC)
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16:18, 14 September 2020 (UTC)
I know you've been away for a few days, which ironically is the reason for this post (since you might not see a ping) but a comment you made at a phab ticket has resulted in me throwing myself under a bus in this discussion and your input upon your return would be greatly appreciated. Primefac ( talk) 15:24, 13 September 2020 (UTC)
Would you please consider reversing the immediate closure of my RFA Poll? There was no opportunity for other admins to provide feedback, and I've already read the instructions and essay that you may have been pointing me to. Please understand that I am in a unique situation, and I am genuinely in need of feedback both positive and negative at this time. -- Sleyece ( talk) 00:24, 16 September 2020 (UTC)
This page is not intended to provide general reviews of editors. To seek feedback on what you can do to improve your contributions to Wikipedia, ask a friendly, experienced editor on the editor's talk page for help.I would recommend you go that route instead of reopening the ORCP thread. Third, giving good feedback takes time, and editors at ORCP are unlikely to invest significant time into an out-of-scope thread. If you'd like I could look into your contributions and give feedback, recommend some friendly editors who you could reach out to, or both; let me know. So that I (and others) can give useful advice, are there any specific areas or topics you want feedback on? You mention in the ORCP statement that you're looking for a better fit in the community, what have you tried and how did it go? Best — Wug· a·po·des 04:03, 16 September 2020 (UTC)
It all worked out. One minor permission, in case of the sign can I use QuantumRealm instead of QuantumUniverse? As QuantumRealm was my first preference and there is no one else editing with that username so it shouldn't create conflict. Thank you soo soo much for taking the time to help me out. QuantumRealm ( meow • telescope) 15:51, 19 September 2020 (UTC)
@ QuantumUniverse: your signature should have your username. If you still want QuantumRealm you can request that account be renamed so you can take the name. It's called usurpation and you can find info at Wikipedia:Changing username/Usurpations. I don't know much about that process, but the renamers I know are very helpful so I trust you'll be pointed in the right direction. — Wug· a·po·des 21:14, 19 September 2020 (UTC)
Wugapodes, neither of these should affect your bot, but I made a change to the underlying module that includes the "hookinterest" parameter in one of the checks (it had listed "hookcited" twice, and now lists it once and "hookinterest" once), and I made a change to the DYK checklist template documentation, which, since it's inside a comment line, shouldn't affect anything. If you see any issues, let me know, but I don't expect there to be any. Thanks. BlueMoonset ( talk) 06:36, 21 September 2020 (UTC)
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21:26, 21 September 2020 (UTC)
Category:Outlines of human activities has been nominated for renaming. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. — andrybak ( talk) 19:50, 22 September 2020 (UTC)
Hello: I happened to notice the favorable mention on your user page of Sebeok's Portrait of Linguists. If you already have a copy, read no further. If you don't: I don't have a copy, have never seen one, and have little shelf space; but I notice that it's titled Portraits, plural; and that Abebooks currently offers a cheap new copy of mistitled Portrait among all the horribly expensive copies of correctly titled Portraits. HTH! -- Hoary ( talk) 08:47, 25 September 2020 (UTC)
I noticed your close/move on Kyiv made some news, e.g. Kyiv Post, and Unian. I'll put something into next week's Signpost and probably quote the close. You can also send me any comments, if you'd like to via email.
Thanks.
Smallbones( smalltalk) 15:42, 18 September 2020 (UTC)
ProcrastinatingReader ( talk) has given you a juicy Chicken Kiev! Chicken Kievs are a signature dish of Russian and Ukrainian cuisine, made of chicken fillet pounded and rolled around cold butter, then coated with eggs and bread crumbs, and either fried or baked. Hopefully, this one has added flavor to your day.
I'm sure closing that discussion made you hungry. Here, have a Chicken Kiev. Or a Chicken Kyiv? Who knows.
Spread the goodness of Chicken Kiev by adding {{ subst:Chicken Kiev}} to someone's Talk page with a friendly message! Give a Chicken Kiev to someone you've had disagreements with in the past, or to a good friend.
Hey. You recently cleaned up this protection. Could you unprotect the talk page too? It's currently template-editor protected, for some reason. Thank you! ProcrastinatingReader ( talk) 16:33, 26 September 2020 (UTC)
Special:AbuseFilter/1070 seems to be catching a lot of edits that aren't the LTA that it's supposed to catch. Can you take a look at it and see if you want to narrow it? Jackmcbarn ( talk) 17:12, 26 September 2020 (UTC)
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13:53, 27 July 2020 (UTC)
Greetings Wugapodes, I have been trying to make an interactive map of covid cases similar to Template:Interactive COVID-19 maps/Cumulative confirmed cases. I am not getting it to work, don't know where it goes wrong? Since you made the mentioned one, I'm asking you this. If you get a free time, can you have a look at this? I get "TypeError: undefined has no properties" when I preview it at mw:Special:GraphSandbox. ( Links for dependent sub-pages.) Thanks - Timbaaa -> ping me 15:50, 27 July 2020 (UTC)
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15:43, 3 August 2020 (UTC)
Hi Wugapodes. I noticed your comment above that you're a bit busy right now; my query is low priority, no hurry on this. Just wanted your thoughts on a matter I came across whilst doing overhauls of the Template:Gs system, whenever you have spare time and can get around to it.
Regarding {{ COVID19 GS editnotice}}, which was created in response to this request back in March, and ref this, my understanding of edit notices for DS is that they follow ArbCom's procedure on page-level restrictions: if there are page restrictions (either for a whole topic, or for a single article) that an editnotice is required (alongside a talk notice) to meet the sanctioning requirements. The COVID GS doesn't authorise 1RR or other page-level restrictions, instead solely standard discretionary sanctions, whose awareness procedure doesn't require an editnotice. The COVID GS would seem like an anomaly here, as it's the only DS or GS with an active editnotice without any page-level sanctions on the topic.
If my understanding here is correct, would it be okay to delete this editnotice? There are a small number of pages like Coronavirus disease 2019 which have custom page-level sanctions, so would continue to require some form of custom editnotice. Aside from principle/consistency, my bigger concern is that a big red editnotice on articles isn't great for encouraging newer editors to participate (COVID EN reads harsher than the ArbCom DS editnotices imv), so if not required by the bureaucratic powers that be (ie the awareness rules) I was hoping it'd be possible to get this one deleted?
Thank you. ProcrastinatingReader ( talk) 00:42, 31 July 2020 (UTC)
Administrators should add an editnotice and talk page notice on restricted pages. Editors who ignore or breach page restrictions may be sanctioned by any uninvolved administrator only if the editor was warned about this decision and an editnotice describing the page restriction was placed on the restricted page., resulting in a few editnotices for pages without page-level sanctions. Following that, some editors mass-created COVID editnotices, to the point where about 200 pages are now tagged with them. Somewhat delayed to request deletion now, but they do appear to be improper, and anything that unnecessarily discourages participation should be scrapped imo. ProcrastinatingReader ( talk) 01:04, 31 July 2020 (UTC)
my understanding is that the COVID GS editnotice is sufficient warning, and the template seems to be used to warn editors that failure to comply with MEDRS will result in them being sanctioned, do you mean that for COVID the editnotice is treat as the 'awareness' for sanctions, and so {{ Gs/alert}} is unneeded to sanction an editor? ProcrastinatingReader ( talk) 06:44, 31 July 2020 (UTC)
Editors ... may be sanctioned by any uninvolved administrator only if the editor was warned about this decision and an editnotice describing the page restriction was placed on the restricted page."(emphasis mine), implying that an editnotice is distinct from a warning. For the sake of transparency, just adding that PR raised this question on IRC and I responded, but since I have your talk page on my watchlist, I'd have come here to clarify anyway.
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... with thanks for what you do! -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 17:19, 31 July 2020 (UTC)
Can you pull email access from User:Sarbashis Kumar Paul? I got an unsolicited email from him whining for an unblock. I can't think of how he would have picked me in particular, so I assume he's just randomly emailing every established user he comes across. Jackmcbarn ( talk) 05:50, 9 August 2020 (UTC)
Hi Wugapodes. Could you reassess the need for partial protection at Kiki Camarena ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)? There's almost certainly sock/meatpuppetry going on. The dynamic ip's edit-warring there appear to be only two people, one of which appears to be a logged out editor who'd be otherwise blocked if these edits were coming from his/her account. Talk:Kiki_Camarena#stop_deleting/adding_material_under_discussion_to_the_article, related discussion. -- Hipal/Ronz ( talk) 16:01, 9 August 2020 (UTC)
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16:06, 10 August 2020 (UTC)
Hi. I may be misinterpreting your actions, but it looks like you restored all revisions of this page after I'd made a point of only restoring the oldest ones (because everything since then is promotional). Now the draft looks the same as it did when it was nominated for G11 a few days ago. I was wondering what the rationale was? Deb ( talk) 08:59, 12 August 2020 (UTC)
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20:40, 17 August 2020 (UTC)
Thank you for your help on this! Based on this articles' history, we will likely have to seek an "IP Block" for the article G. Capo ( talk) 20:47, 17 August 2020 (UTC)
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17:59, 24 August 2020 (UTC)
I saw this answer you gave. I'm one of the participants in that dispute. I think those asking for the "temporary" location are asking because a "no consensus" result of a page move discussion will automatically favor their chosen name. While discussions should be closed based on policy and not number of votes, I feel this is not always the case (I went through Category:Closed move reviews and found some examples to the contrary). Worse yet, this particular discussion on article name change appears to have attracted two sockpuppets in the last two weeks alone. I would like to request name change under WP:RMCM, is there any way to ensure the closer focuses purely on the strength of arguments made and disregards the number of votes for each side? VR talk 01:57, 26 August 2020 (UTC)
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20:08, 31 August 2020 (UTC)
The fourth round of the competition has finished, with 865 points being required to qualify for the final round, nearly twice as many points as last year. It was a hotly competitive round with two contestants with 598 and 605 points being eliminated, and all but two of the contestants who reached the final round having achieved an FA during the round. The highest scorers were
Between them, contestants achieved 14 featured articles, 14 featured lists, 2 featured pictures, 87 good articles, 90 DYK entries, 75 ITN entries, 95 featured article candidate reviews and 81 good article reviews. 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. If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Godot13 ( talk), Sturmvogel 66 ( talk), Vanamonde ( talk), Cwmhiraeth ( talk) MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 19:53, 1 September 2020 (UTC)
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I like today's Main page, with the TFA (thank you for your FAC comments!) on the anniversary day (of both dedication and our concert), a DYK, and a great photographer who didn't make it soon enough, Jürgen Schadeberg, - more on my talk, mostly about the tribute to Brian who shared his sources. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 20:42, 1 September 2020 (UTC)
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A first for me today: a featured list (= a featured topic in this case) on the Main page, see Wikipedia:Main Page history/2020 August 21, an initiative by Aza24 in memory of Brian. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 19:26, 21 August 2020 (UTC)
Rhythm Is It! - I expanded that stub on my dad's birthday because we saw the film together back then, and were impressed. As a ref said: every educator should see it. Don't miss the trailer, for a starter. - A welcome chance to present yet another article by Brian on the Main page, Le Sacre du printemps. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 14:07, 31 August 2020 (UTC)
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15:59, 7 September 2020 (UTC)
Continuation of this conversation. The page move seems to have been closed by a non-admin who did not cite any policy and seems only to have counted votes. The closure also happened in the middle of a discussion (less than 1 hour between the last comment and the closure).
Not counting IP votes, there seem to have been 7 votes for "Concubinage in Islam" and 8 votes against it. Of the votes against it:
Given such a contested debate I would have expected the closer to given a detailed rationale for their decision. Please let me know your thoughts. VR talk 16:14, 8 September 2020 (UTC)
Sorry, I do not really have anything else to say apart from what I already said. Since the result is no consensus, you can resubmit a request move, ideally no earlier than in three months. Vpab15 ( talk) 23:17, 8 September 2020 (UTC)
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16:18, 14 September 2020 (UTC)
I know you've been away for a few days, which ironically is the reason for this post (since you might not see a ping) but a comment you made at a phab ticket has resulted in me throwing myself under a bus in this discussion and your input upon your return would be greatly appreciated. Primefac ( talk) 15:24, 13 September 2020 (UTC)
Would you please consider reversing the immediate closure of my RFA Poll? There was no opportunity for other admins to provide feedback, and I've already read the instructions and essay that you may have been pointing me to. Please understand that I am in a unique situation, and I am genuinely in need of feedback both positive and negative at this time. -- Sleyece ( talk) 00:24, 16 September 2020 (UTC)
This page is not intended to provide general reviews of editors. To seek feedback on what you can do to improve your contributions to Wikipedia, ask a friendly, experienced editor on the editor's talk page for help.I would recommend you go that route instead of reopening the ORCP thread. Third, giving good feedback takes time, and editors at ORCP are unlikely to invest significant time into an out-of-scope thread. If you'd like I could look into your contributions and give feedback, recommend some friendly editors who you could reach out to, or both; let me know. So that I (and others) can give useful advice, are there any specific areas or topics you want feedback on? You mention in the ORCP statement that you're looking for a better fit in the community, what have you tried and how did it go? Best — Wug· a·po·des 04:03, 16 September 2020 (UTC)
It all worked out. One minor permission, in case of the sign can I use QuantumRealm instead of QuantumUniverse? As QuantumRealm was my first preference and there is no one else editing with that username so it shouldn't create conflict. Thank you soo soo much for taking the time to help me out. QuantumRealm ( meow • telescope) 15:51, 19 September 2020 (UTC)
@ QuantumUniverse: your signature should have your username. If you still want QuantumRealm you can request that account be renamed so you can take the name. It's called usurpation and you can find info at Wikipedia:Changing username/Usurpations. I don't know much about that process, but the renamers I know are very helpful so I trust you'll be pointed in the right direction. — Wug· a·po·des 21:14, 19 September 2020 (UTC)
Wugapodes, neither of these should affect your bot, but I made a change to the underlying module that includes the "hookinterest" parameter in one of the checks (it had listed "hookcited" twice, and now lists it once and "hookinterest" once), and I made a change to the DYK checklist template documentation, which, since it's inside a comment line, shouldn't affect anything. If you see any issues, let me know, but I don't expect there to be any. Thanks. BlueMoonset ( talk) 06:36, 21 September 2020 (UTC)
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21:26, 21 September 2020 (UTC)
Category:Outlines of human activities has been nominated for renaming. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. — andrybak ( talk) 19:50, 22 September 2020 (UTC)
Hello: I happened to notice the favorable mention on your user page of Sebeok's Portrait of Linguists. If you already have a copy, read no further. If you don't: I don't have a copy, have never seen one, and have little shelf space; but I notice that it's titled Portraits, plural; and that Abebooks currently offers a cheap new copy of mistitled Portrait among all the horribly expensive copies of correctly titled Portraits. HTH! -- Hoary ( talk) 08:47, 25 September 2020 (UTC)
I noticed your close/move on Kyiv made some news, e.g. Kyiv Post, and Unian. I'll put something into next week's Signpost and probably quote the close. You can also send me any comments, if you'd like to via email.
Thanks.
Smallbones( smalltalk) 15:42, 18 September 2020 (UTC)
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I'm sure closing that discussion made you hungry. Here, have a Chicken Kiev. Or a Chicken Kyiv? Who knows.
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Hey. You recently cleaned up this protection. Could you unprotect the talk page too? It's currently template-editor protected, for some reason. Thank you! ProcrastinatingReader ( talk) 16:33, 26 September 2020 (UTC)
Special:AbuseFilter/1070 seems to be catching a lot of edits that aren't the LTA that it's supposed to catch. Can you take a look at it and see if you want to narrow it? Jackmcbarn ( talk) 17:12, 26 September 2020 (UTC)