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🌳 🍀 🌳 🌿 🌳 🌱 🌳 🗄️ClueBot Detailed Index Archive #58🗄️ 🌳 🌱 🌳 🌿 🌳 🍀 🌳
1 Apr 12 WikiWednesday + Earth Week (Apr 15-23) 2023-04-04 14:07 2023-04-04 14:07 1 3181 User talk:Andrevan/Archives/58
2 Administrators' newsletter – April 2023 2023-04-04 17:10 2023-04-04 17:10 1 2786 User talk:Andrevan/Archives/58
3 Sat: Earth Day Edit-a-thon + Sun: Wiki-Picnic 2023-04-21 16:35 2023-04-21 16:35 1 1753 User talk:Andrevan/Archives/58
4 Twitter Files 2023-04-25 13:22 2023-04-25 15:19 4 1834 User talk:Andrevan/Archives/58
5 Administrators' newsletter – May 2023 2023-05-03 09:22 2023-05-03 09:22 1 2928 User talk:Andrevan/Archives/58
6 May 17: WikiWednesday Salon + Queering Wikipedia 2023-05-15 17:39 2023-05-15 17:39 1 2381 User talk:Andrevan/Archives/58
7 Excellent source about Durham's own failures and political biases 2023-05-17 15:31 2023-05-17 15:56 3 1800 User talk:Andrevan/Archives/58
8 May 2023 2023-05-23 18:27 2023-05-23 20:02 5 3871 User talk:Andrevan/Archives/58
9 Question 2023-05-31 17:07 2023-05-31 17:52 2 905 User talk:Andrevan/Archives/58
10 A barnstar for you! 2023-06-01 08:01 2023-06-01 15:23 2 914 User talk:Andrevan/Archives/58
11 Advice 2023-06-02 17:42 2023-06-02 23:00 2 998 User talk:Andrevan/Archives/58
12 Help with Tetragon Financial Group changes 2023-06-05 09:51 2023-06-05 13:55 2 827 User talk:Andrevan/Archives/58
13 Administrators' newsletter – June 2023 2023-06-05 15:32 2023-06-05 15:32 1 3257 User talk:Andrevan/Archives/58
14 June 21: WikiWednesday Salon back in Manhattan! 2023-06-14 01:01 2023-06-14 01:01 1 1998 User talk:Andrevan/Archives/58
15 DRN 2023-06-15 08:42 2023-06-15 21:27 6 1919 User talk:Andrevan/Archives/58
16 Happy First Edit Day! 2023-06-19 02:36 2023-06-20 00:04 4 2163 User talk:Andrevan/Archives/58
17 Essay critique 2023-06-21 22:59 2023-06-22 01:02 2 621 User talk:Andrevan/Archives/58
18 Concerning Biden Ukraine conspiracy theory; Not all content is "conspiracy theory" 2023-06-24 02:29 2023-06-24 02:44 2 684 User talk:Andrevan/Archives/58


Apr 12 WikiWednesday + Earth Week (Apr 15-23)

April 12: WikiWednesday @ BPL + on Zoom
WikiWednesday is back in-person, pizza included!

You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our WikiWednesday Salon, with in-person at Brooklyn Public Library by Grand Army Plaza, in the Central Library's Info Commons Lab, as well as an online-based participation option. No experience of anything at all is required. All are welcome!

We are proud to announce that monthly PIZZA has returned!

All attendees are subject to Wikimedia NYC's Code of Conduct. In addition, to participate in person you should be vaccinated and also be sure to respect others' personal space, and we may limit overall attendance size if appropriate. Brooklyn Public Library encourages the wearing of masks when indoors, and especially be mindful of those in your proximity.

5:30 pm -6:30 pm (Open Hour)
6:30 pm - 8:00 pm (Wiki Salon)
(Brooklyn Public Library, Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn)
Also online via Zoom starting at ~6:30 pm
April 15-23: Earth Week!

Please RSVP on-wiki to any of the Earth Day/Week activities you will be joining, all are open:

When: Saturday, April 15, 11pm - 3pm
Where: Howland Public Library, 313 Main Street, Beacon NY
When: Wednesday, April 19, 2pm-5pm
Where: LaGuardia CC - Room MB10B, 31-10 Thomson Avenue, Queens, NY 11101
When: Saturday April 22, 11am-2pm
Where: Spectrum Learning Lab - DeKalb branch Brooklyn Public Library and Sure We Can & Hybrid
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--Wikimedia New York City Team via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 14:07, 4 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – April 2023

News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2023).

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

Arbitration


Sat: Earth Day Edit-a-thon + Sun: Wiki-Picnic

April 22: Earth Day Edit-a-thon + April 23: Wiki-Picnic
Join us for two final Earth Week events!

You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for a pair of special events this weekend as we wrap up Earth Week! No experience of anything at all is required. All are welcome.

What: Improve Wikipedia articles on the Environment of Brooklyn!
When: Saturday April 22, 11am-1pm (BPL), 1pm-5:30pm (SWC)
Where: Spectrum Learning Lab - DeKalb branch Brooklyn Public Library and Sure We Can & Hybrid
What: Enjoy a picnic celebration and Wiki-Seder!
When: Sunday, April 23, 12-5pm
Where: Concert Grove Pavilion, Prospect Park

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--Wikimedia New York City Team via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:35, 21 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hello! I just wanted to give you a fair heads up that, with some hesitation, I reverted your content removal from Twitter files. I think you're probably right about some of the sources, but what really caught my eye was the ref name "Grynbaum"—I recognized that as a NYT writer, and, indeed, that reference was to his NYT article, which detailed what Kevin McCarthy had said while on Fox News. Even if Fox News is generally unreliable, I don't think that means it's objectionable to use a New York Times article quoting what the Speaker of the House said on Fox.--Jerome Frank Disciple (talk) 13:22, 25 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

That's fair, I removed Newsweek and Daily Beast leaving the Grynbaum one. Andre🚐 14:54, 25 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Sounds great! Sorry that I didn't restore those portions of your edit myself—in hindsight, I should have, but, at the time, I figured it would be smarter to make sure you weren't preferring an all-or-nothing approach.--Jerome Frank Disciple (talk) 14:56, 25 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
No worries. Thanks Andre🚐 15:19, 25 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – May 2023

News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2023).

Guideline and policy news

  • A request for comment about removing administrative privileges in specified situations is open for feedback.

Technical news

Arbitration

Miscellaneous


May 17: WikiWednesday Salon + Queering Wikipedia

May 17: WikiWednesday + Queering Wikipedia @ BPL + on Zoom
WikiWednesday is back in-person, pizza included!

You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our WikiWednesday Salon, with in-person at Brooklyn Public Library by Grand Army Plaza, in the Central Library's Info Commons Lab, as well as an online-based participation option. No experience of anything at all is required. All are welcome!

We will also sync with the Queering Wikipedia 2023 Conference and Wiki Loves Pride 2023 and have a Wikidata session on LGBT themes for figures in religion/mythology.

We are proud to announce that monthly PIZZA has returned!

All attendees are subject to Wikimedia NYC's Code of Conduct. In addition, to participate in person you should be vaccinated and also be sure to respect others' personal space, and we may limit overall attendance size if appropriate. Brooklyn Public Library encourages the wearing of masks when indoors, and especially be mindful of those in your proximity.

5:30 pm -6:30 pm (Open Hour + Wikidata-thon)
6:30 pm - 8:00 pm (Wiki Salon)
(Brooklyn Public Library, Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn)
Also online via Zoom

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--Wikimedia New York City Team via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:39, 15 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Excellent source about Durham's own failures and political biases

John Durham’s Investigation Has Disclosed Corruption: His Own. The Barr-appointed special counsel was supposed to reveal “the crime of the century.” All he revealed was his incompetence—and worse.[1]

It would be good for the Durham special counsel investigation and Russia investigation origins counter-narrative articles. Somewhere there is a source that early on called Durham's efforts an attempt to "cover-up" (or "coverup") Trump's misdeeds. We need to find that source. -- Valjean (talk) (PING me) 15:31, 17 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Great article. Andre🚐 15:51, 17 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Andre🚐 15:56, 17 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

References

  1. ^ Wheeler, Marcy (October 27, 2022). "John Durham's Investigation Has Disclosed Corruption: His Own". The New Republic. Retrieved May 17, 2023.

May 2023

Information icon Hello and welcome to Wikipedia. Constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, but a recent edit of yours to the page Republican Party (United States) has an edit summary that appears to be inadequate, inaccurate, or inappropriate. The summaries are helpful to people browsing an article's history, so it is important that you use edit summaries that accurately tell other editors what you did. Feel free to use the sandbox to make test edits. Thank you. Chances last a finite time (talk) 18:27, 23 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Stop icon

Your recent editing history at Republican Party (United States) shows that you are currently engaged in an edit war; that means that you are repeatedly changing content back to how you think it should be, when you have seen that other editors disagree. To resolve the content dispute, please do not revert or change the edits of others when you are reverted. Instead of reverting, please use the talk page to work toward making a version that represents consensus among editors. The best practice at this stage is to discuss, not edit-war; read about how this is done. If discussions reach an impasse, you can then post a request for help at a relevant noticeboard or seek dispute resolution. In some cases, you may wish to request temporary page protection.

Being involved in an edit war can result in you being blocked from editing—especially if you violate the three-revert rule, which states that an editor must not perform more than three reverts on a single page within a 24-hour period. Undoing another editor's work—whether in whole or in part, whether involving the same or different material each time—counts as a revert. Also keep in mind that while violating the three-revert rule often leads to a block, you can still be blocked for edit warring—even if you do not violate the three-revert rule—should your behavior indicate that you intend to continue reverting repeatedly. Chances last a finite time (talk) 18:29, 23 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Chances last a finite time: you are the one out of line here. If someone reverts your changes, you must talk it out, not continue to shoehorn them in. ɱ (talk) 18:31, 23 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
@ If he wants to erase edits, he should explain why directly and not in a misleading way. [1] "need to use source as a reference in the article" makes no sense as a reason to undo edits when the source was already used as a reference in the article. Chances last a finite time (talk) 18:36, 23 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Don't template the regulars. Andre🚐 20:02, 23 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Question

May I ask why you don't have administrator or bureaucrat anymore? Blitzfan51 speak to the manager 17:07, 31 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I resigned in 2018 after making a few mistakes and actions/comments, some of which were rather ill-conceived and I regret. If you really wish to exhume the remains they're all in the history of various talk pages. There was a pending arbcom case being brought against me so I resigned instead, under a cloud as they say. to spare the community and myself the pain and frustration of that. Andre🚐 17:52, 31 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

A barnstar for you!

The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
Thank you for your immense contributions over the years... It's appreciated. Volten001 08:01, 1 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you! That's very kind! Andre🚐 15:23, 1 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Advice

Hi, I saw your name on the editor's assistance list so I decided to reach out for assistance. I made a revision to Manu Ríos under the Personal Life section. I was reverted. I disagree but I didn't want to get into an edit war so I reached out on the other editor's talk page. I didn't get a response there so then I reached out on the talk page of the main article, asking for discussion. I have not received a response there either. What should I do now? Should I now ask for a third party? Thanks in advance. Clockswatcher (talk) 17:42, 2 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

My suggestion would be to abandon your attempted edit. Unless you can explain why it's an improvement. Andre🚐 23:00, 2 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Help with Tetragon Financial Group changes

Hello Andrevan. I am the declared COI editor for Tetragon Financial Group and have posted an edit request to update and change the article for accuracy and clarity. I noticed your active participation in WP:WPCPY and previous helpful edits on company pages. Would you mind taking a look and helping out with these changes? Thank you, CC for Tetragon (talk) 09:51, 5 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, but I won't have time to help with this right now. Andre🚐 13:55, 5 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – June 2023

News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2023).

Guideline and policy news

  • Following an RfC, editors indefinitely site-banned by community consensus will now have all rights, including sysop, removed.
  • As a part of the Wikimedia Foundation's IP Masking project, a new policy has been created that governs the access to temporary account IP addresses. An associated FAQ has been created and individual communities can increase the requirements to view temporary account IP addresses.

Technical news

  • Bot operators and tool maintainers should schedule time in the coming months to test and update their tools for the effects of IP masking. IP masking will not be deployed to any content wiki until at least October 2023 and is unlikely to be deployed to the English Wikipedia until some time in 2024.

Arbitration

  • The arbitration case World War II and the history of Jews in Poland has been closed. The topic area of Polish history during World War II (1933-1945) and the history of Jews in Poland is subject to a "reliable source consensus-required" contentious topic restriction.

Miscellaneous


June 21: WikiWednesday Salon back in Manhattan!

June 21: WikiWednesday @ Prime Produce
WikiWednesday is back in Manhattan!

You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our WikiWednesday Salon, with in-person at Prime Produce in Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan, as well as an online-based participation option. No experience of anything at all is required. All are welcome!

We are proud to announce that monthly food has returned!

All attendees are subject to Wikimedia NYC's Code of Conduct. In addition, to participate in person you should be vaccinated and also be sure to respect others' personal space, and we may limit overall attendance size if appropriate. Prime Produce encourages the wearing of masks when indoors, and especially be mindful of those in your proximity.

7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
(Prime Produce, Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan)
Also online via Zoom

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--Wikimedia New York City Team via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 01:01, 14 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

DRN

FYI, an IP has mentioned you at Wikipedia:Dispute resolution noticeboard#Genetic studies on Jews. Johnuniq (talk) 08:42, 15 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Oy vey. This should be closed and the IP warned if not blocked. They're accusing me of antisemitism and neonazism because they believe any genetic analysis of Jews (I am Jewish as I explained) is that, and they want to delete any scientific genetic article and replace with their own fringe religious views. Andre🚐 12:27, 15 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
I've placed a one month rangeblock on that IP range for long term edit warring, bludgeoning, and casting aspersions. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 12:47, 15 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you! Andre🚐 12:50, 15 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
@ScottishFinnishRadish, this IP might be a sock based on Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Heydan Seegil Andre🚐 19:42, 15 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Seems likely, and although it won't be linked at SPI it is good to have the record. When it starts up again, let me know. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 21:27, 15 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Happy First Edit Day!

Hey, Andrevan. I'd like to wish you a wonderful First Edit Day on behalf of the Wikipedia Birthday Committee!
Have a great day!
Mann Mann (talk) 02:36, 19 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Essay critique

I have created a new essay and would welcome some critique on the talk page there:

Valjean (talk) (PING me) 22:59, 21 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I haven't dug into it in depth yet, but on first glance it looks promising. Andre🚐 01:02, 22 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Concerning Biden Ukraine conspiracy theory; Not all content is "conspiracy theory"

I noticed you were the first to make an edit that looked like a !vote, but there isn't an RfC, so what is going on with all the uninvolved editors popping in? DN (talk) 02:29, 24 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah not an RFC, just wanted to register my opposition. Andre🚐 02:44, 24 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]