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Deaths in 2020 and European access blocks

Hi. When a subject line is tagged for a better source due to European visitors being denied access to the news story because outlets such as KHOU/CBS decide they are afraid of European legal action on privacy grounds, please don't remove the tag unless you are replacing the source with one that isn't blocked from European visits. Explain your rationales clearly in edit summaries rather than just re-stating the source outlet already blocked and in use. You can always ask further questions about this situation at the Talk page. Thanks. Ref (chew)(do) 18:37, 30 May 2020 (UTC)

Reliable sources do not become unreliable ones because Europeans have to jump through one extra hoop to view - just as we allow books, foreign language sources, offline sources, etc. Rmhermen (talk) 19:08, 30 May 2020 (UTC)
Well, go and ask for the current consensus on this particular issue at the talk page linked above, or challenge it if you will - regular editors there are fairly settled about the need for sources used to be available to as much of the English-speaking world as possible. The main plank of WP:VERIFY, from the very first line, is that it "means other people using the encyclopedia can check that the information comes from a reliable source". Sources which aren't viewable to a portion of that domain immediately become unreliable to the blocked viewer or editor purely because that visitor or editor cannot verify the claimed information. More accessible sources are only "better sources" for that reason - they're not necessarily better regarding the status of the news outlet delivering it (but to just a percentage of visitors). Thanks for the reply. Ref (chew)(do) 20:32, 30 May 2020 (UTC)

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Deaths in 2020 and European access blocks

Hi. When a subject line is tagged for a better source due to European visitors being denied access to the news story because outlets such as KHOU/CBS decide they are afraid of European legal action on privacy grounds, please don't remove the tag unless you are replacing the source with one that isn't blocked from European visits. Explain your rationales clearly in edit summaries rather than just re-stating the source outlet already blocked and in use. You can always ask further questions about this situation at the Talk page. Thanks. Ref (chew)(do) 18:37, 30 May 2020 (UTC)

Reliable sources do not become unreliable ones because Europeans have to jump through one extra hoop to view - just as we allow books, foreign language sources, offline sources, etc. Rmhermen (talk) 19:08, 30 May 2020 (UTC)
Well, go and ask for the current consensus on this particular issue at the talk page linked above, or challenge it if you will - regular editors there are fairly settled about the need for sources used to be available to as much of the English-speaking world as possible. The main plank of WP:VERIFY, from the very first line, is that it "means other people using the encyclopedia can check that the information comes from a reliable source". Sources which aren't viewable to a portion of that domain immediately become unreliable to the blocked viewer or editor purely because that visitor or editor cannot verify the claimed information. More accessible sources are only "better sources" for that reason - they're not necessarily better regarding the status of the news outlet delivering it (but to just a percentage of visitors). Thanks for the reply. Ref (chew)(do) 20:32, 30 May 2020 (UTC)

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Your help desk question

I'm not clear on what this is. It looks like someone helped you but it's mostly a description of a problem rather than a solution. I just saw this in the archives and wondered if you had finally found the answer.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 20:15, 16 June 2020 (UTC)

Wasn't my problem. I was just moving it to a higher visibility forum. It may have just been a caching issue. Rmhermen (talk) 02:49, 23 June 2020 (UTC)

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Another graphing error

Hi can you look at Template:COVID-19 pandemic data/United States medical cases/Michigan and try to figure out what's wrong with the first graph? I noticed you fixed it before when it wasn't working right so I'm hoping you can again. Thanks. TomCat4680 (talk) 18:42, 14 February 2021 (UTC)

I looked. I can't find a reason (it may lie in the graph coding, not format or the data.) I asked for help at the WP:Help Desk. Rmhermen (talk) 05:48, 20 February 2021 (UTC)

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Happy First Edit Day!

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Hi Rmhermen, I really appreciate your edits on the All-points bulletin. Keep up the great work. Modernedits01 Modernedits01 (talk) 12:35, 3 June 2021 (UTC)

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Number of athletes was changed as 10 athletics competitors were removed from the team due to dope testing negligence on part of the Nigerian athletics organization. I was aware of 2 for sure so removed them from the list; it looks like another 3 have been confirmed and someone else has updated the numbers further to reflect that.Chantella28 (talk) 17:42, 2 August 2021 (UTC)

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Middle English help

Hi, Rmhermen, I see you started the article on Middle English Bible translations, which is an important contribution. May I ask, if you are competent in this field, whether you can help me out by checking the translation of the passage from a Middle English biblical paraphrase on the page Firmament (note a). Also, it would be great if somebody could write an article on the Middle English Story of Genesis and Exodus - would you be the person to do this? Alternatively, maybe you know whom I should ask? --Doric Loon (talk) 17:53, 12 September 2021 (UTC)

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