User talk:True Pagan Warrior/Archive 7
This is an archive of past discussions about User:True Pagan Warrior. Do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the current talk page. |
Archive 1 | ← | Archive 5 | Archive 6 | Archive 7 | Archive 8 |
The Signpost: 29 November 2019
- From the editor: Put on your birthday best
- News and notes: How soon for the next million articles?
- In the media: You say you want a revolution
- On the bright side: What's making you happy this month?
- Arbitration report: Two requests for arbitration cases
- Traffic report: The queen and the princess meet the king and the joker
- Technology report: Reference things, sister things, stranger things
- Gallery: Winter and holidays
- Recent research: Bot census; discussions differ on Spanish and English Wikipedia; how nature's seasons affect pageviews
- Essay: Adminitis
- From the archives: WikiProject Spam, revisited
Disambiguation link notification for December 5
Hi. Thank you for your recent edits. An automated process has detected that when you recently edited Wallkill, Orange County, New York, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page CDP (check to confirm | fix with Dab solver). Such links are usually incorrect, since a disambiguation page is merely a list of unrelated topics with similar titles. (Read the FAQ • Join us at the DPL WikiProject.)
It's OK to remove this message. Also, to stop receiving these messages, follow these opt-out instructions. Thanks, DPL bot (talk) 07:51, 5 December 2019 (UTC)
The Signpost: 27 December 2019
- From the editors: Caught with their hands in the cookie jar, again
- News and notes: What's up (and down) with administrators, articles and languages
- In the media: "The fulfillment of the dream of humanity" or a nightmare of PR whitewashing on behalf of one-percenters?
- Discussion report: December discussions around the wiki
- Arbitration report: Announcement of 2020 Arbitration Committee
- Traffic report: Queens and aliens, exactly alike, once upon a December
- Technology report: User scripts and more
- Gallery: Holiday wishes
- Recent research: Acoustics and Wikipedia; Wiki Workshop 2019 summary
- From the archives: The 2002 Spanish fork and ads revisited (re-revisited?)
- On the bright side: What's making you happy this month?
- WikiProject report: Wikiproject Tree of Life: A Wikiproject report
The Signpost: 27 January 2020
- From the editor: Reaching six million articles is great, but we need a moratorium
- News and notes: Six million articles on the English language Wikipedia
- Special report: The limits of volunteerism and the gatekeepers of Team Encarta
- Arbitration report: Three cases at ArbCom
- Traffic report: The most viewed articles of 2019
- News from the WMF: Capacity Building: Top 5 Themes from Community Conversations
- Community view: Our most important new article since November 1, 2015
- From the archives: A decade of The Signpost, 2005-2015
- On the bright side: What's making you happy this month?
- WikiProject report: WikiProject Japan: a wikiProject Report
Zephyr Teachout
please review 01:20, 9 February 2020 revision 939838446 of Zephyr Teachout I consider it an improvement and since you have added to the article before, you may have a relevant opinion.
T3g5JZ50GLq (talk) 01:59, 9 February 2020 (UTC)
The Signpost: 1 March 2020
- From the editor: The ball is in your court
- News and notes: Alexa ranking down to 13th worldwide
- Special report: More participation, more conversation, more pageviews
- Discussion report: Do you prefer M or P?
- Arbitration report: Two prominent administrators removed
- Community view: The Incredible Invisible Woman
- In focus: History of The Signpost, 2015–2019
- From the archives: Is Wikipedia for sale?
- Traffic report: February articles, floating in the dark
- Gallery: Feel the love
- On the bright side: What's making you happy this month?
- Opinion: Wikipedia is another country
- Humour: The Wilhelm scream
The Signpost: 29 March 2020
- From the editors: The bad and the good
- News and notes: 2018 Wikipedian of the year blocked
- WikiProject report: WikiProject COVID-19: A WikiProject Report
- Special report: Wikipedia on COVID-19: what we publish and why it matters
- In the media: Blocked in Iran but still covering the big story
- Discussion report: Rethinking draft space
- Arbitration report: Unfinished business
- In focus: "I have been asked by Jeffrey Epstein …"
- Community view: Wikimedia community responds to COVID-19
- From the archives: Text from Wikipedia good enough for Oxford University Press to claim as own
- Traffic report: The only thing that matters in the world
- Gallery: Visible Women on Wikipedia
- News from the WMF: Amid COVID-19, Wikimedia Foundation offers full pay for reduced hours, mobilizes all staff to work remote, and waives sick time
- On the bright side: What's making you happy this month?
The Signpost: 26 April 2020
- News and notes: Unbiased information from Ukraine's government?
- In the media: Coronavirus, again and again
- Discussion report: Redesigning Wikipedia, bit by bit
- Featured content: Featured content returns
- Arbitration report: Two difficult cases
- Traffic report: Disease the Rhythm of the Night
- Recent research: Trending topics across languages; auto-detecting bias
- Opinion: Trusting Everybody to Work Together
- On the bright side: What's making you happy this month?
- In focus: Multilingual Wikipedia
- WikiProject report: The Guild of Copy Editors
The Signpost: 31 May 2020
- From the editor: Meltdown May?
- News and notes: 2019 Picture of the Year, 200 French paid editing accounts blocked, 10 years of Guild Copyediting
- Discussion report: WMF's Universal Code of Conduct
- Featured content: Weathering the storm
- Arbitration report: Board member likely to receive editing restriction
- Traffic report: Come on and slam, and welcome to the jam
- Gallery: Wildlife photos by the book
- News from the WMF: WMF Board announces Community Culture Statement
- Recent research: Automatic detection of covert paid editing; Wiki Workshop 2020
- Community view: Transit routes and mapping during stay-at-home order downtime
- WikiProject report: Revitalizing good articles
- On the bright side: 500,000 articles in the Egyptian Arabic Wikipedia
The Signpost: 28 June 2020
- News and notes: Progress at Wikipedia Library and Wikijournal of Medicine
- Community view: Community open letter on renaming
- Gallery: After the killing of George Floyd
- In the media: Part collaboration and part combat
- Discussion report: Community reacts to WMF rebranding proposals
- Featured content: Sports are returning, with a rainbow
- Arbitration report: Anti-harassment RfC and a checkuser revocation
- Traffic report: The pandemic, alleged murder, a massacre, and other deaths
- News from the WMF: We stand for racial justice
- Recent research: Wikipedia and COVID-19; automated Wikipedia-based fact-checking
- Humour: Cherchez une femme
- On the bright side: For what are you grateful this month?
- WikiProject report: WikiProject Black Lives Matter
The Signpost: 2 August 2020
- Special report: Wikipedia and the End of Open Collaboration?
- COI and paid editing: Some strange people edit Wikipedia for money
- News and notes: Abstract Wikipedia, a hoax, sex symbols, and a new admin
- In the media: Dog days gone bad
- Discussion report: Fox News, a flight of RfAs, and banning policy
- Featured content: Remembering Art, Valor, and Freedom
- Traffic report: Now for something completely different
- News from the WMF: New Chinese national security law in Hong Kong could limit the privacy of Wikipedia users
- Obituaries: Hasteur and Brian McNeil
The Signpost: 30 August 2020
- News and notes: The high road and the low road
- In the media: Storytelling large and small
- Featured content: Going for the goal
- Special report: Wikipedia's not so little sister is finding its own way
- Op-Ed: The longest-running hoax
- Traffic report: Heart, soul, umbrellas, and politics
- News from the WMF: Fourteen things we’ve learned by moving Polish Wikimedia conference online
- Recent research: Detecting spam, and pages to protect; non-anonymous editors signal their intelligence with high-quality articles
- Arbitration report: A slow couple of months
- From the archives: Wikipedia for promotional purposes?
The Signpost: 27 September 2020
- Special report: Paid editing with political connections
- News and notes: More large-scale errors at a "small" wiki
- In the media: WIPO, Seigenthaler incident 15 years later
- Featured content: Life finds a Way
- Arbitration report: Clarifications and requests
- Traffic report: Is there no justice?
- Recent research: Wikipedia's flood biases
The Signpost: 27 September 2020
- Special report: Paid editing with political connections
- News and notes: More large-scale errors at a "small" wiki
- In the media: WIPO, Seigenthaler incident 15 years later
- Featured content: Life finds a Way
- Arbitration report: Clarifications and requests
- Traffic report: Is there no justice?
- Recent research: Wikipedia's flood biases
The Signpost: 1 November 2020
- News and notes: Ban on IPs on ptwiki, paid editing for Tatarstan, IP masking
- In the media: Murder, politics, religion, health and books
- Book review: Review of Wikipedia @ 20
- Discussion report: Proposal to change board composition, In The News dumps Trump story
- Featured content: The "Green Terror" is neither green nor sufficiently terrifying. Worst Hallowe'en ever.
- Traffic report: Jump back, what's that sound?
- Interview: Joseph Reagle and Jackie Koerner
- News from the WMF: Meet the 2020 Wikimedian of the Year
- Recent research: OpenSym 2020: Deletions and gender, masses vs. elites, edit filters
- In focus: The many (reported) deaths of Wikipedia
ArbCom 2020 Elections voter message
The Signpost: 29 November 2020
- News and notes: Jimmy Wales "shouldn't be kicked out before he's ready"
- Op-Ed: Re-righting Wikipedia
- Opinion: How billionaires re-write Wikipedia
- Featured content: Frontonia sp. is thankful for delicious cyanobacteria
- Traffic report: 007 with Borat, the Queen, and an election
- News from Wiki Education: An assignment that changed a life: Kasey Baker
- GLAM plus: West Coast New Zealand's Wikipedian at Large
- Wikicup report: Lee Vilenski wins the 2020 WikiCup
- Recent research: Wikipedia's Shoah coverage succeeds where libraries fail
- Essay: Writing about women
The Signpost: 28 December 2020
- Arbitration report: 2020 election results
- Featured content: Very nearly ringing in the New Year with "Blank Space" – but we got there in time.
- Traffic report: 2020 wraps up
- Recent research: Predicting the next move in Wikipedia discussions
- Essay: Subjective importance
- Gallery: Angels in the architecture
- Humour: 'Twas the Night Before Wikimas
The Signpost: 31 January 2021
- News and notes: 1,000,000,000 edits, board elections, virtual Wikimania 2021
- Special report: Wiki reporting on the United States insurrection
- In focus: From Anarchy to Wikiality, Glaring Bias to Good Cop: Press Coverage of Wikipedia's First Two Decades
- Technology report: The people who built Wikipedia, technically
- Videos and podcasts: Celebrating 20 years
- News from the WMF: Wikipedia celebrates 20 years of free, trusted information for the world
- Recent research: Students still have a better opinion of Wikipedia than teachers
- Humour: Dr. Seuss's Guide to Wikipedia
- Featured content: New Year, same Featured Content report!
- Traffic report: The most viewed articles of 2020
- Obituary: Flyer22 Frozen
The Signpost: 28 February 2021
- News and notes: Maher stepping down
- Disinformation report: A "billionaire battle" on Wikipedia: Sex, lies, and video
- In the media: Corporate influence at OSM, Fox watching the hen house
- News from the WMF: Who tells your story on Wikipedia
- Featured content: A Love of Knowledge, for Valentine's Day
- Traffic report: Does it almost feel like you've been here before?
- Gallery: What is Black history and culture?
The Signpost: 28 March 2021
- News and notes: A future with a for-profit subsidiary?
- Gallery: Wiki Loves Monuments
- In the media: Wikimedia LLC and disinformation in Japan
- News from the WMF: Project Rewrite: Tell the missing stories of women on Wikipedia and beyond
- Recent research: 10%-30% of Wikipedia’s contributors have subject-matter expertise
- From the archives: Google isn't responsible for Wikipedia's mistakes
- Obituary: Yoninah
- From the editor: What else can we say?
- Arbitration report: Open letter to the Board of Trustees
- Traffic report: Wanda, Meghan, Liz, Phil and Zack
The Signpost: 25 April 2021
- From the editor: A change is gonna come
- Disinformation report: Paid editing by a former head of state's business enterprise
- In the media: Fernando, governance, and rugby
- Opinion: The (Universal) Code of Conduct
- Op-Ed: A Little Fun Goes A Long Way
- Changing the world: The reach of protest images on Wikipedia
- Recent research: Quality of aquatic and anatomical articles
- Traffic report: The verdict is guilty, guilty, guilty
- News from Wiki Education: Encouraging professional physicists to engage in outreach on Wikipedia
The Signpost: 25 April 2021
- From the editor: A change is gonna come
- Disinformation report: Paid editing by a former head of state's business enterprise
- In the media: Fernando, governance, and rugby
- Opinion: The (Universal) Code of Conduct
- Op-Ed: A Little Fun Goes A Long Way
- Changing the world: The reach of protest images on Wikipedia
- Recent research: Quality of aquatic and anatomical articles
- Traffic report: The verdict is guilty, guilty, guilty
- News from Wiki Education: Encouraging professional physicists to engage in outreach on Wikipedia
The Signpost: 25 April 2021
- From the editor: A change is gonna come
- Disinformation report: Paid editing by a former head of state's business enterprise
- In the media: Fernando, governance, and rugby
- Opinion: The (Universal) Code of Conduct
- Op-Ed: A Little Fun Goes A Long Way
- Changing the world: The reach of protest images on Wikipedia
- Recent research: Quality of aquatic and anatomical articles
- Traffic report: The verdict is guilty, guilty, guilty
- News from Wiki Education: Encouraging professional physicists to engage in outreach on Wikipedia
The Signpost: 27 June 2021
- News and notes: Elections, Wikimania, masking and more
- In the media: Boris and Joe, reliability, love, and money
- Disinformation report: Croatian Wikipedia: capture and release
- Recent research: Feminist critique of Wikipedia's epistemology, Black Americans vastly underrepresented among editors, Wiki Workshop report
- Traffic report: So no one told you life was gonna be this way
- News from the WMF: Searching for Wikipedia
- WikiProject report: WikiProject on open proxies interview
- Forum: Is WMF fundraising abusive?
- Discussion report: Reliability of WikiLeaks discussed
- Obituary: SarahSV
The Signpost: 25 July 2021
- News and notes: Wikimania and a million other news stories
- Special report: Hardball in Hong Kong
- In the media: Larry is at it again
- Board of Trustees candidates: See the candidates
- Traffic report: Football, tennis and marveling at Loki
- News from the WMF: Uncapping our growth potential – interview with James Baldwin, Finance and Administration Department
- Humour: A little verse
The Signpost: 29 August 2021
- News and notes: Enough time left to vote! IP ban
- In the media: Vive la différence!
- Wikimedians of the year: Seven Wikimedians of the year
- Gallery: Our community in 20 graphs
- News from Wiki Education: Changing the face of Wikipedia
- Recent research: IP editors, inclusiveness and empathy, cyclones, and world heritage
- WikiProject report: WikiProject Days of the Year Interview
- Traffic report: Olympics, movies, and Afghanistan
- Community view: Making Olympic history on Wikipedia
The Signpost: 26 September 2021
- News and notes: New CEO, new board members, China bans
- In the media: The future of Wikipedia
- Op-Ed: I've been desysopped
- Disinformation report: Paid promotional paragraphs in German parliamentary pages
- Discussion report: Editors discuss Wikipedia's vetting process for administrators
- Recent research: Wikipedia images for machine learning; Experiment justifies Wikipedia's high search rankings
- Community view: Is writing Wikipedia like making a quilt?
- Traffic report: Kanye, Emma Raducanu and 9/11
- News from Diff: Welcome to the first grantees of the Knowledge Equity Fund
- WikiProject report: The Random and the Beautiful
Possessives
Please don't make changes to the possessive form like "Holmes's". This is contrary to our style guide; see MOS:POSS. If you'd like to make an exception in this particular case please discuss it on the talk page first. GA-RT-22 (talk) 15:42, 17 October 2021 (UTC)
The Signpost: 31 October 2021
- From the editor: Different stories, same place
- News and notes: The sockpuppet who ran for adminship and almost succeeded
- Discussion report: Editors brainstorm and propose changes to the Requests for adminship process
- Recent research: Welcome messages fail to improve newbie retention
- Community view: Reflections on the Chinese Wikipedia
- Traffic report: James Bond and the Giant Squid Game
- Technology report: Wikimedia Toolhub, winners of the Coolest Tool Award, and more
- Serendipity: How Wikipedia helped create a Serbian stamp
- Book review: Wikipedia and the Representation of Reality
- WikiProject report: Redirection
- Humour: A very Wiki crossword
ArbCom 2021 Elections voter message
The Signpost: 29 November 2021
- In the media: Denial: climate change, mass killings and pornography
- WikiCup report: The WikiCup 2021
- Deletion report: What we lost, what we gained
- From a Wikipedia reader: What's Matt Amodio?
- Arbitration report: ArbCom in 2021
- Discussion report: On the brink of change – RFA reforms appear imminent
- Technology report: What does it take to upload a file?
- WikiProject report: Interview with contributors to WikiProject Actors and Filmmakers
- Recent research: Vandalizing Wikipedia as rational behavior
- Humour: A very new very Wiki crossword
Disambiguation link notification for December 15
An automated process has detected that when you recently edited Baby Jesus theft, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page Guardian.
(Opt-out instructions.) --DPL bot (talk) 06:06, 15 December 2021 (UTC)
The Signpost: 28 December 2021
- From the editor: Here is the news
- News and notes: Jimbo's NFT, new arbs, fixing RfA, and financial statements
- Serendipity: Born three months before her brother?
- In the media: The past is not even past
- Arbitration report: A new crew for '22
- By the numbers: Four billion words and a few numbers
- Deletion report: We laughed, we cried, we closed as "no consensus"
- Gallery: Wikicommons presents: 2021
- Traffic report: Spider-Man, football and the departed
- Crossword: Another Wiki crossword for one and all
- Humour: Buying Wikipedia
The Signpost: 30 January 2022
- Special report: WikiEd course leads to Twitter harassment
- News and notes: Feedback for Board of Trustees election
- Interview: CEO Maryana Iskander "four weeks in"
- Black History Month: What are you doing for Black History Month?
- WikiProject report: The Forgotten Featured
- Arbitration report: New arbitrators look at new case and antediluvian sanctions
- Traffic report: The most viewed articles of 2021
- Obituary: Twofingered Typist
- Essay: The prime directive
- In the media: Fuzzy-headed government editing
- Recent research: Articles with higher quality ratings have fewer "knowledge gaps"
- Crossword: Cross swords with a crossword
note to self
Ideomotor_phenomenon--~TPW 18:44, 15 February 2022 (UTC)
The Signpost: 27 February 2022
- From the team: Selection of a new Signpost Editor-in-Chief
- News and notes: Impacts of Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Special report: A presidential candidate's team takes on Wikipedia
- In the media: Wiki-drama in the UK House of Commons
- Technology report: Community Wishlist Survey results
- WikiProject report: 10 years of tea
- Featured content: Featured Content returns
- Deletion report: The 10 most SHOCKING deletion discussions of February
- Recent research: How editors and readers may be emotionally affected by disasters and terrorist attacks
- Arbitration report: Parties remonstrate, arbs contemplate, skeptics coordinate
- Gallery: The vintage exhibit
- Traffic report: Euphoria, Pamela Anderson, lies and Netflix
- News from Diff: The Wikimania 2022 Core Organizing Team
- Crossword: A Crossword, featuring Featured Articles
- Humour: Notability of mailboxes
The Signpost: 27 March 2022
- From the Signpost team: How The Signpost is documenting the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
- News and notes: Of safety and anonymity
- Eyewitness Wikimedian, Kharkiv, Ukraine: Countering Russian aggression with a camera
- Eyewitness Wikimedian, Vinnytsia, Ukraine: War diary
- Eyewitness Wikimedian, Western Ukraine: Working with Wikipedia helps
- Disinformation report: The oligarchs' socks
- In the media: Ukraine, Russia, and even some other stuff
- Wikimedian perspective: My heroes from Russia, Ukraine & beyond
- Discussion report: Athletes are less notable now
- Technology report: 2022 Wikimedia Hackathon
- Arbitration report: Skeptics given heavenly judgement, whirlwind of Discord drama begins to spin for tropical cyclone editors
- Traffic report: War, what is it good for?
- Deletion report: Ukraine, werewolves, Ukraine, YouTube pundits, and Ukraine
- From the archives: Burn, baby burn
- Essay: Yes, the sky is blue
- Tips and tricks: Become a keyboard ninja
- On the bright side: The bright side of news
The Signpost: 24 April 2022
- News and notes: Double trouble
- In the media: The battlegrounds outside and inside Wikipedia
- Special report: Ukrainian Wikimedians during the war
- Eyewitness Wikimedian, Vinnytsia, Ukraine: War diary (Part 2)
- Technology report: 8-year-old attribution issues in Media Viewer
- Featured content: Wikipedia's best content from March
- Interview: On a war and a map
- Serendipity: Wikipedia loves photographs, but hates photographers
- Traffic report: Justice Jackson, the Smiths, and an invasion
- News from the WMF: How Smart is the SMART Copyright Act?
- Humour: Really huge message boxes
- From the archives: Wales resigned WMF board chair in 2006 reorganization
Recent edit for Miraculous
Hi there! I just wanted to discuss the removal of the "Controversies" paragraph you did. I'd like to make a couple of points, if that's okay. 1) The paragraph discusses about the FAN opinion, so of course you're going to have to cite Twitter for that- that's where a lot of social media activity is. 2) There aren't that many sources besides. 3) Twitter in this instance is reliable enough because if you actually look at the tweets, they show and present the controversial issue.
I'd love to be able to have a discussion on that, but regardless, have a great day. Pohjamadesse1 (talk) 05:05, 27 April 2022 (UTC)
- Wikipedia's standards for reliable, verifiable sources aren't lowered because better sources are unavailable; that's entirely the point. Nevertheless, if you wish to discuss then it would be better to do it on the article's talk page. Feel free to let me know if you start such a thread.--~TPW 16:47, 27 April 2022 (UTC)
Mass removal from Cthulhu
In the edit comment for this edit, you wrote "unsourced material may be removed at any time". Which is, of course, true, it's a Wiki, any material, sourced or not, may be removed at any time, that's the risk we all face with any content we contribute here. But you wrote it as if you were citing a policy or guideline. Were you? If so, which policy or guideline were you citing? --GRuban (talk) 20:02, 5 May 2022 (UTC)
- I was quoting Template:In popular culture, which is presently placed at the top of the section from which I deleted the material without sources.~TPW 01:26, 6 May 2022 (UTC)
- Ah. That actually says "Unsourced material may be challenged and removed." Thank you. --GRuban (talk) 02:27, 6 May 2022 (UTC)
- Very well, then I paraphrased it as best I could from memory since the template wasn't visible while I was making that edit. If you feel that my edit in any way violated policy, or should otherwise be reconsidered, the talk page of the article will likely generate more interest than discussing it here. ~TPW 16:38, 6 May 2022 (UTC)
- I do feel that you deleted too much, yes. We're here cooperating to write the best possible article about Cthulhu that we can, right? It's hard to say we can do that without recognizing the incredible impact of the Call of Cthulhu role-playing game, board games, etc. The way that people first encounter Cthulhu these days isn't through Lovecraft's work, it's specifically through games and movies and so forth. So I'd appreciate it if rather than deleting, you made an effort to cite most of those many paragraphs that you deleted, and only delete that which really isn't important. But of course I can't make you do that, per policy. Just appeal to your better nature. --GRuban (talk) 20:28, 6 May 2022 (UTC)
- There is a reason for the "in popular culture" template: that kind of section attracts information that generally cannot be cited in reliable, verifiable sources. That's why those tidbits accumulate there at all: information that can be properly sourced is likely to be placed somewhere else in the article. Trivia sections like this are often given a pass by editors who scrutinize other sections much more carefully.
- I, too, am looking to improve articles with every edit, and I would not have made that edit for any other reason.
- Again, I encourage you to discuss this on the talk page of the article, where other editors interested in the subject are far more likely to respond. Policy on Wikipedia arises from consensus, and consensus can change, but that won't happen unless you choose a different forum for raising this concern. I appreciate that you reached out to me, but you need a wider audience if you're looking to revisit any of the five pillars of Wikipedia. Please feel free to let me know if you do open such a thread elsewhere, and I'll certainly participate if I am led to.~TPW 00:15, 7 May 2022 (UTC)
- I'm not revisiting any of the five pillars, I'm appealing to your better nature, to build rather than destroy. --GRuban (talk) 18:46, 7 May 2022 (UTC)
- My better nature tells me that the following the policies and processes that are in place are how we build, and allowing unsourced material to accumulate over years is how we destroy. I very much prefer to build.--~TPW 20:43, 9 May 2022 (UTC)
- I'm not revisiting any of the five pillars, I'm appealing to your better nature, to build rather than destroy. --GRuban (talk) 18:46, 7 May 2022 (UTC)
- I do feel that you deleted too much, yes. We're here cooperating to write the best possible article about Cthulhu that we can, right? It's hard to say we can do that without recognizing the incredible impact of the Call of Cthulhu role-playing game, board games, etc. The way that people first encounter Cthulhu these days isn't through Lovecraft's work, it's specifically through games and movies and so forth. So I'd appreciate it if rather than deleting, you made an effort to cite most of those many paragraphs that you deleted, and only delete that which really isn't important. But of course I can't make you do that, per policy. Just appeal to your better nature. --GRuban (talk) 20:28, 6 May 2022 (UTC)
- Very well, then I paraphrased it as best I could from memory since the template wasn't visible while I was making that edit. If you feel that my edit in any way violated policy, or should otherwise be reconsidered, the talk page of the article will likely generate more interest than discussing it here. ~TPW 16:38, 6 May 2022 (UTC)
- Ah. That actually says "Unsourced material may be challenged and removed." Thank you. --GRuban (talk) 02:27, 6 May 2022 (UTC)
Disambiguation link notification for May 19
An automated process has detected that when you recently edited Ásatrúarfélagið, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page First day of summer.
(Opt-out instructions.) --DPL bot (talk) 06:09, 19 May 2022 (UTC)
The Signpost: 29 May 2022
- From the team: A changing of the guard
- News and notes: 2022 Wikimedia Board elections
- Community view: Have your say in the 2022 Wikimedia Foundation Board elections
- In the media: Putin, Jimbo, Musk and more
- Special report: Three stories of Ukrainian Wikimedians during the war
- Discussion report: Portals, April Fools, admin activity requirements and more
- WikiProject report: WikiProject COVID-19 revisited
- Technology report: A new video player for Wikimedia wikis
- Featured content: Featured content of April
- Interview: Wikipedia's pride
- Serendipity: Those thieving image farms
- Recent research: 35 million Twitter links analysed
- Tips and tricks: The reference desks of Wikipedia
- Traffic report: Strange highs and strange lows
- News from Diff: Winners of the Human rights and Environment special nomination by Wiki Loves Earth announced
- News from the WMF: The EU Digital Services Act: What’s the Deal with the Deal?
- From the archives: The Onion and Wikipedia
- Humour: A new crossword
Disambiguation link notification for June 9
An automated process has detected that when you recently edited Derek Bourgeois, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page Guardian.
(Opt-out instructions.) --DPL bot (talk) 09:01, 9 June 2022 (UTC)
The Signpost: 26 June 2022
- News and notes: WMF inks new rules on government-ordered takedowns, blasts Russian feds' censor demands, spends big bucks
- In the media: Editor given three-year sentence, big RfA makes news, Guy Standing takes it sitting down
- Special report: "Wikipedia's independence" or "Wikimedia's pile of dosh"?
- Featured content: Articles on Scots' clash, Yank's tux, Austrian's action flick deemed brilliant prose
- Recent research: Wikipedia versus academia (again), tables' "immortality" probed
- Serendipity: Was she really a Swiss lesbian automobile racer?
- News from the WMF: Wikimedia Enterprise signs first deals
- Gallery: Celebration of summer, winter
West Gilgo proposed deletion.
For a 18 year old article, it definitely needed to have some citations added, which I've done. Thanks for the nudge. dm (talk) 04:52, 26 June 2022 (UTC)
- Thanks for having the knowledge. ~TPW 17:05, 27 June 2022 (UTC)
M>Tram / M-Tram
If the correct way to write it is M-Tram, there are probably 20 pages (maybe more) that will need changing from M>Tram or M>Train (heavy rail counter part). Almost all I have seen in the past use this other format in article text. -- ThylacineHunter (talk) 03:10, 28 June 2022 (UTC)
These are on pages about tram depots, tram companies, and train companies; also possibly on tram types, tram routes, train routes, and train (and carriage) types; amongst other places. -- ThylacineHunter (talk) 03:15, 28 June 2022 (UTC)
- I try to base my actions on Wikipedia policy and guideline, rather than what's been done on other pages. Let me know if your preference is rooted in either. All the best. ~TPW 14:15, 28 June 2022 (UTC)
Speedy deletion contested: One for One (Julian Austin album)
Hello True Pagan Warrior. I am just letting you know that I contested the speedy deletion of One for One (Julian Austin album), a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: The article makes a credible assertion of importance or significance, sufficient to pass A7. Thank you. BangJan1999 16:36, 7 July 2022 (UTC)
- Thank you! ~TPW 16:52, 7 July 2022 (UTC)
Your proposed deletion of Daisy Whitney
You recently proposed deletion of Daisy Whitney, but the page in question has already been deleted and recreated; the proposed deletion process is only intended for uncontroversial deletions, and if the page gets recreated after deletion then that's normally evidence that the deletion isn't uncontroversial. As such, it's unlikely that an administrator would be able to act on the {{prod}} (there's a policy specifically disallowing proposed deletion being used for pages that have been recreated after an AfD deletion). Sometimes, pages that are deleted at AfD can be speedily deleted if recreated, but so much time has elapsed since the previous deletion that it would make more sense to have a new discussion. I'd recommend using the articles for deletion process instead – it's more suitable for cases where there's historically been disagreement about what to do with the page. --ais523 15:26, 12 July 2022 (UTC)
- I agree! I didn't see that there was a prior deletion discussion, or I would have considered that option. Thanks for letting me know. ~TPW 15:36, 12 July 2022 (UTC)
The Signpost: 1 August 2022
- From the editors: Rise of the machines, or something
- News and notes: Information considered harmful
- In the media: Censorship, medieval hoaxes, "pathetic supervillains", FB-WMF AI TL bid, dirty duchess deeds done dirt cheap
- Op-Ed: The "recession" affair
- Eyewitness Wikimedian, Vinnytsia, Ukraine: War diary (part 3)
- Community view: Youth culture and notability
- Opinion: Criminals among us
- Arbitration report: Winds of change blow for cyclone editors, deletion dustup draws toward denouement
- Deletion report: This is Gonzo Country
- Discussion report: Notability for train stations, notices for mobile editors, noticeboards for the rest of us
- Featured content: A little list with surprisingly few lists
- Tips and tricks: Cleaning up awful citations with Citation bot
- On the bright side: Ukrainian Wikimedians during the war — three (more) stories
- Essay: How to research an image
- Recent research: A century of rulemaking on Wikipedia analyzed
- Serendipity: Don't cite Wikipedia
- Gallery: A backstage pass
- From the archives: 2012 Russian Wikipedia shutdown as it happened
Important Notice
This is a standard message to notify contributors about an administrative ruling in effect. It does not imply that there are any issues with your contributions to date.
You have shown interest in governmental regulation of firearm ownership; the social, historical and political context of such regulation; and the people and organizations associated with these issues. Due to past disruption in this topic area, a more stringent set of rules called discretionary sanctions is in effect. Any administrator may impose sanctions on editors who do not strictly follow Wikipedia's policies, or the page-specific restrictions, when making edits related to the topic.
To opt out of receiving messages like this one, place {{Ds/aware}}
on your user talk page and specify in the template the topic areas that you would like to opt out of alerts about. For additional information, please see the guidance on discretionary sanctions and the Arbitration Committee's decision here. If you have any questions, or any doubts regarding what edits are appropriate, you are welcome to discuss them with me or any other editor.
Doug Weller talk 15:11, 16 August 2022 (UTC)
Changing direct quotes
I've reverted your edit here, because you changed a quote for no apparent reason: https://wiki.riteme.site/w/index.php?title=Roy_Sullivan&diff=1105953764&oldid=1105590196 -- It baffles me that you've been editing here since 2007 and dont know that quotes shouldnt just simply be edited --FMSky (talk) 23:42, 22 August 2022 (UTC)
- It baffles me that you've been here for nearly two years and haven't learned how to assume good faith and leave talk messages accordingly. Guess we're at an impasse. All the best. ~TPW 14:45, 23 August 2022 (UTC)
The Signpost: 31 August 2022
- News and notes: Admins wanted on English Wikipedia, IP editors not wanted on Farsi Wiki, donations wanted everywhere
- Special report: Wikimania 2022: no show, no show up?
- In the media: Truth or consequences? A tough month for truth
- Discussion report: Boarding the Trustees
- News from Wiki Education: 18 years a Wikipedian: what it means to me
- In focus: Thinking inside the box
- Tips and tricks: The unexpected rabbit hole of typo fixing in citations...
- Technology report: Vector (2022) deployment discussions happening now
- Serendipity: Two photos of every library on earth
- Featured content: Our man drills are safe for work, but our Labia is Fausta.
- Recent research: The dollar value of "official" external links
- Traffic report: What dreams (and heavily trafficked articles) may come
- Essay: Delete the junk!
- Humour: CommonsComix No. 1
- From the archives: 5, 10, and 15 years ago
Sports caps
I've reverted your move of Rowing at the 1988 Summer Olympics – Men's coxed four. I'm not sure that MOS:SPORTCAPS supports what you were doing. But more importantly, it has to be consistent across all the rowing events and the gender, which appears after the endash, is always capitalised. That is not to say that we could not change this, but if we do, we'd have to do it for all Olympic rowing articles. There is absolutely no way that this could be done without having a formal move discussion or an RfC. Schwede66 20:53, 22 September 2022 (UTC)
- Understood! Thanks for raising this in such a courteous manner. ~TPW 01:19, 23 September 2022 (UTC)
- If you do initiate any formal discussion on this question, please let me know. ~TPW 15:42, 23 September 2022 (UTC)
- I don’t plan to do so. Schwede66 19:43, 25 September 2022 (UTC)
The Signpost: 30 September 2022
- News and notes: Board vote results, bot's big GET, crat chat gives new mop, WMF seeks "sound logo" and "organizer lab"
- In the media: A few complaints and mild disagreements
- Special report: Decentralized Fundraising, Centralized Distribution
- Discussion report: Much ado about Fox News
- Traffic report: Kings and queens and VIPs
- Featured content: Farm-fresh content
- CommonsComix: CommonsComix 2: Paulus Moreelse
- From the archives: 5, 10, and 15 Years ago: September 2022
Ndash capitals and tennis
There was a recent large rfc with MOS and tennis articles. The wording after the ndash was something like "Tournament – Men's Singles." It was decided that per MOS Caps and ndash, all articles would be changed to "Tournament – Men's singles." Please don't change the first letter after the ndash to lower case in tennis articles. I've had to revert a bunch. Thanks. Fyunck(click) (talk) 18:15, 29 September 2022 (UTC)
- Thanks for bringing that to my attention. It might be worth it to expand the rfc to cover all athletics, because I do not see how any editor will know that there's an arbitrary preference one way or the other. ~TPW 18:18, 29 September 2022 (UTC)
- You're probably right, but that rfc was rambunctious just to get it to where it is now with a first capitalization after the ndash; the ndash essentially separating two separate headers. My blood pressure is not anxious to get into it again. Cheers. Fyunck(click) (talk) 20:10, 29 September 2022 (UTC)
Understandable. Emotional value sometimes creeps in to capitalization. ~TPW 08:57, 1 October 2022 (UTC)
The Signpost: 31 October 2022
- From the team: A new goose on the roost
- News from the WMF: Governance updates from, and for, the Wikimedia Endowment
- Disinformation report: From Russia with WikiLove
- Featured content: Topics, lists, submarines and Gurl.com
- Serendipity: We all make mistakes – don’t we?
- Traffic report: Mama, they're in love with a criminal
The Signpost: 28 November 2022
- News and notes: English Wikipedia editors: "We don't need no stinking banners"
- In the media: "The most beautiful story on the Internet"
- Disinformation report: Missed and Dissed
- Book review: Writing the Revolution
- Technology report: Galactic dreams, encyclopedic reality
- Essay: The Six Million FP Man
- Tips and tricks: (Wiki)break stuff
- Recent research: Study deems COVID-19 editors smart and cool, questions of clarity and utility for WMF's proposed "Knowledge Integrity Risk Observatory"
- Featured content: A great month for featured articles
- Obituary: A tribute to Michael Gäbler
- From the archives: Five, ten, and fifteen years ago
- CommonsComix: Joker's trick
MOSTITLES
WP:MOSTITLES very explicitly deals with titles of creative works, not titles of office. 67.180.143.89 (talk) 19:15, 27 November 2022 (UTC)
- Yep, should have said MOS:PEOPLETITLES. Thanks for catching that. ~TPW 17:30, 28 November 2022 (UTC)
ArbCom 2022 Elections voter message
Hello! Voting in the 2022 Arbitration Committee elections is now open until 23:59 (UTC) on Monday, 12 December 2022. All eligible users are allowed 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 2022 election, please review the candidates and submit your choices on the voting page. If you no longer wish to receive these messages, you may add {{NoACEMM}}
to your user talk page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:22, 29 November 2022 (UTC)
The Signpost: 1 January 2023
- Interview: ComplexRational's RfA debrief
- Technology report: Wikimedia Foundation's Abstract Wikipedia project "at substantial risk of failure"
- Essay: Mobile editing
- Arbitration report: Arbitration Committee Election 2022
- Recent research: Graham's Hierarchy of Disagreement in talk page disputes
- Featured content: Would you like to swing on a star?
- Traffic report: Football, football, football! Wikipedia Football Club!
- CommonsComix: #4: The Course of WikiEmpire
- From the archives: Five, ten, and fifteen years ago
Pony Penning
Hi. I changed the article back to Pony Penning. Please discuss here Talk:Pony Penning#Name of article if you think there should be a change. Semper Fi! FieldMarine (talk) 13:16, 1 January 2023 (UTC)
The Signpost: 16 January 2023
- Special report: Coverage of 2022 bans reveals editors serving long sentences in Saudi Arabia since 2020
- News and notes: Revised Code of Conduct Enforcement Guidelines up for vote, WMF counsel departs, generative models under discussion
- In the media: Court orders user data in libel case, Saudi Wikipedia in the crosshairs, Larry Sanger at it again
- Technology report: View it! A new tool for image discovery
- In focus: Busting into Grand Central
- Serendipity: How I bought part of Wikipedia – for less than $100
- Featured content: Flip your lid
- Traffic report: The most viewed articles of 2022
- From the archives: Five, ten, and fifteen years ago
Hi True Pagan Warrior. I notice that you have moved 1,2,3-Benzothiadiazole to 1,2,3-benzothiadiazole, justifying that by MOS:SCIMATH. However, as far as I know, chemicals are an exception to that rule, as laid out at WP:CHEMPREFIX. There are a very large number of articles about organic chemicals which have titles starting with digits, for example 1,2-Dichloroethane. It would be appropriate to discuss any change of the capitalisation at one of the Talk Pages of our Project (e.g. WT:CHEMS) if you really believe the established convention should be changed. Regards. Mike Turnbull (talk) 19:25, 27 January 2023 (UTC)
- Given CHEMPREFIX is a "wikipedia guideline" supported by WP consensus, I have added it to SCIMATH. DMacks (talk) 15:32, 29 January 2023 (UTC)
- Thanks! Given what I discovered in reviewing the sources for just that one chemical, I find the consensus curious. Any idea how I can figure out what sources were drawn on to arrive at that consensus? Based on what I reviewed, it's possible that it's time for consensus to change in this case. ~TPW 14:19, 30 January 2023 (UTC)
- @True Pagan Warrior I searched around and found the discussion from 2005 at WT:WikiProject_Chemicals/Archive_2005#New_activity_proposed:_chemistry_style_guide which in turn refers to the draft still at User:Physchim62/Style guidelines. This includes the same guidance as is now at WP:CHEMPREFIX. I was not involved in that discussion but as a professional organic chemist for >30 years I fully agree with the original recommendations. The frequent error made by many chemists is to write the names of natural products like nicotine as always-capitalised, which of course they should not be because they are not proper nouns. The convention that names like 1,2-dichloroethane are used in identical fashion to dichloroethane or nicotine, capitalised at their first letter in Wikipedia titles and if the first word in a sentence is not only of long standing but one that would be difficult to overturn. You may try if you wish! Mike Turnbull (talk) 15:25, 30 January 2023 (UTC)
- No, I very much understand how emotionally attached people in certain professions are to capitalizing terms that they feel are important to their work. ~TPW 15:41, 30 January 2023 (UTC)
- The 2020 ACS Style Guide (doi:10.1021/acsguide.40603) instructs:
The names of chemical compounds may consist of locants, descriptors, and syllabic portions. Locants and descriptors can be numerals, element symbols, small capital letters, Greek letters, Latin letters, italic words and letters, and combinations of these. The syllabic portions of chemical names are the word portions; they are treated like other common nouns: use roman type, keep them lowercase in text and capitalize them at the beginnings of sentences and in titles.
- In general, WP chemistry style tries to follow published style-guides from the major chemistry bodies. DMacks (talk) 20:08, 30 January 2023 (UTC)
- @True Pagan Warrior I searched around and found the discussion from 2005 at WT:WikiProject_Chemicals/Archive_2005#New_activity_proposed:_chemistry_style_guide which in turn refers to the draft still at User:Physchim62/Style guidelines. This includes the same guidance as is now at WP:CHEMPREFIX. I was not involved in that discussion but as a professional organic chemist for >30 years I fully agree with the original recommendations. The frequent error made by many chemists is to write the names of natural products like nicotine as always-capitalised, which of course they should not be because they are not proper nouns. The convention that names like 1,2-dichloroethane are used in identical fashion to dichloroethane or nicotine, capitalised at their first letter in Wikipedia titles and if the first word in a sentence is not only of long standing but one that would be difficult to overturn. You may try if you wish! Mike Turnbull (talk) 15:25, 30 January 2023 (UTC)
- Thanks! Given what I discovered in reviewing the sources for just that one chemical, I find the consensus curious. Any idea how I can figure out what sources were drawn on to arrive at that consensus? Based on what I reviewed, it's possible that it's time for consensus to change in this case. ~TPW 14:19, 30 January 2023 (UTC)
The Signpost: 4 February 2023
- From the editor: New for the Signpost: Author pages, tag pages, and a decent article search function
- News and notes: Foundation update on fundraising, new page patrol, Tides, and Wikipedia blocked in Pakistan
- Disinformation report: Wikipedia on Santos
- Op-Ed: Estonian businessman and political donor brings lawsuit against head of national Wikimedia chapter
- Recent research: Wikipedia's "moderate yet systematic" liberal citation bias
- WikiProject report: WikiProject Organized Labour
- Tips and tricks: XTools: Data analytics for your list of created articles
- Featured content: 20,000 Featureds under the Sea
- Traffic report: Films, deaths and ChatGPT
The Signpost: 20 February 2023
- In the media: Arbitrators open case after article alleges Wikipedia "intentionally distorts" Holocaust coverage
- Disinformation report: The "largest con in corporate history"?
- Tips and tricks: All about writing at DYK
- Featured content: Eden, lost.
- Gallery: Love is in the air
- From the archives: 5, 10, and 15 years ago: Let's (not) delete the Main Page!
- Humour: The RfA Candidate's Song
Reading Talk archives also help
In addition to reading Talk:Internment archives, you may also want to familiarize yourself with MOS:BOLDREDIRECT. "Concentration camp" redirects to Internment. Pinchme123 (talk) 18:15, 5 March 2023 (UTC)
- I see you've had past issues with how you've edited that particular article. I will therefore clarify: when an editor suggests taking an issue to talk, the editor means the talk page of the article. That ensures that uninvolved editors weigh in, to generate consensus. You should certainly tag me when you do that. ~TPW 19:01, 5 March 2023 (UTC)
- I don't have an issue with the article, you do. If you feel the need to overturn 8.5 years of consensus, and go against the very MOS you pointed to, feel free to take it to Talk to find that new consensus. --Pinchme123 (talk) 19:38, 5 March 2023 (UTC)
The Signpost: 9 March 2023
- News and notes: What's going on with the Wikimedia Endowment?
- Technology report: Second flight of the Soviet space bears: Testing ChatGPT's accuracy
- In the media: What should Wikipedia do? Publish Russian propaganda? Be less woke? Cover the Holocaust in Poland differently?
- Featured content: In which over two-thirds of the featured articles section needs to be copied over to WikiProject Military History's newsletter
- Recent research: "Wikipedia's Intentional Distortion of the Holocaust" in Poland and "self-focus bias" in coverage of global events
- From the archives: Five, ten, and fifteen years ago