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February 24

Help: The false story of the death of Edward II

Controversies Controversy rapidly surrounded Edward's death.[331] With Mortimer's execution in 1330, rumours began to circulate that Edward had been murdered at Berkeley Castle. Accounts that he had been killed by the insertion of a red-hot iron or poker into his anus slowly began to circulate, possibly as a result of deliberate propaganda; chroniclers in the mid-1330s and 1340s spread this account further, supported in later years by Geoffrey le Baker's colourful account of the killing.[332] It became incorporated into most later histories of Edward, typically being linked to his possible homosexuality.[333] Most historians now dismiss this account of Edward's death, querying the logic in his captors murdering him in such an easily detectable fashion.[334][nb 21]

How do I seek help in removing this ghastly homophobic false story from Wikepedia? Thank you. Bob Hadley--Bobh3790 (talk) 00:11, 24 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Bobh3790: Get a time machine and let the people in the past know right away that that didn't happen so those false rumors don't spread. Then come back and tell academia that those false rumors didn't spread, then go to the article's talk page to show that historians never said that the false rumors were never spread.

Otherwise, bear in mind that Wikipedia is not censored and consider the possibility that you're reading homophobia into the text. The article doesn't say that Edward II was gay or that he died from having a fire poker inserted into him, it just says that some people in the past incorrectly thought that and that modern historians think that's incorrect. Ian.thomson (talk) 00:22, 24 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

watchlist notification

I have zero idea what I'm being pointed at by the notification on my watchlist that says There are open requests for comments on Wikipedia policies and proposals. It's got four links in it. Three of them go to pages with multiple RfCs, and the fourth is an explanation of RfC. Anyone have more clue than I do? --valereee (talk) 13:13, 24 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Valereee: My digging went as follows: that thing is handled by MediaWiki:Watchlist-messages, page history reveals this with edit summary "per VPP discussion", which turns up Wikipedia:Village_pump_(policy)#Advertising_important_policy_and_proposal_RfCs_on_the_watchlist.

So basically, you are not pointed at anything in particular, just to the existence of RfCs and how to find them. (I am not a fan of the notice, but then I know how to find RfCs if I want to...) Tigraan^{Click here to contact me} 13:35, 24 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Tigraan, thank you for your detective work! --valereee (talk) 20:04, 24 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I want to see all the redirects that I have created

I know how to see a list of all the articles that I have created but how can I see all the redirects that I have created?.--SharʿabSalam▼ (talk) 13:28, 24 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

SharabSalam, there's a list here ~~ Alex Noble - talk 13:59, 24 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks!.--SharʿabSalam▼ (talk) 17:32, 24 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Change Name

Can someone please update the City of Farrell Mayor? As of January 2020 our Mayor is now Kimberly Doss. (Prior to that it was Olive M. McKeithan)

Thank You! City Clerk — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.246.230.162 (talk) 14:27, 24 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Done and congratulations to Ms Doss from London, UK :) ——SN 54129 14:34, 24 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Broken Links

On Jon Meachum's website, none of his web links work. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.189.243.173 (talk) 21:39, 24 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Are you referring to the article at Jon_Meacham? I checked a few links there and they worked. If you are talking about his website, then Wikipedia has no control over that. RudolfRed (talk) 00:09, 25 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Category:CS1 errors: PMC

References are added to Category:CS1 errors: PMC where there is a value for the PMC of >7000000 through Check |pmc= value. That number appears to now be too low for a general error trap, so maybe it should be changed to 8000000 ? Can you direct this to the right editor who can make these template changes ? Matilda Maniac (talk) 22:28, 24 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

This has been fixed in the module-suite sandbox.

—Trappist the monk (talk) 22:52, 24 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]