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Administrators' newsletter – March 2021

News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2021).

Administrator changes

TJMSmith

Boing! said Zebedee • Hiberniantears • Lear's Fool • Only • WGFinley

Interface administrator changes

AmandaNP

Guideline and policy news

A request for comment is open that proposes a process for the community to revoke administrative permissions. This follows a 2019 RfC in favor of creating one such a policy.
A request for comment is in progress to remove F7 (invalid fair-use claim) subcriterion a, which covers immediate deletion of non-free media with invalid fair-use tags.
A request for comment seeks to grant page movers the delete-redirect userright, which allows moving a page over a single-revision redirect, regardless of that redirect's target. The full proposal is at Wikipedia:Page mover/delete-redirect.
A request for comment asks if sysops may place the General sanctions/Coronavirus disease 2019 editnotice template on pages in scope that do not have page-specific sanctions?
There is a discussion in progress concerning automatic protection of each day's featured article with Pending Changes protection.

Technical news

When blocking an IPv6 address with Twinkle, there is now a checkbox with the option to just block the /64 range. When doing so, you can still leave a block template on the initial, single IP address' talkpage.
When protecting a page with Twinkle, you can now add a note if doing so was in response to a request at WP:RfPP, and even link to the specific revision.
There have been a number of reported issues with Pending Changes. Most problems setting protection appear to have been resolved (phab:T273317) but other issues with autoaccepting edits persist (phab:T275322).

Arbitration

By motion, the discretionary sanctions originally authorized under the GamerGate case are now authorized under a new Gender and sexuality case, with sanctions authorized for all edits about, and all pages related to, any gender-related dispute or controversy and associated people. Sanctions issued under GamerGate are now considered Gender and sexuality sanctions.
The Kurds and Kurdistan case was closed, authorizing standard discretionary sanctions for the topics of Kurds and Kurdistan, broadly construed.

Miscellaneous

Following the 2021 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: AmandaNP, Operator873, Stanglavine, Teles, and Wiki13.

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 19:13, 1 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Alien

I thought you reversion of my edit on Alien about R/GA has a production company was arrogant and controlling 86.14.189.55 (talk) 15:37, 14 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Ummmm, thanks? It’s not a production company, not listed in the credits as a production company so it doesn’t go in the info box as a production company. Canterbury Tail talk 15:43, 14 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

You're welcome. R/GA were the production company for the title sequence, which is one of the most iconic in the history of film. Or as you suggested, they probably just made the tea and sandwiches 86.14.189.55 (talk) 16:11, 14 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Yes but they were not the production company for the film, hence why they're not listed here (or anywhere) as the film's production company. Producing the title is no different to the company that does the special effects, they're a sub-contractor not the movie's production company. The only credited production company for the film is Brandywine under Twentieth Century Film Corp. Canterbury Tail talk 16:43, 14 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

You could have made that edit regarding the typeface, rather than just deleting it. I often come across people on wikipedia that act like they own articles -- which is against the spirit and rules of the platform. It is really sad. Maybe a reflection of the people who spend their time policing other's edits 86.14.189.55 (talk) 19:22, 14 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Well everything in main space should be referenced and verified. That was not a verifiable statement. I wouldn’t put it was probably something as that’s not a very encyclopaedic statement and I don’t think has any room here, it’s purely an opinion not a fact. Additionally the typeface used is pure trivia and not encyclopaedic. And I’m quite aware of the spirit of the platform. How do you expect someone to react when you come onto their user talk page calling them arrogant and controlling? Not exactly the comments of someone editing in good faith and trying to be cooperative. I should also note that you’re the one who keeps returning to my talk page to make non-good faith comments. Canterbury Tail talk 20:17, 14 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I always edit in good faith. It is hard when faced with someone who just wants to delete and control other people's edits, and dictate what is added to an article. To someone who is interested in typefaces, that is very encyclopedic for one of the most iconic movie title. If you have good faith, maybe talk before just deleting... because that's what you think 86.14.189.55 (talk) 20:47, 14 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note at no point have I ever suggested your edits were not made in good faith, and I always gave a reason for my edits. Please review WP:BRD. If you boldly add something, and someone reverts it, then it's incumbent on the person making the addition to take it to the talk page. Note I haven't reverted the current font edit, as it is sourced. Still not convinced it's encyclopaedic though but I'm open to see what others say. However yes I will remove unsourced information, and information and claims that are not supported by the source. And as for dictating what is in an article, that's what Wikipedia's policies and guidelines do, I do not own articles, no body does. Your initial edit that this whole section is talking about to add R/GA as the production company was clearly incorrect as they were not the production company for the film, despite having produced the title sequence, and it's quite acceptable to remove such an edit. Also be completely aware that once you make an edit, you lose control of the edit and any other user can come along and edit what you have just entered with good reason. I have given my reasons on multiple occasions. To edit Wikipedia you have to be comfortable with your edits being scrutinised by other editors, and potentially changed and reverted after you make them. Canterbury Tail talk 22:44, 14 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. It is great to talk to an experienced editor that is always right. Have you ever considered why you have had so many people react poorly to your reversions and associated comments against the edits. Maybe you could consider viewing edits and adding qualifying sources, or flagging the edit as unsourced, and dropping a note on the editor's talk page. Only a suggestion 86.14.189.55 (talk) 12:13, 15 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I doubt that it will change your mind but I would have removed that trivia too, if I had seen it first. As would any experienced editor: it is you who is out of line with Wikipedia policy. Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information. --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 12:49, 15 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Vandalism visibility

Hi Canterbury, sorry to bother you but you're the only admin I could think of off the top of my head. Could you possibly do anything about the visibility of the two Personal Attack edits at RoboCop by the IP ending 184 that have been made today? THanks. Darkwarriorblake / SEXY ACTION TALK PAGE! 19:07, 25 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Try that. Canterbury Tail talk 19:12, 25 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

what did i do

what did i do — Preceding unsigned comment added by PeaceLoverStephenTrue1111 (talk • contribs) 22:27, 25 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Seriously? You think this is an acceptable encyclopaedic edit? Canterbury Tail talk 23:29, 25 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Excuse me Dear Canterbury Tail

the Mongol Invasions of Japan Was A Real Thing, that happened

i have exact proof that this is true

Mongol invasions of Japan

this is a real event that happened in a countries history and added 200 + points to your article, because it wasnt vandalism, it was a mistake that you thought it was.

i mean i used to do vandalism at first but i have then realized that if i can make sufficient edits into wikipedia, then i will become known as a very popular wikipedia article editor, just like how people have edited

many pages, i have studied history and geography, and in most Articles of countries, i have seen that very important parts of history have been left out, like the empire of japan, tokugawa shogunate and the kamakura shogunate.

if you made this as a mistake or deliberately removed it just because i once was a vandalist, you have nothing or more to care about. Dogemama73 (talk) 02:36, 9 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Well then Canturbury Tail

Explain why you dont have the tokugawa, kamukura, Empire of Japan, Even in the Serbian Wiki, it shows ottoman invasions of serbia, your score point is -122 canterbury.

My recent argument even has way more score, and if you continue to do this, by undoing Very Important parts of history, you also remove more detail and score. Dogemama73 (talk) 02:49, 9 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Alright you do have some vaild reason, but most are usually invalid.

check Serbia and look at what you can see.

You dont even care how much time it takes to write with confidence, and curiosity.

Its not my fault that there is established put in invasions,does it look like i have control over that?

No,because even if i add a parameter, It still is not valid, because you have add a part of certain code, that makes it valid. and i have learnt Wikipedia's Basic Laws, Where it is simple.

You cant Vandalise wikipedia, you cant use tor to unblock yourself or else you get IP banned from Wikipedia or if you do vandalising again after a decade of being unblocked.

And yet you Have accused me of Vandalism, which you have brought your contribution score, by a lot. Dogemama73 (talk) 03:06, 9 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I dont Accept that in Article Page Writing outside of the Infobox, but explain in Serbia's wikipedia Article,

i have seen wikipedia for years, and now i have just signed up some months ago, i looked deep to such things as articles like [{Sultan_Jan}], you definitley need to improve your common sense used in wikipedia. Dogemama73 (talk) 03:14, 9 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Can I kindly know in which way it was lik 'people magazine' type edit that you reverted today. I request you to visit the public Image section on Kate Winslet's wikipage. Fitzwilliams (talk) 06:42, 28 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Again me. I respect your duty and support. But do consider the editings require much work. Who would better known than you? Anyway, I will republish the section if you have seen such things on Kate Winslet's wikipage as I requested. If you find that wrong to, then revert those too. Fitzwilliams (talk) 07:01, 28 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

No, please take it to the talk page of the article as per WP:BRD. You were bold, you were reverted, now it's time to discuss and the place to discuss the content is on the article's talk page. Also note that WP:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS isn't generally considered a good reason to include something. Canterbury Tail talk 10:59, 28 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

As you know I am only 17 days old on Wikipedia so I learnt just know ho to operate the talk page. I have opened a new topic 'the public Image section' there on the talk page of the article. Please come here and discuss with me. Don't mind me. Fitzwilliams (talk) 12:08, 28 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry if I come across as aggressive, it's not intentional. Just tired. And yes we can discuss on the appropriate talk page. Canterbury Tail talk 12:29, 28 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

You are very aggressive, little man. :( I just want to get along........ — Preceding unsigned comment added by PeaceLoverStephenTrue1111 (talk • contribs) 16:39, 29 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

A donation cannot be considered as a gossip. I guess you didn't like the money factor I mentioned. If I can upload the reverted one now without mentioning that factor, please tell me. Fitzwilliams (talk) 23:39, 5 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

And can I suggest you one thing, editors like you should be welcoming and helpful towards other editors. A few days earlier, you created objection about the public Image section and I haven't forgotten that. Today I see hundreds of wikipages being displayed with such things. Don't mind but your thought seem to be marginalized into your own self, you don't want to consider what other editors write on other wikipages and what other editors want to write on this page. I want to make the heartiest request to you that anyone has made before to you. I will republish the information but not the money factor and you will wait for five or six hours and see if any other editor with such responsibility as you display here, revert it or not. If I get reverted again by anyone except you, I will understand I have problems with myself. If not than I hope you will understand that you have issues with your choice of notability and information. Have a good day. Fitzwilliams (talk) 00:17, 6 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Please ensure any information that is added is encyclopaedic. Also please note that as per WP:BRD if you make and edit, and it is removed, then it is up to the original editor to take it to the talk page and get consensus to add such information. You re-adding it is considered edit warring. And as for asking me not to remove unencyclopaedic information, I'm afraid as a long term editor on this project I cannot do that, if I believe that content is against the objectives and guidelines of this project I cannot let it stay. I will state again that we are an encyclopaedia, not a gossip or people lifestyle magazine and that trivial items are not ones for inclusion. I would also like to point out that you should not personalise edits as you have done so above. A core rule is to comment on content and not the editor, otherwise it could be construed as a personal attack. Canterbury Tail talk 01:53, 6 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@ Canterbury tail, thank you. I will mind the copy right policy further. Fitzwilliams (talk) 02:27, 18 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

It wasn't intentional, I know, and sometimes Wikipedia's policies can be odd to newcomers. But we do take copyright very seriously, we have to. I'm sure you can find another source for that, I didn't remove the content just the link. Canterbury Tail talk 11:44, 18 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@ Canterbury tail, I came for a suggestion. I found it logical to seek your advice before taking this to the respective talk page. I literally found nothing about his song. But I did find that it was written by Ali Thomson and sung by Jamie Dornan. But these information weren't found anywhere under Copyright law or permission. Even some websites showing relative news don't show anything when you enter into them. All I found is a YouTube video which states it doesn't own the song. So what should I do? Your advice will be precious. Fitzwilliams (talk) 09:10, 20 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Honestly, if you can't find any information about a song then that would mean it's not notable for mention to be honest. Not everything someone does is encyclopaedically notable. A famout singer writes a song for their daughters birthday but it isn't widely published, not likely notable. A famous author can write something minor and put it on their website, doesn't make it notable. It's only notable if independent third parties are talking about it and discussing it, otherwise it just is and doesn't necessarily merit inclusion. That being said, it may be better to raise this on the article talk page, that will get more eyes on it than just my talk page. Canterbury Tail talk 11:40, 20 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Okay. I opening a topic there right away. Fitzwilliams (talk) 13:26, 20 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

who are you?

Who are you? Are you an Admin? A criminal? A virgin? A whore? Let me get to know you. Why are you harassing me?

I'm not harassing you, you're editing a page on my watchlist with not very good edits and the other edit was violating some of our Manual of Style guidelines. And yes, I happen to be an admin as well. And your above comment could be considered a personal attack with some of those comments, so I'd suggest editing it. Also please read Competence is Required. Quite frankly at this point your edits are mostly of very poor quality and outright disruptive. Honestly, at this point you're on a fast track to being blocked from editing. Canterbury Tail talk 17:32, 29 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

As for the "very poor quality": I would consider it a euphemism. Some of the edits by PeaceLoverStephenTrue1111 are unambiguous trolling. When you look at the edit history, I think it's very likely that the user is a sock puppet of a former wikipedian who is possibly blocked from editing—some of the user's first edits were troll messages on my talk page (sending me a retarded cat etc.), without any apparent reason, so the user probably holds a grudge from the past.—J. M. (talk) 18:56, 29 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I was being polite. :) Canterbury Tail talk 18:58, 29 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Past being polite. Now they’re blocked. Canterbury Tail talk 00:44, 30 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

And, unsurprisingly, the user is back as Leela Roha, sending me a kitten again, and asking the same question about following users' edits (i.e. wikihounding) that they asked on my talk page. Obviously, I think Leela Roha should be blocked for sock puppetry, and perhaps an SPI page should be opened…—J. M. (talk) 02:05, 31 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I started an SPI. I hope someone will reply this time, and it won't take weeks or months (SPI has been severely understaffed in recent months).—J. M. (talk) 03:35, 31 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Never worry, I just blocked them as a blatant sock. I've tagged the pages as appropriate. Canterbury Tail talk 12:05, 31 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Rosetta Stone - Archeological Theft

Could you tell me why according to you it is not appropriate category?--Nous (talk) 17:32, 8 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

That category is all about looting. I'm not disputing that ownership of the Rosetta Stone is controversial, but something looted is quite different to something found on an archaeological dig. Turning the question around. Why, according to you, is it an appropriate category? And I would also direct you to WP:BRD, and suggest that any discussion of the category happen on the article's talk page. Canterbury Tail talk 17:49, 8 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I'm still not sure what you suggest. French had permission from Ottoman sultan to do archeological work and to take what they find? I know nothing about it, and seriously, they were at war with Ottoman Empire, so forgive me, but I really doubt it. They conquer and occupied alien country, do illegal digging, and remove artifacts. It is called looting. The Nazis in occupied Greece did the same thing sometimes, and everybody call it looting (and they did it not only in Greece) P.S. Forgive me that I don't wrote it on the article's talk page, but, by the way, you should answer on my talk page. Or bring it all to talk page of the article, if you want to be consequential. Whatever - we are where we are.--Nous (talk) 20:48, 8 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I will only respond to talk comments here, as noted at the top of the page. However this is about content, not about me, so any conversation on categories or article content should take place on the talk page of the appropriate article. Canterbury Tail talk 10:56, 9 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – April 2021

News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2021).

Administrator changes

Alexandria • Happyme22 • RexxS

Guideline and policy news

Following a request for comment, F7 (invalid fair-use claim) subcriterion a has been deprecated; it covered immediate deletion of non-free media with invalid fair-use tags.
Following a request for comment, page movers were granted the delete-redirect userright, which allows moving a page over a single-revision redirect, regardless of that redirect's target.

Technical news

When you move a page that many editors have on their watchlist the history can be split and it might also not be possible to move it again for a while. This is because of a job queue problem. (T278350)
Code to support some very old web browsers is being removed. This could cause issues in those browsers. (T277803)

Arbitration

A community consultation on the Arbitration Committee discretionary sanctions procedure is open until April 25.

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 22:20, 1 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

A barnstar for you!

		The Recent Changes Barnstar
		Thanks for welcoming me in November :) If it had come without a welcome I would have probably continued disruptively editing. Noah ^💬 19:15, 15 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

On nationalities

First of all, thanks a bunch for your help in reverting nonsense across the encyclopedia, it's a big help. I noticed you reversion of an edit to Abroad in Japan where the subject's nationality was changed from British to English. The reversion was correct {Broad is a self-described "British Guy making videos in Japan"), though I fear the reasoning for reversion was a bit off. When I added Broad's nationality , I was careful to read up on Wikipedia:Nationality of people from the United Kingdom beforehand (as an American who prefers to tread lightly with the national identities of the UK). What settled it for me was the section Wikipedia:Nationality of people from the United Kingdom#Guide to finding UK nationality. Broad describes himself as British, so that's that, but shouldn't there be instances where it would be correct to say one's nationality is English? Cheers, ❯❯❯ Mccunicano ☕️ 22:39, 20 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Yes you are correct in that. It all comes down to what we mean by nationality, citizenship, identity etc. And I spend most of my time moderating stuff around Northern Ireland (if you think England is a mess, try that one. British, Irish, Northern Irish, none, all.) Honestly if I had my way we'd get rid of nationalities altogether (they're more trouble than they're worth) and just say where someone is from. Canterbury Tail talk 23:54, 20 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Sounds like quite the task. How we all self-identify is such a delightfully complex matter. ❯❯❯ Mccunicano ☕️ 00:08, 21 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

And sometimes even has no real basis in anything other than desire. But hey, we're all human and all looking to belong to something. Have a good one. Canterbury Tail talk 00:11, 21 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Oh just noticed you live in Aomori. Nice, not been up that way. Looking to get back to Japan for a month or so again once all this is over. Thinking of heading up to Tohoku. Canterbury Tail talk 00:13, 21 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Yep, but I'm heading back to the US for good sometime within the next few months. Aomori will always be a home of sorts to me though! If you make it and are looking for recommendations, feel free to send me an email. What there is to do around here is really dictated by what season it is, (autumn is best) but there is always something interesting going on. ❯❯❯ Mccunicano ☕️ 01:08, 21 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Nationality has been a question of legal debate with foreign national and the U.S. Courts. Do the search bots with content of the wiki pages involve the legal use of phrases? Abroad in Japan 2601:543:4380:EA00:85B4:E1D9:19C6:1452 (talk) 00:26, 31 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

AN/I Notice

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The thread is Sudipto Surjo's block expires and they immediate resume their disruptive conduct. Thank you. DÅRTHBØTTØ_(T•C) 02:01, 21 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Eh?

Did you get caught in an edit conflict with this revert? —C.Fred (talk) 23:54, 24 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Ah sorry about that. I think my iPad Chrome refreshed when I was clicking a link and it ended up being the wrong one. That was so not intended, not even on that page. A complete refresh and misclick on my behalf. Sincere apologies. I was trying to click on a diff for another watchlist item and recall wondering why it was not on that page. Recovering from vaccine fever and just got confused and didn’t realize what I’d done. Canterbury Tail talk 00:47, 25 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

If WMF had a dollar for every time my screen had jumped and I clicked the wrong thing, there'd never be another banner ad for donations. :) I usually catch it, but I'm sure I'm not 100% at it. No worries. Glad you're on the mend from the vaccine; I got my second dose today, so we'll see how I am over the next few days. —C.Fred (talk) 02:09, 25 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Cheers. Yeah, with a mouse it's bad enough, on the iPad it can be infuriating. I got an AstraZeneca, just a light fever and a bit of light headedness not too bad. Much better today. Canterbury Tail talk 12:05, 25 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

MMMC Architects

Thanks for taking a hatchet to MMMC Architects. I tagged it with a PROD, but does it meet G11 (Unambiguous advertising or promotion) for a speedy delete? Cheers. Magnolia677 (talk) 18:22, 2 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

It's dubious, on the fence about that. It's clearly a non-notable architectural firm blatantly written by an employee or close contact. Speedy, meh undecided. You could always tag it and someone can come along and make the judgement call on it. Problem with the prod is it takes 5 days and anyone can remove it. Canterbury Tail talk 18:29, 2 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I'll try. Cheers. Magnolia677 (talk) 18:41, 2 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

List of forests in Ireland

You will note that User Ddep96 (created on 1 May 2021 at 12:56) has made three edits to Wikipedia since the account was created the day before yesterday. Each has been to change 'County Londonderry' to 'County Derry' on the above page. I simply reverted the first one with a reference to 'WP:Londonderry" in the edit summary. The second time that it happened, I put links to the Wikipedia policy on the article's talk page and the user's talk page. I have just reverted the third edit with a link to the talk page.This may be a case of a new editor who simply reverts edits with which they do not agree, perhaps is not familiar with Wikipedia talk pages, or is not interested in discussing the issue/is not prepared to discuss it. I am keen to avoid falling foul of the three-revert rule. Would this page be a candidate for semi-protection? Alekksandr (talk) 16:19, 3 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Dealt with. Someone who persists in the same edits continuously and ignores talk page comments, isn't here to contribute meaningfully. I've also added the article to my watchlist. Canterbury Tail talk 16:22, 3 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for the prompt response. Alekksandr (talk) 19:11, 3 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Canterbury Tail. Excellent work you are doing, just as an add on to this in The Republic of Ireland counties are used as

actual areas, So County Cork is run by Cork County council. Whereas in Northern Ireland they do not use the counties, but have divided the areas into boroughs, as can be seen in this article.

Local government in Northern Ireland

Thor909 Thor909 (talk) 20:05, 31 March 2022 (UTC) (talk)Thor909 (talk) 20:05, 31 March 2022 (UTC) 19:48, 31 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Counties are still in use in Northern Ireland. They are not government organisations any more, however they're still geographic areas. Towns, cities etc are still in counties for locational and address purposes (not governmental) for instance and they are still locational descriptors. Canterbury Tail talk 19:52, 31 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Canterebury Tail, Yes correct, I was just pointing out the Governmental differences.~~~~ Thor909 (talk)Thor909 (talk) 20:08, 31 March 2022 (UTC) 20:07, 31 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Nuclear Milkman

Blocked a sock of his, User talk:Samuel Collingsworth - I forget how to not ping someone and can't find anything to help me. Anyway, see their unblock request. Definitely Mikemikev. I don't see an SPI but there probably should be one now, what do you think? And should Collingsworth have tpa removed? Doug Weller talk 12:05, 5 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I think others are more familiar with the case overall and the various socks/masters etc involved. Not familiar with Mikemikev. If you're certain you're certain, and it is definitely a loud quacker for someone else. At the end of the day it won't be contested no matter how they're blocked, access removed etc as they're clearly someone who's effectively banned by this point. Canterbury Tail talk 12:12, 5 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

See [[1]] and another I found, [2]. I'll tidy it all up with the existing SPI. Doug Weller talk 12:34, 5 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Sigh. I don't get it, what do people get out of this stuff? My time is finite, banging my head against a wall repeatedly for zero gain isn't what I want to spend it doing. Canterbury Tail talk 12:36, 5 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – May 2021

News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2021).

Administrator changes

Enchanter • Carlossuarez46

Interface administrator changes

Ragesoss

Guideline and policy news

Following an RfC, consensus was found that third party appeals are allowed but discouraged.
The 2021 Desysop Policy RfC was closed with no consensus. Consensus was found in a previous RfC for a community based desysop procedure, though the procedure proposed in the 2021 RfC did not gain consensus.

Technical news

The user group oversight will be renamed to suppress. This is for technical reasons. You can comment at T112147 if you have objections.

Arbitration

The community consultation on the Arbitration Committee discretionary sanctions procedure was closed, and an initial draft based on feedback from the now closed consultation is expected to be released in early June to early July for community review.

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 15:51, 7 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

user:FreadyBulat

Would you block please? persistent disruptive vandalism despite warnings. TYVM. --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 19:34, 21 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

They have been shown the door. Canterbury Tail talk 19:40, 21 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

3080 Ti

Hey, I think they finally announced the 3070/3080 Ti. —Locke Cole • t • c 13:22, 1 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, but we still need to do something about that IP. Looking at various articles, they've been hurling abuse and throwing unsourced conjecture at things for many many years. I'm going to seek assistance of other admins that have experience in range blocking etc on this. Canterbury Tail talk 13:33, 1 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed, and I caught on to the IPs all being from the same country/region as well, so hopefully there's a solution. Though your protection solution appears to have resolved the matter for now (even if it means the occasional talk page abuse). —Locke Cole • t • c 15:29, 1 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah but semi-protecting pages due to one person isn't a fabulous solution. However looking at some articles such as Nvidia PureVideo this person has been at this for a decade or so. So it needs a solution. I just don't know what it is and blocking all unregistered users from editing anything to do with computer hardware isn't the right solution. Canterbury Tail talk 15:36, 1 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

WP:PBLOCK appears to indicate you can apply them to IP ranges, up to ten pages at a time. These appear to be all the IPs from the abusive editor's ISP. As you said, might be best to consult someone with experience, but indef PBLOCKs on those ranges would be what I'd try. —Locke Cole • t • c 16:08, 1 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Curious, how'd you come up with that list? Canterbury Tail talk 16:19, 1 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

When you go to the contributions for an IP, there is a WHOIS link near the bottom left of the page (with a bunch of other useful-ish links) (example: [3]). On that page there is an "asn" field, 4788, which is a link that generates all the IPs from that same ASN. I checked it against some of the other recent IPs and they all use the same ASN. I'd check against the really old ones to make sure you don't miss any, but I suspect they're likely all the same. As a sanity check you can use a CIDR calculator (like this one [4]) and if you try a range like 115.132.0.0/14 (which is from that generated list) it should show that it applies to CIDR IP Range - 115.132.0.0 - 115.135.255.255 (which would include 115.133.25.96 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log), one of the IPs that was disruptive). —Locke Cole • t • c 16:30, 1 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you very much. I spend too much time gnoming and dealing with little fires and not enough learning. Much appreciated. Canterbury Tail talk 16:35, 1 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Warhammer 40,000

Hey, let's be friends. Here Warhammer is referred as space opera. Really. I don't want to enter in bad discussion, offend you or get into lengthy discussions. I know my place. Really. Let's be friends. I know things must be sourced. Regards: Elan Morin Tedronai (talk) EDIT: Also, here by Random House. Referred fully as space opera. Fully. I want to be friends. EDIT: This personal space opera website also refers Warhammer 40,000 novels as derived literature of the space opera genre. Also, I noticed you removed the side-bar on Space Western. Let's put at least some written examples? Regards: Elan Morin Tedronai (talk)

Happy First Edit Day!

Have a very happy first edit anniversary!

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Have a very happy adminship anniversary on your special day!

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KSI Flag dispute

Hello, I just wanted to communicate to you that flags are meant to be used for Pro boxing records. You can check references such as other boxers such as Tyson Fury or Dillian Whyte. The flags are used to show the nationality of the fighter and the location. Sebzsoccer (talk) 13:51, 7 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Calling it a professional boxing match is a joke, it was a publicity stunt. However there are indeed enough references to call it a pro match despite what everyone thinks so... Canterbury Tail talk 14:23, 7 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Is was a pro fight despite the lack of skill between the fighters. I understand where your coming from and I’m glad the issue is resolved. Sebzsoccer (talk) 15:22, 7 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Safehold

OK, I'm sorry. Really. I thought it was, considering Honorverse is. Sorry. I'll try not to happen again. Sometimes it's hard to distinguish both genres: military and space opera. Considering that sometimes fiction happens in space. I'll try to be better. Just show me civilized the way. I know I'm long term editor. Almost 20 years. Regards: Elan Morin Tedronai (talk)

Note Honorverse isn't listed as space opera, there is nothing in that article to support it either. Canterbury Tail talk 16:28, 7 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Administrators' newsletter – June 2021

News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2021).

Administrator changes

Ashleyyoursmile • Less Unless

Husond • MattWade • MJCdetroit • Carioca • Vague Rant • Kingboyk • Thunderboltz • Gwen Gale • AniMate • SlimVirgin (deceased)

Guideline and policy news

Consensus was reached to deprecate Wikipedia:Editor assistance.
Following a Request for Comment the Book namespace was deprecated.

Technical news

Wikimedia previously used the IRC network Freenode. However, due to changes over who controlled the network with reports of a forceful takeover by several ex-staff members, the Wikimedia IRC Group Contacts decided to move to the new Libera Chat network. It has been reported that Wikimedia related channels on Freenode have been forcibly taken over if they pointed members to Libera. There is a migration guide and Wikimedia discussions about this.

Arbitration

After a Clarification request, the Arbitration Committee modified Remedy 5 of the Antisemitism in Poland case. This means sourcing expectations are a discretionary sanction instead of being present on all articles. It also details using the talk page or the Reliable Sources Noticeboard to discuss disputed sources.

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 14:45, 9 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

The Expanse

You reverted my small edit to improve the time context of the plot synopsis on The Expanse. You asserted dates were never clear. That is incorrect. I viewed Eps. 1-3 (season 1) of the series today, and the23rd century bit was actually written on-screen, in one of those episodes. I believe it was Ep.1, near the beginning of the episode.

I don't care about it that much, so am not pushing it beyond this comment setting you straight. But your assertion is not correct; and the synopsis would be better with my edit left in it. Cheers. N2e (talk) 00:28, 20 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Well it needs a reference, we don't have one. If one can be provided then obviously that's fair enough, but even the fan Wiki's don't have dates for it which is unusual. Canterbury Tail talk 00:49, 20 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

It is interesting that you say it needs a source. Nothing else is sourced in those sections. I'm part of some better citing wikiprojects, and at one time worked to advance the idea that plot summaries in WP article on books, or films, or TV shows needed source citations. This was roundly rejected; and as you can see from looking at any plot summary of those types of media, they are all nearly completely lacking citations for the many many statements made in those summaries in an article.

It's kinda weird, relative to the rest of the encyclopedia. But that is what has emerged as an outcome, in actual practice. People just don't cite that stuff; and other editors seem to accept it. Unless they don't, as happened today. But since nothing is cited at all, your assertion that a return to the existing wording is no stronger argument than mine that it should be changed for clarity.

So I doubt I'll ever pass the way again so as to see that white text, on the screen, in The Advance episode, that made the 23rd centruy explicit. Alas, like much of Wikipedia, it'll just have to be something that awaits some other editor to fix it; or one who happens to fix it when no watcher is watching who, although the watcher doesn't know better, the watcher (you, in the extant case) is willing to revert to maintain the status quo on a totally uncited plot summary/season summary: Status / Season 2 / Season 2 / etc. Cheers. N2e (talk) 03:46, 20 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Yes it does need a reference, because it's not known. You say one episode makes it clear that it's the 23d century (incidentally there isn't an episode called "The Advance"). Can you tell me when this date appears in the show and what episode? I then raise you Ganymede Gin, very clearly shown in the shown and carries the caption "since 2307" thus meaning it's minimum of 24th century. (see this screen grab for evidence) So unless you can provide evidence otherwise, preferably a reliable source, you cannot claim it's the 23rd century. And as you know, uncited claims can be challenged and removed, you added a claim that wasn't supported by anything so it was challenged and removed. The closest we actually have is Space.com claiming its set in 2350 (which is 24th century), but it could be up for debate on whether that is a reliable source or just something the writer made up at that point for the article. The books are mum on the topic, and the role-playing game states 2351, but that's based on the books not the TV series. Canterbury Tail talk 12:22, 20 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – July 2021

News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2021).

Administrator changes

Trialpears

AGK • Eliz81 • Mulad • ThaddeusB • Vianello • Who

Lacrimosus → Ikuzaf

Interface administrator changes

Ragesoss

CheckUser changes

AGK • DGG

Oversighter changes

AGK

Guideline and policy news

Consensus has been reached to delete all books in the book namespace. There was rough consensus that the deleted books should still be available on request at WP:REFUND even after the namespace is removed.
An RfC is open to discuss the next steps following a trial which automatically applied pending changes to TFAs.

Technical news

IP addresses of unregistered users are to be hidden from everyone. There is a rough draft of how IP addresses may be shown to users who need to see them. This currently details allowing administrators, checkusers, stewards and those with a new usergroup to view the full IP address of unregistered users. Editors with at least 500 edits and an account over a year old will be able to see all but the end of the IP address in the proposal. The ability to see the IP addresses hidden behind the mask would be dependent on agreeing to not share the parts of the IP address they can see with those who do not have access to the same information. Accessing part of or the full IP address of a masked editor would also be logged. Comments on the draft are being welcomed at the talk page.

Arbitration

The community authorised COVID-19 general sanctions have been superseded by the COVID-19 discretionary sanctions following a motion at a case request. Alerts given and sanctions placed under the community authorised general sanctions are now considered alerts for and sanctions under the new discretionary sanctions.

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 11:26, 3 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

copyvio notice on my talk page

Please explain, given that we are currently in the midst of the discussion on WP:External links/Noticeboard § Archive.org hosting of copyrighted material, why you have posted this copyvio to my talk page. Thank you. Fabrickator (talk) 11:50, 14 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Because you had re-added, in the past, the offending link to Liar Paradox and it needed to be removed. Please don't add it again. As you're aware Wikipedia takes copyright issues very seriously, and while there's any doubt the links should not be used. Canterbury Tail talk 12:35, 14 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Incidentally I notice you are no longer participating in the EL/N thread, and it appears to have reached it's clear conclusion, so obviously the copyrighted links needed to be removed. Canterbury Tail talk 18:27, 14 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

British Isles

I'm not sure of the best course of action over there. What do you think? Ghmyrtle (talk) 08:01, 23 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Ghmyrtle: I reverted the the fellow, on the basis of WP:BRD. It's best he get a consensus there, for what he wants. Either that, or a block for edit warring. It's up to him. GoodDay (talk) 10:53, 23 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Reverts

Hi Canterbury. You have removed some of the nice new temperature bar charts from some articles. You wrote that they are lacking a scale. However, the scale is available via Commons. Just click on the bar chart. You might have overlooked that information? Maybe you want to add the figures again yourself? DiagramLover (talk) 14:00, 23 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

There is no vertical scale on those graphs. The vertical scale could be 0.1 degree a pixel, 1 degree, or 10 degrees. As they are they're just abstract to the readers. The graph should convey the information, not require the reader to go off and read something else and figure out what is going on. Canterbury Tail talk 14:06, 23 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for sharing your concerns. The image page is pretty clear though: "This bar chart is a visual representation of the change in temperature in the past 100+ years. Each stripe represents the temperature averaged over a year. The average temperature in 1971–2000 is set as the boundary between blue and red colors, and the color scale varies from ±2.6 standard deviations of the annual average temperatures between the years mentioned in the file name. Data source: Berkeley Earth. For more information visit https://showyourstripes.info/faq". It becomes clear from this description what these bars represent. I hope this makes sense now? Cheers DiagramLover (talk) 14:11, 23 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Conversation to happen on your talk page where it was started for reference for everyone else. Canterbury Tail talk 14:15, 23 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Wikiproject for Warhammer?

Greerings, CT. I'm messaging you because I noticed you editing Age of Sigmar. Do you know of any sort of Wikiproject for Warhammer or related wargagming? If not, do you know more active users interested in Warhammer who I could contact? I noticed that articles related to the game often read like advertisements and have poor sourcing, yet there's a ton of RS available in media coverage on the game. A lot of improvements could be done, but it will take a lot of work. MezzoMezzo (talk) 12:01, 25 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – July 2021

News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2021).

Administrator changes

BusterD

Kees08 • Nickshanks • Protonk • Schissel • Ultraexactzz • Wknight94

CheckUser changes

TheresNoTime

Oversighter changes

TheresNoTime

ST47

Guideline and policy news

An RfC is open to add a delay of one week from nomination to deletion for G13 speedy deletions.

Technical news

Last week all wikis were very slow or not accessible for 30 minutes. This was due to server lag caused by regenerating dynamic lists on the Russian Wikinews after a large bulk import. (T287380)

Arbitration

Following an amendment request, the committee has clarified that the Talk page exception to the 500/30 rule in remedy 5 of the Palestine-Israel articles 4 case does not apply to requested move discussions.

Miscellaneous

You can vote for candidates in the 2021 Board of Trustees elections from 4 August to 17 August. Four community elected seats are up for election.

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 14:17, 1 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Are you following me?

Why have all my recent edits you have changed something on the same page I have? Are you getting notifications when I contribute something? Honestly I am curious, I am new to the wiki scene.

You're the one who undid my edit so yes I looked at your edit. Singular. You only made 2 edits before posting this message. Canterbury Tail talk 22:12, 12 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Don’t worry he does that he is following me too trying to get pages I made deleted Australianblackbelt (talk) 16:28, 1 November 2021 (UTC) Australianblackbelt (talk) 16:28, 1 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Adam B

Perhaps a page block from that article for 86.22.7.79 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log) might be a good idea please? FDW777 (talk) 10:41, 14 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Yes that is a good idea. I had considered locking down the entire article to new users, and that may still happen, but hadn't realised this single IP had done so much. Consider it done. Canterbury Tail talk 11:37, 14 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Hmmm

This sort of thing. There's quite a lot of it alongside many good edits. I see you on the editor's Talk page too. I do feel somewhat concerned but I'm unclear whether action is appropriate ... I'm not really up for tackling it myself. I might go on watching for a while too and see how things develop. Thanks for your vigilance. Best wishes DBaK (talk) 21:11, 14 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah it's tricky. They're editing in good faith, and some of their edits are good. However I'm not entirely convinced English is their first language and at times their grasp on grammar is poor. Some edits have been really bad, but they're not the majority. Like you I'm unsure as to the ultimate action to take here. Does the work they are causing others to clean up outweigh the work they're doing? I don't think so, and they do correct more than they cause so technically it's a net positive. Canterbury Tail talk 21:14, 14 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Hello

Hello CanterburyTail, just thought the following may be of use to you: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Martial_arts#Felix_Leong https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Deletion_requests/File:Felix_Leong_and_Maurice_Novoa.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Australianblackbelt#Please_do_not_advertise_on_Commons https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Richie_Campbell#Mrs_Globe_Australia_2016_in_The_Latin_Australian_Times

Thank you. Yes I'm aware of ABB's edits over time, his shameless promotion and continuous COI and need to promote non-notable persons. And the Latin Australian Times is not a notable news source, it's a local community newspaper that publishes anything that comes across its desk, not an editorial oversighted news source. Canterbury Tail talk 15:28, 25 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I'm very glad you've been following his dubious career; I'm afraid as a humble IP contributor I lack any real means of positively influencing the situation, but it's indisputably to Wikipedia's detriment to allow this person to succeed in his vanity editing, which bewilderingly seems to have gone under the radar for several years. Many thanks for your hard work!

Just because you're an IP, doesn't mean you can't interact and participate. For instance there is an AfD for Felix Leong currently underway, you're more than welcome to participate there should you desire. AfDs are done on strength of argument and policy, not votes, so your voice is as valid as anyone elses. Canterbury Tail talk 16:18, 25 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, I added my two cents in what I hope is a productive way; I considered mentioning the fact that the personal profiles (https://www.ewingchun.com/sifus/maurice-novoa https://www.ewingchun.com/sifus/anthony-arnett https://www.ewingchun.com/sifus/felix-leong-cheok-son) of Maurice Novoa, Anthony Arnett, Felix Leong and his student Nick Legg (featured at one point in several of ABB's photos demonstrating with Felix Leong, with meticulous specific mention in photo captions)- perhaps tellingly, the only one NOT to receive his own article here, which would allow defence against accusation of vanity editing?- all indicate their association, but that's rather over-egging the pudding, at least at this point. Taking Maurice Novoa as an example- https://www.ewingchun.com/sifus/maurice-novoa : his teacher is shown to be Anthony Arnett (article created by ABB), whose teacher, William Cheung, was also focus of much editing attention from ABB; Felix Leong is listed as another teacher. On Felix Leong's profile is listed Nick Legg, whose profile states him to be "one of Grandmaster Felix Leong's oldest and most senior disciples" (ABB has claimed himself to be a "pentioner" when challenged...) who "currently teaches Sifu Maurice once a week the many lineages taught to im (sic) by Grandmaster Felix." Perhaps not viable "evidence" by Wikipedia standards; at the very least a bit of interesting background, I thought. EDIT: Sorry, forgot one thing- when, in September 2020, on the Felix Leong article talk page, he was challenged with being "probably either Nick Legg or Maurice Novoa", the usually voluble and argumentative ABB said nothing further. When however his Maurice Novoa article was put up for deletion and a conflict of interest put to him, he forcefully denied being Maurice Novoa.

The location of Slaghtaverty

I believe my edit shouldn’t of been changed as it remained accurate while avoiding political bias in a very tense political situation whereas your ‘correction’ does not. I changed the description of Slaghtaverty from being near Maghera in Londonderry to being near Maghera in Ulster, this is still an accurate and correct description. I will admit it is slightly less precise but only slightly and the reader should have no trouble finding the location based on my description, the reason I replaced ‘Londonderry’ with Ulster is that all communities across the island of Ireland agree on Ulster as the location, whereas the Name of Derry/Londonderry is both colloquially and legally recognised differently depending on your political and ethnic background or which state of Ireland you’re in (Northern or Republic), Londonderry is equally as correct as Derry yet moderators seem to insist that Londonderry has preference over Derry, wars where fought over issues like this and violence continues to this day, I feel it’s only respectable to avoid the county when describing the location of Slaghtaverty and it would be pedantic to insist on being so specific especially since it’s close proximity to Maghera was already mentioned Michael Murfie (talk) 14:17, 26 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

For context this was regarding the Abhartach page Michael Murfie (talk) 14:26, 26 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

So why not the country it's in then, Northern Ireland. Ulster isn't used for anything anymore. And County Londonderry isn't politically sensitive, it's the name of the county and has been ever since it was created. Some people colloquially call it County Derry, but that's never been its name since it was previously County Coleraine. You're the only one making some political issue out of it. Canterbury Tail talk 14:44, 26 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Question re: COI and new articles

Hi! I stumbled across one of the articles that you nominated for deletion. I agree that the article should be deleted, but your explanation brought up a question for me. Is a history of COI a reason to delete an article? I have been only looking at the article itself and not the editor who created it, but you and the other voter both brought up COI. I want to make sure that I am properly evaluating articles, so I thought I would ask. I really appreciate your help in making me a better editor! FiddleheadLady (talk) 17:12, 26 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Not entirely no. It could be considered a factor, but it’s definitely not a single reason to do so in all honesty. Canterbury Tail talk 17:54, 26 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

IP:69.113.129.208

Hello, could I please alert you to the fact that 69.113.129.208 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) is still edit warring on American Airlines, although you have blocked them for 24 hours. Perhaps a longer block is required? Regards, David J Johnson (talk) 11:41, 1 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Those edits are from 20 minutes before they were blocked. They are currently blocked and cannot edit. Feel free to let me know if they continue once their block expires. Canterbury Tail talk 13:03, 1 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

They've continued after the block expired: see here, among others. Thanks. BilCat (talk) 00:33, 2 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Blocked again. 1 week this time. Canterbury Tail talk 01:22, 2 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks again. BilCat (talk) 01:24, 2 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Null perspiration. Canterbury Tail talk 01:25, 2 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

They're back! BilCat (talk) 02:17, 12 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Their edits don't appear to have been disruptive since their return. However perhaps trying to engage them on their talk page pre-emptively one last time may be beneficial? Canterbury Tail talk 12:46, 12 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – September 2021

News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2021).

Administrator changes

Jake Wartenberg

Emperor • Viridian Bovary

Ashleyyoursmile → Viridian Bovary

Guideline and policy news

Feedback is requested on the Universal Code of Conduct enforcement draft by the Universal Code of Conduct Phase 2 drafting committee.
A RfC is open on whether to allow administrators to use extended confirmed protection on high-risk templates.
A discussion is open to decide when, if ever, should discord logs be eligible for removal when posted onwiki (including whether to oversight them)
A RfC on the next steps after the trial of pending changes on TFAs has resulted in a 30 day trial of automatic semi protection for TFAs.

Technical news

The Score extension has been re-enabled on public wikis. It has been updated, but has been placed in safe mode to address unresolved security issues. Further information on the security issues can be found on the mediawiki page.

Arbitration

A request for comment is in progress to provide an opportunity to amend the structure, rules, and procedures of the Arbitration Committee election and resolve any issues not covered by existing rules. Comments and new proposals are welcome.

Miscellaneous

The 2021 RfA review is now open for comments.

Sorry I put my comments/request up top.Palisades1 (talk) 03:51, 4 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 20:44, 3 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Hunger strike

Hi - the reason given for your revert on the 1981 Irish hunger strike page (2 Sept 2021) "Irish prisoners who died on hunger strike" on the page - was "already in more appropriate and specific subcategory". I assume you mean that you feel that the existing category "Hunger strikes" was more user friendly than the category "Irish prisoners who died on hunger strike".

Looking at the category Hunger strikes - in order to get to the listing of all of the Irish prisoners who died on hunger strike (20th century) a reader will need to access another page "List of hunger strikes" and then will find an incomplete listing of Irish prisoners who died on hunger strike.

The most appropriate and specific subcategory for a full listing of 20th century Irish hunger Striker deaths is the one that was reverted: Irish prisoners who died on hunger strike.

I think our goal is to provide readers simple access to the information.

Please reconsider your revert. Thanks for your consideration.

Palisades1 (talk) 03:26, 4 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

No I reverted them because they're already in a more specific and appropriate category, namely "Category:People who died on the 1981 Irish hunger strike". This is a subcategory of "Irish prisoners who died on hunger strike" and is more more precise. That 1981 strike is the hunger strike they died in. We shouldn't be general when we can be specific, the lower a category we can place an article in the better and the 1981 hunger strike category was already there and is a subcategory of "Category:Irish prisoners who died on hunger strike". If you go to that category you will see the 1981 strike inside of it. Canterbury Tail talk 11:02, 4 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Returning disruptive editor

Could you please have a word with this IP (who is obviously the same editor that you blocked previously for disruptive editing)? Thanks. M.Bitton (talk) 22:06, 21 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

What did I do that was disruptive? 2605:AD80:FFF0:14EF:C48:500D:EFA4:745E (talk) 22:07, 21 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Please see their previous disruptions and blindingly obvious POV pushing (previous ANI report). Thanks M.Bitton (talk) 22:09, 21 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

"Blindingly obvious POV pushing" lmao ok. Why don't you answer the question? Speak out the "POV pushing" you think I'm doing, if you are man enough to do so. 2605:AD80:FFF0:14EF:C48:500D:EFA4:745E (talk) 22:13, 21 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Reform Party of Canada ‎

If you got time and are interested ... Talk:Reform Party of Canada#‎political position.--Moxy- 21:47, 28 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – October 2021

News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2021).

Administrator changes

Blablubbs

Alvestrand • Black Falcon • Deathphoenix • Dppowell • Mark Arsten • JGHowes (deceased)

Oversighter changes

Callanecc

Mkdw

Interface administrator changes

Galobtter

Guideline and policy news

Following an RfC, extended confirmed protection may be used preemptively on certain high-risk templates.
Following a discussion at the Village Pump, there is consensus to treat discord logs the same as IRC logs. This means that discord logs will be oversighted if posted onwiki.

Technical news

DiscussionTools has superseded Enterprisey's reply-link script. Editors may switch using the "Discussion tools" checkbox under Preferences → Beta features.

Arbitration

A motion has standardised the 500/30 (extended confirmed) restrictions placed by the Arbitration Committee. The standardised restriction is now listed in the Arbitration Committee's procedures.
Following the closure of the Iranian politics case, standard discretionary sanctions are authorized for all edits about, and all pages related to, post-1978 Iranian politics, broadly construed.
The Arbitration Committee encourages uninvolved administrators to use the discretionary sanctions procedure in topic areas where it is authorised to facilitate consensus in RfCs. This includes, but is not limited to, enforcing sectioned comments, word/diff limits and moratoriums on a particular topic from being brought in an RfC for up to a year.

Miscellaneous

Editors have approved expanding the trial of Growth Features from 2% of new accounts to 25%, and the share of newcomers getting mentorship from 2% to 5%. Experienced editors are invited to add themselves to the mentor list.
The community consultation phase of the 2021 CheckUser and Oversight appointments process is open for editors to provide comments and ask questions to candidates.

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:03, 1 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Starship Troopers Article

Hi, the discussion has gotten long and slightly difficult to follow because of the number of participants, but I have replied to you on the Starship Troopers Talk page. Basically, I refer to the references provided by Schazjmd. Koikefan (talk) 20:50, 1 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

TommySocialist again

Since they admit to being a sockpuppet, could you block their current IP please? FDW777 (talk) 14:18, 5 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Someone already got to it. Canterbury Tail talk 14:19, 5 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Was just coming to say that! FDW777 (talk) 14:21, 5 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Although the block has now expired and they are still using 51.37.1.104 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log). FDW777 (talk) 13:12, 12 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

And the monkey presses the button. Down for a month for now. Canterbury Tail talk 13:20, 12 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Question, if me putting a flag on the united states part of the Las Vegas page makes it “distracting and too small to be of any use” Then why are they on the New York City and Los Angeles pages HMMM? I feel like the fact that they are on those pages means it’s fine to put them on the Las Vegas page. DrkWebber (talk) 18:25, 11 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Felix Leong

Check your facts the news reports on Leong are certainly not local we have no local news TV channels in Australia they are channels 10, 9, SBS, 7, ABC Leong has been on prime time 3 times which is more than any other Australian martial artist this decade, As for the LATIN AUSTRALIAN TIMES that was a NATIONAL NEWSPAPER delivered to all state in the country. You have little idea about what is local or national in Australia as for the articles I've created I have made over a dozen, Leong is not my LAST article that remains . Your vendetta against me is childish and Leong will be restored as he will be featured in national news sources again next month on his birthday. get a life mate Australianblackbelt (talk) 00:15, 31 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I have no vendetta against you, you just keep creating articles on non-notable people and promoting people you have connection with in violation of WP:COI. And your claim that he will be featured in national news sources again next month just goes to show that you have a COI. Felix Leong's article was deleted after regular process at Articles for Deletion as can be seen here, I did not delete it, it was the consensus of the community that he is not notable. And please be civil to other editors. Canterbury Tail talk 02:12, 31 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

https://web.archive.org/web/20170216082414/http://latinaustralian.com.au/ this newspaper was supported by all 13 consulates and embassies of Spanish speaking countries in Australia and was delivered to all states, look at the journalists they are award winners yet you say its a local news letter with no journalistic oversite why spread such nonsense Australianblackbelt (talk) 19:14, 1 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

In fact you had all LAT sources deleted without proper discussion Australianblackbelt (talk) 19:28, 1 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Do you have a point to make or are you just going to continue coming to my talk page to rant that all the articles you are creating about people you know are being deleted by the community for being non-notable? I have never deleted an article of yours, they were all deleted by the community at large due to their non-notability. Additionally your COI in all of those articles was also very telling. Despite the fact you've been warned about COI on many occasions you still have not declared your conflicts on your user page and the articles as you're required to. If you continue your pattern of creating articles about non-notable persons, and persons you have a conflict of interest with, the likely course of action will be that you will end up blocked from the project. Oh and references to the LAT were deleted as unreliable due to it being, well, unreliable and all the stories that were being used as references were purely local community fluff pieces not reliable journalism. The LAT may have some items that are reliable, but those fluff pieces are not. This has come up in many article deletion discussions as well and the reliable sources noticeboard. Canterbury Tail talk 19:43, 1 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Nobody answered you call on the notice board about LAT what are you on about Australianblackbelt (talk) 21:30, 1 November 2021 (UTC) Australianblackbelt (talk) 21:30, 1 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

If you recreate the Felix Leong article with no better-quality sources than before, with the addition of a similarly poor-quality source or sources mentioning his birthday, no doubt the article will be deleted once again on grounds of insufficient notability (leaving quite aside the by now well-established COI factor), as all that will have been established is that a non-notable local community martial arts teacher of no particular distinction was born on a particular day. Given that your crusade thus far has, unfortunately for you, drawn considerable attention, you would be advised simply to bow out at this point and not persist in acting against the principles of Wikipedia as you have been doing. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.109.209.114 (talk) 22:52, 3 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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HELP!

Hello, I'm Binaza. Can you please help me review what's going on, on this page? The second paragraph is wrongly cited as the references used, doesn't show verifiability. ◢ Binaza! (talk) 23:35, 5 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I was thinking about nominating this page for deletion. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 03:02, 6 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Seems reasonable. Canterbury Tail talk 11:28, 6 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Liz ^{Read! Talk!}, I am thinking the exact same thing. Especially since this Binaza is probably the same person as Ugochukwu75 (talk). Fred Zepelin (talk) 14:52, 6 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Stop accusing people of being socks and of being paid editors without providing any evidence. Such bad faith isn’t tolerated. If you have evidence please present it, or stop making the accusations. Canterbury Tail talk 21:47, 6 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I googled the reporting process and went ahead and did it. All the evidence is in the report I filed. I'm also pretty fed up so far with people telling me this and that without offering any help even when it's obvious that what I'm saying is true, but I guess maybe that's how it works here - you have to google everything because of the byzantine layers of bureaucracy. That's probably on purpose, I suppose, to discourage people who aren't savvy enough to figure it out on their own. That doesn't make it any less frustrating. Thanks a lot. Fred Zepelin (talk) 01:05, 7 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

All the information and links to reporting sock puppetry can be found at WP:SOCK and reports of paid editing can take place at WP:ANI. None of this is hidden and most can be found simply from reading through the policies. Canterbury Tail talk 01:18, 7 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Reading policy pages and filing a SPI report is preferable to "Googling" information. If you ever have questions about how Wikipedia policy works or what to do, there is always the Teahouse where you can bring your questions. It can help you find your way through the bureaucracy. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 02:41, 7 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for the advice. I still had to google "SPI" - believe it or not, that seems to get me to the right Wikipedia page quicker than typing that into the Wikipedia search bar. If I did stuff in the wrong order, I apologize for that, but Binaza was eventually confirmed to be a sockpuppet of Ugochukwu75, as I suspected. Now another sock is attempting the same paid editing nonsense - it's User:Film Fanatical10069, who had not made an edit in 4 years and magically started editing the same article that Ugochukwu75 and Binaza were involved in. Right after Ugochukwu75's appeal to be unblocked was denied, of course. I filed a new report. Fred Zepelin (talk) 03:48, 11 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Canterbury Tail, @Liz, @Fred Zepelin. Thank you in advance for your patience with me. I received an email after 4 years, about a page delete for Wheels (2014 film), so I logged in and found Fred was trying to remove the page for lack of references. I found some good references and uploaded them and actually am interested in giving this another try. I got pretty discouraged last time as it was tough for me to figure out due to medical issues. I actually just found the visual editor, so that makes life lots easier. But what I don't understand is why @Fred Zepelin is harassing me and taking down my references. I appreciate his passion, but I do not appreciate his lack of professionalism. I was trying to thank him for his cleanup of the page and he said something about my sister on my talk page. My account is 6 years old and I would love to get back into creating and building articles. Can you please offer me any advice regarding this? Also finding a mentor. Thank you in advance for your help. Film Fanatical10069 (talk) 04:19, 11 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

You added more than one of the exact same promotional/PR firm "references" that you tried to add under the Ugochukwu75 account. You also had edited Donavon Warren in the past, (everyone take a look at this edit, where he deleted the notice about Donavon Warren) but when that deletion happened recently, your Ugochukwu75 account wasn't blocked yet, so you didn't have a need to use this one. Are we supposed to believe that you didn't receive an email when Donavon Warren was being deleted, or that you ignored that one, and you only decided to awaken after the Wheels article was considered for deletion? And it's coincidence that the Ugochukwu75 was blocked in between those two instances? Why'd you delete the paragraph about Donavon Warren on your talk page just now? Come on. Fred Zepelin (talk) 04:25, 11 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

IndieWire, AFI, Turner Classic Movies and Movie Insider are not promotional websites. You also deleted other references which were noted in the keep page as being notable. Please see Talk:Wheels (2014 film). I didn't receive an email because I did not create that page. To be honest, I really don't want to get into whatever it is you are doing here. You obviously have some sort of motivation to get the page taken down as you keep vandalizing it, taking down sources and have put time into this. I am just here to create and edit and not get involved with whatever it is you are doing. So please stop harassing me. Film Fanatical10069 (talk) 04:44, 11 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Interesting claim where you said "I didn't receive an email because I did not create that page" in reference to the Donavon Warren article. I'd like you to take a look at this page here.

I have two questions:

1 - If you didn't create the article, why does Onel5969 say "I wanted to let you know that I’m proposing an article that you started, Donavon Warren, for deletion"?

2 - Why did you suddenly, less than an hour after you started editing for the first time in 4 years, delete that one piece of information tying you to the Warren article from your talk page? Fred Zepelin (talk) 05:04, 11 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Please take your sniping and warring someplace else, like ANI. Canterbury Tail talk 13:08, 11 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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User engaging in Edit warring

Hi, you had blocked User talk:ਕਿਸਾਨੀ ਜਿੰਦਾਬਾਦ for 24 hours for Edit warring recently for a period of 24 hours. However, the user is back to edit warring and making disruptive edits at 2017 elections in India as soon as the block period was over.

The user has been making the same incorrect edit again and again - (1), (2) and (3). The user has also disrupted the table under section 'State legislatures' here. The map has been specifically made for the page 2022 elections in India and the user is deliberately adding it to the wrong page. The user does not respond to warnings on the talk page as well. Would you please check this out? Thanks.Dhruv edits (talk) 01:46, 13 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Bond Behind the Iron Curtain

Hello, I added a one sentence citation to a new book I read that consists of articles and essays about the James Bond books translated now from what were Iron Curtain countries. This was immediately deleted as "not notable" by a user w/o a user page and then, after I reverted, another user who clearly had not read the book deleted it. I have read the book, it is by Ian Fleming's nephew, James Fleming. It includes translations from East European counties of essays written about Bond. You suguessted I take this to the James Bond "Talk" page, which I did. Neither of them have responded. What do you suggest I do next? I don't see what these two did as an edit war...more like vandalism from people who did not take the time to read the book. Thank you.Kmccook (talk) 15:07, 14 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note you are making an assumption, and not assuming good faith to say the other editors have not read it and that you consider their edits vandalism. Comment on edits, not editors. And note it was you I considered to be edit warring, not the other editors. That aside, give it a week or so on the talk page talk rarely happens in 24 hours. Note in researching the book it does indeed not appear to be notable, and isn't generating any real reliable third party source discussion and analysis beyond advertising copy. Maybe that will change, but at this point it doesn't appear to be notable. And as a result having a seemingly non-notable book by a barely notable author (yes I know he's a relative, but notability is not inherited) doesn't belong in a Cultural Impact section. Time may tell a different story and it may be a case of "not yet", but right now looking into it in more detail, it does indeed appear to be non-notable and not a part of popular culture at this time. Canterbury Tail talk 22:58, 14 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

The book just came out and I read it last week. These essays were in Russian, Polish, etc. and not known to the West. Their cultural impact on the former Iron Curtain nations cannot be assessed until we have responses from their literary establishments. Kmccook (talk) 23:10, 14 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

That's why I didn't dismiss it, I just said it seems like a "not yet", too soon kind of thing. Until reliable third party sources talk about the book, it's not notable unfortunately. Time may change that. Canterbury Tail talk 13:41, 15 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi CT, was startled to see you blocked, but then I saw the reason. Hoping that you and your family are okay. GeneralNotability (talk) 15:08, 27 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Likewise; sending my regards to you and your family at this time, also. Patient Zero^talk 03:33, 29 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Felix Leong and Jim Fung

The reason I believe you had a vendetta against me was you had Felix Leong the Australian Wing Chun master deleted but didn’t touch Jim Fung who has stuff all sources and has never been on TV like Felix. Australianblackbelt (talk) 22:13, 30 November 2021 (UTC) Australianblackbelt (talk) 22:13, 30 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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British Isles vs other terms

Look, I'm not interested in getting involved in an edit war with you, so I'm not going to revert your edit again. I do however think that you're misguided in your belief about the Irish government using the term "British Isles". In an Oireachtas debate, the Minister for Foreign Affairs said that "[t]he Government, including the Department of Foreign Affairs, does not use this term."[5] You are also wrong to say that the term Atlantic Archipelago is only used in an "obscure academic text" - it is increasingly common. That said, I don't have any particular attachment to the phrase: Britain and Ireland, the Anglo-Irish Isles, or the British-Irish isles are all equally fine to my ears. Moreover, the academic text in question you referenced was published in 1975, whereas this has been an issue that has gone longer. In 1954, the UN office in Geneva apologised for using the term, and promised not to do so again in future. The US State Department changed from using the term "British Isles" and instead started using "United Kingdom and Ireland" in 1958.[6] The Good Friday agreement completely avoids the term, opting for the very diplomatic "these islands".[7]

I'm trying to remain polite, but I will say that I personally find the term "British Isles" insensitive at best and outright offensive at worst. Even so, I don't have an issue with it's use on pages relating primarily to areas within the U.K., but on pages that are primarily related to Ireland, I think forcing the use of the term "British Isles" bery genuinely constitues a form of cultural colonialism. Some articles are written in American English, others British English, and others Hiberno-English. I urge you to reconsider changing this term on pages that are primarily going to be of interest to people who may find the term offensive, when inoffensive alternatives do exist. Xx78900 (talk) 20:03, 13 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Ah yes that one reference from the foreign minister, yes that happened. I'm afraid however what the Minister for Foreign Affairs once said, has never really been backed up backed up or future supported, the Irish government never took it further. Yes I'm aware of that declaration it's a commonly known event, but as we know one person's statement in a three pillar government does not an overall government policy make. A simple search shows that the Irish government administration uses the term fairly frequently, it's quite definitely not a banned term. (See a simple search through their releases and admin for example) whereas Atlantic Archipelago appears to have never once been used by the Irish government. For Atlantic Archipelago it really is a term that almost no one uses or knows. Some people have occasionally tried to push it as an alternative, but it's never really caught on. And yes the Irish and British governments when dealing with documentation between them now use these islands but that's also not a common consciousness term. Ireland and United Kingdom isn't the same as British Isles, it's about the countries rather than the landmasses.

It unfortunately appears to be a bit of a myth that seems to be perpetrated by a few that it's a completely unused term in Ireland, both officially and colloquially. As an Irish person myself, no one I know takes offense at the term, it gets used. I've obviously heard of people choosing to take offense at it of course, but most people just don't care or bat an eyelid at it, it's (anecdotally) only a real ultra nationalist minority that gets worked up on it.

The unfortunate truth of the term is it is A) the most common term for the islands and B) used in Ireland and by the Irish government. Until another term arises that's commonly used (which Atlantis Archipelago is definitely not that term, at least not at this moment in time) it's what we use if there is a need to talk about that grouping. There was an attempt to bring formal MOS guidelines around it at one point, though it died on the vine, but even that wasn't getting rid of the term and would use it in Irish contexts as well following the Irish governments usage of the term.

The real question is, does it need to be used at all? Is there a reason to use anything around the island grouping to make the point? Is largest in Ireland sufficient? Canterbury Tail talk 20:23, 13 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Canterbury Tail, your doing a great job. The British Isles is usually used as a Geographical term, although seen as contentious, but in a quiz the longest river, correct answer would be the Shannon. Thor909 Thor909 (talk) 20:05, 31 March 2022 (UTC) (talk)Thor909 (talk) 20:05, 31 March 2022 (UTC) 19:39, 31 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Draft:Kerbal Space Program Wiki

Hi! I see that you've deleted the above under CSD G11 ("Unambiguous advertising or promotion"), a speedy candidate I declined to delete under that exact criteria a few days ago (hence it was still on my watchlist). At the time, there was nothing promotional in the draft at all other than a mere statement of it's existence - in my opinion hardly promotional and about as neutral as you can get, and looking at the deleted history I see no intervening edits between my decline and your deletion. Did I err in my interpretation of this? I'm going by the line Any article that describes its subject from a neutral point of view does not qualify for this criterion in the G11 definition, which would seem to preclude G11 as a valid reason for deletion in this case?

To be clear, I'm not asking for a restoration here (I don't think that's worth the bother), I just want to make sure we're on the same page. Thanks! stwalkerster (talk) 22:59, 8 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

(talk page stalker) Some IP users have created a slew of draft articles with "Kerbal" in the title, some of which were blatantly promotional. I tagged a bunch of them last week, but they keep coming back. I'm not exactly sure what is going on, but the whole effort seems to be promotional, even if some of the individual pages are not. BilCat (talk) 23:03, 8 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@BilCat: right, and that's fine for pages which are actually promotional. This one was not, hence why I originally declined the G11. For pages in the draft space, unless it's truly problematic it's usually fine to just let G13 catch it. stwalkerster (talk) 23:12, 8 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Willing to acknowledge that I may have made a mistake, but the main thing I saw in the logs was that it had been deleted on the 3rd for being promotional so the version after that was a recreation of a deleted page. And it was created by an IP that was being quite disruptive around the area and gaming edits. Canterbury Tail talk 01:14, 9 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Redirect sock

Good catch with the sock who's been "fixing" WP:NOTBROKEN redirects since last April. I spotted a spate of similar accounts last summer and helped guide them patiently as you did here, but they persisted and were indef blocked for their own actions without a SPI. I suspect others may be around but the nature of their edits makes them difficult to spot. Certes (talk) 22:13, 14 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Defences of trolling and bad faith editing

My talk page is not a place for defences of trolling and bad faith editing, if anyone uses it for that purpose it's going to be removed. Complaining about any commit messages relating to that IMHO takes some cheek, IMHO, and I'm going to consider any attempt at retaliation using admin processes a misuse of those processes and respond accordingly. Artw (talk) 23:28, 14 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Um I’m not editing in bad faith, but you are 100% entitled to remove messages from your talk page and that is not in dispute. However in your edit summary you referred to myself and other editors and “culture warring incel losers”. That is a personal attack and that is bad faith. Such personal attacks will not be tolerated on Wikipedia by anyone. And no one is retaliating against anyone, I’m simply stating if you continue such egregious personal attacks and unacceptable language that you may be blocked and I completely stand behind that. Canterbury Tail talk 23:41, 14 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Weasel wording

You recently reverted Rebroad (talk · contribs) for a nonsense edit, which they're continuing to revert back to. I read the associated source and it's not even debatable. I was going to raise it at ANI but the previous thread has been archived and I'm unsure of the correct way to reopen it. What would your advice be? Cheers. – ².O.^Boxing 11:05, 8 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Spam paramater

Template talk:Infobox country#electricity. Was added in 2019 with zero talk.Moxy- 23:00, 8 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Bold font for redirected terms in lead section

Re removal of bold face from placenames in 1st para of Mere, Wiltshire ... it was probably me that added it, following the guidance at MOS:BOLDREDIRECT ... "Terms which redirect to an article or section are commonly bolded when they appear in the first couple of paragraphs of the lead section". Seems to be helpful to readers who arrive through a redirect, to reassure them that they got to the right article. -- Wire723 (talk) 17:03, 20 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Ah fair enough. I will confess I didn’t check the redirects. My apologies. I’ve undone it. Canterbury Tail talk 01:13, 21 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. I know it looks odd when some placenames are bolded and others are not. -- Wire723 (talk) 17:30, 21 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

No worries, it was my mistake. Canterbury Tail talk 18:00, 21 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

question abt tokyo desc revert

kinda new to editing so idk if this is the right place to ask this but why shouldnt it include the fact that its the largest city? including the largest city bit would make it consistent with the descs of: london, boston, paris, mexico city, moscow, columbus, and more that i havent listed

it doesnt matter or anything i just want to know so i dont make the same mistake in future edits Cpquinn0903 (talk) 23:46, 31 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

If you read WP:SHORTDESC you'll find that the short description isn't there as a summary of the article, it only exists in order to disambiguate between titles that may seem similar and so when a user is presented with articles it's obvious what the article is about. Tokyo being a city in Japan is more than sufficient to perform that function. Adding largest city doesn't help the reader differentiate that article and know what it's about. Canterbury Tail talk 13:16, 1 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I understand that and read the information short descriptions. My question is more about why it’s sufficient for Tokyo but not sufficient with the other cities I originally mentioned. You could say the same thing about London, Moscow, or Paris, and yet they all include the fact that it’s the largest city. Cpquinn0903 (talk) 13:34, 1 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

We only edited Tokyo. If I edited those other articles it would also likely be changed. See WP:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS. Just because the intent isn't universally applied, doesn't mean it's an issue. Canterbury Tail talk 13:37, 1 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Alright, thanks for the info :) Cpquinn0903 (talk) 13:47, 1 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Sillyness

If anything, you're not the only one who made the same silly mistake. Doesn't change the rest, but hey, at least something to laugh at a bit. If you want something else to laugh at I'd recommend the "Short-Tempered Clavier" :) Cheers, RandomCanadian (talk / contribs) 15:22, 7 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – April 2022

News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2022).

Administrator changes

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Guideline and policy news

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When viewing deleted revisions or diffs on Special:Undelete a back link to the undelete page for the associated page is now present. (T284114)

Arbitration

Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Procedures § Opening of proceedings has been updated to reflect current practice following a motion.
A arbitration case regarding Skepticism and coordinated editing has been closed.
A arbitration case regarding WikiProject Tropical Cyclones has been opened.

Miscellaneous

Voting for the Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement guidelines has closed, and the results were that 56.98% of voters supported the guidelines. The results of this vote mean the Wikimedia Foundation Board will now review the guidelines.

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New administrator activity requirement

The administrator policy has been updated with new activity requirements following a successful Request for Comment.

Beginning January 1, 2023, administrators who meet one or both of the following criteria may be desysopped for inactivity if they have:

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Administrators at risk for being desysopped under these criteria will continue to be notified ahead of time. Thank you for your continued work.

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Issues with user Rooveaouravevo

Greetings! If you have time, your help is required here. There is Rooveaouravevo who doen't want cooperate, but only promotes his OR and POV: [8], [9] even after numerous attempts [10], [11] to explain to him that is not how it works here. After that account started enage in insults and personal attacks as you can see: [12] and here [13]. TyronMcLannister (talk) 14:41, 19 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

There is already an ANI thread open about this user, you should post any additional information etc there where it can get a wider audience. Canterbury Tail talk 15:05, 19 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

A beer for you!

I think you earned your admin-salary today. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 20:20, 20 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. That's far from the worst I've had today, don't worry about it. Canterbury Tail talk 20:21, 20 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Wait, you mentioned something about a salary? Canterbury Tail talk 20:21, 20 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Yup, I heard it will be doubled. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 20:39, 20 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

A barnstar for you!

	The Admin's Barnstar
	Fantastic job. I see how well you have dealt with that difficult situations. Good work. Keep it up. Hajrakhala (talk) 21:10, 20 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Rachel Fury

Hi, there's a new user disruptively editing Rachel Fury. Would it be be possible for some help dealing with this? Also is this a situation where asking for page semi-protection is appropriate rather than just asking to ban them (just trying to understand options here). Thanks Sciencefish (talk) 11:04, 23 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Seems someone beat me to it. But yes, in future it's perfectly fine to reach out to me. Canterbury Tail talk 12:45, 23 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Podcast notablity

Hi there. I understand the podcast name that was added in Jamie Dornan doesn't have a Wikipedia article, but it was discussed in The Guardian. And doesn't the notablity depend on whether it was discussed in a reliable source? I don't understand why it was reverted based on insignificance. 123.253.65.5 (talk) 16:40, 23 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

It’s just a “I listened to this and I liked it mention”, it isn’t an indicator of notability and even if it was we don’t detail every little thing someone does. Not everything someone does is notable or worth mentioning. Canterbury Tail talk 19:30, 23 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Okay. Thanks for the reply. Fitzwilliams (talk) 21:39, 23 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Ghalib

Hi Canterbury Tail, There's an open-proxy IP user continuously removing a "further reading" from the article on Ghalib. I suspect it is the recent disruptive user that you blocked. In that case, can you please protect this page for a certain period of time? Regards, ─ The Aafī on Mobile ^{^(talk)} 17:43, 24 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Eurolines and Canterbury

Thanks for reverting my edit re Eurolines and Canterbury. Having done some more digging, I can see Eurolines are still operating in the UK, but I can't see any evidence that the coaches still call at Canterbury Dupont Circle (talk) 14:20, 29 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

That's probably fair. And honestly, if we can't reference they go to Canterbury then we can't include it and it's currently unreferenced. Canterbury Tail talk 14:30, 29 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Translations

Thanks for the tips re adding Irish translations this evening. In relation to sources evidencing use of the relevant translation, you advised the following on Bar of Northern Ireland:

"It can't be someone else just referring to them, it need to support that the "Bar of Northern Ireland" has an official Irish translation that is used. If the Bar of Northern Ireland never uses it, then it's just something someone else translated."

This doesn't appear to be supported by WP:IMOS, which says:

"An Irish version of a subject's English-language name may be given in the first sentence of the lead of an article on that subject if it is a well-known, commonly used name for that subject. It may also be used in the appropriate field of an infobox. If there is no commonly used Irish version, it is not appropriate or encyclopaedic to "invent" such names, as this constitutes original research. The mere fact that an Irish name appears in certain sources, such as dictionaries or databases, is not sufficient evidence that it is commonly used."

WP:IMOS appears to indicate that a statement by a Government Minister using the relevant translation of the name of a Professional Regulatory Organisation in an official government statement would be sufficient evidence of usage, and the source used in the reference doesn't have to be the organisation itself? Gatepainter (talk) 20:33, 2 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

However in your case it's a single mention, in a government of another country. And additionally the fact that it cannot be located outside one or two mentions also shows that it is not commonly used. Additionally it needs to be well known and commonly used, which for the Bar of Northern Ireland it clearly isn't. So a single brief mention, in a single publishing incident, by a government of a country the organization is not in is clearly not commonly used or well-known. It's apparent there isn't a commonly used Irish version of the name. Canterbury Tail talk 21:32, 2 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Is the issue that I only gave one reference? I can add the Supreme Court website (http://www.supremecourt.ie/supremecourt/sclibrary3.nsf/pagecurrent/9A4957731840B6BC802574180042D6B0?opendocument&l=ga), the book 'An Ghaeilge sa Dlí' and other mentions. I presume the "commonly used" criterion refers to usage in the Irish language, rather than in English. Sources such as dictionaries or databases are identified as being insufficient, but I'm not proposing to use such sources.

Thanks for your assistance on this. Getting clarity will be helpful for editing other pages in future.

Gatepainter (talk) 23:39, 2 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

No it's more there's no indication that the organisation in question uses it, acknowledges it etc and that it's not commonly referred to by it. It's a bit like taking someone's English name and translating it into Irish and saying it's their Irish name but the person doesn't have an Irish name. There's a difference between someone's name translated to Irish and their actual Irish name if you understand. If the organisation or individual themselves doesn't acknowledge or use the name then it's just a translation and it means they don't have an Irish name. If you understand what I'm saying. If we were writing this encyclopaedia in another language, obviously things would be translated, but this is the English language Wikipedia and to use a name in another language we need to show it's actually connected to them. Otherwise it's just what some others may call them which isn't the same thing. French Wikipedia would have a French version of the name, but it doesn't make it their name.

For instance it was a long period before we could add an Irish name to the Northern Ireland assembly because they weren't using it and never indicated in any way they had an Irish version of their name, no matter that Irish language sourced unconnected used it. However eventually they did issue publications with it which means they acknowledged that was their name in Irish and we could start referencing and including it.

Ultimately just because some person or organisation exists on the island of Ireland doesn't mean they have an Irish name. You can't just call someone or something something else unless there is evidence they do it or a significant number of others do and it's how it's commonly referenced. For example Paul Gascoigne was commonly called Gazza, that's common and easily sourced. Someone may have called him Pauly, but we can't support that it's significant or common.

Note you can also take this conversation to the talk page of WP:IMOS, would get more opinions on it. Canterbury Tail talk 23:51, 2 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Just so I can understand the nuance between the "organisation in question uses it, acknowledges it" point in your first paragraph versus the "significant number of others" point in your last paragraph, is it that a translation should only be included in an article if either the subject of the article itself uses/acknowledges it, or a significant number of others use it?

Gatepainter (talk) 00:14, 3 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I would say so yes. For instance someone, or something, could have a nickname that everyone calls it by and as a result that would come under a common name. Even if they don't like the nickname, if it's well sourced and can be proven to be a very common name then it would be okay, as long as it's not just a simple translation to another language and only used in that context.

Honestly though, I would take this talk to the talk page of WP:IMOS, there are a lot of good people there from all sides of the Ireland equation and you'll get some good advice and feedback on this topic. At the end of the day, I'm just one person's opinion and interpretation. Canterbury Tail talk 12:39, 3 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! Gatepainter (talk) 13:03, 3 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for that clean-up at Gardiner Expressway

I'm going to blame the cat for that random italic text! Nfitz (talk) 17:23, 4 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Ah no worries, it was clearly an accident and not malicious or anything like that. Canterbury Tail talk 17:36, 4 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Talk:Republic of Ireland

Just a heads up: re this, "Republic of Ireland" is not in the Irish Constitution, although it is prescribed by Irish statute law, i.e. the Republic of Ireland Act 1948. Scolaire (talk) 14:55, 5 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Doh thank you, trying to multi-task and doing everything badly. Many thanks for the heads up. Canterbury Tail talk 15:27, 5 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

No problem. Scolaire (talk) 15:45, 5 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Notability of buses

Please see my points on the discussion on my talk page regarding the general notability of buses in Baltimore. For anything related to the LocalLink 80 route in particular, the talk page for that article would be a better place for it. I will prioritize it since it has been highlighted first but bear in mind that there are quite a lot of topics to update, some related to this one, which will take some time. If you are wondering what makes the 80 distinct in short is that it is one of the most frequently running and highest ridership routes in the network despite not being functionally classified with the rest of the high frequency network, and the path the route takes itself is unique because of its deviation from the "spoke and hub" model of the network as well as going through a particularly unusual portion of the street grid and serving a number of neighborhoods that are not served by another route. (These neighborhoods, like many in Baltimore, are where the majority of the population does not drive. I would argue that this route has more relevance than most highway routes in Maryland, many of which are not even signed or referred to as highway routes. The bus argument might make more sense in cities that are more car-dependent.)

If there are any particular types of sources or information you would like to see in bus articles to improve them, let me know. I have a collection of print material on Baltimore bus transit, so I may be able to point you to something if you have a question that can't be answered with a Google search. (I scan them but PDF scans aren't ideal for search indexing even with OCR). --Middle river exports (talk) 02:24, 7 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – May 2022

News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2022).

Administrator changes

Colin M

David.Monniaux • Fribbler • Grue • Kpjas • West.andrew.g

CheckUser changes

Ks0stm

Oversighter changes

Ks0stm

Guideline and policy news

Following an RfC, a change has been made to the administrators inactivity policy. Under the new policy, if an administrator has not made at least 100 edits over a period of 5 years they may be desysopped for inactivity.
Following a discussion on the bureaucrat's noticeboard, a change has been made to the bureaucrats inactivity policy.

Technical news

The ability to undelete the associated talk page when undeleting a page has been added. This was the 11th wish of the 2021 Community Wishlist Survey.
A public status system for WMF wikis has been created. It is located at https://www.wikimediastatus.net/ and is hosted separately to WMF wikis so in the case of an outage it will remain viewable.

Arbitration

Remedy 2 of the St Christopher case has been rescinded following a motion. The remedy previously authorised administrators to place a ban on single-purpose accounts who were disruptively editing on the article St Christopher Iba Mar Diop College of Medicine or related pages from those pages.

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 23:33, 9 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Neon-Noir reference

"What unites the two movies across the decades is their common aesthetic, described as Neon Noir." (my emphasis) -- Pete Best Beatles (talk) 13:14, 26 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, but they link Neon Noir as a reference of what neon noir films are, and that doesn't support it. The main article you used as a reference isn't a notable writer or expert in this field (in fact we don't even know who wrote it) and doesn't seem to be a reliable source, it's one writer's opinion. Though I will note we've never had a discussion before on the reliability of that site. Canterbury Tail talk 16:03, 26 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Here are three more references (to my new wording). The article should ultimately have just one, but I'm hedging my bets. Plus I thought it would be easier for you to access them if there were links. -- Pete Best Beatles (talk) 05:07, 1 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Issues with MagicAllium

Hello,

Although a long time ago now, you did once offer to help me with matters of understanding site policiy and I believe I could use that now. User MagicAllium has yesterday made an amount of disruptive edits such as removing content because it is 'lame' or removing entire sections because they disagree with the grammar. I posted warnings on their talk page but they just removed them all and didn't acknowledge it and attempting to talk to them on my talk page led to them not responding to any points being made. My understanding is that after this I am to turn to ANI which I have done but it had been 12 hours and no one has engaged with my posting there.

Do you have any advice as I can't see what else to do from here? Dubarr18 (talk) 06:18, 2 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Okay so looking at the Navan page they're actually right. I would have removed that content as well if I'd noticed it, it's pure trivia and not encyclopaedic. Their comments could have been better, but the edit is actually fine. My advice would be to immediately take things to talk pages and not get involved in a reversion cycle. That being said they also should not be involved in an edit war either. So I've left a note on their page about that. However I will say that their edits all seem valid. Canterbury Tail talk 11:40, 2 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Apologies but in regards to their edits on the String of Pearls I can't see how those edits are valid, especially when the only reason being given is grammar issues and elsehwere they fixed and improved an identical section on other pages. In regards to talk pages I can attempt it in future but any attempt to add anything to their talk page has just had them ignore and remove it making it difficult to have any proper conversation. Dubarr18 (talk) 13:02, 2 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The content they removed from The String of Pearls wasn't really about that book, but Penny Deadful's in general, and as a result shouldn't be in that book's article. There may have been a small piece that should have been saved, if it could have been referenced, but the bulk of it wasn't about the article subject. Oh and any editor is entitled to remove anything from their talk page, they do not have to engage. That's why the article talk page is often more useful. If there is a discussion on the talk page and an editor choose not to engage in it, then they don't get a say in establishing the consensus. Canterbury Tail talk 13:46, 2 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – June 2022

News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2022).

Administrator changes

Tamzin

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Guideline and policy news

Several areas of improvement collated from community member votes have been identified in the Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement guidelines. The areas of improvement have been sent back for review and you are invited to provide input on these areas.

Technical news

Administrators using the mobile web interface can now access Special:Block directly from user pages. (T307341)
The IP Info feature has been deployed to all wikis as a Beta Feature. Any autoconfirmed user may enable the feature using the "IP info" checkbox under Preferences → Beta features. Autoconfirmed users will be able to access basic information about an IP address that includes the country and connection method. Those with advanced privileges (admin, bureaucrat, checkuser) will have access to extra information that includes the Internet Service Provider and more specific location.

Arbitration

Remedy 2 of the Rachel Marsden case has been rescinded following a motion. The remedy previously authorised administrators to delete or reduce to a stub, together with their talk pages, articles related to Rachel Marsden when they violate Wikipedia's biographies of living persons policy.
An arbitration case regarding WikiProject Tropical Cyclones has been closed.

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Happy First Edit Day!

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Happy Adminship Anniversary!

Wishing Canterbury Tail a very Tail happy adminship anniversary on behalf of the Wikipedia Birthday Committee! Comr Melody Idoghor (talk) 12:49, 7 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Happy summer/winter

		Sunshine!
		Hello Canterbury Tail! Interstellarity (talk) has given you a bit of sunshine to brighten your day! Sunshine promotes WikiLove and hopefully it has made your day better. Spread the sunshine by adding `{{subst:User:Meaghan/Sunshine}}` to someone else's talk page, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. In addition, you can spread the sunshine to anyone who visits your userpage and/or talk page by adding {{User:Meaghan/Sunshine icon}}. Happy editing! Interstellarity (talk) 22:14, 21 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Happy first day of summer (or winter) wherever you live. Interstellarity (talk) 22:14, 21 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hello,help

I was told to come to an administrator because I mistakenly removed edits on my user talk pages. They said only am admin can revert it. Please revert mine to show my user boxes thanks so much,and please ping reply,cheers.Uricdivine (talk) 11:58, 22 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Irish Names

Dear friend, I noticed your comment on the Rory Gallagher (Gaelic footballer) page about the Irish version of names in the source code (and Gallagher is "Ó Gallchóir", a *very common surname in Ulster Irish). I don't know if this issue may not be a minefield, for 95% of names in Ireland have the original Irish version they came from. The pages for Liam Watson (hurler) and DJ Carey have the 'correct' Irish version ‐ certainly Watson's. During Irish-language commentary, I've heard these names, although those people may only occasionally refer to themselves in Irish, if at all. Hence, what advice would you give on how best to proceed, and apologies if you know all this already! Regards, Billsmith60 (talk) 14:10, 27 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Consensus on WP:IMOS is that just because a name has an Irish origin, and can be translated into Irish, doesn't mean it's their name. For it to be counted as their name in Irish they need to A) use it, B) be relatively commonly used and C) it needs to be sourced. Most "Irish" names are just people's names translated into Irish which isn't the same as them actually having an Irish name. Translating it into Irish is pure WP:OR and is not their name and is not acceptable. Just because an Irish language source translates their name into Irish, isn't any different to any other name, country, etc being translated, it still doesn't make it their name. Canterbury Tail talk 14:15, 27 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

My recent edits

I recently reverted some edits (see here for example) because the consensus seems to be that the tables are borderline if not outright inappropriate on smaller articles like that, unless the "width-auto" is used and it's collapsed, in which case there seems to be no issue amongst editors for its inclusion. However the editor I reverted keeps readding the tables without addressing these issues and without attempting to make any discussion once it's known there's an issue with the content. I tried to fix them myself but was unable to do so. I did notice that you seem to be able to make the edits in a way that works, so I wanted to point out my edits because if you are able to make the changes, please feel free to revert me so that the problems with the tables are fixed. I'm certainly not asking you to do work for me or create work for you, it's just that I wasn't able to make it work, I honestly don't know what I was doing wrong when I attempted to fix it myself. Thanks. - Aoidh (talk) 18:33, 29 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Oh no worries. It's easy enough to get the template ensmallened (I know that's not a word) and collapsed. Simply add the following lines to the top of the temple in an edit inside the brackets (I add them after the location line).

|width = auto

|collapsed = true

And that should work. See this edit for how I fixed it. Canterbury Tail talk 18:38, 29 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, let me play around with that in a sandbox and give that a try. If I can actually get it to work I'll happily undo my edits with those additions. - Aoidh (talk) 18:50, 29 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I've also dropped a note on that editors page that they're not making friends, and to add the above as well when they add the template to avoid all these issues. I've asked them before and they didn't take it to heart. Canterbury Tail talk 18:52, 29 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Well look at that, it worked. I don't know if I was just having a brain fart or misspelling something or what, but I couldn't get the tables to cooperate like that until you spelled it out for me. Thanks, I'm undoing all of my edits now and including those parameters. - Aoidh (talk) 18:57, 29 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Oh no problem, happy to help. The |width = auto really needs to be incorporated into the template by default. Canterbury Tail talk 19:00, 29 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Pronouns

In roughly 50 years time. All pronouns will no longer be used, as every group in society will find something offensive about them. GoodDay (talk) 21:45, 30 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

(talk page watcher) There will always be ~~cultures~~ people who will use them. We still have English dialects that use "thee", "thou", and "thine", after all! BilCat (talk) 23:01, 30 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

And for me you is singular, the plural form of you is youse. :) Canterbury Tail talk 02:14, 1 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Down my way it's "y'all"! BilCat (talk) 02:59, 1 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – July 2022

News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2022).

Administrator changes

AA • Gwalla • Ioeth • Laurascudder • Moriori (deceased) • Nat • Rfl

Drilnoth → AFigureOfBlue

Bureaucrat changes

Lee Vilenski

Interface administrator changes

Nihiltres

Technical news

user_global_editcount is a new variable that can be used in abuse filters to avoid affecting globally active users. (T130439)

Arbitration

An arbitration case regarding conduct in deletion-related editing has been opened.

Miscellaneous

The New Pages Patrol queue has around 10,000 articles to be reviewed. As all administrators have the patrol right, please consider helping out. The queue is here. For further information on the state of the project, see the latest NPP newsletter.

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A barnstar for you!

	The Original Barnstar
	Just a thank you for taking a stand against racism on the Talk:Ireland page. Bibby (talk) 00:50, 26 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – August 2022

News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2022).

Administrator changes

Valereee

Anthony Appleyard (deceased) • Capitalistroadster • Samsara

Guideline and policy news

An RfC has been closed with consensus to add javascript that will show edit notices for editors editing via a mobile device. This only works for users using a mobile browser, so iOS app editors will still not be able to see edit notices.
An RfC has been closed with the consensus that train stations are not inherently notable.

Technical news

The Wikimania 2022 Hackathon will take place virtually from 11 August to 14 August.
Administrators will now see links on user pages for "Change block" and "Unblock user" instead of just "Block user" if the user is already blocked. (T308570)

Arbitration

The arbitration case request Geschichte has been automatically closed after a 3 month suspension of the case.

Miscellaneous

You can vote for candidates in the 2022 Board of Trustees elections from 16 August to 30 August. Two community elected seats are up for election.
Wikimania 2022 is taking place virtually from 11 August to 14 August. The schedule for wikimania is listed here. There are also a number of in-person events associated with Wikimania around the world.
Tech tip: When revision-deleting on desktop, hold ⇧ Shift between clicking two checkboxes to select every box in that range.

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 08:44, 5 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Morals and ethics

You reverted my change on the Orphan Black page. Having taught courses on applied ethics (one called "Moral Problems of Contemporary Society") for many years at university, I know something about the subject. The terms "morals" (from Latin) and "ethics" (from Greek) are commonly used interchangeably, even by scholars. Where a distinction is being made (e.g., using "ethics" to refer specifically to the study of right and wrong conduct), the distinction should be made clear to the reader. The present links to the Wikipedia entries don't do much to clarify what distinction may be intended in this case. I made the change I did because I find that the present wording is likely to muddy the water for the average reader. Scales (talk) 02:17, 14 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I’ve always understood them, and been taught them, to be rather different. With morals being an individual thing and internal mechanism and ethics being a more externalised and potentially societally governed thing. At least that’s how it’s taught in the European education systems that I’ve been involved in.

All that being said however I’ve checked the reference for this line and the show being about moral and ethical implications isn’t at all supported by the reference which at the end of the day is actually the important thing. So none of it is supported by the sources so likely should go unless a better source can be found. Canterbury Tail talk 03:53, 14 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for responding. Your understanding is not wrong; it is one way of drawing a distinction between "morals" and "ethics". But have a look at this piece, which seems to reverse your definition of the terms. https://theconversation.com/you-say-morals-i-say-ethics-whats-the-difference-30913 The way these terms are used is not consistent, and all in all, it's probably not worth arguing about. Do what you think is best on the Orphan Black page. Scales (talk) 01:01, 16 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I actually think it's best to remove anything that isn't sourced. And that section of the line about morals and ethics isn't supported by the source and should likely be completely removed. Canterbury Tail talk 12:13, 16 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Northern Ireland protocol

Here. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Ireland_Protocol LeicesterToNottingham123 (talk) 20:33, 17 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I'm very aware of it, and no Northern Ireland isn't part of the EU. It actually seems that you are the one who doesn't understand Northern Ireland, Ireland or anything to do with it. Your editing is starting to become disruptive and please be aware that competence is required to edit Wikipedia. Canterbury Tail talk 20:34, 17 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry.LeicesterToNottingham123 (talk) 20:37, 17 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hello

Hello, I'm the creator of an article you were involved in the discussion of, Loch Naver. As you can see here we never came to a conclusion. Since I want to revamp Loch Naver after my block I want your perspective regarding whether the settlements we discussed should be included in any shape or form in the final article? And if not why? N1TH Music (talk) 16:32, 21 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Swastika

I checked RootOfAllLights talk and saw warnings for vandalising the swastika page in multiple other sections going back at least a year. The adding of the symbol may be a recurring issue. At the very least, the vandalising of the page is. I don't have time to check the specific edits they were previously warned for rn Stephanie921 (talk) 01:05, 27 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

User_talk:RootOfAllLight#December 2020 goes back almost 2 years, and even at that point the behaviour was described as having been done for "quite a long time". Stephanie921 (talk) 01:09, 27 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Yes I’ve seen that. I have a feeling I’ll be creating an ANI thread shortly as I’m fairly sure they’re not here for encyclopaedic purposes. Canterbury Tail talk 01:55, 27 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, thank you Stephanie921 (talk) 03:10, 27 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Hazaras

Hello, Canterbury Tail! Can you pay attention to this discussion please. I was forced to start this discussion due to the removal of sources from the Hazaras article. I would be very grateful if you could take your time. KoizumiBS (talk) 17:05, 4 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Can i donate Wikipedia monthly basis Bijender dutta (talk) 13:59, 19 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The donate link in the top left of the main menu will take you to the Donations page. You can go from there. Canterbury Tail talk 14:14, 19 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Request an account

Hello. I would like to make a request for an account. I have already done three times there, to no avail (did not even get a response on my e-mail once). If you could help me with this, I would be more than thankful. Thank you in advance for your time. 2A02:1388:208E:4ED0:3D12:FBF9:E54D:10AD (talk) 14:17, 1 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Kyleung05

Just after the block expired our friend is back. He has been adding improper categories to transit pages and actors' biographies: in the case of the former, he adds the "List of rolling stock" category to pages that are not lists; for the latter, he adds filmography categories to pages that are not filmographies. I reverted and warned him but if prior habits persist I'm sure he'll continue to do it. Happy to post to WP:ANI when that happens if you'd prefer I handle it there but thought you'd might like to know since it seems you've been following this user. Wallnot (talk) 23:25, 3 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

While they have been disruptive in the past yes, I'm not sure I'm seeing why edits such as this one are bad and need reverting. Seems reasonable as it's a reasonable category. Canterbury Tail talk 23:43, 3 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, I suppose I misread that one; didn't realize the Toronto subway rolling stock article is indeed a list. The point stands re the filmographies, though, as well as adding Category:Lists of rolling stock in other instances. Wallnot (talk) 00:39, 4 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

More importantly on the Toronto rolling stock one, the date change they made was actually correcting an article error according to the sources (specifically the second one.) I know I've been critical and have blocked this user before, but I think this one is jumping on them. As for the categories, we should try and explain why their edits are wrong here. I'm more than willing to indef this user for disruptive editing, but I don't think it's quite there yet. If you wish to take it to ANI or the like instead I won't object, but I also will not block at this time. That means just at this time, but if they continue disruption I'm willing to do so. Canterbury Tail talk 01:08, 4 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

That makes sense, thank you. Wallnot (talk) 01:29, 4 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Flybe page

Many thanks for your revision on the Flybe page. I will look for a source on the two aircraft in question ASAP. I am still very new to Wikipedia so am just getting to grips with many of the courtesies and guidelines which are in place! Regards. C F Spring (talk) 18:33, 17 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Revert

If you looked, you can see I only removed the underscores, and in no way changed the spelling or meaning of your post. I only do this when it creates a lengthy link that forces the page to compress to left, making reading and navigation difficult. I have done this numerous times, going back years, and you are the very first editor to make an issue of it, ever. It would actually be considerate of you to remove the underscores yourself, going forward, but as for this edit, as you really didn't have a reason to revert, and the purpose of my edit was for accessibilty, which you have now been made aware of, I will kindly ask that you now self-revert. Thanks - wolf 21:52, 24 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

No, there's nothing wrong with the link. The underscores made no difference for the operation of the link and the compression when the underscores are removed is incredibly minor and in no way affects the operation of anything. There is no reason to remove the underscores of a copy pasted link and I see no reason to self-revert it. I see nothing in the WP:TPO that allows for the editing of a link to remove underscores. And I did explain my edit and did give a reason for the reversion and why I reverted it, it achieved nothing. I don't understand your comment on how the page compressed to the left causing reading and navigation difficulties, as I've looked at both versions and the only differences are there's a minor compression of space, and the link will split across lines if you make the screen ridiculously small, neither of which are improvements to accessibility. And can you point me to the guideline surrounding the removal of underscores to help with accessibility. Thank you. Canterbury Tail talk 22:06, 24 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Erm, I never said there was anything "wrong with the link", it works the same with or without the underscores. That said, I don't know how it appears to you, but for me, as I said, it compresses the page to the left. You say that nothing in TPO permits underscores to be removed, but nothing prevents it either. But beyond that, what about AGF? Or just good will in general? While you may not have known the reason before your revert, you know it now, so why make an issue out of it? How does retaining these underscores make your comment, or the page in general, any way better? Why are you contesting this? - wolf 22:20, 24 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Actually TPO does prevent it by not listing it as an exception to when you can modify someone else's comment. The fact it doesn't mention it means it's not permitted. I don't see why you're contesting it or insisting on removing them in the first place, I see no accessibility issues that it's causing, I see no compression. I see two almost identical pages, one with no underscores and the resulting minor kerning alteration only. I see nothing that's it's improving by modifying the link to remove them. It's not broken, so doesn't require a fix in the first place. Canterbury Tail talk 22:47, 24 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

There is a part where TPO states: "Cautiously editing or removing another editor's comments is sometimes allowed..." and it continues with a section that leads off with:

"Examples of appropriately editing others' comments", one of which is:

"Fixing format errors that render material difficult to read. In this case, restrict the edits to formatting changes only and preserve the content as much as possible. Examples include:", and it goes on to list several examples, ending with "etc.".

This of course meaning that the list is not exhautive, there are other possible exceptions, (such as simply removing underscores when they cause issues with reading and/or navigation, and that have absolutely no effect on meaning).

I would think that idea is this section just can't list every possible exception. I would also think that for some unlisted items, like the situation we have here, the hope is that two editors can be reasonable and collaborative, that they would review, discuss and come to an agreement. I'm not sure why that isn't happening here. You again refer to how the page looks to you, but what about how it looks to other people? Perhaps editing on a different device? Or that have other issues and factors at play, that simply lead to a different result?

I made the edit and you reverted it. Ok, some people are like that, but I then explained it, and now, look at all the effort we've expended here... this is pointless. Surely you agree we could be putting all this time and effort to better use, no?

We've both been on WP a long time, I don't recall ever having a dispute with you, so I don't think this is personal. So really, I'm kinda at a loss as to why you want to pursue a conflict here, instead of just letting it go and moving on. - wolf 08:33, 25 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Yes I agree, lets move on. I see no reason for you to alter the formatting of my edit. You were bold, you were reverted, the discussion isn't going to go anywhere so lets move on. Like you I'm not interested in pursuing this any further, if you refrain from altering my talk page messages there is no further need for discussion. So yes, let it go. Canterbury Tail talk 11:28, 25 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hmm, you keep referring to "your" message(s), but you don't hold sole rights in perpetuity to anything you post on WP. Your only answers here are based solely on "I don't like it" and "I didn't hear that", considering your continued refusal to address any of the issues I've put forward, or really, to be in any way cooperative. The is another section in TPO under the part about editing other's posts; it's further down, under "Fixing links:" ... "so that they will work ... between our mobile and desktop sites" (I don't know if that's the difference between what we're seeing, but you're not being forthcoming with any useful information.)

If you won't self-revert, then I'll again change the formatting on that page to make it more stable. It makes no change to the meaning of your message, you've already admitted you see little difference, if any, between the two versions, and as you've stated that you are ready move on, there's really no reason left for you to belabour this issue.

That said, I'll just add that this was an unfortunate turn of events. As I said, we've both been on WP for a long time, we often edit the same subjects, and I've don't recall ever having a disagreement with you. I've always respected your contributions to the project. I hope none of this changes, going forward. Have a nice day. - wolf 20:36, 25 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

You're the one who won't drop this. You reverted again, and I've reverted you again. You are the one who said you want to move on with editing something else, so unless you can provide a policy reason to refactor someone else's talkpage comment, with a reason and evidence that it's necessary, do not alter other's talk page comments that are not broken. It strikes me as more that you're the one who doesn't like it. And yes I have looked at it on a mobile device, a desktop device, on multiple browsers, and there is nothing that I can see that it is causing any kind of a problem. As you say I've been on Wikipedia for a long long time, and I've never heard of an instance where an _ in a URL causes an accessibility issue. Considering the hundreds of thousands of such links lining talk pages throughout the project, both personal talk pages and article discussion pages, I'd think if a standard internet URL display caused an issue in a browser it would be mentioned somewhere. The only time I've ever come across a reason that we remove them is if they're in direct links inside actual articles in prose such as "and the plane landed at Heathrow_Airport." Additionally you should not be engaging in a edit war over a topic that is under discussion (especially 2 minutes after asking me to self-revert again), and edit warring applies to all pages on Wikipedia, not just articles. Canterbury Tail talk 21:47, 25 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Any talk page watchers, I know you're there, want to chime in? On either side of the point for an outside third opinion? Canterbury Tail talk 22:35, 25 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

"...so unless you can provide a policy reason to refactor someone else's talkpage comment, with a reason and evidence that it's necessary, do not alter other's talk page comments that are not broken." - that right there tells me you are not reading my replies above, or choosing to ignore whatever in them that doesn't suit you. I provided several quotes, highlighted in color, from TPO that support the change I made. I did not "refactor" your comment, I simply removed the underscores, and I explained why, repeatedly: that they were causing an issue with the page. So you have chosen to revert, yet again, and oddly chose to cite TPO, (I've provided quotes from TPO, you haven't), and EW, (you're a revert ahead of me, and you provided no reason for your reverts. Actually read WP:EW, as well as H:RV, WP:RV, WP:ROWN & WP:OWN.) I made an edit to fix a problem. Just becuase you don't see it, doesn't mean it doesn't exist. It's a reasonable edit to make, supported by the guidelines. You, otoh, have not provided a single, worthwhile reason to revert, making your edits purely disruptive.

If others want to comment from the bleachers, (eg: GART-22: "TWC is very much in the wrong!!"), I strongly suggest that you consider exactly what is being edited and why, along with the guidelines, etc. cited, in the responses I've given, and the effort at cooperation I've made. Compare that to attitude I've received, along with the lack of reasoning for reverting, no policy support, and/or no cooperation in return. You guys are acting like I'm completely re-writing his comment, without any justification, and having this discussion just to stir up shit for the hell of it. I just tried to fix a problem with a minor, justifiable edit. All the nonsense that followed was completely unnecessary. 04:25, 26 October 2022 (UTC)

So yes I have read your comments, all of them. And as I say I've tested the page on multiple browsers, devices etc, and also looked at dozens of other talk pages with the same URL formatting, some going back a decade or more on active talk pages, that no one has seen a need to correct. The unfortunate thing is you haven't demonstrated there is a problem you're trying to fix. Look at it from my perspective and you'll see why I'm not seeing it as a reasonable edit to make. Underscores in URLs, specifically in visual hyperlink text, causing accessibility problems has seemingly never once been documented on Wikipedia as an issue that I can find, and I've searched (it's possible I've missed something and am willing to be shown that.) And yes I've asked what is the problem this is meant to resolve, and the only explanation you've made is it compresses the page to the left which from a technical perspective I cannot even visualise that such a bug in either Mediawiki (or browsers in general or some browsers) exists. I know you think you're being clear, but you've actually provided no information on what the problem seems to be beyond an ambiguous "it compresses the page to the left making reading and navigation difficult." The fact it's never been a reported problem historically in the many tens of thousands of uses also leaves me scratching my head as to what the issue is. As a result, from my perspective, it comes across more of a nitpicking personal preference edit and not one to fix an actual problem. And to be honest the fact that you've "done this numerous times, going back years, and you are the very first editor to make an issue of it, ever" is also head scratching for what you're making out to be a significant problem that no one has ever talked about. If there is a genuine problem with my talk comment formatting then I'm happy for it to be corrected, but I see no demonstration, and no discussion, of there being such a problem. Additionally if there is a major accessibility issue here, this is the wrong solution to the problem, it's something we should resolve as a project, not an individual making some tweaks to people's comments one at a time if they see them. Canterbury Tail talk 11:52, 26 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for that response. As to not being clear, I apologize for that and I will try to clarify now: the issue does not appear when I use my laptop, but does appear when I use my android smartphone, in desktop mode. In read view, when there is a wikilink with underscores in every space, creating one long string of characters, it extendes past the normal page width on the right, causing the page to compress to the left. The longer the link, the more it compresses, making the text smaller. This also creates room for the page to scroll left and right, as well as and down. When you are navigating on a small screen by thumb, it's now not just matter of sliding up and down, but you also need to continually correct to the left. When there are lenthy url strings, they are automatically broken to fit to the screen size, to they don't cause the same problem. This is different in edit mode, however, where both wikilinks and urls extend past the normal screen width to right, causing the navigation problem, but at least here there is no compression.

I assure you, this is not "nit-picking". I suppose I just figured this was an issue that only appears in the particular circumstance of editing with a smartphone, in desktop mode. Whenever I'm editing a page, for whatever reason, and come across these extended wikilinks, I sometimes just simply remove the underscores, which improves both navigating and reading. To me, this is a legitimate improvement. I've done this on busier pages, such wikiproject talk pages, and the busiest of them all, ANI, and as I said, no one has ever made an issue of it, not even in the slightest. I have not inquired about it at a venue such as VP/T (or at least, I haven't yet... I may have at some point). I believed that was because others were also aware of this issue and knew that I was only removing the underscores to fix it. So now, the question is: can you accept that I was making a legitimate edit, as outlined here, and covered in TPO, (as well as a possible access issue), or do you still think I'm needlessly chasing after underscores as some kind of pet peeve, and making up the page issue as an excuse? I can assure you it is the former, not the latter. I fully realize that editing another editor's comment, especially a second time, without a legitimate reason, is just asking for a block, and I'm not looking to get blocked.

As for the Titanic talk page, after the edits that have been made since, the link in question now defaults to the left side, casuing less extension to the right, and making the compression minimal. (But for me, it is still there). In edit mode, the navigation issue is still there, but there is also a long IPv6 signature, so (afaik) not much to be done. (It makes a difference where such links are, and whether editing threads vs full page). To be honest, if that wikilink was in it's current position when I first edited the page (answering an edit request), I probably wouldn't have bothered with it. At any time, if the compression in read mode is mimimal, or there are also lengthy urls and/or IPv6 signatures in edit mode, then I usually don't bother with any wikilinks extended by underscores.

So there, sorry about the length, but I wanted to try and clearly explain the issue, what I've done (so far) because of it, and why. I hope I've now done that. And, as I've done in my previous posts, I still want to try and maintain some goodwill going forward. Have a nice day - wolf 15:24, 26 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

No worries for the length, sometimes to get the explanation right it's good to use more words. Thanks to your description above I've finally been able to see what it is you're talking about. As you say yes it's a very specific confluence of events. Small screen mobile phone in portrait mode and viewing the page in the specific desktop version and not the mobile version. Thing is this isn't actually a Wikipedia issue, it's an internet issue/standard computer operation issue. It's not reasonable for a webpage, designed for full desktop viewing to be expected to render properly on a small format screen, in a different orientation, overriding the sites desire to give you the mobile experience which is designed specifically to avoid these kind of issues. I'm torn on whether this is something that is reasonable to go around and fix as it's kind of like if I open my car hood, don't use the pole to keep it upright, put my hand inside and then deliberately let go and let it fall on my hand it then hurts situation. It's not being operated the way it's intended and there's several things you have to do to get to that situation. So this isn't a Wikipedia accessibility issue or the like, it's a the way computers work when you put them in that situation issue. We don't support accessibility for those situations. You will get this in any long single string (I suggest you do not go to Longest word in English page on your phone or some pharmaceutical compounds. So it seems wrong to edit comments just to overcome a situation that it shouldn't be in in the first place issue. The mobile flag to a web browser is designed specifically for this and that is the solution to the accessibility issue, if you choose to go down the path with warnings that's kind of on the user and we shouldn't be taking steps to assist in that area. Accessibility is about providing a means for things not to be an issue for others, and we've provided the means as has the site and the browser. I know it seems like a minor issue to you, and a triviality to fix, but it's the wrong solution to a problem that's honestly of the user's own making. It's not intended to be used in that manner.

This all being said I will not revert it again if you wish to make the change, but I do believe your approach is wrong and you're trying to solve something that is only an issue if you deliberately operate it incorrectly. Canterbury Tail talk 13:50, 27 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I find I'm using my phone to edit more and more, which is becoming common for a majority of users, and I would use the mobile version, if it didn't suck, (and apparently I'm not alone in thinking that). You of course have a point about things being used as intended, but I don't think that makes other forms of usage completely invalid. I appreciate your change of stance on the edit, but as I said, after the last few changes, the link is now on far left for some reason, minimizing the compression. If it was like that to begin with, I wouldn't have bothered, and so won't change it again now. Hopefully a future verison of the wiki-software, (or my next phone), eliminates this issue. In the meantime, I don't go looking for links to change, and only do so when I'm editing a page and a link is long enough to cause the problems I noted. That said, I will take your comments into consideration. I don't anticipate any further issues, but should it come up again, I'll make every effort to communicate as clearly as possible from the outset. Thanks again for your considered and informative reply. Have a nice day - wolf 19:10, 27 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

TWC should not have changed another user's comment. The reasonable thing to do here would have been to ask CT to make the change. After CT reverted, and asked TWC not to edit his comments, TWC was very much in the wrong to re-apply his edit. That's edit warring, even if it's in talk space, and even if it's not 3RR. GA-RT-22 (talk) 22:49, 25 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

(edit conflict) You caught me spying! Wolf can be a bit tedious sometimes, but he does mean well. Unfortunately he shouldn't be editing someone else's comments like that, especially after being reverted, and especially an experienced editor. He does have a tendency to "major on the minors" at times (as do I!), and this is such a case. I've learned it's sometimes best to let him have his way, and just move on to more important things. BilCat (talk) 22:52, 25 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I used to have the same issues on my tablet. I barely see it any more, so I assume my browser was updated in some way that fixed the issue. It can be annoying, and I do understand Wolf's motivation better now. I used to just add single square brackets to such links and move on. I never had anyone complain about it, and I don't think anyone ever reverted either. BilCat (talk) 17:59, 27 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Accassidy

Hi! Not sure where best to report this, nor if you can do anything about this (though noting you were the one who blocked him recently here), but Accassidy has been making the same kind of edits to Simple English Wikipedia as those he was blocked for here on en.wiki, see simple:Special:Contributions/Accassidy. I would have responded to the original ANI discussion about it, but I just realised this after the discussion was closed unfortunately. Monster Iestyn (talk) 02:27, 31 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Unfortunately we have no authority over Simple Wikipedia, it's a different project. However if you raise it to the admins over there, I'm sure someone will take care of it. Canterbury Tail talk 12:32, 31 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I see... to be honest I was also hoping not to have to do this myself, since I have interacted with him on Wikispecies a few times in the past, all in good terms, so it might make any future interactions there awkward at least. It's disappointing to see him go down this strange WP:RIGHTGREATWRONGS road on Wikipedia. But I guess that can't be helped, I'll just have to do this anyway I suppose. Monster Iestyn (talk) 14:38, 31 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hi again. Just to keep you updated if you were interested, he has now been blocked on Simple English Wikipedia too. Monster Iestyn (talk) 23:45, 31 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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RA9Markus

Hi, over at Emilio Aguinaldo, user RA9Markus continues to revert the infobox image to his preferred portrait, referring to users who have changed it as idiots or blind [14]. I've warned him three times and asked for consensus on Talk:Emilio Aguinaldo, but it's just happened again with me as the idiot. I was unsure if this is a 1RR happening overtime, but as I'm now a revert myself, I can't really comment. Please advise. Sciencefish (talk) 10:20, 2 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I have left a note on their talk page, lets see if that is in any way helpful. If they continue I will block, and may well block them permanently from editing that article. They need to get consensus, which they clearly don't have, stop edit warring and the personal attacks. Canterbury Tail talk 11:50, 2 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. Sciencefish (talk) 11:52, 2 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

FYI, RA9Markus has once again reverted the image to their preferred one[15], ignoring the consensus discussion on the talk page, and again calling those that changed it idiots. I've put a level 4 warning on their talk page. Sciencefish (talk) 09:22, 29 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, next time don't warn them just come to me and I'll manage it if I don't see it. Canterbury Tail talk 13:30, 29 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Understood. Sciencefish (talk) 09:31, 30 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

UCL press

Hi, CT. As a Friendly Local Administrator, could you look at UCL Press, please? Looks like a copy/paste job (hopefully, COI edit if not).

For UCLP to have its own article is uncontroversial IMO (when I created it as a redirect to UCL, it was a quick'n'dirty fix that I forgot to come back to). So the question re the means rather than the end. Is a null edit giving attribution enough or does it have to be done 'properly'? 𝕁𝕄𝔽 (talk) 16:27, 3 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Looks like someone has already handled it, deleted the copyvios and redirected it. Canterbury Tail talk 16:57, 3 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, so I see. Thanks for looking anyway. Was this the most appropriate way to flag a new or rebuilt article for review? --𝕁𝕄𝔽 (talk) 17:50, 3 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Since it was a blatant copyvio it’s fine. Canterbury Tail talk 20:44, 3 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

K Club

Why did you remove the infobox Michelin star from the article K Club? It is part of a series where all restaurant with a historical Michelin star have that infobox. The star is sourced. The Banner talk 18:08, 3 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I reverted, I see it is referenced even if some of the wording is not quite correct (I.e. chefs don’t earn stars, restaurants do.) I did remove it because it’s ancient and could make people think it still has it. Canterbury Tail talk 20:43, 3 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

It is the restaurant that gets the star, but often when the chef leaves, the star leaves too. And when the chef starts elsewhere, Michelin knows his/her qualities and is often quick with rewarding a new star. For example: Henk Savelberg.

But thanks for the revert. Much appreciated. The Banner talk 21:36, 3 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Disruptive airline editor back again.

Please see User talk:99.233.169.216. You blocked them two months ago and they are back making the same kinds of edits on a mass scale. I reported this at ANI but no one has taken any action yet. MB 00:49, 7 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

And done. Canterbury Tail talk 02:22, 7 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thankyou

TCG here, I just want to say that I appreciate your attempt to offer a balanced point of view while I was being used as a scratching post. Wikipedia would be a far better website if there were more editors like you. The others in that nasty shouting match have now taken over a page I had put a good deal of work into and now revert any and all edits not made by themselves. The sheer amount of bad faith, bias, and possessiveness over articles is frankly disgusting. I got indefinitely blocked for the high crime of reverting an article they had arbitrarily commandeered. However I have no further interest in the site anyway given the appalling behaviour of a certain admin I will not name. I had once thought Wikipedia could be reformed, but it would need many many more people like you and far fewer like.... yes...

Cheers, and farewell. - TCG. 89.240.246.123 (talk) 14:10, 8 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

A barnstar for you!

	The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
	I wanted to see how reliable the info on Wikipedia was, so I vandalised it a few times to test if anyone would bother reverting them. I was surprised to see that people do care about Wikipedia and they will stop vandalism. Thank you for being one of those who care. AryanBaviskar (talk) 23:35, 13 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Please help me

Please block the IP range 147.158.0.0/16 because it was used for adding fake information across Wikimedia projects as depicted like this..... Thanks...... 180.241.77.113 (talk) 04:07, 16 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Please help me

Please extend the expiration blocking time of IP range 120.188.0.0/17 until 31 May 2025 because it would be used by the anonymous user which frequently add word "Lampung" at the wrong place as well as adding any wrong information across Wikimedia projects like this..... Thanks..... 36.78.194.76 (talk) 04:00, 23 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

That range is already blocked, there is zero reason to pre-emptively extend it. Lets just see if it's an issue once the block expires. Canterbury Tail talk 13:55, 23 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Alien 3

Thank you for reversing my edit on the pronoun. A while after I made the edit, I realized I had misread the sentence and went back to undo -- but you beat me to it. Good to know someone is double-checking! Grammarbuddy (talk) 04:16, 26 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

No worries, we all make mistakes sometimes. Still learning after 17 years myself. Canterbury Tail talk 12:11, 26 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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DrkWebber

You seem to be on a lot of pages I’m on. DrkWebber (talk) 18:59, 11 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I have well over a thousand pages on my watchlist, and have tens of thousands of edits all over the encyclopaedia. Canterbury Tail talk 22:31, 11 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I illustrate on DEVIANTART. DrkWebber (talk) 04:47, 12 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

A barnstar for you!

	The Original Barnstar
	I sincerely appreciate your dedication for maintaining Jamie Dornan article thoroughly against countless vandalism attempts. Also thank you for guiding me through my earlier edits. Cheers! Early Happy New Year! Fitzwilliams (talk) 19:20, 30 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

A barnstar for you!

The Special Barnstar

At first not too happy with your undoing of my contribution in good faith. 24 hours later and I can see why it's very important to have users like you who help others to think critically about their suggestions. I especially appreciated the time you took out of your busy schedule to explain the reasons behind your actions. That helped me to bring better focus in my edits and additions. In short: thanks and keep up the good work. No easy task! Majvdl (talk) 14:58, 31 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Happy New Year, Canterbury Tail!

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Happy New Year, Canterbury Tail!

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January 2023

User talk:SharadSHRD7 is continuously vandilizing the page Next Indian general election even after warning him. Editors like User talk:Dhruv edits told not to add regional alliances to the page as it is national election. He is still vandalizing the page even requesting him not to do that. He has contested in edit warring many times in past and there was a discussion involving him at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Edit warring. Please do something. XYZ 250706 (talk) 14:32, 11 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

A) it's not vandalism, I recommend you read WP:VANDALISM for what constitutes vandalism and B) You're edit warring in a content dispute. Canterbury Tail talk 14:34, 11 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Selfpromotion

Could you specify from which lemma you have removed external links? Smi953 (talk) 10:15, 20 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I'm sorry, I don't know what that sentence means. I'm not sure how the workings of a theory have anything to do with Wikipedia. Canterbury Tail talk 13:25, 20 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

You wrote on 17 January 2023: Self promotion. Please do not use Wikipedia to reference and link to your own works, this is considered self-promotion and spamming.

Information icon Hello, I'm Canterbury Tail. I wanted to let you know that one or more external links you added have been removed because they seemed to be inappropriate for an encyclopedia. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page, or take a look at our guidelines about links. Thank you. Canterbury Tail talk 12:40, 17 January 2023 (UTC) Smi953 (talk) 11:57, 24 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

You should have gotten a notification on it since it was a reversion, but it was these edits where you link from a see also to your own work. Canterbury Tail talk 12:23, 24 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

It was not meant as selfpromotion, but to give users more insight into bar scale values, especially historical ones. The International Cartographic Association has thought it usefull enough to make this information available on its own site on the internet. For my part the 'see also reference' can be used without my name as author, as long as the user can have profit from it. When someone else would have added the reference it would have been an independent source! Smi953 (talk) 10:23, 25 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Just be sure you're following WP:COI. It's generally best not to add anything about yourself in any way and allow others to do so. One other point, See alsos are for internal Wikipedia links, not external links. Canterbury Tail talk 12:08, 25 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

January 2023

@Canterbury Tail Please block User:SharadSHRD7. He is continuously creating dispute and edit warring in some pages like Next Indian general election and Rajya Sabha. He is creating arguement with other editors with baseless logics and is continuously reverting others' edits. He is imposing his edits over others even aftr other editors are against his disruptive edits. Users like User:XYZ 250706, User:Chennai Super Kings Lover, User:AS Sayyad, User:Repto79456, User:Ku423winz1, User:Shakya2007 have discussed with him, but he is still imposing his edits over others. These edits are fed up with User:SharadSHRD7's disputes and baseless arguements. XYZ 250706 (talk) 15:28, 20 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@XYZ 250706:: Wikipedia is based on collaborative environment. Disagreements have to be discussed in the talk page of related article. Users like User:Ok123l and User:Dhruv edits had adviced you in the talk page to stop adding Left Democratic Front (national level) because of its speculative nature, but you still insists to add it without any explicit source. I have applied for dispute resolution on this issue. SharadSHRD7 (talk) 15:37, 20 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Seriously, I cannot believe you're all edit warring and risking blocks over a possible election in way over a year. Frankly that article is a WP:CRYSTALBALL and should probably just be deleted. Canterbury Tail talk 15:39, 20 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Should I blank that article due to WP:CRYSTALBALL, to stop these edits war? Chennai Super Kings Lover (talk)

Thank you for standing with our factual group against a disruptive user accused of violating Wikipedia's guidelines. Shakya2007 (talk) 16:36, 20 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Don't get me wrong, I have no interest or care in the content of the article. I'm just stopping the massive disruption that's happening to the article. Canterbury Tail talk 17:05, 20 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Banagher

Hi, you made an edit to the Banagher page by deleting an external link that I had put in. The link was incomplete so I had inserted the wrong URL. However, it is a while since I used Wikipedia extensively and I cannot find the place in the text where the citation was. It was removed from Line 427. Is there a way of getting line numbers up in Edit? I'd like to fix it but just cannot find it - I did a lot of updating at the same time. Thanks for the help.Corcs999 (talk) 12:24, 31 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

It was an external link, it was just in the External links section. Canterbury Tail talk 16:20, 31 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Ohio

Brother, I really thanked you for blocked that "Meme kid" Simpsonsfan505. Very weird that he's ever deleted the entire article about Ohio tho BroBro1222 (talk) 07:20, 4 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Do not gravedance on blocked editors talk pages, and do not change other people's comments, especially to an incorrect spelling. Canterbury Tail talk 16:44, 4 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Srry mate, just didn't know if the word "Encyclopaedia" exists😅😅 BroBro1222 (talk) 08:19, 5 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Alien 3 stylised name discussion

I have begun a discussion on Alien 3 talk page about the stylised 'Alien³' name. Find it here: Talk:Alien_3#Name_stylised_as_Alien³

Lankyant (talk) 23:54, 10 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Heathrow Airport

Please note that as per our style guidelines, all airports with distinguishing name annexes are hyphenated, that includes London-Heathrow - you won't find another destination chart where its not. 2001:A61:1016:8201:184A:C762:E1C4:73EB (talk) 07:53, 11 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Can you point me to this guideline? Canterbury Tail talk 12:08, 11 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Reported a disruptive IP editor at ANI

I'm not sure how much you remember about that "IP hopping Malaysian block evading editor" (refer to this and this), but their behaviour has continued on for a long time now since then, to this day, with pretty much all recent edits coming from 42.190.x.x and 219.92.x.x IP ranges.

I've filed a report at ANI/Vast history of disruptive edit warring and personal attacks from a user at 42.190.128.0/18 (+ more IP ranges), including a comprehensive list of incidents table, the first IP range has been blocked long-term already, but I just wanted to post this notice/message since you were involved in this at least once in the past, if you know more about them and have anything to add.

AP 499D25 (talk) 01:16, 18 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

ANI blitz

Hi @Canterbury Tail! Sorry to have pinged you on ANI regarding this one user's ANI blitz before I saw it was resolved on their talk page (i.e. they said they'd stop). I was just very concerned about a fairly new and inexperienced user making a really stern and bold judgment, along with a vote declaring it should be involved editor's last chance, in a very contentious and sensitive discussion, and clearly without giving it much thought. I am all for users with a variety of experience participating in public debates, but have found his conduct to be suspicious at best. Anyway, I am happy it was resolved and thank you. Ppt91 ^talk 17:04, 22 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Not a worry, all is good. I'd rather know other editors are noticing and it's not just me in isolation having issues with it. Canterbury Tail talk 18:42, 22 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:18, 1 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Battlestar Galatica

Hey there, just a heads up: it's possible Inadvertent Consequences is actually a sock of the permanently blocked twobells (who you blocked). The fact that they're edit warring about the UK/US thing, which is exactly what twobells did (which was a factor in their block), is very telling. The BSG article has been on my watchlist for over a decade, and they were the only one to ever edit war over this. Despite having under 300 edits, they have edited 14 of the same articles as twobells and Inadvertent Consequences's previous account, Roland Of Yew (they made a new one because they forgot their password) has edited 36 of the same articles as twobells. Thoughts? Drovethrughosts (talk) 14:32, 2 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Had been having some thoughts of familiarity, but yes all the interaction reports and edit styles are blatant. Drawer has been cleaned. Pages tagged and bagged. Canterbury Tail talk 14:40, 2 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I was going to create a SPI, but I noticed you were the admin who blocked the original account, so I figured this way was easier. Thanks! Drovethrughosts (talk) 14:44, 2 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Oh absolutely, no problems. Thanks for the research, and feel free to reach out anytime. I come across your edits frequently and have many of those pages on my watchlist. Canterbury Tail talk 14:45, 2 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks again! Have a good day! Drovethrughosts (talk) 15:00, 2 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The Empire Strikes Back

I noticed you reverted by edit to The Empire Strikes Back. I have noticed many, many Star Wars articles with {{Wookieepedia}} applied to them, Grand Admiral Thrawn, Luke Skywalker, Star Wars (film), etc. Why did you revert my edit? I believe that linking to wookieepedia is helpful for articles, as Wookieepedia provides a IU presentation of the subject. Senior Captain Thrawn (talk) 19:48, 4 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Adding an external link to a webpage you are one of the most major contributors to constitutes a WP:COI and is usually considered promotional spamming. Canterbury Tail talk 20:15, 4 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I am not "one of the most major contributors" to Wookieepedia. While I have performed a minor edit to The Empire Strikes back article, I don't think this is a COI. From my understanding there seems to be a consensus that having links to wookieepedia articles is useful, I don't think this a is COI just to add a link. "While editing Wikipedia, an editor's primary role is to further the interests of the encyclopedia. When an external role or relationship could reasonably be said to undermine that primary role, the editor has a conflict of interest similar to how a judge's primary role as an impartial adjudicator would be undermined if they were married to one of the parties." I think that adding a link to a wookieepdia article is furthering the purpose as an encyclopedia, as there seems to an agreement that doing so is useful. While most of my contributions here have been related to that, it is merely because it is something that I can do to further the encyclopedia. Senior Captain Thrawn (talk) 20:27, 4 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Update after reading Wikipedia:External links. "Sites that contain neutral and accurate material that is relevant to an encyclopedic understanding of the subject and cannot be integrated into the Wikipedia article due to copyright issues, amount of detail (such as professional athlete statistics, movie or television credits, interview transcripts, or online textbooks), or other reasons." I believe wookieepdia qualifies for this because it contains a lot of information that is not suitable for Wikipedia, but may be of interest to the reader. While it does also say "Open wikis, except those with a substantial history of stability and a substantial number of editors." [should not be linked] wookieepedia definitely has a history of stability and a substantial number of editors. Senior Captain Thrawn (talk) 20:35, 4 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

If you want to put it back I won't fight it, but you do have a COI for Wookieepedia being such a prolific editor there. Additionally it is my belief that Wookieepedia links should all be removed from Wikipedia due to it failing WP:COPYLINK due to the sheer amount of copyrighted stuff it hosts without permission. Canterbury Tail talk 22:32, 4 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Moon landing (talk)

reply Asadf25 (talk) 12:00, 21 March 2023 (UTC) I have sent reply to you checkout it and reply if you have any problem[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – April 2023

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Arbitration

The Armenia-Azerbaijan 3 case has been closed.
A case about World War II and the history of Jews in Poland has been opened, with the first evidence phase closing 6 April 2023.

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:10, 4 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Poverty in Canterbury

Hello! I see you have just removed a bit on Poverty in Canterbury. I understand your reasons. There is much additional material I could cite from e.g. local paper Kent Messenger. Is it just the source cited that you are not happy with or is it the whole idea of having something rather negative on the Canterbury page that you do not like? If the former, then I can rework with different sources? Balance person (talk) 08:25, 7 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

There is an active discussion going on on the Talk:Canterbury page, I think this is best handled there. Overall though I think it's better than I initially thought but needs tidying and ensuring it follows WP:UNDUE. Canterbury Tail talk 08:27, 7 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you

		The LGBT Barnstar
		On a day where IRL some kids tried to smash the window of my house with my pride flag in it, seeing this statement from you was powerful and affirming and made things better for me personally. Thank you. — Trey Maturin™ 22:58, 12 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

While I appreciate it there really is no need to thank me. Its called being a decent human being. Something I wish more people where. As someone who isn't a member of a minority group it is absolutely and completely my duty to stand up against those who think it's acceptable, to throw slurs, comments and treat people like that. The majority telling them they're actually the ones in the minority and smacking them down hard is the only way in my opinion. But yes I will never tolerate even an inkling of such behaviour on here or offline. And I'm sorry you got treated that way by small minded insecure cowardly bigots and apologise on behalf of the rest of us. Canterbury Tail talk 23:55, 12 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Flags in internet country code top-level domains

I'd remove flags in accordance to Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Icons, since what I removed some of these flags, like .ru, .me, .tv and .ws, when flag icons lead to unnecessary disputes when over-used. 112.204.193.241 (talk) 23:40, 17 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Disambiguation link notification for April 23

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Sigh

Ya might as well cue up, Boar's Breath while yer at it, Mr. Voorhees. Americanfreedom (talk) 15:51, 25 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Excuse me? Canterbury Tail talk 06:10, 26 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Londonderry/Derry

By way of heads-up, see the discussion at Wikipedia_talk:Manual_of_Style/Ireland-related_articles#Londonderry/Derry. Alekksandr (talk) 17:32, 30 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

By way of further heads-up, see https://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Abhartach&action=history - User Superlonghurst has repeatedly edited Abhartach in breach of Wikipedia's MOS, has been invited to discuss the issue at that article's talk page, and has not done so. Alekksandr (talk) 10:56, 1 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Blocked for persistent disruptive edits. Canterbury Tail talk 11:19, 1 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

"Odd edit farm"

Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/IncidentArchive1101#Odd_edit_farm,_unsure_if_sockpuppetry_or_meatpuppetry that you raised last June all switched to adding big paragraphs of blog-sourced content a few months later, if you hadn't already noticed. I just reverted some such links added by AuntElizabeth today, and noticed this after being curious about a warning on the user's talk page. Belbury (talk) 09:28, 2 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Re: WP:ANI#Noice Catto

I noticed the thread about this user and thank you for your actions. I probably should be reported them to AIV or similar and/or investigated their edits more when I had posted on their talk page. I was trying to give them some benefit of the doubt but I will take this outcome in mind for the future and be willing to take more action for similar content (I think I didn't partly because it felt like a case where an admin would defer until more evidence. My mistake.) Skynxnex (talk) 21:08, 3 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

You didn't do anything wrong really. You assumed good faith a bit better which is an admirable trait. However once I looked into it further it seemed there was a lot of red flags. I made a call, and it seems like the other admins are backing me up. However this doesn't mean you made a bad call. Yes it's quite likely this would all have been missed, it also means it could have happened again. Canterbury Tail talk 23:29, 3 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Your block of 2607:FEA8:699C:8700:A976:26B4:32CB:C9FA

Thanks for blocking the disruptive editor at 2607:FEA8:699C:8700:A976:26B4:32CB:C9FA (talk · contribs · WHOIS) Note that he/she was editing for several day - same stuff, same articles, hundreds of edits - using a different IP address in the 2607:FEA8:699C:8700:0:0:0:0/64 (talk · contribs · WHOIS) range. Probably worth a /64 rangeblock. 10mmsocket (talk) 13:53, 4 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Looks like someone beat me to it. Canterbury Tail talk 22:46, 4 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Yes. Thank you again. 10mmsocket (talk) 06:31, 5 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

User is back on Special:Contributions/2607:FEA8:699C:8700::/64 BilCat (talk) 23:57, 10 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Down for a week now. Canterbury Tail talk 02:03, 11 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you very much. BilCat (talk) 03:35, 11 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

This will get tricky blocking a large IP range like this, but we'll see where it goes. Canterbury Tail talk 09:06, 11 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I understand. I suspect they'll pop up on another range in a few days. BilCat (talk) 07:19, 12 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

It's all part of the fun of the Wikimedia Whackamole game - plus we don't have to pay 25c to play! --10mmsocket (talk) 08:57, 12 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Unfortunately, they don't have to pay either! If they did, maybe we'd get a lot less of it. BilCat (talk) 10:09, 12 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Well they spent around 6 hours making edits the other day which I rolled back in about 2 minutes. So they're paying, just in a different way. Canterbury Tail talk 11:03, 12 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Yet they keep coming back to do it all over again. Sigh. BilCat (talk) 11:22, 12 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

And back again at Special:Contributions/2607:FEA8:699C:8700::/64. BilCat (talk) 00:20, 19 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Down for a month now, all rolled back. Canterbury Tail talk 01:13, 19 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks again. BilCat (talk) 01:43, 19 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

No problem. I don't get why people bang their heads and waste their time doing this stuff. Canterbury Tail talk 10:57, 19 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The one-month block has expired, and they have returned to the same editing patterns on multiple articles on Special:Contributions/2607:FEA8:699C:8700:0:0:0:0/64. Thanks. BilCat (talk) 20:20, 20 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Sheesh, blocked again. I've also caught them a couple of times on other IPs and blocked them, definitely the same user. Canterbury Tail talk 20:23, 20 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you very much! BilCat (talk) 20:32, 20 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Yay! 10mmsocket (talk) 20:50, 20 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Catch of the day

User:Scutata Mutt Lunker (talk) 10:05, 6 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Boring. Someone else beat me to it :) Canterbury Tail talk 15:01, 6 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Request

User:Pratyush Jiban Borah warned umpteen times but kept vandalising. Can you please block him? Thankyou. zoglophie 08:30, 8 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Article Mohammad Yaromtaghloo

How is it possible to edit an article with reliable sources? Seepelan (talk) 20:02, 20 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Please read Reliable Sources and WP:REFERENCING for details. Canterbury Tail talk 20:03, 20 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Warhammer article blankings

IP 107.15.19.235 who you reverted a short time ago on Warhammer 40,000 has two similar edits to the Warhammer Age of Sigmar and Middle-earth Strategy Battle Game articles doing much the same thing, blanking sections on the respective settings. A reading of WP:NOTGUIDE doesn't lead me to believe this is an appropriate application of the policy (the sections are not a game guide in the sense the policy talks about) but history shows me to not be the best judge of Wikipedia's policies, so I'd just like to touch base on this before taking action; is this something to be reverted? Rogue 9 (talk) 02:09, 22 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

H.P Lovecraft Edits

You said they seem inappropriate. Can you please elaborate why do you think they seem unrelated, spam or inappropriate? Bytepie (talk) 13:03, 24 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Canterbury Tail. Thank you for your message. I added the link to the H.P. Lovecraft profile on Mysticbooks.org because it provides relevant information about the author. While you may have found it inappropriate, I believe it is useful and within the context of H.P. Lovecraft's works. I understand that you may have concerns, but it's worth considering the efforts of smaller groups who strive to make classical literature more accessible for free. If you have any further questions or would like to discuss this matter, please feel free to reach out. Thank you. Bytepie (talk) 13:21, 24 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

It adds zero information to the article, zero. There is nothing in that link that isn't already in the article. And there are no links to books that we don't already have links for. It provides no value at all. And since you keep adding that site all over Wikipedia it's clear WP:SPAMming. And all the other articles is the same thing. Links must add additional encyclopaedic content that the article doesn't already have and abide by WP:EL. Canterbury Tail talk 14:28, 24 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Had a moment

Momentarily thought you were calling me the link spammer, as mine was the last edit before yours. Then saw you removed actual spam from an earlier edit. Well done. Hyperbolick (talk) 03:19, 25 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Removal of my addition to Mesolithic Ireland

The other day I added what I thought was an interesting piece of information on the subject of Mesolithic Ireland. I added some additional information regarding a Mesolithic site where I live (Ballymaglaff). I also cited a reference to the deceased archaeologists book, who initially wrote about this decades ago. This is an article on archaeology.org, about the settlement. https://www.archaeology.org/news/2158-140603-ireland-ballymaglaff-mesolithic

Why did you remove this information? Do you think that I am making this settlement up? I simply cannot understand why you would just erase this. Stevemcb (talk) 21:51, 3 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Actually I didn't mean to, I meant to fix it up with a better reference, which I have now done so. Canterbury Tail talk 23:11, 3 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Reversion of edit at M20 motorway

Hello! I noticed that you reverted my edit at the M20 motorway article. I'll agree with you that the context regarding Brexit in the lead was too detailed, however, I think that the overall structure of the lead in my edit was an improvement to the previous revision, delivering it in a more succinct and structured manner. Using the previous revision of the article (my edit), it would go from this:

"It is also used as a holding area for goods traffic under Operation Stack when traffic across the English Channel is disrupted. Since 2018, Operation Brock..."

...to this:

"It is also used as a holding area for goods traffic under Operation Stack and Operation Brock when traffic across the English Channel is disrupted.", which is similar to the wording prior to the edit and after it was reverted.

Thank you! Yasslaywikia (talk) 13:47, 13 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Why did you remove the conversion templates from the article? I notice you did the same on the M2 motorway article so they'll need reinserting. I think it's better to put the why in first instead of trying to link to the solutions before explaining why personally. I shouldn't need to wait until the end of a longish sentence to understand its context. Canterbury Tail talk 13:48, 13 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I didn't notice that I removed the conversion templates from the article - does this have to do with the miles to km conversion or something else? I'm not that experienced of an editor, so please forgive me for my incompetence. As for the understanding of the context, I understand - I think it'd be better suited in the body of the article, as you said. Yasslaywikia (talk) 13:54, 13 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Yes just the conversion from miles to KM. We use templates that auto-calculate those rather than manually putting them in. It also allows automated screen readers to interact with them and have things in the user's preferences. For the M2 it would just need putting back for the miles/KM in the opening. Canterbury Tail talk 13:56, 13 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I see, thank you! I didn't realise that there was a template assigned to them as I'd assumed that they were worked out manually. That'll be great to know in the future. When I'm editing articles with conversion templates on them, how do I change the text without deleting the conversion template by mistake? Afterwards, we can discuss what to do with the lead paragraph and if my rewriting of it is an improvement, and this around the inclusion of context surrounding Brexit with Operation Brock would be omitted. Yasslaywikia (talk) 13:59, 13 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

You can just copy and paste the template around like you would any text and edit around it. Canterbury Tail talk 14:10, 13 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Need help on Canada article:

I need a current event timestamp on the Canada article. The place is in the news-STILL in the news due to the ongoing fires.Some believe the cause is Arson, some say it is a accident, like someone had thrown out a lit butt. I can't do anything at all there, due to a protect status. Got smoke from this even in the US Heartland area. 216.247.72.142 (talk) 13:24, 28 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Canada is a country, not a current event. It does not need a tag. Please stop spamming all over Wikipedia related to this. Canterbury Tail talk 14:18, 28 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

It'sss just that the fires on Canada are having a real impact on the US economically, and physically, since asthma claims are up as well, and I need help on this, since these fires are no longer a local news item, they're now a International matter as well. That is why I need the current affairs tag for Canada. As to the cause, I've heard everything from Arson to a major accident, such as people throwing out lit cigs and/or a unattended campfire.

Well if the US keeps denying climate change it's only going to get worse. Reap what you sow, the previous generations completely sold out the earth to make a quick buck and the rest of us are living with the consequences. And no we're not putting a current affairs tag on Canada, Canada is a country not a news item or an ongoing event. Canterbury Tail talk 01:22, 29 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Block evasion

Please see https://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=2023_Virginia_plane_crash&diff=prev&oldid=1162374183 ☆ Bri (talk) 19:14, 28 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

(talk page watcher) Some people just don't know when to stop. Sigh. BilCat (talk) 20:50, 28 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I hope that they know now, and don't come back as Special:Contributions/144.178.6.38 ☆ Bri (talk) 21:03, 28 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

We can hope. BilCat (talk) 21:17, 28 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Again https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Babqari ☆ Bri (talk) 22:01, 30 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Sheesh. Blocked and page protected. Canterbury Tail talk 23:02, 30 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

ANI

I think you antered the wrong number of tildes here. Easily done! 17:58, 29 June 2023 (UTC) Phil Bridger (talk) 17:58, 29 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Argh doh. I don't normally do that. Thanks for catching. Canterbury Tail talk 18:24, 29 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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ANI Notice

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding lack of civility in WP:CFD. Thank you. RevelationDirect (talk) 04:09, 7 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Kung Hibbe sock

Hi, the Kung Hibbe NOTBROKEN sock is active again, impersonating me into the bargain. Could you? Mutt Lunker (talk) 11:17, 14 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

(talk page stalker) Dispatched. Favonian (talk) 11:21, 14 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I'm clearly not of the right mindset, but what do people get wasting their time on this, it always gets reverted. Canterbury Tail talk 12:52, 14 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Continuing issues with Becausewhynothuh?

I wanted your eyes on this thread if you have the time. I am unfamiliar with the limits regarding potentially transphobic content. Honestly, their past several edits show serious WP:CIR issues in my non-admin opinion, but I didn't want to raise this to ANI if I am incorrect. Cerebral726 (talk) 14:49, 3 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Arbitration

The arbitration cases named Scottywong and AlisonW closed 10 July and 16 July respectively.
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Why the revert?

The contributor with the numbers as a username mistakened my edit on The Butcher Boy as vandalism when in fact it is not. Sinead died recently and it was her final feature film. Just wanted to give you a head ups on the clarification in case you or someone numbered user reverts my edit on the page again.Cosmic2992 (talk) Cosmic2992 (talk) 18:29, 9 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I removed it because it's not relevant or important to the film. Especially when it was made 26 years before her death. Canterbury Tail talk 20:21, 9 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

"removed the scam site"

You ”removed the scam site" from Talk:Toronto, but left the link to it in the article itself. I directly copy-and-pasted it from the citation in the article's lead. The way you removed it from the discussion also now makes gibberish of what I was saying, while also making it look like I'm the one linking "scam sites". 2402:6B00:8E60:E300:50D0:74DF:19D3:657 (talk) 07:21, 12 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Immediate action needed against user: Betty Logan

Hi there, I have pinged you into a discussion concerning the recent conduct of user Betty Logan. I would appreciate if you could take immediate action. Many thanks. Richie wright1980 (talk) 17:04, 13 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Please don't ping random people into random conversations. If you think there's an issue that needs admin attention them please use WP:ANI. Canterbury Tail talk 17:07, 13 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Oceanic Airlines: new user becoming agitated re: sourcing requirements

User:PaulLaForge, who has made a blustering post on my talk page, is reverting my reversions of unsourced, unencyclopedically written commentary regarding an entertainment project that they have not demonstrated actually exists. Could you kindly help out with a second opinion? Much obliged. - Julietdeltalima (talk) 17:20, 13 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

postscript: it has now descended to personal attacks on my talk page. (You're on the "Recently Active Admins" list is why I got here.) - Julietdeltalima (talk) 17:25, 13 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Ireland population file

Did you look here before making this edit. The sources you need are given there? ww2censor (talk) 16:48, 16 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Yes I did. There are no sources on that talk page or on the file page itself, despite what the file description page states. If I'm missing the blindingly obvious, please point them out and trout me but that talk page you pointed me to contains no sources and neither does the file description page. Canterbury Tail talk 17:04, 16 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Just FYI

Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2023 August 29#Population of cities Moxy- 21:03, 29 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Help with a sockpuppet

I am requesting help dealing with a obvious sockpuppet account 2001:8F8:173D:665C:F439:2CF7:3D9:7AB0 that has been mass reverting edits of mine that were of the now blocked Becausewhynothuh?. I see that you previously blocked the user and have much more experience in dealing with these issues than I am. Sorry for the trouble. —JJ B^e ^rs 17:54, 31 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Dealt with. Canterbury Tail talk 17:57, 31 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. —JJ B^e ^rs 18:00, 31 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Socking?

I did a quick look at a couple of articles without finding anything, but if you want me to help you can email me. Doug Weller talk 18:51, 31 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

See the thread above this one. Quite obvious. Canterbury Tail talk 18:56, 31 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, didn’t look. Useful. Thanks. Doug Weller talk 19:39, 31 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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

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Following an RfC, TFAs will be automatically semi-protected the day before it is on the main page and through the day after.
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Arbitration

The SmallCat dispute case has closed. As part of the final decision, editors participating in XfD have been reminded to be careful about forming local consensus which may or may not reflect the broader community consensus. Regular closers of XfD forums were also encouraged to note when broader community discussion, or changes to policies and guidelines, would be helpful.

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Fame at last!

Well. Maybe no fame. That was surely when Breitbart called me out! :-) Bastun^{Ėġáḍβáś₮ŭŃ!} 23:15, 1 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

County Londonderry/Derry (again)

I note that you blocked user 81.144.121.47 for vandalism at 18:01, 13 March 2023. By way of heads-up, see https://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Conradh_na_Gaeilge&diff=1175963263&oldid=1174033522 - they have made the usual county name change (which I have reverted) on the basis that "Conradh na Gaeilge do not refer to their branches in Derry as being in 'Londonderry' which is an offensive colonist name".Alekksandr (talk) 20:26, 18 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Dealt with. Thanks. Canterbury Tail talk 11:54, 19 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Talk:Sini Shetty

Hi, there's an IP user on Talk:Sini Shetty, who in the two threads on there is monologuing rather than discussing anything to contribute to the article. I'm a bit stumped over what to do here, as I've tried engaging, could you please advise. Sciencefish (talk) 14:26, 1 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I just deleted the lot. They're not trying to improve the article in good faith. We're not a forum. Canterbury Tail talk 01:46, 2 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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An RfC is open regarding amending the paid-contribution disclosure policy to add the following text: Any administrator soliciting clients for paid Wikipedia-related consulting or advising services not covered by other paid-contribution rules must disclose all clients on their userpage.

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Administrators can now choose to add the user's user page to their watchlist when changing the usergroups for a user. This works both via Special:UserRights and via the API. (T272294)

Arbitration

Remedy 9 ("MarioProtIV topic ban") of the WikiProject Tropical Cyclones case has been rescinded.

Miscellaneous

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"SoC" listed at Redirects for discussion

The redirect SoC has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Anyone, including you, is welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2023 October 9 § SoC until a consensus is reached. Thryduulf (talk) 00:53, 10 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

ILRS page country flags removal?

Hello, I just wanted to inquire about your recent edit on the info box for the International Lunar Research Station page. I see that you've removed the country flags from the infobox, and are an administrator, so I was wondering if there was a reason for this related to rules? In my personal opinion the flags being in the infobox is more asthetically pleasing than the alternative bullet points and doesn't really take anything away from the page. I'm not familiar enough with site rules to know if there is a policy mandate for removal, though I had assumed the flags being there was appropriate considering they are present on (for example) the infobox for the Artemis Accords page and the ITER page, among other international collaborations. Wanting to seek clarification rather than reverting here. Thanks in advance for any insights or guidance you can provide. Chancellor1 (talk) 02:02, 12 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

As per the edit summary, see MOS:INFOBOXFLAGS for the explanation. Basically they're not to be used for asthetic purposes. they're visual clutter and don't convey any information but are distractions. There are only a few cases where they're permitted. And incidentally they've been removed from the Artemis Accords and ITER page in the past and someone has re-added them against the MOS. Canterbury Tail talk 12:28, 12 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Update on problem user- now banned

Hi there,

I notice that you posted several comments on User:Alpha200807's talk page a few days ago, so I thought you should know:-

After posting a comment of my own about what I'd treated as a good-faith, one-off mistake, I noticed they already had numerous complaints and warnings (including yours) going back some time, with no sign they'd taken any of it on board or were about to stop.

So I took it to the Administrators' noticeboard to see what their response would be, and the upshot was they were blocked almost immediately afterwards.

Still no indication in their response to the block that they even get why they were considered disruptive, so you were likely spot-on that this is (at the very least) a CIR issue.

All the best,

Ubcule (talk) 17:07, 15 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah. There's plenty of eyes on them now, and everyone is agreed how disruptive their edits have been. I only regret that I was distracted and didn't block them sooner. Canterbury Tail talk 22:53, 15 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Page deletion requests

Bro @Canterbury Tail, please delete the redirected page 2008 Beijing Drum Tower incident during the Olympic Games because it have WP:2REDIR issues..... Trims..... 36.77.145.72 (talk) 20:24, 22 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

LTA Lampung vandalize again

Dear Mr. @Canterbury Tail, please recheck range IP 114.5.0.0/16 and 114.10.0.0/16, these range IP are also used by LTA Lampung, please check the contribution of these LTA.

Please block it again for two years. Thanks. 36.69.20.240 (talk) 13:54, 30 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Editnotice

Hi there! Do you recall when you edited Cyberpunk (role-playing game) last week, if you saw a yellow box at the top of the screen saying "There are suggestions on this article's talk page for references that may be useful when improving this article in the future"? BOZ (talk) 21:32, 31 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hmm sorry I don't quite recall. Now you mention it something sounds familiar, but I can't be sure. Canterbury Tail talk 21:41, 31 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

OK no worries, wish I had caught you sooner. :) I'm hoping to take that template live soon, so that editors can see when there are suggested sources on the talk page, so that they can improve articles or assess them for whether or not deletion would be appropriate. I am hoping people will find that useful! BOZ (talk) 21:58, 31 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Blade Runner

I noticed you reverted my edit but Blade Runner being the original work (which it actually isn't) is beside the point because it's still a film in the franchise (look at Category:Terminator (franchise) and Category:Terminator (franchise) films to see what I mean) and as for the category itself, you're welcome to start a deletion discussion if you think it serves no purpose but you should do that before emptying it. Charles Essie (talk) 23:45, 3 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Yes Blade Runner is the originator of the Blade Runner franchise. That it was loosely based on Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep isn't relevant to that, Blade Runner started the Blade Runner franchise and that is self evident. That's neither by the by anyway, I won't do anything more with the categories. Canterbury Tail talk 02:55, 4 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Page protection requests

Mr. @Canterbury Tail, please protect Dewa United F.C. and Sriwijaya F.C. pages indefinitely from anonymous edit, especially LTA Lampung because they are always vandalized by these LTA. Thanks.... 36.76.0.10 (talk) 19:03, 11 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Status quo

I was just notified of a comment you made on my talk earlier this evening. Can you cite the article involved so that I can look into this? Please refer to the ongoing discussion at Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)#Date format for year articles. Best, 31.55.242.67 (talk) 20:11, 21 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The article in question was Croatian Defence Forces where you changed the English version from American English to British English. It has nothing to do with date formats or year articles that you've never edited so not sure why you'd point to something like that. Canterbury Tail talk 21:54, 21 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The very first revision of this article (long before 2009) refers to "Croatian Defence Forces." 31.55.242.67 (talk) 12:21, 22 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Okay yes, absolutely fair. Great point that should have been blindingly obvious to me. Apologies, I have self reverted. Canterbury Tail talk 12:47, 22 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Draft:Felix Leong

Hi Canterbury Tail. Would you mind taking a look at this Teahouse question which is about Draft:Felix Leong. I think Australianblackbelt be back again trying to create an article about Leong. I'm asking you about this because of Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Felix Leong and also your various other previous interactions with Australianblackbelt. Perhaps you remember enough about the prior attempt to create this article to be able to assess whether this newer one is just the same thing all over again. -- Marchjuly (talk) 09:08, 23 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Good call. Sock drawer has been blocked up and the draft deleted. Thanks for the heads up. Canterbury Tail talk 12:33, 23 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for looking into this. -- Marchjuly (talk) 21:36, 23 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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About the DS Penske question

I think removing the nationality altogether, like Elon Musk, can solve the problem. 78.131.72.186 (talk) 18:53, 1 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Well then discuss it, don't edit war over it. You discuss until you reach an agreement, not throw a comment in and edit. Canterbury Tail talk 19:07, 1 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Peyto Lake

Hello, thanks for your efforts there, but I've undone your semi-protection of that article. The particular long-term abuser targetting that page, JohnLickor372 (also known as the history section vandal), likes to go back to the same pages over and over, as you've probably noticed. I want to keep this one open as a honeypot of sorts so I can detect more IP addresses used by this vandal. The article's been on my watchlist long before he came to the scene. Graham87 (talk) 05:09, 3 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Understood. No problem. Canterbury Tail talk 11:42, 3 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Ireland Hozier (Culture, Music)

Seen that you deleted my placed information. You found him not big enough to put him in the list like the way I did, from The Nerherlands, did. Maybe are you more specialized in Irish music and stars but....I would be glad if you see a possibility to at least mention him in the text on another way...His debutalbum sold 6,5 million copies and here he is for sure the most nowadays popular Irish musician. Musicworldvision (talk) 23:57, 20 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Blocked IP

I noticed that you blocked an IP with the comment "LTA Barrie airport disruptive editor". Where can I find more info about this LTA? The Banner talk 13:37, 25 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

It's all purely in the history of airline and airport articles, not something fully filed. They just keep turning up with various IPs (I believe they had an account at one point) and keep messing with the articles. Usually by tweaking reasonable seeming things that contradict the sources but they also love making non-MOS alterations to infoboxes. Canterbury Tail talk 14:40, 25 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Mostly Ontario-based (according to Geolocate?) I think I have seen him before. I keep an eye out and start recording the antics on my talkpage. The Banner talk 15:22, 25 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

They're specifically coming from Barrie this IP. I've no evidence that other area Ontario IPs are that same user, but the Barrie ones definitely are. Canterbury Tail talk 15:37, 25 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

OK. The Banner talk 16:35, 25 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Wales templates

Just wondering if I am permitted to edit Wales templates e.g "Template:Geography of Wales". I assume that I am because it's not a mainspace page but rather a template page?

Thanks! Titus Gold (talk) 16:29, 30 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

As far as I'm aware yes, your ban is only on Mainspace. Some might argue that Templates are part of mainspace since what you edit ends up in Mainspace if the article connection to the template is pre-existing, but that wouldn't technically be correct. However you cannot edit a template to add anything related to Wales in any way and then add it to an article. Some may see it differently, but by a reading of the topic ban that's how I see it. Canterbury Tail talk 19:35, 30 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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sandbox?

Hi, Canterbury Tail,

What did you want me to learn from your addition to my Sandbox, where you posted: "(rv don't mess with other editors sandboxes unless they've explicitly said you can)"?

TIA for the explanation. BilCen (talk) 22:44, 15 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I don't need you to learn anything, it was directed at the other editor. The sandbox is in your pages, not in the main encyclopaedia space. It is yours to do with as you need and other editors aren't supposed to edit other user's pages unless asked to do so. You did nothing wrong, there's nothing for you to learn here, it was aimed at Lambjet. Canterbury Tail talk 13:18, 16 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, right. Thanks. I appreciate the concern. Not to worry; we are collaborating on the article under construction in that space.

Is it Wikipedian practice to make a world-readable announcement to that effect? I simply ignored the other editor who edited that sandbox page long ago. Deor, who was not invited to collaborate, but nevertheless added something (useful) to the work under construction. BilCen (talk) 06:18, 24 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Recognition Talk:Three Mile Island accident

Thank you for recognizing what I could not. How do you know when a discussion is made in good faith or not and if it should be removed? I have Wikipedia:WikiProject_Occupational_Safety_and_Health/Discussions on my watchlist, so I see very similar topics come up pretty frequently and would like to know when to delete and when to respond. Or does it just come with experience? Thanks. Recon rabbit 14:34, 17 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

This is a troll/scaremongering editor that keeps posting on disasters (and some other pages) about why isn't the public being told that X is terrible when evidence says otherwise. I've been following them for a while not, they're just a recurrent troll on many articles. Canterbury Tail talk 15:00, 17 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Miss Universe 2021 edit war

Hi, User:Wywuwuwu is edit waring in Miss Universe 2021, reverting flag removals and other MOS in the infobox. I have warned them but they continue to add back or revert. Could you please help [16]. Sciencefish (talk) 17:14, 19 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Alien

The traffic on the Alien Talk page is very low with very low responses there. And I am not sure that starting an RFC is the best path to take at this time. Your previous edits were to remove chronology from the Plot sections, and also to remove it from the Alien franchise page. Since the footnote option on the Plots is currently even at 2 supports and 2 opposed, then my suggestion is to return it to the franchise page which has no Plot section. The reliable sources I would use are articles from Variety magazine and science.com to add the chronology to the Alien franchise page. Would that work for you? HenryRoan (talk) 16:27, 23 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Pictures

Could you please provide guidance on which images are suitable for use on Wikipedia? Alternatively, could you recommend a Wikipedia page where I can learn more about this topic? Thatsyrianitalian (talk) 00:54, 9 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Do you mean the images that have been deleted due to copyright violations? See Wp:COPYRIGHT. You can't just lift an image you find on the internet, they are nearly always copyrighted and if you can't tell then they're copyrighted. Images need to be released freely, or actually taken yourself. You cannot take an image from the internet and upload it to Wikipedia and claim it's your own work, that's copyright violating. Canterbury Tail talk 13:21, 9 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I see many pictures that are screenshots of the actor or actress in movies, is that copyright, sorry for the dumb question. Thatsyrianitalian (talk) 13:37, 9 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

If you read the Copyright policy it will tell you what you need to know. It's mostly about attributing it properly, having low res and proving you can't get another image from anywhere. Canterbury Tail talk 13:53, 9 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Complaint

I am here trying to contribute to Wikipedia while balancing school (I'm doing this during school hours) I'm sorry I'm not perfect but I don't like it when a 50 year old Brexit geezer tells me my contributions aren't worth much because in the span of 1 week i made 51 edits and less than 30 present were reverted I'm sorry i can spend 10 hours a day browsing a encyclopedia and fixing mistakes because i have a life but I'm trying to help. Lion1010NT (talk) 16:53, 10 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not 50 years old. I'm not a Brexit geezer (whatever the heck that's supposed to mean) I don't spend 10 hours a day on Wikipedia and almost every single one of your mainspace edits have been reverted, not 30%. You can either listen to what other editors are telling you, not impose your opinion (how would you feel if someone edited the main page on Christianity to say its fake and not true cause there is no solid evidence for it) and try to follow Wikipedia's policies and guidelines, or you can get blocked as that is the way you are going. Instead of continuing to do the same edits that have already been reverted as unencyclopaedic (changing died to passed away) you can try and add sourced encyclopaedic information instead of your opinion. And you choosing to be offended because there is an article on another religion, due to it not matching your own, gives you zero rights and in fact shows that you are unable to contribute in a neutral and collaborative manner. Canterbury Tail talk 17:14, 10 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Who do we mention for franchise owners?

Hey you might remember me from that Star Wars article where I say the owner is Disney but the owner is Lucasfilsm which itself is owned by Disney now. I am just wondering there are lots of franchises articles that don’t follow ur rules like in The Last Airbender article has Nickelodeon as the owner and underneath Nick is the parent company of Nick which is Paramount Global under small fonts. Is this allowed? How come they can mention the parents companies of the company itself but not the Disney stuff? NakhlaMan (talk) 05:01, 13 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Just because other articles don't mention the actual owner correctly doesn't mean they're right. The fact is the owner is about the owner, not the owner's owner or ultimate top owner. The owner of the owner is not in scope for the article and can be mentioned on the owner's article. I.e. the fact Lucasfilm is owner by Disney isn't relevant to the article about the franchise as the owner, but is relevant to the Lucasfilm article. Canterbury Tail talk 13:27, 13 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

So what ur saying is I should start changing ALL franchises articles and make them say owner is Nickelodeon instead of Nick (underneath Paramount?) Look I am not starting any edit wars I want to get to the bottom of thise because lots and I mean LOTS of people keep vandilising the Simpsons franchise page and keeps adding Disney despite its sub 20th Century owning it. A similar thing happend to the same Star Wars franchise article and I even gave him a link to my talk page with that comment u sent last year. NakhlaMan (talk) 13:31, 13 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not saying you should do anything, and there should not be any edit wars. Any conflict, take it to the talk page of the article for consensus just like with any other editing dispute. Canterbury Tail talk 13:49, 13 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hmmm too be honest there should be syllabus on infobox franchise templates on what to do with the owner and every franchise has to follow it. NakhlaMan (talk) 14:04, 13 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

That would be in the infobox template instructions and discussion page. At the end of the day it says and describes owner, not owner of owner or ultimate owner. That seems pretty obvious to me. Canterbury Tail talk 15:17, 13 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Ready for GA status?

Hello @Canterbury Tail,

After reading the 2024 Haneda Airport runway collision article again, I feel like it's ready to be nominated for WP:GA status. Although this article is only a month old, is it still too early to nominate this? 🛧Midori No Sora♪🛪 ( ☁＝☁＝✈) 01:03, 14 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I haven't really been involved in any GA nominations so I'm not the best person to ask. I'd say possibly not as it's not stable an is still likely to change in the future, but I will admit to not knowing all the criteria. Canterbury Tail talk 02:10, 14 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Alright, Thank you. 🛧Midori No Sora♪🛪 ( ☁＝☁＝✈) 02:12, 14 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Vandalism by some random guy

I appreciate your comment and I'm able to comprehend with it. I'm new to wikipedia so not so good with the rules. But there's a guy called "Krish Nikhil" who has been removing my pictures from some pages without any reason. He is doing it out of jealousy and he has absolute no reason to support the removal. He made the account day before yesterday just to remove my pictures and he only uses it only for that purpose. He has some beef with me for no reason.. I'd like to see your take on this issue. Sanil Nath (talk) 13:47, 14 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Lemme look at it. Canterbury Tail talk 13:49, 14 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Please have a look on his contributions, it only comprises of removing my pictures. People are pricks for no reason, also he is operating under a fake name. Sanil Nath (talk) 13:52, 14 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Yes I see that, I've left a message on their talk page. Canterbury Tail talk 13:53, 14 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Is it alright if I upload the pictures again? Sanil Nath (talk) 15:09, 14 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Do they meet our policies? Do you understand why they were removed in the first place? Canterbury Tail talk 17:06, 14 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, I do understand. Because of the loud watermark and the wrong placement of the image in the article. I'd request you to deal with Krish Nikhil first as he keeps removing it without any rhyme or reason. Sanil Nath (talk) 17:08, 14 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Also at the end of the day, you've tried to add photos to articles and have been reverted, by myself and others. Per WP:BRD you now need to get consensus on the talk page to include them. Canterbury Tail talk 17:55, 14 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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 :::::Do they meet our policies? Do you understand why they were removed in the first place? [[User:Canterbury Tail|<b style="color: Blue;">Canterbury Tail</b>]] [[User talk:Canterbury Tail|<i style="color: Blue;">talk</i>]] 17:06, 14 February 2024 (UTC)
 ::::::Yes, I do understand. Because of the loud watermark and the wrong placement of the image in the article. I'd request you to deal with Krish Nikhil first as he keeps removing it without any rhyme or reason. [[User:Sanil Nath|Sanil Nath]] ([[User talk:Sanil Nath|talk]]) 17:08, 14 February 2024 (UTC)
+:::::::Also at the end of the day, you've tried to add photos to articles and have been reverted, by myself and others. Per [[WP:BRD]] you now need to get consensus on the talk page to include them. [[User:Canterbury Tail|<b style="color: Blue;">Canterbury Tail</b>]] [[User talk:Canterbury Tail|<i style="color: Blue;">talk</i>]] 17:55, 14 February 2024 (UTC)